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June 2018 Album Releases

May 31, 2018 — Leave a comment

6/1

-Ben Howard: Noonday Dream

-Owl City: Cinematic

-Roger Daltrey: As Long As I Have You

-American Aquarium: Things Change

-Beach Skulls: Las Dunas

-Def Leppard: Volume One

-The Flaming Lips: Greatest Hits, Vol. One

-Ghost: Prequelle

-MANIAC: Dead Dance Club

-Neko Case: Hell-On

-Phil Cook: People Are My Drug

-ZZ Top: Cinco No. 2, The Second Five LPs

-Jason Birmingham: No Fux Given

-Michael Ray: AMOS

-Monowhales: Control Freak

-Black Lotus: Wilted

6/2

-Killakoi: Pangea

6/8

-Tremonti: A Dying Machine

-Jorja Smith: Lost & Found

-Kanye West and Kid Cudi: Kids See Ghost

-Lily Allen: No Shame

-Lykke Li: So Sad, So Sexy

-Sheppard: Watching the Sky

-Sugarland: Bigger

-Snail Mail: Lush

-Black Sabbath: Supersonic Years (The Seventies Singles Box Set)

-Dance Gavin Dance: Artificial Selection

-Dave Matthews Band: Come Tomorrow

-Dierks Bentley: The Mountain

-Erin Rae: Putting on Airs

-Fire Down Below: Hymn of the Cosmic Man

-Mick Ronson: Beside Bowie, The Mick Ronson Story

-NeYo: Good Man

-serpentwithfeet: soil

6/15

-Christina Aguilera: Liberation

-Mike Shinoda: Post Traumatic

-Johnny Marr: Call the Comet

-Chromeo: Head Over Heels

-Melody’s Echo Chamber: Bon Voyage

-Andy Jenkins: Sweet Bunch

-Buddy Guy: The Blues Is Alive and Well

-Culture Abuse: Bay Dream

-The Darkness: Live at Hammersmith

-Dead Girls Academy: Alchemy

-Lizzy Borden: My Midnight Things

-Mayday Parade: Sunnyland

-Orange Goblin: The Wolf Bites Back

-Petal: Magic Gone

-Rebelution: Free Rein

-Sepultura: Arise (Deluxe Edition)

-Tangents: New Bodies

-Welles: Red Trees and White Trashes

-Like a Storm: Catacombs

-Letters From the Fire: Letters From the Fire

6/22

-5 Seconds of Summer: Youngblood

-Bebe Rexha: Expectations

-Panic! at the Disco: Pray for the Wicked

-The Blood Choir: Houses of the Sun

-CRAFT: White Noise and Black Metal

-Garbage: Version 2.0 (20th anniversary reissue)

-Hatchet: Dying to Exist

-Paul Rodgers: Paul Rodgers — Free Spirit — Celebrating the Music of Free

-Soulwax: Essential

-White Ring: Gate of Grief

-BrokeNCYDE: 0 to BrokeNCYDE

-City of the Weak: Pulling Teeth

-Impending Doom: The Sin and Doom, Vol. II

6/29

-Bullet For My Valentine: Gravity

-Let’s Eat Grandma: I’m All Ears

-A Delicate Motor: Fellover My Own

-Elle Belle: No Signal

-Florence and the Machine: High as Hope

-Guns ‘N’ Roses: Appetite for Destruction — Locked ‘N’ Loaded (deluxe edition)

-Graham Nash: Over the Years…

-Red Baraat: Sound the People

-Social Distortion: Live at the Roxy (Vinyl Reissue)

-Yes: Yes — The Steven Wilson Remixes

-Night Verses: From the Gallery of Sleep

-Glass Lungs: Impermanence

Artist to Watch: Liam B. Smith

May 27, 2018 — Leave a comment

Liam B. Smith is an indie rock artist from Virginia. His latest single, entitled “Keep Your Head Up,” is a wonderfully refreshing reminder of a time when rock wasn’t afraid to showcase the fun elements of pop.

The instant the track starts, you can’t help bobbing your head. The combination of Liam’s clean vocals, a catchy chorus that begs for listeners to sing along, and lyrics that are so relatable creates a song that rivals most of what is currently being played on mainstream radio.

But don’t take my word for it. Check out “Keep Your Head Up.”

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New Music (5/21 — 5/27)

May 23, 2018 — Leave a comment

Repentance: “Born to Choose”

Inglorious: “I Got a Feeling”

Primal Fear: “Hounds of Justice”

Harm’s Way: “Last Man”

Gruesome: “Fatal Illusions”

Dirty Machine: “Further From You”

Retox: “The Nature of Failure”

Motionless in White: “Voices”

Avatar: “The King Welcomes You to Avatar Country”

Black Tusk: “Agali”

Enter Shikari: “Undercover Agents”

The Armed: “Nowhere To Be Found”

Mike Shinoda ft. grandson: “Running From My Shadow”

Vein: “Demise Automation”

ASG: “Execution Thirst”

Polyphia: “G.O.A.T.”

State Champs: “Mine is Gold”

Bleeding Through: “End Us”

Lipz: “Get It On”

Dance Gavin Dance: “Care”

Powerwolf: “Demons Are a Girl’s Best Friend”

Khemmis: “Bloodletting”

Bad Wolves: “Zombie” (acoustic)

Asking Alexandria: “Alone in a Room”

Roses Unread: “After All”

Too Pure To Die: “Only the True Remain”

Butcher Babies: “Look What We’ve Done”

Will Burton: “Run Out of Road”

Abandon the Broken’s Debut EP Now Streaming!

May 18, 2018 — Leave a comment

Abandon the Broken is a metalcore/deathcore band from Raleigh, North Carolina. They have just released their debut EP, The Next Chapter, and posted several tracks to their YouTube page. Here are a couple of songs, just to get you started:

“The Next Chapter”

“Overseer”

“Inner Demons”

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New Music (5/14 — 5/20)

May 17, 2018 — Leave a comment

Impending Doom: “Everything’s Fake”

Repentance: “Collide”

I Prevail: “Rise”

Light This City: “Agents of Fate”

BrokeNCYDE: “0 to Brokencyde”

Death Valley High: “Play Dead”

YOB: “Our Raw Heart”

Vagrants: “Clarity”

Backstreet Boys: “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”

Christina Aguilera ft. Demi Lovato: “Fall in Line”

Body Count ft. Max Cavalera: “All Love is Lost”

Nine Inch Nails: “God Break Down the Door”

Pop Evil: “A Crime to Remember”

Perfect Plan: “Bad City Woman”

Silent Season: “Stars”

Lindsy Says: “Hold on Me”

Parade of Lights: “Human Condition”

Parade of Lights: “Inside My Head”

Lizzy Borden: “Long May They Haunt Us”

Like a Storm: “The Devil Inside”

The Last Year: “Annabelle”

Cheap Trick: “The Summer Looks Good on You”

Ghost: “Dance Macabre”

Hardcore Superstar: “Baboon”

Afraid of Human: “From the Ashes”

Being As An Ocean: “OK”

3 Years Hollow: “You and I”

LA Cobra: “Ride”

Review: Shinedown’s Attention Attention

May 16, 2018 — Leave a comment

Band: Shinedown

Album: Attention Attention

Genre: Rock

Release Date: May 4, 2018

Standout Tracks: “Attention Attention,” “Creatures,” “Get Up,” “Special,” “The Human Radio,” and “Brilliant”

As if it’s not obvious from the above list of songs I’ve labeled as standouts, I really enjoyed Shinedown’s Attention Attention. The record’s first actual track is “Devil,” which is an immediate one-two punch of heavy riffs and Brent Smith’s strong vocals. This was not too different from prior Shinedown singles and gave me no warning for what was to come.

“Black Soul” hits the ground running. While undoubtedly aggressive, the song grabs the listener and pulls us along for the ride. I was captivated from the keyboard riff that introduced this track, all the way through the fast-paced, the melodic, the raw and unfiltered, the heartfelt, and Brent’s calmly stated “Until next time” at the conclusion of the album.

With Attention Attention, Shinedown touches on the anthemic (“Attention Attention”), the hard and angry (“Kill Your Conscience,” “Pyro”), and their own unique brand of balladry (“Get Up,” “Special”). The record spans the range of human emotion, taking its audience high and low.

Brent Smith stated in interviews that Attention Attention was for the fans, and the sentiment is clearly there. It’s a whirlwind journey from darkness to light that is simultaneously enjoyable, encouraging, and a musical masterpiece.

I am clearly a sucker for the softer songs, and that’s why “Get Up” and “Special” tug at my heartstrings and claim positions one and two of my favorites from the album. However, I was also delighted by the head-bobbing funky bass and beat during the verses on “The Human Radio,” and the slow then blistering ride that is “Brilliant.”

From start to finish, there is nothing about Attention Attention that I did not like. I give this record 5/5 stars without any hesitation.

My inner preteen is so happy right now…

May 15, 2018 — Leave a comment

I signed in on Facebook and this was the first thing I saw:

New Backstreet Boys?!?!? Excuse me while my inner ten-year-old squeals excitedly. Lol.

New Music (5/7 — 5/13)

May 13, 2018 — Leave a comment

Virgil: “Will It Blend?”

Aloe Blacc: “Brooklyn in the Summer”

Deafheaven: “Near” (preview)

Bastille: “Quarter Past Midnight”

Sifting: “Gloom”

August Burns Red: “King of Sorrow”

10 Years: “Burnout”

Bleeding Through: “Fade Into the Ash”

Jonathan Davis: “Basic Needs”

Attila: “Still About It”

Northlane: “Heartmachine”

Selena Gomez: “Back To You”

Skyharbor: “Dim”

The Veer Union: “Save Yourself”

LSD ft. Sia, Diplo, and Labrinth: “Audio”

John Mayer: “New Light”

Sevendust: “Medicated”

Meghan Trainor: “Let You Be Right”

Charlie Puth (ft. Kehlani): “Done For Me”

Dave Matthews Band: “Samurai Cop (Oh Joy Begin)”

Tremonti: “Bringer of War”

Snakebite: “Beyond the Rust”

Graveyard: “The Fox”

Aelonia: “Zombie” (The Cranberries cover)