New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Applewood Road (Emily Barker, Amber Rubarth and Amy Speace) | “Applewood Road” (Hear here; MP3) | (Gearbox) |
| Audrey Assad | “Inheritance” (producers: Assad, Daniel James; guest: Fernando Ortega; Hear here) | (Fortune Fall) |
| Marty Balin | “The Greatest Love” (producers: Balin, Joe Vertino; Hear here; MP3) | (Buckjoy Productions) |
| BlowFly | “77 Rusty Trombones” (the R&B artist-songwriter’s final album, coming after his Jan. 17 death from liver cancer; Hear here; MP3) | (Saustex Media) |
| Basia Bulat | “Good Advice” (first single: “Infamous”; Hear here; MP3) | (Secret City) |
| Paul Carrack | “Soul Shadows” (Hear here; MP3) | (Carrack UK) |
| The Coffin Daggers (NYC instrumental surf punk band) | “Aggravatin’ Rhythms” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 ) | (Cleopatra) |
| DeDe | “Dream of You” (producer: Andrew Fromm; first single: “Love Lives On”; Hear here; Read here) | (Diva Prince Productions) |
| Lee DeWyze (“American Idol” season 9 winner) | “Oil & Water” (Hear here; MP3) | (Shanachie) |
| Alex Dezen (of The Damnwells) | “Alex Dezen” (Hear here; MP3) | (Rock Ridge Music) |
| Dion | “New York Is My Home” (first single: “New York Is My Home,” a duet with Paul Simon; Hear/read here; MP3 ) | (Instant) |
| Flowers (London indie-pop trio) | “Everybody’s Dying to Meet You” (producer: Brian O’Shaughnessey; first single: “Pull My Arm”; Hear here; MP3) | (Kanine) |
| The Frights (San Diego party-punk trio) | “You Are Going to Hate This” (producer: Fidlar’s Zac Carper; first single: “You Are Going to Hate This”; Hear here; MP3 ) | (Dangerbird) |
| Vince Gill | “Down To My Last Bad Habit” (guests: Little Big Town, Cam; first single: “Take Me Down”; Hear here; MP3) | (MCA Nashville) |
| Fay Hield (British folk singer-songwriter) | “Old Adam” (first single: “Green Gravel”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Soundpost) |
| Holy Grail | “Times of Pride and Peril” (producer: John Spiker; Hear here; MP3) | (Prosthetic) |
| James Supercave | “Better Strange” (first single: “Better Strange”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Fairfax Recordings) |
| Jetblacc Leek | “The Blacc Print Album” (producers: Skycash Beats, Blaisian Beats, The Heart Beats, NY Bangers, Evolution Beats, Nate Rhoads, The legion; guests: F-Eaze, Hash Tag; first single: “Long Time”; Hear here) | (Choppagang Ent., Feb. 11) |
| Joey+Rory | “Hymns That Are Important to Us” (proceeds will go to the Loeys-Dietz Syndrome Foundation, in honor of the Feeks’ daughter Indiana’s best friend Scout, who has the disease; Hear here; Read here; MP3; DVD) | (Gaither Music Group / Universal) |
| Ronan Keating | “Time of My Life” (guests: The Shires; first single: “Falling Slowly”; Hear here) | (U.K. – Decca) |
| Stephen Kellogg | “South, West, North, East” (recorded in each region with different co-producers and musicians; Hear here; MP3) | (Fat Sam Productions) |
| Kula Shaker | “K 2.0” (their first album since 2010; first single: “Infinite Sun”; Hear here; See here) | (U.K. – Strangefolk) |
| Ute Lemper | “The 9 Secrets” (producer: Lemper; guests: Paulo Coelho, Gil Goldstein, Jamshied Sharifi; first single: “Beauty”; Hear here; MP3) | (Steinway & Sons) |
| Lissie | “My Wild West” (producer: Curt Schneider; first single: “Don’t You Give Up On Me”; Hear here; MP3) | (Lionboy / Thirty Tigers) |
| Lorrie Morgan | “Letting Go … Slow” (her first solo album in five years; producer: Richard Landis; Hear here; MP3) | (Shanachie) |
| Radiation City (Portland dream-pop quintet) | “Synesthetica” (first single: “Juicy”; Hear here; MP3) | (Polyvinyl) |
| The Record Company (L.A. rock/roots trio) | “Give It Back to You” (first single: “Off the Ground”; Hear here; MP3) | (Concord) |
| Herlin Riley (master drummer from New Orleans) | “New Direction” (guests: guitarist Mark Whitfield, Cuba’s Pedrito Martinez on percussion; Hear here; MP3) | (Mack Avenue) |
| Snarky Puppy (Grammy-winning instrumental fusion band) | “Family Dinner – Volume Two” (CD/DVD combo; guests: David Crosby, Charlie Hunter, Laura Mvula, Terence Blanchard, Becca Stevens, etc.; Hear here; MP3) | (Ground Up) |
| Stranded Horse (led by French composer/multi-instrumentalist Yann Tambour) | “Luxe” (Hear/read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Talitres) |
| Lacey Sturms (of Flyleaf) | “Life Screams” (producer: Sturm; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Followspot) |
| The Suffers (Houston soul band) | “The Suffers” (first single: “Better”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Rhyme & Reason) |
| Rokia Traoré (Malian singer-songwriter) | “Né So” (includes a cover of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”; producer: John Parish; guests: John Paul Jones, Toni Morrison, Devendra Banhart, etc.; See here; Read here; MP3) | (Nonesuch) |
| Henry Wagons (Melbourne-based country noir singer-songwriter) | “After What I Did Last Night …” (producer: Skylar Wilson; Hear here; See here) | (Goldview / Metropolitan Groove Merchants) |
| Wheeler Walker Jr. (R-rated country artist) | “Redneck Shit” (producer: Dave Cobb; Hear here; See here; Read here; MP3) | (Pepper Hill) |
| Taj Weekes & Adowa | “Love Herb & Reggae” (Hear here; MP3) | (Jatta / VPAL) |
| Kanye West | “T.L.O.P. (The Life of Pablo)” (Hear here; Read here) | (Roc-A-Fella, Feb. 11) |
| Wynonna & The Big Noise | “Wynonna & The Big Noise” (producer: husband-drummer Cactus Moser; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Curb) |
| You Say Party | “You Say Party” (first single: “Ignorance”; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Paper Bag) |
More Releases for Feb. 12, 2016
New Releases (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Pete Astor (formerly of The Loft and The Weather Prophets) | “Spilt Milk” (first single: “Mr. Music”; Hear/read here; Vinyl) | (Slumberland) |
| Datin | “The Roar” (guests: Steffan Otto, Sean C. Johnson, Bizzle, Dre Murray, Beleaf, Selah the Corner, S.O.S., Genesis the Grey Kid, Sevin, Franky Bells; Hear here) | (God Over Money) |
| Fullee Love (solo project of Jurassic 5 MC Zaakir Muhammad) | “Still in Fullee Love” (seven-song EP; producer: Nick Green; first single: “Surfboard Cali”; Hear here) | (Najla Music / INgrooves) |
| Future | “Evol” (producers: Southside, The Weeknd, TM88, MP808, Moe Goonie, TeeLow Da Producer, DJ Spinz, $K; guest: The Weeknd; Hear here) | (Epic / Freebandz / A1 Recordings) |
| Lianne La Havas | “Blood Solo” (seven-song EP, including new track “Fairytale”; Hear here) | (Nonesuch) |
| Lance Neptune | “Animal Eclipse” (six-song EP; first single: “Janus”; Hear here) | (Magicwire) |
| Kylie Odetta | “High Dreamer” (five-song EP; Hear here) | (Kylie Odetta) |
| SWMRS (Bay Area quartet) | “Drive North” (producer: FIDLAR frontman Zac Carper; first single: “Figuring It Out”; Hear here) | (Uncool) |
| Various artists | “Vinyl: Music From The HBO Original Series – Volume 1” (Hear here) | (Atlantic) |
More Digital Releases for Feb. 12, 2016
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Allman Brothers Band | “Crackdown Concert 1986” | (Sutra) |
| America | “Sigma Sound Studios 1972” (live FM broadcast from Philadelphia) | (All Access) |
| Anti-Nowhere League | “The Road to Rampton” (2007 album, with two bonus tracks; MP3) | (Cleopatra) |
| Eddy Arnold | “Let’s Make Memories One More Time” (two early 1960s albums on one CD; remastered; Read here) | (Jasmine) |
| Glen Brown | “Boat to Progress!” (Hear here), “Check the Winner” (Hear here), “Dubble Attack” (all three albums were originally recorded for the Jamaican singer-producer’s record label Pantomime and released on Greensleeves in 1989; remastered; Hear here) | (Greensleeves) |
| Captain Beefheart | “Plastic Factory, Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco 1966” (with bonus tracks) | (Go Faster) |
| Graham Chapman (of Monty Python fame) | “Spot the Loony” (rare live performance from April 15, 1988, at Sayles Hall, Brown University, Rhode Island; he died a year later; MP3) | (Right Recordings) |
| Ry Cooder | “Ditty Wah Ditty: Live in Cleveland 1972” (20 songs) | (Good Ship Funke) |
| The Cramps | “Do the Clam: 1986 Radio Live Broadcast” (two CDs, 22 songs) | (Smokin’) |
| Crosby, Stills & Nash | “Survival Sunday: Hollywood Bowl 1980 with Joe Walsh” | (Go Faster) |
| Daughtry | “It’s Not Over … The Hits So Far” (13 tracks, including a new song, “Torches”; MP3) | (RCA) |
| Lizzy Mercier Descloux (French singer-musician died in 2004) | “Mambo Nassau” (1981 album; remastered, with six bonus tracks; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl, with download card), “Zulu Rock” (1984 album; remastered, with five bonus tracks; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl, with download card) | (Light in the Attic) |
| Joe Egan (Stealers Wheel founding member) | “Out of Nowhere” (1979 album; remastered; MP3) | (Angel Air) |
| Maynard Ferguson | “The Ballad Style of Maynard Ferguson / Alive & Well in London” (1969, 1971 albums on one CD; remastered) | (U.K. – BGO) |
| Red Garland | “The Albums Collection Part One: 1956-1959” (four-CD box set), “The Albums Collection Part Two: 1959-1961” (four-CD box set), “The Albums Collection Part Three: 1961-1962” (four-CD box set) | (Enlightenment) |
| John Hiatt & The Nashville Queens | “Sigma Studios 1996” | (Gossip) |
| Jay and the Americans | “She Cried: The Early Years” (28 tracks; Read here) | (Jasmine) |
| The Kaye Sisters | “The Best of the Kaye Sisters” (32 songs; Read here) | (Jasmine) |
| Wynton Kelly | “Nine Complete Albums: 1951-1961” (four-CD box set) | (Enlightenment) |
| Earl King | “Let the Good Times Roll: Singles As & Bs 1955-1962” (31 tracks; Read here) | (Jasmine) |
| Hank Locklin | “Please Help Me I’m Falling & Happy Journey” (1960, 1962 albums on one CD; remastered; Read here) | (Jasmine) |
| The Louvin Brothers | “The Louvin Brothers Collection 1949-62” (two CDs) | (Acrobat) |
| Barbara Mandrell | “This Time I Almost Made It: The Lost Columbia Masters” (20 songs, including seven previously unreleased tracks from her first Columbia recording session in 1969-70) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark & Chris Hillman | “Back Stage Pass” | (Iconography) |
| Amos Milburn | “The Best of the Aladdin Years 1946-57” (two CDs, 106 songs; Read here; MP3) | (Acrobat) |
| Joni Mitchell with Herbie Hancock | “Bread & Roses Festival 1978” (with bonus tracks) | (Iconography) |
| Monster Magnet | “Superjudge (Deluxe Edition)” (1993 album; remastered, with bonus tracks; Vinyl), “Dopes to Infinity (Deluxe Edition)” (1995 album; remastered, with bonus tracks; See here; Vinyl), “Powetrip (Deluxe Edition)” (1998 album; remastered, with bonus tracks; See here; Vinyl), “God Says No (Deluxe Edition)” (2001 album; remastered, with bonus tracks; Vinyl) | (Spinefarm / UMG) |
| Peter Murphy | “Wild Birds Live Tour” (previously unreleased live recording from April 4, 2000, at the House of Blues in Los Angeles; MP3) | (Cleopatra) |
| Newsboys | “God’s Not Dead: The Best of the Newsboys” (See here) | (InPop) |
| Nine Inch Nails feat. David Bowie | “We Prick You: Radio Broadcast 1995” | (MVD) |
| Dolly Parton | “Country Girl In The Big Apple: Live at the Bottom Line, New York City 1977” (17 tracks) | (Golden Rain) |
| Tom Petty | “In the Coliseum” (1987 radio broadcast recorded in Jacksonville, Fla.) | (Goldfish) |
| The Platters | “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: 5 Original Albums 1959-1962” (two CDs, 60 songs; Read here) | (Jasmine) |
| Ben Pollack | “The Ben Pollack Collection 1923-50” (two CDs, 49 songs) | (Fabulous) |
| Juliet Prowse, et al | “Sweet Charity (Original London Cast Recording)” (1967 album; remastered; MP3) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Lou Reed | “New York In LA: FM Broadcast from Los Angeles, California, 22 April 1989” (15 tracks) | (Good Ship Funke) |
| Rush | “Beneath, Between & Behind: F.M. Broadcast 1975” | (MVD Audio) |
| Huey “Piano” Smith | “Don’t You Just Know It: The Very Best of 1956-1962 – Singles As & Bs” (28 songs; Read here) | (Jasmine) |
| Patti Smith | “Bicentenary Blues: Boarding House, San Francisco 1976” | (Good Ship Funke) |
| J.D. Souther | “Black Rose” (1976 album; remastered, with seven bonus tracks; Read here), “Home By Dawn” (1984 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| Spirit | “At Ebbetts Field 1974” | (Good Ship Funke) |
| Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | “Roxy Night 1978: The Classic Los Angeles Broadcast” (three CDs, 31 songs) | (Leftfield Media) |
| Jo Stafford | “The Jo Stafford Collection 1939-62” (four CDs, 103 songs) | (Acrobat) |
| Steely Dan | “Doing It In California: The 1974 Broadcast Collection” (17 songs) | (Sultra) |
| Styx | “Suite Madame Blue: Radio Broadcast 1977” | (MVD Audio) |
| Talking Heads | “The Boston Tea Party: 1979 Broadcasts” (19 songs) | (Sonic Boom) |
| Frank Turner | “Ten For Ten” (best-of compilation was released digitally in November 2015; MP3) | (Xtra Mile Recordings) |
| Various artists | “The Cadence Records Story 1953-1962” (four-CD box set) | (Real Gone Music, Feb. 16) |
| Various artists | “Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky: The Hit Songs & Productions 1957-1978” (two CDs, 50 songs; Read here) | (Charly) |
| Various artists | “The Hit Songs of Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller 1952-62” (two CDs, 58 songs; MP3) | (Acrobat) |
| Various artists | “Hold Me Close: In Love … In the 70’s” (three CDs, 65 songs) | (U.K. – Sony) |
| Various artists | “Psych Box” (five-CD box set of past and present psychedelic music, with a bonus 7-inch vinyl featuring Jimmy Page on one side and Timothy Leary on the other; MP3) | (Cleopatra) |
| Various artists | “The Swan Records Story 1957-1962” (four-CD box set) | (Real Gone Music, Feb. 16) |
| The Velvet Underground | “Real Good Time Together: Radio Broadcast” (1993 performance) | (Laser Media) |
| Tom Waits | “Fumblin’ On the Radio: The Studio Session KPFK FM Los Angeles 1974” (20 tracks) | (Smokin’) |
| Frank Zappa featuring Captain Beefheart | “The Muffin Man Goes To College: Rhode Island 1975” (two CDs, 19 tracks) | (Smokin’) |
More Releases for Feb. 12, 2016
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Patti Austin | “Street of Dreams” (1999 album; Hear here) | (Water Music) |
| Janis Joplin | “Janis: Little Girl Blue (Original Motion Picture)” (2015 documentary film; 17-song compilation includes solo and Big Brother & The Holding Company tracks) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| The Manhattans | “A Million to One” (1970 album), “After Midnight (Expanded Version)” (1980 album, featuring “Shining Star”; with seven bonus tracks), “Black Tie (Expanded Version)” (1981 album; with six bonus tracks), “Forever by Your Side (Expanded Version)” (1983 album; with five bonus tracks) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
More Digital Releases for Feb. 12, 2016
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| David Bowie | “David Bowie – In His Own Words [DVD]” | (I.V. Media) |
| Charles Bradley and Menahan Street Band | “Live From the House of Soul [DVD]” (recorded live in the backyard of Daptone’s Bushwick studio headquarters in Brooklyn, directed by Poull Brien; See here) | (Daptone) |
| Carol Burnett | “The Carol Burnett Show: Treasures From the Vault – The Lost Episodes [DVD]” (three-DVD set; six-DVD collector’s edition) | (Time Life) |
| Elvis Costello | “Detour Live at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Featuring Larkin Poe [DVD]” (2015 acoustic solo performance; See here; Blu-ray) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, et al | “Spectre [DVD]” (2015 film; Blu-ray) | (MGM) |
| The Dicks | “The Dicks From Texas [DVD]” (documentary directed by Cindy Marabito; See here) | (MVD Visual) |
| Roma Downey, John Dye, Della Reese, et al | “Touched By an Angel: The Complete Series [DVD]” (59-disc box set) | (Paramount) |
| John Goodman, Diane Keaton, Ed Helm, et al | “Love the Coopers [DVD]” (2015 film; Blu-ray) | (Lionsgate) |
Music Books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| Faces | “Had Me a Real Good Time: Before, During and After” (Paperback; author: Andy Neill) | (Omnibus Press) |
| Buddy Guy | “Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads” (Paperback; author: Alan Harper) | (University of Illinois Press) |
| Jan & Dean | “The Jan & Dean Record: A Chronology of Studio Sessions, Live Performances and Chart Positions” (Hardcover; author: Mark A. Moore; foreword by Brian Wilson) | (McFarland) |