LITTLE ROCK — Whitney! Madonna! Barbra! Miranda! Mariah! (Maybe.)
September has divas out the wazoo, even if Mariah Carey's new album is delayed for the third time. And frankly, Miranda Lambert probably wouldn't like being called a diva, given her countryrock heck-raising music, such as "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend." But we're thrilled to know Lambert is back with another album.
There's even bigger news, though. The music of The Beatles has finally been remastered and is expected to hit stores and digital outlets in two boxed sets (mono and stereo) and individual albums starting Sept. 9.
All this and new music by Phish, Sean Kingston, John Fogerty and Pearl Jam, old music by Drive-By Truckers and Big Star and more mountain music from Patty Loveless. Release dates are subject to change.
TUESDAY
Whitney Houston, I Look to You, Arista. Hoping for a comeback, Houston issues her first studio album in seven years.
John Fogerty, Blue Ridge Rangers Ride Again, Verve Forecast
Black Crowes, Before the Frost ... Until the Freeze, Silver Arrow/ Megaforce. New studio album has eight originals and a cover of Stephen Stills' "So Many Times."
Drive-By Truckers, Fine Print: A Collection of Oddities and Rarities, New West
Juliette Lewis, Terra Incognita, The End. She's still rockin'.
Radney Foster, Revival, Emergent
SEPT. 8\
Phish, Joy, Jemp. A new studio work.
Brooks & Dunn, #1s and Then Some, Arista. Hits and new tunes.
Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs, Matador
Sondre Lerche, Heartbeat Radio, Rounder
Blk Jks, After Robots, Secretly Canadian SEPT. 9
The Beatles, The Beatles Stereo Box Set and The Beatles in Mono Box Set, Capitol. Remastered Beatles albums plus Past Masters and a DVD in a boxed set; mono set has three fewer discs because Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be were originally recorded in stereo. List price for stereo set is $259.99, mono set is higher at $298.99. Individual albums also will be reissued.
SEPT. 15
Muse, The Resistance, Warner Bros.
Mark Knopfler, Get Lucky, Warner Bros.
Megadeth, End Game, Roadrunner
Big Star, Keep an Eye on the Sky, Rhino. Four-CD boxed set.
Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson, Break Up, Atco
David Sylvian, Manafon, Samadhi Sound
Nelly Furtado, Mi Plan, Universal. A Spanish language follow-up to Loose.
Living Colour, Chair in the Door, Megaforce
Zero 7, Yeah Ghost, Atlantic
Band of Heathens, One Foot in the Ether, BOH
SEPT. 20
Pearl Jam, Backspacer, self-released. A Target exclusive.
SEPT. 22
Dan Fogelberg, Love in Time, Full Moon. Singer-songwriter's last studio album; Fogelberg died in 2007.
Rufus Wainwright, Milwaukee at Last, Decca
Monsters of Folk, Monsters of Folk, Shangri-La. Group includes Conor Oberst, Yim Yames, M. Ward and Mike Mogis.
Harry Connick Jr., Your Songs,Columbia
Richard Hawley, Truelove's Gutter, Mute
Sean Kingston, Tomorrow, Epic. Includes the hit "Fire Burning."
Early Day Miners, The Treatment, Secretly Canadian
Volcano Choir, Unmap, Jagjaguwar. A collaboration between the Collection of Colonies of Bees and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver.
SEPT. 29
Madonna, Celebration, Warner Bros. Two CDs of hits and some new tunes.
Barbra Streisand, Love Is the Answer, Columbia
Mariah Carey, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, Def Jam. Will it be delayed a third time?
Miranda Lambert, Revolution, Sony
Patty Loveless, Mountain Soul II, Time Life
Foreigner, Can't Slow Down, Rhino. A Wal-Mart exclusive.
Avett Brothers, I and Love and You, Sony
Kris Kristofferson, Closer to the Bone, New WestE-mail:
Style, Pages 53 on 08/30/2009