New Releases: June 25, 2021
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New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Gary Allan | “Ruthless” (his first studio album in more than eight years; producers: Allan, Mark Wright, Tony Brown, Greg Droman, Jay Joyce; new single: “Temptation”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW  |
(EMI Nashville) |
| Gaspard Augé (of the French electronic duo Justice) | “Escapades” (new single: “Hey!”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Genesis / Ed Banger / Because Music) |
| Beartooth | “Below” (new single: “The Past Is Dead”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Red Bull) |
| Buckcherry | “Hellbound” (producer: Marti Frederiksen; first single: “So Hott”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Round Hill) |
| Cedric Burnside | “I Be Trying” (producers: Boo Mitchell, Luther Dickinson; See here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Single Lock) |
| Lucy Dacus | “Home Video” (guests: Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker; new single: “Hot & Heavy”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Matador) |
| Darkthrone | “Eternal Hails …” (first single: “Hate Cloak”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Peaceville) |
| Matthew Dear | “Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album” (unreleased album from 2008; new singles: “Muscle Beach” and “Supper Times”; See here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Ghostly International) |
| Vincent Neil Emerson | “Vincent Neil Emerson” (producer: Rodney Crowell; new single: “Learnin’ to Drown”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(La Honda) |
| Evidence | “Unlearning Vol. 1” (first single: “Better You”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Rhymesayers) |
| William Fitzsimmons | “Ready the Astronaut” (new single: “If I Fell Back to the Earth [You Will Never Find Me]”; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Nettwerk) |
| Paula Fuga (Hawaiian musician) | “Rain On Sunday” (new single: “Hōkūleʻa Star of Gladness”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Brushfire / Republic) |
| Randall Goosby (violinist and protégé of Itzhak Perlman) | “Roots” (his debut album explores classical music written by black composers and inspired by black American culture; See here; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Decca) |
| Goose (Norwalk, CT-based rockers) | “Shenanigans Nite Club” (new single: “Madhuvan”; See here; Vinyl; Download, released on June 4; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(No Coincidence) |
| John Grant | “Boy from Michigan” (producer: Cate Le Bon; new single: “Boy from Michigan”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target) » BUY NOW |
(Partisan) |
| The Grid / Fripp | “Leviathan” (electronic duo of Dave Ball of Soft Cell and Richard Norris with King Crimson’s Robert Fripp; Vinyl, two-LP 200-gram super-heavyweight vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(DGM) |
| Hiatus Kaiyote | “Mood Valiant” (new single: “Get Sun”; Hear here; Vinyl; Deluxe Glow in the Dark Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Target; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Brainfeeder / Ninja Tune) |
| Hiss Golden Messenger | “Quietly Blowing It” (guests: Griffin Goldsmith and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Zach Williams of The Lone Bellow, Buddy Miller, Josh Kaufman; new single: “If It Comes in the Morning”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Merge) |
| Ellie Holcomb (daughter of producer Brown Banister) | “Canyon” (guests: husband Drew Holcomb, NEEDTOBREATHE’s Bear Rinehart, Natalie Hemby, Carly Bannister; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Full Heart Music / Capitol CMG) |
| Home Free | “Land of the Free” (Download) » BUY NOW |
(Home Free Productions) |
| Leslie Hunt (“American Idol” season 6 semifinalist and lead singer of District 97) | “Ascend” (seven-song EP; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Spirit of Unicorn Music / Cherry Red) |
| KIDZ BOP Kids | “KIDZ BOP: The Original Album (20th Birthday Edition)” (a re-recording of the original album of 18 Y2K classics; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(KIDZ BOP) |
| Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | “Roundtable” (first single: “Between the Lines”; See here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Billy Blue) |
| Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band (Yves Jarvis and Romy Lightman) | “Banned” (first single: “Elastic Band”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW | (ANTI- / Epitaph) |
| Light the Torch (fronted by former Killswitch Engage singer Howard Jones) | “You Will Be the Death of Me” (new single: “Wilting in the Light”; See here; Pink Vinyl, with blue splatter; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Nuclear Blast) |
| Maple Glider (Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch) | “To Enjoy Is the Only Thing” (producer: Tom Iansek; new single: “Baby Tiger”; See here; Read here; Green & White Marble Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Partisan) |
| Modest Mouse | “The Golden Casket” (producers: Dave Sardy, Jacknife Lee; new single: “We Are Between”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Vinyl, with alternative cover; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Epic) |
| T. Hardy Morris | “The Digital Age of Rome” (first single: “The Digital Age of Rome”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Normaltown / New West) |
| Mother Mother | “Inside” (new single: “I Got Love”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Warner) |
| The Mountain Goats | “Dark in Here” (recorded at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL, with Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section members Spooner Oldham and Will McFarlane; new single: “Mobile”; Hear/Read here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Merge) |
| The Murlocs (Australian rock band) | “Bittersweet Demons” (producer: Tim Dunn; new single: “Eating At You”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(ATO) |
| Jennifer Nettles | “Always Like New” (producers: Nettles, Alex Lacamoire; guest: Brandi Carlile; new single: “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat”; Hear here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Translucent Cobalt Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Concord) |
| Meghan Patrick (CCMA Female Artist of the Year) | “Heart on My Glass” (new single: “Mama Prayed For”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Riser House) |
| Pom Pom Squad | “Death of a Cheerleader” (producers: Sarah Tudzin, frontwoman Mia Berrin; new single: “Head Cheerleader”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(City Slang) |
| Anthony Ramos | “Love and Lies” (singer-actor stars in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” feature film directed by Jon M. Chu in theaters and streaming on June 11 on HBO Max; new single: “Échale”; Hear here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Republic) |
| Jack Savoretti | “Europiana” (guests: Nile Rodgers, John Oates, Gizmo Varillas; new single: “Who’s Hurting Who”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(EMI) |
| Squirrel Flower | “Planet (i)” (first single: “Hurt a Fly”; See here; Read here; Clear Red Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Polyvinyl) |
| Toto | “With a Little Help From My Friends” (CD + DVD captures one night on Nov. 21, 2020, when Steve Lukather, Joseph Williams and David Paich appeared with the new lineup of Toto for a global event originating from Los Angeles; CD + Blu-ray; Transparent Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(The Players Club / Mascot Label Group) |
| UB40 | “Bigga Baggariddim” (guests: Inner Circle, House of Shem, Tippa Irie, BLVK H3RO, Pablo Rider, KIOKO, Gilly G, Slinger, Winston Francis, Leno Banton, etc.; Read here; Download; On Tour; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(SoNo Recording Group) |
| Frankie Valli | “A Touch of Jazz” (featuring jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Green Hill Productions) |
| Various artists | “Party for Joey: A Sweet Relief Tribute to Joey Spampinato” (all-star tribute to the NRBQ co-founder, who is struggling with cancer; contributors: Bonnie Raitt & NRBQ, Los Lobos, Ben Harper with Keith Richards, Charlie Musselwhite, Benmont Tench, Don Was and Don Heffington, She & Hiim, Steve Forbert, Deer Tick, etc.; Read here) » BUY NOW | (True North) |
| Faye Webster | “I Know I’m Funny haha” (new single: “Cheers”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Secretly Canadian) |
| Phil Wickham | “Hymn of Heaven” (new single: “It’s Always Been You”; See here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Fair Trade Services / Columbia) |
| Emily Wolfe | “Outlier” (producer: Michael Shuman; See/Read here; Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Crows Feet) |
More Releases for June 25, 2021 »
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Arrested Youth | “Nonfiction” (producer: John Feldmann; guest: Mark Hoppus; new single: “Ego”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Lowly / Big Noise) |
| Daniel Avery | “Together in Static” (new single: “Endless Hours”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mute / Phantasy) |
| Big Atomic (Kentucky funky jam outfit) | “Body Politic” (four-song EP; new single: “Justice Denied”; Hear/Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Big Atomic) |
| Brainstory | “Ripe” (seven-song EP; new single: “Scissors”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Big Crown) |
| Cautious Clay | “Deadpan Love” (new single: “Karma & Friends”; See here; CD and Vinyl out July 16; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Cautious Clay / The Orchard) |
| Greyson Chance | “Trophies” (eight-song EP; producers: Chad Copelin, Mike Robinson, Teddy Geiger; new single: “Hellboy”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Arista) |
| Chromeo | “Date Night: Chromeo Live!” (20-track album was recorded during their pre-pandemic 2019 U.S. tour; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Last Gang) |
| Doja Cat | “Planet Her” (guests: Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, SZA, Young Thug, JID; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Kemosabe / RCA) |
| Free Throw | “Piecing It Together” (new single: “Ocular Pat Down”; See here; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(Triple Crown) |
| I M U R | “My Molecules” (new single: “Sad Girls Club”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Distorted Muse) |
| Brian Kelley | “Sunshine State of Mind” (debut solo album from the Florida Georgia Line member; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Nashville South / Warner Music Nashville) |
| Keuning (The Killers guitarist Dave Keuning) | “A Mild Case of Everything” (Hear here) » BUY NOW |
(Normaltown / New West) |
| Kojaque (Dublin rapper-producer) | “Town’s Dead” (collaborators: Brién and Kean Kavanagh, with production from slowthai producer Kwes Darko; guests: Celia Tiab, Biig Piig, Maverick Sabre; new single: “Town’s Dead”; CD out July 9; Vinyl; Download; Hear here; Apple Music; Deezer) » BUY NOW |
(Soft Boy / Different Recordings) |
| Lacuna Coil | “Live From The Apocalypse” (the Italian metal giants performed their last album, “Black Anima,” in its entirety during a live stream in September 2020; new single: “Bad Things”; See here; CD + DVD and Vinyl + DVD out July 23; Download; Apple Music; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Century Media) |
| Lady A | “WHAT A SONG CAN DO (CHAPTER ONE)” (seven-song EP; producer: Dann Huff; new single: “Things He Handed Down”; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Big Machine) |
| L’Rain (Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist) | “Fatigue” (new single: “Blame Me”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Mexican Summer) |
| Jesse Marchant (Canadian singer-songwriter formerly known as JBM) | “Antelope Running” (producers: Marchant, D. James Goodwin; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(AntiFragile Music) |
| The Marías | “CINEMA” (new single: “Hush”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Nice Life Recording Company / Atlantic) |
| Picture This | “Life in Colour” (14 songs; new single: “If Ever However Whenever Forever”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Let’s Get It Records, LLC / Republic) |
| Six Organs of Admittance | “The Veiled Sea” (new single: “Somewhere in the Hexagon of Saturn”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Three Lobed Recordings) |
| Summer Salt (Austin-based indie pop duo) | “Sequoia Moon” (producer: Phil Ek; new single: “Clover”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Cherry Lime) |
| Tyler, The Creator | “CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST” (first single: “LUMBERJACK”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Columbia) |
| Sarah Walk | “Simply” (six-song EP; producer: Abe Rounds; new single: “Secrets”; Hear here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(One Little Independent) |
| Alex Western-King (British saxophonist) | “SideSlip” (featuring Sam Leak, Jonny Wickham and Jay Davis; See here; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Ubuntu Music) |
| Winona Avenue | “Winona Avenue” (producer: Daniel Deputy; first single: “Move This Town”; See here) » BUY NOW |
(Winona Avenue) |
More Digital Releases for June 25, 2021 »
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass | “Lost Treasures (Rare & Unreleased)” (22-song compilation from 2005; remastered; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Herb Alpert Presents) |
| Marc Almond | “Enchanted (Expanded Edition)” (1990 album, featuring “A Lover Spurned”; two-CD, one-DVD set includes all six B-sides, original album demos, extended versions, dance remixes, promo videos, etc.; See here; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Cherry Red) |
| Asia | “The Reunion Albums 2007-2012” (five-CD set includes “Fantasia Live in Tokyo,” “Phoenix,” “Omega” and “XXX” with the original lineup of Geoffrey Downes, Steve Howe, Carl Parlmer and John Wetton) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Miles Davis | “Merci, Miles! Live at Vienne” (two-CD set of his performance at Jazz a Vienne on July 1, 1991, one of his final live shows before he died on Sept. 28, 1991; the previously unreleased set includes two songs written by Prince, “Penetration” and “Jailbait”; Vinyl; Download; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Rhino) |
| Dyke & The Blazers | “Down On Funky Broadway: Phoenix 1966-1967 [Vinyl]” (20 songs; featuring new stereo mixes of old favorites and previously unreleased material, including demos, radio spots, and unearthed songs; remastered by engineer Dave Cooley; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW, “I Got a Message: Hollywood 1968-1970 [Vinyl]” (21-song collection; featuring new stereo mixes of old favorites and previously unreleased material, including demos, radio spots, and unearthed songs; remastered by engineer Dave Cooley; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Craft Recordings / Concord) |
| Bill Evans | “Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956–1980)” (five-CD box set; remastered by Paul Blakemore, housed in a portfolio-style 48-page hardcover book containing extensive liner notes by writer Neil Tesser, ephemera and photos; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Craft Recordings / Concord) |
| Jerry Garcia Band | “GarciaLive Volume 16: November 15th, 1991 Madison Square Garden” (three-CD set; Download; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Round) |
| Goo Goo Dolls | “Rarities” (20-track collection of rare and never-before-heard songs dating as far back as 1996; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Warner) |
| PJ Harvey | “White Chalk [Vinyl]” (2007 album, featuring “When Under Ether,” “The Piano” and “The Devil”; remastered) » BUY NOW, “White Chalk – Demos” (a collection of unreleased demos; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(Island / UMe) |
| Etta James | “Etta James: The Montreux Years” (compilation of recordings at the Montreux Jazz Festival; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Peter Murphy | “Cascade [Vinyl]” (1995 album; scarlet vinyl) » BUY NOW, “The Last and Only Star [Vinyl]” (rarities collection; gold-colored vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(Beggars Arkive) |
| The Psychedelic Furs | “The Best of The Psychedelic Furs” (29 songs on two CDs; Track List; On Tour) » BUY NOW |
(Edsel / Demon Music Group) |
| Queensrÿche | “Operation: Mindcrime” (1988 album; newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios; 4CD/DVD Box Set, featuring promo videos and live performances; Vinyl) » BUY NOW, “Empire” (1990 album, featuring “Silent Lucidity”; newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios; 3CD/DVD Box Set, featuring promo videos and live performances; Vinyl; Merch) » BUY NOW |
(Capitol / UMe) |
| The Rubinoos | “The CBS Tapes” (11 previously tracks from 1976; first single: “I Want Her So Bad”; Hear/Read here; Red & Black Splatter Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW |
(Yep Roc) |
| Nina Simone | “Nina Simone: The Montreux Years” (compilation of recordings at the Montreux Jazz Festival; Vinyl) » BUY NOW |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| The Sorrows | “Pink Purple Yellow and Red: The Complete Sorrows” (four-CD clamshell box set; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(Grapefruit / Cherry Red) |
| Josh Turner | “Your Man (15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (2006 album; with three bonus live tracks; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(MCA Nashville / UMe) |
| The Vandals | “I Saw Her in a Mustang” (18-song retrospective of the 1960s Florida garage punk band; Hear here; Blue Vinyl; Download) » BUY NOW |
(BeatRocket) |
| Various artists | “Banquet: Underground Sounds of 1969” (three-CD clamshell box set, featuring songs by Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Procol Harum, The Moody Blues, Thunderclap Newman, etc.; Read here) » BUY NOW | (Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red) |
| Various artists | “Gary Crowley’s Lost 80s, Vol. 2” (four-CD, 65-song box set; Track List; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW | (Demon) |
| Various artists | “Good As Gold: Artefacts of the Apple Era 1967-1975” (five-CD box set, featuring tracks by Badfinger, Jackie Lomax, Gallagher and Lyle, Fanny, Tim Hardin, Stealers Wheel, etc.; Read here) » BUY NOW | (Grapefruit / Cherry Red) |
| Various artists | “I’m a Freak Baby 3: A Further Journey Through the British Heavy Psych and Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-1973” (three CDs, 53 songs, featuring Procol Harum, Spooky Tooth, Thin Lizzy, Hawkwind, Deep Purple, Mott the Hoople, Nazareth, etc.; Read here; Download) » BUY NOW |
(Grapefruit / Cherry Red) |
| Various artists | “Rockets of Love! Power Pop Gems from the 70s, 80s & 90s” (24 songs; Track List) » BUY NOW | (Big Beat / Ace) |
| Deniece Williams | “Free: The Columbia / Arc Recordings 1976-1988” (eight-CD box set; Read here) » BUY NOW |
(SoulMusic / Cherry Red) |
More Releases for June 25, 2021 »
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