New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| American Aquarium | “The Fear of Standing Still” (producer: Shooter Jennings; guest: Katie Pruitt; new single: “Crier”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)  |
Losing Side / Thirty Tigers |
| Blur | “Live at Wembley Stadium” (Double CD; 30-song performance from July 8-9, 2023; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Warner / Parlophone |
| Nathan Bowles Trio | “Are Possible” (new single: “The Ternions”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) |
Drag City |
| Category 7 | “Category 7” (heavy metal supergroup’s debut album; new single: “Exhausted”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Metal Blade |
| The Collingsworth Family | “Classics & Hymns” (featuring The Nashville String Machine; producer: Bradley Knight; Hear here; DVD; Download; Apple Music) |
Gaither Music Group |
| Crack Cloud | “Red Mile” (Vancouver collective’s third album; producers: Crack Cloud; new single: “Blue Kite”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Jagjaguwar |
| Empire of the Sun | “Ask That God” (Australian duo’s fourth album and first in eight years; new single: “Music on the Radio”; See here; Read here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Universal Music Australia |
| Amanda Fish | “Kingdom” (blues powerhouse’s third album; recorded and mixed by Paul Niehaus IV at Blue Lotus Studio in St. Louis; new single: “Mockingbird”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
VizzTone |
| Ghost | “Rite Here Rite Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (concert film screens in theaters on June 20 and 22; Trailer; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Double Opaque Olive Green; Hot Topic-Exclusive Double Clear Baby Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Loma Vista Recordings / Concord |
| Danny Gokey | “Sound of Heaven” (eight-time Dove Award winner’s fifth album; producers: Ben Glover, Jordan Sapp, Jeff Sojka, Colby Wedgeworth; guests: Limoblaze, Niko Eme, Naomi Raine, Evan Craft; new single: “wannabe”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Sparrow |
| Humanist | “On the Edge of a Lost and Lonely World” (sophomore album from frequent Mark Lanegan collaborator Rob Marshall; guests: Dave Gahan, Ed Harcourt, Isobel Campbell, James Cox, Tim Smith, Carl Hancock Rux, Peter Hayes, Rachel Fannan, James Allan, Madam Butterfly; new single: “Too Many Rivals”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Bella Union |
| Alex Izenberg & The Exiles | “Alex Izenberg & The Exiles” (his fourth album and full-band debut; producers: Izenberg, multi-instrumentalist Greg Hartunian; mixed by Phil Ek; new singles: “Only the Moon Knows” and “Drinking the Dusk Away”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Weird World / Domino |
| MAITA | “want” (Portland indie rock band’s third album; producer: guitarist Matthew Zeltzer; new single: “breakup song x3”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) |
Fluff & Gravy Records |
| Memphis Royal Brothers | “Memphis Royal Brothers” (producer: Boo Mitchell; new single: “Goin’ South,” feat. Charlie Musselwhite; Hear here; Vinyl) |
Royal |
| Pat Metheny | “MoonDial” (20-time Grammy winner’s solo guitar album, with no overdubs; new single: “MoonDial”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Modern Recordings / BMG Rights Management |
| Powerwolf | “Wake Up the Wicked” (German/Dutch metallers’ 10th album; producer: Joost van den Broek; new single: “1589”; Deluxe Edition; Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) |
Napalm |
| The Red Clay Strays | “Made by These Moments” (Mobile, AL-based country band’s second album; producer: Dave Cobb; new single: “Wanna Be Loved”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Red/Brown Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
RCA |
| State Faults | “Children of the Moon” (Santa Rosa screamo group’s fourth album; new single: “Palo Santo”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Deathwish Inc. |
| Sam Tompkins | “hi, my name is insecure.” (U.K. singer-songwriter’s debut album; producer: Danny Casio; new single: “dead to me”; Hear here; See here; Light Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Republic |
| Various artists | “Deadpool & Wolverine (Original Soundtrack)” (Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman film opens July 26; Trailer; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Translucent Ruby Vinyl; Cinemark; Merch) |
Hollywood |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 118” (U.K. compilation; two CDs, 47 songs; Amazon UK) |
Sony Music / EMI |
| Various artists | “Stop Making Sense: Everybody’s Getting Involved – A Tribute Album” (contributors: Miley Cyrus, Paramore, The National, Lorde, The Linda Lindas, Blondshell, et al; new single: girl in red’s “Girlfriend Is Better”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive This Must Be The Grey Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on May 17; Apple Music) |
A24 Music |
| Various artists | “THE WIZ (2024 Broadway Cast Recording)” (musical revival starring Emmy winner Wayne Brady as The Wiz, Nichelle Lewis as Dorothy and Deborah Cox as Glinda; See here; Green Double Vinyl out Aug. 16; Download released on June 14; Apple Music; On Broadway) |
Immersive Music / Interscope |
| Wand | “Vertigo” (L.A. psych rock band’s seventh album and first in five years; producer: bassist Evan Backer; new single: “Smile”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Drag City |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Cecily | “Awakening Pt. II” (producers: Cecily Bumbray, Jenna Camille, Muhsinah, Allyn Johnson, Aaron Abernathy, Zachary Cutler, Jacob Ungerleider; new single: “Come Home”; Hear here; Apple Music) |
Venice Music |
| Cults | “To the Ghosts” (producers: Cults, Shane Stoneback; new single: “Left My Keys”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
IMPERIAL |
| The Doozers | “Becoming an Entity” (Nashville-based quartet’s debut album; new single: “Filter feed”; Hear here) |
dirty lil rat |
| Ice Spice | “Y2K” (Bronx rap star’s full-length debut album; producer: RIOTUSA; new single: “Gimmie a Light”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
10K Projects / Capitol |
| JakoJako | “Segmente” (Berlin-based modular synthesist and DJ’s four-song EP; new single: “Introspektion”; Hear here; Apple Music) |
NovaMute / Mute |
| Heather Kathryn | “My Tragic Life” (pop-punk singer’s six-song debut EP; new single: “Go to Hell”; Hear here) |
Heather Kathryn |
| Kaonashi | “A Second Chance At Forever: The Brilliant Lies From Casey Diamond” (Philly experimental post-hardcore band’s five-song EP; new single: “Passing Through the Hourglass”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Equal Vision |
| Modern Color | “There Goes the Dream” (Redondo Beach, CA, melodic rock band’s fourth album; new single: “Star 9200”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Other People Records |
| David Pedrick | “Arta” (producer: Pedrick; new single: “Tintagel”; Hear here) |
David Pedrick, Aug. 1 |
| Painted Shield | “Painted Shield 3” (third album from Stone Gossard, Matt Chamberlain, Mason Jennings, Brittany Davis and Jeff Fielder; new single: “Transector”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) |
Loosegroove |
| Rakim | “G.O.Ds NETWORK – REB7RTH” (guests: Snoop Dogg, Method Man, Big Twins, Skyzoo, Fred the Godson, Kobe Honeycutt, et al; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Holy Toledo Productions / Compound Interest |
| Respire | “Hiraeth” (Toronto-based hardcore collective’s fifth album; new single: “Distant Light of Belonging”; See here; Apple Music) |
Dine Alone Music |
| Porter Robinson | “SMILE! :D” (new single: “Knock Yourself Out XD”; See here; CD and Opaque Pink Vinyl out Aug. 23; Amazon UK) |
Mom+Pop Music |
| Shonali | “One Machine At a Time” (India-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s second solo album; producer: Dan Dixon; new single: “Up All Night”; See here; Apple Music) |
Little Lamb Recordings |
| The Silvers | “Paper Street” (producer: Stuart Epps; new single: “Trouble”; Hear here) |
Revlis, Aug. 1 |
| Thrive Worship | “Praises & Prayers” (seven-song live album; new single: “Highest One”; See here; Apple Music) |
Integrity Music |
| Tigirlily Gold | “Blonde” (country-pop sister duo’s debut album; producers: Shane McAnally, Pete Good, Alex Kline; new single: “Leroy”; See here; Buttercream Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Monument |
| Elsy Wameyo | “Saint Sinner” (Nairobi-born, Adelaide-based singer, rapper and producer’s debut album; new single: “Conquer”; Hear here; See here; Apple Music) |
AWAL Recordings |
| Zeshan B | “O Say, Can You See?” (executive producer: Preet Bharara; new single: “Mountaintop”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) |
Minty Fresh |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Bad Brains | “I Against I” (1986 album; mastered by Dave Gardner and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing; Vinyl; Cassette) | Org Music |
| Jack Bruce | “Songs for a Tailor (Deluxe)” (1969 post-Cream solo debut album; two-CD, one-Blu-ray set; newly remastered from the original master tapes, with stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes by Stephen W. Tayler, plus previously unreleased session outtakes and demos; Blu-ray contains 1970 documentary “Rope Ladder to the Moon”; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red |
| John Cale | “Ship of Fools: The Island Albums” (three-CD clamshell box set, containing “Fear,” “Slow Dazzle” and “Helen of Troy,” with seven bonus tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red |
| Eddie Cantor | “All the Hits and More 1917-1947” (52 tracks on two CDs, featuring releases on the Victor, Pathe, Melotone, Decca and RCA labels, plus radio and movie performances) | Acrobat |
| Johnny Cash | “Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison” (Hybrid SACD; 1968 album; Merch) | Mobile Fidelity |
| Cookie Crew | “Pick Up On This: 1987-1992” (four-CD clamshell box set contains the British rap duo’s two albums, with bonus tracks, remixes and rarities; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Pop |
| Dogs D’Amour | “Dynamite China Years: Complete Recordings 1988-1993” (eight-CD clamshell box set of recordings issued on China Records, with rarities, live tracks and B-sides; Read here; Amazon UK) | HNE / Cherry Red |
| Fleetwood Mac | “Best of 1969-1974” (19-track compilation; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Rhino / Warner |
| Heaven 17 | “Penthouse and Pavement (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1981 album, featuring “[We Don’t Need This] Fascist Groove Thing” and “Play to Win”; with a second disc of non-album A- and B-sides, demos and 12-inch versions, plus an eight-page booklet containing credits and lyrics; Vinyl, half-speed mastered, cut from the original stereo master tapes at AIR Mastering; Amazon UK) “The Luxury Gap (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1983 album, featuring “Let Me Go,” “Temptation,” “Come Live With Me” and “Crushed by the Wheels of Industry”; with a second disc of non-album A- and B-sides, demos and 12-inch versions, plus an eight-page booklet containing credits and lyrics; Vinyl, half-speed mastered, cut from the original stereo master tapes at AIR Mastering; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Edsel / Demon Music Group |
| Loleatta Holloway | “We’re Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind / Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982)” (five-CD, 58-track box set contains four complete albums, along with remixes, instrumentals, a capellas and reinventions; remastered by Nick Robbins; Read here; Amazon UK) | SoulMusic Records / The Second Disc / Cherry Red |
| Chuck Mangione | “Journey to a Rainbow / Eyes of the Veiled Temptress” (1983 and 1985 albums; remastered; Amazon UK) | BGO |
| Melanie | “Seventh Wave” (1983 album; with eight bonus tracks) | Cleopatra |
| Morrissey | “Beethoven Was Deaf: Live in Paris” (1993 album; remastered at Abbey Road Studios, with new artwork from Morrissey; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Rhino / Warner |
| The Police | “Synchronicity (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1983 album, featuring “Every Breath You Take,” “King of Pain,” “Wrapped Around Your Finger” and “Synchronicity II”; second CD contains B-sides and 11 non-album bonus tracks; remastered from the original source tapes; Super Deluxe Edition, six-CD box set containing B-sides, unreleased demos, alternate mixes, outtakes, instrumentals and a 19-track live 1983 concert recording, with a 60-page hardcover book and four art print photographs; Picture Disc; Vinyl Super Deluxe Edition, four-LP box set; Amazon UK; Digital Super Deluxe Edition; Apple Music; Merch) | A&M / UMe |
| JD Souther | “You’re Only Lonely” (1979 album; with two bonus tracks; See here; Vinyl) | Omnivore Recordings |
| Cat Stevens | “Foreigner” (1973 album, featuring “The Hurt”; remastered; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | A&M / UMe |
| Talking Heads | “Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition)” (40th anniversary of the 1984 concert film and album; two-CD, one-Blu-ray set includes a Dolby Atmos mix of the complete concert, mixed by Jerry Harrison and E.T. Thorngren; Double Vinyl; Merch) | Rhino |
| Pete Townshend | “Live: In Concert 1985-2001” (14-CD box set; remastered by Jon Astley; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download) | UMe |
| Toyah | “Minx (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1984 album; with five bonus tracks and a second disc of B-sides, remixes and previously unreleased demos; Amazon UK) | Edsel / Demon Music Group |
| Various artists | “Heaven Sent: The Rise of New Pop 1979-1983” (four-CD, 80-track clamshell box set, featuring The Human League, Tears For Fears, Soft Cell, ABC, Scritti Politti, Eurythmics, The Style Council, The Cure, China Crisis, et al; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Red |
| Various artists | “Music To Watch Girls By … Golden Days” (three-CD, 70-song compilation, featuring Andy Williams, Bobby Darin, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Tony Bennett, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, et al; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / Spectrum Music / Universal Music Recordings |
| Various artists | “We’ve Only Just Begun: The Paul Williams Songbook” (22-track compilation, featuring Diana Ross, The Monkees, Art Garfunkel, Glen Campbell, Kermit, Elvis Presley, Three Dog Night, et al; Hear/Read here; Amazon UK) | Ace |
