Today is Tuesday, and you know what that means: new CD releases. Here's some music that's expected to hit stores today, April 29th.
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Madonna - Hard Candy
The New Frontiers - Mending
Portishead - Third
Jamie Lidell - Jim
Robyn - Robyn
The Roots - Rising Down
Sarah McLachlan - Rarities, B-Sides 2 And Other Stuff, Volume 2
Nerf Herder - Nerf Herder IV
Okay, the big album is obviously the Madonna's Hard Candy. I believe this is her final studio album for Warner Brothers Music. I don't make a habit of listening to music on myspace because I hate 'space and their flash player really mess up my audio on Firefox, but I did randomly listen to some of her new songs. It sounds like it's a mashup of some techno, some R&B, some dance stuff... basically if you like Madonna, you'll probably like this album.
I've already touched on Portishead on my previous article, but wanted to bring your attention that the third Third album comes out today.
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April 29 Amarillo, TX@Amarillo Church
May 1 Englewood, Denver, CO@Falcon Bowl May 2 Casper, WY @ American Legion May 3 SLC, UT@ olid Ground Cafe May 6 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction May 7 West Hollywood, CA @ On The Rox May 8 San Diego, CA @ The Epicentre May 9 Temecula, CA @ The Underground May 10 Phoenix, AZ @ One Place May 11 Tucson, AZ @ Solar Culture |
Mending from The New Frontiers (thenewfrontiersmusic.com) is out today. What's most interesting is that they're selling their new album as a lost leader for $5.99 for 11 tracks on iTunes.
I think they're hoping to recoup their loss with live tour dates, which I believe is where most artists are making some revenue. They're currently on tour with Alive In Wild Paint.
Apparently, the band used to be called Stellamaris, but as they got more older and quieter, their music changed, and so did the name.
The two songs that stood out for me was "Black Lungs" (which you can hear on their myspace) and "Strangers". I liked Nathan Pettijohn's vocals against the indie guitars. Since both of these songs are more uptempo, it's not represented of the whole album.
The entire album is pretty mellow, and I hate to admit that I really need to be in that mood to listen to this album. Still, if you enjoy other slowcore bands, you need to check these guys out. They offered a few downloadable tracks on the ever popular daytrotter.com.
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05.25 Vancouver - Richards on Richards
05.26 Seattle - Sasquatch! Festival 05.27 Portland - Berbatis Pan 05.28 San Francisco - Bimbos 365 Club 05.29 Los Angeles - El Rey Theater 05.30 Los Angeles - El Rey Theater 05.31 Tucson - Rialto Theater 06.02 Denver - Bluebird Theater 06.04 Chicago - Abbey Pub 06.05 Toronto - Opera House 06.06 Ottawa - Babylon Club 06.07 Boston - Paradise 06.08 New York City - Bowery Ballroom 06.09 New York City - Bowery Ballroom 06.11 Philadelphia - World Café 06.12 Washington DC - 9:30 Club |
British soul singer, Jamie Lidell (jamielidell.com), formerly of Super_Collider, has a new CD called Jim out today (actually, I think it was released yesterday in the UK).
I don't have his previous album, but this new album "takes a less electronica oriented direction compared to previous album Multiply"[1]
Apparently since everyone seems to look to the television show Grey's Anatomy for the next big thing (it seems a few artists have broken out on this series), he did have his song "Multiply" on the show and on its second soundtrack.
I haven't listened to enough of Jim, due to lack of time and commitment, but I can tell you that Lidell has a very soulful voice and singing style. His songs sounds like it's early, slower Motown, especially on "Green Light".
He is going on tour in May, so I'll include his tour information here.
I also wanted to mention that there is an EP called You and I In The Kaleidoscope by Kites (myspace.com/kitessite) that's also being released today, at least that's the information I was given. It seems it was released as early as February 2008.
The main person behind Kites is really Jean-Philip Grobler and, according to his biography, it took three years to produce this four-track EP.
I wanted the four tracks on the EP to represent everything that to me is beautiful about pop music, and that took a lot longer than I thought.
An interesting to note about this guy was that he grew up in South Africa and wasn't exposed to the same pop music that most people were fed. By high school, he had moved to Liverpool, England, to study music at the Sir Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, where he met some friends to start the band Kites.
The result after band members breakup and moving around, You and I In The Kaleidoscope was born. Grobler and Kites are currently based out of New York.
I thought easily the best song on the EP is "Easy Now", with its epic-sounding intro.
I couldn't find a place where you can get the physical CD, but the EP is available on iTunes ($3.98) and Amazon ($3.56). Alternatively, you can just buy Pepsi and get points to get the tracks for free on Amazon!
04/29/2008 09:52:18 vu my♥posts 
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