May gets off to a rousing start with a host of new music! Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones 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.
98 Degrees, 2.0 (Universal)
Austin Lounge Lizards, Home and Deranged (Blue Corn Music)
AM & Shawn Lee, La Musique Numérique (Park the Van)
The sophomore LP from the twosome is described as "a sun-filled, space-funk masterwork that blends early digital technology with decade-blurring songwriting, transporting listeners deeper into the sonic crates from which the music was born … Taking fans in and out of faded memories of disco, funk, soul and reggae but never colonizing one style." Check out their spacey rendition of Joe Jackson's 1982 hit "Steppin' Out" off the album after the jump and check out the rest of this week's new releases …
This article appears in May 2-8, 2013.