New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Animal Collective | “Tangerine Reef” (first single: “Hair Cutter”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch)  | (Domino) |
| Bloods (Aussie quartet) | “Feelings” (first single: “Feelings”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Share It Music) |
| Blue October | “I Hope You’re Happy” (See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Up/Down / Brando) |
| Circles Around the Sun | “Let It Wander” (double album; guest: Chuck D; first single: “Immovable Object”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Rhino) |
| Death Cab for Cutie | “Thank You for Today” (their first album without Chris Walla; producer: Rich Costey; first single: “Gold Rush”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Atlantic) |
| Gabrielle | “Under My Skin” (her first album in 11 years; producer: Steve Chrisanthou; new single: “Thank You”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Rick Astley) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Ariana Grande | “Sweetener” (her fourth album and her first since the terrorist bombing at her Manchester concert last May; producers: Pharrell Williams, Max Martin; new single: “the light is coming,” feat. Nicki Minaj; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Republic) |
| Great Lake Swimmers | “The Waves, The Wake” (producer: Chris Stringer; first single: “Alone But Not Alone”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Nettwerk) |
| Jeremy & The Harlequins | “Remember This” (producer: Rick Parker; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Yep Roc) |
| Anna Meredith (British electronic musician) | “Anno: Four Seasons By Anna Meredith & Antonio Vivaldi” (features original compositions by Meredith, along with pieces from Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons; Hear here; Download) | (Moshi Moshi) |
| Nicki Minaj | “Queen” (guests: Ariana Grande, Lil Wayne, etc.; new single: “Bed”; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour, with Future; Merch) | (Young Money / Cash Money) |
| Mitski | “Be the Cowboy” (producer: Patrick Hyland; first single: “Geyser”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Dead Oceans) |
| Roy Montgomery (New Zealand guitarist) | “Suffuse” (guests: Haley Fohr, She Keeps Bees, Katie Von Schleicher, Purple Pilgrims, Julianna Barwick, Liz Harris; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Grapefruit) |
| The New Respects | “Before the Sun Goes Down” (new single: “Before the Sun Goes Down”; See here; Vinyl) | (Credential Recordings) |
| Oh Sees | “Smote Reverser” (first single: “Overthrown”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Castle Face) |
| Our Girl (London-based trio) | “Stranger Today” (new single: “I Really Like It”; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Cannibal Hymns) |
| Trevor Powers (formerly Youth Lagoon) | “Mulberry Violence” (first single: “Playwright”; See here; NPR First Listen; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Baby Halo) |
| Slaves | “Acts of Fear and Love” (first single: “Cut and Run”; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Virgin) |
| Suicideyear (Baton Rouge-based producer James Prudhomme) | “Color the Weather” (guests: Georgia, Casey Manierka, Yung Lean; Hear here; Vinyl; iTunes) | (LuckyMe) |
| Cole Swindell | “All of It” (new single: “The Ones Who Got Me Here”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Warner Music Nashville) |
| Various artists | “Juliet, Naked (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (romantic comedy-drama starring Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke and Chris O’Dowd opens Aug. 17; based on the novel by Nick Hornby, who wrote “High Fidelity” and “About a Boy”; songs written by Ryan Adams, Conor Oberst, Robyn Hitchcock and the film’s composer, Nathan Larson; See here; Download; iTunes; Fandango) | (Milan) |
| Conner Youngblood | “Cheyenne” (first single: “The Birds of Finland”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Counter) |
| Yo-Yo Ma | “Six Evolutions: Bach Cello Suites” (See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Sony Classical) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Eyes of Love (a band led by Brooklyn songwriter Andrea Schiavelli) | “End of the Game” (Hear here; CD, out Sept. 14; iTunes) | (Wharf Cat) |
| Nuggiez | “Holocene Ruina” (five-song EP; producer: Darryn Harkness, Tone Exchange Productions; first single: “Planet B”; Hear here) | (Nuggiez) |
| Juan María Solare | “solitude is oneself” (three music pieces, each in two versions: for electric piano [Rhodes] and for acoustic piano [Steinway]; producer: Solare; first single: “Never Underestimate the Difficulties of Simple Things [Electric Piano]”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Janus Music & Sound) |
| Nik Turner and Youth | “Pharaohs From Outer Space” (first single: “Heruxuti,” feat. Adamski; Vinyl; iTunes) | (Painted Word Music) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Claudio Abbado & Berlin Philharmoniker | “The Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings” (60-CD box set) | (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Berlin Philharmoniker / Karl Böhm | “Mozart: The Symphonies” (10 CDs and one Pure Audio Blu-ray; Hear here) | (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Leonard Bernstein | “This Is Leonard Bernstein: His Greatest Recordings” (16-CD box set), “Leonard Bernstein At Harvard – The Norton Lectures 1973: ‘The Unanswered Question'” (13-CD box set; eBay) | (Sony Classical) |
| Julee Cruise | “The Voice of Love” (1993 album; remastered; Hear here; Vinyl), “Three Demos [Vinyl]” (early demos of “Floating,” “Falling” and “The World Spins”; Download) | (Sacred Bones) |
| Neil Diamond | “Hot August Night III” (recorded live at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in August 2012, 40 years after his multiplatinum-selling “Hot August Night” was recorded at the same venue in 1972; CD/DVD; CD/Blu-ray; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch) | (Capitol / UMe) |
| Donovan | “Colours: The Masters Collection” (two CDs, 28 songs; Hear here; eBay) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Joe Ely | “The Lubbock Tapes: Full Circle” (recordings from 1974 and 1978; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay) | (Rack ‘Em) |
| Lowell George | “Thanks I’ll Eat It Here (Deluxe Edition)” (1979 album, released three months before his death; remastered, with two bonus tracks; Hear here; eBay) | (Friday Music) |
| Davy Jones | “David Jones (Deluxe Edition)” (1965 album, released three months before his death; remastered, with two bonus tracks; eBay) | (Friday Music) |
| Cyndi Lauper | “A Night to Remember” (1989 album, featuring “I Drove All Night”; remastered; See here; remastered; eBay; On Tour, with Rod Stewart; Merch) | (Music on CD) |
| Buck Owens | “Country Singer’s Prayer” (unreleased 1975 album, shelved by Capitol Records; remastered, with two bonus tracks; Hear here; Read here) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| Lee “Scratch” Perry | “Tighten Up: The Masters Collection” (two CDs, 28 songs; Hear here; eBay) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Scorpions | “Taken By Force” (1977 album; remastered; Vinyl; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Al Stewart | “Zero She Flies / Orange” (1970, 1972 albums on one CD; remastered; eBay; On Tour) | (Friday Music) |
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