New Releases: Aug. 23, 2019
New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| David Benoit | “David Benoit and Friends” (guests: Dave Koz, Peter White, Tim Weisberg, Marc Antoine, Rick Braun, Vincent Ingala, Lindsey Webster; first single: “Dave G”; Hear here; Download; On Tour)  |
(Shanachie) |
| Crobot | “Motherbrain” (producers: Crobot, Corey Lowery; new single: “Low Life”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Mascot) |
| The 40 Acre Mule (Dallas root rockers) | “Goodnight & Good Luck” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(State Fair) |
| Vince Gill | “Okie” (producers: Gill, Justin Niebank; new single: “When My Amy Prays,” a tribute to his wife Amy Grant; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour)  |
(MCA Nashville) |
| Noah Gundersen (Seattle indie folk singer-songwriter) | “Lover” (producer: Andy D. Park; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Cooking Vinyl) |
| Hildur Guðnadóttir (Icelandic musician) | “Chernobyl (Music from the HBO Miniseries)” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download) |
(Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Jason Hawk Harris (Houston-born, L.A.-based musician, formerly of Show Ponies) | “Love & the Dark” (new single: “The Smoke and the Stars”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download) |
(Bloodshot) |
| Ty Herndon | “Got It Covered” (reimagined hits and covers of some of his favorite songs; second single: re-recorded version of his 1996 song “Living in a Moment”; Hear here) |
(BFD / The Orchard) |
| Jazzmeia Horn (Dallas-born singer-songwriter) | “Love & Liberation” (first single: “When I Say”; Hear here; Download) |
(Concord Jazz) |
| Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) | “Anak Ko” (pronounced “Ah-nuh Koh”; producer: Duterte; guests: Vagabon’s Laetitia Tamko, Chastity Belt’s Annie Truscott, Justus Proffit, Boy Scouts’ Taylor Vick; first single: “Superbike”; See here; Vinyl, with download card; Cassette; Download; On Tour) |
(Polyvinyl) |
| Lyfe Jennings | “777” (guests: Tank, Algebra Blessett, Lil Boosie, Bobby V; Hear here; Download; On Tour) |
(LJ Music) |
| Shannon Lay | “August” (recorded with Ty Segall at his home studio on New York’s East Side; new single: “August”; Hear here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; On Tour) |
(Sub Pop) |
| The Legendary Pink Dots | “Angel in the Detail” (Vinyl; On Tour) |
(Metropolis) |
| Machine Gun Kelly | “Hotel Diablo” (guests: Trippie Redd, Naomi Wild, Lil Skies, Travis Barker, YUNGBLUD, phem; Read here; Download, released on July 5; On Tour) |
(EST 19XX / Bad Boy / Interscope) |
| Mariachi Los Camperos (Grammy-winning group) | “De Ayer para Siempre” (translation: “From Yesterday to Forever”; producers: bandleader Jesús “Chuy” Guzmán, Daniel E. Sheehy; first single: “El Pasajero [The Passerby]”; Hear here; Download; On Tour) |
(Smithsonian Folkways) |
| Midland | “Let It Roll” (producers: Dann Huff, Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne; new single: “Put the Hurt On Me”; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Big Machine) |
| Coco Montoya | “Coming in Hot” (Download; On Tour) |
(Alligator) |
| Ivo Pogorelich | “Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 54 & 78 / Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 36” (the Yugoslavia-born, Switzerland-based pianist’s first album in 21 years; Hear/read here; Download) |
(Sony Classical) |
| The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys (winners of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s 2018 Emerging Artist of the Year award) | “Toil, Tears & Trouble” (producer: Dave Maggard; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Rounder) |
| Maxi Priest | “It All Comes Back to Love” (producer: Shaggy; guests: Shaggy, Inner Circle, Estelle, Anthony Hamilton, Bounty Killer, Che Sav, Noah Powa; first single: “I’m Alright”; See here; On Tour) |
(S-Curve) |
| Queen of Jeans (Philly quartet) | “If you’re not afraid, I’m not afraid” (producer: Will Yip; new single: “Only Obvious to You”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; On Tour) |
(Topshelf) |
| Robert Randolph & The Family Band | “Brighter Days” (producer: Dave Cobb; first single: “Second Hand Man”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Provogue / Mascot Label Group) |
| Redd Kross | “Beyond the Door” (their first album in seven years; guests: Anna Waronker, Ger Fennelly, Buzz Osborne, Josh Klinghoffer; first single: “Beyond the Door”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Melvins; Merch) |
(Merge) |
| The Rembrandts | “Via Satellite” (their first album in 18 years; first single: “How Far Would You Go”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Blue Élan) |
| The Rubinoos | “From Home” (approaching their 50th anniversary, the original band lineup recorded at the same studio where they cut their first single for Beserkley Records; producer: Chuck Prophet; first single: “Do You Remember”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Yep Roc) |
| Raphael Saadiq | “Jimmy Lee” (his first solo album in eight years; producer: Saadiq; guests: Kendrick Lamar, Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, Rob Bacon, Brook D’Leau; first single: “Something Keeps Calling”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Columbia) |
| Seratones (Shreveport, La., soul-rock band) | “POWER” (producer: Cage The Elephant’s Bradley Shultz; first single: “Gotta Get To Know Ya”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(New West) |
| Taylor Swift | “Lover” (18-song album; new single: “You Need to Calm Down”; Hear here; See here; Target-Exclusive Deluxe Version 1, Version 2, Version 3 and Version 4; Download; Merch) |
(Republic) |
| Jack Tempchin (2019 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee wrote/co-wrote “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” “Already Gone,” “You Belong to the City,” “Smuggler’s Blues,” etc.) | “One More Time With Feeling” (the title track was co-written with the late Glenn Frey; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Mailboat) |
| Tanya Tucker | “While I’m Livin'” (the country singer’s first original album in 17 years; producers: Brandi Carlile, Shooter Jennings; first single: “The Wheels of Laredo”; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs, including a new version of “Delta Dawn”; Walmart-Exclusive CD, with limited-edition photos; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Fantasy / Concord) |
| Various artists | “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 2019 Broadway Cast Recording” (Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Musical; Download, released on June 28; On Broadway) | (Decca Broadway) |
| WINGTIPS (Chicago goth-pop duo) | “Exposure Therapy” (See here; Download; On Tour) |
(Artoffact) |
More Releases for Aug. 23, 2019 »
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Black Income (Danish alt-rock trio) | “unSOUND” (producer: vocalist Henrik Thrane; first single: “Loaded Gun”; See here; Read here) |
(Tube IT) |
| BROCKHAMPTON | “GINGER” (new single: “BOY BYE”; See here; On Tour) |
(Question Everything / RCA) |
| Sheer Mag (Philly power-pop quartet) | “A Distant Call” (first single: “Blood from a Stone”; See here; Vinyl; On Tour) |
(Wilsuns RC) |
| David G Smith | “Who Cares” (producer: the late Blue Miller; guests: Mary Gauthier, Doug Kahan, Steve Grossman, Danny Ray Smith, Joe Robinson, Larry Franklin, Tony Harrell, etc.; On Tour) |
(Hey Dave Music) |
More Digital Releases for Aug. 23, 2019 »
Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| America | “Archives Vol. 1” (15 demos, studio rehearsals and alternate mixes, circa 1971-75; Download) |
(America) |
| Bread | “Baby I’m a-Want You [Vinyl]” (1972 album, featuring the title cut, “Everything I Own,” “Mother Freedom” and “Diary”; mastered from the original master tapes; Hear here) |
(Mobile Fidelity) |
| C+C Music Factory | “Gonna Make You Sweat” (1990 album, featuring “Gonna Make You Sweat [Everybody Dance Now]” and “Things That Make You Go Hmmmm….”; remastered; See here) |
(Music on CD) |
| The Doors | “London Fog 1966” (live recordings originally only available in a limited-edition box set and released on vinyl for Record Store Day 2019; Download; Merch) |
(Rhino / Elektra) |
| The Emotions | “Don’t Ask My Neighbors: The Columbia / ARC Recordings (1976-1981)” (three CDs, 54 songs, including seven bonus tracks; mastered by Nick Robbins; Read here) |
(SoulMusic / Cherry Red) |
| Arlo Guthrie | “Alice’s Restaurant: Original Motion Picture Score (50th Anniversary Edition)” (1969 album; remastered, with 12 bonus tracks; Hear here; Vinyl; On Tour) |
(Omnivore Recordings) |
| The Hollywood Stars | “Sound City” (lost 1976 album; the newly reformed Hollywood Stars will headline the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood on July 18; Download) | (Burger) |
| Massive Attack | “Mezzanine (Deluxe Edition)” (1998 album; remastered, with eight previously unreleased Mad Professor remixes; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour; Merch) |
(Virgin / UMe) |
| Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes | “Be For Real: The P.I.R. Recordings 1972-1975” (three CDs, 36 songs, including six bonus tracks; mastered by Nick Robbins; Read here) |
(SoulMusic / Cherry Red) |
More Releases for Aug. 23, 2019 »
This Week’s Vinyl Releases » … Exclusive Urban Outfitters Vinyl » … Barnes & Noble »
Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Elvis Presley | “American Sound 1969” (digital-only release includes 90 rare and unreleased songs Presley recorded for his album “From Elvis in Memphis” during the American Studio sessions; Merch) |
(RCA / Legacy) |
More Digital Releases for Aug. 23, 2019 »
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Clarence Clemons | “Clarence Clemons: Who Do I Think I Am? [Blu-ray + DVD]” (2019 documentary, directed by Nick Mead; See here) |
(Virgil Films, Aug. 27) |
| Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, et al | “Rocketman [DVD]” (2019 film; See here; Blu-ray + DVD + Digital; 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital; Prime Video; Soundtrack) |
(Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Aug. 27) |
More Upcoming DVD / Blu-ray Releases »
Next Week: Aug. 30, 2019
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