New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Mindi Abair and the Boneshakers | “The EastWest Sessions” (producer: Kevin Shirley; guests: Joe Bonamassa, Sweet Pea Atkinson, Fantastic Negrito; first single: “Vinyl”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour)  |
(Pretty Good for a Girl) |
| Anastacia | “Evolution” (first single: “Caught in the Middle”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; Merch) |
(Four Eyez Productions / Universal) |
| Antibalas | “Where the Gods Are In Peace” (Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Daptone) |
| Big & Rich | “Did It For the Party” (first single: “Califorina”; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(B$R) |
| Black Kids | “Rookie” (their first album in nearly 10 years; first single: “Obligatory Drugs”; See here; Download) |
(Not Fussed) |
| Dee Dee Bridgewater | “Memphis … Yes, I’m Ready” (recorded at Willie Mitchell’s renowned Royal Studios; producers: Bridgewater, Kirk Whalum; guests: the Stax Academy Choir, Whalum; first single: “Hound Dog”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(OKeh / Sony Masterworks) |
| BTS (K-pop boy band) | “Love Yourself: Her” (Hear here; eBay; Merch)  |
(Big Hit Entertainment, Sept. 18) |
| Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams | “Contraband Love” (Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Red House) |
| Bruce Cockburn | “Bone on Bone” (Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(True North) |
| The Contortionist (progressive rock act) | “Clairvoyant” (producer: Jamie King; first single: “Reimagined”; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(eOne Music / Good Fight Music) |
| Jesse Cook | “Beyond Borders” (first single: “Double Dutch”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(eOne Music) |
| Dirty Thrills (London bluesy hard rock quartet) | “Heavy Living” (producer: James Loughrey; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| Fink (U.K. singer-songwriter) | “Resurgam” (producer: Flood; new single: “Not Everything Was Better in the Past”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(R’COUP’D) |
| Foo Fighters | “Concrete and Gold” (producers: Greg Kurstin, Foo Fighters; first single: “Run”; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Roswell / RCA) |
| Galantis | “The Aviary” (new single: “True Feeling”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Big Beat) |
| David Garrett | “Rock Revolution” (first single: “Bitter Sweet Symphony”; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with three extra tracks; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Decca) |
| Gizmodrome (supergroup feat. Stewart Copeland, Adrian Belew, Level 42’s Mark King, Vittorio Cosma) | “Gizmodrome” (producer: Claudio Dentes; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (earMUSIC / RED) |
| Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton | “Choir of the Mind” (first single: “Fatal Gift”; Hear here; See here; NPR First Listen; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Last Gang / eOne Music) |
| Hot Water Music | “Light It Up” (producers: Hot Water Music; first single: “Never Going Back”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Rise) |
| Wyclef Jean | “Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee” (guests: Emile Sandé, Supah Mario, The Knocks, LunchMoney Lewis, D.L. Hughley, STIX, T-Baby, etc.; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Legacy Recordings) |
| Jess and the Bandits (U.S./U.K. contemporary country quintet) | “Smoke & Mirrors” (first single: “Kings of Summer”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(After Midnight Girl Entertainment) |
| Jonas Kaufmann | “L’Opéra” (See here; Download; iTunes) |
(Sony Classical) |
| Carole King | “Tapestry: Live at Hyde Park” (CD/DVD set, recorded on July 3, 2016, her first-ever performance of the entire album in sequence; guests: Louise Goffin, Danny Kortchmar, the West End cast of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch) |
(Legacy Recordings) |
| The Lone Bellow | “Walk Into a Storm” (producer: Dave Cobb; first single: “Time’s Always Leaving”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Descendant / Sony Music Masterworks) |
| Michael McDonald | “Wide Open” (his first album of original material in 17 years; guests: Warren Haynes, Robben Ford, Marcus Miller, Branford Marsalis; first single: “Find It In Your Heart”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(BMG) |
| John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension | “Live at Ronnie Scott’s” (recorded in March 2017; On Tour) |
(Abstract Logix) |
| Musiq Soulchild | “Feel the Real” (Hear here; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Soulstar Music Company / eOne) |
| Carrie Newcomer | “Live at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater” (recorded Oct. 16, 2016, in Bloomington, Ind.; Hear/read here; Download; iTunes) |
(Available Light) |
| Nothing More (San Antonio rock quartet) | “The Stories We Tell Ourselves” (producers: Jonny Hawkins, Nothing More; first single: “Go to War”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Better Noise) |
| Gary Numan | “Savage (Songs from a Broken World)” (his 21st studio album is a concept set in an apocalyptic, post-global warming Earth in the not-too-distant future; producer: Ade Fenton; first single: “My Name Is Ruin”; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(The End / BMG Rights Management) |
| Arturo O’Farrill & Chucho Valdés | “Familia: Tribute to Bebo + Chico” (NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes) |
(Motéma Music) |
| OTIS (Kentucky blues rockers) | “Eyes of the Sun” (producers: OTIS; new single: “Blind Hawg”; See here; Download; iTunes) | (Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra) |
| Ariel Pink | “Dedicated to Bobby Jameson” (first single: “Another Weekend”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Mexican Summer) |
| Prophets of Rage | “Prophets of Rage” (supergroup features Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk of Rage Against the Machine, Chuck D and DJ Lord of Public Enemy and B-Real of Cypress Hill; producer: Brendan O’Brien; first single: “Unfuck the World”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Fantasy) |
| Peter Raeburn | “Woodshock (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (drama film, starring Kirsten Dunst, Joe Cole and Pilou Asbæk, opens Sept. 15; See here; In Theaters) |
(Milan) |
| Lee Ranaldo (co-founder of Sonic Youth) | “Electric Trim” (producer: Raül “Refree” Fernandez; guests: Sharon Van Etten, Nels Cline, Kid Millions; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Mute) |
| Rostam (of Vampire Weekend) | “Half-Light” (new single: “Bike Dream”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Nonesuch) |
| Sløtface (Norwegian pop-punkers) | “Try Not to Freak Out” (first single: “Magazine”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(Propeller Recordings) |
| Son Little | “New Magic” (first single: “Blue Magic (Waikiki)”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ANTI- / Epitaph) |
| Ringo Starr | “Give More Love” (guests: Paul McCartney, Peter Frampton, Benmont Tench, Joe Walsh, Edgar Winter, etc.; first single: “Give More Love”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Roccabella / UMe) |
| Superfruit (Pentatonix members Scott Hoying and Mitch Grassi) | “Future Friends” (guests: Amber Liu, Inara George; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(RCA) |
| Jesse Terry (New England-based singer-songwriter) | “Stargazer” (producer: Josh Kaler; new single: “Dangerous Times”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Jackson Beach) |
| The Texas Gentlemen | “TX Jelly” (producer: band leader and organist Beau Bedford; first single: “Habbie Doobie”; See here; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (New West) |
| Thousand Foot Krutch | “Untraveled Roads” (12-song live album; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(TFK Music) |
| Nestor Torres | “Jazz Flute Traditions” (Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Alfi) |
| The Urban Renewal Project (15-piece original soul, jazz and hip-hop band from L.A.) | “21st Century Ghost” (producer: Neil Wogensen; guests: Camp Lo, Gavin Turek, Elmer Demond, Hugh Augustine, Alex Nester, T.J. Wilkins, Amber Navran; first single: “Road To Victory”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Fastrac / Resonance) |
| Various artists | “This Is Us: Music from the Series” (20-song collection; Target-Exclusive CD, with 48-page magazine of behind-the scenes photos and exclusive interviews, plus a collectible 16-word magnet set; five-CD set, “This Is Us: The Complete First Season,” out Sept. 12; Merch) | (UMe) |
| Various artists | “A Tribute to John D. Loudermilk” (recorded live on March 24, 2016, at Franklin Theatre in Franklin, Tenn.; producers: John Jorgenson, Dixie Gamble; contributors: Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Ricky Skaggs, Tommy Emmanuel, John Jorgenson, Deborah Allen, Herb Pedersen, The Whites, etc.; Read here) |
(Vector Recordings) |
| Wayward Sons (U.K. guitar-rock band) | “Ghosts of Yet To Come” (producers: Chris D’Adda, Wayward Sons; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes) | (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| Lizz Wright | “Grace” (producer: Joe Henry; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(Concord) |
| Rusty Young | “Waitin’ For the Sun” (the Poco founding member’s debut solo album was recorded at Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, Tenn., the former home recording studio of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash; producers: Young, Jack Sundrud; guests: Jim Messina, George Grantham, Richie Furay, Timothy B. Schmit; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Blue Élan) |
| Yusuf / Cat Stevens | “The Laughing Apple” (producers: Yusuf, Paul Samwell-Smith; first single: “See What Love Did to Me”; Hear here; Read here; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch) |
(Cat-O-Log / Decca) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Marc Broussard | “Easy to Love” (first single: “Don’t Be Afraid To Call Me”; Hear here; Read here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(G-Man) |
| CousteauX (reunited duo formerly known as Cousteau) | “CousteauX” (first single: “Burma”; See here; CD and Vinyl versions out Sept. 22; iTunes) |
(Silent X Recordings) |
| Stew Cutler | “Every Sunday Night” (guests: Bill McClellan, Julian Pollack, Nick Semrad, JT Bowen, Bobby Harden; Hear here) |
(eOne Music / Good Fight Music) |
| The Karpinka Brothers (Saskatoon folk-rock duo) | “Talk Is Cheap” (producer: Howard Bilerman; first single: “You’re Worth It”; Hear here) |
(The Karpinka Brothers) |
| Taylor Kropp | “Coming Up for Air” (producer: Seth Earnest; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Amargosa Music) |
| NYA (Tampa singer-songwriter) | “Mania” (five-song EP; Hear here; See here) | (NYA, Sept. 18) |
| Open Mike Eagle (rapper/comedian) | “Brick Body Kids Still Daydream” (first single: “95 Radios”; Hear here; Read here; CD, out Dec. 29; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Mello Music Group) |
| Philip Selway (Radiohead drummer) | “Let Me Go” (original music from the film by Polly Steele, based on Austrian-born Helga Schneider’s memoir; Hear here; See here; CD, out Nov. 3; iTunes) |
(Bella Union) |
| Stand Atlantic (Australian alt-pop/rock trio) | “Sidewinder” (six-song EP; producer: Stevie Knight; Hear here; See here) |
(Rude) |
| Willowz | “Fifth” (punk-rock group’s first album in eight years; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Thrill Me) |
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Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Chris Bell | “I Am the Cosmos (Deluxe Edition)” (recorded in the mid-1970s and released in 1992, 14 years after his death in an auto accident at age 27; expanded edition with never-before-heard tracks; Hear here; Vinyl, with download card; eBay) |
(Omnivore Recordings) |
| Maria Callas | “Maria Callas: Remastered Live Recordings 1949-1964” (42-disc box set contains 20 complete operas and five filmed recitals on Blu-ray; Read here), “Live & Alive: The Ultimate Live Collection Remastered” (two CDs, 31 songs; Vinyl) |
(Warner Classics / Parlophone) |
| Shawn Colvin | “A Few Small Repairs: 20th Anniversary” (1996 album; remastered, with seven bonus tracks; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Deep Purple | “A Fire in the Sky: A Career-Spanning Collection” (three CDs; Vinyl), “A Fire in the Sky: Selected Career-Spanning Songs” (one-CD best-of; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| Fats Domino | “Five Classic Albums” (two-CD set includes “The Fabulous Mr. D,” “Swings,” “Let’s Play Fats Domino,” “A Lot of Dominos” and “Let the Four Winds Blow”; Track list) |
(Avid) |
| The Doors | “The Singles” (two CDs, 44 songs, featuring high-resolution quadrophonic mixes of the 1973 compilation “The Best of The Doors” on Blu-ray; Vinyl Box Set, with 20 7-inch vinyl singles; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch) |
(Rhino / Elektra) |
| The Kingston Trio | “The Five #1 Billboard Albums” (two CDs; eBay) |
(Hoodoo) |
| Steve Miller Band | “Ultimate Hits” (22-song collection; Read here; Deluxe Edition, with 40 songs; Vinyl; 4-LP Deluxe Edition; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Capitol / UMe) |
| Michael Nesmith | “Michael Nesmith at the BBC Paris Theatre” (previously unreleased Nov. 27, 1975, show in London, remastered from the master tapes; includes a 12-page booklet; Read here; Vinyl Picture Disc) |
(7a) |
| Linda Ronstadt | “Simple Dreams (40th Anniversary Edition)” (1977 album; with three bonus tracks; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Rhino) |
| Styx | “Pieces of Eight [Hybrid SACD]” (1978 album; remastered; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Audio Fidelity) |
| Usher | “My Way [Vinyl]” (1997 album; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive LP; On Tour) |
(RCA) |
| Various artists | “Gary Crowley’s Punk and New Wave” (three-CD, 77-song box set featuring rare punk gems and new wave nuggets circa 1977-1982, with 40-page book; Amazon UK; Amazon Canada) |
(Edsel) |
| Various artists | “The Vietnam War: A Film By Ken Burns & Lynn Novick – The Soundtrack” (10-part documentary series will premiere on PBS on Sept. 17; two-CD, 38-song collection, featuring hits by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, The Temptations, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, etc.; Download; DVD and Blu-ray editions out Sept. 19; also: the hardcover book “The Vietnam War: An Intimate History” out Sept. 5) | (UMe) |
| Hank Williams III | “Greatest Hits” |
(Curb) |
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Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Air Supply | “Air Supply” (1985 album, including “Just As I Am”), “Hearts in Motion” (1986 album; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Arista / Legacy) |
| Jimmy Dean | “The Complete Columbia Christmas Recordings” (15 songs) |
(Columbia Nashville / Legacy) |
| Jim Nabors | “The Complete Columbia Christmas Collection” (27 songs) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Joan Rivers | “The Next to Last Joan Rivers Album” (1969 album) |
(RCA / Legacy) |
| Bobby Vinton | “The Complete Epic Christmas Collection” (19 songs) |
(Epic / Legacy) |
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DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Madonna | “Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour [DVD/CD]” (concert film directed by Jamie King; Read here; Blu-ray/CD; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch) |
(Eagle Vision) |
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