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Following the global success of the unstoppable single �Unholy� featuring pop diva Kim Petras, Sam Smith will be releasing their fourth studio album, Gloria, on January 27, 2023. The 13-track record will be Sam�s boldest statement yet and comes off the back of an undeniable run of success with the lead single from the album.

Quinn XCII�s new album The People�s Champ features 13 brand-new tracks. The new album releases on January 27, 2023 and includes collaborations with Big Sean and more!

Recorded and largely self-produced in Nashville with the help of close friend and engineer Jeremy Ferguson, Asking for a Ride finds the Louisville band taking a more direct and in-your-face approach, prioritizing the collection�s raw energy and its ability to translate live through ripping and nervy compositions. It�s White Reaper at their most exciting - dialing up the chrome-plated riffs and monster hooks � a welcome reminder of just how much fun rock music can be. �We ask ourselves: �Does it sound good when we play it in the room together?� And if it does, those are the songs we want to pursue,� vocalist/guitarist Tony Esposito noted. Guitarist Hunter Thompson concurred: �We started to recognize how we operate best as a band.�

Indie Exclusive Blue Edition, comes w/exclusive flexi disc ft. cover of Yeah Yeah Yeahs Maps

There�s a line on Honey, the latest album from Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia, about Aspen Grove, a collection of 40,000 trees in the plains of North America, all connected by a single expansive root system. There�s no stronger metaphor for the audience the 25-year-old empathy engine has been generating since she began releasing music seven years ago. Her songs, her fans, her friends: one enormous, interconnected ecosystem. Honey, comprised of eleven new moments of catharsis, is by and for that organism. Set for release on January 23rd 2023 via Grand Jury Music, the album was recorded at North Carolina studio Betty�s �- owned and operated by Sylvan Esso�s Nick Sandborn and Amelia Meath, frequent touring partners of Samia�s. It was produced by Caleb Wright, part of the team that helmed Samia�s breakthrough 2020 debut The Baby, and a founding member of one of Samia�s favorite bands, The Happy Children. It features some of her nearest and dearest friends: Christian Lee Hutson, Briston Maroney, Jake Luppen, Raffaella. Its songs were surreptitiously road tested for her devotees while opening for Lucy Dacus, Courtney Barnett, and more. The end result is what Samia calls simply �a real community record.�

Nimrod, Green Day�s fifth studio album, was originally released on October 14 1997. The Billboard Top 10 LP declared �Green Days best!� by Kerrang�was driven by the hit singles �Hitchin� A Ride�, �Redundant�, �Nice Guys Finish Last� and �Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)� the latter of which has sold 5 million copies in the US alone.� The song was written as a spiteful ballad and has evolved into the soundtrack of everyone�s seminal life moments; even being featured in the Seinfeld series finale.� The album has sold over 3 million copies in the US (triple platinum) and has been certified multi-platinum, platinum, or gold in several other countries, including the UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and Spain.

This 25^th Anniversary Edition includes the original album, one disc of previously unreleased Nimrod demos, and a live set from Philadelphia recorded one month after Nimrod was released.�

The 14 track demos disc includes two unreleased Green Day tracks (�You Irritate Me� and �Tre Polka�), plus a cover of the classic Elvis Costello song �Allison� (previously unreleased).

The live album was recorded at The Electric Factory in Philadelphia on November 14 1997. The 20-song set includes several songs from Nimrod, plus fan favorites from their previous albums and singles.�

30th Anniversary Edition of the Cure�s best-selling, Grammy-nominated album �WISH.� Newly remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. Featuring the hit singles �High,� �Friday I�m In Love,� and �A Letter To Elise�

Featuring four instrumentals taken from the 'Wish' sessions, recorded at the Manor Winter 1991. Strictly Limited to 3500 copies worldwide.

Describing their first three albums as a trilogy that is now complete, Meath and Sanborn see No Rules Sandy as the beginning of a new period, with songs that are �wilder and stranger and more cathartic than the band used to be,� as Nick Sanborn puts it. �It feels like who we actually are,� Amelia Meath adds. �It just feels like us. We�re not trying to fit into the mold, just happily being our freak selves.�

Cruel Country�Wilco�s universally-acclaimed 12th studio album will be available for the first time on vinyl and in a standard retail CD format via dBpm Records on January 20th. The double-disc packages are comprised of 21 Country Music inspired tracks, recorded at the band�s Chicago studio�The Loft.

Originally released in May 2022 (digital only) and in a limited �pre-release� CD edition for the June RSD drop, lead tracks �Falling Apart (Right Now)� and �Tired Of Taking It Out On You� have already become staples on non-commercial, public and AAA radio. Cruel Country songs and graphics have been featured throughout the band�s June European tour and August/September/October North American tour.

A new music video for �A Lifetime To Find� will be released in conjunction with the pre-order announcement.

Bandleader Jeff Tweedy has commented a length on the concept and recording process of Cruel Country in numerous podcasts, online interviews and print articles:

�There have been elements of Country Music in everything we�ve ever done. We�ve never been particularly comfortable with accepting that definition, the idea that I was making Country Music. But now, having been around the block a few times, we�re finding it exhilarating to free ourselves within the form, and embrace the simple limitation of calling the music we�re making Country.�

Jon Pareles in The New York Times wrote: �Wilco makes an understated magnum opus. Its tone is naturalistic and understated; the album was recorded largely with Wilco playing live in the studio as a six-man band, quietly savoring the chance to make music together after pandemic isolation.�

Jon Dolan in Rolling Stone wrote: �Their latest is a beautifully rootsy album with a broken sense of patriotic concern.� ****

Tagged in multiple publications� mid-summer Best of Albums of 2022 (so far) Lists including
Variety, Rolling Stone, Spin, Uproxx and Paste.

�Lovage� is defined as �an herb that is said to be a benefit for relieving abdominal pains due to gastrointestinal gas�also touted to reduce flatulence when consumed as a tea.� But when placed in the able hands of sonic mastermind Dan �The Automator� Nakamura, recording under the guise of musical lothario Nathaniel Merriweather, the result is a concept album of �music to make love to your old lady by.� With the help of collaborators such as Mike Patton (vocals), Jennifer Charles (vocals) and Kid Koala (turntables), Merriweather serves as your personal guide to the sensual side of life, painting a satirical, darkly funny portrait of love and sex with left-field hip-hop and instrumentals as only he can do.

One can't speak of California's famed desert rock movement without mentioning the visionary producer/musician Chris Goss. The so-called Godfather of the Joshua Tree-centered scene, Goss has produced famed and acclaimed albums by groups like Queens Of The Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Kyuss, Screaming Trees, and numerous others. Before he was known as a renowned producer though, he was the singer/guitarist�and only consistent member of one of the most influential-yet-forgotten hard rock groups of all time: Masters of Reality. Masters Of Reality (Whose name was appropriately taken from a Black Sabbath song) had the distinction of being the only group signed to two different hip-hop labels of historical note: Def Jam and Delicious Vinyl. Originally label mates with Public Enemy and Slayer, Masters Of Reality's self-titled debut album was released by Def American in 1988. Two years later, Delicious Vinyl founders Matt Dike and Mike Ross, huge Masters fans, bought the band's contract from Rick Rubin and re-released the album with new cover artwork to renewed acclaim and commercial success. So many years later, Masters Of Reality's debut still feels like a hard-hitting breath of fresh air in a modern landscape of over-produced rock music