NEW ALBUMS
BEARTOOTH – BELOW
Beartooth are back with their fourth LP, which LouderSound.com describes as turning “darkness into catharsis on” the band’s “most brutal album yet”.
Stream • Red Bull Records • 2021
BUCKCHERRY – HELLBOUND
Buckcherry‘s follow up to 2019’s Warpaint is here. Hellbound arrives nearly a month into their extremely busy summer tour schedule.
Stream • Round Hill Records • 2021
GOO GOO DOLLS – RARITIES
Rarities collects 20 non-album Goo Goo Dolls tracks from 1995-2007. B-sides, live tracks, radio performances, acoustic versions. The collection includes an acoustic live cover of INXS‘s “Don’t Change”.
Stream • Warner Bros. • 2021
JOHN GRANT – BOY FROM MICHIGAN
John Grant‘s unsettling music has drawn comparisons to The Magnetic Fields, Alex Cameron, Talking Heads, Scissor Sisters and Harry Nilsson, as well as Grant’s former band, The Czars.
Stream • Partisan Records • 2021
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER – QUIETLY BLOWING IT
MC Taylor (better known as Hiss Golden Messenger) is one of the most consistent indie folk singer-songwriters going right now. Quietly Blowing It, the follow up to 2019’s Grammy-nominated Terms of Surrender, is more of the breathtaking Beatles/Byrds/Dylan-esque songwriting fans have come to expect from Mr. Taylor.
Stream • Merge • 2021
MODEST MOUSE – THE GOLDEN CASKET
The Golden Casket is the seventh album from Portland’s Modest Mouse and is their first new album since 2015’s #1 rock album, Strangers to Ourselves.
Stream • Epic • 2021
MOUNTAIN GOATS – DARK IN HERE
The highly-prolific singer/songwriter (and novelist) John Darnielle, leader of The Mountain Goats, has written 600 songs since starting the band in 1991. In spring 2020, the band set out to record two albums. The resulting albums were Getting Into Knives (October 2020) and Dark In Here (June 2021).
Stream • Merge • 2021
SPLIT SINGLE – AMPLIFICADO
Long before he was the bass player in Bob Mould‘s band, Jason Narducy performed in the Chicago punk band Verboten; a band that would inspire Dave Grohl to pursue music (as detailed in the Foo Fighters documentary, Sonic Highways.)
Many years later, Narducy would release two solid albums as the leader of Verbow in 1997 & 2000, and continued that consistency with two albums from his solo project Split Single in 2014 & 2016. We have now been graced with album number three from Split Single, entitled Amplificado. Enjoy.
Stream • Inside Outside Records • 2021
STÖNER – STONERS RULE
Stöner, consisting of ex-Kyuss bandmates Nick Oliveri (ex-Queens Of The Stone Age) and Brant Bjork (ex-Fu Manchu) have just released their debut album, Stoners Rule.
Stream • Heavy Psych Sounds • 2021
SINGLES / EPs
MILEY CYRUS – NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
Metallica is marking the 30th anniversary of their self-titled album — a.k.a. The Black Album — with a massive reissue and huge tribute album (Metallica Blacklist) both out on September 10th.
Metallica Blacklist sees the album’s 12 tracks covered by 53 different artists that’s available digitally, as a four CD set, and a limited edition 7 LP set.
The Metallica Blacklist includes appearances from Ghost, Weezer, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Royal Blood, St. Vincent, White Reaper, Biffy Clyro, Corey Taylor, Cage The Elephant, Portugal the Man, Volbeat, The HU, Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode, My Morning Jacket and many more!
EVE 6 – GRIM VALUE EP
Eve 6 haven’t released new music in nearly a decade. After going on hiatus for several years, the band are rebounding with the Grim Value EP, which is being touted as their comeback.
Stream • Velocity Records • 2021