We are in the middle of the month and still a ton of releases. This week we have around 50 releases for your viewing pleasure today. I actually have a bunch I want to hear (before I buy) and one that is already on order and will be here today. Those are first up and marked in Blue. Let me know what you are digging this week and what we may have missed as that does happen. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you all have a great weekend.

•   Lit – Tastes Like Gold – (Round Hill Records): It has been 5 years since their last album and it was more tinged towards country than the pop punk they usually do. This time they are going back to their original sound…thank goodness. Here’s hoping for a return to form.

•   Iconic – Second Skin – (Frontiers Records): Another Frontiers Supergroup which is actually getting kind of ridiculous…but is one is featuring Nathan James (Inglorious), Michael Sweet (Stryper), Joel Hoesktra (Whitesnake), Marco Mendoza (ex-Journey, Whitesnake), Tommy Aldridge (Whitesnake). It was co-produced by Michael Sweet and Alessandro Del Vecchio (Hardline, Revolution Saints). Hard to argue with a line-up like that. And the fact Michael Sweet isn’t even singing is a huge surprise. Nathan is a beast on vocals so this should be good.

•   Collective Soul – Disciplined Breakdown (Expanded Edition) – (Craft Recordings / Concord): This 25th Anniversary expanded edition of the release features newly remastered audio, as well as the entire set from their show at Park West, Chicago in 1997, and two bonus tracks. Yes, please!! It is on order and should be here today!!

•   Whitesnake – Greatest Hits (Revisited, Remixed, Remastered 2022) – (Rhino Records) – CD & Vinyl: David Coverdale has been going a little remix crazy of late and if I’m being honest, I’m a little tired of it. If it is for a box set great, but this isn’t a box set. I actually haven’t bought this yet and not sure if I will.

•   Jorn – Over the Horizon Radar – (Frontiers Records): One of the great voices in rock, but I will admit his last few albums have me left me missing the days of old. But he has earned my respect and I will always listen to his new stuff because I will get a song or two I really like. Here’s hoping for a whole album of stuff this time around.

•   Vypera – Eat Your Heart Out – (Frontiers Records): Here is some great melodic rock in a pure 80’s rock style and that is good enough for me. The two songs I’ve heard so far are pretty good, so this will get a spin.

•   Callum Scott – Bridges – (Capitol Records / UMG): Now let’s go in a totally different direction. Callum is a sappy pop singer and I have a soft spot for those type of singers…well a few of them any way and his voice is so good that I don’t mind the sappy pop songs.

And then there is all the rest…some good ones too!!

•   Grey Daze – The Phoenix – (Loma Vista Recordings / Concord)

•   Alanis Morissette – The Storm Before the Calm – (Epiphany Music / Thirty Tigers)

•   The Beach Boys – The Very Best of the Beach Boys: Sounds of Summer (Expanded Edition) – (Capitol Records / UMG)

•   Frank Zappa – Zappa/Erie (Live) – (UMG Recordings)

•   Pete Yorn – Hawaii – (Shelly Music)

•   Hank Williams Jr. – Rich White Honky Blues – (Easy Eye Sound)

•   Brett Eldredge – Songs About You – (Warner Music Nashville)

•   Aaron Watson – Unwanted Man – (Adub Records)

•   Kevin Gates – Khaza – (Bread Winners Assoc. / Atlantic Records / Artist Partner Group)

•   Foals – Life is Yours – (Warner Music)

•   Half-Handed Cloud – Flutterama – (Asthmatic Kitty Records)

•   Alice Merton – S.I.D.E.S. – (Paper Plane Records / Mom+Pop)

•   Mt. Joy – Orange Blood – (Island Records / UMG)

•   Grumpster – Fever Dream – (Pure Noise Records)

•   Paul Leary – The History of Dogs, Revisited – (Shimmy-Disc & Paul Leary)

•   Sensamotion – Life in True Color – (Sensamotion) – No video

•   Ry X – Blood Moon – (Infectious Music / BMG)

•   Perfume Genius – Ugly Season – (Matador Records) – No video

•   Flasher – Love Is Yours – (Domino Recordings)

•   The Revivalists – Made in Muscle Shoals, Vol. 2 – (Concord Records)

•   Revelators Sound System – Revelators – (37d03d)

•   Bartees Strange – Farm to Table – (4AD Ltd)

•   Nova Twins – Supernova – (Marshall Amplification / Nova Twins)

•   Joe Iconis & Family – Album – (Assemble Stream / Sh-K Boom Records)

•   Sound of Ceres & Marina Abramovic – Emerald Sea – (Joyful Noise Recordings / Sound of Ceres)

•   Pollyanna – Slime – (I Surrender Records)

•   Dan Bremnes – Into the Wild – (Curb | Word Entertainment)

•   Skunk Baxter – Speed of Heat – (Skunk Hollow R&D / Renew Records / BMG)

•   Coffey Anderson – Come On With It – (Coffey Global / Riser House Records)

•   IV and the Strange Band – Southern Circus – (Black Country Rock)

•   Vexes – Imagine What We Could Destroy (If Only Given Time) – (Vexes)

•   Sorcery – Stunt Rock Soundtrack – (RidingEasy Records)

•   Seven Kingdoms – Zenith – (Distortion Music Group / Blood Blast Distribution)

•   Vatican – Ultra – (UNFD)

•   Exocrine – The Hybrid Suns – (Unique Leader Records)

•   Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows (D.R.U.G.S.) – Destroy Rebuild – (Velocity Records)

•   Tungsten – Bliss – (Arising Empire)

•   Oni – Loathing Light – (Ironshore Records / Blood Blast Dist.)

•   Civil War – Invaders – (Napalm Records)

•   The Bobby Lees – Hollywood Junkyard E.P. – (Ipecac Records)