New Releases: March 2, 2018
New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Arrows to Fire (Texas alt-rock band) | “Here We Go” (producers: Arrows to Fire, Jacob Sciba; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour)  |
(Smartouf, March 7) |
| Joan Baez | “Whistle Down the Wind” (Baez says 2018 will be her last year of formal extended touring; this is her first album in 10 years; producer: Joe Henry; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; eBay; On Tour)  |
(Bobolink / Razor & Tie) |
| Black Moth (stoner rock/metal band from Leeds) | “Anatomical Venus” (producer: Andy Hawkins; first single: “Moonbow”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Candlelight / Spinefarm) |
| The Breeders | “All Nerve” (their first studio album since 2008; first single: “All Nerve”; Hear here; NPR’s All Songs Considered; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(4AD) |
| Buffalo Tom | “Quiet and Peace” (Boston indie rock trio’s first album in seven years; producer: Dave Minehan; first single: “All Be Gone”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Scrawny / Schoolkids) |
| Camp Cope (Australian lo-fi rock trio) | “How to Socialise & Make Friends” (new single: “How to Socialise & Make Friends”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Run For Cover) |
| Celtic Thunder | “Celtic Thunder X” (new special was filmed in Dublin on Oct. 30, 2017, at the Helix Theatre and features new ensemble songs; See here; DVD; Download) |
(Legacy Recordings) |
| Cut Chemist | “Die Cut” (his first release since 2006; guests: Biz Markie, Chali 2na, Hymnal, Myka 9, Laura Darlington, Deantoni Parks, etc.; first single: “Work My Mind”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(A Stable Sound) |
| Lucy Dacus | “Historian” (producer: Collin Pastore; mixed by John Congleton; first single: “Night Shift”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Matador) |
| Fanny Walked the Earth (feat. Fanny members June Millington, Jean Millington Adamian and Brie Howard Darling) | “Fanny Walked The Earth” (their first album together since 1974; producer: Dave Darling; first single: “Lured Away”; Hear here; NPR’s Songs We Love; See here; P&P Archive Interview; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Blue Élan) |
| Sue Foley | “The Ice Queen” (guests: Billy F. Gibbons, Jimmie Vaughan, Chris “Whipper” Layton, Charlie Sexton, JJ Johnson, Johnny Bradley, etc.; Hear here; Download; eBay; On Tour) |
(Stony Plain) |
| Haley Heynderickx (Portland, Ore., singer-songwriter) | “I Need to Start a Garden” (producers: Zak Kimball, Heynderickx; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Mama Bird Recording Co.) |
| I AM THEY | “Trial & Triumph” (guest: David Leonard; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Essential / Provident) |
| In Tall Buildings (Chicago songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Erik Hall) | “Akinetic” (producer: Brian Deck; new single: “Curtain”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Western Vinyl) |
| Tory Lanez | “Memories Don’t Die” (guests: Future, Wiz Khalifa, Mansa, NAV, Fabolous, Davo, Paloma Ford; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Mad Love / Interscope) |
| Lance Lopez (Texas six-string legend) | “Tell the Truth” (producer: Fabrizio Grossi; first single: “Cash My Check”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) |
(Mascot Label Group) |
| Lucius | “NUDES” (all-acoustic re-imagined fan favorites, with new songs and covers of Gerry Rafferty and Tame Impala; recorded at Electric Lady Studios; guests: Roger Waters, Nels Cline; first single: “Neighbors”; Hear here; Chocolate Brown Vinyl; Deluxe Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Mom+Pop Music) |
| Jackson MacIntosh (Montreal indie-pop artist) | “My Dark Side” (guest: Ellise Barbara; new single: “Can It Be Love?”; Hear here; Amazon.ca; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Sinderlyn) |
| The Men | “Drift” (first single: “Maybe I’m Crazy”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Sacred Bones) |
| Moby | “Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt” (first single: “Like a Motherless Child”; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay) |
(Mute) |
| Mt. Joy | “Mt. Joy” (new single: “Jenny Jenkins”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Dualtone) |
| Sonny Smith (of Sonny and the Sunsets) | “Rod For Your Love” (producer: Dan Auerbach; first single: “Pictures of You”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Easy Eye Sound / Nonesuch) |
| Chris Smither | “Call Me Lucky” (first single: “The Blame’s On Me”; Hear here; Download; On Tour) |
(Signature Sounds) |
| Soccer Mommy (aka 20-year-old Nashville singer-songwriter Sophie Allison) | “Clean” (Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Fat Possum) |
| Superorganism (east London-based indie pop collective) | “Superorganism” (new single: “Everybody Wants To Be Famous”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Domino) |
| Tech N9ne | “Planet” (guests: Machine Gun Kelly, Krizz Kaliko, Snow Tha Product, Kingo Iso, etc.; Hear here; See here; Deluxe Edition; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Strange Music) |
| Tracey Thorn | “Record” (guests: Corinne Bailey Rae, Shura, Warpaint’s Jenny Lee Lindberg and Stella Mozgawa; first single: “Queen”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Merge) |
| Titus Andronicus | “A Productive Cough” (first single: “Number One [In New York]”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Merge) |
| UB40 featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey | “A Real Labour of Love” (producer: frontman Ali Campbell; first single: “She Loves Me Now”; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(UMe) |
| Various artists | “Standing at the Gates: The Songs of Nada Surf’s Let Go” (charity covers album to celebrate the 15th anniversary of “Let Go,” benefiting the ACLU and The Pablove Foundation; contributors: Aimee Mann, Ed Harcourt, Charly Bliss, Manchester Orchestra, Rogue Wave, The Texas Gentlemen, etc.; first single: “Happy Kid,” Ron Gallo; Hear here; Download, released on Feb. 2; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Mardev) |
| Barrence Whitfield & The Savages | “Soul Flowers of Titan” (first single: “Let’s Go to Mars”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Bloodshot) |
| Jonathan Wilson (L.A.-based singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist) | “Rare Birds” (guests: Father John Misty, Lucius, Lana Del Rey, Laraaji; first single: “Over the Midnight”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Bella Union) |
| Andrew W.K. | “You’re Not Alone” (his first new full-length album in more than a decade; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Bee & El / RED / Sony Music) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Skylar Autumn | “Compass” (five-song EP; producers: Josh Flores, Tragus Productions; guests: Valerie Carricato, William Funderfurk, Dan Radin, Josh Allen, Chris Caron, Nate Cimino, James Mahler, Josh Flores, Sean Tittle, Micahel Whitesell, Joel Jurekovic; first single: “East Wind”; Hear here) | (WayWord, March 3) |
| Randy Bachman | “By George — By Bachman” (a celebration of George Harrison songs; CD, out March 16; Amazon.ca; On Tour) |
(UMe) |
| Barbagallo (Tame Impala drummer) | “Danse dans les ailleurs” (first single: “L’échappée”; Hear here; See here) |
(Arista France) |
| Steve Barton (founding member of Translator) | “Tall Tales and Alibis” (triple album) |
(Sleepless) |
| Candace | “New Ruins” (first single: “Rewind”; Hear here; See here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Candace) |
| Dragondeer (Denver-based pysch-blues and soul band) | “If You Got the Blues” (producer: Mark Howard; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(VQ Creative / Kobalt) |
| Future Jr. (L.A. alt-pop artist) | “Vacancy” (six-song EP; first single: “Suburbia Blue”; Hear here) |
(Kobalt) |
| Lena Hall (Tony Award winner for the 2014 Broadway revival of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) | “Obsessed: Elton John” (the third in her monthly series of EPs and weekly videos in which she celebrates her favorite musicians and bands; five-song EP features covers of “The Bitch Is Back,” “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” “Take Me to the Pilot,” “”Have Mercy on the Criminal” and “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting”; producers: Justin Craig, Hall, Kurt Deutsch; See here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Sh-K-Boom / Ghostlight) |
| Moss Kena (U.K. pop-soul singer) | “Found You in 06” (five-song EP; guest: Leikeli47; first single: “Square One”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Colt Club / Ministry of Sound / RCA) |
| Living Hour (Winnipeg dream-pop band) | “Lovely, Lonely: A Collection of Covers for Hollow Hearts” (five-song EP includes covers of Nico, Avi Buffalo, The Ink Spots and Françoise Hardy; Hear here) |
(Living Hour) |
| Nefesh Mountain (husband-wife bluegrass duo of Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg) | “Beneath the Open Sky” (producers: Lindberg, Zasloff; guests: Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Tony Trischka, David Grier; first singles: “Bound For The Promised Land” and “I Want To Hear Somebody Pray”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Nefesh Mountain) |
| Stone Broken (U.K. hard rockers) | “Ain’t Always Easy” (producer: Romesh Dodangoda; new single: “Heartbeat Away”; Hear here; CD and Vinyl, out April 13; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Spinefarm) |
| Toubab Krewe | “Stylo” (the world-jam band’s first album since 2010; first single: “That Damn Squash”; Hear here; On Tour) |
(Toubab Krewe) |
| Katie Toupin (formerly of Houndmouth) | “Moroccan Ballroom” (five-song EP; guest: Brandon Walters; first single: “Danger”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Toupin Music) |
| Xscape | “Here for It” (six-song EP; Hear here; iTunes) |
(RedZone Entertainment) |
More Digital Releases for March 2, 2018 »
Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Axe | “Rock ‘N’ Roll Party – The Complete Atco Recordings” (22 songs) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Ry Cooder | “Paris, Texas (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Vinyl]” (1985 album; limited-edition clear vinyl) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Jackie DeShannon | “Stone Cold Soul: The Complete Capitol Recordings” (25 songs; eBay) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, et al | “The Greatest Showman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Vinyl]” (2017 album; with download card; See here) |
(Atlantic) |
| Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette | “After the Fall” (November 1998 concert in Newark, N.J.; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes) |
(ECM) |
| Juilliard String Quartet | “The Complete Epic Recordings 1956-66” (11-CD box set) |
(Sony Classical) |
| The King’s Singers | “The Complete RCA Recordings” (11-CD box set) |
(RCA Red Seal) |
| Annie Lennox | “Diva [Vinyl]” (1992 album, featuring “Why” and “Walking On Broken Glass”), “Medusa [Vinyl]” (1995 album, featuring “No More I Love You’s”) |
(Arista / Legacy) |
| Johnny Mathis | “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head (Expanded Edition)” (1970 album; remastered, with six bonus tracks), “Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach & Kaempfert (Expanded Edition)” (1970 album; remastered, with five bonus tracks) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| MercyMe | “I Can Only Imagine: The Very Best of MercyMe” (13 songs; See here; Download; iTunes, with four extra tracks; eBay; On Tour) |
(Fair Trade Services / Columbia) |
| The Oak Ridge Boys | “When I Sing for Him: The Complete Columbia Recordings & RCA Singles” (two CDs, 49 songs; eBay; On Tour) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Pet Shop Boys | “Please / Further Listening 1984-1986 (2018 Remastered Version)” (1986 album; with 13 bonus tracks; Amazon UK; Download), “Actually / Further Listening 1987-1988 (2018 Remastered Version)” (1987 album; with 14 bonus tracks; Amazon UK; Download) and “Introspective / Further Listening 1988-1989 (2018 Remastered Version)” (1988 album; with 15 bonus tracks; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; eBay; Merch) |
(Rhino / Parlophone) |
| Various artists | “Charlotte’s Web (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (1973 animated film, featuring the voices of Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde and Henry Gibson; story by Earl Hamner Jr.; released on CD for the first time) | (Varѐse Sarabande) |
| Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band | “The Best of Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band” (eBay) |
(Varèse Sarabande) |
More Releases for March 2, 2018 »
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