New stuff
| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Aaradhna (New Zealand R&B singer Aaradhna Patel) | “Treble & Reverb” (released in New Zealand in November 2012; Hear here; See here) | (RBC) |
| Active Child | “The Rapor EP” (six songs; first single: “Subtle,” feat. Mikky Ekko; Hear here) | (Vagrant) |
| AFI | “Burials” (producer: Gil Norton; first single: “I Hope You Suffer”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Republic) |
| Best Coast | “Fade Away [EP]” (seven songs; producer: Wally Gagel; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Jewel City) |
| Black Hearted Brother (Slowdive’s Neil Halstead, Seefeel’s Mark Van Hoen and Nick Holton of Holton’s Opulent Oog) | “Stars Are Our Home” (first single: “[I Don’t Mean To] Wonder”; Hear here; MP3) | (Slumberland) |
| The Black Hollies (Jersey City psychedelic rock band) | “Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere” (Hear/read here; MP3) | (Ernest Jenning Record Co.) |
| Andrea Bocelli | “Love in Portofino [CD/DVD]” (concert in Portofino, Italy, on Aug. 11, 2012, accompanied by David Foster and a 40-piece orchestra; guests: Chris Botti, Caroline Campbell, Sandy Veronica Berti, Helen Fischer; See here; MP3) | (Verve) |
| Bombay Dub Orchestra | “Tales From the Grand Bazaar” (Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Six Degrees) |
| Shauna Burns (Celtic vocalist) | “Violet” (producers: Burns, James Clark, Sean O’Dwyer; first single: “Little Song”; Hear here; MP3) | (Red Rock Music Group) |
| Brandy Clark | “12 Stories” (producer: Dave Brainard; first single: “Stripes”; Hear here; MP3) | (Slate Creek) |
| David Dallas (New Zealand hip-hop artist) | “Falling Into Place [MP3]” (producers: Fire & Ice; first single: “Runnin'”; Hear here; See here; Read here) | (Outlier / Dawn Raid Ent. / Dirty Records / Duck Down Music) |
| Def Leppard | “VIVA! Hysteria” (live at the Joint in Las Vegas in March 2013; Hear here; DVD; Blu-ray; MP3) | (Frontiers / Universal) |
| Brett Dennen | “Smoke and Mirrors” (producer: Charlie Peacock; first single: “Wild Child”; Hear here; MP3) | (F-Stop Music / Atlantic) |
| Fifth Harmony (girl group formed during the second season of “The X Factor USA”) | “Better Together” (five-song EP; first single: “Miss Movin’ On”; Hear here; MP3) | (Syco Music / Epic) |
| Lita Ford | “The Bitch Is Back … Live” | (Steamhammer / SPV) |
| Hot Since 82 (aka U.K. producer Daley Padley) | “Little Black Book [MP3]” (first single: “Shadows”; Hear here) | (Moda Black / Ultra) |
| Il Volo | “Buon Natale: The Christmas Album” (PBS holiday special; See here; MP3) | (Rentor / Interscope) |
| Cody Karey | “Cody Karey” (Hear here; MP3) | (Verve) |
| Motörhead | “Aftershock” (their 21st album; producer: Cameron Webb; Hear here; MP3) | (UDR Music / ADA) |
| Katy Perry | “Prism” (collaborators: Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Greg Wells, etc.; Hear here; Read here; Deluxe edition; Vinyl; MP3) | (Capitol) |
| Poliça (Minneapolis indie-pop band) | “Shulamith” (first single: “Tiff,” feat. Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Mom+Pop Music) |
| Polly Scattergood | “Arrows” (new single: “Wanderlust”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Mute) |
| Anoushka Shankar (sitar player-composer is the daughter of the late Ravi Shankar) | “Traces of You” (producer: Nitin Sawhney; half-sister Norah Jones appears on three songs; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Spindrift (L.A. psychedelic rock band) | “Ghost of the West” (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Tee Pee) |
| Steve B.I.K.O. | “Worldwide: Dare To Struggle, Dare To Win!” (producers: Steven Thomas, Caleb DePolis, DaGuttman540; guests: Deb K, San’aa Sultan, Within Our Gates; first single: “World On Fire”; Hear here) | (Backward Never Publishing, Oct. 21) |
| Linda Thompson | “Won’t Be Long Now” (her first album in six years; guests: Richard Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Muna Thompson, Amy Helm, Sami Amidon, John Doyle, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Dave Swarbrick, Tony Trischka; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Pettifer Sounds) |
More Releases for the Week of Oct. 22, 2013
Reissues
| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Backstreet Boys | “The Essential Backstreet Boys” (two CDs, 29 songs; MP3) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| David Bowie | “Sorrow (40th Anniversary Picture Disc) [Vinyl]” (single from his 1973 “Pin Ups” album, backed with a live version of “Sorrow” recorded at the Pacific National Coliseum, Vancouver, from his “Serious Moonlight Tour” on Sept. 12, 1983) | (Parlophone) |
| Peter Brown | “Back to the Front (Expanded Edition)” (1983 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks) | (Funkytowngrooves) |
| Norman Connors | “Slew Foot / Love From the Sun” (1974 albums on one CD; remastered; Hear/read here), “Saturday Night Special” (1975 album; remastered, with two bonus tracks; Hear/read here), “You Are My Starship / Aquarian Dream” (1976, 1995 albums on one CD; remastered, with two bonus tracks; Hear/read here), “Romantic Journey” (1977 album; remastered, with two bonus tracks; Hear/read here), “Invitation” (1979 album; remastered, with two bonus tracks; Hear/read here), “Take It to the Limit” (1980 album; remastered, with three bonus tracks; Hear/read here) | (Funkytowngrooves) |
| Randy Crawford | “Everything Must Change + Miss Randy Crawford” (1976, 1977 albums; remastered), “Raw Silk + Now We May Begin” (1979, 1980 albums; remastered), “Secret Combination + Windsong” (1981, 1982 albums; remastered), “Nightline + Abstract Emotions” (1983, 1986 albums; remastered), “Rich and Poor + Through the Eyes of Love” (1989, 1992 albums; remastered) | (U.K. – Edsel, Oct. 21) |
| Crow | “The Best of Crow” (16 tracks, including “Evil Woman”; Hear/read here; Vinyl) | (Sundazed) |
| Mac Davis | “Hard to Be Humble: The Best of Mac Davis” (22 songs; Read here) | (Hux) |
| James Griffin (the former Bread member died in 2005) | “Just Like Yesterday: The Solo Anthology 1974-78” (21 tracks, including two previously unreleased BBC live tracks; Read here) | (Hux) |
| Woody Guthrie | “Woody Guthrie: American Radical Patriot [Box set]” (six-CD collection, with 78-rpm vinyl record, DVD and 60-page booklet; Read here; MP3) | (Rounder) |
| Wynton Marsalis | “The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis” (collection of spiritually inspired works recorded 1988-2002, originally released on Columbia Records and Sony Classical; Read here; MP3) | (Columbia / Sony Classical / Legacy) |
| Dean Martin | “Greatest Hits,” “ICON 2: The Essential Dean Martin” | (Capitol) |
| Van Morrison | “Moondance: Expanded Edition” (1970 album; remastered, with a second disc of bonus material; Deluxe edition, with four CDs and one Blu-ray audio disc, with high-resolution 48K 24 bit PCM stereo and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround sound audio of original album; Standard edition; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition; MP3) | (Warner) |
| Ted Nugent | “Ultralive Ballisticrock [CD/DVD]” (recorded by seven cameras in 5.1 audio mix on the “I Still Believe Tour” at Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe, Pa., on Aug. 14, 2011; MP3) | (Frontiers) |
| Laura Nyro | “Smile” (1976 album; remastered, with bonus demos; Hear here) | (Iconoclassic) |
| Pearl Jam | “The Essential Pearl Jam” (two CDs) | (Epic / Legacy) |
| Pixies | “Trompe Le Monde [Hybrid SACD – DSD]” (1991 album; remastered) | (Mobile Fidelity) |
| Ray Price | “Welcome to My World: The Love Songs of Ray Price” (21 songs; Read here) | (Hux) |
| Spoons | “Arias & Symphonies [MP3]” (1982 album; includes “Nova Heart”), “Bridges Over Borders [MP3]” (1986 album) | (R.D.E.G.) |
| The Strawberry Alarm Clock | “Incense and Peppermints / Wake Up … It’s Tomorrow” (1967, 1968 albums on one CD; remastered, with a 16-page booklet) | (U.K. – Tune-In / Cherry Red, Oct. 21) |
| Donna Summer | “Love to Love You Donna” (remixes of her hits by Giorgio Moroder, Frankie Knuckles, Eric Kupper, Chromeo & Oliver and Hot Chip; producers: Dahlia-Ambach Caplin, Randall Poster; first single: “Love Is In Control (Finger On the Trigger),” remixed by Chromeo & Oliver; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Verve) |
| Tears For Fears | “The Hurting: Deluxe Edition” (1983 album; remastered; Read here; Box set; four-disc deluxe 30th anniversary edition contains remixes, B-sides, radios sessions and a live DVD; MP3 Deluxe Edition; MP3 Super Deluxe Edition) | (Mercury / UMe) |
| Robin Trower | “State to State: Live Across America 1974-1980” (two CDs; Read here) | (Chrysalis) |
| Big Joe Turner | “Big Joe Turner Live 1983” (MP3) | (RockBeat) |
| Randy VanWarmer | “The Things That You Dream [MP3]” (1983 album) | (Rhino) |
| Various artists | “Surf Age Nuggets Vol. 1” (Vinyl; MP3) | (RockBeat) |
| Various artists | “Virgin Records: 40 Years of Disruptions” (three CDs, 46 tracks; See here; Track list) | (U.K. – Virgin, Oct. 21) |
| Various artists | “’60s Wild Guitar Instrumentals” (14 tracks; MP3) | (RockBeat) |
| Voodoo Dolls | “Voodoo Dolls” (MP3) | (RockBeat) |
More Releases for the Week of Oct. 22, 2013
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Sara Bareilles | “Brave Enough: Live at the Variety Playhouse [DVD/CD]” (filmed in Atlanta in May 2013; MP3) | (Universal) |
| Steve Carell, Maya Rudolph, Toni Collette, Liam James | “The Way Way Back [DVD]” (2013 film; See here; Blu-ray) | (Fox Searchlight Pictures) |
| Hugh Laurie | “Hugh Laurie: Live on the Queen Mary [DVD]” (aired on PBS in August 2013; See here; Read here; Blu-ray) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Bruce Lee | “Bruce Lee: The Legacy Collection [Blu-ray + DVD]” (four Blu-ray and seven DVD discs; includes “The Big Boss,” “Fist of Fury,” “Way of the Dragon” and “Game of Death” and other extras; See here; Read here) | (Shout! Factory) |
| Morrissey | “25 Live [DVD]” (concert film shot at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles on March 2, 2013; See here; Blu-ray) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Various artists | “The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert [DVD]” (three discs; expanded version of the all-star show at London’s Wembley Arena, filmed on April 20, 1992; See here; Blu-ray) | (Eagle Rock) |
More DVD/Blu-ray Releases for the Week of Oct. 22, 2013
Music books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher/Due date: |
| The Beatles | “All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release [Hardcover]” (authors: Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon) | (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers) |
| Harold Bronson (co-founder of Rhino) | “The Rhino Records Story: The Revenge of the Music Nerds [Hardcover]” (publication date coincides with Rhino Records’ 40th anniversary; Read here) | (SelectBooks) |
| Miles Davis & John Coltrane | “Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever [Kindle]” (author: Salim Washington) | (Thomas Dunne Books) |
| Donald Fagen | “Eminent Hipsters [Hardcover]” (Kindle) | (Viking Adult) |
| Lisa S. Johnson | “108 Rock Star Guitars [Hardcover]” (Read here) | (Glitterati Incorporated, Oct. 20) |
| Robert Plant | “Robert Plant: A Life [Hardcover]” (author: Paul Rees; Kindle) | (It Books) |
| Questlove | “Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation [Hardcover]” (foreword by Gladys Knight) | (Harper Design) |
| Cody Simpson | “Welcome to Paradise: My Journey [Hardcover]” (Kindle) | (HarperCollins) |
| Alisa Solomon | “Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof [Hardcover]” (Kindle) | (Metropolitan Books) |
More Music-Book Releases for the Week of Oct. 22, 2013