First wave of December releases. I've included 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.
Affiance, The Campaign (Bullet Tooth)
Alex Metric, Ammunition Pt. 2(Owsla)
A-Trak, Tuna Melt EP (Fool's Gold Records)
Blur, ParkLive (Virgin)
The mega UK rock band's performance at Hyde Park, London to mark the closing of the 2012 Olympic Games is made available in CD, DVD and deluxe combo editions.
Gavin DeGraw, Sweeter Live (RCA)
Diamond Version, EP2 (Mute Records)
Dream Boat, Eclipsing (Cloud Recordings)
El Perro del Mar, Pale Fire (The Control Group)
Hinder, Welcome to the Freakshow (Republic Records)
Morgan James, Morgan James Live (Epic Records)
Jimmy Edgar, Majenta (K7)
Ke$ha, Warrior (RCA)
KISS, The Casablanca Singles (Mercury / Casablanca / UMe)
Memory Tapes, Grace/Confusion (Carpark)
"Discarding any ideas about genre, format or even song structure didn't feel like a liberation though, more like a maze to get lost in," Dayve Hawk has said about his latest Memory Tapes endeavor, a six-track 39-minute work of down-tempo experimental electro, what he's called "pop music as field recordings." Check out "Neighborhood Watch" after the jump along with the rest of this week's new releases…
This article appears in Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2012.