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Saturday, July 22, 2023

New Music Friday - July 21, 2023

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

	Allegra Krieger - I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane Watch: "Lingering" Watch: "Low"
	Blur - The Ballad of Darren Watch: "The Narcissist" Watch: "The Ballad"
	Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - Golden Highway Watch: "El Dorado" Watch: "Next Rodeo"
	Nas & Hit-Boy - Magic 2 Watch: "Earvin Magic Johnson" Watch: "Black Magic"

Other Full-Length Releases

Guided By Voices - Welshpool Frillies

Watch: "Meet the Star"
Listen: "Animal Concentrate"

Landowner - Escape the Compound

Listen: "Witch Museum"
Listen: "Escape the Compound"

Nils Lofgren - Mountains

Listen: "Ain’t the Truth Enough" (featuring Ringo Starr)
Listen: "Nothin’s Easy (For Amy)" (featuring Neil Young)

Strange Ranger - Pure Music

Watch: "She’s on Fire"
Watch: "Wide Awake"

Valee & Harry Fraud - Virtuoso

Watch: "Dutty Laundry"
Watch: "VIBRANT" (featuring Action Bronson)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Andrew Bird - Outside Problems

Watch: "Mo Teef"
Watch: "Mancey"

Barbie The Album

Watch: Dua Lipa - "Dance the Night"
Watch: Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice - "Barbie World" (with Aqua)

Bloc Party - High Life

Watch: "The Blood Moon"
Watch: "Blue"

Kode9 & Burial - "Infirmary"/"Unknown Summer"

Listen: "Infirmary"
Listen: "Unknown Summer"

London Grammar - The Remixes

Watch: "Dancing By Night" (with SebastiAn)

Xtalline : 001

Listen: Parannoul- "Acryl"

Saturday, January 11, 2020

New Music Friday - October 12, 2018

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Anna St. Louis - If Only There Was a River

Watch: "Understand"
Listen: "The Bells"

Belly - Immigrant

Watch: "What You Want" (featuring The Weeknd)
Watch: "Xion"

Ella Mai - Ella Mai

Watch: "Boo’d Up"
Watch: "Trip"

The Watson Twins - DUO

Watch: "Hustle and Shake"
Listen: "Playing Hearts"

Other Full-Length Releases

Calvin Johnson - A Wonderful Beast

Watch: "Like You Do"
Listen: "Kiss Me Sweetly"

The Dodos - Certainty Waves

Watch: "SW3"
Watch: "Forum"

Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Look Now

Watch: "Unwanted Number"
Watch: "Under Lime"

Kurt Vile - Bottle It In

Watch: "Bassackwards"
Watch: "Loading Zones"

Matthew Dear - Bunny

Watch: "Bunny's Dream"
Listen: "Horses" (featuring Tegan and Sara)

Tom Morello - The Atlas Underground

Watch: "We Don’t Need You" (featuring Vic Mensa)
Watch: "Lead Poisoning" (featuring GZA, RZA, & Herobust)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Barrie - Singles

Listen: "Michigan"
Listen: "Canyons"

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Vinyl Reissue

Watch: "So Here We Are"
Listen: "Positive Tension"

Dave Davies - Decade

Listen: "Cradle to the Grave"
Listen: "Same Old Blues"

David Bowie - Loving the Alien (1983 - 1988)

Watch: "Loving the Alien"
Listen: "Zeroes"

Django Django - Winter’s Beach

Watch: "Swimming at Night"
Listen: "Winter’s Beach"

Eric Clapton - Happy Xmas

Watch: "White Christmas"
Watch: "For Love on Christmas Day"

Flat Worms - "The Apparition"/"Melt the Arms"

Watch: "The Apparition"
Listen: "Melt the Arms"

Fleetwood Mac - The Dance Reissue

Listen: "Rhiannon"
Listen: "I’m So Afraid"

Fleetwood Mac - Say You Will Reissue

Watch: "Say You Will"
Listen: "Destiny Rules"

Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster…

Watch: "You! Me! Dancing!"
Watch: "Death to Los Campesinos!"

Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

Listen: "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed"
Listen: "Miserabilia"

The Monkees - Christmas Party

Watch: "The Christmas Song"
Listen: "Christmas Party"

St. Vincent - MassEducation

Watch: "Savior" (piano version)
Listen: "Slow Slow Disco"

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

New Music Friday - January 29, 2016

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Bloc Party - Hymns

Bloc Party is a band that can't quite seem to make up its mind about its status. The band went on their second hiatus in 2013, not long after original drummer Matt Tong left the band. Another member, bassist Gordon Moakes, left during that time. Menomena's Justin Harris (bassist) and drummer Louise Bartle filled in for the departed members. New members mean a bit of a new sound for the band, with dance influences that take more after frontman Kele Okereke's solo work.

Watch: "The Love Within"
Listen: "The Good News"

Rihanna - ANTI

2015 seemed to be the year artists promised albums that they would not deliver. Rihanna kept her fans waiting through much of the year for her eighth album, with no absolute release date given until right around its release. She had released a series of well-received singles last year, but none of those appear on the long-awaited album. The unending waffling on album releases from artists lately continues to bother me to no end, but, sometimes, they make the wait well worth it.

Listen: "Work"
Listen: "Same Ol’ Mistakes"

Sia - This Is Acting

Sia spent years as an beloved indie artist and pop songwriter before reaching a level of fame all her own following 2014's 1000 Forms of Fear. She has continued writing songs for other pop artists, but sometimes those songs get rejected by the performers. Her follow-up collects some of those rejected songs, including songs originally written for Icona Pop, Adele, and Rihanna.

Watch: "Alive"
Listen: "One Million Bullets"

Walter Martin - Arts & Leisure

It's been a bit more than a year since The Walkmen announced their indefinite hiatus (sob), but members of the temporarily defunct band continue pushing out solo material. This is bassist Walter Martin's second solo outing, following 2014's children's album We're All Young Together. This album is more for the adults, inspired by years of traveling around the world with his band.

Watch: "Down By the Singing Sea"
Watch: "Amsterdam"

Other Full-Length Releases