Brooklyn Vegan — This week's Notable Releases include the first proper David Byrne solo album in 14 years, NYC garage punks Hank Wood and the Hammerheads, Portland's shoegazy Drowse, and more.
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LargeHeartedBoy — David Byrne's American Utopia and Young Fathers' Cocoa Sugar are the two new albums I can recommend this week. Reissues include a remastered vinyl edition of Tom Waits' Closing Time. This week's interesting music releases: AC/DC: Live Thunder Albert.... more info
Consequence of Sound — Pearl Jam, Jack White, Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Queens of the Stone Age, The Killers, David Byrne, and Noel Gallagher are just some of the names playing the Belgium festival this summer. more info
Brooklyn Vegan — Grizzly Bear / Spoon, Nick Cave, Eric B & Rakim, Robert Plant/Sherlyn Crow, Nick Cave, Lily Allen, Ted Leo, Tricky, Deerhunter, Hot Snakes, YOB/Bell Witch, and more.
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JamBase — Release Day Picks this week highlights new albums by David Byrne, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Roosevelt Collier, Of Montreal, Paige Clem and Jimi Hendrix.
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Guardian Music — (Nonesuch)The would-be Roland Barthes of the five boroughs continues his puckish, lifelong interrogation of contemporary culture. As ever, his focus is the banal stuff of everyday yuppiedom – money, cars, tourism, shopping – and there i... more info
New York Times — His new album, “American Utopia,†portrays “the state of the country: who we are, who we hope to be, all this kind of thing.†more info
Brooklyn Vegan — Plus: Band of Horses, Childish Gambino, Jessie Ware, Prophets of Rage, HALFNOISE, Twin Shadow, Craig Wedren, The Men, Richard Lloyd, Kimya Dawson and more NYC-area shows on sale.
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