The last batch of new releases for 2012 – or the last batch with anything worthwhile, anyway. The next new releases you'll see on the CL site will be for Tues., Jan. 8, 2013! Stay tuned … but until then, I've included info and links for the very few you want to know about most for this week below, plus one or two you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.
Bell Gardens, Full Sundown Assembly (Truth Cult)
Capital Cities, Capital Cities EP (Capitol Records)
Chief Keef, Finally Rich (Interscope)
Eric Clapton, Slowhand 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Polydor)
A two-disc expanded version of the Clapton classic; disc one features a remastered and expanded version of Slowhand while disc two is a concert from the era, Live At Hammersmith Odeon, April 27, 1977.
Dani Shay, One: The Winter EP (self-release)
The-Dream, Terius Nash: 1977 (Def Jam)
The fourth album from the hip hop soul artist (its title referencing his real name and year of birth) was originally supposed to be a "stop-gap" release to whet the appetites of fans when the release date of his intended fourth album, Love IV, was delayed. It was issued for free last August in a download-only format, but has been reworked and re-issued this week as his fourth official album after the official kibosh on Love IV.
Matt Duke, Love On A Major Scale EP (Rock Ridge Music)
Check out the rest of this week's entries after the jump, with audio and video included …
This article appears in Dec 13-19, 2012.