New Releases: Sept. 27, 2019
New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith | “Songs from the Bardo” (a guided journey through the visionary text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download) | (Smithsonian Folkways) |
| Wallis Bird | “Woman” (new single: “Salve!”; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour)  |
(AntiFragile) |
| Boy & Bear | “Suck on Light” (producers: Boy & Bear, Collin Dupuis; new single: “Hold Your Nerve”; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Nettwerk) |
| Kristin Chenoweth | “For the Girls” (covers of songs by Patsy Cline, Carole King, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, etc., featuring duets with Ariana Grande, Dolly Parton, Jennifer Hudson and Reba McEntire; producer: Steve Tyrell; first single: “I Will Always Love You,” with Parton; Hear here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Download; On Tour) |
(Concord) |
| Dayseeker | “Sleeptalk” (producer: Daniel Braunstein; first single: “Sleeptalk”; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour, with Wage War) |
(Spinefarm) |
| The Early November | “Lilac” (producer: lead singer Ace Enders; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Rise) |
| David Hasselhoff | “Open Your Eyes” (12-song covers album; guests: Todd Rundgren, Charlie Daniels, Steve Cropper, Ministry, A Flock of Seagulls, Elliot Easton, Tracii Guns, Steve Stevens, Tyler Bates, Ava Cherry; Vinyl; Download) |
(Cleopatra) |
| Beth Hart | “War In My Mind” (Hear here; Black Vinyl, with download card; Light Blue Vinyl, with download card; On Tour) |
(Provogue / Mascot Label Group) |
| HELLYEAH | “Welcome Home” (featuring the late Vinnie Paul Abbott’s final recordings; producers: HELLYEAH, Kevin Churko; first single: “333”; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Eleven Seven Music) |
| Hot Club of Cowtown | “Wild Kingdom” (first single: “Tall Tall Ship”; Hear/read here; On Tour) |
(Gold Strike) |
| The Steve Howe Trio | “New Frontier” (three songs co-written with Bill Bruford; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download) |
(Esoteric Antenna / Cherry Red) |
| KMFDM | “PARADISE” (producer: frontman Sascha Konietzko; Vinyl; Download; Merch) |
(Metropolis) |
| Ramsey Lewis & Urban Knights | “VII” (Hear here; Download) |
(Ropeadope) |
| Moon Duo | “Stars Are the Light” (Vinyl; Download) |
(Sacred Bones) |
| The New Pornographers | “In the Morse Code of Brake Lights” (producer: lead singer A.C. Newman; first single: “Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Collected Work / Concord) |
| Of Mice & Men | “earthandsky” (new single: “Earth & Sky”; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Rise) |
| Opeth | “In Cauda Venenum” (first single: “Heart in Hand”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Swedish Version; On Tour; Merch) |
(Moderbolaget / Nuclear Blast) |
| Jon Pardi | “Heartache Medication” (producers: Pardi, Bart Butler; first single: “Heartache Medication”; Hear here; Vinyl; On Tour, with Dierks Bentley) |
(Capitol Nashville) |
| Charlie Parr | “Charlie Parr” (new single: “Jubilee”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Red House / Compass) |
| Josh Rennie-Hynes (Australian singer-songwriter) | “Patterns” (new single: “Chapter”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) |
(JRHR Music / Soundly Music) |
| Sturgill Simpson | “SOUND & FURY” (producers: Simpson, John Hill; first single: “Sing Along”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Elektra) |
| Steel Panther | “Heavy Metal Rules” (first single: “All I Wanna Do Is Fuck [Myself Tonight]”; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour; Merch) |
(Steel Panther Inc.) |
| Mike Stern – Jeff Lorber Fusion | “Eleven” (featuring bassist Jimmy Haslip and drummer Dave Weckl; first single: “Ha Ha Hotel”; Download; On Tour) |
(Concord Jazz) |
| Billy Strings | “Home” (producer: Glenn Brown; guests: guitarist Molly Tuttle, fiddler John Mailander, tabla player John Churchville, dobro legend Jerry Douglas; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Rounder) |
| Tegan and Sara | “Hey, I’m Just Like You” (the twin sisters discovered two cassette tapes containing their first songs, written when they were ages 15-17, and have reinvented them for their ninth studio album; it coincides with the release of their memoir, “High School,” on Sept. 24; producer: Alex Hope; first single: “I’ll Be Back Someday”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour; Merch) |
(Sire / Warner) |
| Temples | “Hot Motion” (first single: “Hot Motion”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ATO) |
| Tove Lo | “Sunshine Kitty” (guests: Kylie Minogue, ALMA, MC Zaac, Doja Cat, Jax Jones; first single: “Glad He’s Gone”; Hear here; Vinyl, out Nov. 22; Download, released on Sept. 20; On Tour; Merch) |
(Island) |
| Trentemøller | “Obverse” (guests: Rachel Goswell of Slowdive, Lina Tullgren, Lisbet Fritze, jennylee of Warpaint; new single: “In the Garden”; See here; Vinyl; Download) |
(In My Room) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Bros. Landreth (Winnipeg duo) | “’87” (producer: Murray Pulver; first single: “Got To Be You”; Hear here; On Tour) |
(Birthday Cake / The Orchard) |
| Adam Lambert | “VELVET: Side A” (six-song EP; CD, out Oct. 11) |
(More Is More LLC / EMPIRE) |
| Night Plane (Americana/rock act from Basalt, Colo.) | “Knockin'” (producers: Joel Kaufman, Jeffrey Weber; guests: Bryan Savage, Tracy McLain; first single: “I Hear You Knockin'”) |
(Weberworks Entertainment Group) |
| Pitbull | “Libertad 548” (his third Spanish-language album; guests: Ne-Yo, Daddy Yankee, Becky G, Wisin & Yandel, Lil Jon, Natti Natasha, Guru Randhawa, Tito El Bambino; new single: “No Lo Trates”; See here; On Tour) |
(Mr. 305) |
| Tedeschi Trucks Band | “High and Mighty” (four-song EP, originally released as part of Record Store Day on April 13; On Tour) |
(Fantasy / Concord) |
| Renée Zellweger | “Judy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (biopic of Judy Garland, based on Peter Quilter’s play “End of the Rainbow”; the film opens Sept. 27; See here; CD, out Oct. 11; Vinyl; Fandango) |
(Decca) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Ataris | “So Long, Astoria Demos” (demos of each song from their 2003 album, along with alternate versions, untitled tracks, etc.; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Kung Fu / Cleopatra) |
| The Beatles | “Abbey Road (50th Anniversary Edition)” (1969 album; remastered; 2-CD Deluxe Edition; Super Deluxe Edition, 3 CDs and a Blu-ray [Dolby Atmos, 96kHz/24 bit high resolution stereo, and 96 kHz/24 bit DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1], featuring 23 alternate takes, vintage mixes and demos, with 100-page hardbound book; Hear here; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Vinyl Picture Disc; Deluxe Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, with T-shirt; Digital 2019 Mix; Digital Super Deluxe Edition; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch)  |
(Apple / Capitol / UMe) |
| David Cassidy | “The Bell Years 1972-1974” (four-CD, 50-track clam shell box set; Read here) |
(7Ts / Cherry Red) |
| John Coltrane | “Blue World” (recorded in 1964 as the unreleased soundtrack to the French-Canadian film, “Le chat dans le sac [The Cat in the Bag]”; featuring McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Merch) |
(Impulse! / UMe) |
| Erroll Garner | “Closeup in Swing” (1961 album; remastered, with the previously unreleased “Octave 103”; Hear here; Download), “Dreamstreet” (1961 album; remastered; Hear here; Download), “One World Concert” (recorded live at the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962; remastered; Hear here; Download), “A New Kind of Love” (1963 album; remastered; Hear here; Download) |
(Mack Avenue) |
| Grateful Dead | “Saint of Circumstance: Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ 6/17/91” (two CDs, 22 songs; Vinyl; Download; Merch) |
(Grateful Dead Production / Rhino) |
| Elmore James | “The Sky Is Crying: The Ultimate Collection” (three-CD, 58-song box set) |
(Sunset Blvd.) |
| The Ramsey Lewis Trio | “More Sounds of Christmas” (1964 album; remastered; Vinyl; Download) |
(Verve / UMe) |
| Ministry | “Chicago / Detroit 1982” (previously available only on vinyl as part of the “Trax! Box” box set; recorded at Chicago’s On Broadway and Misfits and Detroit’s Clutch’s; On Tour; Merch) |
(Cleopatra) |
| Prefab Sprout | “Swoon [Vinyl]” (1984 album), “From Langley Park to Memphis [Vinyl]” (1988 album; See here), “Jordan: The Comeback [Vinyl]” (1990 album), “A Life of Surprises: The Best of Prefab Sprout [Vinyl]” (1992 compilation) |
(Epic / Sony UK) |
| Ramones | “It’s Alive (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1979 album; four-CD, double-vinyl box set features all four concerts recorded during their U.K. tour in December 1977; Download; Merch) |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| The Replacements | “Dead Man’s Pop” (four-CD, one-LP box set features a newly mixed version of 1989’s “Don’t Tell a Soul,” along with rarities and previously unheard tracks; Read here; Download; Merch) |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| The Roots | “Things Fall Apart (Deluxe Edition) [Vinyl]” (1999 album; remastered, with 10 bonus tracks; triple vinyl; See here; Read here; Download; On Tour) |
(Geffen / UMe) |
| Sutherland Brothers & Quiver | “Sutherland Brothers & Quiver: The Albums” (eight-CD, 103-track box set; See here; Read here) |
(Lemon / Cherry Red) |
| TobyMac | “Light of Christmas” (10-song collection, originally sold as a download in 2017; Hear here; On Tour) |
(Forefront) |
| ’til tuesday | “Welcome Home / Everything’s Different Now” (1986 and 1988 albums on one CD; remastered; Hear here; Amazon UK) |
(BGO) |
| Various artists | “American Tunes: Songs by Paul Simon” (23-song compilation, featuring covers by Aretha Franklin, The Hollies, Cher, Emmylou Harris, The Bangles, Annie Lennox, Patti Smith, Rumer, Willie Nelson, etc.; Hear/read here; Amazon UK) | (Ace) |
| Various artists | “’70s Country” (eight-CD, 155-song box set; Read here) | (Time Life) |
| Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton | “Once More / Two of a Kind / Together Always / The Right Combination: Burning the Midnight Oil” (1970, 1971 and 1972 albums on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK) |
(BGO) |
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