New Music Monthly: February 2020 releases

Winter's icy grip is embracing most of us here in the U.S. but that doesn't mean that there aren't some red-hot tunes on the horizon this month to keep you warm! It's a short month, to be sure, bu if new music from folks like Green Day, Sepultura, Tame Impala, Guided by Voices, Supersuckers, and Ozzy Osbourne, among others, doesn't light your fire, maybe a five-disc Eric Burdon & the Animals box set will make the weather more tolerable.

Release dates are subject to change and nobody tells me when they do. If you’re interesting in buying an album, just hit the ‘Buy!’ link to get it from Amazon.com...it’s just that damn easy! Your purchase puts valuable ‘store credit’ in the Reverend’s pocket that he’ll use to buy more music to write about in a never-ending loop of rock ‘n’ roll ecstasy! 

FEBRUARY 7
Cadillac Three - Country Fuzz   BUY!
Green Day - Father of All...   BUY!
Nada Surf - Never Not Together   BUY!
Sepultura - Quadra   BUY!
Stone Temple Pilots - Perdida   BUY!
Supersuckers - Play That Rock 'n' Roll   BUY!

FEBRUARY 14
Huey Lewis & the News - Weather   BUY!
Nathaniel Rateliff - And It's Still Alright   BUY!
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush   BUY!
The Third Mind - The Third Mind [with/Dave Alvin, Victor Krummenacher & David Immergluck]   BUY!

FEBRUARY 21
Eric Burdon & the Animals - When I Was Young, The MGM Recordings, 1967-1968 [5-CD box set]   BUY!
Greg Dulli - Random Desire   BUY!
Grimes - Miss_Anthrop0cene   BUY!
Guided by Voices - Surrender Your Poppy Field   BUY!
Ozzy Osbourne - Ordinary Man   BUY!
Nancy Priddy - You've Come This Way Before [vinyl reissue]   BUY!

FEBRUARY 28
Caribou - Suddenly   BUY!
Dom Flemons - Prospect Hill: The American Songster Omnibus   BUY!
Mondo Generator - Fuck It   BUY!
Soccer Mommy - Color Theory   BUY!

Album of the Month: Eric Burdon & the Animals - When I Was Young, The MGM Recordings, 1967-1968 is a five-CD box set comprised of the band's late-period albums for the label including 1967's Winds of Change (with the hit single "San Franciscan Night") and 1968's The Twain Shall Meet (with the hits "Sky Pilot" and "Monterey"), Every One of Us, and Love Is plus assorted rarities and singles edits. An underrated period for the band, to be sure, coming in between the Animals early success as part of the British Invasion and Burdon's later solo work.  

The Afghan Whigs' 2017 North American Tour

The Afghan Whigs 2017, photo by Chris Cuffaro

The hauntingly beautiful In Spades – the Afghan Whigs’ follow-up to their 2014 ‘comeback’ album Do to the Beast – is being released today on CD, vinyl, and as a download from legendary indie label Sub Pop Records, the band’s first home way back in the ‘80s. If you’re a fan of Whigs’ frontman Greg Dulli and/or his other great band, the Twilight Singers, you’re going to find a lot to like about In Spades; the initial singles released by Sub Pop, including “Demon In Profile” and “Oriole,” are thick on atmosphere, with Dulli’s anguished vocals puncturing through the dense fog of lush instrumentation like a dagger of pure white light.

After a lengthy summer tour with opener Ed Harcourt that begins in late May in the U.K. and sojourns across the European continent with stops in some 17 countries, including Germany, Italy, Denmark, and Belgium, the Afghan Whigs will return to the U.S. for a two-month North American tour that spans September and October. Although the band isn’t performing anywhere within a couple hours drive of the Reverend, they will be hitting all the major stateside musical oases, with stops in Brooklyn, Nashville, Atlanta, Austin, Seattle, and Los Angeles as well as the Whigs’ hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio; we have the complete tour dates below. Check out the band’s wonderful In Spades album and start saving your pennies for concert tickets to see the Afghan Whigs in person!

Buy the album from Amazon.com: The Afghan Whigs' In Spades


The Afghan Whigs' 2017 North American Tour:
Sep 6 @ The Social, Orlando FL
Sep 7 @ Terminal West, Atlanta GA
Sep 9 @ 9:30 Club, Washington DC
Sep 11 @ The National, Richmond VA
Sep 12 @ Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA
Sep 14 @ Paradise, Boston MA
Sep 16 @ Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY
Sep 18 @ Theatre Fairmount, Montreal QC CANADA
Sep 19 @ Opera House, Toronto ON CANADA
Sep 21 @ First Ave, Minneapolis MN
Sep 23 @ Metro, Chicago IL
Sep 24 @ Turner Hall, Milwaukee WI
Sep 26 @ St. Andrews, Detroit MI
Sep 28 @ Bogarts, Cincinnati OH
Sep 29 @ Exit/In, Nashville TN
Sep 30 @ Saturn, Birmingham AL
Oct 12 @ Belly Up, San Diego CA
Oct 13 @ Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Oct 14 @ The Fillmore, San Francisco CA
Oct 16 @ Wonder Ballroom, Portland OR
Oct 17 @ Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver BC CANADA
Oct 18 @ Showbox, Seattle WA
Oct 19 @ Urban Lounge, Salt Lake UT
Oct 21 @ Gothic Theatre, Denver CO
Oct 22 @ Record Bar, Kansas City MO
Oct 24 @ Mohawk, Austin TX
Oct 25 @ Trees, Dallas TX
Oct 26 @ Heights Theater, Houston TX