New stuff (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Funkadelic | “First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate” (33 tracks on three discs to mark 33 years since the band’s last release, 1981’s “The Electric Spanking of War Babies”; producer: George Clinton; guests: Sly Stone, El DeBarge, DeWayne “Blackbyrd” McKnight, Lili Hadyn, Del the Funky Homosapien, Danny Bedrosian, Soul Clap; Hear here; MP3; iTunes) | (The C Kunspyruhzy) |
More Releases for the Week of Dec. 23, 2014
New stuff (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Fabolous | “The Young OG Project” (guests: Chris Brown, Kevin Hart, French Montana, etc.; Hear here; iTunes) | (Fabolous / Desert Storm / Def Jam, Dec. 25) |
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Carpenters | “ICON” (best-of) | (A&M / UMe, Dec. 24) |
| Steven Curtis Chapman | “The Ultimate Collection” (two CDs, 25 songs; MP3; iTunes) | (Sparrow) |
| Daft Punk | “Alive 1997 + Alive 2007” (four-LP colored vinyl with digital download) | (Rhino / Parlophone) |
| George Duke | “George Duke Collection” | (Telarc) |
| B.B. King & Joan Baez | “Live at Sing Sing” (three CDs and one DVD) | (ZYX Music, Dec. 19) |
| Supertramp | “Crime of the Century (Deluxe Edition)” (1974 album; remastered, with the previously unreleased concert from London’s Hammersmith Odeon from March 1975; MP3; Vinyl; Blu-ray Audio; iTunes) | (A&M / UMe) |
| T. Rex | “The Vinyl Collection” (all eight studio albums on heavyweight vinyl) | (U.K. – Demon Music Group, Dec. 22) |
More Releases for the Week of Dec. 23, 2014
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ace of Base | “The Sign” (1993 album; remastered, with one bonus track; iTunes) | (Playground Music, Dec. 24) |
| Various artists | “Solomon Islands: Fataleka and Baegu Music from Malaita” (iTunes), “Switzerland: Zäuerli, Yodel of Appenzell” (iTunes) | (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / Auvidis-UNESCO) |