After a couple of soft weeks for new releases, summer closes and fall enters with a fury of new material from veritable rock powerhouses, including Robert Plant, Linkin Park, Weezer and the Killers’ Brandon Flowers.
During Flowers’ fall European tour, San Diego Music Award winners Transfer will accompany him on the road. Flowers’ new record, Flamingo, an homage to his home street, originally started as a Killers record but morphed into the singer's first solo endeavor.
In a similar storyline, Plant’s follow-up to his Grammy-winning collaboration with Alison Kraus morphed into Band of Joy, his pre-Zeppelin project with John Bonham. The critically acclaimed, rootsy endeavor re-teams Plant withlongtime producer and friend T-Bone Burnett. In other pairings, Mavis Staples, 71, teams with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy on a collection of gospel covers and new material, and Linkin Park reunites with Rick Rubin for the rock-leaning follow-up to MInutes to Midnight: A Thousand Suns. Since when did Linkin Park start naming albums a la Iron Maiden records?!?
Weezer, on a mission to reclaim hipster cred, releases Hurley, a better record (and title) than Raditude, and Chromeo serves up some ridiculously awesome '70s funk/pop on their third album. Additionally, new offerings from Phish-head Trey Anastasio, Michelle Branch, Of Montreal and Black Milk are worthy of an aural investment. Here’s the full list on releases for Tuesday, Sept. 14:
2am Club: What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?
Mario Abney: Spiritual Perception
The Afters: Light Up the Sky
Air Supply: All out of Love Live
Amely: Hello World
Amusement Parks On Fire: Road Eyes
Anat Fort Trio: And If
Louis Armstrong: Playlist -- The Very Best of Louis Armstrong
Atrocity: After the Storm (featuring Yasmin)
Avenged Sevenfold Tribute: String Tribute to Avenged Sevenfold -- Vol. 2
Azure Ray: Drawing Down the Moon
Baby Lores: Mas
Bad Cop: Harvest the Beast
Dale Baker: Canary in the Coal Mine
Richard Barone: Glow
Richie Beirach Dave Liebman: Quest for Freedom
Mbilia Bel: Bel Canto -- The Genidia Years
Shye Ben-Tzur: Shoshan
Black Milk: Album of the Year
Black Mountain: Wilderness Heart
The Black Pacific: The Black Pacific
Black Ryder: Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Blonde Redhead: Penny Sparkle
Blood, Sweat & Tears: Mirror Image/New City
Michelle Branch: Everything Comes and Goes
Brandon Flowers: Flamingo
Buck$: Buckwild
Buke & Gass: Riposte
Johnny Burnette, Johnny: The Ballads of Johnny Burnette
Katie Cadence: On the Wings of an Angel
Caligula: Divine Madness
Cap 1: Amerika's Nightmare
Eric Carmen: Eric Carmen/Boats Against the Current/Change of Heart
Chanticleer: A Chanticleer Christmas
Charles Lloyd: Mirror
Chromeo: Business Casual
Chromeo: Business Casual (deluxe edition)
Clare Burson: Silver and Ash
Leonard Cohen: Songs From the Road
James Crisp: Celtic Seas
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Joey Defrancesco: Never Can Say Goodbye: The Mus
Deolinda: Dois Selos E Um Carimbo
Maggie Diaz del Castillo: Yoga: Eight Limbs to Bliss
Disciple: Horseshoes & Handgrenades
District 97: Hybrid Child
DJ Dan: DJ Dan Presents Future Retro
Bonnie Dobson: Vive la Canadienne
Denise Donatelli: When Lights Are Low
Chris Donnelly: Solo
Doro: Fear No Evil -- the Ultimate Collector's Edition
Dragonforce: Twilight Dementia (Live) (two-CD set)
Dungen: Skit I Allt
Justin Townes Earle: Harlem River Blues
El Guincho: Pop Negro
Roy Eldridge: Little Jazz Trumpet Giant
Electric Sunset: Electric Sunset
Duke Ellington: Playlist: The Very Best of Duke Ellington
Cass Elliot: Cass Elliot/The Road Is No Place for a Lady/Don't Call Me Mama Anymore
Eluvium: Leaves Eclipse the Light
First State: Changing Lanes
Flotsam & Jetsam: The Cold
Connie Francis: Sings Jewish Favorites/Sings Irish Favorites
Slim Gaillard: Laughing in Rhythm
The Greg Koch Trio: From the Attic
Grinderman: Grinderman 2
Grinderman: Grinderman 2 (deluxe version)
Walter Horton: Blues Harmonica Giant
David Hull: David Hull
Ike and Tina Turner: Come Together/Workin’ Together
Infantree: Would Work
Iron Maiden Tribute: String Tribute to Iron Maiden
James: The Morning After the Night Before (two-CD set)
Johnson Jamey: The Guitar Song (two-CD set)
J-Dawg: Still Behind Tint
Tom Jobim,: My Soul Sings - The Great Brazilian Songbook
Kamelot: Poetry for the Poisoned
Enoch Kent: Take a Trip With Me
King Crimson: The Collectable King Crimson
Liv Kristine: Skintight
Krizz Kaliko: Shock Treatment
Lefty Dizz: Ain't It Nice to Be Loved
Lil Cuete: Dia de Los Muertos Mix
Lil Ronnie: L.N.I.C. Pt. 2
Linkin Park: A Thousand Suns
Locco: Evolution
Lonely Drifter Karen: Fall of Spring
Majeure: Timespan
Maylay Sparks: Flaskworthy
Michael Mcdonald: No Lookin Back (original recording)
Megafaun: Heretofore
Memphis Slim: Legend of the Blues Vol. 1 & 2
Mice Parade: What It Means to Be Left-Handed
Charles Mingus: Playlist: The Very Best of Charles Mingus
Miss Lady Pinks: Tell It Like It Is
Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore: Saints & Sinners
Thelonious Monk: Playlist: The Very Best of Thelonious Monk
Bill Monroe: Bill Monroe and Friends/Stars of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame (two-for-one)
Kenny Neal: Hooked on Your Love
Jonathan Nelson: Better Days
Ricky Nelson: The Last Time Around 1970-1982
Ne-Yo Tribute: Smooth Jazz Tribute to Ne-Yo
Stevie Nimmo: The Wynds of Life
James Nixon: Live in Europe
Norma Winstone: Stories Yet to Tell
Nortec Collective Presents: Bo - Bulevar 2000
Of Montreal: False Priest
Orgone: Killion Vaults
James Otto: Shake What God Gave Ya
Original Soundtrack: For Love of Liberty
Pantera: Cowboys From Hell (deluxe three-CD set)
Stephen Pearcy: Fueler
John Pearse: The Lost 1966 Waldeck Audition
Porcupine Tree: Recordings
Prince Rama: Shadow Temple
Putumayo Presents: Yoga
Queen: Carlos Bonell: Guitar Rhapsodies
Django Reinhard: Quintessential
Robbie Rivera: Juicy Ibiza 2010
Robert Plant: Band of Joy
Tabu Ley Rochereau: The Voice of Lightness
Robin Rogers: Back In The Fire
Rory Gallagher: The Beat Club Sessions
Boz Scaggs: Boz Scaggs and Band (the deluxe edition)
Boz Scaggs: My Time (the deluxe edition)
Scarlet Grey: Fancy Blood
Bishop Leonard Scott: My Worship Experience
Jason Simon: Jason Simon
The Snowy White Blues Project: In Our Time ... Live
Soundtrack: Beauty and the Beast
Soundtrack: Lost: The Final Season (Michael Giacchino)
Soundtrack: Never Let Me Go (Rachel Portman)
Soundtrack: True Blood: Season Two (Nathan Barr)
Soundtrack/Cast Album: 100 Greatest Western Themes: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Soundtrack/Cast Album: Baaria: Morricone, Ennio
Soundtrack/Cast Album: Stieg Larrson's Millennium Trilogy: Jacob Groth
Soundtrack/Cast Collection: Town, The Gregson-Williams
Mavis Staples: You Are Not Alone
Sully Erna: Avalon
Helen Sung: Going Express
Superchunk: Majesty Shredding
System F: Champions
Tamaryn: The Waves
The Bad Plus: Never Stop
The Drums: The Drums
The Fleshtones: Hexbreaker!/Speed Connection: Live in Paris 85 (two-for-ong)
The New Czars: Doomsday Revolution
The O'jays: Christmas With the O'Jays
The Praetorius Consort; Christopher Ball: Praetorius: Dances From Terpsichore & Other 17th Century Dance Music
Thriving Ivory: Through Yourself & Back Again
Tides of Man: Dreamhouse
Chuck Tocco: I Know That You Can Hear Me
Trae: Can't Ban The Truth
Trae & Bay Bay: King of the Streetz and King of the Clubs
Trey Songz: Passion, Pain & Pleasure
Trey Songz Tribute: Smooth Jazz Tribute to Trey Songz
Dwight Twilley: Best of Dwight Twilley 1975-1984
Conway Twitty: The Ballads of Conway Twitty
Judie Tzuke: Road Noise
Underworld: Barking
Armin Van Buuren: Mirage
Various: 5k1 Soundtrack
Various: 35 !!! Years of Bear Family Records
Various: Outsinging the Nightingale -- Lost Treasures of Bulgarian Music 1905-1950
Various: (Narration By Bebel Gilberto and David Francis): Swing Café
Various Artists: Sixteen F--cking Years of G-Stone Recordings
Various Artists: Forces Sweethearts
Various Artists: Classic Rockabilly
Various Artists: The Dawn of Doo-Wop
Various Artists: Africa - 50 Years of Music
Various Artists: The Very Best of Country Legends
Various Artists: I'm Here (original soundtrack)
Various Artists: Christmas Classics, Featuring Rudolph, Frosty and the Little Drummer Boy
Various Artists: Coast
Various Artists: Chant4change Live
Various Artists: Rough Guide to Bhangra
Various Artists: Rough Guide to Greek Cafe
The Vaselines: Sex With an X
Charles Walker: Soul Stirring Thing
Weather Report: Playlist: the Very Best of Weather Report
Jimmy Webb: Ten Easy Pieces + Six
Weezer: Hurley
Matt White: It S the Good Crazy
Ken Whiteley: Another Day's Journey
Will Downing: Lust, Love & Lies (an Audio Novel)
Elisabeth Withers: No Regrets
Raphael Wressnig: Party Factor
