New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Mindi Abair | “Based on a True Story” (producers: Wayne Rodrigues, Abair; guests: Marcus Miller, Kenny Lattimore, Bobby Lyle, Delish Thomas, Arthur Thompson; On Tour)   | Pretty Good for a Girl |
| Annahstasia | “Tether” (L.A.-based artist’s debut album; producers: Jason Lader, Andrew Lappin, Aaron Liao; guests: Obongjayar, aja monet; new single: “Silk and Velvet”; See here; Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | drink sum wtr |
| Joe Armon-Jones | “All the Quiet (Part II)” (Ezra Collective keyboardist’s first solo LP in six years; Part I released on March 28; producer: Armon-Jones; guests: Greentea Peng, Wu-Lu, Yazmin Lacey, Hak Baker, Nubya Garcia, Oscar Jerome, et al; Read here; Double Vinyl; Download) | Aquarii Records |
| AVKRVST | “Waving at the Sky” (Norwegian progressive rock group’s second album; new single: “The Malevolent”; See here; Creamy White Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | InsideOutMusic |
| Dierks Bentley | “Broken Branches” (country star’s 11th studio album; producers: Jon Randall, Ross Copperman; guests: Miranda Lambert, John Anderson, Riley Green, Stephen Wilson Jr.; new single: “Well Well Whiskey”; See here; Jet Black Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Capitol Nashville |
| Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap | “Elemental” (Grammy winners’ first collaborative album; new single: “Honeysuckle Rose”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mack Avenue Records / DDB Records |
| Buckcherry | “Roar Like Thunder” (California rockers’ 11th album; producer: Marti Frederiksen; new single: “Roar Like Thunder”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Round Hill |
| The Bug Club | “Very Human Features” (Welsh indie rock band’s fourth album; producer: Tom Reesl new single: “Jealous Boy”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sub Pop |
| Byzantine | “Harbingers” (West Virginian groove metal band’s seventh album and first in eight years; producer: Peter Wichers; new single: “Floating Chrysanthema”; See here; Download; Apple Music) | Metal Blade |
| Jahnah Camille | “My sunny oath!” (Birmingham, AL indie-pop singer-songwriter’s six-song EP; producer: Alex Farrar; new single: “what do you do?”; See here; Vinyl; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Winspear |
| Fallujah | “Xenotaph” (Bay Area tech death metal band’s sixth album; producers: Fallujah; new single: “Kaleidoscopic Waves”; See here; Red Black Swirl Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Nuclear Blast |
| Calum Hood | “ORDER chaos ORDER” (5 Seconds of Summer bassist-vocalist’s debut solo album; new single: “Don’t Forget You Love Me”; See here; Opaque Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Capitol |
| Brandon Lake | “King of Hearts” (Grammy-winning Christian artist’s fourth album; producers: Micah Nichols, Rodrick Simmons; guests: Jelly Roll, CeCe Winans, Hank Bentley, Hulvey; new single: “SEVENS”; See here; Walmart-Exclusive CD, with bonus version of “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” with Jelly Roll, live from the Grand Ole Opry; Download, with a bonus Amazon Music Original version of “I Know a Name”; Apple Music; On Tour) | Provident Label Group |
| Larry McCray | “Heartbreak City” (Rust Belt blues singer-guitarist’s 11th album; producers: Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith; new single: “Bye Bye Blues”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Keeping the Blues Alive |
| Idina Menzel, et al | “Redwood (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (cast includes De’Adre Aziza, Michael Park, Zachary Noah Piser, et al; producers: Neil Avron, Kate Diaz; orchestrations and arrangements by Diaz; new single: “In the Leaves”; See here; Double Vinyl out July 25; Download released on May 13; Apple Music; On Broadway) | Masterworks Broadway |
| Mister Romantic | “What’s Not to Love?” (recording debut of actor John C. Reilly’s vaudevillian-style character tackling the Great American Songbook; producers: David Garza, Reilly; new single: his version of Johnny Mercer’s “Dream”; Hear here; Read here; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Eternal Magic Recordings |
| Van Morrison | “Remembering Now” (his first collection of original music since 2022; producer: Morrison; new single: “Down to Joy”; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Exile Productions |
| Lyra Pramuk | “Hymnal” (Berlin-based vocalist-composer’s second album; new single: “Oracle”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | pop.soil / 7K! Records |
| The Ting Tings | “Home” (English indie pop duo’s fifth album and first since 2018; new single: “Good People Do Bad Things”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Wonderful Records |
| WITCH | “SOGOLO” (producer: group member Jacco Gardner; new single: “Queenless King”; See here; Read here; Random Eco-Mix Color Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Partisan |
| Patrick Wolf | “Crying the Neck” (his seventh album and first in 13 years; producers: Wolf, Brendan Cox; guests: Zola Jesus, Serafina Steer; new single: “Dies Irae”; Hear here; Harvest Ochre and Umber Soil Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Apport |
| Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts | “Talkin’ to the Trees” (producer: Lou Adler; new single: “Lets Roll Again”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Reprise |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Buick Audra | “Adult Child” (solo album from Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and member of Friendship Commanders; producer: Audra; new single: “It All Belonged to Me”; See here; Apple Music) | Buick Audra |
| Bas & The Hics | “Melanchronica” (collaborative album from the Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist and London-based musical duo; new single: “Everyday Ppl”; See here; Apple Music) | Dreamville / FIENDS, June 17 |
| Bootblacks | “Paradise” (Brooklyn post-punk/electronic band’s fifth album; new single: “Only You”; See here; CD out June 20; Vinyl out July 11; Apple Music) | Artoffact |
| Dillon Carmichael | “Keepin’ Country Alive” (Kentucky native’s third album; new single: “Raised Up Wrong”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Riser House |
| Cash Bribe | “Demonomics” (Brooklyn hardcore outfit’s six-song EP; new single: “Demonomics”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Futureless |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | “Phantom Island” (Australian psych-rock band’s 27th album; producer: frontman Stu Mackenzie; new single: “Deadsick”; See here; Read here; Recycled Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour) | p(doom) records |
| King Isis | “SIRENITY” (Oakland artist’s five-track EP; Apple Music) | Dirty Hit / No Matter |
| LEAFBLOWER | “Burn Cruise” (Omaha, NE-based post-rock band’s full-length debut album; new single: “Burn Cruise”; See here; Apple Music) | Max Trax |
| Leikeli47 | “Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Only Leikeli47” (rapper’s fourth album; new single: “Soft Serve”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Acrylic / Hardcover / Thirty Tigers |
| Xol Meissner | “Excess of Loss” (Swiss-born, NYC-based composer Mauro Hertig’s debut album under the Xol Meissner alias; producer: Patrick Higgins; new single: “Breeder [99]”; See here; Apple Music) | Birdwatcher |
| The Messenger Birds | “GRAMMY AWARD WINNING ALBUM IT’S ALL A BLUR” (alt-rock duo’s four-song EP; new single: “FAKE LIVES”; See here) | The Messenger Birds |
| Murder By Death | “Egg & Dart” (indie rock band’s 10th and final LP is an album of goodbye songs; producer: Kevin Ratterman; new single: “Wandering”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Partisan |
| ONEFOUR | “Look At Me Now” (Western Sydney rap quartet’s debut album; new single: “Phone Call”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sony Music Australia |
| Pig&Dan | “Journey Within” (electronic duo’s ninth album; Hear here; Apple Music) | Café del Mar Music |
| Steve Queralt | “Swallow” (Ride bassist’s debut solo album; guests: Emma Anderson of Lush, Verity Susman of Electrelane; new single: “Lonely Town”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Sonic Cathedral |
| Adam Tilzer | “Cult Leader” (experimental rocker/producer’s debut solo album; new single: “I’m Gonna Start a Cult”; Hear here) | The Factory |
| AJ Tracey | “Don’t Die Before You’re Dead” (U.K. rapper’s third album; producers: AJ Platinum, Nathaniel London, Nyge, Raheem Balogun, Remedee; new single: “Crush,” feat. Jorja Smith; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Revenge |
| Anna Vogelzang | “Afterglow” (Chicago-based alt-folk artist’s sixth studio album and first since 2019; producers: Vogelzang, Anthony da Costa; new single: “The Light”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Paper Anchor Music |
| The Wants | “Bastard” (NYC electronic post-punk trio’s second album; new single: “Data Tumor”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | STTT |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Anne Bisson | “The Essentials” (12 songs; mastered by Bernie Grundman; Download released on March 25) | Camilio |
| Culture | “See Them A Come: The Joe Gibbs Singles Collection” (two CDs, 33 tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Doctor Bird / Cherry Red |
| The Cure | “Mixes of a Lost World” (Double CD; conceived and compiled by Robert Smith, new remix collection from 2024 album “Songs of a Lost World,” featuring remixes from Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, Deftones’ Chino Moreno, 65daysofstatic, and Mogwai; all Cure royalties will benefit War Child; Bio Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Capitol |
| Grateful Dead | “Gratest Hits” (nine-track best-of marking the band’s 60th anniversary; Read here; Amazon-Exclusive Orange Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Opaque Spring Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch) | Rhino / Grateful Dead Productions |
| Vicki Lawrence | “Singles” (best-of includes her 1973 No. 1 “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” and the follow-up “He Did With Me”) | Garrett Music / Notefornote Music |
| John Mayall | “The Second Generation: Live Magic 1968-1993” (30-CD box set, with hardback book, featuring collaborations with Mick Taylor, Harvey Mandel, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya, Keef Hartley, John McVie, Larry Taylor, et al; Read here) | Madfish |
| Metallica | “Load (Expanded Edition)” (Triple CD; 1996 album, featuring “Until It Sleeps,” “Hero of the Day,” “Mama Said” and “King Nothing”; remastered, with previously unreleased songs, demos, rough mixes and live tracks, plus a 36-page booklet; Read here; Deluxe Box Set, 15 CDs, six LPs and four DVDs; Amazon UK; Deluxe Download, 233 songs; Apple Music; Merch) | Rhino / Blackened Recordings |
| New Kids on the Block | “Step by Step (35th Anniversary)” (1990 album, featuring the title track and “Tonight”; six bonus tracks: two previously unreleased songs and four remixes; Read here; Vinyl, without bonus cuts; Target-Exclusive White Opaque Vinyl; Download, with 13 bonus tracks; Apple Music; Las Vegas Residency) | Columbia / Legacy |
| Oasis | “Time Flies… 1994-2009” (Double CD; 26-track compilation from 2010; remastered; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour; Merch) | Legacy Recordings |
| Queen | “Queen I” (Blu-ray Audio; 2024 remix of their 1973 debut album in Dolby Atmos, with stereo backing tracks and a stereo mix, featuring “Keep Yourself Alive” and “Seven Seas of Rhye”; Merch) | Legacy Recordings |
| Neil Sedaka | “Sedaka’s Back” (1974 compilation, featuring “Laughter in the Rain”; with four bonus tracks; remastered; Hear here; Red Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Primary Wave |
| Connie Smith | “Born to Sing / Soul of Country Music / I Love Charley Brown / Sunshine and Rain” (four albums from 1966-1968 on two CDs; Amazon UK) | Morello |
| Ultravox | “Lament (Deluxe Edition)” (1984 album, featuring “Dancing With Tears In My Eyes”; eight-disc, 72-track box set includes a newly remastered version of the album, plus B-sides, 12-inch remixes, 45 previously unreleased tracks, along with new 5.1 and stereo mixes by Steven Wilson and newly mixed full concert from Hammersmith Odeon 1984; Amazon UK) | Chrysalis |
| Various artists | “NOW Yearbook: Vault ’81” (U.K. release; four CDs, 82 tracks; Transparent Purple Triple Vinyl, 45 songs) | Sony Music / EMI |
