New to the Airwaves – Albums Out Today (February 25, 2022)

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 year of their concert-going 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 year. 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. 

Tons of bands are in full swing announcing their tours and reuniting, and we are literally living for it. This week’s arrivals are sure to find homes on many a playlist, especially with a 90s kick, Avril Lavigne, Dashboard Confessional, and a little further back with Guns N’ Roses, and Tears for Fears. 

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 FEBRUARY 25th, 2022

Friday, February 25

• Avril Lavigne — Love Sux (DTA Records)
• Abraham  — Debris De Mondes Perdus (Pelagic)
• Allegaeon — Damnum (Metal Blade
• Bad Omens — The Death Of Peace Of Mind (Sumerian)
• Bambara — Love On My Mind (Wharf Cat)
• Basia Bulat — The Garden (Secret City Records)
• Beth Hart — A Tribute To Led Zeppelin (Provogue/Mascot Label Group)
• Binker & Moses — Feeding The Machine (Gearbox)
• Blue Lab Beats — Motherland Journey (Blue Note)
• Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard — Backhand Deals (Communion)
• Carmen Villain — Only Love From Now On (Smalltown Supersound)
• Caroline Loveglow — Strawberry (100% Electronica)
• Carson McHone — Still Life (Merge)
• CMAT — If My Wife New I’d Be Dead (AWAL Recordings)
• Cobra The Impaler — Colossal Gods (Listenable)
• Corey Taylor — CMFB…Sides EP (Roadrunner)
• Coyle Girelli — Funland (Honey Lemon Records)
• Dan Patlansky — Shelter Of Bones (Virgin)
• Daniel Bashta — Odes + Omens EP – Independent
• Dashboard Confessional — All The Truth That I Can Tell (Hidden Note Records)
• Daytime TV — Nothing’s On But Everybody’s Watching (Allotment)
• Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves — Hurricane Clarice
• Dead Head —  Haatland (Petrichor)
• Deserta — Every Moment, Everything You Need (Felte)
• DJ Hank — The City Stars EP (Hyperdub Records)
• D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings — Troika (InsideOut)
• Early Eyes — Look Alive (Epitaph Records)
• EDDISON — Higher Than H1m
• Eight Bells — Legacy Of Ruin (Prophecy)
• Embryonic Devourment — Heresy Of The Highest Order (Unique Leader)
• Filligar — Future Self (Decade Records)
• Firebreather —  Dwell In The Fog (RidingEasy)
• Gang Of Youths — Angel In Realtime (Warner Records)
• George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher — Corpsegrinder (Perseverance)
• Graphic Nature — New Skin EP (Rude Records)
• Guns N’ Roses  — Hard Skool (Geffen)
• HammerFall — Hammer Of Dawn (Napalm)
• Anne Elise Hastings — Unmasking a Confidence Trickster
• The HawtThorns — Tarot Cards and Shooting Stars
• Hebosagil — Yossa (Svart)
• Holodrum — Holodrum
• Huerco S. — Plonk (Incienso)
• Jamie McDell — Jamie McDell (ABC Music)
• Johnny Marr — Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 (BMG)
• Judy Collins — Spellbound (Cleopatra)
• Kanye West — Donda 2
• Keeley Forsyth — Limbs (The Leaf Label)
• King Hannah — I’m Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me (City Slang)
• Kodak Black — Back for Everything
• Kyle Morgan — Younger At Most Everything (Team Love Records)
• Lo Moon — A Modern Life (Strngr Recordings/Thirty Tigers)
• Metal Cross — Soul Ripper (From The Vaults)
• Metronomy —  Small World
• Mountaineer — Giving Up The Ghost (Lifeforce)
• Nick D’Virgilio, Neal Morse & Ross Jennings — Troika (Radiant Records)
• OSKA — My World, My Love, Paris (Nettwerk)
• Pierce Turner — Terrible Good (Storysound Records)
• Pintandwefall — Seventh Baby (GAEA)
• Pixies — Live In Brixton (Demon)
• David Ramirez — Rules and Regulations (EP)
• Reckless Love — Turborider
• Richard Clayderman — Forever Love (WEA)
• Robert Glasper — Black Radio III (Loma Vista)
• Sasami — Squeeze (Domino)
• Sea Power — Everything was Forever
• Serious Black — Vengeance Is Mine (AFM)
• Serpent Cobra — Beware EP (Helter Skelter/Regain)
• Sevdaliza — Raving Dahlia EP (Twisted Elegance)
• Scorpions — Rock Believer (Vertigo Berlin)
• Shape Of Despair — Return To The Void (Season Of Mist)
• Short Stack — Maybe There’s No Heaven (UNFD)
• Shiva Burlesque — Mercury Blues (+Skulduggery) (Darla Records)
• Soft Cell — *Happiness Not Included (BMG)
• Spencer Hoffman — A Flower From Behind EP (Park the Van Records)
• Spiritualized — Everything Was Beautiful (Bella Union)
• String Machine — Hallelujah Hell Yeah (Know Hope Records)
• Superchunk — Wild Loneliness (Merge)
• Svartsot – Kumbl (Mighty)
• Swamp Dogg — I Need A Job… So I Can Buy More Autotune (Don Giovanni)
• Tangerine Dream — Raum (Kscope/Eastgate Music)
• Tankard – For A Thousand Years Box Set (Noise)
• Tears For Fears — The Tipping Point (Concord)
• Tennyson — Rot
• Thurston Moore – Screen Time (Southern Lord)
• Under The Rug — Dear Adeline (Anabl)
• Various Artists — Euphoria Season 2 (An HBO Original Series Soundtrack) (Interscope)
• VHS Collection — Night Drive (Tiger Tone)
• The Wooks — Flyin’ High
• Yonder Mountain String Band — Get Yourself Outside
• Your Planet Is Next — Mr. Music (Studio Barnhus)

New Video Out – Tour Starting this week:

Jimmy Eat World will be joining forces with Dashboard Confessional for an epic North American co-headline tour. The “Surviving The Truth Tour” hits the road February 27 at Albuquerque, NM’s Kiva Auditorium, and then travels the US through late March. Highlights include a very special two-night stand, set for March 11 and 12 at The Caverns in Pelham, TN, a subterranean music venue renowned for its prehistoric natural acoustics and otherworldly beauty. The opener on the tour will be Sydney Sprague. Artist Presales begins Wednesday, January 12 at 10:00 am (local). Spotify and Local Presales begin Thursday, January 13 at 10:00 am (local). All Presales conclude Thursday, January 13 at 10:00 pm (local). General on-sales begin Friday, January 14 at 10:00 am (local). For complete details and ticket availability, please see dashboardconfessional.com/#live and jimmyeatworld.com.  The album will be available in a variety of formats, including digital, CD, cassette, standard black vinyl, and a number of limited-edition vinyl runs on offer exclusively via such retailers as Urban Outfitters, Walmart, and Bandbox. A candid All The Truth That I Can Tell Album Trailer can be viewed now at YouTube. ____________________________________________________________________ TEARS FOR FEARS RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR“BREAK THE MAN” WATCH HERE FIRST NEW ALBUM IN 17 YEARS THE TIPPING POINT ARRIVING FEBRUARY 25TH, 2022 VIA CONCORD RECORDS THE TIPPING POINT WORLD TOUR BEGINS MAY 2022     Iconic British duo Tears For Fears have released their new music video for “Break The Man,” the third single off their highly anticipated first studio album in seventeen years, THE TIPPING POINT, arriving February 25th, 2022 via Concord Records. Inspired by the song’s lyrics, the music video encompasses a world that illustrates the constructed reality of the patriarchy – a place of endless hierarchies built on blind devotion to unstable and unsustainable structures. From the inside, the world appears infinite, but from the outside it’s a mere plaything in the hand of Mother Universe. Watch HERE. Of the video Curt Smith says, “It’s about a strong female — which is obvious — but it’s really about breaking the patriarchy.” THE TIPPING POINT is one of 2022’s most anticipated albums according to Pitchfork, Vulture, Stereogum and many more. Co-written by Curt Smith and Charlton Pettus, and co-produced by Curt, Roland, and Charlton, “Break The Man” is an empowering yet groovy track that calls for a better balance between men and women. Listen HERE and pre-order THE TIPPING POINT now HERE. In October the pair released the first single & title track, “The Tipping Point,” capturing the grief of watching someone you love lose their long-standing battle with disease. Their second single “No Small Thing” was a meeting of the minds as the pair went back to the drawing board and found the heart and soul that would complete the album. The accompanying video was made using solely found footage showing the conflict between individual freedoms and collective responsibility. The Tipping Point is the bold, beautiful and powerful sound of Tears For Fears finding themselves together, once again.   In November, the band also announced THE TIPPING POINT WORLD TOUR, with support from Garbage on the U.S. leg. Kicking off in Cincinnati, OH on May 20th, 2022, these dates will see the band performing in over twenty cities across North America before capping off with their last show in Wantagh, NY on June 25th, 2022. These dates will mark the band’s first U.S. tour since 2017. See below for a full list of dates, and for tickets and more information, visit the band’s website HERE.   ABOUT TEARS FOR FEARS Tears For Fears – Roland Orzabal (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Curt Smith (vocals, bass, keyboards) formed in Bath, England 1981. With 30 million albums sold worldwide, performing to countless sold-out audiences, and winning various awards, the band represent an inimitable intersection of pop palatability, clever and cognisant lyricism, guitar bombast, and new wave innovation. Their 1983 debut The Hurting yielded anthems such as “Mad World,” “Change,” and “Pale Shelter,” reaching RIAA Gold status in the United States. 1985’s Songs from the Big Chair became a watershed moment for the group and music at large. Boasting the signature BRIT Award-winning “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” “Shout,” “Head over Heels,” “Mothers Talk” and “I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording),” it went quintuple-platinum and captured #1 on the Billboard Top 200. Slant dubbed it one of, “The Best Albums of the 1980s,” it was featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and Consequence of Sound awarded it a rare A+ rating in a 20-year retrospective.1989’s Seeds of Love proved to be Orzabal and Smith’s last collaboration together until Everybody Loves A Happy Ending in 2004, which rekindled the creative fire between them. The band engaged in a three-year touring whirlwind across North America, Japan, South Korea, Manila, and South America beginning in 2010. 2013 saw them return with their first recorded music in a decade: a cover of Arcade Fire’s “Ready to Start.” The band returned once more in 2017 with the Rule The World best of collection which once more catapulted the band back to the upper echelon of the UK album charts. The duo’s DNA remains embedded within three generations of artists on both subtle and overt levels. Quietly casting a shadow over rock, hip-hop, electronic dance music, indie, and beyond, Kanye West interpolated “Memories Fade” on “The Coldest Winter” from the seminal 808s & Heartbreak, The Weeknd infused “Pale Shelter” into Starboy’s “Secrets,” David Guetta sampled “Change” for “Always,” and Drake utilized “Ideas as Opiates” as the foundation for “Lust For Life,” while Ally Brooke Hernandez, Adam Lambert, and Gary Jules recorded popular covers of “Mad World” and Disturbed took on “Shout,” and that’s only to name a few. Lorde cut a haunting cover of “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” for the Soundtrack of the blockbuster The Hunger Games – Catching Fire, which Tears For Fears gleefully would use as intro music live and thus bring everything full circle. In 2021 the band was honored with the Outstanding Song Collection Award at the Ivor Novello Awards.  Meanwhile, classic songs figure prominently everywhere from The Wire and Donnie Darko to Straight Outta Compton and Mr. Robot. Long before they became a cultural cornerstone Tears For Fears simply consisted of two school friends growing up in Bath, Somerset UK. With The Tipping Point and a comprehensive tour on the horizon Orzabal and Smith remain as loud as ever, while yet another generation gets ready to “Shout” with them all over again. Follow Tears For Fears:Instagram / Twitter / Facebook / Spotify

Until next week!

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