New to the Airwaves – Albums Out Today (June 18th)

Tours galore have been (re)announced. Bands are coming out of the woodwork we swore we’d not see in the flesh again. Venues are rethinking their layouts and fans in droves are gearing up for a summer of their life. One music fan close to me said, “I’ll attend ANY show, my genre of music or not!” I think that will be the running theme this summer. We never really took music for granted, but we took live music for granted. I, for one, don’t want to miss a single show again.

OH, HEY, concert season preparation crews, it’s finally happening. Let’s get busy! Tons of bands are in full swing announcing their reclaimed Summer Tours, and we are literally living for it. This seems like the week of summer nostalgia. The talent is endless!.

This week’s arrivals are sure to find homes on many a playlist, especially with H.E.R, Gucci Mane, Tom Morello and The Bloody Beetroots , and more, dropping full-lengths.

To wrap up this week, we’ve got some much-anticipated arrivals that have us tapping our toes, crossing our arms, and screeching, “Finally!” We’re sure you can see which ones we think you should grab and which ones we think may deserve a pass (cough)… Dive in at your own risk, and let’s hear your picks!

**All dates are for U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Dates are subject to change.

ALBUM RELEASE CALENDAR JUNE 18th, 2021

Friday, June 18

Allman Brothers Band — Bear’s Sonic Journals: Fillmore East, February 1970 (3CD deluxe-edition set)
Alustrium — A Monument To Silence (Unique Leader)
Angel Dust — Into The Dark Past Re-Release (High Roller)
Ambar Lucid — Get Lost In The Music EP (300 Entertainment)
Amy Helm — What The Flood Leaves Behind (Renew Records/BMG)
Amythyst Kiah — Wary + Strange
Andrew Hung — Devastations (Lex Records)
Angelique Kidjo — Mother Nature (Universal Music Group)
Authority Zero — Ollie Ollie Oxen Free (Mutant Rock)
The Baylor Project — Generations
Benjamin Francis Leftwich — To Carry A Whale (Dirty Hit)
Berwyn — Tape 2 / Fomalhaut (Columbia Records)
Bloodbeat — Process of Extinction
Blurry the Explorer — Blurry the Explorer
Bossk — Migration (Deathwish)
Boyband — Never Knows Best (Dirty Hit)
Briars Of North America — Supermoon (Brassland)
The Catenary Wires — Birling Gap (Skep Wax Records)
Cher Strauberry — Chering Is Caring (Mri Associated)
Cola Boyy — Prosthetic Boombox (Record Makers/MGMT Records)
Colin Macleod — Hold Fast (Silva Screen Records)
Country Westerns — Country Westerns EP (Fat Possum Records)
Covey — Class Of Cardinal Sin (Rise Records)
Crowne — Kings In The North
Curtis Stewart — Of Power
DAGR — DAGR
The Day of the Beast — Indisputably Carnivorous
Deap Vally — American Cockroach EP (Cooking Vinyl)
Death Perception — Ashes
Decayed — Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons
Delta Spirit — What (Else) Is There
Demon Incarnate — Leaves of Zaqqum
Dereck Higgins — Future Still (Discrepancy Records)
Devin Shaffer — In My Dreams I’m There (American Dreams Records)
Devios — Emanation From Below
De’wayne — Stains (Hopeless Records)
Donnie — The Colored Section: Digital Deluxe Edition
Draemora — Death Rectangle
Dream Racer — Gloomy Eyes EP (Cargo Records)
Dylan LeBlanc — Pastimes EP (ATO Records)
The Early Mornings — Unnecessary Creation EP
Eloise — Somewhere In-Between
Emmerson — Emmerson EP
Entierro — El Camazots
Evan Myall — Snail EP
Evolfo — Site Out Of Mind (Royal Potato Family)
Fallen Stars — Execution
Fear Factory — Aggression Continuum
Francis Lung — Miracle (Memphis Industries)
Frank Zappa — Zappa ’88: The Last U.S. Show
Gary Kemp — INSOLO (Columbia)
Getting the Fear — Death is Bigger: 1984-1985
GoldLink — HARAM!
Good Morning TV — Small Talk (Geographie Records)
Grand Funk Railroad — The Complete Warner Recordings
Grasscut – Haunts
Griff – One Foot In Front Of The Other EP
Gucci Mane — Ice Daddy
H.E.R. – Back of My Mind
Helloween — Helloween (Nuclear Blast)
Hacktivist — Hyperdialect
Half Moon Run — Inwards & Onwards EP (Glassnote)
Hannah Georgas — Versions EP (Hidden Pony)
Heavy Temple — Lupi amoris
Hemi Hemingway — The Lonely Hunter EP (PNKSLM Recordings)
Hayley Mary (of The Jezabels) — The Drip EP
HRSMN – The Last Ride
Jad Fair & Kramer — The History Of Crying, Revisited (Shimmy-Disc)
Jake Miller — Silver Lining II (Empire)
Jayli Wolf — Wild Whisper EP
The Jenny Thing — American Canyon
Joan Armatrading — Consequences (Digital Release)
Joe Vitale [Barnstorm — Joe Walsh], Roller Coaster Weekend / Plantation
Jonathan Edwards — Right Where I Am
Keeton Coffman – Hard Times
Kings Of Convenience — Peace Or Love (EMI)
Lady Gaga — Born This Way: The Tenth Anniversary (Interscope)
LeBrock — Fuse
Lin Rountree — Fluid
Lisa E. Harris – Life And That
Lost In Society — Stay Jaded EP (Wiretap Records)
The Lounge Society — Silk For The Starving EP (Speedy Wunderground)
Matt Bachman — Dream Logic (Orindal Records)
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy — Superwolves (Physical Release)
Max Bloom (formerly of Yuck) — Pedestrian
Metro Marrs — Popular Loner
Minus — Casa Base
MNDR — Hell to Be With You
Moanhand — Present Serpent
Moni Grace — Expiration Date Pt1: Clara EP
Moonshine Collective — SMS For Location Vol. 4
Morgarten — Cry Of The Lost (Inner Wound Recordings)
Mountain Movers — World What World (Trouble In Mind)
Muse — Origin Of Symmetry: XX Anniversary RemiXX (Digital Release)
Mykki Blanco — Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep (Transgressive)
Natalie Gelman — Moth To The Flame (Blue Elan Records)
Neonfly —The Future, Tonight
NJOMZA — Limbo EP (Since the 80s)
Oh! The Horror — 1692 (Majik Ninja)
Paula Fuga — Rain On Sunday (Downtown Records)
Pharaoh — The Powers That Be
The Rare Occasions — Big Whoop
Rebelution — In The Moment
Reinforcer — Prince Of The Tribes
Rejjie Snow — Relax (BMG)
Rocket Report — Overmorrow (The Peoples Electric)
Rory Feek — Gentle Man
Sara Oswald + Feldermelderhe — Drawn EP
Scalping — Flood EP (Houndstooth)
Serg Tankian — Disarming Time – A Modern Piano Concerto
SEVENTEEN –— Your Choice
Shungudzo — I’m Not A Mother But I Have Children
Silly Boy Blue — Breakup Songs
Small Faces — The Complete Atlantic Recordings
Smithfield — New Town EP
Social Disorder — Love 2 Be Hated (Afm Records)
Steve Cole — Smoke And Mirrors (Mack Avenue Records)
Stevie Weinstein-Foner — Wondering (Wild Kindness)
Styx — Crash of the Crown
Subway To Sally —— Eisheilige Nacht – Back to Lindenpark
Superlove — …But For The Moment EP (Rude Records)
Ten City — Judgement (Ultra Records)
Ten Years After — 1967-1974 (10CD set)
Tigercub — As Blue As Indigo (Blame Records)
Tom Morello and The Bloody Beetroots — The Catastrophists EP
Tomas Comerford — Introverts
Tragedy And Triumph — Where Mountains Rise And Hearts Fall
The Tremolo Beer Gut — You Can’t Handle… (Crunchy Frog)
Trialogos – Stroh Zu Gold
Ursa Minor — Sian Ka’n
Various Artists — Dark Nights: Death Metal Soundtrack (Digital Release)
Various Artists — Liberated / Music For The Movement Vol. 3 EP
Various Artists — You Didn’t Think We Could Take It (Subsonics Tribute – Vol 2)
Wanderer — Liberation From A Brutalist Existence
Whispering Sons — Several Others
The Wind-Ups — Try Not To Think
The Wind-Ups — Try Not To Think (Mt.St.Mtn)
Winter Hotel – Vacancies EP
Yagow — The Mess
Young Devyn — Baby Goat EP
Yagow — The Mess (Crazysane Records)

New Video Out:
X AMBASSADORS RELEASE VIDEO FOR “MY OWN MONSTER”

Sam Nelson Harris Dances With His Shadow in Darkly Cinematic Video

Santa Monica, California, June 17, 2021- Multi-platinum-selling rock band X Ambassadors share the video for their latest single “My Own Monster” today. Directed by longtime collaborator Daniel Iglesias Jr., and made in collaboration with Mathematic — the Paris VFX house known for their work on Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” — the video for “My Own Monster” accentuates the song’s noir-pop element by placing Harris in a partially animated alternate universe.

In tribute to the scene from Anchors Aweigh in which Gene Kelly dances alongside Jerry Mouse from “Tom and Jerry,” the black-and-white visual finds Harris performing a choreographed routine with his own shadow, injecting a bit of classic-cartoon humor into the track’s chilling mystique. Harris worked with choreographer Genna Moroni training for a month before shooting the video.

“The idea for this video came to me in a dream a couple years ago and now it’s come to life,” says lead singer Sam Nelson Harris. “The video feels playful and dangerous and kind of unhinged all at once, which is how I felt while making this record and video.”

Released via KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records, “My Own Monster” is a moody psychodrama in the form of a groove-heavy pop song that examines themes of alienation, emotional risk and the desire to break free from pain. It was inspired by the pressure lead singer Sam Harris feels every day to keep things in his life together professionally, personally, mentally and emotionally. It is a song about someone who has an evil voice inside their head and embracing it rather than running from it.

“My Own Monster” is the first song to be released from the band’s highly awaited third album, The Beautiful Liar, due out later this year and marks the start of a compelling new lyrical direction for X Ambassadors. Earlier this week the band announced The Beautiful Liar Tour with dates in North America and Europe starting this fall. Tickets are on sale tomorrow, June 18^th, at 10am local time at https://www.xambassadors.com/tour.

ABOUT X AMBASSADORS

X Ambassadors made their full-length debut with VHS, a 2015 release that saw the band transition from Ithaca alt-rockers and Brooklyn-indie-scene outsiders to Billboard stalwarts. Now certified platinum, VHS provided an intimate look at Sam Nelson Harris and his brother Casey Harris’s youth, delivering the genre-defying hits “Unsteady” and “Renegades” and leading to a three-year global touring odyssey as well as a string of high-profile festival performances. VHS was followed by X Ambassadors’ 2019 sophomore album ORION, which they supported with an extensive headline tour of the U.S. A project inspired by ’60s and ’70s soul and R&B, the band’s Belong EP arrived in March 2020. Their hyper-creative multi-part project (Eg), three-song effort released in early 2021, found the band collaborating with a series of similarly forward-thinking artists, including Earl St. Clair, Terrell Hines, and Jensen McRae.

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Multi-Platinum Artists Brent Smith and Zach Myers As Duo

Smith & Myers

Release Music Video for “Bad At Love”

New York, NY – [June 16, 2021] – Smith & Myers – the duo comprised of multi-platinum artists Brent Smith and Zach Myers – has released the official music video for their single “Bad At Love,” off their 2020 full-length album Smith & Myers Volume 2 (Atlantic Records). The vulnerable pop-rock track touches on the difficulties of staying in a romantic relationship while the visual, filmed at a 71-year-old drive-in theater in Tennessee, shows snapshots of others experiencing and overcoming those trials and tribulations. PRESS HERE to watch the “Bad At Love” music video, directed by DJay Brawner. “Bad At Love,” which has garnered nearly 6 million global streams and been featured on Spotify’s “Rockin Vibes” and Apple Music’s “Breaking Hard Rock” and “New In Rock” playlists, is now impacting Hot AC Radio nationwide. PRESS HERE to listen to “Bad At Love (2021 Mix),” a new version of the song just released last week. “We’re excited for people to hear this new take on ‘Bad At Love’ and to watch the music video, which we really enjoyed creating,” shares Brent. “When we were making the record, this song had almost an Americana vibe, but we had an idea of changing the mix and presenting it in a different, more modern way for 2021. For the video, we wanted to showcase more than one example of love. It features three different scenarios with three different couples showcasing the diversity in each storyline. As the video unfolds, you don’t exactly know where the relationships will end up. That’s the beauty of the reveal in the finale.” “Lyrically, Brent was writing about things in his life that maybe we wouldn’t really touch on with Shinedown and I think ‘Bad At Love’ came out to be an incredibly naked and honest song,” adds Zach. “If you’re bad at love, just realize that it’s okay. It only makes you better.” Last October, Smith & Myers released their double album, Smith & Myers Volume 1 & Volume 2, which showcase the duo’s ability to pack power and soul into songs created with nothing more than a microphone and an instrument or two, highlighting their sonic versatility throughout a mix of poignant original songs and unexpected covers. Produced by GRAMMY nominated and longtime collaborator Dave Bassett, the duo’s debut album Volume 1 features original song “Not Mad Enough,” which touches upon the rights and wrongs of society and our connection as human beings, and original song “PANIC!” alongside renditions of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ In The Free World,” Post Malone’s “Better Now” and INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart.” Meanwhile, Volume 2 features the alt-rock original tune “One More Time” in addition to “Bad At Love” as well as a re-imagining of Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy” and other covers such as Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” and Billy Idol’s “Rebel Yell.” The double album marked Smith & Myers’ first original music since releasing a pair of acoustic cover EPs, Acoustic Sessions, Part 1 and Acoustic Sessions, Part 2, in 2014 when fans first fell in the love with the magic that is created between Brent and Zach in the studio and on stage, leading to Smith & Myers live shows that instantly sold out. Smith & Myers, who recently wrapped a spring headlining tour, illuminates the depth of Brent and Zach as a duo and showcases a very different yet just as intriguing musical side of these two versatile artists. As one-half of multiplatinum band Shinedown — who were recently named #1 on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Mainstream Rock Artists chart — Brent and Zach can often be found topping the rock charts, earning mainstream recognition, and playing to sold-out arenas around the globe with 10 million albums and 10 million singles sold worldwide, 14 platinum and gold singles, five platinum and gold albums, more than 2.7 billion streams and 16 number one rock hits (breaking the record for the most ever #1s in the 39-year history of the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs Chart with their single “Atlas Falls”). As part of their “Atlas Falls” COVID-19 relief effort, Shinedown has raised more than $500,000 for Direct Relief, one of the largest providers of humanitarian medical resources in the world whose mission is to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergency situations by mobilizing and providing essential medical resources needed for their care. FOLLOW SMITH & MYERSWebsite | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify