FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, June 25, 2020

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases continue. Notables this week include INXS, Thad Cockrell, Grey Daze, Frank Zappa, Will Hoge, James Blunt, Maceo Parker, Dirty Projectors, Pentatonix, and The Staples Singers.

The very strong Canadian contingent is led by Corb Lund, Klô Pelgag, Zaki Ibrahim, Tim Hicks, Tenille Townes, Japandroids, Loviet, David Strickland, Ken Tizzard, Alania Morissette, Pottery, Mike Ruby, and Zaac Pick.

Please note that dates are subject to change.

June

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)

23: The Lagoons -Midnight Afternoon

24: Ken Tizzard and Music for Goats - Living The Dream

24: Dave Monks  - On A Wave Goes Wild (Dine Alone Records)

24: Pentatonix - At Home EP (RCA Records)

26: Jasmine Dreame Wagner- Switchblade Moon EP (National Gold)

26: Japandroids - Massey Fucking Hall - digital ( Arts & Crafts)

26: FEUERSCHWANZ  - Das Elfte Gebot

26: Pottery - Welcome To Bobby’s Motel (Royal Mountain Records/Partisan)

26: Corb Lund-Agricultural Tragic (Warner)

26: Nayana Iz - Smoke & Fly ( Different Recordings)

26:  Silver Clouds - S/T (Disintegration Records)

26: Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill - deluxe reissue (Warner)

26: Tim Hicks  Wreck This (Open Road Recordings)

26: Stuck On Planet Earth - Beautiful Nowhere (Anthem Records/Anthem Entertainment)

26: TJ George - Fragmented Soul Vol 2. 

26: Ray LaMontagne -  MONOVISION (RCA Records)

26: Will Hoge - Tiny Little Movies

26: Zaki Ibrahim - Sho Live In Toronto (Six Shooter)

26: Loviet - Everyone Knows The Thrill When It's Over 

26: Tenille Townes - The Lemonade Stand (Columbia Nashville/RCA Records)

26: Mike Ruby - You Wrote These Songs via AWAL

26: Gabríel Ólafs -Piano Works (One Little Indian Records)

26: Jared Adams- Tragic Nostalgia (Bandcamp)

26: Frank Zappa - Mothers 70 (UMC)

26: Psychological Rangers – Dirt Bath (Zunior)

26: James Blunt  -Once Upon A Mind (Time Suspended Edition)’ (Atlantic Records)

26: Dirt Reynolds - S/T

26: James Krivchenia- A New Found Relaxation

26: Grey Daze - Amends (Universal)

26: Sahara - Pure Glass (Hand Drawn Dracula)

26: Emmure - Hindsight (Sharptone Records)

26: Bananagun - The True Story of Bananagun  (Full Time Hobby)

26: INXS - Live Baby Live -DVD, Blu-ray, digital (Eagle Vision)

26: Thad Cockrell - If In Case You Feel The Same (ATO Records)

26: Alberta Cross - What Are We Frightened Of? 

26: Zaac Pick - Passages

26: The Turtles -  reissues - It Ain’t Me Babe, You Baby, Happy Together, Battle of the Bands, Turtle Soup, and Wooden Head (Manifesto Records)

26: Ahab - Live Prey (Napalm Records)

26: Silver Clouds -  S/T

26: Dirty Projectors - Flight Tower

26: Cohorte des Indestructibles- Wazazi (A4A Music)

26: Melissa Sullivan - Late Last Night Out 

26: Maceo Parker - Soul Food - Cooking with Maceo - The Funk Garage / Mascot Label GroupVizzTone 

26: Staples Singers - Family Tree, Unlock Your Mind (Omnivore)

26: Klô Pelgag - Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs (Secret City Records)

26: Park Hye Jin - How can I  (Ninja Tune)

26: Evening Hymns -Heavy Nights (Shuffling Feet)

26: Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin- Stygian Bough Vol. 1 (Profound Lore)

26: Bad Moves- Untenable (Don Giovanni)

29: David Strickland - Spirit Of Hip Hop (Entertainment One)

30: Midnight Shine - James Bay reissue

30: Shishi- Mafitishei
 

July

1: IRNEP- Craniophagus Parasiticus

3: Divahn - Shalhevet

3: A.A. Williams- Forever Blue - Bella Union

3: Keleketla - S/T ( Ninja Tune)

3: Too Much  - Club Emotion ( Radical Elite)

3: Little Kid - Transfiguration Highway (Solitaire Recordings)

3:  Lambert  -Alone II  (Mercury KX)

3: Jane Blanchard - Still, Again (Monopolized Records)

3: Dexateens- Live from Athens GA: Heathens Homecoming  (Cornelius Chapel Records)

5: Michael Nau- Demo Versions, 2014 to 2017 (Suicide Squeeze)

10: Michael Grant & The Assassins - Always The Villain (Frontiers Music Srl)

10: The Midnight -  Monsters (Counter Records)

10: Bloody Heels - Ignite The Sky

10: Advertisement - American Advertisement

10: Margo Price - That’s How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista Recordings)

10: The Flamin' Groovies - Now

10: Kestrels  Dream or Don't Dream  (Darla Records)

10: Stan Simon - Songs From Strange Places (Slammin Media)

10: Tokyo Motor Fist - Lions (Frontiers Music srl)

10 : Ensiferum - Thalassic  (Metal Blade)

10:  Enuff Z’nuff - Brainwashed Generation

10: July Talk -Pray For It (Sleepless/BMG)

10: Wolf Culture - Dying In The Living Room  (Common Ground Collective)

10: Venus Furs - S/T 

10: Stan Simon - Songs From Strange Places (Slammin' Discs)

10: Lou Canon - Audomatic Body (Paper Bag)

10: Kestrels - Dream or Don't Dream  (Darla Records)

10: NZCA Lines-  Pure Luxury  (Memphis Industries)

10: Ray Wylie Hubbard & Ashley McBryde - Outlaw Blood 

10: Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle (Ninja Tune)

10: Fast Friends  HI T LO IQ  (Dine Alone Records)

10: Tim Baker  -Survivors (Arts & Crafts)

10: Moscow Apartment  - Better Daughter (Hidden Pony)

10: Rufus Wainwright - Unfollow the Rules (BMG)

12: Aversions - Crown (Hell Will Come for Us All)

13: Ora Cogan-Bells In the Ruins (Prism Tongue)

17: Dark Sarah - Grim (Napalm)

17: Jenny Banai - inherited couchwalker

17: Protomartyr - -Ultimate Success (Domino) 

17: Too Slim and The Taildraggers -The  Remedy  (VizzTone/Underworld Records)

17:  Lianne La Havas - S/T (Nonesuch Records)

17: Tommy and the Commies - Hurtin' 4 Certain (Slovenly Recordings)

17: Laraaji - Sun Piano  (All Saints)

17: Tei Shi - Die 4 Ur Love EP

17: Chris Stamey & the Fellow Travelers - A Brand New Shade of Blue  (Omnivore Recordings)

17: Crack Cloud - Pain Olympics  (Meat Machine )

17: Fionn  - Everyone’s A Critic (604 Records)

17: Trooper -Hot Shots- reissue (UMC)

17: Rumahoy -  Time II: Party  (Napalm Records)

17: Alice Ivy - Don’t Sleep ( Last Gang Records)

17: Anna Sofia - Broken Perfection EP (Republic)

17: The Pretenders - Hate for Sale

17: Kllo - Maybe We Could (Ghostly)

17: The Shaggs -  Own Thing  (Light In The Attic)

17: Bronson - S/T

17: Anthony Garcia - Acres of Diamonds

17: Ellie Goulding - Brightest Blue  (Polydor/UMC)

17: Jarv Is - Beyond the Pale (Rough Trade)

20: Troy Junker - The Path 

⁣24: Howling - Colure (Counter Records) 

24: Shirley Collins- Heart’s Ease (Domino)

24: Liza Anne - Bad Vacation (Arts & Crafts)

24: MOHIT - Preface

24: Nelson Kempf - Family Dollar

24: Bombay Bicycle Club - Two Lives (Arts & Crafts)

24: Absu - S/T 

24: Jon Hassell- Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) (Ndeya)

24: MisterWives - Superbloom ( Fueled By Ramen)

24: Courtney Marie Andrews- Old Flowers (Fat Possum Records)

24: Bill Kirchen - The Proper Years (The Last Music Co.,)

24: Jessy Lanza - All The Time (Hyperdub)

24: The Wild Blue - Anonymous Future EP

24: Kamaal Williams - Wu Hen ( Black Focus)

24: Monica Lee - Farewell

31: Dizzy-The Sun and Her Scorch  (Royal Mountain Records)

31: Alex Izenberg  - Caravan Château  (Weird World / Domino)

31: Romare - Home (Ninja Tune)

31: Warkings -  Revenge (Napalm) 

31: Figueroa - S/T  (Nomark Records)

31: Insight - Reflection  (Mission Two Entertainment)

31: The Coronas - True Love Waits

31: Dee Snider - For The Love of Metal Live Album & DVD/Blu-Ray  (Napalm Records)

August

* Canadian releases are in red