Three large posts, a truckload of music, little-to-no editorialising (or even editing). It's the A-Z of what's been catching Scruffy's ears, too much for one post
Afghan Whigs">Afghan Whigs are back with a new album, Do to the Beast. Their new songs sound Afghan Whigsy, which is good, all dramatic and noir, passionate and perhaps insidious.
Afghan Whigs - The Lottery
Algiers
Lovecrimes
ATO Records spring sampler - Featuring Drive-by Truckers, Kaiser Chiefs, Old 97's, Built To Spill, Midlake, and 8 more! Free!
Beachwood Sparks - Make it Together
Neneh Cherry is back. She always had a unique voice and attitude.
Neneh Cherry - Out Of The Black (featuring Robyn)
Everything
Buffalo Stance
Dearly Beloved are getting ready to release a new album called Enduro.
Dearly Beloved - Aimed Right At Me
Dearly Beloved - To Better Days
Where We Been, a cover of
Dinosaur Jr.’s Where You Been?, by
Felled Trees, a collaboration that includes members of Knapsack, Samiam, Thrice, Texas is the Reason, and more.
Felled Trees -
Dinosaur Jr. - Watch the Corners
Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun have now releades their album, and you can stream it at their
website.
Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering Sun - Crater
Drive-by Truckers' new album English Oceans is finally out. You know the band is the best. Don't you think all those radio stations that play Lynyrd Skynyrd and 38 Special and whatever else someone calls southern rock should sneak in these guys every once in a while?
Pauline Hawkins
Drive-by Truckers - Pauline Hawkins
Shit Shots Count
Cooley's voice reminds me of Willie Nelson in Made Up English Oceans.
Drivin' n Cryin' s latest, ‘Songs For The Turntable,’ available on Blank Records, is the fourth in a series of as-promised four EPs released over the past 18 months - pretty apt as tomorrow is
Record Store Day. More on this soon.
Songs for the Turntable
Drivin' N' Cryin' - The Little Record Store Just Around The Corner
Space Eyes
Also check out the indiegogo fundraising for a doc called
Scarred but Smarter: Life n Times of Drivin' n' Cryin'.
Echo & the Bunnymen have a new one coming out called Meteorites.
Echo & the Bunnymen - Market Town
Lovers on the Run
Failure is back together and playing shows, I'm sure hoping there's going to be new record coming too.
Stuck on You
Neil Finn - Dizzy Heights
Not new at all, but this Matthew Good song was a nice surprise when pointed out to me recently.
Matthew Good - Extraordinary Fades
Grant Hart is not trading on past glories with his newest album The Argument, which seems to call on psychedelic pop and garage rock as much as it does his earlier work.
It Was a Most Disturbing Dream
Haunted Hearts - Johnny Jupiter
The Henry Millers - Posies
Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band - The Blast, the Bloom
Hugh Beaumont is Dead
The Hours are from Winnipeg, methinks, but they sound British, lazy, hazy, shoe-gazey. Here's Steady Glazed Eyes.
You miss the Smiths. Here's
The Holiday Crowd - While She Waits.
Beloved Australian band
Hunters & Collectors recently reunited as well as having a tribute album released in their honour featuring people like Neil Finn, Eddie Vedder, Paul Kelly, The Living End and Avalanches (you can stream it
here).
Holy Grail
When the River Runs Dry
Do You See What I See?
Throw Your Arms Around Me
The Slab
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