New Music Monthly: September 2017 Releases

Talk about a wealth of choices, the month of September has it all – blues-rock (Walter Trout, Tommy Castro), indie rock (Mogwai, Ted Leo), hard rock (Living Colour, Foo Fighters), and classic reissues (Bash & Pop, Chris Bell, Frank Zappa & the Mothers) – as well as a fitting goodbye to an old friend with Gregg Allman's final album, and much, more more! There are five Fridays in September, meaning more new releases, so no matter your taste in music, there's something for you here. If we wrote about it, there'll be a link to it in the album title, if you want an album, hit the 'Buy!' link to get it from Amazon.com...it's just that damn easy! Your purchase puts money in the Reverend's pocket that he'll use to buy more music to write about in a never-ending loop of rock 'n' roll ecstasy!

SEPTEMBER 1
Jonny Lang - Signs   BUY!
Mogwai - Every Country's Sun   BUY!
Starsailor - All This Life   BUY!
Walter Trout - We're All In This Together   BUY!
 

SEPTEMBER 8
Gregg Allman - Southern Blood   BUY!
Arch Enemy - Will To Power   BUY!
Bash & Pop - Friday Night Is Killing Me [expanded reissue]   BUY!
Dream Syndicate - How Did I Find Myself Here?   BUY!
Ted Leo - The Hanged Man   BUY!
Living Colour - Shade   BUY!
The National - Sleep Well Beast   BUY!
Charlie Parr - Dog   BUY!
Sparks - Hippopotamus   BUY!

 

SEPTEMBER 15
Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos [expanded reissue]   BUY!
Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold   BUY!
Prophets of Rage - Prophets of Rage   BUY!
Ringo Starr - Give More Love   BUY!

 

SEPTEMBER 22
Black Country Communion - BCCIV   BUY!
Michael Bloomfield - Live at McCabe's Guitar Workshop   BUY!
Flamin' Groovies - Fantastic Plastic   BUY!
The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful   BUY!
Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Subatomic Sound System - Super Ape Returns to Conquer   BUY!
Roadcase Royale - First Things First (w/Nancy Wilson of Heart)   BUY!
Leon Russell - On A Distant Shore   BUY!
Brian Wilson - Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology   BUY!

SEPTEMBER 29
Black Stone Cherry - Black To Blues EP   BUY!
Tommy Castro & the Painkillers - Stompin' Ground   BUY!
David Crosby - Sky Trails   BUY!
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare 1970-1997   BUY!
The Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa) - Absolutely Free [vinyl reissue]   BUY!
Pere Ubu - 20 Years In A Montana Missle Silo   BUY!
UFO - Salentino Cuts   BUY!  

Album of the Month: Gregg Allman's Southern Blood, the final album from the rock 'n' blues legend. Produced by Don Was in historic Muscle Shoals, Alabama this is Allman's first studio album since 2011's award-winning Low Country Blues. The acclaimed vocalist chose to record some of his favorite songs for Southern Blood, including material by blues giant Willie Dixon, Lowell George (Little Feat), Jackson Browne, Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter (Grateful Dead), and the legendary songwriting team of Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn. We hate to see him go, but Allman left us a great gift in the form of one more album to cap off almost 50 years of great music!