Upcoming CD Releases

[troutman]

Bob Mould announces new album: Silver Age

http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/0...um-silver-age/

On September 4th, Bob Mould will release Silver Age, his debut release with Merge and his first studio full-length of new material since 2009′s Life and Times. Recorded alongside his current band of drummer Jon Wurster and bassist Jason Narducy, the ten-track effort channels the “punishingly loud, melodically sparkling pop/rock” heard on Mould’s previous efforts with Sugar

[troutman]

New CD Tuesday:

Rush:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/clockw...s-mw0002332023
http://www.cbc.ca/q/popupaudio.html?...,%202244948183

Metric:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/synthetica-mw0002354324

[troutman]

Ariel Pink Explores the California Sound on 'Fun' New Record

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...ecord-20120612

[Russic]

New Wintersleep album out today. Gave it one listen... I think I'll like it better than the last one.

[MonsieurFish]

New Smashing Pumpkins album streaming on Itunes right now. Releases next week. Surprisingly impressed with it so far... think it'll grow on me too.

[Canada 02]

Clockwork Angels may be Rush's best album in two decades

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

Clockwork Angels may be Rush's best album in two decades

I hope so - I haven't really enjoyed a Rush album since Grace Under Pressure. Where are the riffs? Where are the hooks? Why does Geddy sing so much?

[Puppet Guy]

I picked up Clockwork Angels yesterady but haven't had a chance to give it a solid listen (it deserves better than a "play in the car on the way to work" listen). What I did hear has me thinking Canada 02 could be right.

[troutman]

Why Rush Is A Pop Band, And Other Things Your High School Weed Dealer Would Never Admit
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/...ork_angels.php

What often gets lost, though, is that these humble epics of Far East tourism and tribute to Samuel Taylor Coleridge somehow linger in the head because of their tunefulness.

I remember "One Little Victory" causing me to buy Vapor Trails with excitement—Rush was writing riffs again! But before researching this piece, I couldn't remember how any of the record went.

Clockwork Angels can come off like a midlife-crisis Porsche buy at times, but Rush never lost that sense of patient, rendered wonder

[YYC in LAX]

System of a Down/Scars on Broadway fans:

New Scars on Broadway album this summer. There is a song preview on their website (been there for a couple months) and it's absolutely uhhhhhh awesome. Daron Malakian knows how to write hooks.

http://www.scarsonbroadway.com/

[Displaced Flames fan]

New Blues Traveler tomorrow. Suzie Cracks the Whip

[troutman]

Song Premiere: The Raveonettes, 'Observations'

Danish duo debut first single from upcoming album 'Observator'


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...tions-20120625

[troutman]

The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
http://www.metacritic.com/music/the-...d-heady-fwends

The latest album from The Flaming Lips was originally released on Record Store Day and it includes collaborations with Erykah Badu, Biz Markie, Bon Iver, Nick Cave, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Ke$ha, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Neon Indian, New Fumes, Yoko Ono, Prefuse 73, and Tame Impala.

[troutman]

Think About Me | The New Pornographers


http://soundcloud.com/concordmusicgroup/think-about-me

Here's "Think About Me" by The New Pornographers off the anticipated upcoming album "Just Tell Me That You Want Me: Tribute To Fleetwood Mac." The new album will be available everywhere August 14th, 2012.

Listen/Watch: Best Coast Cover Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon"


http://pitchfork.com/news/46995-list...macs-rhiannon/

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Any LP fans out there? New CD out today. Gonna go for a walk in a bit and listen. Pretty pumped.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN

Any LP fans out there? New CD out today. Gonna go for a walk in a bit and listen. Pretty pumped.

Liz Phair has a new record? Cool.

[Russic]

Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN

Any LP fans out there? New CD out today. Gonna go for a walk in a bit and listen. Pretty pumped.

Not sure I'd call myself a fan, but I do listen to their stuff. I made it about half way through the album and had to turn it off. I've liked their recent stuff, but this album did not agree with me at all.

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Originally Posted by Russic

Not sure I'd call myself a fan, but I do listen to their stuff. I made it about half way through the album and had to turn it off. I've liked their recent stuff, but this album did not agree with me at all.

Just finished listening to it twice. I'm 100 percent biased as I'm a huge fan of theirs, but I loved it. Best album since Meteora by a country mile. I appreciated what they tried on A Thousand Suns, it was ambitious, but some of it fell pretty flat. They blended some elements from Thousand Suns and some old school hard riffs for a cool sound.

Of course, in my extremely biased opinion.

[Regular_John]

Originally Posted by Russic

Not sure I'd call myself a fan, but I do listen to their stuff. I made it about half way through the album and had to turn it off. I've liked their recent stuff, but this album did not agree with me at all.

I've got Linkin Park on my "guilty pleasures" list, I'm not really a big fan (not going to Xfest to see em) but some of their past stuff strikes a chord.

But this new record is really bad, seems like their trying to follow a few other paths carved out by others (Sleigh Bells & Deadmau5 come to mind) on this record.

Heck the whole record's just shy of 37 minutes... and it drags.

[Magnum PEI]

I could tolerate Linkin Park if they got rid of their "rapper" guy who always repeats himself and uses Dr. Seuss rhymes. Chester Beddingfield is actually pretty good.