New Music Weekend: Pixies, Van Morisson, Opeth, Bob Weir, 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

The Pixies are back! The Pixies are back!!!! I wonder how many times during band meetings or rehearsals when the band starts bickering someone has said “Guys! Think about the money!” I love the Pixies as much as anyone, probably more than most actually, but I’ve never been fooled by this shit. Head Carrier, which sounds like it’s going to be great, is the band’s first since 2014’s Indie Cindy.

Everything Else

Sorceress, the new Opeth record, Is the Swedish folk metal outfit’s twelfth and first in two years, is sure to be another in a long line of masterpieces.

Van Morisson’s one zillionth album is called Keep Me Singing.

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

Indie queen Regina Spektor’s Remember Us to Life is her seventh record and first since 2012.

Warped Tour heroes Yellowcard (who were very, very nice to my son and his friend at their first Warped Tour this year) unveil their final full length, a self-titled effort.

Southern rockers Drive By Truckers return with American Band, Patterson Hood and the boyz’z eleventh.

New Bon Iver, 22, A Million.

Legendary Legend

A special note here: Grateful Dead dude Bob Weir offers up his first solo album in twelve years, Blue Mountain.

RIP

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

Hagen Liebing of Die Artze.

The legendary Buckwheat Zydeco.

Rapper Shawty Lo.

Songwriter John Loudermilk.

DJ Spank Spank.

Jean Shepard.

My Recommendations

I have to admit that while I’m interested in Jenny Hval, I am not sold on the idea that the Norwegian nymph is a genius. Maybe her new record, Blood Bitch will change my mind.