Back in 2017, Minneapolis-raised artist Jeremy Nutzman emerged with his debut project, NCOD, released under the moniker Velvet Negroni (a name inspired by a fancy cocktail at a bar in Austin). His unique soundscapes brought him to big audiences and bigger fans: sampled by Kanye West, touring with Bon Iver, and signed to 4AD for the release of his acclaimed 2019 album Neon Brown. A few years later, he is gearing up for the release of his propulsive new album Bulli, a record that trembles with a slick and polished new intensity following a relatively tumultuous life period. �I started using drugs again in a negative manner,� he says, �And felt like I lost all my friends or their respect. And then there was Covid, and I was at home, then my CashApp got hacked. And because of that I got paranoid as fuck for a long time and stayed in the house.� The result is an album on which Nutzman cannot fully hear himself. It glimmers with an almost-uncomfortable pop sheen, with lead single �Sinker� whirring with a strutting positivity and rich instrumentation that is at stark odds with the lyrics. Touchstones of leftfield electronic sounds meld with nods to alternative rock, power pop, even tender R&B and deft hip-hop. It�s a record that holds something anticipatory, at times almost frantic and manic, occasionally even sexy and breathy . Given the period of his life that it emerged from, it�s understandable that Nutzman would feel fraught and uncertain listening back, it�s a deeply accomplished album which swirls with fragmentary soundscapes pushing ever forward into somewhere that feels new and vital.

The first solo album from Kenny Beats is a spontaneous burst of creativity spurred by an avalanche of despair and imagination. Only after sharing it with a few close friends - who mentioned the elegiac pathos it evoked - did Kenny become convinced to release it for public consumption. Just 17 songs and 33 minutes, LOUIE is a hypnotic odyssey of wounded, teardrop soul. LOUIE presents a side of Kenny, best known for producing seminal full-length albums for some of the world's most exciting artists (Vince Staples, IDLES, Rico Nasty, Freddie Gibbs, Dominic Fike, and many more) that has not been seen by the world before. Charismatic, self-effacing and generous, the album reveals the duality of the artist -an enigmatic, introspective searcher who has experienced pain and duress, and alchemized it via looped samples and hypnotic drum patterns. LOUIE gives testament to our most personal thoughts, recollections and stories. It is an intimate and personal gift that achieves the rarest condition -a sense of the universal.

Signed to Playboi Carti�s Opium label, rising Atlanta artist Destroy Lonely released his debut mixtape NO STYLIST in August 2022. Featuring a guest appearance from labelmate Ken Carson on the track �VETERAN,� NO STYLIST will be released on vinyl on January 6, 2023.

What does John Cale have that the rest of us don�t�some gene that engenders infinite restlessness, a rapacious mind that is never satisfied? For nearly 60 years, or at least since he was a young Welshman who moved to New York and joined The Velvet Underground, Cale has been reinventing his music with dazzling and inspiring regularity. Once again, here is Cale, reimagining how his music is made, sounds, and even works. His engrossing 12-track MERCY�his first full album of new tunes in a decade�moves through true dark-night-of-the-soul electronic blues toward vulnerable love songs and hopeful considerations for the future with the help of some of music�s most curious young minds.

The Bad Ends are a band of veteran musicians from Athens, GA featuring Bill Berry (R.E.M), Mike Manitone (Five Eight) Christian Lopez (Curly Maple) Geoff Melkonian (Josh Joplin Group) and local guitar-shop-owner, Dave Domizi. Their New West Records debut, The Power And The Glory, was recorded at the legendary local studio, Espresso Machine, and features guitar driven songs like ""Mile Marker 29,"" ""Thanksgiving 1915,"" and ""Honestly."" An immediate classic referencing the best of early 90s college rock. Athens, GA to the max.

In just three remarkable solo albums Margo Price has cemented herself as a force�in American music and a generational talent. On her fourth full-length Strays,�recorded in Topanga Canyon and produced by Jonathan Wilson, the singer and�songwriter presents a clear-eyed mission statement delivered in blistering rock�and�roll.�Margo Price has something to say, and nothing to prove.�

Describing their first three albums as a trilogy that is now complete, Meath and Sanborn see No Rules Sandy as the beginning of a new period, with songs that are �wilder and stranger and more cathartic than the band used to be,� as Nick Sanborn puts it. �It feels like who we actually are,� Amelia Meath adds. �It just feels like us. We�re not trying to fit into the mold, just happily being our freak selves.�

In 2015, Dan Auerbach entered the studio with Leon Michels, Nick Movshon, Homer Steinweiss, and the late Richard Swift (who passed away in 2018) to record The Arcs' debut album Yours, Dreamily in a handful of freewheeling sessions over two weeks. Now, more than 7 years later, those same sessions became the bedrock on which the surviving members fleshed out the anticipated follow-up album, Electrophonic Chronic, a collection of psychedelic rock, gritty funk, and heady, soulful grooves.

2023 release. "Every year, about 6 weeks before Valentine's Day, I make the following post on social media: 'If you send me the name of your Valentine, and the reason you love them, I'll write a song for them on your behalf.' That is how Dream House was born, 3 years ago. Over the past three years, I have received over 300 requests from fans to write songs for their loved ones. All of the songs on Dream House come from this project, some of them have been reworked to speak more to the artist's life, others have remained exactly as they were first written. Ultimately, this is an album about caring for others, and the way we express it."

Following the global success of the unstoppable single �Unholy� featuring pop diva Kim Petras, Sam Smith will be releasing their fourth studio album, Gloria, on January 27, 2023. The 13-track record will be Sam�s boldest statement yet and comes off the back of an undeniable run of success with the lead single from the album.

Five-time GRAMMY� award winning and multi-platinum selling icon, Shania Twain, announces her new album, Queen Of Me, out February 3, 2023 on Republic Nashville, a division of Republic Records. Her sixth original full-length album, Queen Of Me, is the superstar's most triumphant-feeling body of work; an album about standing in your own power and worshipping yourself. Its lead single �Waking Up Dreaming� was co-written and produced with BTS hitmaker David Stewart.

Vai shares, "This record was written and recorded in somewhat of a stream of consciousness in 1991 within perhaps a 2-week period as an answer to my desire to have a particular kind of music to listen to when I was riding my Harley Davison Motorcycle with my friends. It's reminiscent of a certain type of rock music I enjoyed as a teenager in the 1970's. These recordings sat on the shelf for over 30 years and are being released now in 2023. Here's the story..." An abbreviated synopsis of the anecdotal history and fond remembrances as articulated by Vai in the liner notes offer detail on singer Gash and his deep connection to Vai. From his teenage years on Long Island, to today, he has openly shared his love of motorcycles. Gash shared that passion. After three decades, Steve Vai has finally shared this master with The World. In his opinion, "He would have absolutely been the greatest rock lead singer you would ever want to know. All the elements were in place, but he was gone. Disheartened, I put the entire project on the shelf, and would listen to it at least once a year for the past 30 years, especially around the anniversary of his passing. Then recently something compelled me to want to put it out now. I wish you would have had a chance to get to know John. I believe you would have loved him just as we all did. For now, he is 'In the Wind'."

There are times in our life when we feel magic in the air. When new love arrives, or we find ourselves lost in a moment of creation with others who share our vision. A sense that: this is who I want to be. This is what I want to share. It's a fleeting feeling and one that Kyle Thomas, the singer-songwriter who records and performs as King Tuff, found himself longing for in the spring of 2020. But knowing he couldn't simply recreate this time in his life at will, Thomas-who hails from Brattleboro, Vermont-set out to write a love letter to those cherished moments of inspiration and to the small town that formed him. The one where he first nurtured his songwriting impulses, bouncing ideas off other like-minded artists. The kind of place where the changing of the seasons always delivered a sense of perspective and fresh artistic inspiration. Where he felt a deeper connection with nature and sense of community that had once been so close at hand. And so, Thomas seized upon his memories, creating what he calls "an album about love and nature and youth." The result is Smalltown Stardust, a spiritual, tender and ultimately joyous record that might come as a shock to those with only a passing knowledge of the artist's back catalog. On Smalltown Stardust, Thomas takes us on his journey to a place where past and present collide, where he can be a dreamer in love with all that he sees. References to his Brattleboro upbringing abound, but at the core of Smalltown Stardust is Thomas's desire to commune with nature on a spiritual level. Images of the natural world, from blizzards to green mountains to cloudy days, fill the songs. "I consider nature to be my religion," he explains, and Smalltown Stardust is nothing if not a spiritual exploration. While so much of Smalltown Stardust invokes idealized traces and places of Thomas's past, the album's recording process made his communal vision a reality. Thomas's Los Angeles home in 2020 formed a micro-scene of sorts, with housemates Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) and Sasami Ashworth recording their own heralded albums (2021's Fun House and 2022's Squeeze, respectively) at the same time. A shared spirit dominated an era spent largely on the premises, with Thomas serving as engineer and contributor to both records, and Ashworth working as co-producer on Smalltown Stardust. Ashworth's contributions are vital to the album: she co-wrote a majority of the record and contributed vocals, arrangements, and instrumentation to each song. In the end, Smalltown Stardust is not merely a nostalgia trip. Thomas not only conjured a special time in his life, he found new inspiration, surrounded by collaborators and a sense of love and wonder for nature. If the first King Tuff record was content to merely state Thomas was no longer dead, Smalltown Stardust is a paean to what that life means. A statement of belief and a hymnal to the magic still to behold all around us.

2023 release. Syml's music has a sacred quality. The solo venture of Seattle artist Brian Fennell, it's themes tap into the instincts that drive us to places of sanctuary, whether that be a place or person. "It comes back to your identity of being human; throughout time we've shared the same drive," he explains. His own upbringing - interwoven with experiences of abandonment, adoption, loss, grief and love - is what drives him to question how connections between people shape us as individuals. The Day My Father Died is an exceptional record. Over 15 songs, Syml offers a profound exploration of the ways in which our lives intertwine. Throughout the album, Syml weaves in familiar iconography as a means of examining his feelings towards others, and about himself.

The beautiful third album by the GOLDEN DREGS, On Grace and Dignity, starts with a scene of a man going on holiday in search of his �best self�. In among the personal reflections on loss of innocence and inferiority, Benjamin spins subtly interweaving narratives about survival, desperate acts of violence, loss and the limitations of community in the face of rapacious gentrification. Nevertheless, it is, appropriately for an album about home, somewhere you�ll want to spend a while. (Benjamin recorded it at his place �that�s his sister Hannah on saxophone.) Life here proceeds at a graceful pace �the bass is sturdy, organs celestial, horns softly valedictory �grounded by Benjamin�s deep voice, which seems to resonate from his feet as he delivers the sort of meticulously written lunar wisdom worthy of Lambchop�s Kurt Wagner, or the tidy yet revelatory koans of Silver Jews� David Berman.

Coming February 10 2023: the first new studio album in five years from Yo La Tengo, This Stupid World. Recorded at YLT�s practice space in Hoboken NJ, the new material captures the collaborative energy and eclecticism that has defined the band�s career as it enters its 40th year. The double LP features a 10th track on Side D available exclusively on vinyl. The trio returns to NYC�s Bowery Ballroom for their storied annual eight-night Hanukkah residency this December before touring across North America throughout 2023.

Following 5 BBC Folk Awards nominations and a designation by the Guardian as Folk Album of the Year in 2019, it is fair to say that Lisa O�Neill is one of the most evocative songwriters in contemporary Irish music today. Fresh off 2018�s collection Heard a Long Song Gone for the River Lea imprint, The Wren EP in 2019 and an adaptation of Bob Dylan�s ""All the Tired Horses"" for the final scene of epic TV drama Peaky Blinders, O'Neill now returns with her latest album, and first for the Rough Trade label, the beautiful, resonant All Of This Is Chance.A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, every story starts somewhere and O�Neill starts this extraordinary collection here on earth, on Irish soil, hands in the land. The album is full of both orchestral masterpieces like the ambitious and cinematic ""Old Note"", inspired by the great Monaghan writer Patrick Kavanagh's prescient meditation on The Great Hunger as well as stirring meditations on nature, birds, berries, bees, and blood that ring out over a clacking banjo, dusting and devastating all those in its wake.All Of This Is Chance takes Lisa�s inimitable voice to greater heights, or depths, depending on which way you look at it. Vol Side Track Artist Title Sub-Title 1 1 1 Lisa O'Neill All Of This Is Chance 1 1 2 Lisa O'Neill Silver Seed 1 1 3 Lisa O'Neill Old Note 1 1 4 Lisa O'Neill Birdy From Another Realm 1 2 5 Lisa O'Neill The Globe 1 2 6 Lisa O'Neill If I Was A Painter 1 2 7 Lisa O'Neill Whisht, The Wild Workings Of The Mind 1 2 8 Lisa O'Neill Goodnight World

Beauty, disposability and fragility of the culture that surrounds us, and the exhilaration of freeing yourself from those structures� these are the themes Ladytron return to on Time�s�Arrow, their seventh album.

Driven by analogue synths, distorted chimes and hallucinogenic soundscapes, Ladytron crash-landed into electroclash at the turn of the century, using the dancefloor as a bridgehead�to the collective unconscious. �On Time�s Arrow the group add new richness, distant shimmers and a shoegaze-adjacent glow with Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo�s trademark�understated voices now inhabiting a space somewhere between cloudscape and dream.

With One Day, Fucked Up have delivered one of the most energizing and intricate�albums of their career, a massive-sounding record that arrives in deceptively small�confines. The Canadian hardcore legends have been known for their epic scale in the�past, so it might be a surprise that Fucked Up�s sixth studio album is their shortest to�date, written and recorded in the confines of one literal day (hence the title). Don�t�mistake size for substance, though: The band�s sound has only gotten bigger, more�hard-charging, with even denser thickets of melody.�

�I wanted to see what I could record in literally one day.� That singular idea came�to mind for guitarist Mike Haliechuk in the closing months of 2019. Haliechuk got�himself into a studio and proceeded to write and record the record�s ten tracks over�three eight-hour sessions, reconnecting with the core the band�s songwriting essence�in the process.�

Initially, Fucked Up vocalist Damian Abraham was also set to complete his vocals in�similar fashion�that is, before the lockdowns of 2020 took place. As it turns out,�the isolation yielded creative dividends, as Abraham returned to contributing lyrics�as well for the first time since 2014�s Glass Boys. �It almost felt like it might be the�last time I�d ever get to record vocals for anything,� Abraham says of the stakes he�felt while putting his part to tape, before reflecting on how he approached the lyrical�process: �What do I want to say to friends who aren�t here anymore? What do I want�to say to myself?��

Over swarms of tuneful noise that evoke Sonic Youth circa Daydream Nation,�Abraham lets loose on gentrification in �Lords of Kensington,� which was inspired�by an �incredible� Toronto neighborhood that was regularly subject to life-ruining�police surveillance and structural violence. �The police chief during that era�he just�opened a cannabis store,� Abraham explains. �It�s so cynical and gross, what society�has come to�but by being in a band, we�re culpable in changing the neighborhood,�too, since the punk spaces and cool happenings that pop up are part of�gentrification. Are you building a culture? Or are you ruining something that�s already�been there?��

Then there�s the dusky burn of �Cicada,� a sonic cousin to Dose Your Dreams��excellent standout �The One I Want Will Come for Me� that features Haliechuk�taking lead-vocal duty. The song is dedicated to lost friends, and in his words, it�s�about �what life is like after you lose people, and our responsibility to carry them�forward into the future, using the things they taught us as a light. I like to imagine the�sound of cicadas as a metaphor for our strange life in the subculture�we all just live�these weird little hidden lives under the dirt, and then once in a generation, one of�us gets to bust out of the dirt and intone their song so loud that it can be heard all�over.�

One Day is an undeniable work of confidence from a band that continues to operate�at the top of their game, making music that�s guaranteed to last a lifetime and beyond.

If naming is a form of claiming, of being claimed, how is one tethered to both the physical landscape that surrounds us, as well as our own internal emotional landscape-at times calm, at times turbulent, and ever changing? H.C. McEntire's new album Every Acre grapples with those themes-themes that encompass grief, loss, and links to land and loved ones. And naming-claiming land, claiming self, being claimed by ancestry and heritage-permeates the hauntingly beautiful landscape that is this poignant collection of songs.

�I feel like there are two sides of me,� says the Nashville-based singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso known as Sunny War. �One of them is very self-destructive, and the other is trying to work with that other half to keep things balanced.� That�s the central conflict on her fourth album, the eclectic and innovative Anarchist Gospel, which documents a time when it looked like the self-destructive side might win out.

Extreme emotions can make that battle all the more perilous, yet from such trials Sunny has crafted a set of songs that draw on a range of ideas and styles, as though she�s marshaling all her forces to get her ideas across: ecstatic gospel, dusty country blues, thoughtful folk, rip-roaring rock and roll, even avant garde studio experiments. She melds them together into a powerful statement of survival, revealing a probing songwriter who indulges no comforting platitudes and a highly innovative guitarist who deploys spidery riffs throughout every song.

Because it promises not healing but resilience and perseverance, because it doesn�t take shit for granted, Anarchist Gospel holds up under such intense emotional pressure, acknowledging the pain of living while searching for something that lies just beyond ourselves, some sense of balance between the bad and the good.

Featuring: David Rawlings, Allison Russell, Jim James, Micah Nelson

Perseverance carries us through the most turbulent,�traumatic, and trying of times. When all hope seems lost, it shines a light�from the inside that�s impossible to�extinguish, no matter how hard even the�darkest forces try. That light also burns bright at the heart of Gogol�Bordello. Since 1999, the band have consistently riled up�audiences with an�inimitable patchwork of punk, gypsy, dub, folk, Latin swing, and Eastern�European magic.

However, the New York-based collective�trumpet the spirit of survival louder than�ever on their eighth full-length�album,�SOLIDARITNE. Ukrainian-born band leader Eugene Hutz and Co. linked up with New York underground icon�Walter Schreifels [Gorilla Biscuits, Rival Schools, Quicksand] to co-produce the album. �Meanwhile, H.R. of Bad Brains guested on �Era of the End of�Eras,� blessing the track with a cameo punctuated by a key moment from the Bad�Brains anthem �Sailin��On.� The band also�recorded�a new version single �Forces of Victory� [feat.�Serhiy Zhadan & Kazka]. Dizzying�acoustic guitar and violin charge forward�at lightspeed before crashing into an uplifting verse kickstarted by fits of�electric guitar. The accompanying video juxtaposes�footage of the band with�real-life scenes of citizens and soldiers in the midst of war in Ukraine shot�by a Gogol Bordello crew member.

In the end, Gogol Bordello rally everyone together on�SOLIDARITNE.

There�s a line on Honey, the latest album from Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia, about Aspen Grove, a collection of 40,000 trees in the plains of North America, all connected by a single expansive root system. There�s no stronger metaphor for the audience the 25-year-old empathy engine has been generating since she began releasing music seven years ago. Her songs, her fans, her friends: one enormous, interconnected ecosystem. Honey, comprised of eleven new moments of catharsis, is by and for that organism. Set for release on January 23rd 2023 via Grand Jury Music, the album was recorded at North Carolina studio Betty�s �- owned and operated by Sylvan Esso�s Nick Sandborn and Amelia Meath, frequent touring partners of Samia�s. It was produced by Caleb Wright, part of the team that helmed Samia�s breakthrough 2020 debut The Baby, and a founding member of one of Samia�s favorite bands, The Happy Children. It features some of her nearest and dearest friends: Christian Lee Hutson, Briston Maroney, Jake Luppen, Raffaella. Its songs were surreptitiously road tested for her devotees while opening for Lucy Dacus, Courtney Barnett, and more. The end result is what Samia calls simply �a real community record.�

The Murder Capital�s second studio album Gigi�s Recovery, produced by John Congleton, will be released on January 20, 2023 via Human Season Records. The CD will be housed in a printed inner sleeve in a recycled wallet-style jacket. Painting by Peter Doyle and designed by Aidan Cochrane.