28
Jul

 

Slim pickin’s on the new release wall this week, there’s no two ways around it. Let’s be careful out there:

 

  • The legendary Tom Jones returns to his gospel roots
    on his latest record, Praise and Blame.
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  • Recording under the moniker of Owl City, a kid called Adam Young created a sensation at pop radio earlier in the year with his monster left-field smash “Fireflies,” and while we patiently await the next OC record, Young satiates our burning curiosity in the meantime with
    An Airplane Carried Me to Bed, a collection of tunes he composed and recorded four years ago under the name of Sky Sailing.
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  • That woeful fool Clay Aiken supplements his latest covers record
    with a companion DVD entitled Tried and True Live!.
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  • The fabulous Natalie Merchant pops up this week
    with an exclusive iTunes session, which features an
    amazing acoustic reading of her 1998 hit “Break Your Heart,”
    as well as a fun rendition of The Wizard of Oz‘s classic standard
    “If I Only Had a Brain.”
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  • Finally, my single favorite pop culture wordsmith ever — Rolling Stone‘s blisteringly brilliant music critic Rob Sheffield — follows up his shattering 2008 memoir Love is a Mix Tape with a hilarious new chronicle of having spent his adolescence selling his soul to FM radio, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest
    for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
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