New Releases: May 31, 2019
New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Casey Abrams | “Jazz” (first single: “Why Don’t You Do Right?”; iTunes)  |
(Chesky) |
| The Afters | “Fear No More” (guests: MercyMe; first single: “Well Done”; See here; Download; iTunes) |
(Fair Trade Services / Columbia) |
| Jimmy Barnes | “My Criminal Record” (his first solo album of original material since 2010; first single: “My Criminal Record”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Bloodlines) |
| Kishi Bashi | “Omoiyari” (the multi-instrumentalist’s album centers on Japanese-American internment camps in 1940s America; first single: “Summer of ’42”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Joyful Noise Recordings) |
| Bracket | “Too Old to Die Young” (first single: “Canned from the Food Drive”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Fat Wreck Chords) |
| Darkthrone | “Old Star” (Norwegian black metal band’s 17th studio album; producer: vocalist/guitarist Nocturno Culto; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; Merch) |
(Peaceville) |
| Kirk Franklin | “Long Live Love” (first single: “Love Theory”; See here; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Fo Yo Soul Recordings / RCA) |
| Fujiya & Miyagi | “Flashback” (first single: “Flashback”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Impossible Objects of Desire) |
| Gloryhammer | “Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex” (producer: Lasse Lammert; new single: “The Siege of Dunkeld [In Hoots We Trust]”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with 10 bonus symphonic versions; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Napalm) |
| Ryan Hamilton and The Harlequin Ghosts | “This Is the Sound” (new single: “Mamacita”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Wicked Cool) |
| Lisa Hannigan and s t a r g a z e | “Live in Dublin” (See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Hoop Recordings / PIAS America) |
| Frank Iero and the Future Violents | “Barriers” (recorded and mixed by Steve Albini; first single: “Young and Doomed”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(UNFD) |
| Max Jury (26-year-old Iowa native, based in Paris) | “Modern World” (producer: Robin Hannibal; first single: “Sweet Lie”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Marathon Artists) |
| Left Lane Cruiser | “Shake and Bake” (first single: “Shake and Bake”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Alive Naturalsound) |
| L7 | “Scatter the Rats” (their first album in 20 years; producers: Norm Block, Nick Launay; first single: “Burn Baby”; See here; Vinyl; Download, released on May 3; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Blackheart) |
| Duff McKagan (GNR bassist) | “Tenderness” (producer: Shooter Jennings; guests: Jennings’ band, The Waters, The Suicide Horn Section, etc.; new single: “Chip Away”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(UMe) |
| Ian Noe (singer-songwriter out of Beattyville, Ky.) | “Between the Country” (producer: Dave Cobb; See here; Read here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(National Treasury Recordings / Thirty Tigers) |
| Lee “Scratch” Perry | “Rainford” (producer: Adrian Sherwood; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(On-U Sound) |
| Pretty Wild (Swedish glam rockers) | “Interstate 13” (See here; Download; iTunes) |
(Black Lodge) |
| Thomas Rhett | “Center Point Road” (producers: Julian Bunetta, Dann Huff, Rhett; new single: “Look What God Gave Her”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(The Valory Music Co. / Big Machine) |
| Justin Rutledge (Juno Award-winning alt-country artist) | “Passages” (producers: Rutledge, Chris Stringer; first single: “Good Man”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Outside Music) |
| Sacred Paws (Glasgow-based indie pop duo) | “Run Around the Sun” (first single: “The Conversation”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Merge) |
| Doug Seegers | “A Story I Got To Tell” (first single: “Demon Seed”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band | “The Traveler” (first single: “Woman Like You”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Concord) |
| Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith | “The Peyote Dance” (collaborative album inspired by French poet Antonin Artaud; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Bella Union) |
| Wang Chung | “Orchesography” (re-imagining their hits with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra; See here; Download; On Tour) |
(August Day) |
| Juan Wauters | “Introducing Juan Pablo” (first single: “Letter”; Hear here; Vinyl; iTunes) |
(Captured Tracks) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Denzel Curry | “ZUU” (guests: Rick Ross, Kiddo Marv, PlayThatBoiZay, Ice Billion Berg, Sam Sneak; new single: “SPEEDBOAT”; See here; CD, out Aug. 9; iTunes; On Tour, with Billie Eilish) |
(Loma Vista Recordings) |
| Miley Cyrus | “SHE IS COMING” (six-song EP; producers: Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, Mike Will Made-It; first single: “Party Up the Street”; Hear here; guests: RuPaul, Swae Lee, Ghostface Killah, etc.; iTunes; Merch) |
(RCA) |
| Flor de Toloache | “Indestructible” (guests: John Legend, Miguel, Alex Cuba, Josh Baca, Las Migas; NPR First Listen) |
(Flor de Toloache) |
| Raveena (Queens-based R&B singer) | “Lucid” (producer: Everett Orr; new single: “Stronger”; Hear here) |
(Moonstone Recordings, LLC / EMPIRE) |
| Roots of a Rebellion (Nashville-based jam band) | “Shapes of a Soul” (first single: “One Thing”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Roots of a Rebellion) |
| Skepta (Mercury Prize-winning grime artist) | “Ignorance Is Bliss” (CD, out June 28; iTunes) |
(Boy Better Know) |
| Sublime with Rome | “Blessings” (producers: Rob Cavallo, Andrew Goldstein; first singles: “Light On,” “Spiderweb,” “Blackout” and “Wicked Heart”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(5 Music) |
| Yung Gravy | “Sensational” (guests: Juicy J, Lil Baby, Mia Gladstone, Pouya, Ramirez, Trippy tha Kid, Lil Mayo, bbno$; new single: “Gravy Train”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Republic) |
More Digital Releases for May 31, 2019 »
Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Atlanta Rhythm Section | “The Polydor Years” (eight-CD box set; remastered; Hear here; On Tour; Merch) |
(Polydor / UMe) |
| Susan Boyle | “TEN” (17-track compilation of her favorite songs from the past 10 years, along with four new songs; See/read here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes) |
(Syco Music / Columbia) |
| Rory Gallagher | “Blues” (three-CD collection of electric, acoustic and live blues, mostly of it previously unreleased; Single CD; Vinyl; Download) |
(UMe) |
| Hootie & The Blowfish | “Cracked Rear View (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1994 album; remastered, with their five-song 1992 EP “Kootchypop,” a live recording of their Feb. 3, 1995, show at Nick’s Fat City in Pittsburgh, and other rarities; Vinyl; On Tour) |
(Rhino / Atlantic) |
| Buck Owens and the Buckaroos | “The Complete Capitol Singles: 1971-1975” (two CDs, 42 songs; Download; iTunes) |
(Omnivore Recordings) |
| Various artists | “Soul Explosion [Vinyl]” (1969 compilation of Stax tracks, on vinyl for the first time in 50 years; two LPs, 28 songs; Download; iTunes) |
(Craft Recordings / Concord) |
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Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Phil Collins | “Other Sides” (digital-only compilation of 18 demos and B-sides from 1981-2003; iTunes) , “Remixed Sides” (digital-only 18-track collection of extended takes; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Rhino) |
| Morcheeba | “Blaze Away (Deluxe Version)” (2018 album; with 12 bonus remixes; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Fly Agaric) |
More Digital Releases for May 31, 2019 »
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| The Police | “Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out [DVD]” (2006 rockumentary, a first-person account of the band, culled from drummer Stewart Copeland’s more than 50 hours of Super 8 movies he shot during their heyday; this expanded edition includes more than 20 minutes of extra footage and commentary by Andy Summers and Copeland; See here; Read here; Blu-ray) |
(Eagle Rock) |
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