New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Bamboos (Melbourne funk and soul collective) | “Night Time People” (first single: “Lit Up”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; On Tour)  | (BMG Rights Management) |
| The Carters (Beyoncé and Jay-Z) | “Everything Is Love” (released digitally on Tidal on June 16; producers: Beyoncé, Jay-Z, 808-Ray, Beat Butcha, Boi-1da, Cool & Dre, David Andrew, etc.; first single: “Apeshit”; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour)  | (Parkwood Entertainment / S.C. Enterprises / Roc Nation / Sony) |
| DevilDriver | “Outlaws ‘Til The End, Vol. 1” (outlaw country covers album, featuring guests John Carter Cash, Randy Blythe, Hank3, Ana Cristina Cash, Lamb of God’s Mark Morton, Lee Ving of Fear, Wednesday13, Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory, Brock Lindow of 36 Crazyfists; producer: Steve Evetts; Hear/read here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | (Napalm) |
| Erasure | “World Be Live” (a 24-track live album recorded in London in February during the band’s World Be Gone tour; Hear here; Download; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Mute) |
| Tom Grennan (U.K. singer-songwriter) | “Lighting Matches” (producers: Fraser T. Smith, Dan Grech; new single: “Sober”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | (Insanity / Columbia) |
| Kissin’ Dynamite (German rockers) | “Ecstasy” (producer: singer Hannes Braun; new single: “Ecstasy”; Hear here; Download) | (Metal Blade) |
| MelBreeze (Turkish vocalist) | “World Be Live” (a collection of Brazilian-flavored jazz; producers: Yellowjackets’ Jimmy Haslip, Scott Kinsey; Hear here; Download) | (Blue Canoe) |
| The Nude Party (six-member rock band from Boone, N.C.) | “The Nude Party” (producer: Oakley Munson of Black Lips; first single: “Chevrolet Van”; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | (New West) |
| Sammy Strittmatter (L.A.-based singer-songwriter) | “Get Out of the City” (producers: Strittmatter, Salim Nourallah; first single: “All I Hear Is Go”; Vinyl) | (Palo Santo) |
| Years & Years | “Palo Santo” (new single: “Sanctify”; See here; Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | (Polydor) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Rory Block | “A Woman’s Soul: A Tribute to Bessie Smith” (producers: Block, Rob Davis; iTunes; On Tour) | (Stony Plain) |
| A Flock of Seagulls | “Ascension” (new orchestral versions of their hits, with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra; it’s the first time all four original members have recorded together since 1984’s “The Story of a Young Heart”; first single: “Space Age Love Song”; See here; CD, out July 13; iTunes; eBay; On Tour, with Lost 80’s Live, along with The Romantics, Naked Eyes, Wang Chung, Nu Shooz, Animotion) | (August Day) |
| Kinky Friedman | “Circus of Life” (his first album of new original material in four decades; first single: “Autographs in the Rain [Song to Willie]”; Hear/read here; iTunes; Bibliography; eBay) | (Echo Hill) |
| Goosebump (Toronto art-pop band) | “Goosebump” (new single: “She Don’t Say Goodbye”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Pleasence) |
| Guts Club (New Orleans dark country band) | “Trench Foot” (first single: “Mustard Tears”; Hear here) | (Guts Club) |
| A Shoreline Dream (Colorado dream rockers) | “Waitout” (new single: “In the Ready Sound”; Hear here) | (Latenight Weeknight) |
| Suicideyear (Baton Rouge-based producer James Prudhomme) | “Color the Weather” (guests: Georgia, Casey Manierka, Yung Lean; Hear here; CD, out Aug. 17) | (LuckyMe) |
| We The Kings | “Six” (new single: “On My Love”; Hear here; CD, out Aug. 31; iTunes; On Tour, with Vans Warped Tour) | (S-Curve) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Chet Atkins | “The Chet Atkins Singles Collection 1946-62” (two CDs, 59 songs; Amazon UK; Download) | (Acrobat) |
| The Beatles | “Yellow Submarine [Vinyl]” (limited edition 7-inch single picture disc to celebrate the song’s 50th anniversary, with “Eleanor Rigby” on the B-side; Japanese Cover; eBay; Merch) | (Capitol / UMe) |
| The Del-Vikings | “The Del-Vikings Collection 1956-62” (two CDs, 60 songs; Amazon UK) | (Acrobat) |
| Vince Guaraldi | “The Complete Warner Bros.–Seven Arts Recordings” (two CDs, 30 songs; Read here; eBay) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| Lionel Hampton | “The Complete Albums Collection 1951-1958” (nine complete albums on four CDs; eBay) | (Enlightenment) |
| Henry Mancini | “The Classic Soundtrack Collection 1958-1963” (eight complete film scores, plus bonus cuts, on four CDs; eBay) | (Enlightenment) |
| Bruce Springsteen | “The Album Collection Vol. 2, 1987-1996” (Japan-exclusive seven-CD box set, containing albums from “Tunnel of Love” to “Blood Brothers”; Amazon UK; eBay; Springsteen on Broadway; Merch) | (Japan – Sony) |
| Dave Van Ronk | “The Dave Van Ronk Collection 1958-62” (two CDs, 47 songs; Amazon UK; Download) | (Acrobat) |
| Sarah Vaughan | “The Early Years 1944-48” (two CDs, 49 songs; Download; eBay) | (Acrobat) |
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