There are four bands of note, one of whom we already covered this past week. The first and most notable is Ben Folds Way To Normal. Ben Fold and friends are back together as one making another memorable album to go down in the books.
Anberlin is back with their fourth studio album New Surrender since 2007' Cities. New Surrender should have everything a pop punk fanatic is looking for. Also on deck this week is Bayside, who follow a similar path with Shudder. We recommend checking out their first single "No One Understands".
And lastly, Jack's Mannequin is out with The Glass Passenger and from the sounds of it, could be a matchup for his 2005 album Everything In Transit. This album has been in the works for too long and is now finally here!
MP3: Beaujolais - Friday The Thirteenth-The Loft (buy)
MP3: Capricorns - The Bell Rang Backwards (buy)
MP3: Dungen - Satt Att Se (buy)
MP3: Ben Folds - You Don't know Me (feat. Regina Spektor) (buy)
Anberlin - New Surrender (Official) (MySpace)
Bayside - Shudder (Official) (MySpace)
Beaujolais - Love At Thirty (Official) MySpace)
Flecktones - Jingle All the Way (Official) (MySpace)
Ben Folds - Way To Normal (Official) (MySpace)
Capricorns - River, Bear Your Bones (Official) MySpace)
Crime in Stereo - Selective Wreckage (Official) (MySpace)
Dear and the Headlights - Drunk Like Bible Times (Official) (MySpace)
Defeater - Travels (Official) (MySpace)
Dungen - 4 (Official) MySpace)
Energy - Invasions Of The Mind (Official) (MySpace)
Fazeshift - The Everyday Broken Heart (Official) (MySpace)
Innerpartysystem - Self Titled (Official) (MySpace)
Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger (Official) (MySpace)
Joshua Radin - Simple Times (Official) (MySpace)
Kinky - Barracuda (Official) (MySpace)
Les Paul & Friends-A Tribute To A Legend (Official) (MySpace)
Love You Long Time - Party To The People (Official) (MySpace)
Polysics - We Ate The Machine (Official) (MySpace)
The Becoming - Volume 1 (Official) (MySpace)
The Escape Frame - Self Titled (Official) (MySpace)
Tom Morello - The Fabled City (Rage Against The Machine guitarist) (Official) (MySpace)
Porter Batiste Stoltz - MOODOO (Official) (MySpace)
Pete Seeger - At 89 (Official) (MySpace)
T-Pain - Thr33 Ringz (Official) (MySpace)
James Taylor - Covers (Official) (MySpace)
Trivium - Shogun (Official) (MySpace)
William Fitzsimmons - The Sparrow and the Crow (Official) (MySpace)
This week's list is quite extensive and diverse. From soul to pop punk to out there indie, the list below has something for every one of our readers.
A few weeks ago we alluded to Anthony Green's video for "Dear Child". With his new album Avalon out now, we are sure you will be just as pleased as we were.
Working his way from the likes of The Faint to Bright eyes and eventually to a self-titled ensemble, Conor Oberst's album should figure into some year-end accolades as it carried an obvious eclectic flavor. The Faint's Fasciinatiion should also appease the electro-rock fans.
After leaving The Starting Line to take on ventures of his own for a little bit, Kenny Voseli's Person L hits stores with the first taste of his new sound (although fairly similar feel).
Other artists we recommend to check out this week are Hawthorne Heights, Jack's Mannequin, Marching Band, Feels Like July, Oxford Collapse and Ulrich Schnauss. There were some more interesting groups that caught our eyes, too, but we will dissect those at a later time.
MP3: Anthony Green - Dear Child (I've Been Trying To Reach You) (Good Old War Version) (buy)
MP3: Oxford Collapse - The Birthday Wars (buy)
MP3: Feels Like July - We Found A Home (buy)
MP3: Marching Band - For Your Love (buy)
Anthony Green - Avalon (Official) (MySpace)
Apollo Sunshine - Shall Noise Upon (2xLP + CD) (Official) (MySpace)
Atlas Sound - Atlas Shrugged 7" (Official) (MySpace)
Brazilian Girls - New York City (Official)
Clinic - Funf (Official) (MySpace)
Closure In Moscow - The Penance & The Patience EP (MySpace)
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst (Official) (MySpace)
Correcto - Correcto (MySpace)
Darker My Love - 2 (Official) (MySpace)
David Vandervelde - Waiting for the Sunrise (Official) (MySpace)
Ernie Halter - Starting Over (Official) (MySpace)
Feels Like July - In The Company Of Wolves (Official) (MySpace)
Hawthorne Heights - Fragile Future (Official) (MySpace)
Helms Alee - Night Terror (MySpace)
Jack's Mannequin - The Ghost Overground EP (Official) (MySpace)
Joseph Arthur - All You Need Is Nothing (Official) (MySpace)
The Lord Dog Bird - The Lord Dog Bird (Official)
Marching Band - Spark Large (Official) (MySpace)
The Marked Men - Marked Men (Official) (MySpace)
Mike Mangione - Tenebrae (Official) (MySpace)
Music Go Music - Reach Out EP (Official) (MySpace)
Oneida - Preteen Weaponry (Official) (MySpace)
Oxford Collapse - Bits (Official) (MySpace)
Person L - Initial (MySpace)
Prints - Just Thoughts (MySpace)
Randy Newman - Randy Newman (Official) (MySpace)
Reflected - Paradise Found (Official) (MySpace)
Shannon McArdle - Summer of the Whore (Official) (MySpace)
The Faint - Fasciinatiion (Official) (MySpace)
There For Tomorrow - There For Tomorrow (MySpace)
Trapt - Only Through The Pain (Official) (MySpace)
Tricky - Council Estate EP (Official) (MySpace)
Ulrich Schnauss - Stars EP (Official) (MySpace)
Zebrahead - Phoenix (Official) (MySpace)
Zozobra - Birds of Prey (MySpace)
