What's Happening?!?!
Collecting’s roads less travelled
At RC Towers, we sense new music bubbling up from Re-flex’s Paul Fishman, Mr Big, Colbie Caillat, Mudvayne, Haircut 100, Firewind, Frank Ocean, Limp Bizkit, Pretty Lights, Troops Of Doom (with ex-sepultura’s Jairo Guedz), Slowdive, ZEBRA, Apocalyptica, Bloc Party, The Hives, Spiritbox, As I Lay Dying, ex-little Mix’s Jesy Nelson, Mötley Crüe, Missy Elliot, ex-megadeth’s Marty Friedman, The Gaslight Anthem, Run The Jewels, Cassadee Pope, New Edition, Kaiser Chiefs, Gordon Giltrap, Saving Grace, Pendragon, Four Tet, Strawbs, Future/lil Durk, Miranda Lambert, BAD OPTIX (on Hellcat), Bonnie Tyler, and her autobiography.
CELLULOID HEROES
Projects due include Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, in cinemas 16 June, with music by Alexandre Desplat; Greta Gerwig’s Barbie film, with Dua Lipa, in cinemas 21 July; Josh Webber’s Athena Saves Christmas film, with Randy Edelman soundtrack; Eric Clapton Across 24 Nights Dolby Atmos film, London Battersea Power Station Cinema, 21 May; Ti West’s Maxxxine film, with Halsey; Wynonna Judd Between Hell And Hallelujah documentary film, on Paramount+, 19 July; VICE News’ Scream Of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story, premiering New York Tribeca Film Festival 13 June; Billy Idol Live At Hoover Dam film, via Lastman Media; Suge Knight series, via BLK Prime this autumn; and soundtracked by Marco Beltrami, Michael Chaves’ The Nun 2, in cinemas 8 September, Len Wiseman’s Ballerina, 7 June 2024.
KIT & CABOODLE
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett has a 1979 Flying V guitar out via Gibson; My Morning Jacket’s Jim James has an ES-335 guitar out via Epiphone.
ACOUSTIC
July (14) Sam Burton Dear Departed, producer Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen), Partisan (28) Darlingside Everything Is Alive, producer Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket), Thirty Tigers TBC David Borne Genesis, producer Jarrad K (Lucie Silvas).
BLUES
June (9) Selwyn Birchwood Exorcist CD, purple LP, producer Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy), Alligator.
INDIE+
June (9) This Is The Kit Careful Of Your Keepers
CD, LP, green LP eco-vinyl LP, producer Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), Rough Trade, Gengahr Red Sun Titans, producer Matt Glasbey (Coldplay), Liberator (UK tour, 27 May-6 October) (16) Balmorhea Pendant World, producer Jonathan Low (Taylor Swift), Deutsche Grammophon September (22) Bleach Lab Lost In A Rush Of Emptiness, producer Catherine Marks (PJ Harvey), Nettwerk.
METAL
June (20) Forged In Black Fighting In The Ashes, producer James Curtis Thomas (The Darkness), Fighter.
PSYCH+
June (2) Extranauts The Alchemist DL, producer Jagz Kooner (Primal Scream), extranauts.com.
POP+
June (9) Ultra Q My Guardian Angel, producer Chris Coady (TV On The Radio), Royal Mountain August (4) Girl Ray Prestige, producer Ben H Allen (Christina Aguilera), Moshi Moshi September (15) Nation Of Language Strange Disciple, producer Nick Millhiser (LCD Soundsystem), PIAS (UK tour, 28 September-7 October) (27) Fast Romantics Happiness + Euphoria, producer Dave Schiffman (The Killers), Postwar.