Welcome to May! Can you believe it? Time is flying. There are some really juicy releases this week and I am sure any one that follows this site will know what our #1 pick is this week and he is first on the list. But he isn’t the only one that we will be checking out and they are all highlighted in Blue. Let me know what you are interested in hearing and what we may have missed. Thank so much for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

•   Jeff Scott Soto – Complicated – (Frontiers Records): His 3rd solo released in as many years and 9th overall and he might be the busiest man in the business. I think he is awesome, but I am biased as I just got to meet him a couple weeks ago and see him and Jason Bieler in concert (sorry, was I bragging…yes I was). Looking forward to dive in to this, but don’t expect a review until the end of the Jeff Scott Soto Series we are doing.

•   Halestorm – Back From the Dead – (Atlantic Recording): Man, I have been waiting for a new album from Lzzy Hale and the gang and the have finally delivered. Are they one of the best newer bands out there, no doubt they are. Lzzy has one of the best rock vocals and when they deliver it, they deliver it hard and heavy!

•   Fozzy – Boombox – (The Century Family): Who would’ve thought that wrestler, Chris Jericho, turned rock star with the band Fozzy would still be going strong. What started out as a band that did covers has become a great rock band and they seem to keep getting better. High hopes for this one.

And then all the rest…

•   Three Days Grace – Explosions – (RCA Records)

•   Arcade Fire – WE – (Arcade Fire Music)

•   Bryan Ferry – Love Letters E.P. – (BMG Rights)

•   Sheryl Crow – Sheryl: Music From the Feature Documentary – (A&M)

•   Simple Plan – Harder Than It Looks – (Simple Plan)

•   Timothy B. Schmit – Day By Day – (Timothy B. Schmit)

•   Graham Nash – Live: Songs for Beginners / Wild Tales – (Proper Records)

•   Neil Young – Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live at the Bottom Line) – (Shakey Pictures Records / Reprise Records)

•   Neil Young – Royce Hall 1971 (Live) – (Shakey Pictures Records / Reprise Records)

•   Neil Young – Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 (Live) – (Shakey Pictures Records / Reprise Records)

•   Midland – The Last Resort: Greetings From – (Big Machine Label Group)

•   Belle And Sebastian – A Bit of Previous – (Matador)

•   Warpaint – Radiate Like This – (Heirlooms / Virgin Music)

•   Silverstein – Misery Made Me – (UNFD)

•   AWOLNATION – My Echos, My Shadow, My Covers & Me – (Better Noise Music)

•   The Waterboys – All Souls Hill – (Cooking Vinyl)

•   Jack Harlow – Come Home The Kids Miss You – (Generation Now / Atlantic Records / WEA)

•   Method Man – Meth Lab Season 3: The Rehab – (Home)

•   Sigrid – How to Let Go – (Island Records / Universal)

•   Black Eye – Black Eye – (Frontiers Records)

•   The Feeling – Loss.Hope.Love. – (Island Records)

•   Ellevator – The Words You Spoke Still Move Me – (Arts & Craft Productions)

•   !!! – Let It Be Blue – (Warp Records)

•   Stoner – Totally – (Heavy Psych Sounds)

•   Stand Atlantic – F.E.A.R. – (Hopeless Records)

•   Motor Sister – Get Off – (Metal Blade Records)

•   Wo Fat – The Singularity – (Ripple Music)

•   Terror – Pain in to Power – (Pure Noise Records)

•   Sadurn – Radiator – (Run For Cover Records)

•   Ella Mai – Heart On My Sleeve – (10 Summers / Interscope Records)

•   Sabrina Claudio – Based on a Feeling – (SC Entertainment / Atlantic Recording)

•   Sunflower Bean – Headful of Sugar – (Mom+Pop)

•   Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms – (Sub Pop Records)

•   Lillian Axe – Psalms for Eternity – (GlobalRock)

•   Wachenfeldt – Faustian Reawakening – (Threeman Recordings)

•   Manafest – I Run With Wolves – (Manafest Productions)

•   Cosmic Putrefaction – Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones – (Profound Lore)

•   Carbon Black – We Remain – (Carbon Black)

•   Upon a Burning Body – Fury – (Seek & Strike)

•   Michael & Michelle – The Watching Silence E.P. – (Decca Records / Universal)

•   Sharon van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong – (Jagjaguwar)

•   Flor – Future Shine – (Fueled by Ramen)

•   Emili Sande – Let’s Say For Instance – (Chrysalis Records)

•   Alison Wonderland – Loner – (EMI Music / Universal)

•   Sofia Mills – Baby Magic – (Sofia Mills)

•   C. Duncan – Alluvium – (Bella Union)

•   Ibeyi – Spell 31 – (XL Recordings)

•   Hexxx – Demon Season – (Chapter 17 Records)

•   Leyla McCalla – Breaking the Thermometer – (Anti)

•   Puppy – Pure Evil – (Rude Records)

•   Ibaraki – Rashomon – (Nuclear Blast)

•   Tomarum – Ash in Realms of Stone Icons – (Prosthetic Records)

•   Alexis Ffrench – Truth – (Sony Music)

•   Tim Goodin – Son of Appalachia (Acoustic) – (Lucky Penny Studio / Over the Hill Records)

•  Brian Culbertson – The Trilogy, Pt. 3: White – (BCM Entertainment)

•   Richard Thompson – Music from Grizzly Man – (No Quarter Records)

•   George Winston – Night – (Dancing Cat Records)

•   John Scofield – John Scofield – (ECM Records / Deutsche Grammophon)

•   Raheem DeVaughn – From Lust Till Dawn – (New Era Soul / The SoNo Recording Group)

•   Windwaker – Love Language – (Fearless Records / Concord)

•   Elbow Deep – Homeschool Shooter – (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)

•   Suki Waterhouse – I Can’t Let Go – (Sub Pop Records)

•   Anyway Gang – Still Anyways – (Royal Mountain Records)