This Week’s Releases: March 25, 2014
New stuff (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ages and Ages | “Divisionary” (producer: Tony Lash; first single: “Divisionary [Do the Right Thing]”; Hear here; MP3) | (Partisan) |
| Animals As Leaders (instrumental prog metal band) | “The Joy of Motion” (producer: Misha Mansoor; Hear here; MP3) | (Sumerian) |
| Asia | “Gravitas” (Hear here; Deluxe edition; MP3) | (Frontiers) |
| The Bad Plus | “The Rite of Spring” (the jazz group’s interpretation of Igor Stravinsky’s masterpiece; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (OKeh) |
| Barzin | “To Live Alone in That Long Summer” (producer: Nick Zubeck; first single: “Fake It ’til You Make It”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Monotreme) |
| The Baseball Project (feat. members of R.E.M., Young Fresh Fellows, The Dream Syndicate, Zuzu’s Petals) | “3rd” (Hear here; MP3) | (Yep Roc) |
| The Belle Brigade | “Just Because” (producers: The Belle Brigade, Shawn Everett; Hear here; MP3) | (ATO) |
| Big Scary (Australian alt-pop duo) | “Not Art” (producer: band member Tom Iansek; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Barsuk) |
| Boy George | “This Is What I Do” (released on MP3 on Oct. 28, 2013; his first album of original material in 18 years; producer: Richie Stevens; guests: DJ Yoda, Kitty Durham, Ally McErlaine, MC Spee, Nizar Al Issa; first single: “King of Everything”; Hear here; See/read here; MP3) | (‘Very Me’ Record Label / Kobalt Label Services) |
| Cage the Gods (British rock band) | “Badlands” (Hear here; See here; MP3) | (The End) |
| Erica Campbell (of Mary Mary) | “Help” (guest: Lecrae; See here; Read here; MP3) | (My Block Inc. / eOne Music) |
| Circa Zero (Andy Summers of The Police and Rob Giles of The Rescues) | “Circus Hero” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (429) |
| Crash (vocalist Christopher Richard) | “Hardly Criminal” (producer: Ed Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros lead guitarist Mark Noseworthy; first single: “Motion Animal”; Hear/read here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Community Music) |
| The Dandy Warhols | “Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia: Live At The Wonder” (See here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (The End) |
| Sarah Davidson (of TNT’s “Private Lives of Nashville Wives”) | “Sarah Davidson” (first single: “Drink You Up”; Hear here; MP3) | (Suretone) |
| Divided Heaven (aka Jeff Berman) | “Youngblood” (producer: Charlie Stavish; first single: “Melissa Militia”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Say-10) |
| Will Downing | “Euphoria” (guests: Gerald Albright, Najee, Wycliffe Gordon, Chops Horns, Noel Goring; Hear here; MP3) | (Will Downing) |
| Nathan East (founding member of the jazz quartet Fourplay) | “Nathan East” (Hear here; MP3) | (Yamaha Entertainment Group) |
| Jillian Edwards (Nashville-based singer-songwriter) | “Daydream” (producer: Joe Causey; Hear here; MP3) | (My Little Gypsy) |
| Simone Felice | “Strangers” (guests: The Felice Brothers, Leah Siegel, The Lumineers’ Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites; first single: “Molly-O”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Dualtone) |
| Future Islands (Baltimore synthpop band) | “Singles” (producer: Chris Coady; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (4AD) |
| Glee Cast | “Glee: The Music Celebrating 100 Episodes” (13 new songs, including covers of Pink’s “Just Give Me a Reason,” Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” and Eddie Murphy’s “Party All the Time,” plus the Glee cast original song “Loser Like Me”; Hear here) | (Columbia) |
| Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa | “Live in Amsterdam” (recorded and filmed at Koninklijk Theater Carré; Hear/see here; DVD; Blu-ray) | (J&R Adventures) |
| The Hold Steady | “Teeth Dreams” (producer: Nick Raskulinecz; Hear here; MP3) | (Washington Square / Razor & Tie) |
| Hopeless Youth (hard-rock quintet from Montreal) | “Disgust” (Hear here; MP3) | (Candlelight) |
| Howler (Minneapolis indie-rock band) | “World of Joy” (first single: “Don’t Wanna”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Rough Trade) |
| Karmin (pop duo) | “Pulses” (first single: “I Want It All”; Hear here; MP3) | (Epic) |
| Liars | “Mess” (first single: “Mess On a Mission”; Hear here; LP + CD; MP3) | (Mute) |
| Barry Manilow | “Night Songs” (his favorite standards from some of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century but haven’t been over-performed; Hear here; MP3) | (Stiletto Entertainment) |
| Memphis May Fire | “Unconditional” (producers: Cameron Mizell, Kellen McGregor; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Rise) |
| Mr Little Jeans (aka Monica Birkenes) | “Pocketknife” (producer: Tim Anderson; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Harvest / Capitol) |
| Mount Carmel (Columbus, Ohio, blues-rock trio) | “Get Pure” (Hear/read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Alive Naturalsound) |
| Jerrod Niemann | “High Noon” (producers: Niemann, Jimmie Lee Sloas; guest: Colt Ford; first single: “Drink to That All Night”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Sea Gayle / Arista Nashville) |
| Owls | “Two” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Polyvinyl) |
| Chuck Ragan | “Till Midnight” (producer: Christopher Thorn of Blind Melon; first single: “Non Typical”; Hear here; MP3) | (SideOneDummy) |
| Sage the Gemini | “Remember Me” (Hear here; Deluxe edition; MP3) | (Empire Distribution / Republic) |
| Seahaven | “Reverie Lagoon: Music For Escapism Only” (producer: Ben Brodin; first single: “Silhouette (Latin Skin)”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Run For Cover) |
| Shakira | “Shakira.” (guests: Rihanna, Blake Shelton, Magic!; first single: “Can’t Remember to Forget You”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (RCA / Sony Latin Iberia) |
| Sleeper Agent | “About Last Night” (first single: “Waves”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (RCA / Mom+Pop) |
| Tokyo Police Club | “Forcefield” (producers: Doug Boehm, singer-bassist Dave Monks; first single: “Hot Tonight”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Mom+Pop) |
| Various artists | “Rio 2 [Film soundtrack]” (animated sequel opens April 11, featuring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, etc.; the soundtrack, produced by Sérgio Mendes and John Powell, features tracks by Janelle Monáe, Bruno Mars, Ester Dean, etc.; See here; MP3) | (Atlantic) |
| Various artists | “The Walking Dead: AMC Original Soundtrack – Vol. 2” (MP3) | (Universal Republic) |
More Releases for the Week of March 25, 2014
New stuff (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Antigone Rising | “Whiskey & Wine Vol. I [MP3]” (“Volume 2” will be issued on Oct. 28; Hear here) | (Rising Sun / Blackheart) |
| Bluffing (NYC duo) | “Sugar Coated Pills of Wisdom [MP3]” (10-song EP; Hear here) | (PaperCup Music) |
| Kat Boelskov (Danish electro-acoustic pop artist) | “Divided [MP3]” (five-song EP; producer: Boelskov; guests: David Hertz, Ida Exner, Jakob Hindhede; first single: “Movies”; Hear Vinyl) | (Gateway Music, March 24) |
| Carbon Airways (French brother-and-sister duo) | “Black Sun [MP3]” (seven-song EP; Hear here; See here) | (Cherrytree) |
| Chimurenga Renaissance | “riZe vadZimu riZe [MP3]” (guests: Palaceer Lazaro, Mall Saint, M1 of Dead Prez, THEESatisfaction; Hear here) | (Brick Lane) |
| Anna Danes (jazz singer) | “Longing [MP3]” (producer: Larry B. White; Hear here) | (DLG Recordings) |
| Exit Vehicles (D.C. indie rock quartet) | “EP [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (Exit Vehicles, March 22) |
| Matthew Fowler (19-year-old Orlando-based singer) | “Beginning [MP3]” (new single: “Beginners”; Hear here) | (Matthew Fowler) |
| Yasmine Hamdan (jazz singer) | “Ya Nass [MP3]” (Hear here) | (Crammed Discs) |
| Jonathan Z (Chicago pianist-singer) | “Through These Doors [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (Jonathan Z) |
| Hiro Kone (NYC-based musician-artist Nicky Mao) | “The Unmoved Mover [MP3]” (five-song EP; producers: Mao, Tim Dewit; new single: “Phantom”; Hear here) | (Group Tightener) |
| Diamond La Shay | “It’s Nothin [MP3]” (producer: Drumma Boy; guest: Wiz Khalifa; Hear here) | (Table) |
| Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray | “Lean into the Wind [MP3]” (Hear here) | (Seven Dead Arson) |
| Now, Now | “Threads Remixed [MP3]” (six-song EP; Hear here) | (Trans) |
| Olio (L.A. pop-funk trio) | “Untitled [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (AD4) |
| James Supercave | “The Afternoon [MP3]” (four-song EP; Hear here; See here) | (Hit City USA) |
| Trans (feat. Bernard Butler, Jackie McKeown, Paul Borchers and Igor Volk) | “Trans Green [MP3]” (four-song EP; Hear here) | (Rough Trade) |
| Uh Huh Her (L.A. electro-pop duo) | “Future Souls [MP3]” (guests: Big Black Delta’s Jonathan Bates, Ché Pope; first single: “Innocence”; Hear here) | (Plaid) |
| We Be Lions (Omaha funk-rock band) | “Fingerprint [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (We Be Lions, March 22) |
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Julie Andrews | “Our Fair Lady: The Divine Julie Andrews” (two CDs, 40 songs) | (Memory Lane) |
| Aztec Camera | “High Land, Hard Rain” (1984 album; 30th anniversary deluxe edition, with 16 bonus tracks; remastered; Read here; LP + MP3) | (Domino) |
| Keith Barrow | “Physical Attraction (Expanded Edition)” (1978 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks) | (FunkyTownGrooves USA) |
| Beyoncé | “Beyoncé [CD/Blu-ray]” (2013 album; Blu-ray version has three bonus tracks) | (Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia) |
| Boston | “Feeling It in Cleveland: Live in Ohio 1976” (recorded at the Agora Ballroom on Sept. 27, 1976; Hear here) | (U.K. – Parallel Lines, March 24) |
| Keni Burke (ex-Five Stairsteps member) | “You’re the Best (Expanded Edition)” (1981 album; remastered, with six bonus tracks), “Changes (Expanded Edition)” (1982 album; remastered, with three bonus tracks) | (FunkyTownGrooves USA) |
| Eric Carmen | “The Essential Eric Carmen” (two CDs, 30 songs; includes a new track, “Brand New Year”) | (Arista / Legacy) |
| Johnny Cash | “Out Among the Stars” (previously unreleased recordings with Billy Sherrill from the early 1980s; See here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| D’Angelo | “Live At The Jazz Cafe, London” (recorded in Setpember 1995 during a U.K. promo tour; MP3) | (Virgin) |
| Miles Davis | “Miles At The Fillmore – Miles Davis 1970: The Bootleg Series Vol. 3” (four discs; MP3) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Doris Day | “The Essential Doris Day” (two CDs, 36 songs; MP3) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| The Dubliners | “Dirty Old Town: The Best of The Dubliners” (two CDs, 35 songs; Vinyl) | (Not Bad) |
| Bob Dylan | “The Essential Bob Dylan” (two CDs, 32 songs; MP3) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Earth, Wind & Fire | “The Essential Earth, Wind & Fire” (two CDs, 35 songs; MP3) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| The First Edition | “The First Edition / The First Edition’s 2nd” (1967, 1968 albums on one disc; remastered; MP3) | (Friday Music) |
| Billy Griffin (former Miracles singer) | “Be With Me (Expanded Edition)” (1978 album; remastered, with five bonus tracks), “Respect Me (Expanded Edition)” (1982 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks) | (FunkyTownGrooves USA) |
| Merle Haggard | “Okie From Muskogee: 45th Anniversary Special Edition” (1969 album; remastered, with a second CD containing the 1970 live album “The Fightin’ Side of Me”; Read here; MP3) | (Capitol Nashville / UMe) |
| Julio Iglesias | “The Essential Julio Iglesias” (two CDs, 37 tracks; MP3) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Elton John | “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1973 album; remastered, with nine cover versions by other artists and a best-of “Live At Hammersmith 1973” CD; See here; Read here; Single CD; Vinyl, mastered by Doug Sax and Robert Hadley at The Mastering Lab; Super Deluxe Edition, five-disc CD/DVD box set, including complete “Live At Hammersmith 1973”; Blu-ray Audio; MP3) | (Island / UMe) |
| Lavender Country | “Lavender Country” (1973 album; remastered; Hear/read here) | (Paradise of Bachelors) |
| My Chemical Romance | “May Death Never Stop You (The Greatest Hits 2001-2013)” (19-track collection includes the previously unreleased “Fake Your Death”; Deluxe edition, with armband; Vinyl, with armband) | (Reprise) |
| Nine Inch Nails and Coil | “Recoiled” (five-song remix EP, released posthumously after the deaths of the two original Coil members, Peter Christopherson and John Balance; Hear here; MP3) | (Cold Spring) |
| Roy Orbison | “Laminar Flow” (1979 album; remastered) | (Friday Music) |
| Pantera | “Far Beyond Driven (20th Anniversary Edition)” (1994 album; remastered, with a second CD featuring live performance from the 1994 Monsters of Rock Festival; MP3) | (Rhino) |
| Sade | “The Essential Sade” (two CDs, 29 tracks) | (Epic / Legacy) |
| Rod Stewart | “Live 1976-1998: Tonight’s The Night [Box set]” (four CDs, 58 previously unreleased tracks; Read here; MP3) | (Rhino / Warner) |
| The Tymes | “Tymes Up: Expanded Edition” (1976 album; remastered, with two bonus tracks) | (U.K. – Soulmusic, March 24) |
| The Who | “Tommy (Deluxe Vinyl Edition)” (1969 album; remastered; two LPs) | (Geffen / UMe) |
More Releases for the Week of March 25, 2014
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| AFI | “AFI [MP3]” (2004 compilation) | (Nitro) |
| Chuck Berry | “One Dozen Berrys [MP3]” (1958 album), “New Juke Box Hits [MP3]” (1961 album), “Chuck Berry Twist [MP3]” (1962 album), “Chuck Berry On Stage [MP3]” (1963 album), “Bo Diddley/Chuck Berry: Two Great Guitars [MP3]” (1964 album), “Chuck Berry in London [MP3]” (1965 album), “Fresh Berry’s [MP3]” (1965 album), “Live At Fillmore Auditorium [MP3]” (1967 album), “Back Home [MP3]” (1970 album), “San Francisco Dues [MP3]” (1971 album), “Bio [MP3]” (1973 album), “Chuck Berry [MP3]” (1975 album) | (Geffen / UMe) |
| The Call | “Into the Woods [MP3]” (1987 album) | (Rhino / Elektra) |
| Johnny Cash | “Classic Albums Collection [MP3]” (10 complete albums) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Maya Jane Coles (British-Japanese producer/DJ) | “Comfort (Deluxe Edition) [MP3]” (2013 album; with five bonus tracks; Read here) | (I/AM/ME) |
| Dru Hill | “Hits [MP3]” (2005 compilation; 17 songs) | (Def Soul / UMe) |
| The Kinks | “The Kinks’ Greatest: Celluloid Heroes [MP3]” (1976 compilation), “Come Dancing With the Kinks (The Best of the Kinks 1977-1986) [MP3]” (1986 compilation; 18 songs) | (Legacy Recordings) |
| Love | “The Best of Love [MP3]” (2003 compilation; 23 songs) | (Rhino / Elektra) |
| Lulu | “The Atco Sessions 1969-72 [MP3]” (39 songs) | (Rhino / Atlantic) |
| Jody Miller | “Complete Epic Hits [MP3]” (25 songs) | (Epic / Legacy) |
| Mystery Science Theater 3000 RiffTrax Guys | “RiffTrax Sings! More Songs from the Guys of Mystery Science Theater 3000 [MP3]” | (RiffTrax) |
| Lou Reed | “The Sire Years: The Solo Collection [MP3]” (89 songs) | (Rhino / Warner) |
| Simply Red | “Song Book 1985-2010 [MP3]” (61 songs) | (Rhino) |
| Tears For Fears | “Mad World: The Collection [MP3]” (2010 U.K. compilation; 35 songs) | (Spectrum Music / UMe) |
| Various artists | “Beverly Hills Cop II [MP3]” (1987 soundtrack album) | (Geffen / UMe) |
| War | “Galaxy [MP3]” (1977 album) | (Avenue / UMe) |
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Label/studio: |
| Lucille Ball | “Here’s Lucy: The Complete Series [DVD]” (24 discs, with bonus material; Read here) | (MPI Home Video) |
| Jane Birkin, Irene Handl, Jack MacGowran, et al | “Wonderwall [DVD]” (1968 film; music by George Harrison; Read/see here; Blu-ray) | (Shout! Factory) |
| Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, et al | “The Wolf of Wall Street [DVD]” (2013 film; See here; Blu-ray + DVD) | (Paramount) |
| Mick Jagger | “Performance [Blu-ray]” (1970 British crime drama film; See here) | (Warner Archive Collection) |
| Joni Mitchell | “Woman of Heart & Mind + Painting With Words and Music [SD Blu-ray]” (two discs; documentary and 1998 concert film; See here) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Jason Patric, Keifer Sutherland, Corey Haim, et al | “The Lost Boys [Blu-ray]” (1987 film; See here) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Lou Reed | “Classic Albums: Transformer & Live At Montreux 2000 [SD Blu-ray]” (two discs; See here) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Various artists | “Great Pianists of the 20th Century [SD Blu-ray]” (more than 15 hours of footage from 1950-1978, featuring performances by Glenn Gould, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Georges Cziffra, Wilhelm Kempff, Byron Janis, Alfred Brendel, etc.; Read here) | (EuroArts) |
| Various artists | “A MusiCares Tribute to Bruce Springsteen [DVD]” (hosted by Jon Stewart on Feb. 8, 2013, featuring Alabama Shakes, Patti Smith, Mavis Staples, Mumford & Sons, Jackson Browne, Elton John, Sting, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, John Legend, etc.; See here; Read here; Blu-ray) | (Columbia) |
More DVD/Blu-ray Releases for the Week of March 25, 2014
Music books
More Book Releases for the Week of March 25, 2014
Next week: April 1, 2014
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