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  • What's New 2-14-25

    The Lumineers
    Dualtone Music Group

    After twenty years of musical partnership, both Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz, now dads, fully embraced the life-altering, unromantic challenges and rewards of family life. Their fifth album features a new vulnerability, sly humor and acknowledgements of need – for love, respect, and connection in an increasingly chaotic world.

    The War And Treaty
    Mercury Nashville

    Plus One represents the duo’s first full-fledged attempt at carving a space in mainstream country music. Tunes that reference country roads and chugging double shots of whiskey sit alongside their trademark message of fostering hope and connection. “We knew that Nashville had something to offer us,” says Michael Trotter, “but we also knew that we’ve got something to offer Nashville.”

    Bartees Strange
    4AD

    Throughout the record, Strange lays down one difficult truth after another, all over a sonic pastiche of music he loved as a kid. His dad hipped him to Parliament Funkadelic, Fleetwood Mac, Teddy Pendergrass, and Neil Young. Those influences merged with Strange’s interest in hip-hop, country, indie rock, and house, culminating in a record that feels completely original.

    The Velveteers
    Easy Eye Sound

    The Velveteers’ explosive sophomore album is loaded with blistering rock anthems infused with melodic indie songwriting. With producer Dan Auerbach at the helm, the trio encapsulates the raw, forceful, and profoundly heavy power of their live performances and laser-focuses a spotlight on tightly crafted songs as they carve out their own distinctive niche.

    Gary Louris
    Thirty Tigers / Sham 2

    Over the last three decades, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer Gary Louris has built a deeply compelling body of music whose artistry and integrity has won the loyalty and respect of both critics and his peers. Best known for his seminal work with The Jayhawks, he is one of the most acclaimed musicians to come out of Minnesota's teeming rock scene.

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  • New Release Round-Up 02-14-25

    The War and Treaty - Plus One
      

    The War and Treaty - Plus One - Mercury Nashville

    “Powerhouse Duo” (TODAY) The War And Treaty return with their new album Plus One. The album includes "Can I Get An Amen", "Leads Me Home, "Stealing A Kiss", "Called You By Your Name" and “Carried Away” "Every song on this album deals with some aspects of him and some aspects of her and some aspects of us. The ideal of sharing space with someone can be challenging no matter how short or long. We’ve had moments of doubt, moments of clarity, moments of regret and moments of solid faith." - Michael and Tanya

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    Empire - Empire & NBA2K25 Present Music To Ball To
     

    Empire & NBA2K25 Present Music To Ball To - Empire

    EMPIRE, the nation's leading independent record label, recently teamed up with the NBA 2K video game to provide the soundtrack for Season 2 of it's series in October 2024. The soundtrack was a natural pairing of the two iconic Bay Area based companies to push culture forward through music, sports, and gaming. The 2 LP Box set, which includes music from the likes of Larry June, Key Glock, Money Man, LUCKI, Asake & Central Cee, 310babii and more is housed in a premium box with glossy, hardwood floor print on the outside, and a basketball textured inner box will also include a mini-satin championship banner, a custom basketball keychain, and virtual currency for in-game purchases.

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    ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

    Empire - Empire & NBA2K25 Present Music To Ball To [Deluxe Boxset]

    The War and Treaty - Plus One [2 LP]

    Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet [Deluxe Edition Bright Azure 2 LP]

    the Velveteers - A Million Knives [Limited Edition Indie Exclusive "Glass Of Port" LP]

    Third Mind - Live Mind

    Vulture Feather - It Will Be Like Now [Rose Vinyl LP]

    FKJ - 22_23 Live Sessions [Translucent Light Blue Vinyl]

    Third Mind - Live Mind (Gate)

    The Altons - Heartache in Room 14 [Baby Blue LP]

    Horsegirl - Phonetics On And On [Clear Vinyl] [Indie Exclusive]

    Bartees Strange - Horror [Colored Vinyl] (Red)

    Beach Bunny - Honeymoon [Colored Vinyl] (Purp)

    Open Mike Eagle - Hella Personal Film Festival (Blue) [Colored Vinyl]

    John Glacier - Like A Ribbon

    Richard Dawson - End Of The Middle [With Booklet] [Indie Exclusive] [Download Included]

    Speed of The Stars - Speed Of The Stars [Colored Vinyl] (Purp) (Can)

    Good Morning - The Accident [Indie Exclusive]]

    Ricky Martin - Pausa + Play

    Califone - Villager's Companion [Indie Exclusive Firework Shimmer LP]

    Rusty Williams - Grand Man [Indie Exclusive]

    Various Artists - Fania Records: The Latin Sound Of New York (1964-1978) [2 LP]

    Joyner Lucas - Not Now I'm Busy

    The Wombats - Oh! The Ocean [Indie exclusive Cloudy clear]

    Lambrini Girls - You're Welcome [Red/Orange Vinyl]

    Alesia Cara - Love & Hyperbole [LP]

    Betty Carter - Out There With Betty Carter (Verve By Request)

    Yuval Cohen - Winter Poems

    Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy And The Poor Boys (Remastered 2025) - [opaque canary yellow vinyl]

    Mathias Eick - Lullaby

    Four Tops - Changing Times [Limited Edition]

    Half.Alive - Persona

    Bill Henderson - Bill Henderson With Oscar Peterson (Verve By)

    I Prevail - Heart vs Mind (10th Anniversary Edition) - [Translucent Grape vinyl]

    Ice Spice - Y2k

    Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son [2015 Remaster] [180 Gram]

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    For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.

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  • What's New 2-7-25

    Dream Theater
    Inside Out Music

    Dream Theater’s first release with the classic lineup since 2009 rarely takes the simple route. Head-spinning solos and rhythmically complex musical passages were essential to defining the prog metal master’s reputation and they're no less exciting here. The 16-year break from each other rarely reveals any cobwebs, shaking off any doubts about their return.

    Michigander
    Thirty Tigers / Totally Normal Records

    Michigan-born and Nashville-based Jason Singer leaves one chapter in the rear-view and turns the page on another with uplifting instrumentation, and plainspoken heartland storytelling punctuated by alternative flare. It’s a deft balance of rock energy, alternative adventurousness, and heart-on-his-sleeve songcraft.

    L.S. Dunes
    Fantasy

    The punk/alternative supergroup’s (members of Thursday, My Chemical Romance, Coheed and Combria, and Circa Survive) debut, Past Lives, navigated through dark, thunderous clouds—each song a lightning bolt illuminating the raw, untamed experimentation of the band. Violet, on the other hand, is the radiant dawn that breaks after the tempest, bringing with it a new hope with its profound lyrics and melancholically hopeful melodies.

    Lilly Hiatt
    New West Records

    Forever is a raw, unvarnished work of love and trust that walks the line between alt-rock muscle and singer-songwriter sensitivity. It is a bold, guitar-driven, exploration of maturity and adulthood that grapples with growth and change, escape and anxiety, self-loathing and self-love, and the songs are intensely vulnerable, full of diaristic snapshots.

    Joe Satriani
    Earmusic

    Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eric Johnson inaugurated the G3 Tour concept 28 years ago which put them on stage together for the first time ever. In 2024, G3 reunited for a sold-out run of US dates. “Reunion Live” much more than just a live album, containing a new album from each artist plus a new LP from the certified supergroup.

    Penny & Sparrow
    Thirty Tigers / I Love You

    Beautifully varied and richly rendered, Lefty is an album that wanders from theme to theme, style to style, exultation to tragedy. Yet it is never lost. If anything, it is at play. Lefty feels like not just a celebration of their journey beyond the bounds of their traditional genre, but as if they have rediscovered the joy in music by honoring the sounds that inspired two boys growing up in Texas to one day make the damn stuff themselves.

    FKA Twigs
    Atlantic

    On her first studio album in five years, the ever-experimental artist searches for transcendence in her own inimitable language. As promised, twigs’ long-awaited third album is inspired by techno – it’s also her warmest and brightest material to date. The hazy underground equivalent of BRAT summer with a massive injection of purified sex.

    Iggy Pop
    Earmusic

    Backed by a seven-piece band, Iggy breathes new fire into Stooges classics like “I Wanna Be Your Dog” and “T.V. Eye” and ignites the adoring crowd with visceral run-throughs of “The Passenger” and, of course, “Lust for Life.” Live At Montreux… captures the avant-garde icon and punk pioneer in a performance that could only happen here. A singular moment in a singular career.

    Mac Miller
    Warner Records

    Recorded in 2014 but never released, Mac Miller’s second posthumous album is the missing link between the earnest rapper he was and the evocative songwriter he would become. Feeling distinct from his broader catalogue, Balloonerism equally tethers itself to other points in Mac’s work. It’s a rather wonderful, albeit unsettling, reminder of a talent lost.

    Lambrini Girls
    City Slang

    If peppering political songs with humor is like sticking a sparkler in some bread, then Who Let The Dogs Out is like a fireworks display in the factory itself: strange, dangerous, exciting. Sirens blare over a heavy distorted bass and a live drum breakbeat. The band dance between upbeat pop punk, dirty grunge tones and discordant post-punk. A take-no-prisoners debut from one of the UK’s most fun and fearless bands.

    Tremonti
    Napalm Records

    Mark Tremonti levels up all around on his 19th overall album, joined by bandmates Eric Friedman [guitar], Ryan Bennett [drums], and Tanner Keegan [bass]. The End Will Show Us How charges with inspirational lyricism, metallic barrages, and Tremonti’s most incisive displays of fret fireworks - a testament to his legacy of ceaseless creativity and a certified triumph!

    Franz Ferdinand
    Domino Record Co.

    The band’s sixth full-length album showcases Franz at their most immediate, upbeat and life-affirming, unashamedly going for the pop-jugular in classic Franz style. Recorded at AYR studios in Scotland, the 11 songs on The Human Fear all allude to some deep-set human fears and how overcoming and accepting these fears drives and defines our lives.

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