New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Gracie Abrams | “Daughter from Hell” (her third album; producer: Aaron Dessner; 16 tracks; new single: “Hit the Wall”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Pale Cornflower Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music)   | Interscope |
| Joey Alexander | “Celestial Keeper” (Grammy-nominated pianist-composer’s third album; producer: Jason Olaine; guests: Lisa Fischer, Jaleel Shaw, Alita Moses; new single: “Stella By Starlight”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Mack Avenue |
| The Binoculars | “Double Whammy” (Brooklyn modern bluegrass duo’s debut album; recorded and mixed by Joseph “joebass” DeJarnette; new single: “Lookout Heart”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) | Jalopy Records |
| Boundaries | “Yearning: the unbeautiful after” (Hartford metalcore band’s fourth album; producer: Drew Fulk; new single: “Death will follow me”; See here; Read here; Neon Violet + Mint Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sumerian |
| Betty Buckley | “Enough (Live at Joe’s Pub)” (Tony Award winner’s 19th album, recorded during her NYC residency in 2025; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) | Palmetto Records |
| Helado Tropical | “Helado Tropical” (debut collaborative album from Helado Negro and Reyna Tropical; new single: “Sensación”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Psychic Hotline |
| The Hollywood Stars | “Hey! LA!” (their fifth studio album; producers: The Hollywood Stars, Loren Molinare, Paul Roessler; new single: “I’m Not Broken”; Hear here) | Rum Bar Records |
| Darryl Jenifer | “The Weather Channel” (instrumental album from bassist and founding member of Bad Brains; nine new compositions, plus interpretations of two Bad Brains classics; guests: John Medeski, Ben Perowsky, and late jazz legends Jack DeJohnette and Karl Berger; new single: “Sacred Love II”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) | Org Music |
| Kasabian | “Act III” (English rock band’s ninth studio album; producers: guitarist Serge Pizzorno, Mark Ralph; new single: “Great Pretender”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Columbia UK |
| Lenny Kaye | “Goin’ Local” (Patti Smith Group guitarist/longtime collaborator’s debut solo album, with Smith co-writing the track “Solstice”; new single: “Goin’ Local”; See here; Blue Bone Splash Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Yep Roc |
| Loathe | “A Stranger to You” (Liverpool metal band’s fourth album and first in five years; producer: guitarist Erik Bickerstaffe; new single: “Revenant”; See here; Turquoise White Marbled Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | SharpTone |
| The Menzingers | “Everything I Ever Saw” (Philly punk rockers’ eighth studio album; producer: Will Yip; new single: “Chance Encounters”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Epitaph |
| Motionless In White | “Decades” (Scranton, PA metalcore band’s seventh studio album; producers: Drew Fulk, Justin DeBlieck; guests: Corey Taylor, Skylar Grey, Dark Divine’s Anthony Martinez; new single: “Playing God”; See here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Roadrunner |
| Nia Archives | “Emotional Junglist” (second album from British alt-jungle artist/producer Dehaney Nia Lishahn Hunt; collaborators: James Ford, Ethan P. Flynn, Julia Michaels; guests: Jorja Smith, Sampha; new single: “Boys in Blue”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Black and White Marble Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | HIJINXX / Island |
| Orquesta Akokán | “América!” (classic Mambo-style Latin band’s fourth album; recorded live to tape at Penrose Recorders by Gabriel Roth; new single: “No Me Voy”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Daptone |
| Quicksand | “Bring On the Psychics” (NYC post-hardcore legends’ fifth album and first in five years; producer: Jon Markson; new single: “Crystallize”; See here; Read here; Blue and White Swirl Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Equal Vision |
| Rick Ross | “Set in Stone” (his 12th studio album and his first in five years; new single: “Mahogany Caskets,” feat. T.I.; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Maybach Music Group / gamma. |
| Tesla | “Homage” (14-song covers album; new single: a version of Climax Blues Band’s “I Love You”; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Mötley Crüe and Extreme) | Frontiers Music s.r.l. |
| Tricky | “Different When It’s Silent” (his 15th studio album and first full-length release under his own name in six years; guests; Marta Złakowska, Mitch Sanders, Red Run Rambo; new single: “Out of Place”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | False Idols |
| Various artists | “FIFA World Cup 2026: The Kick-Off, Volume One” (12 tracks, featuring LISA, Anitta, Future, Daddy Yankee, 21 Savage, Ava Max, Nelly Furtado, et al; Vinyl; Download) | MCA |
| Yard Act | “You’re Gonna Need a Little Music” (Leeds rock band’s third album; producer: Justin Meldal-Johnsen; new single: “Redeemer”; See here; Vinyl; Red and Black Marbled Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Republic |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Bucket | “Beyond the Pail” (three-song EP; new single: “Good Intentions”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Sad Cactus |
| Fantastic Negrito | “Fantastic Negrito Alive!” (Grammy-winning blues/R&B artist’s 15-song live album; new single: “Beat Salad”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Storefront Records |
| Zac Farro | “Operator – Live in Studio” (Paramore drummer’s live version of his 2025 debut solo album; See here; Red Vinyl; Apple Music) | Congrats Records |
| Steve Lacy | “Oh yeah?” (alt-R&B artist’s third solo album; new single: “is it cool?,” feat. SZA; Hear here; Read here; CD and Opaque Grey Vinyl, with 12×24″ poster insert, out Aug. 7; Apple Music) | L-M Records / RCA |
| Lily Meola | “Lucky to Be” (Maui-born country artist’s debut album; producers: Anders Mouridsen, Ben West, Hunter Metts, Nicholas Lobel; guests: Willie Nelson, Lukas Nelson, Jamey Johnson; new single: “Should’ve Known Better”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nettwerk |
| Mock Media | “Rat Bastard” (British Columbia art-rock band’s third album; new single: “Mock City Rock”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Mac’s Record Label |
| Lesley Mok | “transient” (Brooklyn drummer-composer’s debut solo album; new single: “berserk”; Vinyl; Apple Music) | American Dreams |
| Neon Moons | “Day Late and a Dollar Short” (Hudson Valley country band’s debut album; See here; Apple Music) | Basement Floods Records |
| Protest the Hero | “Within” (Canadian prog metallers’ first album in six years; new single: “Mouthpiece”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Protest the Hero Inc. |
| Bryan Ruby | “Playing With Fire” (six-song EP; producers: David Axelrod, Adam Sickler, Ruby; new single: “Diggin’ [‘Til the Corn Comes Up]”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Rubies in the Rough Music |
| Sandollar | “Sunny Day” (San Diego reggae/rock band’s sixth album; producers: Brian A. Witkin, Donna Maria Daly; guests: KBong, Dizzy Wright, Kela Sako; See here) | Pacific Records |
| Syd | “Beard” (third solo album from co-founder of The Internet; collaborators: Raphael Saadiq, Big Sean, Rodney Jerkins, James Fauntleroy, Van Hunt, Blu June, Jordan Ward; new single: “Callin”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Free Lunch / Warner |
| 12k Gotti | “MADLIFE” (new single: “CLIMAX”; See here; Apple Music) | 10k Global, July 23 |
| Gin Wigmore | “Beautiful Mess” (New Zealand singer-songwriter’s fourth album and first in eight years; producer: David Goodison; new single: “Beautiful Mess”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Universal Music New Zealand |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Brook Benton | “The Jasmine EP Collection” (30 tracks on one CD, drawn from EPs issued in the U.S., the U.K., France, the Netherlands and Australia, between 1959 and 1962; Track List) | Jasmine |
| Martin Carthy | “Along the Road Forever: Live At The BBC” (20-CD box set of live and session performances over a 57-year period, with 80-page hardback book; Amazon UK) | Madfish |
| Bill Doggett | “Bill Doggett: In Session, 1939-1962” (28 tracks on one CD, playing piano/organ on songs for Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, Illinois Jacquet, Coleman Hawkins, Little Willie John, et al; Track List) | Jasmine |
| Flamin’ Groovies | “Shake Some Action (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1976 album, produced by Dave Edmunds; with previously unreleased outtakes, alternate mixes and all existing tape from a 1976 live show recorded at The Roxy in Hollywood; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Rhino / Warner |
| Jodeci | “Forever My Lady (35th Anniversary)” (1991 debut album, featuring “Come and Talk to Me,” “Stay” and the title track; with five bonus tracks; Double Vinyl) | MCA / UMe |
| Little Richard | “The Specialty Hits and More!” (34 tracks on one CD; Track List) | Jasmine |
| Scotty McCreery | “15” (13-song career retrospective features four new tracks, including a duet with Josh Turner on a cover of Turner’s “Your Man”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Triple Tigers |
| Melanie | “First Nights On Broadway 1971” (previously unreleased recordings; 17 tracks; Amazon UK) | Cleopatra |
| New Order | “(the best & the rest of) New Order” (four-CD, 47-track set combines the remastered 1994 and 1995 compilations, along with two discs of rare vinyl-only tracks and unreleased remixes; Double CD, without bonus tracks; “The Best of” Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Rhino / Warner |
| Yoko Ono | “Season of Glass” (1981 album; remastered, with three bonus tracks, including “Walking on Thin Ice”; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Secretly Canadian |
| Various artists | “NOW 12” 80s: 1987 – Part One” (four CDs, 36 hits; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
| The Waterboys | “Atlantic Rain: The Lost Fisherman’s Blues Recordings” (three-CD box set of songs recorded during their 1988 sessions for “The Fisherman’s Blues” from 1986-88, compiled and restored by leader Mike Scott; Vinyl, three-LP box set; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Chrysalis |
| Kim Wilde | “Teases & Dares (Expanded Edition)” (1984 album, featuring “The Second Time” and “Rage to Love”; two-CD, one-DVD set includes 7-inch and extended versions and alternative mixes, plus promo videos and BBC TV performances; Read here; Blue Vinyl; Picture Disc; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Cherry Pop |
| Frank Zappa | “ZAPPAtite: Frank Zappa’s Tastiest Tracks” (18-track best-of compilation from 2016; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Merch) | Zappa Records / UMe |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| DJ Spanish Fly | “Cadillac Warning” (previously unreleased 1990s recordings from the Godfather of Memphis rap; new singles: “Jealous” and “Git Buck”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | untitled (recs) |
| Gary Stewart | “One Track Mind” (20 previously unreleased recordings from 1967-1972, including “Iron Bar Motel”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) | Delmore Recording Society |
