APRIL 21, 2015
AMBER RUN (Nottingham, U.K., indie-pop quintet)
“5AM” (producers: Mike Crossey, Sam Winfield; first single: “Just My Soul Responding”; Hear here; See here; MP3; RCA)
ASWAD
“City Lock” (MP3; 2009 album; Cooking Vinyl, April 20)
DEAN BRODY (seven-time CCMA Award winner)
“Gypsy Road” (Hear here; See here; MP3; Open Road Recordings)
ALI CAMPBELL
“Flying High” (MP3; 2009 album; Cooking Vinyl, April 20)
THE CHORDETTES
“The Greatest Hits Collection” (MP3; 40 tracks; Sandrew Metronome)
ROSEMARY CLOONEY
“Ballad Essentials” (MP3), “The Rosemary Clooney Show: Songs From the Classic Television Series” (MP3; 26 tracks; Concord)
MARSHALL CRENSHAW
“Grab the Next Train” (MP3; See here; Vinyl; Red River Entertainment)
CURREN$Y
“Even More Saturday Night Car Tunes” (MP3; five-song EP; Atlantic, April 20)
DEPECHE MODE
“Construction Time Again” (MP3; 1983 album), “Songs of Faith and Devotion: Live” (MP3; 1993 album; Rhino / Warner)
DOKKEN
“The Best of Dokken” (MP3; 1994 compilation, 16 tracks; Rhino / Elektra)
FEIVEL (aka Elin Hörberg)
“Walls” (MP3; five-song EP; Hear here; Pironi, April 22)
JOHN FOGERTY
“The Long Road Home – The Ultimate John Fogerty * Creedence Collection” (MP3; 2005 compilation, 25 tracks; Fantasy / Concord)
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS (Canadian folk rock band)
“A Forest of Arms” (first single: “Zero in the City”; Hear here; MP3; Nettwerk)
MERLE HAGGARD
“Okie From Muskogee (Live In Muskogee, Oklahoma/1969)” (MP3; 1969 album; 20 tracks), “The Fightin’ Side of Me” (MP3; 1970 album, with Bonnie Owens and The Strangers; Capitol Records Nashville / UMe)
BILLIE HOLIDAY
“Jazz At The Philharmonic (Expanded Edition)” (MP3; 30 tracks, originally recorded on Feb. 12, 1945, and Oct. 3, 1946; Verve)
ICE CUBE
“The Predator” (MP3; 1992 album), “Lethal Injection” (MP3; 1993 album; Priority)
THE KUT
“Rock Paper Scissors” (MP3; four-song EP; Criminal, April 20)
MODEST MOUSE
“Interstate 8” (MP3; 1996 album; Glacial Pace)
MUSIQUE LE POP (electro-pop band from Norway)
“Same about you” (MP3; Hear here; Cafe Superstar, April 20)
LEONARD NIMOY
“The Best of Leonard Nimoy” (MP3; 20 tracks; Geffen / UMe)
BONNIE OWENS & MERLE HAGGARD
“Just Between the Two of Us” (MP3; 1966 album; Capitol Records Nashville / UMe)
RIGHT SAID FRED
“Stop the World” (MP3; 2011 album; Cooking Vinyl, April 20)
SHAMANIC (Nashville-born indie hip-hop artist)
“The Artist” (MP3; Hear here; Classy Turtle)
SHOW ME THE BODY
“SMTB” (MP3; four-song EP; See here; Letter Racer)
SPARKS
“Mael Intuition: The Best of Sparks 1974-76” (MP3; 1990 compilation, 20 tracks; Island / UMe)
RUFUS THOMAS
“Funkiest Man Alive: The Stax Funk Sessions 1967-1975” (MP3; 18 songs), “Stax Profiles” (MP3; Stax / Concord)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015” (MP3; 27 tracks; Proper)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Mixed Up Minds, Part 2: Obscure Rock and Pop From the British Isles, 1969-1973” (MP3; 20 tracks; ODL)
APRIL 14, 2015
AGNOSTIC FRONT
“To Be Continued: The Best of Agnostic Front” (MP3; 19 tracks; Legacy)
THE DREAM ACADEMY
“The Morning Lasted All Day: A Retrospective” (MP3; 24 tracks; Rhino / Warner)
BILL GABLE
“No Straight Lines,” Bill Gable (MP3; Hear here; Bill Gable)
LITTLE RICHARD
“Little Richard Sings the Gospel” (MP3; 1964 album; Geffen / UMe)
NAUGHTY BY NATURE
“Greatest Hits: Naughty’s Nicest” (MP3; 15 tracks; Rhino)
ALLAN SHERMAN
“Number One Hits (And Others, Too): Best of Allan Sherman’s Greatest Hits” (MP3; 20 tracks, including “Hello Muddah Hello Faddah”; Camp Granada)
JIMMY SMITH
“Open House” (MP3; 1966 album), “Plain Talk” (MP3; 1968 album; Blue Note)
GINO SITSON
“VoiStrings,” Gino Sitson (MP3; Hear here; Buda Musique)