New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The Arcadian Wild | “Make It Out Alive” (Nashville-based folk/pop trio’s fourth album; producer: Micah Tawlks; new single: “See It to Believe It”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   | Rip Stitch Records / Soundly Music |
| Jon Batiste | “Monk Meditations (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 3)” (Vinyl; Amazon UK) “Monk Movements (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 4)” (Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Verve |
| Becky G | “Baraja Bendita” (Mexican-American star’s fifth album; 17 tracks; new single: “Patrona”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | RCA |
| Phoebe Bridgers | “Lost Weekend” (her third solo album and first in six years; new single: “Lost Boys”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Rogue Planet – Green Glow in the Dark Splatter Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Pluto Glaciers Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dead Oceans |
| Elizabeth Cook | “Great Television” (Florida-bred, Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s eighth album; producer: Shooter Jennings; guests: Wynonna, Evan Felker; new single: “Razorwire Wall”; See here; Read here; Malibu Orange Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Agent Love Records / Thirty Tigers |
| Ashley Cooke | “ashley cooke” (Florida country singer-songwriter’s second album; 15 songs; producer: Dann Huff; new single: “famous to frances”; Hear here; Read here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Big Loud / Mercury |
| James Ellis Ford | “Lost In Another World” (second solo album from producer and one-half of Simian Mobile Disco; he wrote, played, sang and recorded about his experience with acute myeloid leukemia; new single: “Overtones”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Domino |
| Ludwig Göransson | “The Odyssey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Christopher Nolan’s film opened in theaters on July 17; Download released on July 17; Apple Music) | Mutant |
| Hovvdy | “Big World” (Austin alt-rock duo’s sixth album; producer: Ben Littlejohn; new single: “You Will Go Far”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Transparent Red and Yellow Split Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Arts & Crafts |
| Judah & the Lion | “I Am a Prism” (their sixth album; producer: Jeremy Lutito; new single: “Gravel Roads”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dualtone |
| Jungle | “Sunshine” (London trio’s fifth album; new single: “Someday, Somewhere”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Caiola Records / AWAL Recordings |
| KATSEYE | “WILD” (global girl group’s third EP; five songs; new single: “Animal”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with bonus track; Precious Jade Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Blizzard Vinyl, with bonus track; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | HYBE / Geffen |
| Kiwi Jr. | “Blowin’ Up” (Toronto indie rock band’s third album; producer: Graham Walsh; new single: “Photo of the Reenactment”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | K Records |
| Lukas Graham | “Good Times” (Danish pop band’s fifth album, leaning into frontman Lukas Forchhammer’s Irish heritage and folk roots; new single: “Second Chance”; See here; Vinyl; Indie Exclusive Caramel Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour, with Ed Sheeran) | Virgin Music Group |
| Marilyn Manson | “One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2” (his 13th studio album; new single: “Front Toward Enemy”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Custard and Black Marble Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Rob Zombie; Merch) | Nuclear Blast |
| Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal | “DOOMED!” (guests: billy woods, Hemlock Ernst, Gothic Tropic; new single: “She Swear I’m Colorblind”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Backwoodz / Rhymesayers / Secretly Distribution |
| Real Numbers | “Was It Always This Way” (Minneapolis indie-pop band’s second album, coming 10 years after their debut; producer: Matt Castore; new single: “Was It Always This Way”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Slumberland |
| Maggie Rose | “Half Moon” (Grammy-nominated Southern soul/country singer-songwriter’s fifth album; producers: Lawrence Rothman, Daniel Tashian; new single: “Used to It”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | One Riot |
| The Script | “The User’s Guide to Being Human” (Irish pop-rock trio’s eighth studio album; new single: “The Crowd Was Singing Wonderwall”; See here; Clear EcoRecord Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | BMG Rights Management |
| Carly Simon | “Comes in Waves” (her first album of original songs since 2008; written and recorded primarily at her Martha’s Vineyard home; producers: David Spencer, Frank Filipetti, Paul Samwell-Smith; new single: “Howl”; See here; Vinyl out Dec. 18; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Iris Records |
| Sparks | “Sparks Live On The Moon” (20-track set, featuring an intro and outro by Cate Blanchett; new single: “Whippings and Apologies”; See here; Vinyl out Sept. 4; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Transgressive |
| Laura Veirs | “Temple Songs” (her 14th solo album and the first she has written, recorded, arranged, produced, and performed entirely on her own; new single: “Pulse”; See here; Read here; Transparent Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Raven Marching Band Records |
| Lainey Wilson | “Amazon Music Presents: Lainey Wilson Live from Stagecoach 2026” (Amazon-Exclusive CD; six-song EP; Amazon-Exclusive Vinyl out Sept. 18; Download released on May 1; On Tour; Merch) | BBR Music Group |
| The Womack Sisters | “The Womack Sisters” (sibling trio’s debut album; their parents are Zekkariyas and Zeriiya, formerly known as Womack & Womack; their grandfather is the late Sam Cooke; producer: Gabriel Roth; new single: “If I Let You”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Daptone |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Bronwyn | “Rattlin’ Bones” (second album from Bronwyn Keith-Hines, two-time IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year and former member of Grammy-winning Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway; producers: Brent Truitt, Bronwyn; new single: “Sticks and Stones”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) | Bronwyn Keith-Hines |
| Dana and Alden | “Papa’s Boat” (Oregon-born, Brooklyn-based brother jazz duo’s fourth album; guests: Marcos Valle, Melanie Charles, Mei Semones, Zaza Desiderio, Cinya Khan, Mirella Costa, et al; new single: “Summer Nights”; See here; Lighthouse Blue EcoMix Vinyl; Apple Music) | Concord Jazz |
| Alex Dupree | “Talking to the Dog” (Texan poet-songwriter’s first album in four years; producer: Michael Krassner; new single: “I Can See Her in Your Eyes”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) | Scissor Tail Records |
| Everything Is Recorded | “Cut Off Your Nose” (four-song EP; guests: Peter Gabriel, Jah Wobble, Roses Gabor, Samantha Morton, Rian Brazil, IDK; new single: “Cut Off Your Nose”) | XL Recordings |
| EWAH | “SPIRITUAL DANCE” (Nipaluna/Hobart, Tasmania-based artist’s autobiographical art-pop and sound-diary album, a 15-year followup to 2011’s “GOSPEL DANCE”; available at 00:00 EDT on Aug. 13; producer: EWAH; Hear here) | EWAH |
| Wade Forster | “The Aftermath” (Aussie country artist’s third album; new single: “Anytime, Anywhere, Antoinette”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Community Music |
| Fridayy | “Tension” (R&B artist’s third album; producers: Alexander Torti, Edgar Cutino, Fridayy, Hossy, MOMBRU, Xander Linnet; new single: “Haiku”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour, with Rod Wave) | Def Jam |
| Hank Heaven | “Welterweight” (NYC trans nonbinary artist’s six-song EP; producer: Phil Weinrobe; new single: “I Wanna Be Your Man”; See here; Apple Music) | Nice Life Recording Company |
| Icona Pop | “Ritual” (Swedish electro-pop duo’s fourth album; producers: Albin Clern, Furrer, Jason Gill, Oliver Ländin, TimFromTheHouse; new single: “Yellow Top”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Ultra |
| Brian Kelley | “Coral Beats” (guests: ERNEST, Niko Moon, Wheeland Brothers, CHXNDLER; producer: Katlin Owen; new single: “Jimmy Buffett Summer”; See here) | Nashville South |
| Living Weapon | “Death in the Family” (Massachusetts metalcore band’s debut full-length album; new single: “Interspecies Quality Assessment”; See here; CD and Black Ice in Clear With Splatter Vinyl out Oct. 2; Apple Music) | Closed Casket Activities |
| L’Rain | “fata morgana” (Brooklyn native Taja Cheek’s fourth album; producers: Cheek, Ben Chapoteau-Katz, and Andrew Lappin; new single: “borderline”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Rose of Jericho Glow Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mexican Summer |
| Melaina Kol | “Okay that’s a great idea because if I do that then” (alias of Nashville musician Logan Hornyak; new single: “Idola”; See here; Apple Music) | Julia’s War Recordings |
| Peter Parcek | “Most of the Time” (blues-rock singer-guitarist’s fifth album; new single: “How Many Times”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Lightnin Records |
| Adam Rubenstein | “Firebreak” (guests: Vernon Reid, Chris Carrabba, former Into Another vocalist Richie Beirkenhead; new single: “Firebreak”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Spartan Records |
| Bajune Tobeta | “Anechoic” (Japanese artist-producer’s five-song EP; new single: “Batucada”; See here) | CROIX Co., Ltd. / electric sheep |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Everything But the Girl | “Walking Wounded (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1996 album, featuring the title track and “Wrong”; mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, with 18 bonus remixes, demos and live tracks) “Temperamental (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1999 album, featuring “Five Fathoms”; mastered by Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, with remixes and other extra tracks) | Buzzin’ Fly / Chrysalis |
| Conan Gray | “Wishbone Deluxe” (2025 album; with five bonus tracks, including “The Best” and “Door,” plus a wall poster; Midnight Black Edition Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on April 24; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Republic / UMe |
| Jethro Tull | “J-Tull Dot Com: Another Cast of the Net (Deluxe Edition)” (1999 album; newly remixed by Bruce Soord in stereo and Surround Sound, including Dolby Atmos, with three bonus live tracks from Katowice in 2000; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | InsideOutMusic |
| Gordon Lightfoot | “Sundown” (Hybrid SACD; 1974 album, featuring title track and “Carefree Highway”; mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab direct to DSD from the original master tape) | Analogue Productions |
| The Monkees | “Made For TV: Favorite Episodes and Biggest Hits From Season 1” (one-LP, two-CD and Blu-ray package includes TV versions of season 1 tracks, the official season 1 soundtrack [in order of episodic appearance], and a curated Blu-ray of fan-favorite episodes from the season; includes new liner notes by Andrew Sandoval; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Rhino |
| Mos Def (now known as yasiin bey) | “The Ecstatic (Deluxe Edition)” (2009 album; Grammy-nominated for Best Rap Album; Clear Red Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette) | Rhymesayers Entertainment |
| Leo Sayer | “Leothology: The Studio Albums 1973-Now” (18-CD, 220-track box set contains 18 studio albums, plus two previously unreleased albums, “Don’t Wait Until Tomorrow – Live” and “Return to Paradise,” along with rarities, 28-page booklet and 3,000-word liner notes by Sayer; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Edsel / Demon Music Group |
| Spider | “Spider (Deluxe Edition)” (1980 debut album; band lineup included keyboardist-songwriter Holly Knight and “Late Night With David Letterman” drummer Anton Fig; remastered audio shaped from 24-bit digital technology, with 12-page full color booklet, featuring 3,500-word essay, enhanced artwork and new interviews) “Between the Lines (Deluxe Edition)” (1981 album, featuring “Change” and “Better Be Good to Me,” later covered by John Waite and Tina Turner respectively; remastered audio shaped from 24-bit digital technology, with 12-page full color booklet, featuring 3,500-word essay, enhanced artwork and new interviews) | Rock Candy |
| Josh Turner | “Your Man (20th Anniversary Edition)” (2006 album, featuring the title track and “Would You Go with Me”; nominated for two Grammys, including Best Country Album; with bonus song “Hard Headed,” alongside extra live tracks; Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | MCA Nashville / UMe |
| Various artists | “The Debut Hits Collection” (three-CD, 63-track compilation of first chart hits by Simon & Garfunkel, Tina Turner, The Righteous Brothers, Rod Stewart, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Hozier, Dido, Soft Cell, a-ha, et al; Amazon UK) | Sony Music UK |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| John Coltrane | “Coltrane” (1957 debut solo album, with Johnnie Splawn, Sahib Shihab, Red Garland, Mal Waldron, Paul Chambers and Albert “Tootie” Heath; remastered mono edition; Vinyl, on 180-gram vinyl pressed at RTI with all-analog mastering from the original tapes at Cohearent Audio and a Stoughton Tip-On Jacket; Hear here; Apple Music; Merch) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
