New music in July isn’t as much of a firehose of releases as it was in June, but there are some great new CDs that Planet LP host Ted Asregadoo and Keith Creighton from Popdose talk about in July’s New Music Report.

In the first segment, it’s all about Prince. His estate released a couple of tracks from The Vault (“All a Share Together Now” and “7 (eFlat Major).” “7” is a remix, but “All a Share Together Now” is a 2006 track about reparations. The theme of the song spurs a discussion of how Prince’s words and deeds didn’t always match up, and how the members of the Revolution kind of got the short end of the stick when it came to creating music as a band. As Keith so eloquently said in the episode, “Having spent a lifetime as a fan, and a year writing about him for Diffuser/UltimatePrince – I see Prince less of a genius and more of a prism – by himself, he’s just a piece of glass. But when the light of the band shines through, it’s rainbows.”

The other big news is the news from the industrial band, Ministry. After 40 years, Ministry is revisiting songs from their 1983 new wave/synth record, “With Sympathy” to re-record a new version of some songs, including “Revenge.”

The Who is releasing a massive super deluxe edition of “Who’s Next” and “Life House” in September. Ted wonders if we really need all this vaulted music since, well, “Life House” was abandoned for a reason and the best songs from those sessions ended up on the classic album, “Who’s Next.” Maybe this is a cash grab? Or maybe there will be some truly wonderful gems contained in the bonus tracks.

Other new releases include:

Blur’s “The Ballad of Darren,” James, ” Be Opened By The Wonderful,” Greta Van Fleet’s, “Starcatcher,” Nils Lofgren’s “Mountains,” Mikaela Davis‘ “And Southern Star” — where we feature the song “Cinderella” — Waves Crashing, Korine’s “Tear,” Gabriels‘ “Angels & Queens,” and, yes, Barbie The Album!