| The
Crossing - April 2009
April. Is it April already?
Still pretty cold out as of this writing, but I know it’s gonna warm up
soon. That’s the best part. With the turn in weather comes the outdoor
concert-going season. Yes, it’s that time of year to go out and support
your local and maybe, not so local music scene. Festivals, anyone? Artists
big and not so big will be hitting the road to play places big and not
so big in an area near you, unless you live in Wyoming. But, hey, some
of these artists may have to drive through Wyoming so you never know. With
the change in weather comes lots and lots of new releases. As you can clearly
see from the list below, the music release schedule becomes flooded. Rock
needs to be released. You need to rock. Rock surfaces at music stores big
and not so big near you. Rock also appears on a little something we call
the internet...Itunes, for example.
On Saturday, April 18th rock
will be making an appearance at your local indie music stores for the 2nd
annual Record Store Day. I don’t know who came up with Record Store Day,
but it seems to be a reminder to us all that record stores actually still
exist. I’ve seen them. I’ve been in them. I’ve browsed around in them.
I’ve even occasionally bought things in them. You can still do this! In
the St. Louis area...here are some to check out: Vintage Vinyl in the Delmar
Loop, Euclid Records in Webster Groves, CD Warehouse on Tesson Ferry in
South County, CD Reunion at the Hawk’s Nest shopping center in St. Charles
and for a good indie movie store, check out the Movie Nut in Kirkwood.
Rock ‘N Roll never dies...music stores have died. Nobody knows how this
equation will work itself out, but supporting your local music stores and
local musicians and local establishments that present live rock to you...will
help rock survive well into the decades to come and hopefully well
through this young century.
An ad for a local, indie
Record store here in town (Euclid Records), says they will have live music
on an outdoor stage with no less than seven bands throughout the day, including
the well-known St. Louis band The Bottle Rockets. They will also have food
from two neighboring restaurants, plus a storewide sale and sidewalk discounts.
That takes place from 10 to 7 on the day. I imagine every city/town with
some decent indie stores will have promotions to celebrate the 2nd annual
Record Store Day. Maybe a good day to go on a tour of your local record
stores!!
Quite a variety of music
coming out in the days ahead and most all of the Oscar nominated movies
have now shown up on the radar...
Keep rockin’!!!
Recently released and not
mentioned in last edition:
* Prince - 3 CD set (Target
exclusive.)
* PJ Harvey - A Woman a
Man Walked by...
* Ian Gillan - One Eye to
Morocco
* Silverstein - Shipwreck
in the Sand
* Coheed & Cambria -
Neverender
* White Lies - To Lose My
Life
* Ha Ha Tonka - Buckle in
the Bible Belt
* Bishop Allen - Grrr...
* The Script - S/T
* Believer - Gabriel
* Seventh Day Slumber -
Take Everything
* Superdrag - Industry Giants
* An Horse - Rearrange Beds
* Mastodon - Crack the Skye
* Cursive - Mama, I’m Swollen
* Julien K - Death to Analog
* Dm Stith - Heavy Ghost
* Chris Joss - Sticks
* Eulogies - Here, Anonymous
* The Strange Boys - The
Strange Boys...and Girls Club
* Sometymes Why - Your Heart
is a Glorious Machine
* Oren Lavie - The Opposite
Side of the Sea
* Red Fang - S/T
* The Church - Pangaea (Import
EP.)
* VoL/Bill Mallonee - Live
at Eddie’s Attic, January 2009 and WPA Vol.3
+ Rory Gallagher - Live
in Cork, Ireland 1994
4/7
* Neil Young - Fork in the
Road (CD/DVD.)
* William Fitzsimmons -
The Sparrow and the Crow
* Richard Shindell - Not
Far Now
* David Wilcox - Open Hand
* The Tragically Hip - We
Are the Same
* The Hold Steady - A Positive
Rage: Live (2 CD’s.)
* Bob Mould - Life and Times
* Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
* The Thermals - Now We
Can See
* Sara Watkins - S/T
* Jason Aldean - Wide Open
* Rascal Flatts - Unstoppable
* Felice Brothers - Yonder
is the Clock
* Vienna Teng - Inland Territory
* Bigger Lights - Fiction
Fever
* The Sway Machinery - Hidden
Melodies Revealed
* Hurt - Goodbye to the
Machine
* Black Dice - Repo
* Doves - Kingdom of Rust
* The Veils - Sun Gangs
* Cystal Antlers - Tentacles
* Richard Swift - The Atlantic
Ocean
* Ben Folds - University
a Cappella
* Bettye LaVette - Do Your
Duty (Compilation.)
* James Taylor - Other Covers
(EP.)
* Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
- A Stranger Here
* Wetton/Downes - Icon 3
* Jeff Scott Soto - Beautiful
Mess
* Europe - Almost Unplugged
* Erasure - Total Pop! (3
CD/1 DVD box set.)
* Bruce Cockburn - a few
reissues
* Nick Cave - a few reissues
+ Arcade Fire - Miroir Noir
Ltd. (2 DVD’s directed by Vincent Morisett.)
+ Doubt
+ The Day the Earth Stood
Still
+ Yes Man
+ Donkey Punch
+ Bedtime Stories
+ The Tale of Despereaux
4/14
* The Silversun Pickups -
Swoon
* Fastball - Little White
Lies
* Metric - Fantasies
* John Doe & the Sadies
- Country Club
* Jill Sobule - The California
Years
* Willie Nile - House of
a Thousand Guitars
* Handsome Family - Honey
Moon
* Medeski, Martin &
Wood - Radiolarians II
* Marissa Nadler - Little
Hells
* Mike Farris - Shout! Live
* Bjork - Voltaic
* Death Cab for Cutie -
Open Door (EP.)
+ The Reader
+ The Spirit
+ No Country for Old Men
(Collector’s edition.)
4/18 (Saturday - 2nd annual
Record Store Day)
* The Gaslight Anthem - Live
at Park Avenue (6 song EP.)
* Note: this is all I found
for this date, but there should be quite a few other things to come out
exclusively on this day.
4/21
* Tinted Windows - S/T (Taylor
Hanson, James Iha, Adam Schlesinger & Bun E. Carlos.)
* Booker T - Potato Hole
(Featuring Drive By Truckers and Neil Young.)
* Matisyahu - Light
* Manchester Orchestra -
Mean Everything to Nothing
* Jars of Clay - Long Fall
Back to Earth
* Tori Amos - Abnormally
Attracted to Sin
* Eilen Jewell - Sea of
Tears
* Meg & Dia - Here,
Here and Here
* Jesse Winchester - Love
Filling Station
* Allen Toussaint - The
Bright Mississippi
* Depeche Mode - Sounds
of the Universe
* The Greencards - Fascination
* Camera Obscura - My Maudlin
Career
* Jamie Slocum - Dependence
* Matt Flinter Trio - Music
du Jour
* Bearfoot - Doors &
Windows
* Tim Brantley - Goldtop
Heights
* Empire of the Sun - Walking
on a Dream
* Jane’s Addiction - A Cabinet
of Curiosities (3 CD/1DVD box set.)
+ Frost/Nixon
+ The Wrestler
4/28
* Bob Dylan - Together Through
Life
* Great Northern - Remind
Me Where the Light is
* Tim Easton - Porcupine
* Ben Lee - Rebirth of Venus
* Madina Lake - Attics to
Eden
* So Many Dynamos - The
Loud Wars
* Pilot Speed - Wooden Bones
* Animals as Leaders - S/T
* Samantha Crain - Songs
in the Night
* Melody Gardot - My One
and Only Thrill
* Heaven & Hell - The
Devil You Know
* Cocktail Slippers - St.
Valentine’s Day Massacre (Produced by Little Steven Van Zandt.)
* The Black Crowes - Warpaint:
Live (2 CD’s.)
+ Wilco - Ashes of American
Flags
+ What Doesn’t Kill You
+ Nothing But the Truth
+ Stranded
+ The Uninvited
+ Bride Wars
+ Hotel for Dogs
5/5
* Conor Oberst - Outer South
* St. Vincent - Actor
* Ben Harper - White Lies
for Dark Times
* Akron/Family - Set ‘em
Wild, Set ‘em Free
* Billy Pilgrim - Twice
Born Men
* Patrick Watson - Wooden
Arms
* Spiral Beach - Ball
* Rusted Root - Stereo Rodeo
* The Gallows - Grey Britain
* Omar Rodriguez-Lopez -
Cryptomnesia
* New York Dolls - ‘Cause
I Sez So
* Rhino Bucket - The Hardest
Town
* The Aurora Project - Shadow
Border
* Jewel - Lullaby (Children’s
album.)
* Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens
- Roadsinger
* My Favorite Highway -
How to Call a Bluff
* The Rolling Stones - a
few remastered reissues
+ The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button
+ Last Chance Harvey
+ Under the Bombs
5/12
* The Church - Untitled #23
* Better Than Ezra - Paper
Empire
* Cracker - Sunrise in the
Land of Milk and Honey
* Steve Earle - Townes (Steve
covers Townes Van Zandt; 2 CD version available.)
* Michelle Shocked - Soul
of My Soul
* Chuck Mead - Journeyman’s
Wager
* Bricolage - S/T
+ Underworld: Rise of the
Lycans
5/19
* Eric Clapton & Steve
Winwood - Live from Madison Square Garden (2 CD’s.)
* Green Day - 21st Century
Breakdown
* Mat Kearney - City of
Black and White
* Colin Linden - From the
Water
* Iron & Wine - Around
the Well (2 CD rarities.)
* Carbon Leaf - Nothing
Rhymes with Woman
* Jarvis Cocker - Further
Complications
* White Rabbits - It’s Frightening
* Zee Avi - S/T
* John Vanderslice - Romanian
Names
* Saga - The Human Condition
(New singer Rob Moratti.)
* Kenny Chesney - Greatest
Hits II
+ Valkyrie
+ Paul Blart: Mall Cop
5/26
* Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
* Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus
Phoenix
* Simple Minds - Graffiti
Soul
* The Wallflowers - Greatest
Hits
+ Ministry - Adios...Puta
Madres
+ New in Town
6/2
* Dave Matthews Band - Big
Whiskey and the Groogrux King (CD/DVD; Groogrux refers to the nickname
of the late DMB saxophone player Leroi Moore.)
* Elvis Costello - Secret,
Profane & Sugarcane (Produced by T Bone Burnett.)
* Iggy Pop - Preliminaires
(Iggy goes jazz?)
* The Eels - Hombre Lobo
* Rancid - Let the Dominoes
Fall
* 311 - Uplifter
+ Revolutionary Road
+ Defiance
6/7
* Chickenfoot - S/T (Sammy
Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith; Best Buy exclusive.)
6/9
* Rhett Miller - S/T
* Sonic Youth - The Eternal
* Placebo - Battle for the
Sun
* Dredg - The Pariah, the
Parrot, the Delusion
* Dead Weather - Horehound
(Jack White & Alison Mosshart.)
+ Gran Torino
6/16
* Incubus - Moments and Melodies:
Best of
+ Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace
and Music (40th anniversary!)
+ Dr. Strangelove (45th
anniversary.)
6/23
* Wilco - TBA
* Pete Yorn - Back and Fourth
* Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
* Tortoise - Beacons of
Ancestorship
* Third Eye Blind - Ursa
Major
* The Lemonheads - Varshons
(Covers album.)
* Dream Theater - Black
Clouds & Silver Linings (3 CD version available w/covers EP.)
* Twisted Sister - Stay
Hungry (25th Anniversary 2 CD set.)
6/30
* Rob Thomas - Cradlesong
LYRICS of the MONTH:
A great song from a legendary
artist...
“Come a little bit closer
Hear what I have to say
Just like children sleepin’
We could dream this night
away
But there’s a full moon risin’
Let’s go dancing in the
light
We know where the music’s
playin’
Let’s go out and feel the
night
Because I’m still in love
with you
I want to see you dance
again
Because I’m still in love
with you
On this harvest moon
When we were strangers
I watched you from afar
When we were lovers
I loved you with all my
heart
But now it’s gettin’ late
And the moon is climbin’
high
I want to celebrate
See it shinin’ in your eye
Because I’m still in love
with you
I want to see you dance
again
Because I’m still in love
with you
On this harvest moon.”
Neil Young, the song “Harvest
Moon” off the album Harvest Moon released in 1992.
Happy Easter!!!
See you in May...
Chris Barlow
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