New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The Afghan Whigs | “Soft Control” (Ohio alt-rock band’s 10th album; new single: “My Lover”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   |
Royal Cream / BMG Rights Management |
| The Barbarians of California | “MEGATONS” (hardcore punk band’s sophomore album; new single: “REALLY REALLY RAD”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Two Twenty Five Music / Many Hats Distribution |
| Black Marble | “Life in Small Spaces” (Chris Stewart’s fifth studio album and first in five years; new single: “Jim Carol New Year”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Sacred Bones |
| Crack the Sky | “Blessed” (progressive rock band’s 20th studio album; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) |
Iconoclassic |
| Dan + Shay | “Young” (country duo’s seventh studio album; producers: Dan Smyers, Scott Hendricks; new single: “Her, the Kids, and Jesus”; Hear here; Read here; Chalkboard Green Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Chalk White Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Warner Records Nashville |
| Eartheater | “Heavenly Body: If I’m the Bottle You’re the Message” (NYC-based experimental electronic artist’s seventh album; producers: Eartheater, David Sitek; new single: “Paradise Rains”; Hear here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Crystal Clear Vinyl; Cassette; Download released on July 14; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Chemical X / Mad Decent |
| ENHYPEN | “THE SIN : BLISS” (K-pop group’s eighth mini album; White Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) |
BELIFT LAB Inc. |
| Brandon Flowers | “THRASHER” (The Killers frontman’s third solo album and first since 2015; new single: “Tiger’s Blood”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Island |
| Giraffe | “The Towering Inferno With Bongo Drums” (debut collaboration from Dave Harrington [Darkside], Robert Walter [The Greyboy Allstars], Spencer Zahn and Kosta Galanopoulos [Rio Kosta]; recorded in a single day at 64 Sound in Los Angeles; producer: Harrington; new single: “Room of Forgotten Names”; Hear here; Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) |
Aquarium Drunkard / Org Music |
| Paul Heaton | “Jenius” (11th solo album from former Housemartins and The Beautiful South member; producers: Heaton, Ian Broudie; new single: “Favourite Kind of Idiot”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
EMI |
| Robyn Hitchcock | “The Confuser” (his 25th solo album; new single: “Breathless”; Hear here; Vinyl; Glowing Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on July 24; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Tiny Ghost |
| Julia Holter | “Materia” (art-pop singer-songwriter’s seventh album; new single: “My Lost One”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) |
Domino |
| Anthony Hopkins | “Life Is a Dream” (first album of music composed by the Oscar-winning actor, performed by Philharmonia Orchestra and conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; new single: “1947: Suite for Solo Piano and Orchestra: II Bracken Road”; Hear here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Decca Classics |
| Ray Wylie Hubbard | “Reel 2 Reel 4 Real “ (Americana legend’s 20th album; producers: Hubbard, Jonathan Tyler; new single: “Look What the Cat Drug In”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Bordello Records / Soundly Music / Thirty Tigers |
| Improvement Movement | “Your Perfect Real Life” (eclectic Atlanta rock band’s second album; new single: “Common Place”; See here; Boxed Wine Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
ATO |
| Keb’ Mo’ | “The Breakdown” (recorded at his home studio outside Nashville and written in the wake of life-saving open heart surgery and the end of his nearly 20-year marriage; guests: Take 6, Soweto Gospel Choir; new single: “One Day Away”; See here; Red Blend EcoMix Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Concord |
| The Kennedys | “Smoketree” (Americana/folk-rock duo produced and engineered the album in their own Hudson Valley studio; new single: “Without Us”; See here; Download; Apple Music) |
The Kennedys LLC |
| Lambchop | “Punching the Clown” (their 17th studio album; new single: “The New World Wave”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Silver Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
City Slang / Merge |
| Sondre Lerche | “Acrobats” (his first full-length album of new music in more than four years; producers: Matias Téllez, Kato Ådland; new single: “Little Kids”; See here; Transparent Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
PLZ / Virgin Music Group |
| Michael McDermott | “Flowers From the Graveyard” (new single: “Always a Ways Away”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) |
Pauper Sky |
| Elanor Moss | “The Knife, The Needle” (London-based singer-songwriter’s debut album; producer: Peter Miles; new single: “Fixer”; See here; Read here; Clear Purple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Merge |
| Ian Munsick | “The Mountain Goat” (Wyoming country artist’s fourth album; producers: Munsick, Jeremy Spillman, Mike Robinson; new single: “Palomino Eyes”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
WEST TO THE REST RECORDS / Triple Tigers |
| Mystery Jets | “A Hole to See the Sky Through” (London-based indie rock band’s seventh album and first since 2020; new single: “Flea Joint”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Dark Night Marble Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Fiction |
| Anderson .Paak | “K-POPS! (Music from and inspired by K-POPS! Motion Picture)” (featuring JID, G-DRAGON, aespa, NMIXX, DEAN, and members of SEVENTEEN, ATEEZ, and (G)I-DLE; Hear here; Read here; Pink Double Vinyl; Download released on May 29) |
Capitol |
| Chris Pierce | “Songs for the Heavy Hearted” (producers: David Resnik, Niko Bolas; guests: Steve Earle, Allison Russell, Garrison Starr, Grey DeLisle; new single: “It Ain’t Ever Wrong to Be Free”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Missing Piece Records |
| Grace Potter | “Trespasser” (seventh studio LP; producer: husband Eric Valentine; new single: “Belong”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Mother Road Records / Thirty Tigers |
| nate sib | “reborn” (L.A. electro-pop artist’s debut album; producers: Clyde Crooks, Dale Becker, Jonah Abraham, kimj, sib, Olswel, Tom Norris; new single: “All I Needed”; Hear here; Read here; Clear Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Tan Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Republic |
| Jorja Smith | “What Are the Odds” (English singer-songwriter’s third album; producer: P2J; guests: Wizkid, Devlin; new single: “I Lied, You Lied”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Orange Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
FAMM |
| Sam Smith | “Hazel Eyes” (Grammy winner’s fifth studio album; producers: Smith, Simon Aldred, David Odlum; guests: Feist, The TwoCity Chorus; new single: “When He’s Gone”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon-Exclusive CD; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Opaque Grey Vinyl; Transparent Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Capitol |
| Squirrel Flower | “Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going” (Chicago-based indie rocker Ella Williams’ fifth album; producers: Williams, Seth Engel, Jack Henry, Alex Farrar; new single: “Not Me”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Polyvinyl |
| T.I. | “KILL THE KING” (his 12th and final studio album; 18 tracks; Double Vinyl and Amazon-Exclusive Zoetrope Double LP out Sept. 25; Download released on June 26; On Tour) |
Grand Hustle / EMPIRE |
| twenty one pilots | “More Than We Ever Imagined (Live in Mexico City)” (recorded on Feb. 18-20, 2025, at Estadio GNP Seguros in front of 65,000 fans during The Clancy World Tour; Red Double Vinyl; Download released on Aug. 7; Merch) |
Fueled By Ramen |
| Various artists | “Jem Records Celebrates Bob Dylan” (new single: “Stuck in Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” by Paul Collins; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) |
Jem Records |
| Various artists | “Off Campus: The Mixtape” (Amazon-Exclusive CD; 16 tracks from the Prime Video romantic drama series; Download released on May 13) |
Island |
| Weezer | “Weezer (Gold Album)” (their 16th album and first in five years; producers: Kenneth Blume, Klas Åhlund; new single: “C.E.O.”; See here; Read here; Amazon-Exclusive Hot Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) |
Reprise |
| Westside Cowboy | “It Goes On” (Manchester indie rock quartet’s debut album; producer: Loren Humphrey; recorded at Greenmount Studios in Leeds; new single: “Dobro”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive White and Black Marbled Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Island |
| Wild Pink | “Still Coming Down” (NYC indie rock band’s sixth album; producer: Alex Farrar; new single: “500 Is the New 250”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Fire Talk |
| Finn Wolfhard | “Fire From the Hip” (“Stranger Things” actor’s second album; new single: “I’ll Let You Finish”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download released on July 10; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Night Shift Productions / AWAL Recordings |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Cruz Beckham | “Wear & Tear” (six-song debut EP from 20-year-old singer-guitarist and son of David and Victoria Beckham; producers: Justin Raisen, Lewis Pesacov; new single: “Seeing Red”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Republic |
| Alex Brightman, Sara Chase, Ana Gasteyer, Max Clayton, Isabelle McCalla, et al | “Schmigadoon! (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (28-track album captures Cinco Paul’s Tony Award-winning score; CD out Oct. 16; Apple Music) |
Joy Machine Records |
| Adam Chaffins | “Trailer Trash: Doublewide” (Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s second album; producers: Frank Rogers, Derek Wells, Mike Fiorentino, Chaffins; new single: “Lucky Me”; See here; Apple Music) |
Spirit Nashville Recordings / Fluid Music Revolution |
| Foglights | “Nous Deux” (four-song debut EP from Cords/Stone Anthem members; new single: “The Rain Felt Kind”; Apple Music) |
Slumberland |
| GB | “Herzsprung” (Danish experimental pop musician Gustav Berntsen’s second album; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) |
AD 93 |
| Ghost Hounds | “Justified” (Pittsburgh-based country-rock band’s eighth album; producer: guitarist Thomas Tull; new single: “Something Wicked”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Maple House |
| Guiding Light | “Fear On My Own Time” (Austin post-punks’ debut album; new single: “Shackled By Lust”; See here; Apple Music) |
Post Present Medium |
| hey, nothing | “Hound” (Athens, GA-born and bred best friend duo’s debut album; new single: “Drywall”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Music Soup / Interscope |
| Sawyer Hill | “Everybody’s Home, Nobody’s Happy” (Arkansas alt-rock singer-songwriter’s debut album; producer: Ryan Linvill; new single: “Alibi”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
AWAL Recordings |
| James Ivy | “The Seams” (NYC-based singer-songwriter and producer’s debut album; new single: “Lima”; Hear here; Apple Music) |
FADER Label |
| Paris Jackson | “HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE” (her second album; producers: Jason Lader, Linda Perry, Jackson; new single: “stitched [on & on]”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Republic |
| Joyous Wolf | “In Between” (Orange County, CA hard rock band’s debut album; producer: Jay Ruston; new single: “Runaway”; See here; Apple Music) |
Blue Grape Music |
| Stella Lefty | “Long Way Home” (country-pop singer-songwriter’s debut album; producers: Connor McDonough, Grace Enger, Hoskins, Jacob Kasher, Joe Reeves, Riley McDonough; guest: boyfriend Vincent Mason; new single: “Lean In, Kiss Me”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Atlantic Outpost |
| Ok Cowgirl | “Rhinestone Cowgirl” (Brooklyn rock quintet’s second album; producer: Alex Farrar; new single: “Rock N Roll Ruined My Life”; See here; Read here; Gold Vinyl; Apple Music) |
Easy Does It Records |
| Ken Pomeroy | “Tonight’s News” (six-song EP; producer: Dakota McDaniel; new single: a version of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Rounder / Concord |
| Rising Insane | “DEATHRACE” (German metalcore band’s fifth album; new single: “OUTRAGE”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Long Branch |
| Stephanie Sammons | “Head Noise” (Texas singer-songwriter’s sophomore album; producer: Mary Bragg; new single: “Head Noise”; Hear here; Apple Music) |
Point Guard Records |
| William Shatner | “Love & Other Mysteries” (spoken-word musical memoir collaboration with country star Brad Paisley; producers: Paisley, Luke Wooten; arrangements by Paisley, Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith and keyboardist Gordon Mote; new single: “I’ll Be With You”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) |
Loaded Goat Records / Mercury Nashville |
| Antony Szmierek | “Decoding Birdsong” (Bristol-based poet, writer and producer’s second album; guests: Pretty Girl, Los Bitchos, 1-800 GIRLS, Imogen and the Knife, Ellur; new single: “Flight Simulator”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Mushroom Music / Virgin Music Group |
| Terrian | “Mad Big World” (Christian singer-songwriter’s second album; 17 tracks; producers: Dennis Lindéh, Joel Setien, Joshua Silverberg, Kyle Williams, Sajan Nauriyal; new single: “Mad Big World”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour, with CeCe Winans) |
Gotee Records |
| WICKED | “Go Rebel” (New York rockers’ sophomore album; new single: “Sunflower”; Hear here; Apple Music) |
SBMG Global Music |
| Chelsea Wolfe | “The Dark” (her ninth album; producers: Jennifer Decilveo, Ben Chisholm; guests: Robin Finck, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Matt Chamberlain; new single: “Cold”; See here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out Sept. 18; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Loma Vista Recordings / Concord |
| Wolf Alice | “The Clearing: B Sides” (14 songs recorded during sessions but didn’t make it onto their 2025 album, including “Hammond Song”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour, with Olivia Rodrigo) |
RCA |
| Young Martyrs | “Might Just Be Enough” (Bath indie-Americana quartet’s third album; new single: “Only You”; Hear here; Amazon UK) |
Honey Badger Records |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The B-52’s | “Ancient Culture: Mesopotamia Revisited” (three-CD, one-LP reissue of the band’s David Byrne-produced 1982 EP, “Mesopotamia”; remastered, with three unreleased outtakes, plus alternate mixes and a previously unreleased live recording from their April 19, 1982, show at NYC’s Roseland Ballroom; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Rhino / Warner |
| The Cramps | “Gravest Gravy” (previously unreleased album, recorded in October 1977 at Ardent Studios in Memphis, produced by Alex Chilton; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Lime Green Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Vengeance |
| Bobby Goldsboro | “The LP Collection Vol. 4” (four albums on two CDs, with bonus tracks, including “Summer [The First Time]”: 1973’s “Brand New Kind of Love,” 1975’s “Through the Eyes of a Man,” 1976’s “A Butterfly for Bucky” and 1977’s “Goldsboro”) “The LP Collection Vol. 5” (two albums on one CD, with one bonus cut: 1981’s “Bobby Goldsboro” and 1982’s “Round Up Saloon”) | JGJ Records |
| Happy Mondays | “Pills ‘N’ Thrills and Bellyaches (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1990 album, featuring “Step On” and “Kinky Afro”; remastered, with 12 remixes; 4CD Bookset, with “Madchester Rave On” and “Hallelujah” EPs and “Baby Bighead Bootleg [Live at Elland Road]”; Red Vinyl; Vinyl Box Set, five LPs; Amazon UK) | London |
| Waylon Jennings | “Folk-Country / Leavin’ Town / Nashville Rebel / Love of the Common People” (four albums from 1966 and 1967 on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK) | BGO |
| KISS | “KISS Destroys Anaheim ’76” (newly mixed by Eddie Kramer from the original multi-track tapes; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Mercury / UMe |
| Little Richard | “Joy Down In My Heart: The Best of the Gospel Recordings 1959-1962” (28 tracks on one CD) | Jasmine |
| Groucho Marx | “An Evening With Groucho” (1972 compilation of one-man shows at Carnegie Hall, C.Y. Stephens Auditorium at Iowa State University, and Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco; produced by Phil Ramone) | Masked Weasel |
| Paul McCartney | “Wild Life” (Wings’ 1971 debut album; Amazon UK) “Red Rose Speedway” (1973 Wings album, featuring “My Love”; Amazon UK) “Flowers in the Dirt” (1989 album, featuring “My Brave Face” and “Figure of Eight”; Amazon UK) “Flaming Pie” (1997 album; received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year; Amazon UK; Merch) | Capitol / UMe |
| Anne Murray | “Anne Murray: The Signature Series – A Little Good News / Heart Over Mind” (1983 and 1984 albums on one CD) “Anne Murray: The Signature Series – Something to Talk About / Harmony” (1986 and 1987 albums on one CD) | Masked Weasel |
| Queen | “Live at Wembley Stadium” (Double CD; July 12, 1986, show during their Magic Tour; See here; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Merch) | Hollywood / UMe |
| Tommy Tutone | “Tommy Tutone / Tommy Tutone-2” (1980 and 1981 albums on one CD, featuring “867-5309/Jenny”) | Masked Weasel |
| Toyah | “Revelations: B-Sides & Rarities” (five-CD, 102-track box set features 50 previously unreleased songs, including full “1981 Anthem Tour Live in Birmingham”; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Red |
| Conway Twitty | “The Jasmine EP Collection” (34 tracks on one CD, compiled from EPs issued in the U.S., U.K. and France between 1958 and 1961) | Jasmine |
| Various artists | “Verve Records: The Sound of America” (two-CD, 35-track compilation of recordings made during the label’s Norman Granz era, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, et al; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Download) | Verve / UMe |
| Various artists | “John Williams: In Session” (recordings from 1956-61 of Williams’ piano sessions for a range of artists, including Harry Belafonte, Frank Sinatra, Carmen McRae, Anita O’Day, Henry Mancini, Les Baxter, The Four Freshmen, and Marilyn Monroe) | Jasmine |
| John Williams | “John Williams Legacy” (a collection of the maestro conducting his film scores with Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, and the Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles, etc.; Gold Nugget Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Deutsche Grammophon |
