New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Ada Lea | “when i paint my masterpiece” (Montreal singer-songwriter Alexandra Levy’s third album; producers: Levy, Luke Temple; new single: “baby blue frigidaire mini fridge”; See here; Read here; Ice Ice Baby Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   | Saddle Creek |
| Anamanaguchi | “Anyway” (NYC chiptune-based band’s third album is their first rock record; recorded straight to tape by producer Dave Fridmann; new single: “Darcie”; See here; Read here; Black and Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Polyvinyl |
| BABYMETAL | “METAL FORTH” (Japanese group’s fifth album; guests: Spiritbox, Poppy, Tom Morello, Electric Callboy, Polyphia, Bloodywood, Slaughter to Prevail; new single: “From Me to U”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) > 10 BABYMETAL YEARS 👶🏻 | Capitol |
| Bad Suns | “Accelerator” (SoCal indie rock trio’s fifth album; producer: Eric Palmquist; new single: “Slow Karma”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Epitaph |
| The Black Keys | “No Rain, No Flowers” (their 13th studio album; new single: “No Rain, No Flowers”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl, with 24″ x 36″ poster; Amazon-Exclusive Emerald Green Vinyl, with 24″ x 36″ poster; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Easy Eye Sound / Warner |
| Ethel Cain | “Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You” (her second album; producer: Cain; new single: “Nettles”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Daughters of Cain / AWAL Recordings |
| Hayes Carll | “We’re Only Heaven” (his 10th album; new single: “Progress of Man [Bitcoin & Cattle]”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | HWY 87 Records / Thirty Tigers |
| Charley Crockett | “Dollar a Day” (his second album of the year and 16th overall; producers: Shooter Jennings, Crockett; recorded at Sunset Sound Studio 3 in Hollywood; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with poster; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Cantaloupe Orange Vinyl, with poster; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Island |
| Craig David | “Commitment” (British singer-songwriter’s ninth studio album; producers: Mike Brainchild, Tré Jean-Marie, Toddla T, Wretch 32; guests: JoJo, Tiwa Savage, Louisa Johnson; new single: “Wake Up”; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Believe Recordings |
| Good Charlotte | “Motel Du Cap” (pop-punk band’s eighth album and first in seven years; producer: Jordan Fish; new single: “Rejects”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Red Opaque Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) > Greatest Hits ⭐ | BMG Rights Management |
| Halestorm | “Everest” (their sixth album; producer: Dave Cobb; new single: “Darkness Always Wins”; See here; Read here; Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Atlantic |
| In Theory | “Retribution” (guests: Vinny Appice, Tommy Henriksen, Eric Gales, Perry Richardson; new single: “Retribution”; See here; Download released on July 25; Apple Music) | Deko Entertainment |
| Jonas Brothers | “Greetings From Your Hometown” (their seventh studio album; producers: Connor McDonough, Digital Farm Animals, Earwulf, Gabe Simon, Josh Murty, Julian Bunetta, Marshmello, Ryan Daly; new single: “No Time to Talk”; See here; Cobalt Blue Vinyl, with poster; Target-Exclusive Italian Soda Vinyl, with alternate cover; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Republic |
| MercyMe | “Wonder & Awe” (their 12th album; producers: MercyMe, Tedd T, Brown Bannister, Josh Auer, Jarad Atherton, Carter Frodge; new single: “Sing [Like You’ve Already Won]”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Fair Trade Services / Columbia |
| mgk | “lost americana” (Machine Gun Kelly’s seventh studio album; album trailer narrated by mgk fan Bob Dylan; producers: MGK, SlimXX, BazeXX, Nick Long, No Love for the Middle Child; new single: “cliché”; See here; Read here; Brick Red Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Transparent Black Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Azure Blue Vinyl, with alternate artwork and poster; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | EST 19XX / Interscope |
| Lydia Night | “Parody of Pleasure” (debut solo album from the former frontwoman of The Regrettes; producer: Idarose; new single: “Gutter”; See here; Read here; Baby Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Warner |
| Rotersand | “Don’t Become the Thing You Hated” (Hamburg-based electronic duo’s eighth album; new single: “Sexiness of Slow”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Metropolis |
| Sinsaenum | “In Devastation” (mulitnational death metal supergroup’s third album; producer: Lasse Lammert; new single: “Last Goodbye”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | earMUSIC |
| Kenny Thomas | “Unstoppable” (British soul singer’s fifth album and first in nearly 15 years; guest: Kim Wilde; new single: “If I Can’t Have You”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | 777 Records / Kartel Music Group |
| Malcolm Todd | “Malcolm Todd” (alt-pop artist’s debut album; new single: “Bleed,” feat. Omar Apollo; See here; Neptune Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on April 4; Apple Music; On Tour) | Columbia |
| Bailey Zimmerman | “Different Night Same Rodeo” (country-rock star’s second album; 18 songs; producer: Austin Shawn; new single: “Comin’ In Cold”; Hear here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Brown Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Atlantic / Warner Music Nashville |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Amaarae | “Black Star” (Ghanaian-American singer-songwriter’s third album; new single: “S.M.O.”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Golden Angel / Interscope |
| Angelsaur | “The Girls Are Stressed” (new single: “Around You”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Free Association, Aug. 13 |
| Lew Apollo | “Fool’s Gold” (Austin-based soul artist’s debut album; new single: “Let the Light In”; See here; Apple Music) | Lew Apollo |
| Attack Attack! | “Attack Attack! II” (Columbus, OH-area metalcore band’s first album since 2012; producer: Andrew Baylis; new singles: “Dance!” and “Chainless”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Oxide Records |
| Dreamwake | “The Lost Years” (Connecticut-based metalcore/synthwave band’s sophomore album; producer: Steve Perrino; new single: “Oasis”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | UNFD |
| Drifting In Silence | “Beautiful Chaos of Truth” (ambient project of composer Derrick Stembridge; Hear here; Apple Music) | Labile Records, Aug. 11 |
| Gordi | “Like Plasticine” (Australian indie-pop artist Sophie Payten’s third album; producers: Gordi, Brad Cook; new single: “Cutting Room Floor”; See here; White Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mushroom Music |
| Humour | “Learning Greek” (Glasgow alt-rock band’s debut album; producer: Idlewild’s Rod Jones; new single: “Plagiarist”; See here; Rough Trade-Exclusive Transparent Yellow Vinyl, with signed lyric booklet; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | So Young |
| Cassandra Jenkins | “My Light, My Massage Parlor” (eight-song instrumental album, with pianist Michael Coleman; new single: “Delphinium Bliss”; See here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music) | Dead Oceans, Aug. 14 |
| Ashley Monroe | “Tennessee Lightning” (her eighth album; 17 songs; producers: Monroe, Gena Johnson; guests: T Bone Burnett, Marty Stuart, Shelby Lynne, Brittney Spencer, Waylon Payne, Brendan Benson, Butch Walker, Karen Fairchild, Armand Hutton; new single: “Bitter Swisher Sweet”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mountainrose Sparrow, LLC |
| T. Hardy Morris | “Artificial Tears” (producer: Carl Broemel; new single: “Don’t Kill Your Time [To Shine]”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Normaltown / New West |
| No Joy | “Bugland” (Montreal shoegaze outfit’s fifth album; producers: frontwoman Jasamine White-Gluz, Fire-Toolz; new single: “Bugland”; See here; Read here; Rough Trade-Exclusive Green Grass Stain Vinyl; On Tour) | Hand Drawn Dracula |
| The Royston Club | “Songs for the Spine” (Wrexham rock band’s second album; producer: Rich Turvey; new single: “Glued to the Bed”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Run On Records / Modern Sky UK |
| Thousand Below | “Buried In Jade” (San Diego post-hardcore band’s fourth album; producers: Austin Coupe, Josh Gilbert; new single: “Palace of Dread”; See here; Apple Music) | Pale Chord Music / Rise / BMG Rights Management |
| Various artists | “The Dogs of Hope” (14-song compilation, with 100 percent of net profits going to the no-kill, privately run Randolph County Animal Shelter in Wedowee, AL; featuring new or previously unreleased music from Killswitch Engage, Deadguy, Snapcase, Orange 9mm, and more; Orange Vinyl; Apple Music) | Iodine Recordings |
| Vitamin String Quartet | “VSQ Performs BLACKPINK” (16 string renditions of K-pop phenomenon’s catalog, including “APT.” by group member ROSÉ and Bruno Mars; new single: “Shut Down”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | CMH Label Group / Vitamin Records |
| Tommy WÁ | “Somewhere Only We Go” (Nigeria-born, Ghana-based singer-guitarist’s five-song EP; new single: “God Loves When You’re Dancing”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Dirty Hit |
| Jake Winstrom | “RAZZMATAZZ!” (Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter’s third album; producer: Jason Binnick; new single: “Don’t Make the Rules”; Hear here) | Meaux Money Meaux Music |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Gracie Abrams | “minor (5 Year Anniversary)” (seven-song debut EP from 2020; Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour; Merch) | Interscope / UMe |
| America | “Hearts (50th Anniversary Expanded Edition)” (1975 album, produced by George Martin, featuring “Sister Golden Hair,” “Daisy Jane” and “Woman Tonight”; with five previously unreleased bonus tracks, along with a Spanish version of “Sister Golden Hair” [“Con Tu Pelo Tan Dorado”]; See here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour) | Omnivore Recordings |
| Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers | “The Singles Collection 1934-51” (two-CD, 53-track set comprising A- and B-sides on Bluebird and RCA Victor) | Acrobat |
| A Certain Ratio | “Live in America” (recorded during their 1985 tour with New Order, originally self-released as a cassette the band sold on tour the following year; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Mute |
| Chicago | “Chicago IX: Greatest Hits Expanded” (1975 compilation; with 10 extra tracks, adding songs from 1975-80; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; On Tour; Merch) | Rhino |
| Fleetwood Mac | “Fleetwood Mac” (Blu-ray Audio; 1975 album, featuring “Over My Head,” “Say You Love Me,” “Rhiannon,” “Landslide” and “Warm Ways”; with Dolby Atmos, DTS HD 5.1, and DTS HD stereo mixes; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch) | Rhino / Warner |
| The Jive Five | “Stereo Singles Collection” (two CDs, 53 songs) | JGJ Records |
| Thelonious Monk | “The Early Albums 1951-54” (two-CD, 38-track set covering his Blue Note and Prestige years) | Acrobat |
| The Outer Limits | “Just One More Chance: The Anthology 1965-1968 (two-CD digipak of Leeds-based cult mod band’s complete recordings, including 14 previously unreleased demos; Read here; Amazon UK) | Strawberry / Cherry Red |
| Ray Peterson | “Tell Laura I Love Her: The Singles Collection 1957-62” (two-CD, 36-track set covering his years on the RCA and Dunes labels) | Acrobat |
| Jimmy Ruffin | “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” (two-CD, 39-track compilation includes the title track and “Hold On to My Love,” plus rarities and the complete 1980 “Sunrise” album, which was co-produced by Robin Gibb) | JGJ Records |
| Seals & Crofts | “Gold & Rainbows: The Warner Bros. Years 1969-1978” (10 albums in five-CD clamshell box set; Read here; Amazon UK) | Lemon / Cherry Red |
| Sleeping With Sirens | “Let’s Cheers to This” (2011 album; 4-panel wallet with booklet; Blue and Orange Splatter Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour) | Rise / BMG Rights Management |
| Various artists | “1970’s Greatest Hits, Volume 1” (two CDs, 49 songs) “1970’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2” (two CDs, 48 tracks) “1970’s Greatest Hits, Volume 3” (two CDs, 47 songs; all three volumes feature hits released in 1970) | JGJ Records |
| Various artists | “Stax Revue: Live In ’65!” (Double CD; 21 songs; label performances at the 5-4 Ballroom in Los Angeles, featuring Wilson Pickett, Booker T. & The M.G.’s, Rufus Thomas, William Bell, Carla Thomas, et al; with a bonus set of mostly unreleased performances at Club Paradise in Memphis; newly mastered by Joe Tarantino; Read here; Double Vinyl, lacquers cut by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
| John Paul Young | “One Foot in Front” (1983 album; remastered, with seven bonus tracks) | MelodicRock Classics |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Woody Guthrie | “Woody At Home – Vol 1 + 2” (22 previously unreleased home recordings, including his only known recording of “Deportee”; his analog tapes were transferred by Steve Rosenthal, restored and mastered by Jessica Thompson; Hear here; Read here) | Shamus Records, Aug. 14 |
