New Albums - Page 114

Sub Pop has released a vinyl reissue of Sunny Day Real Estate’s 1998 reunion album, How It Feels to Be Something On. Original bassist Nate Mendel did not rejoin the band for the record, opting to stay with the Foo Fighters. However, since that time, he has played on an album with some of his former SDRE bandmates and has...

The Fred Hersch Trio, featuring John Hébert on bass, has released the live album, Sunday Night at the Vanguard, which All About Jazz says may be the trio’s best recording yet. The Vanguard refers to the Village Vanguard, a legendary New York City jazz club that has become a second home for the trio. Sunday Night at the Vanguard sees...

San Fransisco garage rockers Thee Oh Sees have released A Weird Exits, their followup to 2015’s Mutilator Defeated at Last. The band, led by John Dwyer, not only features two drummers, but also bassist Tim Hellman (Sic Alps). It’s the group’s first full-length album to feature the double-drummer lineup. Check out the album’s “Plastic Plant”: A Weird Exits is available...

Asheville, North Carolina, group The Get Right Band has released the album, Who’s In Charge? The band, featuring founding member Jesse Gentry on bass, recorded the album at Echo Mountain Studio in Asheville, with their frontman, Silas Durocher and Julian Dreyer (who worked in various capacities with The Avett Brothers, Zac Brown Band, Dawes, and the Steep Canyon Rangers) producing....

Instrumental rock/metal trio Russian Circles has released its sixth studio album, Guidance. The record features bassist/author Brian Cook (Sumac, Botch, These Arms Are Snakes), who has been with the group since its second album, Station (2007). Noisey/Vice says the album is one in which you can lose yourself, from a group that makes a very big sound. “ In the...

The original lineup of Dinosaur Jr. is back with its fourth album in the 21st century (after recording three together in the 1980s). With it being the original lineup, that means Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Folk Implosion) handles bass on the band’s latest, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not. The album’s already receiving accolades and NPR named the track “Tiny”...

Hard rock collective The Dead Daisies has released its third album, Make Some Noise. The record boasts a classic hard rock sound, with Marco Mendoza (Thin Lizzy, ex-Black Star Riders) on bass. Other band members include David Lowy (Red Phoenix, Mink), John Corabi (Motley Crue, Ratt), Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake, Dio), and Brian Tichy (Ozzy Osbourne, Foreigner). Check out album opener,...

Norwegian bassist Mats Eilertsen, known for his work on a number of ECM Records’ sessions, has released his own music now, on the album, Rubicon. The work was originally commissioned in 2014 for the Vossa Jazz festival, and after some fine-tuning, Eilertsen and his band recorded it in fall 2015 in Rainbow Studio Oslo. Aside from Eilertsen, the musicians on...

Previously unreleased music – recorded a year before Gov’t Mule’s first album – has been newly mixed and mastered and released as The Tel-Star Sessions. The demos were recorded in June 1994 at Tel-Star Studios in Bradenton, Florida, with the original band line-up of Warren Haynes, Matt Abts, and the late bassist Allen Woody, who, at the time, also played...

If black vinyl albums just aren’t your thing as a Black Sabbath fan, you now have the option of buying limited-edition 180-gram color vinyl versions of the band’s first eight albums. The albums not only feature one of metal’s most influential bassists, Geezer Butler, who also penned most of the band’s lyrics at the time, but also correspond with the...

Bassist Colin Trusedell, who is also musical director for the United States Air Force Academy Band’s Top 40 ensemble Blue Steel, has released his fifth solo album, Quartet of Jazz Death, Vol. 2. The album from the Trusedell, who is also a professor of bass at Colorado State University – Pueblo, follows up 2015’s All by Myself and his 2014...

Clockwork, jazz pianist Victor Gould’s debut as a bandleader has arrived. The album features Ben Williams (Pat Metheny’s Unity Band) on bass, and even features an homage to bass great/composer Ron Carter, called “Sir Carter.” The record includes sextet arrangements and pieces augmented by strings. “I didn’t want to be locked in with instrumentation,” Gould says. “I’ve come to believe...