New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Brother Cane | “Magnolia Medicine” (Alabama rock band’s fourth album and first since 1998, reuniting with original members; producer: Marti Frederiksen, who also co-wrote seven of the songs with frontman Damon Johnson; new single: “If This Means War”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)   | Double Dragon Records / Virgin Music Group |
| Marc Broussard | “Chance Worth Taking” (producers: Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith, Calvin Turner; guests: Bonamassa, Trombone Shorty; new singles: “Fever” and “No More”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | KTBA Records |
| Bunbury | “De un siglo anterior” (translation: “From a previous century”; Spanish rock icon’s 14th studio album; producers: Bunbury, Ramón Gacías; new single: “Creer que se puede creer”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; On Tour) | Warner Music Spain |
| Draken | “Here Be Draken” (Norwegian stoner rockers’ third album; producers: Draken; new single: “It Serves You Right”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Dark Essence |
| Robben Ford | “Two Shades of Blue” (new single: “Make My Own Weather”; See here; Read here; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Provogue / Artone Label Group |
| From Ashes to New | “Reflections” (Lancaster, PA nu-metal band’s fifth album; new single: “Villain”; See here; Purple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Black Veil Brides) | Better Noise Music |
| Hardline | “Shout” (melodic rockers’ seventh album; new single: “Rise Up”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Steamhammer |
| Gary Klebe | “Out Loud” (debut solo album from member of pioneering power-pop band Shoes; new single: “Room to Breathe”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Black Vinyl Records / Missing Piece |
| The Last Ten Seconds of Life | “The Dead Ones” (Pennsylvania metal band’s eighth album; producers: Carson Slovak, Grant McFarland; new single: “The Dead Ones”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Metal Blade |
| Jan Lisiecki | “Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 22” (joined by Bamberger Symphoniker and Manfred Honeck; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Stacy Mitchhart | “No Rhyme or Reason” (blues guitarist’s 17th album; producer: Tom Hambridge; guests: Gretchen Wilson, Kenny Neal, Charlie Musselwhite; new single: “Good One Time”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dr. Sam Records |
| Kathryn Mohr | “Carve” (Oakland-based musician’s second album; new single: “Property”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Seaweed Green Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) | The Flenser |
| Prince Daddy & The Hyena | “Hotwire Trip Switch” (producer: Joe Reinhart; new single: “Big-Box Store Heart”; See here; Read here; Neon Magenta Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Counter Intuitive Records |
| Protoje | “The Art of Acceptance” (global reggae star’s seventh album; producer: Winta James; guests: Stephen Marley, Damian Marley, Jesse Royal, Masicka, Shenseea, Pressure Busspipe; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Diggers Factory |
| Curtis Salgado | “Legacy Rewind: Live In ’25” (recorded and filmed at The Triple Door in Seattle on April 5 last year; new single: “Wiggle This Out”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Nola Blue Records |
| Skindred | “You Got This” (Welsh ragga metal band’s ninth album; producer: Jay Ruston; new single: “You Got This”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Earache |
| Snocaps | “Snocaps” (debut album from twin sisters Allison and Katie Crutchfield; backed by multi-instrumentalist MJ Lenderman and producer Brad Cook; new single: “Coast”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Oct. 31; Apple Music; On Tour) | ANTI- / Epitaph |
| Souled American | “Sanctions” (Chicago alt-country band’s sixth album and first in 30 years; new single: “Boom Boom”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Jealous Butcher |
| Teen Suicide | “Nude descending staircase, headless” (their seventh album; producer: Mike Sapone; new single: “Suffering [Mike’s Way]”; See here; Read here; Gray Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Run for Cover |
| They Might Be Giants | “The World Is to Dig” (their first full-length album since 2021’s Grammy-nominated “BOOK”; 18 songs; producers: They Might Be Giants, Patrick Dillett; new single: “Outside Brain”; See here; Translucent Yellow Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Idlewild Recordings |
| Tiga | “HOTLIFE” (Canadian producer/DJ’s album’s first studio album in more than a decade; guests: Fcukers, Boys Noize, Maara, MRD; new single: “ECSTASY SURROUNDS ME”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Turbo Recordings / Secret City |
| Benjamin Tod | “Vengeance & Grace” (20-track collection consists of 10 original songs, each paired with an acoustic version; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Thirty Tigers |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 123” (Double CD; 40 hits; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Jessie Ware | “Superbloom” (her fifth album; producer: James Ford; new single: “Automatic”; See here; Vinyl; Peacock Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Interscope |
| Adrian Younge | “Younge” (orchestral hip-hop album; new single: “Portschute”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Linear Labs |
| ZAYN | “KONNAKOL” (his fifth solo album; new single: “Die For Me”; Swimming Through Seas Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Blooming Color Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mercury |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Accessory | “Dust” (debut album from Chicago artist Jason Balla outside of his releases as singer-guitarist of Dehd; new single: “Calcium”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Love Song Dance |
| Arkells | “Between Us” (JUNO Award-winning Canadian rock band’s 11th studio album; producer: John Congleton; guests: GROUPLOVE, Portugal. The Man, Poolside; new single: “What’s On Your Mind”; Hear here; Grass Green Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour) | Universal Music Canada / Virgin Music Group |
| Yaya Bey | “Fidelity” (Brooklyn-based singer’s fourth album; new single: “Blue”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | drink sum wtr |
| Chief State | “Keep Your Friends Closer” (Vancouver pop-punk band’s third full-length album; producer: Tim Creviston; guest: Stu Ross of Comeback Kid; new single: “April Showers”; See here; Apple Music) | Mutant League Records |
| Rādhikā Dās | “Lightfall” (London-based Mantra artist’s five-song EP; producer: Ryan Hadlock; new single: “Hara Mahadeva”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mantra Roots / Community Music |
| Fast Money Music | “Fast Money Music” (debut solo project of Nick Hinman, a U.S.-born and London-based musician and producer; producers: Mikko Gordon, Hinman; new single: “Nevermind”) | Sick Records |
| Sean Griffin | “People Are Mad” (debut solo album from The Ruffians frontman; producer: Kenny Siegal; new single: “That’s All She Wrote”; See here; Apple Music) | Right Track Records |
| Honey Dijon | “The Nightlife” (Chicago house DJ-producer’s third solo album; guests: Greentea Peng, Madison McFerrin, Rochelle Jordan, Jacob Lusk, Chlöe, Mahalia, Bree Runway, et al; new single: “Slight Werk [Club Mix]”; Hear here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | SOS |
| Chad King | “The Road Ahead” (A Great Big World member’s four-song debut solo EP; new single: “Golden Door”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) | North Star |
| LØLØ | “god forbid a girl spits out her feeling!” (Canadian singer-songwriter’s second album; producers: Andrew Goldstein, Danen Reed Rector, Mike Robinson; new single: “007”; See here; Read here; CD and Fruit Punch Vinyl out May 1; Apple Music) | Fearless / Concord |
| Magus | “Music For Mandrax” (debut album from Espers co-founder Greg Weeks, a new project with Jessica Weeks; new single: “Through Darkened Glass”; Hear here; Vinyl) | Language of Stone |
| M.I.A. | “M.I.7” (British singer-rapper’s seventh album; new single: “EVERYTHING”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour, with Kid Cudi) | OHMNIMUSIC |
| MONT LOSER | “Confessional” (French grunge trio’s debut album; new single: “You’re gonna hear about me again”; See here; Apple Music) | Géographie / Modulor |
| Owen Riegling | “In the Feeling” (Canadian country singer-songwriter’s sophomore album; producer: Oscar Charles; new single: “Love Hate Love”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Big Loud / Universal Music Canada |
| Seether | “Beneath the Surface” (four-song EP; new single: “Into the Ground”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Fantasy / Concord |
| TOMORA | “COME CLOSER” (debut collaborative from AURORA and The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands; new single: “COME CLOSER”; See here; Read here; White Vinyl; Amazon UK-Exclusive Pink Vinyl; Apple Music) | Capitol |
| Cameron Whitcomb | “Deep Water” (five-song EP from alt-country singer-songwriter and “American Idol” season 20 contestant; producer: Jack Riley; new single: “Kingdom of Fear”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Atlantic Outpost |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| a-ha | “Analogue (20th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 2005 album, featuring “Analogue [All I Want]” and “Celice”; remastered by Bill Inglot, with 21 bonus tracks – 15 of which are previously unreleased – including B-sides, remixes, demos, and alternate versions; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch) | Rhino |
| Beastie Boys | “To the 5 Boroughs (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 2004 album, featuring “Ch-Check It Out”; with 11 bonus tracks, including remixes and B-sides, housed in a multi-panel Softpak; Triple Vinyl, housed in a triple gatefold jacket with pop-up elements inside a rigid slipcase, along with a NYC map lithograph; Amazon UK; Merch) | Capitol / UMe |
| The Blasters | “Rare Blasts: Studio Outtakes and Movie Music 1979-1985” (14-track collection; Hear here) | Liberation Hall |
| Ludovico Einaudi | “Solo Piano” (hand-picked collection of his solo piano works spanning his 30-year career, featuring a new track, “Memory One”; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download on Feb. 27; Apple Music; On Tour) | Decca |
| Duke Ellington | “Copenhagen 1964” (14-song performance at Tivoli Concert Hall on March 13; restored and remastered; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) | Storyville |
| Joe Henderson | “The Classic 1960s Albums” (eight albums on four CDs) | Enlightenment |
| Zara Larsson | “So Good” (2017 album, featuring “Lush Life,” “Never Forget You” and “Ain’t My Fault”; bonus track: Clean Bandit’s “Symphony,” feat. Larsson; Double Vinyl; On Tour) | Epic / Legacy |
| Little Feat | “Little Feat (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1971 debut album; remastered, with previously unreleased alternate versions and outtakes from their early recording sessions; Final Tour) | Rhino / Warner |
| Dan Penn | “Smoke Filled Room” (11-song compilation of demo sessions, including “One Blue Light”; curated by Penn; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) | The Last Music Company |
| The Oscar Peterson Trio | “At Baker’s Keyboard Lounge” (unreleased live performances from 1960 in Detroit, with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Living Earth Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Indigo Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download, 27 songs; Apple Music) | Verve / UMe |
| John Prine | “BBC Sessions” (1973 solo performances of songs from his first two albums; Amazon UK) | Rhino / Atlantic |
| Romeo Void | “Live ’81-’85” (17-song compilation features performances at venues in Ann Arbor, MI, Albany, NY, London and Berlin; Hear here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download) | Liberation Hall |
| Jimmy Scott | “Falling In Love Is Wonderful” (1963 album; remastered; label owner Ray Charles played piano on every track; Hear here; Tangerine Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Tangerine |
| t.A.T.u. | “200 km/h in the Wrong Lane” (2002 album, produced by Trevor Horn, Martin Kierszenbaum and Robert Orton, featuring “All the Things She Said”; See here; Green and Gold Nugget Split Splatter Vinyl, with poster; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Opaque Burgundy and Black Marble Vinyl) | Interscope / UMe |
| The Zombies | “Begin Here (Mono Remastered)” (1965 debut album, featuring “She’s Not There”; remastered in its original mono mix, with three bonus tracks, including “Tell Her No”; mastering by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering and new liner notes by David Fricke; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Beechwood Park Records |
