Welcome to another year of new music. Not surprisingly, things are starting off fairly slow. Enjoy the quiet while it lasts. Cause I can guarantee it won’t last long. Anyway, here’s everything coming down the pipe this week:
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Steve Earle & The Dukes
J.T.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “On the forthcoming album J.T., Steve Earle & The Dukes pay tribute to Steve’s late son Justin Townes Earle, who passed away on Aug. 20, 2020 in Nashville. The album will be released digitally on what would have been Justin’s 39th birthday, Jan. 4. “The record is called J.T. because Justin was never called anything else until he was nearly grown. Well, when he was little, I called him Cowboy,” explains Steve Earle. “For better or worse, right or wrong, I loved Justin Townes Earle more than anything else on this earth. That being said, I made this record, like every other record I’ve ever made… for me. It was the only way I knew to say goodbye.” J.T. finds Steve Earle & The Dukes covering 10 of Justin’s songs — from I Don’t Care, which appeared on his 2007 debut EP, Yuma, and a trio of selections from his full-length debut album The Good Life (Ain’t Glad I’m Leaving, Far Away In Another Town and Lone Pine Hill) to later compositions like 2017’s Champagne Corolla and 2019’s The Saint Of Lost Causes, which was the title track of Justin’s eighth and final studio album. J.T. closes with Last Words, a song Steve wrote for Justin.”
THE LONG LIST: 80+ More Titles On The Way
January 8
Amaryllis Quartet | Fesca: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2
Henrik Appel | Humanity
Sithu Aye | Senpai III
Ka Baird | Vivification Exercises I
Johndavid Bartlett & Acid Carousel | In Your Dreams
Beta Radio | Afraid Of Love EP
Blue Öyster Cult | Live ’83 Reissue
Kev Brown & J Scienide | Stray From The Pack
Corrin Campbell | Greatest Hits Dual Disc
Lewis Capaldi | Divinely Uninspired To a Hellish Extent: Finale
Eladio Carrión | Monarca
Celestial Swarm | Gateways to the Necroverse
Hilang Child | Every Mover
Casper Clausen | Better Way
Codist | A Dream is Just a Big Thought
Frerick den Haan | Trois Gnossiennes
Dura | Mercury EP
Steve Earle & The Dukes | J.T.
Cleveland Eaton | Plenty Good Eaton Vinyl
Dante Elephante | Mid-Century Modern Romance
Darko | Bad Timing
Deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner | Channel 43
Aaron Frazer | Introducing…
Frozen Soul | Crypt Of Ice
John Garrison | Extinguisher Vinyl
Gates Of Doom | Aquileia Mater Aeterna
GelaX | Demonic
Georgie | At Home
Barry Gibb | Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1
Tony Glausi When It All Comes Crashing Down
The Grateful Dead | Road Trips Vol. 2 No. 4: Cal Expo ’93
The Grateful Dead | Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 5: Boston Music Hall 6/9/76
Chung Ha | Querencia
Sammy Hagar & The Circle | Lockdown 2020
H8p8ge | H8p8ge 3
Jakob Hellman | Äntligen Borta
Hearts & Hand Grenades | Turning to Ashes
How To Be Dead | Lights at the Ends of Tunnels
Ian Hunter & Mott The Hoople | Gold
Janis Ian | Hope
The Jones Girls | We’re a Melody: The Essential Jones Girls
Kid Lab Rat | More Sad Songs
Kings of Leon | Feel The Way You Do / Must Catch The Bandit
Avril Lavigne | Flames
Lice | Wasteland: What Ails Our People Is Clear
Lickerish Quartet | Threesome Vol. 2
Lil Boom | Odessa’s Garden
Lil Ceasars | Blasphemy
Russ Lossing Quartet | Metamorphism
Scott MacKay | Stupid Cupid
Magnum | Dance of the Black Tattoo
Talia Mar | Jack
Kaz Mirblouk | Careless By Contrast
Modern Hut | I Don’t Want To Get Adjusted To This World
Nicarus | Coal People Coal Puppets
Harry Nilsson | Gold
Nomadic Rituals | Tides
Orlando Consort | Machaut: The Lion of Nobility
Orwell | Orwell 1995
Oska | Honeymoon Phase EP
Passenger | Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted
Planet 1999 | Devotion Deluxe Edition
Jeff Plate | Mother’s Day
Poppin’ Party | Photograph
Matthew Putman and Michael Sarian | Improvisations Vol. I
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou | The Helm of Sorrow
Samtar | The Curse of Infinite Luminosity
Saweetie | Best Friend (ft. Doja Cat)
Scale & Feather | A Slow Forest Burning
Michael Schenker Group | Immortal
Skanger | A Chance to Count the Cost
Jarle Skavhellen | Beech Street
Slimy Member | Ugly Music for Ugly People Reissue
Slow-L | Freedom
Special Interest | The Passion Of: Remixed
Stellar Death | Fragments of Light
Stiff Richards | State of Mind Reissue
Jazmine Sullivan | Heaux Tales
Wax Taylor | The Shadow Of Their Suns
Chikili Tubbie | Fucken: Una Aventura de Olaf (Banda Sonora Original)
USS | Einsteins of Consciousness
Various Artists | Griselda Records: Conflicted Soundtrack
Various Artists | Walk My Way Vol. 1: Curated by Nick Vander
Viagra Boys | Welfare Jazz
Morgan Wallen | Dangerous: The Double Album
Aaron Watson | American Soul
We Are King | Space Oddity / Instrumental
Yoasobi | The Book EP
