New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Atmosphere | “Talk Talk EP” (10 tracks; guests: Kool Keith, Buck 65, Bat Flower; new single: “Traveling Forever”; See here; Pink Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | Rhymesayers Entertainment |
| Robben Ford | “Night in the City” (recorded live at Nashville’s City Winery in 2021, his first performance after the Covid lockdown; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | earMUSIC |
| Peter Gabriel | “i/o (Bright-Side Mix, Dark-Side Mix)” (Double CD; his first album of original music since 2002’s “Up”; Read here; Triple CD; Vinyl/Bright-Side Mix; Vinyl/Dark-Side Mix; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour) ![]() | Real World |
| Muriel Grossman | “Devotion” (Austrian jazz saxophonist-composer’s label debut album; new single: “Calm”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Third Man |
| Kenny G | “Innocence” (his 19th studio LP is his first collection of lullabies; new single: “A Mother’s Lullaby”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Concord |
| Love and Theft | “Need to Breathe” (producer: Dann Huff; 12 songs; See here) | Curb |
| Yannick Nézet-Séguin / London Symphony Orchestra / Bradley Cooper | “Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein (Original Soundtrack)” (biopic scheduled for a limited theatrical release on Nov. 22, before streaming on Netflix on Dec. 20; Trailer; Double Vinyl out Dec. 15; Download released on Nov. 17) | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Leslie Odom Jr. | “When a Crooner Dies” (Tony and Grammy Award winner’s fifth album and first featuring original songs since 2019; new single: “Show Me”; Download; Apple Music) | BMG Rights Management |
| Zach Russell | “Where the Flowers Meet the Dew” (East Tennessee-based artist’s debut album; producer: Kyle Crownover; new single: “Born Again”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Carboro / Thirty Tigers |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| AZ | “Truth Be Told” (producer: Buckwild; guests: Fat Joe, Pharoahe Monch, Mumu Fresh; new single: “This Is Why”; See here; Apple Music) | Quiet Money |
| Beans on Toast | “The Toothpaste and the Tube” (new single: “The Dragicorn”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Beans on Toast Music |
| Codeseven | “Go Let It In” (melodic hardcore band’s first album in 20 years; producers: Codeseven, Jeremy Griffith; new single: “Hold Tight”; See here; Apple Music) | Equal Vision |
| Eddie and The Getaway | “5 Parts of a Heartbreak” (five-song EP; See here) | E3 Music Group |
| Kelakos | “Hurtling Towards Extinction” (Boston band’s first new music in 45 years; new single: “Livin’ on Planet Love”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Deko Entertainment |
| Khruangbin | “Live at Sydney Opera House” (17 songs recorded during their three-night stint in November 2022; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Apple Music) | Dead Oceans |
| Bones Owens | “Eighteen Wheeler” (six-song EP; new single: “Eighteen Wheeler”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Black Ranch Records / Thirty Tigers |
| The South Hill Experiment | “SUNSTRIKES” (new single: “Snake at the Altar”; See here; Apple Music) | The South Hill Experiment |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Johnny Adams | “Release Me: The SSS and Pacemaker Sides 1966-1973” (26 tracks) | Playback |
| Julie Andrews, et al | “The Sound of Music (An Original Soundtrack Recording) (Deluxe Edition)” (1965 album; remastered two-CD set includes 14 previously unreleased tracks; Super Deluxe Edition, four-CD, one-Blu-ray Audio box set; Triple Vinyl) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
| Argent | “Original Album Classics” (five albums recorded between 1969 and 1974; Amazon UK) | Music on CD |
| The Blow Monkeys | “Time Storm: Greatest Hits Vol. 2” (11-song compilation; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download, with three bonus tracks) | Last Night From Glasgow |
| Bobby Darin | “Commitment” (1969 album; with four bonus tracks; Blue Vinyl) | Direction |
| Bill Evans | “Tales: Live in Copenhagen (1964)” (previously unreleased recording, with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Larry Bunker, at the Radiohuset and TV-BYEN studios; Hear here) | Elemental Music / Ingrooves |
| Aretha Franklin | “A Portrait of the Queen 1970-1974” (five-CD box set containing her first five studio albums of the 1970s; remastered from the analog master tapes by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering; Vinyl, six-LP box set includes a bonus disc of session alternates, outtakes and demos; Amazon UK) | BMG Rights Management |
| The Grass Roots | “Leaving It All Behind / Move Along / Alotta’ Mileage” (1969, 1972 and 1973 albums on two CDs, featuring “Temptation Eyes,” “I’d Wait a Million Years,” “Midnight Confessions,” “Sooner or Later,” “Two Divided By Love” and “Glory Bound”; remastered, with 15 bonus tracks; Amazon UK) | BGO |
| Nik Kershaw | “15 Minutes” (1999 album; remastered) “To Be Frank” (2001 album; remastered) | earMUSIC |
| Bobby Keys | “Lover’s Rockin’ | The Lost Album” (unreleased LP from the early 1980s, featuring Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood; Vinyl; Download) | Le Chant Du Monde / Wise Music Group |
| P!NK | “TRUSTFALL – Tour Deluxe Edition” (Double CD; 2023 album; all of the original album tracks, with a second CD containing six live recordings from her 2023 Summer Carnival Stadium Tour, plus two covers – Sade’s “No Ordinary Love” and “Nothing Compares 2 U” with Brandi Carlile; and two new singles, including “Dreaming,” a collaboration with Marshmello and Sting; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour; Merch) | RCA |
| Soft Cell | “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (Super Deluxe Edition)” (1981 debut album, featuring “Tainted Love,” “Bedsitter” and “Say Hello Wave Goodbye”; six-CD, 98-track box set, containing B-sides, 7-inch and 12-inch versions, BBC session highlights, demos, instrumentals, live recordings, etc.; Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Mercury / UMe |
| Cal Tjader | “Catch the Groove: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1967” (six performances at the Seattle jazz club on two-CD, 24-song set; Hear here; Amazon UK) | Jazz Detective |
| Van Duren & Good Question | “Cartwheeling: Live In Memphis” (previously unissued live 1992 set from the Memphis power-pop legend; remastered by Michael Graves; See here; Download; Apple Music) | Omnivore Recordings |
| Violent Femmes | “Violent Femmes (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1983 album, featuring “Blister in the Sun,” “Please Do Not Go,” “Gone Daddy Gone,” and “Add It Up”; remastered, with B-sides, live sessions and rare demos; Vinyl, three-LP box set, with 7-inch single, out Feb. 9, 2024; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour; Merch) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The Corrs | “Best of The Corrs” (2001 compilation expanded to 21 tracks, with new covers of “Little Lies,” “Everywhere” and “Songbird,” dedicated to the late Christine McVie; CD and Double Vinyl out Jan. 19, 2024; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Rhino |
| Alicia Keys | “The Diary of Alicia Keys 20” (20th anniversary digital edition of her 2003 album, expanded to 24 tracks, including nine cuts from “AOL Broadband Rocks! Live at Webster Hall – December 1, 2003”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) | RCA / Legacy |
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