Hello. Hope everyone is rocking and rolling along…

 
Not a whole lot to pass on at the moment. Just been catching up and enjoying some of the new releases that have come out recently. Spring and early Summer being such a good time for new releases. All the bands and artists hitting the road for the Summer, playing festivals and staying busy. Really loving the new Rush (inspired and heavy), Metric (moody and retro-inspired) and BoDeans (rootsy w/a big heart) albums. Seeing a movie here and there. Really liked both _Prometheus_ (great fun, suspenseful but action-packed) and _Snow White & the Huntsman_ (Super intense and also action packed). Both of the movies decidely not for the faint of heart!

What have you been listening to? What movies have you seen and enjoyed?

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Covering artists we know, artists we don’t know and artists we really don’t know. It’s a grab bag of what’s new and current. Hope you stop by and say hello.

A one and a two and a three and a four…

Recently released and not mentioned in last edition:

* Luka Bloom - This New Morning

* Best Coast - The Only Place

* Japandroids - Celebration Rock

* Rebecca Ferguson - Heaven

* Lisa Marie Presley - Storm and Grace

* Civil Twilight - Holy Weather

* Son of Levi - Always

* Black Box Revelation - My Perception

* Bahamas - Barchords

* Alone at 3am - Midwest Mess

* Mike Scott - Adventures of a Waterboy: Memoir

6/5

* The Beach Boys - That's Why God Made the Radio

* Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana

* Joe Walsh - Analog Man

* Patti Smith - Banga

* Rhett Miller – The Dreamer

* Anna Ternheim - The Night Visitor

* Brandi Carlile – Bear Creek

* Shawn Colvin - All Fall Down (produced by Buddy Miller.)

* At the Drive-In - The Lowdown

* We are Augustines - Rise ye Sunken Ships

* The Walkmen - Heaven

* The Hives - Lex Hives

* Matthew Perryman Jones - Land of the Living

* Alejandro Escoveda - Big Station

* Donavon Frankenreiter - Start Livin'

* Bryce Avary - Life will Write the Words

* Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Big Moon Ritual

* Spectrum Road - S/T (featuring Vernon Reid.)

* Chris Squire & Steve Hackett - Life Within a Day

* Marley's Ghost - Jubilee

* The Rocketboys - Build Anyway

* Lettuce - Fly

* The Temper Trap - S/T

* Circus Maximus - Nine

* L.A. Guns - Hollywood Forever

* Fear Factory - The Industrialist

* Rock of Ages soundtrack

* ZZ Top - Texicali EP (Download only.)

* Paul Simon - Graceland (Deluxe.) and Under African Skies (DVD.)

* Heart - Strange Euphoria (Box set.)

+ John Mellencamp - It's About You (Tour documentary.)

+ Motley Crue - Kickstart Live 2011

+ Stone Temple Pilots - Alive in the Windy City

+ John Carter

+ Act of Valor

+ Safe House

+ Knockdown

+ Journey 2: the Mysterious Island

6/12

* Rush - Clockwork Angels

* Metric - Synthetica

* The BoDeans - American Made

* Drivin N Cryin - Songs from the Laundromat EP

* Mary Chapin Carpenter - Ashes and Roses

* Grace Potter - The Lion, the Beast, the Beat

* Amy MacDonald - Life in a Beautiful Light (import.)

* Jukebox the Ghost - Safe Travels

* Bouncing Souls - Comet

* Josh Turner - Punching Bag

* Sea of Bees - Orangefarben

* The Mynabirds - Generals

* Emily Jane White - Ode to Sentience

* Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe

* Guided by Voices - Class Clown Spots a UFO

* Wintersleep - Hello Hum

* The Inner Banks - Wild

* Gun - Breaking the Silence

* Giant Sand - Tucson

* Ed Sheeran - +

* Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving Now

* Spirit Family Reunion - No Separation

* Ryan Monroe - A Painting of a Painting on Fire

* John Mellencamp/Stephen King - Ghost Brothers of Darkland County soundtrack

+ Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows

+ Ghost Rider 2

+ In Darkness

+ Thin Ice

6/19

* Glen Hansard - Rhythm and Repose

* Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel

* Nelly Furtado - The Spirit Indestructible

* Kate Miller-Heidke - Nightflight

* The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania

* The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden

* Dirty Heads - Cabin by the Sea

* The dB's - Falling Off the Sky

* Hot Chip - In Our Heads

* Walk the Moon - S/T

* Lit - The View from the Bottom

* Effren - Write a New Song

* Jonathan Rundman - S/T (Retrospective.)

* Lita Ford - Living Like a Runaway

* Brave soundtrack

+ The Raconteurs - Live at Montreux 2008

+ Jeff, Who Lives at Home

+ Wanderlust

+ Big Miracle

+ Project X

6/26

* Linkin Park - Living Things

* Echo Lake - Wild Peace

* The Flaming Lips - Heady Fwends

* Mindy Smith - S/T

* Blues Traveler - Suzy Cracks the Whip

* Everclear - Invisible Stars

* The Offspring - Days Go By

* Joe Jackson - The Duke

* Jolie Holland - Pint of Blood

* Cory Chisel - Old Believers

* Casey Abrams - S/T

* Everest - Ownerless

* Memphis May Fire - Challenger

* Admiral Fallow - Tree Bursts in Snow

* Soundtrack of Our Lives - Throw it to the Universe

* Little Feat - Rooster Rag

+ Pink Floyd - The Story of 'Wish You were Here'

+ The Artist

+ Wrath of the Titans

+ Mirror, Mirror

+ 21 Jump Street

+ A Thousand Words

7/3

* Asia - XXX

* Honey Ryder - Marley's Chains EP

* Delain - We are the Others

7/10

* Saga - 20:20

* Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

* Summer Camp - Always EP

* Eleni Mandel - I Can See the Future

* Brendan James - Hope in Transition

* Joshua Hyslop - Where the Mountain Meets the Valley

* Michael Des Barres - Carnaby Street

+ Robert Plant - Band of Joy: Live from the Artist's Den

+ Duran Duran - A Diamond in the Mind: Live 2011 (CD/DVD.)

+ Flowers of War

+ Being Flynn

+ American Reunion

7/17

* Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth

* Matisyahu - Spark Seeker

* Alberta Cross - Songs of Patience

* Missy Higgins - Ol' Razzle Dazzle

* Susanna Hoffs - Someday

* Soul Asylum - Delayed Reaction

* 10 Years - Minus the Machine

* John Frusciante - EP

* Milo Greene - S/T

* Saving Abel - Bringing Down the Giant

* Zac Brown Band - Uncaged

* Old Crow Medicine Show - Carry Me Back

* Be Good Tanyas - A Collection 2000-2012

* Baroness - Yellow and Green

* Citizen Cope - One Lovely Day

* Hellyeah - Band of Brothers

+ Ozzy Osbourne - Speak of the Devil (1982 concert w/Brad Gillis.)

+ Friends with Kids

+ Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

+ Casa De Mi Padre

+ The Three Stooges

+ Lockout

7/24

* The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

* Passion Pit - Gossamer

* The Antlers - Undersea

* Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Now Here's My Plan EP

* Foals - Tapes

* Sugar - Copper Blue (Deluxe.) and File Under: Easy Listening (Deluxe.)

+ Peter Gabriel - Secret World: Live (blu-ray.)

+ The Deep Blue Sea

+ Silent House

7/31

* Joshua Radin - Underwater

* Joss Stone - Vol. 2: Soul Sessions

* Kasey Chambers - Storybook (Covers.)

* Gaelic Storm - Chicken Boxer

* Testament - Dark Roots of Earth

* The Toadies - Play.Rock.Music.

* Blur - Many Deluxe editions and a Box Set

+ Le Havre

8/7

* Sixpence None the Richer - Lost in Transition

* Ten Years - Minus the Machine

+ Marley (documentary.)

+ Blue Like Jazz

+ The Lorax

8/14

* Ben Taylor - Listening

* Fleetwood Mac tribute

8/18

+ The Hunger Games

8/21

* Yeasayer - Fragrant World

* Dispatch - Circles Around the Sun

* Tenth Avenue North - The Struggle

* Smash Mouth - Magic

* Bloc Party - Four

* The Darkness - Hot Cakes

* Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti - Mature Themes

* Lynyrd Skynyrd - Last of a Dying Breed

* Los Lobos - Kiko (Deluxe.)

+ Slash - The Cat in the Hat: the Story so Far (documentary.)

+ Bernie

+ Weekend

8/28

* Aerosmith - Songs from Another Dimension

* Alanis Morissette - Havoc and Bright Lights

* Robert Cray - Nothin' but Love

* Swans - The Seer

* Big Wreck - Albatross

* Matthew Dear - Beams

9/4

* Mark Knopfler - Privateering (2 CD's.)

* Bob Mould - Silver Age

* Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

* Two Gallants - The Bloom and the Blight

* Sondre Lerche - Bootlegs

* Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't

* K's Choice - Echo Mountain

* Matchbox 20 - North

9/11

* St. Vincent and David Byrne - Love this Giant

* Cat Power - Sun

* Calexico - Algiers

* Seapony - Falling

* Field Report - S/T

* Saigon - Bread and Circuses

* The XX - Coexist

9/18

* Muse - The 2nd Law

* Grizzly Bear - TBA

* Ryan Bingham - Tomorrowland

* Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky

9/25

* No Doubt - Push and Shove

* Green Day - Uno

* Michael McDermott - Hit Me Back

LYRICS of the MONTH:

“Some of us are wild ones
Ever under, wanted, I believe
Lining up in the background
Waiting for the crowd shot to be seen

In the shadow of the big screen
Everybody begs to be redeemed

Hey, I'm not synthetica
I'll keep the life that I've got

We were never meant to
Crawl in for the bait
We never will
I can think for myself
I've got something no pill could ever kill

Hey, I'm not synthetica
I'll keep the life that I've got
So hard, hard to resist
Synthetica
No drug is stronger than me
Synthetica

We're all the time confined to fit the mold
But I won't ever let them make a loser of my soul
Ahhh

Hey, I'm not synthetica
I'll keep the life that I've got
I'll keep the life that I've got
I'll keep the life that I've got
I'll keep the life that I've got.”

Metric, the song “Synthetica” from the album _Synthetica_ released this month.
http://www.ilovemetric.com

 

See you in July.

Happy 4^th!!!

 

Chris Barlow

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