• What's New 2-5-21

  

  Foo Fighters

  Medicine At Midnight

  RCA

  Medicine at Midnight, the new album from Foo Fighters, packs nine new songs into a tight-ass 37 minutes. This collection (their 10th full length) shows the usually more rock-focused group return with an expanded sound, incorporating pop, R&B and more, including the smoldering new single, “Shame Shame.” Produced by Greg Kurstin and Foo Fighters. *Available on limited edition blue vinyl.*

  

  Common

  A Beautiful Revolution

  Loma Vista

  A Beautiful Revolution finds Common returning to his hip-hop roots. A full length continuous listening experience, it features two interludes and seven new songs that Common refers to as movement music; “music to uplift, heal, and inspire listeners dealing with racial and social injustices. It’s recognition. It’s elevation. It’s music to go with a movement. To help channel pain and outrage into something productive, inspirational and good.”

  

  Aaron Lee Tasjan

  Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!

  New West Records

  With his off-center charm and restless creative dazzle, Tasjan makes music with conviction that has its roots in rock's murky past, armed with an arsenal of songs that spill over with humor, intelligence, irony, and at times prophecy. Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! is 11 of those songs. This is not anxious music for anxious times, but rather music as an antidote for anxious times. It is the sound of the future arriving.

  

  TV Priest

  Uppers

  Sub Pop

  It’s tempting to think that you have all the answers, screaming your gospel every day with certainty and anger. Life isn’t quite like that though, and the debut album from London four-piece TV Priest instead embraces the beautiful and terrifying unknowns that exist personally, politically, and culturally. Posing as many questions as it answers, Uppers is a thunderous opening statement that continues the UK’s recent resurgence of grubby, furious post-punk music. It says something very different though – something completely its own.

  

  The Staves

  Good Woman

  Nonesuch

  The Staves’ first album in five years is an accumulation of everything that life has thrown at them in that time. It’s a decade since The Staves self-released their first EP and a lot has happened since then. Their third album Good Woman was written and recorded amid major upheaval, heartbreak and bereavement. The new-found boldness, loudness and lyrical directness on this record are indicative of lives forced to become a serious concern.

  

  The Weeknd

  The Highlights

  XO/Republic

  Two days before his half-time performance at this year’s Super Bowl, The Weeknd will release a highlight reel of his own. The career-spanning The Highlights includes five songs each from 2020’s After Hours and 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness, three Starboy tracks, two House of Balloons cuts, one My Dear Melancholy song, and two songs that were not on Weeknd projects (Black Panther’s “Pray for Me” and Ariana Grande’s “Love Me Harder”).

  
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• New Release Round-Up 02-19-21

  

  Frank Zappa - Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Zappa Records
  The Soundtrack is a perfect complement to the film available on 3 CDs for the Zappa completist. Showcasing 69 total songs, with 12 previously unreleased recordings from archive along with the 1978 Saturday Night Live performance; 24 additional Zappa songs from the catalog spanning 4 decades; songs from Zappa's labels Straight / Bizarre Records; 2 classical compositions by Edgard Varese and Igor Stravinsky; and 26 Original Score cues newly composed by John Frizzell for the documentary.
  
  Also Available Soon: Crystal Clear 2LP & 3CD

  
   
  
  
  

  

  Icon For Hire - Amorphous - Icon For Hire
  Icon For Hire’s sound is one that effortlessly blends heavy riffs, elements of electronic production and soaring vocal lines into a powerful & bold sonic explosion. However, at the heart of Icon For Hire’s music is a message of positivity, self-love and personal empowerment from the painfully relatable and rousing lyrics of Ariel. For Amorphous, the band worked with Grammy Nominated engineer Romesh Dodangoda (known for his previous work producing the last Bring Me The Horizon album as well as acts such as Don Broco, Busted, and Kids in Glass Houses). The album has been completely funded by fans through Kickstarter. This success was achieved thanks to the band’s highly dedicated ICON Army fanbase that support them on Patreon and have been there for the band though thick, thin, litigation, addiction and more. Having overcome both personal and professional adversity, Icon For Hire are living proof that you can take control of your life—and that’s perhaps the greatest success anyone can hope to accomplish.

  
     
  
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  Tash Sultana - Terra Firma [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Opaque Yellow LP]  
  Loathe - I Let It In And It Took Everything [Gold/Black 2LP] 
  
  
  The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy
  Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump.....On A Wooden Piano
  Mogwai - As The Love Continues [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Transparent Yellow LP]
  Edie Brickell and New Bohemians - Hunter And The Dog Star
  nothing,nowhere. - Trauma Factory
  BTS - Be (Essential Edition)
  Ricky Warwick - When Life Was Hard And Fast
  Devonte Hynes - We Are Who We Are (Original Series Soundtrack)
  Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Glow-In-The-Dark LP]
  Sheila E. - The Glamorous Life [Teal LP]
  Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted And Black [Burnt Orange LP]
  Hearty Har - Radio Astro
  Porter Robinson - Look At The Sky [Vinyl Single]
  Geneva Jacuzzi - Lamaze
  The Who - WHO [7in Singles Box Set w/ Live At Kingston CD]
  Hand Habits - Dirt EP [Vinyl]
  
  
  & More .....
  
  

  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.
  
  

    

  UPCOMING RELEASES

  

  Glitterer - Life Is Not A Lesson - Glitterer
  Life Is Not A Lesson is Glitterer’s second full-length album, featuring Ned Russin, bassist/vocalist of seminal hardcore-punk band Title Fight. This time Ned has produced the record himself, notwithstanding some recording and performance help from his twin brother, Ben, and some other friends, as well as mixing and mastering by Arthur Rizk (Code Orange, Power Trip). It may surprise you to hear that, irrespective of worldly doom and gloom, the new songs are even catchier and bigger-sounding than those from his 2019 release, Looking Through the Shades. With roomier drums and more electric-guitars-per-square-inch than ever, Life is Not a Lesson has a way of evoking an alternate-universe version of Guided By Voices, one with a hardcore-punk background. Life is Not a Lesson proves to be a rigorous reckoning with the life of the mind at a time when there’s not much life outside the mind.

  
     
  
  
  

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