Third wave March. 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.
After the Fall, Unkind (Paper + Plastick Records)
Duane Allman, Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective (Rounder)
Alpha Rev, Bloom (Kirtland)
And So I Watch You From Afar, All Hail Bright Futures (Sargent House)
Anthrax, Anthems EP (Megaforce)
Billy Bragg, Tooth & Nail (Cooking Vinyl)
The Black Crowes, Wiser For the Time (Silver Arrow/Megaforce)
A vinyl and digital release featuring 26 songs — 15 acoustic and 11 electric — from the band’s five-night, sold-out New York City performances in the fall of 2010. The band returns to the road this spring and stops at Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg on Tues., April 30, with Chris and Rich Robinson, Steve Gorman, Sven Pipien and Adam MacDougall joined by "our good friend Jackie Greene" on guitar and vocals. Listen to "Under a Mountain" below.
Black Pus, All My Relations (Thrill Jockey)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Specter at the Feast (Abstract Dragon/Vagrant)
The grinding, guitar-roaring garage-blues-psych rock band BRMC mourns late mentor and producer Michael Been (and in bassist Robert Levon Been, a father) on their hugely anticipated seventh studio full-length, its recording following his untimely death in 2010. Rolling Stone has already deemed it superb and noted, "it captures the group not only at their fiery best ('Rival,' 'Teenage Disease'), but also at their most emotionally open on the sweet 'Lullaby' and the gorgeous 'Returning.'" Check out "Let the Day Begin" after the jump, along with the rest of this week's new releases…
This article appears in Mar 14-20, 2013.