New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Courtney Marie Andrews | “Valentine” (Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s ninth studio album; producers: Andrews, Jerry Bernhardt; new single: “Keeper”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   | Loose Future / Thirty Tigers |
| Elles Bailey | “Can’t Take My Story Away” (British roots-rocker’s sixth studio album; producer: Luke Potashnick; new single: “Growing Roots”; Hear here; Read here; Bone Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Cooking Vinyl / Outlaw Music |
| Madison Beer | “locket” (her third album; producers: Leroy Clampitt, LOSTBOY, Beer, One Love; new single: “bittersweet”; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with bonus tracks + poster; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Buttercream Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Pink Pastel Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Sing It Loud / Epic |
| Cavetown | “Running With Scissors” (English indie pop singer-songwriter’s fourth album; new single: “Rainbow Gal”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Pierce the Veil) | Futures Music Group |
| ENHYPEN | “THE SIN : VANISH” (K-pop group’s seventh mini album; Target-Exclusive CD, with extra photocard; Target-Exclusive CD: Fugitives Vers., specific to each member; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Merch) | BELIFT LAB |
| EXO | “REVERXE” (K-pop group’s eighth album; See here) | SM Entertainment |
| Half Dizzy | “Yard Sale” (producer: Pete Steinkopf; new single: “Easton”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download released on Dec. 12; Apple Music) | Punkerton |
| Jana Horn | “Jana Horn” (Austin-based folk singer-songwriter’s third album; new single: “Go on, move your body”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | No Quarter |
| David Huckfelt | “I Was Born But …” (Minneapolis folk singer’s album of covers by Tom Petty, Warren Zevon, George Jones and others; producer: Gabriel Sullivan; new single: “The Race Is On”; Translucent Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Don Giovanni |
| The James Hunter Six | “Off the Fence” (British soul singer-songwriter’s 11th album; guest: Van Morrison; new single: “Here and Now”; See here; Translucent Sea Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Easy Eye Sound / Concord |
| Richard Marx | “After Hours” (his 14th studio album, featuring Great American Songbook standards with new originals written in the same era-evoking spirit; guests: Rod Stewart, Kenny G, Chris Botti, Randy Waldman, Tom Scott, Drea Tomè, et al; new single: “Big Band Boogie”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) > Stories To Tell: Greatest Hits and More ❤️🩹 | BMG Rights Management |
| Memphis Kee | “Dark Skies” (Austin country band’s sophomore album; new single: “Hummingbird”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Edgewater Music Group |
| Alice Merton | “Visions” (British-based German-Canadian singer-songwriter’s third album; new single: “Ignorance Is Bliss”; See here; Black Dust Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Paper Plane |
| Langhorne Slim | “The Dreamin’ Kind” (Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s ninth album; producer: Greta Van Fleet’s Sam F. Kiszka; new singles: “Rock N Roll” and “Haunted Man”; See here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Rock N Roll Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dualtone |
| Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel | “Celestun” (their collaborative debut album; guests: the Secret Sisters; new singles: “Elizabeth Brown” and a cover of Neil Young’s “Sail Away”; Hear here; Magenta Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Duo Quest Records / Tone Tree Music |
| Sleaford Mods | “The Demise of Planet X” (English post-punk duo’s 13th album; guests: Liam Bailey, Sue Tompkins, Snowy, Sue Tompkins, Gwendoline Christie, Big Special; new single: “The Good Life”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Rough Trade |
| Stay the Course | “Red Flag” (Wichita pop punk/easycore band’s third album; new single: “Pocket Sand”; Vinyl; Download released on Dec. 12; Apple Music) | Punkerton |
| Various artists | “EVITA” (10-song cast recording of Jamie Lloyd’s staging of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical, which ended its run Sept. 6 at the London Palladium, featuring leading lady Rachel Zegler; Hear here; Blue Splatter Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on Oct. 24) | The Other Songs |
| Xiu Xiu | “Xiu Mutha F*ckin’ Xiu: Vol. 1” (covers album; 12 tracks; Hear here; Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) | Polyvinyl |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| A$AP Rocky | “Don’t Be Dumb” (his fourth album and first in nearly eight years; producers: Greg Kurstin, Dean Blunt, Pharrell Williams, Mike Dean, Madlib, Metro Boomin, The Alchemist, et al; Amazon-Exclusive Black and White Double Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Rocky Rugahand / Blue Metallic and Cloudy White Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; Merch) > LONG.LIVE.A$AP 🩸 | A$AP Worldwide / Polo Grounds / RCA |
| Delaney Bailey | “Concave” (Chicago singer-songwriter’s second album; new single: “Far Away”; See here; Apple Music) | AWAL Recordings America, Jan. 21 |
| Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore | “Tragic Magic” (producers: Barwick, Lattimore, Trevor Spencer; new single: “Melted Moon”; See here; Read here; CD, Vinyl and Rough Trade-Exclusive Serpentine Green Bio Vinyl out Feb. 20; Apple Music; On Tour) | InFiné |
| Elijah Blake | “THE GEMINI” (Haitian-Dominican R&B singer-songwriter’s 11th album; producers: Blake, J2, Roark Bailey; new single: “Glass House”; See here; Apple Music) | MNRK |
| Clothesline from Hell | “SLATHER ON THE HONEY” (Toronto-based singer-songwriter Adam LaFramboise’s debut album; producer: LaFramboise; new single: “TRUEST SOUND”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | 444% |
| Crooked Man | “Crooked Stile” (Sheffield DJ and producer Richard Barratt’s first Crooked Man album in eight years; guest: Róisín Murphy; new single: “CUNTS”; See here; Amazon UK) | Vicious Charm Recordings |
| Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions | “Mahalle” (their sixth album; new single: “Galata / Karaköy”; Apple Music) | Nublu Records |
| Lexa Gates | “I Am” (NYC hip-hop artist’s second album; producers: Aaron Shadrow, Billy Lemos, Black Noi$e, Emile Haynie, Jasper Harris; new single: “Estranged”; See here; Apple Music) | 48 Lights / GoodTalk / Capitol |
| I Promised the World | “I Promised the World” (Texas screamo band’s five-song EP; new single: “A Pure Expression”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Rise Records |
| Mike Mattison & Trash Magic | “Turn a Midnight Corner” (third solo album from member of the Tedeschi-Trucks Band and the Derek Trucks Band; producers: Mattison, Jason Kingsland; new single: “Going Down the Alley”; Hear/Read here) | Landslide |
| Peaer | “Doppelgänger” (Brooklyn indie-rock trio’s fourth album and first in seven years; new single: “Bad News”; Hear here; Amazon.ca; Apple Music) | Danger Collective |
| Sassy 009 | “Dreamer+” (Oslo-based producer, singer-songwriter Sunniva Lindgård’s debut album; guests: Blood Orange, yuné pinku, Bea1991; new single: “Mirrors”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour) | HEAVEN-SENT / [PIAS] |
| Young Gun Silver Fox | “Live from the Troubadour & Paradiso” (See here; Ocean Blue Vinyl; Apple Music) | Blue Élan |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Ace Cannon | “Sittin’ Tight: Early Singles & Rarities” (29 tracks on one CD) | Jasmine |
| Adam Faith | “The Jasmine EP Collection” (36 tracks on one CD, drawn from EPs issued in the U.K. and France between 1959 and 1962) | Jasmine |
| Fleetwood Mac | “Fleetwood Mac [Hybrid SACD]” (1975 album, featuring “Rhiannon,” “Over My Head,” “Say You Love Me” and “Landslide”; Double Vinyl, sourced from the original analog master tapes and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing; Amazon UK; Merch) > Greatest Hits 🌺 | Mobile Fidelity |
| Dale Hawkins | “Forbidden Love 1961-1962” (26 songs on one CD) | Jasmine |
| Red Mitchell | “The Classic Albums 1955-1963” (eight albums on four CDs) | Enlightenment |
| Stevie Nicks | “Rock a Little [Hybrid SACD]” (1985 album, featuring “Talk to Me” and “I Can’t Wait”; mastered at MoFi’s California studio, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Merch) > Crystal Visions: The Very Best of Stevie Nicks 🔮 | Mobile Fidelity |
| Miyoshi Umeki | “The Mercury Years 1956-1962” (actress-singer won an Oscar for “Sayonara,” starred on Broadway and film in “Flower Drum Song” and played Mrs. Livingston on three seasons of “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”; 31 tracks on one CD) | Jasmine |
| Various artists | “He’s a Rebel: The Songs of Gene Pitney” (32 tracks on one CD, featuring Pitney-penned songs by Roy Orbison, Ricky Nelson, Vikki Carr, Bobby Vee, The Crystals, et al) > Gene Pitney: 25 All-Time Greatest Hits 💞 | Jasmine |
| Various artists | “The Hits Album – Superstars: The ’70s” (U.K. release; three CDs, 66 tracks) | Sony Music / Universal Music Recordings |
| Various artists | “NOW Yearbook – The Vault 1982” (four CDs, 80 tracks, featuring hits by The Police, Men At Work, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Journey, Willie Nelson, Neil Diamond, The Motels, The Cars, et al; Yellow Triple Vinyl, 45 songs; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Various artists | “100 Bluegrass Favorites” (four-CD collection, featuring Flatts & Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Roy Acuff, Jimmie Rodgers, The Stanley Brothers, The Delmore Brothers, The Blue Sky Boys, et al; Amazon UK) “100 Songs of the Wild West” (four-CD collection, featuring Marty Robbins, Patsy Cline, Tex Ritter, Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Frankie Laine, Slim Whitman, Don Gibson, et al; Amazon UK) | Not Now Music |
| Various artists | “So High I’ve Been: A European Rock Anthology 1967-1973” (three-CD, 57-track compilation, featuring Golden Earring, Shocking Blue, Faust, Tangerine Dream, Focus, et al; Read here; Amazon UK) | Grapefruit / Cherry Red |
| T-Bone Walker | “T-Bone Walker: In Session 1940-1962” (25 tracks on one CD, featuring sessions with John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim, Sonny Terry, Les Hite, et al) | Jasmine |
