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MARK SCHULTZ All Things Possible II SEPT.4
FAIR TRADE SERVICES
THE GAITHER VOCAL BAND Pure and Simple SEPTA
SPRING HILL MUSIC GROUP
GROUP I CREW Fearless 11 SEPTA
FERVENT RECORDS
MATTHEW WEST Into the Light 11 SEPT. 25
SPARROW RECORDS
JONATHAN BUTLER Grace 4. MercyhSEPT.25
RENDEZVOUS
BRANDON HEATH Blue Mountain 11 OCT. 9
REUNION RECORDS
LECRAE to say it in a different way is really exciting," Third Day lead vocalist Mac Gravity 11 SEPT.4 REACH RECORDS Rock OfAges Powell says. "It's invigorated us as a band." Since debuting in 1996 with its self -titled album, the Georgia -based rockers (Powell, Mark Lee, Tai Ander- PERCY BADY son and David Carr) have won four Grammys and 24 Gospel Music Assn. TBLOOCT 23 Third Day teams with producer Brendan Dove Awards, and become a mainstay on Christian radio. The band will MARANATRA MUSIC preview Miracle with lead single "I Need a Miracle," a song Powell penned O'Brienfor 12th studio release KURT CARR & THE KURT after a couple told them their son was about to commit suicide and changed CARR SINGERS FOR MIRACLE, THE FOLLOW-UP TOits hit 2010 effort, Move (No. 9 his mind when he turned on the radio and heard Third Day's "Cry Out to TBDHNOV.13 on the Billboard 200, No. 1 on Top Christian Albums), Third Jesus." "I'm super proud of it," O'Brien says of the new album, the band's VERITY GOSPEL MUSIC GROUP Day teamed with producer Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce 12th studio release. "It's very inviting. It brings people in. It's saying, 'Come CHRIS TOMLIN Springsteen, AC/DC) to craft an album anchored in the substan- along and hear what we have to say.' It really moves me." Miracle arrives Nov. Burning Lights 11 NOV.13 tive lyrics fans have come to expect of the Grammy Award -win- 6 on Essential Records. -Deborah Evans Price SIXSTEPSRECORDS/ ning band while expanding its sound. "To have something new to say and 0 SHAWN McSPADDEN, RED LIGHT MANAGEMENT 0 JEFF GREGG, CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY EMI CHRISTIAN MUSIC GROUP
Christmas Four X Four In October Collector's editions and boxed sets arrive just in time for holiday ROD STEWART, OTHERS OUT TO FOLLOW Green Day Sex Pistols BUBLE'S SUCCESS The Studio Albums 19,90-2009 Never Mind the Bullocks, FOUR MORE REPRISE RECORDS, SEPT.4 Here's the Sex Pistols IT'S A TRADITION THAT'S AS SURE asthe STEWARA Before Green Day heads into a fall packed with UNIVERSAL MUSIC, SEPT. 24 (U.K.) R.E.M. holiday shopping season:the slate of Christmas three albums of new material, the band whets This super -deluxe set timed to the 35th an- DocumentllSEPT. 25 albums that arrives in October. Last year, Michael appetites with an eight -disc collection of its niversary of punk's most iconic album arrives CAPITOL/I.R.S. Ruble scored bigwhen his holiday collection Christmas complete discography. The Studio Albums as athree-CD/one-DVD collection of demos, VARIOUS ARTISTS (143/Reprise), released Oct. 21, burned bright during the 1990-2009wi11 be a Best Buy exclusive. B-sides, live cuts and a remastered version SurfAge short sales season. It racked up more than 2.4million sold of the original album based on mastertapes NuggetsllSEPT. 25 on its wayto becomingthe second-best-sellingalbum of the "rediscovered during the recent move from ROCK BE AT RECORDS year (behind Adele's 21), according to Nielsen SoundScan. Virgin Records to Universal Music Catalogue The success of Christmas, buoyed by a highly vis- .4 or in January 2012," according to information WILLIAM BASINSKI ible campaign that included an NBC TV special, and posted on SexPistolsOfficial.com, among Disintegration
Susan Boyle's The Gift in 2010 (2.1 million sold), have other materials. Loops II SEPT. 4
seta high bar for another blockbuster holiday release in TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. 2012. But there won't be a shortage of artists trying to match those soaring sales. KYLIE MINOGUE Chief amongthem is Rod Stewart, who'll release his Michael Jackson Elvis Presley K25 Time Capsule//OCTOBER first Christmasalbum, MerryChristmasBaby, on 00.30. Bad 25 Prince From Another Planet WARNER MUSIC The project will beStewart's initial release through his new EPIC/LEGACY RECORDINGS, SEPT. 28 RCA/LEGACY, OCT. 30 deal with UniversalMusic Group and will f eature duets with ....,,j Five Billboard Hot 100 No. Is, Recordings of two of Elvis' four historic 1972
Bubleand Cee Lo Green. Also on deck: CheersIt's Christmas, a collection by "The Voice" judge Blake Shelton -- 1 nine singles (from an II -song shows at Madison Square Garden, includ- (which also features Buble,aswell asReba McEntire) due Oct.2 on WarnerBros.,and the second album from set) overall-Michael Jack - ing an hour of fan footage shot at two of the 'American Idol" victorScottyMcCreerywill be a holiday set expected from UMG Nashville on Oct.16. _____-,J son's Bad di dn't heat Thriller shows, resurface in time for the 35th anniver- Then there's the annual A Very Special Christmas compilation, which has raised more than $100 as hoped, butthat doesn't mean itwasn't a sary of the King's death and the 40th anniver- million for Special Olympics. The collection celebrates its 25th year with celebrity contributors blockbuster success. This fall, the King of sary of the shows themselves in this two -C D/ Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews and Train. The series will issue two releases: A Very Special Pop's second -best-selling album returns with one-DVD boxed set. Also accompanying the Christmas 25th Anniversary, on Big Machine Records, and A Very Special Christmas:Bringing Peace a silver anniversary three -CD, one-DVO de- 20 -plus remixed live recordings is an essay by on Earth, on Word Records. Both projects arrive Oct. 16. luxe edition that includes the f irst ever autho- Patti Smith guitarist Lenny Kaye, who covered Of course, none of this takes November releases into account,which could change the whole game. rized concert film ofJackson's performance Elvis' 1972 MSG performances as a writer for After all, Justin Bieber's Under the Mistletoeracked up 1.3 million in sales lastyear, accordingto Sound - at the sold-outWembley Stadium duringthe Cavalier magazine. Scan, and it didn't show up until Novi. -Brennan Carley Badtour.
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