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Readers’ Pick: Hearts That Strain by Jake Bugg

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You picked Hearts That Strain by Nottingham-based singer-songwriter, Jake Bugg, as your favorite new release for the week of September 1, 2017.

Poll Results

What is your favorite new release for week of September 1?

  • JAKE BUGG, Hearts That Strain (64%, 9 Votes)
  • THE RAILS, Other People (36%, 5 Votes)
  • DAUGHTER, Music From Before The Storm (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 14

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New Releases









What is your favorite new release for week of June 5?

  • The Red Clay Strays – Grateful (22%, 9 Votes)
  • Charlie Marie – Signs (12%, 5 Votes)
  • John R. Miller – The Great Unknowing (10%, 4 Votes)
  • Bella White – A Sign In The Weather (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Deer Tick – Coin-O-Matic (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Grey DeLisle & Les Greene – Grey & Greene (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Caleb Caudle – Heavy Thrill (7%, 3 Votes)
  • Old Crow Medicine Show – Union Made (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Jason Eady – Tulsa Turnaround (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Futurebirds – Far Out Country (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Brent Cobb – Live a Song, Write a Memory, Vol. 1 (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra – Night Blooms (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Zoh Amba – Eyes Full (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Colby Acuff – Handmade Horsepower (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Josiah and the Bonnevilles – As Is (2%, 1 Votes)
  • Stot Sax – You Win Some, You’re Lonesome (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Carling & Will – Oh, Mongoose! (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Laura Marling – Laura Sings Raffi (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Karine Plowart & Pippa Murphy – Windblown (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Benny Bleu – When I Am a Fossil (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Dean Owens – New York Hummingbird (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Erik Rabasca – New Scrolls (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Matt Pond PA – Songs of Disquiet (0%, 0 Votes)
  • The Two Tracks – Seasons Unknown (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Gina Leslie – I Love You Always No Matter What Happens (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 41

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Did we miss something? If you feel a new release is missing from our current poll, please let us know in the comments.

Readers’ Tops Summer 2017

  1. RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, Tell The Devil I’m Gettin’ There As Fast As I Can (321 Votes)
  2. NICOLE ATKINS, Goodnight Rhonda Lee (29)
  3. A.J. CROCE, Just Like Medicine (18)
  4. THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD, Barefoot in the Head (15)
  5. LILLY HIATT, Trinity Lane (10)
  6. RANDALL BRAMBLETT, Juke Joint At The Edge Of The World (9)
  7. DAVID RAWLINGS, Poor David’s Almanack (9)
  8. JAKE BUGG, Hearts That Strain (9)
  9. SHELBY LYNNE & ALLISON MOORER, Not Dark Yet (8)
  10. WILL HOGE, Anchors (8)
  11. IRON & WINE, Beast Epic (8)
  12. HAIM, Something To Tell You (7)
  13. LUKAS NELSON & PROMISE OF THE REAL, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real (7)
  14. WAXAHATCHEE, Out in the Storm (5)
  15. PAUL KELLY, Life Is Fine (5)
  16. THE RAILS, Other People (5)
  17. YAWPERS, Boy in a Well (4)
  18. HARD WORKING AMERICANS, We’re All in This Together (4)
  19. RANDY NEWMAN, Dark Matter (3)
  20. GEORGE THOROGOOD, Party of One (3)
  21. SHANE NICHOLSON, Love and Blood (2)
  22. PETER HIMMELMAN, There is No Calamity (2)
  23. KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD, Lay It on Down (2)
  24. MATT POND PA, Still Summer (2)
  25. SUSAN CATTANEO, The Hammer & the Heart (2)

Keep ’em coming. Your votes in our weekly Readers’ Pick poll help create these rankings. Many thanks!

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