New Release Tuesday – May 15, 2012
Happy Tuesday to you, my fellow musicheads. We’re halfway through the month of May and the new releases keep coming. This week, we have have new music from country and rock legends, a critically-acclaimed former reality show contestant, and a hip-hop starlet on the rise. There has been a huge buzz around rapper Rye Rye...
New Release Tuesday – May 8, 2012
Happy New Release Tuesday to you. Ready for some new tunes? Well, let’s get started. Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, etc.) has released his latest project entitled Dr Dee, which is the soundtrack for an opera based on the life of scientist John Dee. The album is an interesting...
New Release Tuesday – May 1, 2012
What better way to ring in a new month than with a new crop of album releases. This week’s list includes some old favorites, as well as new artists worth exploring. New music out this week from Apollo Brown, Ane Brun, Geoff Barrow, B.O.B., Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Father John Misty, Nate Hall, Norah Jones,...
New Release Tuesday – April 17, 2012
Hey there, musicheads. My favorite day of the week has come around again. You may not be familiar with many of the artists on this week’s list, but don’t let that stop you from exploring what they have to offer. A lot of great stuff here for you music connoisseurs. Yann Tiersen releases...
New Release Tuesday – April 10, 2012
Welcome to another exciting day of new music releases. In this week’s crop of new music, we have veteran rockers, Grammy-winning jazz artist, an uber-talented Malian duo, and so much more. One of today’s highly anticipated releases is the debut album from Alabama Shakes. The quartet has garnered quite the following recently with its blend...
New Release Tuesday – April 3, 2012
It is hard to believe but we’re in April. The first three months gave us some amazing new music from such varied artists as Carolina Chocolate Drops, Matthew Dear, The Ting Tings, Robert Glasper, Anoushka Shankar, Miike Snow, Paul Weller, Eric Lau, Brother Ali, Birdy, and many, many more. That was just the beginning. As...
New Release Tuesday – March 27, 2012
On this beautiful, sunny Tuesday, I’m sitting back listening to all of the wonderful new music releases out this week. Do yourself a favor, and take a moment to explore new music. This week, we’ve got new music from LEGENDARY artists Madonna, Lionel Richie and Paul Weller. They’ve been making great music for...
New Release Tuesday – March 20, 2012
It’s Spring Again! New season, new music. Let’s get things started with the much anticipated album from the lovely and talented Esperanza Spalding. Her fourth album, Radio Music Society is her first since her delightfully, unexpected win as Best New Artist at the 2011 Grammy Awards. On this album, the multi-instrumentalist presents a number...
Hot Chip Debuts “Flutes” And Announces North America Concert Dates
It has been two years since British electronic band Hot Chip has released new music. (The group’s fourth album One Life Stand was released in February 2010 to much critical praise.) But that is all about to change. The band has just released a video for the single “Flutes”, taken from the forthcoming album...
New Release Tuesday – March 13, 2012
Welcome to another New Release Tuesday. Lots of new music to explore. One of this week’s standouts come from Caetano Veloso & David Byrne. The two artists, who’ve frequently collaborated over the years, came together for a special Live at Carnegie Hall performance in 2004. Eight years later, that performance is now available on CD...
Music, Music, Music
Well, we’re back! Actually, we didn’t really go anywhere, but we did just notice that last week’s blog post was never published, so you were inadvertently deprived of the great new music that was released. Please accept our sincerest apologies. So here’s what you missed last week… Have you ever heard of Nite Jewel, Flame,...
TAKE A LISTEN: The Keychain Collection – Gang Colours
One of this week’s new releases is the debut album from producer/musician Will Ozanne aka Gang Colours. I first learned of Gang Colours when listening to 2010’s Brownswood Bubblers Six, a compilation curated by music tastemaker extraordinaire Gilles Peterson. I’ve come to learn that if Peterson has given his stamp of approval to an artist,...