NEW RELEASES 2011 WEEK #39: SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Ok people, it's time to listen up. This is a large new release week. You wouldn't know that if you went onto other sites or subscribed to many record store email updates who said it was the biggest release week of the year and then went on to list 8-10 releases. I just thought, well that's your bread and butter selling new releases and you are only going to list like Wilco and a few others. What is that? I'm here to give you the real list of the notable releases that are really out this week. If you care, take a look it's rather exciting if you ask me. Of course in my world, every new release Tuesday is exciting. Enjoy....

SEPT 27 (WEEK #39)

1. ALESSI’S ARK-“TIME TRAVEL” (9/27)

2. ANGEL-“26000” (9/27)

3. MARC ANTONA-“RULES OF MADNESS” (9/27)

4. APPARAT-“DEVIL’S WALK” (9/27)

5. THE BANGLES-“SWEETHEART OF THE SUN” (9/27)

6. BIG TROUBLES-“ROMANTIC COMEDY” (PRODUCED BY MITCH EASTER) (9/27)

7. BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY & THE PHANTOM FAMILY HALO-“THE MINDEATER” [EP] (9/27)

8. THE BOXER REBELLION-“LIVE FROM TENNESSEE” (9/25)

9. CARL BROEMEL (FROM MY MORNING JACKET)-“ALL BIRDS SAY” (9/27)

10. PIETA BROWN-“MERCURY” (9/27)

11. HAROLD BUDD-“IN THE MIST” (9/27)

12. CAGED ANIMALS-“EAT THEIR OWN” (9/27)

13. CORREATOWN-“PLEIADES” (9/27) + “ETCH THE LINE” [EP] (5/31)

14. CRAZY P-“WHEN WE ON” (9/27)

15. MIKAL CRONIN-“MIKAL CRONIN” (9/11)

16. JIM CUDDY (BLUE RODEO)-“SKYSCRAPER SOUL” (9/27)

17. DOMINANT LEGS-“INVITATION” (9/27)

18. DRUGSTORE-“STANDING STILL” [EP] (9/28)

19. DUM DUM GIRLS-“ONLY IN DREAMS” (9/27)

20. EMERALDS-“SOLAR BRIDGE” (2008/2011 REISSUE DIGITAL) + “EMERALDS” (2009/2011 REISSUE DIGITAL)

21. GEM CLUB-“BREAKERS” (9/27)

22. HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT-“90 BISODOL (CRIMOND)” (9/27)

23. HAUSCHKA & HILDUR GUONADOTTIR-“PAN TONE” (9/23)

24. HEAVEN-“MOUNTAINS MOVE B/W FALLING APPLE” (SINGLE) (9/27)

25. ROBERT HOOD-“THE GREATEST DANCER B/W DANCER” (9/26) (SISTER SLEDGE COVER AND IT'S EXCELLENT!)

26. THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN-“PSYCHOCANDY” (2-CD/1-DVD DELUXE EDITION) (9/27) + “DARKLANDS” (2-CD/1-DVD) (9/27) _ “HONEY’S DEAD” + “AUTOMATIC”

27. JUSTICE-“AUDIO, VIDEO, DISCO” [EP] (9/27)

28.KASABIAN-“VELOCIRAPTOR!” (9/27)

29. NIKKI LANE-“WALK OF SHAME” (9/27)

30. LINDSTROM-“DE JAVU” (SINGLE) (9/27)

31. LYDIA LOVELESS-“INDESTRUCTIBLE MACHINE” (9/27)

32. DAN MANGAN-“OH FORTUNE” (9/27)

33. MARK MCGUIRE (EMERALDS)-“GET LOST” (9/27)

34. THE MEKONS-“ANCIENT & MODERN” (9/27)

35. NAZARETH-“THE NAZ BOX” (4-CD BOX SET) (9/27)

36. PALLERS-“THE SEA OF MEMORIES” (9/27)

37. PLAID-‘SCINTILLI” (9/27)

38. PROMISE AND THE MONSTER-“RED TIDE” (9/26)

39. TYLER RAMSEY-“THE VALLEY WIND” (9/27)

40. JOSH ROUSE & THE LONG VACATIONS-“S/T” (9/27)

41. ARTHUR RUSSELL-“LET’S GO SWIMMING” [EP] (9/27)

42. SNAKEFARM-“MY HALO AT HALF-LIGHT” (10/11)

43. SOLEY-“WE SINK” (SOLEY STEFANSDOTTIR FROM SEABEAR) (9/27)

44. MATTHEW SWEET-“MODERN ART” (9/27)

45. TEETH-“WHATEVER” (9/19)

46. THROWING MUSES-“ANTHOLOGY: DELUXE BOOK” (2-CD) (9/27)

47. TROPICS-“PARODIA FLARE” (9/27)

48. TWIN SISTER-“IN HEAVEN” (9/27)

49. VHS OR BETA-“DIAMONDS & DEATH” (9/27)

50. WALLS-“CORACLE” (9/26)

51. WARM GHOST-“NARROWS” (9/27)

52. THE WATERBOYS-“APPOINTMENT WITH MR YEATS” (IMPORT) (9/27)

53. WAVVES-“LIFE SUX” [EP] (9/27)

54. WEEKEND-“RED” [EP] (9/27)

55. MIKE WEIS (FROM ZELIENOPLE)-“LOOP CURRENT / RAFT” (9/20)

56. THE WHIP-“WIRED TOGETHER” (9/27)

57. WILCO-“THE WHOLE LOVE” (9/27)

58. STEVEN WILSON (PORCUPINE TREE)-“GRACE FOR DROWNING” (9/27)

59. YUCK-“YUCK” (DELUXE 2-CD EDITION) (9/27)

60. YOUTH LAGOON-“THE YEAR OF HIBERNATION”

61. VARIOUS ARTISTS-“DRIVE” (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) (9/27)

62. VARIOUS ARTISTS-“NOTE OF HOPE: A CELEBRATION OF WOODY GUTHRIE” (9/27)

NEW RELEASES 2011 WEEK #38: SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

SEPT 20 (WEEK #38)

1. TORI AMOS-“NIGHT OF HUNTERS” (9/20)

2. APOPTYGMA BERZERK-“BLACK EP VOL. 2” (9/20)

3. AZITA-“DISTURBING THE AIR” (9/20)

4. MEG BAIRD (FROM ESPERS)-“SEASONS ON EARTH” (9/20)

5. THE BESNARD LAKES-“YOU LIVED IN THE CITY” [EP] (9/20)

6. CAVE-“NEVERENDLESS” (9/20)

7. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH-“HYSTERICAL” (9/20)

8. DOWNLOAD-“FIXER” (9/20)

9. TAYLOR DEUPREE-“FOCUX” (9/20)

10. EVANGELISTA-“IN ANIMAL TONGUE” (9/20)

11. ROMAN FLUGEL-“FATTY FOLDERS” (9/20)

12. DAVID FORD-“NEW YORK CITY LIVE” (9/20)

13. LISA HANNIGAN-“PASSENGER” (9/20)

14. IS AND OF THE-“HEADS PHASED FOR DREAMLESS SLEEP” (9/20)

15. IVY-“ALL HOURS” (9/20)

16. THE JAYHAWKS-“MOCKINGBIRD TIME” (DELUXE EDITION CD/DVD)(9/20)

17. LANTERNS ON THE LAKE-“GRACIOUS TIDE, TAKE ME HOME” (9/20)

18. JENS LEKMAN-“AN ARGUMENT WITH MYSELF” [EP] (9/20)

19. MACHINEDRUM-“ROOM(S)” (8/2)

20. MEGAFAUN-“MEGAFAUN” (9/20)

21. BRAD MEHLDAU, KEVIN HAYS-“MODERN MUSIC – COMPOSED AND ARRANGED BY PATRICK ZIMMERLI” (9/20)

22. MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND-“BE BRAVE” (REMIX EP) (9/20)

23. NURSES-“DRACULA” (9/20)

24. OPETH-“HERITAGE” (9/20)

25. PEARL JAM-“PEARL JAM TWENTY” (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) (2-CD) (9/20)

26. PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.-“LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 2011” (9/20)

27. RADIATION CITY-“THE HANDS THAT TAKE YOU” (9/20)

28. RICHMOND FONTAINE-“THE HIGH COUNTRY” (9/20)

29. ROLL THE DICE-“IN DUST” (9/20) (MASTERED BY STEPHEN FROM POLE)

30. A SHORELINE DREAM-“LOSING THEM ALL TO THIS TIME” (9/20)

31. SNOW PATROL-“CALLED OUT IN THE DARK” (SINGLE) (9/20)

32. JUNE TABOR & OYSTERBAND-“RAGGED KINGDOM” (9/20)

33. TAMMAR-“VISITS” (9/20)

34. TARWATER-“INSIDE THE SHIPS” (9/20)

35. TEEN DAZE-“A SILENT PLANET” (9/20)

36. 2562-“AQUATIC FAMLY AFFAIR (EXTENDED RE-CUT) B/W WASTELAND (HEAD HIGH AKA SHED REMIX) (SINGLE) (9/20)

37. VERONICA FALLS-“VERONICA FALLS” (9/20)

38. WATERS-“OUT IN THE LIGHT” (FORMERLY PORT O’BRIEN) (9/20)

39. JONATHAN WILSON-“GENTLE SPIRIT” (9/13) (HE WAS PART OF THE BAND MUSCADINE)

40. WEEKEND-“RED” [EP] (9/20)

41. VARIOUS ARTISTS-“SOMA RECORDS 20 YEARS” (3-CD) (9/20)

NEW RELEASES 2011 WEEK #37: SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

SEPT 13 (WEEK #37)

1. ANTHRAX-“WORSHIP MUSIC” (9/13)

2. APPARAT-“BLACK WATER” (SINGLE TRACK) (8/1) + “SONG OF LOS” (REMIX EP) (9/13)

3. AIDAN BAKER-“LOST IN THE RAT MAZE” (9/13)

4. BARN OWL-“LOST IN THE GLARE” (9/13)

5. BLIND PILOT-“WE ARE THE TIDE” (9/13)

6. BLITZEN TRAPPER-“AMERICAN GOLDWING” (9/14)

7. BLONDIE-“PANIC OF GIRLS” (9/13)

8. THE BLOODY HOLLIES-“YOURS UNTIL THE BITTER END” (9/13)

9. A A BONDY-“BELIEVERS” (9/13)

10. GUI BORATTO-“3” (9/13)

11. CANT (CHRIS TAYLOR OF GRIZZLY BEAR & GEORGE LEWIS JR OF TWIN SHADOW)-“DREAMS COME TRUE” (9/14)

12. ALICE COOPER-“WELCOME 2 MY NIGHTMARE” (9/14)

13. KEVIN DEVINE-“BETWEEN THE CONCRETE AND CLOUDS” (9/13)

14. DOWNLOAD-“HELICOPTER + WOOKIE WALL” (9/27)

15. 808 STATE-“BLUEPRINT – BEST OF” (9/13)

16. GIRLS-“FATHER, SON, HOLY GHOST” (9/14)

17. GROUPLOVE-“NEVER TRUST A HAPPY SONG” (9/13)

18. HAUNTED HOUSE-“BLUE GHOST BLUES” (9/13) ***The blues has grown up a lot in the last ten years, since guitarist ANDREW BURNES left New York for Georgia, bringing a de facto end to the powerful abstract blues of HAUNTED HOUSE. In the time since, a new generation--sometimes referred to as Freak Folk or New Weird America and spearheaded by Tom Carter, Jack Rose and Ben Chasny--has followed in the footsteps of LOREN CONNORS, John Fahey and a handful of others who have long maintained that the blues is something more than 12 bars and a backbeat. After the demise of Haunted House, Connors continued preaching the gospel, often with his wife--the enigmatic singer SUZANNE LANGILLE--to anyone who would listen, playing a slow, distorted, reverb-drenched blues as slowly the world began to come around. Then, in the summer of 2010, the stars aligned just so: Burnes was in town for a few days, percussionist NEEL MURGAI was available, and the Brooklyn's Issue Project Room was booking matinee concerts in their courtyard. The band had only existed for a brief two years and had been absent for a decade, but they picked up right where they left off with only a brief soundcheck as rehearsal. Another matter of months, and they were in the studio, recording at long last the follow-up to their 1999 Erstwhile release Up in Flames.

19. IN THE COUNTRY-“SOUNDS AND SIGHTS” (9/13)

20. THE KOOKS-“JUNK OF THE HEART” (9/14)

21. LADYTRON-“GRAVITY THE SEDUCER” (9/13)

22. LAWRENCE-“TIMELESS” (9/13)

23. DAMIAN LAZARUS (MIXED BY)-“GET LOST 4” (9/13)

24. LAURA MARLING-“A CREATURE I DON’T KNOW” (9/14)

25. MATES OF STATE-“MOUNTAINTOPS” (9/14)

26. MEMORYHOUSE-“THE YEARS” [EP] (9/13)

27. MILAGRES-“GLOWING MOUTH” (9/13)

28. THE MIST-“HOUSE” (FROM RADIO PEOPLE, EMERALDS, OUTER SPACE, IMAGINARY SOFTWOODS, ETC) (9/13)

29. MOGWAI-“EARTH DIVISION” [EP] (9/13)

30. NEON INDIAN-“ERA EXTRANA” (9/14)

31. LAURA NYRO-“ESSENTIAL LAURA NYRO” (2-CD) (9/13)

32. PAJAMA CLUB-“S/T” (NEIL FINN AND HIS WIFE) (9/13)

33. PLASTIKMAN-“ARKIVES REFERENCE 1993-2010” (12-CD BOX SET) (9/13)

34. CHUCK RAGAN-“COVERING GROUND” (9/13)

35. TODD RUNDGREN-“[RE]PRODUCTION” (9/13)

36. SHIMMERING STARS-“VIOLENT HEARTS” (9/13)

37. SLOW CLUB-“PARADISE” (9/13)

38. ST VINCENT-“STRANGE MERCY” (9/14)

39. SULLY-“CARRIER” (9/13)

40. TORO Y MOI-“FREAKING OUT” [EP] (9/13)

41. WILD FLAG-“S/T” (9/13) ***WILD FLAG is a Portland, Oregon and Washington, DC-based quartet consisting of CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, REBECCA COLE, MARY TIMONY and JANET WEISS. The members of Wild Flag have played in numerous and notable bands including SLEATER-KINNEY, HELIUM, QUASI, THE MINDERS, STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS, and others. The four musicians who make up Wild Flag have known one another for well over a decade; playing together felt almost inevitable. Brownstein and Weiss were in Sleater-Kinney and toured with Timony's band Helium on numerous occasions. Brownstein and Timony played in a side project called THE SPELLS. Rebecca Cole's Portland-based band The Minders was a frequent opener for Sleater-Kinney. Weiss and Cole play together in the 1960's garage-rock cover band The SHADOW MORTONS. After collaborating on a score for a documentary, the ease with which they worked together proved infectious and promising. Wild Flag was formed. In April 2011, they went to Sacramento, California, where they recorded their self-titled album with engineer CHRIS WOODHOUSE at the Hangar. All tracks were recorded live except for the vocals.

42. A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN-“S/T” (9/13) (ON KRANKY.) ***A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN is the first installment of the new collaboration between STARS OF THE LID member ADAM WILTZIE and composer DUSTIN O'HALLORAN. The duo agreed to leave their normal home studio comfort zone and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, and to hunt down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began in one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in west Berlin on a 1950s imperial Boesendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last final session in a private studio deep in the norther cusp of Italy on a handmade Fazioli piano, and the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara, Italy, with the assistance of FRANCESCO DONADELLO. All songs were processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to live dangerously, realizing that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic replicating ingemination. In "Requiem for the Static King Part 1" (created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous) they have taken the age old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of mellow bliss. Of the 13 minute track "Symphony Pathetique," Wiltzie says "after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing." Notable guest musicians include Icelandic cellist HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR and violinist PETER BRODERICK. A Winged Victory for the Sullen is not a side project. This is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of.

43. WOODEN SHJIPS-“WEST” (9/13)

NEW RELEASES 2011 WEEK #36: SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

SEPT 6 (WEEK #36)

1. AM & SHAWN LEE-“CELESTIAL ELECTRIC” (9/6)

2. BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB-“A DIFFERENT KIND OF FIX” (9/6)

3. BUTCHER BOY-“HELPING HANDS” (9/6)

4. SLAID CLEAVES-“SORROW & SMOKE: LIVE AT THE HORSESHOE LOUNGE” (2-CD) (9/6)

5. LOREN CONNORS-“RED MARS” (9/6)

6. THE DRUMS-“PORTAMENTO” (9/6)

7. THE FIELD-“LOOPING STATE OF MIND” (9/5)

8. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG-“TERRIBLE ANGELS” [EP] (9/5)

9. HANK 3-“GHOST TO A GHOST / GUTTER TOWN” (2-CD) (9/6) + “CATTLE CALLIN’” + “ATTENTION DEFICIT DOMINATION”

10. JULIANA HATFIELD-“THERE’S ALWAYS ANOTHER GIRL” (8/30)

11. THE HORRIBLE CROWES (BRIAN FALLON OF GASLIGHT ANTHEM & IAN PERKINS)-“ELSIE” (9/6)

12. ICEHOUSE-“WHITE HEAT: 30 HITS” (2-CD AUSTRALIAN IMPORT) (9/6) + “ICEHOUSE” (THE 1981 DEBUT) (2-CD EXPANDED EDITION) (9/6)

13. INSTRA:MENTAL / TREVINO-“PYRAMID B/W CHIP” (SPLIT SINGLE) (8/29)

14. GRACE JONES-“HURRICANE” (U.S. EDITION) (BONUS DISC OF DUB VERSIONS) (9/6)

15. KAISERDISCO-“SILFIDES & ONDINAS” (2-TRACK SINGLE) (9/6)

16. LOVEDRUG-“PINK CHAMPAGNE B/W DINOSAUR” (9/6)

17. SCOTT MATTHEWS-“WHAT THE NIGHT DELIVERS” (9/6)

18. BRAD MEHLDAU / LEE KONITZ / PAUL MOTIAN / CHARLIE HADEN-“LIVE AT BIRDLAND” (9/6)

19. VINNY PECULIAR & THE BLUE POPPIES OF AMBROSIA-“SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A KING” (9/5)

20.VINNY PECULIAR-“WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VINNY PECULIAR? (SELECTED OUT TAKES AND INSERTS 1989-2003) (PART ONE) (9/4)

21. THE RAPTURE-“IN THE GRACE OF YOUR LOVE” (9/6)

22.TOM RUSSELL-“MESABI” (9/6) (LUCINDA AND CALEXICO ARE BOTH ON IT)

24. LUKE TEMPLE (AKA HERE WE GO MAGIC)-“DON’T ACT LIKE YOU DON’T CARE” (9/6)

25. TYCHO-“HOURS” (SINGLE) (8/30)

26. RICARDO VILLALOBOS & MAX LODERBAUER-“RE: ECM” (2-CD REMIX ALBUM) (9/6)

27. VOLTAIRE-“RIDING A BLACK UNICORN DOWN THE SIDE OF AN ERUPTING VOLCANO WHILE DRINKING FROM A CHALICE FILLED WITH THE LAUGHTER OF SMALL CHILDREN” (9/6)

28. ROCKY VOTOLATO + MATT POND PA-“OM MA” (7” SPLIT SINGLE) (9/5)

29. CHELSEA WOLFE-“APOKALYPSIS” (8/30)

30. XIU XIU-“DAPHNY” (SINGLE) (9/5) ***"Daphny b/w Only Girl (In The World)" charts the real-life nightmare experienced by a friend of XIU XIU singer JAMIe STEWART, who--following an arrest for shoplifting--was raped by an officer while in police custody. The B Side of the 7-inch is a cover of Rihanna's "Only Girl (In the World)."

31. ZOLA JESUS-“SEEKIR” (SINGLE) (9/6)

32. VARIOUS ARTISTS-“TRUE BLOOD: MUSIC FROM THE HBO ORIGINAL SERIES VOLUME 3” (9/6)