AUG. 21, 2007
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| Adema (new singer: Bobby Reeves) |
"Kill the Headlights" (producer: Marshall Altman; first single: "Cold and Jaded"; Hear here; Read here) |
(Partnership/Immortal, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Aiden |
"Conviction" (producer: John Goodmanson; first single: "One Love"; Hear here) |
(Victory, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Architecture in Helsinki |
"Places Like This" (first single: "Heart It Races"; Hear here) |
(Polyvinyl, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| As I Lay Dying |
"An Ocean Between Us" (producer: Adam Dutkiewicz; Hear here) |
(Metal Blade, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Bedouin Soundclash |
"Street Gospels" (producer: Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains; first single: "12:59 Lullaby"; Hear/read here) |
(SideOneDummy, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Benzino |
"The Antidote [CD/DVD]" (producers: Scott Storch, Hangmen 3, Ty Fyffe, Stevie J, Cognito, Guerilla Tek, Track Kings, Nacho Typical; Hear here) |
(7th Floor Music, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Joe Bonamassa |
"Sloe Gin" (producer: Kevin Shirley; Hear here) |
(Premier Artists, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Peter Buffett |
"Staring at the Sun" (Hear here; Read here) |
(BeSide, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Caribou |
"Andorra" (producer: Dan Snaith; guest: Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys; first single: "Melody Day"; Hear here) |
(Merge, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Cartel |
"Cartel" (producers: Zac Odom, Wyclef Jean, Kenneth Mount, Cartel; first single: "Lose It"; Hear here) |
(Epic, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan |
"On the Jimmy Reed Highway" (guests: Kim Wilson, Lou Ann Barton, James Cotton, Delbert McClinton Gary Clark Jr.; Read here) |
(Ruf, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Earlimart |
"Mentor Tormentor" (producer: frontman Aaron Espinoza; Hear here) |
(Majordomo/Shout! Factory, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Jeremy Enigk (of Sunny Day Real Estate and The Fire Theft) |
"The Missing Link" (producers: Enigk, Josh Myers; Hear here) |
(Lewis Hollow Recordings/567, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Foreign Born |
"On the Wing Now" (Hear here) |
(Dim Mak, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Galactic |
"From the Corner to the Block" (guests: The Coup's Boots Riley, Lyrics Born, Digable Planets' Ladybug Mecca, Juvenile, Jurassic 5's Chali 2na; Hear here) |
(Anti-/Epitaph, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Darren Hayes (former Savage Garden singer) |
"* This Delicate Thing We've Made" (2 CDs; producers: Hayes, Justin Shave; Hear here) |
(Powdered Sugar, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Peter Himmelman |
"The Pigeons Couldn't Sleep" (Read here) |
(Himmasongs/Thirty Tigers/RED, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Imperial Teen |
"The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band" (producers: Anna Waronker, Steve McDonald; Hear here) |
(Merge, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Kinski |
"Down Below It's Chaos" (producer: Randall Dunn; Hear here) |
(Sub Pop, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| KMFDM |
"TOHUVABOHU" (album title is an Old Testament word meaning "wild and chaotic"; Hear here) |
(KMFDM/Metropolis, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Talib Kweli |
"Ear Drum" (producers: Kanye West, will.i.am, Madlib, Hi-Tek; guests: Norah Jones, Jean Grae, UGK; first single: "Hot Thing"; Hear here; Read here) |
(Blacksmith/Warner, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| LadybiRdS (Gym Class Heroes' Tyler Pursel's side project, with Teeter Sperber on lead vocals) |
"Regional Community Theater" (guests: Say Anything's Max Bemis, The Get Up Kids' Matt Pryor, etc.; Hear here) |
(Creep, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Nathaniel Mayer |
"Why Don't You Give It to Me" (guests: members of the Black Keys, Dirtbombs, the Sights, Outrageous Cherry; Hear here; Read here) |
(Alive, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Mekons |
"Natural" (Hear here) |
(Quarterstick, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| M.I.A. |
"Kala" (guests: Timbaland, Diplo, Switch; Hear here) |
(Interscope, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Minus the Bear |
"Planet of Ice" (producers: Minus the Bear, Chris Common, Matt Bayles; Hear here) |
(Suicide Squeeze, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Mobile |
"Tomorrow Starts Today" (producer: Matt DeMatteo; Hear here) |
(The Militia Group, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Monster in the Machine |
"Butterfly Pinned" (producer: frontman Shannon Crawford; guests: Josh Freese, Imani Coppola; Hear here) |
(Emotional Syphon Recordings, Aug. 21, 2007 - label owned by KoRn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer) |
| Joe Nichols |
"Real Things" (guest: Lee Ann Womack; first single: "Another Side of You"; Hear here) |
(Universal South, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| New Pornographers, The |
"Challengers" (Neko Case sings on three tracks; Hear here; Read here) |
(Matador, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Operator |
"Soulcrusher" (Hear here) |
(Atlantic, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Over the Rhine |
"The Trumpet Child" (Hear here) |
(Great Speckled Dog/Back Porch, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Patrick Park |
"Everyone's in Everyone" (Hear here) |
(Curb Appeal, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Pietasters, The |
"All Day" (producer: Todd Harris; Hear here) |
(Indication/Redeye, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Poets & Pornstars |
"Poets & Pornstars" (producer: frontman Hal Ozsan; first single: "Rock and Roll"; Hear here) |
(Wenzl-Hopper/Adrenaline, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Raintime |
"Flies & Lies" (released in Europe in 2006; producer: Tommy Hansen; Hear here) |
(Bieler Bros., Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Dax Riggs |
"We Sing Only of Blood or Love" (Hear here) |
(Fat Possum, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Rilo Kiley |
"Under the Blacklight" (producer: Jason Lader; Read here) |
(Brute/Beaute/Warner, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Josh Ritter |
"The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter" (with bonus EP; producer: Sam Kassirer; Hear here; Read here) |
(BMG Music Entertainment/Victor, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Tom Russell |
"Wounded Heart of America" (Read here) |
(HighTone, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Section Quartet, The |
"Fuzzbox" (featuring covers of Radiohead, the Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, The Postal Service, Failure, Soundgarden, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Muse; producer: Linda Perry; Hear here) |
(Decca, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Nikki Sixx |
"The Heroin Diaries" (Hear here; Read here) |
(Eleven Seven Music, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| John Surman |
"The Spaces in Between" |
(ECM, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Swizz Beatz |
"One Man Band" (producers: Swizz Beatz, Snags, Neo da Matrix, Just Blaze, Kanye West; guests: Coldplay; first single: "It's Me Bitches"; Hear here; Read here) |
(Universal Motown, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Travis Tritt |
"The Storm" (some songs co-written with Rob Thomas, Richard Marx and Diane Warren; producers: Randy Jackson, Tritt; guest: Charlie Daniels; See here) |
(Category 5, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"Halloween [film soundtrack]" (Rob Zombie-directed movie opens Aug. 31; See here) |
(Hip-O, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"The Nanny Diaries [film soundtrack]" (movie, starring Scarlett Johansson and Alicia Keys, opens Aug. 24; See here) |
(Artists' Addiction, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Waterboys, The |
"Book of Lightning" (released in the U.K. in April 2007; producers: frontman Mike Scott, Philip Tennant; Hear here; Read here) |
(Decca, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Dr. Cornel West (teaches religion at Princeton University) |
"Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations" (guests: Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, Black Thought, etc.; Hear here; Read here) |
(Hidden Beach, Aug. 21, 2007) |
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| Arthur Alexander |
"Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter" (18-track collection features his 1993 Ben Vaughn-produced final album for Nonesuch, plus previously unreleased material; Read here) |
(Hacktone, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Louis Armstrong |
"Live at the 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival" (Hear here) |
(Monterey Jazz Festival/Concord, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Blackbyrds, The |
"Happy Music: The Best of the Blackbyrds" |
(Fantasy, Aug. 28, 2007) |
| Blackfoot |
"Rattlesnake Rock 'N' Roll: The Best of Blackfoot" (1994 album; 18 tracks) |
(Rhino, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Brand Nubian |
"Time's Running Ou" (previously unreleased 1990s album) |
(Traffic Entertainment/Sound of Dissent, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Garth Brooks |
"Garth Brooks" (1989 album; remastered), "Ropin' the Wind" (1991 album; remastered), "Fresh Horses" (1995 album; remastered) |
(Pearl, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Greg Brown |
"Yellow Dog" (August 2005 concert at the Peterson Auditorium in Ishpeming, Mich., to benefit the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve; Read here) |
(Earthwork Music, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Miles Davis |
"Evolution of the Groove [EP]" (includes new contributions from Santana and Nas) |
(Columbia/Legacy, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Miles Davis |
"Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival" (Hear here) |
(Monterey Jazz Festival/Concord, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Earth, Wind & Fire |
"Last Days and Time/Head to the Sky" (1972, 1973 albums on one disc; remastered) |
(U.K. - BGO, Aug. 20, 2007) |
| Firefall |
"Greatest Hits" (1992 album; 18 tracks) |
(Rhino, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Ella Fitzgerald |
"The Very Best of the Duke Ellington Song Book," "The Very Best of the Gershwin Song Book" |
(Verve, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Roberta Flack |
"Softly With These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack" (1993 album; 17 tracks) |
(Rhino, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Dizzy Gillespie |
"Live at the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival" (Hear here) |
(Monterey Jazz Festival/Concord, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Hollies, The |
"Romany" (1972 album; remastered), "Buddy Holly" (1980 album; remastered) |
(U.K. - EMI, Aug. 20, 2007) |
| Jethro Tull |
"Live at Montreux 2003" (see DVD version below) |
(Eagle Vision, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Kenny Loggins |
"Celebrate Me Home/Nightwatch" (1977, 1978 albums on one disc; remastered) |
(U.K. - BGO, Aug. 20, 2007) |
| Manfred Mann |
"Down the Road Apiece (Their EMI Recordings 1963-1966)" (4 CDs) |
(U.K. - EMI, Aug. 20, 2007) |
| MC5 |
"Live at the Grande Ballroom 1968" |
(Get Back, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Thelonious Monk |
"Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival" (Hear here) |
(Monterey Jazz Festival/Concord, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Jimmy Page |
"Hip Young Guitar Slinger" (2-CD set of his 1960s session work), "This Guitar Kills! More 60s Groups & Sessions" (2 CDs) |
(U.K. - Castle, Aug. 20, 2007) |
| Rascals, The |
"The Very Best of the Rascals" |
(Rhino, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Ratt |
"Tell the World: The Very Best of Ratt" |
(Rhino, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Conway Twitty |
"#1s: The Warner Bros. Years" |
(Rhino/Warner, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"Insane Times: 25 British Psychedelic Artefacts from the EMI Vaults" |
(U.K. - EMI, Aug. 20, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival: Highlights, Vol. 1" (Hear here) |
(Monterey Jazz Festival/Concord, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"This Is NEXT: Volume 1" (15-track indie compilation, featuring Bloc Party, The Shins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Spoon, Bright Eyes, Cat Power, Neko Case, etc.; Hear here) |
(Vice, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Various artists |
"Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection [box set]" (4 CDs, 86 tracks; Read here) |
(Shout! Factory, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Sarah Vaughan |
"Live at the 1971 Monterey Jazz Festival" (Hear here) |
(Monterey Jazz Festival/Concord, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Stevie Wonder |
"Number Ones" |
(Motown/UME, Aug. 21, 2007) |
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| Flaming Lips, The |
"U.F.O.s at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City [MVI DVD]" (Sept. 15, 2006, show at the Zoo Amphitheater; Read here) |
(Warner, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Jethro Tull |
"Live at Montreux 2003 [DVD]" |
(Eagle Vision, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| R. Kelly |
"Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22 [DVD]" (Read here) |
(Jive, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Loreena McKennitt |
"Nights from the Alhambra [DVD/CD]" (3 discs; September 2006 in Granada, Spain, at the Palacio de Carlos V in the Alhambra Palace historic monument; Hear here) |
(Verve, Aug. 21, 2007) |
| Son Seals |
"A Journey Through the Blues: The Son Seals Story [DVD]" |
(Sagebrush Production, Aug. 21, 2007) |
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