New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The All-American Rejects | “Sandbox” (their first full-length album in 14 years; new single: “Get This”; See here; Amazon UK; Download released on May 15; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch)   |
Slick Shoes |
| Matt Cardle | “The Great Escape” (English pop singer/”X Factor” winner’s fifth album; producer: Dan McDougall; new single: “Drinking Dreams”; Hear here; White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
London Multimedia Ltd. |
| Deep Purple | “SPLAT!” (Rock and Roll Hall of Famers’ 24th studio album; band lineup: Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Don Airey, and Simon McBride; producer: Bob Ezrin; new single: “Guilt Trippin'”; See here; Double Vinyl; Purple Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) |
earMUSIC |
| Ryan Hamilton | “Haunted by American Dreams” (new single: “Dreaming Screaming”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Wicked Cool |
| Low Cut Connie | “Livin in the USA” (Philadelphia-based rocker Adam Weiner’s eighth album; new single: “Oh Yeah”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) |
Contender Records |
| Madonna | “Confessions II” (she returns to Warner, which served as her home for 25 years, for a sequel to her 2005 LP “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” her first new music since 2019; producer: Stuart Price; new single: “Love Sensation”; See here; Read here; Deluxe Edition, with four bonus tracks, pocketed in 7×10.25-inch soft cover 24-page photobook featuring images from the album’s photoshoot; Translucent Red Vinyl; Vinyl Deluxe Edition, with bonus tracks on translucent pink vinyl, housed in gatefold jacket and black inner sleeves, including a double-sided poster and numbered coat check; Amazon-Exclusive Yellow Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Hot Pink Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Baby Pink Vinyl, with double-sided poster + mirrored tape seal; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; Merch) |
Warner |
| mary in the junkyard | “Role Model Hermit” (London experimental art-rock trio’s debut album; producer: Oli Bayston; new single: “New Muscles”; See here; Read here; Rough Trade-Exclusive CD, with four-song bonus disc; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Seafoam Green with Cloudy Effect Vinyl, with four-song bonus disc; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
AMF Records |
| The Shires | “Bonfire” (British country duo’s sixth album; new single: “Getaway Car”; See here; Read here; Sunset Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Big Machine |
| Sienna Spiro | “Visitor” (British singer-songwriter’s debut album, featuring the singles “Die on this Hill,” “The Visitor” and “You Stole the Show”; producers: Blake Slatkin, Eddie Lopes, Max Wolfgang, Michael Pollack, Omer Fedi – עומר פדי, Spiro, Sol Was, Yakob; See here; Amazon-Exclusive CD, with two bonus tracks from her Amazon Music Presents performance + alternate cover art; Tangerine Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Blue Vinyl, with poster; Target-Exclusive Brown Vinyl, with alternative cover art; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Capitol |
| Blake Whiten | “Something to Say” (South Carolina-raised, Nashville-based country singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “Bet On That”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Bailey Zimmerman) |
Enchntmnt / Warner |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Ken Carson | “xperiment” (Playboi Carti protégé’s fifth album; 22 tracks; Apple Music; On Tour) | Opium / Interscope |
| Hannah Juanita | “The Magnolia Sessions” (new single: “Wild and Blue”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Anti-Corp |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Razzy Bailey | “Early Rarities & Late Chart Hits” (22 tracks on one CD, including “I Hate Hate”) “23 Greatest Hits” (featuring his five No. 1 Billboard country hits in the 1980s) | JGJ Records |
| Bronski Beat | “Truthdare Doubledare (Remastered & Expanded)” (Triple CD; 1986 album, featuring “Hit That Perfect Beat”; 30 tracks, including BBC sessions, B-sides, remixes and other rarities; See here; Purple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | London |
| Gene Cotton | “Best of Gene Cotton: All His Chart Hits + More” (23 songs) | JGJ Records |
| Digable Planets | “Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)” (1993 debut album, featuring “Rebirth of Slick [Cool Like Dat]”; Amazon UK) | Music on CD |
| Greg Kihn | “Greg Kihn / Greg Kihn Again / Kihnspiracy / Kihntagious” (1976, 1977, 1983 and 1984 albums on two CDs, featuring “Jeopardy” and “Love Never Fails”) | Masked Weasel |
| Penny Marshall & Cindy Williams | “Laverne & Shirley Sing” (1976 album) | JGJ Records |
| The Walter Murphy Band | “A Fifth of Beethoven” (1976 album; with two bonus tracks) | Masked Weasel |
| Jack Scott | “Stereo Singles Collection, Volume 1” (63 tracks on two CDs) “Stereo Singles Collection, Volume 2” (58 tracks on two CDs) | JGJ Records |
| Chris Squire | “Fish Out of Water (50th Anniversary Edition)” (CD + Blu-Ray; 1975 debut solo album; with new Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound and stereo mixes by Stephen W. Tayler; Read here; Vinyl, half-speed master cut at AIR Studios in London; Amazon UK) | Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red |
| Stampeders | “Sweet City Woman / From the Fire / New Day” (1971, 1973 and 1974 albums on two CDs, featuring “Sweet City Woman,” “Carry Me” and “Wild Eyes”) “Carryin’ On / Steamin’ / Hit the Road” (1971, 1975 and 1976 albums on two CDs, featuring “Hit the Road Jack” and “Devil You”) | JGJ Records |
| Status Quo | “The Early Years Vol. 2 (1970-1972)” (five-CD box set includes rare mono version of their third album, “Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon,” various singles and B-sides, outtakes and alternative versions, plus a version of The Doors’ “Roadhouse Blues”; Read here; Amazon UK; Merch) | HNE / Cherry Red |
| John Stewart | “Gold: Very Best Of – A Career Retrospective” (22 tracks) | JGJ Records |
| Taco | “After Eight” (1982 debut album, featuring “Puttin’ On the Ritz”) | JGJ Records |
| B.J. Thomas | “Billy and Sue: The Early Years” (20 songs on one CD) | JGJ Records |
| Various artists | “NOW Yearbook Extra ’72” (three CDs, 61 hits; Track List; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Meri Wilson | “Telephone Man / First Take” (1977 debut album; with 11 bonus cuts) | JGJ Records |
