This Week’s Releases: Dec. 31, 2013
New stuff (CDs / vinyl)
Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
Pentatonix (2013 third-season winner of NBC’s “The Sing-Off”) | “PTX, Volume 1” (debut EP, released in 2012; Hear here; MP3), “PTX, Vol. II” (MP3) | (Madison Gate) |
New stuff (MP3s)
Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
The Roccos | “Oil & Clay [MP3]” (debut EP, released in 2012; Hear here) | (New Frame, Dec. 30) |
The Village | “Welcome to the Village [MP3]” | (The Village, Jan. 1) |
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
Janis Joplin | “The ’60s: Janis Joplin” | (Columbia) |
Dean Martin | “The ’60s: Dean Martin” | (Columbia) |
Reissues (MP3s)
Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
Rosemary Clooney | “Rosemary Clooney Sings Country Hits from the Heart [MP3]” (1963 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
Homer & Jethro | “Ooh, That’s Corny [MP3]” (1963 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
Paul Revere & the Raiders | “Mojo Workout! [MP3]” (54-song compilation of 1963-65 live recordings), “Here They Come! [MP3]” (1965 album), “Just Like Us! [MP3]” (1966 album; featuring “Just Like Me” and “Action”), “Midnight Ride [MP3]” (1966 album; featuring “Kicks”), “The Spirit of ’67 [MP3]” (1966 album; with three bonus tracks; featuring “Good Thing” and “Hungry”), “Revolution! [MP3]” (1967 album; featuring “I Had a Dream” and “”Him or Me [What’s It Gonna Be?]”), “Goin’ to Memphis [MP3]” (1968 album), “Something Happening [MP3]” (1968 album), “Collage [MP3]” (1970 album), “Country Wine [MP3]” (1972 album; with 11 bonus tracks) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
Sons of the Pioneers | “Trail Dust [MP3]” (1963 album), “Hymns of the Cowboy [MP3]” (1963 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
DVD / Blu-ray
Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson | “Don Jon [DVD]” (2013 film; Blu-ray) | (20th Century Fox) |
Alan Rickman, et al | “CBGB [DVD]” (2013 film; Blu-ray) | (Xlrator) |
Music books
Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher/Due date: |
Timothy J. Cooley | “Surfing About Music [Paperback]” (Kindle) | (University of California Press, Jan. 2) |
Edward W. Sarath | “Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society [Paperback]” | (State University of New York Press, Jan. 2) |
Taylor Swift | “Taylor Swift: The Whole Story [Kindle]” (author: Chas Newkey-Burden) | (HarperCollins, Dec. 30) |