This Week’s Releases: Sept. 16, 2014
New stuff (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Allah-Las | “Worship the Sun” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Innovative Leisure) |
| The Asteroids Galaxy Tour | “Bring Us Together” (first single: “My Club”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Hot Bus / Rough Trade) |
| The Bacon Brothers | “36¢” (guest: Daryl Hall; Hear here; MP3) | (MRI) |
| Chris Brown | “X” (producers: Diplo, Timbaland, Danja; guests: Usher, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Akon, Tyga, etc.; Hear here; See here; Deluxe edition; MP3) | (RCA) |
| Betty Buckley | “Ghostlight” (producer: T Bone Burnett; first single: “Blue Skies”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Palmetto / MRI) |
| Dark Horses (Brighton-based group) | “Hail Lucid State” (producer: Richard Fearless; new single: “Saturn Returns”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Last Gang) |
| Mike Doughty | “Stellar Motel” (producer: DJ Good Goose; guests: Jay Boogs, HJA, Miss Eaves, MC Frontalot, Moon Hooch, Andrew “Scrap” Livingston, Kim Uhnellys; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Snack Bar / Megaforce / RED) |
| The Earls of Leicester | “The Earls of Leicester” (a tribute to Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs by bluegrass all-stars: Jerry Douglas, Shawn Camp, Johnny Warren, Charlie Cushman, Barry Bales and Tim O’Brien; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Rounder) |
| Fantôme (ex-Atari Teenage Riot and Die Krupps) | “It All Makes Sense” (with three bonus remixes; producers: David Husser, Paul Kendall; See here; MP3) | (Cleopatra) |
| Flyleaf | “Between the Stars” (producer: Don Gilmore; first single: “Set Me On Fire”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3; MP3 Special Edition, with four bonus tracks) | (Loud & Proud) |
| for KING & COUNTRY | “RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG.” (guests: Andy Mineo, Courtney; first single: “Fix My Eyes”; Hear here; MP3) | (Fervent / Word) |
| Freak Kitchen (Swedish trio) | “Cooking With Pagans” (Hear here; MP3) | (The Lasers Edge) |
| Lili Haydn | “LiliLand” (includes a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir”; producer: Haydn; guests: Marvin Etzioni, Itai Disraeli, Blake Mills; Hear here; MP3) | (MRI / RED) |
| Monica Heldal (Norwegian singer-songwriter) | “Boy From the North [LP + CD]” (first single: “Boy From the North”; Hear here; See here; CD; MP3) | (ADA / Warner Music Norway) |
| Iron Reagan (hardcore-punk/thrash band) | “The Tyranny of Will” (Hear here; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition) | (Relapse) |
| Lowell | “We Loved Her Dearly” (Hear here; MP3) | (Arts & Crafts) |
| Carmen Lundy (jazz vocalist) | “Soul to Soul” (producers: Elisabeth Oei, Lundy; guests: Patrice Rushen, Geri Allen, Randy Brecker, Simphiwe Dana, Bennie Maupin, Carol Robbins, Warren Wolf, etc.; Hear here; MP3) | (Afrasia Productions) |
| The Madden Brothers | “Greetings From California” (producer: Eric Valentine; first single: “We Are Done”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Capitol) |
| Mandisa | “Get Up: The Remixes” (11 tracks; Hear here; MP3) | (Sparrow / Universal) |
| Tim McGraw | “Sundown Heaven Town” (producers: McGraw, Byron Gallimore; guests: Faith Hill, Kid Rock, Catherine Dunn; Hear here; MP3) | (Big Machine) |
| Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood | “Juice” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Indirecto) |
| Blake Mills | “Heigh Ho” (guests: Fiona Apple, Jim Keltner, Don Was, Benmont Tench, Jon Brion, Mike Elizondo, etc.; first single: “If I’m Unworthy”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Record Collection / Verve) |
| Moon Hooch | “This Is Cave Music” (Hear/read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Hornblow Recordings / Palmetto) |
| Nick Mulvey (former founding member of Mercury Prize-nominated Portico Quartet) | “First Mind” (his debut album reached the Top 10 in the U.K. and was shortlisted for Mercury Prize album of the year; producer: Dan Carey; Hear here; MP3) | (Harvest) |
| My Brightest Diamond (aka Shara Worden) | “This Is My Hand” (producer: Zac Rae; first single: “Pressure”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Asthmatic Kitty) |
| Paolo Nutini | “Caustic Love” (released in the U.K. in April 2014; producers: Nutini, Dani Castelar; guest: Janelle Monáe; Hear here; MP3) | (Atlantic) |
| New Model Army | “Between Wine and Blood” (two-CD set includes a studio mini-album of six new songs and an 11-track live album recorded on the band’s “Between Dog and Wolf” tour in London, Nottingham, Cologne, Cambridge and Amsterdam; producer: Joe Barresi; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (earMUSIC / Eagle Rock) |
| Nu-Blu (North Carolina bluegrass quartet) | “All the Way” (guest: Rhonda Vincent; Hear here; MP3) | (Rural Rhythm) |
| Joell Ortiz | “House Slippers” (guests: B.o.B, Royce da 5’9″, Joe Budden, Crooked I, Mally Stakz, etc.; Hear here; MP3) | (Penalty Entertainment) |
| The Pineapple Thief (U.K. prog-rock group) | “Magnolia” (Hear here; MP3) | (Kscope) |
| Shaman’s Harvest (rock band from Jefferson City, Mo.) | “Smokin’ Hearts & Broken Guns” (Hear here; MP3) | (Mascot Label Group) |
| Sir Sly (L.A. indie-pop trio) | “You Haunt Me” (guest: Lizzy Plapinger; first single: “You Haunt Me”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Cherrytree / Interscope) |
| Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators | “World on Fire” (producer: Michael “Elvis” Baskette; first single: “World on Fire”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Dik Hayd International / Caroline) |
| George Strait | “The Cowboy Rides Away: Live From AT&T Stadium” (recorded during his final tour in June; guests: Jason Aldean, Ray Benson, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert and Martina McBride, etc.; Read here; MP3) | (Universal Nashville) |
| Barbra Streisand | “Partners” (includes duets with Billy Joel, John Mayer, Lionel Richie, Blake Shelton, Babyface, Stevie Wonder, John Legend, Josh Groban, Michael Bublé, etc., plus a virtual duet with Elvis Presley; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Columbia) |
| This Will Destroy You | “Another Language” (first single: “Dustism”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Suicide Squeeze) |
| Train | “Bulletproof Picasso” (producer: Butch Walker; first single: “Angel in Blue Jeans”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Columbia) |
| White Arrows (L.A. quintet) | “In Bardo” (new single: “We Can’t Ever Die”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Votiv) |
| Jesse Winchester | “A Reasonable Amount of Trouble” (his last album, recorded before his death in April 2014; Hear here; MP3) | (Appleseed Recordings) |
More Releases for the Week of Sept. 16, 2014
New stuff (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| BeThisBell (aka Beth Isbell) | “We Are the Gods! [MP3]” (first single: “She’s Not Catholic”; Hear here; See here) | (BeThisBell, Sept. 15) |
| Travis Bowlin | “Got the Goods [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (Moonbeam, Sept. 17) |
| Stephen Emmer (Dutch musician and composer) | “International Blue [MP3]” (described as a celebration of the epic chamber music pop of Burt Bacharach, Scott Walker, Nick Cave and David Bowie; guests: Midge Ure, Heaven 17’s Glenn Gregory, Liam McKahey, Neil Crossley; first single: “Untouchable”; Hear here) | (Electric Fairytale Recordings) |
| Generationals (New Orleans-based indie-rock duo) | “Alix [MP3]” (producer: Richard Swift; first single: “Gold Silver Diamond”; Hear here) | (Polyvinyl) |
| The Juan MacLean | “In a Dream [MP3]” (first single: “A Place Called Space”; Hear here; See here; CD; Vinyl) | (DFA) |
| The Lees of Memory (led by John Davis and Brandon Fisher of Superdrag) | “Sisyphus Says [MP3]” (producer: Nick Raskulinecz; first single: “We Are Siamese”; Hear here; See here) | (SideOneDummy) |
| Pr0files | “Luxury [MP3]” (three-song EP; Hear here) | (Straight A) |
| Rain City Rockers | “Mayday [MP3]” (first single: “Saint Babe”; Hear here) | (Flashlight Music Group) |
| Angela Sheik (electro-pop/folk singer from Wilmington, Del.) | “Home Before Dark [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (Angela Sheik) |
| She Keeps Bees | “Eight Houses [MP3]” (producer: Nicolas Vernhes; guests: Sharon Van Etten, Adam Schatz; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Future Gods) |
| Tori Sparks (American singer based in Barcelona) | “El Mar [MP3]” (a collaboration with Barcelona-based flamenco fusion trio Calamento and friends; ReverbNation) | (Glass Mountain) |
| SVB (West Hollywood alt-rock band) | “King of Stones EP [MP3]” (four songs; ReverbNation) | (Sublvl Audio, Sept. 17) |
| UnderCover Betty (Tampa female rock trio) | “Gettin’ Ready [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (Shark Alley) |
| We The Ghost (Tulsa indie-pop band) | “The Kids Can’t Dance [MP3]” (guests: Sarah Hutchison, Kristen Goss; ReverbNation) | (We The Ghost) |
| The Lauren Wolf Band (Chicago rock band won the 2012 Live Nation Battle of the Bands) | “Rise Up [MP3]” (producer: Ellis Clark; ReverbNation; See here) | (CAU Dog, Sept. 19) |
Reissues (CD / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Chet Atkins | “Four Master Class Albums 1978-1997” (two-CD set features recordings with Les Paul, Mark Knopfler, Jerry Reed and Tommy Emmanuel; Read here) | (Raven) |
| Blue Öyster Cult | “Secret Treaties [180-gram vinyl]” (1974 album; remastered) | (Speakers Corner) |
| Garth Brooks | “The Ultimate Hits” (three-CD compilation from 2007) | (Legacy) |
| Garth Brooks | “Garth Brooks” (1989), “No Fences” (1990), “Ropin’ the Wind” (1991), “The Chase” (1992), “The Chase” (1992), “In Pieces” (1993), “Fresh Horses” (1995), “Sevens” (1997), “Double Live” (1998), “Scarecrow” (2001) | (Legacy) |
| The Coasters | “The Very Best of the Coasters” (two CDs, 40 songs) | (U.K. – Not Now Music, Sept. 16) |
| James Galway | “The Man With the Golden Flute: The Complete RCA Album Collection [Box set]” (73 discs) | (RCA) |
| Robert Gordon & Link Wray | “Cleveland ’78” (recorded at the Agora Club on March 20, 1978; MP3) | (Rockabilly / Cleopatra) |
| KC & The Sunshine Band | “Ultimate KC & The Sunshine Band: 15 Original Hits” | (Green Hill) |
| The Kinks | “Best of The Kinks 1964-1971” | (Sanctuary / Fontana) |
| David Lynch & Alan R. Splet | “Eraserhead: Orignal Soundtrack Recording” (1977 album; remastered, with a bonus song, “Pete’s Boogie,” a 16-page booklet and digital download; Hear here; see related DVD/Blu-ray below) | (Sacred Bones) |
| The Platters | “The Ultimate Collection” (three CDs, 60 songs) | (U.K. – Not Now Music, Sept. 16) |
| The Rutles | “Live + Raw” (Read here) | (Creature Music) |
| Ralph Stanley | “My Life & Legacy: The Very Best of Ralph Stanley” | (Rebel) |
| The Turtles | “The Turtles 45 RPM Vinyl Singles Collection” (seven hits, with B-sides) | (FloEdCo / Manifesto) |
| Various artists | “Def Jam 30th Anniversary: Greatest Hits [Box set]” (three CDs, including a Rick Rubin-curated disc titled “Selections From the Roots of Def Jam,” plus a T-shirt and 16-page booklet; Vinyl) | (Def Jam / UMe) |
| Various artists | “LateNightTales: Franz Ferdinand” (20-song compilation of musical influences handpicked by the band; includes a new Franz Ferdinand cover of “Leaving My Old Life Behind”; Vinyl; MP3) | (Night Time Stories) |
More Releases for the Week of Sept. 16, 2014
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Label/studio: |
| Anthrax | “Chile on Hell [DVD]” (filmed in 5.1 surround sound at the Teatro Caupolican in Santiago, Chile, on May 10, 2013; Blu-ray) | (City Drive Entertainment Group / DC3 Global) |
| Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman | “The Carol Burnett Show: Ultimate Collection [DVD]” (22 discs) | (Time Life Entertainment) |
| Jerry Lewis | “The Nutty Professor: 50th Anniversary [Blu-ray]” (1963 film) | (Paramount) |
| Metallica | “Live Sh*t: Binge & Purge [DVD/CD]” (three CDs and two DVDs in a book-style slipcase) | (Rhino / Blackened Recordings) |
| Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, et al | “Ghostbusters I & II [Blu-ray]” (1984 and 1989 films) | (Sony) |
| Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, et al | “David Lynch’s Eraserhead (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]” (1977 film; DVD) | (Criterion Collection) |
| Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, et al | “The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Seventh Season [DVD]” (Blu-ray + DVD) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, et al | “The Party [DVD]” (1968 comedy film; music composed by Henry Mancini; See here; Blu-ray) | (Kino Lorber) |
| Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, et al | “Godzilla [DVD]” (2014 film; Blu-ray + DVD) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, et al | “The Fault in Our Stars [DVD]” (2014 film; Instant Video; Blu-ray + DVD, with extended and theatrical versions) | (21st Century Fox) |
More DVD/Blu-ray Releases for the Week of Sept. 16, 2014
Music books
| Subject/ Author(s): | Title: | Publisher: |
| Martin Ashton | “Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD [Paperback]” | (The Friday Project) |
| Bobbi Brown (actress-model starred in Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” video) | “Dirty Rocker Boys: Love and Lust on the Sunset Strip [Paperback]” (co-author: Caroline Ryder; Kindle) | (Akashic Books) |
| Andrew Earles | “Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996 [Paperback]” | (Voyageur Press, Sept. 15) |
| Glen E. Friedman (skateboarder/punk, hip-hop photographer) | “Glen E. Friedman: My Rules [Hardcover]” (author: Greg Prato) | (Rizzoli) |
| Arlo Guthrie | “Arlo Guthrie: The Warner/Reprise Years [Paperback]” | (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) |
| Steven Millward | “Different Tracks: Music and Politics in 1970 [Paperback]” | (Matador, Sept. 18) |
| Stevie Nicks | “Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumours [Kindle]” (author: Zoë Howe) | (Omnibus Press) |
| Primus | “Primus: Over the Electric Grapevine – Insight into Primus and the World of Les Claypool [Hardcover]” (author: Greg Prato; Kindle) | (Akashic Books) |
| Baron Wolman (photographer) | “Woodstock [Hardcover]” (foreword by Carlos Santana) | (Reel Art Press, Sept. 15) |
More Book Releases for the Week of Sept. 16, 2014
Next week: Sept. 23, 2014
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