After perusing Pause & Play's list, I noticed some good bands with discs coming out soon:

Aug 28:
Collective Soul
VHS or Beta

Sept 4:
Super Furry Animals

Sept 11:
Hot Hot Heat
Pinback

Sept 18:
Ministry
Eddie Vedder
The Donnas

Sept 25:
Foo Fighters
Steve Earle
Iron and Wine
Matt Pond PA
Scott Walker
The Weakerthans
Sea Wolf

Oct 2:
The Cult
Ian Brown
Siouxsie

Oct 9:
The Hives
The Redwalls
Rockfour
Fiery Furnaces

Oct 15:
Kent

Oct 16:
Jimmy Eat World

The only one I would buy would be the Fiery Furnaces... and I already own that. So it looks like it might be a horrid next few months...

Pause & Play really sucks. Pause & Play lists about 100 new releases for next week compared to 7 pages in small print at AMG's new release calendar. Of course, AMG's navigation sucks but their list is so much more comprehensive.

Only things I'm really looking forward to right now are new Manu Chao on Sept 4 and new Joe Henry later in Sept.

9/11 = new kanye, probably going to be my only non-emusic purchase in the next month

Where's the list with the good bands again?

I'll be picking up in order of desire:

1. Cult
2. Collective Soul
3. Foo Fighters
4. Weakerthans

I'd say it's a pretty good few months for me since some of my favorite bands are releasing stuff.

I'll probably pick up the Matt Pond Pa. I'm curious about the Hives only because that new song of theirs is kinda catchy. But the last one wasn't very good at all.

any advance word on how that Redwalls is?

I'm kind of like that list- got nuttin.

will be buying at some point...

SFA
Iron and Wine
Sea Wolf
Weakerthans
Jimmy Eat World

maybe...

Pinback
Redwalls
Hot Hot Heat
Matt Pond PA
Redwalls

so you're maybe going to buy the redwalls twice?

Eddie Vedder is doing a solo album?

baaaahahaha what a dink.

Only one I'm really interested in is The Hives. I'll probably download Hot Hot Heat, Ministry, Foo Fighters, Matt Pond PA, Iron & Wine* & Super Furry Animals.



* = already have

I'm pretty sure its referring to the soundtrack he's doing about the Iraq vet.

Fiery Furnaces is the only from that list that has a realistic shot of being bought.

mmmmmmmmabye...

I wonder if Eddie's tears will be audible on that soundtrack.



Ministry haven't died of heroin overdoses yet?

baaaaahahahahaha what dinks.

I wonder if thats a reissue though. Al-boy just put out a new one last year.

I think the Eddie Vedder album is the only one I'd be interested in. I guess The Donnas and Steve Earle are worth checking out too.

i could maybe check out the matt pond pa. outside of that i don't know. i should listen to hey venus again

New Scott Walker? I'll be all over that!They've been pretty prolific of late -- like an album a year for several years now. I think.

I'll only get a few of these but most of these are more interesting to me that what's been posted so far:

August 28:

Joe Bataan "Subway Joe"
Jorge Ben "Forca Bruta"
Dee Dee Bridgewater "Red Earth -- A Malian Journey"
Ian Hunter "Dirty Laundry"
Little Feat S/T
Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi "Tsimba Itsoka"
Willie Nile "Beautiful Wreck of the World"
Orchestra Baobab "Night at Club Baobab"
Johnny Paycheck "Take this Job & Shove It"/"Armed & Crazy"
Ike Quebec "Soul Samba [RVG]"
The Subdudes "Street Symphony"
Various -- Music From The Wattstax Festival & Film (3CD set)

September 4:

Manu Chao "Radiolina"

September 11:

Black Sugar S/T
Black Sugar II
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto "Getz Au Go Go"
Donny Hathaway/Quincy Jones "Come Back Charleston Blue" (remastered & expanded)
Joe Henry "Civilians"
Jimmy Smith "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
TV Smith & the Bored Teenagers "Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts"
Young Marble Giants "Colossal Youth"

September 18:

Lou Donaldson "Gravy Train [RVG]"
Faust "Faust IV" (2CD version -- with bonus tracks)
Lee Fields "Many Moods of Lee Fields"
The Green Pajamas "Box of Secrets: Northern Gothic 2"
Herbie Hancock "Takin' Off [RVG]"
Roy Harper "Return of the Sophisticated Beggar"
Emmylou Harris "Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems"
Lee Morgan "Delightfulee [RVG]"
Lee Morgan "Lee Morgan Indeed! [RVG]"
Martin Newell "Summer Tamarind"
Carla Thomas "Bohemian Tavern"

September 25:

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings "100 Days 100 Nights "
Bettye Lavette "Scene of the Crime"
Lee Morgan "Candy [RVG]"
Lee "Scratch" Perry "End of an American Dream"
Gilles Petersen "Giles Petersen digs America V. 2"
Porter Waggoner "Legends of the Grand Ole Opry"

I think Al said this is gonna be the last Ministry album.

Collective Soul - hmmm....no

VHS or Beta - I tried to like these guys.

Super Furry Animals - Maybe. They have always been semi-hit or miss with me.

Hot Hot Heat - I've kind of dismissed them in my mind as disposable post-punk revivalists. But I can't actually think of when I heard a song by them all the way through.

Pinback - I liked a song by them that Timis put on a mix, so they have been sitting on my "to-check-out" list for a while.

Ministry - I've liked some industrial in my time. Never quite warmed up to Ministry like I did NIN or Skinny Puppy.

Eddie Vedder - I like Pearl Jam a lot, so maybe. It can't suck as bad as Chris Cornell.

The Donnas - They were always borderline-gimmicky to me. But I haven't heard much of what they've done.

Foo Fighters - They're OK. I usually like 2 or 3 songs per album.

Steve Earle - I only have a "best of" collection. Not quite as loyal to him as some people here, but I like him.

Iron and Wine - He's OK. Not a huge fan.

Matt Pond PA - Don't know him/them.

Scott Walker - A vet that I am not all too familiar with. Any recs where to start?

The Weakerthans - Always saw this name tossed around a lot. Never bothered to check them out.

Sea Wolf - Who?

The Cult - I'm long past caring about these guys.

Ian Brown - I don't mind The Stone Roses album. Aside from that, not that interested in much else.

Siouxsie - Really? A new Siouxsie? Wouldn't mind hearing it I guess.

The Hives - This, I am interested in hearing.

The Redwalls - Don't know much about them.

Rockfour - See The Redwalls

Fiery Furnaces - Heard about 'em a lot a few years back. Never got around to checking them out despite much probing by a friend of mine.

Jimmy Eat World - Never liked them much, but they are one of the few bright spots in that whole pop/punk/emo genre.

I absolutely fell in love with The Drift and Tilt the first time I heard them.

See if you can hear them first -- not the sort of thing that's for everyone. Experimental. But brutally good if you are.

Knowing your taste, I think you'd really like them.