Macy Gray has a new CD and DVD Live in Las Vegas. Usually, I'm pretty skeptical of live albums. However, Macy Gray is the singingest chick walking the planet, give or take KD Lang and Sinead O'Connor.
OK Go have their second album out this week, Oh No. As the follow-up to the classic "Get Over It," this should be worth a listen.
Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack also serves as the soundtrack to a feature length PBS documentary by Martin Scorcese coming to PBS and DVD in September. This album is already #5 at Amazon, indicating that ol' Bob's still got more commercial juice than you'd think at this stage in life.
Brooks & Dunn have a new album Hillbilly Deluxe. If history's any indicator, the album's probably about as imaginative as the album title that got from Dwight Yoakam.
There's a new special de-luxe 25th anniversary edition of Guilty out this week. Barbara Streisand AND a Bee Gee. What's not to like? It's like buttah. Indeed, this re-release is #12 at Amazon.
The big kahuna, though, is Kanye West's Late Registration, #1 at Amazon.
Oh, and if you haven't got enough mediocre blues albums in your collection, you're in luck. Eric Clapton has a new album called Back Home.
Here's the complete list of this week's major new album releases, courtesy AMG:
Brooks & Dunn Hillbilly Deluxe Arista Nashville/RLG
Contemporary Country, New Traditionalist, Neo-Traditionalist Country
Eric Clapton Back Home Reprise
Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary
Death Cab for Cutie Plans Atlantic
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock, Twee Pop
Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home - The Soundtrack Legacy
Folk-Rock, Political Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Rock & Roll
Kanye West Late Registration Roc-A-Fella
East Coast Rap, Pop-Rap, Hip-Hop
Mose Allison Ramblin' with Mose [Bonus Tracks] Prestige
Hard Bop, Piano Blues
Jeff Ball Return to Balance Red Feather
Ethnic Fusion
Biohazard Means to an End SPV
Rap-Metal, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Alternative Pop/Rock, Hard Rock
Bodyrockers Bodyrockers Universal
Club/Dance
Andrey Boreyko Arvo Part: Lamentate ECM
Contemporary Choral Music
Cannibal & the Headhunters Land of 1000 Dances: The Complete Rampart Recordings Varese
Latin Rock, Brown-Eyed Soul, Frat Rock, Garage Rock, Rock & Roll, R&B, Soul
Cold A Different Kind of Pain Lava
Alternative Metal
The Coral The Invisible Invasion Sony International
Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
Article comments
1 - godoggo
A New Charlie Haden's Liberation Orchestra record!!!!!!!
Also, 2 Nancy Wilson records, in case you want to hear what a singer who can sing sings like.
2 - El Bicho
Al,
8-30. Feel free to have someone delete this comment
3 - LegendaryMonkey
I just have to say... Tony Yayo is an inspired name.
4 - DJRadiohead
Eric Clapton is no longer even mediocre blues and has not been for some time.
This new album is going to rot. I finally had to quit buying his music.
5 - Mark Saleski
funny how folks can be so assured that music they've never even listened to will suck.
i've heard a tune from the new Clapton record and it was great.
and it wasn't a blues tune either.
6 - JR
Actually it three Nancy Wilson records, but I think they're all compilations.
I may buy them anyway.
7 - Al Barger
Fair point Mark, but I never liked Clapton much to begin with, and I haven't heard anything even vaguely listenable from him in long decades. After a whole frickin' career of mediocre blues records, I beg forgiveness if I'm so prejudiced as to expect more of the same.
8 - visualsimplicity
Indie darlings, Death Cab for Cutie, releases their first major record label album and there's no peep about it from anyone? Odd.
9 - The Theory
probably because they suck.
I'm interested in the new Opeth, perhaps.
And is that new Brooks and Dunn cd intentionally parodying that Rob Zombie album, Hellbilly Deluxe?
10 - The Theory
actually, the new Death Cab is currently #3 on amazon's sales rank.
did i mention how much I hate them?