Vinyl:

Avett Brothers – "Slight Figure of Speech" 7"

Special Vinyl Saturday (September 5th) 7" release with pic sleeve.

Big Star – "Feel" b/w "Mod Lang" 7"

Special Vinyl Saturday (September 5th) 7" release with pic sleeve.

The Black Crowes – Before the Frost… Until The Freeze

Before The Frost features 11 new unreleased Black Crowes studio songs. The bonus album Until the Freeze adds 8 new original Black Crowes studio songs plus a cover version of Stephen Stills' "So Many Times".

Mars Volta – Octahedron

Another special Vinyl Saturday (September 5th) release. 2LP set.

Queen – A Kind of Magic

Queen – Flash Gordon

Queen – News of the World

Queen – Queen

HQ-180 vinyl reissues — some include bonus tracks.

Various Artists – Ze 30: Ze Records 1979-2009

Ze remains one of the great cult labels of its time. With this new compilation, Strut takes a snapshot of the many weird and wonderful fusions that surfaced on its famous taxi cab-influenced yellow and black label. Highlights include one of the earliest outings by Was (Not Was) and a Larry Levan mix of Kid Creole's biting parable about corruption in the Caribbean. Other featured artists include Ze label regulars Cristina and Bill Laswell's Material.

This article appears in Sep 2-8, 2009.