New Releases: July 31, 2015
New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Fred Abbott (former Noah And The Whale guitarist) | “Serious Poke” (producers: Abbott, Martin Hollis; first single: “Adrenaline Shot”; Hear here; See here) | (Lojinx) |
| Melissa Ferrick | “Melissa Ferrick” (Hear here; MP3) | (Right On) |
| Finger Eleven | “Five Crooked Lines” (producer: Dave Cobb; first single: “Wolves and Doors”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (The Bicycle Music Company / Concord) |
| Buddy Guy | “Born to Play Guitar” (includes “Flesh & Bone,” a tribute to the late B.B. King; producer: Tom Hambridge; guests: Van Morrison, Joss Stone, Billy Gibbons, Kim Wilson; Hear here; MP3) | (RCA) |
| Albert Hammond Jr. | “Momentary Masters” (producer: Gus Oberg; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Vagrant) |
| Have Gun, Will Travel (Bradenton, Fla.-based Americana group) | “Science From an Easy Chair” (producers: Shawn Kyle, Have Gun, Will Travel; Hear here; MP3) | (This Is American Music) |
| Natalie Imbruglia | “Male” (producer: Billy Mann; guest: Emily Saliers; first single: “Instant Crush”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Sony Masterworks) |
| Jeremy and The Harlequins (NYC rock quintet) | “American Dreamer” (Hear here; MP3) | (ORG Music) |
| Kataklysm (Montreal death metal quartet) | “Of Ghosts and Gods” (Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| Lianne La Havas (English singer/songwriter/guitarist) | “Blood” (producer: Paul Epworth; first single: “Unstoppable”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Nonesuch / Warner) |
| Lil Dicky | “Professional Rapper” (guests: Snoop Dogg, Fetty Wap, Hannibal Buress, T-Pain, Brain, etc.; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (CMSN) |
| Daniel Romano | “If I’ve Only One Time Askin'” (producer: Romano; first single: “The One That Got Away [Came Back Today]”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (New West) |
| Russkaja (turbo polk metal band from Vienna) | “Peace, Love & Russian Roll” (first single: “Rock & Roll Today”; Hear here; MP3) | (Napalm) |
| Saint Asonia (new group features members of Three Days Grace, Staind and Finger Eleven) | “Saint Asonia” (producer: Johnny K; first single: “Better Place”; Hear here; MP3) | (RCA) |
| Sarah Kirkland Snider | “Unremembered” (an hourlong, 13-part song cycle for seven voices, chamber orchestra and electronics, inspired by poems and illustrations by writer-visual artist Nathaniel Bellows; producers: Lawson White, Snider; Hear here; See here) | (New Amsterdam) |
| Joss Stone | “Water for Your Soul” (first single: “The Answer”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes) | (Stone’d / Surfdog) |
| Teenage Time Killers | “Greatest Hits Vol. 1” (producers: bandmates John “Lou” Lousteau, Reed Mullin, Mick Murphy; guests: Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, Jello Biafra, Randy Blythe of Lamb of God, Nick Oliveri, Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio, Corey Taylor, etc.; Hear here; MP3) | (Rise) |
| Titus Andronicus | “The Most Lamentable Tragedy” (a rock opera in five acts; double album; producers: Kevin McMahon, lead guitarist Adam Reich; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Merge) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 91” (two CDs) | (U.K. – NOW) |
| Josh Wilson | “That Was Then, This Is Now” (first single: “That Was Then, This Is Now”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Sparrow) |
| Xandria | “Fire & Ashes” (seven-song EP; Hear here; MP3) | (Napalm) |
| Year of the Goat | “The Unspeakable” (Hear here; MP3) | (Napalm) |
More Releases for July 31, 2015
New Releases (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Icicle (aka Krassy Halatchev) | “Theorems” (new single: “On and On”; Hear here) | (Herd, Aug. 1) |
| Insane Clown Posse | “The Marvelous Missing Link (Found)” (producers: Otis, Mike P, Kuma, Seven; Hear here) | (Psychopathic / RED) |
| Megan Landry (Canadian indie-pop singer-songwriter) | “Stills” (producer: Scott Walsh; first single: “Cut To It”; Hear here) | (Streets Music, Aug. 2) |
| Meghan Linsey (“The Voice” season 8 runner-up) | “Believer” (six-song EP; producer: Tyler Cain; first single: “Change My Mind”; Hear here; See here) | (Bold Music Group) |
| The Maccabees | “Marks to Prove It” (producers: Hugo White, The Maccabees, Laurie Latham; first single: “Marks to Prove It”; Hear here; See here; iTunes) | (Fiction / Caroline) |
| Milltown Brothers | “Long Road” (their first album in 11 years; Hear here; See here) | (Stanley) |
| Patent Pending (Long Island quintet) | “Armageddon” (five-song EP; producer: Jordan M. Schmidt; first single: “Brighter”; Hear here; See here) | (Rude) |
| Josh Pyke (Australian singer-songwriter) | “But For All These Shrinking Hearts” (first single: “Hollering Hearts”; Hear here; Deluxe Edition; iTunes) | (Wonderlick) |
| Seapony | “A Vision” (first single: “Saw the Light”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Burrito Thirty) |
| Stornoway (U.K. rock quartet) | “Bonxie” (producer: Gil Norton; Hear here; Import CD) | (Slimstyle) |
| Shankar Tucker (clarinetist/composer) | “Filament” (Hear here; See here) | (Shrutibox Music, July 28) |
More Digital Releases for July 31, 2015
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Bananarama | “in a bunch … The CD Singles 1981-1993” (33 CD box set contains every single released during their London Records tenure; Hear/read here) | (U.K. – Edsel) |
| The Band | “The Capitol Albums 1968-1977” (nine-LP box set; heavyweight, 180-gram vinyl with original album art and packaging; Read here) | (Capitol / UMe) |
| Alice Cooper | “The Studio Albums 1969-1983” (15-CD box set, featuring all his albums, from 1969’s “Pretties For You” to 1983’s “DaDa”) | (Rhino / Warner) |
| Bill Evans | “The Complete Fantasy Recordings” (nine-CD box set) | (Fantasy) |
| Connie Francis | “The Collection” (18-song best-of) | (U.K. – Spectrum / UMe) |
| Vince Guaraldi Trio | “Peanuts Greatest Hits” (12 tracks) | (Fantasy) |
| Led Zeppelin | “Presence [Super Deluxe Edition Box]” (1976 album; the box set includes the remastered CD in a vinyl replica sleeve, with bonus material, 180-gram vinyl, download card, hardbound, 70-plus-page book filled with rare and previously unseen photos and memorabilia; Vinyl; MP3), “In Through the Out Door [Deluxe Edition]” (1979 album; remastered, with unreleased rough mixes of every track from the original album; Vinyl; MP3), “Coda [Deluxe Edition]” (1982 album; remastered, with 15 tracks recorded between 1968 and 1974; Vinyl; MP3) | (Swan Song / Atlantic) |
| Jean Martinon | “Chicago Symphony Orchestra: The Complete Recordings” (10-CD box set) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Ray Parker Jr. | “Woman Out of Control / Sex and the Single Man” (1983, 1985 albums on one CD; remastered; Read here) | (U.K. – Soulmusic / Cherry Red) |
| Dolly Parton | “Nashville Stories” (15-song best-of, with 10 live tracks) | (U.K. – Feel Good Music) |
| Supertramp | “Live In Paris 1979” (two CDs, one DVD; Hear here) | (Eagle Vision) |
More Releases for July 31, 2015
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Cheap Trick | “The Complete Epic Albums Collection” (12 complete albums), “The Epic Archive, Vol. 1 (1975-1979)” (17 tracks) | (Epic / Legacy) |
| City Boy | “City Boy / Dinner At The Ritz” (1976 albums, both produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange; remastered, with a bonus BBC concert; Read here), “Young Men Gone West / Book Early” (1977, 1978 albums, both produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange; featuring the worldwide hit “5705”; remastered, with two bonus tracks; Read here) | (Lemon / Cherry Red) |
| Dave Koz | “Collaborations: 25th Anniversary Collection” (14 songs) | (Concord) |
| The Young Professionals | “Remixes & Covers” (17 tracks, including remixes of Lana Del Rey, Tove Lo, Imagine Dragons, Zedd, etc.) | (Casablanca / Republic) |
More Digital Releases for July 31, 2015
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Joel Hodgson, Michael J. Nelson, et al | “Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXXIII [DVD]” (four discs) | (Shout! Factory) |
| Jo Kennedy, Ross O’Donovan, et al | “Starstruck [DVD]” (1982 film) | (Blue Underground) |
| The Mekons | “Revenge of the Mekons [DVD]” (a documentary by director Joe Angio) | (Music Box Films) |
| Jim Parsons, Rihanna, et al | “Home [DVD]” (2015 film; Blu-ray + DVD) | (DreamWorks) |
More DVD/Blu-ray Releases for July 28, 2015
Music Books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| Mary Black | “Down the Crooked Road: My Autobiography” (Paperback) | (Transworld Publishers, Aug. 1) |
| Bread | “Bread: A Sweet Surrender – The Musical Journey of David Gates, James Griffin & Co.” (Paperback; author: Malcolm Searles) | (Helter Skelter Publishing) |
| Leonard Cohen | “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters” (Paperback; edited by Jeff Burger) | (Chicago Review Press, Aug. 1) |
| Bob Dylan | “Dylan: Disc by Disc” (Hardcover; author: Jon Bream) | (Voyageur Press, Aug. 1) |
| Bob Harris (of “The Old Grey Whistle Test”) | “Bob Harris: Still Whispering After All These Years – My Autobiography” (Hardcover) | (Michael O’Mara, Aug. 1) |
| Love | “Pegasus Epitaph: The Story of the Legendary Rock Group Love” (Paperback; author: Michael Stuart-Ware) | (Helter Skelter Publishing) |
| Queen | “Queen, Revised & Updated: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock” (Paperback; author: Phil Sutcliffe) | (Voyageur Press, Aug. 1) |
More Book Releases for the Week of July 31, 2015
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