New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Big Big Train | “Woodcut” (international progressive rock band’s 16th studio album; 16 tracks; new single: “The Sharpest Blade”; See here; CD + Blu-ray Digipack, includes Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound and high resolution stereo mixes; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   | InsideOutMusic |
| Joe Bonamassa + various artists | “B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100” (Double CD; 32-track project celebrating King’s centennial birthday, with 40 musical guests, including Buddy Guy, Dion, Derek Trucks, George Benson, Keb’ Mo’, Michael McDonald, Slash, Shemekia Copeland, Larkin Poe, et al; producers: Bonamassa, Josh Smith; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour) | KTBA Records |
| Jay Buchanan | “Weapons of Beauty” (Rival Sons frontman’s debut solo album; producer: Dave Cobb; new single: “Caroline”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Sacred Tongue Records / Thirty Tigers |
| Ron Carter & Ricky Dillard | “Sweet, Sweet Spirit” (their first jazz-and-gospel collaborative album; new single: “Sweet, Sweet Spirit”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Motown Gospel / Blue Note / Capitol CMG |
| John Craigie | “I Swam Here” (Portland, OR-based musician’s 10th studio album; producer: Craigie; new single: “Fire Season”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Zabriskie Point Records |
| Daphni | “Butterfly” (16 tracks; new single: “Waiting So Long”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Opaque Pink and White Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Jiaolong |
| Ellur | “At Home In My Mind” (Halifax indie singer-songwriter Ella McNamara’s debut album; producers: Far Caspian, Scotty Anderson, Tom Longworth; new single: “The World Is Not an Oyster”; See here; Black Exo-Mix Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dance to the Radio |
| Beverly Glenn-Copeland | “Laughter In Summer” (collaborative album between the musician and his partner, Elizabeth Copeland, who produced the album; new singles: “Children’s Anthem” and “Let Us Dance (Movement One)”; Hear here; Read here; Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Transgressive |
| Handsome Jack | “Barnburners!” (Lockport, NY rock/blues power trio’s sixth album; new single: “Poly Molly”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Alive Naturalsound |
| ILLENIUM | “ODYSSEY” (Grammy-nominated DJ-producer’s sixth album; 19 songs; guests: Ryan Tedder, Tom Grennan, Alna, HAYLA, Norma Jean Martine, Alok, WYLDE; new single: “War,” feat. Lø Spirit; Hear here; Supernova Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Republic |
| Joji | “Piss in the Wind” (Japanese-Australian singer-rapper’s fourth album; new single: “If It Only Gets Better”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Ruby Black Wave Vinyl, with poster; Target-Exclusive Fruit Punch Black Mist Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Palace Creek / Virgin Music |
| Nick Jonas | “Sunday Best” (his fifth solo album; Read here; Bone Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Jonas Brothers) | Republic |
| KMFDM | “ENEMY” (their 24th album; new single: “OUBLIETTE”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; On Tour) | Metropolis |
| Storey Littleton | “At a Diner” (Woodstock, NY, singer-songwriter’s debut album; she is the daughter of Ida bandmates Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton; new single: “January”; See here; Read here; Blue Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Don Giovanni |
| Mandy, Indiana | “URGH” (Mancunian-Parisian noise-rockers’ second album; producers: guitarist Scott Fair, Daniel Fox; guest: billy woods; new single: “Magazine”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sacred Bones |
| Mayhem | “Liturgy of Death” (Norwegian black metal band’s seventh album; new single: “Weep for Nothing”; Hear here; Clear Black Vinyl, deluxe box set, with bonus 7-inch marbled vinyl with two extra tracks, plus metal pin, patch, art prints and tarot card; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Century Media |
| Puma Blue | “Croak Dream” (third full-length from Jacob Allen; recorded straight to tape at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios with co-producer Sam Petts-Davies; new single: “Croak Dream”; See here; Deep Ocean Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | [PIAS] |
| Puscifer | “Normal Isn’t” (their first full-length since 2020; band lineup: Maynard James Keenan, Mat Mitchell and Carina Round; new single: “Self Evident”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Puscifer Entertainment / Alchemy Recordings / BMG Rights Management |
| Ratboys | “Singin’ to an Empty Chair” (Chicago post-country band’s sixth album and label debut; new single: “Anywhere”; See here; Double Vinyl; Green Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | New West |
| Silversun Pickups | “Tenterhooks” (L.A. alt-rock band’s seventh album; producer: Butch Vig; new single: “The Wreckage”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | New Machine Recordings |
| Ulrika Spacek | “EXPO” (English alt-psych band’s fourth album; new single: “Square Root of None”; See here; Crystal Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Full Time Hobby |
| Various artists | “Ragtime: The Musical (2025 Broadway Cast Recording)” (Double CD; score by Tony Award winners Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, and starring Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, and Brandon Uranowitz; producers: Sean Patrick Flahaven, Ahrens, Flaherty; Read here; Lady Liberty Green Double Vinyl out April 3; Download scheduled for Jan. 9; On Broadway) | Concord Theatricals |
| Robbie Williams | “BRITPOP” (his 13th solo album and first since 2016; new single: “All My Life”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on Jan. 15; Deluxe Edition Download, with six extra songs; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Columbia |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Melissa Carper & Theo Lawrence | “Havin’ a Talk” (recorded at Nashville’s Bomb Shelter with Andrija Tokic; new single: “You’re Forgiven My Love”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Bee & El / Warner |
| J. Cole | “The Fall-Off” (he’s been working on this album for 10 years; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Interscope |
| Dirt Buyer | “Dirt Buyer III” (Brooklyn-based musician Joe Sutkowski’s third album; new single: “Get to Choose”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Bayonet |
| Hánt | “Is This As Far As We Go?” (producer: Dylan Howe; first single: “Wait For the Sun”; Hear here) | Hantthemusic |
| IST IST | “DAGGER” (Manchester post-punk band’s fifth album; new single: “Obligations”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Kind Violence Records |
| Lecrae | “Reconstruction: Second Story” (26 songs; guests: Killer Mike, T.I., Jon Bellion, et al; new single: “My Everything”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Reach |
| Lakelin Lemmings | “Get Around Boy” (Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s five-song EP; new single: “What Are We Doing”; See here; Apple Music) | Quartz Hill Records |
| Lucy Dreams | “VVVVV” (Austrian electropop trio’s debut album; See here; Apple Music) | SonicWaveArtPop |
| Ella Mai | “Do You Still Love Me?” (Grammy-winning English R&B singer-songwriter’s third album; new single: “Tell Her”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | 10 Summers Records / Interscope |
| Amanda McCarthy | “Looking For The Light” (Nashville-based pop singer-songwriter’s second album; new single: “LOL WTF”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Amanda McCarthy |
| Sydney Ross Mitchell | “Cynthia” (L.A.-based singer-songwriter’s eight-song EP; producers: Mason Stoops, Jonathan Wilson, Michael Harris, Sammy Witte; new single: “Big Boy Problems”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Disruptor |
| Nick Schofield | “Blue Hour” (synthesist-composer’s first foray into ambient jazz music, featuring the trumpet playing of Scott Bevins; new single: “Dream On”; See here; Apple Music) | Backward Music |
| SkyTigers | “… Injustice for All” (Lowell, MA-based thrash/punk band’s second album; new single: “Immortelevision”; Hear here) | Sound Investment Records |
| Keni Titus | “AngelPink” (debut album from L.A. singer-songwriter and daughter of comedian Christopher Titus; new single: “hands to myself”; See here; Apple Music) | BannerYeer Recordings |
| 2070 | “Big Blue” (L.A. alt-rock quartet’s third album; new single: “Transducer”; See here; Apple Music) | Danger Collective |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The Blasters | “The Blasters” (1981 album, featuring “Marie Marie,” which was later covered by Shakin’ Stevens and became his first Top 20 U.K. hit; Vinyl) “Hard Line” (1985 album; John Mellencamp wrote and produced the track “Colored Lights”; Vinyl) | Liberation Hall |
| Clifton Chenier | “Clifton Chenier: King of Louisiana Blues & Zydeco” (four-CD, 67-track box set; Vinyl, six-LP box set; Amazon UK; Download) | Arhoolie Records / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings |
| Roberta Flack | “With Her Songs: The Atlantic Albums 1969-1978” (eight-CD box set features her LPs from “First Take” to “Roberta Flack,” including her 1972 collaborative album with Donny Hathaway; remastered) | Rhino / Atlantic |
| Benny Mardones | “Into the Night / Best of” (his first two albums, 1978’s “Thank God for Girls” and 1980’s “Never Run Never Hide,” on one CD; his lone Top 40 hit, “Into the Night,” reached the U.S. Top 20 twice, in 1980 and 1989; See here) | JGJ Records |
| Nico | “Nico and Friends” (10-CD box set of live performances with Lou Reed, John Cale, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Tim Hardin, et al) | Greyscale |
| NRBQ | “Grooves in Orbit” (1983 album; remastered by Michael Graves at Osiris Studio, with seven bonus tracks and new liner notes by Q scribe John DeAngelis; Download; Apple Music) | Omnivore Recordings |
| Shaboozey | “Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going: The Complete Edition” (2024 album, featuring “A Bar Song [Tipsy]”; with six new songs; Hear here; Download released on April 25, 2025; Amazon UK; On Tour) | American Dogwood / EMPIRE |
| Various artists | “America’s Greatest Your Hit Parade Hits 1938” (four CDs, 95 songs, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, The Andrews Sisters, Guy Lombardo, Fats Waller, Artie Shaw, Rudy Vallee, et al) | Acrobat |
| Various artists | “The Greatest Country Hits of 1951” (three CDs, 78 songs, featuring Hank Snow, Red Foley, Eddy Arnold, Gene Autry, Patti Page, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Lefty Frizzell, Ernest Tubb, et al) | Acrobat |
| Various artists | “The 1953 R&B Hits Collection” (four CDs, 91 tracks, featuring B.B. King, Little Walter, Lloyd Price, Ruth Brown, Nat King Cole, Big Mama Thornton, Fats Domino, Little Walter, et al) | Acrobat |
| Various artists | “NOW 12” 80s: 1986 – Part One” (46 extended, full-length, and remixed 12-inch versions of 1986 hits on four CDs; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
| John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra | “Complete Philips Recordings” (21-CD box set; Amazon UK) | Decca |
| YES | “Tales From Topographic Oceans (Super Deluxe Edition)” (1973 album; 12CD/2LP/Blu-ray box set; newly remastered, with rarities, previously unreleased studio and live recordings and several new mixes by Steven Wilson, including a Dolby Atmos version; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Rhino |
