New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Bryan Adams | “Roll With the Punches” (his 17th album; songs co-written with Mutt Lange, Eliot Kennedy and Jim Vallance; producer: Adams; new single: “Never Ever Let You Go”; See here; Vinyl; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo)   > Anthology 🔥 | BAD Records |
| Asymmetric Universe | “A Memory And What Came After” (Italian progressive metal duo’s debut album; new single: “Feather on a Glass”; See here; Transparent Blue and Black Marble Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | InsideOutMusic |
| The Beaches | “No Hard Feelings” (JUNO Award-winning Canadian alt-rock band’s third album; new single: “Last Girls at the Party”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Blue with White Splatter Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | AWAL Recordings |
| Jehnny Beth | “You Heartbreaker, You” (second solo album from French singer/actress and former frontwoman of English rock band Savages; new single: “Broken Rib”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Fiction |
| The Beths | “Straight Line Was a Lie” (Auckland indie rock band’s fourth album; producer: guitarist Jonathan Pearce; new single: “No Joy”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Smoky Lilac Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | ANTI- / Epitaph |
| Blood Orange | “Essex Honey” (Devonté Hynes’ first studio album since 2018; guests: Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates, Daniel Caesar, The Durutti Column, Mustafa, Tariq Al-Sabir, et al; new singles: “Somewhere in Between” and “Mind Loaded”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | RCA |
| Belinda Carlisle | “Once Upon a Time in California” (10-song covers album, featuring versions of “The Air That I Breathe,” “Superstar,” “Never My Love,” “Get Together,” “If You Could Read My Mind,” etc.; producer: Gabe Lopez; California Sunset Vinyl; Picture Disc; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) > Her Greatest Hits 🌎 | Edsel / Demon Music Group |
| Sabrina Carpenter | “Man’s Best Friend” (her seventh album; producers: Jack Antonoff, Carpenter; new single: “Manchild”; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with poster; Light Blue Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Translucent Light Brown Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Iridescent White Vinyl, with poster, insert and sticker; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Light Blue Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Island |
| CMAT | “EURO-COUNTRY” (Irish singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson’s third album; producers: Oli Deakin, CMAT; new single: “Running/Planning”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | AWAL Recordings |
| Preston Cooper | “Toledo Talkin'” (Ohio-raised, Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s debut album; producer: Brett Warren; new single: “One for the Road”; Hear here; Read here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | The Valory Music Co. / Big Machine |
| Rodney Crowell | “Airline Highway” (his 20th studio album; guests: Lukas Nelson, Larkin Poe, Ashley McBryde, Tyler Bryant, Charlie Starr; new single: “Taking Flight”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | New West |
| Flyte | “Between You and Me” (U.K. duo’s fourth album; producer: Ethan Johns; guest: Aimee Mann; new single: “Hurt People”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nettwerk |
| Gaither Vocal Band | “Then Came the Morning” (guests: Gloria Gaither, Gene McDonald, Chris Blue, Joseph Habedank, Angela Primm, Voices of Lee; new single: “There’s a Hole in the Heart of This Country”; Hear here; DVD; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Gaither Music Group |
| Coyle Girelli | “Out of This Town” (more than half of the songs were co-written with Mac Davis, who died in 2020; producer: Girelli; guests: Davis, KT Tunstall, Jaime Wyatt, Cassandra Lewis; new single: “Pretty”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Sun Records |
| Helloween | “Ghosts & Monsters” (German power metal band’s 17th studio album; producers: Charlie Bauerfeind, Dennis Ward; new single: “Universe [Gravity For Hearts]”; Deep Ocean Blue Marbled Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) > March of Time (The Best of 40 Years) 🎃 | Reigning Phoenix Music |
| The Hives | “The Hives Forever Forever The Hives” (Swedish rock band’s seventh album; new single: “Enough Is Enough”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Gold Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | PIAS |
| Lot Lizards | “The Horrors of Adulting” (St. Petersburg, FL-based melodic punk band’s debut album; new single: “Broken Parts”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download released on July 25; Apple Music) | Punkerton |
| Christian McBride Big Band | “Without Further Ado, Vol 1” (follow-up to their Grammy-winning 2020 album “For Jimmy, Wes & Oliver”; guests: Sting, Andy Summers, Jeffrey Osborne, Samara Joy, José James, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dianne Reeves, Antoinette Henry; new single: “Old Folks”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Mack Avenue |
| Brad Mehldau | “Ride into the Sun” (16-song album inspired by the late Elliott Smith; guests: Daniel Rossen, Matt Chamberlain, Chris Thile, John Davis; new single: “Tomorrow Tomorrow”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nonesuch |
| Tift Merritt | “Time and Patience” (celebrating the 20th anniversary of her Grammy-nominated album “Tambourine,” this is a companion piece of intimate re-recordings and new songs from her “Tambourine” era; new single: “Last Day I Knew What To Do”; See here; Clear with Yellow Splatter Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | One Riot |
| Nova Twins | “Parasites & Butterflies” (U.K. alt-rock duo’s third album; producer: Rich Costey; new single: “Soprano”; Hear here; Transparent Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Marshall Records |
| Margo Price | “Hard Headed Woman” (includes the bonus track, “Too Stoned To Cry,” featuring Billy Strings; guests: Tyler Childers, Jesse Welles; new single: “Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down”; See here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Yellow Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Loma Vista Recordings / Concord |
| Dan Rosenboom | “Coordinates” (new single: “Coordinate 1: Many Worlds, Many Dances”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Orenda |
| Ron Sexsmith | “Hangover Terrace” (Canadian singer-songwriter’s 18th studio album; producer: Martin Terefe; new single: “Don’t Lose Sight”; See here; Turquoise Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Cooking Vinyl |
| Slow Crush | “Thirst” (Belgian shoegaze band’s third album; producer: Lewis Johns; new single: “While You Dream Vividly”; See here; Read here; Algae Marble Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Pure Noise |
| Anna Tivel | “Animal Poem” (Portland, OR-based artist’s seventh album; producers: Tivel, Sam Weber; new single: “Animal Poem”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Fluff & Gravy Records |
| Zach Top | “Ain’t In It for My Health” (Sunnyside, WA-raised, Nashville-based country singer-songwriter’s third album; producer: Carson Chamberlain; new single: “Good Times & Tan Lines”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Vinyl, with bonus track; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Dierks Bentley) | Leo33 |
| Various artists | “Jem Records Celebrates David Bowie” (featuring covers by The Grip Weeds, Paul Collins, The Airport 77s, The Cynz, The On & Ons, Richard Barone, et al; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Jem |
| Wisp | “If Not Winter” (San Francisco-based shoegaze artist’s debut album; new single: “Save me now”; See here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on Aug. 1; Apple Music; On Tour) | Music Soup / Interscope |
| Wucan | “Axioms” (Dresden-based rock band’s fourth album; new single: “Pipe Dreams”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Long Branch / SPV Recordings |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The Casket Lottery | “Feel the Teeth” (new single: “From Now to Now”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Iodine Recordings |
| Chartreuse | “Bless You & Be Well” (second album from folk-rock quartet from the Black Country, U.K.; producer: Sam Petts-Davies; new single: “Fold”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Communion |
| Cha Wa | “Rise Up” (fourth album from Grammy-nominated New Orleans-based, Afro-Indigenous funk collective; producer: Dave Trumfio; guests: Irma Thomas, John Boutté, Roger Joseph Manning; new single: “Why You Wanna Do Me Like That”; Hear here) | UPT Music |
| Ganser | “Animal Hospital” (Chicago art punk trio’s third full-length album; producer: Liars frontman Angus Andrew; new single: “Black Sand”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | felte |
| Gulp | “Beneath Strawberry Moons” (Scottish psychedelic pop trio’s third album; new single: “Hope Shines Through the Haar”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | ELK Records |
| Marthe Halvorsen | “Feed the Fire, Breathe the Night” (Norwegian indie folk artist’s second album; new single: “The Willow Tree”; See here) | Marthe Halvorsen |
| Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke | “Pareidolia” (a collage of improvised music from their 2023 European tour; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Drag City |
| Hayley Jensen | “Country Soul” (Australian country-pop/rock artist’s fourth album; producers: MSquared; new single: “Giddy Up Cowboy”) | White Dove Music / MGM |
| Johnson & Finnemore | “Find a Love That Brings You Home” (country duo’s debut album; new single: “Ride High”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Gulf Coast Records |
| Cooper Kenward | “haha, now i’m sad” (L.A.-based singer-songwriter’s third album; new single: “Queen of It All”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Soggy Anvil |
| Modern Nature | “The Heat Warps” (U.K. band’s fifth album; new single: “Alpenglow”; See here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out Sept. 26; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Bella Union |
| John Oates | “Oates” (his seventh solo album; producers: Oates, David Kalmusky; guests: Lawrence, Devon Gilfillian; new single: “Real Thing Going On”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | PS Records |
| Pearly* | “Not So Sweet” (Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand alt-rock band’s debut album; producer: Nick Roughan; new single: “Not So Sweet”; See here; Apple Music) | Leather Jacket Records / Pinacolada Records / Flying Nun |
| Piper & The Hard Times | “Good Company” (Nashville-based blues-rock band’s second album; producer: Tres Sasser; Hear here; CD out on Sept. 12) | Hard Times Records |
| Jeff Symonds | “The Deep Dive, Vol. 2” (producer: Symonds; guests: Megan Slankard, Gawain Matthews; new single: “Sleeping Dog”; Apple Music) | Electracast Records |
| ThxSoMch | “The Sound of You Laughing” (Toronto-based post-punk, alt-rock artist’s debut album; producer: grayskies; mixed Mike Crossey; new single: “Unhinged”; Hear here; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour) | Atlantic |
| Stephen Wilson Jr. | “Blankets” (four-song covers EP; new single: a version of Nirvana’s “Something in the Way”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Big Loud / Mercury |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Marshall Crenshaw | “From ‘The Hellhole'” (compilation of mid-2010s EP material, featuring some original songs and covers; new single: “Move Now”; Hear here; Read here; Sunburnt Splash Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Yep Roc |
| Deep Purple | “Rapture of the Deep (20th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 2005 album; mixed under the supervision of Roger Glover and analog-mastered at Hamburg’s Chameleon Studio; with two additional studio tracks, “Things I Never Said’”and “MTV,” plus a second disc of studio jams and rehearsals; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | earMUSIC |
| Funkadelic | “Funkadelic” (1970 debut album, featuring “I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody’s Got a Thing”; remastered; Vinyl, mastered at 45RPM directly from tape by Dave Gardner at DSG Mastering; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Org Music |
| Lighthouse Family | “Ocean Drive (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1995 debut album, featuring “Lifted,” “Ocean Drive,” “Goodbye Heartbreak” and “Loving Every Minute”; four-CD clamshell box set, featuring remixes and bonus tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Pop |
| Mickey Newbury | “‘Frisco Mabel Joy” (1971 album, featuring “An American Trilogy”; Hear here; Vinyl) “Heaven Help the Child” (1973 album, featuring the title track, “Sunshine” and “Sweet Memories”; both albums remastered from the original master tapes by Steve Rosenthal and Jessica Thompson; Hear here; Vinyl) | Fat Possum |
| Itzhak Perlman | “The Complete Warner Classics Recordings” (78-CD box set; Amazon UK) | Warner Classics |
| Evie Sands | “I Can’t Let Go” (26-track compilation includes her first 14 singles released between 1963 and 1970s; Hear/Read here; Vinyl, 15 songs; Amazon UK) | Ace |
| Vangelis | “1492: Conquest of Paradise (Music From the Original Soundtrack) [Expanded Edition]” (1992 album; with two bonus tracks: “Line Open” and “Landscape”; Yellow Flame Double Vinyl; Download) | Atlantic |
| Various artists | “Joe Meek: A Curious Mind – Outer Space! Horror! Death Discs! The Wild West! Demos!” (three CDs, 82 tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Red |
| Various artists | “NOW Yearbook ’76” (four CDs, 84 tracks; Lime Green Triple Vinyl, 47 songs; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Various artists | “When Will They Ever Learn? A Story of U.S. Folk Music 1963-1969” (four-CD, 100-track clamshell box set, featuring Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Fred Neil, Simon & Garfunkel, Phil Ochs, Tim Buckley, et al; Read here; Amazon UK) | Strawberry / Cherry Red |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Halsey | “Badlands (Decade Edition Anthology)” (2015 debut album, featuring “Ghost,” “New Americana,” “Colors” and “Castle”; expanded to 34 tracks, containing orchestral versions, demos, rarities, and remixes; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; Merch) | Capitol / UMe |
