New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Benthos | “From Nothing” (Italian metal quintet’s second album; new single: “As A Cordyceps”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music)   | InsideOutMusic |
| The Birthday Massacre | “Pathways” (Canadian dark pop group’s 10th album; producers: band members Brett Carruthers, Michael Rainbow, Mike Falcore; new single: “Sleep Tonight”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Metropolis |
| Bon Iver | “SABLE, fABLE” (Justin Vernon’s first album since 2019; producers: Vernon, Jim-E Stack; guests: Danielle Haim, Dijon, Flock of Dimes; new single: “Everything Is Peaceful Love”; Read here; Double Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Black and Red Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) | Jagjaguwar |
| Ken Carson | “More Chaos” (Atlanta rapper’s fourth album, released on his 25th birthday; Read here; White Double Vinyl out May 16; On Tour) | Opium / Interscope |
| Gerald Clayton | “Ones & Twos” (pianist-composer’s third album for Blue Note; featuring vibraphonist Joel Ross, flutist Elena Pinderhughes, trumpeter Marquis Hill and drummer Kendrick Scott; producer: Clayton; new single: “Angels Speak”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Blue Note |
| Bootsy Collins | “Album of the Year # 1 Funkateer” (Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s 23rd studio album; guests: Snoop Dogg, Dave Stewart, Fred Wesley, Wiz Khalifa, Musiq Soulchild, Kurupt, Myra Washington, et al; new single: “Album of the Year # 1 Funkateer”; Hear here; Read here; Target) | Bootzilla Records / Equity Distribution |
| Daughter of Swords | “Alex” (Alex Sauser-Monnig’s sophomore album; new single: “Money Hits”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Psychic Hotline |
| Dr. Strangely Strange | “Anti-Inflammatory” (Irish psychedelic folk band’s fourth album and first album in 28 years; producer: Brian Casey; new single: “Baby Bunting”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Think Like a Key Music |
| Epica | “Aspiral” (CD + Blu-ray digi; Dutch symphonic metal titans’ ninth album; Blu-ray contains “Live at the Symphonic Synergy”; new single: “Cross the Divide”; See here; Red Gold Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nuclear Blast |
| Galactic and Irma Thomas | “Audience With the Queen” (eight new songs written specifically for Thomas and a cover of Nancy Wilson’s “[You Don’t Know] How Glad I Am”; new single: “Lady Liberty”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Tchoup-Zilla Records |
| Peter Gregson | “Peter Gregson” (new single: “Vision”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Decca |
| Idle Heirs | “Life is Violence” (Kansas City-based post-metal band’s debut album; new single: “Rare Bird”; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Relapse |
| Valerie June | “Owls, Omens, and Oracles” (her sixth album; producer: M. Ward; guests: The Blind Boys of Alabama; new single: “Joy, Joy!”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Concord |
| Mark Morton | “Without the Pain” (Lamb of God guitarist’s second solo album; producer: Josh Wilbur; guests: Cody Jinks, Grace Bowers, Matt James, Travis Denning, Tyler Bryant, Troy Sanders, Jared James Nichols, Neil Fallon; new single: “Brother”; See here; Read here; Download; Apple Music) | Snakefarm |
| Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez | “Revision” (debut studio collaboration between the poet/theorist and the NYC-based bassist as a duo; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | TAO Forms |
| Muscadine Bloodline | “… And What Was Left Behind” (Nashville-based country duo’s fifth album; producers: bandmates Gary Stanton and Charlie Muncaster, with Ryan Youmans; guests: Josh Meloy, Ben Chapman; new single: “Chickasaw Church of Christ”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Stancaster Music, LLC / Thirty Tigers |
| OK Go | “And the Adjacent Possible” (their fifth album and first in more than a decade; new singles: “A Good, Good Day at Last” and “Going Home”; See here; Vinyl out May 9; Amazon.ca; On Tour) | Paracadute |
| Jon Pardi | “Honkytonk Hollywood” (his fifth album; 17 songs; Gold Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Capitol Nashville |
| Nell Smith | “Anxious” (posthumous debut solo album from the teenage Flaming Lips collaborator, who died in a car crash last October; new single: “Boy in a Bubble”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Bella Union |
| Spin Doctors | “Face Full of Cake” (their first studio album in 12 years; new single: “The Heart of the Highway”; Hear here; White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Capitol |
| Those Damn Crows | “God Shaped Hole” (Welsh rock band’s fourth album; producer: Dan Weller; new single: “Glass Heart”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Earache |
| Within Destruction | “ANIMETAL” (Slovenian metal band’s sixth album; new single: “CYBERGIRL”; See here; Clear Red, White and Blue Marble Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sumerian |
| The Wrecks | “INSIDE :” (L.A. alt-pop quartet’s six-song EP; new single: “Speed”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Lava / Republic |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Abbey Cone | “Greener” (Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “video games”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Abbey Cone |
| The Dialtones | “Static Sky” (five-song EP; new single: “Love to Live”; See here; Apple Music) | Mad Monk |
| Tara Nome Doyle | “Ekko” (Berlin-based Irish-Norwegian artist’s third album; producer: Simon Goff; new single: “Lighthouse”; See here; Read here; Clear Vinyl out May 9; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music) | FatCat |
| Benjamin William Hastings | “How I’d sing it on a sunday (from the studio) “ (live albu, featuring CXMMXNS and Reuben Morgan with the support of Worship Together; new single: “Lord I Give You My Heart”; See here; Apple Music) | Capitol CMG |
| Kills Birds | “Crave” (L.A.-based band’s five-song EP; producer: Aron Kobayashi Ritch; new single: “Madison”; See here; Apple Music) | Lucky Number |
| lullahush | “Ithaca” (new single: “Maggie na bhFlaitheas”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Future Classic |
| Mamalarky | “Hex Key” (tri-coastal indie rock quartet’s third album; new single: “Anhedonia”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Epitaph |
| Pan Amsterdam | “NYC Town” (four-song EP; See here; Apple Music) | Heavenly Recordings / [PIAS], April 15 |
| Frank Popp Ensemble | “Waves” (new single: “Going Going Gone”; See here; Apple Music) | Unique Records / Schubert Music Europe |
| Bjørn Riis | “Fimbulvinter” (Airbag co-founder’s solo album; producers: Riis, Vegard Kleftås; new single: “Gone”; See here; Apple Music) | Karisma |
| Paul van Dyk | “This World Is Ours” (his first album in five years; 30 tracks; new single: “Beautiful”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | VANDIT |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Paul Brady | “The Archive” (four-CD hardback book box set, with 64 rare and unreleased tracks; Amazon UK; On Tour) | The Last Music Company |
| The Brothers Four | “Greenfields: The Singles & Albums Collection 1959-62” (two CDs, 56 tracks) | Acrobat |
| Ella Fitzgerald | “All the Hits and More 1936-62” (three CDs, 73 songs) | Acrobat |
| Vince Guaraldi Trio | “Jazz Impressions of ‘A Boy Named Charlie Brown’ (Expanded Edition)” (Double CD; 1964 album; with 11 previously unreleased outtakes, including “Linus and Lucy [Studio Test]”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
| Mantovani & His Orchestra | “All the Hits and More: Orchestral Classics 1936-62” (two-CD, 45-track set covers his recordings for Columbia, Decca and London) | Acrobat |
| Nellie McKay | “Hey Guys, Watch This” (2023 album, her first album of original material since 2010; Hear here; available on CD and Vinyl for the first time; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Omnivore Recordings |
| Marian McPartland | “At the Peninsula Library 1972” (previously unreleased 19-track set, recorded on Dec. 10 in Lawrence on Long Island, with Rusty Gilder [bass] and Joe Cosrello [drums] accompanying the British-born jazz piano legend and former host of NPR’s “Piano Jazz” program; with extensive liner notes from music historians Barry Singer and Paul de Barros; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Liberation Hall |
| The Replacements | “Tim” (Double CD; contains the remastered 1985 album, along with the Ed Stasium remix; Amazon UK) | Rhino / Warner |
| Andy Summers and Robert Fripp | “The Complete Recordings 1981-1984” (three-CD, one-Blu-ray Audio box set includes the original albums “I Advance Masked” and “Bewitched,” with additional recordings, and a third album, “Mother Hold the Candle Steady,” featuring previously unreleased and unheard newly mixed material; presented in a 10-panel book-sized digi-sleeve with 16-page booklet; Amazon UK) | DGM Panegyric |
| Talking Heads | “Live On Tour ’78” (recorded at the Agora in Cleveland on Dec. 18, 1978, and released as a promo LP for radio broadcast in 1979; it’s the first official release of the full show, remastered from the original analog tapes, featuring one previously unreleased track; Amazon.ca; Merch) | Rhino / Warner |
| Various artists | “Feel Good All Over: The Sunshot Singles 1972-1973” (31 tracks on two CDs, featuring future reggae stars like Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, Horace Andy, Dillinger, Al Campbell, et al; Read here; Amazon UK) | Doctor Bird / Cherry Red |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Jukebox Classics: True Love Ways” (U.K. release; four CDs, 100 songs) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Various artists | “NOW 12″ 80s: 1984 – Part Two” (U.K. release; four CDs, 46 songs; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Johnnie Lee Wills (younger brother of Bob Wills) | “The Band’s A-Rockin’: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight” (recordings for Decca, Bullet Records and RCA Victor from 1941 to 1953) | Bear Family |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Fantastic Cat | “Now That’s What I Call Now That’s What I Call Fantastic Cat (Deluxe Edition)” (2024 album; with five bonus tracks, including new single “Some Things Never Change”; See here; Apple Music) | Missing Piece |
| Fancy Hagood | “American Spirit: The Last Drag” (deluxe version of his 2024 album, with three new original songs; Apple Music; On Tour) | Fancy Hagood Enterprises |
