FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, March 31, 2022

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables with new albums include Thomas Rhett, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Conkarah, Penny Rimbaud & Kate Shortt, Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers, North Mississippi Allstars, and Paula Boggs Band. 

A very strong week for Canadian artists sees new albums from Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales, No Frills, Lights, HOROJO Trio, P'tit Belliveau, Jeremie Albino, Cassidy Mann, Pup, Common Deer, Kellarissa, Sara-Danielle, Pengz and 6ixbuzz, and The ACT Americana Trio.

March

28: The ACT Americana Trio  - True North

29: Clea Anais - Circle Zero

30: Picot - Les ales del cavall

31: The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Rise (Saddle Creek)

April

1:  No Frills -  Downward Dog

1: Thomas Rhett - Where We Started (Valory)

1: Conkarah - Destination Unknown (BMG)

1: Pilla B - Interstellar

1: Eleon - Hidden In Time 

1: Sara-Danielle - Another Self

1:  Field Works -   Station (Temporary Residence)

1: Nakaya -  Fire Becomes Me ( Better Company Records)

1: Pengz and 6ixbuzz - Can’t Make This Shit Up (Warner Music Canada)

1: Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales - Consumed in Key (Secret City Records)

1: Elliah Heifetz - First Generation American

1: Pengz -  Can’t Make This Shit Up EP  (6ixbuzz)

1: Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers - Spencer Gets It Lit! (In The Red)

1: Ben Vida and Lea Bertucci -Murmurations (Cibachrome Editions)

1:  False Memories  - Live Until The Twilight (Frontiers Srl)

1: HOROJO Trio - Set The Record (Stony Plain Records)

1: Lords of the Trident -The Offering

1: Common Deer  - MAXIMALIST

1: Lights - PEP (Warner Music Canada)

1: Evil Invaders -Shattering Reflection (Napalm Records)

1: Miley Cyrus -  ATTENTION: MILEY LIVE (Sony)

1:  Eve's Twin Lover Stop Sending People To Kill Me 

1: Damian Lazarus - (Music Inspired by The Film) Beijing Spring

1: Penny Rimbaud & Kate Shortt - Kernschmelze III – Concerto For Improvised Cello (Caliban Records)

1: Eric Roberson - Lessons (B.L.U.E. ERRO SOUL Entertainment/UnitedMasters)

1: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love [Warner Records]

1: Gerald Clayton -  Bells On Sand (Blue Note Records)

1: Kellarissa - Voice Leading (Mint Records)

1: Selbor - S/T

1: P'tit Belliveau-Un homme et son piano (Bonsound)

1:Jeremie Albino  Past Dawn  (Good People Record Co.)

1: Cassidy Mann  - If It’s Not Forever (End Times Music)

1: The Golden Glows - Moonlight and Rain

1: Pup- The Unravelling of PupTheBand (Little Dipper/UMC)

1: Misfire - Sympathy For The Ignorant, (MNRK Heavy)

1: The Eargoggle - Eargoggle Regales, The Eargoggle Revels

1:  Casually Here -Possible Worlds

1: Paula Boggs Band - Janus

1: Sam Kogon - S/T

1: Nakaya - Fire Becomes Me EP   (Better Company Records)

1: Reminders - Best of Beach Punk (Wiretap Records)

1:Jan Järvlepp - Three Stories By Hans Christian Andersen  (Navona Records)

1: North Mississippi Allstars - Set Sail (New West)

1: Mama Gun - Cure The Jones (Candelion)

1: Ben Vida and Lea Bertucci- Murmurations (Cibachrome Editions)

3: Kuolemanlaakso - Kuusumu

6: Melted Wings - Cheer for the Deer

7: The Henrys - Shrug (Bandcamp)

8: B. Knox - Far From Folk  

8: Wet Leg - S/T (Domino)

8: Cole Swindell - Stereotype (Warner)

8: Emét - Carlin’s Farm

8: Homeschool - Book II EP 

8: Banks - Serpentina (AWAL)

8: Dallas Ugly - Watch Me 

8: Amy Speace - Tucson ( Proper Records/Windbone Records)

8: Horace Andy - Midnight Rocker (Redeye)

8: Steve Boudreau - Cherished Possessions

8: Jordan Klassen - Glossolalia

8: Pendant - Harp

8: Papercuts - Past Life Regression (Slumberland)

8: Hallas - Isle Of Wisdom (Napalm)

8: Bobby Mahoney and the Seventh Son -We Go On (Telegraph Hill Records)

8: Van Chamberlain - In the Sun (Very Jazzed)

8: Wet Tuna - Warping All By Yourself  (Three Lobed Recordings)

8: Yves Léveillé -  L’échelle du temps ( Effendi Records)

8: Vince Staples - Ramona Park Broke My Heart (UMC)

8: Joep Beving - Hermetism (UMC)

8: Jack White- Fear Of The Dawn (Third Man Records)

8: Martha Wainwright-  Love Will be Reborn (digital deluxe edition)

8: Whatever The Weather - S/T

8:  Camila Cabello

8: Roxi Copland - I Come From Crazy

8: Seth Swirsky -  Songs From The Green Couch (Lolipop Records)

8: Andy Frasco & The U.N. - Wash, Rinse, Repeat

8: Warden and Co. - Somewhere

8: Tanika Charles - Papillon de Nuit: The Night Butterfly (Unique Applause) 

8: Josh Ramsay The Josh Ramsay Show (604 Records)

8: Dear Rouge - Spirit (Pheromone Recordings)

8: Papa Roach - Ego Trip  (New Noize Records/ADA Worldwide)

8: Orville Peck - Bronco

8: Kyla Charter - Edible Flowers

8: Riot Antigone - S/T

8: Dillon Vanders - Wildfires

8: Envy Of None - S/T ( Kscope)

8: Destruction - Diabolical (Napalm Records)

8: Oceanator - Nothing's Ever Fine (Big Scary Monsters / Polyvinyl)

8: Inglorious - MMXXI Live At The Phoenix (Frontiers Srl)

8: Bonnie Pointer -Like a Picasso, (Omnivore)

8: Michelle Willis - Just One Voice  (GroundUP Music)

8: Joe Satriani The Elephants of Mars  (earMUSIC)

8: Laya - Um, Hello (Warner)

8: Jesse Mac Cormack - Solo (Secret City Records)

8: Lucius - Second Nature (Dine Alone)

8: Dahlia Sleeps - Overflow 

8: RIP Pop Mutant - Fluxus Pop 

8: Pavement -Terror Twilight : Farewell Horizontal - 4LP/2CD Deluxe reissue  (Matador)

8: Health  - Disco4- Part 11 (Loma Vista Recordings)

8: Deanna Petcoff - To Hell With You, I Love You  (Royal Mountain Records)

10: Alyona Minulina - Spring

12: Ariane Moffatt -  1969 

13: Monako -  In Shapes I-III 

14: All Things Blue - Nothing Special

15: Fozzy - Boombox

15:  Urferd - Resan  (Black Lodge Records)

15: Sophia Bel -Anxious Avoidant (Bonsound)

15: Altameda  - Born Losers (Pheromone/Missing Piece)

15: Bobby Cole - A Point Of View (Omnivore)

15: The Nighthawks –Established 1972  (VizzTone)

15: Dave Brubeck Trio - Live From Vienna 1967 - vinyl April 23 (MVD)

15: AVIV - Drowning In The Culture  (Photo Finish Records)

15: Eric Paslay -  Even If It Breaks Your Barefoot Friday Night

15: Piers - Ire  (INSRT)

15: Various Artists - Brother Johnny: A Tribute To Johnny Winter 

15: Axel Rudi Pell - LOST XXIII (Steamhammer)

15: Chris Mondak - Glass Spheres (Summit Records)

15: Manegarm - Ynglingaättens Öde  (Napalm Records)

15: Stone Broken - Revelation (Spinefarm)

15: Grae - Whiplash 

15: Semblant - Vermilion Eclipse (Frontiers Music Srl )

15: Joel Ross - The Parable of the Poet (UMC)

15: Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Mercy Me (Stony Plain Records)

15: Imminent Sonic Destruction - The Sun Will Always Set

15: David Owen - Oh Suzana Blues

15: Nazareth - Surviving The Law (Frontiers Music Srl)

15: Cancer Bats - Psychic Jailbreak ( Bat Skull Records/New Damage Records)

15: Beth Ann McDowell - The Sim Is Real

16: LIA & Thomas White -  Stardust EP

20: Carrtoons - Homegrown (Wichita Recordings/Redeye)

21: Richard Shelton - An Englishman in Love in LA

22: Ian Lake - What It Is

22: Samantha Savage Smith -  Fake Nice 

22: Abigail Lapell - Stolen Time (Outside Music)

22: Old Crow Medicine Show - Paint This Town (ATO Records)

22: Fontaines D.C. -  Skinty Fia (Partisan Records)

22: Audrey Horne- Devil’s Bell (Napalm Records)

22: Railroad Earth All For The Song 

22: Bonnie Raitt -Just Like That (BMG)

22:  Dallas Wayne  - Coldwater, Tennessee

22: Ebunctions -This Just In Out 

22: Kate Clover - Bleed Your Heart Out  (SVR)

22: Bodysnatcher -Bleed-Abide (MNRK Heavy)

22: Evan Barber - Until The Thunder

22: Ben Marc - Glass Effect (Innovative Leisure)

22: Deanne Matley - The Alberta Lounge (Barbette Records)

22: Barton Stanley David - Crest (Kenshire Records)

22: Patrick Watson -Better in the Shade (Secret City Records)

22: Léonie Gray -Who?( Spectra Musique)

22: Josh Hedley - Neon Blue (New West)

22: Way North -  New Dreams, Old Stories (Roots2Boot Recordings)

22: Tenille Townes -   EP, Masquerades (Columbia Nashville/Sony Music Nashville)

22: Barney Bentall -  Cosmic Dreamer (True North Records)

22: Simon & The Astronauts ft Rachel Haden - S/T  ( Ring Records)

22: LeVelle - My Journey Continues (SRG-ILS Group)

22: Georgia Harmer - Stay In Touch

22: Stew Cutler - The Blues From Another Angle

22: Travellin' Blue Kings -Bending The Rules

22: James Heather - Invisible Forces (Ahead of Our Time)

22: Lynne Hanson - Ice Cream In November

22: Niall Mutter -Pass Me By (Lighter Than Air / Nice Guys)

22: Mike Murray - Horizon

22: Mear -  Soft Chains

22: Jane Inc. - Faster Than I Can Take (Telephone Explosion Records)

22: Audrey Horne -   Devil’s Bell (Napalm Records)

22: Bodysnatcher -Bleed-Abide (MNRK Heavy)

22: Li’l Andy – The Complete Recordings Of Hezekiah Procter (1925-1930)  (Back On Wax)

22: Jeanines -  Don't Wait For A Sign (Slumberland)

23: Nico + The Faction  -  Camera Obscura (Blue vinyl)  (Beggars Banquet)

23: Dalis Car  - The Waking Hour  (Purple vinyl)  (Beggars Banquet)

23: Erika de Casier -  The Sensational Remixes (Clear vinyl)  (4AD)

23: Camera Obscura    Making Money (4AD B-Sides and Rarities (Mint Green vinyl)  (4AD)

27: The Mellons - - Introducing... The Mellons!  (Earth Libraries)

27: Atmosphere -Lucy Ford - vinyl edition (Rhymesayers Entertainment)

27: Personal Trainer - Reflex 

28: Dot Allison - Entangled Remix EP  (SA Recordings)

28: TWÏNS - The Human Jazz  (Earth Libraries)

29: Gus Englehorn - Dungeon Master  (Secret City Records)

29:  Julie Doiron and Dany Placard -Julie & Dany  (Simone Records)

29: Bloc Party - Alpha Games  ( Infectious / BMG)

29: Willie Stratton Drugstore Dreamin’

29: Tegan Johnston -  Sentimental Ballad

29: Steven Lambke - Volcano Volcano (You've Changed)

29: Central Heat Exchange - DELUXE (Birthday Cake)

29: Pershagen - Hilma

29: St. Arnaud - Love and the Front Lawn. (Fierce Panda)

29: Lydia Persaud - MOODY31 ( Next Door Records)

29: Allegories-Endless (Hidden Pony Records)

29: Mall Girl  - Superstar  (Jansen Records)

29: Poets of the Fall  - Ghostlight

29: Yannick Rieu -  Qui Qu’en Grogne (Yari Productions)

29: Dana Gavanski - When It Comes 

29: Melody’s Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal (Domino)

29: The Blue And Gold - S/T 

29: Shaina Hayes -  to coax a waltz 

29: Tomberlin - i don’t know who needs to hear this… (Saddle Creek)

29: Deaf Lingo -Lingonberry

29: Corb Lund - Songs My Friends Wrote (Warner)

29: Paddy and the Rats- From Wasteland To Wonderland, (Napalm Records)

29: Izaak Opatz  Extra Medium (Mama Bird Recording Co)

29: Pierre Kwenders -José Louis and the Paradox of Love (Arts & Crafts)

29: Velcrocranes - What If I Die (InsideOutMusic)

29: Kehlani blue water road(Warner)

29: Frog Eyes -The Bees

29: Blossoms -  Ribbon Around The Bomb

29: Willie Nelson - A Beautiful Time 

May

5: Fist - Alive

6: Three Days Grace - Explosions (RCA Records)

6: The Builders and The Butchers - Hell & High Water (Badman Recording Co.)

6: Zakoor - Life Cycle

6: !!!  -Let It Be Blue ( Warp Records)

 6: Valorie Miller - Only The Killer Would Know  (Blackbird Record Label)

6: Marc Jordan and Amy Sky - He Sang She Sang  ( Linus Entertainment)

6: Kisskadee - Black Hole Era (Anxiety Blanket Records)

6: Cody Frost - Teeth

6: Bad Planning - Et Fortes (Jump Start Records)

6: The Actual Goners - Lost Highway

6: Ibeyi  -Spell 31  (XL Recordings)

6: Wilma Vritra - Grotto (Bad Taste)

6: Kelly Hoppenjens- Can't Get The Dark Out

6: Kaleidobolt -  This One Simple Trick

6: Emeli Sandé  - Let’s Say For Instance (Chrysalis Records)

6: Jani Liimatainen -  My Father's Son (Frontiers Music Srl )

6: Arcade Fire - WE (Columbia)

6: Gooseberry -  EP Broken Dance

6: Kisskadee -  Black Hole Era (Anxiety Blanket Records)

6: Soft Cell - Happiness Not Included

6: The Rumjacks & Flatfoot 56 - The Split EP

6: Sheryl Crow - Sheryl: Music From The Feature Documentary ( UMe/Big Machine Records)

6: Belle & Sebastian - A Bit of Previous    (Matador)

6: Maryze - 8 (Hot Tramp Records)

6: Tennessee Stiffs - Dearly Departed  

6: Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools ( ATO Records)

6: Yawners - Duplo (Big Scary Monsters)

6: The Waterboys - All Souls Hill’ (Cooking Vinyl)

6: Lord Of The Lost - The Heartbeat Of The Devil

6: Fozzy -  Boombox

6: Gnarfunkel -Gnarnia

10: Dream Syndicate - Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions

11: Keegan Powell - Previous Pain

13: Craig David - 22

13: Famyne - The Ground Below (Svart Records)

13: Busty and the Bass - Karneval (A&C)

13: Visions of Atlantis - Pirates ( Napalm Records) 

13: Khamsin - What's Left Of Life

13: Cage Fight - S/T ( Candlelight)

13: The Graham Bonnet Band - Day Out In Nowhere(Frontiers Sri)

13: The Bros. Landreth - Come Morning (Birthday Cake)

13: Moonraker - The Forest (Tiny Dragon Music)

13: The Big Deal - First Bite (Frontiers Sri)

13:  Sister Ray - Communion

13: Ye Vagabonds  - Nine Waves ( River Lea Recordings / Rough Trade)

13: Steve Forbert - Moving Through America  (Blue Rose)

13: Cam Maclean- Secret Verses

13: Rolling Stones -Live At The El Mocambo (UMC)

13: Yves JarvisThe Zug  ( ANTI- / Flemish Eye)

13: Delbert McClinton - Outdated Emotion (Hot Shot Records)

12:  Amyl & the Sniffers - Comfort To Me (Expanded Edition) vinyl  (ATO Records/Rough Trade)

13: Pkew Pkew Pkew - Open Bar (Dine Alone)

13: Victor Mucho - Moonlight in Visby

20: Zinny Zan - Lullabies for the Masses (Wild Kingdom)

20: John Rocca  - One Upon a Time in N.Y.C. (Beggars Archive)

20: Craig Finn - A Legacy of Rentals  (Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers)

20: XPropaganda - The Heart Is Strange

20: Soak  - If I Never Know You Like This Again (Rough Trade)

20: Bennett Matteo Band -Shake the Roots (Gulf Coast Records)

20: Harry Styles - Harry’s House

20: Wolftooth -  Wolftooth and Valhalla - Vinyl reissues (Napalm Records)

20: Claudia Bouvette - The Paradise Club (Bonsound)

20: Cola - Deep In View (Next Door Records)

20: Shawn Williams -Wallowin' in the Night 

20: Avi Kaplan - Floating On A Dream (Fantasy Records)

20: J. Brown - Chapter & Verse (Sono)

20: Lucy Liyou  - Welfare / Practice  (American Dreams Records)

20: High Valley - Way Back

20: Various Artists -Coverama (Popguru Sound & Vision/ The Confidence Emperors)

20: Alex Izenberg -  I’m Not Here (Weird World.)

20: Mike Stevens - Breathe In The World, Breathe Out Music (Stony Plain Records)

20: The Unlikely Candidates  - Panther Island 

26: Mon Doux Saigneur - Fleur de l’Âge (Bonsound)

27: Rip Room - Alight and Resound (Spartan Records)

27: Lou Pomanti -  Lou Pomanti & Friends (Vesuvius)

27: Trollfest - Flamingo Overlord (Napalm Records)

27: Adam Brian Paul  - For the Good

27: Amanda Rheaume -  The Spaces In Between (Ishkōdé Records)

27: Def Leppard - Diamond Star Halos (UMC)

 27: Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita - Echo (bendigedig)

27: Taking Back Sunday  Tell All Your Friends deluxe reissue (Craft Recordings)

27: Steven R. Smith -Spring

27: Onna Lou - Diamante

27: Crematory -  Inglorious Darkness (Napalm Records)

27: Jahmal Padmore -Esparonto ( Telephone Explosion Records )

 27: Sheenah Ko - Future Is Now

June

3: Guy Blue - Arms Wide

3: GWAR -The New Dark Ages - CD and Digital (Sept. 16 on Vinyl and Cassette) ( Pit Records)

3:  Matt York - Gently Used

3: Jasmyn -  In The Wild (Royal Mountain Records and ANTI-)

3: hill of iamhill - Sellout (Text Me Records)

3: Tuff Bear -Tuff Bear's Picnic  ( Acrophase Records )

3: Kamikaze Nurse - Stimuloso (Mint Records)

3: Flaccid Mojo - S/T ( Castle Face Records)

3: Nicki Bluhm - Avondale Drive  (Compass Records)

3: Adrian Quesada - Boleros Psicodélicos,' A Love Letter to Latin American Balada Music ( ATO Records)

3: Ken Yates -Cerulean

3: The Bombadils - Dear Friend

6: Ianai- Sunir (Svart)

10: George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid (Columbia Records)

10: slenderbodies - simple shapes

10: Wind Rose - Warfront (Napalm Records)

10: Jonathan Kawchuk - Everywhen, (Paper Bag Records)

10: Michael Monroe  (Silver Lining Music)

10: Inanimate Existence -  The Masquerade (The Artisan Era)

10: Bloody Heels - Rotten Romance (Frontiers Srl)

10: Venus 5 - S/T

10: Michaela Anne - Oh To Be That Free  (Yep Roc Records)

10: Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy at Capitol Studios (BMG)

14: Handheld -A Canadian Tragedy (Thousand Islands Records)

17: Me Rex - Plesiosaur (Big Scary Monsters)

17: Yaya Bey - Remember Your North Star (Big Dada)

17: Alice Merton  -S.I.D.E.S. (Mom + Pop Music and Paper Plane Records Int.), 

17: Digging Roots - Zhawenim (Ishkōdé Records)

17: Flasher - Love Is Yours (Domino)

17:  Pat Matshikiza - Sikiza Matshikiza (We Are Busy Bodies)

17: RX Y - Blood Moon

24: Alexisonfire - Otherness (Dine Alone Records)

24: Motherhood - Winded  (Forward Music Group)

24: Soccer Mommy -  Sometimes, Forever (Loma Vista)

24: Hollie Cook  - Happy Hour (Merge Records)

24: Katrina Ford - S/T  (Violin Films)

24: Andrew Weiss and Friends - Sunglass & Ash

July

6: Ghost Woman - S/T  (Victory Pool)

8: Blind Channel - Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous (Century Media Records)

8: Bad Breeding - Human Capital’ (One Little Independent Records)

15: Superorganism -  World Wide Pop 

22: Jack White - Entering Heaven Alive (Third Man)

22: ODESZA - The Last Goodbye (Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune)

August

5: Colyn Cameron - Freehand

26: Muse -Will Of The People (Warner Records)

26: The Hirsch Effekt - Solitaer  (Long Branch)

26: Alan Braxe and DJ Falcon - Step By Step (Smugglers Way/Domino)

Canadian artists marked in red