Yes, folks, Direct Current reaches the Autumn of 2014 and as always we are riding their coattails and we patiently await the inevitable passing of time so we can get our hands on, er, the Beck Song Reader? well, certainly Van Dyke Parks who we can assume will not be streaming his next album on Spotify, Spider Bags out August 5th (can’t wait for that one, their last was my fave album of 2012), Jenny Lewis and Blake Mills (though not together) and Jerry Lee Lewis ($125 to see him at BB Kings by the way).
July 22
Allison Weiss – Remember When EP
Alvvays – S/T
Colony House – When I Was Younger
Got A Girl – I Love You But I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now
Nell Bryden – Wayfarer
Noel – I Won’t Answer
Rob Giles – Ghost of Gran Via EP
Sugar + The High-Lows – Wild Desire (Johnny Cash Live Sessions)
White Fence – For the Recently Found Innocent
Yes – Heaven & Earth
July 29
Allman Brothers Band – 1971 Fillmore East Recordings (Box)
Angus & Julia Stone – S/T (Prod: Rick Rubin) (8/1)
Bebel Gilberto – Tudo!
Eliot Sumner (I Blame Coco) – Information EP
George Tandy, Jr. – The Foundation
Various – Beck Song Reader
Eric Clapton & Friends – The Breeze: An Appreciation of J.J. Cale
Hooray For Earth – Racy
Jenny Lewis – The Voyager
Marc Broussard – A Life Worth Living
New God – Firework
The Dream Academy – The Morning Lasted All Day: A Retrospective (2-CD)
The Mispers – Dark Bits (7/27 UK)
The Tins – Young Blame
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Hypnotic Eye
Van Dyke Parks – Super Chief
Various – Beck Song Reader
August 5
Andy Grammer – Magazines or Novels
Arkells – High Noon
Bear In Heaven – Time Is Over One Day Old
Charlie Simpson – Long Road Home
Christopher Denny – If The Roses Don’t Kill Us
Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes – Love Cliques EP
EDJ (Fruitbats’ Eric D. Johnson) – S/T
Geneviéve Bellemare – Live and Die EP
Katie Kate – Nation
Spider Bags – Frozen Letter
Spoon – They Want My Soul
Sunny Sweeney – Provoked
The Empty Hearts – S/T
The Rosebuds – Sand + Silence
Wildcat! Wildcat! – No Moon at All
Willis Earl Beal – Experiments in Time (8/8 UK)
August 12
Brian Setzer – Rockabilly Riot
Caleb Johnson (American Idol Winner) – Testify
Childhood – Lacuna (UK)
Ethan Johns – The Reckoning (U.S.)
HEK – Please Tease Me
Lucero – Live From Atlanta
Mirel Wagner – When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day (8/12)
Rubblebucket – Carousel Ride EP
Sinead O’Connor – I’m Not Bossy I’m The Boss
August 19
Bahamas – Bahamas is Afie
Beach Day – Native Echoes
Benjamin Booker – S/T
Buddy – Last Call for the Quiet Life
Cory Branan – The No-Hit Wonder
Dirty Loops – Loopified
Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt
JJ – V
Kimbra – The Golden Echo
Liam Bailey – Definitely NOW
Luke Sital-Singh – The Fire Within
Orenda Fink – Blue Dream
Rocco DeLuca – S/T
Say Yes – S/T
Smokey Robinson – Smokey And Friends (incl. Elton John, James Taylor)
The Bad Plus – Inevitable Western
The Griswolds – Be Impressive (8/22 AUS)
The Magic Numbers – Alias
The Travelling Band – The Big Defreeze
Twin Atlantic – Great Divide (UK)
Various – Look Again To The Wind: Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited
Zero 7 – Simple Science EP
August 26
Billy Childs & Guests – Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro
Brad Paisley – Moonshine in the Trunk
Bruce Hornsby – Solo Concerts
Casey Jack – S/T
Cathering MacLellan – The Raven’s Sun
Cold Specks – Neuroplasticity
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Lose
Dry The River – Alarms In the Heart
Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)- Thick as a Brick Live in Iceland (DVD)
In the Valley Below – The Belt
J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) – Tied To A Star
Jill Barber – Fool’s Gold (U.S.)
Mark Lanegan Band – No Bells on Sunday EP
Merchandise – After the End
Robyn Hitchcock – The Man Upstairs
Royal Blood – S/T
Shovels & Rope – Swimmin’ Time
The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
The Rentals – Lost In Alphaville
Ty Segall – Manipulator
September 2
Anthony D’Amato – The Shipwreck from the Shore
Blonde Redhead – Barragán
Circa Waves – EP
Counting Crows – Somewhere Under Wonderland
God Help The Girl – Soundtrack (Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch)
Maroon 5 – V
Steven James Adams (Broken Family Band) – House Music (U.K.)
The Call – A Tribute to Michael Been
The Kooks – Listen
The Pierces – Creation (UK)
Vance Joy – Dream Your Life Away (9/5 AUS)
Zammuto (ex-Books) – Anchor
Zeus – Classic Zeus
September 9
Avi Buffalo – At Best Cuckold
Ballet School – The Dew Lasts An Hour
BANKS – Goddess
Better Than Ezra – All Together Now
Bryan Adams – Tracks of My Years (Covers)
Crow Moses – Horse Heaven Hills
Duologue – Never Get Lost
Greensky Bluegrass – If Sorrows Swim
Interpol – El Pintor
Justin Townes Earle – Single Mothers
Karen O – Crush Songs
Lera Lynn – The Avenues
Lewis & Clarke – Triumvirate
Loudon Wainwright III – Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet)
Megan Washington – There, There (9/12 AUS)
Morrissey – Introducing Morrissey (1995 Concert DVD)
Queen – Live at the Rainbow ’74
Robert Plant – lullaby and…The Ceaseless Roar
Ryan Adams – S/T
Sean Rowe – Madman
Simian Mobile Disco – Whorl
Sloan – Commonwealth
Tennis – Ritual In Repeat
Tricky – Adrian Thaws
September 16
Blake Mills – Heigh Ho
Generationals – Alix
High Ends (Yukon Blonde’s Jeffery Zimmer) – S/T
Jerry Douglas – Three Bells
Lowell – We Loved Her Dearly
My Brightest Diamond – This Is My Hand
Nick Mulvey – First Mind (U.S.)
Red Sky July – Shadowbirds
She Keeps Bees – Eight Houses
Sir Sly – You Haunt Me
The Madden Brothers – Greetings From California
The Script – No Sound Without Silence
Train – Bulletproof Picasso
Tweedy – Sukierae (Jeff Tweedy & Son)
Various – Dead Man’s Town: A Tribute to Born In the U.S.A.
September 23
alt-J – This Is All Yours
Erasure – The Violent Flame
Gossling – Harvest Of Gold (U.S.)
Hozier – S/T (UK)
Imelda May – Tribal
Jackie Evancho – Awakening
Julian Casablancas & The Voidz – Tyranny
Lenny Kravitz – Strut
Marketa Irglova – Muna
Sondre Lerche – Please
The Lovers Key – Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
September 30
Christopher Owens – A New Testament
Kat Edmonson – The Big Picture
Lydia Aninsworth – Right From Real
Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London
Mary Lambert – TBD
Melissa Etheridge – This is ME
Pieta Brown – Paradise Outlaw
Ruby Fray – Grackle
Soft Swells – Floodlights
Sons of Bill – Love and Logic
Streets of Laredo – S/T
The Rural Alberta Advantage – Mended With Gold
The Vaselines – V for Vaselines
Trigger Hippy – S/T
October 7
Caribou – Our Love
Field Report – Marigolden
Grace Weber – The Refinery
Philip Selway (Radiohead) – Weatherhouse
Shelby Lynne – I Am Shelby Lynne (Deluxe Edition)
The Barr Brothers – Sleeping Operator
Vashti Bunyan – Heartleap
October 14
Angaleena Presley (Pistol Annies) – American Middle Class
Winterpills – Echolalia (Covers)
Beyond
Allen Stone – Radius (Summer)
Annie Stela – Whiplash Blues (TBA)
As Animals – S/T
Ben Ottewell (Gomez) – Rattlebag (TBA)
Charlene Soraia – Love Is The Law (TBA)
Colbie Caillat – Gypsy Heart (TBA)
Cold War Kids – TBA (Oct. TBA)
Dear Plastic – The Thieves Are Babes (TBA)
Deluka – BONDS EP (TBA)
Don Henley – Cass County (TBA)
Ellis Paul – Chasing Beauty (TBA)
Empires – Orphans (TBA)
Erlend Øye (Kings of Convenience) – Legao (TBA)
Haroula Rose – Here The Blue River (TBA)
Holly Palmer – I Dare You To Love Me (TBA)
Jerry Lee Lewis (& Guests) – Rock & Roll Time (10/28)
Jo Hamilton – Fractals (Late Summer TBA)
Jonah Tolchin – Clover Road (Summer TBA)
Kite Club – Fresh Air for Humans (TBA)
Little Big Town – Painkiller (10/21)
Madi Diaz – Phantom (Fall TBA)
Mark Lanegan Band – Phantom Radio (TBA)
Miranda Lee Richards – Echoes of the Dreamtime (TBA)
Natalia Zukerman – Come Thief, Come Fire (TBA)
Pink Floyd – The Endless River (Oct. TBA)
Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) – The Ceaseless Sight (TBA)
Sara Lowes – The Joy of Waiting (TBA)
Sara Swenson – Runway Lights (Summer TBA)
Sasha Siem – Most of the Boys (TBA)
Scott Matthews – Home Pt. 1 (TBA)
Stevie Nicks – 24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault (Fall)
The Bros. Landreth – Let It Lie (Fall TBA)
The Flaming Lips – With A Little Help from My Fwends (Sgt. Pepper Tribute) (10/28)
The Vespers – Sisters and Brothers (TBA
Toby Lightman – Every Kind of People (TBA)
Wakey! Wakey! – All It Takes Is A Little Love (TBA)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – Unravelling (Fall TBA)
Whitehorse – Leave No Bridge Unburned (Feb. 2015)
Zola Jesus – Taiga (Oct TBA)
