Steve Earle: Jerusalem

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On September 24, 2002, “E-Squared Records” label released “Jerusalem”, the tenth Steve Earle studio album. It was recorded in 2002, and was produced by Twangtrust (Steve Earle and Ray Kennedy).

Personnel:

  • Steve Earle – vocals, guitar, bass, organ, banjo, mandolin, harmonium, harmonica
  • Emmylou Harris – vocals
  • Siobhan Kennedy – vocals
  • Eric Ambel – vocals, guitar
  • John Barlow Jarvis – electric piano
  • Kelly Looney – bass
  • Dane Clark – drum loop
  • Ken Coomer – drums
  • Kenny Malone – drums, percussion
  • Will Rigby – drums, percussion
  • Patrick Earle – percussion
  • Tony Fitzpatrick – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Steve Earle, except where noted.

  1. Ashes to Ashes
  2. Amerika V. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do)
  3. Conspiracy Theory
  4. John Walker’s Blues
  5. The Kind
  6. What’s A Simple Man to Do?
  7. The Truth
  8. Go Amanda – Steve Earle, Sheryl Crow
  9. I Remember You
  10. Shadowland
  11. Jerusalem

Beth Orton: Weather Alive

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On September 23, 2022, “Partisan” label released “Weather Alive”, the eighth Beth Orton studio album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Beth Orton.

Personnel:

  • Beth Orton – lead and backing vocals, piano, electric piano, keyboards, loops, MIDI controller, electronics, engineer
  • Grey McMurray – electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Shahzad Ismaily – electruc guitar, bass, harmonica, synthesizer, percussion
  • Francine Perry – synthesizer
  • Dustin O’Halloran – synthesizer
  • Sam Beste – piano, vibraphone
  • Jesse Chandler – instruments
  • Tom Herbert – bass
  • Ali Friend – double bass
  • Chris Vatalaro – bass, drums
  • Tom Skinner – drums, drum programming
  • Alabaster DePlume – saxophone
  • Stuart Bogie – saxophone
  • Aaron Roche – trombone
  • Fabio Senna – engineer
  • Francine Perry – engineer
  • Dani Bennet Spragg – engineer
  • Craig Silvey – mixing
  • Dani Bennett-Spragg – mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Joe Nino – Hernes – lacquer cut
  • Eliot Lee Hazel – creative director, artwork
  • Aaron Mitchell – packaging design

Track listing:

All tracks by Beth Orton.

  1. Weather Alive
  2. Friday Night
  3. Fractals
  4. Haunted Satellite
  5. Forever Young
  6. Lonely
  7. Arms Around a Memory
  8. Unwritten

The Comet Is Coming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

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On September 23, 2022, “Impulse!” label released “Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam”, the third and final Comet Is Coming (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Real World Studios” in Box, Wiltshire, and was produced by Danalogue and Betamax.

Personnel:

  • Danalogue (Dan Leavers) – keyboards, synthesizers, percussion, field recordings, arrangements, mixing
  • Shabaka Hutchings – saxophone, Shakuhachi
  • (Betamax) Max Hallett – drums, percussion, drum machine, electronic drums, synthesizer, arrangements, mixing
  • Kristian Craig Robinson – recording, additional production
  • Daddy Kev – mastering
  • Chris Bellman – lacquer cut
  • Daniel Martin Diaz – artwork
  • Veil Projects – layout
  • Tom Arndt – production coordinator
  • Dahlia Ambach-Caplin – A&R

Track listing:

All tracks by Shabaka Hutchings, Max Hallett and Dan Leavers.

  1. Code
  2. Technicolour
  3. Lucid Dreamer
  4. Tokyo Nights
  5. Pyramids
  6. Frequency of Feeling Expansion
  7. Angel of Darkness
  8. Aftermath
  9. Atomic Wave Dance
  10. The Hammer
  11. Mystik

Marisa Anderson: Still, Here

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On September 23, 2022, “Thrill Jockey” label released “Still, Here”, the tenth Marisa Anderson studio album. It was recorded in 2022, and was produced by Marisa Anderson.

Personnel:

  • Marisa Anderson – nylon-string guitar, steel-string guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, requinto guitar, electric piano, synthesizer, arrangements, recording
  • Jesse Munro Johnson – mixing
  • Amy Dragon – mastering
  • Daniel Castrejon – design
  • Dante Korinto – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Marisa Anderson, except where noted.

  1. In Dark Water
  2. The Fire This Time
  3. The Low Country
  4. Night Art
  5. Walking
  6. The Crack Where the Light Gets In
  7. La Llorona – traditional
  8. Beat the Drum Slowly – traditional

Phoebe Bridgers: Stranger In The Alps

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On September 22, 2017, “Dead Oceans” label released “Stranger in the Alps”, the debut Phoebe Bridgers studio album. It was recorded in 2017, at “Zeitgeist” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska.

Personnel:

  • Phoebe Bridgers – vocals, guitar, banjo
  • Ethan Gruska – keyboards, piano, drums, percussion, drum programming, guitar, bass, baritone guitar, bandura, jet engine, “that incessant toe tapping”
  • Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar
  • Tony Berg – guitar, keyboards, recording
  • Harrison Whitford – guitar
  • Daniel Rhine – upright bass
  • Marshall Vore – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Conor Oberst – vocals
  • John Doe – vocals
  • Rob Moose – strings
  • Gabe Witcher – violin
  • Gabe Noel – cello, bass
  • Rob Moose – string arrangements
  • Mike Mogis – mixing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Angela Deane – artwork
  • Nathaniel David Utesch – layout
  • Elaine Gandola – photography
  • Frank W. Ockenfels III – photography
  • Bridgers’ mother – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Phoebe Bridgers, except where noted.

  1. Smoke Signals – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore
  2. Motion Sickness – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore
  3. Funeral
  4. Demi Moore – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore, Harrison Whitford
  5. Scott Street – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore
  6. Killer
  7. Georgia
  8. Chelsea
  9. Would You Rather – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore, Tony Berg
  10. You Missed My Heart – Mark Kozalek, Jimmy LaValle
  11. Smoke Signals (reprise) – Phoebe Bridgers, Marshall Vore

Muse: Absolution

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On September 22. 2003, “Taste Media” label released “Absolution”, the third Muse studio album. It was recorded September 2002 – June 2003, at “Grouse Lodge” in Rosemount, Minnesota, “Air” and “Livingston” in London, “Cello” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Rich Costey, John Cornfield, Paul Reeve, Matthew Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard.

Personnel:

  • Matthew Bellamy – lead vocals, guitars, keyboards, programming, string arrangements
  • Chris Wolstenholme  – bass, backing vocals
  • Dominic Howard – drums, programming, percussion
  • Audrey Riley – string arrangements
  • Paul Reeve – backing vocals, vocal samples
  • Spectrasonic’s Symphony of Voices – vocal samples
  • Rich Costey – engineer, mixing
  • Wally Gagel – engineer, digital engineering, additional production
  • John Cornfield – engineer
  • Roger Lian – digital editing
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering
  • Storm Thorgerson, Dan Abbott – design
  • Lee Baker – layout, design
  • Sam Winston – typography
  • Rupert Truman, Sean Winstanley – photography
  • Perou – band photography
  • Dennis Smith, Safta Jaffery – executive production

Track listing:

All lyrics by Matthew Bellamy; all music by Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme.

  1. Intro
  2. Apocalypse Please
  3. Time is Running Out
  4. Sing for Absolution
  5. Stockholm Syndrome
  6. Falling Away with You
  7. Interlude
  8. Hysteria
  9. Blackout
  10. Butterflies and Hurricanes
  11. The Small Print
  12. Endlessly
  13. Thoughts of a Dying Atheist
  14. Ruled by Secrecy

Bright Eyes: Don’t Be Frightened Of Turning The Page

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On September 21, 2000, “Bad News”, “62TV” and “Les Disques Mange-Tout” labels released “Don’t Be Frightened of Turning the Page”, the second Bright Eyes extended play.  

Personnel:

  • Conor Oberst – lead vocals, guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion
  • Mike Mogis – voice, bass, mandolin, steel and electric guitar, synthesizer [Synthstrings], vibraphone, electric Piano, percussion, recording
  • Andy Lemaster – voice, keyboards
  • Sgane Aspergren – drums
  • Justin Kohmetscher – trumpet
  • Steve Micek – horn
  • Jiha Lee – flute
  • Zack Nipper – artwork

Track listing:

  1. Going for the Gold
  2. Oh, You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place
  3. I Won’t Ever Be Happy Again
  4. No Lies, Just Love
  5. Kathy With a K’s Song
  6. Mirrors and Fevers

David Bowie: Hours

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On September 21, 1999, the twenty-second David Bowie studio album “Hours” was released on Internet. It was recorded April – June 1999, at “Seaview” in Bermuda, ”Looking Glass” and “Chung King” in New York City, and was produced by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels.

Personnel:

  • David Bowie – vocals, 12-string guitar, keyboards, drum programming
  • Reeves Gabrels – guitar, drum programming, synthesizer programming
  • Chris Haskett – rhythm guitar
  • Marcus Salisbury – bass guitar
  • Mark Plati – bass guitar, acoustic and electric 12-string guitar, mellotron, synth and drum programming
  • Mike Levesque – drums, percussion
  • Sterling Campbell – drums
  • Everett Bradley – percussion
  • Holly Palmer – backing vocals
  • Kevin Paul – engineer
  • Ryoji Hata – engineer assistant
  • Jay Nicholas – engineer assistant
  • Andy VanDette – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels; except where noted.

  1. Thursday’s Child
  2. Something in the Air
  3. Survive
  4. If I’m Dreaming of My Life
  5. Seven
  6. What’s Really Happening? – lyrics by Alex Grant
  7. The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell
  8. New Angels of Promise
  9. Brilliant Adventure
  10. The Dreamers

The Brecker Brothers: Heavy Metal Be-Bop

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In September 1978, “Arista” label released “Heavy Metal Be-Bop”, the first Brecker Brothers (The) live album. It was recorded in 1978, at “My Father’s Place” in Roslyn, New York, and was produced by Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Neil Jason and Kash Monet.

Personnel:

  • Randy Brecker – trumpet, keyboards
  • Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone
  • Barry Finnerty – guitars, guitorganiser, backing vocals
  • Neil Jason – lead vocals, bass
  • Terry Bozzio – drums, backing vocals
  • Paul Shaffer – Fender Rhodes
  • Victoria – tambourine
  • Allan Schwartzberg – drums
  • Sammy Figueroa – percussion
  • Rafael Cruz – percussion
  • Kash Monet – handclaps, percussion, backing vocals
  • Bob Clearmountain – handclaps
  • Jeff Schoen – backing vocals
  • Roy Herring – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Randy Brecker, except where noted.

  1. East River – Neil Jason, Bret Mazur, Kash Monet (studio recording)
  2. Inside Out
  3. Some Skunk Funk
  4. Sponge
  5. Funky Sea, Funky Dew – Michael Brecker
  6. Squids

Sonny Curtis

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On September 19, 2025, Sonny Curtis died aged 88. He was musician (guitar), singer and songwriter, collaborated with Buddy Holly, but was best known as member of The Crickets. His two best known songs are “Walk Right Back” performed by The Everly Brother, and “I Fought the Law”, performed by Bobby Fuller Fou, The Clash and Green Day. As leader, Curtis released eight albums.

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