This Week’s Releases: Sept. 23, 2014
New stuff (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| alt-J (Mercury Prize-winning English indie rock band) | “This Is All Yours” (Hear here; MP3) | (Canvasback / Infectious Music) |
| Aphex Twin | “Syro” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Warp) |
| Marcia Ball | “Tattooed Lady and the Alligator Man” (producer: Tom Hambridge; guests: Delbert McClinton, Terrance Simien; Hear here; MP3) | (Alligator) |
| Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga | “Cheek to Cheek” (jazz album; first single: “Anything Goes”; Read here; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition) | (Streamline / Interscope / Columbia) |
| Big & Rich | “Gravity” (guest: Tim McGraw; first single: “Look at You”; Hear here) | (Big & Rich / Kobalt Label Services) |
| Joe Bonamassa | “Different Shades of Blue” (producer: Kevin Shirley; Hear here; MP3) | (J&R Adventures) |
| Julian Casablancas + The Voidz | “Tyranny” (producer: Shawn Everett; first single: “Where No Eagles Fly”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Cult) |
| Charm City Devils | “Battles” (producer: Skidd Mills; first single: “Shots”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (The End) |
| Kenny Chesney | “The Big Revival” (producers: Chesney, Buddy Cannon; guests: Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Grace Potter; first single: “American Kids”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Blue Chair / BNA) |
| Gary Clark Jr. | “Gary Clark Jr. Live” (two discs; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Warner) |
| Leonard Cohen | “Popular Problems” (producer: Patrick Leonard; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Columbia) |
| Empires (Chicago alt-rock band) | “Orphan” (producer: John Congleton; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Chop Shop / Island) |
| Erasure | “The Violet Flame” (producer: Richard X; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Mute) |
| Jackie Evancho | “Awakening” (producer: Nick Patrick; first single: “Think of Me”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Portrait / Sony Music Masterworks) |
| Jennifer Hudson | “JHUD” (guests: R. Kelly, Timbaland, T.I.; first single: “I Can’t Describe”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (RCA) |
| Information Society | “_hello world” (includes a cover of Devo’s “Beautiful World,” feat. Gerald V Casale; first single: “Land of the Blind”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Hakatak International / MVD) |
| Lenny Kravitz | “Strut” (first single: “The Chamber”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Roxie / Kobalt Label Services) |
| The Lost Brothers (Irish lo-fi folk duo) | “New Songs of Dawn and Dust” (producer: The Coral’s Bill Ryder-Jones; Hear here; Vinyl) | (U.K. – Lojinx, Sept. 22) |
| Louis C.K. | “Oh My God” (his fifth one-hour HBO special, with 12 minutes of bonus material; See here; Vinyl) | (Vagrant) |
| Rob Lynch (British punk-rock singer-songwriter) | “All These Nights In Bars Will Somehow Save My Soul” (Hear here; MP3) | (Xtra Mile Recordings) |
| Imelda May | “Tribal” (Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Verve) |
| John Mellencamp | “Plain Spoken” (his 22nd full-length album; producer: T Bone Burnett; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Republic) |
| Pentatonix (winners of NBC’s “The Sing-Off”) | “PTX Vol. III” (seven-song EP; guest: Lindsey Stirling; Hear here; MP3) | (RCA) |
| Perfume Genius (aka indie-pop artist Mike Hadreas) | “Too Bright” (recorded with Adrian Utley of Portishead; guest: John Parish; first single: “Queen”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Matador) |
| Chuck Prophet | “Night Surfer” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Yep Roc) |
| Prude | “the dark age of consent” (Hear here) | (Metropolis) |
| Silvas (Brazilian dream-pop artist) | “Ocean View” (See here; MP3) | (Six Degrees) |
| Sarah Silverman | “We Are Miracles” (taken from her Emmy-nominated HBO special, recorded at the Largo in Los Angeles; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Sub Pop) |
| Snootie Wild (aka hip-hop artist LePreston Porter) | “Go Mode” (six-song EP; guests: Yo Gotti, Zed Zilla, K Camp, Starlito; Hear here; MP3) | (Epic / CMG) |
| Duane Stephenson (Jamaican singer-songwriter) | “Dangerously Roots” (producers: Clive Hunt, Dean Fraser, Christopher Birch, Phillip “Winta” James, Donovan Germain; guests: Tarrus Riley, I-Octane, Lutan Fyah, Mutabaruka; new single: a cover of Bunny Wailer’s “Cool Runnings”; Hear here; See here) | (Kongstar / Greensleeves) |
| Jeff Tweedy | “Sukierae” (first single: “I’ll Sing It”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (dBpm / ANTI-) |
| Various artists | “The Boxtrolls: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (the stop-motion animated film opens Sept. 27; music by Dario Marianelli, with an original song by Eric Idle and songs from the group Loch Lomond; See here; MP3) | (Back Lot Music) |
| Whirr | “Sway” (producer: Jack Shirley; new single: “Lines”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Graveface) |
| Lee Ann Womack | “The Way I’m Livin'” (producer: Frank Liddell; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Sugar Hill) |
| Young Rebel Set (British rock band) | “Crocodile” (released a year ago in the U.K.; producer: Paul Savage; Hear here; MP3) | (New West) |
More Releases for the Week of Sept. 23, 2014
New stuff (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| AJR (sibling pop trio) | “Living Room [MP3]” (producers: AJR; first single: “I’m Ready”; Hear here; See here) | (AJR Productions / Warner) |
| The Bunny Gang | “Thrive [MP3]” (first single: “Sirens Through City”; Hear here) | (Hardline Entertainment) |
| Cave Women | “Second Chances [MP3]” (producers: Cave Women; first single: “Second Chances”; Hear here) | (Cave Women, Sept. 24) |
| Chancius (dreampop project) | “Bando [MP3]” (first single: “A Piece of You Wherever I Go”; Hear here) | (Fleetway) |
| Gazelle Twin (aka British musician-producer Elizabeth Bernholz) | “Unflesh [MP3]” (Hear here; Read here; CD; Vinyl) | (Last Gang) |
| Immigrant Union (Australian group led by Brent DeBoer of The Dandy Warhols) | “Anyway [MP3]” (first single: “War Is Peace”; Hear here) | (MuseBox / Fontana North) |
| Ray Kludys (Mesa, Ariz.-based boomer rocker) | “355 Bleecker [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (Ray Kludys, Sept. 20) |
| Lights | “Little Machines [MP3]” (producer: Drew Pearson; first single: “Up We Go”; Hear here; See here; MP3 Deluxe Edition) | (Warner) |
| Lauren Marsh (pop singer from Princeton, N.J.) | “The Incurable Heart [MP3]” (ReverbNation; Deluxe Edition) | (Lauren Marsh Music / CarChri Music) |
| Mega Bog (Seattle pop collective led by songwriter Erin Birgy) | “Gone Banana [MP3]” (first single: “Year of Patience”; Hear here) | (Couple Skate) |
| Nabiha (Danish pop star) | “Mind the Gap [MP3]” (six-song EP; first single: “Mind the Gap”; Hear here) | (The End / ADA) |
| Jim Outlaw (Detroit rocker) | “Valley of Isis [MP3]” (ReverbNation) | (Ore Creek) |
| Luke Paulo and the Grapefruit | “Mirrors [MP3]” (six-song EP; ReverbNation) | (Grapefruit Moon, Sept. 26) |
| The Rabid Whole (Toronto electronic-rock band) | “Problems [MP3]” (six-song EP; producers: Karl Schubach, Andreas Weiss; ReverbNation) | (The Rabid Whole) |
| Iga Victoria (Lisbon-based singer-songwriter) | “I Just Love [MP3]” (producer: Adam Malicki; ReverbNation) | (Iga Victoria, Sept. 24) |
| Youth Code | “A Place to Stand [MP3]” (producer: Josh Eustis; Hear/read here) | (Dias) |
| Yulianna | “Popra ‘Soldier’ [MP3]” (guests: Walter Afanasieff, Carmen Rizzo, Spencer Nezey, the Section Quartet, Ruslan Sirota, Bill Scott, Daniel Mandelman, Jack Dill, Ras; ReverbNation) | (Zvon Entertainment, LLC) |
Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Blood, Sweat & Tears | “Playlist: The Very Best of Blood, Sweat & Tears” | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| David Bowie | “Sound + Vision [Box set]” (four-CD, 70-song set covers 1969-1994, including hits, B-sides, live tracks, soundtrack recordings and remixes; Track list) | (Rhino) |
| David Bowie | “Knock On Wood – Live (40th Anniversary Picture Disc) [Vinyl]” (1974 single) | (Rhino / Parlophone) |
| Maria Callas | “Maria Callas – Remastered (The Complete Studio Recordings 1949-1969) [Box set]” (70 discs, with a 136-page hardcover book) | (Warner Classics) |
| Champaign | “How ‘Bout Us: Expanded Edition” (1981 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks) | (Funky Town Grooves) |
| Ray Charles | “Playlist: The Very Best of Ray Charles” | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| John Coltrane | “Offering: Live At Temple University” (two LPs; recorded in his hometown of Philadelphia on Nov. 11, 1966, nine weeks before his death at age 40; Vinyl) | (Impulse! / INgrooves) |
| Common | “Playlist: The Very Best of Common” | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Deep Purple | “Graz 1975” (previously unreleased live show at the Liebenauer ice rink in Austria, recorded on April 3, 1975; lineup: Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Jon Lord and Ian Paice; Ritchie Blackmore left the band three shows later; Vinyl) | (earMUSIC / Eagle Rock) |
| Bob Dylan | “Playlist: The Very Best of Bob Dylan” | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Herbie Hancock | “Dedication” (1974 album; remastered), “Flood” (1975 album; remastered), “Herbie Hancock Trio” (1977 album; remastered), “Tempest in the Colosseum” (1977 album; remastered), “Directstep” (1978 album; remastered), “Five Stars” (1979 album; remastered), “Herbie Hancock Trio With Ron Carter & Tony Williams” (1982 album; remastered), | (Wounded Bird) |
| George Harrison | “George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-75 [Box set]” (nine-disc set includes his first six solo albums, with bonus tracks, plus a DVD featuring several video pieces and a new seven-minute film with previously unreleased footage; See here), “Wonderwall Music” (1968 album; remastered; MP3), “Electronic Sound” (1969 album; remastered; MP3), “All Things Must Pass” (1970 album; remastered; MP3), “Living in the Material World” (1973 album; remastered; MP3), “Dark Horse” (1974 album; remastered; MP3), “Extra Texture” (1974 album; remastered; MP3) | (Capitol / UMe) |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | “The Knox Phillips Sessions: The Unreleased Recordings” (Vinyl; MP3) | (Saguro Road / Time Life) |
| The Offspring | “Playlist: The Offspring’s Greatest Hits” | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Simple Minds | “Celebrate: The Collection” (16 tracks; see related MP3 below) | (U.K. – Spectrum Audio, Sept. 22) |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | “Adore (Super Deluxe Edition)” (1998 album; remastered; 107-track, six-CD/DVD box set; Vinyl) | (Virgin / UMe) |
| Edwin Starr | “Soul Master (Expanded Edition)” (1968 album, featuring “Agent Double-O-Soul”; remastered, with bonus tracks; Read here), “Involved (Expanded Edition)” (1971 album, featuring “War”; remastered, with bonus tracks; Read here) | (U.K. – Big Break / Cherry Red, Sept. 22) |
| Thompson Twins | “Remixes & Rarities: A Collection of Classic 12″ Mixes & B-Sides” (two CDs, 24 songs; Read here) | (U.K. – Cherry Pop, Sept. 22) |
| Various artists | “Playlist: The Very Best of ’90s Country Hits” | (Legacy) |
| Various artists | “Shapes & Shadows: Psychedelic Pop and Other Rare Flavours From The Chapter One Vaults 1968-72” (26 tracks; Read here) | (U.K. – Grapefruit / Cherry Red, Sept. 22) |
| Yes | “Songs From Tsongas: The 35th Anniversary Concert – Special Edition” (recorded in Lowell, Mass., during their 2004 tour, featuring the classic line-up of Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman and Alan White; MP3; also available on DVD and Blu-ray) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Dwight Yoakam | “Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. [Vinyl]” (1986 album; remastered) | (Warner) |
More Releases for the Week of Sept. 23, 2014
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| American Flyer | “American Flyer [MP3]” (1976 album) | (R.D.E.G., Sept. 22) |
| Nada Surf | “B-Sides [MP3]” (15-song rarities collection; Hear here) | (Barsuk) |
| Psychedelic Furs | “Talk Talk Talk [MP3]” (1981 album; with three bonus tracks), “Forever Now [MP3]” (1982 album; with six bonus tracks) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Simple Minds | “Celebrate: Live at the SSE Hydro Glasgow [MP3]” | (Edsel, Sept. 22) |
| Take That | “Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection (Digital Edition) [MP3]” (19 tracks) | (RCA / Legacy) |
| Various artists | “Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974 [MP3]” (201 songs) | (Rhino / Atlantic) |
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Rod Cameron, Robert Armstrong, et al | “State Trooper: The Complete Series [DVD]” (11 discs) | (Shout! Factory / Timeless Media) |
| Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, et al | “Halloween: The Complete Collection [Blu-ray]” (15 discs) | (Anchor Bay) |
| Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, et al | “How I Met Your Mother: The Whole Story, Seasons 1-9 [DVD]” (28 discs) | (21st Century Fox) |
| Vicki Lawrence, Ken Berry, et al | “Mama’s Family: The Complete Collection [DVD]” (24 discs) | (Time Life Entertainment) |
| Fess Parker, Ed Ames, et al | “Daniel Boone: The Complete Series [DVD]” (36 discs) | (20th Century Fox) |
| Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, et al | “Neighbors [DVD]” (2014 film; Blu-ray + DVD) | (Universal Studios) |
| Various artists | “The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology [Blu-ray]” (five-disc set features five films in the horror series, 1973-2005, based on the novel created by William Blatty; music by Mike Oldfield, Barry DeVorzon, Ennio Morricone and Jack Nitzsche) | (Warner Home Video) |
| Robin Williams, Maria Conchita Alonso, et al | “Moscow on the Hudson [DVD]” (1984 film) | (Mill Creek Entertainment) |
| Yes | “Songs From Tsongas: Yes 35th Anniversary Concert [DVD]” (2004 tour; See here; Blu-ray) | (Eagle Rock) |
More DVD/Blu-ray Releases for the Week of Sept. 23, 2014
Music books
More Book Releases for the Week of Sept. 23, 2014
Next week: Sept. 30, 2014
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