The second wave of March 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 …
Adrenaline Mob, Omerta (Elm City Music)
Dave Barnes, Stories To Tell (Razor & Tie)
Barren Earth, The Devil's Resolve (Peaceville)
Big Brother and the Holding Company feat. Janis Joplin, Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 (Columbia/Legacy Recordings)
Recorded June 23, 1968 by legendary soundman, engineer and underground chemist Owsley Stanley, aka "Bear," who supervised the mastering of this release before his fatal car accident on March 12, 2011. The release of the album marks the one-year anniversary of his passing and is dedicated to his memory.
Bishop Morocco, Old Boys EP (Arts & Crafts)
Cannibal Corpse, Torture (Metal Blade)
Chains of Love, Strange Grey Days EP (Manimal Vinyl)
Command V, Command V (Mush Records)
The Decemberists, We All Raise Our Voices to the Air [Live Songs 04.11-08.11] (Capitol)
Delta Spirit, Delta Spirit (Rounder)
The San Diego, Calif. quintet teams up with producer Chris Coady (TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) for their third album. Check out the video teaser for the record below.
Demdike Stare, Elemental (Modern Love)
Dropkick Murphys, Going Out In Style: Live at Fenway (Dropkick Murphys)
Elisa, Steppin' On Water (Decca)
The seventh studio album from multiplatinum Italian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Elisa Toffoli.
Epica, Requiem for the Indifferent (Nuclear Blast America)
Fenster, Bones (Morr Music)
NY-Berlin, Wisconsin trio makes big beat indie pop. Their debut album Bones "takes its narrative structure from the associative logic of dreams, weaving morbid imagery and playful fairytales together into a sardonic play against backdrops of dark forests, train rides, graveyards, mountains and seashores. With influences ranging from the Velvet Underground, to the sounds of broken records, the hum of a washing machine, or the faint melodies of oldies tunes through their kitchen radio…" Check out "Fantasy II" after the jump along with the rest of this week's entries…
This article appears in Mar 8-14, 2012.