| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Blind Guardian | “Beyond the Red Mirror” (producer: Charlie Bauerfeind; first single: “Twilight of the Gods”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| Breakfast in Fur (Hudson Valley quintet) | “Flyaway Garden” (producers: Breakfast in Fur; first single: “Shape,” co-produced by Kevin McMahon; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Bar/None) |
| Jeremy Camp | “I Will Follow” (producer: Seth Mosley; first single: “He Knows”; Hear here; MP3) | (Sparrow) |
| John Carpenter (legendary film director, composer) | “Lost Themes” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Sacred Bones) |
| The Church | “Further/Deeper” (their 25th studio album and their 35th anniversary; Powderfinger’s Ian Haug takes Marty Willson-Piper’s place on guitar; first single: “Pride Before a Fall”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl) | (Unorthodox) |
| Dailey & Vincent | “Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers” (Hear here) | (Rounder) |
| Bob Dylan | “Shadows in the Night” (Sinatra covers album; producer: Jack Frost; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3; iTunes) | (Columbia) |
| Tinsley Ellis | “Tough Love” (Hear here; MP3) | (Heartfixer Music) |
| Fifth Harmony | “Reflection” (guests: Daylight, Joe London, Ricky Reed; first single: “BO$$”; Hear here; Limited Edition Artist-Signed, Amazon-exclusive; MP3; iTunes) | (Syco Music / Epic) |
| Aaron Gillespie (frontman for The Almost) | “Grace Through the Wandering” (his second full-length worship album; first single: “Praise Him”; Hear here) | (BEC Recordings) |
| H. Hawkline (aka Huw Gwynfryn Evans) | “In the Pink of Condition” (producer: Cate le Bon; first single: “Moons In My Mirror”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Heavenly Recordings) |
| Kid Ink | “Full Speed” (first single: “Body Language,” feat. Usher and Tinashe; Hear here; MP3) | (Tha Alumni Music Group / 88 Classic / RCA) |
| Diana Krall | “Wallflower” (a collection of songs from the late 1960s to the present that have inspired Krall, including “Desperado,” “California Dreamin’,” “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word,” etc.; includes an unreleased composition from Paul McCartney, “If I Take You Home Tonight”; producer: David Foster; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Verve) |
| Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King | “Fat Man’s Shine Parlor” (Hear here; MP3) | (Blind Pig) |
| Murder By Death | “Big Dark Love” (producers: Murder By Death, Kevin Ratterman; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Bloodshot) |
| Ty Segall | “Live in San Francisco” (recorded at The Rickshaw Stop; Hear here; MP3) | (Castle Face) |
| Cody Shuler | “Cody Shuler” (producer: Shuler; Hear here) | (Rural Rhythm) |
| John Tejada | “Signs Under Test” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (Kompakt) |
| The Temperance Movement (U.K. rock quintet) | “The Temperance Movement” (Hear here; MP3) | (Fantasy / Concord) |
| Two Gallants | “We Are Undone” (first single: “We Are Undone”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (ATO) |
| U.D.O. (former Accept member Udo Dirkschneider) | “Decadent” (producers: Dirkschneider, Mattes; first single: “Decadent”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (AFM) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 53” (21 tracks; MP3) | (Sony Legacy) |
| Various artists | “WOW Gospel 2015” (two CDs, 30 songs; MP3; DVD) | (RCA Inspiration) |
| Butch Walker | “Afraid of Ghosts” (producer: Ryan Adams; guests: Johnny Depp, Bob Mould; first single: “Chrissie Hynde”; Hear here; MP3) | (Dangerbird) |
| Kenny Wheeler | “Songs For Quintet” (the Canadian-born trumpet-flugelhorn legend’s final album; he died in September 2014 at age 84; Read here; MP3) | (ECM) |
| Wolfheart | “Winterborn” (Hear here; MP3) | (Spinefarm) |
More Releases for the Week of Feb. 3, 2015
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Cary Brothers | “Lovin’ On You” (four-song EP; Hear here) | (Procrastination Music) |
| Hayley Kiyoko (indie-pop artist) | “This Side of Paradise” (five-song EP; new single: “Given It All”; Hear here) | (Procrastination Music) |
| Gurf Morlix | “Eatin’ At Me” (Hear here; CD) | (Rootball) |
| Richard Sax Ross (member of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti) | “The Man From the Nearly Recent Future” (five-song EP; guest: Ariel Pink; Hear here) | (JesusWarhol, Feb. 1) |
More Digital Releases for the Week of Feb. 3, 2015
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Kiki Dee | “Loving & Free / I’ve Got the Music in Me” (1973, 1974 albums; remastered), “Kiki Dee / Stay With Me” (1977, 1978 albums; remastered) | (U.K. – Edsel, Feb. 2) |
| John Fahey | “Record Plant, Sausalito CA, September 9th 1973” | (Keyhole) |
| Grateful Dead | “Dick’s Picks Volume Twelve: Providence” (three CDs, 26 songs) | (Real Gone Music) |
| John Hall | “Power” (1979 album; remastered, with one bonus track, “Plutonium Is Forever”) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Jimmy Holiday | “Spread Your Love: The Complete Minit Singles 1966-1970” (26 tracks; Hear/read here) | (U.K. – Kent / Ace, Feb. 2) |
| Elton John | “Legendary Covers ’69 / ’70” (MP3) | (Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra) |
| George Jones & Tammy Wynette | “Songs of Inspiration” (26 tracks) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Ray Kennedy | “Ray Kennedy (Expanded Edition)” (1980 album, produced by David Foster; remastered, with four bonus tracks) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Bobby Lance (co-wrote Aretha Franklin’s “The House That Jack Built”) | “First Peace / Rollin’ Man” (1971, 1972 albums on one CD; remastered) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Joni Mitchell | “Newport Folk Festival 19th July 1969” | (Keyhole) |
| Motörhead | “Iron Fist (Deluxe Edition)” (1982 album; remastered, with a second CD of B-sides, alternate versions, outtakes and live tracks) | (Sanctuary / UMe) |
| Renaissance | “DeLane Lea Studios 1973” (guests: Al Stewart, Wishbone Ash’s Andy Powell; MP3) | (Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra) |
| LeAnn Rimes | “All-Time Greatest Hits” (20 tracks; MP3) | (Curb) |
| Soft Machine | “Switzerland 1974” (captured at the Montreux Jazz Festival) | (Cuneiform) |
| Tyrannosaurus Rex | “My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair … (Deluxe Edition)” (1968 debut album, in stereo and mono versions; remastered, with 12 tracks recorded for John Peel’s “Top Gear” show, four songs from the Joe Boyd sessions, seven Tony Visconti home demos and two Marc Bolan interviews), “Prophets, Seers & Sages: Angels of the Ages (Deluxe Edition)” (1968 album; remastered, featuring alternate takes, eight songs recorded for John Peel’s “Top Gear,” two songs recorded for the BBC’s “Voice of Pop” program and 30 alternate takes), “Unicorn (Deluxe Edition)” (1969 album; remastered, with 12 bonus non-album single A and B-sides; five songs recorded for John Peel’s “Top Gear” and 26 alternate takes) | (U.K. – Universal, Feb. 2) |
| Various artists | “Apollo Saturday Night / Saturday Night at the Uptown” (two live albums from 1964 on one CD; remastered) | (SoulMusic / Real Gone Music) |
| Various artists | “The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles: 1972-1975 [Box set]” (10 CDs) | (Stax / Fantasy) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Movies” (18 songs; MP3) | (Sony Legacy) |
| Tony Joe White | “The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings” (two CDs, 38 songs; Track list) | (Real Gone Music) |
| White Lion | “Anthology ’83-’89” (two CDs, 30 songs, compiled by frontman Mike Tramp) | (Cleopatra) |
| Zakary Thaks (Texas ’60s garage-rock kings) | “It’s The End: The Definitive Collection” (22 songs; Hear/read here) | (Big Beat / Ace) |
More Releases for the Week of Feb. 3, 2015
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Brooklyn Bridge | “Brooklyn Bridge” (1968 album; includes “Worst That Could Happen,” which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard chart in 1969) | (Buddah / Legacy) |
| Barbra Streisand | “The Collection” (10 complete albums) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
More Digital Releases for the Week of Feb. 3, 2015
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Kristin Chenoweth | “Coming Home [DVD]” (the Emmy- and Tony Award-winning singer-actress’ show at the Kristin Chenoweth Theatre in the Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center in her hometown of Broken Arrow, Okla.) | (Concord) |
| Cyndi Lauper | “Front and Center Presents Cyndi Lauper [Blu-ray]” (2014 show at New York City’s Highline Ballroom to celebrate the 30th anniversary of “She’s So Unusual”; See here) | (Front and Center Entertainment) |
| James Marsden, Michelle Monaghan, Luke Bracey, et al | “The Best of Me [DVD]” (2014 film; Blu-ray + DVD) | (20th Century Fox) |
| Nas | “Nas: Time Is Illmatic [DVD]” (documentary chronicles his evolution from a young street poet to a visionary MC) | (Kino Lorber) |
| Richard Pryor | “Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic [DVD]” (new documentary directed by Marina Zenovich; Blu-ray) | (Magnolia Home Entertainment) |
| Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe, et al | “John Wick [DVD]” (2014 film; Blu-ray + DVD) | (Lionsgate) |
More DVD/Blu-ray Releases for the Week of Feb. 3, 2015
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| Robert Gordon | “Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion” (Paperback; foreword by Booker T. Jones) | (Bloomsbury USA) |
| Andrew Grant Jackson | “1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music” (Hardcover; Kindle) | (Thomas Dunne Books) |
| Paul McCartney & Wings | “Wings Over New Orleans: Unseen Photos of Paul and Linda McCartney, 1975” (Hardcover; author: John Taylor) | (Pelican Publishing, Feb. 1) |
| Stevie Nicks | “Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumours” (Hardcover; author: Zöe Street Howe) | (Overlook Hardcover, Feb. 5) |
| Michelle Primi | “Tragedies and Mysteries of Rock ‘n’ Roll” (Hardcover) | (White Star Publishers) |
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