New Releases (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ryan Adams | “Prisoner” (an ’80s rock-inspired album; producer: Don Was; first single: “Do You Still Love Me?”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour; Merch)  | (PAX AM / Blue Note / Capitol) |
| Big Sean | “I Decided.” (released on MP3 on Feb. 3; producers: Metro Boomin, DJ Dahi, Fuse, Tre Pounds, DJ Mustard, WondaGurl, Key Wane, Detail, The Track Burnaz, Amaire Johnson, etc.; guests: Eminem, Jeremih, Migos, The-Dream, Jhené Aiko, Flint Chozen Choir, Starrah; See here; iTunes; On Tour) | (G.O.O.D. Music / Def Jam) |
| Molly Burch | “Please Be Mine” (first single: “Try”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes) | (Captured Tracks) |
| The Courtneys (Vancouver power-pop trio) | “The Courtneys II” (first single: “Silver Velvet”; See here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) | (Flying Nun) |
| Blair Crimmins & The Hookers (Atlanta-based ragtime/Dixieland/Gypsy jazz band) | “You Gotta Sell Something!” (first single: “Top of the Class”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes) | (New Rag) |
| Eisley (Tyler, Texas-based indie-pop quintet) | “I’m Only Dreaming” (producer: Will Yip; first single: “You Are Mine”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) | (Equal Vision) |
| Fat Joe & Remy Ma | “Plata O Plomo” (guests: The-Dream, Seven Streeter, French Montana, BJ the Chicago Kid, Ty Dolla $ign, Kent Jones, etc.; first single: “All the Way Up”; See here; MP3; iTunes) | (EMPIRE Distribution) |
| The Gibson Brothers | “In the Ground” (Hear here; MP3; iTunes) | (Rounder) |
| John Ginty feat. Aster Pheonyx | “Rockers” (producer: Ben Elliott; See here; MP3; iTunes) | (American Showplace Music) |
| Jidenna | “The Chief” (guests: Janelle Monáe, St. Beauty, Nana Kwabena, Roman GianArthur; See here; MP3; iTunes) | (Wondaland / Epic) |
| Hanni El Khatib | “Savage Times” (new single: “This I Know”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes) | (Innovative Leisure) |
| Alison Krauss | “Windy City” (her first solo LP in 17 years; producer: Buddy Cannon; first single: “Losing You”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition, with four bonus live tracks; iTunes; Merch) | (Capitol) |
| Nikki Lane | “Highway Queen” (producer: Jonathan Wilson; first single: “Highway Queen”; See here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) | (New West) |
| Jens Lekman | “Life Will See You Now” (Swedish pop artist’s first album in five years; first single: “What’s That Perfume That You Wear?”; Hear here; Read here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) | (Secretly Canadian) |
| Lorna Shore (N.J. metal quintet) | “Flesh Coffin” (producers: Lorna Shore, Carson Slovak, Grant McFarland; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) | (Outerloop) |
| Amy Macdonald | “Under Stars” (the U.K. singer-songwriter’s first album since 2012; producers: Cam Blackwood, My Riot; first single: “Down By the Water”; Hear here; MP3; MP3 Deluxe Edition, with eight extra tracks) | (Vertigo) |
| London O’Connor (Southern California-based singer-songwriter) | “O∆” (producer: O’Connor; second single: “GUTS”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) | (True Panther Sounds) |
| The Orwells (Illinois garage punks) | “Terrible Human Beings” (producer: Jim Abbiss; first single: “They Put a Body in the Bayou”; See here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) | (Canvasback / Atlantic) |
| Robert Randolph & The Family Band | “Got Soul” (guests: Darius Rucker, Anthony Hamilton, Cory Henry; first single: “Got Soul”; Hear/read here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) | (Sony Masterworks) |
| Maggie Rogers | “Now That the Light Is Fading” (the 22-year-old singer-songwriter’s four-song debut EP; producers: Rogers, Doug Schadt, Lucio, Nick Das; new single: “Dog Years”; Watch Pharrell Williams react to her music during a Masterclass he taught at The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; Hear here; See here; On Tour) | (Capitol) |
| Son Volt | “Notes of Blue” (Hear here; NPR First Listen; MP3; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) | (Transmit Sound / Thirty Tigers) |
| Strands of Oak (aka Tim Showalter) | “Hard Love” (first single: “Radio Kids”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes) | (Dead Oceans) |
| Otis Taylor | “Fantasizing About Being Black” (guests: Jerry Douglas, Brandon Niederauer, Ron Miles; Hear here; MP3) | (Trance Blues Festival) |
| Charlie Wilson | “In It to Win It” (guests: Snoop Dogg, Pitbull, Robin Thicke, Wiz Khalifa, T.I., Lalah Hathaway; first single: “Chills”; Hear here; MP3; iTunes; On Tour) | (RCA) |
| Danny Worsnop (Asking Alexandria frontman) | “The Long Road Home” (first single: “Mexico”; See here; Autographed CD; MP3; iTunes) | (Earache) |
| Pegi Young & The Survivors | “Raw” (a collection of covers and original songs written with Spooner Oldham; first single: “Too Little Too Late”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Baltimore Thrush) |
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New Releases (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Animal Collective | “The Painters EP” (four songs; first single: “Kinda Bonkers”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Domino) |
| Clap! Clap! (Italian producer, songwriter-performer Cristiano Crisci) | “A Thousand Skies” (guests: Bongeziwe Mabandla, OY, John Wizards, HDADD; first single: “Try”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Black Acre) |
| Dutch Uncles (Manchester art-popologists) | “Big Balloon” (first single: “Oh Yeah”; Hear here; CD, out Feb. 24; iTunes) | (Memphis Industries) |
| Esakoff (Ventura, Calif., alt-rock act) | “Esakoff” (producer: Esakoff; first single: “Sweet on You”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Sticks & Stones Music, Feb. 21) |
| Future | “Future” (producers: Allen Ritter, DY, Frank Dukes, Mike Dean, MP808, Southside Tarentino, TM88, Tre Pounds, Vinylz, YK808, Zaytoven; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (A1 / Freebandz / Epic) |
| Eve to Adam (NYC anthemic hard rock band) | “Odyssey” (producer: Michael “Elvis” Baskette; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Rocktagon Worldwide Music, Feb. 20) |
| James Patrick Morgan (pop-soul singer-songwriter) | “Art + Work = Love” (five-song EP, including a cover of Steve Miller Band’s “Fly Like an Eagle”; producer: David Huff; Hear here) | (Artist Garage) |
| Palm Ghosts (East Nashville-based indie pop group) | “Greenland” (Hear here) | (Flour Sack Cape) |
| Sun Kil Moon | “Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood” (double album; Hear here; CD, out Feb. 24; On Tour) | (Caldo Verde) |
| Rebekah Todd (North Carolina alt blues/soul singer) | “Crooked Lines” (producers: Dick Hodgin, Chad Lister; first single: “Hustle”; Hear here) | (Rebekah Todd) |
| The Unlikely Candidates (Fort Worth alt-rock band) | “Bed of Liars” (six-song EP; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Another Century) |
| Various artists | “Sn” (digital-only album with electronic miniatures, 33 to 100 seconds, to celebrate musician-producer Juan María Solare’s 50th birthday; Sn is the chemical symbol of the element Stannum [tin], which has the atomic number 50; producer: Solare; guests: Adele Franghiadi, Sonia Megías, Juan Antonio Lleó, Luis Mihovilcevic, Asta Hyvärinen; first single: “Nun”; Hear here) | (Janus Music & Sound, Feb. 19) |
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Reissues (CDs / vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Eden Kane (aka Richard Graham Sarstedt, older brother of Peter and Clive Sarstedt) | “Well I Ask You: The Complete 60s Recordings” (two CDs, 56 songs; Read here) | (U.K. – Cherry Red) |
| Golden Earring | “The Complete Studio Recordings” (29-CD box set; Read here; Merch) | (Europe – Red Bullet / Universal Music) |
| Icehouse | “The Complete Collection” (12-CD, three-DVD box set; Read here) | (Australia – Universal) |
| Jethro Tull | “Stand Up (Steven Wilson Remix)” (1969 album; remixed to stereo and 5.1 surround by Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson; MP3; Merch) | (Rhino) |
| Robby Krieger | “In Session” (collection of rare sessions with guests such as Jackson Browne, William Shatner, Tommy Shaw, Nik Turner, Rod Argent, John Wetton, Tony Kaye, Billy Sherwood, Geoff Downes; MP3) | (Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra) |
| The Standells | “Dirty Water” (1966 album; remastered; Vinyl), “Why Pick on Me -Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White” (1966 album; remastered; Vinyl), “Try It” (1967 album; remastered; Vinyl) | (Sundazed Music) |
| Status Quo | “Keep ‘Em Coming! The Collection” (two CDs, 34 songs) | (U.K. – Music Club Deluxe) |
| Bonnie Tyler | “The Collection” (two CDs, 28 songs; Read here) | (U.K. – Music Club Deluxe) |
| Various artists | “Hard To Find 45s On CD, Volume 17: Late Sixties Classics” (21 songs, including eight making their stereo debut and a newly restored “MacArthur Park” by Richard Harris; Hear/read here) | (Eric) |
| Various artists | “Hard To Find Jukebox Classics, The Fifties: 31 Amazing Stereo Hits” (feat. hits by Bill Haley & His Comets, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, The Platters, Johnny Mathis, Patti Page, Bobby Darin, etc.; Hear/read here) | (Hit Parade) |
| Various artists | “Now That’s What I Call R&B” (three CDs, 63 songs) | (U.K. – Now! Music) |
| Various artists | “12 Inch Dance: Australian 80s Pop” (three-CD, 37-song collection includes rare mixes from Icehouse, Real Life, Split Enz, Pseudo Echo, Hunters & Collectors, Eurogliders, Boom Crash Opera, The Models, etc.; Read here) | (Australia – Festival / Rhino / Warner Music Australia) |
| Paul Young | “Wherever I Lay My Hat: The Best of Paul Young” (two CDs, 33 songs; Read here) | (U.K. – Music Club Deluxe) |
Reissues (MP3s)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Duke Ellington | “An Intimate Piano Session” (20-song collection recorded during eight sessions in New York, Paris and Tokyo between 1961 and 1971; Hear/read here) | (Storyville) |
| Marty Robbins | “Everything I’ve Always Wanted” (1981 album) | (Columbia Nashville / Legacy) |
More Digital Releases for Feb. 17 »
DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio: |
| Judy Collins | “A Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim [DVD]” (filmed in May 2016 at the Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver; CD; MP3) | (Cleopatra) |