New Music Friday - April 12, 2019

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Anderson .Paak - Ventura Watch: "Make It Better" (featuring Smokey Robinson) Watch: "King James"

Band of Skulls - Love Is All You Love Watch: "Love Is All You Love" Watch: "We’re Alive"

Emily Reo - Only You Can See It Watch: "Strawberry" Listen: "Balloon"

Lowly - Hifalutin Listen: "12:36" Listen: "stephen"

Norah Jones - Begin Again Watch: "Begin Again" Listen: "My Heart Is Full"

Other Full-Length Releases

Bruce Hornsby - Absolute Zero Watch: "Voyager One" (featuring yMusic) Watch: "Cast-Off" (featuring Justin Vernon)

The Chemical Brothers - No Geography Watch: "MAH" Watch: "Got to Keep On"

Damien Jurado - In the Shape of a Storm Listen: "Lincoln" Listen: "South"

Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel Watch: "Big" Watch: "Roy’s Tune"

Glen Hansard - This Wild Willing Watch: "Roll On Slow" Watch: "Fool’s Game"

Intellexual - Intellexual Watch: "intlxl" Listen: "Money"

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

All About Eve: Original Music by PJ Harvey Listen: "The Sandman" (featuring Gillian Anderson) Listen: "The Moth" (featuring Lily James)

Broken Social Scene - Let’s Try the After - Vol. 2 Listen: "Big Couches" Listen: "Can’t Find My Heart"

Omar Apollo - Friends Watch: "Ashamed" Listen: "Friends"

Renata Zeiger - Faraway Business Listen: "Chega de Saudade" Listen: "Permanently Lonely"

New Music Friday - October 7, 2016

Be sure to view a list of upcoming releases here!

Essential Full-Length Releases

Norah Jones - Day Breaks Norah Jones started her career making piano-driven jazz, but began exploring pop and folk on recent albums. Her sixth album sees her returning to the style that earned her early fame. The record is made up mostly of original tracks with a handful of covers. Watch: "Carry On" Watch: "Flipside"

Phantogram - Three Phantogram are one of the bands central to a recent resurgence of synth-heavy indie pop. With each album, their sounds has veered more in the direction of conventional pop (at least pop as it exists today). While this is certainly their most mainstream-friendly album, they also come off as more self-assured on this record. Watch: "You Don't Get Me High Anymore" Watch: "You’re Mine"

Other Full-Length Releases

Balance and Composure - Light We Made Watch: "Afterparty" Listen: "Spinning"

GTA - Good Times Ahead Watch: "A Little Bit of This" (featuring Vince Staples) Watch: "Feel It" (featuring What So & Tunji)

Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like a Levee Watch: "Tell Her I’m Just Dancing" Listen: "Biloxi"

Kaiser Chiefs - Stay Together Watch: "Hole in My Soul" Watch: "Parachute"

Matt Kivel - Fires on the Plain Watch: "The Water" Watch: "Permanence" (featuring Robin Pecknold)

Singles, EPs, Soundtracks, etc.

Lizzo - Coconut Oil Watch: "Phone" Listen: "Coconut Oil"

Lushlife - No Dead Languages Listen: "The League of Frightened Men" Listen: "No Dead Languages"

Oasis - Be Here Now Reissue Watch: "D’You Know What I Mean?" Listen: "My Big Mouth"

The Time Is Now Listen: Sugar for Sugar - "Bizarre Love Triangle" Listen: Lower Dens - "Maneater"

Weezer - White Album Deluxe Watch: "King of the World" Watch: "Thank God for Girls"

New Music Tuesday - 11/26/2013

New Full-Length Releases

Billie Joe & Norah Jones - Foreverly Talk about an unconventional partnership! Jazz chanteuse Norah Jones and "punk" rocker Billie Joe Armstrong are not exactly the first two musicians you would expect to get together to record an album, but here they are with a collection of Everly Brothers singles (also unexpected). The songs are all taken from the relatively forgotten Everly Brothers album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us. Thankfully, it seems to be more in the vein of Jones' music than of Armstrongs'. Listen: "Roving Gambler"

Kevin Morby - Harlem River Morby has performed as a member of Woods and started a side project, The Babies, with Cassie Ramone of the Vivian Girls in 2009. He's gradually halved the number of people that he's worked with until now, where it's just himself. Harlem River sees him finally stepping out into the forefront and releasing something more personal than his previous work. Listen: "Harlem River"

Sébastien Tellier - Confection Sébastien Tellier is a French singer and producer who has become noted for his New Wave meets electronic style. I've flip-flopped on his music for a little while, but after hearing the Caroline Polachek-assisted "In the Crew of Tea Time" (which is not actually on this record), I got pushed over the edge in his favor. I'm excited for this latest record as well as to go back over his back catalog and find more to love! Listen/Watch: "L’amour naissant"

Other New Releases

Alt-J - Summer EP Alt-J released an incredible album, An Awesome Wave, early last year and got on the fast track to being one of my favorite new bands. They're getting the remix treatment this year. This EP features mixes of songs from that debut album by the likes of The Internet, Dave Sitek and Ben Lovett (of Mumford & Sons). Listen: "Dissolve Me" (Ben Lovett Remix)

Beady Eye - "Soul Love"/"Iz Rite" Since the dissolution of Oasis, both Gallagher brothers have been very busy in new bands. Beady Eye is the project of Liam Gallagher, who released their sophomore album, BE, earlier this year. Now, they're releasing a pair of songs from that album as a single! Listen/Watch: "Soul Love"

Destroyer - Five Spanish Songs EP Dan Bejar is a Canadian musician who's released music with several supergroups, including Swan Lake and The New Pornographers. Destroyer, however, is a project that's primarily his and in which he's put out the most content. Five Spanish Songs is a short collection of tracks sung all in Spanish. Listen/Watch: "Bye Bye"

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Soundtrack The second installment of the latest movie franchise craze is out and, with it, another collection of new songs. I'm always impressed by the caliber of artists that are recruited for movie soundtracks these days and this one is no different. New songs from Patti Smith, The Weeknd, Sia and The National feature on this soundtrack! Listen: The National - "Lean"

Flume & Chet Faker - Lockjaw EP I've only recently started listening to Flume, but quickly began to love his music. He very recently released a deluxe version of debut self-titled album and is quickly following that up with a collaborative EP with Chet Faker (not to be confused with jazz musician Chet Baker). Listen/Watch: "Drop the Game"

Robert Pollard - "Return of the Drums"/"My Museum Needs an Elevator" Such a busy, busy man. Pollard released an album with Guided by Voices early this year and is set to release another in early 2014. Additionally, he is soon releasing another solo record after also releasing one earlier this year. I don't know how musicians like this do it, but it's great to see the love for their craft on record! Listen: "Return of the Drums"

Shearwater - Fellow Travelers Shearwater has been performing since 2001 and, in that time, they've toured or collaborated with a lot of other bands. With this release, they are honoring many of those collaborators with covers of their songs. On this album are songs originally sung by Coldplay, St. Vincent and Xiu Xiu, and others. Listen/Watch: "I Luv the Valley OH!"

Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time B-Sides Ferreira has been making quite a splash with her debut album, released just a few weeks ago. She's quickly following that up with a collection of b-sides from the recording of her debut. Listen: "Werewolf (I Like You)"

Thee Oh Sees - Singles Collection, Volume 3 Thee Oh Sees have been around for about 16 years and have put out 12 albums. This is their third collection of non-album singles! Listen: "What You Need"