“Summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in the streets”
…dancing, not running in the streets, not playing tag in the streets, not running with scissors in the street, dancing…just dancing. Actually dancing’s not so safe either unless it’s a closed off street with no traffic and is being used for a street party for example. A street party with limited alcohol but maybe a boom box to keep the music flowing. Actually that doesn’t sound so safe either…generally speaking you want to stay out of the street altogether, unless you are of age to drive but even then, don’t text and stay off the phone too. It’s dangerous out there!
Drive at a reasonable speed always keeping your eyes on the road and one foot on the brake.
Excellent advice, but I’m getting ‘way’ off track here.
It IS the Summer and the time is ripe for long car drives with frequent trips to say, an ice cream joint…you’ve got to remain cool, ‘cause it’s HOT out there!! And it’s going to get hotter…
Btw, just want to mention that this month (June) is the 9th, that’s right, the 9th anniversary of this music and movie release list, column, what have you, known as The Crossing. (Applause, cheers, general hysteria…) And, that’s a long time to be keeping track of what is being frequented in our local record stores and our online music and movie emporiums. (That last word satisfies my ridiculous word quotient.) How have things changed in 9 years, you ask? Well, there are more artists out there now than ever. I really believe that. That’s why it’s become seemingly forever in-between my postings of this here list. But, it’s all worth it! I do enjoy doing this and keeping a pulse on the ebb and flow of what is happening in the vast worlds of music and movies. It’s like two galaxies out there and I’ve got to reel them in, take some bites out of them and present to you fine folks what would seem to be the finer points in both worlds, although I struggle with leaving anything out!! As I’m sure you’ve all caught on to. ;-)
Again, below, is another lengthy list filled with familiar names and some not so familiar. You’ll have to figure out who is who. And who is worth listening to…always a challenge!
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Recently released and not mentioned in last edition:
* Bill Mallonee - Beatitude (Download only.)
* MuteMath - Live in D.C. EP (Download only.)
* Joshua James - From the Top of Willamette Mountain
* Kurt Vile - Wakin' on a Pretty Daze
* John Elefante - On My Way to the Sun
* Lisa Mitchell - Bless this Mess
* Casey Donahew - Standoff
* Caroline Rose - America Religious
* Claire Lynch - Dear Sister
* Rebecca Frazier - When We Fall
* Haim - Forever EP
* The Allah-la's - S/T
* Wild Belle - Isles
* Jake Bugg - S/T
* The Darcys - AJA
* Cloud Cult - Love
* Blue Hawaii - Untogether
* Daughter – If You Leave
* White Lung - Sorry
* Ceremony - Zoo
* Young Guns - Bones
* The Neighborhood - I Love You
* Tall Heights - Man of Stone
* Mac Demarco - 2
* Rayland Baxter - Feathers and Fishhooks
* Kishi Bashi - 151a
* Cary Brothers - Let Me Be EP
* Buke & Gase - General Dome
* The Pastels - Slow Summits
* Pistol Annie's - Annie Up
* Noah and the Whale - Heart of Nowhere
* Trapper Schoepp - Run, Engine, Run
* Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood - Black Pudding
* Beware of Darkness - Orthodox
* Purity Ring - Shrines
* The Stepkids - S/T
* David Uosikkinen - In the Pocket: Live
* JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound - Howl
* The Proclaimers - Very Best of (import; 2 CD's.)
* The Breeders - Last Splash (20th anniversary Deluxe.)
* RNDM - Acts (Joseph Arthur and Jeff Ament.)
* Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Relentless: the Memoir (book.)
* VJ: the Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave (book.)
+ Fish - Fishheads Club: Acoustic
+ Star Trek (All movies in Blu-Ray.)
6/4
* June Tabor - Quercus
* Julian Lennon - Everything Changes
* The Barenaked Ladies - Grinning Streak
* Rogue Wave - Nightingale Floors
* Lenka - Shadows
* Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record
* The Olms - S/T
* Mark Selby - Blue Highway
* Houndmouth - From the Hills below the City
* Miles Kane - Don't Forget Who You Are
* Ben Folds Five - Live
* Portugal, the Man - Evil Friends
* Melissa Ferrick - The Truth Is
* A Silent Film - Sand & Snow
* Capital Cities - In a Tidal Wave of Mystery
* Mando Saenz - Studebaker
* Joy Kills Sorrow - Wide Awake
* Camera Obscura - Desire Lines
* GRMLN - Empire
* Filter - The Sun Comes Out Tonight
* Megadeth - Super Collider
* Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
* Dave Rude - The Key
* Killing Joke - Singles: 1979-2012
* The Scorpions - Crazy World (Deluxe.)
* 'Ghost Brothers of Darkland County' soundtrack
+ Warm Bodies
+ Identity Thief
+ A Good Day to Die Hard
+ Escape from Planet Earth
6/11
* Black Sabbath - 13 (First album with Ozzy in 34 years.)
* The Goo Goo Dolls - Magnetic
* The City and Colour - The Hurry and the Harm
* Jason Isbell - Southeastern
* Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
* My Ruin - The Sacred Mood
* The Rubens - S/T
* Lily & Madeleine - Weight of the Globe EP
* Aoife O'Donovan - Fossils
* Jimmy Eat World - Damage
* Beady Eye - BE
* Jesse Woods - Get Your Burdens Lifted
* Superhumanoids - Exhibitionists
* Surfer Blood - Pythons
* The Danks - Gank
* Scale the Summit - The Migration
* Overseas - S/T
* Alison Moyet - The Minutes
* Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy - You Are Everything
* Joseph Arthur - The Ballad of Boogie Christ
* Bob Schneider - Burden of Proof
* John Vanderslice - Dagger Beach
* Javier Mendoza - The Reserve EP
* Date Palms - The Dusted Sessions
* The Almost - Fear Inside Our Bones
* Andrew Stockdale - Keep Moving
* Bret Michaels - Good Songs and Great Friends
* Jorn - Traveller
* Blackmore's Night - Dancer and the Moon
* Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (Deluxe.)
* The Lonely Island - The Wack Album
* The Moody Blues - Timeless Flight (Box Set.)
+ Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers - Circus Mexicus: Live in Mexico
+ Oz: the Great and Powerful
+ Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
+ Snitch
6/18
* Sigur Ros - Kveikur
* Tommy Malone - Natural Born Days
* Delbert McClinton & Glen Clark - Blind, Crippled & Crazy
* Stephen Kellogg - Blunderstone Rookery
* The Mowgli's - Waiting for the Dawn
* Bon Homme - Nighttripper
* Bill Kirchen - Seeds and Stems
* Austra - Olympia
* Tunng - Turbines
* Beach Day - Trip Trap Attack
* Buffalo Tales - Roadtrip Confessions
* Hospital Ships - Destruction in Your Soul
* Heliotropes - A Constant Sea
* Niko Tsonev – Banshees and Harpsichords
* Primal Scream - More Light
* King King - Standing in the Shadows
* I is Another - S/T
* Woody Guthrie - At 100: Live at the Kennedy Center
+ Sublime - 3 Ring Circus: Live at the Palace
+ Jackson Browne - I'll Do Anything: Live in Concert
+ Quartet
+ Stoker
+ Jack the Giant Slayer
+ The Last Exorcism: Part II
+ Movie 43
+ 21 and Over
6/25
* Willie Nile - American Ride
* Queensryche - S/T (3 of 5 original members with new singer Todd La Torre.)
* Mavis Staples & Jeff Tweedy - One True Vine
* Treetop Flyers - The Mountain Moves
* The Smith Westerns - Soft Will
* Rose Windows - The Sun Dogs
* Lightning Dust - Fantasy
* Skillet - Rise
* Perhapst - Revise Your Maps
* Georgia's Horse - Weather Codes
* Stone Gossard - Moonlander (Pearl Jam guitarist.)
* Dio - Magica (Deluxe.)
* Let Us In: Americana - The Music of Paul McCartney (Benefit album.)
* Bob Marley - Legend: Remixed
+ Jane's Addiction - Live in NYC
+ A Place at the Table
+ The Call
+ The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
+ No
+ Phantom
+ Help! (Blu-Ray)
7/2
* Relient K - Collapsible Lung
* Pretty Lights - A Color Map of the Sun
* Bell X1 - Chop Chop
* Jon Oliva - Raise the Curtain
* Dave Davies - I Will Be Me
* It's a Beautiful Day - Live at the Fillmore 1968
* Nick Drake - Reissues
* Lone Ranger soundtrack (Music inspired by.)
+ Gotye - Life as a Painting
+ AC/DC - The Bon Scott Years
+ 6 Souls
7/9
* The Editors - Weight of Your Love
* Dana Fuchs - Bliss Avenue (think Janis Joplin.)
* Status Quo - Bula Quo (2 CD's.)
* Pat Travers Band - Can Do
* Thriftstore Masterpiece - Trouble is a Lonesome Town
* Gretchen Wilson - Under the Covers
* Beth Rowley - Wretched Body EP
* Front Line Assembly - Echogenetic
* Trampled Under Foot - Badlands
* James Christian - Lay It All On Me
* King Kobra - II
+ Whitesnake - Made in Britain 2011
+ Admission
+ Dead Man Down
+ The Host
+ Spring Breakers
7/16
* Ezra Furman - The Year of No Returning
* Sara Bareilles - The Blessed Unrest
* Robert Randolph - Lickety Split
* Desert Stars - Habit Shackles
* Emily Maguire - Bird Inside a Cage
* Courtyard Hounds - Amelita
* Kodaline - In a Perfect World
* David Lynch - The Big Dream
* JJ Grey - Lochloosa
* Mayer Hawthorne - Where Does This Door Go
* Matt Nathanson - Last of the Great Pretenders
* Patrick Sweany - Close to the Floor
* Sick Puppies - Connect
* Trouble - The Distortion Field
* Phil Anselmo - Walk Through Exits Only
* Blue Oyster Cult - a few Deluxe reissues
+ Rick Springfield: An Affair of the Heart (rockumentary.)
+ 42
+ Evil Dead
7/23
* Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - S/T
* Winery Dogs - S/T (Richie Kotzen, Billy Sheehan & Mike Portnoy.)
* Truth & Salvage Co. - Pick Me Up
* Pyramids - Brightest Darkest Day
* James Bay - Dark of the Morning EP
* Grant Hart - The Argument (2 CD's)
* Guy Clark - My Favorite Pictures of You
* Van Dyke Parks - Songs Cycled
* The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (reissue.)
+ Aerosmith - Rock for the Rising Sun
+ Ginger & Rosa
+ Trance
7/30
* Ethan Johns - If Not Now Then When
* Moreland & Arbuckle - 7 Cities
* Kendra Morris - Mockingbird
* Darden Smith - Love Calling
* Buddy Guy - Rhythm & Blues
* The Raspberries - Best of
* Petra - 40th anniversary Best of (2 CD's.)
+ Raven - Rock until You Drop: A Long Day's Journey (rockumentary.)
+ The Scorpions - Moment of Glory
+ G.I. Joe: Retaliation
8/6
* KT Tunstall - Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon
* The Civil Wars - S/T
* The Polyphonic Spree - Yes, It's True
* Lucy Schwartz - Timekeeper
* Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Wassaic Way
* The Dangerous Summer - Golden Record
* Newsted - Heavy Metal Music
* Dinosaur Bones - Shaky Dream
* The Grahams - Riverman's Daughter
* Sharon Jones - Give the People What They Want
* Hugh Laurie - Didn't It Rain
+ Oliver and Company (25th anniversary Blu-Ray.)
+ Robin Hood (40th anniversary Blu-Ray.)
+ The Sword in the Stone (50th anniverary Blu-Ray.)
+ Oblivion
+ Mud
+ The Place beyond the Pines
+ On the Road
+ To the Wonder
+ Olympus Has Fallen
+ West of Memphis
8/13
* Sam Phillips - Push Any Button
* Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue: Acoustic
* Washed Out - Paracosm
* Glen Campbell - See You There
* Bela Fleck - The Impostor
+ The Muppet Movie (Blu-ray.)
+ Emperor
+ What Maisie Knew
8/20
* Sarah Neufeld - Hero Brother (Arcade Fire member.)
* Travis - Where You Stand
* White Lies - Big TV
* Ben Rector - The Walking In Between
* Paper Lions - My Friends
* The Greencards - Sweetheart of the Sun
* Superchunk - I Hate Music
* Stereophonics - Graffiti on the Train
* Tedeschi Trucks Band - Made Up Mind
+ Journey - Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (Story of Arnel Pineda.)
+ Amour
+ Killing Season
+ Scary Movie 5
8/27
* Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
* The Rides - Can't Get Enough
* Missy Raines - New Frontier
* Big Country - At the BBC (3 CD's/1 DVD.)
* Sly & the Family Stone - Higher (Box set.)
* The Beach Boys - Made in California (Box set.)
+ Graham Parker - This Is Live
+ The Reluctant Fundamentalist
9/3
* Neko Case - The Worse Things Get...
* Over the Rhine - Meet Me at the Edge of the World (2 CD's.)
* Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
* Okkervil River - The Silver Gymnasium
* Chelsea Wolf - Pain is Beauty
* Volcano Choir - Repave
* Holograms - Forever
+ From Up on Poppy Hill
+ The Iceman
+ Stories We Tell
9/10
* The Old 97's & Waylon Jennings - S/T
* Patty Larkin - Still Green
* Lissie - Back to Forever
* Goldfrapp - Tales of Us
* Sheryl Crow - Feels Like Home
+ Chasing Ice (documentary.)
9/17
* Toad the Wet Sprocket - New Constellation
* Elvis Costello & The Roots - Wise Up Ghost
* Jack Johnson - From Here to Now to You
* Grouplove - Spreading Rumours
* Said the Whale - Hawaii
* Sarah Miles - One
* Big Scary - Not Art
* Mum - Smilewound
* Placebo - Loud Like Love
* Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - Fly By Wire
* Wesley Stace aka John Wesley Harding – S/T
* Five for Fighting - Bookmarks
* Sebadoh - Defend Yourself
* The Clash - Sound System (Box set.)
9/24
* Sting - The Last Ship (Deluxe version available.)
* Dream Theater - S/T
* Kings of Leon - Mechanical Bull
* Deer Tick - Negativity
* Gov't Mule - Shout
LYRICS of the MONTH:
Summer…July 4th…long road trips across this great country of ours, yea, this seems like the right song…
Lyrics video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hT3MFnOxNZo
Performance video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FWJtKkqJm-Y#at=52
Willie Nile co-written with Mike Peters of The Alarm and more recently Big Country, the song “American Ride” from the album American Ride released June 25th. http://www.willienile.com
Happy 4th America!!!
See you in August…
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