Generally speaking, I’m not one of those guys that goes out on a limb to search for something before it’s official release. I tend to wait patiently (or perhaps not so patiently?) to get the official goods. But with 21, the latest from British soul singer Adele, the waiting has been a bit more difficult than usual. Not only has the album already been out for several weeks in territories outside the U.S., but fellow bloggers and the rest of […]
Posts tagged "New Release Report"
New Release Report 2/15/11: Hello? Anybody Home?
Sometimes I wonder if the people who run record companies have a vested interest in the failure of the music industry. Here we are, five weeks into the new year, without one superstar release. Granted, most of the country has been dealing with Snowpocalypse, but you’d have to imagine that stores are still open, and if someone wants a piece of music badly enough, technology has afforded us the ability to order via Amazon or iTunes so we don’t have […]
New Release Report 1/25/11: Kwelity??
The grain of new releases this week is the best it’s been so far in 2011, but that’s not saying a hell of a lot. We’re still a month or so away from an A-list superstar release, and while you don’t have to be an A-list artist to make a good release (actually, most people would argue the opposite), you still have to bring money in to succeed at business, right? No album so far this year has sold more […]
New Release Report 12/21/10: A Soulful End to the Year
This week’s New Release Report spotlights the new album by Ghostface Killah. Other new albums out on 12/21 include Keyshia Cole, Duran Duran, Jamie Foxx and Keri Hilson.
New Release Report 12/14/10: Wrapping Up
This week’s new releases include new albums by Michael Jackson, R. Kelly and Ciara.
New Release Report 12/7/10: King Re-Caged?
A slew of A-list albums are being released on 12/6/10, including new efforts from T.I., Natasha Bedingfield, Daft Punk and Hinder.
New Release Report 11/16/10: The Reissue Theory
It’s mid-November, just a week and change until Thanksgiving, so of course there are a ton of albums coming out today. Most of them, however, are either compilations or repackagings. Some of them are worth it. Some of them, not so much. Anyway, here’s a sampling of the new old stuff you’re gonna see in stores and online this week. Easily, the biggest news is a massive reissue of Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town”. The Boss’s fourth […]
New Release Report 9/28/10: Walking Down “Lonely Avenue” with Ben Folds
When I saw Ben Folds in concert earlier this year, he noted that the album he’d been working on with British author Nick Hornby had been completed, and I was super intrigued. I’m a pretty major Folds fan, and “High Fidelity” has long been on the list of my favorite books and films (and I also picked up “Long Way Down” over the summer…it was a great read). The one song that Folds played from the collaboration that night was […]
New Release Report 8/10/10: YAWN?
Why am I even bothering to write one of these up this week? Ain’t jack dookie in record stores this week. I often wonder why the folks that schedule release dates don’t spread the wealth a little more. Weeks will go by with minimal new release action, then there’ll be a day when 5 or 6 albums that I want come out. Seems like it’s either feast or famine. Oh, that guy Mike Posner (whoever the hell he is) has […]
New Release Report 5/25/10: The Return of STP
In the end, every band that breaks up eventually gets back together, right? Unless an important member passes away…and even then, sometimes the reunion is too hard to resist. At any rate, after a two-album stint as lead singer of Velvet Revolver, a couple of solo records and a rap sheet that rivals DMX, Scott Weiland has rejoined the rest of Stone Temple Pilots. Their latest album (the first in nearly a decade) arrives in stores today. I was a […]