FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, April 3, 2020
COVID-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases continue. Notables this week include M. Ward, Sam Hunt, Nina Simone, Thundercat, and Steve Goodman. The strong Canadian contingent is led by Joni Mitchell, Lido Pimienta, Born Ruffians (pictured), Maya Rae, Billy Raffoul, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Purity Ring, TOPS, and Scott Hardware.
By Kerry Doole
COVID-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases continue. Notables this week include M. Ward, Sam Hunt, Nina Simone, Thundercat, and Steve Goodman.
The strong Canadian contingent is led by Joni Mitchell, Lido Pimienta, Ellis, Born Ruffians, Maya Rae, Billy Raffoul, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Purity Ring, TOPS, and Scott Hardware.
April
1: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia
3: Ren Harvieu - Revel In The Drama (Bella Union)
3: Surrender Hill - S/T
3: Anna Burch - If You're Dreaming (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
3: Wilma Archer -A Western Circular
3: Ellis - Born Again (Royal Mountain)
3: Various Artists - Stone Crush: Memphis Modern Soul 1977-1987, (Light In The Attic)
3: Purity Ring - Womb (Crystal Math/4AD)
3: Western Centuries - Call the Captain (Free Dirt Records)
3: Joey O’Neil - Ever Ahead
3: Juniper Bush - Healing Through A Sonic Figure ( Transistor 66)
3: Caleb Caudle – Better Hurry Up
3: Peel Dream Magazine - Agitprop Alterna (Slumberland Records)
3: Nation of Language - Introduction, Presence
3: Born Ruffians - JUICE (Wavy Haze Records)
3: Maya Rae - Can You See Me? (Black Hen)
3: Billy Raffoul - A Few More Hours at YYZ (Interscope Records/Universal Music Canada)
3: Snotty Nose Rez Kids -Born Deadly
3: Thundercat - It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder Records)
3: Peach Pit - You and Your Friends (Columbia Records)
3: Nikki & the Phantom Callers - Everybody's Going To Hell (But You and Me)
3: Violent Soho- Everything Is A-Ok (Pure Noise Records)
3: Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn – S/T
3: Slow Leaves - Shelf Life
3: Scott Hardware - Engel (Telephone Explosion Records)
3: TOPS - I Feel Alive (Musique TOPS)
3: Steve Goodman - Live ’69 (Omnivore Recordings)
3: Nobro - Sick Hustle (Dine Alone)
3: Nina Simone - Fodder On My Wings (Verve/UMe)
3: Joni Mitchell - Shine vinyl (Craft Recordings)
3: INFINITUM Chapter I: Monarchy ( Napalm Records)
3: VILLAGERS OF IOANNINA CITY- Age Of Aquarius (Napalm Records)
3: Alec Benjamin - These Two Windows
3: All Time Low - Wake Up, Sunshine
3: Blanco White, On The Other Side
3: Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
3: Hinds- The Prettiest Curse
3: M. Ward- Migration Stories
3: Sam Hunt, Southside
9: Ezra Jordan- Cheap Therapy EP
10: Sparta -Trust The River (Dine Alone Records)
10: Rotting Out - Ronin (Pure Noise Records)
10: The Strokes - The New Abnormal (Cult/RCA)
10: Laurel Halo- Possessed (The Vinyl Factory)
10: Jess Jocoy - Such a Long Way
10: The Brains - Satana Tarantula (Batcave Records)
10: Squarepusher - Lamental EP ( Warp Records)
10: Kalbells -Mothertime (NNA Tapes)
10: The Gladiators - Serious Thing (Omnvore)
10: Dennis DeYoung -26 East, Vol. 1 (Frontiers Music Srl)
10: Cuñao - Rayuela
10: Tunnel - Out For A While
10: Thurlowood - Discontinue Normal Program
10: Wolfheart - Wolves Of Karelia (Napalm Records)
10: Lady Gaga - Chromatica (Interscope)
10: Laurel Halo - Possessed – Soundtrack (The Vinyl Factory)
10: Chastity - Home Made Satan- live, (Dine Alone Records and Captured Tracks)
10: STRFKR- Future Past Life ( Polyvinyl Record Co)
12: Shawn Amos and The Brotherhood - Blue Sky (Put Together)
13: Pilotcan- No More Shan Goodbyes
16: Destijl- Greatest Hits Vol 2
16: Jaunt - All In One
16: Riley Schmelzer- Shadow People (No Label Productions)
17: Billy Ocean - One World
17: Bobby Bare - Great American Saturday Night ( Sony Legacy/BFD)
17: House & Home - Find Sense. Feel Love. Make Light (Open Your Ears Records)
17: The Nighthawks - Tryin’ To Get To You (EllerSoul Records)
17: The Pack AD - It was fun while it lasted
17: Bruce Peninsula- No Earthly Sound
17: Prince - The Rainbow Children, One Nite Alone, One Nite Alone…Live!, One Nite Alone: The Aftershow…It Ain't Over! reissues (Legacy)
17: The Young Canadians - Hawaii reissue (Porterhouse Records)
17: David Bromberg- Big Road (Red House Records )
17: Answering Machine - Bad Luck
17: Bombs Of Hades Phantom Bell
17: Harrow Fair - Sins We Made (Roaring Girl Records)
17: Ron Sexsmith - Hermitage (Warner)
17: Paragon Cause - What We Started
17: Datura4 - West Coast Highway Cosmic ( Alive Naturalsound Records)
17: Joel Plaskett - 44 (Pheromone)
17: Howling Hex- Knuckleball Express (Fat Possum)
17: Enter Shikari - Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible (SO Recordings)
17: Gord Bamford - Rednek (Anthem Records)
17: Aborted - La Grande Mascarade
17: Peggy Lee: - Ultimate Peggy Lee (Capitol/UMe)
17: Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac- Before The Beginning Volume Two - 1970
17: Le Couleur - Concorde (Lisbon Lux Records)
17: Toner - Silk Road (Smoking Room)
17: dvsn - A Muse In Her Feelings (OVO Sound)
17 : Skylar Gudasz — Cinema (Suah Sounds)
17: Missy Bauman - Sweet (independent)
18: David Bowie - CHANGESNOWBOWIE - reissue
18: Neil Swainson - 49th Parallel (vinyl)
20: Yung Heazy - I UR Boy (Unbelievably Spectacular)
23: LOONY - S/T (AWAL)
24: Other Lives- For Their Love ( ATO Records)
24: Philipp Rumsch Ensemble ‘u: of anxiety x discernment’ (Denovali)
24: Philip Rambow - Canadiana
24: B. Knox - Heartbreak & Landscape
24: VAR - The Never-Ending Year
24: Black Metal Enigma (0)- SkamHan (Napalm Records)
24: Pam Tillis - Looking for a Feeling (Stellar Cat Records)
24: Michael Abdow - Heart Signal
24: Day Wave - Crush ([PIAS]
24: Lennon Stella - Three. Two. One. (RECORDS LLC./Columbia)
24: Wares - Survival (Mint Records)
24: Rone - Room With A View (Infiné)
24: TRIVIUM — What The Dead Men Say (Roadrunner Records)
24: Luka Kuplowsky - Judee Justin Arthur Mary - (Next Door Records)
24: VAR - The Never-Ending Year (Spartan Records)
24: Def Leppard - London to Vegas - CD and DVD (Eagle Rock)
24: Willie Nelson - First Rose of Spring (Legacy Recordings)
24: Jennifer Touch - Behind the Wall (FatCat)
24: Philip Sayce - Spirit Rising (Warner)
24: Nova One - lovable (Community Records)
24: Corb Lund - Agricultural Tragic (New West-WMC)
24: The Treble - Rivals (Cadence Recordings)
24: Kristen Martell - Coming Home (Independent)
24: HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III
24: Axel Rudi Pell - Sign of the Times ( SPV/Steamhammer)
24: Whitney Rose - We Still Go To Rodeos (MCG)
24: Warbringer - Weapons of Tomorrow (Shortwave Research Group)
24: Rone - Room With A View ( Infiné)
24: LA Priest - GENE
24: Indigo Girls - Look Long (Rounder Records)
24: Scott Goodwin Valentine
24: Norma MacDonald - Old Future (Noyes Records)
28: Memoir - Sing Backwards And Weep
May
1: Cayley Thomas - How Else Can I Tell You?
1: Austra - HiRUDiN ( Pink Fizz)
1: Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards - Bitter Better
1: Lavinia Blackwall - Muggington Lane End
1: Alanis Morissette - Such Pretty Forks in the Road
1: Houses of Heaven - Silent Places (Felte)
1: River Cult - Chilling Effect - (Tee Pee Records)
1: Tyleen - Fanta$y (Make It Rain Records)
1: Dixie Chicks - Gaslighter ( Columbia Records)
1: American Aquarium - Lamentations (New West)
1: Andrew Cassara - Freak On Repeat (SGMGroupArtists/AWAL)
1: MOHIT-Preface
1: Kenny Chesney- Here and Now (Warner Music Nashville)
1: Diet Cig - Do You Wonder About Me? (Frenchkiss Records)
1: Aether Realm- Redneck Vikings From Hell (Napalm Records)
1: Bebel Gilberto - Agora ( [PIAS] Recordings)
1: Chicano Batman Invisible People (ATO Records)
8: Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor (Atlantic Records)
8: Cryptex - Once Upon A Time (SPV/Steamhammer)
8: I Break Horses - Warnings (Bella Union)
8: Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall - We Are The Night (Frontiers Music Srl. )
8: Rac - Boy (Counter Records)
8: The Hirsch Effekt - Kollaps
8: The Sweater Set - Fly on the Wall
8: Shortwave Research Group Fabryka (Social Proof)
8: Lamb of God - S/T (Sony)
8: Bottler- Clementine EP (InFiné)
8, Margo Price - That’s How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista Recordings)
8: Electric Mob - Discharge (Frontiers Music Srl)
8: The Bobby Lees SKIN SUIT (Alive Naturalsound Records)
8: Smackbound - 20/20 (Frontiers Music Srl)
8: Nikki Yanofsky - Black Sheep
8: David Myles - Leave Tonight
8: Cold Years - Paradise
8: Pantayo- S/T (Telephone Explosion Records)
8: CRYPTEX - Once Upon A Time (SPV/Steamhammer)
8: Mark Lanegan - Straight Songs Of Sorrow (Heavenly Records)
8: Buscabulla - Regresa (Ribbon Music)
8: The K. - Amputate Corporate Art (JuneOrange)
15: Various artists - Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986! (Light in the Attic)
15: Land of Talk - Indistinct Conversations (Dine Alone Records)
15: The Jerry Cans - Echoes (Aakuluk Music)
15: Marshall Chapman - Songs I Can't Live Without
15: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions
15: Voodoo Gods - The Divinity Of Blood
15: Cayo Coco - A Beautiful Moon EP
15: Lesley Barth - S/T
15: The Dears - Lovers Rock (Dangerbird Records)
15: THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN- Temple ( Ribbon Music)
15: Willie Nile - New York At Night
15: Nick Hakim (ATO Records)
15: Pharis and Jason Romero - Bet On Love
15: Shred Kelly - Like A Rising Sun (DevilDuck Records)
20: Jess Knights - Best Kind of Light
22: Ken Yates- Quiet Talkers
22: Tim Burgess- I Love The New Sky (Bella Union)
22: Ethiopian & Gladiators- Dread Prophecy (Omnivore via Nighthawk Records)
22: Kidbug - S/T (Joyful Noise Recordings)
22: Steve Earle & The Dukes - Ghosts of West Virginia (New West Records)
22: Jarrod Dickenson - Ready The Horses
22: Various Artists - Love Lives On
22: Bebe Buckskin - Asiskiy
22: Plague Years - Circle Of Darkness (Entertainment One)
22: Steve Earle & the Dukes - Ghosts of West Virginia (New west)
22: Jeff Healey - Heal My Soul - Deluxe edition (Eagle Rock)
22: DIE KREATUR - Panoptikum ( Napalm Records)
22: Twin Kennedy - Homebound EP
29: New Found Glory - Forever + Ever x Infinity (Hopeless Records)
29: Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today (Domino)
29: Lou Canon - Audomatic Body (Paper Bag)
29: Jade Hairpins - Harmony Avenue (Arts & Crafts)
29: Jaime Wyatt - Neon Cross
29: Dive Index - Waving At Airplanes
29: Vandenberg - 2020 (Mascot)
29: Rush - Permanent Waves 40th-anniversary edition (Mercury/UMC)
29: Painted Zeros -When You Found Forever (Don Giovanni Records)
June
5: Powerwolf- Best Of The Blessed (Napalm Records)
5: Mt. Joy - Rearrange Us (Dualtone)
5: Sarah Jarosz- World On The Ground (Rounder Records),
12: Black Orchid Empire - Semaphore
12: Sammy Brue - Crash Test Kid
12: Steven Wilson - The Future Bites (Arts & Crafts)
12: Gone West - Canyons
12: Junior Byles - Rasta No Pickpocket ( Omnivore via Nighthawk Records)
12: Deep Purple - Whoosh!
19: Zoon - Bleached Wavves (Paper Bag Records)
19: Braids - Shadow Offering ( Secret City Records)
20: Craig Finn - All These Perfect Crosses (Partisan Records)
22: Ethiopian & Gladiators - Dread Prophecy (Omnivore via Nighthawk Records)
22: The Dirty Clergy - In Waves (Cornelius Chapel Records)
23: Selci - A Soft Place (Ocean Records)
29: David Strickland - Spirit Of Hip Hop (Entertainment One)
29: Ben Kunder- Searching For The Stranger
July
3: Divahn - Shalhevet
10: Nobody's Girl - S/T ( Lucky Hound Music)
10: July Talk -Pray For It (Sleepless/BMG),
17: Dark Sarah - Grim (Napalm)
August
14: Robby Krieger - The Ritual Begins At Sundown (The Players Club/Mascot Label Group)
25: Haley Blais - Below The Salt (Tiny Kingdom)
* Canadian releases are in red
