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Joe Bonamassa – Now Serving: Royal Tea: Live From The Ryman CD (J&R Adventures)

Blues-rock superstar Joe Bonamassa set out to perform his brand-new music for fans amidst a global entertainment shutdown. This led to an incredible live concert at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. This special show includes songs from his latest studio album, Royal Tea, which was inspired by his British guitar heroes Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Cream. Joe also performs a few songs from his debut album, A New Day Yesterday, which helped launch his illustrious career. [Vinyl edition due July 9.]

Danny Elfman – Big Mess CD/2xLP (ANTI-)

Danny Elfman delivers his first solo album in thirty-seven years, titled Big Mess. Clocking in at 18 tracks, the sprawling, ambitious double album finds the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer breaking bold new ground as both a writer and a performer, drawing on a dystopian palette of distorted electric guitars, industrial synthesizers and orchestra in an effort to exorcise the demons brought about by four years of creeping fascism and civil rot. The songs on Big Mess combine both harmonically complex arrangements and simple high energy driving music with biting, acerbic wit as they reckon with the chaos and confusion of the modern world. [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Garbage – No Gods No Masters CD/2xCD/LP (Infectious Music/BMG)

Garbage – Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig – return with a new studio album, No Gods No Masters. “This is our seventh record, the significant numerology of which affected the DNA of its content,” says Manson. “The seven virtues. The seven sorrows and the seven deadly sins. It was our way of trying to make sense of how f**king nuts the world is and the astounding chaos we find ourselves in. It’s the record we felt that we had to make at this time.” Lead single “The Men Who Rule the World” is an incendiary indictment and call to arms, a typically powerful sonic display that sets the tone for the searing new record. A critique of the rise of capitalist short-sightedness, racism, sexism and misogyny across the world, the track is a forceful protest song and a clear statement of intent from a band who still believe in the power of dissent. [A limited-edition green color vinyl pressing, and deluxe CD version are also available.]

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela – The Jazz EP 12” (ATO)

Limited color vinyl pressing. Three new covers from renowned guitar virtuosos Rodrigo Y Gabriela, following the Mettal EP (which took on Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer), The Jazz EP takes on Kamasi Washington, Snarky Puppy and Astor Piazolla.

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The Black Keys – Delta Kream CD/2xLP (Nonesuch)

The Black Keys follow-up 2019’s Let’s Rock with their tenth studio album, Delta Kream. The record celebrates the band’s roots, featuring eleven Mississippi hill country blues standards that they have loved since they were teenagers, before they were a band, including songs by R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, among others. The duo recorded Delta Kream at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville; they were joined by musicians Kenny Brown and Eric Deaton, long-time members of the bands of blues legends including R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. The album takes its name from William Eggleston’s iconic Mississippi photograph that is on its cover. The full circle Delta Kream release is a fitting tribute to these architects of hill country blues and further recognition of their enduring contributions to American music. [A limited-edition indie store exclusive vinyl pressing is also available.]

The Chills – Scatterbrain CD/LP (Fire)

Scatterbrain is the new studio album from the Dunedin (NZ) songsmiths The Chills helmed by the enigmatic Martin Phillipps. The project’s seventh studio album overall is a glorious self-examination of Phillipps’ songwriting hot on the heels of Snowbound (2018) and the critically acclaimed movie The Chills: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Martin Phillipps a year later. Scatterbrain is a thought-provoking and evocative take from a man who has lived through good times and bad. A mature and honest reflection on life, destiny and the fate of our times delivered in beautiful melodies with Phillipps’ trademarked incisive turn of phrase. Viewed from the perspective of a man understanding his age and indeed his own mortality, the new album takes a mature look at matters arising with a side order of perspective. [A limited-edition indie store exclusive color vinyl pressing is also available.]

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Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall – The Marfa Tapes 2xLP (Sony Music Nashville)

The Marfa Tapes is a collection of beautifully intimate and raw songs written and recorded by Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, and Jon Randall in the tiny, middle-of-nowhere town of Marfa, TX. Barely a dot on the map, Marfa is an eccentric outpost in the midst of a vast expanse of nothingness, the perfect place to lose – or find – yourself. For Lambert, Randall, and Ingram, it’s both. Over the past several years, the desolate location has become a songwriting haven for the trio, yielding both massive hits and profound personal growth. When they returned for five days in November 2020 though, they came not to write, but to record, capturing a captivating new album inspired by the stark beauty of west Texas and the deep, lasting bonds the three have forged there. Recorded raw and loose with just a pair of microphones and an acoustic guitar, The Marfa Tapes is a stunning work of audio verité; an intimate, unadorned snapshot of a moment in time fueled by love, trust, and friendship.

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Tony Allen – There Is No End CD/2xLP (Blue Note)

“I play yours; you play mine. The music never ends.” The wisdom of the late, great Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen’s words was as deep as his grooves, and his words truly capture the spirit of There is No End. For a man “born into rhythms,” the thousands of grooves he recorded, the innumerable more he performed on stages the world over, all make it clear that while this album marks the coda of a legendary career, it will inspire generations more of musicians, artists and fans who hear it. Tony’s motivating concept and desire was to work with younger artists, and especially the new generation of rappers, and give them voice in a time of global turmoil when music has never been more important – as medicine to heal a fractured world today.

Natalie Bergman – Mercy CD/LP (Third Man)

Self-produced, performed and mixed in near solitude, the Natalie Bergman’s debut album Mercy takes a spellbinding step into Bergman’s singular world of sound, spirituality and the search for hope during tragic times. Music and faith have always been at the forefront of the Bergman family, and rather than crawl into a cave of darkness and dread, Natalie decided to spend many days in silence at a monastery in the Chama Valley. It was there she learned she would embark on Mercy, and as she began writing and recording, the collection of songs channeled her cathartic reverence for traditional gospel music – in her words, the true source of rock and roll. It marks the first newly recorded gospel album to be released by Third Man Records. Helmed by Bergman’s heavenly voice, the music is steeped in mystic melodies, time-bending tones of psychedelic rock, soul and a spiritual healing that’s much-needed in the wake of 2020. [An indie store exclusive color vinyl pressing is also available.]

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