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New releases

New DVDsTribune News Service

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

June 8Life in 12 Bars

June 12I Can Only ImagineTomb RaiderSherlock GnomesLove, SimonThe Strangers: Prey at NightLovelessAn Ordinary ManOrange Is the New Black: Season FivePowerSuits: Season SevenThe Humanity BureauWill & Grace

June 19Pacific Rim UprisingPaul, Apostle of ChristMidnight SunThe Death of StalinUnsaneFlowerDouble LoverDark Matter: Season ThreeThe Swap

June 26Tyler Perry’s AcrimonyGeminiThe EndlessBlack Lightning: Season 1In DarknessSpinning ManTerminal

July 3BlockersBeirut7 Days in EntebbeJourney’s EndIsmael’s GhostsAnother WolfCopBorg vs. McEnroeThe CuredThe Female BrainWhere is Kyra?

July 10A Quiet PlaceChappaquiddickThe Leisure SeekerLean on Pete211Future WorldThe Magicians: Season Three

New gamesThe following is a list of video games scheduled for release next week, according to www.ign.com. Release dates are subject to change.

Omega Strike (PS4, Xbox One, PC. Genre: Action. Rating: Not available)

New musicThe following is a partial list of titles released Friday.

Compiled by Keith Coombes of Ernie November

Lily Allen, “No Shame”

Dierks Bentley, “The Mountain”

Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story, “Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”

Black Sabbath, “Supersonic Years: The Seventies Singles Box Set”

Eric Clapton, “Life in 12 Bars”

Dance Gavin Dance, “Artificial Selection”

Jesse Dayton, “Outsider”

Exmortus, “Sound of Steel”

Michael Franks, “The Music in My Head”

The Get Up Kids, “Kicker”

Dave Hole, “Goin’ Back Down”

Howlin’ Rain, “The Alligator Bride”

Lykke Li, “So Sad So Sexy”

Dave Matthews Band, “Come Tomorrow”

Megadeth, “Killing is My Business....And Business is Good: Final Remix”

Ne-Yo, “Good Man”

Shannon Shaw, “Shannon in Nashville”

Sugarland, “Bigger”

Tremonti, “Dying Machine”

Yob, “Our Raw Heart”

Zeal and Ardor, “Strange Fruit”

AlBum reviewSThe Philadelphia Inquirer

“LUMp”Lump (DeaD Oceans) HHH

“Lump” is a new collaboration between English folk artists Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay of the band Tunng. Lindsay provides the music, a blend of gentle electronics and soft guitars, with the occasional addition of a flute or abrasive synths. It’s an often abstract, sometimes insis-tent bed for Marling’s voices, which range from her familiar intimate alto to ethereal, reverber-ating high harmonies to measured, detached monotones.

Marling uses the project to experiment: Her own albums tend to be word-centric, full of rapid paragraphs of images and narrative. Here, she’s interested in impressionistic statements and compact declarations that explore the intersec-tions of subconscious thoughts and public per-sona. “Sleep like a teen / Paint dots on your wrist to see me in your dreams,” she sings with a sigh in “Late to the Flight” atop a dreamy, and dream-poppy, swirl of synths and strings. The brief album – 30 minutes, plus an odd two-minute recitation of the album credits – has more in common with Kate Bush or, on “Curse of the Contemporary,” the Cure than with Joni Mitchell or Nick Drake or Marling’s own albums.

– Steve Klinge

“DAYTONA”pusha-T (GOOD music) HHH 1/2

“Daytona” is newsworthy in all kinds of ways. It’s Pusha-T’s finest work since “Hell Hath No Fury,” his 2006 classic with duo Clipse. And like Jay-Z’s 2017 release “4:44,” which teamed the rapper exclusively with No I.D., “Daytona” is a taut, cohesive work that is a full length collabo-ration with a single producer.

That producer is Kanye West, who immediately makes it clear he still has his wits about him as a sharp, inventive beat maker. Pusha – who like Jay, has restored the hyphen to his name – allows West to guide the musical ship, and the rapper is on top of his game, whether catering to his hard-core fans on “If You Know You Know,” or wonder-ing what was on the mind of then-incarcerated rapper Meek Mill on “What Would Meek Do.”

Finally, “Daytona” has also incited what prom-ises to be an epic feud between Pusha and Drake, reminiscent of the Canadian rapper’s beef with Mill in 2015. On the album’s “Infared,” Pusha again raises the charge that the “Hot Line Bling” star doesn’t write his own raps. Drake respond-ed immediately with the clever clap back “Duppy Freestyle,” and Pusha struck again this past week with the brutal diss track “The Story of Adidon.” Don’t expect this to end any time soon.

– Dan DeLuca

“DOwNEY TO LUBBOCK”Dave aLvin anD Jimmie DaLe GiLmOre (Yep rOc) HHH

You could call it an Americana summit, although Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore not only predate the genre label by decades, they have also helped shape what “Americana” has come to represent, amorphous as that may be. On the roadhouse romp of a title song that launches their first collaboration, they tell their individual stories: Alvin is the one from Downey in subur-ban L.A. with the “loud Stratocaster” who helped found the Blasters; Gilmore is the “hippie country singer” from Lubbock in West Texas who also was a charter member of a storied group, the Flatlanders.

The high spirits and sense of camaraderie set the tone for what turns out to be an inspired pairing, even if Alvin’s cigarette-roughened baritone and Gilmore’s nasal warble don’t initially seem like a natural fit. They deliver terrific versions of songs by fallen contemporaries such as Steve Young’s “Silverlake” and Chris Gaffney’s “The Gardens.”

Alvin’s folk narrative “Billy the Kid and Geronimo” is the only original besides his and Gilmore’s “Downey to Lubbock,” and it’s so good you wish the two of them had written more themselves. Maybe next time.

– Nick Cristiano

They’ve also been gain-ing more attention over the past five years due to their songs being used in film and television.

Recently, their song “Yes, I Know” was featured in an episode of “Riverdale” and “Animal Kingdom,” and their track “Haunt You” was included in “The Col-lection” and “Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.”

Miller and Black share songwriting duties, which they’ve done over their seven albums and two ex-tended plays.

Miller admitted her songs could be seen as a form of therapy, but she prefers to leave the meanings open to interpretation.

Some of her favorite song-writers also had this ap-proach to music, such as The Tragically Hip’s late frontman Gord Downie.

“He was a poet, and I think that’s how I approach song-writing,” Miller said. “It’s just poetry that hopefully rhymes a bit. I like songs that tell me a story. Then, I can take those words and create my own story from it. That’s what I want people who lis-ten to our stuff to feel, too.”

Since the two share song-writing duties, this has meant they’ve been pretty prolific since they got start-ed. Their most recent record was 2017’s “Dollhouse.”

But now, they’re taking a

bit of a break from writing and just enjoying playing shows. This has always been their favorite part of being a band, so Miller noted that it’s nice to be able to relax, if even for a little while.

“Our last album was such a rapid-fire expression, so we’re constantly thinking of ways to reinvent what we’re doing,” she said. “That way, it keeps things exciting for us and for our fans and new

listeners.”

Ellen Fike is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s features writer. She can be reached at 307-633-3135 or efike@wyomingnews.com. Follow her on Twitter at @EllenLFike.

The Pack a.d.’s top 5 songs on spotify1. “Yes, I Know”

2. “Making Gestures”

3. “Haunt You”

4. “Needles”

5. “Dollhouse”

Rock the Block will feature sets from The Pack a.d. (above), country band Brand 307, indie group Slow Caves and more. The festival is June 23 from 5-11 p.m., behind the Paramount Café. courtesy

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The Pack a.d.: Taking break from writing

Prince performs “Purple Rain” as the opening act during the 46th Annual Grammy Awards show on Feb. 8, 2004, at the Staples Cen-ter in Los Angeles. Tribune news service

Gold from the Prince vault: New LP comingBy Chris riemenschneiderStar Tribune (Minneapolis)

MINNEAPOLIS – The first royal jewel from Prince’s legendary vault was un-veiled Thursday to mark the singer’s 60th birthday: Warner Bros. Records an-nounced plans to release a collection of so-lo-piano recordings made in 1983, just before he broke big.

The nine-song album, “Piano & a Micro-phone 1983,” will arrive Sept. 21 on vinyl, CD and digital formats. It’s just one of three albums of unreleased recordings an-nounced for the fall, but it’s likely to gain the most attention given its intimate nature and an already fabled reputation among diehard collectors.

Known to bootleggers as “Intimate Mo-ments with Prince,” the collection was re-corded at the now-bulldozed “Purple House” on Kiowa Trail in Chanhassen in late October 1983, just a month before filming of “Purple Rain” began.

The tracklist includes raw versions of the song “Purple Rain,” the 1984 B-side “17 Days,” the “1999” LP deep cut “Inter-national Lover” and “Strange Relation-ship,” the latter of which would not be made public until 1987 on the “Sign o’ the Times” album. It also features a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You,” which he

performed on piano at First Avenue on Aug. 3, 1983, the night he recorded “Purple Rain” and two other tracks that would wind up on his landmark album. “A Case of You” did later wind up on his 2002 collec-tion, “One Nite Alone.”

There are also three unreleased origi-nals in the set, including one that’s sure to raise a few eyebrows, “Cold Coffee & Co-caine,” which the exhaustive fan site PrinceVault.com says is sung in his frilly “Jamie Starr” voice and was probably in-tended as a song for the Time. The other two are “Wednesday” and “Why the Butterflies.”

Curiously, the collection also includes a performance of “Mary Don’t You Weep,” a 19th century spiritual song that has been plucked from the album to run over the closing credits of Spike Lee’s new movie, “BlacKkKlansman,” due out in August. Fans will receive a download of “Mary Don’t You Weep” if they pre-order “Piano & a Microphone 1983.”

The album’s cover features a rare back-stage photo of Prince during the “1999” tour by Minneapolis photographer Allen Beaulieu, who is prepping a new book of photos from that era for release in Novem-ber. More of Beaulieu’s pictures are also featured in the LP’s packaging.

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