New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Amazons (U.K. alt-rock band) | “Future Dust” (producer: Catherine Marks; new single: “Doubt It”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | (Island) |
| Philip Bailey | “Love Will Find a Way” (guests: Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, will.i.am, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Bilal, Casey Benjamin, Lionel Loueke, Kendrick Scott, Derrick Hodge; first single: a cover of Curtis Mayfield’s “Billy Jack”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download)  |
(Verve) |
| Black Pumas (Austin-based beat-heavy psychedelic soul project led by Eric Burton and former Grupo Fantasma guitarist Adrian Quesada) | “Black Pumas” (first single: “Black Moon Rising”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ATO) |
| Collective Soul | “Blood” (their 10th studio album; first single: “Right As Rain”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Gin Blossoms; Merch) |
(Fuzze-Flex / ADA) |
| Drivin N Cryin | “Live the Love Beautiful” (producer: Aaron Lee Tasjan; guests: Elizabeth Cook, the McCrary Sisters; first single: “Step by Step”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Drivin N Cryin) |
| Fruit Bats | “Gold Past Life” (first single: “The Bottom of It”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Merge) |
| Hatchie (Australian singer-songwriter/bassist Harriette Pilbeam) | “Keepsake” (first single: “Without a Blush”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Girlpool) |
(Double Double Whammy) |
| Hollywood Vampires (Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp) | “Rise” (includes covers of David Bowie’s “Heroes,” Jim Carroll Band’s “People Who Died” and Johnny Thunders’ “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory”; producers: Tommy Henriksen, The Hollywood Vampires; first single: “Who’s Laughing Now”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(earMUSIC) |
| Holy Ghost! | “Work” (the electronic duo’s first album in five years; guests: Sinkane’s Ahmed Gallab, Juan Maclean, LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang, Rob Moose, Alex Epton; new single: “Escape From Los Angeles”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(West End – the label’s first full-length LP release in more than 30 years) |
| Hot Chip | “A Bath Full of Ecstasy” (producers: Philippe Zdar, Rodaidh McDonald; first single: “Hungry Child”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Domino) |
| Injury Reserve (hip-hop trio) | “Injury Reserve” (guests: Freddie Gibbs, Aminé, Rico Nasty, Pro Teens, JPEGMAFIA, Cakes Da Killa, etc.; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Seneca Village / Loma Vista Recordings) |
| Jim Lauderdale | “From Another World” (Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Yep Roc) |
| Los Straitjackets | “Channel Surfing” (four-song EP features cover of TV theme songs for “Game of Thrones,” “The Andy Griffith Show,” “Ken Burns’ The Civil War” and a medley of “Dancing with the Stars” and “Sex and the City”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Nick Lowe) |
(Yep Roc) |
| Mannequin Pussy | “Patience” (producer: Will Yip; first single: “Drunk II”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Epitaph) |
| Chuck Mead (neo-traditional honky tonker, formerly of BR5-49) | “Close to Home” (producer; Matt Ross-Spang; recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Studios in Memphis; first single: “Big Bear in the Sky”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) |
(Plowboy) |
| Buddy & Julie Miller | “Breakdown On 20th Ave. South” (their first album together in nearly 10 years; producer: Buddy Miller; first single: “Spittin’ On Fire”; Hear here; NPR’s All Songs Considered; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(New West) |
| Willie Nelson | “Ride Me Back Home” (producer: Buddy Cannon; guests: Lukas Nelson, Micah Nelson; first single: “Ride Me Back Home”; Hear here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Gold Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch)  |
(Legacy Recordings) |
| The Ocean Blue | “Kings and Queens / Knaves and Thieves” (the dream pop legends’ first album in six years; first single: “Kings and Queens”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Korda) |
| Himesh Patel | “Yesterday (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (British comedy, which opens June 28, stars Patel as a musician who suffers a mysterious global blackout after an accident and finds himself in a world where he is the only person who remembers The Beatles and then becomes famous for performing their songs and taking credit for writing them; Lily James, Kate McKinnon and Ed Sheeran also star; score composer and producer: Daniel Pemberton; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with one extra song; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; Fandango) | (Capitol) |
| ‹PIG› | “Candy” (featuring covers of Prince, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, INXS, Kylie Minogue, Spice Girls, Hall & Oates, etc.; producer: Eden Martin; guest: Sasha Grey; See here) |
(Armalyte Industries) |
| The Raconteurs | “Help Us Stranger” (their first album since 2008; producers: The Raconteurs; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Third Man) |
| Mark Ronson | “Late Night Feelings” (guests: Alicia Keys, Miley Cyrus, Camila Cabello, Lykke Li, Angel Olsen, Yebba, King Princess, etc.; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(RCA) |
| Titus Andronicus | “An Obelisk” (producer: Bob Mould; first single: “[I Blame] Society”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Merge) |
| Two Door Cinema Club | “False Alarm” (producer: Jacknife Lee; new single: “Talk”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Glassnote) |
| Aaron Watson | “Red Bandana” (producers: Watson, Jordan Lehning; first single: “Kiss That Girl Goodbye”; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Big Label) |
| Will Young | “Lexicon” (first single: “All the Songs”; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Cooking Vinyl) |
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| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Pony Bradshaw (singer-songwriter James Bradshaw) | “Sudden Opera” (producer: Gary Paczosa; first single: “10×10”; See here; CD, out June 28; iTunes) | (Rounder) |
| Erin Durant | “Islands” (producers: Durant, TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone; new single: “Islands”; Hear here; CD, out June 28; iTunes) |
(Keeled Scales) |
| iLoveMakonnen | “M3” (six-song EP; new single: “Drunk on Saturday”; See here; On Tour) |
(Warner) |
| Rich Mahan (Nashville roots rocker) | “Hot Chicken Wisdom” (producer: Mahan; guests: Bekka Bramlett, PT Gazell, Mark T Jordan, Dave Roe; first single: “Boots Off”; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Snortin’ Horse) |
| Reckless Kelly | “Bulletproof Live” (a live recording of the Austin country-rock band’s seminal album “Bulletproof” that was recorded in July/August 2018 in celebration of the LP’s 10th anniversary; first single: “You Don’t Have to Stay Forever [Live]”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(No Big Deal / Thirty Tigers) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Glen Campbell | “The Legacy [1971-2017]” (four-CD, 78-song box set) |
(Capitol Nashville / UMe) |
| Def Leppard | “Def Leppard – Volume Two” (seven-CD box set features “Adrenalize,” “Retro Active,” “Slang” and “Euphoria,” plus “Rarities” Vols. 2-4, compiled by lead singer Joe Elliott; remastered by Ronan McHugh at Joe’s Garage and cut by Greg Moore; Read here; Vinyl, 10-LP, 180-gram vinyl box set; On Tour; Merch) |
(Mercury / UMe) |
| Bill Evans | “Smile With a Heart: The Best of Bill Evans on Resonance” (12 songs) |
(Resonance) |
| Sachiko Kanenobu | “Misora” (1972 album; remastered from original analog master tapes; Hear/read here; Vinyl) |
(Light in the Attic) |
| Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper | “A Star Is Born (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Box Set]” (2018 album; two-LP set, gold-colored vinyl, with standard CD, lyric journal, five posters, four pieces of sheet music, 10 lithos and two glossy 8×10 publicity photos; See here) |
(Interscope / UMe) |
| Prince | “Originals” (14 previously unreleased Prince demos of songs he wrote for other artists; this collection, selected by Troy Carter, on behalf of The Prince Estate, and Jay Z, first streamed exclusively on Tidal for 14 days, starting June 7; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with a bonus Cinematic Mix of “Nothing Compares 2 U”; Vinyl; Vinyl + CD Deluxe Edition; Download; iTunes; Merch) |
(Rhino / NPG / Warner) |
| James & Bobby Purify | “I’m Your Puppet: The Complete Bell Recordings 1966-1969” (two CDs, 38 songs) |
(SoulMusic / Cherry Red) |
| Sha Na Na | “50th Anniversary: Commemorative Edition” (12 previously unreleased live tracks, plus three bonus original studio cuts; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(The Gold Label) |
| Travis | “The Man Who (20th Anniversary Edition)” (1999 album; remastered, with 19 bonus B-sides; See here; Vinyl), “Live at Glastonbury ’99” (previously unreleased 16-song set; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Craft Recordings / Concord) |
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| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Boom Crash Opera | “Boom Crash Opera” (1987 album; See here), “These Here Are Crazy Times” (1989 album; See here) |
(Warner Music Group / X5 Music Group) |
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DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| The Rolling Stones | “Bridges To Bremen [DVD + CD]” (full-length show on the fifth and final leg of the band’s Bridges To Babylon Tour, filmed at the German city’s Weserstadion on Sept. 2, 1998; See here; Blu-ray + CD, with four bonus tracks from their Soldier Field performances in Chicago; Vinyl; Merch) |
(Eagle Rock) |
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