CHRIS CORNELL Higher Truth (fifth solo studio album, produced by Brendan O’Brien) (UMe) Chris is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter and rhythm guitarist for Seattle rock band Soundgarden and as former lead vocalist and songwriter for the supergroup Audioslave.
Cornell chose producer Brendan O’Brien (PEARL JAM, STP, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, BLACK CROWES, BOB DYLAN, ETC…) as a collaborator to create a more intimate sound for the record. On recording drums for the album, Cornell has stated that “most of the songs with drums are either loops that I made electronically or that Brendan basically recorded just playing a little drum kit he had,” Cornell says. “We just made loops, layered things and played some percussion stuff.”
LANA DEL REY Honeymoon (UMG) Honeymoon is the upcoming fourth studio album by American singer Lana Del Rey. Del Rey said in an interview with Billboard that the album was “very different from the last one and similar to the first two, Born to Die (2012) and Paradise (2014). I finished my last one in March and released it in June and I had a follow-up idea. It’s growing into something I really like. I’m kind of enjoying sinking into this more noirish feel for this one. It’s been good.” More @ lanadelrey.com
GLEN HANSARD Didn’t He Ramble (Anti-) Glen is an Irish songwriter, actor, vocalist and guitarist for Irish group The Frames, and one half of folk rock duo The Swell Season. He is also known for his acting, having appeared in the BAFTA-winning film The Commitments, as well as starring in the film Once, which earned him a number of major awards and nominations between 2007–08. Hansard has remarked about his musical influences: In my house, when I was a kid, there was the holy trinity, which was Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan More @ glenhansardmusic.com
ROBERT DeLONG In The Cards (Glassnote) He is an American electronic musician from with a background in percussion and influences from a number of indie rock bands, DeLong’s primary genres include electronica, EDM, and moombahton. DeLong is notable for using video-game peripherals, such as a Wii remote and a joystick, connected to a MIDI interface, to modify his sound.He has released two albums on Glassnote Records: an EP, Global Concepts, in 2012 and Just Movement in 2013. DeLong’s new EP entitled Long Way Down was released on November 10, 2014. His second album In the Cards was announced to come out in September 2015, alongside a new single Don’t Wait Up. More @ robertdelong.com
ZZ WARD This Means War (Hollywood) ZZ is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Oregon. More @ zzward.com
Also Available This Week of September 18
AIRWAVES f/ JANA HUNTER Parting Glances (Western Vinyl)
BATTLES La Di Da Di (Warp)
BAIO (Vampire Weekend bass player) The Names (Glassnote)
BOTANY Dimming Awe, The Light is Raw (Western Vinyl)
DABY TOURE Amonafi (Cumbancha)
DAVE ALVIN AND PHIL ALVIN Lost Time (Yep Roc)
DARLENE LOVE Introducing Darlene Love (produced by Stevie Van Zandt) (Columbia)
DAVID GILMOUR Rattle That Lock (co-produced by Ray Manzarek) (Columbia)
DURAN DURAN Paper Gods (Warner Bros.)
FERNANDO (w/ Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, M. Ward, Elliott Smith & more) Leave the Radio On (Fluff and Gravy)
GUY DAVIS Kokomo Kidd (M.C. Records)
HeCTA The Diet (Merge)
HIBOU Hibou (Barsuk)
JOE ELY Panhandle Rambler (Rack’em Records)
KEITH RICHARDS Crosseyed Heart (third solo album and his first in over 20 years) (Republic)
K’S CHOICE The Phantom Cowboy (MPress)
LEIGH NASH (3rd solo album from leader of Sixpence None The Richer) The State I’m In (independent)
LINDA PERRY + SARA GILBERT Deer Sounds (independent)
LUCERO All A Man Should Do (ATO)
MAC McANALLY A.K.A. Nobody (Mailboat)
MERCURY REV The Light In You (Bella Union)
OUGHT Sun Coming Down (Constellation)
POI DOG PONDERING Everybody’s Got A Star (8th studio album) (Platectonic)
RANDALL BRAMBLETT Devil Music (New West)
STEVEN A CLARK The Lonely Roller (Secretly Canadian)
SUGARPLUM FAIRIES Sunday, Suddenly (Starfish)
TELEKINESIS Ad Infinitum (Merge)
THE KICKBACK Sorry All Over The Place (produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno) (Jullian)
TOADIES Heretics (Kirtland)
TOMMY EMMANUEL It’s Never Too Late (Thirty Tigers)
TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS Turnpike Troubadours (Bossier City/Thirty Tigers)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley, Naomi Shelton, The Budos Band & more) Daptone Gold (Daptone)
VIEUX FARKA TOURE & JULIA EASTERLIN Touristes (Six Degrees)
