New Releases: Nov. 3, 2017
New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| a-ha | “MTV Unplugged – Summer Solstice” (guests: Alison Moyet, Ian McCulloch, Lissie, Ingrid Helene Håvik; first single: “This Is Our Home”; See here; Vinyl; Download; eBay; On Tour; Merch)  |
(Swinglong / UMe) |
| Annihilator | “For the Demented” (See here; Vinyl; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Neverland Music / Silver Lining Music) |
| Anti-Flag | “American Fall” (producers: Anti-Flag, Good Charlotte’s Benji Madden; first single: “American Attraction”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes) |
(Spinefarm) |
| Kelsea Ballerini | “Unapologetically” (Hear here; Download; On Tour) |
(Black River Entertainment) |
| Bibio | “Phantom Brickworks” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Warp) |
| Big Head Todd and the Monsters | “New World Arisin'” (first single: “Damaged One”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Big Records) |
| Blitzen Trapper | “Wild and Reckless” (producers: singer Eric Earley, bassist Michael Van Pelt; first single: “Rebel”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(LKC Recordings) |
| Tracy Bonham | “Modern Burdens” (a re-imagining of her 1996 debut album, “The Burdens of Being Upright”; guests: Kay Hanley, Rachael Yamagata, Tanya Donelly, Angie Hart, Nicole Atkins, Kathryn Calder, Sadie Dupius; Vinyl; Download; eBay; On Tour) |
(Second Motion) |
| Billy Bragg | “Bridges Not Walls” (six-song EP; Download; On Tour) |
(Cooking Vinyl) |
| Lee Brice | “Lee Brice” (guests: Warren Hayes, Edwin McCain; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Curb) |
| Chris Brown | “Heartbreak on a Full Moon” (45-song double album; guests: Usher, Gucci Mane, Kap G, Fetty Wap, Lil Yachty, DeJ Loaf; See here; Read here; Download, released on Oct. 31; On Tour)  |
(RCA) |
| Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown (Nashville rockers) | “Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown” (producer: John Fields; first single: “Heartland”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Snakefarm / Spinefarm) |
| Cannibal Corpse | “Red Before Black” (producer: Erik Rutan; first single: “Code of the Slashers”; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Metal Blade) |
| The Contenders (Americana/folk-rock duo) | “Laughing With the Reckless” (first single: “Line Across the Water”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Rock Ridge Music) |
| Converge | “The Dusk In Us” (first single: “Under Duress”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) |
(Epitaph) |
| Tommy Emmanuel & David Grisman | “Pickin'” (On Tour) |
(Acoustic Disc) |
| Feral Conservatives | “Better Lives [Vinyl]” (producer: Jon Auer of the Posies; Hear here; Download; On Tour) |
(EggHunt) |
| Samantha Fish | “Belle of the West” (producer: Luther Dickinson; Hear here; Download; On Tour) |
(Ruf) |
| Robert Francis (Americana singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist) | “Indian Summer” (producers: Francis, Marc Gabor; first single: “Burn Out”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) |
(Aeronaut) |
| Lalah Hathaway | “Honestly” (guests: Lecrae, Tiffany Gouché; Hear here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Hathaway Entertainment) |
| Mark “Porkchop” Holder (founding member of punk/blues band Black Diamond Heavies) | “Death and the Blues” (new single: “Captain Captain”; Hear here; Download) |
(Alive Naturalsound) |
| Human Nature | “Jukebox: The Ultimate Playlist” (Australian vocal group covers 17 classics from the 1950s and ’60s; Download; On Tour) |
(Legacy Recordings) |
| Bobby Junior (Rusted Root member) | “Warm Winds” (producers: Justin Tocket, Junior; guests: Marc Broussard, Ben Alleman, Steve Duerst, Chad Gilmore, DJ Raymond; Hear here; Download; On Tour) |
(Kingston) |
| Kansas | “Leftoverture Live & Beyond” (two CDs, 19 songs, recorded last spring during their “Leftoverture” 40th anniversary tour; producer: Jeff Glixman; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(InsideOutMusic) |
| Kid Rock | “Sweet Southern Sugar” (country/classic rock album recorded in Nashville; new single: “Tennessee Mountain Top”; Hear here; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Top Dog / BMG Rights Management) |
| Liima | “1982” (producers: Liima, Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear; first single: “1982”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(City Slang) |
| Like Moths to Flames | “Dark Divine” (producer: Erik Ron; first single: “Nowhere Left To Sink”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Rise) |
| Bruno Major (R&B/pop songwriter from North London) | “A Song For Every Moon” (Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(Kobalt Music) |
| Maroon 5 | “Red Pill Blues” (producers: Adam Levine, The Arcade, Ben Billions, Benny Blanco, Jason Evigan, Jacob Kasher, Phil Paul, John Ryan; guests: Kendrick Lamar, Future, SZA, A$AP Rocky, LunchMoney Lewis, Julia Michaels; new single: “What Lovers Do”; Hear here; Target-Exclusive CD, with four extra songs and a poster; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with five extra songs; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(222 / Interscope) |
| Shawn Mendes | “MTV Unplugged” (recorded at L.A.’s Ace Theater on Aug. 29, 2017; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Island) |
| Moonspell (Portuguese gothic metal band) | “1755” (first single: “Todos Os Santos”; Hear here; Download) |
(Napalm) |
| Anne-Sophie Mutter / Daniil Trifonov | “Franz Schubert: Forellenquintet /Trout Quintet” (live recording with Hwayoon Lee, Maximilian Hornung and Roman Patkoló; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Thomas Newman | “Thank You for Your Service (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (war drama starring Miles Teller, Haley Bennett, Beulah Koale and Amy Schumer opened In Theaters on Oct. 27; See here; Download; iTunes) |
(Sony Classical) |
| Polaris (South Sydney rock quintet) | “The Mortal Coil” (Hear here; Download) |
(SharpTone / Resist) |
| Primitive Race | “Soul Pretender” (Download) |
(Metropolis) |
| Shamir | “Revelations” (See here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Father/Daughter) |
| Blake Shelton | “Texoma Shore” (first single: “I’ll Name the Dogs”; Hear here; Download; eBay; Merch) |
(Warner) |
| Sleeping Romance | “Alba” (first single: “Where the Light Is Bleeding”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Napalm) |
| Sleep On It | “Overexposed” (first single: “Distant”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Equal Vision) |
| Sam Smith | “The Thrill of It All” (new single: “Pray”; Hear here; See here; Special Edition; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Capitol) |
| Sniff ‘n’ the Tears | “Random Elements” (their first album since 2011) |
(Chapel Productions) |
| Stereophonics | “Scream Above the Sounds” (first single: “All In One Night”; Hear here; Deluxe Edition; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch) |
(Parlophone) |
| Tierra (Latin R&B legends) | “¡Ya Llegó!” (Hear here; Download; On Tour) |
(Music Access, Inc.) |
| Trupa Trupa (Gdansk post-punk-psych band) | “Jolly New Songs” (first single: “Coffin”; Hear here; Vinyl) |
(Blue Tapes / X-Ray) |
| Vandenberg’s MoonKings | “MK II” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download) |
(Mascot) |
| Grace VanderWaal | “Just the Beginning” (full-length debut album from the “America’s Got Talent” season 11 champion; collaborators: Ido Zmishlany, Kinetics & One Love, Greg Wells, Gregg Wattenberg, Sean Douglas; new single: “So Much More Than This”; Hear here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Columbia) |
| Various artists | “Call Me By Your Name (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (romantic coming-of-age drama film, starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, opens In Theaters on Nov. 24; featuring music from composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and features three original Sufjan Stevens songs; See here) | (Sony Classical) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 64” (22 songs; See here; Read here; Download) |
(NOW / UMe) |
| Various artists | “Olaf’s Frozen Adventure (Original Soundtrack)” (21-minute animated short will open in theaters Nov. 22, showing before Disney/Pixar’s full-length animated feature “Coco”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two collectible cards; Download; In Theaters; Merch) | (Walt Disney) |
| Various artists | “Served Like a Girl (Music From and Inspired By the Documentary Film)” (film about five female veterans creating a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of homeless female veterans; first single: “Dancing Through the Wreckage,” Pat Benatar; See here; Download) | (We Are Hear) |
| Lexi Walker (15-year-old singer) | “Inspire” (guests: The Piano Guys, Kurt Bestor, Jenny Oaks Baker, GENTRI; first single: “Tiny Voice”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Portrait / Sony Masterworks) |
| The Walls Group (family gospel soul group from Houston) | “The Other Side” (producers: Warryn Campbell, Eric Dawkins; first single: “My Life”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(Fo Yo Soul / RCA Inspiration) |
More Releases for Nov. 3, 2017 »
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Billy Momo (Swedish pop/rock band) | “Umbrellas, wings and magic things” (three-song EP; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Mo Better Music) |
| Jessica Boudreaux (of Summer Cannibals) | “No Fury” (producer: The Thermals’ Hutch Harris; new single: “Ask Me To Stay”; Hear here) |
(New Moss) |
| Casper Skulls (Toronto quartet) | “Mercy Works” (first single: “You Can Call Me Allocator”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Buzz) |
| Doralice (Bay Area gypsy jazz duo) | “Doralice II” (new single: “Radio Habana”; Hear here) |
(Broke Leg Music) |
| Ryan Farish | “Primary Colors” (Hear here; iTunes) |
(Black Hole Recordings) |
| Feral Conservatives (Virginia Beach, Va., indie pop quartet) | “Better Lives” (producer: Jon Auer of The Posies and Big Star; Hear here; Vinyl; iTunes) |
(EggHunt) |
| James Holden & The Animal Spirits | “The Animal Spirits” (first single: “Pass Through the Fire”; Hear here) | (Border Community) |
| Jennifer Hanson | “Under the Tree” (four-song Christmas EP, her first new in nine years; iTunes) |
(Jennifer Hanson Music) |
| Holy Wars | “Mother Father” (six-song EP; new single: “Cruel World”; Hear here; See here) |
(Holy Wars) |
| iNcelta (Fort Worth-based Cody Cannefax) | “Music Time Capsule” (producer: iNcelta; first single: “Bad Bad Dreams”; Hear here) |
(iNcelta Productions) |
| Robin Jackson (Portland, Ore., singer/multi-instrumentalist) | “Dark Stars” (producer: Chet Lyster; first single: “Drifting At Sea”; Hear here; On Tour) |
(Robin Jackson) |
| Todd Kessler (folk-rock singer-songwriter) | “About Memory” (producers: Marc Daniel Nelson, Ran Jackson; Hear here; On Tour) |
(Todd Kessler) |
| Null + Void (aka NYC producer Kurt Uenala) | “Cryosleep” (guests: Dave Gahan, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Shannon Funchess, The Big Pink; Hear here; Vinyl) |
(HFN Music) |
| Jon O’Bergh | “Christmas Moods for Piano” (producer: O’Bergh; first single: “O Christmas Tree”) |
(Timescape, Nov. 7) |
| Plumb | “God Help Me EP” (five songs; Hear here; eBay; On Tour) |
(Plumb Music) |
| Anna St. Louis (L.A.-based singer-songwriter) | “First Songs” (first single: “Fire”; Hear here) | (Mare / Woodsist) |
| Peter Simpson (leader of Australia’s The Dubrovniks) | “Return of the Dilettante” (five-song EP; producer: Dom Simpson; Hear here) |
(Verified, Nov. 6) |
| TobyMac | “Light of Christmas” (guests: Owl City, Relient K, Jamie Grace, Leigh Nash, Nirva Ready; Hear here; On Tour) |
(Forefront) |
| Maylee Todd (Toronto singer-songwriter) | “Acts of Love” (producer: Todd; Hear here; NPR First Listen; See here; iTunes) |
(Do Right! Music) |
More Digital Releases for Nov. 3, 2017 »
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Bryan Adams | “Ultimate” (21-song collection features his biggest hits, with two new songs; first single: “Please Stay”; Hear here; Read here; Download; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(UMe) |
| The Ames Brothers | “There’ll Always Be a Christmas (60th Anniversary Deluxe Mono Edition)” (1957 album; remastered) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Francesca Battistelli | “Greatest Hits: The First Ten Years” (14 songs) |
(Fervent) |
| Alan Burn | “A Whirlpool Of Sound: The Complete Studio Recordings [1963-1967]” | (Arf) |
| Johnny Cash | “Cash Unearthed [Vinyl]” (nine-LP box set, with 60-page coffee table book; Read here; eBay; Merch) |
(American Recordings) |
| Curved Air | “The Best of Curved Air” (Download) |
(Curved Air) |
| Vic Damone | “The Hits Collection 1947-62” (two CDs, 50 songs; Track list) |
(Acrobat) |
| Bob Dylan | “Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 13 / 1979-1981” (two CDS, 30 songs; NPR First Listen; Deluxe Edition; Vinyl; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Duke Ellington | “His Classic Collaborations 1956-1963” (four CDs) |
(Enlightenment) |
| Percy Faith and His Orchestra | “Music of Christmas (Expanded Edition)” (1959 album; remastered, with seven bonus tracks) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| The Flamingos | “The Flamingos Collection 1953-61” (three CDs, 80 songs; Track list) |
(Acrobat) |
| The Four Preps | “The Things We Did Last Summer and More” (1958 album; remastered) |
(Sepia) |
| Stan Freberg | “The Singles Collection 1947-60” (two CDs, 45 tracks; Track list) |
(Acrobat) |
| Josh Groban | “Noël (10th Anniversary Edition)” (2007 album; remastered, with six bonus tracks, including four new songs; Download; eBay; Merch) |
(Reprise) |
| Daryl Hall & John Oates | “Along the Red Ledge” (1978 album; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Friday Music) |
| Major Harris | “My Way” (1975 album, featuring “Love Won’t Let Me Wait”; remastered) |
(Friday Music) |
| Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret | “The Cowboy & The Lady” (1969 album; remastered, with bonus tracks; Hear/read here; Vinyl) |
(Light in the Attic) |
| King Crimson | “Sailors’ Tales (1970-1972)” (limited-edition 27-disc box set, featuring 21 CDs, four audio Blu-rays and two audio DVDs; contains Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp stereo mixes of 1970’s “In the Wake of Poseidon” and “Lizard” and 1971’s “Islands,” plus additional tracks, live recordings, etc.; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(DGM) |
| Peggy Lee | “Peggy Lee With The Benny Goodman Orchestra 1941-47” (two CDs, 44 songs; Track list) |
(Acrobat) |
| Little Richard | “Here’s Little Richard (60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1957 album; remastered, with a second CD of demos and alternate takes; Hear/read here) |
(Craft Recordings) |
| Mr. Mister | “Welcome to the Real World” (1985 album, featuring “Kyrie,” “Broken Wings” and “Is It Love”; remastered) |
(Friday Music) |
| The Monkees | “Headquarters Stack-O-Tracks (50th Anniversary Edition) [Vinyl]” (1967 album, with original backing tracks and instrumental versions; 180-gram audiophile clear vinyl; eBay; Merch) |
(Friday Music) |
| Roy Orbison | “A Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra” (producers: Don Reedman, Nick Patrick; Vinyl; eBay; Merch) |
(Legacy Recordings) |
| Sepultura | “Roots (Expanded Edition)” (1996 album; remastered; Read here; Vinyl) |
(Rhino / Atlantic) |
| The Robert Shaw Chorale | “Robert Shaw Presents Christmas Hymns and Carols Volume II” (1952 album; remastered) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Connie Smith | “Joy to the World (Expanded Edition)” (1975 album; remastered, with one bonus track, a duet with Willie Nelson on “Silent Night, Holy Night”) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| The Supremes | “The Ultimate Merry Christmas” (expanded edition of 1965’s “Merry Christmas,” featuring the original mono and stereo mixes and new 2017 mix, with previously unreleased bonus tracks; Read here) |
(Second Disc / Real Gone Music) |
| The Sylvers | “The Sylvers” (1972 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks), “The Sylvers II” (1973 album; remastered), “The Sylvers III” (1974 album; remastered) |
(Japan – Warner) |
| Various artists | “At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight …” (20-CD box set, with 224-page hardcover book, featuring rare performances by Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Kitty Wells, George Jones, Webb Pierce, etc.; Hear/read here) | (Bear Family) |
| Various artists | “Best of De-Lite: Can You Feel It” (15-song label retrospective, featuring Crown Heights Affair, Coffee, Leon Bryant, The Dynamics, Motivation, etc.; Track list) | (Japan – Octave) |
| Various artists | “Best of Roadshow: Have Some Fun” (15-song label retrospective, featuring B.T. Express, Enchantment, Al Wilson, Winners, etc.; Track list) | (Japan – Octave) |
| Various artists | “The Hit Factory Ultimate Collection” (three CDs, 50 songs; Amazon UK) | (Union Square) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call the 00s” (18 songs; See here; Read here; Download; iTunes) |
(NOW / UMe) |
| Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians | “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas / Christmas Time” (1955 albums; remastered) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Weather Report | “The Columbia Studio and Live Recordings” (19-disc box set) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
More Releases for Nov. 3, 2017 »
Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Last Legion | “Edge of the World” (2013 album; Hear here) | (Gravel Entertainment, Oct. 31) |
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Various artists | “Free To Rock: How Rock & Roll Brought Down The Wall [DVD]” (documentary narrated by Kiefer Sutherland and directed by Jim Brown; See here) | (MVD Visual) |
| ZZ Top | “Groovy Little Hippy Pad: ZZ Top Live in Concert [DVD]” (filmed in 2012; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Laser Media) |
More Upcoming DVD / Blu-ray Releases »
Next Week: Nov. 10, 2017
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