| The
Crossing - June 2009
Another solid month of tunes
and cinema here...
Let's take a look at a few
select music items:
Dave Matthews Band - I haven't
been paying the Dave Matthews Band much attention for the past ten years,
so why now? Well, I know they are very good musicians and always have been,
their drummer Carter Beauford is certainly among the top, and I just saw
them perform two songs on the Jimmy Fallon show. These were inspired, high
energy songs performed with an edge that you can tell was obviously brought
on by the passing of their very talented saxophone player, LeRoi Moore.
He died last Summer as a result of complications brought on by an ATV accident
that happened months earlier. These new songs seemed to have more electric
guitar in them than ever and possibly this sound is a result of Moore's
passing where his noteable saxophone passages helped make the Dave Matthews
Band sound. Apparently Moore's most recent playing, captured in the studio
before he died, has made it on to the new album entitled Big Whiskey
and the Groogrux King. They tour all Summer long. Long may they ride...
Regina Spektor - She broke
thru a few years back with the album Begin to Hope. She sang the
song "The Call" at the end of the Prince Caspian movie. She plays piano
and she's quirky, weird and strange. She's her own person, a true free
spirit, probably a result of moving from her home country Russia at an
early age and moving to a strange and new country, the USA, eventually
landing in Brooklyn, NY. My pick for the most anticipated album of the
month. It'll be
interesting to see what
Regina does with this new album and where it may take her. Produced in
part by Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra fame who's
worked a lot with Tom Petty,
but also produced by David Kahne with Regina who both worked on the last
album. This new collection entitled Far out on the
23rd, should be well produced
and full of Regina's idiosyncratic sound and beautiful voice.
Wilco - Which Wilco will
show up? Jeff Tweedy and Wilco release their 7th album somewhat dubiously
entitled Wilco (The Album) Guess that answers that
question... They `are' still
called albums!! It's out on the 30th of this month. I'm getting the vibe
that it will be a cross between their most recent effort
Sky Blue Sky and
that album's two experimental predecessors Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
and A Ghost is Born. Which means we won't know what kind of Wilco
album this will be until
it actually shows up. But given the title...it's safe to assume it will
be quintessential Wilco. There's even a song called "Wilco".
Special guest includes Feist
of "1,2,3,4" fame. I thought Sky Blue Sky was a very good album
and is probably my favorite Wilco collection, so if Wilco (The
Album) can be anything
like that, the band will have succeeded again in my eyes. One of the top
American bands, Wilco continues to evolve and keep fans
guessing...
Many other releases to keep
your ears and eyes peeled for this month. Be sure to look closely at the
list below. There's more there than meets the eye and you don't want to
miss anything.
Recently released and not mentioned in last edition:
* Moderat - S/T
* CKY - Carver City
* Apostle of Hustle - Eats
Darkness
* Black Moth Super Rainbow
- Eating Us
* Chairlift - Does You Inspire
You
* Audrye Sessions - S/T
* Grand Duchy - Petits Fours
* Big Business - Mind the
Drift
* Owen Beverly - Shooting
the Bull
* Barcelona - Absolutes
(expanded reissue.)
* Tosca - No Hassle
* Gliss - Devotion Implosion
* 16 Frames - Where It Ends
* Operation Aloha - S/T
* The Veer Union - Against
the Grain
* Ace Enders - When I Hit
the Ground
* Harry Bacharach - Velvet
Tango
* Cheryl Wheeler - Pointing
at the Sun
* John Paul Keith - Spills
and Thrills
* Cathy Anne McClintock
- S/T
* Pete Yorn & Scarlett
Johansson - Break Up (Download only.)
+ Bob Walkenhorst - Live
and On Purpose 2006
+ The Rainmakers - Almanac:
Video Collection
+ My Bloody Valentine
6/2
* Dave Matthews Band - Big
Whiskey and the Groogrux King (CD/DVD.)
* Elvis Costello - Secret,
Profane & Sugarcane
* Marshall Crenshaw - Jaggedland
* Iggy Pop - Preliminaires
* The Eels - Hombre Lobo
* Rancid - Let the Dominoes
Fall
* 311 - Uplifter
* Franz Ferdinand - Blood
* The Sounds - Crossing
the Rubicon
* Emery - In Shallow Seas
We Sail
* Hoots & Hellmouth
- The Holy Open Secret
* Taking Back Sunday - New
Again
* Ryan Star - 11:59
* Ryan Bingham - Roadhouse
Sun
* Willy Porter - How to
Rob a Bank
* Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side
Up
* Ronnie Earl - Living in
the Light
* Diane Birch - Bible Belt
* Lou Gramm - S/T
* The Who - Sell Out (Deluxe
edition.)
* Crosby, Stills & Nash
- Demos
* Neil Young - Archives,
Vol.1: 1963-1972
* Hall & Oates - Straight
from Philadelphia (box set.)
+ Jeff Buckley - Grace:
Live Around the World (2 DVD's/1 CD.)
+ Umphryee's McGee - Live
+ Revolutionary Road
+ Defiance
+ He's Just Not That Into
You
6/7
* Chickenfoot - S/T (Sammy
Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony & Chad Smith; Best Buy exclusive.)
6/9
* Nanci Griffith - The Loving
Kind
* Rhett Miller - S/T
* Todd Snider - The Excitement
Plan
* Peter Holsapple &
Chris Stamey - Here and Now
* The Clarks - Restless
Days
* Aimee Allen - A Little
Happiness
* Sonic Youth - The Eternal
* Placebo - Battle for the
Sun
* Elizabeth & the Catapult
- Taller Children
* Kathryn Williams &
Neill MacColl - Two
* British Sea Power - Man
of Aran
* The Features - Some Kind
of Salvation
* Post Honeymoon - S/T
* Dirty Projectors - Bitte
Orca
* Dredg - The Pariah, the
Parrot, the Delusion
* Deerhunter - Rainwater
Cassette Exchange (EP.)
* Dead Weather - Horehound
(Jack White & Alison Mosshart.)
* Kasabian - West Ryder
Pauper Lunatic Asylum
* The Aggrolites - IV
* There For Tomorrow - A
Little Faster
* Paul Weller - Just a Dream:
22 Dreams Live (CD/DVD.)
* Darryl Worley - Sounds
Like Life
+ Kris Kristofferson, Patty
Griffin & Randy Owen - Legends & Lyrics, Vol. 1
+ Iron Maiden - Flight 666
(Singer Bruce Dickinson pilots a custom Boeing 757 in
this tour documentary.)
+ Gran Torino
+ The International
6/16
* Ha Ha Tonka - Novel Sounds
of the Nouveau South
* Incubus - Moments and
Melodies: Best of
* Hank Williams, Jr. - 127
Rose Avenue
* Holly Williams - Here
With Me
* William Fitzsimmons -
Live Sessions EP (download only.)
* Garrison Starr & Josh
Joplin - Among the Oak & Ash
* The Waifs - From the Union
of Soul: Live
* Daddy (Will Kimbrough
& Tommy Womack) - For a Second Time
* Magnum - Into the Valley
of the Moon King
* Neal E. Boyd - S/T
* Devin Townsend - Ki
* Jill Hennessey - Ghost
in My Head
* Jason Shannon - S/T
* Marching Orders - Last
Train Home
* Math the Band - Don't
Worry
* Tiny Masters of Today
- Skeletons
* Queen + Paul Rodgers -
Live in Ukraine
* The Wallflowers - Collected:
1996-2005
* George Harrison - Let
it Roll: Best of
* Don Henley - Very Best
of (CD/DVD.)
* The Pixies - Minotaur:
Collector's edition (Download only.)
* Def Leppard - Pyromania/Adrenalize
(Deluxe editions.)
+ Nightwish - End of an
Era
+ James Taylor - One Man
Band
+ Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace
and Music (40th anniversary!)
+ Friday the 13th
+ Dr. Strangelove (45th
anniversary.)
+ The Diary of Anne Frank
(50th anniversary.)
6/23
* Regina Spektor - Far
* Bjork - Voltaic
* Pete Yorn - Back and Fourth
* Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
* Patterson Hood - Murdering
Oscar (And Other Love Songs.)
* Shawn Colvin - Live
* John Mellencamp - Life,
Death Live and Freedom (8 song live EP.)
* Kendall Carson - Alright
Dynamite
* The Roots - How I Got
Over
* Cheap Trick - The Latest
* God Help the Girl - S/T
* Deer Tick - Born on Flag
Day
* Tortoise - Beacons of
Ancestorship
* Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young
Cardinals
* Love is All - Last Choice
* Royal City - S/T
* The Bats - Guilty Office
* Jets Overhead - No Nations
* Venetian Snares - Horsey
Noises
* Trey Anastasio - Time
Turns Elastic
* Third Eye Blind - Ursa
Major
* Charlie Robison - Beautiful
Day
* Rhonda Vincent - Destination
Life
* Tonic - A Casual Affair:
Best of
* The Lemonheads - Varshons
(Covers album.)
* Michael Johns - Hold Back
My Heart
* Dream Theater - Black
Clouds & Silver Linings (3 CD version available w/covers
EP.)
* The Mars Volta - Octahedron
* Voivod - Infini
* R.E.M. - Reckoning (25th
anniversary Deluxe edition.)
* Twisted Sister - Stay
Hungry (25th anniversary 2 CD set.)
* Black Sabbath - S-T/Master
of Reality (Deluxe editions.)
* Spinal Tap - Back from
the Dead (2 CD's.)
+ Inkheart
+ Confessions of a Shopaholic
+ Pink Panther 2
6/30
* Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
(Special guest Feist.)
* Levon Helm - Electric
Dirt
* Brad Paisley - American
Saturday Night
* Moby - Wait for Me
* Blur - Midlife: a Beginner's
Guide to Blur (2 CD's.)
* Meese - Broadcast
* Moxy Fruvous - Wood/Live
Noise
* Fiery Furnaces - I'm Going
Away
* Tanya Tucker - My Turn
* Jefferson Airplane/Santana/Sly
& the Family Stone/Janis Joplin/Johnny Winter -Woodstock Experience
(2 CD's each.)
* Rob Thomas - Cradlesong
(CD.) and Soundstage Presents: Something to Be Tour: Live at Red Rocks
(DVD.)
* Ted Nugent - Motor City
Mayhem: 6,000th Concert (2CD's/1 DVD.)
* The Low Anthem - Oh My
God Charlie Darwin
* Lillian Axe - Sad Day
on Planet Earth
* Beastie Boys - a few Deluxe
editions
+ Two Lovers
+ Do the Right Thing (20th
anniversary.)
7/7
* Son Volt - American Central
Dust
* The Jayhawks - Music from
the North Country: Anthology
* Broken Records - Until
the Earth Begins to Part
* Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear
the Heart Beating as One
* Clutch - Strange Cousins
from the West
* Cat Power - The Covers
Record
* Discovery - LP
* Cass McCombs - Catacombs
* Silk Flowers - S/T
* Bowerbirds - Upper Air
* Marcy Playground - Leaving
Wonderland...
* All Time Low - Nothing
Personal
* The Donnas - Greatest
Hits
* Waysted - Save Your Prayers
(2 CD reissue.)
* Drive By Truckers - Live
from Austin, TX
+ Push
+ Knowing
7/14
* Robin Trower - What Lies
Beneath
* Time & Distance -
Gravity
* Down from Zero - Chaos
Theory
* Judas Priest - Live
+ David Bowie - VH1 Storytellers
1999 (CD/DVD.)
+ This is Spinal Tap (Blu-ray.)
+ The Haunting in Connecticut
+ Explicit Ills
+ Grey Gardens
7/21
* Matthew Sweet & Susanna
Hoffs - Under the Covers, Vol. 2
* Ian Hunter - Man Overboard
* Patti Smith - Peace and
Noise
* Our Lady Peace - Burn
Burn
* The Rural Alberta Advantage
- Hometowns
* Wheat - White Ink, Black
Ink
* Rescue Signals - Indecisions
* Blue Roses - S/T
* Magnolia Electric Co.
- Josephine
* Daughtry - Leave this
Town
* Marie Digby - Breathing
Underwater
* Stryper - Murder by Pride
* Kenny Loggins - All Join
In
+ Coraline
+ Watchmen
+ The Great Buck Howard
7/28
* Howling Bells - Radio Wars
8/4
* Imogen Heap - Ellipse
* Collective Soul - TBA
+ Race to Witch Mountain
+ Flight of the Conchords:
Complete 2nd Season
8/11
* Patty Griffin - Downtown
Church
8/18
* Madness - The Liberty of
Norton Folgate
8/25
* Dolores O'Riordan - No
Baggage
+ Sunshine Cleaning
LYRICS of the MONTH:
Maybe the sun will shine
today
The clouds will blow
away
Maybe I won't feel so
afraid
I will try to understand
Either way
Maybe you still love me
Maybe you don't
Either you will or you
won't
Maybe you just need some
time alone
I will try to understand
Everything has its plan
Either way
I'm gonna stay
Right for you
Maybe the sun will shine
today
The clouds will roll
away
Maybe I won't be so afraid
I will understand everything
has its plan
Either way.
Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), the
song "Either Way" off the album Sky Blue Sky released in 2007.
See you in July...
Chris Barlow
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