New releases for 11 December 2020

We kick off our final selection of the year with The Kills, who have compiled an extraordinary career-spanning collection of B-sides and rarities entitled, appropriately, Little Bastards. The songs date back from the band’s first singles between 2002 and 2009. All of the material has been newly remastered, and marks the first ever vinyl pressing…

Pre-sale of the week: William The Conqueror – Maverick Thinker, out 5 March

William The Conqueror have paid their dues. Like the sportsman cutting chipped teeth in the lower leagues before shooting to the very top, this band have lugged all the amps, placated the in-house sound guy for an easier life, their nails dirty, their hair unkempt. Enough. Except it’s never enough, because despite the slinky, swampy,…

New releases for 4 December 2020

On with the pick of the week’s best new albums. Barely a year after Stereophonics’ last No. 1 album, Kind, frontman Kelly Jones releases Don’t Let The Devil Take Another Day, a 21-track collection featuring reinterpretations and re-workings of 18 Stereophonics classics and deep cuts plus two songs from Kelly’s 2007 solo album Only The…

New releases for 27 November 2020

Our soaraway six for 27 November starts with the 14-song collection No Fun Mondays, which sees Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong putting his signature melodic-punk spin on the songs that have formed the soundtrack to his life, including classics by John Lennon, Billy Bragg and Johnny Thunders. The No Fun Mondays series launched in…

New releases for 20 November 2020

This week’s six smashers start with Live In Maui, a concert from 1970 with a blu-ray featuring the documentary ‘Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix In Maui’, which chronicles the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s storied visit to Maui and how they became ensnared with the ill-fated Rainbow Bridge movie produced by their controversial manager Michael Jeffery. Note:…

Pre-sale of the week: Foo Fighters – Medicine At Midnight, out 5 February

Medicine At Midnight is the new album from Foo Fighters, and packs nine new songs into a tight-ass 37 minutes. This collection includes the smouldering new single ‘Shame Shame’. Medicine At Midnight is the band’s 10th album, and was produced by Greg Kurstin and Foo Fighters. Foo Fighters are Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel,…

New releases for 13 November 2020

Our first batch of lockdown lovelies starts with Power Up, the long-awaited 17th studio album from AC/DC. The band reunited with producer Brendan O’Brien who helmed the double-platinum Black Ice in 2008 and the gold Rock Or Bust in 2014. Charged up for the next decade, AC/DC cut twelve new tracks for the album, proudly…