Here it is, my friends. The long awaited trip though February and March by way of The Crossing.
These lists seem to get longer and longer and this one is no exception. Seems like more and more artists are out there and it’s increasingly harder and harder to shift through what’s good and hits the spot to what’s not so good and more likely a waste of time. There’s time tested awesome artists included here and there are some that I’m sure are making their debuts on just about any list. I wish I could be your go-to-guy for finding out what’s worth hearing, but in large part, a lot of it is news to me too. I can help to some degree and I try via The Crossing page on Facebook, but you should also rely on your usual sources and your own good tastes to find what is good for you.
The Crossing on Facebook can be found right here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Crossing-New-Music-and-Movie-Release-List/295712630456059
Just ‘like’ the above page and away you go. You’ll be sent weekly updates and music performances that are shown on the late night shows as well as other high quality videos, often from Youtube, Vimeo, etc. Please comment on whether you like something or not. I always like to see if what I am posting is striking a nerve or not. Hopefully you are finding some quality new artists as I have found recently such as Vintage Trouble, The Features, The Lone Bellow, The Staves, The Rubens and Said the Whale to name a few. I also post movie trailers often times well in advance of when a movie is released that way we can try to keep on top of things. I also post any other (hopefully) interesting articles regarding music and movies. The Crossing is always something of an adventure and essentially what it boils down to is it’s a music and movie thread through time. Sounds heavy, doesn’t it?
To quote from the great Back to the Future from 1985:
Marty McFly: Whoa. This is heavy.
Dr. Emmett Brown: There's that word again. "Heavy." Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
Anyhow, I really hope you join in and you can help guide me to some quality artists as well.
Recently released and not mentioned in last edition:
* Bill Mallonee - Crier: A Christmas EP and WPA:15 - Ghost Waltz
* The Replacements - Songs for Slim EP
* The Saw Doctors - 25.25 (Compilation.)
* Vintage Trouble - The Bomb Shelter Sessions
* The Lone Bellow - S/T
* The Features - Wilderness
* New Order - The Lost Sirens
* Ren Harvieu - Through the Night (Import.)
* Julia Stone - Justine EP
* Lewis Watson - Live in London EP
* Nightlands - Oak Island
* Country Mice - Twister
* Awolnation - Megalithic Symphony
* Alex De Rosso - Lions & Lambs
* Local H - Another February EP
* Django Django - S/T
* Family of the Year - Loma Vista
* Jake Bugg - S/T
* Chris Mann - Roads
* Hilly Eye - Reasons to Live
* Selah Sue - Rarities
* Fidlar - S/T
* Local Natives - Hummingbird
* Electric Guest - Mondo
* Allen Stone - S/T
* Chicago Farmer - Backenforth, IL.
* The Midwinters - All There Is EP
* Christopher Owens - Lysandre
* Hey Ocean - Is
* Jewel - Greatest Hits
* Lincoln Durham - The Shovel vs. the Howling Bones
* Foxygen - We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic
* Newstead - Metal EP
* Wishbone Ash - Elegant Stealth
* Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship - Essential (2 CD's.)
+ Goon
+ Oslo, August 31st
+ Paranormal Activity 4
2/5
* Lisa Loeb - No Fairy Tale
* Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing: Live
* Jim James - Regions of Light and Sound of God
* Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
* The Eels - Wonderful, Glorious
* Steve Kilbey - The Idyllist
* Holly Williams - The Highway
* Richard Thompson - Electric
* Ron Sexsmith - Forever Endeavor
* Ricky Byrd - Lifer
* Mary Gauthier - Live at Blue Rock
* Matt Pond – The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand
* Night Beds - Country Sleep
* The Shilohs - So Wild
* Unknown Mortal Orchestra - 11
* Veronica Falls - Waiting for Something to Happen
* Focus - X
+ Flight
+ Somewhere Between
+ A Late Quartet
+ Alex Cross
+ Celeste and Jesse Forever
+ Here Comes the Boom
+ Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel
+ Peter Pan
2/12
* Pinnick Gales Pridgen - S/T (Doug Pinnick and Eric Gales.)
* Dolly Varden – For a While
* Foals - Holy Fire
* Devon Allman – Turquoise
* Nataly Dawn – How I Knew Her
* Sandra McCrackin - Desire Like Dynamite
* The Stone Foxes - Small Fires
* Indians - Somewhere Else
* Bryan Ferry – The Jazz Age
* Lisa Germano - No Elephants
* Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison – Cheater's Game
* Anders Osborne - Three Free Amigos
* Matt Costa - S/T
* Psychic Friend - My Rocks are Dreams
* The March Divide - Music for Film
* Roger Knox - Stranger in My Land
* Henry Wagons - Expecting Company
* Matt Hires - Forever EP
* Everlife - At the End of Everything
* S.U.N. - S/T
* Glenn Hughes - Live in Wolverhampton
* L.A. Guns - Live in Concert 2012
* Coheed & Cambria - The Aftermath: Descension and Ascension
+ Skyfall
+ The Perks of Being a Wallflower
+ The Sessions
+ Robot & Frank
+ Bully
+ Silent Hill: Revelation
+ The Man with the Iron Fists
+ The Kid with a Bike
2/19
* Nick Cave - Push the Sky Away
* Atlas Genius - When It Was Now
* Hayden - Us Alone
* Anders Parker & Kendall Meade – Wild Chorus
* Sallie Ford - Untamed Beast
* Samantha Crain - Kid Face
* Martha Wainwright - 'Trauma' Soundtrack
* Susan James - Driving Toward the Sun
* Bobby Long - Wishbone
* Robin Trower - Roots & Branches
* Flea - Helen Burns EP
* Mark Kozelek - Like Rats: Live
* Son of Rogue's Gallery compilation
+ Mudhoney - I'm Now (Documentary.)
+ Argo
+ Anna Karenina
+ Fun Size
+ Undefeated
+ Sinister
2/26
* 10,000 Maniacs - Music from the Motion Picture
* Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell - Old Yellow Moon
* Plumb - Need You Now
* Atoms for Peace - Amok (Thom Yorke side project.)
* Johnny Marr - The Messenger
* Shout Out Louds - Optica
* Justin Hayward - Spirits of the Western Sky
* Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing
* Bret Michaels - Good Songs and Great Friends
* Jeff Healey Band - House on Fire (Rarities.)
* Wake Owl - Wild Country EP
* Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - International Magic: Live at O2
* Syd Barrett - Reissues
* T-Bone Burnett & Civil Wars - 'A Place at the Table' soundtrack
+ The Eagles - Farewell from Melbourne 2004 (Blu-ray.)
+ The Master
+ Chasing Mavericks
+ To the Arctic
+ Holy Motors
3/2
+ The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
3/5
* Son Volt - Honky Tonk
* Josh Ritter - The Beast in its Tracks
* Dido - The Girl that Got Away
* The Last Bison - Inheritance
* Rival Sons - Head Down
* The Cave Singers - Naomi
* Caitlin Rose - Stand In
* Kate Nash - Girl Talk
* Brooke Waggoner - Originator
* Christina Courtin - Varsity
* Water Liars - Wyoming
* The Men - New Moon
* Hollis Brown - Ride on the Train
* The Howling Brothers - Howl
* New Amsterdams - Outroduction
* Robyn Hitchcock - Love from London
* Jimi Hendrix - People, Hell and Angels
* Krokus - Dirty Dynamite
* Stereophonics - Graffiti on the Train
* Dio - Dream Evil (Deluxe.)
* Larry Kirwan's Celtic Invasion compilation
+ Wreck-It Ralph
+ The Intouchables
+ Playing for Keeps
+ Unconditional
+ Gun Hill Road
+ Red Dawn
3/12
* David Bowie - The Next Day
* Eric Clapton - Old Sock (Many guests.)
* Adrenaline Mob - Coverta EP
* Sandi Thorn - Flesh and Blood
* Devendra Banhart - Mala
* Biffy Clyro - Opposites
* Spencer Day - Shadow Man
* Vanna - The Few and the Far Between
* John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
* Jellyfish - Stack-a-Tracks (2 CD instrumental compilation.)
+ Life of Pi
+ The Flat
+ Smashed
+ This Must Be the Place
+ Hitchcock
+ Rise of the Guardians
+ Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
+ Sound City (Documentary by Dave Grohl.)
3/19
* The Ocean Blue - Ultramarine
* Josh Rouse - The Happiness Waltz
* Madeleine Peyroux - The Blue Room
* The Staves - Dead and Born and Grown
* Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer - Child Ballads
* Gin Wigmore - Gravel and Wine
* Simone Dinnerstein & Tift Merritt - Night
* Black Lilies - Runaway Freeway Blues
* Rachael Yamagata - Heavyweight EP
* Marc Carroll - Stone Beads and Silver
* Low - The Invisible Way (produced by Jeff Tweedy.)
* Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Specter at the Feast
* Lotus - Build
* Alex Calder - Time
* Palma Violets - 180
* Aloha Rev - Bloom
* Clutch - Earth Rocker
* William Tyler - Impossible Truth
* Phosphorescent - Muchacho
* Fabulous Thunderbirds - On the Verge
* Anthrax - Anthems (Covers EP.)
* The Black Crowes - Wiser for the Time (Box set.)
* Billy Bragg - Tooth and Nail (Deluxe.)
* John Mellencamp & Stephen King - 'Ghost Brothers of Darkland County' soundtrack
+ Zero Dark Thirty
+ The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
+ Rust and Bone
+ The Other Son
+ Bachelorette
+ Love for Levon: A Benefit to Save the Barn
3/22
+ Les Miserables
+ This is 40
3/26
* The Waterboys - An Appointment with Mr. Yeats
* Marillion - Radiation (Deluxe.)
* The Strokes - Comedown Machine
* Bon Jovi - What About Now?
* Stryper - Second Coming (Re-recordings w/ two new songs.)
* The Story So Far - What You Don't See
* Harper Simon - Division Street
* Stephen Stills - Carry On (Box set.)
* Depeche Mode - Delta Machine
* Pretty Maids - Motherland
* Smoke Fairies - Blood Speaks
* One Republic - Native
* Crystal Bowersox - All That for This
* I am Empire - Anchors
* Wavves - Afraid of Heights
* Caravels - Lacona
* Senses Fail - Renacer
* Crime & the City Solution - American Twilight
* Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero
* Voodoo Circle - More than One Way Home
* Sevendust - Black out the Sun
* Sebastian Bach - Abachalypse Now
* Saxon - Sacrifice
* Van Halen - Studio Albums: 1978-1984 (Box set.)
+ Iron Maiden - Maiden England 1988/History of Maiden, Part 3
+ Peter Frampton - Live in Detroit 1999
+ Doobie Brothers - Live at Wolf Trap 2004 (Blu-ray.)
+ Parental Guidance
+ To the Arctic
+ A Royal Affair
+ Killing Them Softly
+ Easy Money
4/2
* The Flaming Lips - The Terror
* Cold War Kids - Dear Miss Lonelyhearts
* The Black Angels - Indigo Meadow
* Alkaline Trio - My Shame is True
* The Dear Hunter - Migrant
* Hem - Departure and Farewell
* The Wheeler Brothers - Gold Boots Glitter
* The Band Perry - Pioneer
* Beth Hart - Bang Bang Boom Boom
* Charles Bradley - Victim of Love
* Petula Clark - Lost in You
* Denison Witmer - S/T
* Rilo Kiley - Rkives
* British Sea Power - Machineries of Joy
* Mudhoney - Vanishing Point
* Bonobo - North Borders
* Luxury Liners – They’re Flowers
* Matt Mays - Coyote
* Authority Zero - Tipping Point
* Transit - Young New England
* Telekinesis - Dormarion
* Drowning Pool - Resilience
* Besnard Lakes - Until in Excess...Imperceptible UFO
* Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent
* Jimmy Cliff - KCRW Sessions
* Simple Minds - Celebrate: Greatest Hits
* Mad Season - Above (Deluxe.)
+ The Sweeney
+ The Bible: the Epic Miniseries
4/9
* Paramore - S/T
* Dawes - Stories Don't End
* The Proclaimers - Like Comedy
* House of Love - She Paints Words in Red
* Stone Sour - House of Gold and Bones, Part 2
* OMD - English Electric
* The Almost - Fear Inside Our Bones
* Brad Paisley - Wheelhouse
* Todd Rundgren - State
* Molly Ringwald - Except...Sometimes (Jazz vocal.)
* Postal Service - Give Up (Deluxe.)
+ Saxon – Heavy Metal Thunder (Documentary.)
+ Hyde Park on Hudson
4/16
* Big Country - The Journey (Mike Peters on vocals.)
* Steve Earle - The Low Highway
* Willie Nelson - Let's Face the Music and Dance
* Kim Richey - Thorn in My Heart
* The Airborne Toxic Event - Such Hot Blood
* Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Mosquito
* Iron & Wine - Ghost on Ghost
* Amy Spence - How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat
* Andy Mineo - Heroes for Sale
* JJ Grey - This River
* Allison Weiss - Say What You Mean
* Mike Tramp - Cobblestone Street
* Meat Puppets - Rat Farm
* Fall Out Boy - Save Rock 'N Roll
* Dead Can Dance - In Concert
+ Django Unchained
4/23
* Frank Turner - Tape Deck Heart
* Phoenix - Bankrupt
* Steve Martin & Edie Brickell - Love Has Come For You
* Paula Cole - Raven
* Junip - S/T
* The Neighborhood - I Love You
* The Postelles - And It Shook Me
* Heaven & Earth - Dig
* Damnation Angels - Bringer of Light
+ Alanis Morissette - Live at Montreaux 2012
+ Whitesnake - Made in Japan 2011
+ The Impossible
+ Shelter Me
+ Promised Land
+ The Central Park Five
4/30
* Willie Nile - American Ride
* Tom Keifer - The Way Life Goes (Cinderella frontman's first solo album.)
* Guided By Voices - English Little League
* Beacon - The Ways We Separate
* Youngblood Hawke – Wake Up
* Kenny Chesney - Life on a Rock
* Serena Ryder - Harmony
* Shannon McNally w/Dr. John - Small Town Talk
+ The Guilt Trip
+ The Details
5/7
* She & Him - Volume 3
* The Goo Goo Dolls - Magnetic
* Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
* Natalie Maines - Mother
* Lady Antebellum - Golden
* Kingdom Come - Outlier
* Joe Satriani - Unstoppable Momentum
* Tom Waits & Anton Corbijn - 1977-2011 ( Book.)
5/14
* The Features – S/T
* Fitz and the Tantrums - More Than Just a Dream
* The Spin Doctors - If the River was Whiskey
* Martin Popoff - Rush: Unauthorized Illustrated History (Book.)
+ Cloud Atlas
5/21
+ Rush - Clockwork Angels: Live
LYRICS of the MONTH:
“Something hit me deep
On my sunset walk through the streets
I could see and hear
But I couldn’t feel or breathe
From tuning out this static world
I’ve lost the sense of peace
And that’s not alright by me
The LA Times and Channel 5
And New York Magazine
They stain my soul
And I know you know what I mean
They tear apart the hopeful heart
Til it doesn’t bleed or dream
And that’s not alright by me
Pull on the rope that lifts the sun back to the sky
Hold a hand. Cry on a shoulder.
Listen in the wind and open up your eyes.
And feel again.
Feel again.
Where the roads cross
And time stands still
I’m frozen in my tracks
Against my will
The streetlight is dimming
And it won’t shine again until
I say “It’s not alright by me”
Not alright by me
Not alright by me
Not alright by me
Not alright by me”
Vintage Trouble, the song “Not Alright By Me” from the album The Bomb Shelter Sessions.
http://www.vintagetrouble.com
See you in April…
Chris
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