The Oedipus Project
The truly wonderful Tara MacLean has been on hiatus for 9 years creating a family.
Recently she recorded an album honoring Atlantic Canadian singer/writers available June 28th.
Atlantic Blue consists of 14 songs including Snowbird, written by notable songwriter Gene MacLellan.
Snowbird
The Brooklyn-based quartet Grizzly Bear took a break after 2012’s Shields’ album.
I’m pleased that in August we will have Painted Ruins, their 5th.
Mourning Sound is an early morsel from the album.
Mourning Sound
In 2011 James Murphy announced that he was retiring LCD Soundsystem.
The film Shut Up and Play the Hits even chronicled the last and final concert at Madison Square Garden. However, he and his traveling band performed at Coachella in 2016.
We now have two new songs: Call the Police and American Dream, from a yet unnamed forthcoming album.
Call the Police
American Dream
It’s always a pleasure to receive new music from The National.
I never tire of Matt Berninger’s baritone.
The album, Sleep Well the Beast, will not be ready until September, but we do have the song The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness.
The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness
The last The War on Drugs album came out in 2014, but we now have a new exquisite song from the band.
Thinking of a Place is a luxuriant opus.
Thinking of a Place
Katie Crutchfield is Waxahatchee.
Named after a creek in Alabama, her home state, Waxahatchee’s latest album will be called Out in the Storm.
Silver is the new single.
Silver
Home Countries will be the title of the new Saint Etienne album due in early June.
Their first in 5 years, the song Heather validates the wait.
Heather
Body Count’s new album, Bloodlust, is timelier than ever.
This L.A. heavy metal band fronted by Ice-T caused a stir in 1992 with their song Cop Killer.
New songs like Black Hoodie and No Lives Matter are just as profound.
How little has changed since the formation of this band last century.
Black Hoodie
No Lives Matter
Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer are Generationals.
This duo out of New Orleans have a few albums under their belt.
Turning the Screw is a new song.
Turning the Screw
Feist’s new album is entitled Pleasure.
The long play includes the song Century, a bleak view of the future.
Jarvis Cocker of Pulp adds a haunting narrative toward the end.
Century
