New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Mark Bryan (Hootie & the Blowfish guitarist) | “Songs of the Fortnight” (Hear here; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour)  | (Chucktown Music Group) |
| A.J. Croce | “Just Like Medicine” (includes his first recording of “The Name of the Game,” an unreleased song by his late father, Jim Croce; producer: Dan Penn; guests: Steve Cropper, Vince Gill, David Hood, The McCrory Sisters; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Compass) |
| Dawn of Disease (German death metallers) | “Ascension Gate” (Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (Napalm) |
| The Districts (Philadelphia rock quartet) | “Popular Manipulations” (producers: The Districts, John Congleton, Keith Abrams; first single: “Ordinary Day”; See here; NPR First Listen; iTunes; On Tour) | (Fat Possum) |
| Downtown Boys | “Cost of Living” (first single: “A Wall”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Sub Pop) |
| Patrick Doyle | “The Emoji Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Download; In Theaters; Merch) | (Sony Classical) |
| Lindsay Ell | “The Project” (producer: Sugarland’s Kristian Bush; first single: “Waiting on You”; See here; Download; On Tour) | (Stoney Creek) |
| Exit Eden (female rock quartet) | “Rhapsodies In Black” (Hear here; Download) | (Napalm) |
| 5 Billion in Diamonds (new supergroup led by Butch Vig, feat. members of Spiritualized, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Ocean Blue, etc.) | “5 Billion in Diamonds” (producers: Vig, Andy Jenks; first single: “Gravity Rules”; See here; Download; iTunes) | (100% Records) |
| Guided By Voices | “How Do You Spell Heaven?” (Hear here; Download; eBay; On Tour) | (GBV, Aug. 14) |
| Hamell on Trial | “Tackle Box” (producers: Ed Hamell, Phil “The Butcher” Nicolo; new single: “Not Aretha’s Respect [Cops]”; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (New West) |
| Hinder | “The Reign” (first single: “Remember Me”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (The End / BMG) |
| Will Hoge | “Anchors” (guests: Sheryl Crow, Fats Kaplin; first single: “Little Bit of Rust”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Thirty Tigers) |
| Jesus Culture | “Love Has a Name” (recorded live at Jesus Culture’s home church in Sacramento, Calif., featuring their worship leaders Kim Walker-Smith, Chris Quilala, Bryan and Katie Torwalt, Derek Johnson, etc.; first single: “Halls of Heaven”; Hear here; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with four extra tracks; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Jesus Culture Music / Sparrow / Capitol CMG) |
| Paul Kelly | “Life Is Fine” (first single: “Firewood and Candles”; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (GawdAggie / Cooking Vinyl / RED) |
| Kesha | “Rainbow” (producers: Ryan Lewis, Ricky Reed, Ben Folds; guests: Dolly Parton, Eagles of Death Metal, the Dap-Kings Horns; first single: “Praying”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD + T-Shirt; Download; iTunes; On Tour)  | (Kemosabe / RCA) |
| matt pond PA | “Still Summer” (the band’s final album; Hear here; Read here; Download) | (131) |
| Martine McCutcheon | “Lost and Found” (the former “EastEnders” actress turned singer’s first new music in 16 years; first single: “Say I’m Not Alone”; Hear here; Deluxe Edition; Download; iTunes) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Oneohtrix Point Never | “Good Time (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (crime-drama film, opening Aug. 11, stars Robert Pattinson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ben Safdie, etc.; Download; In Theaters) | (Warp) |
| Lee Roy Parnell | “Midnight Believer” (Hear here; Download; On Tour) | (BFD) |
| David Rawlings | “Poor David’s Almanack” (new single: “Cumberland Gap”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; Download) | (Acony) |
| Frankie Rose | “Cage Tropicale” (first single: “Trouble”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Slumberland / Grey Market) |
| Emily Saliers (of Indigo Girls) | “Murmuration Nation” (her debut solo album; first single: “Poethearted”; Hear here; Download; On Tour) | (MRI) |
| Suzanne Santo (one-half of Americana duo honeyhoney) | “Ruby Red” (producer: Butch Walker; new single: “Blood On Your Knees”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes) | (Soozanto) |
| Nadia Sirota (experimental rock’s go-to violist) | “Tessellatum” (Hear here; Download) | (Bedroom Community) |
| Ben Sollee and Kentucky Native | “Ben Sollee and Kentucky Native” (Hear here; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Soundly Music) |
| Joel P West | “The Glass Castle (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (based on the 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls, the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed drama film opens Aug. 11; cast: Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson, Sarah Snook, et al; See here; In Theaters) | (Milan) |
| Alex Williams | “Better Than Myself” (producer: Julian Raymond; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; On Tour) | (Big Machine) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Avicii | “AVĪCI (01)” (six-song EP; guests: Rita Ora, AlunaGeorge, Billy Raffoul, Vargas & Lagola, Sandro Cavazza; iTunes; eBay; Merch) | (Avicii Music / UMG, Aug. 12) |
| Paula Cole | “Ballads” (covers of American jazz and folk standards, circa 1930s-1960s; first single: “God Bless the Child”; Hear here; Read here; iTunes; On Tour) | (675) |
| DeeBizness | “DeeBizness” (producer: DeeBizness; first single: “Affordable Love”; Hear here) | (206 South, Aug. 15) |
| Ice Balloons | “Fiesta” (debut album from the no-wave, noise-punk supergroup feat. members of TV on the Radio, Samiam, Wild Yaks, Surfbort; Hear here; On Tour) | (Volar) |
| Miner (L.A. family folk-rock band) | “Headwaters” (five-song EP; producer: Matt Linesch; Hear here) | (Miner) |
| The Preatures (Aussie rockers) | “Girlhood” (producers: guitarist Jack Moffitt, Burke Reid; Hear here; See here) | (Harvest) |
| Bebe Rexha | “All Your Fault Pt. 2” (six-song EP; first single: “The Way I Are [Dance With Somebody],” feat. Lil Wayne; See here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Warner) |
| Nadia Sirota (violist and Peabody-winning host of Q2’s “Meet the Composer” podcast) | “Tessellatum” (Hear here; iTunes) | (Bedroom Community) |
| Juan María Solare | “Summer Twilights in Finland Are Particularly Long” (producer: Solare; first single: “Summer Twilights in Finland are Particularly Long”; Hear here) | (Janus Music & Sound) |
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Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Blackmore’s Night | “To the Moon and Back: 20 Years and Beyond …” (two-CD, 26-track compilation; Download) | (Minstrel Hall Music) |
| Steve Howe | “Anthology 2: Groups & Collaborations” (three CDs, 56 songs) | (Rhino) |
| Live | “Mental Jewelry (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1992 album; remastered, with a second CD containing an unreleased studio track, “Born Branded” from the original sessions, a club remix of “Pain Lies On the Riverside,” two tracks from the 1991 EP, “Four Songs” and a 1992 unreleased concert at The Roxy in Los Angeles; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Radioactive / Geffen / UMe) |
| Buck Owens | “Live From Austin, TX” (CD/DVD set; recorded for “Austin City Limits” in October 1988; Vinyl; eBay) | (New West) |
| Point of Grace | “Recollections: 25 Years of Music, Miles & Memories” (two CDs) | (Word) |
| Prince | “Transmission Impossible: Legendary Radio Broadcasts From the 1980s-1990s” (three CDs; Track list; eBay; Merch) | (Eat to the Beat) |
| The Slits | “Return of the Giant Slits” (1981 album; remastered) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Old Skool” (three CDs, 60 songs; Track list; Hear here) | (NOW Music) |
| Andy Williams | “In the Arms of Love / Honey / Happy Heart / Get Together With Andy Williams” (1967, 1968 and 1969 albums on two CDs; remastered) | (BGO) |
| Dwight Yoakam | “Live From Austin, TX” (CD/DVD set; recorded for “Austin City Limits” in October 1988; Vinyl; eBay; On Tour) | (New West) |
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Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Eric Carmen | “Eric Carmen” (1975 album), “Boats Against the Current” (1977 album), “Tonight You’re Mine” (1980 album) | (Arista / Legacy) |
| Flatt & Scruggs | “Foggy Mountain Banjo” (1961 album) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Halford | “Resurrection” (2000 album), “Live Insurrection” (2001 album), “Crucible” (2002 album), “Halford 3: Winter Songs” (2009 album), “Halford IV – Made of Metal” (2009 album) | (Legacy) |
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