• What's New 11-26-21

  

  Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak)

  An Evening With Silk Sonic

  Atlantic

  One late-night, mid-tour jam session in 2017 unlocked immediate chemistry between super stars Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak. Years later, Bruno called Anderson: “Remember that idea we had? Let’s do it.” One studio session grew into to a months-long collaboration, culminating the “setlist of doom.” The legendary Bootsy Collins (and “special guest host”) christened them – and introduced the world to – Silk Sonic.

  

  Sting

  The Bridge

  Interscope

  The Bridge is so much more than a clever concept album, there are links between each of the songs and the prolific musician takes to the theme like a duck to water. And whilst water is the common denominator, it is really about connection - connection between people, life and death and more. It’s Sting at his most Sting-like.

  

  Magdalena Bay

  Mercurial World

  Luminelle Recordings

  Magdalena Bay peruses the sound of experimental pop, crafting a synthy world that shatters genres and bends time to the pair’s will, elevating their sound to match their philosophical reflections. “We spend all of our time together, and in some ways Mercurial World is about that particular sense of madness in containment,” Matthew Lewin says. “We live together and make art together; this immerses you in our creative, insular universe.”

  

  Makaya McCraven

  Deciphering The Message

  Blue Note

  Drummer, producer & beat scientist Makaya McCraven digs through the Blue Note vaults while putting a modern bounce on jazz classics by Art Blakey, Horace Silver, & more. His mastery of the loop is akin to celebrated beatmakers like J Dilla & Madlib, but McCraven's unique approach also incorporates new recorded elements including his own drums, Joel Ross' vibraphone, Jeff Parker's guitar, & more.

  

  Black Label Society

  Doom Crew Inc.

  MNRK

  "The main ingredient in any Black Label soup is the riff," says the larger-than-life frontman Zakk Wylde. Black Label Society builds their music on this simple truth, truth as self-evident on the eleventh album from the dependable stalwarts. Doom Crew Inc. Is both a tribute to the band's "first to bleed, last to leave" road crew and a salute to the legion whose support, stretching back to 1998, rivals that of the KISS Army.

  

  The Georgia Thunderbolts

  Can We Get A Witness

  Mascot

  With a wide swath of inspirations, ranging from southern gospel to Neil Young, Ray Charles, and Merle Haggard to the hard rock of Ozzy Osbourne and of course, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Thunderbolts rise up with a scorching signature style steeped in soulful southern swagger, embodying the blue-collar working man who has put their foot down on the accelerator towards the rock 'n roll American dream.

  
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• New Release Round-Up 11-26-21

  OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Georgia Blue
  Grouplove - Never Trust A Happy Song: 10th Anniversary Edition [Limited Edition Green LP]
  Mogwai - e.p. x 3 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Curacao, Clear & Yellow Vinyl]
  The Acacia Strain - It Comes In Waves [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Neon Pink LP]
  Black Label Society - Doom Crew Inc. [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear & Black Ice W/Grey 2LP]
  Deep Purple - Turning To Crime [Limited Edition Crystal Clear 2LP]
  Riki - Gold [Red in Clear LP]
  B.B. King - Indianola Mississippi Seeds [Translucent Red Audiophile Limited Anniversary Edition LP]
  Danzig - Sings Elvis [Pink & Black Haze LP]
  Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive [Limited Edition Cherry Red LP]
  Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade [Limited Edition Metallic Gold LP]
  Insane Clown Posse - Yum Yum Bedlam
  
  
  
  
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  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.
  
  

  UPCOMING RELEASES

  

  Kelley Stoltz - Antique Glow: Expanded Edition - Third Man Records.
  Third Man Records is proud to release the 20th anniversary expanded edition of Kelley Stoltz's defining album 'Antique Glow.' Originally self-released in miniscule vinyl-only quantities in 2001, 'Antique Glow' has served not only as a template for the length of Kelley Stoltz's twenty-plus year career, but has also served as a compass for other Anglophile, TASCAM 388 home recording acolytes.  Original copies featured Stoltz's clever, wry and fanciful hand-painted adornments overtop reclaimed thrift store LP jackets, Third Man's release here utilizes some of those original unused images for a die-cut sleeve that ultimately gives the listener six different possible album covers. The songs are by and large masterpieces of bedroom pop magic. From the whispering 'Here Comes the Sun'-adjacent acoustic underpinnings of album opener 'Perpetual Night' through the fuzz-threaded leads of 'Are You Electric?' Stoltz's inspirations are impeccable and clear. Sixties Davies British Invasion through 80's British Bunnymen post-punk, with appropriate off-shoots into West Coast American pop-psych, Velvets-indebted hooliganism and Drake/CSNY acoustic attenuations, the end result is pure joy. On the expanded version, standout tracks previously relegated to an Australian tour-only CD (like the breathlessly cinematic 'Old Pictures') see their first-ever vinyl and digital release while there's an additional 8 songs from the 'Antique Glow'-era seeing their first ever release in any format. The cutting room floor quality here is second-to-none, Stoltz clearly gifted with the curse of writing too many indelible songs, so the newly released 'Too Beck' (originally cast off by Kelley because he thought 'it sounded too much like Beck') and 'Umbrella' stand firm as some of the best, most timeless music Stoltz has ever released... a full two decades after he recorded them! With all instruments and vocals performed by Stoltz, the singularity of vision here is impeccably clear and executed. Packaging: Die-cut direct-to-board LP jacket, printed inner sleeves, standard weight vinyl
  
    

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