Backyard Tire Fire, Vagabonds and Hooligans (O.L.E. Records) Good stuff from Athens and Asheville rooted Backyard Tire Fire. Now putting it down in Bloomington, IL the trio delivers a promising new record titled Vagabonds and Hooligans. You gotta love an album whose first verse reads: Instruments and cable ties and bottles on the floor / The voice of Wayne Coyne bringing back the dead / Vagabonds and hooligans are wrapping at the door / Of the house that sits on a hill inside my head. I look forward to tearing into this one some more. An album preview is available from the BTF web site. File under: alt-country, rock.

WORTH MENTION:

• Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul (Barsuk)
• Bloc Party, A Weekend In the City (Wichita)
• Apples in Stereo, New Magnetic Wonder (Yep Roc)

ALSO LOOK FOR:
Patty Griffin, Rickie Lee Jones, Ruthie Foster, Sondre Lerche

See our Release Calendar for more new releases like these.

NOTE: All full album streams courtesy of AOL Music unless otherwise noted. Album streams are typically only available the week of their release.

About the author:  Washington, D.C. area web designer by day. Certifiable music freak by night. Husband and father of two by the loving grace of God.

by Tom Osborne in Playlists, Streams