The headliner for this week's New Album Releases has to be the return of Sade. Fans of the '80s will remember her string of hits that included “Smooth Operator,” “No Ordinary Love,” and “Sweetest Taboo.” “Ordinary Love” probably left the biggest mark for me. There was something haunting about that vocal performance. Anyway, she's been gone for 10 years and she's back with a new album Soldier Of Love. Our resident “interviewer of the stars,” Clayton Perry has a review of the album.
This next one is for our own Mr. Mark Saleski and the rest of the Springsteen fans out there: we have a “new” live album from Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. I wouldn't be surprised to learn he was present when 1978: Live in Boston was recorded.
Indie kids will want to gather 'round for the sounds of the Watson Twins, the duo that famously backed Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis on her first solo album Rabbit Fur Coat and Yeasayer. I got introduced to Rilo Kiley and Jenny Lewis courtesy of Duke and you should all really go revisit his review of that album and buy yourself a couple copies if you don't have it.
With that, here's the rest of your list of releases:
Hot Chip
One Life Stand
Massive Attack
Heligoland
Allison Moorer
Crows
Sade
Soldier of Love
Watson Twins
Talking to You, Talking to Me
ALO
Man of the World
AM
Future Sons & Daughters
William Albright
Scott Joplin: Complete Rags, Marches & Waltzes
Bad Company
Hard Rock Live
Big Brother & the Holding Company
The Lost Tapes
Black Cat Bones
Barbed Wire Sandwich
Kath Bloom
Thin Thin Line
A Broken Consort
Crow Autumn
Buzzcocks
Another Music in a Different Kitchen [Bonus Disc]
Buzzcocks
Different Kind of Tension [Bonus Disc]
Buzzcocks
Love Bites [Bonus Disc]
Chris Cagle
The Best of Chris Cagle
Joe "Fingers" Carr/Lou Busch
Let's Do It Again: From Honky Tonk to the Classics
Celtic Thunder
It's Entertainment
Nat King Cole and Friends
Riffin': The Decca, JATP, Keynote and Mercury Recordings
Various Artists
More Than Just A DJ: DJ Kayslay
Deadmau5
At Play, Vol. 2
Neil Diamond
Hot August Night/NYC: Live from Madison Square Garden
Fear Factory
Mechanize
Vilde Frang
Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Humoresques; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Galactic
Ya-Ka-May
Tord Gustavsen Ensemble
Restored, Returned
H.I.M.
Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, Chapter 1-13
Bernard Haitink
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
Hallé
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Melora Hardin
All the Way to Mars
Jaheim
Another Round
Anjelah Johnson
That's How We Do It [CD/DVD]
Angelique Kidjo
Õÿö
Magdalena Kozena
Magdalena Kozená Sings Vivaldi
k.d. lang
Recollection
Abbey Lincoln
Through the Years: 1956-2007
Lionel Loueke
Mwaliko
The Marshall Tucker Band
Way Out West!: Live from San Francisco 1973
Meshuggah
Alive [DVD/CD] [Bonus Tracks]
Georgia Anne Muldrow
Kings Ballad
Michael Martin Murphey
Buckaroo Blue Grass II: Riding Song
Original Soundtrack
Valentine's Day
Pantha du Prince
Black Noise
Billy Paul
Am I Black Enough for You
Phantogram
Eyelid Movies
Pretenders
Live in London
Reckless Kelly
Somewhere in Time
Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds
Live in Las Vegas
Marc Ribot/Lucien Dubuis
Ultime Cosmos
Sanchez
Now and Forever
Gil Scott-Heron
I'm New Here
Secret & Whisper
Teenage Fantasy
Ravi Shankar
Rare and Glorious
Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
1978: Live in Boston
Esbjorn Svensson Trio
Retrospective: The Very Best of E.S.T
T.I.
Live from Forest City Correctional Facility
tobyMac
Tonight
Josh Turner
Haywire
Abdullah Ibrahim
Bombella
Daphne Willis
What To Say [Barnes & Noble Exclusive]
Yeasayer
Odd Blood
You Say Party! We Say Die!
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