New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Doyle Bramhall II | “Shades” (guests: Eric Clapton, Norah Jones, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Greyhounds; first single: “Everything You Need”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay)  |
(Provogue / Mascot Label Group) |
| Molly Burch | “First Flower” (first single: “Wild”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Captured Tracks) |
| Cat Power | “Wanderer” (her first album in six years; producer: Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power; guest: Lana Del Rey; first single: “Wanderer”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Domino) |
| Coheed and Cambria | “The Unheavenly Creatures” (producers: Coheed and Cambria; See here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour, with Taking Back Sunday) |
(Roadrunner) |
| Eric Church | “Desperate Man” (producer: Jay Joyce; first single: “Desperate Man”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour)  |
(EMI Records Nashville) |
| Colin Devlin (Dublin-born, L.A.-based songwriter, of The Devlins) | “High Point” (producer: Pierre Marchand; first single: “High Point”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Blue Élan) |
| Echo & The Bunnymen | “The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon” (producers: Echo & The Bunnymen, Youth, Andrea Wright; first single: “The Stars”; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| for KING & COUNTRY | “Burn the Ships” (new single: “Pioneers”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Word) |
| Fucked Up | “Dose Your Dreams” (their first album in four years; first single: “Raise Your Voice Joyce”; Hear here; Vinyl; iTunes) |
(Merge) |
| Jackie Greene (Americana/roots singer-songwriter and former Black Crowes guitarist) | “The Modern Lives – Vol 2” (six-song EP; first single: “Crazy Comes Easy”; Hear here; Vinyl; iTunes) |
(Blue Rose Music) |
| Hilary Hahn | “Hilary Hahn Plays Bach: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Partita No. 1” (Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(Decca) |
| Kristin Hersh | “Possible Dust Clouds” (first single: “No Shade In Shadow”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay) |
(Fire) |
| Will Hoge | “My American Dream” (first singles: “Gilded Walls” and “Thoughts & Prayers”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Edlo / Thirty Tigers ) |
| Eric Hutchinson & The Believers | “Modern Happiness” (new single: “new religion”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Let’s Break Records) |
| Jim James | “Uniform Clarity” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ATO) |
| Madeline Kenney | “Perfect Shapes” (producer: Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner; first single: “Cut Me Off”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Carpark) |
| The Marcus King Band | “Carolina Confessions” (producer: Dave Cobb; Hear here; NPR’s World Cafe; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Fantasy / Concord) |
| Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper | “A Star Is Born Soundtrack” (remake opens Oct. 5; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with poster; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; Fandango) |
(Interscope) |
| LANY (alt-pop trio) | “Malibu Nights” (producer: Mike Crossey; first single: “Thru These Tears”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Interscope) |
| Moonshine Bandits | “Gold Rush” (Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(MSB Entertainment) |
| Matt Nathanson | “Sings His Sad Heart” (first single: “Way Way Back”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour, with O.A.R.) |
(Acrobat / Crush Music / AWAL Recordings America) |
| Pastel Ghost | “Ethereality” (new single: “3NDL3SS”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Cleopatra) |
| Steve Perry | “Traces” (his first solo album since 1994 includes a cover of The Beatles’ “I Need You”; producers: Perry, Thom Flowers; first single: “No Erasin'”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with five extra songs; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, with five extra songs; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay) |
(Fantasy / Concord) |
| Phosphorescent | “C’est La Vie” (producer: frontman Matthew Houck; first single: “New Birth in New England”; Hear here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes) |
(Dead Oceans) |
| The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band | “Poor Until Payday” (Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Family Owned Records / Thirty Tigers) |
| Missy Raines | “Royal Traveller” (producer: Alison Brown; guests: Amy Ray, Claire Lynch, 10 String Symphony, Stuart Duncan, Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull, Becky Buller, Ethan Ballinger, Bryan McDowell, etc.; first single: “Swept Away”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(Compass) |
| Swearin’ | “Fall Into the Sun” (the Philly trio’s first album in five years; producers: Swearin’; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Merge) |
| Sylar (Queens, NY, metalcore band) | “Seasons” (new single: “Open Wounds”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Beartooth and Knocked Loose) |
(Hopeless) |
| Tall Heights | “Pretty Colors For Your Actions” (producers: Oliver Hill, Steve Wall; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Frances Cone and Old Sea Brigade) |
(Sony Masterworks) |
| T.I. | “DIME TRAP” (the album is narrated by Dave Chappelle; guests: Anderson .Paak, Victoria Monét, Young Thug, Yo Gotti, Jeezy, Meek Mill, etc.; Read here; Download; iTunes) |
(Grand Hustle / Epic) |
| Tokyo Police Club | “TPC” (producer: Rob Schnapf; first single: “Hercules”; Hear here; Read here; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Dine Alone) |
| KT Tunstall | “WAX” (producer: Franz Ferdinand’s Nick McCarthy; first single: “The River”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Rostrum) |
| twenty one pilots | “TRENCH” (new single “Levitate”; See here; Cassette; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Fueled By Ramen) |
| Various artists | “WOW Hits 2019 (Deluxe Edition)” (36 songs; Hear here) |
(WOW) |
| Windhand (Richmond, VA-based psych-rock quartet) | “Eternal Return” (producer: Jack Endino; first single: “Grey Garden”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Relapse) |
| You Me at Six | “VI” (producer: Dan Austin; first single: “3AM”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Underdog) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Alright Alright (Denver-based alt-folk collective) | “Nearby” (producers: Alright Alright, Eric Dawson Tate, Ben Wysocki; Hear here; iTunes) | (Hooves and Sugar Record Co.) |
| Black Peaks (Brighton quartet) | “All That Divides” (producer: Adrian Bushby; new single: “Electric Fires”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Rise) |
| Gonzalo Ariel Juan & Juan María Solare | “Petite Suite Antique” (a classical suite is a succession of dances of the European Baroque; this album presents each of its seven pieces in two versions: recorder solo and with African drums, an ethno-classical crossover; producer: Solare; first single: “Gavotte”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Janus Music & Sound) |
| Mario | “Dancing Shadows” (his first album in nearly 10 years; See here; iTunes) |
(New Citizen LLC / EMPIRE) |
| Tunde Olaniran | “Stranger” (NPR First Listen) |
(Magic Wheel) |
| Petite Noir | “La Maison Noir / The Black Houses” (six-song mini-album; guests: Danny Brown, Nukubi Nukubi, Rha! Rha!, Saul Williams; first single: “Blame Fire”; Hear here; Vinyl; iTunes) |
(Roya / Red Bull Music) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Cecilia Bartoli | “Rossini” (15-CD, six-DVD box set) |
(Decca) |
| Brook Benton | “The Singles Collection 1955-62” (two CDs, 57 songs; Download; eBay) |
(Acrobat) |
| Lindsey Buckingham | “Solo Anthology: The Best of Lindsey Buckingham” (three-CD collection; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| The Four Tops | “The Complete ABC/Dunhill Singles” (two CDs, 33 songs) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Grateful Dead | “Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 1 – Big Rock Pow Wow ’69” (two complete concerts held at the Seminole Indian reservation in Florida on May 23-24, 1969; Amazon UK; eBay; Merch) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Wanda Jackson | “The Complete Singles As & Bs 1954-62” (two CDs, 58 songs; Download; eBay) |
(Acrobat) |
| Jim & Jesse | “The Old Dominion Masters” (four-CD, 100-song box set, originally released in 1999) |
(Pinecastle) |
| Earl King | “The Singles Collection 1953-62” (two CDs, 41 songs; Download) |
(Acrobat) |
| John Lennon | “Imagine (The Ultimate Collection)” (expanded edition of the 1971 album; available in Super Deluxe Edition [four CDs + Blu-ray], two-LP Vinyl Edition; DVD; Blu-ray; Hear Lennon’s original demo for “Imagine”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; Ultimate Digital Mixes; eBay; Merch) |
(Apple / Capitol / UMe) |
| Johnny Mathis | “The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face) / Song Sung Blue” (1972 albums on one CD; remastered, with three bonus tracks), “Me and Mrs. Jones (Expanded Edition)” (1973 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks; eBay) |
(Second Disc / Real Gone Music) |
| The Shadows | “The Complete Releases 1959-62” (two CDs, 61 songs; Download) |
(Acrobat) |
| Joe Simon | “Step by Step: The Complete Pop Hits” (two CDs, 35 songs) |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Joe Strummer | “Joe Strummer 001” (two-CD, 32-song compilation of his post-Clash material, including 12 previously unreleased tracks; Amazon UK; Deluxe Edition, with 64-page notebook featuring handwritten lyrics, notes, drawings, personal biographies and photographs from Strummer’s archive; Deluxe Box Set, containing two CDs, three vinyl LPs, hardback book, 12-inch single of “U.S. North,” 7-inch singles of “This Is England” and “Before We Go Forward,” a cassette of “U.S. North,” etc.; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Ignition) |
| Sugar Ray | “Greatest Hits” (14-song compilation; Vinyl; eBay; On Tour) |
(Razor & Tie) |
| Bobby Timmons | “The Riverside Albums Collection” (eight albums on four CDs; eBay) |
(Enlightenment) |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra | “The Christmas Attic (20th Anniversary Edition)” (1998 album; with a bonus track, “Christmas Jam / Live In Prague”; See here; Vinyl; eBay) |
(Rhino / Atlantic) |
| Various artists | “The Greatest Country Hits of 1962” (four CDs, 110 songs; Download) | (Acrobat) |
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