New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| All India Radio | “The Slow Light [Vinyl]” (producer: Martin Kennedy; guests: Hollie Houlihan-McKie, Selena Cross; first single: “Can You Hear the Sound”; Hear here; MP3) | (Minty Fresh) |
| Del Barber & The No Regretzkys (2015 Sirius XM Indies award winner for Folk/Roots Artist or Group of the Year) | “The Puck Drops Here” (Hear here; MP3) | (True North) |
| Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop | “Love Letter for Fire” (the Iron & Wine frontman hooks up for an album of duets with the indie-folk singer; producer: Tucker Martine; first single: “Every Songbird Says”; Hear here; MP3) | (Sub Pop) |
| Bear Hands (Brooklyn rock quartet) | “You’ll Pay For This” (producers: guitarist Ted Feldman, James Brown; first single: “2AM”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Spensive Sounds) |
| Blaqk Audio (AFI’s Davey Havok and Jade Puget) | “Material” (producer: Puget; first single: “Anointed”; Hear here; MP3) | (Blaqknoise / Kobalt) |
| Clairy Browne | “Pool” (first single: “Vanity Fair”; Hear here; MP3) | (Vanguard) |
| John Carpenter (film director and composer) | “Lost Themes II” (first single: “Distant Dream”; Hear here; MP3) | (Sacred Bones) |
| Cellars (synthpop singer Alle Norton) | “Phases” (producer: Ariel Pink; new single: “Still in Love”; Hear here; MP3) | (Manifesto) |
| The Coathangers | “Nosebleed Weekend” (producer: Nic Jodoin; first single: “Make It Right”; Hear here; MP3) | (Suicide Squeeze) |
| Charly Cole (country singer) | “Gotcha” (first single: “February 29 [Marry Me]”; Hear here; MP3) | (Red Mess Music) |
| Javier Colon (winner on the inaugural season of NBC’s “The Voice”) | “Gravity” (first single: “Gravity”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Concord) |
| Crematory (new vocalist: Tosse Basler) | “Monument” (Hear here; MP3) | (Steamhammer / SPV) |
| Daria (San Francisco jazz singer) | “Strawberry Fields Forever: Songs By The Beatles” (Hear here; MP3) | (OA2) |
| The Defiants (Danger Danger vocalist Paul Laine, with former bandmates Bruno Ravel and Rob Marcello) | “The Defiants” (producers: Ravel, Laine; Hear here; MP3) | (Frontiers Music s.r.l) |
| Doll Skin | “In Your Face (Again)” (producer: Megadeth bassist David Ellefson; Hear here) | (EMP Label Group) |
| Dynazty (Swedish hard-rock band) | “Titanic Mass” (producer: Peter Tägtgren; first single: “The Human Paradox”; Hear here; MP3) | (Spinefarm) |
| East of Venus (indie rock supergroup) | “Memory Box” (the band features members of Winter Hours, The Feelies, Luna and the Bongos; Hear here; Vinyl, with download card; MP3) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| Eskimeaux | “Year of the Rabbit” (new single: “WTF”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Double Double Whammy) |
| Lita Ford | “Time Capsule” (guests: Gene Simmons, Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander, Billy Sheehan, Rodger Carter, Dave Navarro, Jeff Scott Soto; Hear here; MP3) | (Steamhammer / SPV) |
| Ace Frehley | “Origins Vol. 1” (all-covers album, including “Fire and Water,” with Paul Stanley; guests: Slash, Lita Ford, Mike McCready, John5; first single: “White Room”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3)  | (eOne Music) |
| Golden State Lone Star Blues Revue (blues supergroup feat. Mark Hummel, Little Charlie Baty and Anson Funderburgh) | “Golden State Lone Star Blues Revue” (producers: Funderburgh, Hummel; guests: Jim Pugh on piano and organ and Eric Spaulding and Jack Sanford on sax; Hear here; MP3) | (Electro-Fi) |
| Grand Puba | “Black From the Future” (the former Brand Nubian member’s first album in seven years; first single: “UDK”; Hear here; MP3) | (Babygrande) |
| Har Mar Superstar | “Best Summer Ever” (producer: Julian Casablancas; Hear here; MP3) | (Cult) |
| PJ Harvey | “The Hope Six Demolition Project” (her first album since 2011; first single: “The Wheel”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Island) |
| Herrick (Nashville-based roots-music quartet) | “Cottonfields” (producers: Donna Herrick, Kerry Herrick, David Walker; guest: David Walker, piano on “Together”; first single: “Freedom Love”; Hear here; MP3) | (Breakaway Entertainment) |
| The Honeydogs | “Love & Cannibalism” (first single: “Devices”; Hear here; MP3) | (Simon Recordings) |
| Keb’ Mo’ | “Keb’ Mo’ LIVE – That Hot Pink Blues Album” (double album was recorded throughout 2015 while on tour; producer: Casey Wasner; Hear here; MP3) | (Kind of Blue / RED) |
| Eric Lindell | “Matters of the Heart” (guests: Luther Dickinson, Anson Funderburgh; first single: “Since June”; Hear here; MP3) | (Red Parlor) |
| Lance Lopez (Texas blues-rock guitarist) | “Live in NYC” (recorded during Johnny Winter’s 70th birthday party at a soldout B.B. King’s Blues Club in Times Square; Hear here; MP3) | (Cleopatra Blues) |
| Gregg Martinez (swamp pop powerhouse) | “Soul of the Bayou” (producer: Tony Daigle; guest: Sonny Landreth; Hear here; MP3) | (Louisiana Red Hot) |
| The Del McCoury Band | “Del and Woody” (Woody Guthrie’s daughter, Nora, asked McCoury to set music to Woody’s original lyrics; Hear here; MP3) | (McCoury Music) |
| Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers | “Sacred Memories” (guests: Ricky Skaggs, Sharon White; Hear here; MP3) | (Rebel) |
| Musiq Soulchild | “Life on Earth” (the R&B star’s first solo album since 2011; first single: “I Do”; Hear here; MP3) | (My Block Inc. / eOne Music) |
| Graham Nash | “This Path Tonight” (his first album of new songs in 14 years; producer: Shane Fontayne; Hear here; Vinyl; CD/DVD; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition) | (Blue Castle) |
| 1GN (power-pop vocal trio) | “Unite” (producers: Jordan Sapp, Dave Wyatt, Steve Wilson; first single: “Get Hype”; Hear here; MP3) | (Reunion) |
| Marie Osmond | “Music Is Medicine” (only her second album in more than 25 years; producer: Jason Deere; guests: Olivia Newton-John, Marty Roe, Diamond Rio, Sisqó, John Rich, Alex Boyé; Hear here; MP3) | (OliveMe / RED) |
| Otep | “Generation Doom” (producer: Howard Benson; Hear here; Deluxe Edition; MP3) | (Napalm) |
| Rarity (Canadian pop-punk quintet) | “I Couldn’t Be Weaker” (producer: Seth Henderson; Hear here; MP3) | (Rise) |
| Royce Da 5’9″ | “Layers” (guests: Pusha T, Rick Ross, Tiara, Melanie Rutherford, K. Young, Loren W. Oden, Mr. Porter; Hear here; MP3) | (Bad Half Entertainment) |
| Amber Rubarth | “Scribbled Folk Symphonies” (Hear here; MP3) | (Chesky) |
| Santana | “Santana IV” (Carlos Santana reunites with guitarist Neal Schon, keyboardist Gregg Rolie, drummer Michael Shrieve and percussionist Michael Carabello, picking up where 1971’s “Santana III” left off; first single: “Anywhere You Want To Go”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Santana IV) |
| Say Anything | “I Don’t Think It Is” (Hear here; MP3) | (Equal Vision) |
| 7Horse (L.A.-based alt/rock duo) | “Livin’ in a Bitch of a World” (new single: “Two Stroke Machine”; Hear here; MP3) | (CEN / RED) |
| Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros | “PersonA” (first single: “No Love Like Yours”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Community Music) |
| Shiraz Lane (Finnish hard-rock quintet) | “For Crying Out Loud” (producers: lead guitarist Jani Laine, rhythm guitarist Miki Kalske; Hear here; MP3) | (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| Sturgill Simpson | “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth” (first single: “Brace For Impact [Live A Little]”; Hear here; LP + CD; MP3) | (Atlantic) |
| Surgical Meth Machine (new project from Ministry’s Al Jourgensen) | “Surgical Meth Machine” (Hear here; MP3) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| Suuns | “Hold/Still” (producer: John Congleton; first single: “Translate”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Secretly Canadian) |
| Various artists | “The Jungle Book (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (3D live-animation adventure fantasy film, directed by Jon Favreau, opens in theaters April 15; music composed by John Debney; voice actors: Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, etc.; See here) | (Walt Disney) |
| Wild Belle | “Dreamland” (first single: “Throw Down Your Guns”; Hear here; MP3) | (Columbia) |
| Paul Young | “Good Thing” (his first album in 10 years; Hear here; MP3) | (New State Music / Baked Recordings) |
More Releases for April 15, 2016
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New Releases (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Acapulco Lips (Seattle garage-rockers) | “Acapulco Lips” (first single: “Awkward Waltz”; Hear here; See here) | (Killroom) |
| Pauline Andres (dusky Americana singer-songwriter) | “The Heart Breaks” (first single: “Drive Like Steve McQueen”; Hear here; See here) | (Pauline Andres) |
| BIGG (U.K. alt-rock band) | “Lock Up Your Daughters” (three-song EP; Hear here) | (TakeControlCo) |
| James Edge and the Mindstep (alt-folk experimentalists) | “On a Red Horse” (six-song EP; Hear here; See here) | (Folkstock) |
| free cake for every creature | “Talking Quietly of Anything With You” (producer: Chris Daly; Hear here; See here) | (Double Double Whammy) |
| Adam Green | “Adam Green’s Aladdin” (film soundtrack album composed and recorded by Green; film cast includes Green, Macaulay Culkin, Har Mar Superstar, Devendra Banhart, Natasha Lyonne, Alia Shawkat, Jack Dishel, Francesco Clemente, Bip Ling, Zoe Kravitz, etc.; See here; CD, out May 6) | (Totally Gross National Product) |
| Imperial & K.I.N.E.T.I.K. (U.K. producer and rapper) | “Adventures in Technicolour” (guests: Oddisee, Tone Richardson, James Gardin, Elias; Hear here) | (Illect Recordings) |
| Lush | “Blind Spot” (four-song EP; producers: Jim Abbiss, Ladytron’s Daniel Hunt; first single: “Out of Control”; See here; CD, out April 22) | (Edamame) |
| Vernon Neilly | “Outta Time” (producers: Neilly, Greg Howe; guests: Howe, Frank Gambale, Jennifer Batten, Kiko Loureiro, Doug Wimbish, Victor Johnson, Mattias “IA” Eklundh, Phillip Bynoe, Juan Nelson; first single: “Fire”; Hear here) | (Boosweet) |
| Will Stewart (former Willie and the Giant frontman) | “Faultline EP” (first single: “Keyhole”; Hear here) | (Blank State Music) |
| Telekinesis | “Obey EP” (four songs; Hear here) | (Blackout Music NL) |
| Various artists | “Transformers Roll Out” (an alt-rock tribute to the Transformers franchise, featuring new songs by MEW, Bush, Born Cages, Mount Holly, Crash King, etc.; Hear/read here; CD, out April 29) | (Hasbro Studios / RED) |
| Wild Rivers | “Wild Rivers” (producer: Dan Hosh; guests: Kirk Starkey, Chris Altmann; first single: “Wandering Child”; Hear here) | (Wild Rivers, April 16) |
More Digital Releases for April 15, 2016
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Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Breathe | “This Shining Moment – Recordings 1986 to 1990” (four-vinyl LP box set, featuring the albums “All that Jazz” and “Peace of Mind,” the early 7-inch single “In All Honesty” and a colored 12-inch single containing the U.S. extended version of “Hands to Heaven” and three B-sides; plus a 64-page booklet with photos and lyrics; Read here) | (The Flood Gallery) |
| Johnny Cash | “I Walk the Line [Vinyl]” (1964 album; 180-gram audiophile translucent gold vinyl, gatefold cover), “Man in Black [Vinyl]” (1971 album; 180-gram audiophile translucent blue vinyl, limited 45th anniversary edition, gatefold cover) | (Friday Music) |
| Mark Collie | “ICON” (11-song best-of) | (MCA Nashville / UMe) |
| Phil Collins | “No Jacket Required (Deluxe Edition)” (1985 album; remastered, with a second CD containing 13 live songs; Vinyl; MP3), “Testify (Deluxe Edition)” (2002 album; remastered, with a second CD containing 13 live songs; Vinyl; MP3) | (Rhino) |
| Bob Dylan | “John Wesley Harding [Hybrid SACD]” (1967 album; remastered) | (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab) |
| Firefall | “Firefall / Luna Sea / Elan” (1976, 1977, 1978 albums on one CD; remastered) | (BGO) |
| Foghat | “The Complete Bearsville Albums Collection” (13-CD box set) | (Bearsville) |
| Bill Hicks | “Rant In E-Minor: Variations” (two-CD expanded edition of his Oct. 24, 1993, show in Austin; Vinyl) | (Comedy Dynamics) |
| Steve Howe | “Homebrew 6” (18 unreleased recordings; MP3) | (Cadiz Music) |
| J Dilla | “The Diary” (late production master’s unreleased album, recorded in 2002; guests: Snoop Dogg, Nas, Bilal, Kokane, Kenny Wray, Nottz & Boogie, Frank N Dank; Hear here; Vinyl) | (PayJay / Mass Appeal) |
| Jefferson Airplane | “Crown of Creation [Vinyl]” (1971 album; 1968 album; 180-gram audiophile clear vinyl, gatefold cover) | (Friday Music) |
| Kula Shaker | “Govinda: The Very Best of Kula Shaker” (two CDs, 36 songs) | (U.K. – Metro Select) |
| Lighthouse | “Thoughts of Movin’ On” (1971 album; remastered; Hear here) | (Prog Temple) |
| Lightnin’ Hopkins | “Live in Munich, June 23, 1977” (MP3) | (Rockbeat) |
| Lyrics Born | “Now Look What You’ve Done, Lyrics Born! Greatest Hits” (14 songs, plus four secret tracks; Hear here; MP3) | (Mobile Home Recordings) |
| Metallica | “Kill ‘Em All” (1983 debut album; remastered; Vinyl; Deluxe Box Set, four LPs, five CDs, one DVD), “Ride the Lightning” (1984 album; remastered; Vinyl; Deluxe Box Set, four LPs, six CDs, one DVD) | (Blackened Recordings) |
| Kylie Minogue | “Confide in Me” (two-CD, 33-song compilation of mid-1990s hits and remixes; Hear here) | (U.K. – Metro Select / Union Square Music) |
| Boz Scaggs | “Hits [Vinyl]” (1980 compilation; 180-gram audiophile clear vinyl, gatefold cover) | (Friday Music) |
| Carly Simon | “Anticipation [Hybrid SACD]” (1971 album; remastered) | (Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab) |
| Sweet | “Strung Up” (1975 double live/compilation; remastered and expanded; Vinyl) | (U.K. – Sony Music) |
| The Trammps | “The Legendary Zing Album” (1975 album, featuring “Hold Back the Night”; remastered) | (Select-O-Hits) |
| Justin Tubb (country singer-songwriter, who was the son of Ernest Tubb, died in 1998) | “Things I Still Remember Very Well” (1969 album; remastered from the original master tapes in both stereo and mono versions; Hear here) | (Omni Recording Corp.) |
| Various artists | “Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 5 & 6: American Teenage Garage Hoot & Noise! 1965-1967” (28 tracks; Track list; Vinyl [Vol. 5]; Vinyl [Vol. 6]) | (Crypt) |
| Yuja Wang, Ray Chen, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Lionel Bringuier | “Ravel – Complete Orchestral Works” (four-CD box set; Hear here) | (Deutsche Grammophon) |
More Releases for April 15, 2016
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Church | “Russian Autumn Heart” (1990 five-song EP) | (Arista / Legacy) |
| The Delfonics | “La La Means I Love You (Expanded Version)” (1968 album; with five bonus tracks) | (Arista / Legacy) |
| Dixie Chicks | “MMXVI: The Classic Albums Collection” (four complete albums) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Lamont Dozier | “Reflections Of …” (2004 album, featuring his versions of Motown songs he wrote) | (Creative and Dreams Music Network, LLC) |
| Drivin N Cryin | “Best of Songs” (10 tracks from their quartet of indie EPs released between June 2012 and January 2014; Hear here) | (Plowboy) |
| Faith, Hope & Charity | “Faith, Hope & Charity (Expanded Edition)” (1975 album, including “To Each His Own”; with three bonus tracks; Hear here) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Buzzy Linhart | “Buzzy” (1972 album; Hear here) | (Legacy Recordings) |
| Joe Mardin | “Fairytales Interrupted” (2001 album, featuring original songs that accompanied his sister’s conceptual photography exhibition) | (NuNoise) |
| No Parents (L.A. punk band) | “Hey Grandma / Greatest Hits” (fan favorite “Hey Grandma” with 30 30-second songs; See here) | (Ring the Alarm) |
| Rammstein | “Sehnsucht” (1997 album, featuring “Du Hast”; See here) | (Mercury / UMe) |
| Charlie Rich | “Big Boss Man!” (1966 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| RuPaul | “Butch Queen: Ru-Mixes” | (RuCo, Inc) |
| Various artists | “Paganini Violin Spectaculars” (100 songs for 99 cents) | (Cobra Entertainment LLC) |
| Various artists | “Rockabilly Rebels Volume 4” (featuring Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, etc.; Vinyl) | (Icehouse) |
| Frankie Yankovic and His Yanks | “Beers ‘n’ Cheers: Polkas and Waltzes Cleveland Style” (1966 album) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
More Digital Releases for April 15, 2016
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio: |
| Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson, Tyler Blackburn, et al | “Pretty Little Liars: The Complete Sixth Season [DVD]” (five discs) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Doris Day, Rock Hudson | “Doris Day and Rock Hudson Romantic Comedy Collection [Blu-ray]” (three-disc set includes “Pillow Talk,” “Lover Come Back” and “Send Me No Flowers”) | (Universal Studios Home Entertainment) |
| Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy | “The Revenant [DVD]” (2015 film; Blu-ray) | (20th Century Fox) |
| Julia Louis-Dreyfus | “Veep: The Complete Fourth Season [DVD]” (two discs; Blu-ray) | (HBO Studios) |
| Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, Mira Sorvino | “Barcelona (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]” (1994 film; See/read here; Blu-ray) | (Criterion Collection) |
| Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings | “The Lady in the Van [DVD]” (2015 film; Blu-ray) | (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) |
| Walt Stillman (director) | “A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]” (three discs; Blu-ray) | (Criterion Collection) |
More Upcoming DVD / Blu-ray Releases
Music Books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| Grateful Dead | “Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead (33 1/3)” (Paperback; author: Buzz Poole; Kindle) | (Bloomsbury Academic) |
| Waylon Jennings | “Waylon: Tales of My Outlaw Dad” (Hardcover; author: Terry Jennings; co-author: David Thomas; Kindle) | (Hachette Books) |
| Billy J. Kramer | “Do You Want to Know a Secret?: The Autobiography of Billy J. Kramer” (Paperback; co-author: Alyn Shipton) | (Equinox Publishing) |
| New Kids on the Block | “New Kids on the Block’s Hangin’ Tough (33 1/3)” (Paperback; author: Rebecca Wallwork; Kindle) | (Bloomsbury Academic) |
| Ramones | “Ramones at 40” (Hardcover; author: Martin Popoff) | (Sterling) |