We already to the close of the first month of 2023 and it has been somewhat lackluster at times with new releases, but this week we have over 40 new releases for you so there should be something for you. I don’t really have any I am running out and buying, but maybe I’ll stream the Steve Vai one, but outside of that probably not. The Dokken release would be great if it had some new or unreleased songs on it, otherwise I have those albums already. Let me know what you want to hear this week or if we missed any releases. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you all have a great weekend.
Steve Vai – Vai / Gash – (Favored Nations / Mascot Label Group)
Elle King – Come Get Your Wife – (RCA Records / Sony Music)
Dokken – The Elektra Albums: 1983-1987 – (BMG Rights Mgmt)
Tyler Hubbard – Tyler Hubbard – (EMI Records / Hubbard House Records / UMG)
Sam Smith – Gloria – (Capitol Records / EMI / Universal Music)
Ava Max – Diamonds & Dancefloors – (Atlantic Records Group)
Mono Inc. – Ravenblack – (NoCut)
Crowne – Operation Phoenix – (Frontiers Records)
Girish and the Chronicles – Back on Earth – (Frontiers Records)
Electric Mob – 2 Make U Cry & Dance – (Frontiers Records)
Arctic Rain – Unity – (Frontiers Records)
New Order – Lowlife (Definitive) – (Warner Music UK)
Uriah Heep – Chaos & Colour – (Silver Lining Music)
Oozing Wound – We Cater to Cowards – (Thrill Jockey Records)
Bob Dylan – Fragments: Time out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
Carly Simon – Live at Grand Central – (Arista Records)
White Reaper – Asking for a Ride – (Elektra Records)
Alex Melton – Southern Charm – (Pure Noise Records)
…And Oceans – As in Gardens, So in Tombs – (Season of Mist)
Ominous Scriptures – Rituals of Mass Self-Ignition – (Willowtip)
Sightless Pit – Lockstep Bloodwar – (Thrill Jockey Records)
Grief Sypmposium – …in the Absence of Light – (Church Road Records)
Bizarrekult – Den Tapte Krigen – (Season of Mist)
Liv Sin – Kali Yuga – (Mighty Music)
The Inspector Cluzo – Horizon – (FuckTheBassPlayer Records / Virgin Music)
The New Miserable Experience – Philosophy on Pessimism E.P. – (Translation Loss Records)
The Tubs – Dead Meat – (The Tubs)
Kimbra – A Reckoning – (Kimbra)
Violet Saturn – All the Cool Kids – (Big Machine Label Group / John Varvatos Records)
The Arcs – Electrophonic Chronic – (Hour Box / Easy Eye Sound / Concord)
Hammock – Love in the Void – (Hammock Music)
The Mother Hips (feat. Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono) – When We Disappear – (Blue Rose)
Housefires – How to Start a Housefire – (Tribl Records / Capitol)
Khai Dreams – Absolute Heartbreak – (AWAL Recordings)
Bass Drum of Death – Say I Won’t – (Fat Possum Records)
Samia – Honey – (Grand Jury Music)
Jonah Yano – Portrait of a Dog – (Innovative Leisure)
Da’ T.R.U.T.H. – Emanuel – (Mixed Bag Entertainment)
Illiterate Light – Sunburned – (Red Book Records / Thirty Tigers)
Emarosa – Sting – (Out of Line Music)
Numun – Book of Beyond – (Shimmy Disc + Numun)
Kaery Ann – Songs of Grace and Ruin – (Anomic Records)
Noah Floersch – Hold Me Like You’re Scared To E.P. – (Noah Floersch)
2 Loud 2 Old Music 
DOKKEN! I have all their Elektra albums though.
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All but one for me. But not going to re-buy for nothing new.
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Listening to the Vai/Gash now, and it’s pretty good. Singer is kinda bland. This is the kind of music people have been wanting Steve to make for a while, but the singer is the stumbling block for me. I expect stellar vocals from a Vai singer – Devin, Dave, David — quite a high standard there.
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Agreed. It was good, but not great and I didn’t make it all the way through either, but to be fair, I was heading to the park that morning.
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Thanks for this Sir. Agree with you on Dokken. Nothing different if you own the originals. The only difference is BFTA is spread out over 2 albums not on a single LP like the original was..
As always thanks for this.
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You are welcome! I have 3 of these already so I just need to pick up the debut and I’m good.
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Girish and Crowne for me. Crowne has members from Dynazty, Europe and H.e.a.t.
And did you know that Girish is going to be in Lynch’s End Machine?
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Oh! I will check that one out. And no I didn’t because I am not a of fan of George Lynch really so i don’t keep up with him.
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I was about to give my usual “nothing to buy, stuff to check out” line when I noticed Bass Drum Of Death on the list. That’s a band I was into last decade but didn’t keep up with, I’ll probably snag that one in some form.
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Cool. I thought the name was awesome so I put them on the list. Don’t know them at all.
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I’ll take some Electric Mob and Liv Sin
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Sounds good to me.
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I really like White Reaper, and it’s nice to see new music from Elle King and Dan Auerbach’s side project The Arcs.
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Thanks Jeff! Always good to have new stuff period.
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Discovered a band that dropped a new one Friday called Signo Rojo and it was amazing. The And Oceans album rips. Will give the Vai album and the Housefires album listens as well.
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Thanks for posting. Always cool to learn about other releases that we missed.
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Damn…the Archs sound like they came out in 1973 not 2023
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That is cool. I like that.
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Sightless Pit, Kimbra and Samia! Thanks for posting these.
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You are welcome…thanks for visiting.
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I see your point about the Dokken Elektra albums set. Bonus material would make those albums worth the money.
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Bonus material and I would be all over it.
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I feel like some people will buy that set anyways (with or without bonus material).
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They will which is why record companies will do them. Cheap and easy to repackage. More expensive to get new songs mastered and added.
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That’s lame! Give us new songs!!!
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What a waste of time that Dokken release is?
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I dunno, I bought it, killed 3 birds with 1 stone for me.
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If you have the albums already, it definitely is. But if you don’t, then nice to grab them all at once.
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