New stuff (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Agnostic Front | “The American Dream Died” (producer: Freddy Cricien; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| All Time Low | “Future Hearts” (producer: John Feldmann; first single: “Something’s Gotta Give”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Hopeless) |
| Blues Traveler | “Blow Up the Moon” (guests: 3OH!3, Plain White T’s, Jewel, Dirty Heads, JC Chasez, Hanson, etc.; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Loud & Proud) |
| Kristian Bush | “Southern Gravity” (the Sugarland member’s first solo album; producer: Bush; first single: “Trailer Hitch”; Hear here; MP3) | (Streamsound) |
| Byzantine (progressive thrash quartet) | “To Release Is to Resolve” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (CEN / RED Distribution) |
| Michael Des Barres | “The Key to the Universe” (producer: Robert Rose; first single: “Can’t Get You Off My Mind / I Want Love to Punch Me in the Face”; Hear here; MP3) | (FOD) |
| Delta Rae | “After It All” (producers: Rob Cavallo, Peter Katis; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Sire) |
| Ramin Djawadi | “Game of Thrones: Music From the Television Series” (produced and arranged by Dominik Hauser) | (BSX) |
| Doldrums | “The Air Conditioned Nightmare” (first single: “Hotfoot”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Sub Pop) |
| East Cameron Folklore (Austin folk/punk octet) | “Kingdom of Fear” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Nine Mile) |
| East India Youth (aka Mercury Prize-nominated electronic musician William Doyle) | “Culture of Volume” (first single: “Carousel”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (XL Recordings) |
| Shana Falana | “Set Your Lightning Fire Free” (producer: Dan Goodwin; first single: “Heavenstay”; Hear here) | (Team Love) |
| Folk Family Revival (Magnolia, Texas-based Americana quartet) | “Waterwalker” (producer: Jeffrey Armstreet; first single: “If It Don’t Kill You”; Hear here; MP3) | (Rock Ridge Music) |
| Steve Gadd Band | “70 Strong” (with his fellow James Taylor band mates Mike Landau, Larry Goldings, Jimmy Johnson and Walt Fowler; Hear here; MP3) | (BFM Jazz) |
| Seth Glier | “If I Could Change One Thing” (producer: Bill Lefler; Hear here; MP3) | (MPress) |
| The Grip Weeds (psych-pop rockers) | “How I Won the War” (Hear here; MP3) | (JEM) |
| Steve Hackett | “Wolflight” (Hear here; See here; MP3) | (InsideOut Music) |
| Will Hoge | “Small Town Dreams” (producer: Marshall Altman; first single: “Middle of America”; Hear here; MP3) | (Cumberland Recordings / Thirty Tigers) |
| Hotel Books (Porterville, Calif., spoken word/indie/ambient rock quartet) | “Run Wild, Young Beauty” (Hear here; See here) | (InVogue) |
| Ray Wylie Hubbard | “The Ruffian’s Misfortune” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Bordello) |
| Pokey LaFarge (St. Louis-based singer/multi-instrumentalist) | “Something in the Water” (producer: Jimmy Sutton; Hear here; MP3) | (Rounder) |
| The London Souls (NYC duo) | “Here Come the Girls” (producer: Eric Krasno; Hear here; MP3) | (Feel Music Group / Round Hill Music) |
| Lord Huron | “Strange Trails” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (IAMSOUND) |
| Matt and Kim | “New Glow” (first single: “Get It”; Hear here; MP3) | (Harvest) |
| Mother Mother (2015 Juno Group of the Year nominee) | “Very Good Bad Thing” (producer: Gavin Brown; first single: “Monkey Tree”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Def Jam Recordings) |
| The Mountain Goats | “Beat the Champ” (a concept album about pro wrestling; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Merge) |
| Point of Grace | “Directions Home (Songs We Love, Songs You Know)” (their first album of covers; producers: Andy Leftwich, Point of Grace; guests: Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs; Hear here; MP3) | (Word) |
| Priory (alt-pop duo) | “Need to Know” (Hear here; See here; Vinyl + MP3) | (Warner) |
| Rain Pryor (comedian-actress, daughter of Richard Pryor) | “The Embers of Time” (Hear here; MP3) | (Uproar) |
| Josh Rouse | “The Embers of Time” (producer: Brad Jones; first single: “Some Days I’m Golden All Night”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Yep Roc) |
| Royal Thunder (Atlanta hard-rock quartet) | “Crooked Doors” (first single: “Forget You”; Hear here; MP3) | (Relapse) |
| Todd Rundgren | “Global” (his 25th solo album; Hear here; MP3) | (Esoteric Antenna / Cherry Red / MVD) |
| David Sanborn | “Time and the River” (Hear here; MP3) | (OKeh / Sony Masterworks) |
| Toro y Moi | “What For?” (first single: “Empty Nesters”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Carpark) |
| Umphrey’s McGee | “The London Session: A Day At Abbey Road Studios” (includes a cover of The Beatles’ “I Want You [She’s So Heavy]”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Nothing Too Fancy Music) |
| Steve Vai | “Stillness in Motion: Vai Live in L.A.” (recorded Oct. 12, 2012, at Club Nokia; See here; MP3; DVD) | (Legacy Recordings) |
| The Very Best (Swedish-Malawian duo) | “Makes a King” (new single: “Let Go”; Hear here; MP3) | (Moshi Moshi) |
| The Waterboys | “Modern Blues” (producer: frontman Mike Scott; mixed by Bob Clearmountain, recorded in Nashville; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Harlequin and Clown) |
| Waters | “What’s Real” (producers: Grouplove’s Ryan Rabin, Carlos De La Garza; new single: “Stupid Games”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Vagrant) |
| Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) | “Ivy Tripp” (producers: Crutchfield, Kyle Gilbride, Keith Spencer; first single: “Air”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Merge) |
| Alicia Whitt | “Revisionary History” (producer: Ben Folds; first single: “Consolation Prize”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Alicia Witt Music / Compass) |
| Brian Wilson | “No Pier Pressure” (producer: Wilson; contributors: Jeff Beck, former Beach Boys bandmates Al Jardine and David Marks, Don Was, Jim Keltner; guests: Lana Del Rey, Kacey Musgraves, Zooey Deschanel, Nate Ruess of fun., Capital Cities’ Sebu Simonian; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition) | (Capitol) |
| Cassandra Wilson | “Coming Forth By Day” (a musical homage to Billie Holiday, who was born Eleanora Fagan 100 years ago on April 7, 1915; producer: Nick Launay; guests: T Bone Burnett, Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, string arranger Van Dyke Parks, The Bad Seeds; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Legacy Recordings) |
| Xymphoni | “Irresistible” (producer: R. Thomas; guest: Rey T; first single: “Lost Destiny”; Hear here; MP3) | (That Other Label / Prime USA) |
More Releases for the Week of April 7, 2015
New stuff (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| AutoCharm | “Just As the Sun” | (Rubber Taxi, April 6) |
| Blurred Vision (rock trio) | “Organized Insanity” (producer: Terry Brown; Hear here; Read here) | (Cherry Red, April 6) |
| The Boxmasters (includes actor Billy Bob Thornton) | “Somewhere Down the Road” (22 tracks; Hear here) | (101 Ranch) |
| Doug Burr | “Pale White Dove” (first single: “White Night, Black Light”; Hear here) | (Velvet Blue Music) |
| Callaghan (Nashville singer-songwriter) | “A History of Now” (producer: Dennis Matkosky; first single: “Crazy Beautiful Life”; Hear here) | (Green Town Music) |
| Paula Cole | “7” (Hear here) | (675 Records LLC, April 10) |
| Crown Larks | “Blood Dancer” (producers: Brian Sulpizio, Nick Broste, Jack Bouboushian, Lorraine Bailey; first single: “Blood Mirage”; Hear here) | (Space Lung / Land Breathing, April 5) |
| Drug Cabin (ex-Ambulance LTD frontman Marcus Congleton and former Pretty Girls Make Graves guitarist Nathan Thelen) | “Wiggle Room” (first single: “Handsome”; Hear here) | (401K Music) |
| Daniel G. Harmann | “White Mountains” (single: “Anna”; Hear here; CD) | (Hello Tower Media, April 9) |
| Harvard of the South (made up of members of Longwave and Blue October) | “Miracle EP” (five songs; first single: “All Our Ashes”; Hear here) | (Slo Lab) |
| Life Size Maps (synth-pop quartet) | “Life Size Maps” (mixed by Chris Coady and mastered by Greg Calbi; first single: “Strange Obsession”; Hear here; See here) | (Old Flame) |
| Michael McArthur (soulful pop singer-songwriter from Lakeland, Fla.) | “Magnolia” (producers: David Bianco, Conrad Johnson, McArthur; first single: “Run Around”; Hear here) | (Michael McArthur) |
| Montropo | “Follow Me” (producers: Nick Sullivan, Andrés Diaz; Hear here) | (Andrés Diaz) |
| Nadine Shah | “Fast Food” (producer: Ben Hillier; first single: “Stealing Cars”; Hear here; See here; CD) | (Apollo / R&S) |
| Shriekback | “Without Real String or Fish” (their 13th studio album; Hear here; See here) | (Shriek-Related Products) |
| Version 5 | “Version 5” (three-song EP; producer: Jeff Blue; first single: “Why Don’t You Drop”; Hear here) | (579496 Records DK) |
More Digital Releases for the Week of April 7, 2015
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Cannonball Adderley | “Big Man: The Legend of John Henry” (1975 album; remastered) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Bad Company | “Bad Company (Deluxe Edition)” (1974 album; remastered, with a second CD containing 13 bonus tracks; Vinyl; MP3), “Straight Shooter (Deluxe Edition)” (1975 album; remastered, with a second CD containing 14 bonus tracks; Vinyl; MP3) | (Rhino / Atlantic) |
| Frank Black and the Catholics | “The Complete Recordings” (seven-CD box features the band’s six studio albums plus a bonus CD titled “True Blue,” containing recordings from the “Black Letter Days” album sessions) | (Cooking Vinyl) |
| Eddie Bo | “Baby I’m Wise: The Complete Ric Singles 1959-1962” (22 tracks; Hear/read here) | (U.K. – Ace, April 6) |
| Michael Chapman | “Savage Amusement” (1976 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks; MP3) | (Secret / MVD) |
| The Cowsills | “The Cowsills: Expanded Edition” (1967 album; remastered, with eight bonus tracks; Read here) | (U.K. – Now Sounds / Cherry Red, April 6) |
| The Diamonds | “The Diamonds Collection” (25 songs) | (Stardust) |
| Dion | “Live At The Bitter End, August 1971” (17 tracks; MP3; Read here) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| Freddy Fender | “Greatest Hits Vol. 1” (12 tracks; MP3) | (CLASSICMUSICCO.COM / MVD) |
| John Fogerty | “The Rock & Roll All Stars: Live Broadcasts 1985-1986” | (All Access) |
| Free | “Free At Last” (1972 album; remastered, with five bonus tracks) | (LMLR) |
| Craig Fuller & Eric Kaz | “Craig Fuller & Eric Kaz” (1978 album; remastered, with two bonus tracks) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Gov’t Mule | “Dub Side of the Mule” (an all-reggae set with Toots Hibbert in a New Year Eve 2006 performance at the Beacon Theatre in New York City; Hear here; MP3) | (Evil Teen) |
| Herman’s Hermits | “The Best of Herman’s Hermits: The 50th Anniversary Anthology” (two CDs, 66 songs; Read here) | (U.K. – Bear Family, April 6) |
| Earl Hines | “Eight Classic Albums 1951-1961” (four CDs) | (Enlightenment) |
| Freddie Hubbard | “Classic Recordings: 1960-1962” (eight complete albums on four CDs, with bonus tracks) | (Enlightenment) |
| Dickey Lee | “Greatest Hits Collection” (27 songs) | (Rock ‘n’ Roll) |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd | “Chattanooga Choo Choo: The Classic Tennessee Broadcast” | (All Access) |
| Garnett Mimms | “Looking For You: The Complete United Artists & Veep Singles” (28 tracks; Hear/read here) | (U.K. – Kent / Ace, April 6) |
| Mitski | “Bury Me at Makeout Creek” (2014 album, with four previously unreleased tracks; See here; MP3) | (Don Giovanni) |
| Paul & Paula | “Greatest Hits” (31 songs) | (Stardust) |
| Art Pepper | “Neon Art: Volume Three” (three tunes drawn from the unissued performances of his 1981 tour of Japan; Read here) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| Linda Ronstadt | “Sausalito ’73” (unreleased live broadcast from The Record Plant, recorded on Nov. 18, 1973) | (All Access) |
| Santo & Johnny | “The Best of Santo & Johnny” (23 songs) | (Stardust) |
| Shakatak | “Day By Day (City Rhythm)” (1985 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks; MP3) | (Secret / MVD) |
| Lisa Stansfield | “The Moment” (2004 album; with five bonus tracks, three previously unreleased) | (U.K. – ZTT / Salvo Music, April 6) |
| Status Quo | “Blue For You” (1976 album; remastered, with five bonus tracks) | (LMLR) |
| James Taylor | “Georgia On My Mind: Live in Atlanta 1981” (from his “Dad Loves His Work” tour, featuring Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar and J.D. Souther) | (All Access) |
| The Troggs | “Wild Thing” (1966 album; remastered) | (LMLR) |
| Various artists | “Decca Sound: Mono Years 1944-1956 [Box set]” (53 discs; Hear/read here) | (Decca) |
| Various artists | “Made in Canada: Our Rock ‘n’ Roll History: Volume Two (The Early Years)” (1990 compilation; 18 tracks from 1960-1970, featuring The Guess Who, The Poppy Family, Motherlode, Mashmakhan, Chad Allen & The Expressions, The Staccatos, etc.; Track list), “Made in Canada: Our Rock ‘n’ Roll History: Volume Two (Into the 70’s)” (1990 compilation; 18 tracks from 1969-1974, featuring Edward Bear, Andy Kim, Lighthouse, The Bells, The Stampeders, Keith Hampshire, Ian Thomas, etc.; Track list) | (Powder Blue) |
| The Who | “The Brunswick Singles 1965-1966 [Vinyl box set]” (seven 7-inch singles, including “I Can’t Explain,” “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere,” “My Generation,” the unreleased “Circles” and “Instant Party Mixture”) | (Geffen / UMe) |
| Jackie Wilson | “NYC 1961-1966” (two CDs, 48 tracks, including 24 unissued recordings and alternate takes with producers Nat Tarnopol and Eddie Singleton; Hear/read here) | (U.K. – Ace, April 6) |
| Jesse Winchester | “Seems Like Only Yesterday: Live in Montreal 1976” (Read here) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Bobby Womack | “The Preacher [Box set]” (featuring five full-length albums, from 1968’s “Fly Me to the Moon” to 1972’s “Understanding”; Track list) | (U.K. – Charly, April 6) |
More Releases for the Week of April 7, 2015
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Bobby Bare | “The Streets of Baltimore” (1966 album), “The Game of Triangles” (1967 album, with Norma Jean and Liz Anderson), “A Bird Named Yesterday” (1967 album), “Folsom Prison Blues” (1968 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Rosanne Cash | “Somewhere in the Stars” (1982 album) | (Columbia Nashville / Legacy) |
| Ensemble Hilka | “Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World” | (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) |
| Billie Holiday | “Lady in Satin” (1958 album; The Centennial Edition), “Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia, Vols. 1-10” | (Columbia / Legacy) |
More Digital Releases for the Week of April 7, 2015
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artists: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, et al | “MacGyver: The Complete Collection [DVD]” (39 discs) | (Paramount) |
| Bon Jovi | “Slippery When Wet [Blu-ray Pure Audio]” (1986 album; remastered) | (Island) |
| Doris Day | “Doris Day: The Essential Collection [DVD]” (four-disc set includes “Pillow Talk,” “Lover Come Back,” “Send Me No Flowers,” “The Thrill of It All!,” “Midnight Lace” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much”) | (Universal Studios) |
| Doris Day | “Doris Day: The Essential Collection [DVD]” (featuring 15 films she did for Warner Bros., from 1948’s “Romance on the High Seas” to 1966’s “The Glass Bottom Boat”) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, et al | “Singles [Blu-ray]” (1992 film) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Foo Fighters | “Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways [DVD]” (four-disc set containing all eight episodes of their HBO documentary series; Blu-ray) | (RCA) |
| Edward Furlong, Sam Huntington, et al | “Detroit Rock City [Blu-ray]” (1999 film) | (New Line Home Video) |
| Lowell George | “Feats First: The Life & Music of Lowell George [DVD]” (documentary directed by Jon Storey) | (Pride / MVD) |
| Kelsey Grammer, John Mahoney, et al | “Frasier: The Complete Series [DVD]” (44 discs) | (Paramount) |
| Andy Griffith | “Matlock: The Complete Series [DVD]” (52 discs) | (Paramount) |
| Oscar Isaac, David Oyelowo, Jessica Chastain, et al | “A Most Violent Year [DVD]” (2014 film; Blu-ray) | (Lionsgate) |
| Anthony LaPaglia, Robin Tunney, Rory Cochrane, et al | “Empire Records [Blu-ray]” (1995 film) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, et al | “The Brady Bunch: The Complete Series [DVD]” (20 discs) | (Paramount) |
| Shania Twain | “Still the One: Live From Vegas [Blu-ray]” | (Eagle Vision) |
More DVD/Blu-ray Releases for the Week of April 7, 2015
Music books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| John Blair | “Southern California Surf Music, 1960-1966 (Images of America)” (Paperback) | (Arcadia Publishing, April 6) |
| Rev. Gary Davis | “Say No to the Devil: The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis” (Hardcover; author: Ian Zack) | (University of Chicago Press, April 6) |
| Philip Glass | “Words Without Music: A Memoir” (Hardcover; Kindle) | (Liveright, April 6) |
| Richard Goldstein (of Village Voice) | “Another Little Piece of My Heart: My Life of Rock and Revolution in the ’60s” (Paperback) | (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, April 9) |
| Rick Hall | “The Man from Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame” (Hardcover, with a DVD containing the documentary “Muscle Shoals”; Kindle) | (Heritage Builders) |
| Jim Morrison | “Mr Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison” (Paperback; author: Dylan Jones) | (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, April 9) |
| Lisa Robinson | “There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll” (Paperback) | (Riverhead Trade) |
| Elliott Smith | “Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith” (Paperback; author: William Todd Schultz) | (Bloomsbury USA) |
More Book Releases for the Week of April 7, 2015
Now See Here:
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