ALBUMS
BEST NEW ALBUM (tie): Lana Del Rey. Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
BEST NEW ALBUM (tie): boygenius. the record. Supergroup featuring Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus & Julien Baker
BEST NEW ALBUM (tie): Wednesday. Rat Saw God. Indie rock band on the rise.
Ellie Goulding. Higher Than Heaven.
Depeche Mode. Memento Mori
Black Country, New Road. Live at Bush Hall
The Zombies. Different Game
Baaba Maal. Being
Steve Gunn / David Moore. Let the Moon Be a Planet
The Hold Steady. The Price of Progress
Mudhoney. Plastic Eternity.
Titus Andronicus. Basement Brainstorm
Angel Olsen. Forever Means (EP).
Kara Jackson. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
Ann-Margret. Born To Be Wild.
Fruit Bats. A River Running To Your Heart.
Temples. Exotico.
SINGLES
Dropkick Murphys. "Gotta Get To Peekskill" (feat. Violent Femmes). Archival lyrics by Woody Guthrie about a 1949 confrontation with the KKK in Peekskill, New York. An earlier concert by activist Paul Robeson was disrupted by the local KKK, veterans, and American Legion "patriots". Leftists rallied to protect a second concert, but were menaced by a crazed right-wing mob who attacked concert-goers as they left. They threw rocks at a car that held Guthrie, Pete Seeger, his wife Toshi, and their young children. Woody wrote a song about it. Pete used some of the rocks thrown at them to build his new fireplace.
The Beatles. "Now & Then". "New" Beatles song based on a 1978 John Lennon solo demo. Intended for release in 1995 on the Beatles Anthology but unreleased officially until now.
Bully. "Days Move Slow" (see video below):
The Zombies, "Time Of The Season"- SXSW 2023
ARCHIVAL
The Who. Live At Leeds (1970). Some people say it's the best live album ever.
The Kinks. Mojo 2023.05: The Kinks (A 60th Anniversary Sampler). Compiled by the surviving original members: Ray Davies (voice), his brother Dave Davies (guitar) & Mick Avory (drum). Included with Mojo Magazine: Issue #354 (May 2023). A very interesting sampler featuring some of their best lesser known and overlooked songs.
Malvina Reynolds. Magical Songs.
Ray Anderson. "Joe Stalin Kicked The Bucket" [Kentucky 573] c. 1954 45 RPM. A novelty song for the ages.
Joe Stalin Kicked The Bucket: Ray Anderson [1953] Old Joe kicked the bucket, he's long gone He won't worry us from now on He lived in a place they call Moscow His number came up and he had to go Yes, old Joe's dead and gone He stayed around too long And nobody now can save his hide 'Cause old Joe laid right down and died Old Joe won't worry us no more He killed the helpless by the score Now I hope he's satisfied Since old Joe's taken his last ride Yes, old Joe's dead and gone He stayed around too long And nobody now can save his hide 'Cause old Joe laid right down and died While near the end, he couldn't talk He's paralyzed and he couldn't walk He died with a hemorrhage in the brain They have a new fireman on the devil's train Yes, old Joe's dead and gone He stayed around too long And nobody now can save his hide 'Cause old Joe laid right down and died Although he was a man of power He was scared of Eisenhower So now the devil can retire 'Cause old Joe Stalin will keep the fire Yes, old Joe's dead and gone He stayed around too long And nobody now can save his hide 'Cause old Joe laid right down and died
Highly Anticipated Spring/Summer Releases
Ian Hunter. Defiance Part 1. [Sun Label] April 21
The Mars Volta. Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon. [Clouds Hill] April 21. Acoustic versions of songs from last year's The Mars Volta album.
Y La Bamba. Lucha [Tender Loving Empire] April 28
Dropkick Murphys. Okemah Rising. [Dummy Luck Music] May 12. Follow-up to last year's This Machine Still Kills Fascists, this also uses archival Woody Guthrie lyrics matched with contemporary tunes by Dropkicks Murphys.
Tinariwen. Amatssou. [Wedge] May 19
Kevin Morby. More Photographs: A Continuum. [Dead Oceans] May 26
Bully. Lucky For You. [Sub Pop] June 2
Bob Dylan. Shadow Kingdom [Columbia] June 2. The soundtrack of last year's concert film of the same name. Dylan reworks some of his all-time classics.
PJ Harvey. I Inside The Old Year Dying. [Partisan] July 7
Various Artists. Playing For The Man At The Door: Field Recordings From Mack McCormick, 1958-1971. Feat. Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, and other classic recordings. [Smithsonian Folkways] August 4
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