New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The Band CAMINO | “NeverAlways” (Nashville alt-rock trio’s third album; producers: Captain Cuts, drummer Garrison Burgess, Jonah Shy, Jordan Schmidt; new singles: “Stupid Questions” and “Hates Me Yet [222]”; See here; Amazon-Exclusive Red Apple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   | Atlantic |
| Tyler Childers | “Snipe Hunter” (his seventh studio album; producer: Rick Rubin; new single: “Nose on the Grindstone”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Coke Bottle Clear Double Vinyl; Indie Exclusive Oriole Double Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Hickman Holler Records / RCA |
| Michael Clifford | “Sidequest” (5 Seconds of Summer guitarist’s debut solo album; producers: Andrew Goldstein, JT Daly, Clifford; guests: Porter Robinson, Waterparks, Ryan Hall; new single: “Give Me a Break!”; See here; Read here; Ultra Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Hopeless |
| Alice Cooper | “The Revenge of Alice Cooper” (reunited with original band members Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith for the first time in 51 years; producer: Bob Ezrin; new single: “Black Mamba,” feat. Robby Krieger; Read here; Box Set, with CD, 7-inch vinyl, art print and T-shirt; Double Vinyl; Yellow Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | earMUSIC |
| Indigo De Souza | “Precipice” (North Carolina singer-songwriter ‘s fourth album; producer: Elliott Kozel; new single: “Heartthrob”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Loma Vista Recordings / Concord |
| The Dirty Nil | “The Lash” (fifth album from JUNO Award-winning band from Hamilton, Ontario; new single: “Gallop of the Hounds”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dine Alone |
| Enuff Z’Nuff | “Xtra Cherries” (their 21st studio album; guests: Robin Zander, Neal Schon, Steve Stevens, Steven Adlar, Gunnar Nelson, the late Derek Frigo, Steve Brown, Robert Fleischman, Donnie Vie; new single: “Heavy Metal”; See here; Black and Pink Splatter Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Cleopatra |
| Far Caspian | “Autofiction” (third album from Irish musician Joel Johnston; new single: “First Day”; See here; Read here; Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Tiny Library |
| Fitz and the Tantrums | “Man on the Moon” (their sixth album; new single: “Man on the Moon”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Atlantic |
| Folk Bitch Trio | “Now Would Be a Good Time” (Australian indie pop band’s debut album; producer: Tom Healy; new single: “Cathode Ray”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Coke Bottle Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Jagjaguwar |
| Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist | “Alfredo 2” (their second collaborative album; guests: Anderson .Paak, Larry June, JID; new single: “1995”; See here; Amazon-Exclusive Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Rabbit Vision / ALC Records / Virgin Music |
| Golomb | “The Beat Goes On” (Columbus, OH-based indie power trio’s second album; producers: Golomb; new single: “Real Power”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | No Quarter |
| Patty Griffin | “Crown of Roses” (Grammy-winning singer-songwriter’s 11th album and first in more than six years; producer: Craig Ross; guest: Robert Plant; new single: “Back at the Start”; Hear here; Read here; Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Rickie Lee Jones) | PGM Recordings / Thirty Tigers |
| GWAR | “The Return of Gor Gor” (features three new songs, a 32-page comic book and four live tracks from their most recent tour; Semi-Transparent Purple Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Pit Records |
| Cory Hanson | “I Love People” (Wand frontman’s fourth solo album; new single: “Bird On a Swing”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Drag City |
| The Honeydogs | “Algebra For Broken Hearts” (back to their original lineup, last seen together on 1997’s “Seen a Ghost”; producer: John Fields; new single: “Attic Brain”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Jullian Records |
| Honeymoon Suite | “Wake Me Up When the Sun Goes Down” (Canadian rock legends’ ninth studio album; producer: Michael Krompass; new single: “I Fly”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Frontiers Music s.r.l. |
| Cody Jinks | “In My Blood” (outlaw country singer-songwriter’s 12th album; producers: Joshua Thompson, Charles Godfrey; guests: Blackberry Smoke; new single: “Found”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Blue Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Late August Records |
| leon todd johnson | “wa kei sei jaku” (Indianapolis-based neo-classical artist’s second album, inspired by his recent travels to Japan and traditional Japanese tea ceremony; new single: “wa”; Hear here) | Whited Sepulchre |
| Charles Kelley | “Songs for a New Moon” (his second solo album; 16 songs; producers: Sam Ellis, Lindsay Rimes, Nathan Chapman, Devin Dawson, Jordan Schmidt; new single: “Driving and Listening to Music”; See here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Vinyl, with signed photo; Download; Apple Music) | Southern Accent Entertainment |
| Tasha Cobbs Leonard | “TASHA” (Grammy-winning gospel star’s first studio album; producer: husband Kenneth Leonard Jr.; guests: John Legend, Kirk Franklin, Lecrae, Chandler Moore; new single: “The Hand That Keeps Holding Me”; See here; Read here; Amazon-Exclusive CD, with alternate cover art; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Motown Gospel |
| The Mighty Rootsmen | “The Mighty Rootsmen” (reggae supergroup, first conceived in 2009, features the late Toots Hibbert and Gregory Isaacs, with Mykal Rose, Luciano, Sly Dunbar and the late Robbie Shakespeare reimagining rock and pop hits; producer: Ralph Sall; recorded at Anchor Studios in Jamaica; guests: Steve Miller, Mike Campbell, Third World’s Cat Coore; new single: “I Won’t Back Down”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Bulletproof Recording Company / Kartel Music Group |
| Tim Minchin | “Tim Minchin Time Machine” (11 tracks, all written in his 20s, now properly recorded; producer: Minchin; new single: “You Grew On Me”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | BMG Rights Management |
| Night Moves | “Double Life” (Minneapolis-based alt-rock band’s fourth album and first in six years; producers: Jarvis Taveniere, Night Moves; new single: “Hold On to Tonight”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Domino |
| Nihilistic Easyrider | “Deluxe Edition” (mixtape of songs written at various intervals throughout Narrow Head frontman Jacob Duarte’s career; producer: Graham Hunt; new single: “Getaway Plan”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Run For Cover |
| Gary Numan | “A Perfect Circle: Live” (Double CD + Blu-ray Mediabook; May 2022 concert at the OVO Arena, Wembley, his first performance there since 1981; See here; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Psychedelic Furs) | BMG Rights Management |
| 16Volt | “More of Less” (industrial rock band’s first full-length album since 2017; Vinyl out Sept. 12; Download; Apple Music) | Metropolis |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 121” (Double CD; 44 hits; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Various artists | “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (musical comedy set in a 1987 East L.A. garment factory, following a young Mexican-American woman as she navigates her dreams of college in New York against her mother’s expectations; Hear here; Download released on June 6) | Ghostlight |
| Various artists | “SMASH (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (music by Marc Shaiman; lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman; based on the 2012–2013 NBC TV series of the same name that follows the creation of a fictional musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe; cast includes Robyn Hurder, Brooks Ashmanskas, Krysta Rodriguez, John Behlmann, Kristine Nielsen, et al; Hear here; Silver Ruby Vinyl out Sept. 5; Download released on May 16; Apple Music) | Concord Theatricals / Concord |
| Paul Weller | “Find El Dorado” (15-track covers album; producer: Steve Cradock; guests: Robert Plant, Noel Gallagher, Declan O’Rourke, Amelia Coburn, Seckou Keita, et al; new single: “Lawdy Rolla”; See here; Read here; Recycled Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon UK-Exclusive Double Vinyl, with alternate sleeve; Download; Apple Music) | Warner / Parlophone |
| Hudson Westbrook | “Texas Forever” (country newcomer’s 17-song debut album; producer: Lukas Scott; guest: Mackenzie Carpenter; new single: “Texas Forever”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | River House Artists / Warner Music Nashville |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Anchor & Braille | “New Mexico” (solo project of alt-rock singer Stephen Christian; new single: “Sweet Jesus Knows”; See here; Apple Music) | Equal Vision |
| John Also Bennett | “Στoν Eλaιώνa / Ston Elaióna” (American-born, Athens, Greece-based flautist-synthesist’s second album; new single: “Easter Daydream”; CD and Vinyl out Aug. 8; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Shelter Press |
| Aidan Bissett | “shut up and love me” (Tampa-raised, L.A.-based alt-pop singer-songwriter’s debut album; producers: Andrew Wells, Captain Cuts, King Bozen, Slush Puppy, Suzy Shinn; new single: “2 much 2 handle”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour) | 10K Projects / Capitol |
| Caterpillars | “After the Flood” (indie rock band’s fifth album; producer: Jim Wirt; new single: “Enemies”; See here; Apple Music) | Caterpillars |
| Coffin Break | “Revival” (Seattle punk band’s first album in 33 years; new single: “Maxine”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) | Coffin Break Music |
| Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band | “New Threats From the Soul” (producer: Seth Manchester; new single: “New Threats From the Soul”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) | Sophomore Lounge |
| doubleVee | “Periscope at Midnight” (six-song EP; guest: violinist Brent Williams; new single: “Maybe Tonight [What’s Inside of Me?]”; See here; Apple Music) | doubleVee |
| Fever Ray | “The Year of the Radical Romantics” (14-track live album; new single: “Now’s the Only Time I Know [Therapy Session]”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Mute |
| Kiesza | “Dancing and Crying: Vol. 2“ (six-song EP; new single: “Stays in Bed”; See here; On Tour) | ZST |
| Lot Lizards | “The Horrors of Adulting” (St. Petersburg, FL-based melodic punk band’s debut album; new single: “Broken Parts”; Hear here; CD and Vinyl out Aug. 15; Apple Music) | Punkerton |
| Ben Nichols | “In the Heart of the Mountain” (Lucero frontman’s second solo album, 16 years after his debut LP; new single: “In the Heart of the Mountain”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Liberty & Lament |
| Pacing | “PL*NET F*TNESS” (anti-folk songwriter Katie McTigue’s second album; new single: “Never Go Down”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour, with AJJ) | Asian Man |
| Post Animal | “Iron” (their first album featuring their original six-member lineup in nearly a decade, including Joe Keery, who left the group in 2017 to focus on starring in “Stranger Things”; new single: “Last Goodbye”; See here; Beige Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Ultra Violet Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Orangeade Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Polyvinyl |
| PSYCHO-FRAME | “SALVATION LAUGHS IN THE FACE OF A GRIEVING MOTHER” (metalcore band’s debut album; producer: guitarist Hunter Young; new single: “BLACK_WAVE II”; See here; CD and Green Pink Splatter Vinyl out Aug. 15; Apple Music; On Tour) | SharpTone |
| Soft Bait | “Life Advice” (Auckland post-punk quartet’s second album; new single: “New Leaf”; See here; Apple Music) | Flying Nun |
| Kurt Vile | “Classic Love” (five-song EP, with Nashville songwriter Luke Roberts; new single: “classic love”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Verve |
| The Violent Hour | “The Violent Hour” (five-song debut EP from former Butcher Babies vocalist Carla Harvey and Anthrax/Pantera drummer Charlie Benante; producer: Benante; guests: Zakk Wylde, john5, Brandon Yeagley; new single: “Hell or Hollywood”; See here; CD out Sept. 12; Apple Music) | MRI |
| YoungBoy Never Broke Again | “MASA” (backronym as “Make America Slime Again”; 30 tracks; new single: “Kickboxer”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Never Broke Again Records / Motown |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Eric Andersen | “Blue River: Live in Tokyo” (recorded in 2012 at Billboard Live Tokyo, marking the 40th anniversary of his 1972 album “Blue River”; accompanied by wife Inge and Italian violinist Michele Gazich) | New Shot |
| Razzy Bailey and the Aquarians | “Sometimes Late at Night” (1973 album; remastered) | Good Time |
| Be-Bop Deluxe | “The Albums 1974-1976” (three-CD clamshell box set contains “Axe Victim,” “Futurama and “Sunburst Finish”; remastered; Read here; Amazon UK) | Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red |
| Black Sabbath | “The Eternal Idol” (1987 album; remastered, with two bonus tracks: “Some Kind of Woman” and “Black Moon”; Vinyl; Merch) | Rhino / Warner |
| Pete Brown | “Can’t Get Off the Planet: The Recordings 1968-1973” (six-CD clamshell box set of recordings by Cream and Jack Bruce lyricist and poet; remastered; Read here; Amazon UK) | Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red |
| Bruce Dickinson | “More Balls to Picasso” (1994 album; enhanced with new instrumentation and other enhancements, with two unreleased bonus tracks; Multicolor Splatter Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | BMG Rights Management |
| Nick Drake | “The Making of Five Leaves Left” (four-CD box set containing the remastered album, along with 30 unaccompanied demos, studio outtakes and previously unheard songs from the sessions for the late British singer-songwriter’s 1969 debut; with 60-page book, written by Neil Storey in collaboration with Richard Morton-Jack, complete with full track recording details, charts and recording history; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Island / UMe |
| Green Apple Quick Step | “Dizzy: The Medicine Label Anthology” (Double CD; 35-song collection of their complete 1993-1995 recordings, along with 13 bonus tracks; Amazon UK) | Omnivore Recordings |
| John Lee Hooker | “Boom Boom” (1992 album; guests included Charlie Musselwhite, Jimmie Vaughan, Robert Cray and Albert Collins; remastered; sourced from the original analog master tapes; Vinyl) > The Very Best of John Lee Hooker | BMG Rights Management |
| Elton John | “Live from the Rainbow Theatre with Ray Cooper” (May 1977 BBC recording’s first widespread availability, with a bonus track, “Goodbye,” and additional liner notes; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Merch) > Diamonds 💎 | Mercury / UMe |
| Freedy Johnston | “Can You Fly (Deluxe Edition)” (1992 album; mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk, with two bonus tracks; Clear Vinyl, sans bonus songs; Download; Apple Music) | Sunset Blvd. |
| Marina and the Diamonds | “FROOT (10 Year Anniversary EcoRecord Edition)” (2015 album, featuring “Happy,” “Forget” and “Blue”; with a bonus track: “I’m Not Happy Anymore”; Red Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Atlantic |
| Melanie | “Behind the Curtain” (16-song collection of private rehearsals and demos circa 1971-74; Amazon UK) | Cleopatra |
| Wes Montgomery | “The Classic 1960s Recordings” (eight albums on four CDs; Amazon.ca) | Enlightenment |
| Mickey Newbury | “Looks Like Rain” (1969 concept album; remastered from the original master tapes by Steve Rosenthal and Jessica Thompson; Vinyl) | Fat Possum |
| The Peanut Butter Conspiracy | “The Most Up Till Now – A History 1966-1970” (five-CD clamshell box set contains 118 remastered tracks, 36 of them previously unreleased, plus a live performance from 1967; Read here; Amazon UK) | Strawberry / Cherry Red |
| Renaissance | “Opening Out: The Albums 1977-1979” (three-CD clamshell box set contains “Novella,” “A Song for All Seasons” and “Azure D’Or”; remastered; Read here; Amazon UK) | Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red |
| SZA | “SOS Deluxe: LANA” (Double CD; 2024 expanded edition of her 2022 album, “SOS,” with 19 bonus tracks; Green Vinyl, four LPs; On Tour, with Kendrick Lamar; Merch) | Top Dawg Entertainment / RCA |
| Talking Heads | “More Songs About Buildings and Food (Super Deluxe Edition)” (1978 album, featuring “Take Me to the River”; three-CD, one-Blu-ray box set contains 11 rarities, plus a live recording of the band’s August 1978 show at New York’s Entermedia Theatre; footage from that show and another at Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley, both appear on the Blu-ray; there also are Dolby ATMOS and 5.1 surround sound mixes by E.T. Thorngren and group member Jerry Harrison, along with a high-resolution stereo version of the album; Double Vinyl, featuring the remastered album and a selection of rarities; Merch) | Rhino / Warner |
| Various artists | “Chip Shop Pop: The Sound of Denmark Street 1970-1975” (24-song collection of radio-friendly tracks written by songwriters working out of the “British Tin Pan Alley,” compiled by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley’ Hear/Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Ace |
| Various artists | “I Shall Be Released: Covers of Bob Dylan 1963-1970” (three-CD, 63-song collection, featuring Johnny Cash, The Byrds, Janis Joplin, Harry Nilsson, Johnny Winter, Faces, Fairport Convention, et al; Read here; Amazon UK; Merch) | Strawberry / Cherry Red |
| Various artists | “Millennium #1s” (three-CD set of 64 U.K. No. 1 songs of the 21st century; Amazon UK) | Sony Music |
| Jimmie Vaughan | “Do You Get the Blues?” (2001 album; Grammy winner for Best Traditional Blues Album; Download; On Tour) | The Last Music Company |
| Clara Ward | “The Magnificent Clara Ward: Just Over the Hill – Rare Recordings 1949-1972” (27 songs on one CD) | Gospel Friend |
| Jimmy Webb | “A Life in Words and Music – The Reprise Seventies” (seven-CD clamshell box set features his Reprise albums, with bonus tracks, outtakes, demos and “Live at the Royal Albert Hall”; remastered; Read here; Amazon UK) | Lemon / Cherry Red |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Madonna | “Veronica Electronica” (previously unreleased eight-track companion to “Ray of Light” was originally envisioned by Madonna as a remix album in 1998; Hear here; Read here; Silver Nugget Metallic Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; Merch) > Madonna – The Complete Studio Albums 1983-2008 | Rhino / Warner |
| The Mavericks | “Mono (In Stereo)” (2015 album; earned two Grammy nominations: for Best American Roots Song [“All Night Long”] and Best Americana Album; all 12 tracks mixed and mastered for stereo and Atmos; Bullhorn Red Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | The Valory Music Co. / Big Machine Label Group |
| Signals Midwest | “Layovers” (Cleveland indie-punk veterans’ 12-track, career-spanning rarities collection; new single: “Two Magnets”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Lauren Records |
