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New Releases 8.14.26: Afghan Whigs, Sweeping Promises, Holissstik, Radiator Hospital, Real Numbers, Chico (Updated 1:42 p.m. PT)

Posted in Lists, New Releases, News with tags , , , , , , , , , on 08/14/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

16 Underground – Without a Trace EP (Sunday Drive)
Afghan Whigs – Soft Control (Royal Cream/ BMG)
Afrofuturistics (feat. Sons of Ra members) – Enigmatic EP (Big Bonkey)
Jacob Alon – Live From the Roundhouse (Island)
Brendan Angelides – Can You Feel the End Begin? (feat. Serj Tankian; Ancestor)
Arca – XXXXX
Arcadian Wild – Make It Out Alive
Jon Batiste – Black Mozart (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 2), Monk Meditations (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 3) and Monk Movements (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 4)
Becky G – Baraja Bandita
Natasha Bedingfield – Dot Dot Dot single
Benny Blanco – Hermoso (feat. Selena Gomez, Becky G)
Boston Manor – Be Nothing. 10 Year anniversary edition (Pure Noise)
Cavetown – Big Strong Man single
Chico – s/t (New Morality Zine)

Jimmy Cicero – I Will Always Love You 7-inch (self-release)
Elizabeth Cook – Great Television (produced by Shooter Jennings; feat. Wynonna Judd; Thirty Tigers)Credit Card – Devil’s Night/ Dead Internet mixtape (Goth Horse)
Credit Card – Devil’s Night/ Dead Internet mixtape (Goth Horse)
Grace Cummings – Bloodhorse! (ATO)
Cutthroat – Purge EP (M-Theory Audio)
Dana and Alden – Papa’s Boat (Concord Jazz)
Dead Tired – Hornets of Fall (New Damage)

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Getting To Know Mark Lanegan

Posted in Interviews with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on 02/22/2022 by Kurt Orzeck

Mark Lanegan wears all 40 years of his life on his face. His skin, once puffed in that Tom Waits sort of way, is now ironed out into a smooth sheet. His thin amber eyes pierce his surroundings with a devastating gravity. Even his thick maroon mane, which spikes out beneath a nondescript black hat, seems to be spun by the hands of time, hammered by hard living.

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