Spring Break in Winter

Hey guys, sorry about the lapse in between updates. We won't be having our show this week because I'm on Spring Break, but I'll be back on air next week at the usual time (2am Friday Morning).
If you listened in this past week, you heard some great new music from the past couple months.
My top picks would be Johnny Cash's 'American VI: Ain't No Grave' and Gonjasufi's 'A Sufi and A Killer.'

I'll start with the Gonjasufi album (released this week): While the music has many roots and different sounds throughout the album, I've never personally heard much quite like it before. There's Hip-hop, World, Psychedelic, and even Punk-rock not all at the same time necessarily (that'd be a bit much), but fused and intertwined nicely with some grittiness. Some parts are soft, others are loud and strong, and some of it sounds like it was 'in the red' (as they say in the biz) during recording, causing it to become a little distorted (which totally works for me). I HIGHLY recommend that you buy it right away and listen over and over while staring at the album art (the back messes with your eyes more, I think). My fave tracks would probably be 'Sheep', 'She Gone.', and 'SuzieQ' (tracks 4, 5, and 6, respectively), but I can listen through the whole thing (also look out for the bonus bit towards the end of the last track).

Now for Ain't No Grave: I'm not sure I've ever heard anything from Johnny Cash that I didn't like (or at least nothing that I disliked). This is the last installment of his American series and last of his late recordings. While he definitely couldn't sing like he could when he was younger, Cash had an added weight and feeling in his older voice. Like much of the rest of the series, he covered (all but one of the tracks are covers) songs with somewhat of a focus on reflection and religion (he knew he was going to die before long). I'd recommend getting your hands on this one. I especially like the title track 'Ain't No Grave.'

I also played the relatively new debut single (came out late January) by The Black Belles, 'What Can I Do?' They're a band on Jack White's label: Third man Records. If you like his music, you'd probably like the Black Belles as well. I like the organ (kinda reminds of the Monks) and guitar, especially on the title track. The b-side is a pretty good cover of The Knickerbockers' song Lies. While I wouldn't recommend it as highly as the other two albums, it's definitely worth they $5 to buy it; to my knowledge, it's available on vinyl (via the Third Man website) and for download on iTunes.

Of course, I did play some great older music as well.

As always, if you have any suggestions/comments/questions about anything, or if you know of (or have) any music I should play/give a listen or bands I should have as guests, let me know!