Tuesday Music Guide - June 8, 2010 |
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 JEWELSweet And Wild www.jeweljk.com Dist: Universal Music Canada From the remote ranch of her Alaskan youth to the triumph of international stardom, the three-time Grammy nominee, hailed by the New York Times as a “songwriter bursting with talents” has enjoyed career longevity rare among her generation of artists. Whether alone with her guitar or fronting a band of ace musicians, Jewel has always been a charismatic live performer, earning the respect of other singer-songwriters such as Merle Haggard, Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Her singular style and beauty continuously land her on the covers of such diverse magazines as Time, People, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, In Style, Glamour and Seventeen. Now in 2010, Jewel is maintaining her country roots as she returns to the format with her sophomore follow-up album Sweet and Wild. The album, written and produced by Jewel features the first single, “Stay Here Forever.”TRACKLISTING:  GORDON DOWNIE AND THE COUNTRY OF MIRACLES The Grand Bounce www.gorddownie.com Dist: Universal Music Canada  “The Grand Bounce” is Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip’s third career solo project; The Country of Miracles band members are Gord Downie, Dale Morningstar, Dave Clark, Dr. Pee, Julie Doiron and Josh Finlayson. The album was produced by Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie fame who has previously worked with Hot, Hot, Heat, The Decemberists, Tegan and Sara and many others.TRACKLISTING: THE CHEMICAL BROTHERSFurther www.thechemicalbrothers.com Dist: EMI Music Canada Nearly three years on from the release of their fifth consecutive UK Number 1 “We Are The Night”, “Further” sees Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons explore the boundless possibilities of their sound. Taking a trip through four decades of electronic noise, Tom & Ed have taken the template set up with their “Electronic Battle Weapon” releases and allowed them to mutate gloriously into an entire album. Voice samples and snatches of vocals are woven through tracks to create a record that ebbs and flows like one of the band’s legendary live sets. “Further” is an immersive melodic collection that finds The Chemical Brothers holding nothing back.TRACKLISTING:  DIERKS BENTLEYUp On The Ridge www.dierks.com Dist: EMI Music Canada Conventional wisdom says that in the music business, once you achieve a certain threshold of success, caution should be your guide. But trepidation will not be part of Dierks Bentley’s legacy. At every turn in his career, he’s done his own thing, whether that meant touring with jam bands, playing rock venues or recording with bluegrass all-stars on platinum country albums. Now Dierks steps forward with his most artistically daring project yet - the all- acoustic Up On The Ridge. Dozens of talents have contributed in some way to this project. Besides the five co-written by Dierks himself, the songs come from such varied sources as Bob Dylan, Buddy and Julie Miller, U2 and Kris KristoffersonThe lead single from Dierks’ fifth Capitol Nashville studio project is “Up On The Ridge.”TRACK LISTING:  LIL JONCrunk Rock www.liljononline.com Dist: Universal Music Canada Lil Jon is a Grammy Award winning multi-platinum selling artist in the US and for Canada sales have scanned over 123k units. The new album Crunk Rock features Akon, 30H!3, Pitbull, The Game, David Guetta and more. This is a lifestyle party album flirting with electro-house music merged with hip-hop, pop, rock and R&BThis will be Lil Jon’s first solo release and marks his first album in over 5 years. The current singles are “Outta Your Mind” f. LMFAO and “Ms. Chocolate” f. R. Kelly & Mario.  TOKYO POLICE CLUBChamp www.tokyopoliceclub.com Dist: Universal Music Canada For a band that burst on the scene with an ecstatically received 16 minutes of music (2006's A Lesson In Crime EP) followed in rapid fire succession by additional EPs and singles (Smith, “Your English Is Good”) and a debut album (2008’s Elephant Shell) all in under two years time, you’d think 26 months between albums would be an interminable wait. And it might well have been for Tokyo Police Club, had they not toured relentlessly in support of that first album through August of 2009—and started writing new songs virtually the second their previous record was put to bed.So the nine month gap between the close of that tour and mow the release of Champ, Tokyo Police Club’s second full length album and first for the mom+pop label, has been anything but boring or unproductive. Quite the opposite in fact: The Newmarket Ontario quartet ended up happily immersing itself more fully in its craft than ever: Greg Alsop (drums), Josh Hook (guitar), David Monks (vocals, bass) and Graham Wright (keys/percussion) challenged and redefined their songwriting and performing chops and techniques from day one of pre-production, and, together with producer Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith), ultimately created the defining record of their career to date.TRACK LISTING:  HAIL THE VILLAINPopulation: Declining www.hailthevillain.com Dist: Warner Music Canada  Hail The Villain attack their career with the same hard-nosed approach you’d expect from growing up in Canada’s automobile manufacturing town of Oshawa, Ontario. From the moment they finished recording their debut album, they have been pain-stakingly involved in all creative elements that connect to fans in their vision.In the spring of 2009, Hail The Villain inked a record deal with Warner Music Canada, and by the summer Roadrunner Records had come on board to release the album in the United States. Population: Declining is released today along with the rest of the Hail The Villain universe. TRACKLISTING:  HOT HOT HEATFuture Breeds www.hothotheat.com Dist: Universal Music Canada If Future Breeds, the latest studio release from Hot Hot Heat, is proof of anything, it’s that sometimes it takes a while to see things clearly. It’s taken a decade of tours, albums, line-up changes and label switches—all rewarded with building commercial and critical success—for Hot Hot Heat to fine-tune its vision. But with Future Breeds, all that toil has coalesced into the band’s most thrilling effort to date, one that coincidentally brings it full circle. When the band began writing Future Breeds, front man Steve Bays, along with band mates Paul Hawley and Luke Paquin, sought to recapture the energy and sheer love for the art form that drove the late-nineties Vancouver punk scene from which the band emerged. TRACK LISTING:  AGAINST ME!White Crosses www.againstme.net Dist: Warner Music Canada Against Me! sees their latest album White Crosses being as powerful and as bold a rock record as one can imagine. The band – Gabel, guitarist James Bowman, bassist Andrew Seward and new drummer George Rebelo – roar like fighter jets screaming over a stadium on the anthemic title-track. Joining that is the escapist fury of “Spanish Moss,” and the short stick of dynamite, “Rapid Decompression.” New Wave eschewed some of the roughness of the band’s earlier efforts, but White Crosses goes even further in filling out the band’s wallop. Producer Butch Vig – who also helmed New Wave – pushed the band to make White Crosses more dynamic while retaining the bruising roundhouse rights they’ve thrown since their 2001 debut Reinventing Axl Rose.TRACKLISTING:  TRAVIE MCCOYLazarus www.traviemccoy.com DIST: Warner Music Canada Known far and wide as the frontman of alternative hip-hop superstars Gym Class Heroes, Travie McCoy's solo debut sees him teaming up with a diverse array of studio superstars for a genre-busting, groundbreaking new collection. Among the contributing producers, writers, and artists are T-Pain, Bruno Mars and the Smeezingtons (B.o.B, Cobra Starship, Flo Rida), Detail (Akon, Lady Gaga), The Stereotypes (Ne-Yo, Mary J. Blige), Evan "Kidd" Bogart (Adam Lambert, Beyonce), and Josh Abraham (Velvet Revolver, 30 Seconds To Mars) & Oligee (Flo Rida, Leighton Meester). Lazarus is heralded by the first single, "Billionaire" (featuring Bruno Mars). TRACKLISTING:  PLIESGoon Affiliated www.pliesworld.com Dist: Warner Music Canada When it comes to hip-hop artists, Plies is the realest! After the success of his 2007 debut, The Real Testament, the Ft. Myers, Florida native returned a mere 10 months later with his sophomore release, The Definition of Real. Thanks to the success of his Ne-Yo-assisted #1 single, "Bust It Baby Part 2," Plies once again struck gold, selling over 500,000 copies of The Definition of Real. Then, within just six short months of The Definition of Real, Plies returned with his third disc, Da REAList. Plies is now on the brink of debuting his 4th studio album to date entitled Goon Affiliated which he has described as his best album to date and will be his first album to feature hip-hop collaborations.TRACKLISTING:  PENDULUMImmersion www.pendulum.com Dist: Warner Music Canada Pendulum made one of the biggest breakthroughs of recent years with their hit album In Silico. Having sold over 1 Million records worldwide, the band completed a sell out Academy tour in 2008 and went on to smash the international festival circuit last summer with killer appearances at Glastonbury, Download, V and Global Gathering to name a few. Both Pendulum studio albums to date – In Silico and the band’s debut Hold Your Colour – have gone Platinum in the U.K.. Now they’re back with their most visceral and enthralling work with the album Immersion. Already one of the most anticipated albums of 2010, the excitement building around Immersion escalated following Pendulum’s exclusive album preview DJ set at their Ear Storm night at London’s Matter in January. The set was streamed live to an audience of 200,000, with a total of 350,000 people interacting with the content on the day.TRACKLISTING:  SAVING ABELMiss America www.savingabel.com Dist: EMI Music Canada Saving Abel has emerged in recent years as one of the most successful rock bands in North America. The band is widely known via multi-format hits at radio, and has taken the stage at hundreds of venues across the continent. Saving Abel formed in Corinth, Mississippi in 2004. Four years later on March 11, 2008, the quintet’s major label debut was released by Virgin Records. With the massive success of “Addicted” at radio in Canada, and extensive touring with Nickelback, Buckcherry, Seether, Avenged Sevenfold, and Puddle of Mudd, the single has since been certified GOLD.TRACK LISTING:  I DECLARE WARMalevolence www.myspace.com/ideclarewar Dist: Sony Music Canada I Declare War’s debut full-length album is heavy, and we’re not just talking about the riffs here. Seattle’s I Declare War pulverizes their listeners by melding back-breaking blastbeats with hefty vocals and riffs. Despite their current outlook on today’s society, the band is still able to find their silver lining. While opening for fellow death metal band Whitechapel, the two bands began a lasting relationship--Whitechapel guitarist Alex Wade became their manager, and now here they are with their Artery Recordings debut. TRACKLISTING:  GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALSGrace Potter & The Nocturnals www.gracepotter.com Dist: Universal Music Canada Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are like a modern-day version of Tina Turner stroking the microphone in a spangled mini-dress while fronting the Rolling Stones circa Sticky Fingers. The proof is there for all to hear on the band's third album for Hollywood Records, hitting this spring, and marks an artistic breakthrough for a vital young band caught in the act of fulfilling its immense promise. Little wonder that Grace and her cohorts have chosen to title it, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.  THE HIGGINSDreamers Like Us www.higginsmusic.com Dist: Universal Music Canada The Higgins bring something rare to the table – a vocal blend and a musical connection that’s bred in the bone, and nurtured over a time period that’s twice as long as the life expectancy of most bands. Their sophomore effort on Open Road Recordings, Dreamers Like Us, features a natural sound with a rare and raw beauty that favours honest, deeply held sentiment over flash and overblown hype.TRACKLISTING:  DELTA SPIRITHistory From Below Dist: Universal Music Canada History from Below is the highly anticipated follow-up to Delta Spirit’s captivating debut album, Ode To Sunshine, which brought the band thousands upon thousands of passionate fans. After touring non-stop to support their debut, the band came off the road and wrote and recorded their new album in just a few short months with the help of Eli Thomson and Bo Koster (My Morning Jacket) at Prairie Sun studios, the same place Tom Waits has recorded almost exclusively since 1991. History from Below showcases a road tested band that picks right up where Ode To Sunshine left off, with 11 new rocking, soulful songs, including the driving lead single “Bushwick Blues” and the anthemic “Golden State.”TRACKLISTING:  ANDREW COLEWhy We Wonder www.andrewcole.ca Dist: Fontana North Canadian born and Liverpool raised Andrew Cole with his debut release Why We Wonder brings magic to life, with powerful songs, and “a voice that most singers would die for” - Award winning singer songwriter Tom Cochrane.Armed with a group of the most talented artists to hit the stage, (Kevin Hearn – Barenaked Ladies, Lou Reed, Colin Cripps - Celine Dion, Blue Rodeo, Kevin Breit - Norah Jones, Lyle Molzan - Jann Arden Gary Craig - Anne Murray, Paul McCartney's Mellotron and the brilliant production skills of Bill Bell (Tom Cochrane, Jason Mraz, Justin Nozuka) his debut release promises to entertain and move you.TRACKLISTING:  NEVERMOREThe Obsidian Conspiracy www.myspace.com/nevermorefans Dist: EMI Music Canada One always says that you can’t rush greatness or perfection, and this couldn’t be more true in the case of metal titans NEVERMORE, who last released the highly acclaimed This Godless Endeavor in 2005. The Seattle quartet have triumphantly returned with the much-anticipated new full-length release, The Obsidian Conspiracy, which is what could be their most impressive offering of their illustrious decade plus, heralded career. This quintessential metal band was formed out of the ashes of Seattle, Washington, based thrash act Sanctuary. The band has since released six full-length albums, toured the world a number of times and captivated the hearts of metalheads touring with such diverse and major acts ranging from Megadeth, In Flames, Disturbed, Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir and Children of Bodom, among countless others.TRACKLISTING:
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