No likely significant new releases this week. A couple of weeks after Christmas just ain't prime time to drop a big one. Living Colour has a vintage 1989 live album that could be halfway worth hearing. That's about the most promising new release.
If you don't already have three different copies of all the classic early albums, there are a couple of remastered and supposedly bonus having Elvis Presley albums. Hey if you don't have a copy of these albums, you should definitely have them.
Here's the complete list of this week's major new releases, courtesty AMG:
Angra
Temple of Shadows
Artheia
Neo-Classical Metal, Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal
Pierre Boulez
Mahler: Lieder
DeUtsche Grammophon
Post-Romantic Vocal Music
The Chosen Few
The Chosen Few in Miami [Bonus Tracks]
Sanctuary/Trojan
Funk, Soul, Reggae-Pop
Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen
True Adventures
Fuel 2000
Country Boogie, Roots Rock, Country-Rock, Rock & Roll
Miles Davis
A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Columbia
Jazz-Rock, Fusion
Felix da Housecat
Playboy: The Mansion Soundtrack
Koch
House, Club/Dance, Left-Field House
The Gladiators
Father and Sons
Ras / Sanctuary
Roots Reggae, Contemporary Reggae
Billie Holiday
Billy Remembers Billie
Verve
Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Swing, Torch Songs, Ballads, Classic Female Blues, Standards
Elmore James
The Best of the Modern Years
Blue Note
Electric Blues, Slide Guitar Blues, Electric Chicago Blues
Etta James
The Best of the Modern Years
Blue Note
R&B
Living Colour
Live At CBGB's Tuesday 12/19/89
Epic/Legacy
Alternative Metal
The Fiery Furnaces
EP
Sanctuary
Indie Rock, Garage Rock Revival
Junior Kimbrough
Sunday Nights: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough
Fat Possum (Ryko)
Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Blues-Rock, Modern Electric Blues
David "Fathead" Newman
I Remember Brother Ray
High Note
Soul-Jazz, Mainstream Jazz
Shivaree
Who's Got Trouble?
Zoe
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Country-Rock
Keiko Matsui
The Stone Monkey
Narada
Smooth Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Jazz-Pop, Fusion, Contemporary Instrumental
Jason Miles
Miles to Miles: In the Spirit of Miles Davis
Narada
Crossover Jazz, Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Jazz-Pop, Hard Bop
Original Score
The Aviator [Original Score]
Decca
Original Score, Film Music
Article comments
1 - mrbenning
What's with the greatest hits and live releases from early nineties alt-rock acts? There's been a string of 'em lately.
Collective Sould just had a greatest hits. Live just had a greatest hits. STP, Pearl Jam, REM, etc, all had recent greatest hits releases.
2 - Tom Johnson
Mr. Benning, greatest-hits comps are what record companies live for. They're cheap to compile and produce since the music is already paid for, so they're basically just profit-makers. And if you didn't realize, 10 years after something first came out is when the whole nostalgia marketing starts aiming at those late-20-somethings who lived on this stuff as teens.
And Al, the Living Colour release is excellent. I've had it for a few months, as it's been available at Sony's Live From The Vaults, along with the Toad the Wet Sprocket and Soul Asylum releases.