Heart On is the third studio album from the Eagles Of Death Metal, known to their friends, families and victims as Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme- the latter, of course, being the nucleus and founder of the seminal gloomy sex rock outfit Queens Of The Stone Age. The Eagles’ garage-glam scuzz metal hops up a few rungs on the danceability scale this time around, as they dig into fuzzier blues leanings and deeper shades of chunk-riffage than their previous releases.
Bloc Party's latest studio effort is an in-your-face assault of blistering riffs, pounding, erratic percussion, samples and sass for miles. Arguably their best release yet. Much as I want to despise them, I can't bring myself to come down too hard on this one. It's a solid offering from a band caught in a tide of trend. If the guys manage to stick it out another half decade or so, it will be very interesting to see where their sound goes.
The Cure: Dream 4.13
No, this isn't music, but these recordings by Hunter S. Thompson between 1965 and 1975 are a time capsule of his thoughts and descriptions of events, both as they're happening and in reflection. His writing technique often included rerecording commentary while writing. Thompson's widow allowed filmmaker Alex Gibney, producer Eva Orner and Gonzo archivist Don Fleming to explore the boxes of tapes stored in the basement of his Owl Farm home in Woody Creek, Colorado. They'd been sitting, untouched, since Thompson's suicide in 2005.
Sounds pretty awesome, I'd say.
Kaiser Chiefs latest offering is a more cohesive piece of work than their previous outings.Produced by Mark Ronson and Eliot James at RAK and Eastcote Studios in London this past Spring, Off With Their Heads is another example of the Chiefs' ability to walk the edge of epic rockers without jumping into the abyss of obvious. They've got the chops for the anthems, but they never fully commit, and every once in a while that's a good thing.
The 88: Not Only... But Also
Arthur Russell: Love Is Overtaking Me
The Band: The Band (vinyl reissue)
The Band: Music From Big Pink (vinyl reissue)
Band from TV: Hoggin All The Covers
Beach Boys: Endless Summer (vinyl reissue)
Boz Scaggs: Speak Low
caUSE co-MOTION!: It's Time!
The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium (vinyl)
Cheap Trick: At Budokan (vinyl reissue)
Cobra Verde: Haven't Slept All Year
Crystal Stilts: Alight of Night (vinyl)
Cynic: Traced On Air
Darling Downs: From One to Another
Dave Alvin: The Best of the Hightone Years
David Benoit: Jazz For Peanuts - Charlie Brown TV Themes
Deerhunter: Microcastle (vinyl)
Devo: Greatest Misses (reissue)
DJ Babu: Duck Season 3
Dungen: 4 (vinyl)
Emery: While Broken Hearts Prevail EP
Envy-Jesu: Envy-Jesu (vinyl)
Fight Bite: Emerald Eyes
Forgive Durden: Forgive Durden Presents Razia's Shadow: A Musical
George Carlin: FM & AM (reissue)
George Carlin: Jammin in New York (reissue)
Hank Williams: The Unreleased Recordings
Horse Feathers: Words Are Dead (vinyl)
I Am Robot and Proud: Uphill City (vinyl)
It's a Musical: Music Makes Me Sick (vinyl)
Jesse Malin: On Your Sleeve
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced? (vinyl reissue)
Jimi Hendrix: Axis: Bold as Love (vinyl reissue)
John Legend: Evolver (with DVD)
John Lennon: Rock 'N' Roll (vinyl reissue)
John Zorn: Film Works, Vol. 21: Belle de Nature/Rijksmuseum
Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash's America
Juliette Commagere: Queens Die Proudly
KaiserCartel: Okay...and Other Things We Feel EP
Lady Gaga: The Fame
Langhorne Slim: When the Sun's Gone Down
Larkin Grimm: Parplar
Living Colour: CBGB Omfug Masters: August 19 2005 the Bowery Collection
Loreena McKennitt: A Midwinter Night's Dream
Lovedrug: The Sucker Punch Show
Lucinda Williams: Lu in 08 (digital only)
M83: Digital Shades Vol. 1 (reissue)
Manual: Confluence
Marillion: Marbles (reissue)
Marillion: Vol. 1-Happiness Is the Road: Essence
Marillion: Vol. 2-Happiness Is the Road: the Hard Shoulder
Marykate O'Neil: mkULTRA
The Matthew Herbert Big Band: Goodbye Swingtime (reissue)
Matthew Herbert: There's Me and There's You
Merle Haggard: Live from Austin, TX '78 (with DVD)
Metallica: And Justice For All (4-disc vinyl reissue) (2-disc vinyl reissue)
Nick Jaina: A Narrow Way
No-Neck Blues Band: Clomeim
O'Death: Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus (vinyl)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) (vinyl)
Pere Ubu: Dub Housing (reissue)
Pink: Funhouse
The Pretenders: Isle of View (reissue)
Queen: A Day at the Races (vinyl reissue)
Queen: A Night at the Opera (vinyl reissue)
Queen: Queen II (vinyl reissue)
Queen: Sheer Heart Attack (vinyl reissue)
Queen & Paul Rodgers: The Cosmos Rocks (vinyl)
Rachael Yamagata: Elephants: Teeth Sinking Into Heart (vinyl)
Red Eyed Legends: Wake Up, Legend
Rodrigo y Gabriela: Live in Japan
Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure (vinyl reissue)
Roxy Music: Roxy Music (vinyl reissue)
Ruth: Anorak
Ry Cooder: The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals: Cardinology
School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms
SCSI-9: Easy as Down
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (vinyl reissue)
The Small Faces: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (vinyl reissue)
Snow Patrol: A Hundred Million Suns (with DVD)
Spiritualized: Songs in A & E
Squarepusher: Just a Souvenir
Starflyer 59: Dial M
Susan Tedeschi: Back To The River
Those Poor Bastards: Satan is Watching
Tom Gabel Aga: Heart Burns EP
Tom Russell: Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology
Trail of Dead: Festival Thyme (vinyl)
Unbunny: Sensory Underload: Uncertain
Various Artists: Garage Band Christmas - Volume 1
Various Artists: Putumayo Presents: Women of Jazz
The Verve: Urban Hymns (vinyl reissue)
Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power and the Amorphous Strums: Dark Developments
Waylon Jennings: Live from Austin, TX '84
Waylon Jennings: Only The Best of Waylon Jennings
Wings: Band on the Run (vinyl reissue)
