2012 New Album Releases

[Tequila Cowboy]

Love Alejandro. Looking forward to that.

Today I'm listening to the District Attorneys for the first time. Digging into their 2011 EP Waiting on the Calm which is essentially demos for their album Slowburner coming out in April. Can't wait to hear a full studio treatment from these guys. Always nice to find a good young band on the rise.

[LuthierJustin]

This is gonna kick so much ass
http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/04/fiona-apple-reveals-artwork-for-new-album/

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Love Alejandro. Looking forward to that.

Today I'm listening to the District Attorneys for the first time. Digging into their 2011 EP Waiting on the Calm which is essentially demos for their album Slowburner coming out in April. Can't wait to hear a full studio treatment from these guys. Always nice to find a good young band on the rise.

listened to slowburner last night. it's solid but i can't say i'm excited. to their defence i wasn't really in the mood for that type of music so they'll get another spin sometime soon.

[Penny Lane]

Looking forward to Beach House..

[LuthierJustin]

This is gonna rock
http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/news/sleep-dopesmoker-deluxe-reissue-cover-art-revealed/

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i'm really excited about the new jack white album, liking both tracks i've heard so far...he released a pretty cool new video yesterday for sixteen saltines: http://birdsneedfeet.blogspot.se/2012/0 ... tines.html

otherwise it seems to be either electronic pop stuff or garage rock that excites me right now... the new white fence albums, plus the ty segall/white fence collab, the new japandroids is more indie than garage but still (the first track is great, it sounds like a fuzzed up hold steady track...a bit husker du-ish: http://birdsneedfeet.blogspot.se/2012/0 ... eaven.html)

and if anyone here would like to check out some electronic pop/balearic stuff from sweden you need to hear niki & the dove (for pop): http://birdsneedfeet.blogspot.se/2012/0 ... ebody.html and world tour (for more laid-back balearic stuff): http://birdsneedfeet.blogspot.se/2012/0 ... ve-ep.html

otherwise the best band in the world right now is fanzine (think '80s indie rock/teenage fanclub). a friend of mine just started his own label and signed them, they've got a new single out in a few weeks but you can listen to it already: a-side: http://birdsneedfeet.blogspot.se/2012/0 ... ne-la.html, b-side: http://birdsneedfeet.blogspot.se/2012/0 ... -fall.html. I've been a fan of them since long before he signed them, and i'd highly recommend them to any fan of teenage fanclub, yuck, or dinosaur jr's poppier stuff. they're currently working on their debut record...

/spam over.

oh wait. there's a new tallest man on earth album coming out in june...hypehypehype

[Tequila Cowboy]

I'm really looking forward to the Alejandro Escovedo record. Dude never lets me down.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

The new World Party box set which is out today. To read more about it as well as an interview with Karl Wallinger, click here.

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The first single from Bonnie Raitt's new album Slipstream which also came out yesterday.

[beantownbubba]

The new World Party box set which is out today. To read more about it as well as an interview with Karl Wallinger, click here.

"We didn’t get the pros from Dover to work on it. There wasn’t any marketing research. It’s the old-fashioned way – someone is expressing themselves. Hopefully it’s just a nice thing. It’s just what it is.”

Don't know if i'll spend the money, but it's nice to have him back.

[beantownbubba]

The first single from Bonnie Raitt's new album Slipstream which also came out yesterday.

On first listen i really like this album.

[LuthierJustin]

Looking forward to this
http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/04/rush-announces-new-album-clockwork-angels/

[ScottyC]

Just picked up the new album by a band called the Lumineers. They were playing it at the indie music store in Houston and I loved it and bought it, no buyers regret here. Kinda avetty without being bluegrass. Worth 10 bucks if you see it out there, just came out last week

[dee dee]

Article on Todd Snider's soon to be released collection of Jerry Jeff Walker songs, entitled "Time as We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/us/todd-snider-records-a-tribute-to-jerry-jeff-walker.html?_r=1

In 1985, a few years before the words “singer-songwriter” were permanently affixed to his name, 19-year-old Todd Snider showed up in San Marcos, knowing only that he had come “to sing.”

“I was a drifter, the kid that was always on your couch, didn’t have parents with bread and wasn’t going to college,” said Mr. Snider, who grew up in Portland, Ore. “My friends called me the Load.”

Mr. Snider said he had a life-changing moment not long after arriving in San Marcos: a friend took him to Gruene Hall, a renowned music spot in New Braunfels, to see Jerry Jeff Walker, one of the architects of the 1970s cosmic-country movement.

“What he was singing about that night made me feel less like a freeloader and more like a free spirit,” Mr. Snider said. “All of a sudden, it felt like the life I was leading had some value. I realized from watching him that taking a life like mine and adding three chords is probably where a song like ‘Mr. Bojangles’ came from. I felt like I had the qualifications to be a songwriter.”

Mr. Snider began writing songs the very next day. Twelve albums of biting protest songs, talkin’ blues and rough-around-the-edges rock and country later, it is not unusual for Mr. Snider to be mentioned in the same conversations about modern folk singers and troubadours as his four primary influences: Mr. Walker, John Prine, Billy Joe Shaver and Kris Kristofferson. “After I found Jerry Jeff,” Mr. Snider said, “I immediately latched on to the old white guy with the acoustic guitar, harmonica and a million miles of hard, rambling stories.”

On April 24, Mr. Snider will celebrate his original muse with the release of “Time as We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker.” Produced by Don Was (Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones), the 14-song set was recorded last year in Nashville with the Colorado-based Americana band Great American Taxi and features cameos from Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn, Elizabeth Cook and Amy LaVere.

“We went to the studio and jammed all day every day for four days,” Mr. Snider said. “It felt like a very natural way to make a record.”

The group recorded 30 songs, and Mr. Snider insists it could have cut 30 more. What made the final cut, Mr. Snider said, were not necessarily the biggest hits but the 14 songs that sounded best together. “It was more like making one of my records than a tribute album,” Mr. Snider said. “We figured the only way it worked is if we let the words and music dictate that this song and that song could be on an album together.”

The songs on “Time as We Know It” represent the two distinct phases of Mr. Walker’s career. Mr. Walker, 70, left his childhood home in Oneonta, N.Y., in 1962 to crisscross the country as a gypsy songwriter, cobbling together a career with stops in Florida (where he later mentored a young Jimmy Buffett), California and Louisiana. In 1965, a night in jail in New Orleans for public intoxication yielded Mr. Walker’s signature song, “Mr. Bojangles,” the story of a dancing man and a dead dog that the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band eventually took to the top reaches of the Billboard charts.

After setting up in Austin in 1972, Mr. Walker recorded a string of albums, including the landmark “¡Viva Terlingua!” which was the turning point at which the growing Austin scene transformed from merely long-haired people playing country into a distinct sound that has been interchangeably labeled cosmic cowboy, gonzo, outlaw country or redneck rock.

“To me, in Act I, he started off as a Ramblin’ Jack Elliott-type gypsy and then turned it into some kind of folkie meets Hunter S. Thompson,” Mr. Snider said. “Act II is where that somehow turned into country music. I stole his first act first. Later I stole the second. I’m currently stealing the third.”

Over the years, Mr. Walker has become one of Mr. Snider’s closest confidants. The pair sometimes tour together, and Mr. Snider was careful to get his blessing before recording his tribute.

Mr. Snider said that upon hearing of the tribute, Mr. Walker asked about the song choices, interrupted himself and vowed just to wait for a copy of the CD in the mail. “He’ll give me any kind of advice he can think of. He’s my hero.”

He added that years ago, they reached a point in their friendship at which Mr. Snider beat Mr. Walker in trivia contests about himself. “It was then that I think he knew he had made a friend out of an ex-stalker,” Mr. Snider said.

There is perhaps no better evidence that Mr. Snider has fully embraced Mr. Walker’s follow-your-muse spirit than the fact that “Time as We Know It” will be released just seven weeks after Mr. Snider’s latest full album of original material, “Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables.” The potential for confusion in the marketplace amuses Mr. Snider. Would someone not intimately familiar with Mr. Walker’s work know the difference between these two new Todd Snider records?

“I’m hoping,” Mr. Snider said, “that you could hand the tribute to a guy and have him say: ‘Sounds like Todd Snider wrote the best 14 songs of his career. But haven’t I heard the one about the dog and the old man somewhere?’ ”

Andy Langer is the music columnist for Esquire and the afternoon D.J. at KGSR in Austin.

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Paste posted his version of "Sangria Wine" earlier this week. To give it a listen, click here.

[beagle001]

Super excited to hear Alejandro will have a new one coming out. His records are always good, but his live shows will always knock you on your tush. He hits em outta the park every time. He is playing up this way towards the end of May but the only show I have seen posted is a Thursday night show in Milwaukee which does not suit me at all...

For anyone interested, I really really enjoy the new Tim Barry album, 40 Miler. Nothing but vintage Tim Barry. Only listened a few times but it will be getting lots of spins in the near future.

Really looking forward to Cory Branan's new album (finally!) getting released in May.

Hopefully there are dates to when the new The Only Sons record and the new American Aquarium records will be hitting the mail. I have the b-sides to the new TOS and it could very well be a top 5-er for AOTY

edit: The Only Sons "When The New Wears Off" will be available April 24, 2012 via http://thisisamericanmusic.com/

[dee dee]

Super excited to hear Alejandro will have a new one coming out. His records are always good, but his live shows will always knock you on your tush. He hits em outta the park every time. He is playing up this way towards the end of May but the only show I have seen posted is a Thursday night show in Milwaukee which does not suit me at all...

For anyone interested, I really really enjoy the new Tim Barry album, 40 Miler. Nothing but vintage Tim Barry. Only listened a few times but it will be getting lots of spins in the near future.

Really looking forward to Cory Branan's new album (finally!) getting released in May.

Hopefully there are dates to when the new The Only Sons record and the new American Aquarium records will be hitting the mail. I have the b-sides to the new TOS and it could very well be a top 5-er for AOTY

edit: The Only Sons "When The New Wears Off" will be available April 24, 2012 via http://thisisamericanmusic.com/

Good to hear that about the new Tim Barry. I'm a huge sucker for his subject matter and can't wait to hear the new one.

I remember liking The Only Sons' Steel Hearts a lot, but American Stranger didn't do much for me. Will look for the new one.

[Flying Rabbit]

Looking forward to Beach House..

yesh. Definitely. I'm holding back from the leaks knowing that they're probably incomplete and that the sound that finally emanates from my speakers will be so much better with the official release.

Just picked up the new album by a band called the Lumineers. They were playing it at the indie music store in Houston and I loved it and bought it, no buyers regret here. Kinda avetty without being bluegrass. Worth 10 bucks if you see it out there, just came out last week

I kinda sorta thought I had heard this, but the album art doesn't look familiar. I wonder if I'm getting them confused with another 'eers band. Reviews sound promising.

[beagle001]

Super excited to hear Alejandro will have a new one coming out. His records are always good, but his live shows will always knock you on your tush. He hits em outta the park every time. He is playing up this way towards the end of May but the only show I have seen posted is a Thursday night show in Milwaukee which does not suit me at all...

For anyone interested, I really really enjoy the new Tim Barry album, 40 Miler. Nothing but vintage Tim Barry. Only listened a few times but it will be getting lots of spins in the near future.

Really looking forward to Cory Branan's new album (finally!) getting released in May.

Hopefully there are dates to when the new The Only Sons record and the new American Aquarium records will be hitting the mail. I have the b-sides to the new TOS and it could very well be a top 5-er for AOTY

edit: The Only Sons "When The New Wears Off" will be available April 24, 2012 via http://thisisamericanmusic.com/

Good to hear that about the new Tim Barry. I'm a huge sucker for his subject matter and can't wait to hear the new one.

I remember liking The Only Sons' Steel Hearts a lot, but American Stranger didn't do much for me. Will look for the new one.

I like The Only Sons, but definitely like Kent Eugene Goolsby's solo album better. I downloaded "When The New Wears Off" today and I like it, but only gave it one listen.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

You can listen to a stream of Rush's "Headlong Flight" from Clockwork Angels here. The album is due for release on June 12th.

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Preview of the Ramming documentary which will be part of the deluxe reissue of Ram that's coming out on May 22nd.

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Lyric video for Rush's "Headlong Flight".

[Penny Lane]

GARBAGE


(just read about this in Rolling Stone, had no idea they were making a new album!)

[Flying Rabbit]

GARBAGE


(just read about this in Rolling Stone, had no idea they were making a new album!)

The band, Garbage--or Rush?

[Penny Lane]

GARBAGE


(just read about this in Rolling Stone, had no idea they were making a new album!)

The band, Garbage--or Rush?

the band...as in Shirley Manson and her boys!

[WoodDuck]

the band...as in Shirley Manson and her boys!

You mean Butch Vig and his boys and girl?

[Penny Lane]

the band...as in Shirley Manson and her boys!

You mean Butch Vig and his boys and girl?

Yes..that's probably true-er

[LuthierJustin]

the band...as in Shirley Manson and her boys!

You mean Butch Vig and his boys and girl?

Yes..that's probably true-er

I also saw somewhere Dave Grohl and Kris Novacelic are going to record with Butch again as well
http://www.nme.com/news/foo-fighters/63264

[dogstar]

New Bobby Womack record, produced by Damon Albarn, due on 11 June

http://bobbywomack.com/

Also worth having a scroll thorugh the timeline at the bottom of the page.

[beantownbubba]

New Bobby Womack record, produced by Damon Albarn, due on 11 June

http://bobbywomack.com/

Also worth having a scroll thorugh the timeline at the bottom of the page.

What an incredible career!

But seriously? "I was ostracised from the music community when I was 21 (on marrying Linda Cooke, Sam Cooke's widow). I feel like after 45 years Damon has welcomed me back in." So I guess being inducted into the RnR Hall of Fame isn't being "let in" by the music community?

"California Dreamin'" by The Eagles??!!