New Music Tuesday

This Week’s Main Releases

–“Cardiology”, Good Charlotte (–It includes the single “Like It’s Her Birthday”.)

–“Death To False Metal”, Weezer (–This is an album of previously unreleased material . . . including a cover of Toni Braxton’s hit, “Un-Break My Heart”.)  (???)

(–Weezer also released a deluxe version of their 1996 album, “Pinkerton”.  It’s a double-disc release with 25 bonus songs . . . most of which are live tracks.)

–“National Ransom”, Elvis Costello (–Guests include Vince Gill, Buddy Miller and Leon Russell, plus Elvis’ backing bands The Imposters and The Sugarcanes.)

–“Dreams”, Neil Diamond (–Neil covers his favorite old-school rock tracks.)

–“Soulsville”, Huey Lewis & the News (–A tribute to Stax Records’ old soul music.)

–“Small Craft on a Milk Sea”, Brian Eno

–“Merry Christmas 2 You”, Mariah Carey (–It includes a new version of Mariah’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You”, plus a new song called “Oh Santa”, along with traditional holiday classics like “Little Drummer Boy” and “O Come All Ye Faithful”.)

–“Sidewalks”, Matt & Kim (–Their third album.  You may have heard their music on “Entourage”, “Gossip Girl”, and the NBC sitcom “Community”.)  (–You may also know them from their “Lessons Learned” video, in which they stripped naked in New York City’s Times Square.  You can see that video, HERE.)

–“Black Dub”, Black Dub (–You can watch them live in studio performing the song “Nomad Knows” HERE.)

–“Escape the Fate”, Escape the Fate (–Their self-titled third album includes the rockin’ track “Issues”.  You can watch the video HERE.)

–“The Big 4 Live From Sofia, Bulgaria”, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax (–A 5-CD, 2-DVD set, but you can purchase it as just a DVD or Blu-Ray.)  (–So the “Big 4″ won’t perform here, but they will sell their live DVDs here?  Lame.)

–“Vintage Vinos”, Keith Richards (–A best-of disc featuring music from the band Keith formed in the late ’80s, The X-Pensive Winos.)

–“Icon”, Scorpions (–A greatest hits disc, that includes their classics “Rock You Like a Hurricane”, “No One Like You” and “Winds of Change”.)

–“Nothing”, N*E*R*D (–Nelly Furtado guests on the track “Hot-n-Fun”.)

–“Armando”, Pitbull (–His guests include Lil Jon, Papayo, Jencarlos and Nayer.)