AIMS Marketing Program/ Featured Titles Promoted This Week:
blink-182 – One More Time… CD/LP (Columbia)
One More Time… is the highly anticipated new album from blink-182, featuring the group’s iconic lineup together again – Mark Hoppus (bass, vocals), Tom DeLonge (guitar, vocals), and Travis Barker (drums). The trio recorded One More Time… over the course of 2022 and 2023 amid their blockbuster reunion tour, which sold out arenas, amphitheaters, and stadiums across the world. One More Time… features 17 new songs that capture the band at the top of their game, layering in themes of tragedy, triumph, and most importantly, brotherhood. [An indie store exclusive coke bottle green color vinyl pressing is available.]
Blues Traveler – Traveler’s Soul CD (Roundhill)
Grammy Award-winning band Blues Traveler is back with their 15th full-length album, Traveler’s Soul. This album, like 2021’s Traveler’s Blues – a blues covers album that earned the band a Grammy nomination – is a covers album paying tribute to R&B and soul classics with featured artists such as Pat Monahan from Train, Valerie June, Alisan Porter, Daisha McBride, and many more. First single “Fool Ffor You,” originally popularized by Curtis Mayfield’s The Impressions back in 1968, has a wailing harmonica that gives way to an understated guitar riff and a heavenly piano melody. This ebb-and-flow underlines a smoldering vocal performance from John Popper backed by a rapturous choir. [Vinyl edition due November 3.]
Chris Botti – Vol. 1 CD/LP (Blue Note)
Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Chris Botti gets back to the jazz essence of his artistry on his new album, Vol. 1. The album features beautiful new ballad renditions of standards including “My Funny Valentine”, and “Someday My Prince Will Come”, as well as a cover of Coldplay’s “Fix You” and the vocal feature “Paris” with John Splithoff. Produced by David Foster, Vol. 1 features performances by violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Taylor Eigsti, guitarist Gilad Hekselman and others.
