2024 albums

[kosmo vinyl]

My hot take on the new Pearl Jam is ooh I could definitely listen to this one multiple times and will be fun in concert.    Yes it nostalgic, but many of their new albums left me cold…

If only they would embrace Bandcamp

[sweetcell]

to make it official:

Taylor Swift: "The Tortured Poets Department" dropped today

first single: 'Fortnight' featuring Post Malone

[hutch]

Someone characterized it as “Tori Amos retreads”


That can’t be good, right?

[sweetcell]

Thom Yorke - Confidenza (movie soundtrack)
Digital release 26 April, Physical release 12 July

Thom Yorke composed the original score for Daniele Luchetti’s film Confidenza, an adaptation of the Italian drama based on Domenico Starnone’s novel of the same name. Confidenza sees Yorke working again with Sam Petts-Davies as well as the London Contemporary Orchestra alongside a jazz ensemble which included Robert Stillman and fellow The Smile bandmate Tom Skinner.

Lead single: Knife Edge

[sweetcell]

Johnny Cash: Songwriter
June 28, via Mercury Nashville/UMe

first track: Well Alright


background:

Lost Johnny Cash songs from 1993 to be released as a new album
The country star’s son co-produces Songwriter, worked up from demos with a group of former bandmates and guests including Vince Gill and Dan Auerbach backing Cash’s vocals

Posthumous Johnny Cash Album Songwriter Announced, New Song “Well Alright” Shared: Listen
Previously unreleased demos by Cash are fleshed out with help from Marty Stuart, Dave Roe, Pete Abbott, the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, and more

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Unless one has listened to Cash’s 80s and early 90s stuff before he hooked up with Rubin and albums of unreleased songs already put out after Cash’s death buying this would be utterly pointless. These are basically Cash’s discarded ideas from his most fallow artistic and commercial period.

Cash has like 100 albums out almost all of which nobody listens to. 98% of people just listen to a hits compilation, live ant Folsom or San Quentin and mostly the Rubin stuff.  And we’re going to dig up this unused stuff?


Johnny Cash’s legacy is secure without these sorts of projects. I don’t get it.

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Johnny Cash’s legacy is secure without these sorts of projects. I don’t get it.

the owners of his estate don't get paid on "legacy".

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Johnny Cash’s legacy is secure without these sorts of projects. I don’t get it.

the owners of his estate don't get paid on "legacy".

Sure they do….unless they sold out the estate gets the revenues from publishing, etc.

Moreover, I doubt this project even recoups costs. You think there are thousands of people going to buy or stream this?

As best I can guess this is a vanity project and for John R. Cash to have something to do…and to keep Cash’s name out there…

[hutch]

New David Gilmour album!!

Hopefully not as soporific as the last one….

A few live dates in US?

[sweetcell]

New David Gilmour album!!

Hopefully not as soporific as the last one….

A few live dates in US?

 
David Gilmour: Luck And Strange
6 September 2024, via Sony Music

with contributions from Richard Wright, Guy Pratt, Steve Gadd, Roger Eno, and others

first track: The Piper Calls (official premier in 24 hours, at 12:15pm EST, although various media outlets claim they will be streaming it today.  track review here)

[Space Freely]

New Album “DR. DOG” out everywhere July 19

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Ryan Adams cover series (sorry for the all caps, just copied from and email)


NEW COVERS SERIES
HELLO VALUED PAX-AM SUBSCRIBER!

TODAY MARKS THE FIRST RELEASE OF A NEW “COVERS SERIES”. A SERIES OF TWO-TRACK SINGLES BEING RELEASED EACH FRIDAY FOR THE NEXT TWENTY-FOUR WEEKS.

EACH RELEASE FEATURES TWO DIFFERENT COVERS. RECORDED AT A NUMBER OF RYAN’S SOLO SHOWS OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS.

“ACHIN’ TO BE” IS THE FIRST RELEASE - AVAILABLE TO STREAM NOW ON ALL PLATFORMS.

1. ACHIN’ TO BE [THE REPLACEMENTS COVER]
2. BLACK SHEETS OF RAIN [BOB MOULD COVER]

EXCLUSIVELY FOR PAX-AM SUBSCRIBERS - RYAN WILL SHARE HIS THOUGHTS AND NOTES ABOUT EACH COVER EVERY

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Jon Anderson: True
Aug. 29
(with his backing band The Band Geeks)
first single to drop in june
apparently the album has two tracks that clock in at 12 minutes and 15 minutes.

[kosmo vinyl]

The The
Ensoulment
9/8

first new album in a quarter century with modern day vinyl pricing

first track Cognitive Dissident, which sounds great - https://youtu.be/biD-AmPI-Y4


Tim Pope directed video in the works...

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Steve Earle has announced a new live album, Alone Again (Live), which will be out July 12 via Howe Sound Records/Missing Piece Records. The album features 15 songs from his 2023 acoustic tour and you can listen to “I Ain’t Ever Satisfied” (originally on his 1987 album Exit 0) here.