New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Colby Acuff | “American Son” (country singer-songwriter’s fifth album; new singles: “Ain’t So Bad” and “American Son”; See here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)  | Sony Music Nashville |
| Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks | “True” (producers: Anderson, Richie Castellano; new single: “Shine On”; See here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Frontiers Music s.r.l. |
| Maggie Antone | “Rhinestoned” (Nashville singer-songwriter’s debut album; producers: Carol K, Carrie K, Antone; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Love Big / Thirty Tigers |
| Body Meat | “Starchris” (Philly artist-producer Christopher Taylor’s debut full-length album; new single: “North Side”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Partisan |
| Sabrina Carpenter | “Short n’ Sweet” (“Espresso” singer’s sixth album; producer: Julian Bunetta; new single: “Please Please Please”; See here; Read here; Light Sky Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Lapis Lazuli Vinyl; Target-Exclusive CD, with poster; Target-Exclusive Bubblegum Marbled Vinyl, with poster; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Baby Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Island |
| Cassyette | “This World F*****g Sucks” (Essex alt-rock singer’s debut album; producers: Olly Burden, Tylr Rydr; new single: “Over It”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | 23 Recordings |
| Emmet Cohen | “Vibe Provider” (pianist’s tribute to the late Michael Funmi Ononaiye, a luminary of the NYC jazz scene; producer: Kyle Poole; new single: “Vibe Provider”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Mack Avenue |
| Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour | “Friendlytown” (producers: Cropper, Jon Tiven; guests: Billy F Gibbons, Brian May, Tim Montana; new single: “Too Much Stress”; Hear here; Green Marble Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Provogue / Mascot Label Group |
| Bryce Dessner | “Solos” (featured soloists include cellist Anastasia Kobekina, violinist Pekka Kuusisto, pianist Katia Labèque, harpist Lavinia Meijer, violist Nadia Sirota, percussionist Colin Currie, and Dessner himself on guitar; Double Vinyl out Sept. 27; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Sony Classical |
| Fake Fruit | “Mucho Mistrust” (Oakland post-punk trio’s second album; producer: Jack Shirley; new single: “Mucho Mistrust”; Cuties Orange Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Carpark |
| Fontaines D.C. | “Romance” (Grammy-nominated Irish indie rock band’s fourth album; new single: “Starburster”; See here; Read here; HMV-Exclusive CD, with alternate cover; Clear Vinyl; Vinyl Me, Please-Exclusive Transparent Radioactive Yellow Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | XL Recordings |
| Ruthie Foster | “Mileage” (Grammy-nominated blues artist’s 10th album; producer: Tyler Bryant; guests: Larkin Poe; new single: “Rainbow”; See here; Baby Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sun Records |
| The Georgia Thunderbolts | “Rise Above It All” (Rome, GA-based Southern rock/Americana band’s second album; new single: “Stand Up”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Mascot Records / Mascot Label Group |
| GIFT | “Illuminator” (New York rock quintet’s second album; new single: “Later”; See here; White Glow with Black Dot Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Captured Tracks |
| The Grascals | “20” (new album celebrates the bluegrass band’s 20th anniversary; Hear here; Read here; Download) | Mountain Home Music Company |
| Sonny Gullage | “Go Be Free” (Bayou blues artist’s debut album; producer: Tom Hambridge; guest: Christone “Kingfish” Ingram; new single: “Things I Can’t Control”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Blind Pig |
| The Harlem Gospel Travelers | “Rhapsody” (trio digs through the Numero Group catalog and reinterprets some of the label’s vintage gospel-funk material; new single: “Searching for the Truth”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Colemine |
| illuminati hotties | “POWER” (third album from L.A. indie rock band fronted by Grammy-winning producer and engineer Sarah Tudzin; new single: “Didn’t,” feat. Cavetown; See here; White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour) | Hopeless |
| Colin James | “Chasing the Sun” (Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist’s 21st album; guests: Lucinda Williams, Charlie Musselwhite, Colin Linden, et al; new single: “Devilment”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; On Tour) | Stony Plain |
| Jeff Lorber | “Elevate” (jazz keyboardist’s 31st album; new single: “Spanish Joint”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) | SoNo Recording Group |
| Luh Tyler | “Mr. Skii” (18-year-old Tallahassee rapper Tyler Meeks’ full-length debut album; guests: Kodak Black, Veeze, Bossman D Low, BLP Kosher, Trapland Pat; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Motion Music / Atlantic |
| Magdalena Bay | “Imaginal Disk” (L.A.-based alt-pop duo’s second album; producers: Katie White, bandmates Matthew Lewin and Mica Tenenbaum; new single: “Image”; Hear here; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Red Double Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Cobalt Blue Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mom+Pop Music |
| Malice K | “AVANTI” (NYC-based visual artist/singer-songwriter Alex Konschuh’s debut album; new single: “The Old House”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Jagjaguwar |
| Miss May I | “Apologies Are For The Weak (Re-Recorded 15th Anniversary Edition)” (new version of Ohio metalcore band’s 2009 album, with guest cameos from members of August Burns Red, Fit for a King, Currents, After the Bruial, et al; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Solid State |
| MOTHICA | “Kissing Death” (L.A.-based alt-pop artist’s third album; producers: David Burris, Micah Jasper, Nick Sadler & NYDGE; new single: “Afterlife”; Hear here; Half Red, Half Black with Black Splatter Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Red and Black Smush Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Heavy Heart / Rise |
| Jerry Phillips | “For the Universe” (debut solo album from the son of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, recorded at Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis; producers: Halley Phillips, Scott Bomar; new single: “Good Side, Bad Side, Side of Crazy Too”; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Omnivore Recordings |
| Thomas Rhett | “About a Woman” (country star’s seventh album; producers: Ammo, John Ryan, Julian Bunetta; new single: “Beautiful As You”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with alternative cover; Translucent Copper Nugget Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | The Valory Music Co. / Big Machine |
| Porter Robinson | “SMILE! :D” (new single: “Knock Yourself Out XD”; Hear here; See here; Opaque Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on July 26; On Tour) | Mom+Pop Music |
| Simone Simons | “Vermillion” (Epica frontwoman’s debut solo album; new single: “Aeterna”; See here; Read here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Nuclear Blast |
| SOFI TUKKER | “BREAD” (Florida-based electronic/dance duo’s third album; guests: Channel Tres, MC Bola, Kah-Lo; new single: “Hey Homie”; Hear here; See here; Bone Vinyl; Amazon UK; Purple Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | SOFI TUKKER, LLC |
| The Softies | “The Bed I Made” (indie-pop duo’s first album in 24 years; new single: “I Said What I Said”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Father/Daughter Records |
| Spirit of the Beehive | “YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING” (Philly experimental indie rock trio’s fifth album; new single: “LET THE VIRGIN DRIVE”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Opaque Olive Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Saddle Creek |
| Stand Atlantic | “Was Here” (Sydney pop-punk quartet’s fourth album; producer: Stevie Knight; guests: Sueco, PVRIS, Polaris, Bruses; new single: “FRENEMIES”; Hear here; White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour) | Hopeless |
| Benny Trokan | “Do You Still Think of Me?” (Spoon bassist’s debut album; new single: “It’s Time”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Wick Records / Daptone |
| Various artists | “Lempicka (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (true story of renowned artist Tamara de Lempicka; stars Eden Espinosa in the title role, along with Amber Iman, George Abud and Tony Award winner Beth Leavel, directed by Tony Award winning Rachel Chavkin; book, lyrics and original concept by Carson Kreitzer; book and music by Matt Gould; Download released on June 14) | Sony Masterworks Broadway |
| Lainey Wilson | “Whirlwind” (CMA Entertainer of the Year’s fifth album; producer: Jay Joyce; new single: “Country’s Cool Again”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Black Splatter Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Bone Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Broken Bow |
| Zeal & Ardor | “GREIF” (new single: “to my ilk”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Redacted |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Chime School | “The Boy Who Ran the Paisley Hotel” (Bay Area indie-pop band’s second album; new single: “Wandering Song”; Hear here; CD and Winter Sky Blue Vinyl out Sept. 13; Download; Apple Music) | Slumberland |
| Karen Clark Sheard | “Still Karen” (Grammy-winning gospel singer’s seventh solo album; Hear here; Apple Music) | Karew Entertainment |
| Andrew Combs | “Dream Pictures” (Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s sixth album; producers: Combs, drummer Dom Billett; new single: “The Sea in Me”; Hear here; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Chunk of Coal / Missing Piece |
| Gilligan Moss | “Speaking Across Time” (Brooklyn-based electronic duo’s second album; new single: “Still Wonder”; Hear here; Clear Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Foreign Family Collective / Ninja Tune |
| Whey Jennings | “Jekyll & Hyde” (full-length debut album from the grandson of Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter; new single: “Sleeves”; Hear here; See here; Read here) | Dirt Rock Empire |
| Little Hag | “Now That’s What I Call Little Hag” (new single: “The Machine”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Bar/None |
| Lisa Loeb and The Hollow Trees | “That’s What It’s All About” (collaborative children’s album with the folk band; Loeb’s last children’s record, “Feel What U Feel” in 2016, won the Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album; new single: “A Doodlin’ song [Doop Doo De Oop a Doodlin Song]”; See here; On Tour) | Furious Rose Productions |
| Luna Li | “When a Thought Grows Wings” (L.A.-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s second album; producers: Li, Andrew Lappin, Monsune; new single: “Confusion Song”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | In Real Life Music / AWAL Recordings |
| Miist | “The Songs from the Living Room” (pop singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “One More Time”; Hear here; See here; Apple Music) | Ephemeral Music / The Orchard |
| The Oklahoma Kid | “Featherminded” (German progressive metalcore band’s six-song EP; new single: “Masquerade”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Arising Empire |
| PlayThatBoiZay | “VIP” (guests: Denzel Curry, A$AP Rocky, JPEGMAFIA, Kenny Mason, Mike Dimes; new single: “LIL JIT”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Loma Vista Recordings / Concord |
| Psychic Lines | “Sunset on Sunset” (Brooklyn-based psych-pop trio’s fifth album; new single: “Mind Control”; See here; Apple Music) | Psychic Lines |
| Saint Social | “Saint Social” (Gulf Coast indie-rock group’s debut album; Hear here) | Hive Music / Position Music, Aug. 28 |
| Mari Samuelsen | “LIFE” (Norwegian violinist’s third album, featuring the string players of Scoring Berlin, conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer; new single: “Sapias”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Rachel McIntyre Smith | “Honeysuckle Friend” (Americana/country singer-songwriter’s five-song EP; producer: Dran Michael; new single: “Grow Up Slow”; Hear here) | Rachel McIntyre Smith |
| Sycco | “Zorb” (Australian pop singer-songwriter and producer Sasha McLeod’s debut album; new single: “Monkey Madness”; Hear here; See here; Apple Music) | Future Classic |
| Uniform | “American Standard” (NYC industrial rock band’s fifth album; new single: “This Is Not a Prayer”; Hear here; CD and Vinyl out Aug. 30; Apple Music) | Sacred Bones |
| Sam Weber | “Clear + Plain” (new single: “Void”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Sonic Unyon |
| Gillian Welch & David Rawlings | “Woodland” (Grammy-winning folk duo’s 10th album; new single: “Empty Trainload of Sky”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Acony |
| Vanessa Williams | “Survivor” (her ninth album and first since 2009; guests: Wynton Marsalis, Trixie Mattel, Lion Babe, Missael Manon; new single: “iLike Moonlight”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Mellian Music / Mod Squad, LLC |
| Yemen Blues | “Only Love Remains” (new single: “Only Love Remains”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Kartel Music Group, Aug. 28 |
| Warren Zeiders | “Relapse” (country singer-songwriter’s second album; new single: “Addictions”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour, with Jelly Roll) | 717 Entertainment / Warner |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| America | “Homecoming” (1972 album, featuring “Ventura Highway” and “Don’t Cross the River”; On Tour) | Music on CD |
| Harold Budd & Cocteau Twins | “The Moon and the Melodies” (1986 album; remastered from the original tapes by Robin Guthrie; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | 4AD |
| Bing Crosby | “Ultimate Christmas” (28 songs; Double Vinyl out Sept. 13; Download) | UMe |
| George Duke | “From Me to You – The Definitive Collection 1977-2000” (five-CD, 87-song clamshell box set covering his years with Epic and Warner; Read here; Amazon UK) | Robinsongs / Cherry Red |
| Sheena Easton | “Do You (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1985 album, produced by Nile Rodgers, featuring “Do It for Love” and “Jimmy Mack”; with 21 bonus tracks, 14 of them previously unreleased; remastered from the original master tapes; Read here; Orange Vinyl, featuring eight uncut tracks from the Rodgers sessions; Amazon UK) | Cherry Pop |
| Fanny | “The Reprise Years 1970-1973” (four-CD clamshell box set includes four studio albums, plus single versions, B-sides and live recordings, with sleeve notes written by band members June and Jean Millington and Alice de Buhr; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Red |
| First Choice | “Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980)” (four-CD clamshell box set featuring expanded editions of three original albums, with a bonus disc of remixes and re-inventions; newly remastered by Nick Robbins; See here; Read here; Amazon UK) | SoulMusic Records / The Second Disc / Cherry Red |
| Joe Henry | “Civilians” (2007 album; with four bonus demo tracks; Double Vinyl) | earMUSIC |
| Engelbert Humperdinck | “Release Me” (1967 debut album, featuring the title track; See here; Clear Vinyl) “A Man Without Love” (1968 album, featuring the title track and “Quando, Quando, Quando”; See here; Turquoise Vinyl; On Tour) | Decca |
| Jimi Jamison | “Jimmy Wayne Jamison” (late Survivor singer’s previously unreleased 2007 country-rock album, produced by former bandmate Jim Peterik) | Iconoclassic |
| Mark Lanegan | “Bubblegum XX” (Triple CD; 20th anniversary reissue of his 2004 album, with “Here Comes That Weird Chill [Methamphetamine Blues, Extras & Oddities” and “Demos and Unreleased Songs”; remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Beggars Arkive |
| Dean Martin | “Dino’s Christmas” (10-song collection; Vinyl) | Capitol / UMe |
| Charlie Parker | “Ornithology: The Best of Bird” (11-song compilation covering his Savoy Records years, from 1945 to 1953; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Ruby Vinyl) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
| The Alan Parsons Project | “Pyramid (Expanded Edition)” (1978 album, featuring “What Goes Up” and “Pyramania”; remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, with four previously unreleased tracks, plus a 12-page booklet; Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Cooking Vinyl |
| Wayne Shorter | “Celebration, Volume 1” (Double CD; 2014 live recording, with pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade at the Stockholm Jazz Festival in Sweden; Read here; Double Vinyl; Download) | Blue Note / UMe |
| Then Jerico | “Before the Future: 1984-1989” (four-CD clamshell box set includes the British rock band’s two studio albums, B-sides, 12-inch mixes and demos; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Red |
| Thievery Corporation | “It Takes a Thief: The Very Best of Thievery Corporation” (16-track, career-spanning compilation, originally released in 2010; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK) | ESL |
| Throbbing Gristle | “TGCD1” (studio recordings from a TEAC 8-Track in the British industrial band’s Martello Street studio on March 18, 1979; available on vinyl for the first time and on CD for the first time since 1986; Vinyl; Download) “The Third Mind Movements” (final album, recorded in 2007; available for the first time on vinyl and commercially for the first time on CD, it was sold during the band’s final U.S. tour in 2009; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) | Mute |
| Louis Tomlinson | “LIVE” (Double CD; 2024 album, recorded across 15 cities over three years; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download released on April 25, 2024) | BMG Rights Management |
| Various artists | “Return of Halloween Nuggets” (18-track compilation of graveyard smashes; CD and digital configurations feature two classic monster movie trailers as bonus tracks; Hear here; Orange and Black Splatter Vinyl; Download) | RockBeat / Liberation Hall |
| Kim Wilde | “Pop Don’t Stop: Greatest Hits” (five-CD, two-DVD clamshell box set ; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Pop |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Paul Carrack | “How Long (Has This Been Going On)? Greatest Hits 50th Anniversary Collection, 1974-2024” (19-song collection includes seven new versions of past hits, including “How Long”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Carrack UK |
| Third Day | “Time (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1999 album; with four songs from their “Southern Tracks” EP and three previously unreleased live tracks from the same year; Hear here; Apple Music) | Essential |
