The Crossing - August/September 2012 Hello once again. Welcome back to another installment of America's least known new music and movie release program.
It's also the best, which sets it apart from the other lists out there. How so, you ask? I'll make this quick. Who else has both Motorhead and Mark Knopfler in the same list? What seriously sets my list apart from other lists is that I cover a lot of classic artists from yesteryear as well as the new, while other lists just stick to the new. Sure I could just list Mumford & Sons, a great band mind you, but you know who used to be Mumford & Sons? The Who. Yes, The Who used to be Mumford & Sons. No, not in sound. And, certainly not recently. You would have to go back about 45+ years when The Who were the new kids on the block like Mumford & Sons are now. Mumford & Sons are about to release their second album 'Babel' in late September, after blowing everyone away with the release of their debut 'Sigh No More' two years ago. They are in ascendency and may, hopefully, go on to have a very long career. But will we be talking about them 45 years from now? Well, now, that's another question. In short, I like my list, I hope you do too. But, dang, if it isn't long. As usual, peruse carefully and try not to blink too often.
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Recently released and not mentioned in last edition:
* Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
* Bap Kennedy - Sailor's Revenge
* Mindy Smith - S/T
* Allen Stone - S/T
* Emily Portman - Hatchling
* Angus Stone - Broken Brights
* Robert Francis - Strangers in the First Place
* Elle King - EP
* Darlingside - Pilot Machines
* Roniit - S/T
* Starring - ABC...
* Shawn Brady - Electric Blood
* James Vincent McMorrow - We Don't Eat EP
* Animal Kingdom - The Looking Away
* Said the Whale - Little Mountain
* Jellyfish - Live at Bogart's
* Marcy Playground - Lunch, Recess and Detention
* Men Without Hats - Love in the Age of War
* Angel – a few reissues
+ We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash (CD/DVD.)
8/7
* Sixpence None the Richer - Lost in Transition
* Ten Years - Minus the Machine
* Ormonde - Machine
* Tidelands - We've Got a Map
* Lynch Mob - Sound Mountain Sessions EP
* Lynyrd Skynyrd - Southern Surroundings: Live (CD/DVD; Walmart exclusive.)
+ Incubus - HQ: Live
+ Marley (documentary.)
+ Blue Like Jazz
+ The Lorax
8/14
* Ben Taylor - Listening
* Charlie Mars - Blackberry Light
* Robin & Linda Williams - These Old Dark Hills
* The Dirty Guv'nahs - Somewhere Beneath these Southern Skies
* Daniel Powter - Turn on the Lights
* Dead Can Dance - Anastasis
* Yellowcard - Southern Air
* White Violet - Hiding, Mingling
* In this Moment - Blood
* Karima Francis - The Remedy
* Steve Vai - The Story of Light
* Loverboy - Rock and Roll Revival
* The Fixx - Beautiful Friction
* Fleetwood Mac tribute
* Supertramp tribute
+ Staind - Live from Mohegan Sun (CD/DVD.)
+ Jaws (Blu-ray.)
8/18
+ The Hunger Games
8/21
* Yeasayer - Fragrant World
* Owl City - The Midsummer Station
* Dispatch - Circles Around the Sun
* Tenth Avenue North - The Struggle
* Smash Mouth - Magic
* Bloc Party - Four
* The Darkness - Hot Cakes
* The Heavy - The Glorious Dead
* Smile Smile - Marry a Stranger
* Atlas Genius - Through the Glass EP
* Erin McCarley - The Boys Club EP
* Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
* Matthew E. White - Big Inner
* Eric Lindell - West County Drifter
* The Kennedys - Closer Than You Know
* Lynyrd Skynyrd - Last of a Dying Breed
* Los Lobos - Kiko (Deluxe.)
* Eclipse – Bleed & Scream
* Circus Maximus - Nine
* KISS - Destroyer: Resurrected (Remixed & remastered.)
+ Slash - The Cat in the Hat: the Story so Far (documentary.)
+ Bernie
+ Weekend
+ A Separation
+ Chimpanzee
+ The Dictator
8/28
* Saga - 20:20
* Alanis Morissette - Havoc and Bright Lights
* Robert Cray Band - Nothin' but Love
* Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb - In Session (CD/DVD.)
* Swans - The Seer
* Aimee Wilson - Unto Us the Sun
* Minus the Bear - Infinity Overhead
* Abandoned Pools - Sublime Currency
* Big Wreck – Albatross
* Wild Nothing - Nocturne
* Flobots - Circle in the Square
* Obey the Brave - Young Blood
* Poor Moon - S/T
* Amy Cook - Summer Skin
* Kristina Train - EP
* Matthew Dear - Beams
* Dan Deacon - America
* King of Spain - All I Did was Tell the Truth and They Thought it was Hell
* Joe Strummer - A few reissues
* Frank Zappa - Many reissues
+ Triumph - Live at Sweden Rock Festival 2008 (CD/DVD.)
+ Quadrophenia (Criterion.)
+ Battleship
+ Darling Companion
+ The Lucky One
+ Homeland
+ Monsieur Lazhar
+ Think Like a Man
+ The Pirates: Band of Misfits
9/4
* Mark Knopfler - Privateering (2 CD's.)
* Bob Mould - Silver Age
* Stars - The North
* Melissa Etheridge - 4th Street Feeling
* Richie Sambora - Aftermath of the Lowdown
* Matchbox 20 - North
* Dave Stewart - Ringmaster General
* Ian Hunter - When I'm President
* Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
* Two Gallants - The Bloom and the Blight
* Sondre Lerche - Bootlegs: Live
* Deerhoof - Breakup Song
* Azure Ray – As Above so Below EP
* Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
* Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't
* The Vaccines - Come of Age
* The Sheepdogs - S/T
* Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
* K's Choice - Echo Mountain
* Brian Setzer - Rockabilly Riot: Live (3 CD's.)
* Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Rattle Them Bones
* Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance (Deluxe 30th anniversary.)
* Kevin J. Anderson w/Neil Peart – Clockwork Angels: the Novel
+ The Five Year Engagement
+ Safe
+ High School
9/11
* Bob Dylan - Tempest
* ZZ Top - La Futura
* The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter
* Dave Matthews Band - Away from the World
* Chris Robinson Brotherhood – The Magic Door
* St. Vincent and David Byrne - Love this Giant
* Amanda Palmer - Theatre is Evil
* Cat Power - Sun
* Calexico - Algiers
* Patterson Hood - Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance
* Firewater - International Orange
* Kathy Mattea - Calling Me Home
* Tina Dico – Where Do You Go to Disappear?
* Joanne Shaw Taylor - Almost Always Never
* Seapony - Falling
* Sea Wolf - Old World Romance
* Field Report - S/T
* The Time Jumpers - S/T
* Pineapple Thief - All the Wars
* Hoobastank - Fight or Flight
* The Raveonettes - Observator
* The Hello Sequence - Negotiations
* The Presets - Pacifica
* Neil Halstead - Palindrome Hunches
* Steve Forbert - Over with You
* Ben Arthur - If You Look for My Heart
* Saigon - Bread and Circuses
* The XX – Coexxist
* Neal Morse - Momentum
* Anthrax - Covers EP
* Little Big Town - Tornado
* Don McLean - American Troubadour
* Chris Isaak - Beyond the Sun (Deluxe.)
* Emerson, Lake & Palmer - S/T and Tarkus (Deluxe.)
+ Snow White & the Huntsman
+ For Greater Glory
+ Where Do We Go Now?
+ Girl in Progress
+ October Baby
+ What to Expect When You're Expecting
+ We Have a Pope
+ Titanic (Blu-ray/3D.)
9/18
* Band of Horses - Mirage Rock
* Muse - The 2nd Law
* The Killers - Battle Born
* Grizzly Bear - Shield
* Aimee Mann – Charmer
* Pink - The Truth about Love
* Ben Folds Five – The Sound of the Life of the Mind
* Ryan Bingham - Tomorrowland
* Drivin 'N Cryin - Songs about Cars, Space and the Ramones EP
* James Iha - Look to the Sky
* Cars & Trains - We are All Fire
* Aaron Embry - Tiny Prayers
* Josephine Foster - Blood Rushing
* Rebecca Loebe - Circus Heart
* Kelly McRae - Better Than the Blues
* Catherine Irwin - Little Heater
* Chris Knight - Little Victories
* Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky
* Menomena - Moms
* Sweet Lights - S/T
* Title Fight - Floral Green
* The Whigs - Enjoy the Company
* Projected - Human
* Big Scary - Vacation
* Devin Townsend - Epicloud
* Black Prairie - A Tear in the Eye is a Wound in the Heart (featuring 3 members of The Decemberists.)
* Easton Corbin - All Over the Road
* The Sea and Cake - Runner
* Dwight Yoakam - 3 Pears
* Paul Simon - Live in New York City 2011 (CD/DVD.)
* Michael Jackson - Bad (Deluxe.) and 'Live at Wembley 1988' DVD
+ The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
+ Katy Perry: Part of Me
+ The Cabin in the Woods
+ Hysteria
+ The Woman in the Fifth
+ 2012 London Olympics Highlights
+ 'Indiana Jones' box set (Blu-ray.
9/25
* No Doubt - Push and Shove
* Mumford & Sons - Babel
* Steve Harris - British Lion (Iron Maiden bassist's first solo album.)
* Muse - The 2nd Law
* Green Day – Uno
* Frightened Rabbit - EP
* John Hiatt - Mystic Pinball
* Lucy Kaplansky - Reunion
* Bettye LaVetta - Thankful 'N Thoughtful
* Tristan Prettyman - Cedar and Gold
* Shemekia Copeland - 33 and a Third
* Diana Krall - Glad Rag Doll
* Michael McDermott - Hit Me Back
* Ben Sollee - Half Made Man
* Abram Brothers - Northern Redemption
* Jon Lord - Concerto for Group and Orchestra
* Architecture in Helsinki - That Beep
* Sera Cahoone - Deer Creek Canyon
* The Outlaws - It's about Pride
* Steven Wilson - Get All You Deserve
* Yo La Tengo - Stupid Things
* Magnum - On the 13th Day
* As I Lay Dying - Awakened
* Gary Moore - Blues for Jimi: Live in London
* Dokken – Broken Bones
* Kix - Live in Baltimore 2008
* R.E.M. - Document (Deluxe edition w/Live in Holland 1987 concert.)
* The Beach Boys - A few reissues
+ Bob Dylan & The Band - Down in the Flood
+ Freddie Mercury - The Great Pretender
+ The Avengers
+ The Letter
+ Damsels in Distress
+ 'James Bond' box set (Blu-ray.)
+ Alfred Hitchcock - Masterpiece Collection: 15 Movies
10/2
* Marillion – Sounds That Can’t Be Made
* The Wallflowers - Glad All Over (Mick Jones guests.)
* The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
* Frank Turner – Last Minutes & Lost Evenings
* Iris DeMent - Sing the Delta (Original album.)
* Tift Merritt - Travelling Alone
* Beth Orton - Sugaring Season
* Tori Amos - Gold Dust (Reworked songs w/orchestra.)
* Heart - Fanatic
* Three Days Grace – Transit of Venus
* Matt & Kim - Lightning
* Tilly & the Well - Heavy Mood
* Angel Snow - S/T
* Diana Krall – Glad Rag Doll
* Van Morrison - Born to Sing: No Plan B
* B.B. King - Mr. B.B. King (box set.)
+ Dark Shadows
+ Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
+ Cinderella
+ E.T. (Blu-ray.)
10/9
* Suzanne Vega - Close Up, Vol. 4: Songs of Family
* John Fogerty - Wrote a Song for Everyone (many guests.)
* Jeff Lynne - Long Wave
* Darrell Scott & Tim O’Brien – We’re Usually a Lot Better than This
* Aaron Neville - My True Story
* AG - Beatles EP
* Fitz & the Tantrums - TBA
* A.C. Newman – Shut Down the Streets
* The Script - #3
* Josephine - Portrait
* Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
* Texas in July - S/T
* Kaki King - Glow
* The Calm Blue Sea - Arrivals & Departures
* August Burns Red - Sleddin' Hill: A Holiday Album
* Blackmore’s Knight – Knight in York
* Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky, Very Best of
* Deep Purple - Machine Head (Deluxe.)
* Motorhead - The World is Ours, Vol. 2
* Dio - The Very Beast of Dio, Vol. 2
+ The Who - Live in Texas, 1975
+ The Raven
+ A Cat in Paris
+ Shut Up and Play the Hits
10/12
+ Prometheus
10/16
* Bill Mallonee - Amber Waves (Tentative date.)
* A Fine Frenzy - Pines
* Martha Wainwright - Come Home to Mama
* ZZ Ward – ‘Til the Casket Drops
* Donald Fagen – Sunken Condos
* Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
* Earlimart - System Preferences
* Pinback - Information Retrieved
* Piney Gir - Geronimo
* Jason Aldean - Night Train
* KISS – Monster
* Night Ranger – 24 Strings and a Drummer: Live and Acoustic
+ Moonrise Kingdom
+ That's My Boy
+ Chernobyl Diaries
+ Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
10/23
* Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Wreck and Ruin
* Taylor Swift - Red
* Lady Antebellum - On This Winter's Night
* Leon Russell - Life's Journey
* Stone Sour – House of Gold and Bones
* Neal Schon - The Calling (w/Steve Smith on drums.)
* Peter Gabriel - So (Deluxe.)
+ Stryper – Live in Indonesia 2010
+ Secret of the Wings
+ Crooked Arrows
+ Take this Waltz
+ Blade Runner (Blu-ray.)
10/30
* Black Country Communion - TBA
* We are the Roses - Whales and Roses
* The Velvet Underground & Nico - S/T (Deluxe.)
* Blue Oyster Cult – 16 CD’s/1 DVD mega box set
+ Safety Not Guaranteed
+ A Christmas Story 2
11/6
* Aerosmith - Music from Another Dimension
11/13
* Soundgarden - TBA
LYRICS of the MONTH:
In wondering what lyrics to post this month, I was listening to some Pierce Pettis albums lately and in acknowledgement of the recent 20th anniversary of the passing of the late, great Mark Heard, it suddenly dawned on me who the finalist for this month should be. Here’s a Mark Heard track of whom Pierce Pettis was so very fond of having begun his last six albums with a Mark Heard song. Did that make sense?
This song would seem to be about worrying a bit about the future. Something which seems ever so prevalent in these, let’s say ‘interesting’ times.
“Why do I lie awake at night and think back just as far as I can
To the sound of my father's laugh outdoors
To the thought of Sputnik in free-flight?
Before I could fashion my poverty
Before I distrusted the night
I must've known something
I must've known something
Those were the times I live for tonight
Why, why, why, I say Why, Mama, Why?
Why can't I sleep in peace tonight underneath the satellite sky?
It can't be easy for my children
I'm hollow before my time
It looks like a desert here to me
Where is the promise of youth for my child?
Where are the faraway kingdoms of dreams?
We've been to the moon and there's trouble at home
They vanished in the mist with Saint Nicholas
They lie scattered to the ghettos and the war zones
Why, Why, Why, I say Why, Mama, Why?
Why can't I sleep in peace tonight underneath the satellite sky
I want to stand out in the middle of the street and listen to the stars
I want to hear their sweet voices
I want to feel a big bang rattle my bones
I want to laugh for my children
I want the spark to ignite
before they find out what it means to be born
into these times
Why, Why, Why, I say Why, Mama, Why?
Why can't I sleep in peace tonight underneath the satellite sky?”
Mark Heard, the song “Satellite Sky” from the album Satellite Sky released in 1992.
To learn more about Mark Heard, check out:
http://www.markheard.net
And to listen to some of his music, including “Satellite Sky” (you may have to search for it a bit), go here:
http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Heard
Also, be sure to look for Pierce Pettis’ version of this track as well as his other Mark Heard songs he’s recorded.
Have a good Labor Day weekend.
See you in October.
Rock on…
Chris Barlow
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