New Releases: Feb. 26, 2021
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Architects | “For Those That Wish to Exist” (guests: Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil, Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr, Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall; new single: “Animals”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW  |
(Epitaph) |
| Julien Baker | “Little Oblivions” (producer: Baker; new single: “Faith Healer”; See here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Matador) |
| Madison Beer | “Life Support” (new single: “BOYSHIT”; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Epic) |
| Cloud Nothings | “The Shadow I Remember” (producer: Steve Albini; first single: “Am I Something”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Carpark) |
| Joanna Connor | “4801 South Indiana Avenue” (producers: Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith; guests: Bonamassa, Jimmy Hall; new single: “I Feel So Good”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(KTBA) |
| Alice Cooper | “Detroit Stories” (features all the surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band; producer: Bob Ezrin; Read here; CD Box Set, with CD, Blu-ray, T-shirt, face mask, torch light and three stickers; CD + DVD; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(earMUSIC) |
| Epica | “Omega” (producer: Joost Van Den Broek; new single: “Abyss of Time”; See here; Deluxe Edition; Blue/Green Swirl Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Nuclear Blast) |
| Evergrey | “Escape of the Phoenix” (the Swedish dark melodic metal’s 12th album; new single: “Forever Outside”; Crystal Clear Vinyl; Artbook; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(AFM) |
| Steve Lukather | “I Found the Sun Again” (a portion of the proceeds will be directed to The Ed Asner Family Center for Autism; producers: Lukather, Ken Freeman; guests: David Paich, Joseph Williams, Ringo Starr; new single: “Run to Me”; See here; Blue Transparent Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(The Players Club / Mascot Label Group) |
| Maxïmo Park | “Nature Always Wins” (producer: Ben Allen; first single: “Baby, Sleep”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Prolifica Inc.) |
| Melvins | “Working With God” (new single: “I Fuck Around”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Ipecac Recordings) |
| Menahan Street Band | “The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band” (new single: “Midnight Morning”; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Daptone) |
| Willie Nelson | “That’s Life” (his second album of Frank Sinatra covers, recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood; producers: Buddy Cannon, Matt Rollings; first single: “Cottage for Sale”; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Legacy Recordings) |
| NOFX | “Single Album” (producers: Bill Stevenson, Jason Livermore; new single: “Linewleum”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Fat Wreck Chords) |
| Bones Owens | “Bones Owens” (new single: “Keep It Close”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Black Ranch / Thirty Tigers) |
| Roosevelt (German producer, musician and DJ) | “Polydans” (new single: “Feels Right”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(City Slang / Greco-Roman) |
| Curtis Salgado | “Damage Control” (Download) » BUY NOW |
(Alligator) |
| Wesley Schultz (guitarist and co-founder of The Lumineers) | “Vignettes” (10 cover versions; producers: Simone Felice, David Baron; guests: Cindy Mizelle, James Felice, The Webb Sisters, Diana DeMuth; See here; Vinyl; Download, released on Oct. 30) » BUY NOW |
(Dualtone) |
| Smerz (Nowegian duo) | “Believer” (first single: “Believer”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(XL Recordings) |
| Lucy Spraggan | “Choices” (new single: “Sober”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Cooking Vinyl) |
| Sydney Sprague | “maybe i will see you at the end of the world” (new single: “steve”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Rude) |
| Bonnie Tyler | “The Best Is Yet To Come” (first single: “When the Lights Go Down”; Download) » BUY NOW |
(earMUSIC / BFD / The Orchard) |
| Anneke van Giersbergen | “The Darkest Skies Are the Brightest” (new single: “My Promise”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(InsideOutMusic) |
| Ally Venable | “Heart of Fire” (producer: Jim Gaines; guests: Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Devon Allman, Cody Dickinson; new single: “Bring on the Pain”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Ruf) |
| Dale Watson | “Dale Watson Presents: The Memphians” (first single: “Agent Elvis”; Hear here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Red River Entertainment) |
| Joseph Williams | “Denizen Tenant” (producers: Williams, Jay Gruska; guests: David Paich, Steve Lukather, Simon Phillips, Leland Sklar, Lenny Castro, Nathan East, etc.; new single: “Never Saw You Coming”; See here; Orange Transparent Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(The Players Club / Mascot Label Group) |
| Elijah Wolf (Brooklyn alt-folk artist) | “Brighter Lighting” (producer: Sam Cohen; guests: Nels Cline, Joshua Jaeger, Photay; new single: “The Point of Trying”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Trash Casual) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Martha’s Vineyard Ferries | “Suns Out Guns Out” (first single: “Betty Ford James”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW | (Ernest Jenning Record Co.) |
| Nu:Tone | “Little Spaces” (drum & bass veteran’s first album since 2014; new single: “Sweeter”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Hospital) |
| Sheppard | “Kaleidoscope Eyes” (Australian pop trio’s third album; new single: “Brand New”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Republic) |
Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Be-Bop Deluxe | “Drastic Plastic” (1978 album; remastered four-CD, two-DVD box set, featuring an additional 88 tracks, 43 of which are previously unreleased, drawn from new 5.1 surround sound and stereo mixes from the original multi-track tapes by engineer Stephen W. Tayler, etc.; Read here; Expanded & Remastered Edition, two CDs) » BUY NOW |
(Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red) |
| The Black Crowes | “Shake Your Money Maker [Super Deluxe Edition]” (1990 album, featuring “Hard to Handle,” “Jealous Again” and “Twice as Hard”; three-CD set includes the remastered original album, three unreleased studio recordings, two unreleased demos, B-sides, a 14-song concert in Atlanta in December 1990, 20-page book, etc.; Hear here; Standard CD; Vinyl Box Set, four LPs; Standard Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(American Recordings / UMe) |
| Jackie DeShannon | “Laurel Canyon / Put a Little Love In Your Heart / To Be Free / Songs” (1969, 1970 and 1971 albums on two CDs; remastered) » BUY NOW |
(BGO) |
| Bob Dylan | “Bob Dylan – 1970” (three-CD set features 74 previously unreleased studio recordings from 1970, most taken from the sessions for the “New Morning” and “Self Portrait” albums, as well as the long-sought-after complete May 1, 1970, studio session with George Harrison, working together on nine tracks; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| PJ Harvey | “Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea [Vinyl]” (2000 album, featuring “Good Fortune,” “A Place Called Home” and “This Is Love”) » BUY NOW, “Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea – Demos” (Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Island / UMe) |
| Chaka Khan | “Epiphany: The Best of Chaka Khan [Vinyl]” (1996 compilation; burgundy vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| Level 42 | “The Complete Polydor Years Volume 1 1980-1984” (10-CD box set; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Robinsongs / Cherry Red) |
| The Misunderstood (U.S. garage band was managed by famed British DJ John Peel) | “Children of the Sun: The Complete Recordings 1965-66” (two CDs, 33 songs; Hear here; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Grapefruit / Cherry Red) |
| The National | “The National” (2001 album; remastered; Vinyl) » BUY NOW, “Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers” (2003 album; remastered; Vinyl) » BUY NOW, “Cherry Tree” (2004 EP; remastered; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(4AD) |
| Richard Pryor | “Richard Pryor” (1968 debut album; remastered) » BUY NOW, “‘Craps’ (After Hours)” (1971 album; remastered; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Omnivore Recordings) |
| Ike & Tina Turner | “Come Together / ’nuff said” (1970 and 1971 albums on one CD, featuring “I Want To Take You Higher”; remastered) » BUY NOW |
(BGO) |
| Various artists | “Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens and Street Urchins 1970-76” (three-CD, 66-song collection features tracks by Roxy Music, Electric Light Orchestra, Ian Hunter, The Kinks, Slade, Lou Reed, Tim Curry, Sweet, New York Dolls, Leo Sayer, etc.; Read here) » BUY NOW | (Cherry Red) |
| Neil Young with Crazy Horse | “Way Down in the Rust Bucket” (unreleased 1990 show at The Catalyst, a small bar in Santa Cruz, Calif.; Hear here; Vinyl; Vinyl Deluxe Edition, four-LP box set; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Reprise) |
Next Week: March 5, 2021
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