New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Big Big Train | “A Stone’s Throw From the Line” (double live album, recorded at the band’s shows at London’s Kings Place in August 2015; Hear here)  | (Giant Electric Pea) |
| Kane Brown | “Kane Brown” (Hear here; MP3; On Tour; Merch) | (RCA Nashville / Zone 4) |
| Kate Bush | “Before the Dawn” (live album recorded during her 2014 residency at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, her first live shows since 1979; producer: Bush; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3; Merch)  | (Concord) |
| Childish Gambino | ” ‘… Awaken, My Love!'” (first single: “Me and Your Mama”; Hear here; MP3; Merch) | (Glassnote) |
| deadmau5 | “W:/2016ALBUM/” (pronounced as “w drive 2016 album”; Hear here; MP3; On Tour; Merch) | (mau5trap Recordings / Kobalt Label Services) |
| Peter Doherty | “Hamburg Demonstrations” (producer: Johann Scheerer; first single: “I Don’t Love Anyone [But You’re Not Just Anyone]”; Hear here; MP3) | (BMG / Clouds Hill) |
| Enuff Z’Nuff | “Clowns Lounge” (guests: James Young, the late Jani Lane; Hear here; MP3; Merch) | (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| John Legend | “Darkness and Light” (guests: Brittany Howard, Chance the Rapper, Miguel; first single: “Love Me Now”; See here; Read here; MP3; iTunes; Target Exclusive, with three extra tracks) | (Columbia) |
| Night Ranger | “35 Years and A Night in Chicago” (two-CD, one-DVD combo; Blu-ray; MP3; On Tour; Merch) | (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| The Rolling Stones | “Blue & Lonesome” (covers album is a return to their blues roots; producers: Don Was, The Rolling Stones; guest: Eric Clapton; Hear here; Read here; Deluxe Box Set; MP3; Merch) | (Universal) |
| Sister Hazel | “Unplugged from Daryl’s House Club” (live CD/DVD combo; Hear here; MP3; On Tour; Merch) | (Croakin’ Poet / Average Joes Entertainment) |
| Smoke DZA & Pete Rock | “Don’t Smoke Rock” (guests: Rick Ross, Royce da 5’9″, Wale, Mac Miller, Dave East, etc.; Hear here; MP3) | (Babygrande) |
| Soviet Soviet (Italian post-punk trio) | “Endless” (Hear here; MP3) | (felte) |
| UB40 | “UB40 Featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey Mickey: Unplugged” (Hear here; Read here; Deluxe Edition, packaged with “Greatest Hits”; On Tour; Merch) | (UMe) |
| Grace VanderWaal | “Perfectly Imperfect” (five-song debut EP from the 12-year-old season 11 champion of “America’s Got Talent”; See here; MP3) | (Syco Music / Columbia) |
| Various artists | “Hairspray LIVE! Original Soundtrack of the NBC Television Event” (airs Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. ET; cast includes newcomer Maddie Baillio, Kristin Chenoweth, Harvey Fierstein, Ariana Grande, Derek Hough, Jennifer Hudson, Martin Short, etc.; See here; MP3; iTunes) | (Masterworks Broadway / Epic) |
| Various artists | “The Hamilton Mixtape” (collection of remixes and covers of songs from the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton”; feat. Alicia Keys, Kelly Clarkson, The Roots, Sia, John Legend, Regina Spektor, Usher, Jimmy Fallon, etc.; Hear here; MP3) | (Atlantic) |
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New Releases (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Adventure Club (Montreal electronic music duo) | “Red // Blue” (guests: Sara Diamond, Hunter Siegel, ELEA, Ben Stevenson, Delaney Jane, Leah Culver, Terravita, Zak Waters; first single: “Firestorm”; Hear here; On Tour) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Eat the Apple | “A Glimmer of Hope or Skin or Light: The Soundtrack” (dance/theater/cabaret/glam-rock musical created by choreographer/director KT Niehoff; See here) | (Eat the Apple) |
| David and Brittany Farkas | “Smilin'” (producers: Larry Samson, Dennis Woodard; first single: “Smilin'”; Hear here) | (gofarkas) |
“Brittany and I are a husband-and-wife songwriting team and the ‘Smilin” album is very personal to us,” David Farkas tells P&P. “The ‘As We Pray’ song is the song I wrote to propose to Brittany about a year and a half ago. We wrote ‘Love Forever’ while planning our wedding. The title track, ‘Smilin’,’ was written by Brittany after meeting and chatting with a gentleman recovering from a stroke.
“I am also a TV/film actor and the instrumental ‘Final Crossroad’ was a song I wrote for a film that I was starring in. Unfortunately, the film’s director and producer had a heart attack in the middle of the shooting and we were never able to finish the film. He was a good friend of mine and I was going to surprise him with the song I wrote, but he never got to hear it. I think he’d really like it.”
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Golden Rusk | “What Will Become of Us?” (See here) | (Golden Rusk, Dec. 1) |
| Jean-Michel Jarre | “Oxygene 3” (parts 14-20 played with the original instruments of 1976; Hear here; see related reissue below) | (Sony Music) |
| Dave Jeanes (Bristol, U.K., singer-songwriter) | “A Six and Two Threes” (Hear here) | (Dave Jeanes) |
| Tony Moran | “Moodswings” (Hear here) | (Mr. Tanman Music) |
| Permit (Bloomington, Ind., based duo) | “Vol. 1” (six-song EP; first single: “Track #1”; Hear here) | (Fat Possum) |
| Snow Angel (Bay Area all-female rock quintet) | “Snow Angel” (first single: “Big Group Hug”; See here) | (Snow Angel) |
| Aly Tadros | “Hungry Ghost” (producers: Kevin Salem, Tadros; Hear here) | (Lost Ridge) |
| Phil Vassar | “American Soul” (the country star’s first album in seven years; producers: Vassar, Jeffery Smith; Hear here; On Tour) | (American Soul / The Orchard) |
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Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Avenged Sevenfold | “The Best of 2005-2013” (two CDs, 18 songs; Merch) | (Warner) |
| Kathleen Battle | “Kathleen Battle: The Complete Sony Recordings” (10-CD box set) | (Sony Classical) |
| Beck | “Odelay [Vinyl]” (1996 album), “Sea Change [Vinyl]” (2002 album), “Guero [Vinyl]” (2005 album; Read here; Merch) | (UMe) |
| Archie Bell & The Drells | “Let’s Groove: The Archie Bell & The Drells Story (50th Anniversary Collection)” (two CDs, 42 songs; Read here) | (U.K. – Big Break / Cherry Red) |
| Andrea Bocelli | “Romanza (20th Anniversary Edition)” (1996 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks; MP3; On Tour; Merch) | (Verve) |
| Johnny Bristol | “Modern Soul Classics 1974-1981” | (Play Back) |
| The Clean | “Getaway (Deluxe Edition)” (2001 album; remastered, with an 18-song bonus CD that compiles the tour-only releases “Syd’s Pink Wiring System” and “Slush Fund”; Hear here; Vinyl + CD; MP3) | (Merge) |
| Bob Dylan | “The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert!” (two CDs; Hear here; Read here; MP3; On Tour; Merch) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Fred Eaglesmith | “Things Is Changin'” (1993 album; remastered), “Balin” (2000 album; remastered), “Ralph’s Last Show: Live In Santa Cruz” (2001 album; remastered), “Falling Stars and Broken Hearts” (2002 album; remastered), “Dusty” (2004 album; remastered), “Milly’s Cafe” (2006 album; remastered), “Tinderbox” (2008 album), “Cha Cha Cha” (2010 album), “6 Volts” (2011 album), “Tambourine” (2013 album; On Tour) | (Independent Label Services, Inc.) |
| Frankie & The Spindles | “Count to Ten: The Complete Singles Collection 1968-77” | (Play Back) |
| The Jackson 5 | “5 Classic Albums” (five-CD set includes “Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5,” “ABC,” “Third Album,” “Maybe Tomorrow” and “Lookin’ Through the Windows”; Merch) | (U.K. – Motown / UMC) |
| The Magnetic Fields | “The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees [Vinyl]” (1992, 1991 albums; remastered; Hear here; MP3; On Tour) | (Merge) |
| Bob Marley | “The Legend Live – Santa Barbara County Bowl: November 25th 1979” (two CDs, 39 songs; MP3; Merch) | (Trojan) |
| John Martyn | “May You Never: Essential John Martyn” (three CDs, 58 songs) | (U.K. – Island / UMC) |
| The Mills Brothers | “Wonderful Words of Life: The Inspirational Recordings” (16 songs) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Alan Parsons Project | “Tales of Mystery and Imagination – Edgar Allan Poe (40th Anniversary Edition)” (1976 album; remastered; On Tour; Merch) | (Mercury / UMe) |
| Vivian Reed | “Yours Until Tomorrow: The Epic Years” (20 songs; Read here) | (U.K. – SoulMusic / Cherry Red) |
| Social Distortion | “Independent Years: 1983-2004 [Vinyl]” (four-LP box set; Merch) | (The Bicycle Music Company) |
| Trivium | “Ember to Inferno: Ab Initio” (2003 debut album; remastered, with 13 bonus tracks; MP3) | (Cooking Vinyl) |
| Various artists | “The Eighties Album (The Album of the Decade)” (three CDs, 60 songs, feat. Queen and David Bowie, a-ha, Whitney Houston, Rick Astley, New Order, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, etc.) | (U.K. – Rhino) |
| Various artists | “50 Classical Masterworks” (three CDs) | (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Karyn White | “Karyn White (Deluxe Edition)” (1988 album; remastered, with 19 bonus tracks; Read here) | (U.K. – Big Break / Cherry Red) |
| Deniece Williams | “Black Butterfly: The Essential Niecy” (two CDs, 35 songs; See here; Read here) | (U.K. – Big Break / Cherry Red) |
| Stevie Wonder | “Talking Book [Vinyl]” (1972 album; Merch) | (Motown / UMe) |
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Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Paul Anka | “Strictly Nashville” (1966 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Sonny James | “The Singles Collection 1952-62” (61 songs) | (Acrobat) |
| Jean-Michel Jarre | “Oxygene Trilogy” (includes parts 1-20; Hear here; CD and Vinyl, out Jan. 20) | (Sony Music) |
| Kate Miller-Heidke | “The Best of Kate Miller-Heidke: Act One” (37 songs) | (Sony Music) |
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DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Heart | “Heart: Live At The Royal Albert Hall With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [DVD]” (filmed in June 2016; Blu-ray; CD; Merch) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, et al | “The Secret Life of Pets [DVD]” (2016 film; Blu-ray + DVD; 3D + Blu-ray) | (Universal Studios Home Entertainment) |
| Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, et al | “Jason Bourne [DVD]” (2016 film; Blu-ray + DVD; 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray; Target Exclusive: Blu-ray + DVD + Bonus Content) | (Universal Studios Home Entertainment) |
| Various artists | “T.A.M.I. Show / The Big T.N.T. Show (Collector’s Edition) [Blu-ray]” (featuring performances by The Rolling Stones, James Brown, Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Bo Diddley, The Supremes, Ike & Tina Turner, The Ronettes, The Byrds, Ray Charles, etc.; See here; DVD) | (Shout! Factory) |
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Music Books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| Sebastian Bach | “18 and Life on Skid Row” (Hardcover; Kindle) | (Dey Street Books) |
| David Bowie | “The Complete David Bowie (Revised and Updated 2016 Edition)” (Paperback; author: Nicholas Pegg; Kindle; Free Preview) | (Titan Books) |
| Bob Dylan | “Counting Down Bob Dylan: His 100 Finest Songs” (Paperback; author: Jim Beviglia) | (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) |
| Naomi Judd | “River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope” (Hardcover; co-author: Marcia Wilkie; Kindle) | (Center Street) |
| Jenna Miles | “The Beginner’s Guide to Vinyl: How to Build, Maintain, and Experience a Music Collection in Analog” (Paperback) | (Adams Media) |
| Randy Newman | “Maybe I’m Doing It Wrong: The Life and Times of Randy Newman” (Hardcover; authors: David & Caroline Stafford) | (Overlook-Omnibus) |