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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Jonny Benavidez | “My Echo, Shadow and Me” (debut album from San Diego-based soulful Chicano artist, backed by Cold Diamond and Mink; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music)   | (Timmion / Daptone) |
| Dale Ann Bradley | “Kentucky For Me” (guests: Exile’s JP Pennington, Sam Bush, Larry Cordle, John Cowan, John Conlee, Danny Paisley, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, Dave Adkins, et al; Hear here) | (Pinecastle) |
| Cable Ties | “All Her Plans” (Melbourne, Australia, garage rock trio’s third album; new single: “Time for You”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | (Merge) |
| Candlebox | “Live at the Neptune” (November 2021 show in Seattle, featuring all original band members; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Pavement Entertainment) |
| Kelly Clarkson | “chemistry” (her first album in six years; guests: Steve Martin, Sheila E.; new singles: “mine” and “me”; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with alternate cover; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Opaque Orchid Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | (Atlantic) |
| Lloyd Cole | “On Pain” (his 12th solo album features four songs co-written with fellow Commotions Blair Cowan and Neil Clark; producer: Chris Merrick Hughes; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | (earMUSIC) |
| Stewart Copeland | “Police Deranged for Orchestra” (drummer revisits Police hits, newly arranged for full orchestra alongside bassist Armand Sabal Lecco, guitarist Rusty Anderson and vocalists Amy Keys, Carmel Helene, and Ashley Támar; producers: Copeland, Edwin Outwater, Craig Stuart Garfinkle; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Shelter / BMG Rights Management) |
| Albert Hammond Jr. | “Melodies on Hiatus” (The Strokes guitarist’s fifth solo album; guests: GoldLink, Rainsford, Steve Stevens, Matt Helders; new single: “100-99”; Hear here; Read here; Orange with Magenta & Black Splatter Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Red Bull) |
| Ayron Jones | “Chronicles of the Kid” (new single: “Blood in the Water”; See here; Read here; Turquoise Vinyl out July 21; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (John Varvatos Records / Big Machine Label Group) |
| Coi Leray | “COI” (guests: David Guetta, Saucy Santana, Giggs, Lola Brooke, Skillibeng; new single: “Run It Up”; Hear here; Download; On Tour) | (Uptown / Republic) |
| Lunice (Montreal electronic artist) | “OPEN” (collaborators: Cali Cartier, Stargate, Zach Zoya, Yuki Dreams Again, Jay Century, DAGR, DRTWRK; new single: “No Commas”; See here; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | (LuckyMe) |
| Midnight Callers | “Rattled Humming Heart” (NYC band’s second album; producer: Kurt Reil; new single: “Baby Let Me Be”; Vinyl) | (Jem) |
| Militarie Gun | “Life Under the Gun” (new single: “Very High”; See here; Translucent Cobalt Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | (Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) |
| Jason Mraz | “Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride” (new single: “I Feel Like Dancing”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Interrabang / BMG Rights Management) |
| Nat Myers | “Yellow Peril” (Korean-American blues poet’s debut album; producer: Dan Auerbach; new single: “Pray for Rain”; See here; Green & Black Marble Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | (Easy Eye Sound / Concord) |
| Bobbie Nelson and Amanda Shires | “Loving You” (recorded before Nelson’s death in March 2022; producers: Shires, Lawrence Rothman; new single: “Summertime,” feat. Willie Nelson; See here; White Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | (Silver Knife / ATO) |
| Maisie Peters | “The Good Witch” (new single: “Body Better”; See here; Read here; Snake Bite Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Gingerbread Man / Elektra) |
| Kim Petras | “Feed the Beast” (her debut album, including former No. 1 “Unholy”; guests: Sam Smith, Nicki Minaj; new single: “Alone”; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Amigo / Republic) |
| Portugal. The Man | “Chris Black Changed My Life” (their first album since 2017, dedicated to the honorary band member who died in May 2019; producer: Jeff Bhasker; new single: “Dummy”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Atlantic) |
| Tommy Prine | “This Far South” (debut album from the 27-year-old son of the late John Prine; producers: Ruston Kelly, Gena Johnson; new single: “This Far South”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Nameless Knight / Thirty Tigers) |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto | “12” (his 12th and final album, released digitally on Jan. 17, two months before his death from cancer; written and recorded in Tokyo during his fight with cancer throughout 2021-2022, each song numbered for its recording date; Vinyl; Download) | (Milan) |
| Lucy Spraggan | “Balance” (British singer-songwriter’s seventh album; producer: Philip Magee; new single: “OCD”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Crtl) |
| Straight No Chaser | “Yacht on the Rocks” (a cappella group covers ’70s/’80s hits like “Escape (The Pina Colada Song),” “What a Fool Believes,” “Lido Shuffle,” “After the Love Has Gone,” etc., plus a mashup of Toto hits, titled “Waves of Toto,” featuring David Paich; producer: Yacht Rock Revue leader Nicholas Niespodziani; Hear here; Vinyl out Aug. 25; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Arts Music / Rhino) |
| Swans | “The Beggar” (new single: “Paradise Is Mine”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | (Young God) |
| Trophy Eyes | “Suicide and Sunshine” (producer: Shane Edwards; new single: “What Hurts the Most”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Hopeless) |
| Valley | “Lost in Translation” (Toronto alt-pop band’s second album; new single: “Break for You”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Capitol) |
| M. Ward | “supernatural thing” (guests: Neko Case, Jim James, First Aid Kit, Shovels & Rope, Kelly Pratt, Gabriel Kahane, Scott McMicken; new single: “supernatural thing”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | (ANTI- / Epitaph) |
| The Watson Twins | “Holler” (producer: Butch Walker; new single: “Two Timin'”; Vinyl; Download) | (Bloodshot) |
[/su_animate]New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Ativin (Nashville-based post-rock band) | “Austere” (new single: “Haunt Blue”; See here) | (Joyful Noise Recordings / FONORADAR Records) |
| Big Freedia | “Central City” (New Orleans bounce artist’s first album in nine years; guests: Lil Wayne, Ciara, Faith Evans, Kelly Price, Sonyae, et al; new single: “Bigfoot”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Queen Diva Music) |
| The Final Clause of Tacitus | “The Oxygen Is Killing You” (Reading-based funk-rock quartet’s self-produced EP) | (Remus) |
| Hudi | “Holy Smokes!” (L.A.-based rapper’s debut mixtape; new single: “Holy Smokes!”; See here; Apple Music) | (Hudi) |
| Cody Lawless | “Sunshine State of a Happy Camper” (producers: Lawless, KULTARGOTBOUNCE; new single: “Get There, Stay There”; Hear here; Apple Music) | (MNRK Music Group) |
| Salim Nourallah | “A Nuclear Winter” (Dallas indie-pop singer-songwriter’s eighth album; co-produced with The Church founding member Marty Willson-Piper; new single: “Loved By You”; See here) | (Happiness [A Record Label] / State Fair Records) |
| Jake Owen | “Loose Cannon” (new singles: “On the Boat Again,” “Solo, Solo,” “Nothing,” “Hot Truck Beer”; Read here; On Tour) | (Big Loud) |
| The Tomb Tones | “Ghost of Toast” (new single: “Wormhole”; Hear here) | (Rigor Mortis Records) |
| Various artists | “Growin’ Up Country Vol. One” (contributors: Mickey Guyton, RaeLynn, et al; first single: Brett Young’s “ILY [Family]”; See here; Read here) | (Platoon) |
| Elijah Wolf | “Forgiving Season” (Brooklyn-based artist’s third album; producer: Sam Cohen; guests: Josh Jaeger, Photay; new single: “Fading”; Hear here; See here) | (Mtn Laurel Recording Co.) |
[/su_animate]Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Bad Manners | “The Singles 1980-89” (three CDs, 63 songs; Read here; Amazon UK) | (Pressure Drop / Cherry Red) |
| Eric Clapton | “The Definitive 24 Nights” (1991 live album, expanded to six-CD, three-Blu-ray box set; Read here; Vinyl, eight-LP + three-Blu-ray box set; Amazon UK; Download) | (Reprise) |
| Ani DiFranco | “Little Plastic Castle (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1998 album, featuring “Glass House,” which earned DiFranco a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Female Vocalist; it was her highest-charting album of her career, reaching No. 22 on the Billboard 200 chart; remastered by Heba Kadry, with three bonus tracks mixed by Tchad Blake; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Righteous Babe) |
| Dawn Landes | “Bluebird (10th Anniversary Edition)” (2014 album; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | (Missing Piece) |
| Little Feat | “Sailin’ Shoes (Deluxe Edition)” (1972 album; two-CD set; remastered, with outtakes, rarities and a previously unreleased live show recorded at the Palladium in L.A. on Aug. 28, 1971; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) , “Dixie Chicken (Deluxe Edition)” (1973 album; two-CD set; remastered, with alternate versions and previously unreleased live set recorded at Paul’s Mall in Boston on March 1, 1973; Amazon UK; Triple Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | (Rhino / Warner) |
| Lloyds | “Attitude Check” (20-track compilation features nine early-’80s studio cuts and 11 live recordings from the San Francisco new wave band; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download) | (Liberation Hall) |
| Johnny Mathis | “Different Kinda Different / Friends In Love / Live / Special Part Of Me” (1980, 1982 and 1984 albums on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK; On Tour) | (BGO) |
| Charles Mingus | “Changes: The Complete 1970s Atlantic Studio Recordings” (seven-CD box set; Hear here; Vinyl, eight-LP box set; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | (Rhino / Atlantic) |
| Matt Monro | “The Complete EMI Recordings 1971-1984” (four-CD, 91-song clamshell box set includes previously released and unreleased outtakes and alternate versions, plus jingles and a pair of previously unheard live recordings from Australia in 1981; remastered from the original master tapes by Richard Moore at Mint Audio; Read here; Amazon UK) | (Strawberry / Cherry Red) |
| Gary Moore | “The Sanctuary Years 1999-2004” (four-CD box set includes four studio albums, plus bonus material, 5.1 mixes of “Back to the Blues,” interviews on a Blu-ray disc, etc.; Amazon UK) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Les Paul and Mary Ford | “How High the Moon … Their U.S. Top 20 Hits” (33 songs on one CD) | (Jasmine) |
| Sonny Rollins | “Go West! The Contemporary Records Albums” (three-CD set includes two complete albums, 1957’s “Way Out West” and 1958’s “Sonny Rollins and The Contemporary Leaders,” plus “Contemporary Alternate Takes”; Triple Vinyl, remastered by Bernie Grundman; Download released on March 17; Apple Music) | (Craft Recordings / Concord) |
| Arthur Russell | “Picture of Bunny Rabbit” (nine-track collection of unreleased mid-1980s recordings, including “The Boy With a Smile”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) | (Audika) |
| Various artists | “We’re an American Band: A Journey Through the USA Hard Rock Scene 1967-1973” (three-CD collection charts the birth and early development of American hard rock, featuring tracks by Vanilla Fudge, Steppenwolf, Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, Alice Cooper, The Stooges, MC5, et al; Read here; Amazon UK) | (Grapefruit / Cherry Red) |
| Various artists | “Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos” (seven-CD box set includes 146 demos – 140 previously unreleased – from Stax’s roster of songwriters, including Eddie Floyd, Bettye Crutcher, Homer Banks, William Bell, et al; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | (Craft Recordings / Concord) |
| The Weather Girls & Martha Wash | “Carry On: The Deluxe Collection 1982-1992” (four-CD set includes their three Columbia albums and Wash’s RCA debut solo LP, with 22 bonus tracks, including rare single edits, extended versions, club mixes, etc.; Read here; Amazon UK) | (SoulMusic / Cherry Red) |
| Wye Oak | “Every Day Like the Last: Collected Singles 2019-2023” (nine-track collection; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | (Merge) |
Reissues (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Dream Syndicate | “The Days of Wine and Roses (40th Anniversary Expanded Edition)” (1982 album; 54 songs from the original lineup, including 10 rarities and 31 never-released recordings; Hear here; Apple Music) | (Fire America) |