Recent Releases
Believe it or not, we’re enjoying our new weekly ritual of looping back around and finding recent releases and reissues that may have slipped through the cracks in the past week or so. Enjoy!
MARCH 17, 2015
AMONG THE THIRSTY
“Who You Say I Am” (producer: Scotty Wilbanks; first single: “Completely”; MP3; Hear here; See here; BEC Recordings)
JOSÉPHINE BAKER
“The Creole Goddess” (MP3; 26 tracks; Suncoast Music)
MARC BROUSSARD
“Carencro” (MP3; 2004 album; Island / UMe)
THE CADILLACS
“The Best of The Cadillacs” (15 tracks; Rhino)
ERASURE
“Sacred” (MP3; nine remixes; Mute)
LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS
“Emma Jean Instrumentals” (MP3; instrumental version of Fields’ 2014 album; Hear here; Truth & Soul)
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
“Rabbit Heart EP” (MP3; 2009 album; Universal)
HINDER
“Rather Hate Than Hurt” (MP3; new single; new album, “When the Smoke Clears,” out May 12; The End)
LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS
“Texas Troubadour” (MP3; 25 tracks; Suncoast Music)
LOUIS JORDAN
“Remastered Hits” (MP3; 20 tracks; J. Joes J. Edizioni Musicali)
KAISER CHIEFS
“Falling Awake” (MP3; new single from their untitled sixth album, due later this year; ATO)
KOOL & THE GANG
“The Force” (MP3; 1977 album, with three bonus tracks), “Everybody’s Dancin'” (MP3; 1978 album, with three bonus tracks; Island Def Jam / UMe)
KACEY MUSGRAVES
“Biscuits” (MP3; single; Mercury Nashville)
THE NOTATIONS
“Still Here 1967-1973” (16 tracks; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3; Numero Group)
N.W.A.
“100 Miles and Runnin'” (MP3; 1990 EP), “EFIL4ZAGGIN” (MP3; 1991 album; Priority)
PLAIN WHITE T’S
“Pause” (MP3; first single from “American Nights,” out March 31; MRI)
MA RAINEY
“Explaining the Blues” (MP3; 36 tracks; Suncoast Music)
LOU REED
“Transformer” (MP3; 1972 album; includes “Walk on the Wild Side,” “Perfect Day” and “Satellite of Love”), “Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal” (MP3; 1974 album), “Sally Can’t Dance” (MP3; 1974 album), “Coney Island Baby” (MP3; 1975 album), “New Sensations” (MP3; 1984 album; RCA)
JILL SCOTT
“You Don’t Know” (MP3; new single; Read here; Blues Babe / Atlantic)
10CC
“Tenology” (MP3; 2012 compilation of singles, selected album tracks, the B-sides and rarities; Mercury / UMe)
SONNY TERRY
“East Coast Harmonica Blues” (MP3; 44 tracks; Suncoast Music)
PAT TRAVERS
“Retro Rocket” (with a bonus track, “Lead Me Home [Theme from The Walking Dead]”; Hear here; MP3; Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Nettwerk: 30 Years of Music” (MP3; 30 tracks, ranging from Guster to Skinny Puppy; Nettwerk)
BRIAN WILSON
“Runaway Dancer” (MP3; new single featuring Sebu; Capitol)
HOWARD ZINN
“The Spirit of Civil Disobedience: Howard Zinn’s Historic Anti-Vietnam War Speech of 1971” (MP3; PM Press)
MARCH 10, 2015
ALVIN LEE
“Rocket Fuel” (1978 album; MP3), “Detroit Diesel” (1986 album; MP3), “Live in Vienna” (1996 album; MP3; Rainman)
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