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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases from Jane’s Addiction, M83, Chris Isaak, and Mick Fleetwood

October 18, 2011 - 3:52 pm

Jane’s Addiction dishes out their first album in 8 years with The Great Escape Artist…M83 returns with Hurry Up, We’re Drowning, the anxiously-awaited follow-up to Saturdays=Youth…Mick Fleetwood re-releases his seminal 1981 classic, The Visitor…metal gods Iced Earth get yet another lead singer…Chris Isaak records tons of covers…somehow Everlast is still making albums…

Alesana - A Place Where the Sun Is Silent
Mick Fleetwood - The Visitor (Re-release)
Kimya Dawson - Thunder Thighs
M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Drowning
The Gaslight Anthem - iTunes Session [Live EP]
James Blake - Enough Thunder
Brown Bird - Salt for Salt
Cowboy Junkies - Sing in My Meadow
Cradle of Filth - Evermore Darkly
Four Tet - Fabriclive 59
Evile - Five Serpent’s Teeth
Class Actress - Rapprocher
Forest Fire - Staring at the X
Rob Crow - He Thinks He’s People
Iced Earth - Dystopia
Chris Isaak - Beyond the Sun (Covers of classic Sun Studios recordings)
Body Language - Social Studies
Joe – The Good, The Bad, The Sexy
Jonti - Twirligig
Jane’s Addiction - The Great Escape Artist
Everlast - Songs of the Ungrateful Living
I Break Horses - Hearts

Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases by The Dears, P.J. Harvey, Sonic Youth, Cowboy Junkies, and Nelson

by Shop Keeper

February 15, 2011 - 5:14 pm

Another week, another slew of releases…some good, some bad, some kinda surprising: that last one goes to Nelson… and a (great) new one by P.J. Harvey, Let England Shake… seminal proto-punkers Sonic Youth are back; old school alt/country rock The Cowboy Junkies, and feel the Lord’s love with the Bible-throwing antics of Stryper. Til next time…

The Dears - Degeneration Street

Brown Recluse - Evening Tapestry

Beans - End It All

Cowboy Junkies – Demons

P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake

Bright Eyes - The People’s Key

Nelson - Lightning Strikes Twice

Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots

Yuck - Yuck

Sonic Youth – Simon Werner a Disparu

Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps

La Sera - La Sera

Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

Ten - Stormwarning

Saigon - Greatest Story Never Told

Stryper - The Covering

Moody Mondays Moody Mondays: Michael Timmins from Cowboy Junkies

by Shop Keeper

July 5, 2010 - 4:37 pm

Every week we ask someone to pick a mood and 5 songs that put them into that mood. This week we talked to Michael TImmins from the Cowboy Junkies, only he picked albums instead of songs…fair enough!

Mood: Melancholy

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Music Cowboy Junkies Take on a Whale of a Project

by Nicole Pajer

July 1, 2010 - 11:13 am

After a back and forth battle with the front desk at the Holiday Inn, I finally got guitarist/songwriter Michael Timmins from Cowboy Junkies on the phone. We had a lot to talk about, as the band, recently free of recording obligations, has been cranking out the music in the name of a highly anticipated project otherwise known as The Nomad Series. The project consists of four albums to be released over the next 18 months, along with a future book to coincide with the series. The first of the series, Renmin Park, made its debut on June 15 and features a collection of songs inspired by a small town Chinese village called Jingjiang. I don’t know if the band is trying to ignite themselves into a state of exhaustion or take over the world, but this is surely a project that needs a little recognition.

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