New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Animals As Leaders (D.C. progressive metal band) | “The Madness of Many” (Hear here; iTunes; On Tour)  |
(Sumerian) |
| Joan Armatrading | “Me Myself I World Tour” (recorded in October 2015 at The Barns at Wolf Trap, during what she said would be the last major tour of her career; Hear/read here; DVD; Merch) |
(429) |
| Daniel Bachman | “Daniel Bachman” (Hear here; NPR First Listen; MP3; iTunes) |
(Three Lobed) |
| Bobby Bazini (French Canadian singer-songwriter) | “Summer Is Gone” (first single: “C’est La Vie”; Hear here; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition, with three extra tracks) |
(UMGRI Interscope) |
| Billy Momo (Swedish “urban folk” unit) | “Seven Rivers Wild” (the track “Wishing Ain’t No Sin” was featured in AMC series “Better Call Saul” seasons 1 and 2; U.S. version features a bonus track, “Swim”; first single: “Drive”; See here; MP3; iTunes) |
(Mo Better Music) |
| Blue Rodeo | “1000 Arms” (first single: “Superstar”; See here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Telesoul) |
| Body/Head (Kim Gordon and guitarist Bill Nace) | “No Waves” (recorded live on March 24, 2014, during Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn.; Hear here; MP3) |
(Matador) |
| Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood | “Christmas Together” (Read here; MP3; On Tour; Merch; see related reissue below) |
(Pearl) |
| Busted | “Night Driver” (British trio’s first album in 13 years; producer: John Fields; first single: “Coming Home”; Hear here) |
(East West) |
| Alex Clare | “Tail of Lions” (first single: “Tell Me What You Need”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes) |
(ETC Recordings / RED) |
| Tasha Cobbs | “One Place Live At Capitol Studios” (Hear here; On Tour) |
(Motown Gospel) |
| Matt Costa | “Orange Sunshine (Music From The Motion Picture)” (2016 documentary on the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a California church centered on psychedelics who became the largest manufacturers and distributors of LSD in the United States in the 1960s; first single: “Call My Name”; Hear here; See MP3; Merch) |
(Varѐse Sarabande) |
| Gord Downie (The Tragically Hip frontman has terminal brain cancer) | “Secret Path” (producers: Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew, The Stills’ Dave Hamelin; See here; Read here; Vinyl, with an 88-page graphic novel illustrated by Jeff Lemire and an animated CBC special, which was created, written and directed by Downie; MP3; iTunes; Merch) |
(Arts & Crafts) |
| Dragonette | “Royal Blues” (Hear here; MP3; Merch) |
(Dragonette Inc.) |
| Ronnie Dunn | “Tattooed Heart” (producer: Rascal Flatts’ Jay DeMarcus; first single: “Damn Drunk,” feat. Kix Brooks; See here; NPR First Listen; Read here; MP3; Merch) |
(Big Machine) |
| Rik Emmett & RESolution 9 | “RES9” (producers: Emmett, Steve Skingley, Dave Dunlop; guests: Alex Lifeson, Dream Theater’s James LaBrie and Emmett’s onetime Triumph bandmates, Gil Moore and Mike Levine; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3; iTunes) |
(Provogue / Mascot Label Group) |
| Enigma | “The Fall of a Rebel Angel” (guests: Anggun, Mark Josher, Nanuk, Aquilo; Hear here; Read here; MP3; iTunes; Merch) |
(Universal) |
| The Griswolds (Aussie alt-rockers) | “High Times For Low Lives” (producer: Andrew Dawson; second single: “High Times For Low Lives”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Wind-up) |
| Cory Hanson | “The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo” (the Wand frontman’s solo debut album; string arrangements by Heather Lockie; first single: “Ordinary People”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Drag City) |
| James Hall & The Steady Wicked | “Electric Hex” (Hear here; MP3) | (Pulse / ERA) |
| Ty Herndon | “House on Fire” (Hear here; Read here; MP3; iTunes) |
(BFD / Sony / RED) |
| Home Free | “Full Of (Even More) Cheer” (Walmart-exclusive a cappella renditions of holiday classics; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Columbia) |
| In Flames | “Battles” (producer: Howard Benson; first single: “The End”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; Merch; On Tour) |
(Eleven Seven Music) |
| Jacuzzi Boys | “Ping Pong” (Hear here; iTunes) |
(Mag Mag) |
| Joe | “#MyNameIsJoeThomas” (guest: Gucci Mane; first single: “So I Can Have You Back”; See here; MP3; iTunes) |
(Plaid Takeover / BMG Rights Management) |
| Joey+Rory | “To Joey, with Love (Original Movie Soundtrack)” (documentary film debuted Sept. 20 in select cities and will be shown for one special encore in theaters on Oct. 6; See here; MP3; Merch) |
(Reunion) |
| Cledus T. Judd | “Things I Remember Before I Forget” (MP3; iTunes) |
(BFD) |
| Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen | “Death’s Dateless Night” (featuring covers of The Beatles, Hank Williams, Cole Porter, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, etc.; Hear here; Read here; MP3; iTunes) |
(Cooking Vinyl) |
| The Men | “Devil Music [Vinyl]” (Hear here; iTunes) |
(We Are The Men) |
| Minihorse | “Big Lack” (five-song EP; first single: “Blueblack”; See here; MP3) | (Friendship Fever) |
| Ennio Morricone | “Morricone 60” (22 songs, featuring re-recorded versions of his greatest hits, recorded with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra; MP3) |
(Decca) |
| The Neal Morse Band | “The Similitude of a Dream” (Hear here; Deluxe Edition; On Tour) |
(Radiant / Metal Blade) |
| Olly Murs | “24 HRS” (first single: “You Don’t Know Love”; See here; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition, with four extra tracks; Merch) |
(RCA) |
| Leslie Odom Jr. (Tony-winning actor and singer who played Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical “Hamilton”) | “Simply Christmas” (Hear here; MP3; On Tour; Merch) |
(S-Curve) |
| Pavo Pavo (Brooklyn experimental pop quintet) | “Young Narrator in the Breakers” (first single: “Wiserway”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes) | (Bella Union) |
| Radkey (sibling garage-punk trio) | “Delicious Rock Noise” (producer: Ross Orton; first single: “Dark Black Makeup”; Hear here; See here; MP3; iTunes) |
(Another Century / Sony) |
| Cliff Richard | “Just… Fabulous Rock ‘n’ Roll” (his 101st album includes a virtual duet with Elvis Presley on “Blue Suede Shoes”; first single: “Move It”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes) |
(U.K. – Sony) |
| Sad13 (Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz) | “Slugger” (producer: Dupuis; Hear here; NPR First Listen; MP3; iTunes) | (Carpark) |
| Emeli Sandé | “Long Live the Angels” (guests: Áine Zion, Jay Electronica, Joel Sande, The Serenje Choir; first single: “Hurts”; Hear here; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition; Target Exclusive, with two bonus tracks; On Tour; Merch) |
(Capitol) |
| Yonrico Scott (Royal Southern Brotherhood drummer) | “Life of a Dreamer” (guests: Col. Bruce Hampton, Rev. Jeff Mosier, Paul Nelson; Hear here; MP3) |
(Blue Canoe) |
| Simple Minds | “Simple Minds Acoustic” (12 songs; guest: KT Tunstall; See here; MP3; iTunes; Merch) |
(Caroline International) |
| Sleigh Bells | “Jessica Rabbit” (new single: “Hyper Dark”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Mom+Pop Music) |
| Sting | “57th & 9th” (his first rock album in decades; producer: Martin Kierszenbaum; first single: “I Can’t Stop Thinking About You”; Hear here; Read here; Deluxe Edition; Super Deluxe Edition; Vinyl; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition, with three extra tracks; On Tour)  |
(A&M) |
| Cath Tyldesley (stars on the ITV soap opera “Coronation Street”) | “Rise” (first single: “Rise”; Hear here; MP3) | (United Agents) |
| Various artists | “Almost Christmas (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (comedy-drama starring Danny Glover opens Nov. 11; See here; MP3) | (Back Lot Music) |
| Various artists | “The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris: An All-Star Concert Celebration” (CD/Blu-ray combo, filmed at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington on Jan. 10, 2015; guests: Alison Krauss, Kris Kristofferson, Martina McBride, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Lee Ann Womack, etc.; CD; CD/DVD Combo; Blu-ray; MP3) | (Rounder) |
| Rhonda Vincent | “All the Rage – Volume One” (live album; Hear here; DVD; MP3) |
(Upper Management) |
| Wolf People | “Ruins” (first single: “Ninth Night”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes) |
(Jagjaguwar) |
| Wakrat (punk rock trio led by Rage Against the Machine’s Tim Commerford) | “Wakrat” (Hear here; MP3; iTunes) |
(Earache) |
| Z-RO | “Legendary” (guests: Mike D, Just Brittany; Hear here; MP3) |
(1 Deep Entertainment) |
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New Releases (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| James Chance & The Contortions | “The Flesh Is Weak” (the no-wave pioneers’ first new music in 30 years; producers: Tomás Doncker, James Dellatacoma; first single: “Melt Yourself Down”; Hear/read here) |
(True Groove) |
| Allen Clapp (of The Orange Peels) | “Six Seasons” (six-song experimental synthpop EP; Hear here; CD, released Sept. 2) |
(Mystery Lawn Music / Minty Fresh / Redeye) |
| Dedekind Cut | “$uccessor (DED004)” (first single: “46:50”; Hear here) |
(NON Worldwide / Hospital Productions) |
| John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John | “Friends for Christmas” (producer: Chong Lim) |
(Sony Music Australia) |
| field trip (NYC “void pop” band) | “Horror Vacui” (Hear here) | (field trip) |
| Ruby Friedman Orchestra | “Gem” (producers: Peter Malick, Josh Valleau, Alex Elena, Topher Mohr; first single: “I’m Not Your Friend”; Hear here) |
(Pulchrum) |
| Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters drummer) | “Kota” (six-song EP; first single: “Range Rover Bitch”; Hear here) | (Shannabelle) |
| Howlite (aka Melbourne musician and visual artist Alison Thom) | “Reasons” (six-song EP; first single: “Storm Chaser”; Hear here) |
(The A&R Department) |
| Kevin Mahon | “Hell’s Kitchen Irish Ale” (producer: Mel de Visme; Hear here) | (Kevin Mahon) |
| Mansell (Atlanta-based indie-rock trio) | “Mantra” (producers: Jason Hoard, Ryan Wilson, Mansell; first single: “A Love Immodest”; Hear here) | (Eirene Dreams LLC) |
| matt pond PA | “Winter Lives” (first single: “The Glow”; See here) |
(131) |
| The Megaphonic Thrift (Bergen, Norway-based band ) | “Få meg til verden i tide” (Hear here) |
(Old Flame) |
| Hank Midnight (Brookyln alt folk/blues/experimental artist) | “Motel” (Hear here) |
(Hank Midnight, Nov. 9) |
| Mr. Universe (aka New Orleans-based musician/songwriter Adam Campagna) | “Everything’s Good / It’s Not Working” (Hear here) | (Moderate Fidelity) |
| Hudson Mohawke | “Ded Sec – Watch Dogs 2 (Original Game Soundtrack)” (first single: “Shanghaied”; Hear here) |
(Warp) |
| Monster Rally (L.A.-based tropical beatmaker/producer) | “Mystery Cove” (first single: “Pelicans”; Hear here) |
(Gold Robot) |
| Naked Walrus (L.A.-based alt-rock band) | “Simple” (six-song EP; new single: “Eyes”; Hear here) |
(Naked Walrus) |
| Venya Pak | “When Everything Is Falling Apart” (five-song EP; Hear here) |
(Venya Pak Music, Nov. 9) |
| Simian Mobile Disco | “Welcome To Sideways” (Hear here) |
(Delicacies) |
| John Tracy | “Magical Memories – A John Tracy Christmas” (producers: Tracy, Kevin McNoldy; guest: McNoldy; first single: “Christmas Tree Shine”; Hear here) |
(SoundCafe, Nov. 10) |
| A Tribe Called Quest | “We got it from Here … Thank You 4 Your service” (guests: André 3000, Kendrick Lamar, Elton John, Jack White, Busta Rhymes; first single: “Nutshell”; Hear here; Read here; CD, out Nov. 18; Merch) |
(Epic) |
| Umphrey’s McGee | “Zonkey” (new mashup album; Hear here; Read here; CD, out Nov. 18; On Tour; Merch) |
(Nothing Too Fancy Music) |
| Martha Wainwright | “Goodnight City” (first single: “Around the Bend”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; CD, out Nov. 25; iTunes; On Tour) |
(PIAS America) |
| The Whigs | “Live In Little Five” (recorded at Aisle 5 in Atlanta’s Little Five Points in December 2015; See here) |
(New West) |
| Wrenne (Utah-born, Midlands-based rocker) | “ISaidYesToEverything” (guests: Gary Clark, Lanterns on the Lake’s Paul Gregory, The Swingles, etc.; first single: “Puzzle Place”; Hear here) |
(LoEx Music) |
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Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Band | “The Last Waltz (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1976 album; remastered; two-CD set; See here; six-LP box set; 4-CD + Blu-ray box set) |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| David Bazan | “Dark Sacred Night” (holiday songs he has recorded with Pedro the Lion and on his own; Hear here) |
(Suicide Squeeze) |
| Black Sabbath | “Paranoid (Super Deluxe)” (four-CD box set includes the 2012 remaster of the original album, a rare 1974 quad mix and two 1970 concerts, recorded in Montreux and Brussels, along with a hardbound book) |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| David Bowie | “Legacy” (21-track singles compilation; Deluxe Edition; MP3) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Garth Brooks | “Garth Brooks: The Ultimate Collection” (Target-exclusive 10-CD box set, featuring new and exclusive tracks; Read here; “The Ultimate Collection / Christmas Together” Bundle) |
(Pearl) |
| Dr. Feelgood | “Original Album Series” (five complete albums) |
(U.K. – Rhino) |
| Thomas Dolby | “Original Album Series” (five complete albums) |
(U.K. – Rhino) |
| Bob Dylan | “Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings” (36-CD box set; Hear here; NPR First Listen) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Merle Haggard | “Down Every Road 1962–1994” (four-CD, 100-song box set, originally released in 1996) |
(Capitol Nashville / UMe) |
| Hart Valley Drifters (feat. pre-Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter) | “Folk Time” (recorded in 1962 for Stanford University’s radio show “Folk Time”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here) | (ATO) |
| Ronnie Hawkins | “Original Album Series” (five CDs) |
(U.K. – Warner) |
| The Hold Steady | “Almost Killed Me (Deluxe Version)” (2004 album; with five bonus tracks; MP3), “Separation Sunday (Deluxe Version)” (2005 album; with six bonus tracks; MP3) |
(Frenchkiss) |
| Iron Butterfly | “Original Album Series” (five complete albums) |
(U.K. – Rhino) |
| Kula Shaker | “K (20th Anniversary Edition)” (1996 album; remastered; See here; Vinyl) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Melissa Manchester | “Home to Myself / Bright Eyes / Melissa” (1973, 1974, 1975 albums; remastered) |
(U.K. – BGO) |
| Charly McClain | “Greatest Hits / Biggest Hits” (1982, 1985 albums on one CD; remastered; Read here) |
(U.K. – Morello / Cherry Red) |
| Mental As Anything | “Live It Up: The Collection” (two CDs, 35 songs) |
(U.K. – Music Club Deluxe) |
| Geoff Muldaur | “Is Having a Wonderful Time / Motion” (1975, 1976 albums; remastered) |
(U.K. – BGO) |
| NRBQ | “High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective” (five-CD box set; Read here) |
(Omnivore Recordings) |
| Mike Oldfield | “Original Album Series” (five complete albums) |
(U.K. – Rhino) |
| Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band | “Unfinished Music, No. 1: Two Virgins” (1968 album; remastered; Vinyl; MP3), “Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions” (1969 album; remastered; Vinyl; MP3), “Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band” (1970 album; remastered; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Secretly Canadian) |
| Luciano Pavarotti | “Christmas With Pavarotti” (two CDs) |
(Decca) |
| Pink Floyd | “The Early Years 1965-1972” (27-disc box set; Read here), “The Early Years 1967-1972, Cre/ation” (two CDs of highlights from the box set; MP3) |
(Pink Floyd / Sony) |
| Robbie Robertson | “Testimony” (18-song companion piece to his autobiography of the same name, see below) |
(Capitol / UMe) |
| Percy Sledge | “The Percy Sledge Way/Take Time To Know Her” (1967, 1968 albums; remastered, with eight bonus tracks), “My Special Prayer/Singles and Rarities” (1969 album; remastered, with 27 bonus tracks) |
(U.K. – Edsel) |
| Super Furry Animals | “Zoom! The Best of Super Furry Animals 1995-2016” (two CDs, 37 tracks, including new song “Bing Bong”; See here) |
(U.K. – BMG) |
| Various artists | “Girls on 45, Volume 4: a selection of girl group, girlie pop and soulful ladies 1962-1967” (26 songs; Track list) | (Teensville) |
| Various artists | “Killed By Deathrock, Volume Two” (10-track compilation, featuring Gatecrasher, Middle Class, ADS, Veda, Flowers For Agatha, etc.; Hear here; MP3) | (Sacred Bones) |
| Mike Watt | “‘Ring Spiel’ Tour ’95” (recorded at The Metro in Chicago; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
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DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Gale Gordon, et al | “The Lucy Show: The Complete Series [DVD]” (24 discs) | (Paramount) |
| Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, et al | “Finding Dory [DVD]” (2016 film; Blu-ray + DVD; Ultimate Collector’s Edition, Blu-ray + Blu-ray 3D + DVD; Steelbook Target Exclusive with Lithograph Cards) |
(Walt Disney Studios) |
| Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, et al | “Game of Thrones: The Complete Sixth Season [DVD]” (Blu-ray), “Game of Thrones: The Complete Seasons 1-6” (Blu-ray) |
(HBO Studios) |
| Harrison Ford, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, et al | “Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D (Collector’s Edition) [Blu-ray]” (2015 film; four discs) | (Buena Vista Home Entertainment) |
| Michael Jordan, Bruce W. Smith, et al | “Space Jam (20th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray + DVD]” (1996 film) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Mindy Kaling, Chris Messina, Ed Weeks, et al | “The Mindy Project: Season Four [DVD]” (four discs) | (Universal Studios Home Entertainment) |
| Bob Odenkirk | “Better Call Saul: Season Two [DVD]” (three discs; Blu-ray) | (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) |
| The Rolling Stones | “Havana Moon [DVD + 2CD]” (free concert in Havana on March 25, 2016; directed by Paul Dugdale; See here; Blu-ray + 2CD, DVD + 3LP) |
(Eagle Rock) |
| Frank Sinatra | “Sinatra: To Be Frank [DVD]” (2015 documentary; See here) | (Vision Films) |
| Various artists | “Peanuts Holiday Collection (Anniversary Edition) [DVD]” (three remastered classics; Blu-ray) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, et al | “Citizen Kane: 75th Anniversary Edition [DVD]” (1941 film; Blu-ray) | (Warner Home Video) |
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Music Books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| Tony Bennett | “Just Getting Started” (Hardcover; Paperback; Kindle; co-author: Scott Simon) |
(Harper) |
| Cerphe Colwell (D.C. rock radio legend) | “Cerphe’s Up: A Musical Life with Bruce Springsteen, Little Feat, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, CSNY, and Many More” (Hardcover; co-author: Stephen Moore; Kindle) | (Carrel Books) |
| Lita Ford | “Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir” (Paperback; Free Preview) |
(Dey Street Books) |
| Laura Jane Grace (of Against Me!) | “Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout” (Hardcover; co-author: Dan Ozzi; Kindle) |
(Hachette Books) |
| Kristin Hersh | “Wyatt at the Coyote Palace” (the Throwing Muses lead singer is releasing her new solo album as a hardback book, with artwork, lyrics, essays and stories) |
(The Overlook Press) |
| Robbie Robertson | “Testimony: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Life” (Hardcover; Kindle) |
(Crown Archetype) |
| Simon & Garfunkel | “Simon & Garfunkel: Together Alone” (Paperback; author: Spencer Leigh) |
(McNidder & Grace) |
| Augustus Owsley Stanley III | “Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III” (Hardcover; author: Robert Greenfield; Kindle) | (Thomas Dunne Books) |
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Cool Stuff
| Manufacturer: | Product: | Release Date: |
| IDW Publishing | “Batman: The Silver Age Newspaper Comics, Vol. 3: 1969-1972!” (Hardcover; also available at Target) | (Nov. 15) |