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BLUE ÖYSTER CULT – GHOST STORIES
Blue Öyster Cult‘s 15th studio album, Ghost Stories, is comprised of songs that had remained unfinished as far back as the 1970s; many of which were written by BÖC’s original lineup.
According to UltimateClassicRock.com, the record is “shrouded in vintage music but topped off with a modern sheen.”
Stream • Frontiers • 2024
BUZZARD BUZZARD BUZZARD – SKINWALKER
DIY magazine gave 3½ stars to Skinwalker, the second album from the UK’s Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, and stated the album is “Best enjoyed as a quick trip through pop’s past, albeit with a higher-than-average quota of batsh*t lyrics.”
Stream • Communion • 2024
JAKOBS CASTLE – ENTER: THE CASTLE
ENTER: THE CASTLE is the debut album from Jakobs Castle; the solo project of Jakob Nowell.
Jakob is the only son of late Sublime singer Bradley Nowell, who died in 1996. Jakob was a month shy of his first birthday when his father passed.
In 2023, it was announced that Sublime were reuniting with Bradley Nowell’s soundalike son, Jakob, as their new singer.
Stream • Epitaph • 2024
LINKIN PARK – PAPERCUTS (SINGLES COLLECTION 2000-2023)
Linkin Park‘s Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) is a 20-song overview of the band’s two-decade-plus run and includes fan favorite rarity, “QWERTY.”
The career-spanning compilation’s also includes their new #1 single “Friendly Fire,” a never-before-heard track that was recorded during the sessions of the band’s final studio album, 2017’s One More Light, and features vocals by the late Chester Bennington.
Stream • Warner • 2024
MANIC STREET PREACHERS – LIFEBLOOD 20
Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their synthpop-oriented seventh album, Lifeblood, with an extended anniversary edition.
Lifeblood 20 remasters the album’s original 12 tracks, and adds 34 additional tracks of demos, B-sides, live versions, alternate versions and remixes.
Stream • Sony Music Entertainment UK • 2024
METZ – UP ON GRAVITY HILL
Up On on Gravity Hill, the fifth studio album from Canadian punks METZ, is the band’s first new album in 3½ years.
“Deep, detailed, and unyieldingly personal, it is not only METZ’s most powerful record to date but also their most beautiful.” (Bandcamp)
Stream • Sub Pop • 2024
MAGGIE ROGERS – DON’T FORGET ME
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers returns this week with her highly anticipated new album, Don’t Forget Me. Her previous two albums (2019’s Heard It in a Past Life, 2022’s Surrender) were both placed on many end of year Best Of albums lists.
Stream • Capitol • 2024
AARON LEE TASJAN – STELLAR EVOLUTION
Grammy-nominated songwriter Aaron Lee Tasjan will release his fifth album this week. The songs on Stellar Evolution “track his sonic shifts and share personal moments of overcoming challenges and embracing change; for the world, they are universal in appeal and inclusive in intention.” (BlueÉlan.com)
Stream • Blue Élan • 2024
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