This Week’s Releases: Dec. 30, 2014
New stuff (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Tommy Von (Denver-based indie-rock artist) | “What You Say” (Hear here) | (Buddha Tone) |
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Blood, Sweat & Tears | “Blood, Sweat & Tears” (Hybrid SACD 4.0 Multichannel; 1968 album; remastered) | (Audio Fidelity) |
| The Guess Who | “The Best of The Guess Who” (Hybrid SACD 4.0 Multichannel; 1971 album; remastered) | (Audio Fidelity) |
| Curtis Mayfield | “Curtis” (1970 album; remastered, with nine bonus tracks) | (Rhino, Dec. 29) |
| Various artists | “Blue Note Records 75th Anniversary 40 LP Set” (first 40 LPs from Blue Note’s essential jazz series plus a 10-inch version of Thelonious Monk’s “Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1”) | (Blue Note) |
| Various artists | “Dance Anthems Classics – The Collection” (three CDs, 50 songs; Track list) | (U.K. – Rhino, Dec. 29) |
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer | “Elsa & Fred [DVD]” (2014 film; Blu-ray) | (Millennium) |
| Denzel Washington | “The Equalizer [DVD]” (2014 film; Blu-ray) | (Sony Pictures) |
Music books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| Jason Hanley | “Music Lab: We Rock! A Fun Family Guide for Exploring Rock Music History” (Paperback) | (Quarry Books, Jan. 1) |
| Norman Jopling | “Shake It Up Baby! Notes From a Pop Music Reporter 1961-1972” (Paperback) | (RockHistory Ltd., Jan. 1) |
| Elvis Presley | “Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley,” “Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley” (Kindle; author: Peter Guralnick) | (Little, Brown and Company) |
| Tony Rettman | “NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990” (Paperback) | (Bazillion Points) |
| The Who | “Pretend You’re in a War: The Who & the Sixties” (Hardcover; author: Mark Blake) | (Aurum Press, Jan. 1) |
Next week: Jan. 6, 2015
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