Here are The Wheel’s Still In Spin’s suggested new releases.
Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers – Songs in the Night | CD
Download “Songs in the Night” (mp3)
Download “Devils in Boston” (mp3)
This folk croonstress has put together a tantalizing debut album. Her style is similar to Thao Nguyen, who Crain is currently on tour with. While Thao’s backing band, The Get Down Stay Down, adds more of a jazz accompaniment her songs, Crain’s supporting cast members, The Midnight Shivers, add a little more of a countrified roots rock sound.
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life | CD
Download “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’” (mp3)
This site is named after a line from a Bob Dylan song. So, yes, I am a Dylan fan. Let me attempt explain the full extent of that comment. If Dylan were to take a shit in the woods, I would recommend we put on our boots and go check it out. But this album is not shit. Not at all.
Continuing the style of his last 3 albums, Dylan has released a new set of songs that conjure the feel of old tyme music. The combination of David Hildago’s accordion, Mike Campbell’s guitar, Donny Herron’s versatile instrumentation, and the solid rhythm section of Tony Garnier and George Recile add an evocatively perfect accompaniment to another batch of great songs by the best songwriter ever.
Tim Easton – Porcupine | CD
Download “Burgundy Red” (mp3)
Download “Broke My Heart” (mp3)
For his fifth album, Easton has put together a buoyant and stirring collection of songs. It is in the Americana/folk rock style that his previous work features. These songs are captivating and well written. I dare you to listen to the 2 tracks above and not be drawn in.
Japandroids – Post-Nothing | Vinyl MP3
Download “Young Hearts Spark Fire” (mp3)
Download “Heart Sweats” (mp3)
This loud two-piece Vancouver band plays music that is a combination of unadulterated punk, aggressively distorted indie rock, and lo-fi, fuzzy garage rock. The band seems to fall somewhere between the sound of DFA 1979 and Mclusky.
After the jump, there is a list of more new releases from this week.
Other releases from 28 April 2009:
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO – Interstellar Guru and Zero | CD
Aeon Zen – A Mind’s Portrait | CD
Animals As Leaders – Animals as Leaders | CD
Ape School – Ape School | CD
Birds of Prey – The Hellpreacher | CD
Blackguard – Profugus Mortis | CD
Jimmy Bosch – A Million | CD
Dean Brody – Dean Brody | CD
A Camp – Colonia | CD
Jason Michael Carroll – Growing Up is Getting Old | CD
Catherine – Inside/Out | CD
Cheval Sombre – Cheval Sombre | CD
Chord – Flora | CD
Cocktail Slippers – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre | CD
Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers – Songs in the Night | Recommended above
The Crocodiles – Summer of Hate | CD
Darrius – Can’t Get Enough | CD
Diamond Watch Wrists – Ice Capped at Both Ends | CD
The Disciplines – Smoking Kills | CD
Dot Dot Curve – Til the Wheels Fall Off | CD
Omar Kent Dykes – Big Town Playboy | CD
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life | Recommended above
Tim Easton – Porcupine | Recommended above
Endless Hallway – Autonomy Games | CD
Florence and the Machine – A Lot of Love. A Lot of Blood. [EP] | CD
Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella | CD
Melody Gardot – My One and Only Thrill | CD
God Dethroned – Passiondale | CD
Great Northern – Remind Me Where the Light Is | CD
The Green Pajamas – Poison in the Russian Room | CD
Halestorm – Halestorm | CD
Heaven & Hell – The Devil You Know | CD
Holy Sons – Drifters Sympathy | CD
I Monster – A Dense Swarm of Ancient Stars | CD
Immaculate Machine – High on Jackson Hill | CD
Japandroids – Post-Nothing | Recommended above
Mike Jones – The Voice | CD
Little Red Snapper – Morning Light | CD
Lord Mantis – Spawning the Nephilim | CD
Los Straitjackets – The Further Adventures of Los Straitjackets | CD
Susan Marshall – Little Red | CD
Cameron McGill – Warm Songs for Cold Shoulders | CD
John McLaughlin & Chick Corea – Five Peace Band [Live] | CD
Marion Meadows – Secrets | CD
Merzbow – 13 Japanese Birds, Vol. 4 | CD
Moderat – Moderat | CD
Nadja – When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV | CD
New Ruins – We Make Our Own Bad Luck | CD
NewFound Road – Same Old Place | CD
NOFX – Coaster | CD
Paleface – The Show Is on the Road | CD
Paper Route – Absence | CD
Pilot Speed – Wooden Bones | CD
Playing For Change – Songs Around the World | CD/DVD
Collin Raye – Never Going Back | CD
Kermit Ruffins – Livin’ a Tremé Life | CD
Spyro Gyra – Down the Wire | CD
Takeo Toyama – Etudes | CD
Tech N9ne – Sickology 101 | CD
Thee Oh Sees – Help | CD
Tosca – No Hassle | CD
U-Nam – Unanimity | CD
Urban Mystic – GRIII: Old School 2 Nu Skool | CD
Violent J – The Shining | CD
War from a Harlots Mouth – In Shoals | CD
The Weather Station – The Line | MP3
Wilco – Ashes of American Flags [Live] | DVD
Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse – Cries from the Ghetto | CD
King Wilkie – The Wilkie Family Singers | CD
Winfred E. Eye – Till I Prune | CD
Witch Hunt – Burning Bridges to Nowhere | CD
Eric Woolfson – Sings the Alan Parsons Project That Never Was | CD
Xu Xu Fang – Seven Days Now [EP] | CD
Young Love – One of Us | CD
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I don't know how this guy keeps doing it. He's still making the best music in the universe, as far as I'm concerned. Together Through Life is his fourth consecutive masterpiece. Can't wait to see him in July with Willie.
Posted by: Nate Bowler | 07 June 2009 at 07:27 AM