New EP from rising country star Carly Pearce tops this week’s new releases
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Posted Feb 16, 2021
Carly Pearce follows last year’s self-titled album with “29, a seven-track EP featuring the hit single, “Next Girl. (Photo: Big Machine)
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CLEVELAND, Ohio - A country up-and-comer and some highly regarded veterans have new albums this week, but an “Essential” new edition of K-pop sensation BTS’ latest may just drown ‘em all out.
Album of the Week: With her young career on a roll, Country Music Association Award-winner Carly Pearce follows last year’s self-titled album with “29” (Big Machine), a seven-track EP featuring the already hit “Next Girl” and songwriting collaborations with the likes of Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne, Emily Shackelton and more. Pearce also co-produced the set with Osborne.
February 2021 New Music Releases
Medicine at Midnight, the nine-song follow-up to 2017 s
Ragged Glory-era performance by Crazy Horse. Whitesnake s rootsier side will be explored on
The Blues Album, which pulls key songs from studio records released between 1984 and 2011. Elsewhere, the expanded 50th anniversary box set for the Band s
Stage Fright presents the 1970 studio project in its originally planned song order.
Black Sabbath s reissue of 1972 s
Vol. 4 is bolstered by 20 previously unreleased studio and live recordings. A collection of 1970-era recordings by Bob Dylan includes outtakes and alternate versions from the sessions that produced
2021 New Music Releases
The early slate of 2021 new music releases is unusually full, after several albums were pushed back in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, being off the road apparently gave others space to complete studio recordings.
Alice Cooper found inspiration in his hometown – but that doesn t mean he slipped into easy nostalgia. He says
Detroit Stories will have a lot of different flavors, admitting that he liked breaking out of the mode where an Alice Cooper album sounds like an Alice Cooper album.
Former Van Halen bassist Wolfgang Van Halen will also release his new band Mammoth WVH s debut album early in the year. He s already issued the first solo single, Distance, which honored his late father Eddie Van Halen, and announced his first show.