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AMBLARE – AMBLARE
Shortly before he passed away in 2021, Hum drummer Bryan St. Pere finished tracking the drums for the self-titled debut album from Amblare.
In addition to St. Pere, the trio consists of Matt McGuyer of Mock Orange and Alex Wallwork of Faerie Ring. Amblare was produced by Hum frontman Matt Talbott.
Stream • Melodic Virtue • 2024
BAYSIDE – THERE ARE WORSE THINGS THAN BEING ALIVE
Bayside‘s latest album, There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive, is the New York-based punk band’s first new album since 2019.
In addition to releasing three singles this year, six of the album’s eleven tracks were previously available on 2022’s The Red EP and 2023’s The Blue EP. The new album (as well as The Blue EP) contains a collaboration with Ice Nine Kills called “How to Ruin Everything (Patience).”
Stream • Hopeless • 2024
THE BLACK KEYS – OHIO PLAYERS
Ohio Players is the 12th studio album from The Black Keys, and the follow up to their 2022 Grammy-nominated Dropout Boogie. The new album features guest appearances from Beck and Noel Gallagher, among others.
Stream • Nonesuch • 2024
BLACKTOP MOJO – POLLEN
Texas rockers Blacktop Mojo are set to release the crowded funded Pollen, this week. The band’s fifth album is the follow up to 2021’s Blacktop Mojo.
Stream • Record Label • 2024
GRACE CUMMINGS – RAMONA
Musician and producer Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Dawes, Angel Olsen, Conor Oberst) produces Ramona from the beautifully smokey voiced Austrialian singer, Grace Cummings.
Ramona is a work of raw truth rendered in its most beautiful form. With its visceral reflection on grief and self-destruction and emotional violence, Ramona brings a stunning new grandeur to Cummings’ music while refusing to soften or temper its humanity.
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Stream • ATO • 2024
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN – RAMPEN – APM: ALIEN POP MUSIC
Rampen – apm: alien pop music is the 13th studio album from experimental German rockers Einstürzende Neubauten. The double album is the follow up to 2020’s Alles in Allem.
Stream • Potomak • 2024
ERRA – CURE
Cure is the sixth albums from metalcore band Erra. Guitarist and clean vocalist Jesse Cash describes Cure as “the most groove-centric record we’ve made. It’s very rhythmically oriented. A lot of the technicality is in the right hand with the riffs more so than in the left hand. I found a cozy little spot in that heavy mood, and I leaned into it a lot.” (KERRANG!)
Erra’s self-titled 2021 album peaked at #4 on Billboards US Heatseekers chart.
Stream • UNFD • 2024
FEEDER – BLACK/RED
Welsh duo Feeder return this week with their 12th studio album, Black/Red.
As the follow up to 2022’s Torpedo, the double album Black/Red completes the trilogy begun with the aforementioned album.
Stream • Big Teeth • 2024
GARBAGE – BLEED LIKE ME EXPANDED REISSUE
The expanded reissue of Garbage‘s highest-charting album (#4 of the Billboard 200), Bleed Like Me, contains 28 tracks with the addition of new mixes, b-sides, rarities and alternate versions.
Stream • BMG/Stunvolume • 2024
CALEB LANDRY JONES – HEY GARY, HEY DAWN
Actor Caleb Landry Jones (Get Out; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) is also a multi-instrumentalist musician who releases well-received eccentric psychedelic rock. Hey Gary, Hey Dawn is his fourth such album and follows The Mother Stone (2020), Gadzooks Vol. 1 (2021) and Gadzooks Vol. 2 (2022).
Stream • Sacred Bones • 2024
DUSTIN KENSRUE – DESERT DREAMING
Including a 2008 Christmas album and a 2016 set of live covers, Desert Dreaming is the sixth solo album from Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue.
The self-produced alt-country album from Kensure mixes fictional stories with childhood memories of trips through the Mojave Desert to visit his grandparents.
Stream • BMG • 2024
KHRUANGBIN – A LA SALA
In 2020, Khruangbin finally charted on the US Billboard 200 with their third album, Mordechai. This week, they return with their fourth studio album, A La Sala.
Stream • Dead Oceans • 2024
MARCUS KING – MOOD SWINGS
Marcus King‘s blues/southern rock/R&B album, Mood Swings, is the Grammy-nominated musician’s third solo album.
Stream • American/Republic • 2024
LO MOON – I WISH YOU WAY MORE THAN LUCK
I Wish You Way More Than Luck is the third LP from Los Angeles-based pop/rock band, Lo Moon. The new LP contains the single “Water” which reached #28 on Billboard’s Adult Album Alternative charts.
Stream • STRNGR Recordings • 2024
MODEST MOUSE – GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE BAD NEWS 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXPANDED EDITION
Modest Mouse has recruited some famous friends for an expanded 20th anniversary edition of their fourth album, Good News For People Who Love Bad News.
The reissue includes remixes from artists like Poolside, Dan the Automator and Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT. Good News for People Who Love Bad News was released in 2004 and includes the band’s highest-charting hit, “Float On”, which went to #1 Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart.
Stream • Epic • 2024
OLD 97’S – AMERICAN PRIMITIVE
American Primitive is the 13th studio album from the Old 97’s and the second since their appearance in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special where they portrayed an alien rock called Bzermikitokolok and the Knowheremen.
Stream • ATO • 2024
PERNICE BROTHERS – WHO WILL YOU BELIEVE
Joe Pernice brings his consistently great songwriting back to the Pernice Brothers for the first time in five years with the release of Who Will You Believe.
Stream • New West • 2024
PHOSPHORESCENT – REVELATOR
Phosphorescent‘s Revelator is the eigth album from the musician and is his first release of all new material since the well-received C’est La Vie in 2018.
In 2022, Phosphorescent launched the Full Moon Project, releasing a new cover song during each full moon of the year. The project included covers of songs by Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Fleetwood Mac, Randy Newman and more.
Stream • Verve • 2024
STRUNG OUT – DEAD REBELLION
Dead Rebellion, the 10th LP from Strung Out, “packs that same familiar punch, but with a new focus on melody, showing a band that is still evolving more than three decades into their distinguished career.” (Bandcamp)
Stream • Fat Wreck • 2024
VAMPIRE WEEKEND – ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US
Only God Was Above Us is the highly-anticipated fifth album from NYC’s Vampire Weekend. Pitchfork rated the album 8.6 out of 10 and highlighted it amongst music’s Best New Albums.
Vampire Weekend‘s previous three albums all went gold and went to #1 on the US Billboard 200 charts.
Stream • Columbia • 2024
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