| The
Crossing - May 2010
Welcome back.
May picks up where April
left off. This is a good thing for anyone who has been paying attention.
Let's play a game. It's incredibly
easy. I'll mention some singers and artists and it's your job to find them
in the below list. Are you ready? Now, put on some suspenseful music and
let's get started.
Find the following:
Hotly anticipated artists:
The Hold Steady, Free Energy, Broken Social Scene, The National, Tokyo
Police Club, Far, Karen Elson and Band of Horses.
Killer singer/songwriters:
(they're not really killers, but they are really damn good): Justin Currie,
Mary Gauthier, Elizabeth Cook, Darrell Scott and Luka Bloom.
Classic legends: Bruce Springsteen,
U2, Tom Petty and John Mellencamp.
Movies that you want to see
or see again: The Road, North Face, Invictus, Greenberg and The Last Station.
See, you did it! It wasn't
as hard as you thought. But don't miss everything in between either.
Recently released and not
mentioned in last edition:
* Colin Devlin - Democracy
of One (Emm Gryner guests.)
* Moonlight Bride - Myths
* The Spill Canvas - Realities
(EP.)
* Anarbor - The Words You
Don't Swallow
* Go Radio - Do Overs and
Second Chances
* The Infamous Stringdusters
- Things That Fly
* Bettye LaVette - Pharmacy
of Love
* Amber Pacific - Virtues
* Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental
Hustle
* Klank - Numb...Reborn
* Gasoline Heart - Nostalgia
Ain't What It Used To Be
* The Wayside - Spiritual
Songs
* Great Lake Swimmers -
Legion Sessions
* Perry Keyes - The Last
Ghost Train Home
* Justin Rutledge - The
Early Widows
* Luka Bloom - Dreams in
America (Re-recorded retrospective.)
* The Saw Doctors - To Win
Just Once: Best of
* Green Day - American Idiot:
Original Broadway Cast Recording (2 CD's.)
* Gordon Lightfoot - many
reissues
* The Hooters - Five by
Five (EP.)
* Marillion - Tumbling Down
the Years and Size Matters (Live; 2 CD's each.)
* Pearl Jam - Many official
soundboard 2 CD sets
5/4
* Justin Currie - Great War
(Del Amitri front man's second solo album.)
* Asia - Omega (John Wetton,
Steve Howe, Geoff Downes & Carl Palmer.)
* The Hold Steady - Heaven
Is Whenever
* Minus the Bear - Omni
* Free Energy - Stuck on
Nothing
* Josh Ritter - So Runs
the World Away
* The New Pornographers
- Together
* Broken Social Scene -
Forgiveness Rock Record
* Our Last Night - We Will
All Evolve
* Tonic - S/T
* Infantree - Food For Thought
* Steve Howe - Homebrew
IV
* Nonpoint - Miracle
* The Fall - Your Future,
Our Clutter
* Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
* Greg Laswell - Take a
Bow
* Chely Wright - Lifted
Off the Ground
* Mercyme - The Generous
Mr. Lovewell
* Zac Brown Band - Pass
the Jar: Live in Atlanta
* The Courtyard Hounds -
S/T (Emily Robison & Martie Maguire of the Dixie Chicks.)
* The Letter Black - Hanging
By a Thread
* George Lynch - Orchestral
Mayhem
* Mike Patton - Mondo Cane
* Extreme - Take Us Alive:
Live in Boston 2009 (2 CD's/1 DVD.)
+ Leap Year
+ Nine
+ Tooth Fairy
+ Saving Private Ryan (Blu-ray.)
5/11
* Keane - Night Train (EP.)
* The National - High Violet
* Tokyo Police Club - Champ
* Elizabeth Cook - Welder
* The Lost Dogs - Old Angel
* The Dead Weather - Sea
of Cowards
* UNKLE - Where Did the
Night Fall
* Stereophonics - Keep Calm
and Carry On
* Crash Test Dummies - Ooh
La La
* Just Surrender - Phoenix
* The Expendables - Prove
It
* Japandroids - No Singles
* The Morning Pages - Rising
Rain
* Sleigh Bells - Treats
* Coco Rosie - Grey Oceans
* Woods - At Echo Lake
* We Are the Fallen - Tear
the World Down
* Jennifer Knapp - Letting
Go
* Tenth Avenue North - The
Lights Meet the Dark
* Hoodoo Gurus - Purity
of Essence
* Jody Porter - Close to
the Sun
* Jim Lauderdale - Patchwork
River
* Matt Kennon - S/T
* Susan Cowsill - Lighthouse
* Jackson Browne & David
Lindley - Love is Strange
* James Taylor & Carole
King - Troubadour Reunion (CD/DVD.)
* Meatloaf - Hang Cool Teddy
Bear
* As I Lay Dying - The Powerless
Rise
* Clutch - Live at the 9:30
* Bon Jovi - Many special
edition reissues
* Judas Priest - British
Steel (30th anniversary edition.)
+ Daybreakers
+ Legion
+ Edge of Darkness
+ North Face
+ The Karate Kid (Blu-ray.)
+ Rock `N Roll High School
(Blu-ray.)
5/18
* Suzanne Vega - Close Up,
Vol. 1: Love Songs
* Mary Gauthier - The Foundling
(new album) and Genesis (compilation.)
* The Jayhawks - S/T aka
`The Bunkhouse Album' (1986 debut released on CD for the first time.)
* The Deftones - Diamond
Eyes
* Far - At Night We Live
* Band of Horses - Infinite
Arms
* The Black Keys - Brothers
* Miggs - Wide Awake
* Macy Gray - The Sellout
* Jamie Lidell - Compass
* Scott Morgan - S/T
* Nas & Damian Marley
- Distant Relatives
* LCD Soundsystem - This
is Happening
* Danko Jones - Below the
Belt
* Turin Brakes - Outbursts
* Depreciation Guild - Spirit
Youth
* Woven Bones - In and Out
and Back Again
* Sadies - Darker Circles
* Tracey Thorn - Love and
Its Opposite
* Anne McCue - Broken Promise
Land
* Crooked Still - Some Strange
Country
* Staind - Tormented
* Exodus - Exhibit B: the
Human Condition
* Iced Earth - Box of the
Wicked
* John Norum - Play Yard
Blues
* Triumph - Greatest Hits
Remixed (CD/DVD.)
* The Rolling Stones - Exile
on Mainstreet (Deluxe edition.)
* Steve Kilbey - many reissues
* Jimmy Buffett - Encores
(2 CD's.)
+ John Lennon - Rare and
Unseen
+ The Kinks - You Really
Got Me: the Story of The Kinks
+ Invictus
+ Valentine's Day
+ The Messenger
+ Extraordinary Measures
+ The New Daughter
+ The Spy Next Door
+ Walkabout (Blu-ray.)
5/25
* Stone Temple Pilots - S/T
* Widespread Panic - Dirty
Side Down
* Transmit Now - Downtown
Merry-Go-Round
* Transient Songs - Cave
Syndrome
* First Aid Kit - Big Black
& the Blue
* The Truth & Salvage
Co. - S/T
* Soulfly - Omen (Deluxe
edition.)
* Framing Hanley - Promise
to Burn
* Rosetta - A Determinism
of Morality
* Darrell Scott - A Crooked
Road (2 CD's.)
* Damien Jurado - Saint
Bartlett
* Beth Neilsen Chapman -
Back To Love
* Kim Richey - Wreck Your
Wheels (import.)
* Karen Elson The
Ghost Who Walks
* Keller Williams - Thief
(covers.)
* Hank Williams III - Rebel
Within
* John Prine - In Person
and On Stage
* Allison Moorer - Crows:
Acoustic EP (download only.)
* Stone River Boys - Love
on the Dial
* Fyfe Dangerfield - Fly
Yellow Mood
* Black Sunshine - S/T
* Veara - What We Left Behind
* Robin Zander - Countryside
Blvd. (Cheap Trick front man's country side.)
* Rick Derringer - The Three
Kings of the Blues
* Krokus - Hoodoo
* Smashing Pumpkins - Teargarden
by Kaleidyscope 1: Song for a Sailor (Specially designed silk-screen wooden
box set and first EP of a series of 11 EP's. You got that?)
+ Rock `N Roll Hall of Fame:
Legends (3 DVD's.)
+ The Road
+ Dear John
+ Spartacus (50th anniversary
edition.)
6/1
* Jack Johnson - To the Sea
* Tift Merritt - See You
on the Moon
* Jackie Greene - `Til the
Light Comes
* Paul Weller - Wake Up
the Nation
* Woven Hand - Threshing
Floor
* Hot Hot Heat - Future
Breeds
* Moe - Smash Hits, Vol.
1
* Setting Sun - Fantasurreal
* Hawthorne Heights -Skeletons
* Futureheads - The Chaos
* Good Old War - S/T
* Wintersleep - New Inheritors
* Born Ruffians - Say It
* Steve Howe - Travelling
* Townes Van Zandt - Legend:
Very Best of
* Albert King & Stevie
Ray Vaughn - In Session (reissue.)
* Radiohead - In Rainbows
(Deluxe edition.)
+ U2 - 360 Degrees: Live
at the Rose Bowl
+ Alice in Wonderland
+ The Wolfman
+ Life (4 DVD's.)
6/8
* The Roots - How I Got Over
* Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
* Samantha Crain - You (Understood)
* Jewel - Sweet and Wild
(2 CD's.)
* Christina Aguilera - Bionic
* Hanson - Shout It Out
* Yo La Tengo - Here To
Fall: Remixes
* Delta Spirit - History
from Below
* What Laura Says - Bloom
Cheek
* William Fitzsimmons -
Derivatives
* Grace Potter & the
Nocturnals - S/T
* Renee Fleming - Dark Hope
(covers.)
* Dierks Bentley - Up On
the Ridge
* Those Mockingbirds - No
Symmetry
* The Cringe - Play Thing
* The Dig - Electric Toys
* Delorean - Subiza
* Against Me - White Crosses
* Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer
of the Void
* The Young Veins - Take
a Vacation
* Here We Go Magic - Pigeons
* We Are the In Crowd -
Gauranteed to Disgrace (EP.)
* Nada Surf - If I Had a
Hi-Fi
* Villagers - Becoming a
Jackal
* Rooney - Eureka
* Deer Tick - Black Dirt
Sessions
* Silverstein - Decade:
Live at El Macombo (CD/DVD.)
* Pretty Maids - Pandemonium
* The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
soundtrack
* The La's - Callin' All
(Four CD box set.)
* Steve Winwood - Revolutions:
Very Best of (Four CD box set.)
+ Shutter Island
+ From Paris With Love
+ Caddyshack (Blu-ray.)
6/15
* Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
- Mojo
* John Mellencamp - On the
Rural Route 7609 (Themed four CD box set; hits, deep album cuts and rarities.)
* Cowboy Junkies - Renmin
Park
* The Gaslight Anthem -
American Slang
* We Are Scientists - Barbara
* Sarah MacLachlan - The
Laws of Illusion (CD/DVD.)
* Steve Miller - Bingo (yes,
that Steve Miller; first album in 17 years.)
* Ozzy Osbourne - Scream
* Derek Trucks Band - Roadsongs
* Chris Isaak - Live at
the Fillmore
* Laurie Anderson - Homeland
* Ed Harcourt - Lustre
* Fefe Dobson - Joy
* In Fear & Faith -
Imperial
* Foals - Total Life Together
* Light Pollution - Apparitions
* Right the Stars - S/T
* The Like - Release Me
* Kevin Rudolf - To the
Sky
* Papa Roach - To Be Loved
+ Youth in Revolt
+ When in Rome
+ The Book of Eli
6/22
* The Innocence Mission -
My Room in the Trees (tentative date.)
* Sarah Harmer - Oh Little
Fire
* Marah - Life is a Problem
* Stars - The Five Ghosts
* American Hi-Fi - Fight
the Frequency
* Authority Zero - Stories
of Survival
* Kele Okereke - The Boxer
* Jason Moran - Ten
* Grits - Quarantine
* Griffin House - The Learner
* Sia - We Are Born
* Front Line Assembly -
Improvised Electronic Device
* Chemical Brothers - Further
* Masters of Reality - Pine
* Cyndi Lauper - Memphis
Blues
+ Bruce Springsteen &
the E Street Band - London Calling: Live in Hyde Park (2 DVD's.)
+ The Last Station
+ The Lightning Thief
+ Remember Me
6/29
* Alejandro Escovedo - Street
Songs of Love
* Jimmy Webb - Just Across
the River
* Runaway City - Armored
Heart
* Wolf Parade - Expo 86
* Ozzy Osbourne - Diary
of a Madman: Live 1982 (CD/DVD.)
+ The White Ribbon
+ Green Zone
+ The Crazies
+ Hot Tub Time Machine
7/6
* Ed Kowalczyk - Alive (LIVE's
front man goes solo.)
+ A Single Man
7/13
* Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse
- Dark Night of the Soul (Many guests.)
* Sun Kil Moon - Admiral
Fell Promises
* The Love Language - Libraries
+ Greenberg
+ Our Family Wedding
LYRICS of the MONTH:
Lyrics of the Month is taking
another month off while I contemplate what else could be done with this
space. The problem I'm having is that I have covered many, many artists
already in this space and newer artists whose lyrics I would like to place
in here, don't have their lyrics up yet from brand new albums. A lot of
the smaller, indie artists don't have their lyrics readily available so
it requires a little more hunting. But, I'm looking for a different angle
to take here and we will see where that takes us in June. Stay tuned.
Hope you had a Happy Mothers
day to all the Moms out there and have a Happy Memorial day weekend!
See you in June.
Chris Barlow
cbcrossing@yahoo.com
(Recommend something to
me. I'm out here listening.)
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