Rod Stewart Time (Capitol) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars It’s going to take a lot more than this decent return to original rock songs—his first such release in over a decade– to erase the saccharine taste Stewart has left in the mouths of 70s fans. Recent years of well-meaning if smarmy interpretations into the [...]

Patty Griffin will release her seventh studio album, American Kid, on May 7. Recorded in Memphis and co-produced with singer-songwriter/Lisa Germano guitarist Craig Ross, it’s her first album for the label New West Records. Griffin says her followup to 2010′s Downtown Church was written largely to honor her late father — a high school science [...]

Dawes, a band known for their classic rock sound, will release their third studio album Stories Don’t End on April 9. With it, they’re hoping to tweak their reputation. In an interview with Rolling Stone, band leader Taylor Goldsmith says he understands why listeners connect Dawes to older bands that played during the Nixon administration [...]

Van Morrison will return to Blue Note Records for his thirty-fourth studio album, Born To Sing: No Plan B, due October 2. His last outing with Blue Note produced the Grammy-nominated What’s Wrong With This Picture?in 2003. Since then Morrison has released albums on Geffen Records and Lost Highway, but says Blue Note drew him [...]

Renowned North Carolina string band The Avett Brothers announced today via their Facebook page that they have picked a title and release date for the follow up to their breakout album, 2009′s I And Love And You. Titled The Carpenter, the Avetts’ sixth album will be released on September 11 via Universal Records. The album [...]

Mumford and Sons fans who turned out for the band’s set at Pinkpop Festival yesterday were treated to news that the band has finished the followup to its 2009 debut, Sigh No More, and will release the new album in September. 3FM DJ Roosmarijn Reijmer posted on twitter that the release date is Sept. 24, [...]

The Black Keys’ new album El Camino will be released December 6 on Nonesuch Records, the band announced yesterday. Their seventh full-length studio effort was produced by Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, The Grey Album) and The Black Keys, and was recorded at guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville. “I think where this [...]

The Strokes are back, but are they different? The hard-edged NYC rock band is currently mixing their newly completed fourth album, the followup to 2006′s underrated First Impressions On Earth, and will release it March 22 via RCA. According to bassist (and sometime solo artist) Nikolia Fraiture, the album has “a classic sound” more akin [...]