New releases 2012

Not much this week (or next actually), and while I have jopes for Bad Brains and Rihanna, I am filled with this dread over Kid Rock, not helped by the lousy single “Let’s Ride”, it is the album I am most interested in hearing.

Sharon Van Etten is releasing a deluxe edition of her ‘Tramp’ album on November 13, and not only the new edition will feature demos for each track from the album, a self-portrait, liner notes including Sharon’s journal entries, but also the demo for the song ‘Tell Me

OK, agreed, Van is the biggie and the first single has me interested in both the Vaccines and Muse, but Monica had an excellent album earlier this year and I am way hungry for some more great r&b…

The album is dropping on November 13th, 2012 and talk about having the bank riding on any one thing, this album couldn’t be bigger for the UK X Factor discovery who have now spent a career in the fast lane.

We’re going to take our one last break that we would get for a month, come back and do Glastonbury, then immediately jump in the studio. Our record will be done by the end of the year. We have enough songs.’

For Joe Strummer’s 60th Birthday celebration, we get the official releases, we get the B Sides and we get Acton Concert where Mick Jones joined him for a heavy dub version of “Bankrobber” among others. Problems? Any one?

Lupe sounds so much like Kanye with a conscious on “Lamborghini Angels”, it is like he took PE’s “Catch The Throne” seriously and wrote it for them himself. Lupe doesn’t get much poppier than this.

Woke up this morning and picked up the Taylor Swift off Itunes, and then added Lupe, Rita and RHCP just because I couldn’t be bothered waiting till tomorrow to see if Spotify will have (no, they will have them, the question is WHEN). Beak is terrific.

A FOURTEEN MINUTE EPIC ABOUT THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC??? I wonder if it will be like “Desolation Road” or “Changing Of The Guard”? Are we talking the old flashing images? Plus, “The Tempest” was Shakespeare’s last play…

On the lean side, but a new Nas is always exciting and a CSN 2012 might be more than an oxymoron. ITunes is becoming a place to drop early singles and not much more. PE should do better than this.

DP and Ocean we were expecting but any time P.O.D. -easily the best Christian rock band this side of Devil Wears Prada, it is a good week. Otherwise, hip hop takes a holiday!!!

Wow, July 3rd is officially the quietest day of the year with nothing much at all released!. Otherwise, actually the next three weeks look a little sucky. I guess the Joe Jackson, Dirty Projector, JJAMZ and Marina might be worth a listen… but, I’m not PROMISING

It took em long long enough, but Sheeran’s debut album is finally released Stateside so we can all flip on “Lego House”. Meanwhile, another Whitney song released and we can find out if Albarn (who hasn’t been on much of a roll lately) has destroyed Womack.

Could it be a new Dirty Projectors song? Look and listen, because here it is!

I have always been a fan of Regina. She has an eerie presence. Never really a pop sensation and for that I am glad. She has remained true to her sound, unswayed by current trends.

Part Of Me” is a terrible song as song goes. But as a ripped from her diary piece of vitroil it isn’t without its, well, not charms, amusements.. It so lacks in specifics, both musically and lyrically, it almost withstands meaning.

Yes, Ringo is back. And no, I haven’t enjoyed any of his recorded work since the album “You’re Sixteen” was on but it is still Ringo so

The McCartney is a dog with fleas and about as big a disappointment as you can want on a Tursday morning. Kathleen Edwards is an excellent songwriter and it isfour years since “Asking For Flowers” so its good to have her back. Oh great, a Martina McBride greatest hits -just what I needed.

I don’t have high hopes for this album and the reason is, McCartney was always much better at early rock and roll than mid-season American songbook

Destination” is a rollicking Goth rave up off his February 14th release. Everything thing about it grabs your attention, from its overexcited Scott Walker vocals to its slap clap drum machine and most of all a piano that seems hijacked off a Ziggy Stardust track

not much here and Spotfy is missing on most of em, including, not mentioned here, a coupla Lana Del Rey songs and the new Van Halen single. Compared to ITunes new releases Spotify is an embarassment.

I saw them this summer, when they opened for this historic Black Flag reunion and their hardcore sound hit me in the face like a brutal beast killing everything on its trail. But since that time, they have signed with Matador and are about to release a new album, ‘Zoo’, produced by John Goodmanson, who also…

Jack introduces to his mindbogglingly excellent material and plays it so well. The sheer wealth of music is a revelation and though i do have one complaint. I wish it was longer

early Beatles , when they left the path of early rock and roll, seemed more likely to sing showtunes like “Till There was You” or novelty hits like “Besame Mucho”.

Nothing was said if or when this new material will be released, but Thom Yorke had spoken to Rolling Stones in October (at the time they played these New York’s Roseland Ballroom shows), and had declared that Radiohead will record in December and January.

Will 2012 be the revenge of Brooklyn? New albums by Animal Collective, Sleigh bells and of Montreal may tell the tale