New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Lily Allen | “West End Girl” (her first album since 2018, all 14 songs were written by Allen, mainly in collaboration with her musical director Blue May; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Oct. 24; Apple Music; On Tour) | BMG Rights Management |
| Tyler Ballgame | “For the First Time, Again” (Rhode Island-raised, L.A.-based singer-songwriter’s debut album; producers: Jonathan Rado, Ryan Pollie; new single: “I Believe in Love”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   | Rough Trade |
| Eric Bibb | “One Mississippi” (13 originals plus a cover of “One Mississippi,” written by Bibb’s longtime high school friend Janis Ian with Fred Koller; producer: Glen Scott; new single: “If You’re Free”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Repute Records |
| Buzzcocks | “Attitude Adjustment” (their 12th studio album and second since the passing of original singer Pete Shelley in 2018, with founding member Steve Diggle continuing the band’s legacy; new single: “Queen of the Scene”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) > Singles Going Steady ❤️🩹 | Cherry Red |
| Cordovas | “Back to Life” (Nashville-based Americana rock band’s fifth album; guest: Kamasi Washington; new single: “Step Outside”; See here; Gray Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Yep Roc |
| Tinsley Ellis | “Labor of Love” (Atlanta-based blues great’s first acoustic album to contain all original material; producer: Ellis; new single: “Hoodoo Woman”; See here; Peach Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Alligator |
| Melissa Errico | “I Can Dream Can’t I?” (Tony Award-nominated actress-singer tackles the American Songbook, accompanied by Tedd Firth on piano; new single: “Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year”; See here) | Three Graces Music |
| Tony Hadley | “If I Can Dream” (Spandau Ballet singer’s seventh solo album; new single: “Avenues & Alleyways,” feat. Tony Christie; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Revolver |
| Lande Hekt | “Lucky Now” (ex-Muncie Girls singer-guitarist’s third solo album; producer: Matthew Simms; new single: “Favourite Pair of Shoes”; See here; Vinyl; Indie Exclusive Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Tapete |
| Joyce Manor | “I Used to Go to This Bar” (Torrance, CA punk-rock trio’s seventh album; producer: Brett Gurewitz; new single: “I Know Where Mark Chen Lives”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Epitaph |
| Kula Shaker | “Wormslayer” (British psych-rock band’s eighth album; new single: “Be Merciful”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour) | Strange F.O.L.K. |
| Bob Lind | “It Oughta Be Easy” (his ninth album; producer: Jamie Hoover; Hear/Read here; Amazon UK) > Elusive Butterfly: The Complete 1966 Jack Nitzsche Sessions 🦋 | Ace |
| MØL | “Dreamcrush” (Danish blackgaze band’s third album; new single: “Young” and “Garland”; See here; Coke Bottle Green and Black Yolk Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nuclear Blast |
| The Molotovs | “Wasted On Youth” (London-based sister-and-brother rock duo’s debut album; producer: Jason Perry; new single: “Today’s Gonna Be Our Day”; See here; Vinyl; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Marshall Records |
| Sam Quealy | “Jawbreaker” (techno-pop artist’s sophomore album; new single: “By My Side”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Music & Craft |
| Ailbhe Reddy | “Kiss Big” (Irish indie folk artist’s third album; producers: Reddy, Tommy McLaughlin; new single: “That Girl”; See here; Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Don Giovanni |
| Emily Scott Robinson | “Appalachia” (her fifth album; producer: Josh Kaufman; new single: “Hymn for the Unholy”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Oh Boy Records |
| Theodore Shapiro | “Severance: Season 2 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)” (Vinyl; Download released on March 25, 2025) | Mutant |
| Softcult | “When a Flower Doesn’t Grow” (Ontario sibling duo’s debut album; producer: drummer Phoenix Arn-Horn; new single: “Queen of Nothing”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Easy Life Records |
| The Soft Pink Truth | “Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?” (Matmos member Drew Daniel’s first solo album since 2022; guests: Bill Orcutt, strings arranger Ulas Kurugullu, harpists Neleta Ortiz and Cecilia Cuccolin, pianists Koye Berry and M.C. Schmidt, strings player Kurugullu, the Ebu String Quartet, et al; new single: “Time Inside the Violet”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; No. 2 Pencil Yellow Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Thrill Jockey |
| Stabbing | “Eon of Obscenity” (new single: “Eon of Obscenity”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Century Media |
| Sébastien Tellier | “Kiss the Beast” (French Touch artist’s seventh studio album; producers: Daniel Stricker, Victor Le Masne, SebastiAn, Oscar Holter; guests: Nile Rodgers, Kid Cudi, Slayyyter; new single: “Naïf de Coeur” [Naive at Heart]; See here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Because Music |
| Robin Trower | “One Moment In Time: Live in the USA” (recorded during his 2025 tour, at Music Box At The Borgata, Atlantic City, and Tupelo Music Hall in Derry, NH; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Artone Label Group / Provogue |
| Various artists | “Stranger Things 5 (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)” (Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Red Smoke Vinyl; Cassette; Download released on Jan. 1) | Legacy Recordings |
| We The Kingdom | “Dear Jesus” (contemporary Christian band’s third studio album; guest: Chris Tomlin; new single: “Dear Jesus”; See here; Golden Mirage Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sparrow / Capitol CMG |
| Ye Vagabonds | “All Tied Together” (Irish folk band’s fourth album; producer: Philip Weinrobe; guests: Shahzad Ismaily, Alain McFadden, Caimin Gilmore, Kate Ellis, Sam Amidon, Romain Bly, Louise Gaffney; new single: “On Sitric Road”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | River Lea Recordings / Rough Trade |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Annabelle Chairlegs | “Waking Up” (Austin-based singer-songwriter Lindsey Mackin’s third album; producer: Ty Segall; new single: “Heavy Sleeper”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | TODO Records |
| Cast | “Yeah Yeah Yeah” (eighth album from Merseybeat power-pop group led by former The La’s bassist John Power; producer: Youth; new single: “FREE LOVE”; Hear here; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Scruff of the Neck |
| DaBaby | “BE MORE GRATEFUL” (producers: 22Cartel, BandPlay, Byeperfect, consiuosite, Cookitupdavid, DJ K.i.D, Drvmlord, Jaxmadethis, KayoTheWizard, LC, Sean Da Firzt, Zach Geitner; new single: “DON’T INSULT ME”; See here; Apple Music) | South Coast Music Group / Interscope |
| Natalie Del Carmen | “Pastures” (L.A.-based Americana singer-songwriter’s second album; new single: “June, You’re on My Mind”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Torrez Music Group |
| Geologist | “Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?” (debut solo album from Animal Collective’s Brian Ross Weitz; new single: “Tonic”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Apple Music) | Drag City |
| The Hirsch Effekt | “Der Brauch” (German rock/metal trio’s seventh album; new single: “Die Brücke”; See here; Apple Music) | Long Branch |
| Indigo Syndicate | “Sasquatch” (Nashville-based, R&B-infused indie-pop trio’s debut album; Hear here) | Heart Songs Corporation |
| Joseph | “Closer to Happy” (fifth album from Portland sibling indie-pop group, now down to a duo; producers: sisters Natalie and Meegan Closner, Luke Niccoli; new single: “Ready to Let You Down”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Nettwerk |
| Kim Moberg | “All That Really Matters” (producer: Jon Evans; new single: “All That Really Matters”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Kim Moberg |
| Plantoid | “FLARE” (Brighton prog-rock trio’s second album; producer: Nathan Ridley; new single: “Dozer”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Bella Union |
| Don Toliver | “OCTANE” (Houston hip-hop/R&B artist’s fifth album; 18 songs; new single: “ATM”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Cactus Jack / Donway & Co / Atlantic |
| Jordan Ward | “BACKWARD” (St. Louis R&B singer-songwriter’s second album; new single: “SMOKING POTNA”; See here; Translucent Cobalt Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | ARTium Recordings / Interscope |
| Whitelands | “Sunlight Echoes” (London shoegazers’ second album; new single: “Songbird [Forever]”; See here; Indie Exclusive Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sonic Cathedral |
| Yumi Zouma | “No Lost Love to Kindness” (New Zealand indie-pop band’s fifth album; producers: bandmates Charlie Ryder, Christie Simpson, Josh Burgess, Olivia Campion; new single: “95”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nettwerk |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Cream | “Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005” (Double CD; four shows recorded during the band’s reunion tour; the album peaked at No. 59 on the Billboard 200 chart; Triple Vinyl) | Surfdog / Eric Clapton |
| Miles Davis | “The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965” (eight-CD box set, featuring Davis with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, captured two nights [Dec. 22-23] at the Chicago venue; 44-page bound book includes rare photos and extensive new liner notes and track-by-track commentary by Syd Schwartz alongside Bob Blumenthal’s original essay; Vinyl, 10-LP box set, cut from the high-res Mosaic masters and pressed on 140-gram black vinyl; each LP comes in its own newly designed jacket, housed in a gold foil-embossed slipcase box; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch) > Kind of Blue 💙 | Columbia / Legacy |
| Freddie and the Dreamers | “You Were Made For Me: The Complete Recordings 1963-1970” (five-CD box set, compiled and annotated by author/pop historian Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne; Read here; Amazon UK) | Strawberry / Cherry Red |
| Andrew Gold | “Lonely Boy: The Asylum Years Anthology” (six-CD, one-DVD box set featuring four complete albums from 1975-1980, with outtakes and unreleased live recordings, plus promo videos and “Old Grey Whistle Test” performances; Read here; Amazon UK) | Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red |
| Howard Jones | “Live at the Marquee” (13-song concert in London in September 1983; audio remixed by Jones; Read here; Translucent Yellow Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Cherry Red |
| The McAuley Schenker Group | “Bad Boys: The McAuley Schenker Group Story 1987-1992” (four complete albums, with 19 bonus tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | HNE / Cherry Red |
| The Monkees | “The A’s, The B’s & The Monkees” (two-CD set featuring 12 hits and 12 B-sides; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Merch) | Rhino |
| Motörhead | “No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith” (Double CD; 1981 live album; remastered from the original tapes, with previously unreleased full concert recorded at City Hall, Newcastle, on March 30, 1981, plus newly unearthed soundcheck tracks; Amazon UK; Merch) | BMG Rights Management |
| Nilsson | “The Point!” (1970 album, featuring “Me and My Arrow”; released less than two months before the animated film adaptation of the story first aired on ABC-TV on Feb. 2, 1971; Amazon UK) | Music on CD |
| Gary Numan | “Telekon (45th Anniversary Expanded Edition)” (1980 album; remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road Studios, with four unreleased bonus tracks; Amazon UK) > Premier Hits 🚘 | Beggars Banquet |
| Prince | “HITnRUN phase one” (2015 album; Vinyl; Amazon UK) > Ultimate 💜 | NPG / Legacy |
| Linda Ronstadt | “The Early Years” (15 tracks; sourced from the original analog mono and stereo master tapes; Double Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Iconic Artists Group |
| Ruts | “Shine On Me: The Collection 1977-1980” (two-CD collection includes the albums “The Crack” and “Grin + Bear It,” with bonus tracks; “Emergency Red” Translucent Vinyl, 12 songs; Amazon UK) | Edsel / Demon Music Group |
| The Style Council | “Café Bleu (Special Edition)” (1984 album, featuring “My Ever Changing Moods,” and “Long Hot Summer”; six-CD box set contains an extended version of the EP “Introducing The Style Council,” the full album, B-sides, remixes, demos and BBC sessions and live performances; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Polydor |
| Donna Summer | “Summer Time: The Singles Collection 1974-2010” (40-CD box set, with 319 tracks, including A- and B-sides, alternate and extended versions, 64-page booklet, etc.; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) | Driven By the Music / Crimson |
| Various artists | “CBGB: A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986” (four CDs, 101 tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Red |
| Various artists | “Highways of Diamonds: Black America Sings Bob Dylan” (20 covers on one CD, featuring The Staple Singers, Nina Simone, Billy Preston, Sarah Vaughan, Natalie Cole, Bettye LaVette, Solomon Burke, Merry Clayton, et al; Hear/Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Ace |
| Various artists | “Little Bangers From Richard Hawley’s Jukebox, Volume 2” (28 tracks on one CD; Hear/Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Ace |
