New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| American Authors | “Seasons” (guests: Bear Rinehart of NEEDTOBREATHE, Billy Raffoul; new single: “Neighborhood”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Island) |
| Astronoid | “Astronoid” (new single: “I Dream in Lines”; See here; Vinyl; iTunes; On Tour, with Between the Buried and Me) |
(Blood Music) |
| Beirut | “Gallipoli” (producer: Gabe Wax; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(4AD) |
| Boy Harsher (Massachusetts darkwave duo) | “Careful” (first single: “Face the Fire”; NPR First Listen; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Nude Club) |
| Broods | “Don’t Feed the Pop Monster” (producers: Tommy English, Big Taste, Jack & Coke, Jesse Shatkin, Joel Little; new single: “Everything Goes [Wow]”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Neon Gold / Atlantic) |
| Ian Brown (The Stone Roses frontman) | “Ripples” (new single: “First World Problems”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Black Koi) |
| Business of Dreams | “Ripe for Anarchy” (first single: “Keep the Blues Away”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Slumberland) |
| Cherry Glazerr | “Stuffed & Ready” (first single: “Daddi”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Secretly Canadian) |
| Fredo (London-born rapper) | “Third Avenue” (guests: Dave, Lil Dotz; first single: “BMT”; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(RCA / Since 93) |
| Girlpool | “What Chaos Is Imaginary” (new single: “Hire”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ANTI- / Epitaph) |
| Guided By Voices | “Zeppelin Over China” (first single: “The Rally Boys”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(GBV Inc.) |
| Highasakite | “Uranium Heart” (new single: “Mexico”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Propeller Recordings) |
| Jealous of the Birds (Irish singer-songwriter Naomi Hamilton) | “Wisdom Teeth” (five-song EP; new single: “Blue Eyes”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Canvasback Music / Atlantic) |
| Emily King | “Scenery” (producer: Jeremy Most; new single: “Look At Me Now”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ATO) |
| Mandolin Orange (North Carolina folk duo) | “Tides of a Teardrop” (first single: “Time We Made Time”; See here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Yep Roc) |
| The Moth & The Flame | “Ruthless” (producers: Peter Katis, Nate Pyfer; first single: “The New Great Depression”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Robot Farming / Thirty Tigers) |
| Nina Nesbitt (Scottish singer-songwriter) | “The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change” (producers: Lostboy, Fraser T Smith, Jordan Riley, Nesbitt; new single: “Loyal to Me”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Cooking Vinyl) |
| Rustin Man (former Talk Talk bassist Paul Webb) | “Drift Code” (Webb’s first album in 2002; first single: “Vanishing Heart”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Domino) |
| Set It Off | “Midnight” (producers: Mike Green, Brandon Paddock; guests: Wayfarers, Matt Appleton, Skyler Acord; new single: “Lonely Dance”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Fearless) |
| The Specials | “Encore” (their first album in 20 years includes original vocalist Terry Hall, who hasn’t worked with the band since 1981’s “Ghost Town,” and original members Lynval Golding and Horace Panter; drummer Kenrick Rowe and Ocean Colour Scene guitarist Steve Cradock round out the lineup; producers: Hall, Golding, Panter, touring keyboardist Nikolaj Torp Larsen; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) |
(UMC / Island) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 69” (20 songs; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch; see related reissue below) |
(Legacy Recordings / UMG Recordings) |
| Ward Thomas (24-year-old British country-pop twins) | “Restless Minds” (producers: Martin Terefe, Joe Rubel; first single: “Lie Like Me”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(WTW Music / Sony Music) |
| White Lies | “FIVE” (first single: “Time to Give”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
([PIAS] Recordings) |
| Within Temptation | “Resist” (producers: Within Temptation; guests: Jacoby Shaddix, Anders Fridén, Jasper Steverlinck; first single: “The Reckoning”; See here; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with 10 bonus instrumental tracks; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) |
(Spinefarm) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Patrick Damphier (Nashville jangle-pop/indie-rock artist) | “Say I’m Pretty” (guests: Richard Swift, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Molly Parden, etc.; new single: “Pretend It”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(yk) |
| Deep State | “The Path to Fast Oblivion” (first single: “Under the Gun”; Hear/read here; iTunes) | (Friendship Fever) |
| Grandchildren | “Grandchildren” (new single: “Zuni”; Hear here; Vinyl; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Ernest Jenning Record Co.) |
| Rachael Kilgour (Boston-based singer-songwriter) | “Game Changer” (five-song EP; producer: Gar Ragland; engineered by Grammy winner Julian Dreyer, with string arrangements by Sara Pajunen; first single: “Holy Are We”; See here; On Tour) |
(NewSongs Recordings) |
| Last Import (Minneapolis surf-punk trio) | “Last Import” (See here; iTunes) |
(Ernest Jenning Record Co.) |
| Jan Lisiecki & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | “Mendelssohn” (Hear here; CD, out Feb. 15; iTunes) |
(Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Only Yours | “Overrun” (new single: “Hamburg”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Pirates Blend) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Phil Collins | “Serious Hits … Live!” (double album, recorded during his 1990 Serious Tour; Vinyl), “A Hot Night In Paris” (July 21, 1998, concert with The Phil Collins Big Band; Vinyl) |
(Rhino / Atlantic) |
| Cover Girls | “Greatest Hits” (11 songs; Download) |
(Phase One) |
| Johnny Mathis | “I Love My Lady” (unreleased 1981 album, produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, was included on his 2017 box set, “The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection”) |
(The Second Disc / Real Gone Music) |
| Linda Ronstadt | “Live in Hollywood” (20-song set captured at Television Center Studios on April 24, 1980; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay) |
(Rhino / Warner) |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 20th Anniversary, Volume 2” (20 songs; Download; iTunes; eBay; Merch) |
(Legacy Recordings / UMG Recordings) |
| Various artists | “Soul Classics” (three CDs, 60 songs; Track list) | (Crimson Productions / Demon Music Group) |
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