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Beach House

Bloom

2012 release, the fourth full length album from Baltimore-based Beach House. It builds on 2010’s Teen Dream to further develop their distinctive sound yet stands apart as a new piece of work.

Bloom is meant to be experienced as an album, a singular, unified vision of the world. The many layers of Bloom are uncomplicated and meticulously constructed to ensure there is no waste.

Dr John

Locked Down

2012 album from the New Orleans legend, produced by Black Keys guitarist and uber-fan Dan Auerbach.

Locked Down distills half a century of this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee’s picaresque musical history, melding his shamanistic stage persona with the authority of a consummate studio musician, the cosmic conjurer with the street-savvy poet.

George Harrison

Early Takes Vol. One

CD or LP

Early Takes, Vol. 1 rounds up ten of George Harrison’s demos dating from the ‘70s.

The exact dates are fuzzy, as the liner notes are little more than hagiography, but a quick scan of the titles pegs the great bulk of them—six, to be precise—from All Things Must Pass, with two others dating from 1976’s Thirty Three & 1/3 (“Let It Be Me,” “Woman Don’t You Cry for Me), another from Living in the Material World, the 1973 album (“The Light That Has Lighted the World), and, finally, a perfectly fine cover of Dylan’s “Mama, You’ve Been on My Mind.”

Uncut / Mojo / Classic Rock / Classic Rock Prog

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Walter Trout

Blues For the Modern Daze

Blues For The Modern Daze represents the guitar legend returning to his core Blues roots; creating his first blues album in 23 years as a bandleader.

Trout shares that his inspiration for the album: ‘was the country bluesman Blind Willie Johnson’. His music is so beautiful, primal, direct and deeply spiritual that I wanted to feel it at my back when we were cutting these songs’.

Dandy Warhols

This Machine

The Dandy Warhols’ searching, contemplative songs have always been a tantalizing yin to the band’s brash, sarcastic yang, but it wasn’t until This Machine that they devoted most of an album to their thoughtful side.

Judging from how well these songs work, it was long overdue; like Earth to the Dandy Warhols, this is one of the band’s most consistent sets yet.

Jack White

Blunderbuss

The first solo outing from singer/guitarist/actor/White Stripes/Raconteurs mastermind Jack White was recorded at his Third Man Studio in Nashville, Tennessee.

M. Ward

A Wasteland Companion

Ward s honey-soaked vocals, deft finger-picking, innate sense of melody and beguiling lyrics have already cemented his reputation as one of America s true musical treasures and A Wasteland Companion features some of the finest songwriting and most striking delivery of his career.

A Wasteland Companion features the added talents of Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb, John Parish, Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis, She & Him’s Zooey Deschanel, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley and many others.

High On Fire

De Vermis Mysteriis

Produced by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou at God City Studios in Salem, MA, the record marks the next devastating chapter in High On Fires gloriously unhinged Metal saga.

The album’s title (translation: The Mysteries of the Worm, ) is a nod to a fictional grimoire conceived by the late, great Psycho author Robert Bloch in 1935 and later incorporated into horror master H.P. Lovecraft s renowned Cthulu Mythos.

Zeus

Busting Visions

With the help of vintage gear and a stellar ear for melody, Zeus’ debut Arts & Crafts album Say Us earned the band XM The Verge’s Album of the Year award and was long-listed for Polaris Music Prize.

The lead single from Busting Visions, “Are You `Gonna Waste My Time”, continues in the fashion of their first record, with smart pop hooks, sweet harmonies and jangling electric guitars.