New Releases: April 16, 2021
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Armed (hardcore collective) | “ULTRAPOP” (producers: guitarist Dan Greene, Ben Chisholm; guests: Mark Lanegan, Troy Van Leeuwen; first single: “ALL FUTURES”; See/read here; Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW  |
(Sargent House) |
| Eric Church | “Heart” (the first release of his three-part project called “Heart & Soul”; a vinyl EP titled “&” will be available to fan club members on April 20, and the album “Soul” will follow on April 23; producer: Jay Joyce; new single: “Heart On Fire”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(EMI Nashville) |
| Escape the Fate | “Chemical Warfare” (guests: Lindsey Stirling, Travis Barker; Vinyl; Download; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Better Noise Music) |
| FITZ | “Head Up High” (the Fitz and the Tantrums leader’s full-length debut solo album; producer: Ryan Daly; new single: “Somebody Sometimes”; See here; Download, released on March 26; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Elektra) |
| Marty Friedman | “Tokyo Jukebox 3” (covers of J-pop hits by Da Pump, Momoiro Clover Z, Sekai No Owari and Little Glee Monster; See here; Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(The Players Club / Mascot Label Group) |
| Greta Van Fleet | “The Battle at Garden’s Gate” (producer: Greg Kurstin; new single: “Heat Above”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Lava / Republic) |
| Holding Absence | “The Greatest Mistake of My Life” (new single: “Beyond Belief”; See here; Coke Bottle Green Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(SharpTone) |
| Engelbert Humperdinck | “Sentiments” (six-song EP; guest: Janet Devlin; Download, released on Nov. 20; See here) » BUY NOW |
(OK!Good) |
| Liquid Tension Experiment (supergroup comprised of Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess and Tony Levin) | “LTE3” (their first album in 22 years; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(InsideOutMusic) |
| Imelda May | “11 Past the Hour” (producers: May, Cam Blackwood, Tim Bran, Davide Rossi; guests: Ronnie Wood, Miles Kane, Niall McNamee, Gina Martin, Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Decca) |
| Midland | “The Sonic Ranch” (new single: “Cowgirl Blues”; See here; Read here; Download, released on March 19; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Big Machine) |
| The Offspring | “Let the Bad Times Roll” (their first album in nine years; producer: Bob Rock; new single: “Let the Bad Times Roll”; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with limited-edition patch; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Lemonade Vinyl Edition; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Concord) |
| Freda Payne | “Let There Be Love” (traditional jazz album, featuring duets with Johnny Mathis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling and Kenny Lattimore; recorded at Capitol Records Studio A; producer: Rodrigo Rios; Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(The Sound of L.A.) |
| Cole Quest and the City Pickers (Quest is the grandson of Woody Guthrie) | “Self [En]Titled” (six-song EP; producer: Steve Rosenthal; new single: “Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key”; See here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Omnivore Recordings) |
| Saint Raymond | “We Forgot We Were Dreaming” (new single: “Solid Gold”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Cooking Vinyl) |
| Robin Trower, Maxi Priest & Livingstone Brown | “United State of Mind” (See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Manhaton) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Tracy Bonham & Melodeon Music House | “Young Maestros, Vol. 1” (inspired by the educational programs of the 1970s, i.e. “Electric Company,” “Sesame Street,” “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and “Schoolhouse Rock”; new single: “Me Symphony”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Melodeon Music House) |
| Jeremiah Fraites (of The Lumineers) | “Piano Piano (Acoustic)” (seven-song EP includes a cover of Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Dualtone) |
| Garage A Trois | “Calm Down Cologne” (their first album in 10 years, and their first with original members Stanton Moore, Charlie Hunter and Skerik since 1999; new single: “The Epic”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Royal Potato Family) |
| Goo Goo Dolls | “EP 21” (four acoustic songs; producer: frontman John Rzeznik) » BUY NOW |
(Warner) |
| jess joy (formerly of Moon Honey) | “PATREEARCHY” (producer: Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier; new single: “bless your name”; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW | (Joyful Noise Recordings) |
| London Grammar | “Californian Soil” (new single: “California Soil”; Hear here; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Columbia) |
| Paul McCartney | “McCartney III Imagined” (a set of remixes and reinterpretations of songs off his 2020 album “McCartney III”; guests: Beck, Khruangbin, St. Vincent, Blood Orange, Phoebe Bridgers, Ed O’Brien, Damon Albarn, Josh Homme, Anderson .Paak, 3DRDN, Idris Elba; first single: “The Kiss of Venus,” feat. Dominic Fike; See here; CD and Vinyl out July 23; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Capitol) |
| Miesha & The Spanks | “Singles” (seven-song EP; new single: “Mixed Blood Girls”; Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(Saved by Vinyl) |
| NEEDTOBREATHE | “Live From the Woods Vol. 2” (recorded March 13-14 at The Caverns in Pelham, Tenn.; CD, out July 9; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Atlantic) |
| The Polyphonic Spree | “Afflatus” (all-covers album; See here» BUY NOW |
(Good Records Recordings) |
| Zach Schmidt | “Raise a Banner” (producer: Sadler Vaden; new single: “I Can’t Dance”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Boss Dawg) |
| Andy Stott | “Never the Right Time” (guest: Alison Skidmore; new single: “The beginning”; Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(Modern Love) |
| AJ Tracey | “Flu Game” (guests: Kehlani, T-Pain, SahBabii, NAV, Millie Go Lightly, etc.; producers: Tracey, Nyge, The Elements, Kazza, AoD, Remedee, etc.) » BUY NOW |
(Revenge) |
| Two Feet | “Max Maco Is Dead Right?” (producers: John Feldmann, Geoffrey Hufford, Andrew Luce; new single: “Never Enough”; See here; Read here; CD and Opaque Light Blue Vinyl out July 9; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Two Feet / AWAL Recordings) |
More Digital Releases for April 16, 2021 »
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Lloyd Cole | “Antidepressant” (2006 album; remastered; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(earMUSIC) |
| Elvis Costello and the Attractions | “Armed Forces [Vinyl]” (1979 album, produced by Nick Lowe and featuring “Oliver’s Army” and “Accidents Will Happen”; nine-LP box set, with seven custom notebooks, 23 unreleased live songs, vintage grenade, gun poster, four original postcards of each band member and pulp novel covers of songs from “Armed Forces” commissioned by artist Todd Alcott; See here; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Elvis Costello / UMe) |
| Jethro Tull | “A (A La Mode): 40th Anniversary Edition” (1980 album; three-CD, three-DVD box set features a new Steven Wilson remix, unreleased and live material plus a remixed Slipstream video collection; Read here; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino / Parlophone) |
| Norah Jones | “… ‘Til We Meet Again” (live performances from the U.S., France, Italy, Brazil and Argentina recorded between 2017-19; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Blue Note) |
| Donna Lewis | “Now in a Minute (25th Anniversary Edition) [Vinyl]” (1996 album, featuring “I Love You Always Forever”; orange vinyl; See here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Black Marble Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(Real Gone Music) |
| Tom Petty | “Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions)” (highlights from 2020’s “Wildflowers & All the Rest” box set; Hear here; Read here; Gold Vinyl; Download; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Warner) |
| Saga | “All the Hits” (27-song compilation; Download) » BUY NOW |
(earMUSIC) |
| Paul Simon | “Still Crazy After All These Years [Hybrid SACD]” (1975 album; mastered from the original master tapes) » BUY NOW |
(Mobile Fidelity) |
| Tammy Wynette | “Only Lonely Sometimes / Soft Touch / Good Love & Heartbreak / Even the Strong Get Lonely” (1980, 1982 and 1983 albums on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW |
(Morello) |
More Releases for April 16, 2021 »
Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Busta Rhymes | “The Coming (Deluxe Edition)” (1996 debut album; remastered, with 24 bonus remix and instrumental tracks) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino / Elektra) |
| Tim McGraw | “Here On Earth (Ultimate Edition)” (2020 album; with eight bonus tracks) » BUY NOW |
(Big Machine) |
| Portugal. The Man | “Oregon City Sessions” (previously unreleased live recordings from December 2008; See/Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Approaching AIRballoons / Secretly Distribution) |
| Sharon Van Etten | “epic Ten” (double album celebrating her 2010 LP, featuring the original record and a new disc of covers, with guests Fiona Apple, Lucinda Williams, Courtney Barnett, Justin Vernon, Aaron Dessner, etc.; Hear here; CD and Vinyl out May 28; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Ba Da Bing!) |
| Mary Wilson | “Mary Wilson (Expanded Edition)” (1979 album; remastered, with eight bonus tracks; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Motown / UMe) |
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