Featured Music
This page covers the music that we are featuring this month. It features both new and old albums that we recommend or think our customers will love.
As you scroll, you will find the albums that we are featuring in listening posts, our staff picks, and key new releases. If you want a huge, complete list of the new stuff, the upcoming releases, as well as reviews, etc., Hoodlums provides you links to the most fantastic guides on our New Release Info page.
Featured new albums
Three major October releases by artists endorsed heavily by the hoodlums at Hoodlums.
Seemingly every super market and toy store in town sells new releases. Instead of worrying about every release, Hoodlums concentrates on stocking the right releases. We consider it our job to help filter out the junk and help you find the great stuff.
Below are some of the new albums we are featuring at Hoodlums. Hover over the album cover for artist and title information. Come to Hoodlums to buy the release on CD or Record.
We highlight both new releases and amazing remasters by our favorite artists.
At Hoodlums, we love albums. Not singles… the whole album. Here’s three highlights.
Remember: Although we will not order every release, every week… we will gladly get you ANY new release you want. Just call us or email us ahead of street date and we will do everything possible to insure it is here for you to pick up by street date.
Listening Posts/October
Here is more of our featured music. We try and load up our listening posts with new music, as well as classics from every genre and era. October LPs featured lots of music from the book 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die.
Some post titles will change during the month as new music is released.
New Music Listening Posts
Michael Franti and Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers
Civet - Hell Hath No Fury
Ben Folds - Way To Normal
Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
The Maine - Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean and the Sun
One Day As a Lion - ST
A Static Lullaby - Rattlesnake
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Morning Light - Wake Up
Street Dogs - State of Grace
I Am Ghost - Those We Leave Behind
Hell Train - Rock n’ Roll Death”
Ray LaMontagne - Gossip in the Grain
Ani DiFranco - Red Letter Year
Jolie Holland - The Living and the Dead
Bob Dylan - Bootlegs Volume 8
Margot and Nuclear So and Sos - Not Animal
Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
I Set My Friends on Fire - You Can’t Spell Slaughter
Jazz Listening Posts
Charles Mingus - Ah Um
Paul Desmond - Take Ten
Oscar Brown Jr. - Sin and Soul
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette
Les McCann/Eddie Harris - Swiss Movement
Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Bud Powell - Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1
Wayne Shorter - JuJu
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Lonnie Smith - Live at the Club Mozambique
World Music, Blues, and Classical Listening Posts
Taj Mahal - Natch’l Blues
Robert Johnson - Complete Recordings
Muddy Waters - At Newport
Bobby Blue Bland - Two Steps from the Blues
Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign
Leo Kottke - 6/12 String Guitar
Hector LaVoe - De Ti Depende
Cesaria Evora - Cesaria
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
Milton Nascimento - Clube de esquina
Andres Segovia - Art of Segovia
Fritz Reiner - Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Classic Rock, Country, and Soul Listening Posts
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Patti Smith - Horses
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Bill Withers - Still Bill
Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Ry Cooder - Paradise and Lunch
Uncle Tupelo - Anondyne
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
War - Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
Hoodlums’ Monthly Staff Picks
Staff picks are always a favorite with customers. They are trickier to collect and present than it might seem, especially if you ask the staff to write something. Nevertheless, we are willing to give it a try.
Here is how we do it: Each staff member picks one or two CDs per month. I will put the album cover and titles on the site under their respective staff chooser’s name. If the hoodlum in question wants to write something, I’ll put it in. If they want to include extra picks, that’s great. If not; no big deal.
Steve’s pick
My fellow hoods don’t have to explain their thinking on picks, but I can’t walk across the street without explaining why I did it. My theories; 1) Pick things I like - regardless of whether they are critically-acclaimed or not; and 2) Pick a mixture of new and old… leaning towards the classics in order to teach my older daughters (and other pups in their teens and twenties) about the great albums that came out before they were born.
Roy Hargrove. “Ear Food”. I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for Roy, because Roy was present at one of my reverential jazz moments, my first and only visit to New York’s famed Village Vanguard. But even if I didn’t, I’d be recommending this disc. He’s a player, and he surrounds himself with players, and this album sounds really good. C’mon in, I’ll play it for ya.
Past picks:
Stanley Turrentine “Rough and Tumble”
Warren Zevon “Excitable Boy”
Kristian’s pick
Jolie Holland - “Living and the Dead”
Past picks:
Alejandro Escovedo “Real Animal”
Joe’s pick
Golem -”Dreamweaver”
Maria’s pick
Emiliana Torrini - “Me and Armini”
Wasef’s pick
M83 - “Saturdays=Youth”
Album picks from over the summer:
Ladytron “Velocifero”
Does It Offend You, Yeah? “You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into”
Pendulum “In Silico”
Girl Talk “Feed the Animals”
Gnarls Barkely “The Odd Couple”
Top Five Picks of All Time
Broken Social Scene “You Forgot it in People”
The Sundays “Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic”
My Bloody Valentine “Loveless”
Air “Moon Safari”
The Dismemberment Plan “Emergency and I”
Justin’s pick
Big Youth - “Screaming Target”
Andy’s Pick
Josh Ritter - “The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter”