FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, March 31, 2022
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables with new albums include Thomas Rhett, Conkarah, Penny Rimbaud & Kate Shortt, Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers, and Paula Boggs Band. A very strong week for Canadian artists sees new albums from Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales, No Frills, Lights, HOROJO Trio (pictured), P'tit Belliveau, Jeremie Albino, Cassidy Mann, Pup, Common Deer, Kellarissa, and The ACT Americana Trio.
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