New Releases This Week

George Strait decided he'd retire from the road once he turned 60, so he launched a farewell tour in 2013 that is scheduled to run into 2014. Hanging up his concert hat doesn't necessarily indicate that he's taking a break ...

Her return from darkness out of the way, Demi Lovato returns to the serious business of stardom on Demi, her fourth album and the first positioned as the work of a true adult. Maturity is a bit of a tricky ...

While Holland had a potent beat music scene in the mid-'60s, very few Dutch acts had any luck on the charts outside their homeland, and though Q65 would have seemed like a good bet to achieve international success, they had ...

Agnetha Fältskog faded into a quiet retirement in the late '80s, resurfacing with an autobiography in 1996 and then a collection of covers, primarily standards, called My Colouring Book, a 2004 release loosely tied into the popularity of ABBA's jukebox ...

Produced by Marshall Altman, How Mercy Looks from Here is Amy Grant's first full studio album in ten years. Grant wrote all but one of the songs for the set, which features guest spots from James Taylor, Carole King, Sheryl ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: RHYMES & REASONS: Love of the Common People, The; Catch Another Butterfly; Daydream; Ballad of Spiro Agnew, The; Circus; When I'm Sixty-Four; Ballad of Richard Nixon, The; Rhymes & Reasons; Yellow Cat; Leaving, On a Jet ...

Dismissed by rock critics but adored by its fans, Head East was the quintessential Midwestern arena rock outfit of the 1970s. Head East, for the most part, wasn't the most challenging band in the world; the St. Louis natives lacked ...

This is a romantic album, as the title Love Will... suggests: sweet, soulful, and slow, almost entirely ignoring the honky tonk that was once Trace Adkins' stock in trade. In its stead comes a duet with Colbie Caillat, a singer ...

The actress Julie London more than held her own amidst all the other jazz and pop singers of the mid-'50s. In fact, she was probably more successful in her recording career than as a movie star. "Cry Me A River" ...

There's an implicit sense of mutual admiration behind the titling of this album collaboration between two of the world's gifted -- and certainly most decorated -- fingerpicking guitarists. Named in relation to Emmanuel's status as an honorary Kentucky Colonel and ...

In the earlier part of their career, the Dillinger Escape Plan's sound was a glorious frenzy of unfathomable aggression and musicianship, with the band mashing disparate parts together to create something akin to a puzzle made up of pieces from ...

Anne Murray's peak as a recording artist is captured here on Universal's 2013 collection Icon, a budget-line disc that has 11 of her biggest hits. Murray had more hits than can fit on a simple collection like this, but the ...

The 2013 compilation Icon contains the basics from Grand Funk Railroad: "We're an American Band," sure, but also "The Loco-Motion," a live "Mean Mistreater," "Some Kind of Wonderful," "Shinin' On," "Footstompin' Music," and "Rock & Roll Soul." An album-oriented rock ...

Recorded in Columbia Recording Studios, New York, New York in 1961. Includes liner notes by Stacey Williams and Robert Shelton. The first album from the greatest musical poet of the 20th century gave little indication of what was to come. Although ...

Recording information: Momentum Studios. Personnel: Toni Hill (vocals, horns).

Track Listing: Buying a Book; Chicken Crazy; That's the Way; Anything You Wanna Know; We Can't Sit Down Now; It Ain't Sanitary; I Can't See You No More; Sure is Good; Everything Happens On Time; You're Right, Ray Charles; I'll ...

The exploration into the recorded history of this UK folk legend continues! These 37 tracks take you from his last days with Pentangle to the dawn of his solo career to his most recent work; tracks with Pentangle ( So ...

With the major label Warner Bros. still supporting them and their platinum hit "Whip It!" still in the collective consciousness, new wave group Devo took to the road in 1981 with their New Traditionalists tour, an ambitious, expensive, and elaborate ...

Audio Remasterer: Geoff Milne . Liner Note Author: Malcolm MacFarlane. Editor: Geoff Milne . Unknown Performer Role: John Scott Trotter.

Photographer: Rebecca Hoppé. Personnel: Alyssa Park (violin); Martin Tillman (cello). Liner Note Author: Michael Hoppé.

Photographer: Julien Gaspar. Track Listing: Nothing Is Impossible; Can't Wait; Co-Sign; Before I Leave; Unconditional Love; Only Vice; Choose Up; Me Miss; Like I See It; World Cry; Reach Out; Save Yourself; Praises to Jah; All by Myself;

It is only fitting that an album as successful as Dominican singer and songwriter Juan Luis Guerra's and 440's A Son de Guerra would be followed with a live offering documenting the tour. The record won three Latin Grammys including ...

Though Black Pudding marks the first time that singer Mark Lanegan and multi-instrumentalist Duke Garwood have recorded together, it isn't the first time they've collaborated. The latter toured with the Gutter Twins, Lanegan's project with Greg Dulli. Garwood's name isn't ...

All of Billy Squier's big hits -- "The Stroke," "Lonely Is the Night," "My Kinda Lover," "Don't Say You Love Me," "Rock Me Tonite," "Emotions in Motion" -- are featured on this 11-track budget-line comp. Hardcore fans may notice a ...

The album that found the band sandwiched between being an important cult band on the verge of major success and being the world's most successful rock band of the 90s. A tricky situation, but this album made the breakthrough and ...