New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Michael Bolton | “A Symphony of Hits” (a collection of his greatest hits newly recorded with a symphony orchestra; Hear here; Download; iTunes)  | (Montaigne / eOne Music) |
| Busted | “Half Way There” (producer: Gil Norton; Vinyl; On Tour) | (East West) |
| Michael Chapman | “True North” (producer: Steve Gunn; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Paradise of Bachelors) |
| Jeremy Denk | “c.1300-c.2000” (the pianist’s double album covers 700 years of music from 24 different composers, from Guillaume de Machaut to György Ligeti; See here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Nonesuch) |
| Galactic | “Already Ready Already” (guests: Princess Shaw, Miss Charm Taylor, David Shaw, Nahkom Boyfriend, Erica Falls; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Tchoup-zilla / Thirty Tigers) |
| Ariana Grande | “thank u, next” (producers: Tommy Brown, Charles Anderson, Michael Foster, Max Martin, “Pop” Wansel, Happy Perez; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch)  | (Republic) |
| HEALTH (L.A. industrial noise-rock group) | “Vol. 4 :: Slaves of Fear” (first single: “Slaves of Fear”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) |
| LCD Soundsystem | “Electric Lady Sessions [Vinyl]” (recorded live at New York’s famous Electric Lady Studios; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (DFA / Columbia) |
| The Lemonheads | “Varshons II” (all-covers album; producer: Matthew Cullen; first single: “Can’t Forget”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay) | (Fire) |
| Cass McCombs | “Tip of the Sphere” (first single: “Sleeping Volcanoes”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Deluxe Vinyl Edition; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (ANTI- / Epitaph) |
| Mercury Rev | “Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited” (a complete cover of the 1968 album; guests: Norah Jones, Hope Sandoval, Rachel Goswell, Vashti Bunyan, Beth Orton, Marissa Nadler, Lucinda Williams, Margo Price, etc.; first single: “Sermon”; Hear here; NPR’s All Songs Considered; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Partisan) |
| Bob Mould | “Sunshine Rock” (first single: “Sunshine Rock”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Merge) |
| Panda Bear (Animal Collective founding member Noah Lennox) | “Buoys” (producers: Lennox, Rusty Santos; first single: “Dolphin”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Domino) |
| Jessica Pratt | “Quiet Signs” (first single: “This Time Around”; NPR First Listen; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Mexican Summer) |
| Mavis Staples | “Live in London” (recorded at the Union Chapel; first single: “No Time For Cryin'”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (ANTI- / Epitaph) |
| AJ Tracey (London rapper) | “AJ Tracey” (first single: “Doing It”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (AJ Tracey) |
| Various artists | “Music Inspired by the Film Roma” (the drama, which began streaming on Netflix in December 2018, received 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film; Hear here; NPR First Listen; See here; Download; iTunes) | (Columbia) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| C.J. Boyd | “Kin Ships” (concept album contains 51 songs, each one recorded in a different sate, and features 186 guest musicians; Hear here) | (Joyful Noise Recordings) |
| Analea Brown | “Queendom” (guests: Junyer King, Dada Yute; first single: “Turn Up”; See here; iTunes) | (Mensch House) |
| Downfall of Gaia | “Ethic of Radical Finitude” (first single: “As Our Bones Break to the Dance”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Metal Blade) |
| Ed Drewett (singer-songwriter, who wrote One Direction’s “Best Song Ever” and “History”) | “Ten” (first single: “The Unfortunate Gent”; iTunes) | (Pickle Music / Universal) |
| Radiant Baby (Montreal electro-pop artist Felix Mongeon) | “Restless” (new single: “Firecracker”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Lisbon Lux) |
| Jason Ringenberg | “Stand Tall” (Hear here; On Tour) | (Courageous Chicken Entertainment) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| John Anderson | “40 Years and Still Swingin'” (two-CD, 40-song compilation; Hear here; On Tour, with Blake Shelton) | (Bayou Boys Music Group) |
| Dave Brubeck | “Seven Classic Albums” (four-CD set of complete remastered albums from the 1960s; Hear here; eBay; Merch) | (Enlightenment) |
| Alex Chilton | “From Memphis To New Orleans” (collection of tracks from his hard-to-find 1980s albums “Feudalist Tarts,” “No Sex,” “High Priest” and “Blacklist”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) , “Songs From Robin Hood Lane” (his 1990s-era interpretations of mostly jazz standards he first heard as a child in a Memphis suburb, when his family lived on Robin Hood Lane; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Bar/None) |
| The Farm | “All Together Now That’s What I Call The Farm” (CD + DVD compilation; See here; Track list) | (Secret) |
| Andrew Gold | “The Essential Collection” (two CDs, 35 songs, featuring “Lonely Boy,” “Thank You For Being a Friend,” “Never Let Her Slip Away,” “Right Between the Eyes,” etc.; See here) | (Music Club Deluxe) |
| Laura Nyro | “Spread Your Wings and Fly: Live at the Fillmore East, May 30, 1971” (recorded in 1971 but not released until 2004; Hear here) | (Retroworld) |
| Prince | “Musicology” (2004 album; remastered; See here; Vinyl), “3121” (2006 album; remastered; See here; Vinyl), “Planet Earth” (2007 album; remastered; See here; Vinyl; eBay; Merch) | (NPG / Columbia / Legacy) |
| Jimmy Smith | “The Classic Verve Albums Collection” (eight albums on four CDs; remastered) | (Enlightenment) |
| Robin Trower | “The Studio Albums 1973-1983” (10-CD box set; Amazon UK; eBay; On Tour) | (Chrysalis) |
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Reissues (Downloads)
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| Metronomy | “Nights Out (10th Anniversary Edition)” (2008 album; with nine bonus tracks; Hear here; Vinyl; On Tour) | (Because Music) |
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