New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Alive in Barcelona (hard-rock quartet from the Pacific Northwest) | “Alive in Barcelona” (producers: Paul Leavitt, Jesse Barton, Jimmy Hill; first single: “The Fight”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour)  | (Smartpunk) |
| And The Kids (Western Massachusetts indie rockers) | “When This Life Is Over” (first single: “Champagne Ladies”; See here; Vinyl; iTunes; On Tour) | (Signature Sounds) |
| Badflower (Southern California rockers) | “OK, I’M SICK” (new single: “x ANA x”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Big Machine / John Varvatos) |
| Benny Sings (Dutch pop artist Tim van Berkestijn) | “City Pop” (first single: “Not Enough”; NPR First Listen; See here; Vinyl; iTunes; On Tour) | (Stones Throw) |
| Better Oblivion Community Center (Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst) | “Better Oblivion Community Center” (Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Dead Oceans) |
| Gary Clark Jr. | “This Land” (first single: “This Land”; See here; Vinyl; Download, with two extra songs; iTunes; On Tour) | (Warner) |
| The Claypool Lennon Delirium | “South of Reality” (producers: bandmates Les Claypool, Sean Lennon; first single: “Blood and Rockets: Movement I, Saga of Jack Parsons – Movement II, Too the Moon”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (ATO) |
| Dream Theater | “Distance Over Time” (first single: “Untethered Angel”; Hear here; Special Edition, with one bonus track; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch)  | (InsideOut Music) |
| Andy Frasco & the U.N. | “Change of Pace” (new single: “Change of Pace”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Fun Machine) |
| Good Fuck | “Good Fuck” (new single: “Physics”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Joyful Noise Recordings) |
| Julia Jacklin (Australian singer-songwriter) | “Crushing” (producer: Burke Reid; new single: “Pressure to Party”; See here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Polyvinyl) |
| Kehlani | “While We Wait” (nine-song mixtape; guests: Musiq Soulchild, Ty Dolla $ign, 6lack, Dom Kennedy; new single: “Butterfly”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (TSNMI / Atlantic) |
| Kim Lenz | “Slowly Speeding” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Blue Star Record Company) |
| Lily & Madeleine | “Canterbury Girls” (producers: Daniel Tashian, Ian Fitchuk; first single: “Self Care”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (New West) |
| Lowland Hum | “Glyphonic” (new single: “A Drive Through the Countryside”; Hear here; Vinyl; On Tour; Merch) | (Lowland Hum) |
| Maxïmo Park | “As Long We Keep Moving” (recorded live at at Vada Studios; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Cooking Vinyl) |
| John Mayall | “Nobody Told Me” (producers: Mayall, Eric Corne; guests: Todd Rundgren, Steven Van Zandt, Alex Lifeson, Joe Bonamassa, Larry McCray, Carolyn Wonderland; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Forty Below) |
| Our Native Daughters (Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla and Allison Russell) | “Songs of Our Native Daughters” (the supergroup focuses on African-American women’s stories of struggle, resistance and hope, pulling from and inspired by 17th, 18th and 19th-century sources, including slave narratives and early minstrelsy; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes) | (Smithsonian Folkways) |
| Spellling (Bay Area electronic artist Chrystia Cabral) | “Mazy Fly” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Sacred Bones) |
| Sunwatchers | “Illegal Moves” (first single: “Beautiful Crystals”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Trouble In Mind) |
| Vandoliers (Texas country-punk band) | “Forever” (producer: Adam Hill; first single: “Troublemaker”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Bloodshot) |
| Adia Victoria (Nashville-based blues singer) | “Silences” (producer: Aaron Dessner; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Canvasback / Atlantic) |
| Yola | “Walk Through Fire” (producer: Dan Auerbach; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Easy Eye Sound / Nonesuch) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Feed Me (dubstep/electro-house producer Jon Gooch) | “High Street Creeps” (guests: Rosie Doonan, Graham Fink, Chaney, Lindsay; new single: “Sleepless”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (mau5trap) |
| Sleaford Mods | “Eton Alive” (first single: “Flipside”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Extreme Eating) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ray Charles | “Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music, Volumes 1 & 2” (1962 albums; remastered; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download) | (Concord) |
| Flamin Groovies | “Gonna Rock Tonite! The Complete Recordings 1969-71” (three-CD set includes the albums “Supersnazz,” “Flamingo” and “Teenage Head,” with 17 bonus tracks; Read here; eBay; Merch) | (Grapefruit / Cherry Red) |
| Ian Hunter | “From the Knees of My Heart: The Albums 1979-1981” (four-CD box set, featuring “Cleveland Rocks,” “Just Another Night” and “Ships”; Amazon UK; eBay) | (Chrysalis) |
| Curtis Mayfield | “Keep On Keepin’ On: Curtis Mayfield Studio Albums 1970-1974” (four-CD box set featuring the Curtom / Buddah LPs “Curtis,” “Roots,” “Back to the World” and “Sweet Exorcist”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl) | (Rhino) |
| REO Speedwagon | “Classic Years 1978-1990” (nine-CD box set with loads of bonus tracks; See here; Read here; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Hear No Evil / Cherry Red) |
| Stiff Little Fingers | “The Albums 1991-1997” (four-CD, 64-track clamshell box set; Amazon UK; Read here) | (Captain Oi! / Cherry Red) |
| Tangerine Dream | “The Blue Years Studio Albums 1985-1987” (four-CD remastered clamshell boxset featuring four albums originally released on the Jive Electro label; Read here; Amazon UK) | (Reactive / Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red) |
| The Undisputed Truth | “Cosmic Truth / Higher Than High” (the soul trio’s final two albums for Motown, both from 1975, on two CDs; remastered; Hear/read here; Amazon UK) | (Kent / Ace) |
| Various artists | “Gary Crowley’s Lost 80s” (63 rarities from 1980-87 on four CDs; Track list; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Edsel / Demon Music Group) |
| Various artists | “NOW 100 Hits 80s” (five-CD box set; Track list; Amazon UK) | (NOW Music) |
| Various artists | “Sounds of the 80s: Don’t You Want Me, 1980-1983” (three CDs, 62 songs; Track list; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl), “Sounds of the 80s: Like a Record Baby, 1984-1986” (three CDs, 61 songs; Track list; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl), “Sounds of the 80s: I Think We’re Alone Now, 1987-1989” (three CDs, 61 songs; Track list; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl) | (Spectrum / Universal UK) |
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