Luke Grimes - Luke Grimes - Mercury Nashville

Luke Grimes self-titled debut album on Mercury Nashville features 13 tracks, including �Burn,� �Hold On,� and �Oh�Ohio.� Known for his role as Kayce Dutton on the hit television series Yellowstone, Grimes has been making music�for years. He closed out 2023 with a sold-out tour after playing fairs and festivals around the country, including
Stagecoach, Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival, Under The Big Sky Festival, and more. Grimes grew up playing�music in church as the son of a Pentecostal pastor. His father also laid the foundation for the music he loves,�introducing him to the works of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. Indie Exclusive
Clear LP. Limited Edition.

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Various Artists - NOW K-Pop 2024 - NOW

Possibly the most long-awaited NOW album since NOW That�s What I Call Music released it�s first album in 1998, NOW That�s What I Call K-Pop will be available May 17th.

NOW That�s What I Call K-Pop, a first of its kind curation for K-Pop, featuring 20 top hits from major current K-Pop favorites � the full tracklist is below.

NOW That�s What I Call K-Pop is available in CD digipack, black vinyl

CD and vinyl editions each include photo cards for all 20 featured artists, a photocard envelope to hold them, and a photo spread of many carefully curated images of the artist

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Out this week:

Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (10 Year Anniversary) - HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN RECORDS

Metamodern Sounds in Country Music is the second studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson. The album was produced and engineered by Dave Cobb and was released on May 13, 2014, through High Top Mountain/Thirty Tigers.

'Metamodern Sounds in Country Music' 10 Year Anniversary Edition, to be released May 10, 2024, features fully reimagined album artwork for the CD and vinyl release. The limited edition vinyl variant is packaged in an "old-style" tip-on gatefold jacket and pressed on 180g black vinyl.

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Def Leppard - Pyromania (40th Anniversary) - MERCURY

Pyromania (40th Anniversary) [Deluxe 2 LP] - Def Leppard's 40th anniversary reissue of Pyromania has been expanded to a 2-LP set on 180g black vinyl with unheard demos and live tracks from the era. Originally released in 1983, Pyromania launched the band into rock legend status, selling over 10 million copies. Featuring global hit singles "Photograph," "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)" and "Rock of Ages." In tribute to this milestone, this deluxe edition has been executive produced by lead singer Joe Elliott and Ronan McHugh with mastering by Andy Pearce.

Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism - Warner Records

St. Vincent�s first self-produced record, All Born Screaming is Annie Clark at her most unfiltered. All Born Screaming is an invitation to test the limits of what is possible�and to then keep going; �Brought to life with the aid of a highly curated dream lineup of friends � Rachel Eckroth, Josh Freese, Dave Grohl, Mark Guiliana, Cate Le Bon, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Stella Mogzawa and David Ralicke � the album is an unadulterated expression of St. Vincent�s singular vision.

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Death Lens - Cold War - Epitaph

Transparent clear vinyl black splatter (Indie exclusive). Death Lens relentlessly seeks a place in your consciousness, a persistent presence whispering in your ear. Concealing ferocity beneath a stylish veneer, their live shows unleash energy and chaos, leaving spectators disarmed and forever transformed. After successful tours with Militarie Gun and Together Pangea and hometown support, Death Lens is poised to release their latest album, "Cold World," on May 3rd, through Epitaph Records.In recordings, Death Lens forges unyielding rock, blending West Coast surf punk with Britrock's tight, bouncy rhythms. Despite their deceptive chill and vibe-focused portrayal, live performances brim with hardcore intensity. Rooted in slick guitar sonics and sugary backing vocal harmonies, reminiscent of indie punk and shoegaze, Death Lens channels the energy of bands like Turnstile and Militarie Gun on stage, creating soundtracks for indelible memories of high-energy, sweat-soaked singalongs.Hailing from La Puente, the self-described "five Brown boys" transition from showcasing explosive energy in recordings to embodying a refined representation of hard work and early influences gaining traction in their scene. Growing up as minorities east of Los Angeles amidst police harassment and gang violence, Death Lens faced risk factors that could have led them astray. Evolving from a party garage punk band, they now serve as a platform addressing life in heavily policed and immigrant-dominant areas, advocating for immigration reforms, and utilizing resources to support their community. Their experiences form a powerful narrative within their music.

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St.Vincent - All Born Screaming

St. Vincent�s first self-produced record, All Born Screaming is Annie Clark at her most unfiltered. All Born Screaming is an invitation to test the limits of what is possible�and to then keep going; �Brought to life with the aid of a highly curated dream lineup of friends � Rachel Eckroth, Josh Freese, Dave Grohl, Mark Guiliana, Cate Le Bon, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Stella Mogzawa and David Ralicke � the album is an unadulterated expression of St. Vincent�s singular vision.

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Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy - Son of Davy

With $10 Cowboy, Charley Crockett didn�t set out to make a themed record. He had released a concept album in 2022, the critically acclaimed Man From Waco, propelling Crockett to new heights and establishing him as one of the leaders of a sparkling revival of traditional country and folk music. �

For the follow up album, Crockett wrote freely, over a two-month period, as he wound his way across the United States on the back of a tour bus. The resulting songs�raw, personal, vivid portraits of a country in transition�ended up being connected after all.

As the album unfolds, you begin to understand that a $10 Cowboy is anyone who has hustled to get by, who didn�t fit in, who has slept on other people�s couches, or the street, who has fallen down, gotten up, and ventured from home chasing a paying gig, or a new start.

The album was recorded at Arlyn Studios in Austin, produced by Crockett and his long-time collaborator Billy Horton. It was recorded live to tape, with anywhere from 6-12 musicians and backup singers on each track, giving the songs the feel of a live performance. It�s a sound Crockett has been after for years. �Reason I cut it on tape is because when you got the right people in the room, and the great players rise to the occasion when that red light is on and the tape is rolling, you get the magic of a great performance.�

It's exactly what he achieved with $10 Cowboy. Regular bandmates Fox, Nathan Fleming, and Mayo Valdez are joined by some of the genre�s most talented players�Rich Brotherton, Kevin Smith, Dave LeRoy Biller, T. Jarrod Bonta and others, including a string quartet. Lauren Cervantes and Angela Miller sing on the album. While the musicianship and accompaniment are exquisite, they are also subtle, placed joyously, yet judiciously across the album.

No, Crockett didn�t set out to write a themed record. Or, through his studied eye, to find America. But with $10 Cowboy, he might have done both.

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Laufey - Bewitched: The Goddess Edition - LAUFEY LLC

Composer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Laufey continues her story with Bewitched: The Goddess Edition, an expanded version of her 2023 critically celebrated and GRAMMY-winning second album. Since the release of Bewitched, Laufey has proven how staying true to oneself can result in creating a space where people can find themselves. Bewitched has been wildly successful around the world, appearing on multiple year-end best-of lists, sparking an immediately sold-out tour and reaching No. 1 on Billboard�s Jazz charts. The Goddess Edition features four brand-new original songs including lead single "Goddess" and will be available on vinyl, cassette, and CD. The expanded package includes dark blue vinyl, an updated booklet, and a custom board game.

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Billy Idol - Rebel Yell (Expanded Edition) - Capitol/UME

Rock legend Billy Idol is set to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his landmark album Rebel Yell with a deluxe expanded edition due April 26 via Capitol/UMe. Available for pre-order on Friday, March 8, the reissue includes a selection of previously unreleased songs and demos, the Poolside remix of Idol's smash hit "Eyes Without A Face" and the never-before-heard Billy Idol/Steve Stevens original "Best Way Out of Here" from the original sessions. Idol's never-betore-released cover of the Rose Royce single "Love Don't Live Here Anymore"

Mark Knopfler - One Deep River - Blue Note

One Deep River offers an unstoppable flow of future Knopfler classics, with their customarily learned lyrics and refined guitar textures. They draw on a lifetime of genre-crossing ingredients and influences in blues, folk, rock and beyond, and as usual, reveal their charms with unhurried grace and depth.

Tyler Hubbard - Strong - EMI Nashville

With more than 1 billion streams as a solo artist and two back-to-back #1 singles,�Tyler Hubbard's sophomore solo album,�Strong, features 13 brand-new songs, including "Back Then Right Now," "Turn" and "Wish You Would."

Maggie Rose - No One Gets Out Alive

On her most ambitious album yet, No One Gets Out Alive, singer-songwriter Maggie Rose proves she�s a true original. Though the electrifying record is her fourth release, in many ways it feels like her first. No One Gets Out Alive is a knockout career game-changer. Filled with deeply intimate, relatable songs that showcase her masterful storytelling, the album showcases her soulful, powerful voice and pulls you in immediately. Unencumbered by genre, No One Gets Out Alive reflects Maggie�s varied influences including rock, soul, Americana, pop and folk, all colliding for a deeply satisfying listen. Maggie Rose inhabits her music and distills it into something all her own. With unflinching honesty, she does everything authentically and completely.

Phosphorescent - Revelator

Revelator is an album that speaks to �the grand sadness in life� perennial Phosphorescent subject matter, by�Matthew Houck�s estimation. In some ways, Revelator extends seamlessly from the story begun by Muchacho and�continued by C�est La Vie. It finds Houck further mastering his unique blend of ragged, experiment-y classicism�intertwined with ethereal, lachrymose atmospherics. Across Revelator, Houck sings from a woozy, worn headspace,
but leads us to a place where dreams and reality mingle.

Mark Knopfler - One Deep River - Blue Note

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Tyler Hubbard - Strong - EMI Nashville

Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood - Anti

One of the hardest working singer-songwriters in the game is named Katie Crutchfield. She was born in Alabama, grew up near Waxahatchee Creek. Skipped town and struck out on her own as Waxahatchee. That was over a decade ago. Crutchfield says she never knew the road would lead her here, but after six critically acclaimed albums, she's never felt more confident in herself as an artist. While her sound has evolved from lo-fi folk to lush alt-tinged country, her voice has always remained the same. Honest and close, poetic with Southern lilting. Much like Carson McCullers's Mick Kelly, determined in her desires and convictions, ready to tell whoever will listen.

And after years of being sober and stable in Kansas City - after years of sacrificing herself to her work and the road - Crutchfield has arrived at her most potent songwriting yet. On her new album, Tigers Blood, Crutchfield emerges as a powerhouse - an ethnologist of the self - forever dedicated to revisiting her wins and losses. But now she's arriving at revelations and she ain't holding them back. Produced by Brad Cook, the album features MJ Lenderman, Phil Cook, and Spencer Tweedy.

Aoife O'Donovan - All My Friends - Yep Roc Records

LP pressed on Opaque Yellow vinyl and includes an autographed insert! The follow-up to Aoife O'Donovan's 3x Grammy nominated album, Age of Apathy, All My Friends is based around a collection of songs Aoife wrote, inspired by women�s suffrage and the passage of the 19th amendment. The music is expansive with orchestral arrangements, choral vocals and a variety of instruments that create a sonic soundscape beyond anything Aoife has done in the past. Special guests include Ana�s Mitchell, Sierra Hull, The Westerlies, The Knights and the San Francisco Girls Choir.

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Charlie Parr - Little Sun - SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

Over the last couple of decades, Charlie Parr has crisscrossed the world on tour more times than one can count. He also has released over a dozen albums of his songs, acclaimed for their poetic simplicity. Little Sun, his most ambitious album to date, was recorded with Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, My Morning Jacket) and features Parr augmenting his raw and affecting songs with stunning full-band arrangements. The remarkable backing band here includes Marisa Anderson, Victor Krummenacher, Andrew Borger, and Asher Fulero. Masterfully channeling the philosophical and transcendental qualities of the blues, Parr takes us on a journey through the winding streets of his imagination.

Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW - Warner

Gary Clark Jr.�s forthcoming album entitled JPEG RAW, his fourth studio release,
marks a grand step in his musical evolution�. A powerful and expansive artistic statement.

While retaining the deep and true resonance of his blues foundations and guitar virtuosity with subtlety yet conviction, he reaches well beyond this time.

The emphasis here is on song and studio craft without losing the rawness of his young legend. (Rolling Stone Magazine called him, The Chosen One).

The music is dense and adventurous with a more cohesive synthesis of his eclectic musical �palette. �Hip samples, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Boy Williamson decorate flourishes of African, �World Music, even Jazz while merging with blues , rock, R&B and rap; familiar areas he has ventured before, this time with more unity forging a fresh new style. �Clark�s lyrics are �pointed, deeply personal, outspoken and socially conscious with occasional forays into �rap and spoken word from Clark himself. �The sonics are immersive verging on modern groove-oriented psychedelia with hip-hop driven beats in verses giving way to anthemic choruses, rich with power-chording and wide fuzz riffage.

Songs like �Maktub�, �JPEG RAW�, �This Is Who We Are�, �Hyperwave� and the epic 10-minute Habits, break fresh ground defying categorization in the ever corporatized, predictable �alt� music world. �The co-written Stevie Wonder duet, �What About The Children� feels like an immediate classic that could have lived on Innervisions or Talking Book if not for Clark�s fuzzed out riff and hip-hop pocket.

Clark has always had swagger and sex in his sound and very dangerous hands when wielding 6 strings. JPEG RAW is all of that and breaks new ground that is both thrilling and inspiring on every level.

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Fletcher - In Search Of The Antidote - Fletcher/Snapback Entertainment

Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood - Anti

Aoife O'Donovan - All My Friends - Yep Roc Records

Charlie Parr - Little Sun - SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW - Warner

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STILL LISTENING TO...

Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive - Nonesuch Records

Hurray for the Riff Raff�s (aka Alynda Segarra, they/them), The Past Is Still Alive, is out now on Nonesuch Records. The record represents a new phase of beginning in Segarra�s lauded evolution as a storyteller. Created during a period filled with grief, when they found inspiration in radical poetry, railroad culture, outsider art, the work of writer Eileen Myles, and the history of activist groups like ACT UP and Gran Fury, discovering a stronger, singular style of writing that felt like a long-awaited revelation.

The album has been featured everywhere from NY Times (including a �primer� which they almost never do) to Vogue, to NPR and today it received an 8.3 Best New Music on Pitchfork. It�s currently got an 88 on metacritic, making it the 3rd best reviewed new release of the year.

ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY...

Kali Uchis - Red Moon in Venus - Interscope/Geffen Records

We're still loving Kali Uchis' Red Moon In Venus on its one year anniversary on 03/03/24!

Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Liam Gallagher & John Squire -�Warner Records

Liam and John have been friends for years but when Liam invited John to join him on stage at Knebworth in 2022 it reignited a long-running ambition of writing and recording an album together. The demos were written at John's home studio in Macclesfield and then recorded with legendary producer, Greg Kurstin and mixed by Spike Stent. Joey Waronker (Atoms for Peace, Beck, R.E.M.) plays drums on the album.

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Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven - EPITAPH

Mannequin Pussy�s music feels like a resilient and galvanizing shout that demands to be heard. Across four albums, the Philadelphia rock band that consists of Colins �Bear� Regisford (bass, vocals), Kaleen Reading (drums, percussion), Maxine Steen (guitar, synths), and Marisa Dabice (guitar, vocals) has made cathartic tunes about despairing times. �There�s just so much constantly going on that feels intentionally evil that trying to make something beautiful feels like a radical act ,� says Dabice. �The ethos of this band has always been to bring people together.�

Their new album, I Got Heaven, which is out March 1 via Epitaph Records, is the band�s most fully realized recording yet. Over ten ambitious tracks which abruptly turn from searing punk to inviting alternative pop, the album is deeply concerned with desire, the power in being alone, and how to live in an unfeeling and unkind world. It�s a document of a band doubling down on their unshakable bond to make something furious, thrilling, and wholly alive.

Following the 2019 release of their critically acclaimed third album Patience, Mannequin Pussy returned in 2021 for their EP Perfect. They toured that release relentlessly and added guitarist Maxine Steen to the band�s official lineup. The band changed their entire creative formula, choosing to write together in the studio in Los Angeles with producer John Congleton , over slowly crafting tracks at home. �Everyone felt empowered to speak up about their own ideas to make this thing the best it could possibly be,� says Regisford.