New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ambrose Akinmusire | “Origami Harvest” (guests: Mivos Quartet, rapper Kool A.D., pianist Sam Harris, drummer Marcus Gilmore, etc.; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes)  | (Blue Note) |
| Jimmie Allen | “Mercury Lane” (producers: Ash Bowers, Eric Torres; new single: “Make Me Want To”; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Scotty McCreery) | (Stoney Creek / BBR Music Group) |
| Atreyu | “In Our Wake” (first single: “In Our Wake”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Search & Destroy / Spinefarm) |
| Lindsay Beaver (blues and R&B vocalist and drummer) | “Tough As Love” (producer: Beaver; guests: Marcia Ball, Dennis Gruenling, Laura Chavez, Eve Monsees, Sax Gordon; first single: “Too Cold to Cry”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Alligator) |
| Blues Traveler | “Hurry Up & Hang Around” (producer: Matt Rollings; first single: “Accelerated Nation”; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Bottle Rockets | “Bit Logic” (producer: Eric “Roscoe” Ambel; first single: “Bit Logic”; Hear/read here; Vinyl; eBay; On Tour) | (Bloodshot) |
| Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | “Rocket” (their first album in 12 years; first single: “What Makes You Happy”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (Verve Forecast) |
| City of Thieves | “Beast Reality” (first single: “Buzzed Up City”; See here; Download; iTunes) | (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| Eric Clapton | “Happy Xmas” (his first holiday album includes a new original song, “For Love On Christmas Day”; Vinyl; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Bushbranch / Surfdog) |
| Elvis Costello & The Imposters | “Look Now” (new singles: “Under Lime” and “Unwanted Number”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with four bonus tracks; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch)  | (Concord) |
| Matthew Dear | “Bunny” (his first album in six years; producer: Dear; guests: Tegan and Sara; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Ghostly International) |
| Morgan Evans (Australian country star) | “Things That We Drink To” (guest: wife Kelsea Ballerini; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Chris Young and Kane Brown) | (Warner Nashville) |
| Jess Glynne | “Always In Between” (first single: “I’ll Be There”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes; Digital Deluxe Edition, with four bonus tracks; On Tour) | (Atlantic) |
| Beres Hammond | “Never Ending” (guests: Willie Lindo, Kirk Bennett, Handel Tucker, Errol “Flabba” Carter, etc.; first single: “I’m Alive”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay) | (VP) |
| John Hiatt | “The Eclipse Sessions” (producer: Kevin McKendree, and engineered by McKendree’s 16-year-old son Yates; features Hiatt’s longtime drummer Kenneth Blevins and bassist Patrick O’Hearn; first single: “Cry to Me”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour, with Sonny Landreth) | (New West) |
| Adam Hood | “Somewhere in Between” (producer: Oran Thornton; guest: Brent Cobb; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Southern Songs / Soundly Music) |
| Engelbert Humperdinck | “Warmest Christmas Wishes” (Hear/read here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (OK! Good) |
| Paul Kelly | “Nature” (his 24th album; first single: “With the One I Love”; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay) | (Cooking Vinyl) |
| Ella Mai (British R&B singer-songwriter) | “Ella Mai” (executive producer: DJ Mustard; first single: “Boo’d Up”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with one extra song; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Bruno Mars) | (10 Summers / Interscope) |
| Michael McDonald | “Season of Peace: The Christmas Collection” (guests: Jake Shimabukuro, Jonny Lang, McDonald’s wife Amy Holland, Twinkie Clark; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| The Monkees | “The Monkees Christmas Party” (featuring songs written by Rivers Cuomo, Peter Buck and author Michael Chabon; producer: Adam Schlesinger; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Rhino) |
| Tom Morello | “The Atlas Underground” (guests: Big Boi, Portugal. The Man, Steve Aoki, Marcus Mumford, Pretty Lights, Gary Clark Jr., GZA, Vic Mensa, etc.; first single: “We Don’t Need You”; Hear here; Vinyl; CD/Vinyl Box Set, with book; Download; iTunes) | (Mom+Pop Music) |
| Nazareth | “Tattooed On My Brain” (13 new original songs; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Frontiers s.r.l.) |
| NCT 127 (a sub-unit of K-pop group NCT) | “NCT 127 Regular-Irregular” (the boy band’s 11-track debut album includes Korean and English versions of the single “Regular”; See here) | (SM Entertainment) |
| LeAnn Rimes | “It’s Christmas, Eve” (soundtrack to her Hallmark Channel original movie, which premieres on Nov. 10; See here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (EverLe / Thirty Tigers) |
| St. Vincent | “MassEducation” (a voice-and-piano only “reimagining” of her “Masseduction” album; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) |
| Seventh Wonder (Swedish progressive metal band led by Kamelot singer Tommy Karevik) | “Tiara” (producers: Seventh Wonder, Johan Larsson; first single: “Victorious”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| TobyMac | “The Elements” (first single: “I just need U.”; See here; Read here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Forefront) |
| Kurt Vile | “Bottle It In” (producers: Shawn Everett, Rob Laakso, Peter Katis; new single: “Bassackwards”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Matador) |
| Colter Wall (Canadian singer-songwriter) | “Songs of the Plains” (producer: Dave Cobb; new singles: “Plain to See Plainsman” and “Calgary Round-Up”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Young Mary’s Record Co.) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Belly | “Immigrant” (eBay; iTunes) | (XO / Roc Nation / Republic) |
| Greg Hawks (Chapel Hill, NC-based singer/multi-instrumentalist) | “I Think It’s Time” (producer: Hawks; mixed by Chris Stamey; Hear here) | (Greg Hawks) |
| Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser | “Quarter Life Crisis” (producer: Colleen Green; first single: “Chill Position”; Hear here; CD, out Oct. 26; iTunes) | (BUFU) |
| +LIVE+ | “Local 717” (five-song EP, the first collection of new material from the original line-up in more than a decade; producer: guitarist Chad Taylor; new single: “Be a Giver, Man”; Hear/read here; iTunes) | (Kavalry) |
| The Persian Leaps | “Pop That Goes Crunch!” (new single: “Time Slips”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Land Ski) |
| Tom Robbins & Ben Lee | “B Is for Beer: The Musical” (Lee’s musical adaptation of author Tom Robbins’ 2009 “children’s book for grownups”; Hear here) | (Ten Fingers) |
| VNV Nation | “Noire” (the electronic act’s first studio album in five years; new single: “When Is the Future?”; See here; CD, out Nov. 9; Vinyl; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Metropolis) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| A Certain Ratio | “acr:set” (17-song, career-spanning compilation, featuring new track “Dirty Boy” with Barry Adamson; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Mute) |
| David Bowie | “Loving the Alien [1983-1988]” (11-CD box set; Amazon UK; Vinyl; eBay; Merch) | (Rhino / Parlophone) |
| Cocteau Twins | “Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years” (four-CD box set includes the albums “Four-Calendar Café” and “Milk & Kisses,” with three EPs, B-sides and BBC Radio One performances; Read here; eBay) | (Fontana / UMe) |
| Dave Davies | “Decade” (13 previously unreleased recordings from the 1970s; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Green Amp / Red River Entertainment) |
| Bobbie Gentry | “The Girl From Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters” (eight-CD box set includes her six studio LPs, her 1968 album with Glen Campbell, plus more than 75 previously unreleased tracks, including her “lost” jazz album; See here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes; eBay) | (Capitol / UMe) |
| Vince Guaraldi | “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” (1966 soundtrack; Hear here; Vinyl; DVD / Blu-ray; eBay) | (Craft Recordings / Concord) |
| The Helio Sequence | “Keep Your Eyes Ahead: Deluxe Edition” (2008 album; remastered, with a second CD of demos, alternate versions and outtakes; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Sub Pop) |
| Peter Holsapple & Alex Chilton | “The Death of Rock: Peter Holsapple vs. Alex Chilton” (newly discovered recordings from 1978; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| Primal Scream | “Give Out But Don’t Give Up: The Original Memphis Recordings” (recorded in 1993 with producer Tom Dowd and the Muscle Shoals rhythm section of David Hood and Roger Hawkins at Ardent Studios in Memphis but re-recorded a year later with producer George Drakoulias; with 15 Ardent outtakes; Read here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; eBay; Merch) | (Sony Music) |
| Various artists | “120 Years of Deutsche Grammophon – The Anniversary Edition” (122-CD box set) | (Deutsche Grammophon) |
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DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Evanescence | “Synthesis Live [DVD/CD]” (filmed on Nov. 3, 2017, at Grand Theater at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut; See here; eBay; On Tour, with Lindsey Stirling) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Whitney Houston | “Whitney [DVD]” (2018 documentary, written and directed by Kevin Macdonald; See here; eBay) | (Lionsgate, Oct. 16) |
| Elvis Presley | “Elvis Presley: The Searcher [DVD]” (2018 HBO documentary, directed by Thom Zimny; See here; Collector’s Edition; Soundtrack; eBay; Merch) | (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Oct. 16) |
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