New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| As Cities Burn | “Scream Through the Walls” (Christian post-hardcore band’s first album in 10 years; first single: “Chains”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour)  |
(Equal Vision) |
| Aurora | “A Different Kind of Human (Step II)” (new single: “The Seed”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Glassnote) |
| Avicii | “TIM” (all profits from the electronic star’s first posthumous release will go toward the Tim Bergling Foundation, launched after the Swedish DJ’s suicide to address mental health and suicide prevention; producers: Avicii, Carl Falk, Albin Nedler, Kristoffer Fogelmark; new single: “Tough Love,” feat. Agnes & Vargas & Lagola; Hear here; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; Merch) |
(Avicii Recordings / Universal) |
| Ron Carter & Danny Simmons | “The Brown Beatnik Tomes – Live at BRIC House” (first single: “The Final Stand of Two Dick Willie”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Blue Note) |
| Stef Chura (Detroit rocker) | “Midnight” (producer: Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest; new single: “Sweet Sweet Midnight”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Saddle Creek) |
| The Claim | “The New Industrial Ballads” (the British indie rock group’s first new material since 1992; new single: “Journey”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(A Turntable Friend) |
| The Divine Comedy | “Office Politics” (first single: “Queuejumper”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with 15 extra songs; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Divine Comedy) |
| Perry Farrell | “Kind Heaven” (his first solo album in 18 years; producer: Tony Visconti; guests: Elliot Easton, Tommy Lee, Taylor Hawkins, Dhani Harrison, Mike Garson, Matt Chamberlain, Chris Chaney, Peter DiStefano, etc.; first single: “Pirate Punk Politician”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Peter Frampton Band | “All Blues” (all-covers album; producers: Frampton, Chuck Ainlay; guests: Kim Wilson, Larry Carlton, Sonny Landreth, Steve Morse; first single: “I Just Want to Make Love to You”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour, his farewell tour) |
(Phenix Phonograph / UMe) |
| Froth (L.A. noise-rock trio) | “Duress” (producers: Froth, Tomas Dolas; new single: “Laurel”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Wichita Recordings) |
| Gloria Gaynor | “Testimony” (gospel album; producers: Chris Stevens, Reid Shippen; guests: Yolanda Adams, Jason Crabb, Mike Farris, Bart Millard; first single: “Amazing Grace”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Gaither Music Group) |
| Richard Hawley | “Further” (first single: “Off My Mind”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Hollis Brown (Queens, N.Y.-based rock quartet) | “Ozone Park” (producer: Adam Landry; new single: “Do Me Right”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Cool Green Recordings / Mascot Label Group) |
| Ida Mae (husband and wife duo Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean) | “Chasing Lights” (producer: Ethan Johns; new single: “Reaching”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Blackberry Smoke) |
(Vow Road / Thirty Tigers) |
| Tommy James | “Alive” (his first new release in more than 10 years; producer: James; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Aura) |
| Jonas Brothers | “Happiness Begins” (new single: “Cool”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Jonas Brothers Recording / Republic) |
| Rickie Lee Jones | “KICKS” (a collection of pop, rock and jazz songs from the great American songbook, spanning the 1950s to ’70s; producers: Jones, bandmate/vibraphonist Mike Dillion; first single: “Lonely People”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(OSOD / Thirty Tigers) |
| Dylan LeBlanc | “Renegade” (producer: Dave Cobb; first single: “Renegade”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(ATO) |
| Loamlands (N.C.-based country-folk band led by Kym Register) | “Lez Dance” (new single: “Soni Wolf Grandmother”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(Cruisin) |
| Membranes | “What Nature Gives … Nature Takes Away” (new single: “A Murmuration of Starlings on Blackpool Pier”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Cherry Red) |
| Palehound (Boston-based trio led by Ellen Kempner) | “Black Friday” (10 percent of proceeds from release day sales will be donated to The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights; producers: Kempner, Gabe Wax; Hear here; Vinyl, with download card; Download; On Tour, with Big Thief) |
(Polyvinyl) |
| Pelican | “Nighttime Stories” (the Chicago instrumental band’s first album in six years; first single: “Midnight and Mescaline”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Southern Lord) |
| Peter Perrett (former frontman of The Only Ones) | “Humanworld” (new single: “Heavenly Day”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Domino) |
| PicaPica | “Together & Apart” (producer: Sonny Johns; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Rough Trade) |
| Pixx | “Small Mercies” (producers: Simon Byrt, Dan Carey; first single: “Disgrace”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(4AD) |
| Santana | “Africa Speaks” (producer: Rick Rubin; recorded at Rubin’s Shangri La Studios in Malibu; guest: Afro-Latin singer Buika; first single: “Los Invisibles”; Hear here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Concord) |
| Savoy Brown | “City Night” (their 40th album; first single: “Walking on Hot Stones”; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Quarto Valley) |
| Silversun Pickups | “Widow’s Weeds” (their first album in four years; producer: Butch Vig; first single: “It Doesn’t Matter Why”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(New Machine Recordings) |
| WE IN THE ZONE (K-pop group) | “WE IN THE ZONE” (new single: “LOVE LOVE LOVE”; See here; Download) | (Choon Entertainment) |
| Yeasayer (Brooklyn trio) | “Erotic Reruns” (producers: Yeasayer; first single: “Let Me Listen In On You”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Yeasayer) |
| Younghusband (London alt-rock quartet) | “Swimmers” (new single: “Translation”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Opposite Number) |
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| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Barzin (Toronto singer-songwriter) | “Studio 13 Session Live at Revolution Recordings” (five-song EP; Hear here) |
(Monotreme / The Orchard) |
| Cave In | “Final Transmission” (their first album since 2011 and their last LP to feature late bassist Caleb Scofield, who was killed in an auto accident last year; half of the proceeds will go to Scofield’s wife and children; first single: “All Illusion”; Hear here; Vinyl; CD, out July 12; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Hydra Head) |
| Jamie Cullum | “Taller” (the British singer-songwriter’s first album since 2015; first single: “Taller”; Vinyl; CD, out June 21; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Island) |
| Carlie Hanson | “Junk” (five-song EP; new single: “WYA”; See here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Warner) |
| Kelli O’Hara, Will Chase, Corbin Bleu, et al | “Kiss Me, Kate! (2019 Broadway Cast Recording)” (the Roundabout revival has been extended through June 30; producers: Kurt Deutsch, Lawrence Manchester; See here; On Broadway) | (Ghostlight) |
| The Seldom Scene | “Changes” (bluegrass covers of singer-songwriter classics from the 1960s and early ’70s; first single: “Everybody’s Talkin'”; Hear here; CD, out June 14; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Rounder) |
| Various artists | “Tootsie (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (the production, currently playing Broadway’s Marquis Theatre, is nominated for 11 Tony Awards; cast is led by Tony nominee Santino Fontana as Michael Dorsey; producers: Dean Sharenow, David Yazbek; CD, out Aug. 16; Read/see here; On Broadway) | (Decca Broadway) |
| Brandee Younger (genre-defying harpist) | “Soul Awakening” (producer: Dezron Douglas; guests: Ravi Coltrane, Sean Jones, Niia, Antoine Roney; NPR First Listen; See here; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Brandee Younger) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Elmer Bernstein | “Ghostbusters (Original Motion Picture Score)” (1984 album; remastered; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; Merch) |
(Sony Classical) |
| Bob Dylan | “The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings” (14-CD box set contains 148 tracks from five shows during the tour; more than 100 of the songs were previously unreleased; Netflix will be releasing the documentary “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese” on June 12; NPR First Listen; Vinyl, three-LP box set; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Columbia / Legacy) |
| Grateful Dead | “Aoxomoxoa (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1969 album; remastered, with a bonus CD of previously unreleased live recordings; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Merch) |
(Grateful Dead Production / Rhino) |
| Janet Jackson | “Control [Vinyl]” (1986 album; remastered; See here; Las Vegas Residency at Park MGM; Merch) |
(A&M / UMe) |
| Luciano Pavarotti | “Pavarotti (Music from the Motion Picture)” (documentary film, directed by Ron Howard, opens June 7; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with expanded booklet with bonus photos; Download; iTunes) |
(Verve) |
| The Rolling Stones | “The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (Expanded Edition)” (1968 concert show, with newly remixed and remastered audio and unreleased performances; See here; Deluxe Edition, two-CD, one-DVD, one-Blu-ray box set; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(ABKCO) |
| Sonic Youth | “Battery Park, NYC: July 4th 2008 [Vinyl]” (10-song set recorded at the River to River Festival; Hear here; Download; iTunes; Merch) |
(Matador) |
| Billy Taylor | “Eight Classic Albums 1955-1962” (four-CD box set; remastered) |
(Enlightenment) |
| Various artists | “NOW 100 Hits Forgotten 80s” (five CDs, 100 songs; Track list; Amazon UK) |
(NOW MUSIC) |
| Neil Young + Stray Gators | “Tuscaloosa” (archival live show from 1973, recorded at the University of Alabama with his backing band the Stray Gators, featuring material from “Harvest,” “Time Fades Away,” etc.; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Reprise) |
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| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Steven Garcia | “The LSDP Singles Collection” (12-track collection of unreleased and alternate tracks along with previous released singles; producers: Garcia, Frank Trevino; first single: “Quasimodo”; Hear here; iTunes) |
(Love Sick Dog Publishing) |
| Various artists | “British 20th Century Pop” (25-song collection) | (Warner Music Group / X5 Music Group) |
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DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Various artists | “Woody Guthrie: All-Star Tribute Concert 1970 [DVD]” (previously unreleased benefit concert featuring Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald, etc., with narration by actors Peter Fonda and Will Geer) |
(MVD Visual) |
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