New Releases: Sept. 23, 2016
New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Airbourne | “Breakin’ Outta Hell” (producer: Bob Marlette; first single: “Breakin’ Outta Hell”; Hear here; MP3)  |
(Spinefarm) |
| Devendra Banhart | “Ape in Pink Marble” (producers: Josiah Steinbrick, Noah Georgeson; first single: “Middle Names”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Nonesuch) |
| Beach Slang | “A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings” (first single: “Punks in a Disco Bar”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Polyvinyl) |
| Joe Bonamassa | “Live At The Greek Theatre” (a musical tribute to “The Three Kings of the Blues” – Albert, Freddie and B.B. – filmed in August 2015 and airing on PBS; See here; Vinyl; DVD; Blu-ray; MP3)  |
(J&R Adventures) |
| Billy Bragg & Joe Henry | “Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad” (classic railroad folk and blues standards recorded during their four-day rail trip; Hear here; Read here; MP3) |
(Cooking Vinyl) |
| Budderside (L.A. hard rockers) | “Budderside” (producer: Paul Inder Kilmister, son of Lemmy; guest: Motörhead’s Phil Campbell; first single: “Pain”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Motörhead Music / UDR) |
| Charred Walls of the Damned (with Tim “Ripper” Owens on vocals) | “Creatures Watching Over the Dead” (producer: guitarist Jason Suecof; first single: “The Soulless”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Metal Blade) |
| Crobot | “Welcome to Fat City” (producer: Machine; mixed by engineer Alan Moulder; first single: “Not For Sale”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Wind-up) |
| Delerium | “Mythologie” (featuring five singers from three countries; Hear here; MP3) |
(Metropolis) |
| Every Time I Die | “Low Teens” (producer: Will Putney; guests: Tim Singer, Brendan Urie; first single: “The Coin Has a Say”; See here; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition, with two extra tracks) |
(Epitaph) |
| Franco Fagioli (Argentinian operatic countertenor) | “Rossini” (with Armonia Atenea, conducted by George Petrou; Hear here) |
(Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Flock of Dimes (Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner) | “If You See Me Say Yes” (first single: “Semaphore”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; MP3) | (Partisan) |
| Giraffe Tongue Orchestra (feat. Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weinman and Mastodon’s Brent Hinds) | “Broken Lines” (first single: “Crucifixion”; Hear here; MP3) | (Party Smasher Inc. / Cooking Vinyl) |
| Greensky Bluegrass | “Shouted, Written Down & Quoted” (first single: “Past My Prime”; Hear/read here; MP3) |
(Big Blue Zoo / Thirty Tigers) |
| Skylar Grey | “Natural Causes” (producers: Alex Da Kid, Mike Elizondo, Mark Batson, Symbolic One, Eminem; Hear here; Read here; MP3) |
(KIDinaKORNER / Interscope) |
| How to Dress Well | “Care” (first single: “Lost Youth / Lost You”; See here; MP3) |
(Weird World / Domino) |
| Kansas | “The Prelude Implicit” (their first album since 2000’s “Somewhere to Elsewhere” and their first with new vocalist Ronnie Platt, who took over when Steve Walsh departed in 2014; Hear here; Read here; Deluxe Edition; Vinyl; MP3) |
(InsideOut Music) |
| Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur | “Penny’s Farm” (guests: Cindy Cashdollar, Suzy Thompson, Van Dyke Parks, Juli Crockett; See here; MP3) |
(Kingswood) |
| Lady Wray (Virginia-born singer/songwriter Nicole Wray) | “Queen Alone” (producers: Leon Michels, Tom Brenneck; first single: “Do It Again”; Hear here; MP3) | (Big Crown) |
| Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam | “I Had a Dream That You Were Mine” (songs the former Walkmen singer recorded with Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij; See here; MP3) | (Glassnote) |
| Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials | “The Big Sound of Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials” (producers: Lil’ Ed Williams, label president Bruce Iglauer; first single: “Pain”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Alligator) |
| LVL UP (indie-pop quartet) | “Return to Love” (producer: Mike Ditrio; first single: “Pain”; Hear here; MP3) | (Sub Pop) |
| Billie Marten (U.K. teen singer-songwriter) | “Writing of Blues and Yellows” (new single: “Lionhearted”; Hear here; MP3) | (U.K. – Chess Club / RCA) |
| Brian McKnight | “An Evening With Brian McKnight” (recorded and filmed in January 2016 at Los Angeles’ historic Saban Theatre, with three new studio tracks were produced by Aaron Pierce; guest: Gino Vannelli; See here; DVD; Blu-ray) |
(Independent Label Services, Inc.) |
| Shawn Mendes | “Illuminate” (first single: “Treat You Better”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Deluxe Edition; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition) |
(Island) |
| Idina Menzel | “idina.” (first single: “I See You”; See/read here; MP3) |
(Warner) |
| Merchandise | “A Corpse Wired For Sound” (first singles: “End of the Week / Flower of Sex”; See here; MP3) |
(4AD) |
| Gaby Moreno (Best New Artist winner at the 2013 Latin Grammys) | “Ilusión” (first single: “Love Is Gone”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Metamorfosis Enterprises Inc.) |
| Randy Newman | “The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3” (newly recorded, stripped-down versions of some of best-known songs, including “Short People,” “Mama Told Me Not To Come,” “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “I Love L.A.”; MP3; see related reissue below) |
(Nonesuch) |
| Operation: Mindcrime (led by former Queensrÿche singer Geoff Tat) | “Resurrection” (first single: “Left for Dead”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| Patton Oswalt | “Talking for Clapping [Vinyl]” (Emmy-winning Netflix special, recorded in San Francisco in 2015; with digital download and two bonus tracks; See here) |
(aspecialthing) |
| Panic Lift (alt-industrial trio) | “Skeleton Key” (Hear here; MP3) |
(Metropolis) |
| Paper Route (Nashville-based indie pop/rock/electro trio) | “Real Emotion” (third single: “Balconies”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Kemosabe / Sony Music) |
| The Parrots (Spanish garage rockers) | “Los Niños Sin Miedo” (translated as “the fearless children”; first single: “Jame Gumb”; See here; MP3) | (PIAS America) |
| Passenger | “Young as the Morning Old as the Sea” (producers: Passenger, Chris Vallejo; guest: Birdy; first single: “Somebody’s Love”; See here; Deluxe Edition; Vinyl, with download card; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition) |
(Nettwerk) |
| Lee “Scratch” Perry | “Must Be Free” (guests: Subatomic Sound System, The Groovematist, IAmPhloboi; See here; MP3) |
(Megawave / MVD) |
| Monte Pittman | “Inverted Grasp of Balance” (producer: Jay Ruston; first single: “Pride Comes Before the Fall”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Metal Blade) |
| Reckless Kelly | “Sunset Motel” (guests: The Mastersons, Bukka Allen, Rosie Flores, Keith Gattis, etc.; first single: “How Can You Love Him [You Don’t Even Like Him]”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) |
(No Big Deal) |
| Timothy B. Schmit | “Leap of Faith” (producers: Schmit, Hank Linderman; first single: “Red Dirt Road”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) |
(Benowen) |
| John Scofield | “Country for Old Men” (jazz renditions of classic country tunes by George Jones, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Bob Wills, etc.; Hear here; MP3) |
(impulse! / UMC) |
| Jake Shimabukuro | “Nashville Sessions” (with bass player Nolan Verner and drummer Evan Hutchings; Hear here; MP3) |
(JS) |
| Source (Boulder, Colo., prog-rock/metal group) | “Return to Nothing” (Hear here; MP3) | (Pavement Music) |
| Adam Steffey | “Here to Stay” (new versions of his best-known songs from his time with Alison Krauss + Union Station, Mountain Heart, etc.; Hear here; MP3; iTunes) |
(Mountain Home Music Company) |
| Stop Light Observations (Charleston, S.C., “transformational rock” quartet) | “Toogoodoo” (first single: “Dinosaur Bones”; Hear here; MP3) | (Stop Light Observations) |
| Various artists | “Billion Dollar Babies: A Tribute To Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits” (featuring current/former members of Alice Cooper Band, Whitesnake, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Rock of Ages, Night Ranger, Lillian Axe, Blue Murder, etc.) | (Versailles) |
| Various artists | “Queen of Katwe (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (biographical drama film, based on Tim Crothers’ book and starring David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o and Madina Nalwanga, opens Sept. 23; See here; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition, with the original score by Alex Heffes) | (Walt Disney) |
| Various artists | “Trolls (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (DreamWorks 3D computer-animated musical comedy film opens Nov. 4, featuring the voices of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Russell Brand, Icona Pop, etc.; first single: Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”; music composed by Christophe Beck; See here) | (RCA) |
| Various artists | “WOW Hits 2017” (two CDs, 30 songs; Deluxe Edition) |
(WOW) |
| Warpaint | “Heads Up” (producer: Jacob Bercovici; first single: “New Song”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Rough Trade) |
| Rachael Yamagata | “Tightrope Walker” (her first album in four years; producers: Yamagata, John Alagia; first single: “Nobody”; See here; MP3) |
(Frankenfish / Thirty Tigers) |
| Dwight Yoakam | “Swimming Pools, Movie Stars …” (his first exclusively bluegrass album; producers: Yoakam, Gary Paczosa; mixed by Chris Lord Alge; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl) |
(Sugar Hill) |
More Releases for Sept. 23, 2016
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New Releases (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Acrylics (NYC duo) | “DADA minor” (producers: Acrylics, Eric Gorman; second single: “One In Seven”; Hear here) | (PaperCup Music) |
| Archie and the Bunkers (Cleveland garage-punk duo) | “Mystery Lover” (six-song EP; Hear here; Read here) |
(Dirty Water) |
| Luke Bryan | “Farm Tour: Here’s to the Farmer” (five-song EP; first single: “Here’s to the Farmer”; See here) |
(Row Crop / Capitol Nashville) |
| Dinowalrus (Brooklyn rockers) | “Fairweather” (first single: “Tides”; Hear here) |
(Personal Projects) |
| The Dustaphonics (London “party beat” rockers) | “Johnny & Bo” (producer: DJ Healer Selecta; Hear here) |
(Dirty Water) |
| Steve Grimmett’s Grim Reaper | “Walking in the Shadows” (the British metal act’s first album since 1987; Hear here; CD, out Oct. 14) |
(Dissonance Productions) |
| GRiZ (Denver-based DJ, producer and saxophonist ) | “Good Will Prevail” (guests: Eric Krasno, Son Little, Cory Enemy, Sunsquabi, Artifakts, Cherub, Leo Napier; new single: “PS GFY”; Hear here) |
(All Good) |
| Imperial State Electric | “All Through the Night” (first single: “Read Me Wrong”; Hear here; CD, out Sept. 30) |
(Psychout) |
| Mick Jenkins | “The Healing Component” (guests: Michael Anthony, BADBADNOTGOOD, theMIND, Ravyn Lenae, jSTOCK, Noname, Xavier Omar; first single: “Spread Love”; Hear here) |
(Free Nation) |
| James Leg | “Blood on the Keys” (first single: “Hugging the Line”; Hear here; CD, out Sept. 30) |
(Alive Naturalsound) |
| Monocled Man (trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist and composer Rory Simmons) | “We Drift Meridian” (guests: Emilia Mårtensson, Ed Begley; See here; CD, out Nov. 18) |
(Whirlwind Recordings) |
| MuteMath | “Changes” (a re-imagined version of the band’s “Vitals” album, featuring remixes of each track, plus a new song, “Changes”; Hear here) |
(Wojtek) |
| Pete RG | “Tender Souls” (second single: “Heaven Knows”; Hear here) |
(4L Entertainment) |
| Slender (Montreal rock band) | “Revival” (See here) | (Slender, Sept. 26) |
| Ty Dolla $ign | “Campaign” (guests: Future, Big TC; first single: “Campaign”; Hear here) |
(Atlantic) |
| Vangelis | “Rosetta” (13-track album was inspired by and created for the European Space Agency’s Rosetta comet landing mission; Hear here; CD, out Sept. 30) |
(Decca) |
| Jason Walker (Sydney-based alt-country artist) | “All-Night Ghost Town” (producer: Shane Nicholson; first single: “Borrowed Tunes”; Hear here) |
(Lost Highway Australia) |
More Digital Releases for Sept. 23, 2016
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Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Betty Boo | “Boomania (Deluxe Edition)” (1990 album; remastered, with bonus material; See here) |
(U.K. – Cherry Pop) |
| David Bowie | “David Bowie – Who Can I Be Now? [1974-1976]” (12-CD box set includes the previously unreleased album “The Gouster” and “Re:Call 2,” featuring single versions and non-album B-sides; Read here; Vinyl; see related “The Man Who Fell to Earth” soundtrack below) |
(Rhino / Parlophone) |
| Ray Charles | “The Atlantic Years – In Mono [Vinyl]” (seven-LP box set) |
(Rhino / Atlantic) |
| The Chimes | “The Chimes (Deluxe Edition)” (1990 album; remastered, a bonus disc of alternative versions and mixes; See here; Read here) | (U.K. – Big Break / Cherry Red) |
| Doris Day | “60 Essential Recordings” (three CDs) |
(U.K. – Big 3) |
| Art Farmer | “The Complete Albums Collection 1958-1961” (eight complete albums on four CDs) |
(Enlightenment) |
| Fatboy Slim | “Better Living Through Chemistry (20th Anniversary Edition)” (1996 album; remastered, with 13 bonus tracks; Vinyl) |
(U.K. – Skint) |
| Fleetwood Mac | “Mirage (Expanded Edition)” (1982 album; remastered, with a second CD featuring 19 early versions, outtakes, alternate takes, etc.; Hear here; Deluxe Edition, featuring three CDs containing B-sides, rarities and live performances, plus one LP and a 5.1 mix on DVD; Standard CD; MP3; MP3 Deluxe) |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| Free | “The Vinyl Collection” (seven-LP box set, from 1969’s “Tons of Sobs” to 1971’s “Free Live!”) |
(A&M / UMe) |
| Leon Haywood | “Intimate” (1976 album; remastered, with three bonus tracks) |
(Funky Town Grooves) |
| Kenny G | “G Force” (1983 album; remastered, with eight bonus tracks) |
(Funky Town Grooves) |
| Nils Lofgren and Grin | “Grin, 1+1 & All Out” (1971, 1972 and 1973 albums on two CDs; remastered) |
(Floating World) |
| Melanie | “Leftover Wine” (1970 live album, recorded at Carnegie Hall; remastered; Hear here) |
(U.K. – Talking Elephant) |
| My Chemical Romance | “The Black Parade / Living With Ghosts (The 10th Anniversary Edition) [Vinyl]” (2006 album; with 11 previously unreleased demos and outtakes from the original recording session with producer Rob Cavallo; MP3) |
(Warner) |
| My Chemical Romance | “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge [Vinyl]” (2004 album; limited-edition pink vinyl) |
(Warner, Sept. 27) |
| Randy Newman | “The Randy Newman Songbook [Vinyl]” (four-LP box set) |
(Nonesuch) |
| Pickettywitch inc. Polly Brown and Sweet Dreams | “That Same Old Feeling: The Anthology 1969-1976” (two CDs, 52 songs; Read here) |
(U.K. – Cherry Red) |
| Diana Ross & The Supremes | “Baby Love: The Essential Diana Ross & The Supremes” (three CDs, 59 songs) |
(U.K. – Spectrum Audio / UMC) |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto | “Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (Original Soundtrack Album)” (2015 film; MP3) |
(Milan) |
| Bridget St. John | “Fly High: A Collection of Album Highlights, Singles and B-Sides, Demos, Live Recordings, Sessions and Interviews” (two CDs, 47 tracks; Read here) |
(U.K. – Cherry Red) |
| Seventh Wonder (Swedish prog-metal band) | “Welcome To Atlanta Live 2014” (DVD; MP3) |
(Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| Dusty Springfield | “A Little Piece of My Heart: The Essential Dusty Springfield” (three CDs, 60 songs) |
(U.K. – Spectrum Audio / UMC) |
| Bruce Springsteen | “Chapter and Verse” (an 18-song compilation/companion piece to his “Born to Run” autobiography, see below; See here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Columbia) |
| 10cc | “I’m Not In Love: The Essential 10cc” (three CDs, 53 songs) |
(U.K. – Spectrum Audio / UMC) |
| Ike & Tina Turner | “The Complete Pompeii Recordings 1968-1969” |
(Goldenlane) |
| UB40 | “Red Red Wine: The Essential UB40” (three CDs, 56 songs) |
(U.K. – Spectrum Audio / UMC) |
| Various artists | “A Capitol Christmas” (24-song label compilation of holiday classics by Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, etc.; Vinyl) | (Capitol) |
| Various artists | “The Man Who Fell To Earth” (1975 film soundtrack, available for the first time since its original release; two CDs, 25 songs; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (UMC) |
| Zapp | “Zapp I / Zapp II / Zapp III” (1980, 1982 and 1983 albums on two CDs; remastered, with five bonus tracks; Read here) |
(U.K. – Robinsongs / Cherry Red) |
| Frank Zappa | “ZAPPAtite: Frank Zappa’s Tastiest Tracks” (18-song compilation; MP3) |
(Zappa) |
More Releases for Sept. 23, 2016
“Beauty and the Beast: 25th Anniversary Edition” … Emmy Central … The Criterion Collection
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| The Beach Boys | “Classic Albums: Pet Sounds [DVD]” (includes more than 30 minutes of additional interviews not included in the broadcast version; Blu-ray) |
(Eagle Rock) |
| Drivin N Cryin | “Scarred But Smarter (Life N Times of Drivin N Cryin) [DVD]” (documentary directed by Eric Von Haessler) |
(Shanzing Films) |
| Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate, et al | “Valley of the Dolls (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]” (1967 film; See/read here; Blu-ray) | (Criterion Collection) |
| Erica Gavin, John LaZar, Cynthia Myers, et al | “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]” (1970 film; screenplay by Roger Ebert; See/read here; Blu-ray) | (Criterion Collection) |
| Justin Hayward | “Justin Hayward: Live In Concert At The Capitol Theatre [DVD]” (with a bonus music video, “The Wind of Heaven”) |
(IM3) |
| Joel Hodgson, Michael J. Nelson, et al | “Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume Three [DVD]” (four discs) | (Shout! Factory) |
| Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, et al | “Central Intelligence [DVD]” (2016 film; Blu-ray; 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray) | (Warner Home Video) |
| David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, et al | “An American Werewolf in London (Restored Edition) [DVD]” (1981 film) | (Universal Studios Home Entertainment) |
| Various artists | “Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever [DVD]” (six-disc box set featuring an additional 30 minutes not shown on the original May 16, 1983, broadcast, plus more than 14 hours of extras; See here) | (Time Life) |
The New York Times Best Sellers … Best Books of 2016 So Far … 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
Music Books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| The Beatles | “When They Were Boys: The True Story of the Beatles’ Rise to the Top” (Paperback; author: Larry Kane) |
(Running Press) |
| The Beatles | “The Zapple Diaries: The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label” (Hardcover; author: Barry Miles) |
(Abrams Image) |
| Guy Clark | “Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark” (Hardcover; author: Tamara Saviano; Read here) |
(Texas A&M University Press) |
| The Rolling Stones | “Rollaresque: Or the Rakish Progress of The Rolling Stones – A Tale of Loose Morals” (Hardcover; author: Simon Goddard; Kindle; Free Preview) |
(Ebury Press) |
| Bruce Springsteen | “Born to Run” (official autobiography; Hardcover; Kindle; Read here) |
(Simon & Schuster) |
Next Week: Sept. 30, 2016
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