New Music Friday - March 7, 2025

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Essential Full-Length Releases

	Frog Eyes - The Open Up Watch: "I See the Same Things" Watch: "E-E-Y-O-R-E (That’s Me!)"
	Hamilton Leithauser - This Side of the Island Watch: "Knockin’ Heart" Listen: "This Side of the Island"
	JENNIE - Ruby Watch: "ExtraL" (with Doechii) Watch: "like JENNIE"
	SASAMI - Blood on the Silver Screen Watch: "Slugger" Watch: "Just Be Friends"
	TOKiMONSTA - Eternal Reverie Watch: "On Sum" (featuring Anderson .Paak & Rae Khalil) Watch: "Feel It" (featuring grouptherapy.)

Other Full-Length Releases

Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy Watch: "Neanderthal" Watch: "Here We Go Crazy"

Doves - Constellations for the Lonely Watch: "Renegade" Watch: "Cold Dreaming"

Fust - Big Ugly Watch: "Spangled" Watch: "Bleached"

Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow Listen: "Foxes in the Snow" Listen: "Good While It Lasted"

JB Dunckel & Jonathan Fitoussi - Mirages 2 Watch: "Ghost Town" Listen: "Atlantica"

Lust for Youth & Creation Amor - All Worlds Watch: "Dummy" (featuring Purient) Listen: "Passerine" (featuring Emma Arcs)

Vundabar - Surgery and Pleasure Watch: "I Got Cracked" Watch: "Spades"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

De La Soul - Clear Lake Audiotorium Watch: "Bigger" (featuring Choklate) Listen: "Sh Fe MC’s" (featuring A Tribe Called Quest)

New Music Friday - August 26, 2016

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Essential Full-Length Releases

Banks & Steelz - Anything but Words Most hip-hop collaborations tend to be with R&B artists, but in recent years RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan has been more interested in working with artists of the indie variety. In 2013, he was featured on James Blake's "Take a Fall for Me." Now, he's partnered up with Interpol's Paul Banks for a new project. Banks himself has gotten involved in hip-hop, even releasing his own mixtape in 2013. Neither artist strays far from their milieu on this; it's a pretty straight combo of Interpol and RZA. Watch: "Giant" Watch: "Love + War" (featuring Ghostface Killah)

Cass McCombs - Mangy Love Cass McCombs keeps himself pretty busy; he released a pair of spectacular albums in 2011, followed those up in 2013 and, just last year, released a collection of older recordings, A Folk Set Apart. He's back this year with more new music. His eighth album pulls from a variety of styles and features vocals from another favorite, Angel Olsen. Watch: "Medusa’s Outhouse" Watch: "Run Sister Run"

De La Soul - And the Anonymous Nobody De La Soul haven't released a proper album since 2004's The Grind Date. There was a side project, First Serve, from two members in 2012, but I'm not sure how that fits within their broader discography. The newest album sees them all back together and back to form, reminding fans what made them so great in the first place. Listen: "Pain" (featuring Snoop Dogg) Listen: "Royalty Capes"

Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan - Take It, It’s Yours Katy Goodman, formerly of Vivian Girls, has been active as a solo artist, under the name La Sera, since 2010. For her latest record, she is performing under her own name and partnering up with Greta Morgan, who has performed with The Hush Sound, Gold Motel, and Springtime Carnivore. On their collaborative album, they perform covers of songs originally performed by punk and new waves artists, including Billy Idol, Blondie, and the Stooges. Watch: "Ever Fallen in Love" Watch: "Sex Beat"

Other Full-Length Releases

The Album Leaf - Between Waves Watch: "Between Waves" Watch: "New Soul"

Cassius - Ibifornia Watch: "Action" (featuring Cat Power & Mike D) Watch: "The Missing" (featuring Ryan Tedder & Jaw)

Magic Trick - Other Man’s Blues Listen: "Oysters" Listen: "Eternal Summer"

Mild High Club - Skiptracing Listen: "Skiptracing" Listen: "Homage"

The Veils - Total Depravity Watch: "Axolotl" (featuring El-P) Listen: "Total Depravity"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Carly Rae Jepsen - E•MO•TION: B-Sides Listen: "Cry" Listen: "First Time"

Charlotte Day Wilson - CDW Listen: "Find You" Listen: "Where Do You Go"

Delicate Steve - "Winners" Listen: "Winners"

Jon Hopkins - Opalescent Reissue Listen: "Opalescent" Listen: "Halcyon"

Junior Boys - Kiss Me All Night Listen: "Kiss Me All Night" Listen: "Yes"

Lowell - Part 1: PARIS YK Watch: "High Enough" Listen: "West Coast Forever"

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Listen: Florence + The Machine - "Wish That You Were Here"

Porches - Water Watch: "Car" Watch: "Black Dress"

Prophets of Rage - The Party’s Over Watch: "Prophets of Rage" Listen: "The Party’s Over"

Roadies: Music from the Showtime Original Series Listen: Nicole Atkins - "A Little Crazy" Listen: My Morning Jacket - "The First Time"

Sporting Life - Slam Dunk Vol. 1 Watch: "Hydrate the Hustle" Listen: "Kill That Shout"

Vince Staples - Prima Donna EP Watch: "Prima Donna" Listen: "Big Time"

XOXO (Music from the Netflix Original Film) Listen: Michael Brun - "All I Ever Wanted" Listen: Yotto - "Song from the Sun"

Upcoming Album of the Week (Ending April 29)

This was the week that Beyoncé surprised us all yet again and launched a thousand think-pieces (yes, my own is coming). With all the excitement around the surprise release of Lemonade, it can be easy to forget the legion of artists working just as hard with less recognition. Check out a list of upcoming releases I'm looking forward to on my Upcoming Releases page!

This week, De La Soul simultaneously released a new EP, For Your Pain & Suffering, and provided an updated release date for their upcoming album, And the Anonymous Nobody.

Posdnous, Dave and Maseo formed De La Soul in 1987. They were one of the originating rap groups of alternative and jazz-influenced hip hop in the late 1980s/early 1990s, and frequently worked with other artists who helped make the style popular, including the Jungle Brothers and A Tribe Called Quest.

Though they've been active for 28 years, it's been 12 years since their last record, 2004's The Grind Date, something that has not gone unnoticed by fans. They announced an eighth album with a Kickstarter campaign in March of last year. The campaign quickly surpassed its goal and they gave the album an April 2016 release date.

That date came and went. This week, the band acknowledged the delay and released an apologetic four-song EP to tide fans over.

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For Your Pain & Suffering is available now; And the Anonymous Nobody is set for release on August 26.



Also announced this week:

Braids - Companion (May 20)
GØGGS - GØGGS (July 1)
Hiss Golden Messenger - TBA (October 7)
Sonic Youth - Spinhead Sessions (June 17)
Sunn O))) - NOLIFE: Alive in Moscow 11 August 2015 (end of May)
Terry - Terry HQ (July 1)
Todd Terje & The Olsens - The Big Cover Up (June 16)

New Music Tuesday - 03/25/2014

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New Full-Length Releases

The Baseball Project - 3rd The Baseball Project is a side project of former R.E.M. member Peter Buck, who has released a number of solo records since the demise of his band. Also included in this project are Scott McCaughey (The Young Fresh Fellows), Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate), and Mike Mills (R.E.M.). As the name implies, their music revolves around that great-American past-time, with songs about Babe Ruth and the Oakland A's, just to name a few. Listen: "13" Listen: "They Are the Oakland A's"

Future Islands - Singles Future Islands has been getting a lot of attention in the run-up to the release of their fourth studio album (and first while signed to 4AD). I wasn't too set on checking them out until I caught a snippet of a recent interview and live performance on NPR. I knew I had to check them out and was hooked as soon as I heard tracks from the record. They remind me a bit of Greg Dulli, but with synth-pop music in place of dark indie rock. Watch: "A Dream of You and Me" Watch: "Seasons (Waiting on You)"

Glenn Kotche - Adventureland Glenn Kotche is the drummer of the band Wilco, but has also made a name for himself as an experimental percussionist (you can see some of his work in an ad for Delta Faucets). This is his fourth solo release, which collects various work that Kotche has done for ensembles. Listen: "Anomaly Mvt 2"

Johnny Cash - Out Among the Stars Johnny Cash passed away in 2003 so, of course, this is not a collection of newly-recorded songs. The tracks on this latest album come from a series lost 1980s recording sessions that were scrapped when Cash hit a lull in his career. In 2012, his son, John Carter Cash, found the old recordings and put them together for this release. Carter Cash promises that he has enough material for several more albums, so this will probably not be the last we hear from this legend. Watch: "She Used to Love Me a Lot" Listen: "Out Among the Stars"

Liars - Mess Liars change up their sound with each release, but never seem to lose the experimental edge to their music. The band specifically contrasted this record with their previous release, WIXIW, calling it "fun, instinctual and confident." Through their changes, Liars manages to maintain a strong fan base and high critical acclaim for all their records, which is no different with this release. Watch: "Mess on a Mission" Listen: "Mask Maker"

Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield Forcefield is the fourth studio album from this Canadian indie rock band. The album was preceded by the release of the epic 9-minute single "Argentina." The band has always had a strong pop aesthetic to their sound, but seemed determined to bring some of the pomp often seen in other genres to their own sound. Watch: "Argentina (Parts I, II, III)" Watch: "Hot Tonight"

Wolfmother - New Crown Some bands spend months releasing singles, giving interviews and touring in order to promote a new record. Wolfmother did none of that, dropping this latest album as a surprise on their Bandcamp page and letting the fans discover it for themselves. It seemed that the Wolfmother name was dead after the release of a solo album from frontman Andrew Stockdale last year. This latest release proves that the band is still going strong and are as excellent as ever! Listen: "New Crown" Listen: "Enemy Is in Your Mind"

Other New Releases

Bob Dylan in the 80s The 80s weren't exactly the most highly-acclaimed decade of Bob Dylan's career. That doesn't stop a group of musicians from coming together to record covers of some of his tracks from that era. Included on this release are Deer Tick, Blitzen Trapper, and Built to Spill. Listen: Built to Spill - "Jokerman" Listen: Reggie Watts - "Brownsville Girl"

D'Angelo - Live at the Jazz Cafe, London: The Complete Show We're still waiting for a new studio album from this incredible singer. In the meantime, however, we get a re-release of his 1998 set at the Jazz Cafe in London. The re-release features six additional tracks not featured on the original. Listen: "Cruisin'" Listen: "Shit, Damn, Motherfucker"

De La Soul - Smell the D.A.I.S.Y. De La Soul is planning to release a new album, currently titled You're Welcome, later this year. Leading up to that, however, they are putting out a mixtape fully produced by J. Dilla. Listen: "Dilla Plugged In" Listen: "Goes with the Word"

Goldfrapp - Thea Remixes EP "Thea" was a stand-out track from Goldfrapp's latest album, Tales of Us. This remix EP contains reworkings of the track from Blood Diamonds, WAWA, Red Top, and Twin Shadow. Listen: "Thea" Listen: "Thea" (Twin Shadow Remix)

King Dude & Chelsea Wolfe - Sing More Songs Together... Well, I'm familiar with Chelsea Wolfe (thanks to her incredible 2013 album Pain in Beauty). I'm less familiar with her partner on this release, King Dude. This, however, is not their first recording collaboration, they released Sing Songs Together... in 2013. Listen: "Be Free"

Lotus Plaza - "Indian Paintbrush"/"Gemini Pt. 1" Cassette may not be the preferred listening method for most music fans, but it is seeing a bit of a resurgence of late. The latest release come from Lockett Pundt of Deerhunter and Lotus Plaza. The tracks here are some experimental improvisation on his guitar. Listen: "Indian Paintbrush" Listen: "Gemini Pt. 1"

Loud Dreams, Vol. 1 Sean C and LV are a production duo in the world of hip-hop. This release is a bit of a mixtape of some of their work, including tracks from Jadakiss, Fabolous, A$AP Ferg and Pusha T. Listen: Pusha T & A$AP Ferg - "Hand in My Pocket"

Miles Davis - Miles at the Fillmore This release is the third of a "bootleg" series of releases from Columbia, collecting various Miles Davis live recordings. He performed at the Fillmore in San Francisco many times, and there are a number of recordings out there with the same or similar names. However, these latest constitute some of the highest quality available. Information: miledavis.com

Noah: Music from the Motion Picture Make a movie about a story out of the Bible and you're just asking for controversy. While the film-makers admit to taking liberties with the well-known story of Noah and the ark, there are many who question whether the film should have been made. I have no opinion on that, but I'm happy that it's given us a new track from the incredible Patti Smith! Listen: Patti Smith - "Mercy Is"

Rio 2 Soundtrack Cartoons tend to be a lot less controversial, but this isn't one that I'm likely to see. However, it has given us a new song from another incredible musician, Janelle Monáe! Listen: Janelle Monáe - "What Is Love"

Sylvan Esso - "Coffee" Sylvan Esso is a side project of Amelia Meath of Mountain Man and Nick Sanborn of Made of Oak. The new collaboration developed somewhat surprisingly, and this is the first release from the project. From the sound of it, though, I hope there is more to come! Watch: "Coffee"