Friday New Releases – February 17, 2023

Like last week (and pretty much every week), we have a big batch of new releases for you again. This time around there a hair over 30 new albums coming out so hopefully there is something for you. We get, yet another useless, re-release of Motley Crue’s big albums. Seriously guys, can you give us new albums or maybe even bonus tracks that haven’t been released…something to justify this. A few others I want to hear (but not running out to buy) are P!nk, Skillet and Creye. I like all three so happy for some new stuff. What do you want to hear this week? Let us know and also tell us if we missed anything. Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

  • 617RLmZSxlL._AC_UY327_QL65_  Motley Crue – Crucial Crue: The Studio Albums 1981-1989 – (BMG Rights Mgmt)
  • 612lQeO7XqL._AC_UL320_   P!nk – Trustfall –  (RCA Records / Sony Music) 
  • 71z6OJAaA5L._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Skillet – Dominion: Day of Destiny – (Atlantic Records / WEA)
  • 71zr4X3GcuL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Creye – III: Weightless – (Frontiers Records)
  • 71GGWHpVxbL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Robin McAuley – Alive – (Frontiers Records)
  • 71OfmJM0UaL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  First Signal – Face Your Fears – (Frontiers Records)
  • 71YRbuVYm1L._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  All My Shadows – Eerie Monsters – (Frontiers Records)
  • 91anokPjLWL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Jesse Malin – Fine Art of Self-Destruction (Anniversary Edition) – (Melody Catalog)
  • 71fMUOx7EgL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Annett Louisan – Babyblue – (Ariola / Sony Music)
  • 91qnD2gLfUL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Jordan Davis – Bluebird Days – (MCA Nashville / UMG)
  • 81YHf-S4dzL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Screaming Females – Desire Pathway – (Don Giovanni Records)
  • 61HCGyKzRCL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Matthew West – My Story Your Glory – (Story House Music / Provident Label Group)
  • 81kKJ2L-sZL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Inhaler – Cuts and Bruises – (Polydor Records / Universal Music)
  • A1se0mu-PZL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Solence – Hope is a Cult – (Hopeless Records)
  • 91ZcI2iJd0L._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Grade 2 – Grade 2 – (Hellcat) 
  • 91sFpXsuYfL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Orbital – Optical Delusion – (Orbital Recordings / London Music Stream)
  • 616jRhy571L._AC_UY218_  Lowly – Keep Up the Good Work – (Bella Union)
  • 71LOQF3iN+L._AC_UY218_  Avatar – Dance Devil Dance – (Black Waltz AB / Thirty Tigers)
  • 81rB8EUxhHL._SX466_  Transatlantic – The Final Flight: Live at L’Olympia – (InsideOut Music)
  • download-7  Runnner – Like Dying Stars, We’re Reaching Out – (Run for Cover Records)
  • 71P23rOPMlL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Graphic Nature – A Mind Waiting to Die – (Rude Records)
  • A1HxJGaCNYL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Attila Csihar – Void ovVoices: Baalbek – (Ideologic Organ Music)
  • 91rNvLZg-4L._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Tryglav – The Ritual – (Extreme Metal Music)
  • 819evobdryL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Tramalizer – Fumes of Funeral Pyres – (Soulseller Records)
  • B1Z94imon5L._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Oceanhoarse – Heads Will Roll – (Noble Demon / UCM.One)
  • 81InDpMRdYL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags – (Peaceville Records)
  • 71xtoSqsm7L._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  The Abbey – Word of Sin – (The Abbey)
  • 81NavOC98QL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Tulus – Fandens Kall – (Soulseller Records)
  • 81urCYWgsaL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Siege of Power – This Is Tomorrow – (Metal Blade Records)
  • 81BfGyeY6ZL._AC_UY218_  See You Next Tuesday – Distractions – (Good Fight Music)
  • 91ay3FmMTUL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Tithe – Inverse Rapture – (Profound Lore)
  • 91XkIehRpKL._AC_UY436_FMwebp_QL65_  Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Land of Sleeper – (Rocket Recordings / Missing Piece Records)

Friday New Releases – February 14th

Welcome to Friday and guess what it is Valentine’s Day!!  The worst holiday ever invented.  It puts undo pressure on everyone.  The trick is show the one you love how much they mean to you every day of the year and then this day doesn’t mean shit!!  It is just another.  So blame Hallmark and all the chocolate companies and the florist companies and the restaurants for forcing this upon us.  Wow, I went off on a tangent there.  It is Friday, so that means new music.  Not a whole lot here for me, but hopefully there is enough that you find something for you or the one you love.  My listens are in Blue.  Let me know what you want to hear and what I might have missed from the list because believe it or not…it happens all the time.  Happy Valentine’s Day to you all!!

  • 81I39u50ZjL._SS500_  Hollywood Undead – New Empire, Vol 1 – (BMG Rights):  I am excited for their new album which is now their 6th studio release.  I really enjoy their rap-rock / nu-metal sound and I love the angst as well.  It is usually great to blast driving down the road…so here is warning to you Charlotte Drivers that I might be a little reckless today with this cranked up.

  • 61FWfBkifpL._SX522_  Huey Lewis & the News – Weather – (New Hulex LLC / BMG Rights):  I am really anxious and sad to hear this one.  It could quite possibly be Huey’s last record and he is even unable to perform anymore.  If you haven’t heard, Huey was diagnosed with a disorder of the inner ear called Meniere’s disease.  It brings hearing loss, vertigo, ringing in the ear and a feeling of fullness.  My thoughts and prayers are with him and selfishly I always would like new music from him.

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Friday New Releases – September 22nd

Another Friday is upon us and another day of new music.  There is a little of everything on tab for this week so hopefully there is something you can find you want to give a spin.  I have quite a few this week and they are highlighted in Blue as usual.

  • 613Ur6oUHlL._AC_US218_  Black Country Communion – BCCIV – (J&R Adventures):  BCC is back with their 4th album.  I thought they might have been done after their last one so I am thrilled to see a new release.  If you don’t know who they are, the band consists of some quite talented musicians you might have heard about…Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian.  Not a bad line-up.  Definitely worth checking out.

  • 615l-IJwJwL._AC_US218_  H.E.A.T – Into the Great Unknown – (Frontiers Records): This Swedish rock band brings us their 5th release and first after losing original guitarist Eric Rivers.  I am interested to hear it despite 2 of the original members now gone including the lead singer.  That usually really bothers me when you lose the singer, but Erik Gronwell can hold his own and has done a fine damn job since taking over.  Here is to hoping for more of the same greatness from these guys.

  • 411N1zML8KL._AC_US218_  The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful – (Island Records):  For some reason, I really like The Killers.  When they are good, they are really good and Brandon Flowers has been sounding great lately.  I am digging the new song “Run for Cover” so hoping the rest of the album is on par with that one.

  • 61KFg3CH+0L._AC_US160_  Mastodon – Cold Dark Place E.P. – (Reprise Records):  It is only an E.P., but anything from this Atlanta Metal band is worth grabbing.  Bring it on.

  • images-1  Fergie – Double Duchess – (Retrofuture Productions):  Okay, yes I am interested in hearing Fergie.  I have my guilty pleasures.  She proved she can rock out when she did a song for Slash so I definitely want to hear what she brings to the table this time around.

  • 4192A8z6v8L._AC_US218_  Otherwise – Sleeping Lions – (Century Media)
  • 61FIiVNH5OL._AC_US218_  Macklemore – Gemini – (Bendo LLC)
  • 513lUqo6OtL._AC_US218_  Matthew West – All In – (Sparrow)
  • 61EuJwZ3BCL._AC_US218_  Josh Ritter – Gathering – (Pytheas Recordings)
  • 51CVVBAaSrL._AC_US218_  Midland – On the Rocks – (Big Machine)
  • 51nMKZQR5nL._AC_US218_  Van Morrison – Roll With The Punches – (Exile Productions)
  • 61LDM-QpKqL._AC_US218_  Leon Russell – On A Distant Shore – (Palmetto)
  • 61d5C7z7dcL._AC_US218_  Chris Hillman – Bidin’ my Time – (Rounder)
  • 61KHcRSiqCL._AC_US218_  Steve Martin / The Steep Canyon Rangers – “The Long-Awaited Album” – (Rounder)
  • 51T3BQ1iCJL._AC_US218_  Cradle of Filth – Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness of Decay – (Nuclear Blast)
  • 51sZCZfQfIL._AC_US160_  Lecrae – All Things Work Together – (Reach Records)
  • 51NFpv8xsDL._AC_US218_  Haley Reinhart – What’s That Sound? – (Concord Records)
  • 51o8JkMVkwL._AC_US218_  Brian Wilson – Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology – (Rhino/Warners)

Favorite Christian Songs – Playlist

Over the last 10 years, the quality of Christian Music is a vast improvement over where it had been.  There are so many great bands and artists now that wear the Christian Music label.

Many of the songs could be and should be played on mainstream radio, but sadly will not.  There are so many different musical styles and Christian Music has them all pop, rock, metal, singer/songwriter, hip-hop, dance and indie.

As I get older, the Christian Music genre gets to be more important in my life and tends to hold more meaning for me.  I follow bands out of this genre just as passionately as I do any other type of music.  If I like it, I am going to listen to it…it doesn’t matter what style or message the music might be expressing.

Below are my favorite songs by Christian artists:

Sanctus Real – “Lead Me” – This song is so powerful and the lyrics are so moving.  I listen to it and I want to be a better man.

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