Music Monday (4/13): This Week's New Albums + Videos
This week's new album releases
Each title listed below will go on sale beginning Tuesday, April 14 unless otherwise indicated.
Tyler, the Creator
Cherry Bomb LISTEN (Spotify)
Another "surprise" release first announced at the end of last week, the latest solo set from the Odd Future member (available digitally today and on CD on April 28) includes collaborations with Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Schoolboy Q, Pharrell Williams, Toro Y Moi, Charlie Wilson, and Cole Alexander of The Black Lips.
Various
Record Store Day releases
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Saturday (April 18) brings the latest installment of Record Store Day, and with it comes the usual assortment of exclusive releases. Highlights include Violent Femmes' four-song Happy New Year EP (the band's first new studio material in 15 years), the first-ever vinyl release of The White Stripes' Get Behind Me Satan, The Foo Fighters' new 10-inch Songs From The Laundry Room, and much more.
Additional releases
- Tori Amos Little Earthquakes 2xCD
Tori Amos Under The Pink 2xCD Expanded reissues of her first two albums each add a bonus disc containing singles, B-sides, and live tracks from the same period - John Andrews & The Yawns Bit by the Fang LISTEN (Stereogum)
- Ava Luna Infinite House LISTEN (NY Times)
- Avid Dancer 1st Bath LISTEN (KCRW)
- Bachman Heavy Blues
- Jeremy Bass Winter Bare
- Bop English Constant Bop
- Builder of the House Hourglass EP
- Kathryn Calder Kathryn Calder Solo album for the New Pornographers contributor
- Calexico . Edge of the Sun LISTEN (NPR)
- Citizens! European Soul
- The Damnwells The Damnwells
- Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification
- Dinner Three EPs, 2012-2014
- Earl Sweatshirt . I Don't Like Shit: I Don't Go Outside CD release
- Eels Royal Albert Hall 2xCD+DVD Concert film and live album recorded during a 2014 London performance
- Gallows . Desolation Sounds
- Halestorm Into the Wild Life
- Beth Hart Better Than Home LISTEN (Billboard)
- Hey Elbow Every Other
- Hip Hatchet Hold You Like A Harness
- Greg Holden Chase the Sun
- James Pants Savage
- Mikaela Kahn Milk & Honey
- Looper Offgrid:Offline First new album in 13 years
- Looper These Things 5xCD Box set collects all of the Glasgow band's past recordings (plus some tracks from their new album, also available today) and reorders the tracks thematically across five discs
- Lowland Hum Lowland Hum LISTEN (NPR)
- Reba McEntire Love Somebody
- Shawn Mendes Handwritten
- Mighty Oaks Howl
- Moon King Secret Life
- The Mowgli's Kids in Love
- Needtobreathe Live From The Woods At Fontanel 2xCD
- Pale Blue The Past We Leave Behind New project from Mike Simonetti, co-founder of the Italians Do It Better label
- Polar Bear . Same As You
- Refrigerator Temple City
- The Replacements The Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990 Box set
- Alexei Shishkin (the dog tape) LISTEN (Stereogum)
- Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising Reissue of 1985 album adds 4 bonus tracks
- Stranger Cat In The Wilderness LISTEN (NY Times) New project from Sufjan Stevens and Sharon Van Etten touring band member Cat Martino
- Suuns + Jerusalem In My Heart Suuns + Jerusalem In My Heart LISTEN (Stereogum) Collaborative album
- Tribulation The Children of the Night
- Frank Turner The Third Three Years Compilation of non-album tracks and rarities
- Villagers . Darling Arithmetic LISTEN (NPR)
- Hank Williams III Take As Needed for Pain
- The Wombats . Glitterbug
- Dwight Yoakam Second Hand Heart LISTEN (NPR)
- Zero 7 EP3 EP LISTEN (Billboard) Digital release
Stream upcoming albums and new tracks
- Alabama Shakes ALBUM Sound & Color streaming until its 4/21 release at NPR.
- A$AP Rocky TRACK "M'$" streaming at SoundCloud.
- Brand New TRACK "Mene" streaming at YouTube.
- Ben Browning [of Cut Copy] TRACK "Make It Easy" streaming at SoundCloud.
- Built to Spill ALBUM Untethered Moon streaming until its 4/21 release at NPR.
- Chromatics TRACK "In Films" streaming at SoundCloud.
- Leonard Cohen TRACK "I Can't Forget" (live) streaming at YouTube.
- FFS [Franz Ferdinand + Sparks] TRACK "Johnny Delusional" streaming at YouTube.
- Holy Ghost! ALBUM Work for Hire (remix compilation out 5/5) streaming at SoundCloud.
- Jenny Hval TRACK "Sabbath" streaming at YouTube.
- Tim Kasher TRACK "Half Full" streaming at Stereogum.
- Matt Pond PA TRACK "More No More" streaming at YouTube (lyric video).
- Vic Mensa TRACK "U Mad" (feat. Kanye West) streaming at SoundCloud.
- Mew TRACK "Witness" streaming at SoundCloud.
- Hudson Mohawke TRACK "Ryderz" streaming at SoundCloud.
- Mumford & Sons TRACK "The Wolf" streaming at YouTube.
- Grace Potter TRACK "Alive Tonight" streaming at YouTube.
- Prefuse 73 TRACK "Ages Upon Ages Upon You" streaming at YouTube.
- Protomartyr TRACK "Blues Festival" streaming at SoundCloud.
- Raekwon TRACK "1,2 1,2" (feat. Snoop Dogg) streaming at SoundCloud.
- Ratatat TRACK "Cream on Chrome" streaming at YouTube.
- San Fermin ALBUM Jackrabbit streaming until its 4/21 release at NPR.
- Speedy Ortiz ALBUM Foil Deer streaming until its 4/21 release at NPR.
- Squarepusher ALBUM Damogen Furies streaming until its 4/21 release at NPR.
- St. Vincent TRACK "Teenage Talk" streaming at Spotify.
- Mavis Staples ALBUM Your Good Fortune EP (out 4/21) streaming at CoS.
- Sufjan Stevens TRACK "Exploding Whale" (non-album single) streaming at SoundCloud.
- Twin Peaks TRACK "Got Your Money" streaming at SoundCloud.
- Various ALBUM The Alchemist and Oh No Present Welcome to Los Santos streaming until its 4/21 release at NPR.
TRACK "Applauded Assumptions" streaming at SoundCloud.
On TV this week (new episodes only)
Monday: Asleep at the Wheel (Letterman), George Ezra (Corden), Sturgill Simpson (Conan), The War on Drugs (Kimmel)
Tuesday: Chic (Kimmel), Chris Stapleton (Letterman)
Wednesday: Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors (Kimmel), Iron & Wine with Ben Bridwell (Letterman), Tame Impala (Conan)
Thursday: Tracy Chapman (Letterman), Jamie Foxx feat. Chris Brown and Kid Ink (Kimmel), Jenny Lewis (Corden), Royal Blood (Conan)
Friday: John Mayer (Letterman)
Recent artist and industry news
Patti Smith has written another memoir. M Train follows Just Kids and will arrive on bookshelves on October 6th. - EW
The latest music videos
Lykke Li, "Never Gonna Love Again":
Florence + The Machine, "Ship to Wreck":
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment, "Sunday Candy":
Panda Bear, "Tropic of Cancer":
TV on the Radio, "Trouble":
Todd Terje, "Alfonso Muskedunder":
Lightning Bolt, "The Metal East":
Tyler, the Creator, "Fucking Young"/"Death Camp":
Heems, "Sometimes" [starring Eric Andre and Hannibal Buress]:
Young Fathers, "Shame":
Belle & Sebastian, "Paper Boat" [previously unreleased track]:
Janelle Monáe and Jidenna, "Yoga":
In the studio / coming soon
Frank Ocean's sophomore LP will drop in July, though it doesn't have a title yet. The singer will also launch a new magazine that month. - Billboard
Cut Copy bassist Ben Browning will release his first solo LP, Turns, on June 16th.
Jim O’Rourke will release Simple Songs, his first conventional song-oriented solo record since 2001, on May 19th via Drag City.
Visit Metacritic's Album Release Calendar for a full listing of upcoming release dates, updated daily.
Tours and festivals
Death Cab for Cutie have extended their tour into September. - CoS
Drake has announced a handful of live dates with Future. - Pitchfork
Faith No More have tacked on dates to their summer tour, with Refused opening the bill. - Pitchfork
Mumford and Sons will be on the road for much of the summer. - CoS
Rustie's North American tour begins in May. - Pitchfork
