39 Stripes - Beyond Broken
A Classic Education - Hey There Stranger
Aaron Neville - I Know I've Been Changed
Alan Moore - Unearthing (3-CD, 3-LP box set)
Ali Campbell - Great British Songs
Amy Grant - Discover (EP)
Andrew Bird - Useless Creatures
Angelo Spencer et l'Orchidee d'Hawai "L'Argent" 7''
Anne Sofie Von Otter and Brad Mehldau - Love Songs
Apparat - DJ-Kicks
Aretha Franklin - Essential (2 CDs)
Asia - Spirit of the Night: Live in Cambridge 2009 (2 CDs/1 DVD)
Atlantic and Pacific - Meet Your New Love
Avey Tare - Down There
B.B. King - B.B. Boogie
Badfinger - Ass
Badfinger - Magic Christian Music
Badfinger - No Dice
Badfinger - Straight Up
Barbara Morgenstern - Fan No. 2
Barbra Streisand - Ultimate Collection
Bill Bruford and Tony Levin - Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (2 CDs)
Billie Holiday - Essential (2 CDs)
Billy Preston - Encouraging Words
Billy Preston - That's the Way God Planned It
Black Sabbath - Eternal Idol: Deluxe Edition
Black Sabbath - Seventh Star: Deluxe Edition
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys - King of Western Swing
Brad Paisley - Hits Alive
Breathe Owl Breathe - Magic Central
Brian McBride - The Effective Disconnect
Bryan Ferry - Olympia (Vinyl)
Buddy Guy - Living Proof
Buddy Miles - Booger Bear
Calle 13 - Entren Los Que Quieran
Carl Wilson - Youngblood (remastered with a bonus track)
Charlie Daniels Band - Essential (2 CDs)
Ciara - Basic Instinct
Clinic - Bubblegum (vinyl)
Cloud Nothings - "Leave You Forever" 7''
Coliseum - Goddamage (remastered) (vinyl)
Comic Wow - Music for Mysteries of Mind Space and Time
Conducting From The Grave - Revenants
Cough - Ritual Abuse
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever (vinyl)
Crowded House - The Very Very Best Of Crowded House
Crystal Stilts - Shake the Shackles (vinyl)
Daniel G. Harmann & the Trouble Starts - Risk
Darryl Jenifer - In Search of Black Judas
Deez Nuts - This One's For You
Deluka - You Are the Night
Denice Williams - When Love Comes Calling
Diamond Rings - Special Affections
Dixie Chicks - The Essential Dixie Chicks
Doris Troy - Doris Troy
Duane Eddy - Movin N Groovin
Dâm-Funk - Adolescent Funk
Electric Light Orchestra - Original Album Classics (5 CDs)
Elizabeth & the Catapult - Other Side of Zero
Energy - Walk Into The Fire EP
Excepter - Late (vinyl)
Falco - Falco 3 25th Anniversary Edition
Fergus and Geronimo - Never Satisfied b/w Turning Blue (vinyl)
Forbidden - Omega Wave
Fourplay - Let's Touch the Sky
Frank Sinatra - Essential (2 CDs)
Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra: Concert Collection (DVD set)
Gary Wilson - Electric Endicott
Ghostland Observatory - Codename: Rondo
Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger - Acoustic Sessions
Giant Sand - Valley of Rain (reissue)
Gil Scott-Heron - It's Your World (reissue)
Gil Scott-Heron - Real Eyes (reissue)(Vinyl)
Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
Gospel Claws - C-L-A-W-S
Grouper - Hold/Sick (vinyl)
Guess Who - Artificial Paradise
Guess Who - Essential (2 CDs)
Hans Zimmer - Inception (Music From The Motion Picture) [vinyl]
Heart - Live on Air
Highwaymen - The Essential Highwaymen
Holy Grail - Crisis In Utopia
Howard Fishman - The World Will Be Different
Ill Nino - Dead New World
Jackie Lomax - Is That What You Want?
James Taylor - James Taylor
Jason D. Williams - Killer Instincts
Jay Boy Adams - Fork in the Road
Jay Boy Adams - Jay Boy Adams
Jeff Beck - Live And Exclusive From The Grammy Museum (Amazon Exclusive)
Jefferson Airplane - Live at The Fillmore Auditorium 10/15/66: Late Show: Signe's Farewell
Jefferson Airplane - Live at The Fillmore Auditorium 10/16/66: Early & Late Shows: Grace's Debut
Jefferson Airplane - Live at The Fillmore Auditorium 11/25/66 & 11/27/66: We Have Ignition 11/27/66: We Have Ignition (2 CDs)
Jefferson Airplane - Return to The Matrix 2/1/68 (2 CDs)
Jermaine Stewart - Frantic Romantic
Jethro Tull - Stand Up: Deluxe (3 CDs)
Jim Bryson & the Weakerthans - Falcon Lake Incident
Jimi Hendrix - "West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology" - This four-CD/one-DVD deluxe set arrives just in time for our holiday shopping and offers a treasure trove of new Hendrix material, featuring 45 previously unreleased live cuts, demos and studio alternates from the guitar legend.
Jimmie Rodgers - Train Whistle Blues
Joan of Arc - Meaningful Work (vinyl)
Joe Satriani - Essential (2 CDs)
John Cale - Live at Rockpalast (2 CDs) (Vinyl)
John Tavener - The Whale / Celtic Requiem
John Zacherle - Monster Mash / Scary Tales
John Zorn - What Thou Wilt
Johnny Clegg - Human
Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band - Anda Jaleo
Juice Newton - Duets: Friends and Memories
Juliette Commagere - Procession
Julio Iglesias - Essential (2 CDs)
K.C. Accidental - Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub & Anthems for the Could've Bin Pills (reissue)
Kansas - Essential (2 CDs)
Keller Williams - Kids
Kill The Client - Set For Extinction
Kisses - Heart of the Nightlife
Kort (Kurt Wagner and Cortney Tidwell) - Invariable Heartache
Krieg - The Isolationist
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
Lauren Pritchard - Wasted in Jackson
Legendary Pink Dots - French Collection
Lesbian - Stratospheria Cubensis
Lobo - All Time Greatest Performances
Loudness - Loudest (2 CDs)
Low - Christmas (reissue) (vinyl)
Lyrics Born - As U Were
Madlib - Medicine Show No. 10 - Black Soul
Make Do And Mend - End Measured Mile
Marc Bolan and T. Rex - Unchained: Unreleased Recordings 1972-77 (8-CD box set)
Marshall Chapman - Big Lonesome
Mary Hopkin - Earth Song, Ocean Song
Mary Hopkin - Postcard
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell (Vinyl)
Michael Schenker - Rockpalast: Hard Rock Legends Vol. 2
Mike Farris - The Night The Cumberland Came Alive EP
Modern Jazz Quartet - Under the Jasmine Tree / Space
Monkees - Head: Deluxe Edition (Rhino Handmade Exclusive)
Monster Magnet - Mastermind
Mtume - Kiss This World Goodbye / In Search of the Rainbow (2 CDs)
Mtume - Theater of the Mind
Muddy Waters - Hard Again (reissue) (vinyl)
Mulatu Astatke - Timeless
Neil Diamond - Dreams
Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus (reissue)
Nick Heyward - From Monday to Sunday
Nick Heyward - North of a Miracle
Octopus Project - Hexadecagon
Ooooo - Ooooo (vinyl)
PT Walkley - Nice Guy Johnny (soundtrack)
Paleo - A View of the Sky
Panico - Kick
Paper Aeroplanes - The Day We Ran Into the Sea
Paul Simon - Essential (2 CDs)
Pepper Rabbit - Beauregard
Perry Como - Essential (2 CDs)
Phil Wilson - I Own It (vinyl)
Pissed Jeans - Sam Kinison Woman b/w The L Word (vinyl)
Pomegranates - One of Us
Pop. 1280 - The Grid EP 12''
Prefab Sprout - Let's Change The World with Music
Pretty Things - Parachute: 40th Annivesary Edition
Quinn Marston - Can You Hear Me See Me Now?
R.E.M. - Live From Austin, TX [dvd]
Rachel's - Music for Egon Schiele (reissue) (vinyl)
Rachel's - The Sea and the Bells (reissue) (vinyl)
Ray Charles - Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters
Ray Charles - Way I Feel
Robyn Hitchcock - Moss Elixir / Mossy Liquor (2 CDs)
Rose Royce - Golden Touch
Rose Royce - Jump Street
Rose Royce - Rainbow Connection IV
Rose Royce - Strikes Again
Roy Clark - Last Word in Jesus Is Us
Sarah Kirkland Snider - Penelope
Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light
Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl - Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger: Acoustic Sessions
Seeland - How to Live
Slough Feg - Animal Spirits
Small Black - New Chain
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (CD/DVD)
Steve Vai - Essential (2 CDs)
Strawbs - Strawbs 40th Anniversary Celebration Vol. 1 (2 CDs)
Strawbs - Strawbs 40th Anniversary Celebration Vol. 2 (2 CDs)
Stryper - The Covering
Sun Airway - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
Swedish House Mafia - Until One
Systems Officer - Underslept (reissue) (vinyl)
Tangerine Dream - Chandra: Phantom Ferry 1
Tangerine Dream - Cyberjam Collection
Tangerine Dream - Tangines Scales
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Ted Nugent - Essential (2 CDs)
Telekinesis - Parallel Seismic Conspiracies
The Fall - Unutterable (remastered with bonus disc)
The Octopus Project - Hexadecagon
The Orb Featuring David Gilmour - Metallic Spheres (2 LPs) (Vinyl)
The Phantom Band - The Wants
The Red Shore - The Avarice Of Man
The Superions - Destination: Christmas
Timmy's Organism - Rise of the Green Gorilla
Triptykon - Shatter
UFO - Rockpalast: Hardrock Legends 1
Unruly Child - Worlds Collide
Uriah Heep - Live on Air
Various Artists - Apple Records Box Set (17-CD box set)
The Limited Edition Apple Records Box Set (17 Discs) includes 14 individual artist albums with bonus tracks, the new Best of Apple Records "Come And Get It" collection, a 2CD collection of 37 un-released tracks from Badfinger, Billy Preston, Jacki Lomax and Mary Hopkins and a 16 page booklet. All housed in a cardboard box that artistically replicates the original Apple Records crate.
Various Artists - Country Strong: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists - Doughboys Playboys & Cowboys: The Golden Years of Western Swing (4 CDs)
Various Artists - Listen to the Banned
Various Artists - Lullaby Renditions of Pearl Jam
Various Artists - Lullaby Versions of Songs Recorded by Michael Jackson
Various Artists - Smooth Jazz Tribute to Bryan Ferry
Various Artists - The Imus Ranch Record II
Various Artists - The Sound of Music - 45th Anniversary Edition
Various Artists - Treme: Music From the HBO Original Series, Season 1
Various Artists - Wah Do Dem OST
Various Artists - We Were So Turned on: Tribute to David Bowie (vinyl)
Various Artists - Winter's Bone: Songs from the Motion Picture
Viktor Sjoberg - Breakfast in America
War on Drugs - Future Weather
Warpaint - The Fool
Wildildlife - Give In To Live
William Ryan Fritch - Library Catalog Music Series - Music for Honey & Bile (vinyl)
Withered - Dualitas
Wolf and Cub - Science & Sorcery
Wooden Wand - Death Seat
Your Demise - The Kids We Used To Be...
New Jazz Releases - Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Here
The Bad Penny New Music Releases Schedule
1,2,3 – “Little Cure” single (Chess Club)
Active Child/ School of Seven Bells – split 7-inch (features each artist remixing a track by the other; limited edition; pre-orders come with downloads for both songs; Lefse)
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast (reissue; available as an LP and a CD; features Glenn Kotche and others; Fat Possum)
Angelo Spencer et les Haut Summits – “L’Argent” 7-inch (previously available digitally; K)
Anoraak – Wherever the Sun Sets (Naive)
Atlantic/Pacific (features Texas Is the Reason’s Garrett Klahn) – Meet Your New Love (features Rival Schools’ Ian Love; No Sleep)
Avey Tare (of Animal Collective) – Down There (Paw Tracks)
Bedouin Soundclash – Light the Horizon (digital version; available physically in early 2011; Pirates Blend/ Nat Geo)
Bing & Ruth – City Lake (Happy Talk)
Bob Wayne – Outlaw Carnie (Century Media)
Bot’Ox – Babylon by Car (I’m a Cliché)
Brian Bonz – The Triborough Odyssey (Triple Crown)
Bryan Ferry – Olympia (features Scissor Sisters, Groove Armada, members of Roxy Music, more; includes covers of songs by Tim Buckley and Traffic; co-produced by Bryan Ferry and Rhett Davies; Astralwerks)
Cashes Rivers – Cashes Rivers (Aqui Estamos)
Chico Mann – Analog Drift (Wax Poetics)
Comic Wow – Asthmatic Kitty Library Catalog Music: Music for Mysteries of Mind Space and Time (Asthmatic Kitty)
Control Denied – The Fragile Art of Existence (two-CD reissue; Relapse)
Cough – Ritual Abuse (Relapse)
Crowded House – The Very Very Best of Crowded House (CD has 19 songs; digital version has 32 songs; Capitol/EMI)
Crystal Stilts – “Shake the Shackles” single (Slumberland)
Dark Castle – Spirited Migration (vinyl version of 2009 album; At a Loss)
Darkthrone – Høstmørke (reissue with bonus disc of commentary by drummer/lyricist Fenriz; Peaceville) Panzerfaust (reissue; two-CD has commentary by Fenriz; vinyl version limited to 2,000 numbered copies; Peaceville)
Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains bassist) – In Search of Black Judas (Roir)
Dead Snares (Remy Zero’s Jeffrey Cain) – Speak the Language (features Remy Zero’s Cedric LeMoyne, the late Gregory Slay, more; Popantipop)
Deluka – You Are the Night (physical version; previously available digitally; Vel)
Diamond Rings – Special Affections (Secret City)
Diego and the Dissidents – Contaminated Waters (Quite Scientific)
Diskreet – Engage the Mechanicality (Siege of Amida/ Candlelight)
Dolorean – Anticipation Blues EP (digital only; available with pre-orders of January 18 release The Unfazed; Partisan)
Down – Diary of a Mad Band (London concert from 2006; triple-LP/one-DVD edition; previously available as a two-CD/one-DVD set; Warner Bros.)
Dream Cop – Mango EP (vinyl only; Tough Love)
Dååth – Dååth (co-produced by guitarist Eyal Levi and Mark Lewis; Century Media)
El Boy Die – Black Hawk Ladies & Tambourins (Semprini)
El Sportivo & the Blooz – El Sportivo & the Blooz EP (only available as a limited-edition 12-inch; White Iris)
Elizabeth & the Catapult – The Other Side of Zero (Verve Forecast)
Every Time I Die – “Shit Happens: The Series?” DVD (includes an hour of unreleased bonus material, copy of recent album New Junk Aesthetic, more; Epitaph)
Firewind – Days of Defiance (pre-order bundles come with an instructional DVD, T-shirts, posters, more; Century Media)
Gary Wilson – Electric Endicott (digital version; available in other formats on November 9; Western Vinyl)
Ghostland Observatory – Codename: Rondo (Trashy Moped)
Gospel Claws – C-L-A-W-S (Common Wall/ Modern Art)
Growlers – Hot Tropics (LP version; comes with MP3; previously available on CD; Everloving)
Holy Grail – Crisis in Utopia (produced by Danny Lohner; Prosthetic)
Jefferson Airplane – Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 10/15/66 Late Show — Signe’s Farewell; Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 10/16/66 Early & Late Shows — Grace’s Debut; Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 11/25/66 & 11/27/66 — We Have Ignition; and Return to the Matrix 2/1/68 (previously unreleased live albums; Collectors’ Choice Music Live)
Jeremy Fisher – Flood (Aquarius/EMI)
John Cale & Band – Live (October 1984 performance; available as a double-CD, a double-DVD and an LP; MIG)
Johnny Clegg – Human (first album in 17 years; Appleseed)
Johnny Flynn – Been Listening (Transgressive/ Thirty Tigers)
Juliette Commagere (Hello Stranger frontwoman) – The Procession (Manimal)
K.C. Accidental (pre-Broken Social Scene project featuring Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin) – Anthems for the Could’ve Bin Pills and Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub (reissues; Arts & Crafts)
Kermit Ruffins (from HBO’s “Tremé”) – Happy Talk (Basin St.)
Kill the Client – Set for Extinction (Relapse)
Krieg – The Isolationist (Candlelight)
Kylesa – Spiral Shadow (Season of Mist)
Lesbian – Stratospheria Cubensis (only available on CD; Important)
Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms (LP reissue; Sundazed)
Lisa Miller – Within Myself (CD reissue; Sundazed)
Lykke Li – “Get Some” single (digital version available for free on LykkeLi.com beginning October 25; limited-edition 7-inch available in record stores; LL)
Lyrics Born – As U Were (features Francis and the Lights’ Francis Farewell Starlite; Decon)
Make Do and Mend – End Measured Mile (digital version; LP due later; Paper + Plastick/ Panic)
Martina Topley Bird – Some Place Simple (previously available overseas; Honest Jon’s/ Ipecac)
Melechesh – The Epigenesis (Nuclear Blast)
Michael Schenker Group – Hard Rock Legends Vol. 2 (January 1981 performance; available as a CD and a DVD; MIG)
Monster Magnet – Mastermind (Napalm)
Mugstar – Lime (only available on CD; Important)
My Dry Wet Mess – Irrational Alphabet (Magical Properties)
My Jerusalem (features members of Polyphonic Spree, ex-members of Cursive and Great Norther, more) – Gone for Good (00:02:59/Sony/RED)
My Other Friend – My Other Friend (wide release of previously available album; self-released)
Neaera – Forging the Eclipse (Metal Blade)
None More Black – Icons (Fat Wreck Chords)
Oh Land – Oh Land EP (Epic)
Old Man Markley – “For Better, For Worse” 7-inch (Fat Wreck Chords)
Panico – Kick (Chemikal Underground)
Parallels – Visionaries (deluxe edition; comes with a bonus CD featuring an unreleased song, a Ramones cover and four remixes; exclusive to the U.S.; Marigold)
Pepper Rabbit – Beauregard (Kanine)
Pomegranates – One of Us (Afternoon)
Prefab Sprout – Let’s Change the World With Music (Tompkins Square)
Pure Reason Revolution – Hammer and Anvil (limited-edition digipak comes with bonus DVD of live material from 2010; Superball)
Purling Hiss – Public Service Announcement (Woodsist)
Quinn Marston – Can You Hear Me See Me Now? (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
R.E.M. – “Live From Austin, TX” DVD (remastered and remixed version of Austin City Limits performance; includes three songs that weren’t broadcast; New West)
Ray Charles – Focus of Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters (features unreleased and rare material, including a duet with Johnny Cash; Concord)
Roger McGuinn – “Thunderbyrd: West Coast Legends Vol. 4? DVD (live material from 1977; MIG)
Röyksopp – Senior (digital version; LP drops November 9; instrumental album; MB3)
Sarah Kirkland Snider – Penelope (features My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden; New Amsterdam)
Seeland – How to Live (Loaf)
Shadows Fall – “Madness in Manila” DVD/CD (Everblack Industries)
Small Black – New Chain (Jagjaguwar)
Societys Parasites – 1753 (Hellcat)
Star One – Victims of the Modern Age (CD and CD-with-T-shirt bundles available for pre-order; InsideOut)
Sun Airway – Nocturne of the Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)
Syd Barrett – An Introduction to Syd Barrett (executive produced by David Gilmour; Capitol/EMI)
T. Rex – The Slider (remastered reissue; CD and digital versions; available on vinyl November 23; Fat Possum)
Tangents (features Unearth’s Derek Kerswill) – One Little Light Year (co-produced by Tangents and Benjamin Jon; Restricted Release/ Angle Side Side)
Tesseract – Concealing Fate EP (Century Media)
The Fall – The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall (Omnibus Edition) (four-CD reissue; Beggars Banquet)
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (features Sean Lennon) – Acoustic Sessions (Chimera)
The Mamas and the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (mono LP reissue; features uncensored cover; Sundazed)
The Octopus Project – Hexadecagon (Peek-a-Boo)
The Phantom Band – The Wants (digital release; Chemikal Underground)
The Radha Krishna Temple – The Radha Krishna Temple (reissue; produced by George Harrison; Apple/EMI)
The Sainte Catherines – Fire Works (features Lagwagon’s Joey Cape; Anchorless)
The Superions – Destination … Christmas! (Fanatic)
The Ventures – The Ventures’ Christmas Album (LP reissue; Sundazed)
The War on Drugs – Future Weather (Secretly Canadian)
Triptykon – Shatter: Eparistera Daimones Accompanied EP (includes two live songs, one featuring vocals by Darkthrone’s Nocturno Culto; Century Media)
UFO – Hard Rock Legends Vol. 1 (November 1980 performance; available as a CD and a DVD; MIG)
Vanity Theft – The Anatomy EP (Vigilante Music/ Adamant)
Various artists – Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records (features archival songs by Billy Preston, Ronnie Spector, more; Apple/EMI)
Various artists – Fool’s Gold Vol 1 (features A-Trak, Kid Sister, more; available digitally and as a limited-edition CD only available at Opening Ceremony boutiques; Fool’s Gold)
Various artists – Swedish House Mafia – Until One (features reworked versions of songs by MGMT, Coldplay, more; Astralwerks)
Various artists – “Jackass 3D” soundtrack (previously available digitally; features Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O, more; Epitaph)Various artists – “Wah Do Dem” DVD (movie featuring Norah Jones, Sean Bones, more; Factory 25)
Viking Skull – Heavy Metal Thunder (remastered reissue that includes Born in Hell, the Chapter One EP, five bonus tracks and new artwork; Restricted)
Warpaint – The Fool (vinyl version has album-download coupon; pre-orders come with a poster; Rough Trade)
We Are Standard – The Golden League (remix album; available digitally and on CD; Mushroom Pillow)
William Ryan Fritch – Asthmatic Kitty Library Catalog Music: Music for Honey and Bile (Asthmatic Kitty)
Witchsorrow – Witchsorrow (Metal Blade)
Withered – Dualitas (Prosthetic)
Wolf & Cub – Science & Sorcery (Last Gang)
Young the Giant – Young the Giant (digital version; available physically in early 2011; Roadrunner)
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
