CLEVELAND, Ohio — Lin-Manuel Miranda returns with his latest, out-of-the-box project, leading a week of new music releases that brings us the first MC5 album in more than five decades, a holiday set from Jennifer Hudson, a new album from Joe Jonas, a collaboration between ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro and Mick Fleetwood and other fresh works by Lil Durk, Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell, Joy Oladokun and the Green Day spinoff Pinhead Gunpowder (all subject to change)…
Album of the Week — “Warriors” (Atlantic): We’ve become accustomed to Lin-Manuel Miranda raising eyebrows with his musical projects (“Hamilton,” anyone?), so we just kind of roll with the idea of a combination song and spoken-word recreation of the 1979 gangs of New York film “The Warriors” (which gave birth to Joe Walsh’s hit “In the City”). It’s certainly done by a formidable gang of creatives — Miranda teaming with Pulitzer Prize-finalist co-writer Eisa Davis on the material, Nas executive producing and a cast that includes Busta Rhymes, Billy Porter, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Marc Anthony, Cam’Ron, Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and Ghostface Killah and more. Not what you might expect — but that’s kind of the point, isn’t it?
Jerry Cantrell, “I Want Blood” (Double J Music): The Alice in Chains guitarist has been easing his fifth solo album since mid-summer, a nine-track set that includes contributions from Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan, Metallica’s Robert Trujillo, Faith No More’s Mike Bordin and other musical friends.
Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird, “Buckingham Nicks” (Loma Vista): As the title indicates, the two indie fave singer-songwriters join forces for a track-by-track new interpretation of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks’ pre-Fleetwood Mac duo album from 1973.
Susanna Hoffs, “The Lost Record” (Baroque Folk): The best-known of the Bangles unearths a 10-song collection she wrote during the mid-90s and recorded in her garage in 1999 — all of which remained unreleased except “Under a Cloud,” which the Bangles released on its 2011 album “Sweetheart of the Sun.”
Jennifer Hudson, “The Gift of Love” (Interscope): The EGOT singer and talk show host’s first full album in 10 years is her first-ever holiday collection, featuring plenty of seasonal favorites and collaborations with Common and the South African a cappella quintet The Joy.
Lil Durk, “Deep Thoughts” (Alamo): The Chicago rapper is back with his ninth album, with three tracks already out as singles. The guest list is unconfirmed in front of its release, but among those rumored are Future, Rod Wave, Sabrina Carpenter and Morgan Wallen.
Joe Jonas, “Music For People Who Believe in Love” (Republic): After DNCE-ing on his own, the middle Jonas brother delivers his second solo album, advanced by two singles (“Work It Out” and “What This Could Be”) and inspired, he says, by fatherhood and family life.
MC5, “Heavy Lifting” (earMUSIC): The first album in 53 years under the newly minted Rock and Roll Hall of Famers’ moniker is guitarist Wayne Kramer’s baby, though original drummer Dennis “Machine Gun” Thompson is on a couple of tracks. And the guest list — Slash, Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, Tom Morello, Alice in Chain’s William Duvall and Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath — insures that this kicks out the jams.
Joy Oladokun, “Observations From a Crowded Room” (Amigo/Verve Forecast/Republic): The critically hailed singer-songwriter offers up a dozen very personal new songs and three spoken-word “Observation” interludes on her fifth album.
Pinhead Gunpowder, “Unit” (1-2-3-4 Go): The first full album in 27 years — and 14th release overall — from the punk quartet that includes Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and Jason White.
Seventeen, “Spill the Feels” (Hybe/Pledis Entertainment): The K-pop boy band follows its Korean language compilation “17 Is Right Here” with its 12th mini-album, its six songs mostly in English, including a collaboration with DJ Khaled on “Love, Money, Fame.”
Jake Shimabukuro and Mick Fleetwood, “Blues Experience” (Forty Below): The ukulele virtuoso and Fleetwood Mac veteran, both residents of Hawaii, apply a unique touch to blues and pop favorites — including a rendition of the late Christine McVie’s “Songbird” with a spoken-word elegy by Fleetwood that will leave you in a puddle of tears.
Album Title of the Week: Christopher Owens, “I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair” (True Panther)
More new releases for Oct. 18…
Aries Descendant, “From the Ashes of Deceit” (Frontiers)
P.P. Arnold, “Live in Liverpool” (earMUSIC)
Asking Alexandria, “Where Do We Go From Here? The Remixes” (Better Noise Music)
Capilla Ardiente, “Where Gods Live and Men Die” (High Roller)
Cliff Beach, “Beach Please” (Color Red)
Bear Hands, “The Key to What” (Rostrum/Cantora)
Berries, “Berries” (Xtra Mile Recordings)
Bishop The Overseer, “Nation of Immigrants” (Planetary)
Eric Bibb, “In the Real World” (Stony Plain)
Black Elephant, “The Fall of the Gods” (Small Stone)
Black Hibiscus, “Growing Pains” (MNRK)
The Blessed Madonna, “Godspeed” (Warner)
boa, “Whiplash” (Nettwerk)
Bon Iver, “Sable” (Jagjaguwar)
Boney James, “Slow Burn” (Concord)
Bottlemoth, Even us ghosts” (self-released)
Brass Queens, “Hot Tub Sessions Vol. 1″ (Harmony Park Pro)
Breland, “Project 2024″ (Bad Realm/Atlantic)
Breymer, “When I Get Through” (One Little Independent)
Bishop Briggs, “Tell My Therapist I’m Doing Fine” (Virgin)
Caminho, “Caminho at Electrical Audio” (Nonesuch)
Edie Carey and Sarah Sample, “‘Til the Morning: Lullabies and Songs of Comfort” (self-released)
Garret T. Capps & Nasa Country, “Everyone is Everyone” (Spaceflight)
Edie Carey & Sarah Sample, “Lantern in the Dark: Songs of Comfort and Lullabies” (self-released)
Cashavelly, “Meditation Through Gunfire” (UNCSA Media)
Ray Chen, “Player 1″ (Decca Classics)
Chinese American Bear, “Wah!!!” (Moshi Moship)
CKay, “Emotions” (Warner Music Africa)
Cold Cave, “Passion Depression” (Worm)
Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, “The World is On Fire” (Division 81)
Confidence Man, “3AM (La La La)” (Chaos/Polydor/I Oh You)
Contrition, “Pariahs” (Disorder Recordings)
The Copyrights, “New Ghosts” (Fat Wreck Chords)
Billy Coulter, “5ingles” (self-released)
Das Moose, “Moosehenge” (self-released)
The Dead Betties, “Impossible Future” (Rotten Princess)
Dead Posey, “Are You In a Cult?” (self-released)
Kelly Deco, “Venus” (Deko Entertainment)
Deeper Sleeper, “Deeper Sleeper” (Capitol)
Mila Degray, “Silver Meteor 98″ (Velvet Jane)
Deivos, “Apophenia” (Selfmadegod)
DGM, “Endless” (Frontiers)
The Dumpies, “Gay Boredom” (Dirt Cult)
Escuela Grind, “Dreams on Algorithms” (MNRK Heavy)
Ensifirium, “Winter Storm” (Metal Blade)
Fantastic Negrity, “Son of a Broken Man” (Storefront)
Fate, “Reconnect N’ Ignite” (Frontiers)
Fenyx Rose, “Feel My Fire” (Arkival)
Kelly Finnigan, “A Lover Was Born” (Colemine)
Wyatt Flores, “Welcome to the Plains” (OEG/Island)
Bryce Fox, “The Butterfly” (Nettwerk)
Dylan Francis, “Money Sucks,. Friends Rule (10th Anniversary Remix)” (Legacy)
Frost*, “Life in the Wires” (InsideOutMusic)
Frozen Crown, “War Hearts” (Napalm)
Funeral, “Gospel of Bones” (Season of Mist)
Funkrust Brass Band, “A Little Spark” (self-released)
LP Giobbi, “Dotr” (Ninja Tune/Counter)
Gitkin, “Golden Age” (Wonderwheel)
Golden Apples, “The Songs of Bananasugarfire As Reimagined By…” (Lame-O)
Flamy Grant, “Church” (Shamus)
Riley Green, “Don’t Mind if I Do” (Nashville Harbor/Big Machine)
Chris Greene, “Conversance” (Pravda)
Liv Greene, “Deep Feeler” (Free Dirt)
Escuela Grind, “Turbulence” (MNRK Heavy)
Fantastic Negrito, “Son of a Broken Man” (self-released)
Wyatt Flores, “Welcome to the Plains” (Island)
Frost*, “Life in the Wires, Part 1″ (InsideOut Music)
Frozen Crown, “War Hearts” (Napalm)
Funeral, “Gospel of Bones” (Season of Mist)
LP Giobbi, “Dotr” (Ninja Tune)
Chris Greene, “Conversance” (self-released)
Roy Hargrove’s Crisol, “Grande-Terre” (Verve)
Harvestman, “Triptych: Part Three” (Neurot Recordings)
Chihei Hatakeyama and Shun Ishiwaka, “Magnificent Little Dudes Vol. 2″ (Gearbox)
Tim Heidecker & the Very Good Band, “Slipping Away” (Bloodshot)
Hemlock Ernst, “Studying Absence” (Tygr Rawwk)
Noeline Hofmann, “Purple Gas” (La Honda)
Huis, “In the Face of the Unknown” (Unicorn Digital)
Humdrum, “Every Heaven” (Slumberland)
ian, “Goodbye Horses” (Columbia)
Immortal Bird, “Sin Querencia” (20 Buck Spin)
lolitslea, “Nothing Lasts Forever” (self-released)
Annie J, “Been Loving You” (self-released)
Boney James, “Blow Burn” (Concord)
Japandroids, “Fate & Alcohol” (Anti-/Epitaph)
Jutes, “Sleepyhead” (self-released)
Jordana, “Lively Premonition” (Grand Jury)
Per Storby Jutbring, “Tenants of Misty Mansion (According to the Landlord)” (HOOB)
King Thief, “King Thief” (Thousand Island)
Kiss Of Life, “Lose Yourself” (S2)
Kurious, “Majician” (Metalface/Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Dean Lewis, “The Epilogue” (Capitol)
Lisel, “The Vanishing Point” (Ba Da Bing)
lolitslea, “Nothing Lasts Forever” (self-released)
The Lookout, “I know the Future” (Thousand Islands)
Loyals, “Love Me Bad” (Tooth & Nail)
Matty, “Pops” (Lex)
Melted Bodies, “The Inevitable Fork” (self-released)
Greg Mendez, “First Time/Alone” (Dead Oceans)
Miasis, “In and Out of Weeks” (self-released)
Kylie Minogue, “Tension II” (BMG)
Jane Monheit, “Jane Monheit” (Club44)
Moonlyn, “Possessed by Angels” (self-released)
Mother of Graves, “The Periapt of Absence” (Profound Lore)
Audrey Nuna, “Trench” (Arista)
Ohvaur, “Intertwined” (self-released)
The Old Ceremony, “Earthbound” (Robust)
Christopher Owens, “I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair” (True Panther)
Kelly Lee Owens, “Dreamstate” (dh2)
Aaron Parks, “Little Big III” (Blue Note)
Jerron Paxton, “Things Done Changed” (Smithsonian Folkways)
People Years, “The Last Cantina” (Cornelius Chapel)
Phantogram, “Memory of a Day” (Neon Gold)
Phoebe Rings, “Phoebe Rings” (Carpark)
Samora Pinderhughes, “Venus Smiles Not in the House of Tears” (Machel/Good Cloud Day)
Nick Piunti and the Complicated Men, “Up and Out of It” (JEM)
Porridge Radio, “Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There For Me” (Secretly Canadian)
POSY, “The Garden” (Bastard Jazz)
Prime Directive, “The Fallout” (Punkerton)
PYPY, “Sacred Times” (Goner Records)
Qiensave? X El Dusty, “Reanimacion” (self-released)
Radioactive, “Reset” (Frontiers)
Rag ‘n’ Bone Man, “What Do You Believe In?” (Columbia)
Ella Raphael, “Mad Sometimes” (Fire)
Calvin Richardson, “Five Years Later” (SoNo Recording Group)
Red Rosamond, “WIP (Work In Progress)” (Toom)
Remo Drive, “Mercy Deluxe” (Epitaph)
Rubblebucket, “Year of the Banana” (EggHunt/Clandestine)
Omar Rudberg, “Every Night Fantasy” (Elektra)
Brandon Seabrook, “Object of Unknown Function” (Pyroclastic)
Seafoam Walls, “Standing Too Close to the Elephant in the Room” (Dion Dia)
Shower Curtain, “Words From a Wishing Well” (Angel Tapes/Fire Talk)
Robin Simone, “Hollywood Orchestra” (self-released)
Sixpence None the Richer, “Rosemary Hill” (Flatiron Recordings)
Skegss, “Pacific Highway Music” (Loma Vista)
Snowgoose, “Descendant” (Bababing)
J. Spaceman and John Coxon, “Music for William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton” (Fat Possum)
Spiral XP, “I Wish I Was a Rat” (Danger Collective)
Swaggermouth, “Never Shut Up” (Rock Avenue)
Swallow The Sun, “Shining” (Century Media)
SWMRS, “Becker” (self-released)
Benjamin Tod, “Shooting Star” (Thirty Tigers)
Benny Turner, “BT” (Nola Blue)
Twisted Pine, “Love Your Mind” (Signature Sounds)
Sofia Valdes, “Sofia Valdes” (Warner)
Various Artists, “American Football (Covers)” (Polyvinyl)
Various Artists, “Can’t Steal My Fire: The Songs of David Olney” (New West):
Various Artists, “Songs For Sex” (Noise For Now/Artist Rights Alliance)
Various Artists, “Tonight I’ll Go Down Swingin’: A Tribute to Don Heffington” (Nine Mile/Clover Music Group)
Venus, “Things Change” (self-released)
Raia Was, “Captain Obvious (Piano Version” (Switch Hit)
Jovin Webb, “Drifter” (Blind Pig)
Wild Rivers, “Better Now” (Nettwerk)
Julie Williams, “Tennessee Mood” (Hunter’s Moon)
YDE, “8″ (Facet/Warner)
From the Vaults:
American Football, “LP1 (25th Anniversary Edition)” (Polyvinyl)
Kevin Ayers, “All This Crazy Gift of Time — The Recordings 1969-1973″ (Esoteric/Cherry Red)
The Belair Lip Bombs, “Lush Life” (Third Man)
Boobie Knight and his Universal Lady, “Earth Creature” (Org Music)
Bronski Beat, “The Age of Consent (40th Anniversary Edition)” (London)
Bill Bruford, “The Best of Bill Bruford: The Winterfold & Summerfold Years” (Summerfold/Cherry Red)
Ray Charles, “Country and Western Meets Rhythm and Blues” and “Crying Time” (Tangerine)
The dB’s, “Repercussion” (Propeller Sound Recordings)
Iris DeMent, “My Life (30th Anniversary)” (Yep Roc)
Swamp Dogg, “Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St. (Deluxe Edition)” (Oh Boy)
The Fall, “The Infotainment Scan” (Cherry Red)
Mary Gauthier, “Drag Queens in Limousines (25th Anniversary Edition)” (Kill Rock Stars)
Roy Hargrove’s Crisol, “Grande-Terre” (Verve)
Joe Henry, “Blood From Stars” (earMUSIC)
John Hiatt, “Gold: The 80s Album Collection” (Doctor Bird/Cherry Red)
Charles Ives” “Charles Ives — The Anniversary Edition” (Sony Classical)
The Jackson 5, “Third Album” (Elemental Music/Motown)
Jimmy Eat World, “Future: Phoenix Sessions (Chapter V)” and “Surviving: Phoenix Sessions (Chapter X)” (Exotic Locations Recordings)
Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan, “In Session (Deluxe Edition)” Craft Recordings/Concord)
The Kinks, “Sleepwalker” and “Misfits” (BMG)
Melanie and Jan Akkerman, “In Focus — Live ‘88″ (Cleopatra)
George Michael, “Carless Whisper EP” (GME/Sony)
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, “Spring in Stockholm: Live at onserthuset, 1959″ (New Land)
999, “Emergency at the Old Waldorf 1979″ (Liberation Hall)
NRBQ, “Brass Tacks (10th Anniversary Edition)” (Omnivore)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, “Long After Dark (Deluxe Edition)” (Geffen/UMe)
The Pogues, “Red Roses For Me” (40th Anniversary Edition)” (Rhino)
Tyler Ramsey, “New Lost Ages (Deluxe Edition)” (Soundly Music)
Red Box, “Anthology 1980-1990″ (Cherry Red)
Arthur Smith & Don Reno, “Feudin’ Again” (Pickin’ On/CMH)
Suede, “Dog Man Star (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Edsel/Demon)
The Supremes, “A Bit of Liverpool” (Elemental Music/Motown)
The Temptations, “Sky’s the Limit” (Elemental Music/Motown)
Pete Townshend, “The Iron Man: The Musical…” and “Psychoderelict (Music Only)” (UMe)
The Tubes, “Young and Rich” (Music on CD)
Various Artists, “Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996″ (Light in the Attic)
Various Artists, “Popscene: From Baggy to Britpop 1989-1994″ (Cherry Red)
New Holiday Albums:
Dean Martin, “It’s Beginning to Look at Lot Like Christmas” (Iconic Artists Group/Legacy)
Soundtracks:
“Citadel: Diana (Prime Video Original Series Soundtrack)” (Milan)
“Girl Haunts Boy — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (Lakeshore/Fifth Season)
“Smile 2: The Skye Riley EP” (Interscope)
“Sweetpea — Original Series Soundtrack” (Lakeshore)
“Sunset Blvd: The Album” (The Other Songs)
“Teacup — Original Series Soundtrack” (Lakeshore)
