New Music Weekend: Deftones, The Lumineers, Parquet Courts, and More!!!

Hey there music lover! You like new stuff? Great! You’ve stumbled into the perfect corner of the internet.  Each week all sorts of audiolicious goodies are unleashed onto the masses and this is where they come to be judged. I’ll tell ya what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s a waste of your precious time. So strap on your headphones and let’s take a ride!

The Big News

Currently listening to Interpol, Our Love to Admire. Also, I’ll be out of town next week so the column will be a quick one while I’m away.

The new Deftones album, Gore, the Sacramento alt/metal outfit’s eighth, is “timelessly vital” according to the reviewer for the Knoxville News Sentinel. Dude goes on to describe the album as full of “sweaty rage”, “destructive force”, and “bleak ambience” before concluding that it “offers deliverance” to the listener. Yep, sounds like another Deftones album to me.

Indie Miscy

Cleopatra, the sophomore release from The Lumineers, is four years in the making. People, a good amount of them, are very excited to hear this thing. I am mildly excited. This reviewer at Consequence of Sound is not as enthralled: “Cleopatra is rocky in places, but there’s a lot that’s encouraging.” That’s not saying much for a band that nearly took over the world with “Hey Ho” or “Ho Hey” or whatever it was called, the ubiquitous single from their self-titled 2012 debut

The fifth effort from New York rockers Parquet Courts, Human Performance. NPR calls it “their most singular offering to date”.

Another fifth effort, Frightened Rabbit’s Painting of a Panic Attack, finds the Scottish indie rockers, who were are one time my favorite band, living in LA and going through some growing pains, according to our new friends at Live4ever. It’s a “powerfully together record”, says the reviewer.

The Dandy Warhols do not go away. For that I am always thankful.  Here’s their latest, Distortland.

Solo Suckers

Mayer Hawthorne’s latest, Man About Town, is here.

As is the new solo effort from former J Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf.

Groovy dude Ben Harper reunites with his Innocent Criminals for his thirteenth effort , Call It What It Is.

RIP

This is the part where we say goodbye to those who’ve played their last solo. Rock on and rest in peace, brothers and sisters.

Carlo Mastrangelo of The Belmonts.

The incomparable Gato Barbieri.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw9iqcxE0Hw

Guitarist David Zycheck.

Larry Payton, drummer of Brass Construction.

And, last but not least, the Outlaw himself, Merle Haggard, passed away at the age of 79.

 

My Recommendation
Woods have released a lot of records.  City Sun Eater in the River of Light is their latest and deserves attention for the title alone.

Next Week
Tune in next week, same new music time, same new music channel, for new stuff from: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes!!!