New issues of Rolling Stone, Wax Poetics, Decibal, Dance Magazine, Under the Radar, and Paste Magazine have arrived for your lazy summer days.

You might not be aware that one of the world’s highly acclaimed Jazz guitar composers and teachers lives not too far from our neck of the woods. Chuck Anderson has been teaching and performing guitar for the last 40 years. He has written a ton of material of how to learn jazz guitar, has released a number of albums over the years with the Chuck Anderson Trio, and has recently been performing live again after several years of dealing with a condition known as “sleep apnea“.

Over the past 6 months Chuck has built a website full of resources for guitarists hoping to learn more about their art, whether it’s learning about the fundamentals of guitar or comparing jam bands to jazz guitar. Chuck has a very fresh and interesting take on what the guitar really is, and how the jazz guitar is often mistaken by the general public due to the heavy influence from other instruments (such as the sax) on the perception of jazz music.

You can stream Chuck’s new album, “Freefall”, above and if you like what you hear swing by the store and pick up a copy!

Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare
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“Like AC/DC when they released BACK IN BLACK a mere five months after replacing their vocalist, AVENGED SEVENFOLD just may have written the album of their career.” – Full Review

Best Coast – Crazy For You Download/Listen
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“That penchant for simplicity bounces all over Best Coast’s debut, Crazy For You. After a string of sunny but sludgy EPs, Crazy features 13 tracks in 30 minutes. It’s the tightest, brightest music Cosantino and sole bandmate Bobb Bruno have pumped out yet.” – Full Review

Jaill – That’s How We Burn Download/Listen
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“They have a no frills concept going on in That’s How We Burn that may not immediately snag you as being special but I guarantee that their 32 minutes of energy will get some repeat plays based on its memorable hooks, wry lyrics and edgy garage rock moments that keeps everything revved up.” – Full Review

Menomena – Mines Download/Listen
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“The new one, Mines, has been a long time in the making. When you’re in a band with three perfectionists, that’s likely to happen, but Menomena’s process also makes for a record full of sonic treats.” – Full Review

Mark Olson – Many Colored Kite
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“Mark Olson is a founding member of The Jayhawks, the most acclaimed band to emerge out of the alt-country scene. He left the Jayhawks in 1996, after the release of the band’s biggest-selling album, Tomorrow The Green Grass, but continued to record music with his new band, The Creekdippers, at his new home in the California desert.” – Mark Olsen @ MySpace

J Roddy Walston – Self Titled
CD $9.99

“J Roddy Walston and the Business’ self-titled debut album, out July 27, is full of spirited and sweaty Southern rock, and with its joyous oh oh oh ah backing vocals and buoyant boogie rhythm, “I Don’t Wanna Hear It” is the collection’s purest-party starter — but its lyrics paint a defiant picture that started in a troubled personal moment. ” – Full Review

Menomena (pronounced /mɨˈnɒmɨnə/) is an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States; made up of Brent Knopf, Justin Harris, and Danny Seim. All members of the band share singing duties and frequently swap instruments while recording. – Menomena @ Wikipedia

Their much-anticipated latest release is titled Mines, will be in the shop Tuesday, July 27th. Here’s a free download to hold you over until then.

Books – The Way Out
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“The Way Out, their first LP in five years, has a surreal, at times creepy, quality that emanates from audio samples lifted from hypnotherapy and emotional healing cassette tapes.” – The Full Review

Sheryl Crow – 110 Miles From Memphis
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“After conquering the rock and pop worlds with six Top 10 albums, iconic singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow is headed back to her Southern roots with her new album 100 Miles from Memphis.” Full Story

Eat Pray Love – Official Soundtrack
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“Featuring the Eddie Vedder single (recently leaked as a supposed Pearl Jam B-Side from an earlier album, but actually a new recording), the soundtrack to the film also features tunes from Neil Young & Sly & the Family Stone.” Full Track Listing

Stop in and check out the featured titles in this month’s Headbanger Wall Listening Post!

Crowded House – Intriguer
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“You can sense its double identity as you listen: there are songs that bristle with ambition, with strange undercurrents and scuffed melodies; and then there are songs that plod amiably along, as comfortable as a fraying pair of slippers.” – Full Review

Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night of Soul
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“Part of those haunting visual aspects were captured in a series of surreal photographs filmmaker David Lynch created, based on the stories and themes of the songs. The images are available in a 48-page book in the deluxe version of Dark Night of the Soul, which also includes a poster, postcards, two LPs, a CD and a bonus instrumental CD. Lynch himself actually sings on a couple of tracks on the album.” – Full Review

M.I.A. – Maya
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“It’s a harsh, don’t-mess-with-me re-introduction to one of the most talked-about artists of the last few years, a British-born, Brooklyn-based art-school provocateur who spent her childhood muddling through the chaos of a Sri Lankan civil war. Yet a few songs later, she’s putting away “Teqkilla,” in a song rife with product-placement possibilities, and then offering a breezy, reggae-flavored cover of “It Takes a Muscle,” a drippy 1982 pop ballad by the thoroughly bland Dutch group Spectral Display.” – Full Review

Sun Kil Moon – Admiral Fell Promises
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“We’ve heard “Australian Winter,” the lead track from Sun Kil Moon’s forthcoming fourth album Admiral Fell Promises (7/13 via Caldo Verde). I mentioned it felt especially chilly — the spare nylon strings intersecting with Mark Kozelek’s voice, the song’s sentiments.” – Full Review

New issues of the Believer and Thrasher have arrived!

Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot…The Son of Chico Dusty
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Big Boi, half of the acclaimed duo Outcast has finally ventured out into his own with his first solo offering Sir Lucious Left Foot…The Son of Chico Dusty, featuring the new single “Shutterbug”.

It’s a light week for new releases due to the holiday, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have plenty of great recent releases in stock! If you haven’t picked up the new Wolf Parade, The Roots, Black Keys, or Newark’s own Diego Paulo, then swing on down.

Also, don’t forget we have lots of freebies from the digital store!