New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Marc Almond | “Shadows and Reflections” (first single: “Not for Me”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch)  | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Archspire (Vancouver metal band) | “Relentless Mutation” (first single: “Involuntary Doppelgänger”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (Season of Mist) |
| Black Country Communion (Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian and Joe Bonamassa) | “BCCIV” (producer: Kevin Shirley; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) | (J&R Adventures) |
| The Bronx | “(V)” (producer: Rob Schnapf; first single: “Soar Throat”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (ATO) |
| Circa Survive | “The Amulet” (first single: “Lustration”; Hear here; See here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Hopeless) |
| The Clientele | “Music for the Age of Miracles” (first single: “Lunar Days”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Merge) |
| Cold Specks (aka Somali-Canadian singer Ladan Hussein) | “Fool’s Paradise” (producer: Jim Anderson; first single: “Fool’s Paradise”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (Arts & Crafts) |
| JP Cooper Band | “Raised Under Grey Skies” (new single: “Passport Home”; Hear here; See here; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition; iTunes) | (Island) |
| CousteauX (reunited duo formerly known as Cousteau) | “CousteauX” (first single: “Burma”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Silent X Recordings) |
| Cradle of Filth | “Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay” (producer: Scott Atkins; first single: “Heartbreak and Seance”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| Cristobal and the Sea | “Exitoca” (first single: “Goat Flokk”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (City Slang) |
| Cub Sport (indie pop-rock quartet from Brisbane) | “Bats” (Hear here; Vinyl, “clear with black splatter” colored LP pressing; Download) | (Cub Sport) |
| Cut Copy | “Haiku From Zero” (new single: “Standing in the Middle of the Field”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) | (Astralwerks) |
| Enter Shikari | “The Spark” (producer: David Kosten; first single: “Live Outside”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) | (PIAS America) |
| Fergie | “Double Dutchess” (guests: Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Axl Jack, YG; Hear here; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Target-Exclusive Autographed Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Dutchess Music / BMG Rights Management) |
| Flamin’ Groovies | “Fantastic Plastic” (first single: “End of the World”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Severn / MRI Entertainment / RED) |
| Gaither Vocal Band | “We Have This Moment” (Hear here; On Tour) | (Gaither Music Group) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | “Luciferian Towers” (Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes) | (Constellation) |
| Noah Gundersen | “White Noise” (new single: “Bad Desire”; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Dualtone) |
| Chris Hillman | “Bidin’ My Time” (producer: Tom Petty; executive producer: Herb Pedersen; guests: Petty, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Benmont Tench, Steve Ferrone, John Jorgenson, Pedersen, Jay Dee Maness, Mark Fain, Josh Jové, Gabe Witcher; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Rounder) |
| Home Free | “Timeless” (all-covers album; new single: a version of John Mayer’s “In the Blood”; Hear here; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with three extra songs; iTunes; On Tour) | (Columbia) |
| The Horrors | “V” (producer: Paul Epworth; first single: “Machine”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (Wolftone / Caroline International) |
| Howard Ivans | “Beautiful Tired Bodies” (producer: Ivans; first single: “Denise”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (Spacebomb) |
| Chris Janson | “Everybody” (producers: Janson, Chris DuBois, Brett Anderson; Hear here; Hear here; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Warner) |
| The Killers | “Wonderful Wonderful” (producers: Jacknife Lee, Stuart Price, The Killers; first single: “The Man”; Hear here; Deluxe Edition; Target-Exclusive CD, with one extra song; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition; Download; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Island) |
| Jon Langford (Welsh-born, Chicago-based Americana artist) | “Four Lost Souls” (recorded at FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Bloodshot) |
| Lecrae | “All Things Work Together” (guests: Tori Kelly, Ty Dolla $ign, Aha Gazelle, 1K Phew, Verse Simmonds, Kierra Sheard, Jawan Harris; new single: “I’ll Find You”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Reach / Columbia) |
| Ledisi | “Let Love Rule” (collaborators: John Legend, Kirk Franklin, BJ the Chicago Kid, Sebastian Kole, DJ Camper, DJ Khalil, etc.; first single: “High”; Hear here; Read here; Download; iTunes) | (Verve) |
| Ted Leo | “The Hanged Man” (first single: “Can’t Go Back”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Super Ego) |
| Lights | “Skin&Earth” (new single: “Savage”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; Comic Books; On Tour) | (Warner) |
| Macklemore | “Gemini” (guests: Kesha, Skylar Grey, Lil Yachty, Eric Nally, etc.; new single: “Glorious”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Bendo) |
| Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers | ” ‘The Long-Awaited Album’ “ (producer: Peter Asher; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Rounder) |
| Mastodon | “Cold Dark Place” (four-song EP; first single: “Toe to Toes”; Hear here; 10″ Vinyl Picture Disc; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Reprise) |
| Mac McAnally | “Southbound: The Orchestra Project” (16 songs from his catalog, featuring Hattiesburg [Miss.] FestivalSouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jay Dean; Read here; Download) | (Mailboat) |
| Christian McBride Big Band | “Bringin’ It” (Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Mack Avenue) |
| METZ | “Strange Peace” (first single: “Drained Lake”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) | (Sub Pop) |
| Midland (country trio) | “On the Rocks” (producer: Shane McAnally; Hear here; See here; On Tour) | (Big Machine) |
| Van Morrison | “Roll With the Punches” (his 37th album features covers of blues and soul classics, with a few original songs; producer: Morrison; guests: Chris Farlowe, Georgie Fame, Jeff Beck, Paul Jones, Jason Rebello; first single: “Bring It On Home To Me”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch)  | (Exile) |
| Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends | “New Worlds” (Hear here; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Decca Gold) |
| Omni (Atlanta post-punk experimental trio) | “Multi-task” (first single: “Equestrian”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Trouble In Mind) |
| Otherwise | “Sleeping Lions” (Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Century Media) |
| Lee “Scratch” Perry + Subatomic Sound System | “Super Ape Returns to Conquer” (a remake of Perry’s 1976 album “Super Ape”; guests: Jahdan Blakkamoore, Screechy Dan, Ari Up; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Subatomic Sound) |
| The Len Price 3 (English garage-pop band) | “Kentish Longtails” (Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (MRI) |
| Haley Reinhart | “What’s That Sound?” (covers of 1960s classics, with three original songs; producers: Reinhart, John Burk; guests: Casey Abrams, Scott Bradlee; first single: “Baby It’s You”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Concord) |
| Reverend and the Makers (U.K. indie-rock quintet) | “The Death of a King” (new single: “Juliet Knows”; See here; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition; iTunes) | (Cooking Vinyl) |
| Josh Ritter | “Gathering” (guest: Bob Weir; first single: “Showboat”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Deluxe Edition; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Pytheas Recordings) |
| Roadcase Royale (feat. Heart’s Nancy Wilson and Liv Warfield of Prince’s New Power Generation) | “First Things First” (producer: band member Dan Rothchild, Roadcase Royale; Hear here; Download; On Tour) | (Loud & Proud) |
| Kermit Ruffins / Irvin Mayfield | “A Beautiful World” (guests: Rebirth Brass Band, Jason Marsalis, Haley Reinhart, Cyril Neville, George Porter Jr., Wendell Pierce, etc.; Hear here; Download) | (Basin Street / MRI) |
| Leon Russell | “On a Distant Shore” (posthumous release; Hear/read here; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch) | (Palmetto+ / MRI) |
| Shout Out Louds (Swedish pop darlings) | “Ease My Mind” (new single: “Jumbo Jet”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Merge) |
| Sleeping With Sirens | “Gossip” (first single: “Legends,” selected by Team USA as its official song on the road to the 2018 Winter Olympics; Hear here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Warner) |
| Sons of Texas | “Forged By Fortitude” (producer: Josh Wilbur; first single: “Feed the Need”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (Razor & Tie) |
| Stephen Stills & Judy Collins | “Everybody Knows” (their first collaborative album in their 50-year friendship, featuring covers and an original song, “River of Gold”; Hear here; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Wildflower / Cleopatra) |
| Moses Sumney | “Aromanticism” (first single: “Doomed”; Hear here; NPR All Songs Considered; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Jagjaguwar) |
| Tricky | “ununiform” (guests: Martina Topley-Bird, Mina Rose, Smoky Mo, Asia Argento, Francesca Belmonte, etc.; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (False Idols / !K7) |
| Various artists | “SpongeBob SquarePants, The New Musical (Original Cast Recording)” (featuring original songs by David Bowie, Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants, etc.; See here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Broadway; Merch) | (Masterworks Broadway) |
| Matthew West | “All In” (new single: “All In”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Sparrow) |
| Chelsea Wolfe | “Hiss Spun” (producer: Kurt Ballou of Converge; first single: “16 Psyche”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Sargent House) |
More Releases for Sept. 22, 2017 »
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ancient Ocean (Brooklyn ambient/classical artist J.R. Bohannon) | “Titan’s Island” (Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Beyond Beyond is Beyond) |
| John Barera & Will Martin | “Proceed to the Root” (second single: “Night Train”; Hear here; Vinyl; iTunes) | (2MR) |
| Matt Cameron | “Cavedweller” (Pearl Jam drummer’s debut album; first single: “Time Can’t Wait”; Hear/read here here; iTunes) | (Migraine Music) |
| Dead Express (Swedish rock group) | “Bloodsucking Queen” (Hear here; iTunes) | (Dead Express / Sound Pollution) |
| The Fizz (reunited members of Bucks Fizz) | “The F-Z of Pop” (first single: “Dancing in the Rain”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Modal Production Group) |
| Max Gomez | “Me & Joe” (five-song EP; producer: Jim Scott; new single: “Joe”; Hear here; On Tour) | (Brigadoon) |
| GrooveShine | “Story Time” (producer: Mike McHugh; first single: “Medusa”; Hear here; iTunes) | (GrooveShine Media, Sept. 23) |
| Kaki King | “Kaki King Live at Berklee” (recorded at the Red Room at Cafe 939 in Boston in April 2017, with the Porta Girevole Chamber Orchestra; iTunes; On Tour) | (BirnCORE) |
| Shannon Lay | “Living Water” (producer: Emmet Kelly; first single: “The Moons Detriment”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Mare / Woodsist) |
| The Lemon Twigs (Long Island brother duo) | “Brothers of Destruction” (six-song EP; first single: “Night Song”; Hear here; Vinyl; iTunes; On Tour) | (4AD) |
| The Living … (San Francisco rock quartet) | “The Living …” (first single: “Delay”; Hear here) | (The Living) |
| Fanny Lumsden (Australian alt-country artist) | “Real Class Act” (first single: “Roll On”; See here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Red Dirt Road) |
| Luna | “A Sentimental Education” (10 covers; Hear here), “A Place of Greater Safety” (EP of instrumentals) | (Double Feature) |
| Mr. Sawed-Off & Nitti! | “Be-Frenemies” (producers: Mr. Sawed-Off, Nitti!, Espo; guests: Mr. Knock It Off, Twitch; first single: “Right Now”; Hear here) | (Outsydr Music Group / SupaFli Ent.) |
| Dalton Rapattoni (third-place finisher on season 15 of “American Idol”) | “Nobody’s Home” (first single: “Signs”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (nobody 2 productions) |
| Sinicle (L.A. power trio) | “Angels & Demons” (producer: frontman Drew Zaragoza; new single: “Rabbit Hole”; Hear here) | (Sinicle) |
| Souleye (hip-hop rapper) | “Wildman” (guests: Alanis Morissette, Chantel Kreviazuk, Wade Morissette, Dustin Tavella, Chachillie; new single: “You’re an Angel”; Hear here) | (Souleye) |
| The Virginmarys | “Sitting Ducks” (four-song EP; See here; iTunes) | (Masochismo) |
More Digital Releases for Sept. 22, 2017 »
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Mike Bloomfield | “Live At McCabe’s Guitar Workshop: January 1, 1977” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (RockBeat) |
| Cher | “3614 Jackson Highway (Deluxe Edition)” (1969 album; remastered, with 12 bonus tracks) | (Wounded Bird, Sept. 26) |
| Miles Davis & Bill Evans | “Complete Studio & Live Masters” (three CDs, 34 songs) | (One) |
| Dr. John | “The Atco Albums Collection” (seven-CD box set; On Tour) | (Rhino) |
| Bob Dylan | “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan [Hybrid SACD]” (1963 album; remastered), “Another Side of Bob Dylan [Hybrid SACD]” (1964 album; remastered; Vinyl), “Highway 61 Revisited [Hybrid SACD]” (1965 album; remastered) | (Mobile Fidelity) |
| Steve Earle | “The Mountain” (1999 album, with the Del McCoury Band; Vinyl), “Transcendental Blues” (2000 album; Vinyl), “Sidetracks” (2002 compilation; Vinyl) | (Warner) |
| Debbie Gibson | “The Singles A’s & B’s” (two CDs, 34 songs) | (Wounded Bird, Sept. 26) |
| Isaac Hayes | “The Spirit of Memphis 1962-1976” (four-CD box set, including a replica 7-inch vinyl single of his first commercially released recordings, housed in a 60-page hardcover book) | (Craft Recordings) |
| The Dave Miller Set | “Mr Guy Fawks: The Complete Spin Recordings and More (1967-1970)” (19 songs; Read here) | (RPM / Cherry Red) |
| The Neon Philharmonic | “Brilliant Colors: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings” (two CDs, 34 songs) | (Wounded Bird, Sept. 26) |
| Sinéad O’Connor | “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got” (1990 album; remastered) | (Parlophone) |
| Benjamin Orr | “The Lace” (1986 album, featuring “Stay the Night”; remastered) | (Notefornote Music) |
| Luciano Pavarotti | “The People’s Tenor” (two CDs) | (Decca) |
| Suzi Quatro | “Legend: The Best of Suzi Quatro” (20-song compilation; eBay) | (Chrysalis) |
| The Rolling Stones | “Their Satanic Majesties Request (50th Anniversary Edition) [Vinyl / SACD]” (1967 album; special audiophile edition includes two 180-gram vinyl LPs and mono and stereo versions on Hybrid SACD, newly remastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, with a 20-page book; See here; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (ABKCO) |
| Various artists | “Soulsville U.S.A.: A Celebration of Stax” (three CDs, 60 songs; Read here; Merch) | (Craft Recordings) |
| White Lion | “Fight to Survive” (1985 album; remastered) | (Deadline Music) |
| Brian Wilson | “Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology” (18 songs; Read here; Vinyl; On Tour) | (Rhino) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Box of Frogs (formed by former members of The Yardbirds) | “Box of Frogs” (1984 album; See here) | (Epic / Legacy) |
| Spandau Ballet | “Through the Barricades” (1986 album; remastered, with seven bonus tracks; CD/Vinyl versions out Oct. 6) | (Epic / Legacy) |
More Digital Releases for Sept. 22, 2017 »
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