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AUG. 17, 2010

Artist: Title: Label/Due date:
Trace Adkins "Cowboy's Back in Town" (first single: "This Ain't No Love Song"; Hear here; Deluxe edition) (Show Dog Nashville/Universal, Aug. 17, 2010)
American Hi-Fi "Fight the Frequency" (producer: singer-guitarist Stacy Jones; Hear here) (Hi-Fi Killers/The Ascot Club/Megaforce/RED/Sony, Aug. 17, 2010)
Andrea Bocelli "Carmen: Duets & Arias" (Hear/see here) (Decca, Aug. 17, 2010)
Bucket & Co. (led by longtime Bad Company guitarist Dave "Bucket" Colwell) "Guitars, Beers & Tears" (Hear here; MP3 Download) (AAO Music, Aug. 17, 2010)
Darker My Love "Alive As You Are" (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) (Dangerbird, Aug. 17, 2010)
Dollyrots, The "A Little Messed Up" (producers: Chris Testa, Matt Wallace, Fred Archambault, Sylvia Massy; Hear here; Read here) (Blackheart, Aug. 17, 2010)
Dondria (Jermaine Durpi protege) "Dondria Vs. Phatfffat" (producers: Dupri, Bryan Michael Cox; Hear here; MP3 Download) (Malaco, Aug. 17, 2010)
Filter "The Trouble With Angels" (producer: Bob Marlette; first single: "The Inevitable Relapse"; Deluxe edition) (Rocket Science, Aug. 17, 2010)
Joe Firstman "Live at the Treehouse" (Hear here) (Rock Ridge Music, Aug. 17, 2010)
Freemasons "Believer [MP3 Download]" (four-song EP, featuring Wynter Gordon; Hear here) (Loaded, Aug. 15, 2010)
friend slash lover "As American As Ones and Zeros [MP3 Download]" (Hear here) (friend slash lover, Aug. 15, 2010)
David Gray "Foundling" (2 CDs; producers: Gray, Iestyn Polson; Hear here) (Mercer Street/Downtown, Aug. 17, 2010)
Hey Monday (pop-rock group from West Palm Beach) "Beneath It All" (collaborators: Vertical Horizon's Matt Scannell, The Hooters' Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, Sam Hollander, Butch Walker; first single: "Wish You Were Here"; Hear here) (Decaydance/Columbia, Aug. 17, 2010)
Iron Maiden "The Final Frontier" (producer: Kevin Shirley; Hear here; Read here; Deluxe edition; Vinyl) (Universal, Aug. 17, 2010)
Kem "Intimacy: Album III" (first single: "Why Would You Stay"; Hear here; Deluxe edition) (Universal Motown, Aug. 17, 2010)
Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs "God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise" (producer: LaMontagne; Hear here; Vinyl) (RCA, Aug. 17, 2010)
Larsen B "Musketeer" (first single: "Marilyn"; Hear here; MP3 Download) (Old Radio Tunes, Aug. 17, 2010)
Treasa Levasseur "Low Fidelity" (2010 JUNO nominee for Blues Album of the Year; Hear here; MP3 Download) (Slim Chicken, Aug. 17, 2010)
Like Pioneers "Piecemeal [MP3 Download]" (first single: "English Garden"; Hear here) (Abandoned Love, Aug. 17, 2010)
Lissie "Catching a Tiger" (producer: Jacquire King; Hear here; MP3 Download) (Fat Possum, Aug. 17, 2010)
John Mellencamp "No Better Than This" (producer: T Bone Burnett; first single: "No Better Than This"; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) (Rounder, Aug. 17, 2010)
Nils "What the Funk?" (Hear here; MP3 Download) (Baja/TSR, Aug. 17, 2010)
One Step Away "For the Broken [MP3 Download]" (Hear here) (One Step Away Rock Publishing, Aug. 15, 2010)
Duke Robillard "Passport to the Blues" (Hear here; MP3 Download) (Stony Plain Music, Aug. 17, 2010)
Secret Handshake, The "Night & Day" (first single: "Domino"; Hear here; See here) (Triple Crown, Aug. 17, 2010)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin "Let It Sway" (producers: Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla, Beau Sorenson; Hear here; MP3 Download) (Polyvinyl, Aug. 17, 2010)
Esperanza Spalding "Chamber Music Society" (backed by drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and pianist Leo Genovese; Hear here; Ecard) (Heads Up, Aug. 17, 2010)
Taking Back Sunday "Live From Orensanz" (recorded at a New York synagogue; MP3 Download) (Warner, Aug. 17, 2010)
Tallest Trees "The Ostrich or the Lark" (Hear here) (Other Electricities, Aug. 17, 2010)
Toadies "Feeler" (album was originally cut in 1997 but Interscope rejected it; 13 years later, the band has rerecorded it; producer: Rob Schnapf; Hear here; MP3 Download) (Kirtland, Aug. 17, 2010)
Various artists "Dexter: Season 4 — Music From the Showtime Original Series [TV soundtrack]" (27 tracks, with score by Daniel Licht; DVD; Blu-ray) (Milan, Aug. 17, 2010)
Various artists "The Switch [Film soundtrack]" (Jennifer Aniston-Jason Bateman movie opens Aug. 20; Hear here; See here; MP3 Download) (Rhino, Aug. 17, 2010)
Brian Wilson "Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin" (covers of classic songs by songwriters George and Ira Gershwin; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl) (Walt Disney, Aug. 17, 2010)


Artist: Title: Label/Due date:
Bear in Heaven "Beast Rest Forth Mouth [MP3 Download]" (2009 album, with a second CD of remixes; Hear here) (Hometapes, Aug. 17, 2010)
Charlatans (U.K.), The "Some Friendly: 20th Anniversary Concerts" (3 CDs; recorded in May 2010; Read here) (Concert Live, Aug. 17, 2010)
Aretha Franklin "The Best of Aretha Franklin [DTS DVD]" (1973 album; Quadrophonic mix; Hear/read here) (Rhino Handmade, Aug. 17, 2010)
George Harrison "The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992 [Box set]" (2004 release; six CDs, two DVDs; Read here) (Dark Horse/EMI, Aug. 17, 2010)
Human Beinz "Human Beinz in Japan" (1969 album; first time on CD; Read here) (Sunbeam, Aug. 17, 2010)
Rickie Lee Jones "Flying Cowboys [24 KT + Gold CD]" (1989 album) (Audio Fidelity, Aug. 17, 2010)
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers "So Many Roads: An Anthology 1964-1974" (4 CDs, 74 songs; Read here) (Hip-O/UMe, Aug. 17, 2010)
NOFX "The Longest EP" (30-song best-of; Hear here; Vinyl) (Fat Wreck Chords, Aug. 17, 2010)
Alan Parsons Project "Tales of Mystery and Imagination [Vinyl]" (1976 album; remastered) (Vinyl Lovers, Aug. 17, 2010)
Dolly Parton "The Fairest of Them All/My Favorite Songwriter, Porter Wagoner" (1968, 1969 albums on one CD; remastered, with two bonus tracks) (Omni Recording Corp., Aug. 17, 2010)
Elvis Presley "Elvis Is Back! [Vinyl]" (1960 album; remastered) (Analogue Productions, Aug. 17, 2010)
Quiet Riot "QR III" (1986 album; remastered) (U.K. - Rock Candy, Aug. 16, 2010)
Various artistst "Bubbling Under, Volume One: 32 Tracks That Bubbled Under the Billboard Charts From 1961 to 1964" (Read here) (U.K. - Rare Rockin', Aug. 16, 2010)
Various artists Let's Hear It For the Boy, Vol. 9" (2 CDs, 24 tracks; MP3 Download), "Let's Hear It For the 90s, Vol. 2" (2 CDs, 24 tracks; MP3 Download) (Atlantis, Aug. 17, 2010)
Various artists "Live At KEXP Volume Six" (16 live in-studio recordings from the Seattle FM radio station, featuring Built to Spill, Animal Collective, Yeassayer, The xx, Bomba Estero, etc.; MP3 Download) (KEXP, Aug. 17, 2010)
Various artists "Lost Hits of the '60s [MP3 Download]" (20 tracks; original songs by original artists) (Capitol/EMI, Aug. 17, 2010)
Various artists "We Did It: Dora's Greatest Hits" (Nick, Aug. 17, 2010)
Porter Wagoner "What Ain't to Be, Just Might Happen" (1972 best-of, 30 songs; remastered, with two bonus tracks; Read here) (Omni Recording Corp., Aug. 17, 2010)
X "Under the Big Black Sun [180 Gram Vinyl]" (1982 album; remastered) (Porterhouse Prime Vinyl, Aug. 17, 2010)


Artist: Title: Label/Due date:
Jackson Browne "Going Home [DVD]" (concert aired on Disney Channel in August 1994; guests: Don Henley, Bonnie Raitt, David Crosby, Graham Nash, David Lindley, Jennifer Warnes; See here; Read here) (Eagle, Aug. 17, 2010)
Miley Cyrus "The Last Song [DVD]" (2010 film; Blu-ray) (Touchstone Pictures, Aug. 17, 2010)
Slayer "Live Intrusion [DVD]" (from their Divine Intervention tour in 1995), "War at the Warfield [DVD]" (filmed at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco on Dec. 7, 2001), "Still Reigning [DVD]" (filmed at the Civic Center in Augusta, Maine, on July 11, 2004) (Columbia, Aug. 17, 2010)
Various artists "Black Orpheus (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]" (1959 film, winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film; 2 discs; Blu-ray) (Criterion Collection, Aug. 17, 2010)

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