Saturday playlist: The year so far

I’m going to try to kick off a new feature this week, the Saturday Playlist, which essentially will be a musical list. This week, I’m going to offer my playlist of music that has grabbed my attention this year so far. In future posts, these playlists may offer a short summary of what I’ve been listening to over the last seven days or just a couple of top picks from the week’s new releases.

These are not meant to be definitive and I am not trying to be a critic. These are just some of the albums or tracks that move me. So, this is the new stuff that has intrigued me in 2013, listed alphabetically.

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Specter at the Feast
• David Bowie, The Next Day
• Billy Bragg, Tooth & Nail
• Steve Earle, The Low Highway
• Hanni El Khatib, Head in the Dirt
• Frightened Rabbit, Pedestrian Verse
• Foxygen, We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic
• Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Old Yellow Moon
• Shooter Jennings, The Other Life
• The London Suede, Bloodsports
• Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale, Buddy and Jim
• Parquet Courts, Light Up Gold
• Pillowtalk, Pillow Talk
• Son Volt, Honky Tonk
• Richard Thompson, Electric
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mosquito

What have you been listening to?

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet