Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Music on the Horizon...


2015's Notable Releases


1/20/2015
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love

2/9

Fiction Plane - Mondo Lumina (Europe)

2/17/2015
Jose Gonzalez - Vestiges and Claws
Steve Earle - Terraplane
Juliana Hatfield Three - Whatever, My Love

3/31/15
Death Cab for Cutie - Kintsugi
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Bjork - Vulcinara
Noel Gallagher & the High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday

 4/21/15

Dustin Kensrue - Carry The Fire

5/1/15
Other Lives - Rituals

5/5/15
Van Hunt - The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets

5/11/15
Paul Weller - Saturn's Patterns

6/16/15

James Taylor - Before This World

6/22/15

Thundercat - The Beyond/ Where Giants Roam
Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool

6/30/15
The Velvet Teen - All Is Illusory

7/17/15
Highly Suspect - Mister Asylum

7/24/15

Jill Scott - Woman

8/7/15
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss

8/21/15
P.O.D. - The Awakening

8/28/18

Rising Fawn - Sifting Through Sadness

9/11/15
Gary Clark Jr. - The Story of Sonny Boy Slim

9/18/15

Chris Cornell - Higher Truth
Metric - Pagans In Vegas
Meg Myers - Sorry
Lydia - Run Wild
Say Hi - Bleeder's Digest

9/25/15

The Dears - Times Infinity Vol. 1
Los Lobos - Gates of Gold
Patty Griffin - Servant of love
Sexwitch - s/t
The Dead Weather - Dodge and Burn

10/6/15

Des Ark - Everything Dies
Duncan Sheik - The Ledgermain

10/23
Dave Gahan & Soulsavers - Angels & Ghosts

10/30
The Neighborhood - Wiped Out
Ian Fletcher Thornley - Secrets
Jerry Gaskill - Love & Scars

11/6
Seal - 7

11/13

Chris Isaak - First Comes the Night

12/4
Coldplay - A Head full of Dreams


2016
1/22
Eliot Sumner - The Information
Besnard Lakes - A Coliseum Complex Museum

1/29

Bloc Party - Hymns

2/5

Trixie Whitley - Porta Bohemica

2/12
Lissie - My Wild West
Sanctus Real - This Is Love
Lacey Sturm - Life Screams

2/19

Kula Shaker - K2.0

3/4

Rob Crow's Gloomy Place - You're Doomed. Be Nice
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evoluition
Nada Surf - You Know Who You Are

3/11
Pete Yorn - Arrangingtime

3/18
Damien Jurado - Visions of Us On the Land

3/25
The Joy Formidable - Hitch
O'Brother - Endless Light

4/1
Andrew Bird - Are You Serious
Explosions In the Sky - The Wilderness
Tancred - Out of the Garden

4/8
Deftones - Gore

4/15
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

4/29

Prince - Hit N Run Phase 2
She Makes War - Direction of Travel

5/13
David Bazan - Blanco

5/20
Mudcrutch - 2
Saosin - Along the Shadow

5/27
Beth Orton - Kidsticks
Band of Skulls - By Default
The Jelly Jam - The Profit
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
Project Nfidelikah
Travis - Everything At Once

6/3
Tegan & Sara - Love You To Death
Judy Collins & Ari hest - Silver Skies Blue
Gates - Parallel Lives
The Kills - Ash & Ice
Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger

6/10
Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle - Colvin & Earle
Angelo Moore & The Brand New Step - Centuries of Heat

6/17
The Tragically Hip - Man Machine Poem
Margaret Glaspy - Emotions & Math
Radiohead - Moon Shaped Pool
Starflyer 59 - SLOW

7/1
Bat For Lashes- the Bride
Maxwell - blackSummersnights

7/8
Switchfoot - Where the Light Shines Through

7/15
NEEDTOBREATH - Hard Love


7/29
Owen - King of Whys
Spill (Marc Walloch) - Through the Seasons



8/12
Brendan Canning - Home Wrecking Years

8/19
John Paul White - Beulah
Alex Cameron - Jumping the Shark

8/26
Joseph - I am Alone, No You Are Not

9/9
Local Natives - Sunlit Youth
Anthony Green - Pixie Queen
The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns With the Devil In Confessional
Wilco- Schmilco

9/16
Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave

9/23
D.A.R.K. - Science Agrees
Jonatha Brooke (Pledgemusic) - Midnight Hallelujah

9/30
Krief - Automatic
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Doyle Bramhall II - Rich Man

10/7
Balance and Composure - Light We make
Norah Jones - Day Breaks
Phantogram - Three

10/14
Barcelona - Basic Man

10/21
American Football (II)
Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
Kevin Devine - Instigator
Joan As Police Woman - Let It Be You
Tom Chaplin - The Wave

10/28
Nada Surf - Peaceful Ghosts

11/4

11/11
Sting - 57th & 9th


11/18
Highly Suspect - The Boy Who Died Wolf

12/2
John Legend - Darkness and Light
Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love

Makari - Elegies

Sunday, January 4, 2015

A post just doesn't seem like a post if it doesn't have a song link.

The ubiquitousness of tangental music references in my life is weighing heavily on me right now because I just can't find a sense of peace with myself without having some music associated with this ramble.  That's a proof of a problem if ever I needed one.  How am I going to get over it?  I guess I am just going to have to figure out how to let go of the gimmick and speak my mind when I am inspired rather than invoking a prompt to justify some faux focus for my thoughts that will be mangled by being shoehorned into alignment with a song, or shoehorning a song to mean what my rambling requires. The stream of consciousness is forking and I am trying to reclaim my mind as a unique synthesis of influences that recognizes resemblances rather than adopting looks to portray my aspirations of actualization. If anything this will be a vocabulary workout the way Freestyling and writing BAD poetry was when I began my journey as a musician, and keeping a journal prepped me for editorializing in music journalism.  Anyway, one down...