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Review: Sarah Jarosz – Undercurrent

Craig Manning

Texas Americana artist Sarah Jarosz is only 25 years old—and recently 25, to boot—but she already has four albums under her belt. Her third, 2013’s Build Me up from Bones, even earned a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album. It’s with her fourth album, the brand-new Undercurrent, that Jarosz is making a case for herself as one of the finest artists in the genre. On the last album I’d have argued that the best song was a cover of Bob Dylan’s timeless “Simple Twist of Fate”—already one of the best songs Dylan ever wrote. Here, all 11 songs are originals, and they showcase new depths of confidence for Jarosz. Even when she’s working with co-writers, everything on Undercurrent feels bent to the same artistic vision.

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Brand New to Release ‘3 Demos, Reworked’

Jason Tate

Brand New will be releasing 3 Demos, Reworked in the near future.

Update: Banquet Records has updated their website with two listings. The first is for PMT-005, which contains “Mene” and “Out of Range.” The second is for PMT-003 and has a track listing of “Brother’s Song,” “Missing You,” “1996,” “Brother’s Song (Demo 2006),” “Missing You (Demo 2006),” and “1996 (Demo 2006).” Both have release dates of July 29th.

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Blink-182 Debut at Number One on Charts

Mark Hoppus
Jason Tate

Blink-182 officially have the number one album in the country.

After nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, Drake’s Views is dethroned from the top slot by Blink-182’s new set, California. The latter debuts at No. 1 with 186,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 7, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 172,000 were in traditional album sales — the third-largest sales week for a rock album in 2016.

Well deserved.

Albums in Stores – July 8th, 2016

Jason Tate

It’s an interesting week for releases — not a whole lot I’m dying to check out. I’ll give that Biffy Clyro album a spin and the new Switchfoot is pretty good. I’ve heard good things about Frameworks from Drew, and I’ll see if that The Avalanches record sits at all. If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the quote bubble to access our forums and talk about what came out today, what albums you picked up, and to make mention of anything we may have missed.

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Butch Walker – “Descending”

Butch Walker
Jason Tate

Butch Walker has released his new song, “Descending,” at the Wall Street Journal. You can stream that below. The song also features Ashley Monroe.

Walker and Monroe first met when she did a guest vocal for an album he was producing. The two hit it off, remained in touch, and vowed to write a song together. On a recent flight to Los Angeles, Monroe and Walker were texting “about the struggle of survival,” when the plane started making its landing.

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