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Friday New Releases – June 27, 2025

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We are to the end of yet another month and we have more new releases for you this week. There are two I’m interested in hearing and maybe I’ll buy down the road. Those two are the new Bruce Springsteen which is a ton of lost albums and the new Orianthi album which I can’t wait to see what she has to offer this time around. Let me know what you want to hear this week or what we may have missed. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend!

  • Bruce Springsteen – Tracks II: The Lost Albums – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
  • Bruce Springsteen – Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
  • Orianthi – Some Kind of Feeling – (Woodward Avenue Records)
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd – Celebrating 50 Years: Live at the Ryman – (Frontiers Records)
  • Lorde – Virgin – (Universal Music)
  • Motorhead – The Manticore Tapes – (Sanctuary Records / BMG)
  • Rod Stewart – Ultimate Hits – (Rhino / Warner Records)
  • Barbra Streisand – The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2 – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
  • Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – Cheaper Than Cheep: The Soundtrack – (Universal Music)
  • Sodom – The Arsonist – (Steamhammer)
  • TSS – End of Time – (Fearless Records / Concord)
  • Jakko M. Jakszyk – Son of Glen – (InsideOutMusic)
  • Heaven Shall Burn – Heimat – (Century Media Records)
  • Shadow Intent – Imperium Delirium – (Shadow of Intent)
  • Lord Belial – Unholy Trinity – (Hammerheart Records)
  • Crystal Viper – The Live Quest – (Crystal Viper)
  • Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services – (Relapse Records)
  • Crematory – …Just Dreaming – (Roar)
  • Arc De Soleil – Lumin Rain – (Maison Records)
  • Royale Lynn – Black Magic – (Epitaph)
  • Parker McCollum – Parker McCollum – (MCA Nashville / UMG)
  • Cole Swindell – Spanish Moss – (Warner Music Nashville)
  • Durry – This Movie Sucks – (Big Pip Records / Thirty Tigers)
  • Smut – Tomorrow Comes Crashing – (Bayonet Records)
  • Daisy The Great – The Rubber Teeth Talk – (S-Curve Records)
  • Late Night Drive Home – As I Watch My Life Online – (Epitaph)
  • Cheer-Accident – Admission – (Skin Graft Records)
  • Mareux – Nonstop Romance – (Revolution Records)
  • Greet Death – Die In Love – (Deathwish Inc)
  • Robert Randolph – Preacher Kids – (Dare Records / Sun Label Group)
  • Durand Jones & The Indications – Flowers – (Dead Oceans)
  • The Brummies – Drift Theory – (The Brummies)
  • Jeanines – How Long Can It Last – (Slumberland Records)
  • Katseye – Beautiful Chaos E.P. – (HYBE x Geffen / UMG)
  • Lauren Spencer Smith – The Art of Being a Mess – (Three Name Productions, Inc. / Island Records)

Friday New Releases – June 20, 2025

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Happy Friday! It is time for another batch of new releases this week. I have to admit there is nothing for me this week and sadly that is becoming a trend. However, for a lot of you there is an abundance of big names starting off with Benson Boone so don’t flip over it. You’ve also got Haim, Badflower, Yungblud and a ton others. Let me know what you want to hear this week or what we may have missed. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

  • Benson Boone – American Heart – (Night Street Records / Warner Records)
  • Haim – I Quit – (Columbia Records)
  • Badflower – No Place Like Home – (Big Machine Records / John Varvatos Records)
  • Yungblud – Idols – (Locomotion Recordings / Capitol Records)
  • Lukas Nelson – American Romance – (6 Ace Records / Sony Music)
  • The B-52’s – The Warner Reprise Years – (Rhino / Warner Records)
  • Brett Young – 2.0 – (Big Machine Label Group)
  • Keke Palmer – Just Keke – (Big Bosses Ent. / The SoNo Recording Group)
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Friday New Releases – June 13, 2025

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As the Summer keeps getting hotter, I can’t say the new releases are for me. Another slow week here although there are a lot of albums, only the Buckcherry one is of any interest for me. I’ll keep diving in to the new Inglorious from last week and enjoying the Rock Candy addition of Yesterday & Today’s debut that dropped last week as well. Let me know what you want to hear this week or what we may have missed. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

  • Buckcherry – Roar Like Thunder – (Round Hill Records)
  • King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – Phantom Island – (p(doom) records)
  • The Cure – Mixes of a Lost World – (Polydor Records / Lost Music Ltd / Universal Music)
  • Metallica – Load (Deluxe Box Set) – (Blackened Recordings)
  • Van Morrison – Remembering Now – (Exile Productions)
  • Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts – Talkin To The Trees – (The Other Shoe Productions / Reprise Records)
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Friday New Releases – June 6, 2025

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Things are starting to heat up outside and in the Friday New Releases. I’m really excited about the new Inglorious album and I have it on order. I’ll also check out the Triumph Tribute album and maybe even spin The Doobie Brothers. What are you wanting to hear this week? Let me know and tell us what we missed as well so everyone knows. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend.

  • Inglorious – V – (Frontiers Records)
  • Volbeat – God of Angels Trust – (Vertigo Berlin / Universal Music)
  • Triumph – Magic Power: All Star Tribute to Triumph – (Round Hill Records)
  • Doobie Brothers – Walk This Road – (Rhino Records)
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter – Personal History – (Lambent Light Records)
  • Brian Eno/ Beatie Wolfe – Luminal – (Verve Records)
  • Brian Eno/ Beatie Wolfe – Lateral – (Verve Records)
  • Turnstile – Never Enough – (Roadrunner Records)
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My Sunday Song – “I Hope UR Miserable Until UR Dead” by Nessa Barrett

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For My Sunday Song #435, we are going to visit a song that I only know because of my daughter. It is Nessa Barrett’s brutal song “I Hope UR Miserable Until UR Dead” off her debut E.P., ‘Pretty Poison’ released back in 2021. The song was written by a whole slew of people including Nessa herself. It also has Evan Blair, Madi Yanofsky, Samuel Mark Catalano and Tim Randolph. The song only went to #88 on the Billboard Top 100 chart, but it is #1 in my book.

Some toxic relationships end and you can either take the high road and move on and not look back or you can take the low road and be petty and bitter. This song is the latter. She is completely brutal in this song wishing this guy was miserable until he dies…that is harsh. It talks about how toxic he was and she wants to call him out for all the bad crap he’s done, but won’t. She knows that his true colors will show and his friends will end up hating him since he really is a little shit. She does let him go and moves on with her life, but still wants him to be miserable. Toxicity should not be tolerated and you should always get out of those type of relationships.

Nessa’s vocals are really awesome. This sweet sounding angel with the mouth of a sailor really shines throughout the song. I think her vocals are what make the song. What I like about the song is the rock sound with the heavy guitar riffs during the hard parts and soft acoustic guitars during the slower parts. And the drum beats are heart poundingly brutal and make you feel the anger that really lies behind those lyrics. A dark, brooding song that has such great pop sensibilities with its massive hooks and melody. A killer track.

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Friday New Releases – May 30, 2025

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Welcome to the end of May. The month might be about over, but the new releases keep coming. This week a few I’m interested in streaming, but not necessarily purchase…yet. I would’n’t mind hearing the new Miley, Garbage, Daises and Anderson East albums. What are you interested in hearing or what did we miss. Let us know. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great weekend.

  • Miley Cyrus – Something Beautiful – (Columbia Records)
  • Garbage – Let All That We Imagine Be The Light – (BMG Rights Mgmt)
  • The Dead Daisies – Lookin’ For Trouble – (Fame – Malaco)
  • Anderson East – Worthy – (Rounder Records)
  • Wolves At The Gate – Wasteland – (Solid State Records)
  • Aesop Rock – Black Hole Superette – (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
  • Grouplove – Rock N’ Roll You Won’t Save Me (Live) – (Glassnote Music LLC)
  • Gloria Estefan – Raices – (Sony U.S. Latin)
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The Collection: Ep. 58 – May 2025 Wrap-Up

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I know it isn’t the end of the month yet, but we are doing our Wrap-Up for May anyway. So for now, it is time to go back and see what 2 Loud 2 Old Music added to the collection. This is May 2025 and we have a little vinyl, a whole lot of CDs and even a book. So much to go through including several new Rock Candy CDs in the collection, a new item for the Kiss collection and a couple Box Sets. Lots of great new and old stuff to go through and show for this month so I hope you enjoy the show!!

So go check it out as it will be live tonight right now, May 26, 2025 at 7pm. Thanks for stopping by and please click “Like” and hit “Subscribe” as it helps out the site when you do.

And in case you can’t watch it for whatever reason that is not a good enough excuse, here is everything…

My Sunday Song – “Pictures of You” By The Last Goodnight

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For My Sunday Song #434, we are going to talk about the song “Pictures of You” by the band The Last Goodnight. The song was off their only album ‘Poison Kiss’ from 2007. A great pop rock band that only had one album and gone too soon. “Pictures of You” was the debut single off their debut album and it only went to #70 in the U.S., but did much better in Australia where it went to #3 and went Platinum. The song was written by Jeff Blue, Mike Nadeau and Kurtis John. Kurtis is the lead singer, Mike is on guitar while Jeff is the producer of the album.

The song appears to be about life, both the good and bad. We take pictures and hang them on the wall and we can imagine what we could have been. It starts out with a newborn child and all the potential that child has. Life gets in the way and has different ideas. A cure is discovered for a disease while the government blocks its release. A solider goes off to war and the parents are home worrying themselves to death. You are boxer in a ring with thoughts of winning a title, but it doesn’t materialize. So many great things can happen…but don’t. A rather depressing look at life.

It might be a depressing look at life, but it is a beautifully written song. Musically, it is on the softer side of rock and is so full of the pop tricks. It has a great big chorus that is catchy and will hook you right in. The chorus is a little repetitive which helps it stick in your head and makes you sing along quickly as if the song is an old friend you’ve known forever. I think Kurtis’ vocals are stellar and really pop. Clean, smooth and very pleasant to the ears. And I don’t always like the use of keyboards, but they are subtle and add so much texture to the song on this one. It is one of those songs that grabbed me quickly and never let go. Even after around 18 years, I still catch myself singing this one and wanting to hear it.

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Friday New Releases – May 23, 2025

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We have reached another Friday and of course that means we have some releases for you this week. Though not a ton. For me, I am taking it easy as there is nothing I’m running out to buy, but hopefully there is something for you to listen to this week. Let me know what you want to hear or what we may have missed. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great weekend.

  • Don Felder – The Vault: Fifty Years of Music – (Frontiers Records)
  • Ronnie Romero – Live at Rock Imperium Festival – (Frontiers Records)
  • Taj Mahal / Keb’ Mo’ – Room on the Porch – (Concord Records)
  • Big Daddy Weave – Let It Begin – (Curb Records)
  • Green Day – Saviors (edition de luxe) – (Reprise Records)
  • Joe Jonas – Music For People Who Believe in Love – (Republic Records / UMG)
  • Sports Team – Boys These Days – (Bright Antenna Entertainment / AWAL)
  • Cardinal Black – Midnight at The Valencia – (Jump In Records / Thirty Tigers)
  • Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film – (Duophonic)
  • The SteelDrivers – Outrun – (Sun Records)
  • Sparks – MAD! – (Transgressive)
  • Firefall – Friends And Family 2 – (Firetours Inc / Sunset Blvd Records)
  • Feversea – Man Under Erasure – (Dark Essence Records)
  • Witchcraft – Idag – (Heavy Psych Sounds)
  • OnSlaught – Origins of Aggression – (Reigning Phoenix Music)
  • Crystal Spiders – Metanoia – (Ripple Music)
  • Unmerciful – Devouring Darkness – (Willowtip)
  • Unantastbar – Fur Immer Wir – (Napalm Records)
  • Age of Apocalypse – In Oblivion – (Closed Casket Activities)
  • St. Johns Wood Affair – 2 – (Think Like A Key Music / Keith Smart)
  • Cindytalk – Camouflage Heart – (Dais Records)
  • Charmer – Downpour – (Counter Intuitive Records)
  • Skunk Anansie – The Painful Truth – (Boogooyamma / Frontiers Records)
  • These New Puritans – Crooked Wing – (Domino Recordings)
  • House of Protection – Outrun You All – (Red Bull Records)
  • Amble – Reverie – (Warner Records / Amble Music Ltd)

My Sunday Song – “Sanctuary” by The Wild Feathers

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For My Sunday Song #433, we are talking about a song from a band that most people probably haven’t heard before. The song is called “Sanctuary” and the band are The Wild Feathers. They are an alt-country band or maybe a Southern rock band with heavy country, Americana style music. Almost folksy at times, almost rock at others and they even dip their toes in to the pop realm. This song falls right in to that range. It was written by the band I am assuming as their are no writing credits.

So, the band is Ricky Young, Joel King, Taylor Burns, Ben Dumas and Brett Moore. The song is from their new album ‘Sirens’ which came out in October 2024 and was produced by Shooter Jennings. The song meaning is simple, thanks to Ricky Young actually telling us what it is about…(from Wildfiremusic.net)

‘Sanctuary’ is about standing up for yourself and not being the punching bag and safe place in a toxic relationship. It kind of encourages you to remember your self-worth and to love yourself. You can love somebody so much that you forget who you really are and I think that’s a place where a lot of people find themselves. It’s good to love somebody, but you can’t stop being happy in the process.

Musically, the song is cross between pop, rock and even a ballad. I hear The Eagles or at least a 70’s throwback style, I hear some incredible harmonies, I hear smooth vocals that are engaging and inviting. A song that wraps its arms around you and makes you feel it to the core. Some great guitar work, rhythm section and a perfect drum beat. The organ/piano work is also perfection. Everything blends together to give you pure artistry in a band full of honest to goodness musicians.

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