Monday, November 15, 2010

New Music Releases - November 16, 2010

Christmas music choices are abundant this week, including holiday albums from Annie Lennox, the cast of Glee and Pink Martini. 

Some great reissues on vinyl including albums from Jimi Hendrix, Journey, Bruce Springsteen and Boston, to name a few.

As always, CVR Blog picks are in RED.





A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You
Alabama - Double Play
Annie Lennox - A Christmas Cornucopia

Bee Gees - Mythology (4 CD)

Billy Joel - The Hits (remastered)
Billy Ocean - Nights
Bjørn Torske - Kokning
Black Keys - Moan (reissue) (Vinyl)
Black Keys - The Big Come Up (reissue)(Vinyl)
Bobby Darin - That's All (Vinyl)
Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws

Boston - Boston (180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl / Ltd. Edition / Gatefold Cover)

Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees (Vinyl)
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise (2 CDs)
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise (4 LPs) (Vinyl)


Bruce Springsteen - The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story (3 CD/3 DVD)

A 3-CD and 3-DVD reissue package from rock icon and 20-time Grammy winner Bruce Springsteen includes the remastered 1978 classic album Darkness at the Edge of Town with a feature-length documentary and an 80-page notebook with archival materials and, never-before-seen photos. Number two on Amazon's rock chart, number 11 on Amazon's music chart, and number seven in pop. On Columbia/Sony Records, a scaled-down version includes 21 previously unreleased songs and an essay by Springsteen.

Bryan Adams - Bare Bones
Chick Willis - Mr. Blues: The Best Of So Far
Chris Tomlin - And If Our God Is For Us
Church - Heyday
Church - Seance

Colloseum - Valentyne Suite







Crushed Stars - Convalescing in Braille
D'Eon - Palinopsia
Darren Hayman - Essex Arms
Deerhoof/Physical Forms - "Hoofdriver" 7"
Dinah Washington - The Fabulous Miss D: The Keynote, Decca and Mercury Singles 1943-1953

Duane Eddy - The Birth of a Guitar Legend - The Jamie Singles Sessions 1957-1962

Elves of Heaven - This Christmas EP
Elvis Costello - National Ransom (Vinyl)
Elvis Presley - Double Play
Eric Clapton - Clapton (2 LPs) (Vinyl)

Expo '70 - Sonic Messenger  (Vinyl)

Faun Fables - Light of a Vaster Dark

Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa- The Torture Never Stops DVD

Freddie Jackson - 4 U (I Will)
Fugazi - In on the Kill Taker (reissue) (Vinyl)
Fugazi - Red Medicine (reissue) (Vinyl)
Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing (reissue) (Vinyl)
Gallery - Best of

Germs - Live At The Starwood (12/3/1980)








Glee Cast - Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album
Heatwave - Candles
Heatwave - Hot Property
Heaven & Hell - Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven & Hell: Live at Wacken
Home Video - The Automatic Process



INXS - Original Sin








Japandroids - Heavenward Grand Prix (7" + mp3) (Limited Edition)

Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band - Almost Acoustic (reissue)
Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band - Ragged But Right (reissue)
Jesu - Heart Ache & Dethroned
Jesu - Heartache & Dethroned (2-CDs)

Jimi Hendrix - BBC Sessions (3 LPs)


Jimi Hendrix - Blues (2 LPs)

Jimi Hendrix - Blues (CD/DVD)
Jimi Hendrix - Live At Woodstock (2 CDs)

Jimi Hendrix - Live At Woodstock (3 LPs)




Jimi Hendrix - Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year (Single)
Jimi Hendrix - West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology (4 CDs/1 DVD)

Jimi Hendrix - West Coast Seattle Boy:The Jimi Hendrix Anthology (8LP Box)




John Denver - Double Play
John Fahey - Blind Joe Death (Vinyl)

Journey - Escape (180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl/ Ltd. Edition/ Gatefold Cover)





Julian Cope - Floored Genius, Volume 2
KT Tunstall - Have Yourself a Very KT Christmas
Keith Urban - Get Closer
Kenny Nolan - All Time Greatest Performances

Kid Rock - Born Free (2LP W/Bonus CD)

Kisses - Heart of the Nightlife
La Sera - Never Come Around (Vinyl)
Lavinia - There Is Light Between Us
Le Switch - The Rest of Me
Lee DeWyze - Live It Up
Lee Hazlewood - Strung Out On Something New: The Reprise Recordings (reissue)
Loreena McKennitt - The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Majors for Minors - Bee Gees for Babies
Mariage Blanc - Mariage Blanc

Mommyheads - Finest Specimens





Nelly - 5.0
Nelly Furtado - Best of Nelly Furtado
Nilsson - Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night (Vinyl)
Norah Jones - ...Featuring Norah Jones
Pan American - For Waiting, For Chasing
Pigeons - Liasons

Pink - Greatest Hits... So Far!!!

Pink Martini - Joy to The World
Pipettes - Earth Vs the Pipettes
Queers - Back to the Basement
Rascal Flatts - Nothing Like This
Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch (reissue)
Rihanna - Loud
Russian Futurists - The Weight's on the Wheels

Sharon Van Etten - I'm Giving Up on You (7" + mp3)(Vinyl)

Shipping News - One Les Heartless to Fear
Shondes - Lines & Hooks + 3 EP
Shuteye Unison - Our Future Selves
Sights - The Most of What Follows Is True
Status Quo - Live at the BBC (1 CD)
Status Quo - Live at the BBC (4 CDs)
Status Quo - Live at the BBC (8 CDs)
Stereolab - Not Music
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Double Play

Stooges - The Stooges (Rhino Handmade Collector's Edition)

Supertramp - Breakfast in America (remastered with bonus CD)
Temper Trap - Conditions Remixed
Various Artists - 30 Rock: Original Television Soundtrack
Various Artists - Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album
Various Artists - Next Three Days (soundtrack)
Various Artists - Tangled (soundtrack)
Various Artists - The Fire & Fury Doo Wop Story (2 CDs)
Volumes - The Concept Of Dreaming
Warlocks - Rise & Fall EP & Rarities
Waylon Jennings - Double Play
Years - Semblance Magic


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The Bad Penny New Music Releases Schedule (The Bad Penny Blog)

Mariage Blanc – Mariage Blanc (self-released)
Calm Hatchery – Sacrilege of Humanity
The Church – Heyday and Seance (remastered reissues with bonus tracks; pre-orders come with instant album downloads, digital sampler)
Crushed Stars – Convalescing in Braille
Deerhoof/ Physical Forms – “Hoofdriver” 7-inch (limited to 1,000 copies) DVAS – Society
False Positive – False Positive
Faun Fables (features Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s Nils Frykdahl) – Light of a Vaster Dark
Black Francis – “The Golem” DVD (score of 1920 film “The Golem: How He Came Into the World”; available at BlackFrancis.net and Amazon)
Black Francis – The Golem Rock Album (rock opera derived from Black Francis’ previously available “Golem” score; available at BlackFrancis.net and Amazon)
French Miami – Motor Skills
The Glass – At Swim Two Birds
Gold Motel – Summer House (physical version; previously available digitally; self-released)
Harmonious Bec – Her Strange Dreams
Hellmouth – Gravestone Skylines
Home Video – The Automatic Process
Japandroids – “Heavenward Grand Prix” 7-inch (limited to 2,000 copies)
Jesu – Heart Ache & Dethroned
Johanna and the Dusty Floor – The Forest EP
Norah Jones – … Featuring (features new and past collaborations with Foo Fighters, Belle & Sebastian, Outkast, more)
Jonquil – One Hundred Suns EP
Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent (first recording with original lineup in 27 years; two-CD deluxe edition, titled Absolute Respect, includes bonus disc featuring Killing Joke songs covered by Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters)
Kisses – The Heart of the Nightlife
La Sera – “Never Come Around” 7-inch
Lavinia (features members of Caspian, Eksi Ekso, more) – There Is Light Between Us EP
Lord Huron – “Into the Sun” 7-inch
Radical Face – Touch the Sky EP
The Russian Futurists – The Weight’s on the Wheels
Shapers – “Virginia Reel”
The Shondes – Lines & Hooks +3 EP
Shuteye Unison – Our Future Selves
Shy Child – Liquid Love
Sonny Smith – 100 Records Volume 2: I Miss the Jams (five-LP box set version; CD edition due November 30)
The Soft Moon – The Soft Moon
Soviet League (features members of the Autumns and the Sugarplastic) – Soviet League
Stereolab – Not Music
The Stooges – 1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions (reissue of seven-CD box set; previously out of print; Rhino Handmade) and Have Some Fun: Live at Ungano’s (New York concert from 1970; includes performance of all Fun House songs, save “L.A. Blues,” plus previously unreleased songs “Have Some Fun” and “My Dream Is Dead”; comes with a poster, liner notes by Lenny Kaye and two photos)
Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck – Bottom of the Sky (self-released)
Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death – Some of Us Are in This Together (two LPs)
Sharon Van Etten – “I’m Giving Up on You” 7-inch (limited to 500 copies)
Rusty Willoughby – Cobirds Unite (features Visqueen’s Rachel Flotard)
Robert Wyatt – Cuckooland; EPs (CD only); Schleep; and Theatre Royal Drury Lane


Remember, if you are a record company and have new releases or know of any I missed (especially vinyl), please email me and I will add your music to the list. I also do reviews of new vinyl, email me for more information.

New Music releases are put together from a variety of online sources by blog owner Robert Benson

Have new music for the list? Email me at rbenson30@wi.rr.com  




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