YO! The rumors are true: you can fry an egg on the new Daft Punk album . . . IT’S THAT HOT. Neck and neck with Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories in hotness is the new album from the National, Trouble Will Find Me. Neither of those your thang? Check out new releases from Dirty Beaches, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Red Hare, Zozobra, Shannon & the Clams or Majical Cloudz. Feeling like checking out some new, old stuff? Reissues abound this week from Townes Van Zandt (two of them!), Come, the Breeders, Boogie Down Productions and Primus! PLUS . . . a double-live Bongripper album, original Lost Sounds LP’s found in some warehouse, a nine-LP Public Enemy box set and a new compilation from Soul Jazz. Git in here!
Baptist Generals – Jackleg Devotional to the Heart (CD/LP) (Sub Pop)
Black Bananas/Tobacco – Split (7″) (Volcom)
Bongripper – Live at Roadburn (2xLP) (Roadburn)
Boogie Down Productions – Man & His Music (CD/2xLP – reissue) (Traffic)
Breeders – Last Splash XX (3xCD)
Caribou – Start Breaking My Heart (LP – reissue) (Leaf)
Caribou – Milk of Human Kindness (LP – reissue) (Leaf)
Come – 11:11 (2xCD/2xLP w/ 7″) (Matador)
Condominium – Carl (7″) (Sub Pop)
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories (CD/2xLP)
Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love is the Devil (CD/2xLP on limited white vinyl!) (Zoo Music)
Earthling – Dark Path (CD/LP)
Fan-Tan – Strange Game (CD/LP)
Galaxie 500 – Temperature’s Rising (BOOK)
Guerilla Toss – S/T (CD)
Francois Hardy – Midnight Blues: paris & London 1968-72 (CD)
Hollywood – Love Child (CD/LP) (Big Neck)
Hyetal – Northwest Passage (12″) (True Panther Sounds)
Jaga Jazzist – Live With Britten Sinfonia (CD)
Peter Jefferies – Last Great Challenge in a Dull World (LP reissue)
K-OS – Black on Blonde (LP)
Letherette – D&T (12″)
Lost Sounds – Memphis Is Dead (LP – blue vinyl, ORIGINAL copies found by Big Neck Records. Features Jay Reatard) (Big Neck)
Majical Cloudz – Impersonator (CD/LP) (Matador)
Pat Metheny – Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels, Vol. 20 (CD)
Willy Moon – Here’s Willy Moon (CD)
The National – Trouble Will Find Me (CD/2xLP) (4AD)
Scout Niblett – It’s Up to Emma (CD/LP) (Drag City)
Om – Gethsemene Dubplate (12″) (Drag City)
Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese (CD/DVD or LP – reissue)
Promised Land – Yes You Can b/w Pay Day (7″) (Third Man)
Public Enemy – 25th Anniversary Vinyl Collection (9xLP – Yo! Bum Rush the Show through the He Got Game soundtrack)
Queen – On Fire Live at the Bowl (DVD)
Red Hare – Nites of Midnite (CD/LP) (Dischord)
Rolling Stones – Crossfire Hurricane (DVD)
Emeli Sande – Our Version of Events (2xLP)
Saturday Looks Good to Me – One Kiss Ends it All (CD/LP) (Polyvinyl)
Scientist – Scientific Dub (3×10″ – box set) (Clocktower)
Shannon & the Clams – Dreams in the Rat House (CD) (Hardly Art – vinyl delayed until June. Sad face.)
Sic Alps – She’s on Top” (12″) (Drag City)
Source Family – Original Soundtrack (CD/LP) (Drag City)
Townes Van Zandt – High, Low & In Between (CD/LP – reissue) (Omnivore)
Townes Van Zandt – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (CD/LP – reissue) (Omnivore)
Zozobra – Savage Masters (LP – clear vinyl) (Brutal Panda)
V/A – Warning! Big Neck Record Store Day Compilation (7″) (Big Neck)
V/A – Classic Harmonica Blues From Smithsonian Folkways (CD)
V/A – Mirror to the Soul: Music, Culture & Identity in the Caribbean 1920-72 (2xCD w/ DVD or 2xLP) (Soul Jazz)
AMAZING RESTOCKS
Cool punk vinyl: NOFX, Lawrence Arms, Rise Against, etc.
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (2xLP)
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2xLP)
Baseball Furies – Throw Them to the Lions (CD/LP)
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (LP)
Bongripper – Great Barrier Reefer (2xLP)
Dope Body – Nupping (CD/LP – back in print)
Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People . . . Lazers Do (2xLP)
Rancid – And out Come the Wolves (LP)
St. Vitus – Mournful Cries (LP)
Tame Impala – Lonerism (LP)
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp (LP)
Jessie Ware – Devotion (LP)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito (LP)