THE LIST: DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores week of Aug. 4

DVDS
  “Race to Witch Mountain” (PG): In this made-in-Vegas revamp of the 1975 Disney favorite “Escape to Witch Mountain,” a hard-luck cabdriver (Dwayne Johnson, the artist formerly known as The Rock) picks up two young passengers (AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig), who turn out to be aliens on the run from government agents and inter-galactic killing machines alike.
  Things get more serious in the fact-based drama “The Soloist” (PG-13), about a Los Angeles Times columnist (Robert Downey Jr.) who goes looking for a story — and finds an unexpected friendship — when he encounters a homeless, Juilliard-trained musician (Jamie Foxx) on the Skid Row streets. And Beyoncé Knowles plays a wife battling a crazed temp (Ali Larter) stalking her businessman husband (Idris Elba) in “Obsessed” (PG-13).
  Also due today: “Delgo” (PG), “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh” (R), “The Chaos Experiment” (R), “Labor Pains” (PG-13), “Fragments” (R), “Nature’s Grave” (R), “Shadowheart” (PG-13), “Mutant Chronicles” (R) and “Icons of Screwball Comedy, Vols. 1 and 2” (not rated); the Blu-Ray Disc versions of “Sling Blade” (not rated), “My Cousin Vinny” (R), “The Waterboy” (PG-13) and “Big Trouble in Little China” (PG-13); and the TV transfers (all unrated) of “Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Second Season,” “Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: Series Four,” “Project Runway: Season Five” and “The Love Boat: Season Two, Vol. Two.”

CDS
  AssJack, “AssJack”: You could argue that the earthy, honest and occasionally attitudinal sounds of a country forebear like Hank Williams Sr. are more punk rock than many of the acts who label themselves as such these days.
  And so it makes sense, then, than Williams’ grandson, Hank III, would be so adept at blending hard-core punk with a honky tonk swing.
  Live, Williams normally plays a country set, then knocks crowds back on their heels with the teeth-gnashing AssJack. A gritty, go-for-the-throat tsunami of metallic, Black Flag-inspired missives, AssJack does the Williams family name proud.  
  Also in stores: The Duke & the King, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”; Gloriana, “Gloriana”; Kidz Bop Kids, “Kidz Bop 16”; K’Jon, “I Get Around”; Medeski Martin & Wood, “Radiolarians III”; Tarrus Riley, “Contagious”; Suicide City, “Frenzy”; and Tantric, “Mind Control.”

BOOKS
  “Bad Moon Rising (Dark-Hunter Series)” by Sherrilyn Kenyon: While war erupts among the lycanthropes, Fang Kattalakis, brother of two powerful Omegrion members, must go against his kin to save the woman he loves, who is accused of betraying her people.
  “That Old Cape Magic” by Richard Russo is also expected out this week. The past overwhelms the present and threatens the future in this novel, which follows a middle-age man, his troubled marriage, his parents and daughter, as well as his dreams.
  Also hitting shelves: “The Birthing House” by Christopher Ransom; “Breaking Dawn Special Edition” by Stephenie Meyer; “The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners” by Luanne Rice; “In the President’s Secret Service: Behind-the-Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect” by Ronald Kessler; “Inherent Vice” by Thomas Pynchon; “Mistress of the Game” by Sidney Sheldon; “Of Bees and Mist” by Erick Setiawan; “Panic Attack” by Jason Starr; “Rules of Vengeance” by Christopher Reich; “The Sheriff of Yrnameer” by Michael Rubens; “Speed Shrinking” by Susan Shapiro; “The Siege” by Stephen White; “The Siege of Macindaw (Ranger’s Apprentice Series No. 6)” by John Flanagan; “The Traffickers (Badge of Honor Series No. 9)" by W.E.B. Griffin; “While I’m Falling” by Laura Moriarty; “The Winds of Dune (Heroes of Dune Series No. 2)” by Brian Herbert; and “Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp” by Xianhui Yang.