FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Aug. 27, 2020

By Kerry Doole

Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases continue apace. Notables this week include The Avett Brothers, Ra Ra Riot, Walter Trout, Bert Jansch, Brian Eno, Metallica and San Francisco Symphony, Toots and The Maytals, Gregory Porter, Seether, and Dan Penn.

The strong Canadian contingent is led by Bob Moses, Ron Hawkins and the Do Good Assassins, Aidan Knight, Stephan Moccio, Colter Wall, Heaps, Matt Mays, Haley Blais, Close Talker, and You Say Party.

Dates are subject to change.  

August

25: Haley Blais - Below The Salt (Tiny Kingdom)

26: Tomos -Count The Seconds (Mellia)

26: The Ophelias - For Luck

28: Jyoti (Georgia Anne Muldrow) - Mama, You Can Bet  (eOne Music)

28: Metallica and San Francisco Symphony-  S&M2.  (Warner Music)

28: Carla J. Easton - Weirdo -(Olive Grove)

28: Bettye LaVette- Blackbirds (Verve)

28: Zella Day -  Where Does the Devil Hide 

28: May Have - May Have  (Misunderstood) EP

28:  Ron Hawkins and the Do Good Assassins - 246

28: Garrett Kato - n. hemisphere ( Nettwerk) 

28: Slight Of  - Other People (Figure 2 RC / Dadstache)

28:  Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy (Rounder Records)

28: The Avett Brothers -The Third Gleam, ( Loma Vista Recordings)

28: Thys - Unmoved Mover/Unwound (Vision)

28:  Ulver - Flowers of Evil (House of Mythology)

28: Heaps - What Is Heaps?

28: Alan Braufman - The Fire Still Burns (Valley of Search)

28: Kirsten Thien - Two Sides 

28: Harrison Argatoff & Ian McGimpsey  - Ontario 559 West

28: Black Pumas - S/T - deluxe  (ATO)

28: Heidi Newfield – The Barfly Sessions

28: Gregory Porter - All Rise (UMC)

28: From Ashes To New - Panic 

28: Aidan Knight - S/T (Next Door)

28: Jeremy Drury - Company Store

28: Angel Olsen -Whole New Mess  (Jagjaguwar)

28: Bob Moses - Desire (Domino)

28: Bobby Rush - Rawer Than Raw (Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers)

28: Seether -Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (Fantasy Records)

28: Jonathan Personne -Disparitions (Michel Records / Citrus City)

28: The Sea The Sea - Stumbling Home 

28: Hinayana - Death Of The Cosmic EP (Napalm Records)

28: Dan Penn - Living On Mercy (Last Music Co.)

28: Pig Destroyer- The Octagonal Stairway EP (Relapse)

28: Wood & Wire - No Matter Where It Goes From Here (Blue Corn Music)

28: Savoy Brown - Ain’t Done Yet (Quarto Valley Records)

28: Matt Mays - Dog City (Sonic Records/Warner Music Canada). Vinyl out Sept. 25. 

28:  Toots and The Maytals - Got To Be Tough (Trojan Jamaica/BMG Records)

28: NeedToBreathe - Out of Body (Elektra Records /Warner Music Canada)

28: Various Artists - Alterity (Houndstooth)

28: From Ashes to New- Panic 

28: Molly Tuttle. …but i’d rather be with you (Compass)

28: Rob Williams  Weathering the Storm, Vol. 1

28: Touré, Modou - Touki (ARC Music)

28: Keith Harris= The Keith Harris Experience Vol 1.

28: Manticora - To Live To Kill To Live (Black Lodge)

28: Colter Wall - Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs (La Honda Records/Thirty Tigers)

28: Walter Trout-  Ordinary Madness (Provogue)

29:  Various Artists - Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie OST  (Earth Recordings)

29: Bert Jansch  - Live In Italy (Earth Recordings )

29: You Say Party - XXXX 

29: Brian Eno - Rams: Original Soundtrack Album

September

4: Oh Susanna-Sleepy Little Sailor - deluxe reissue (MVKA)

4: Hannah Georgas - All That Emotion (Arts &  Crafts)

4: Don't Sleep - Turn The Tide

4: Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup (Polydor/Interscope/UMe)

4: Rising Steel - Fight Them All (Frontiers )

4: Dan Pitt - Monochrome

4: Godcaster - Long Haired Locusts (Ramp Local)

4: Soundwalk Collective  - Peradam (Bella Union)

4: Simon Collins - Becoming Human (Frontiers Music Srl)

4: Jabbawoki- Something's Cookin' 

4: Sprain - As Lost Through Collision (The Flenser)

4: Elrichman- Heaven's Mayor (Bobo Integral)

4: The Star Prairie Project- Frantic Mind

4: James Lee Baker - 100 Summers

4: Dirty Projectors Super João EP 

4: Sabertooth Swing – Songs of Future Past (Slammin' Media)

4: Various Artists - AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex (BMG)

4: Scott Helman - Nonsuch Park (Warner)

4: Godcaster - Long Haired Locusts 

4: Liyon - S/T EP

4: Alex Moxon Quartet - S/T

4: Laura Stevenson -  Sit Resist deluxe reissue 

4: Yelle -  L'ere du Verseau

4: The B-52s Live At US Festival- DVD  (Shout Factory)

4: Grant Pavol - About A Year   (Accidental Popstar Records)

4: The Love-In   As It Lays

4: Fleetwood Mac - 1969-1974 box set (Rhino)

4: Fleetwood Mac - 1973-1974 box set (Rhino)

4: New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers -Volume 1 ( Stony Plain Records)

9: Bloody White -  you’d walk right over me (blood stains white/Symphonic Distribution)

10: Fever Queen -The World of Fever Queen (First To Knock)

11: Joshua Van Tassel - Dance Music Vol. 11: More Songs For Slow Motion (Backward Music)

11: The Flaming Lips - American Head ( Warner)

11: Atta Boy- Big Heart Manners

11: Aether Realm -- Tarot Reissue  (Napalm Records )

11: Gasoline Lollipops – All the Misery Money Can Buy (Soundly Music) 

11:– The Crests Featuring Johnny Mastro – 16 Fabulous Hits (Omnivore) 

11:  Everything Everything - Re-Animator

11: Moonchild Sanelly -  Nüdes (Transgressive Records)

11: Reba McEntire  - Rumor Has It reissue (UMG Nashville) 

11: Dione Taylor - Spirits In The Water

11: Countermeasure - Guest Sessions

11: Mastodon - Medium Rarities (Reprise)

11: Brothertiger -  Paradise Lost  (Satanic Panic Recordings)

11: Jeremy Gara - Passerine Finale ( Invada)

11: Marilyn Manson - We Are Chaos

11: Ihsahn -Pharos (Candlelight Records)

11: Atta Boy - Big Heart Manners

11: Brian Blain - I'm Not Fifty Anymore

11: Ronnie Earl - Rise Up (Stony Plain Records)

11: Neil Swainson- 49th Parallel (Reel to Real)

11: Adam Wade- The Coed Albums: And Then Came Adam / Adam And Evening (Omnivore)

11: Mammal Hands - Captured Spirits (Gondwana Records)

11: Johnny Thunders - Que Sera Sera: Resurrected- box set (MVD)

14: Victoria Bailey -  Jesus, Red Wine & Patsy Cline 

15: Cher - The Best of Cher (Time Life)

17: Nick Cordero - Nick Cordero: Live Your Life (Broadway Records)

18: 7715 - Encino

18: Rich Aucoin - United States (Haven Sounds)

18: Daniel Romano - How Ill Thy World Is Ordered (You've Changed Records)

18: The Elwins - IV

18: Flying Colors - Third Stage: Live in London Music  (Theories Recordings)

18: Teenage Halloween  - S/T (Don Giovanni Records)

18: Deniz Tek and James Williamson - Two To One (Cleopatra Records)

18: Raven - -Metal City (SPV/Steamhammer)

18: Varg - Zeichen (Napalm Records)

18: Rudy de Anda - Tender Epoch (Karma Chief Records)

18: Plague Years -  Circle Of Darkness (eOne)

18: Neil Young - The Times EP

18: Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman - Reimagined  (UMe)

18: Cindy Blackman Santana- Give the Drummer Some

18:  David Leask - Voyageur In Song  (Jeddart Music)

18: SERUM 114  - Im Zeichen der Zeit  (Napalm Records)

18: Roy Clark - Greatest Hits (Craft Recordings)

18: David Vertesi -  Life Ghouls (Sad Dad Cruise Ship Music)

18: Regina Gently - Don't Wait To Love Me

18: Decoration Day - Makeshift Future

18: The Barrel Boys - Mainline 

18: Ed Harcourt - Monochrome To Colour (Point Of Departure)

18: Elliott BROOD - Keeper (Six Shooter Records)

18: Arca-  &&&&& (PAN)

18: Ace Frehley - Origins Vol. 2

18: Matt Berry - Phantom Birds (Acid Jazz Records)

18: Into It Over It - Figure

18: 10 Years - Violent Allies (Mascot Records)

18: Trae Sheehan Postcards from the Country  (Half Moon Records)

18: Sugar Ray and the Bluetones-  Too Far from the Bar (Severn Records)

18: Little Richard -The Rill Thing and King of Rock and Roll expanded reissues (Omnivore)

18: Los Mocosos - All Grown Up

22: Babybird- King Of Nothing

25: Nicolas Michaux - Amour Colère  (Capitane Records)

25: Riches - Fantasy Chapel

25: Diana Krall - This Dream Of You (Verve Records)

25: Elbow - first three albums reissued on vinyl

25: Bendrix Littleton -  Deep Dark South (NNA Tapes)

25: Masma Dream World - Play At Night (Northern Spy)

25: Bella White - Just Like Leaving

25: Lou Reed - New York - Deluxe Edition (Rhino)

25: Surfer Blood - Carefree Theatre (Kanine Records)

25: Boy Becomes Hero -Escape Artist

25: Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu - Renegade Breakdown (Bonsound/Ninja Tune)

25: The Rolling Stones -  Steel Wheels Live – Atlantic City, New Jersey (concert film) (Eagle Rock).

25: Psychic Temple - Houses of the Holy

25: Michael Schatte - Conundrum 

25: Yves JarvisSundry Rock Song Stock (Flemish Eye)

25: Painted Doll - How to Draw Fire (Tee Pee Records)

25- The War And Treaty – Hearts Town

 25: Jess Gillam - Time (UMC)

25: White Dog  - S/T (Rise Above Records)

25: Will Butler - Generations (Merge) 

25: Hen Ogledd - Free Humans ( Weird World) 

25: The Barrett Anderson Band-  HypnoBoogie (Whitaker Blues Records)

25: Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite -100 Years Of Blues (Alligator Records)

25: Sufjan Stevens  (Asthmatic Kitty Records)

25:  Sylvan Esso -  Free Love (Loma Vista Recordings)

25: Beverly Glenn-Copeland -Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland (Transgressive)

25: Mint Field- Sentimiento Mundial (Felte)

25: Prince - Sign O’ The Times reissue

25: Reza Manbachi and Najva Ensemble - Passing Through the Dark 

October

2: Matt Berninger –Serpentine Prison (Book Records)

2: Roger Waters - Us + Them (Sony Music Ent)

2: Lana Del Rey - Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

2: Crass- Crassical Collection (One Little Independent Records)

2: NRBQ  In • Frequencies (Omnivore Recordings)

2: Teenanger - Good Time  (Telephone Explosion Records)

2: Luka Kuplowsky - Stardust  (Next Door Records)

2: Bonnie Whitmore - Last Will and Testament (Aviatrix Records)

2: Corey Taylor - CMFT (Roadrunner Records)

2: Melanie C - S/T

2: Denise Sherwood  - This Road  (-U Sound / Evergreen Recordings)

2: Dawes - Good Luck With Whatever (Rounder)

2: Ben Kunder - Searching For The Stranger

2: Jónsi Birgisson - Shiver  (Krunk)

2: Dolly Parton -  A Holly Dolly Christmas (Butterfly Records)

2: Groove Armada - Edge Of The Horizon (BMG)

2: Sa-Roc—The Sharecropper’s Daughter ( Rhymesayers Entertainment)

2:  Chris Smither – More on the Levee (Signature Sounds) - Vinyl  Sept. 26

2: Mariah Carey - The Rarities 

2: The Nude Party -  Midnight Manor ( New west)
2:  Steve Wynn -  11-CD box set 1995-2005  (Real Gone Music)

2: Hugar - The Vasulka Effect - OST (Sony Masterworks)

2: Various artists -  Disney Goes Classical (UMC)

2: Robert Plant - Digging Deep (Es Paranza)

9: Devildriver - Dealing With Demons I (Napalm Records)

9: Jeen - S/T

9: Sinner’s Blood - The Mirror Star (Frontiers Music Srl)

9: The Unguided - Father Shadow (Napalm Records)

9:  Linaire - S/T  (Capital Zero Records)

9: The Doors - Morrison Hotel  50th anniversary reissue (Rhino)

9: Linkin Park -  Hybrid Theory: 20th Anniversary Edition 

9: SHHE - S/T (One Little Independent Records)

9: Spires That in the Sunset Rise - Psychic Oscillations (FPE Records)

9: Dire Straits -  CD/vinyl reissues of Dire Straits, Communiqué, Making Movies, Love Over Gold, Brothers In Arms, and On Every Street (Rhino)

9: Suzi Ragsdale- Ghost Town 

9: Bahamas - Sad Hunk 

9: Michael Bernard Fitzgerald - Love Valley

9: Travis - 10 Songs -BMG

9: METZ -  Atlas Vending (Royal Mountain Records/Sub Pop)

9: Slow Pulp - Moveys (Winspear)

9: Tears For Fears - The Seeds of Love -deluxe  UMe/VIRGIN

9: Jeremy Ivey - Waiting Out The Storm (ANTI- )

9: OKAN -  Espiral (Lulaworld Records)

9: Emmy The Great - April / 月音  (Bella Union)

9: Jon Snodgrass- S/T  (A-F Records)

9: Mise en Scene-Winnipeg, California

9:  Massach- Paradise Cinema (Gondwana)

16: Terra Lightfoot- Consider The Speed (Sonic Unyon)

16: Malin Pettersen -  Wildhorse

16:  Lauren Mann - Memory & Desire

16:  Falset - We Follow or Lead the Way

16: Mipso  - S/T (Rounder)

16: Helena Deland - Someone New ( Luminelle Recordings)

16: Tommy Lee - Andro (Better Noise Music)

16: Tom Petty -  Wildflowers & All The Rest (Warner Records)

16: Holy Motors - Horse (Wharf Cat)

16: Michael Scott Dawson Nowhere, Middle of (We Are Busy Bodies)

16: CRi - Juvenile 

16: Tomberlin Projections (Saddle Creek)

16: Joey Molland - Be True to Yourself (Omnivore Recording)

16: Jupiter Sprites - Holographic

16: Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown - Pressure (Snakefarm Records)

16: Anthony Gomes -  Containment Blues

16: Deep Sea Diver - Impossible Weight (High Beam Records/ATO)

16: Mav Karlo - Strangers Like Us (Royal Mountain Records)

16: The Slim Kings - the King's County Classic 

16: The Damned- The Rockfield Files EP (Search And Destroy Records/Spinefarm/UMG)

16: Cordovas -Destiny Hotel (ATO Records)

20: Bonnie Whitmore – Last Will and Testament (Aviatrix Records) 

23: Nothing But Thieves - Moral Panic

23: Northcote- Let Me Roar (Black Box Music)

23: Keaton Henson-  Monument (Play It Again Sam)

23: Peter Katz -  City of Our Lives (Physical)- digital release Nov. 25

23: Kasbo- The Making of a Paracosm ( Foreign Family Collective/Counter Records)

23: The Agency -  In the Haunted Woods  (Solarbear Records)

23: Brad Brooks -  God Save The City 

23: Alastair Greene - The New World Blues (Whiskey Bayou Records)

23: The Last Dinosaur -Wholeness (Phases)

23: Hammerfall -  Live! Against The World (Napalm Records)

23: Henrik Lindstrand -Nordhem (One Little Independent Records)

23: Luke Combs - What You See Ain’t Always What You Get - deluxe (River House Artists/Columbia Nashville)

23: Victoria Anthony - Real Life 

23. Flowers of Hell - Outlanders

23: Plants and Animals - The Jungle (Secret City Records)

23: Chamber  - Cost of Sacrifice (Pure Noise Records)

30: Draconian -Under A Godless Veil (Napalm Records)

30: Black Foxxes - S/T  (Search & Destroy/Spinefarm/UMG)

30:  Elvis Costello - Hey Clockface (Concord Records)

30: The OBGMs - The Ends (Black Box)

30: Cam -The Otherside (Triple Tigers/RCA Records)

30: Leon - Apart (BMG)

30: GWAR - Scumdogs of the Universe - reissue

31: Riell - Paradise 

November

6: Kylie Minogue - DISCO (BMG) 

6:  Christo Graham  Turnin’  (We Are Busy Bodies)

6: Donovan Woods - Without People

13: Phoria - Caught a Black Rabbit ( Akira Records)

13: Katy J Pearson - Return (Heavenly Recordings)

20: Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Nashville - 4 CD/digital collection (RCA/Legacy Recordings)

20: Partner - Never Give Up ( You've Changed Records)

27: Eleine - Dancing In Hell (Black Lodge Records)

27: Melanie Peterson - We Got This

January

15: Royal Wood - Live At Massey Hall

February

5: Nobody's Girl - S/T ( Lucky Hound Music)

Canadian artists marked in red