New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Charli xcx | “Music, Fashion, Film” (British electro-pop artist’s seventh album, featuring “Rock Music” and “SS26”; producers: A. G. Cook, Charli xcx, Finn Keane; new single: “Wink Wink”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Bone White Vinyl, with a 4” x 6” postcard and a 22.75” x 34” newsprint poster; Rough Trade-Exclusive Yorkshire Smoke Vinyl, with postcard and poster; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch)   | Atlantic |
| Leanna Crawford | “Thank God” (second album from 2025’s Dove Award winner for Best New Artist; new single: “Living Room Floor”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Provident Music Group |
| Foreigner | “In the Eye of a Storm” (soundtrack to 50th anniversary concert film, capturing performances at Ellis Island and Brooklyn’s DUMBO House, featuring original frontman Lou Gramm, longtime singer Kelly Hansen and current lead vocalist Luis Maldonado; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Sun Records |
| Brantley Gilbert | “SINS OF THE FATHER” (Georgia country rock singer-songwriter’s eighth studio album; 15 songs; producers: Gilbert, Brock Berryhill; guest: Jelly Roll; new single: “F*****D ME UP”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | BBR Music Group / BMG Nashville |
| Charles Wesley Godwin | “Christian Name” (his third album; producer: Al Torrence; new single: “Hey There Son”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Dylan Gossett this summer and Kacey Musgraves this fall) | Big Loud / Mercury |
| Hunter As a Horse | “Paradise” (South African electronic dark-pop artist Mia van Wyk’s debut album; new single: “Leviathan”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Metropolis |
| Stephan Moccio | “Scenes from a Velvet Room” (for his fourth solo album, Ontario-born pianist-composer – who co-wrote Celine Dion’s “A New Day Has Come,” Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” and The Weeknd’s “Earned It” – revisits his early days as the house pianist at Toronto’s Four Seasons hotel; guest: Branford Marsalis; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on June 26; Apple Music; On Tour) | Decca |
| Punch Brothers | “The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers” (Grammy-winning band’s seventh album and its first comprising all instrumental tunes as well as its first with fiddle player Brittany Haas, who joined the quintet in 2023; producers: Punch Brothers; new single: “Found in a Frozen Fog”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nonesuch |
| The Revivalists | “Get It Honest” (New Orleans band’s sixth album; producer: Rich Costey; new single: “Heart Stop”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Concord |
| REZN | “Cycles in the Infinite Dream” (Chicago progressive psych-doom metal group’s sixth album; recorded and engineered by Greg Norman at Electrical Audio studio in Chicago; new single: “Cloudfall”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Sargent House |
| The Strokes | “Reality Awaits” (their seventh album and first in six years; producer: Rick Rubin; new single: “Falling Out of Love”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Black Ice Glitter Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Metallic Gold Opaque Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Cult / RCA |
| Shania Twain | “Little Miss Twain” (five-time Grammy winner’s seventh studio album; producer: Zachary Dawes; guests: Tanya Tucker, Josh Homme; new single: “Faded Blue Jeans”; Hear here; Amazon-Exclusive CD, with a bonus track; Red Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Red Vinyl, with a bonus track; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, including 12-night Wembley Stadium stint with Harry Styles; Merch) | Republic |
| Tyla | “A*POP” (Grammy-winning South African singer-songwriter’s sophomore album; new single: “SHE DID IT AGAIN”; See here; Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Lavender Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | FAX Records / Epic |
| Waterparks | “JINX” (their sixth album; guests: Mark Hoppus, Danny Elfman, Eric Nally, Dillon Francis; new single: “PROWLER”; Hear here; Vinyl; POP$TAR PINK Vinyl, with poster; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Rise Records / BMG Rights Management |
| WILLOW | “The Thread” (her eighth studio album; written and produced by WILLOW and collaborator Chris Greatti; new single: “Talk on the Hill”; See here; Magenta Clear Cloud Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Three Six Zero Recordings |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Bleached Cross | “Wrath” (Chicago blackened dark-wave band’s third album; new single: “Blood Moon”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | New Morality Zine |
| Body Talk | “Tally” (Australian garage punk band’s third album; producer: Stella Mozgawa; new single: “Mulberry”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | p(doom) records |
| Alex Cameron | “Late to Set” (Australian singer-songwriter’s fifth album; new single: “Red Hook Rain”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour, with The Strokes) | Alex Cameron |
| Cel Ray | “Cel Rayzer” (Chicago punk quartet’s debut album; recorded and mixed by Doug Malone at Jamdek; new single: “Toxic”; Hear here; Mustard Yellow Vinyl; Apple Music) | Exploding In Sound Records |
| Josh da Costa | “New Wave Graveyard” (L.A.-based singer-songwriter’s debut solo album; new single: “96 Year Old Girl”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Stones Throw |
| Dorio | “Agent Friday & the Perfect Angel” (Austin indie pop duo’s fourth album; new singles: “Chasing Agent Friday” and “Perfect Angel”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Earth Libraries |
| girlsweetvoiced | “Lovesweet” (Ottawa folk-pop singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “Energizer”; See here; Apple Music) | A24 Music / RCA |
| Nick Granata | “My Heart is Running Backwards! A Martial Artist! With a Closed Fist! Woof!” (Shovel Dance Collective singer’s debut solo album; new singles: “Rabbits! / Birdies!”; Hear/Read here; Apple Music) | Double Dare |
| Alyssa Grace | “spilling my guts” (SoCal folk-pop singer-songwriter’s seven-song debut EP; producers: Carson Ripley, Idarose, Steven Martinez; guest: Andrew Lucier; new single: “bloodstream”; See here; Apple Music) | Artist House, LLC |
| Nick Hakim | “I Can See” (his fourth album; new single: “I Can See”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Earseed Records / Stem |
| Robyn Hitchcock | “The Confuser” (his 25th solo album; new single: “Yesterday’s Rain”; See here; CD and Vinyl out Aug. 21; Glowing Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Tiny Ghost |
| Creekbed Carter Hogan | “Peasants Revolt” (folk singer-songwriter’s third album; producer: Britton Beisenherz; new single: “Icarus Again”; See here; CD and Lime Green Vinyl out Aug. 7; Apple Music; On Tour) | Gar Hole Records |
| IAN SWEET | “Shiverstruck” (indie-rocker Jilian Medford’s fifth album;producer: Ben H. Allen; new single: “Criminal Kissing”; Hear here; Read here; Blue Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Polyvinyl |
| Lakelin Lemmings | “Lakelin Lemmings” (West Tennessee country singer-songwriter’s debut album; she co-wrote 15 of the 16 songs; producer: Ash Bowers; new single: “He Ain’t Coming Back”; See here; Apple Music) | Quartz Hill |
| Love Spells | “LOVE IS THE LAW” (debut dream-pop and R&B project of 21-year-old Houston-born, L.A.-based singer-songwriter Sir Taegen Harris; new single: “Maybe I Still Love You”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | RCA |
| Man Mountain | “Threads of Another Life” (Detroit instrumental post-rock quartet’s first album in six years; producer: Jeremy Wurst; new single: “Absence / Descent”; See here; Apple Music) | Spartan Records |
| ME. | “All Good Things” (debut project from former Taking Back Sunday founding members Mark O’Connell and Eddie Reyes; new single: “Grown Man”; See here) | ME. |
| Rico Nasty | “RX” (producer: Kenneth Blume, formerly KennyBeats; new single: “Cupcake”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour, with Hayley Williams) | Sugar Trap |
| Various artists | “The Lost Boys (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (27 songs, written by 2026 Tony-nominated composers The Rescues, with a bonus track: “Brother”; producers: The Rescues, Ethan Popp; new single: “Secret Comes Out”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Broadway) | Atlantic |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Barnes & Barnes | “Zabagabee: The Best of Barnes & Barnes” (16-track collection, featuring “Fish Heads”; Vinyl; DVD, seven music videos; Amazon UK) | Liberation Hall |
| Johnny Cash | “Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!” (1957 debut album, produced by Sam Phillips, featuring “I Walk the Line,” “Cry! Cry! Cry!,” “So Doggone Lonesome” and “Folsom Prison Blues”; Amazon UK) “Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous” (1958 album, featuring “I Walk The Line”, “Guess Things Happen That Way” and “Ballad of a Teenage Queen”; Amazon UK) “Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash” (1964 compilation; Amazon UK; Merch) | Sun Records |
| Carter Faith | “Cherry Valley Forever” (2025 debut album; with five bonus songs, including a new track: “Ain’t Over Me Yet”; See here; Gold Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Gatsby Records / MCA |
| Juan Gabriel | “Los Dúo” (late Latin star’s 2015 album, featuring reimagined versions by Marco Antonio Solis, Natalia Jimenez, Laura Pausini, Vicente Fernandez, Alejandra Guzman, Luis Fonsi, et al; Double Vinyl) | Virgin Music Group US Latin |
| Goo Goo Dolls | “Let Love In (20th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 2006 album, featuring “Better Days,” “Stay with You” and “Let Love In”; 21-track release includes the original album and 10 “Live and Intimate” recordings from a special session captured at Capitol Studios; See here; Red Vinyl, without bonus tracks; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Warner |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | “Killer In Stereo: I’ve Been Twistin'” (12-song collection of rare, remixed stereo tracks recorded by Lewis near the end of his time at Sun Records in the late 1960s; Splatter Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Sun Records |
| Lulu | “Independence (Expanded Edition)” (1993 album, her first new material since 1982; four-CD, one-DVD clamshell box set; remastered, featuring 57 tracks, restored promo videos, BBC TV appearances, etc.; See here; Read here; Amazon UK) | Dôme Records / Cherry Red |
| Randy Newman | “Sail Away [Quadio]” (Blu-ray Audio; 1972 album, featuring “Sail Away,” “Dayton, Ohio – 1903” and “Burn On”; transferred from the original half-inch four-channel masters, with 192/24 resolution quadraphonic and hi-res stereo mixes) | Rhino / Warner |
| Juice Newton | “Angel of the Morning: The Very Best Of” (16 songs; Black, Red and Clear Splatter Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Cleopatra |
| Ike Quebec | “The Classic Blue Note Collection” (eight original albums on four CDs) | Enlightenment |
| Mongo Santamaria | “Mongo at Montreux [Quadio]” (Blu-ray Audio; 1971 album; transferred from the original half-inch four-channel masters, with 192/24 resolution quadraphonic and hi-res stereo mixes) | Rhino / Atlantic |
| Nicole Scherzinger | “Killer Love” (2001 debut album, featuring “Don’t Hold Your Breath,” “Right There” and “Poison”; Double LP, first time on vinyl; Amazon UK) | Interscope / UMe |
| Seals & Crofts | “Diamond Girl [Quadio]” (Blu-ray Audio; 1973 album, featuring “Diamond Girl” and “We May Never Pass This Way [Again]”; transferred from the original half-inch four-channel masters, with 192/24 resolution quadraphonic and hi-res stereo mixes) | Rhino / Warner |
| Carly Simon | “Carly Simon [Quadio]” (Blu-ray Audio; 1971 debut album, featuring “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be”; she won the Grammy for Best New Artist; transferred from the original half-inch four-channel masters, with 192/24 resolution quadraphonic and hi-res stereo mixes) | Rhino / Elektra |
| The Smiths | “Best … I” (14 tracks; Vinyl; Amazon UK) “Best … II” (14 tracks; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Merch) | Rhino / Warner |
| Snow Patrol | “Eyes Open (20 Year Anniversary Special Edition)” (Double CD; 2006 album, featuring “Chasing Cars,” “Run” and “You’re All I Have”; with seven B-sides and the standalone single “Signal Fire,” plus live and stripped-back recordings from Union Chapel and live in Berlin, alongside remixes; new sleeve notes written by Gary Lightbody; Gold Double Vinyl, with B-sides and “Signal Fire,” minus the CD extras; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | A&M / UMe |
| Sum 41 | “All Killer No Filler (25th Anniversary)” (2001 debut album, featuring “Fat Lip”; with five unreleased live tracks and alternate album cover; Iron Gray Double Vinyl) | Island / UMe |
