New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| As Everything Unfolds | “DID YOU ASK TO BE SET FREE?” (High Wycombe, U.K.-based metalcore band’s third album; producers: guitarist Adam Kerr, synths player Jon Cassnew single: “GASOLINE”; See here; Transparent Petrol Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   | Century Media |
| Richard Barbieri | “Hauntings” (Japan and Porcupine Tree synthesist’s first solo album since 2001; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Kscope |
| Bilmuri | “KINDA HARD” (15th album from Columbus, OH singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist producer Johnny Franck; new single: “TWICE”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Columbia |
| Alfie Boe | “Face Myself” (Tony Award winner’s first album of original material, reflecting his love of indie music; producers: MyRiot; new single: “Meanwhile Gardens”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Ghostlight Music |
| The Boxer Rebellion | “The Second I’m Asleep” (London-based indie rock band’s seventh album; new single: “Flowers in the Water”; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Cream and Blue Mix Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Absentee Records |
| Bring Me the Horizon | “L.I.V.E. in São Paulo (Live Immersive Visual Experiment)” (CD + DVD; concert film soundtrack; their 2024 NX_GN WRLD TOUR performance will be in theaters worldwide on March 25 and 28; Read here; Clear Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Merch) | RCA |
| Broadside | “Nowhere, At Last” (Richmond, VA pop-rockers’ fifth album; producers: Rich Turvey, Jake Gosling; new single: “Dark Passenger”; See here; Purple Smoke with Green Splatter Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Thriller Records |
| Fantastic Cat | “Cat Out of Hell” (indie rock group’s third album; new single: “Elevator”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Missing Piece |
| Jack Harlow | “Monica” (his fourth album; recorded largely at Electric Lady Studios; Read here; Vinyl; Download released on March 13; Apple Music; Merch) | Atlantic |
| Holly Humberstone | “Cruel World” (BRIT Rising Star-winning indie pop singer-songwriter’s second album; producer: Rob Milton; new single: “To Love Somebody”; See here; Vinyl; Pearl White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Interscope |
| I Am the Avalanche | “THE HORROW SHOW” (New York punk band’s fifth album and first in six years; producer: Brett “The Ratt” Romnes; new singles: “GOD’S TRAVEL PLANS” and “THE HORROR SHOW”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Equal Vision |
| Joe Jackson | “Hope and Fury” (his 22nd studio album and his first rock LP in seven years; producers: Jackson, Patrick Dillett; new single: “Fabulous People”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | earMUSIC |
| Wesley Joseph | “Forever Ends Someday” (Walsall-born, London-based singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “Peace of Mind,” feat. Danny Brown; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Secretly Canadian |
| Juanes | “JuanesTeban” (16 tracks; new single: “Hagamos Que”; See here; Baby Blue and Garnet Double Vinyl; Download released on March 6; Apple Music; On Tour) | Universal Music Latino |
| Ella Langley | “Dandelion” (country singer-songwriter’s sophomore album; 18 songs; producers: Langley, Miranda Lambert, Ben West; new single: “Loving Life Again”; See here; Puffball White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | SAWGOD Records / Columbia |
| Les Imprimés | “Fading Forward” (second album from Norwegian blue-eyed indie soul band led by Morten Martens; new single: “You & I”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Big Crown |
| The Maine | “Joy Next Door” (alt-rock band’s 10th studio album; producers: John the Ghost, Sean Silverman; new single: “Palms”; See here; Read here; Green and White Split Vinyl, with 12-page booklet; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | 8123 / Photo Finish Records |
| Mamas Gun | “DIG!” (U.K. soul band’s sixth album; recorded by engineer Neil Innes straight to 16-track analogue tape at All Things Analogue Studios in Leeds; guest: Brian Jackson; new single: “Joy”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Blue Élan |
| Metal Church | “Dead to Rights” (West Coast heavy metal veterans’ 14th studio album; producer: guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof; new single: “Brainwash Game”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Rat Pak |
| My New Band Believe | “My New Band Believe” (debut project from former black midi member Cameron Picton; new single: “Numerology”; See here; Vinyl; Oxblood Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Rough Trade |
| Parlor Greens | “Emeralds” (soul-jazz-funk organ trio’s sophomore album; new single: “Emeralds”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Colemine |
| Jack Savoretti | “We Will Always Be the Way We Were” (British-Italian singer-songwriter’s ninth studio album; recorded live at Eastcote Studios in West London; producer: Tommaso Colliva; guests: KT Tunstall, Steph Fraser; new single: “We Will Always Be the Way We Were”; See here; Vinyl; Turquoise Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Lanza Music |
| Tigercub | “Nets to Catch the Wind” (Brighton-based alt-rock trio’s fourth album; producer: Tom Dalgety; new single: “Fall In Fall Out”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Loosegroove |
| Tiwayo | “Outsider” (Texas-based, Paris-born soul singer-songwriter’s third album; producer: Adrián Quesada; new single: “I’ve Got to Travel Alone”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Record Kicks |
| Marc Valentine | “Uncommon Side Effects” (U.K. power-pop auteur’s third solo album; new single: “High in the Underground”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Wicked Cool |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Black Nile | “Indigo Garden” (third album from L.A. jazz masters and brothers Aaron and Lawrence Shaw; producer: Harlan Steinberger; new single: “Danielle”; Hear here; Apple Music) | MASS MoCA Records |
| Club d’Elf | “Loon & Thrush” (psychedelic dub-jazz collective recorded entirely live in the studio with minimal overdubs; new single: a cover of Grateful Dead’s “Bird Song”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Royal Potato Family |
| Hayden Coffman | “Goner” (country singer-songwriter’s six-song EP; new single: “Talk to Texas”; See here; Apple Music) | Hayden Coffman |
| Drivin N Cryin | “Crushing Flowers” (Southern rock band’s 10th studio album; producer: Sadler Vaden; guests: Peter Buck, the late Todd Snider; new single: “Why Don’t You Go Around”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Drivin N Cryin Records |
| The Great Big Joy Machine | “The Great Big Joy Machine” (Louis Cato and The Late Show Band’s new name; all proceeds benefit MusicCares; new single: “Gratitude”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Stem, April 16 |
| Hannah Lew | “Hannah Lew” (former Grass Widow and Cold Beat member’s debut solo album; new single: “Another Twilight”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Night School |
| Lone | “Hyperphantasia” (U.K. producer Matt Culter’s first album in five years; guests: Ell Murphy, Lou Hayter, Bikôkô, Juga-Naut, Merry Lamb Lamb; new single: “Life Spark”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Greco-Roman |
| Love Rarely | “Pain Travels” (Leeds alt-rock band’s debut album; producer: guitarist Lew Taylor; new single: “Will”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Big Scary Monsters |
| Alex Miller | “More Country Than You” (producer: Jerry Salley; guests: Tracy Byrd, Emily Ann Roberts; first single: “Too Much Fun”; Hear here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out May 15; Apple Music) | Billy Jam Records |
| PUNCHBAG | “I Am Obsessed” (South London sibling duo’s five-song EP; new single: “What’s In My Bag”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mute |
| Bud Rokesky | “Dusk” (Australian alt-country singer-songwriter’s second album; new single: “45”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Rainbow Valley Records / Warner Music Australia |
| Sounding Arrow | “SKYMAN” (indie solo project of singer-songwriter Scott Kinnebrew; producers: Kinnebrew, Gary Jules; new single: “Why You Frontin?”; See here; Apple Music) | Blackbird Record Label |
| Squarepusher | “Kammerkonzert” (British IDM producer Tom Jenkinson’s foray into orchestral music; new single: “K2 Central”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Warp |
| Various artists | “CHESS the Musical (2025 Broadway Cast Recording)” (revival of the Benny Andersson-Björn Ulvaeus-Tim Rice musical opened at Imperial Theatre last November, starring Nicholas Christopher, Aaron Tveit and Lea Michele; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Ghostlight |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| ABBA | “Japanese Singles Collection: Greatest Hits” (two CDs of hit singles and a DVD of music videos; Amazon UK; Merch) | Universal Japan |
| Gregg Allman Band | “Great As Ever: Live in Philadelphia ’86” (previously unreleased concert recording at Chestnut Cabaret, with guitarist Dan Toler, drummer Frankie Toler, bassist Bruce Waibel, keyboardist Tim Heding and percussionist Chaz Trippy; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Sawrite Records |
| Bullet For My Valentine | “Bullet For My Valentine” (standalone release of their 2004 debut EP; remastered; Oxblood Vinyl; Amazon UK; Merch) | Legacy Recordings |
| Duran Duran | “Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)” (1993 album, featuring “Ordinary World,” “Come Undone” and “Too Much Information”; housed in a paper sleeve; Double Vinyl, with newly embossed sleeve and a 12-inch art card; Amazon UK) “Thank You” (1995 covers album; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Merch) > Greatest ✨ | Rhino / Parlophone |
| Laufey | “A Matter of Time: The Final Hour” (deluxe edition of her Grammy-winning 2025 album contains four new tracks, including “How I Get”; See here; Watercolour Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Sage Green Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Vingolf Recordings / AWAL Recordings |
| Scritti Politti | “Songs to Remember” (1982 debut album, featuring “The Sweetest Girl”; remastered; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Rough Trade |
| The Sensational Alex Harvey Band | “Good Evening, Boys and Girls” (21-CD box set of 16 previously unreleased concert performances starting at London’s Marquee in 1973 and taking in Newcastle, Glasgow, New York, Berlin and the Reading Festival, featuring 144-page hardback book with unseen and rare photographs; Amazon UK) | Madfish |
| Various artists | “The Country Collection: 60s, 70s, 80s” (three CDs, 43 hits; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / Spectrum Music / Universal Music Recordings |
| Various artists | “NOW 12” 80s: 1986 – Part Two” (four-CD, 45-track collection, featuring extended hits by Pet Shop Boys, Spandau Ballet, Talk Talk, The Human League, Simple Minds, The Bangles, Bananarama, et al; Amazon UK; Part One was released on Feb. 6) | Sony Music / EMI |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Neil Sedaka | “Steppin’ Out” (1976 album, featuring the title track and “Love in the Shadows”; with two bonus tracks; See here; Amazon UK) > The Definitive Collection ☔ | Primary Wave Music |
