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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)

Artist: Title: Label:
Herb Alpert “Catch the Wind” (nine original compositions, covers of the Beatles hits “Eleanor Rigby” and “Yesterday,” and American classics “Smile,” “America The Beautiful” and “Summertime”; new single: “Billy Cha”; Hear here; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Herb Alpert Presents)
Bad Bad Hats (Minneapolis indie rock trio) “Walkman” (new single: “Walkman”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW (Don Giovanni)
The Count Basie Orchestra “Live at Birdland” (under the direction of Scotty Barnhart; Hear here; Download) » BUY NOW (Candid)
The Beths “Auckland, New Zealand, 2020” (new single: “Future Me Hates Me”; See here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW (Carpark)
Lindsey Buckingham “Lindsey Buckingham” (his eighth solo album and first since 2011’s “Seeds We Sow”; first single: “I Don’t Mind”; Hear here; Amazon-Exclusive Sky Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW (Reprise)
Candlebox “Wolves” (new single: “My Weakness”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Pavement Music)
Carcass “Torn Arteries” (the British death-metal band’s first album in eight years; new single: “Kelly’s Meat Emporium”; Hear here; Blood Splatter Vinyl; Red Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) » BUY NOW (Nuclear Blast)
Tommy Castro “Tommy Castro Presents A Bluesman Came To Town (a blues odyssey)” (producer: Tom Hambridge; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW (Alligator)
Charley Crockett “Music City USA” (producer: Mark Neill; new single: “I Need Your Love”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW (Son of Davy / Thirty Tigers)
Daughtry “Dearly Beloved” (new single: “Lioness”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW (Dogtree / ADA)
Edge of Paradise “The Unknown” (producers: Howard Benson, Neil Sanderson; Hear here; Blue Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW (Frontiers Music s.r.l.)
Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet” actress was nominated for two Oscars: Best Actress and Best Original Song) “Ch. 1 Vs. 1” (new single: “The Good”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Verve)
The Felice Brothers “From Dreams to Dust” (producers: The Felice Brothers; mixed by Mike Mogis; new single: “Jazz on the Autobahn”; See here; Red & Cream Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW (Yep Roc)
Rod Gator (fka Rod Melancon) “For Louisiana” (producers: Will Walden, Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada; first single: “For Louisiana”; Hear here; Vinyl out Nov. 19; Download) » BUY NOW (Blue Élan)
Teea Goans “All Over the Map” (producer: Jim “Moose” Brown; guests: Vince Gill, Mo Pitney, Carl Jackson, Larry Cordle; new single: “What’s a Girl to Do”; See here; Download) » BUY NOW (Sparky’s Neighborhood)
This is the first time I’ve ever written my own material,” Goans tells Pauseandplay.com. “I feel like I’m in a new place now, I’m seeing things in a different way, with a new curiosity and insight. I finally feel like I have something to say.
José González “Local Valley” (the Swedish singer-songwriter’s first album since 2015; new single: “Visions”; Hear here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Vinyl, with hand-signed art print; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Mute)
Billy Idol “The Roadside EP” (four songs; first single: “Bitter Taste”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (BMG Rights Management)
Jonas Kaufmann “Freudvoll und Leidvoll” (dedicated to the songs of Liszt; Read here; Download) » BUY NOW (Sony Classical)
Larkin Poe & Nu Deco Ensemble “Paint the Roses (Live in Concert)” (streamed live from the Miami Beach Bandshell on Dec. 12, 2020; Orange Crush Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW (Tricki-Woo)
Scotty McCreery “Same Truck” (producers: Frank Rogers, Derek Wells, Aaron Eshuis; Read here; Download; Target; On Tour) » BUY NOW (Triple Tigers)
James Vincent McMorrow “Grapefruit Season” (guest: Kenny Beats; new single: “Waiting”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Columbia)
MONO (Japanese post-punk band) “Pilgrimage of the Soul” (producer: Steve Albini; first single: “Riptide”; See here; Opaque Orange Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Temporary Residence)
NCT 127 “STICKER (The 3rd Album)” (includes photo book, folded poster, sticker, photo card and postcard; Jewel Case; Download; Merch) » BUY NOW (SM Entertainment)
Noise Unit “Deviator” (the first album in more than 15 years from Front Line Assembly members Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber; first single: “Body Aktiv”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Artoffact)
Carly Pearce “29: Written in Stone” (guests: Patty Loveless, Ashley McBryde; Vinyl, out Jan. 28, 2022; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Lady A) » BUY NOW (Big Machine)
Jameson Rodgers “Bet You’re From a Small Town” (the Mississippi-bred, Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s debut album; guest: Luke Combs; See here; Read here; Download) » BUY NOW (Columbia Nashville / River House)
Rumer “Live from Lafayette” (livestreamed concert with full band at the London venue on Oct. 17, 2020; Hear here; Purple Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW (Cooking Vinyl)
Spiritbox (Canadian hard rock trio) “Eternal Blue” (guest: Sam Carter; new single: “Secret Garden”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Rise)
Wesley Stace (afka John Wesley Harding) “Late Style” (Read here; Download) » BUY NOW (Omnivore Recordings)
Kasim Sulton “Kasim 2021” (first single: “More Love”; See here) » BUY NOW (Deko Entertainment)
Toad the Wet Sprocket “Starting Now” (their first studio album in eight years; See here; On Tour; Merch) » BUY NOW (SoNo Recording Group)
Adia Victoria “A Southern Gothic” (producers: Victoria, Mason Hickman; executive producer: T Bone Burnett; guests: Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Matt Berninger, Stone Jack Jones, Kyshona Armstrong; first single: “Magnolia Blues”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW (Atlantic)
The Weeklings “In Their Own Write: The Weeklings Live!” (15-song set; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (JEM)
Ronnie Wood and The Ronnie Wood Band “Mr. Luck – A Tribute To Jimmy Reed: Live At The Royal Albert Hall” (the second installment of his live album trilogy was recorded on Nov. 1, 2013; guests: Mick Taylor, Bobby Womack, Mick Hucknall, Paul Weller; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW (BMG Rights Management)
Yvette “How the Garden Grows” (New York post-industrial artist Noah Kardos-Fein’s first album in eight years; new single: “B61”; Hear/Read here; Multicolor Explosion Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Western Vinyl)

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Other Notable Releases

2Cellos Dream Theater Vincent Ingala
Jean Michel Jarre Roscoe Mitchell Röyksopp
Balsam Range Chris Renzema Stacey Kent
Real Friends The Plot in You The Cocktail Slippers
Gleaming Spires Straylight Run Della Mae
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New Releases (Downloads)

Artist: Title: Label:
Blunt Bangs (Athens, GA-based power-pop group) “Proper Smoker” (producer: Drew Vandenberg; new single: “Silence is Golden”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
Paul Carrack “One On One” (he wrote, recorded and produced every song during Covid-19 lockdown; CD out Oct. 1; Vinyl) » BUY NOW (Carrack UK)
Melissa Etheridge “One Way Out” (she revisits and reworks songs she had written in the late 1980s and early 1990s that never made it onto an album; first single: “One Way Out”; See here; CD and Vinyl out Oct. 1; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Ruby Red Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW (M.L.E. Music / BMG Rights Management)
H3000 (Empire of the Sun’s Luke Steele with Jarrad Rogers) “H3000” (new single: “Running”; See here; Read here) » BUY NOW (Astralwerks)
Noah Kahan “I Was / I Am” (producer: Joel Little; new single: “Part of Me”; Hear here; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Republic)
Lil Nas X “MONTERO” (his debut album; guests: Elton John, Miley Cyrus, Jack Harlow, Megan Thee Stallion, Doja Cat; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Columbia)
Lizzie Loveless (aka Lizzie Lieberson of the indie-pop group TEEN) “You Don’t Know” (producers: Lieberson, Miles Francis, Daniel Schlett; new single: “The Joke”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Egghunt)
Moor Mother “Black Encyclopedia of the Air” (producer: Olof Melander; guests: Elucid, Antonia Gabriela, Brother May, Lojii, Bfly, Pink Siifu, Nappy Nina, Maassai, Antonia Gabriela, Orion Sun, Yatta, Black Quantum Futurism, Elaine Mitchner, Dudu Kouate; new single: “Obsidian”; See here; CD and Vinyl out Oct. 22; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (ANTI- / Epitaph)
Jared James Nichols (Nashville singer-guitarist) “Shadow Dancer” (four-song EP; new single: “Bad Roots”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW (Black Hill)
Nate Smith (Grammy-nominated drummer) “Kinfolk 2: See the Birds” (guests: Brittany Howard, Vernon Reid, Regina Carter, Amma Whatt, Joel Ross, Kokayi, Michael Mayo, Stokley Williams; new single: “Square Wheel”; See here; CD and Vinyl out Oct. 8; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Editions)
Sweet Nobody “We’re Trying Our Best” (producer: Joel Jerome; new single: “Not a Good Judge”; Hear here) » BUY NOW (Daydream)
Thrice “Horizons/East” (new single: “Scavengers”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) » BUY NOW (Epitaph)
D.D. Verni & The Cadillac Band “Let’s Rattle” (new and original rockabilly music from the bassist and founding member of Overkill; producer: Verni; new single: “Olivia … That’s Who!”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (MVD Audio)
You, Me, And Everyone We Know “Something Heavy” (their first album in nearly a decade; new single: “Something Heavy”; See here) » BUY NOW (Know Hope)

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Vinyl of the Month Club »

Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)

Artist: Title: Label:
Gord Downie “Coke Machine Glow (Songwriters’ Cabal)” (2001 album; remastered, with two CDs of unreleased tracks, alternate takes, and kitchen table recordings; Download) » BUY NOW (Arts & Crafts)
Bob Dylan “Bob Dylan – Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16 (1980-1985)” (two-CD, 25-song collection of previously unreleased outtakes, mixes and more; Deluxe Box Set, five CDs; Vinyl; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition; Merch) » BUY NOW (Third Man / Columbia / Legacy)
Sheena Easton “The Definitive Singles 1980-1987” (three-CD, 51-song collection includes all of her U.S. and U.K. A-side singles from her EMI years, with eight previously unreleased tracks, plus 7-inch edits, 12-inch extended versions and rare dub mixes; See here; Read here) » BUY NOW (Cherry Red)
Marianne Faithfull “Marianne Faithfull: The Montreux Years” (highlights from five concerts; remastered; Vinyl) » BUY NOW (BMG Rights Management)
Erroll Garner “Symphony Hall Concert” (previously unreleased 1959 performance at the Boston venue; Read here; Vinyl) » BUY NOW, “Liberation in Swing: The Octave Records Story & Complete Symphony Hall Concert [Vinyl]” (three 180-gram black vinyl LPs of “Complete Symphony Hall Concert” and one 180-gram white vinyl of “Sessions”; Hi-Res 192kHz / 24bit digital master quality audio) » BUY NOW, “Liberation in Swing: Centennial Collection” (22-disc CD and vinyl box set, with five 7-inch 45rpm singles from Garner’s private archive and “The Final Concert Cassette,” never-before-released original cassette replica) » BUY NOW (Octave Music / Mack Avenue)
Golden Earring “Moontan (Remastered & Expanded)” (1973 album, featuring “Radar Love”; two-CD set includes nine previously unreleased mixes/different versions, six bonus tracks, and a 32-page booklet) » BUY NOW (Red Bullet)
Nick Lowe “The Convincer (20th Anniversary Edition) [Vinyl]” (Blue Vinyl; 2001 album; remastered from the original tapes, with accompanying blue vinyl 45 featuring three rarities from “The Convincer” era that have never before been released on vinyl or digital services: covers of The Shirelles’ “Mama Said” and The Chi-Lites’ “There Will Never Be Any Peace [Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table],” plus the Lowe original “A Different Kind of Blue”; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW, “The Old Magic (10th Anniversary Edition) [Vinyl]” (Green Vinyl; 2011 album) » BUY NOW (Yep Roc)
Nancy Sinatra “Boots” (1966 debut album, produced by Lee Hazlewood, featuring her No. 1 smash “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'”; remastered, with two bonus tracks, “The City Never Sleeps At Night” and “For Some,” and a 28-page booklet; See here; Vinyl, pressed at RTI in an expanded gatefold package featuring cover artwork restored from the original album photograph taken by Ed Thrasher; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Boots Enterprises / Light in the Attic)
Various artists “Jesus Christ Superstar (50th Anniversary Edition)” (1970 album; featuring unreleased material; remastered by Miles Showell and Nick Davis at Abbey Road Studios; cast included Ian Gillian, Murray Head, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen and Mike d’Abo; Read here; Deluxe Edition, three-CD box set, containing previously unreleased guide vocals, demos, B-sides and rarities and a 100-page booklet with new interviews; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition; Apple Music) » BUY NOW (Verve / UMe)
Muddy Waters “Muddy Waters: The Montreux Years” (three concerts, with rare and previously unreleased material; remastered; Vinyl) » BUY NOW (BMG Rights Management)

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DVD / Blu-ray

Artist(s)/cast: Title: Studio/label:
Dolly Parton “Dolly: The Ultimate Collection (Collector’s Edition) [DVD]” (six-disc set of her career highlights; 11-Disc Box Set; 19-Disc Deluxe Edition) » BUY NOW (Time Life, Sept. 21)
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