MAY 15, 2007
| Artist: |
Title: |
Label/Due date: |
| John Anderson |
"Easy Money" (producer: John Rich; first single: "A Woman Knows"; Hear here) |
(Raybaw/Warner, May 15, 2007) |
| Avetts Brothers, The |
"Emotionalism" (Hear here; Read here) |
(Ramseur, May 15, 2007) |
| Blacktop Mourning |
"No Regret" (guest: Counting Crows' Adam Duritz, founder of T-Recs, short for Tyrannosaurus Records; Hear here) |
(T-Recs/Megaforce/ RED, May 15, 2007) |
| Till Brönner |
"Oceana" (released in Europe in 2006; producer: Larry Klein; guests: Madeleine Peyroux, Luciana Souza, Carla Bruni; Hear/read here) |
(EmArcy/Universal, May 15, 2007) |
| Dirty Sweet |
"... Of Monarchs and Beggars" (producers: Dirty Sweet; Hear here; See here) |
(Seedling, May 15, 2007) |
| Dungen |
"Tio Bitar" (Hear here; Read here) |
(Kemado, May 15, 2007) |
| Flatfoot 56 |
"Jungle of the Midwest Sea" (inspired by the Upton Sinclair novel "The Jungle"; Hear here) |
(Flicker, May 15, 2007) |
| Funeral for a Friend |
"Tales Don't Tell Themselves" (producer: Gil Norton; first single: "Into Oblivion [Reunion]"; Hear here; Read here) |
(Atlantic, May 15, 2007) |
| Girl in a Coma |
"Both Before I'm Gone" (enhanced; Hear here; Read here) |
(Blackheart, May 15, 2007) |
| Githead (featuring Wire's Colin Newman) |
"Art Pop" (Hear here) |
(swim~/Redeye, May 15, 2007) |
| Great Northern |
"Trading Twilight for Daylight" (producer: Mathias Schneeberger; Hear here; Read here) |
(Eenie Meenie, May 15, 2007) |
| Groovie Ghoulies, The |
"99 Lives" (Hear here) |
(Green Door, May 15, 2007) |
| Hopesfall |
"Magnetic North" (producer: Mike Watts; Hear here) |
(Trustkill, May 15, 2007) |
| Horrors, The |
"Strange House" (Hear here) |
(Stolen Transmission, May 15, 2007) |
| Ian Hunter |
"Shrunken Heads" (his first studio album since 2001's "Rant"; producers: Andy York, Hunter; guests: Jeff Tweedy, Soozie Tyrell; Hear here; Read here) |
(Yep Roc, May 15, 2007) |
| Rick James |
"Deeper Still" (album he was working before his August 2004 death; first single: "Deeper Still"; Hear here; Read here) |
(Stone City, May 15, 2007) |
| Linkin Park |
"Minutes to Midnight" (album title refers to the Doomsday Clock; producers: Rick Rubin, Mike Shinoda; first single: "What I've Done"; Read here) |
(Warner/Machine Shop Recordings, May 15, 2007) |
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| Megadeth |
"United Abominations" (producer: Andy Sneap; first single: "Tout Le Monde [Set Me Free]"; Read here) |
(Roadrunner, May 15, 2007) |
| Maria Muldaur |
"Naughty, Bawdy & Blue" (the third in her trilogy of albums saluting female blues singers of the 1920s-1940s; producers: Muldaur, Ron Harwood; guests: Bonnie Raitt, James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band; Read here) |
(Stony Plain, May 15, 2007) |
| Dolores O'Riordan (of Cranberries) |
"Are You Listening?" (producers: Youth, Dan Broadbeck, Rich Chycki; first single: "Ordinary Day"; Hear here; Read here) |
(Sequel/Sanctuary, May 15, 2007) |
| Ozma |
"Pasadena" (guests: Rachel Haden, Nada Surf's Matthew Caws; Hear here) |
(About a Girl, May 15, 2007) |
| Phoenix Foundation, The |
"Horsepower" (Hear here) |
(Young American Recordings, May 15, 2007) |
| Pink Martini |
"Hey Eugene!" (guest: Jimmy Scott; Read here) |
(Heinz, May 15, 2007) |
| Bobby Pinson |
"Songs for Somebody" (producer: Pinson; Hear here) |
(CBUJ Entertainment, May 15, 2007) |
| Bruce Robison |
"It Came From San Antonio [EP]" (guest: Robison's wife, Kelly Willis; Read here) |
(Premium, May 15, 2007) |
| Mikel Rouse |
"International Cloud Atlas" (producer: Rouse; guests: Mark Lambert, Susana Ribeiro, Christina Pawl, Emily Stone, etc.; first single: "America's Secrets"; Hear here) |
(ExitMusic Recordings, May 15, 2007) |
| Spanish Harlem Orchestra |
"United We Swing" (guest: Paul Simon, who performs on "Late in the Evening/Tarde En La Noche"; Hear here) |
(Six Degrees, May 15, 2007) |
| Tank |
"Sex, Love & Pain" (first single: "Please Don't Go"; Hear/read here) |
(Blackground/Universal, May 15, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"Shrek the Third [film soundtrack]" (DreamWorks movie opens May 18; songs from Fergie, Wolfmother, Macy Gray, Matt White, Trevor Hall, etc.; See here; Read here) |
(Geffen, May 15, 2007) |
| Rufus Wainwright |
"Release the Stars" (producer: Wainwright; executive producer: Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant; Hear here; Read here) |
(Geffen, May 15, 2007) |
| Wilco (new members: guitarist Nels Cline and keyboardist-guitarist Pat Sansone) |
"Sky Blue Sky" (Read here) |
(Nonesuch, May 15, 2007) |
| Gretchen Wilson |
"One of the Boys" (producers: John Rich, Wilson, Mark Wright; first single: "Come to Bed"; Hear here) |
(Epic, May 15, 2007) |
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| Atlanta Rhythm Section |
"Anthology: Greatest & Latest" |
(Cleopatra, May 15, 2007) |
| James Brown |
"The Original Funk Soul Brother" (2-CD best-of) |
(Snapper, May 15, 2007) |
| Canned Heat |
"Anthology" |
(Cleopatra, May 15, 2007) |
| Cradle of Filth |
"Eleven Burial Masses [CD/DVD]" (concert at Rock City in Nottingham, England, on April 14, 2001) |
(Peaceville/Snapper, May 15, 2007) |
| Betty Davis (Miles Davis' second wife) |
"Betty Davis" (1973 album; remastered), "They Say I'm Different" (1974 album; remastered; Read here) |
(Light in the Attic, May 15, 2007) |
| Fall, The |
"A World Bewitched: Best of 1990-2000" (2 CDs) |
(Artful, May 15, 2007) |
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| Genesis |
"A Trick of the Tail [CD/DVD]" (1976 album; remastered), "Wind & Wuthering [CD/DVD]" (1976 album; remastered), "And Then There Were Three [CD/DVD]" (1978 album; remastered), "Duke [CD/DVD]" (1980 album; remastered), "Abacab [CD/DVD]" (1981 album; remastered) |
(Rhino/Atlantic, May 15, 2007) |
| Genesis |
"Genesis: 1976-1982 [CD/DVD box set]" (6-CD, 6-DVD set includes the albums "A Trick of the Tail," "Wind & Wuthering," "And Then There Were Three," "Duke" and "Abacab," each with a DVD, plus a disc of B-sides and rarities; Hear here; Read here) |
(Rhino/Atlantic, May 15, 2007) |
| Bobbie Gentry |
"Patchwork/Fancy" (1971, 1970 albums on one disc) |
(Australia - Raven, May 14, 2007) |
| Ikettes, The |
"Can't Sit Down ... 'Cos It Feels So Good: The Complete Modern Recordings" |
(U.K. - Kent/Ace, May 14, 2007) |
| Jefferson Airplane |
"Sweeping Up the Spotlight: Jefferson Airplane Live at the Fillmore East 1969" (12 tracks, 10 previously unreleased, recorded Nov. 28-29 in New York; new liner notes by Jorma Kaukonen) |
(RCA/Legacy, May 15, 2007) |
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| Jigsaw |
"Anthology" |
(Renaissance, May 15, 2007) |
| Moby Grape |
"Listen My Friends! The Best of Moby Grape" |
(Epic/Legacy, May 15, 2007) |
| O'Jays, The |
"Imagination" (2004 album; includes a remix of "For the Love of Money"; Read here) |
(Music World Music, May 15, 2007) |
| Pilot |
"Anthology" |
(Renaissance, May 15, 2007) |
| Remains, The |
"The Remains" (1966 album) |
(Epic/Legacy, May 15, 2007) |
| Joe Strummer |
"The Future Is Unwritten [documentary film soundtrack]" (expected to open in theaters this summer; Read here; see related book below) |
(Legacy, May 15, 2007) |
| George Thorogood and the Destroyers |
"Taking Care of Business" (2 CDs; the 2003 album "Ride 'Til I Die," with two bonus tracks, plus a bonus CD of their 2004 concert at London's Royal Albert Hall) |
(Snapper, May 15, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"CBGB Forever" (rare tracks from Green Day, U2, Velvet Revolver, Audioslave, Good Charlotte, etc.; Read here) |
(Wicked Cool/RED, May 15, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"Now Hear This! Garage & Beat from the Norman Petty Vaults" |
(U.K. - Big Beat/Ace, May 14, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"The Pomus & Shuman Story: Double Trouble 1956-1967" (Track listing) |
(U.K. - Ace, May 14, 2007) |
| Dionne Warwick |
"Presenting Dionne Warwick" (1963 album; remastered), "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (1964 album; remastered), "Make Way for Dionne Warwick" (1964 album; remastered), "Here I Am" (1965 album; remastered), "The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick" (1965 album; remastered), "Dionne Warwick in Paris" (1966 album; remastered), "Here Where There Is Love" (1967 album; remastered), "On Stage and In the Movies" (1967 album; remastered), "The Magic of Believing" (1968 album; remastered), "Love At First Sight" (1979 album; remastered; Read here) |
(Collectors' Choice, May 15, 2007) |
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| Tim Buckley |
"My Fleeting House [DVD]" (featuring interview footage and rare live performances from TV shows, including his appearance on "The Monkees"; Read here) |
(MVD Visual, May 15, 2007) |
| Larry Coryell |
"A Retrospective (a sequel to his story) [DVD]" (Read here) |
(MVD Visual, May 15, 2007) |
| James Garner |
"The Rockford Files: Season Four [DVD]" (5 discs; NBC detective series, 1977-78 season; music by Mike Post) |
(Universal, May 15, 2007) |
| Merle Haggard |
"In Concert 1983 [DVD]" (Read here) |
(MVD Visual, May 15, 2007) |
| Jimi Hendrix |
"Videobiography [DVD]" |
(Classic Rock Legends, May 15, 2007) |
| Iron Maiden |
"Rock Case Studies [DVD/Book]" |
(Universal, May 15, 2007) |
| Kinks, The |
"Videobiography [DVD/Book]" |
(Classic Rock Legends, May 15, 2007) |
| Oasis |
"Music in Review [DVD/Book]" |
(Classic Rock Legends, May 15, 2007) |
| Pink Floyd |
"Rock Milestones: A Momentary Lapse of Reason [DVD]" (a closeup look at the 1987 album) |
(Classic Rock Legends, May 15, 2007) |
| TLC |
"Now & Forever: The Video Hits [DVD]" |
(Arista/Legacy, May 15, 2007) |
| U2 |
"Rock Milestones: War [DVD]" (a closeup look at the 1983 album) |
(Classic Rock Legends, May 15, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"Cruisin Love Songs [DVD]" (Read here) |
(MVD Visual, May 15, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"Earth Day Celebration: A Reggae Tribute to Garnett Silk Live 2003 [DVD]" (Read here) |
(MVD Visual, May 15, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"Playboy After Dark: Collection Two [DVD]" (episodes from the 1970s TV show, hosted by Hugh Hefner, feature guests Grateful Dead, Tony Bennett, Deep Purple, Johnny Mathis, Smokey Robinson, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan) |
(Morada Vision, May 15, 2007) |
MUSIC BOOKS
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Title: |
Publisher/Due date: |
| Big & Rich |
"Big & Rich: All Access [Hardcover]" (with DVD; authors: John Rich, Big Kenny, Allen Rucker) |
(Center Street, May 15, 2007) |
| Bob Dylan |
"Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews [Paperback]" (edited by Jonathan Cott) |
(Wenner Books, May 15, 2007) |
| John Hammond |
"The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music [Paperback]" (author: Dunstan Prial) |
(Picador, May 15, 2007) |
| Keith Hatschek |
"How to Get a Job in the Music Industry [Paperback]" |
(Berklee Press, May 15, 2007) |
| John Kenneth Muir |
"The Rock & Roll Film Encyclopedia [Hardcover]" |
(Applause Books, May 15, 2007) |
| Chuck Panozzo (of Styx) |
"The Grand Illusion: Love, Lies, and My Life with Styx [Hardcover]" (co-author: Michele Skettino) |
(AMACOM/American Management Association, May 15, 2007) |
| Joe Strummer |
"Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer [Hardcover]" (author: Chris Salewicz) |
(Farrar Straus and Giroux, May 15, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"Hotel California: The True-life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends [Paperback]" (author: Barney Hoskyns) |
(Wiley, May 18, 2007) |
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