New Albums - Page 168

Americana band Railroad Earth has released its first studio album in three years, . The record’s eclectic mix of roots sounds shouldn’t surprise fans of the band or its bassist, Andrew Altman, who joined the group in 2010. In a quick-hit interview with Jacksonville.com a couple of years back, Altman listed the five albums that changed his life, and not...

The insane 1960s/70s-inspired soultastic grooves of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings have returned with the aptly titled album . It’s the first album release since 2011’s Soul Time! for the 11-piece band led by bassist Bosco Mann. It’s also the first since vocalist Jones’ cancer diagnosis. Jones is back with ongoing treatment, and the band is promoting the record, which...

Vail Johnson has released his sixth solo album, entitled . Describing the music as having a “relaxed intensity,” Johnson’s latest effort features his bass as the lead in fully fleshed out songs. Flow acts as a timestamp for his musical ideas. “This CD is all about simply playing what was in my heart and how I felt about music presently...

In Yes, bass — or perhaps more accurately, the bassist — is the band’s linchpin. The legendary prog-rock group’s co-founder and bassist Chris Squire is the only band member to appear on every album since the group’s late 1960s inception, and his spectacular work is all over a remastered and expanded . The set includes 12 albums on the Atlantic...

When keyboardist Ray Powell set out to fill out his project band Mumpbeak, he went straight to the top of prog rock royalty. Mumpbeak’s features drummer Pat Mastelotto and a host of talented bassists: Bill Laswell, Tony Levin, Lorenzo Feliciati, and Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz. Described as “art by committee,” the project takes on shades of King Crimson, Yes and Gentle...

Minnesota’s After the Burial is back with new music for the first time in three years with . The metal band remains on Sumerian Records, which also released the group’s Rareform and In Dreams albums and its This Life Is All We Have EP (three remastered tracks from the band’s first album, Forging a Future Self.) The band features bassist...

In 1989, The Jerry Garcia Band embarked on what would become a well-remembered East Coast tour, featuring Grateful Dead guitarist/vocalist Bob Weir and upright bass player Rob Wasserman as the opening act. commemorates that tour on six CDs of music: complete performances from Sept. 5 (Hartford Civic Center in Connecticut) and Sept. 6 at Nassau Coliseum in New York. Each...

Melodic/hardcore band Evergreen Terrace (named after the street where The Simpsons live) has dropped , its first album since the 2012 return of bassist Jason Southwell, who stepped away from the group back in 2009. It’s also the band’s first release on Rise Records. The group severed its connection with Metal Blade in 2012. Two songs — the title track...

, post-rock outfit Caspian’s first release since the August death of bassist Chris Friedrich, is a six-song EP featuring new music as well as remixes of two songs from the band’s last full-length LP, Waking Season. Both “Procellous” and “Halls of the Summer” from Waking Season receive the remix treatment. Another Waking Season track, “High Lonesome,” appears here in demo...

The Velvet Underground’s original White Light/White Heat release in 1968 included just six songs, including the iconic title track and legendary “Sister Ray.” Raw, loud, and avant-garde for the time, it became a rock classic. Decades later, the of the record features three CDs (one of the CDs is a live show recorded in 1967 in New York) and 30...

Ben Allison has a new atmospheric album out, . Taking its name from David Bowie’s lyrics to “Space Oddity,” the bassist’s eleventh album as a leader brings together his lifelong love of space, technology and film. Allison used the record as a medium to explore musical textures that tie the three together. The result offers up a sci-fi vibe influenced...

Muse has followed up the success of last year’s The 2nd Law with a new live album and DVD. presents the band’s Italian performance on July 6th in front of over 60,000 fans as part of their Unsustainable Tour. It also acts as a musical snapshot of the band’s increasingly electronic sound, which lead singer Matt Bellamy says will be...