New stuff (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin | “Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy” (Hear/read here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Yep Roc) |
| Big Smo (aka Hick Ross and Boss of the Stix; he’s also the star of his own A&E Network reality series, “Big Smo”) | “Kuntry Livin’ “ (guests: Frankie Ballard, Haden Carpenter, Alexander King; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Warner / Elektra Nashville) |
| Brent Bourgeois | “Don’t Look Back” (producers: Bourgeois, Charlie Peacock; guests: Todd Rundgren, Julian Lennon, Larry Tagg, Charlie Peacock, Rachael Lampa, Paige Lewis, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Chris Rodriguez, Jerry McPherson, John Fields, Adrian Bourgeois; for each album sold through the link, 13 liters of clean water goes to Africa via Julian Lennon’s White Feather Foundation; Hear here; Read here) | (Brent Bourgeois, June 2) |
| Camper Van Beethoven | “El Camino Real” (Hear here; MP3) | (429) |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | “Only Run” (guests: Matt Berninger of The National, Kid Koala; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (CYHSY, Inc) |
| Diamond Version | “CI” (first single: “Were You There,” feat. Neil Tennant; Hear here; MP3) | (Mute) |
| Echo and the Bunnymen | “Meteorites” (producer: Youth; Hear here; Read here) | (429) |
| Lee Fields and the Expressions | “Emma Jean” (first single: a cover of JJ Cale’s “Magnolia”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Truth & Soul / Redeye) |
| 50 Cent | “Animal Ambition: An Untamed Desire to Win” (producers: Dr. Dre, Dawaun Parker, Mark Batson, Jake One, Charli Brown Beatz; guests: Jadakiss, ScHoolboy Q, Prodigy, Trey Songz, Yo Gotti; Hear here; MP3) | (G-Unit / Caroline) |
| Fucked Up (Toronto hardcore group) | “Glass Boys” (producer: Bill Skibbe; Vinyl; MP3) | (Matador) |
| Fu Manchu | “Gigantoid” (producer: Andrew Giacumakis; Hear here; MP3) | (At The Dojo / Redeye) |
| Gold-Bears (Atlanta fuzz-pop band) | “Dalliance” (first single: “For You”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Slumberland) |
| Lucy Hale (“Pretty Little Liars” star) | “Road Between” (producer: Mark Bright; new single: “You Sound Good to Me”; Hear here; See here; Read here; MP3) | (DMG Nashville / Bigger Picture Group) |
| Joe Henry | “Invisible Hour” (Hear/read here) | (Work Song) |
| James | “La Petite Mort” (their first full-length album in six years; producer: Max Dingel; first single: “Moving On”; Hear here; See here) | (U.K. – BMG Rights Management / Cooking Vinyl, June 2) |
| Morgan James (pop singer-actress) | “Hunter” (Hear here) | (Epic) |
| Gabriel Kahane | “The Ambassador” (producers: Kahane, Casey Foubert, Matt Johnson, Rob Moose; guests: Shara Worden, Aoife O’Donovan, Holcombe Waller; Hear here; MP3) | (Sony Music Masterworks) |
| Miranda Lambert | “Platinum” (guests: Carrie Underwood, Little Big Town, The Time Jumpers; first single: “Automatic”; Hear here; MP3) | (RCA Nashville) |
| LP | “Forever For Now” (producer: Rob Cavallo; first single: “Night Like This”; Hear here; MP3) | (Warner) |
| Lydia Lunch | “A Fistful of Desert Blues” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (Rustblade) |
| Matisyahu | “Akeda” (first single: “Watch the Walls Melt Down”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Akeda / Elm City) |
| Chaz McKinney | “Aquarius” (producer: McKinney; first single: “Cool Alright”; Hear here) | (Chaz McKinney) |
“I produced this record over the worst year and a half of my life after finally eradicating the old creative team around that had been holding me back for years,” McKinney tells P&P. “At one point, I was in label meetings and A&R offices every few weeks for music I didn’t particularly care for, and now that I have full creative control I’m trying to make the biggest impact possible. It probably won’t mean much, but this record is legitimately the only thing I may have going for me right now — this is me, naked on tape, trying to make a difference and spread some sort of change through music. Music is all I’ve ever done and it’s all I ever want to do. It’s what I see, what I make, and how I speak. ‘Aquarius’ is 16 songs spanning the gamut from hip-hop to prog rock to Motown to dance pop and back again. It’s political, it’s a little heady, but more than anything it’s honest. I hope you’ll understand.”
| Idina Menzel | “If/Then: Original Broadway Cast Recording” (producers: Steve Epstein, Tom Kitt, David Stone; Hear/see here; Read here) | (Masterworks Broadway) |
| Bob Mould | “Beauty & Rain” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (Merge) |
| Pete Molinari (U.K. singer-songwriter) | “Theosophy” (producers: Boe Weaver, Andrew Weatherall, Tchad Blake, Liam Watson; guests: Dan Auerbach, Primal Scream’s Barrie Cadogan; first single: “Hang My Head In Shame”; Hear here; MP3) | (Clarksville / INgrooves) |
| Peter Murphy | “Lion” (his 10th solo album; producer: Youth; first single: “Hang Up”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Nettwerk) |
| Meshell Ndegeocello | “Comet, Come to Me” (guests: Doyle Bramhall, Shara Worden; first single: “Conviction”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Naïve) |
| The Orwells (rock band from Elmhurst, Ill.) | “Disgraceland” (Hear here; MP3) | (Canvasback / Atlantic) |
| Parquet Courts (NYC slacker punk band) | “Sunbathing Animal” (Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (What’s Your Rupture? / Mom+Pop) |
| Kelly Price | “Sing Pray Love Vol. 1: Sing” (guests: Ruben Studdard, Algebra Blessett; first single: “It’s My Time”; Hear here; MP3) | (eOne Music) |
| Priests (D.C.-based punk quartet) | “Bodies and Control and Money and Power” (seven-song EP; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Don Giovanni / Sister Polygon) |
| Rich Robinson (of The Black Crowes) | “The Ceaseless Sight” (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (The End) |
| Rush of Fools (Christian rock quintet from Birmingham, Ala.) | “Carry Us Now” (Hear here; MP3) | (Provident) |
| Kathy Sanborn (jazz singer) | “Fantasia” (a tribute to her Latin Jazz influences; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Pacific Coast Jazz) |
| The Shoe (actress Jena Malone and Lem Jay Ignacio) | “I’m Okay” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Community Music) |
| Tijuana Panthers (Long Beach trio) | “Wayne Interest” (producer: Richard Swift; first single: “Cherry Street”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl) | (Innovative Leisure) |
| Various artists | “Kitsuné America 3” (14-song compilation; Hear here; MP3, with two bonus tracks) | (Kitsuné) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Country Volume 7” | (Capitol Nashville) |
| Various artists | “Violet (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (deluxe two-disc set for the Broadway production, starring Sutton Foster; Read here) | (PS Classics) |
More Releases for the Week of June 3, 2014
New stuff (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Bneusounds | “Reeltime [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (Bneusounds) |
| Tucker Jameson | “Light Up the Night [MP3]” (five-song EP; producer: James Barber; Hear here) | (Tucker Jameson) |
| Adrian Lux (Grammy-nominated producer/DJ) | “Make Out [MP3]” (guests: Kaelyn Behr, Lune, Marcus Schossow, JJ, Last Lynx; Hear here) | (Ultra) |
| Joshua Scott Jones (of Steel Magnolia) | “The Healing [MP3]” (first single: “Honk [If You’re Tonky]”; Hear here) | (JSJ Music) |
| On Top (Philly heavy metal band) | “Top to Bottom [MP3]” (four-song EP; Hear here) | (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) |
| Ryan Redebaugh | “Nearby Places [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (Ryan Redebaugh) |
| Brian Reitzell | “Auto Music [MP3]” (the track “Last Summer” features My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, and he commissioned Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis for a snippet used on “Boss”; Hear here) | (Smalltown Supersound) |
| Scenic Route to Alaska (Edmonton band) | “Warrington [MP3]” (producer: Jay Sparrow; first single: “Paris”; Hear here; See here) | (Scenic Route to Alaska, June 6) |
| Secret Discovery (German rock band) | “Auf Wiedersehen (In Richtung Sieg) [MP3]” (producer: Bernard Butler; ReverbNation) | (YouTunez.com, June 7) |
| Teleman (London quartet) | “Breakfast [MP3]” (producer: Bernard Butler; Hear here) | (Moshi Moshi) |
| The Teen Age (Brooklyn garage-punk quartet) | “Ways to Adapt [MP3]” (four-song EP; producer: Uri Djemal; first single: “Sleep Alone”; Hear here; See here) | (PaperCup Music) |
| 3TƎETH | “3TƎETH [MP3]” (Hear here) | (Artoffact) |
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Arthur, Hurley & Gottlieb | “The Complete Anthology 1973-1974” (two CDs) | (ClassicMusicVault) |
| Batdorf & Rodney | “Portfolio” (two-CD, 35-song anthology, with previously unreleased demos; Read here; MP3) | (ClassicMusicVault) |
| The Beach Boys | “ICON” (two-CD best-of) | (Capitol / UMe) |
| Boyz II Men | “ICON” (best-of) | (Motown / UMe) |
| Vikki Carr | “The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face) (Expanded Edition)” (1972 album; remastered, with 11 bonus tracks), “Love Again: The Lost Columbia Masters” (17 tracks) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Nat King Cole | “The Extraordinary Nat King Cole” (two CDs, 22 songs, including 14 rare and previously unreleased tracks; MP3) | (Capitol / UMe) |
| Country Weather | “San Francisco 1969-1971” | (ClassicMusicVault) |
| Billy Ray Cyrus | “ICON: The Distance” (11 songs) | (Mercury Nashville / UMe) |
| John Doe | “The Best of John Doe: This Far” (24 tracks; Vinyl; MP3) | (Yep Roc) |
| The Everly Brothers | “Pass the Chicken & Listen/Stories We Could Tell” (1972, 1973 albums on one CD; remastered) | (U.K. – Morello, June 2) |
| Faith Hope & Charity | “Faith Hope & Charity (Expanded Edition)” (1975 album; remastered, with three bonus tracks; See here) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Fanny | “Charity Ball (Expanded Edition)” (1971 album; remastered, with three bonus tracks) | (Real Gone Music) |
| The 5th Dimension | “Earthbound: The Complete ABC Recordings” (12 tracks) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Richard Hayman (harmonica player, arranger and conductor died in 2014 at age 93) | “The Richard Hayman Collection” (two CDs, 52 tracks) | (Acrobat) |
| Howlin’ Wolf | “The Complete RPM & Chess Singles As & Bs 1951-62” (three CDs, 80 tracks; MP3) | (Acrobat) |
| Imagination | “Greatest Hits” (three discs) | (U.K. – Sony, June 2) |
| Clemens Krauss / Richard Strauss | “The Complete Decca Recordings” (five discs) | (Decca Classics) |
| Led Zeppelin | “Led Zeppelin (Deluxe CD Edition)” (1969 album; remastered, with “Live At The Olympia – Paris, France, October 10, 1969”; Super Deluxe Edition Box; MP3), “Led Zeppelin II (Deluxe CD Edition)” (1969; remastered, with alternate mixes of five songs, backing tracks to “Thank You” and “Living Loving Maid [She’s Just a Woman],” and the previously unreleased track “La La”; Super Deluxe Edition Box; MP3), “Led Zeppelin III (Deluxe CD Edition)” (1970; remastered, with seven studio outtakes and three previously unheard tracks, “Jennings Farm Blues,” “Bathroom Sound” and “Keys to the Highway/Trouble in Mind”; See here; Read here; Super Deluxe Edition Box; MP3; POPmarket.com Reissues  ) |
(Atlantic / Swan Song) |
| Marcus Hook Roll Band | “Tales of Old Grand-Daddy” (1973 album, featuring the debut recordings of Angus and Malcolm Young before forming AC/DC; remastered, with two previously unreleased tracks and three rarities; produced by The Easybeats founders Harry Vanda and George Young; Vinyl) | (U.K. – Polygram, June 2) |
| Linda Martell (the first black female singer to appear on the Grand Ole Opry) | “Color Me Country” (1970 album; remastered; MP3) | (Gazell) |
| Hank Mobley | “The Classic Blue Note Collection 1955-1961” (five discs, 53 songs) | (Enlightenment) |
| The Moody Blues | “Seventh Sojurn [Vinyl]” (1972 album; remastered) | (Friday Music) |
| Morrissey | “Vauxhall and I (20th Anniversary Edition Definitive Master)” (1994 album; remastered by Bill Inglot; with the previously unreleased bonus disc, “Live At The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane – 2/26/1995”; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Rhino / Warner) |
| N.W.A. | “ICON” (best-of) | (Universal Music Group) |
| The Platters | “ICON” (best-of) | (Universal Music Group) |
| Elvis Presley | “Elvis Presley Bossa Nova Baby: The Ultimate Elvis Party Album” (15 songs; MP3) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| The Rolling Stones | “Complete Singles (1971-2006) [Box set]” (45 singles packed with rarities, remixes and live versions across 173 tracks; See here) | (POPmarket.com, June 1) |
| Todd Rundgren and Utopia | “Live at the Electric Ballroom Milwaukee, 23rd October 1978” (two CDs, 17 songs; previously unreleased performance, recorded for an FM simulcast; Read here) | (U.K. – Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red, June 2) |
| Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. | “The Rat Pack Live!” (three-disc set includes “Live At The Sands” and “Live And Swingin'” and a DVD featuring a 1965 St. Louis performance, with emcee Johnny Carson) | (Capitol / UMe) |
| Soundgarden | “Superunknown: Deluxe Edition” (1994 album; remastered, with a second disc of demos, rehearsals, B-sides, etc.; Read here; also available in five-disc Super Deluxe Edition, with a Blu-ray Audio version; Single CD; Vinyl; Hear here; MP3) | (A&M / UMe) |
| Strawbs | “Witchwood: The Very Best Of” (19 tracks) | (U.K. – Spectrum Music / Universal, June 2) |
| The Sweet Inspirations | “The Complete Atlantic Singles Plus” (two CDs, 37 songs; Read here) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Randy Travis | “Hymns: 17 Timeless Songs of Faith” (MP3) | (Word) |
| Tanya Tucker | “ICON” (best-of) | (Capitol Nashville / UMe) |
| UB40 | “ICON” (best-of) | (Virgin / UMe) |
| Various artists | “Legends: Crank It Up [Hybrid SACD – DSD]” (17 classic-rock hits, mastered by Steve Hoffman; Read here), “Legends: Get It On [Hybrid SACD – DSD]” (17 classic-rock hits, mastered by Steve Hoffman; Read here) | (Audio Fidelity) |
| Village People | “ICON” (best-of) | (Universal Music Group) |
| Paul Weller | “More Modern Classics” (20-track best-of spanning the past 15 years, with a new track, “Brand New Toy”; Hear/read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Harvest / Capitol) |
More Releases for the Week of June 3, 2014
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ed Ames | “The Ed Ames Album [MP3]” (1964 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Eddy Arnold | “Sometimes I’m Happy, Sometimes I’m Blue [MP3]” (1964 album), “Pops Hits From the Country Side [MP3]” (1964 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Chet Atkins | “Progressive Pickin’ [MP3]” (1964 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| GQ | “Disco Nights [MP3]” (1979 album; with five bonus tracks), “Two [MP3]” (1980 album), “Face to Face [MP3]” (1981 album; with one bonus track) | (Arista / Legacy) |
| Ray Parker Jr. | “The Other Woman [MP3]” (1982 album; with one bonus track), “Woman Out of Control [MP3]” (1983 album; with one bonus track) | (Arista / Legacy) |
| Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio | “Two Places at the Same Time [MP3]” (1980 album; with one bonus track), “A Woman Needs Love [MP3]” (1981 album; with three bonus tracks) | (Arista / Legacy) |
| Pockets | “Take It On Up [MP3]” (1978 album; with two bonus tracks) | (Arista / Legacy) |
| PF Sloan | “Sailor [MP3]” (2006 album) | (Shout! Factory) |
| Various artists | “21 Pop Sensations [MP3]” (hits by P!nk, Britney Spears, Ke$ha, Chris Brown, Avril Lavigne, John Legend, etc.) | (RCA / Legacy) |
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Label/studio: |
| Alter Bridge | “Alter Bridge: Live in Milan [DVD]” (filmed at Mediolanum Forum on Nov. 12, 2013; CD; Blu-ray + CD) | (DC3 Music) |
| Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Tyler Blackburn, et al | “Pretty Little Liars: The Complete Fourth Season [DVD]” (five discs) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Alice Cooper | “Super Duper Alice Cooper [DVD]” (doc opera is “the twisted tale of a teenage Dr. Jekyll whose rock ‘n’ roll Mr. Hyde almost kills him”; See here; Blu-ray; Blu-ray Box Set) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Bryan Cranston | “Breaking Bad: The Complete Series [DVD]” (21 discs; Blu-ray) | (Sony Pictures) |
| Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, et al | “RoboCop [DVD]” (2014 film; Blu-ray) | (MGM) |
| Jerry Lewis | “The Nutty Professor: 50th Anniversary [Blu-ray + DVD]” (1963 film; includes a CD of prank calls by Lewis from 1959-1972; See here; Read here) | (Paramount) |
| Gary Oliver, David Rintoul, Paul Knops, et al | “Son of God [DVD]” (2014 film; Blu-ray) | (20th Century Fox) |
| Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, et al | “True Blood: The Complete Sixth Season [DVD]” (four discs; Blu-ray) | (HBO / Warner) |
| Pussy Riot | “Death To Prison, Freedom To Protest [Blu-ray]” | (Azure) |
| Olan Soule, Casey Kasem, Ted Knight | “The Adventures of Batman [DVD]” (34 installments, 17 episodes from the 1968 cartoon series on two discs; Read here) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Harry Dean Stanton | “Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction [DVD]” (2013 documentary, directed by Sophie Huber; See here; Read here) | (Adopt Films) |
| Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Christine Taylor | “Zoolander [Blu-ray]” (2001 film; See here) | (Paramount) |
| Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch, et al | “Lone Survivor [DVD]” (2014 film; Blu-ray + DVD) | (Universal Studios) |
| Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, et al | “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason – 10th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray + Digital HD UltraViolet]” (2004 film; See here) | (Universal Studios) |
More DVD/Blu-ray Releases for the Week of June 3, 2014
Music books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| Dan Coats | “The Giant Book of Pop & Rock Sheet Music [Paperback]” | (Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., June 2) |
| John Fahey | “Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist [Hardcover]” (author: Steve Lowenthal; Kindle) | (Chicago Review Press, June 1) |
| Barbara Hendricks | “Lifting My Voice: A Memoir [Hardcover]” (foreword by Kofi A. Annan; Kindle) | (Chicago Review Press, June 1) |
| Michael Jackson | “Michael Jackson, Inc.: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire [Hardcover]” (author: Zack O’Malley Greenburg; Kindle) | (Atria Books) |
| Teenage Head | “Gods of the Hammer: The Teenage Head Story [Paperback]” (author: Geoff Pevere) | (Coach House Books) |
| Walter Trout | “Rescued From Reality: The Life and Times of Walter Trout [Paperback]” (co-author: Henry Yates) | (Mascot Records, June 2) |
| Ron Weisner | “Listen Out Loud: A Life in Music – Managing McCartney, Madonna, and Michael Jackson [Hardcover]” (co-author: Alan Goldsher) | (Lyons Press / Globe Pequot Press) |
More Book Releases for the Week of June 3, 2014