STACK #257 March 2026

MUSIC FEATURE

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SONG SUNG BLUE Soundtrack INERTIA

KIM GORDON Play Me ROCKET

Whether it’s a voyage of musical discovery or a sonic reacquaintance with a favourite band or artist, check out these fresh releases heading to JB this month.

Nothing can match the Neil Diamond originals, but the Song Sung Blue soundtrack shows that Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are a

Kim Gordon, who we got to know in the groundbreaking alternative rock band Sonic Youth, says her third solo album was influenced by the state of

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Future Soul UNIVERSAL Cherry, Cherry, I’m a Believer, Sweet Caroline, Song Sung Blue and Crunchy Granola Suite . Good Lordy! tremendous tribute act. This is a crowd pleasing collection from go to whoa, with

the world. “I have to say that the thing that influenced me most was the news,” she explains. “We are in some kind of ‘post empire’ now, where people just disappear.” The songs are short and sharp. And Dave Grohl pops up on drums.

EDITOR’S PICK

21 SAVAGE What Happened To The Streets? SONY

THE BLACK CROWES A Pound of Feathers MGM

Thirty-six years after their cracking debut, The Black Crowes are still shaking their money maker. The Robinson brothers say A Pound of

This is the sixth studio album for this Grammy-winning blues rock band, led by the married couple Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks.

21 Savage is the recording name for rapper Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, who was born in London and grew up in America. What Happened

WILLIAM CRIGHTON Colonial Drift ROCKET William Crighton is a great Australian storyteller. It’s as if he’s the offspring of Midnight Oil and Goanna. Indeed, he worked on this album with Rob Hirst, and it stands as one of Rob’s final musical statements. The late-great Oils drummer said, “It’s been a real honour for me to co-write a few tracks with William Crighton for his new album. In the manner of Midnight Oil, William’s context and subject matter have always been uniquely Australian. William’s voice is an emerging national treasure, still growing in gravitas, intensity and power.” Crighton’s searing songs capture the essence of the nation. He’s not afraid to call things out. He doesn’t sugarcoat. But his work is imbued with hope.

Feathers , their 10th studio album, was a spontaneous affair, created in less than two weeks in the studio in Nashville. Just check out the classic groove of It’s Like That. The Black Crowes are touring Australia next month, including a spot at Bluesfest.

“I feel like this is the most unique record we’ve done,” says Trucks, who gets a mighty guitar sound out of his 1958 Flying V, saying the aim was to make it sound “like the building’s going to blow apart”.

To The Streets? is his fourth studio album. Featuring collabs with Drake, Metro Boomin, Lil Baby and 21 Savage’s cousin Young Nudy, the record has already entered the US charts at number three.

FLEA Honora INERTIA

SQUEEZE Trixies UNIVERSAL

ZACH BRYAN With Heaven On Top INERTIA With Heaven On Top , the sixth studio album for country star Zach Bryan, is a reveals Bryan’s decision to get sober after a “toxic relationship with booze”. He made the record with his buddies in Oklahoma in the winter. “The cool air kept us all inside staggering around each live take,” he says. “I pray these all end up meaning as much to others as they mean to me. Songs are living things, they want to be free and these freed me.” CHARLIE PUTH Whatever’s Clever! INERTIA big record – 25 tracks. It includes Appetite , which

Flea, the Aussie-born bass player in the Red Hot Chili Peppers, has taken the plunge and decided to release a solo album.

Squeeze have been a part of our lives since the late ’70s when they soared into the Australian Top 5 with Cool For Cats (and were known as

Honora showcases his love of jazz, with a swag of new originals plus the artist’s covers of Jimmy Webb’s Wichita Lineman (sung by Nick Cave), Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain and Frank Ocean’s Thinkin Bout You. And Thom Yorke provides the vocals on the new song Traffic Lights.

UK Squeeze here). Trixies is the masterful pop band’s 16th studio album, their first in nine years. And it has remarkable backstory: Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford wrote these songs when they were still teenagers, more than 50 years ago. It was a concept album that they didn’t record at the time, about a fictional nightclub named Trixies.

ROBYN Sexistential ROCKET

LAMB OF GOD Into Oblivion SONY

Swedish star Robyn invents a new word for her ninth album: Sexistential . She says it “doesn’t even have to be about sex, but it’s feeling sensual and attracted to things that I enjoy, and not letting anything take over that”. Explaining her first album in eight years, Robyn says it’s “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and crash landing. That’s how I

Into Oblivion is the 12th studio album for American metal band Lamb of God , who have had four Top 10 albums in Australia. The record finds

You might have seen Charlie Puth performing the American national anthem at the Super Bowl. Whatever’s Clever! , his fourth album,

them raging about what’s happening right now in their home country. “The empire rots from inside,” Randy Blythe fumes in The Killing Floor. And in St. Catherine’s Wheel , he declares: “Truth erodes, tension rising, the experiment has failed.” It’s powerful stuff. As Randy notes, “Nina Simone said it is the duty of the artist to reflect the times. For me, that rings true.”

opens with a song called Changes , which reflects the fact there’s a lot going on in his personal life – he’s about to become a dad. “This album is the first time where I’m putting life first and letting melody follow,” he says. The record includes some high-profile collabs with Kenny G, Jeff Goldblum, and Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins.

felt, like I’d had all these experiences searching too far out into space, and now I’m crashing back into myself.”

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