New Releases: June 18, 2021
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ashe | “Ashlyn” (guests: Niall Horan, FINNEAS; new single: “I’m Fine”; See here; Cassette; Clear Vinyl, out Aug. 27; Download, released on May 7; Apple Music) » BUY NOW  |
(Mom+Pop Music) |
| Jonathan Edwards | “Right Where I Am” (Hear here) |
(Rising Records) |
| Fear Factory | “Aggression Continuum” (their final record with Burton C. Bell on vocals; first single: “Disruptor”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Nuclear Blast) |
| Rory Feek | “Gentle Man” (his first solo album and his first recordings since his wife Joey’s death in 2016; includes a cover of “The Times They Are A-Changin'”; guests: Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Trisha Yearwood, Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs, Lee Ann Womack, Ben Isaacs, Mike Rogers, etc.; See here; Read here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Gaither Music Group) |
| Paula Fuga (one of Hawaii’s top female musicians) | “Rain on Sunday” (producer: Mike Love; new single: “If Ever”, with Jack Johnson and Ben Harper; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Brushfire / Republic) |
| Natalie Gelman | “Moth to the Flame” (producer: Charlie Midnight; new single: “Heavy, Heavy Heart”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Blue Élan) |
| Amy Helm | “What the Flood Leaves Behind” (recorded at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock; producer: Josh Kaufman; new single: “Breathing”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Richard X. Heyman | “Copious Notes” (new single: “Choices We Make”; See here) |
(Turn-Up) |
| K.C. Jones (Louisiana songwriter) | “Queen of the In Between” (new single: “Heat Rises”; Hear/Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(K.C. Jones Music) |
| Gary Kemp | “INSOLO” (the Spandau Ballet guitarist’s second solo album; recorded at RAK Studios and Metropolis Studios and mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios; producers: Kemp, Toby Chapman; new single: “Ahead of the Game”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Columbia) |
| Amythyst Kiah | “Wary + Strange” (debut album from Our Native Daughters member; recorded at L.A.’s Sound City Studios, with a musical A-Team that included guitarist Blake Mills, keyboardist Ethan Gruska and pedal steel player Rich Hinman; producer: Tony Berg; new single: “Wild Turkey”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Rounder) |
| Benjamin Francis Leftwich | “To Carry a Whale” (new single: “Cherry in Tacoma”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Dirty Hit / Interscope) |
| John McLaughlin | “Liberation Time” (See/Read here; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(Abstract Logix) |
| Rebelution | “In the Moment” (guests: Durand Jones, Keznamdi, Kabaka Pyramid, Busy Signal; new single: “Old School Feeling”; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Easy Star) |
| Styx | “Crash of the Crown” (first single: “Crash of the Crown”; Hear here; Black Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(UMe) |
| Rosie Tucker | “Sucker Supreme” (new single: “Barbara Ann”; See here; Vinyl; Download, released on April 30; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Epitaph) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Country Volume 14” (featuring hits by Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt, Miranda Lambert, Luke Combs, Dan + Shay, etc.) » BUY NOW |
(NOW Music) |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | “Symphonic Suites” (three newly orchestrated suites from his award-winning musicals “Evita,” “Phantom of the Opera” and “Sunset Boulevard,” recorded live with an 81-piece orchestra at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane) » BUY NOW |
(Decca) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Joan Armatrading | “Consequences” (first single: “Already There”; Hear here; CD and Vinyl out Aug. 13; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Mykki Blanco | “Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep” (guests: Blood Orange, Kari Faux, God Colony, Jamila Woods, Jay Cue, Bruno Ribeiro, Big Freedia; new single: “Love Me”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Transgressive) |
| Briars of North America | “Supermoon” (first single: “Sala”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Brassland) |
| Country Westerns | “Country Westerns” (four-song EP, featuring covers of Jad Fair and Norman Blake, Richard & Linda Thompson and Dead Moon; first single: “Undeletable”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Fat Possum) |
| Crobot | “Rat Child” (four-song EP; guests: Frank Bello, Steel Panther’s Stix Zadina, Light the Torch’s Howard Jones; first single: “Mountain”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mascot / Mascot Label Group) |
| HorrorPops | “Live at the Wiltern” (See here; Vinyl; Blu-ray + DVD) » BUY NOW |
(Cleopatra) |
| Kings of Convenience | “Peace or Love” (the Norwegian duo’s first new music in 12 years; guest: Feist; new single: “Rocky Trail”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Virgin) |
| Neonfly (U.K. metallers) | “The Future, Tonight” (producer: Romesh Dodangoda; with keyboards and orchestra arranged by Miro Rodenberg; new single: “The Future, Tonight,” feat. Björn “Speed” Strid of Soilwork; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Noble Demon) |
| Shungudzo | “I am not a mother, but I have children” (13 songs and three poetic interludes; new single: “There’s only so much a soul can take”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Svikiro Records / Young Forever / BMG Rights Management) |
| Rejjie Snow | “Baw Baw Black Sheep” (producers: Cam O’bi, Dee Lilly; guests: the late MF DOOM, Tinashe, Snoh Aalegra, grouptherapy.; new single: “Relax”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Honeymoon) |
| Cher Strauberry | “Chering Is Caring” (described as “an immersive alt zine meets a DIY punk show meets an audio diary [recorded nearly entirely on a microcassette player & walkman]”; first single: “Down n Out”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Apple Music) |
(Silver Arrow) |
| Ten City | “Judgement” (the first album in 25 years from the Chicago R&B and house vocal group led by Byron Stingily and Marshall Jefferson; new single: a rework of their 1987 classic, “Devotion”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Ultra) |
| Various artists | “Dark Nights: Death Metal Soundtrack” (executive produced by Tyler Bates; featuring tracks by Mastodon, Rise Against, Chelsea Wolfe, Grey Daze, etc.; Hear here; CD and Vinyl out July 16; Merch) » BUY NOW | (Loma Vista Recordings) |
Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Allman Brothers Band | “Bear’s Sonic Journals: Fillmore East, February 1970 (Deluxe Edition)” (three-CD set, offering the complete recordings from Feb. 11, 13-14, 1970, with expanded booklet) » BUY NOW |
(Allman Brothers Band Recording Company) |
| Mel Brooks | “Mel Brooks’ Greatest Hits” (1978 album; remastered) » BUY NOW |
(Wounded Bird) |
| Bulletboys | “The Warner Albums 1988-1993” (three CDs; with bonus tracks; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(HNE / Cherry Red) |
| Don Cherry | “The Summer House Sessions” (recorded July 20, 1968 at Kummelnäs, Sweden by Göran Freese; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(Blank Forms Editions) |
| Grand Funk Railroad | “The Complete Warner Recordings” (1981’s “Grand Funk Lives” and 1983’s “What’s Funk” on one CD, with one bonus track, “Let It Happen”; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Wounded Bird) |
| Kleeer | “The Atlantic Collection 1979-1985” (eight-CD box set contains seven full-length albums, plus a bonus disc of 12-inch and 7-inch versions; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Robinsongs / Cherry Red) |
| Jaime Laredo | “The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection” (23-CD box set) » BUY NOW |
(Sony Classical) |
| Riccardo Muti | “Riccardo Muti: The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings” (91-CD box set, spanning from 1973 to 2007) » BUY NOW |
(Warner Classics) |
| Small Faces | “The Complete Atlantic Recordings” (1977’s “Playmates” and 1978’s “78 in the Shade” on one CD, with two bonus tracks) » BUY NOW |
(Wounded Bird) |
| Ten Years After | “1967-1974” (10-CD box set features eight Chrysalis and Deram-era studio albums, one live album and a bonus disc of unheard recordings from 1972 called “The Cap Ferrat Sessions,” which has been newly mixed by Chris Kimsey) » BUY NOW |
(Chrysalis) |
| Various artists | “Alligator Records: 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music” (three-CD, 58-song label retrospective; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(Alligator) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Country Classics ’00s” (featuring hits by Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift, etc.) » BUY NOW |
(NOW Music) |
| Joe Vitale | “Roller Coaster Weekend / Plantation Harbor” (1974 and 1981 albums on one CD; remastered) » BUY NOW |
(Wounded Bird) |
| The Whispers | “The Definitive Collection 1972-1987” (four-CD box set covers their Janus and Solar song catalogs; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Robinsongs / Cherry Red) |
| Frank Zappa | “Zappa ’88: The Last U.S. Show” (final U.S. concert at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY, on March 25, 1988, featuring the first official release of the much-talked-about “The Beatles Medley”; newly mixed by Craig Parker Adams from the 48-track digital master tapes; Read here; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Zappa / UMe) |
Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Getting The Fear | “Death Is Bigger: 1984-85” (12-song collection; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW | (Dais) |
Next Week: June 25, 2021
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