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Next Week in Music | June 24-30 • 150 New Releases Headed Your Way

All the music you'll be adding to your playlist next week. And then some.

There are more than 150 albums, EPs and singles being released next week. Mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t blame me if things change at the last minute:


THE SHORT LIST

The Black Keys
‘Let’s Rock’

THE PRESS RELEASE:‘Let’s Rock’ is a return to the straightforward rock of the singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney’s early days as a band. Auerbach says, “When we’re together we are The Black Keys, that’s where that real magic is, and always has been since we were 16.” ‘Let’s Rock’ was written, tracked live, and produced by Auerbach and Carney at Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville and features backing vocals from Leisa Hans and Ashley Wilcoxson. “The record is like a homage to electric guitar,” says Carney. “We took a simple approach and trimmed all the fat like we used to.” READ MY REVIEW HERE


Miles Davis
The Complete Birth of the Cool

THE PRESS RELEASE:The Complete Birth of the Cool documents the huge creative and cultural importance of the Miles Davis Nonet. The collection marks the 70th anniversary of the initial sessions for the Birth of the Cool album, released in 1957 as a collection of recordings from 1949 and 1950. The sessions, in a nondescript basement room behind a Chinese laundry in midtown Manhattan, saw a group of kindred spirits and jazz modernists come together to form a groundbreaking collective. They included the jazz-headliners-to-be Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, John Lewis, arranger Gil Evans and, of course trumpeter Miles Davis, then 22, who became the bandleader, helming a creative project for the first time. The nine-piece group worked together in the studio and on stage in 1949 and 1950 to little public reaction at first. It was only seven years later, when their music came together on a full LP for the first time, that its impact was fully realised. When Davis was later asked about the Birth of the Cool title, he said: “I think what they really meant was a soft sound. Not penetrating too much. To play soft you have to relax…” In his 1989 autobiography, he added: “Birth was not only hummable but it had white people playing the music and serving in prominent roles…we shook people’s ears a little softer than Bird or Diz did, took the music more mainstream.”


Thom Yorke
Anima

THE PRESS RELEASE:Thom Yorke’s new studio album Anima will be accompanied by a “one-reeler,” also entitled Anima, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and set to three tracks from the new album. The “one-reeler” will be available to watch exclusively via Netflix. Featuring several songs that were debuted live over the course of Thom Yorke, Nigel Godrich and Tarik Barri’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes performances, Anima was written by Yorke and produced by Godrich.”


THE LONG LIST

Mindi Abair & The Boneshakers | No Good Deed
The Alarm | Sigma
Abraham Alexander | Abraham Alexander EP
The Allman Betts Band | Down To The River
Dave Alvin | King of California 25th Anniversary Edition
The Appleseed Cast | The Fleeting Light of Impermanence
The Aristocrats | You Know What …?
Bark | Terminal Everything
Bay City Rollers | The Singles Collection
Beastwars | IV
Josh Berwanger | Watching a Garden Die
The B-52’s | Cosmic Thing 30th Anniversary
Biglemoi | Permanent Vacation EP
The Black Keys | ‘Let’s Rock’
Blarf | Blarf
Bloodred Hourglass | Godsend
Blue Lab Beats | Vibe Central EP
Sofia Bolt | Waves
Booka600 | Word To LA
David Bowie | The Mercury Demos
Georgia Box | Coca
Boy Harsher | Careful Remixes, etc
Andre Bratten | Pax Americana
Brijean | Walkie Talkie EP
Chris Brown | Indigo
Gena Rose Bruce | Can’t Make You Love Me
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown | Truth & Lies
BTS | BTS World Soundtrack
Chase Atlantic | Phases
Climax Blues Band | The Albums 1969-1972
Jaz Coleman + Deflore | Part in the Chaos EP
Concrete Dream | Concrete Dream
Conway | The Devils Reject
Chick Corea | Antidote
Cryptilians | Dead Before Easter
Daughter Of Swords | Dawnbreaker
Miles Davis | The Complete Birth of the Cool
The Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan | Times of Maharajas
Dire Wolves | Grow Towards the Light
Doll Skin | Love is Dead & We Killed Her
Donarhall | Helvegr
The Doobie Brothers | Live from the Beacon Theatre
Luca Draccar | Noordinary EP
The Driver Era | X
Erin Durant | Islands
Eden XO | The Question
Emicida | AmarElo
Fields of Næcluda | Fields of Næcluda
Al Foster | Inspirations & Dedications
Galactic Protector | Evening
Generation Axe | The Guitars That Destroyed the World (Live in China)
Michael Giacchino | Spider-Man: Far From Home Soundtrack
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib | Bandana
(G)I-DLE | Uh-Oh
Girl Friday | Fashion Conman
Global Dan | Global Meltdown
Peggy Gou | DJ-Kicks
Gov’t Mule | Bring On the Music: Live at the Capitol Theatre
Graveyard Club | Goodnight Paradise
Chung Ha | Flourishing
Hugh Hardie | Shadows & Silhouettes
Akiko Haruna | Delusion
Hawkeyes | Last Light of Future Failure
He Is Legend | White Bat
Horse Jumper of Love | So Divine
Griffin House | Rising Star
The Jacks | The Jacks EP
Jade Jackson | Wilderness
M. James | Lust As a Form of Crisis
JayDaYoungan & Yungeen Ace | Can’t Speak On It
J.B.O. | Wer lässt die Sau raus?!
Kapala | Termination Apex
Rima Kato | Sing-Song
Key | So Emotional
Khary | This
Chip & Tony Kinman | Sounds Like Music
Lifes | Treading Water
LSD (Luke Slater, Steve Bicknell, David Sumner) | Second Process
Tara MacLean | Deeper
M.A.G.E. | Alpha
Makeunder | Pale Cicada
MDP Anross | Goofs, Gizmos, & Other Gadgetoids
Mega Bog | Dolphine
Julia Michaels | Inner Monologue Part 2
Ingrid Michaelson | Stranger Songs
Kylie Minogue | Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection
Mirror | Pyramid of Terror
Model Zero | Model Zero
Molly | All That Ever Could Have Been
Multicast Dynamics | Lost World
Mustard | Perfect Ten
Nanburn | Based On
Sarah Bethe Nelson | Weird Glow
Night Moves | Can You Really Find Me
Heather Nova | Pearl
Novelist | Reload King
okaywill | Falling For You EP
Only Drugs | Owl Party
Outer Spaces | Gazing Globe
The Parlotones | China
Pepper | Local Motion
Kim Petras | Clarity
Iggy Pop | Zombie Birdhouse Reissue
Poppy | Choke EP
Preservation Hall Jazz Band | So It Is & That’s It! Reissues
Prince Daddy & The Hyena | Cosmic Thrill Seekers
Ralo | Free Ralo
Raven | Over the Top! Neat Years 1981-1984
Reality Suite | Awaken
Reconcile | Streets Don’t Love You 2
Red Nailmaker | Basilisk EP
Resavior | Resavior
Rich Brian | RB2
Runaway June | Blue Roses
Patrice Rushen | Remind Me: The Classic Elektra Recordings 1978-1984
Alexandra Sauser-Monnig | Dawnbreaker
Scattered Clouds | Take Away Your Summer
Skids | Peaceful Times
The Small Glories | Assiniboine & The Red
Spirits Having Fun | Auto Portrait
J. Stalin | Cypress Village
Chris Stamey | New Songs For the 20th Century
Chris Staples | Holy Moly
Stille Volk | Milharis
Summer Cannibals | Can’t Tell Me No
Suss | Chisholm Trail b/w Aurora
Syd.31 | Walk Amongst Rebels
Thenighttimeproject | Pale Season
The Tallest Man on Earth | I’m a Stranger Now
Nkono Teles | Party Beats
Michalis Terzis | Bouzouki – The Sound of Greece
311 | Voyager
Tunng | This Is Tunng… Magpie Bites and Other Cuts
Turilli / Lione RHAPSODY | Zero Gravity
Turkey Vulture | Boxer
Marcos Valle | Sempre
Foy Vance | From Muscle Shoals
Various Artists | Hybrasil: Compilation 01
Various Artists | Mimetic: RVSTD1 1998-2019
Various Artists | Motown: The Complete No. 1s
Various Artists | 1977: The Year Punk Broke
Various Artists | Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! Broadway Cast
Various Artists | This is It! More From the Van McCoy Soundbook 1962-1977
Various Artists | Woodstock: Back to the Garden 50th Anniversary Experience
Victims | The Horse and Sparrow Theory
Stille Volk | Milharis
Waterstrider | The Way Out EP
Weird Night | This Is Weird Night
White Manna | Ape on Sunday
Wifisfuneral | E2
Wildhoney | Naive Castle
Kathryn Williams | Anthology
Kristin Witko | Zone of Exclusion
Woes | Awful Truth
Li Xiangting and Cheng Yu | The Sound of Silk: Chinese Strings
Yellow Eyes | Rare Field Ceiling
Thom Yorke | Anima
Long Yu & Shanghai Symphony Orchestra | Gateways
Yung Baby Tate | Girls Deluxe Edition