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The biggest star in country music today, Luke Bryan, debuted his What Makes You Country album at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200 and Top Country Albums charts, his third consecutive record to take the honor on the Top 200 and fifth consecutive on the Top Country Albums Chart. It was produced by Jeff Stevens and Jody Stevens and contains 15 songs, seven of them co-written by Luke including lead single "Light It Up," which became his nineteenth career No. 1 and tenth straight Billboard Country Airplay leader. In referencing the meaning behind the album's title track he shares, "what makes me country is where I was raised in Leesburg, Georgia. I was brought up with manners and raised with a work ethic that has played an important role to where I am today."

Critics are raving about What Makes You Country: The New York Times touted, "Bryan's omnivorous approach to country production is arguably more ambitious and musically progressive; it's certainly more in tune with the genre's younger listeners"; Newsday proclaimed that, "Luke makes country hit-making seem effortless"; and Radio.com writes that, "the 15-song project is a versatile one that includes the party songs Bryan is known and loved for as well as the more poignant and introspective ballads that take a look into who we are as people and where Bryan came from."

"My favorite part of making a new album is getting to collaborate with the songwriting community in this town," notes Luke. "It is important to me to continue to push myself to grow on all levels and I feel like we did that on this project."

1. What Makes You Country
2. Out Of Nowhere
3. Light It Up
4. Most People Are Good
5. Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset
6. Bad Lovers
7. Drinking Again
8. Land Of A Million Songs
9. Like You Say You Do
10. Hooked On It
11. She's A Hot One
12. Hungover In A Hotel Room
13. Pick It Up
14. Driving This Thing
15. Win Life

Hip Hop Icons Return on Def Jam with First Release on the Label in Over Two Decades!

Legendary hip hop group Public Enemy returns to Def Jam - a cultural institution that they helped build - for their first release for the label in over two decades with What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? The loaded 17-track affair boasts a powerful lineup of guests including Nas, YG, Rapsody, DJ Premier, Black Thought, Questlove, Cypress Hill, Run-DMC, Ice-T, PMD, George Clinton, Daddy-O, Jahi, The Impossebulls, Mark Jenkins, S1Ws Pop Diesel, James Bomb and Mike D and Ad-Rock of Beastie Boys. The album is led by the single "Fight the Power: Remix 2020," re-conceptualized by Public Enemy with Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, YG, Jahi and Questlove for the 2020 BET Awards in June 2020, and officially released as a single along with the album announcement. It also includes Public Enemy's recent single, "State of the Union (STFU)," produced by DJ Premier. The track holds nothing back as it calls out Donald Trump and his destructive reign.

1. When The Grid Goes Down ft. George Clinton
2. Grid ft. Cypress Hill and George Clinton
3. State of the Union (STFU) ft. DJ Premier
4. Merica Mirror ft.. Pop Diesel
5. Public Enemy Number Won ft. Mike D, Ad-Rock, Run-DMC
6. Toxic
7. Yesterday Man ft. Daddy-O
8. Crossroads Burning (Interlude) ft. James Bomb
9. Fight The Power: Remix 2020 ft. Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG, Questlove
10. Beat Them All
11. Smash The Crowd ft.. Ice-T, PMD
12. If You Can't Join Em Beat Em
13. Go At It ft. Jahi
14. Don't Look At The Sky (Interlude) ft. Mark Jenkins
15. Rest In Beats ft. The Impossebulls
16. R.I.P. Blackat
17. Closing: I Am Black ft. Ms. Ariel

Murray Street is Sonic Youth's twelfth full-length studio effort and first to feature the all-out collaboration (writing, playing and production) of the great Jim O'Rourke. Named after the New York street where the band's studio was situated and where a plane engine landed on September 11, 2001, Murray Street finds the band building their signature avant garde explorations within a more song oriented framework. The results are obliquely melancholic yet tuneful and the album moves effortlessly and enjoyably between tones, structures, textures and melodies with new found purpose and precision. Songs like "The Empty Page," "Disconnection Notice," and "Rain On Tin") easily hold their own among the many highlights in SY's vast and varied catalog.

1. The Empty Page
2. Disconnection Notice
3. Karen Revisited
4. Rain On Tin
5. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
6. Plastic Sun
7. Sympathy For The Strawberry

Among the English language's premier phrase-turners with music relevant to any age, the late great John Prine was part of the Atlantic Records family for four albums before he jumped over to Asylum for another three records and eventually his own label Oh Boy. A creative comeback of sorts, 1980's tasteful Storm Windows was Prine's last for Asylum. Produced by Barry Beckett (Bob Dylan, Paul Simon), the album features ten country-flavored tracks, six of which were written by Prine, with two more songs co-written with guitarist John Burns. Recorded at the iconic Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Alabama, poignant standouts include "Living in the Future," "One Red Rose," and the title track.

1. Shop Talk
2. Living in the Future
3. It's Happening to You
4. Sleepy Eyed Boy
5. All Night Blue
6. Just Wanna Be with You
7. Storm Windows
8. Baby Ruth
9. One Red Rose
10. I Had a Dream

First New Album from Original Line-Up Since 1985's Ain't Love Grand!

On the 40th Anniversary of the landmark, Los Angeles, and 35 years since the original line-up have released an album – X, one of the greatest punk rock bands in music history, delivers Alphabetland! It finds Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebrake embodying the same spirit they did when they began in 1977. "When your heart is broken you think every song is about that. These songs were written in the last 18 months and it blows my mind how timely they are," says Doe.

Tracks

1. Alphabetland
2. Free
3. Water & Wine
4. Strange Life
5. I Gotta Fever
6. Delta 88 Nightmare
7. Star Chambered
8. Angel On The Road
9. Cyrano de Berger's Back
10. Goodbye Year, Goodbye
11. All The Time In The World

Limited press of 500 on translucent purple vinyl. Matte black paper inner sleeves. Each copy includes unique download code. Produced by J. Robbins. Recorded and mixed at Magpie Cage Recording Studio Baltimore, MD June 2018. Mastered by Dan Coutant, Sun Room Audio, New Windsor, NY. All music, lyrics and arrangements by Jack Murray (BMI). Front cover by Mar Aroko. All other artwork by Jack Murray.