New Albums - Page 138

Swedish hardcore punk band Refused has released its first album in almost 20 years, Freedom. The record features one of its original bassists, Magnus Flagge, who was tapped to play with the band for its reunion shows in 2012. Refused was known for its revolving door on bass, having featured 13 bassists during the band’s lifetime. Check out Refused’s comeback...

It’s been a while since former bassist for The Rolling Stones released a solo album. About 33 years, really. The album, which features a stripped-down sound and nods to influences like Leonard Cohen and JJ Cale, came about after Bill Wyman realized he had a cache of unreleased songs, three of which he decided to rework. He then added those...

Weather Report’s 1973 album, Sweetnighter, has been released in a 180-gram vinyl audiophile limited edition. The record, the legendary jazz fusion group’s fourth, features two bassists — founding bassist Miroslav Vitous (who handles both acoustic and electric bass here, on what would be his last album as the group’s principal bassist) and multi-instrumentalist Andrew White on electric bass. The vinyl...

Bikini Kill, a band at the heart of the 1990s riot grrrl movement, has reissued The First Two Records, which combines the band’s self-titled six-song EP and the Yeah, Yeah, Yeah record into one package. Part of the latter record featuring founding bassist Kathi Wilcox, was actually half of an UK album the band shared with another group to promote...

Did you miss the Spanish version of David Lee Roth’s Eat ’Em and Smile album back in in 1986? Or you didn’t know it existed at all? Don’t worry. Most people don’t know about it. But now, the album, titled Sonrisa Salvaje, is available again on CD, and this time, it’s the remastered version. The Spanish-language album featured all the...

Instrumental rock/fusion trio The Aristocrats’ third studio album, Tres Caballeros, reveals a young band of pros, who have learned a great deal in the band’s four years together. Here’s a few ways information manifested itself for Tres Caballeros, according to guitarist Guthrie Govan: “The decision to road-test our new material in front of a live audience before commencing the recording...

The “From the Vault” series, issuing previously unreleased live performances from The Rolling Stones, continues chugging along with The Marquee Club — Live in 1971. The legendary rock band played the show — recorded for American television —at the now-defunct Marquee Club on March 26, 1971, just about a month before the release of the Sticky Fingers album. Just check...

Third Eye Blind has released Dopamine, its first studio album since 2009. The record, featuring Alex LeCavalier on bass, will be the group’s last traditional album, according to leader/frontman Stephan Jenkins, who told HuffPost Live that the band will still record music, but instead of recording full albums, it will turnaround work more quickly through digital releases. This last full...

Metal band High On Fire’s seventh studio album, Luminiferous, is also its second with Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou as producer. The album from the trio, which includes Jeff Matz on bass, snagged an NPR First Listen feature and a review that states that it captures the band’s “unique chemistry, presenting it in a tone that’s both warm and aggressive to...

If you’re a fan of 1960s and 1970s pop music, you’ve heard the work of a group of studio musicians often known as “The Wrecking Crew”. They were musical ringers, called in to back up (or sometimes play for) top artists, kind of like Motown’s famed Funk Brothers. The Funk Brothers were profiled in the eye-opening 2002 documentary Standing in...

Phish played some of its most experimental live music during shows in Amsterdam back in 1997. Now three complete shows, played there between February and early July, 1997, are available on an 8-CD set called simply Amsterdam. The band, featuring bassist Mike Gordon, played all the shows at the 1,500-capacity Paradiso, a former church transformed into a rock venue/cultural center....

Pianist Robert Glasper has reunited with his trio, which includes bassist Vicente Archer (Terence Blanchard, Kenny Garrett, Wynton Marsalis, Stanley Jordan, Amos Lee) for the acoustic jazz record Covered (The Robert Glasper Trio Recorded Live at Capitol Studios). The trio, with drummer Damion Reid, is the same one that recorded Canvas in 2005 and In My Element in 2007. The...