New stuff (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Blessid Union of Souls | “Live At Never On Sunday [CD/DVD]” (Hear here; MP3) | (Cleopatra) |
| Elijah Blake (has penned hits for Rihanna, Nas, Alicia Keys, etc.) | “Shadows & Diamonds” (new single: “Fading”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (ARTium / Def Jam) |
| Breaking Benjamin (with several new members) | “Dark Before Dawn” (their first album since 2009; first single: “Failure”; Hear here; MP3) | (Hollywood) |
| Leon Bridges (Fort Worth R&B singer) | “Coming Home” (producers: Austin Jenkins and Josh Block of White Denim; first single: “River”; Hear here; See here; MP3; LP, Signed Lithograph and CD Bundles) | (Columbia) |
| Bully (Nashville alt-rock quartet) | “Feels Like” (producer: frontwoman Alicia Bognanno; first single: “Trying”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (StarTime International / Columbia) |
| Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams | “Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams” (producer: Campbell; guest: the late Levon Helms; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Red House) |
| Cayucas (Santa Monica indie pop band) | “Dancing at the Blue Lagoon” (new single: “Moony Eyed Walrus”; Hear here; MP3) | (Secretly Canadian) |
| Citizen | “Everybody Is Going To Heaven” (producer: Will Yip; first single: “Stain”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Run For Cover) |
| Creepoid (Philly quartet) | “Cemetery Highrise Slum” (producer: Peter Mavrogeorgis; first single: “Dried Out”; See here; MP3) | (Collect) |
| Delta Deep (Phil Collen with Robert DeLeo, Debbi Blackwell-Cook and Forrest Robinson) | “Delta Deep” (guests: Joe Elliott, David Coverdale, Paul Cook, Simon Laffy; Hear here; MP3) | (Mailboat) |
| Desaparecidos (fronted by Conor Oberst) | “Payola” (producers: Desaparecidos, Mike Mogis; Hear here; MP3) | (Epitaph) |
| Eskimo Callboy (German metalcore band) | “Crystals” (Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Spinefarm) |
| Fist City | “Everything Is a Mess” (producer: Ben Greenberg, recorded at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio studio in Chicago; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Transgressive) |
| Lyfe Jennings | “Tree of Lyfe” (first single: “Pretty Is”; See here) | (RAL / Sony Music Entertainment) |
| Freedy Johnston | “Neon Repairman” (Hear here; MP3) | (Singing Magnet) |
| Rickie Lee Jones | “The Other Side of Desire” (producer: John Porter; Hear here) | (The Other Side of Desire Records / Thirty Tigers) |
| Tori Kelly | “Unbreakable Smile” (producer: Max Martin; guests: Ed Sheeran, LL Cool J, Daye Jack; first single: “Nobody Love”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Silent / Capitol) |
| Lindemann (Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann, with Peter Tägtgren of the bands Hypocrisy and Pain) | “Skills in Pills” (first single: “Praise Abort”; Hear here; MP3) | (Warner) |
| T. Hardy Morris | “Hardy and The Hardknocks: Drownin On a Mountaintop” (first single: “Painted On Attitude”; Hear here; MP3) | (Dangerbird) |
| Motopony (Seattle alt-folk band) | “Welcome You” (producer: Mike McCarthy; new single: “1971”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (eOne Music / Fast Plastic) |
| Kacey Musgraves | “Pageant Material” (producers: Musgraves, Shane McAnally; first single: “Biscuits”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Mercury Nashville) |
| Najee | “You Me & Forever” (Hear here) | (Shanachie) |
| Nappy Roots | “The 40 Akerz Project” (producer: 808 Blake of SMKA; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Nappy Roots Entertainment Group) |
| The Orb | “Moonbuilding 2703 AD” (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl) | (Kompakt) |
| The Other (German metal band) | “Fear Itself” (producer: Waldemar Sorychta; Hear here; MP3) | (Steamhammer) |
| Pete Rock | “PeteStrumentals 2” (Hear here; MP3) | (Mello Music Group) |
| Jamison Ross (winner of the 2012 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition) | “Jamison” (Hear here) | (Concord) |
| Neal Schon | “Vortez” (double album of instrumental music; guest: Jan Hammer; Hear here) | (Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group) |
| Canaan Smith | “Bronco” (first single: “Love You Like That”; Hear here; MP3) | (Mercury Nashville) |
| Corey Smith | “While the Gettin’ Is Good” (producer: Keith Stegall; guests: Mike Hines, Kris Dale, Lee Davis, Antwane McMullin, Eric Darken, Dan Dugmore, John Willis, Stuart Duncan, Sam Levin; Hear here) | (Sugar Hill) |
| Trey Songz | “Trigga Reloaded” (new single: “About You”; Hear here) | (Songbook / Atlantic) |
| Son Lux | “Bones” (first single: “Change Is Everything”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Glassnote) |
| Richard Thompson | “Still” (producer: Jeff Tweedy; first single: “Beatnik Walking”; Hear here; Vinyl; Deluxe Edition; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition) | (Fantasy) |
| Various artists | “Teen Beach 2” (sequel starring Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell airs premieres June 26 on Disney Channel; See here; MP3; DVD) | (Walt Disney) |
| Virgin Steele | “Nocturnes of Hellfire & Damnation” (Hear here; MP3) | (Steamhammer / SPV) |
| Wolf Alice (London quartet) | “My Love Is Cool” (producer: Mike Crossey; first single: “Moaning Lisa Smile”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Dirty Hit / RCA) |
| Bill Wyman | “Back to Basics” (the former Rolling Stones bassist’s first solo album in 33 years; producers: Wyman, Andy Wright; Hear here; Read here) | (U.K. – Proper, June 22) |
More Releases for the Week of June 23, 2015
New stuff (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Birth of Joy (rock trio) | “Live At Ubu” (23 tracks; Hear here; CD) | (Long Branch / SPV) |
| Jen Dale | “Jimi Otis Bacon & Eggs” (five-song EP; producer: Brad Williams; Hear here; iTunes) | (recordJet, June 26) |
| Everlit (Philly hard-rock quartet) | “Renovate” (five-song EP; producer: Taylor Larsen; first single: “Break Away”; Hear here; See here; iTunes) | (RDC Media Group) |
| Chris Marshall and the August Light | “Some Kind of Dream” (producer: band member Patti King; Hear here) | (Chris Marshall and the August Light) |
| Nightjacket (L.A. dream-pop quintet) | “Eternal Phase” (six-song EP; Hear here) | (Nightjacket) |
| Prayers (goth/electronic/industrial duo) | “Young Gods” (producer: Travis Barker; guests: Barker, DJ Klever, Skinhead Rob; first single: “Young Gods”; Hear here) | (LaSalle) |
| The Relapse Symphony (D.C. rockers) | “Born to Burn” (producer: Sean Small; first single: “A Perfect Lie”; Hear here; See here) | (Standby) |
| Sleep Therapy (power shoegaze outfit) | “Creatures” (four-song EP; See here) | (Sleep Therapy) |
| Turk Tresize (Australian roots rock artist) | “If It Is to Be” (producer: Andrija Tokic; Hear here; iTunes) | (Dairy Shed / Consonant Music / The Orchard) |
More Digital Releases for the Week of June 23, 2015
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Asia | “AXS XXX: Live In San Francisco” (2012 concert at the Regency Ballroom; two CDs, one DVD) | (Frontiers) |
| Black Mountain | “Black Mountain (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (2005 album; remastered, with eight bonus tracks; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl) | (Jagjaguwar) |
| Eric Burdon and War | “Eric Burdon Declares ‘War'” (1970 album, featuring “Spill the Wine”; remastered), “The Black Man’s Burdon” (1970 album; remastered; two CDs) | (Avenue) |
| Chicago Transit Authority | “Chicago Transit Authority [Vinyl]” (1969 album; two-LP, 180-gram, gatefold cover) | (Friday Music) |
| Gene Clark | “Guy Clark / The South Coast of Texas / Better Days” (1978, 1980 and 1983 albums on one CD; remastered; Track list) | (U.K. – BGO, June 22) |
| Duran Duran | “Rio (Deluxe Edition)” (1982 album; remastered; 2009 Limited Edition release repackaged in a digipak, featuring alternative mixes, demos, unreleased tracks) | (Rhino / Parlophone) |
| The Jerry Garcia Band | “On Broadway: Act One – October 28th, 1987” (three CDs; Read here) | (ATO) |
| Lowell George | “The Last Tour / Classic 1979 Broadcast” | (Blueline) |
| Albert Hammond | “It Never Rains in Southern California” (1972 album; remastered) | (U.K. – Epic, June 22) |
| Boo Hewerdine | “Open” (unreleased recordings from sessions at Britannia Row Studios in 2003; Hear here; MP3) | (Reveal) |
| The Human League | “ICON” (best-of) | (Virgin / UMe) |
| The Jam | “About the Young Idea: The Very Best of The Jam” (two CDs, 47 songs; Read here) | (U.K. – Polydor, June 22) |
| The Lover Speaks | “The Lover Speaks (Expanded Edition)” (1986 album, including the original “No More ‘I Love You’s’ “; remastered, with eight bonus tracks; See here) | (U.K. – Cherry Pop, June 22) |
| Rod McKuen | “A Boy Named Charlie Brown: Music From the Original Score” (1969 soundtrack album; remastered; See here; MP3) | (Varese Sarabande) |
| Night Ranger | “ICON” (best-of) | (Geffen / UMe) |
| Iggy Pop | “Psychophonic Medicine” (three-CD collection of rare post-Stooges live and studio tracks from 1977-85; MP3) | (Cleopatra) |
| David Lee Roth | “Sonrisa Salvaje” (Spanish version of his 1986 album “Eat ‘Em and Smile”; remastered; See here), “A Little Ain’t Enough” (1991 album; remastered) | (Friday Music) |
| Smokey | “How Far Will You Go? The S&M Recordings, 1973-81” (16 tracks; Hear/read here; Vinyl) | (Chapter Music) |
| The Statler Brothers | “ICON: Gospel Favorites” (best-of) | (Gaither Music Group / UMe) |
| Stephen Stills | “Live in Concert: KBFH Portland Oregon 10-4-76 / The Palladium NYC 1-9-77” | (Rox Vox) |
| Tarja (Finnish metal singer TarjaTurunen, formerly of Nightwish) | “You Me & Forever” (recorded at Stadium Luna Park in Buenos Aires on March 27, 2011, during the “What Lies Beneath World” tour; producer: Tarja & Mic; See here; MP3) | (earMUSIC) |
| Various artists | “ICON: Ladies of the ’80s” (best-of) | (Universal / UMe) |
| Various artists | “Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns, Volumes 3 & 4: American Teenage Garage Hoot! 1965-1967” (32 tracks, featuring The Vespers, Fugitive Five, Skip Ellis, The Zounds, Edges of Wisdom, Eddie Day & the Night Timers, The Last Image, Five Counts, Sound Carnival, The Tortians, Mystics, etc.) | (Crypt) |
| War | “War” (1971 album; remastered), “All Day Music” (1971 album; remastered), “The World Is a Ghetto” (1972 album; remastered), “Deliver the Word” (1973 album; remastered), “War Live” (1974 album; remastered; two CDs), “Platinum Jazz” (1976 album; remastered), “Galaxy” (1977 album; remastered), “Outlaw” (1982 album; remastered), “Peace Sign” (1994 album; remastered) | (Avenue) |
| Tammy Wynette | “The First Lady / We Sure Can Love Each Other” (1970, 1971 albums, both making their debuts on CD; remastered; Read here) | (U.K. – Morello / Cherry Red, June 22) |
More Releases for the Week of June 23, 2015
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Waylon Jennings | “Classic Albums Collection” (10 complete albums) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Various artists | “The Best of Cerrone Productions” (42 songs; Hear here) | (Because Music) |
More Digital Releases for the Week of June 23, 2015
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, et al | “The Bridge (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]” (1959 film; Read here; DVD) | (Criterion Collection) |
| Carole King | “A MusiCares Tribute to Carole King [DVD]” (Jan. 24, 2014, gala event in Los Angeles, featuring guests James Taylor, Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, Amy Grant, Sara Bareilles, Zac Brown, Jason Mraz, etc.; See here; Blu-ray) | (Shout! Factory) |
| Marco Leibnitz, Erik Rastetter, et al | “H.P. Lovecraft’s The Color Out of Space [Blu-ray]” (2010 film) | (Brink) |
| Joan Rivers | “That Show With Joan Rivers [DVD]” (four discs; 1968-69 series) | (Synergy Ent / Topics Entertainment) |
| Marty Robbins | “Marty Robbins Spotlight 2 [DVD]” (10-disc set features such guests on his TV show as Bobby Bare, Mickey Gilley, Roy Acuff, Johnny Rodriguez, Jimmy Dean, Barbara Fairchild, Jack Greene, Boots Randolph, The Kendalls, etc.; See here) | (Team Marketing) |
| The Rolling Stones | “From the Vault: The Marquee Club Live in 1971 [DVD/CD]” (Blu-ray + CD; Vinyl) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, et al | “The Fisher King (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]” (1991 film; Read here; DVD) | (Criterion Collection) |
More DVD/Blu-ray Releases for the Week of June 23, 2015
Music books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| ABBA | “ABBA: The Name of the Game” (Paperback; authors: Andrew Oldham, Tony Calder, Colin Irwin) | (Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., June 25) |
| David Bowie | “Ziggyology: A Brief History of Ziggy Stardust” (Paperback; author: Simon Goddard) | (Ebury Press) |
| Ben Graham | “A Gathering of Promises: The Battle for Texas’s Psychedelic Music, from The 13th Floor Elevators to The Black Angels and Beyond” (Paperback) | (Zero Books, June 26) |
| Allen Klein | “Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll” (Hardcover; author: Fred Goodman; Kindle) | (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) |
| Gabriel Rossman | “Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation” (Paperback) | (Princeton University Press) |
| Peter Shapiro | “Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco” (Kindle) | (Faber & Faber) |
| Sheila E. | “The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir” (Paperback) | (Atria Books) |
More Book Releases for the Week of June 23, 2015