New Music Friday: Nov. 15, 2024
New Releases + Reissues on CD, Vinyl and Download
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Here are this week’s highlights. You can find the whole Nov. 15 list here:
NEW RELEASES
Bryan Adams | “Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2024” (three-CD, one-Blu-ray box set capturing three sold-out concerts at the historic London venue in May 2024, with 32-page booklet; Blu-ray contains all three concert films, directed by Grammy Award-winning filmmaker Dick Carruthers; Vinyl, four-LP box set, with Blu-ray; Amazon UK; On Tour; Bad Records)
Nessa Barrett | “AFTERCARE” (singer-songwriter and TikTok star’s second album; producers: Aaron Shadrow, Arthur Besna, CJ Baran, Evan Blair, Kevin White; guests: Tommy Genesis, Artemas; new single: “DIRTY LITTLE SECRET”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; Warner)
Jon Batiste | “Beethoven Blues: Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1” (solo piano album; new single: “Für Elise-Batiste”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Verve)
Mary J. Blige | “Gratitude” (her 15th album; producers: Aidan Brody, Angelo “Doc” Velasquez, Patrick Kelly, S.Dot, Will Campbell; guests: Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Fabolous, Ferg; new single: “You Ain’t the Only One”; Hear here; Target-Exclusive CD, with a bonus track, “I Got Plans,” feat. A$AP Ferg; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; 300 Entertainment)
BoyWithUke | “Burnout” (Charley Yang’s fifth album and his last under his stage name; producer: Yang; new single: “Gaslight”; See here; Vinyl out Dec. 13; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; AWAL Recordings)
Brooks & Dunn | “Reboot II” (18 reimagined tracks, including “Boot Scootin’ Boogie”; guests: Lainey Wilson, Morgan Wallen, Jelly Roll, Halestorm, HARDY, Megan Moroney, Riley Green, et al; Read here; Amazon-Exclusive Orange with Black Swirls Double Vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive Translucent Blue with Black Swirls Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Sony Music Nashville)
The Coward Brothers (Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett) | “The Coward Brothers” (20-track soundtrack album to the scripted musical-comedy audio series “The True Story of the Coward Brothers,” an Audible Original exclusive out on Nov. 21; Read here; Double Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Bubblegum Pink Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; New West)
Burton Cummings | “A Few Good Moments” (his first solo album in more than a decade; 17 songs; producer: Cummings; Read here; Orange Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on Sept. 27; Apple Music; On Tour; Jojo Productions)
Jin | “Happy” (BTS member’s debut solo album; new single: “I’ll Be There”; See here; Read here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive CD, with additional photo card; Target-Exclusive CD, with additional photo card; Walmart-Exclusive CD, with additional photo card; Apple Music; BIGHIT MUSIC)
Linkin Park | “From Zero” (new vocalist: Emily Armstrong of the band Dead Sara; new drummer: Colin Brittain; their eighth album and first full-length LP since 2017, the year singer Chester Pennington died; producer: rhythm guitarist-keyboardist Mike Shinoda; new single: “The Emptiness Machine”; See here; Read here; Amazon-Exclusive CD, with alternate art; Translucent Sea Blue Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Milky Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch; Warner)
Shawn Mendes | “Shawn” (his fifth album; collaborators: Scott Harris, Mike Sabath, Eddie Benjamin, Nate Mercereau, Ethan Gruska, Amy Allen, Chris Thile; new singles: “Why Why Why” and “Isn’t That Enough”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Milky Clear Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Green Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Translucent Tan Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; Island)
NCT Dream | “DREAMSCAPE” (K-pop group’s fourth album; Target-Exclusive CD, with photocard; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch; SM Entertainment)
Nickelback | “Live From Nashville” (18-song show at Bridgestone Arena on Aug. 1, 2023, during their Get Rollin’ Tour; guests: HARDY, Bailey Zimmerman, Chris Daughtry, ERNEST, Brantley Gilbert, Josh Ross; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch; BMG Rights Management)
Dolly Parton & Family | “Smoky Mountain DNA: Family, Faith and Fables” (Double CD; her 50th solo album, a companion piece to a four-part docuseries, is inspired by her East Tennessee heritage, featuring more than 30 songs, with 20 different members of her family performing; producer: Richie Owens; Read here; Triple Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch; Owepar Entertainment)
St. Vincent | “Todos Nacen Gritando” (Spanish-language version of her “All Born Screaming” album; producer: St. Vincent; new single: “Hombre Roto [Broken Man]”; See here; Read here; Translucent Rose Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Total Pleasure)
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens | “American Railroad” (tribute to those who built the transcontinental railroad and connecting railways across North America; Download; Nonesuch)
Gwen Stefani | “Bouquet” (her fifth solo album and first in seven years; includes “Purple Irises,” her duet with husband Blake Shelton; producer: Scott Hendricks; new single: “Somebody Else’s”; Hear here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with alternate artwork; Champagne Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Fruit Punch Vinyl, with poster + alternate artwork; Target-Exclusive Orchid Vinyl, with poster + alternate artwork; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Interscope)
Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 119” (U.K. version; two CDs, 44 songs; Amazon UK; Sony Music / EMI)
Dwight Yoakam | “Brighter Days” (his 21st album and first since 2016; producer: Yoakam; mixed by Chris Lord-Alge; new single: “I Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye [Bang Bang Boom Boom],” feat. Post Malone; Amazon-Exclusive Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Via Records / Thirty Tigers)
REISSUES
John Cale | “The Academy in Peril” (1972 album; remastered from the original tapes, with one bonus track, “Temper”; Vinyl) + “Paris 1919 (Deluxe Remastered Edition)” (1973 album; remastered from the original tapes, with previously unreleased outtakes; Double Vinyl; Domino)
Ray Charles | “Best of Country & Western” (13-song compilation of highlights from across his country music recordings; mastered by Michael Graves; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Tangerine)
George Harrison | “Living in the Material World (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1973 album, featuring “Give Me Love [Give Me Peace on Earth]”; newly mixed from the original tapes by Paul Hicks, with a bonus disc of outtakes, plus 20-page booklet and poster; Read here; Deluxe Box Set, two CDs, double 180-gram LP and Blu-ray Audio, featuring 12 previously unreleased early takes of every song, with 60-page hardcover book curated by Olivia Harrison and Rachel Cooper; Standard CD; Standard Vinyl; Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Milky Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Dark Horse / BMG Rights Management)
Don Henley | “Building the Perfect Beast (40th Anniversary)” (Download; 1984 album, featuring “The Boys of Summer,” “Sunset Grill,” “All She Wants to Do Is Dance” and “Not Enough Love in the World”; remastered; Double Vinyl; Geffen / UMe)
Steve Martin | “Steve in a box!” (four-CD box set contains his four Warner albums, circa 1977-81: “Let’s Get Small,” “A Wild and Crazy Guy,” “Comedy Is Not Pretty!” and “The Steve Martin Brothers”; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Rhino / Warner)
MF Doom | “Mm..Food (20th Anniversary Edition)” (2004 album; Sweet Tart Double Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Mustard Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download, with 11 bonus tracks; Apple Music; Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Jimmy Reed | “I’m Jimmy Reed” (1958 debut album, a compilation of singles released from 1953-1958; remastered from the original tapes; Vinyl; Download; Craft Recordings / Concord)
Donna Summer | “On the Radio – Greatest Hits Expanded” (Double CD; 1979 compilation; now 40 tracks, from 1975-2008; Read here; Double Vinyl, 24 songs; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Driven by the Music / Crimson Productions)
The Tragically Hip | “Up to Here (Deluxe)” (3 CD + Blu-ray Audio Box Set; 1989 debut album; new remaster of the original album, plus “Live at the Misty Moon,” studio tracks, “How We Got Here – The 1988 Demos,” and the full one-hour concert film of the Misty Moon show; See here; Vinyl Box Set, four LPs and one Blu-ray; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Universal Music Canada)
Tina Turner | “Tina Turns the Country On!” (1974 debut solo album; Grammy-nominated for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female; Vinyl, half-speed mastered) + “Acid Queen” (1975 album; Vinyl, half-speed mastered) + “Rough” (1978 album; Vinyl, half-speed mastered) + “Love Explosion” (1979 album; Vinyl, half-speed mastered; Rhino / Parlophone)
Dwight Twilley | “Twilley (Expanded Edition)” (1979 solo debut album; remastered, with seven bonus tracks; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Iconoclassic)
Various artists | “Dearly Beloved: A Prince Songbook” (three-CD, 52-track digipack compilation of Prince songs recorded by other artists, including The Bangles, Sheena Easton, Martika, Kenny Rogers, Patti LaBelle, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Meli’sa Morgan, et al; Read here; Amazon UK; Cherry Red)