New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Against Me! | “23 Live Sex Acts” (live album recorded over the band’s yearlong world tour in 2014; producer: Marc Jacob Hudson; Hear here; MP3) | (Total Treble / INgrooves) |
| a-ha | “Cast in Steel” (the group’s 10th album and first since 2009; producers: Alan Tarney, a-ha, Steve Osborne; first single: “Under the Makeup”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Europe – We Love Music / Universal) |
| Amorphis (Finnish melodic metal band) | “Under the Red Cloud” (producer: Jens Bogren; Hear here) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| The Arcs (Dan Auerbach’s new side project) | “Yours, Dreamily,” (first single: “Stay In My Corner”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; MP3) | (Nonesuch) |
| Lou Barlow | “Brace the Wave” (his first solo release in six years; Hear here; See here) | (Joyful Noise Recordings) |
| Dan Bern | “Hoody” (producers: Bern, Greg Prestopino; guests: Lulu, Willie Watson, Eric Kufs; Hear here; MP3) | (BFD / RED) |
| Broken Flesh (Oklahoma City death metal quintet) | “Broken Flesh” (producer: As They Sleep’s Nick Morris; first single: “Unworthy”; Hear here; MP3) | (Luxor) |
| Kim Burrell | “A Different Place” (first single: “Thank You Jesus [That’s What He’s Done]”; Hear here; MP3) | (Shanachie) |
| Ron Carter and the WDR Big Band | “My Personal Songbook” (Hear here; MP3) | (In+Out) |
| Dave Davies | “Rippin’ Up New York City: Live At The City Winery” (culled from two shows in November 2014; Hear here; MP3) | (Red River Entertainment / Sony / RED) |
| The Dear Hunter | “Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise” (Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Cave & Canary Goods / Equal Vision) |
| Diane Coffee (aka Shaun Fleming of Foxygen) | “Everybody’s a Good Dog” (first single: “Everyday”; Hear here; MP3) | (Western Vinyl) |
| Family of the Year (L.A. indie-folk quartet) | “Family of the Year” (producer: Wally Gagel; new single: “Give a Little”; Hear here; MP3) | (Nettwerk) |
| Fidlar | “Too” (producer: Jay Joyce; first single: “40oz. On Repeat”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Mom+Pop Music) |
| Five Finger Death Punch | “Got Your Six” (producers: Kevin Churko, Five Finger Death Punch; first single: “Jekyll and Hyde”; Hear here; MP3) | (Prospect Park) |
| Kevin Gordon (Louisiana poet-songwriter) | “Long Time Gone” (half acoustic, half electric; Hear here) | (Crowville Media) |
| Iron Maiden | “The Book of Souls” (producer: Kevin Shirley; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Sanctuary Copyrights / BMG) |
| K Camp (Atlanta hip-hop artist) | “Only Way Is Up” (producer: Big Fruit; guests: Snoop Dogg, French Montana, T.I., Jeremih, Genius, Yo Gotti, Bun B; new single: “Change”; Hear here; Deluxe Edition; iTunes) | (Family Ties / 4.27 / Interscope) |
| Tommy Keene | “Laugh in the Dark” (first single: “All Gone Away”; Hear here; MP3) | (Second Motion) |
| k-os | “Can’t Fly Without Gravity” (new single: “Spaceship”; Hear here; MP3) | (Dine Alone Music) |
| James Leg (aka John Wesley Myers of the Black Diamond Heavies) | “Below the Belt” (mixed by producer/engineer Jim Diamond; Hear here; MP3) | (Alive Naturalsound) |
| John Mayall | “Find a Way to Care” (producers: Mayall, Eric Corne; Hear here; MP3) | (Forty Below) |
| The Nightowls (Austin-based 10-piece band) | “Fame Sessions” (recorded at the at the iconic FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala.; producers: David Hood, Spooner Oldham; first single: “Get Up!”; Hear here; See here) | (Super Sonic Sounds) |
| Once Human (led by former Machine Head/Soulfly guitarist Logan Mader) | “The Life I Remember” (Hear here; MP3) | (earMUSIC ) |
| Painted Palms | “Horizons” (producer: Reese Donohue; first single: “Disintegrate”; Hear here; MP3) | (Polyvinyl) |
| Public Image Ltd. | “What the World Needs Now …” (first single: “Double Trouble”; Hear here) | (PiL Official / Redeye) |
| Max Richter | “from SLEEP” (a one-hour adaptation of the German-born British composer’s “eight-hour lullaby”; Hear here) | (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Riverside (Warsaw rock band) | “Love, Fear and the Time Machine” (Hear here; MP3) | (InsideOut Music) |
| Cécile McLorin Salvant (jazz singer) | “For One to Love” (Hear here; See here; NPR First Listen; Read here; MP3) | (Mack Avenue) |
| Scarface | “Deeply Rooted” (guests: John Legend, Rick Ross, CeeLo Green, Nas, Avant, etc.; Hear here; MP3) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Travis Scott (Houston hip-hop artist-producer) | “Rodeo” (producers: Scott, Kanye West, WondaGurl, Eestbound, Apex Martin, etc.; guests: West, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Chief Keef, 2 Chainz, etc.; Hear here; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition) | (Grand Hustle / Epic) |
| Sarah Kirkland Snider | “Unremembered” (13-part song cycle for seven voices, chamber orchestra and electronics, inspired by poems and illustrations by writer and visual artist Nathaniel Bellows; Hear here; See here) | (New Amsterdam) |
| Lisa Stansfield | “Live in Manchester” (recorded at Bridgewater Hall on Sept. 7, 2014 ; Hear here; DVD; Blu-ray; MP3) | (earMUSIC) |
| Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats | “The Night Creeper” (Hear here) | (Rise Above) |
| Widowspeak | “All Yours” (producer: Jarvis Taveniere; Hear here; MP3) | (Captured Tracks) |
| The Wonder Years | “No Closer to Heaven” (producer: Steve Evetts; first single: “Cardinals”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Hopeless) |
| Lizz Wright | “Freedom & Surrender” (includes covers of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “To Love Somebody”; producer: Larry Klein; guests: J.D. Souther, Gregory Porter, Maia Sharp; Hear here; MP3) | (Concord) |
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New Releases (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Branko (Buraka Som Sistema co-founder) | “Atlas” (first single: “Let Me Go,” feat. Mr. Carmack & Nonku Phiri; Hear here) | (Enchufada) |
| Findlay Brown | “Slow Light” (first single: “Ride Into the Sun”; Hear here; See here) | (DPC) |
| Fleurie (Nashville-based indie-pop artist) | “Arrows” (five-song EP; producer: Matt Stanfield; new single: “Sparks”; Hear here) | (Fleurie) |
| Jon Foreman (Switchfoot singer) | “The Wonderlands: Darkness” (seven-song EP; Hear here) | (Word Entertainment) |
| The Karpinka Brothers (from Saskatoon) | “You Can Count On Me” (Hear here) | (The Karpinka Brothers) |
| John Lodge | “In My Mind” (three-song EP) | (Esoteric Antenna) |
| Motives (Cleveland rock quintet) | “This World, Not Dead, Merely Sleeping” (new single: “Operator”; See here) | (InVogue) |
| Painted Fish | “Painted Fish” (producer: Amber Lynn Nicol; first single: “Stoned in San Francisco”; Hear here) | (Jerzey Girl Music, Sept. 5) |
| Roadside Graves | “Acne / Ears” (first single: “Gospel Radio”; Hear here) | (Don Giovanni) |
| Scooter Island (multi-artist project led by Matt FX Feldman, the music supervisor for Comedy Central’s “Broad City”) | “Scooter Island” (five-song EP; guests: S’natra, Synead, Junglepussy, Zoe Penina, Salomon Faye; first single: “Breezy”; Hear here) | (Amuse-Bouche) |
| Dan Wilson (Cubical frontman) | “All Love is Blind” (first single: “All Love is Blind”; Hear here) | (Halfpenny) |
More Digital Releases for Sept. 4, 2015
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Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ashford & Simpson | “Send It: Expanded Edition” (1977 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks; Read here) | (U.K. – Big Break / Cherry Red) |
| Brian Auger | “Back to the Beginning: The Brian Auger Anthology” (two CDs, 24 songs; Hear here; MP3) | (Freestyle) |
| Tony Bennett | “Original Album Classics” (five-CD box set includes the albums “MTV Unplugged,” I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” “Perfectly Frank,” “Steppin’ Out” and “Here’s to the Ladies”) | (U.K. – Sony Music) |
| JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound | “Beat of Our Own Drum” (2009 album; Hear here) | (Vampisoul) |
| Paul Butterfield | “Live 1970” (two CDs, 10 songs; MP3) | (RockBeat) |
| JJ Cale | “Cajun Moon” (New Year’s Eve 1975 show in his hometown of Tulsa, Okla., taped for FM broadcast) | (Keyhole) |
| Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band | “Live in Cowtown Kansas City 22nd April 1974” | (Gonzo) |
| Destiny’s Child | “Original Album Classics” (three-CD box set includes the albums “Destiny’s Child,” “The Writing’s On the Wall” and “Survivor”) | (U.K. – Sony Music) |
| The Doors | “Full Circle / Other Voices” (1971, 1972 post-Jim Morrison albums, with the bonus track “Get Up and Dance”; remastered; Hear here), “Full Circle [Vinyl],” “Other Voices [Vinyl]” | (Rhino) |
| Everything But the Girl | “Walking Wounded (Deluxe Edition)” (1996 album; remastered, with a second CD of bonus demos and remixes; See here; Read here), “Temperamental (Deluxe Edition)” (1999 album; remastered, with a second CD of remixes; Read here) | (U.K. – Edsel / Demon Music Group) |
| Falco | “Original Album Classics” (five-CD box set, featuring the albums “Einzelhaft,” Junge Roemer,” “Falco 3,” “Falco Symphonic” and “Donauinsel Live”) | (U.K. – Sony Music) |
| Peter Frampton | “Now” (2003 album; remastered; Read here) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| Gloria Gaynor | “I’ve Got You: Expanded Edition” (1976 album; remastered, with two bonus tracks; Read here) | (U.K. – Big Break / Cherry Red) |
| Eydie Gormé | “An American Treasure” (three-CD, 34-song collection of rarities; Read here) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Katherine Jenkins | “The Platinum Collection” (two CDs, 40 songs; Track list) | (U.K. – Decca) |
| Al Kooper | “Original Album Classics” (five-CD box set includes the albums “I Stand Alone,” “You Never Know Who Your Friends Are,” “Easy Does It,” “New York City [You’re a Woman]” and “Naked Songs”) | (U.K. – Sony Music) |
| Talib Kweli | “Train of Thought: Lost Lyrics, Rare Releases + Beautiful B-Sides, Volume One” (10 tracks; Hear here) | (Javotti Media) |
| John Lee’s Barclay James Harvest | “Legacy: Live At The Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London 2006” (CD/DVD; Read here) | (Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red) |
| Dean Martin | “Original Album Classics” (five-CD box set includes the albums “Dream With Dean,” “Everybody Loves Somebody,” “The Door Is Still Open To My Heart,” “Houston” and “The Dean Martin TV Show”) | (U.K. – Sony Music) |
| Steve Morse Band | “The Introduction / Stand Up” (1984, 1985 albums on one CD; remastered) | (U.K. – BGO) |
| Michael Nesmith | “Original Album Classics” (five-CD box set includes the albums “Magnetic South,” “Loose Salute,” “Nevada Fighter,” “Tantamount to Treason” and “And the Hits Just Keep On Comin'”) | (U.K. – Sony Music) |
| Ohio Players | “Mr. Mean / Gold” (1976, 1977 albums on one CD; remastered) | (U.K. – BGO) |
| Wilson Pickett | “Mr. Magic Man: The Complete RCA Studio Recordings” (two CDs, 42 songs; Track list) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service | “New Year’s Eve 1967” (recorded at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco) | (Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra) |
| Quiet Riot | “Original Album Classics” (five-CD box set includes the albums “Quiet Riot,” “Metal Helath,” “Condition Critical,” “Quiet Riot III” and “Setlist: Quiet Riot”) | (U.K. – Sony Music) |
| Rumer | “B Sides & Rarities” (17 songs; Track list) | (U.K. – Night Owl Music) |
| Saga | “The Security of Illusion” (1993 album; remastered, with three bonus tracks; MP3) | (earMUSIC) |
| Tom Scott | “Desire / Target” (1982, 1983 albums on one CD; remastered) | (U.K. – BGO) |
| Paul Simon | “Original Album Classics” (five-CD box set includes the albums “Paul Simon,” “Songs From Capeman,” “Hearts and Bones,” “You’re the One” and “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon”) | (U.K. – Sony Music) |
| Snow Patrol | “Songs for Polarbears” (1998 album, with nine bonus tracks), “When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up” (2001 album, with four bonus tracks) | (Republic of Music) |
| Suede | “Dog Man Star. 20th Anniversary Live. Royal Albert Hall” (the British group plays their 1994 album in its entirety in March 2014, benefiting Teenage Cancer Trust; Hear here; MP3) | (Edsel / Demon Music Group) |
| Supergrass | “I Should Coco (20th Anniversary Edition)” (1995 album; remastered; three-CD set includes B-sides and live performances; LP + 7-inch) | (Parlophone) |
| 3 (Keith Emerson, Carl Palmer, Robert Berry) | “Live in Boston 1988” (two CDs, 13 songs; MP3) | (RockBeat) |
| Various artists | “All Aboard! 25 Train Tracks Calling At All Musical Stations” (Hear/read here) | (U.K. – Ace) |
| Various artists | “The Best Ever: Sixties” (two CDs, 36 tracks; Track list) | (U.K. – Rhino) |
| Various artists | “The London American Label Year By Year – 1966” (28 tracks, featuring The Vogues, Bobby Fuller Four, Judy Collins, Sir Douglas Quintet, The Righteous Brothers, The Association, Love, etc.; Track list) | (U.K. – Ace) |
| Various artists | “Masterpieces of Modern Soul, Volume 4” (23 tracks; Hear/read here) | (U.K. – Kent / Ace) |
| Various artists | “Sources: The P&P Records Funk & Rap Anthology” (three CDs, 42 songs; compiled by Bill Brewster; Track list) | (U.K. – Harmless) |
| Various artists | “Reaching Out: Chess Records at FAME Studios” (24 tracks; Read here) | (U.K. – Kent / Ace) |
| Various artists | “The Wrecking Crew!” (four-CD, 74-song box set celebrating the studio musicians behind some of the biggest hits of the 1960s and early ’70s; featuring hits by The Beach Boys, The 5th Dimension, The Monkees, Sam Cooke, Glen Campbell, Cher, Seals & Crofts, etc.; Track list; MP3) | (RockBeat) |
| Zapp and Roger | “The Best of Zapp and Roger” (11 tracks) | (Thump) |
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Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Hoyt Axton | “Hoyt Axton Explodes!” (1964 album; remastered; Hear here) | (Essential Media Group) |
| The Cash Box Kings | “The Essential Cash Box Kings” (12 tracks) | (Blind Pig) |
| The Clientele | “Alone and Unreal: The Best of the Clientele” (11 songs; Deluxe Edition, with 10 bonus tracks; Vinyl, with digital download) | (Merge) |
| Micky Dolenz | “The MGM Singles Collection” (15 tracks) | (7A) |
| Earth, Wind & Fire | “The Columbia Masters” (15 complete albums) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Gloria Estefan | “Soy Mujer” (15-song collection of her Spanish-language hits) | (Sony Music Latin) |
| George Hamilton IV | “Mister Sincerity … A Tribute to Ernest Tubb” (1965 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| The Hues Corporation | “Rockin’ Soul” (1974 album), “Love Corporation” (1975 album; with one bonus track) | (SMCMG) |
| Willie Hutch | “Soul Portrait” (1965 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| The Anita Kerr Singers | “Mellow Moods of Love” (1965 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Buddy Morrow, His Orchestra & Chorus | “The New International Dance Craze: The Bostella!” (1965 album) | (Epic / Legacy) |
| Peter Nero | “Peter Nero Plays a Salute to Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass” (1965 album) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Various artists | “Blind Pig Presents: Slide” (12-song compilation) | (Blind Pig) |
| Johnny Winter | “About Blues” (1970 compilation; remastered) | (Essential Media Group) |
More Digital Releases for Sept. 4, 2015
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Aerosmith | “Aerosmith Rocks Donington 2014 [DVD]” (filmed during their headlining set at Download Festival; See here; Read here; Blu-ray) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, et al | “Nashville: The Complete Third Season [DVD]” | (Walt Disney Studios, Sept. 1) |
| Glen Campbell | “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me [DVD]” (2014 documentary; See here) | (Virgil Films and Entertainment, Sept. 1) |
| Reverend Gary Davis | “Harlem Street Singer: The Reverend Gary Davis Story [DVD]” (2014 documentary, directed by Simeon Hutner and Trevor Laurence; Read here; See here) | (Acoustic Traditions Films) |
| Zoey Deschanel, Max Greenfield, et al | New Girl: The Complete Fourth Season [DVD]” | (20th Century Fox, Sept. 1) |
| Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, et al | “Mad Max: Fury Road [DVD]” (2015 film; Blu-ray + DVD) | (Warner Home Video, Sept. 1) |
| Mary Martin, Cyril Ritchard | “Peter Pan [DVD]” (the historic 1956 telecast; Blu-ray Collector’s Edition) | (Video Artists Int’l) |
More DVD/Blu-ray Releases for Sept. 1, 2015
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Music Books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker | “A History of Opera” (Paperback) | (W.W. Norton & Company) |
| Daniel B. Cornfield | “Beyond the Beat: Musicians Building Community in Nashville” (Hardcover) | (Princeton University Press) |
| Dixie Chicks | “All About the Dixie Chicks” (Kindle; author: Ace Collins) | (St. Martin’s Griffin) |
| Bob Dylan | “The Dead Straight Guide to Bob Dylan” (Paperback; author: Nigel Williamson) | (Clarksdale) |
| Curtis Fornadley | “Tone Wizards: Interviews With Top Guitarists and Gear Gurus On the Quest For The Ultimate Sound” (Paperback) | (BookBaby, Sept. 10) |
| Lesley Gore | “You Don’t Own Me: The Life and Times of Lesley Gore” (Hardcover; author: Trevor Tolliver) | (Backbeat Books) |
| Chrissie Hynde | “Reckless: My Life as a Pretender” (Hardcover; Kindle) | (Doubleday) |
| Al Jourgensen | “Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen” (Kindle) | (Da Capo Press) |
| John Lennon | “John Lennon: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy” (Paperback; editor: Ben Nussbaum) | (i5 Press) |
| Steve Marriott | “Steve Marriott: All Too Beautiful” (Kindle; authors: Paolo Hewitt, John Hellier) | (Dean Street Press, Sept. 7) |
| Benny Moré | “Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Benny Moré” (Paperback; author: John Radanovich) | (University Press of Florida) |
More Book Releases for the Week of Sept. 4, 2015