This Week’s Releases: May 27, 2014
New stuff (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Mindi Abair | “Wild Heart” (producers: Abair, The Decoders: guests: Gregg Allman, Joe Perry, Booker T. Jones, Keb’ Mo’, Trombone Shorty, Max Weinberg, Waddy Wachtel; Hear here; MP3) | (Heads Up / Concord) |
| Birdy | “Fire Within” (released in her native U.K. in September 2013; producers: Rich Costey, Ryan Tedder, Ben Lovett, Jim Abbiss, Fraser T. Smith, Dan Wilson, Jake Gosling, Greg Wells; Hear here; MP3) | (Atlantic) |
| Buffalo Killers | “Heavy Reverie [Vinyl]” (producer: Jim Wirt; Hear here; MP3) | (Sun Pedal Recordings) |
| Bury Tomorrow (U.K. metalcore band) | “Runes” (first single: “Man on Fire”; Hear here; See here) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| Mariah Carey | “Me. I Am Mariah … The Elusive Chanteuse” (producers: Rodney Jerkins, Jermaine Dupri, Hit-Boy, Mike Will Made It; guests: Mary J. Blige, R. Kelly, Nas, Wale, Miguel, Fabolous; Hear here; Read here; Deluxe edition; MP3) | (Island Def Jam) |
| Crowder (“folktronica” artist and former frontman of David Crowder Band) | “Neon Steeple” (guest: Emmylou Harris, on a version of “My Sweet Lord”; first single: “I Am”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition) | (sixsteprecords / Capitol CMG) |
| Ben Frost | “A U R O R A” (Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Mute) |
| John Fullbright (Grammy-nominated Americana artist) | “Songs” (Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Blue Dirt / Thirty Tigers) |
| Haunted Hearts (husband/wife duo, Dee Dee Penny from Dum Dum Girls and Brandon Welchez of Crocodiles) | “Initiation” (first single: “Up Is Up [But So Is Down]”; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Zoo Music) |
| Lillian Axe | “One Night in the Temple [CD/DVD]” (acoustic live album; producer: frontman Steve Blaze; Hear here; MP3) | (Tummy Touch) |
| Little Barrie | “Shadow” (producers: Seb Lewsley, Edwyn Collins; first single: “Sworn In”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Tummy Touch) |
| Cher Lloyd | “Sorry I’m Late” (guest: T.I.; new single: “Sirens”; Hear here; MP3) | (Epic) |
| Austin Mahone | “The Secret” (first single: “Mmm Yeah,” feat. Pitbull; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Chase / Cash Money) |
| The Martins | “A Cappella” (Hear here; MP3) | (Gaither Music Group / UMG) |
| moe. | “No Guts, No Glory” (producer: Dave Aron; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl, with three bonus tracks; MP3) | (Sugar Hill) |
| Wendy Moten | “Timeless: Wendy Moten Sings Richard Whiting” (producer: Paul Brown; Hear here; MP3) | (Woodward Avenue) |
| Jamie O’Neal | “Eternal” (her first album since 2008; producers: O’Neal, husband Rodney Good; guest: Andy Griggs; Hear here; MP3) | (Momentum Label Group / Shanachie) |
| Powerman 5000 | “Builders of the Future” (their first album in nearly five years; Hear here; MP3) | (T-Boy / UMe) |
| The Ready Set | “The Bad & The Better” (guest: Jake Miller; Hear here; MP3) | (Razor & Tie) |
| Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis | “Our Year” (includes a cover of “Harper Valley P.T.A.”; producer: Brad Jones; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Premium) |
| Rush Midnight (aka Russ Manning) | “Rush Midnight” (first single: “Closer”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Last Gang) |
| Some Ember (Oakland, Calif., duo) | “Some Ember” (producers: Some Ember; Hear/read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Dream Recordings) |
| Tedashii (hip-hop artist) | “Below Paradise” (guests: Trip Lee, Lecrae, Britt Nicole, Crowder, Andy Mineo, Royal Tailor, etc.; first single: “Dark Days, Darker Nights”; Hear here; MP3) | (Reach) |
| Sharon Van Etten | “Are We There” (producer: Van Etten; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Jagjaguwar) |
| Various artists | “Maleficent [Film soundtrack]” (dark fantasy film starring Angelina Jolie opens May 30; music composed by James Newton Howard; first single: “Once Upon a Dream,” by Lana Del Rey; See here; MP3) | (Disney) |
| Various artists | “Midnight Rider: A Tribute to The Allman Brothers Band” (contributors: Leon Russell, Steve Morse, Pat Travers, Commander Cody, Molly Hatchet, The Oak Ridge Boys, Artimus Pyle Band, etc.; MP3) | (Cleopatra) |
| Various artists | “Rocky Broadway Original Cast Recording” (the musical opened March 13 at the Winter Garden Theatre, starring Andy Karl as Rocky, Margo Seibert as Adrian ad Terence Archie as Apollo Creed; See here; Read here; MP3) | (Universal Music Enterprises) |
| Neil Young | “A Letter Home” (a collection of covers recorded with Jack White on a refurbished 1947 Voice-O-Graph recording booth at Third Man’s Nashville headquarters; covers include Phil Ochs’ “Changes,” Gordon Lightfoot’s “Early Morning Rain” and “If You Could Read My Mind,” Bruce Springsteen’s “My Hometown,” etc.; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl Box Set; MP3) | (Third Man / Warner) |
More Releases for the Week of May 27, 2014
New stuff (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Brass Phantoms (Irish garage-rock band) | “The Brass Phantoms EP [MP3]” (four-song EP; ReverbNation) | (Slick Mantis, May 25) |
| Henry Butler-Steven Bernstein and the Hot 9 | “Viper’s Drag [MP3]” (first release on the newly relaunched Impulse! label; Hear here; See here; Read here) | (Impulse! / Universal) |
| Chemical Misuse (Quebec City-based hard rock band) | “Follow the Light [MP3]” (seven-song EP; ReverbNation) | (Chemical Misuse, May 30) |
| Five Stories Falling (Connecticut rock band) | “Dancing With the Angels [MP3]” (seven-song EP; ReverbNation) | (Broken) |
| Constantinos Karaiskos Music (pop/electro-house artist) | “Four Seasons of Love (Mixed Moods & Rarities) [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (Constantinos Karaiskos Music, May 26) |
| Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 | “A Long Way to the Beginning [MP3]” (producers: Kuti, Robert Glasper; guests: M-1 of dead prez, Blitz the Ambassador, Nneka; first single: “IMF”; Hear here; See here) | (Knitting Factory) |
| Yonatan Gat (of Monotonix) | “Iberian Passage [MP3]” (six-song EP; Hear here) | (Joyful Noise Recordings) |
| OBN III | “Third Time to Harm [MP3]” (Hear here) | (Tic Tac Totally) |
| RAFTREE | “RAFTREE EP [MP3]” (four-song EP; producer: Kenneth Raftree; first single: “What I Say”; Hear here) | (Twelve23, May 31) |
| Röyksopp & Robyn | “Do It Again [MP3]” (five-song EP; the Swedish alt-pop star and the Norwegian electronic duo have announced a summer tour of Europe and the States; Hear here) | (Cherrytree / Interscope, May 26) |
| Trash Talk | “No Peace [MP3]” (first single: “Cloudkicker”; Hear here; See here) | (Odd Future) |
| Zero Minus One (hard rockers from La Crosse, Wis.) | “Heroes [MP3]” (six-song EP; ReverbNation) | (Zero Minus One) |
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Audio Adrenaline | “20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Audio Adrenaline” (MP3) | (ForeFront / UMe) |
| Avalon | “20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Avalon” (MP3) | (Sparrow / UMe) |
| Tommy Bolin & Zephyr | “Zephyr: Deluxe Edition” (1969 album; remastered, with two bonus CDs, “The Live Cuts 1969-1973” and “Live at Tulagi’s [Boulder, CO – June 19, 1973]”; MP3) | (Cleopatra) |
| Delaney Bramlett | “Some Things Coming & Mobius Strip” (1972, 1973 albums; remastered; Hear/read here) | (U.K. – Up Sounds, May 26) |
| James Brown | “Sex Machine” (CD Deluxe Vinyl Replica; 1970 double live album; remastered) | (Culture Factory USA) |
| Canned Heat | “Reheated” (1988 album; remastered) | (Friday Music) |
| Johnny Cash | “Playlist: The Very Best of Johnny Cash Duets” | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| The Jimmy Castor Bunch | “It’s Just Begun & Phase Two” (1972 albums on one CD, with 19 songs, including “Troglodyte [Cave Man]”; Read here) | (U.K. – Robinsongs / Cherry Red, May 26) |
| Judy Collins | “The Essential Judy Collins”(13 songs; MP3) | (Cleopatra) |
| Cradle of Filth | “Total Fucking Darkness”(1993 demos; Vinyl; MP3) | (Mordgrimm) |
| The Crusaders | “Street Life” (CD Deluxe Vinyl Replica; 1979 album; remastered) | (Culture Factory USA) |
| dc Talk | “20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of dc Talk” (MP3) | (Forefront / UMe) |
| Deep Purple | “Made in Japan (40th Anniversary Edition)” (1973 album; remastered; Read here; four CD/DVD box set; two-CD edition, featuring the 2013 album remix with all encores from the 1972 tour) | (Universal Music Enterprises) |
| Rick Derringer | “Playlist: The Very Best of Rick Derringer” (14 songs; MP3) | (Epic / Legacy) |
| Celine Dion | “Playlist: All the Way … A Decade of Song” | (Epic / Legacy) |
| Marianne Faithfull | “Dangerous Acquaintances” (CD Deluxe Vinyl Replica; 1981 album; remastered) | (LMLR) |
| The 5th Dimension | “Playlist: The Very Best of The 5th Dimension” | (Arista / Legacy) |
| Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto | “Getz/Gilberto: 50th Anniversary” (1964 jazz-bossa nova album, featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim; won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year in 1965, and “The Girl from Ipanema” won Record of the Year; MP3) | (Verve / UMe) |
| Iron Butterfly | “Live At The Galaxy 1967” (Vinyl; MP3) | (Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra) |
| George Jones | “Playlist: The Very Best of George Jones Duets” | (Epic / Legacy) |
| KISS | “KISS 40” (two CDs, 40 songs; hits, rarities and live tracks; Read here; MP3) | (Mercury / UMe) |
| Adam Lambert | “Playlist: The Very Best of Adam Lambert” (14 songs; MP3) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Twila Paris | “20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Twila Paris” (MP3) | (Sparrow / UMe) |
| Petra | “20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Petra” (MP3) | (Starsong / UMe) |
| Kellie Pickler | “Playlist: The Very Best of Kellie Pickler” | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Iggy Pop | “Gimme Some Skin: The 7” Collection [Vinyl box set]” (Read here) | (Cleopatra) |
| Elvis Presley | “Playlist: The Very Best of Elvis Movie Songs” | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Kenny Rogers & The First Edition | “The First Edition” (1967 album; remastered; Vinyl) | (Cleopatra) |
| They Might Be Giants | “Idlewild” (17-song compilation; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Idlewild Recordings) |
| 38 Special | “Rockin’ Into the Night” (CD Deluxe Vinyl Replica; 1980 album; remastered), “Tour De Force” (CD Deluxe Vinyl Replica; 1984 album; remastered) | (Culture Factory USA) |
| Various artists | “Holland-Dozier-Holland: The Complete 45s Collection: Invictus/Hot Wax/Music Merchant 1969-1977 [Box set]” (14 CDs, 157 singles and 269 original recordings; Read here) | (U.K. – Harmless / Demon Music Group, May 26) |
| Various artists | “20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Hymns” (MP3) | (Starsong / UMe) |
| Various artists | “20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Women of Christian Music” (MP3) | (Starsong / UMe) |
| Suzanne Vega | “Suzanne Vega” (CD Deluxe Vinyl Replica; 1985 album; remastered), “Solitude Standing” (CD Deluxe Vinyl Replica; 1987 album; remastered) | (Culture Factory USA) |
| Paul Williams | “Phantom of the Paradise” (1974 soundtrack album; musical film written and directed by Brian De Palma and starring Williams, who also composed the Oscar-nominated music; remastered; Hear here), “Ordinary Fool” (1975 album; remastered; Hear here), “The Best of Paul Williams” | (Creature Music) |
| Edgar Winter | “Playlist: The Very Best of Edgar Winter” | (Epic / Legacy) |
More Releases for the Week of May 27, 2014
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Astrud Gilberto | “I Haven’t Got Anything Better to Do [MP3]” (1970 album) | (Verve / UMe) |
| Ronnie Dyson | “One Man Band [MP3]” (1973 album; with six bonus tracks) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| REO Speedwagon | “Ridin’ the Storm Out [MP3]” (1974 song, with the original Kevin Cronin vocals; Hear here) | (Epic / Legacy) |
| Various artists | “Heard It On the Radio: Big Hits [MP3]” (20 songs; feat. Chilliwack, Planet P Project, New England, Rubicon, City Boy, Prism, Point Blank, etc.) | (R.D.E.G., May 26) |
| Various artists | “More New Wave Classics [MP3]” (16 songs; feat. Transvision Vamp, Sue Saad & the Next, Roman Holliday, The Producers, Novo Combo, etc.) | (R.D.E.G., May 26) |
DVD / Blu-ray
| Cast: | Title: | Label/studio: |
| Mahalia Jackson | “The Best of Mahalia Jackson Sings Vol. 1 [DVD]” (with a bonus CD) | (Synergy Entertainment) |
| Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, et al | “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]” (2004 film) | (Criterion Collection) |
| Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette | “The Bob Newhart Show: The Complete Series [DVD]” (18 discs) | (Shout! Factory) |
| Betty White | “Betty White in Life With Elizabeth & Date With the Angels [DVD]” (six discs, 41 episodes of the 1950s series) | (Synergy Entertainment) |
| Stuart Whitman, Jill Townsend, et al | “Cimarron Strip: The Complete Series [DVD]” (eight discs; TV western aired on CBS during the 1967-68 season; music composed by Maurice Jarre) | (Entertainment One) |
More DVD/Blu-ray Releases for the Week of May 27, 2014
Music books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| Scott B. Bomar | “Southbound: An Illustrated History of Southern Rock [Paperback]” (foreword by Doug Gray of The Marshall Tucker Band) | (Backbeat Books) |
| Ornette Coleman | “The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field [Paperback]” (author: David Neal Lee) | (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.) |
More Book Releases for the Week of May 27, 2014
Next week: June 3, 2014
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