By Chris Moore:
I love to listen to new music. It has been a source of frustration for me for a long time that there is not a solid list easily available on the internet for new rock music. Yes, Rolling Stone offers music reviews for many new rock albums, but they also cover other genres. And they hardly ever seem to pay close enough attention to my favorite albums, just as they seem to pay too much attention to the new music I find less remarkable.
With this in mind, I hope that what follows will be a definitive list of new music albums from the songwriters I believe are worth your time. The songwriters I include on this list must have proven themselves in some manner, either by popularity or consistent quality of albums and new music. They must be songwriters who are concerned not only with making new music, but also good albums. This is not to say that all this new rock music will be excellent, and there may even be some albums that I have not enjoyed or, on rare occasion, not listened to yet. Please feel free to email me suggestions for albums to be included on this list.
New music reviews and Laptop Sessions are being added all the time, so please click on the “MUSIC REVIEW” and song title links wherever they appear!!
– NEW ALBUMS: 2008 –
Barenaked Ladies – Snacktime
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Beck – Modern Guilt
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Bryan Adams – 11
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Coldplay – Viva La Vida
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Counting Crows – Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings |
Elvis Costello –Momofuku
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Jack Johnson – Sleep Through the Static
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Jakob Dylan – Seeing Things
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Jeff Copperthite – GreenlightMUSIC REVIEWS: (Fusco) – (Moore)
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John Mayer – Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles
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Jordan Zevon – Insides Out
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Levon Helm – Dirt Farmer
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Masters of the Universe – Homestead’s Revenge
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Mudcrutch – Mudcrutch |
Neil Diamond – Home Before Dark
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The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
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R.E.M. – Accelerate
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Relient K – The Bird and the Bee Sides
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Ringo Starr – Liverpool 8 |
Sheryl Crow – Detours |
Weezer – Weezer (The Red Album) |
– Re-Issues: 2008 –
Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue