New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| American Pleasure Club (formerly Teen Suicide) | “A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This” (new single: “this is heaven & i’d die for it”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download, released on Feb. 16; iTunes; On Tour)  | (Run For Cover) |
| Courtney Marie Andrews (Phoenix singer-songwriter) | “May Your Kindness Remain” (producer: Mark Howard; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Fat Possum / Mama Bird Recording Co.) |
| Alice Bag (former singer and co-founder of The Bags) | “Blueprint” (guests: Kathleen Hanna, Allison Wolfe, Teri Gender Bender, etc.; See here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Don Giovanni) |
| blessthefall | “Hard Feelings” (the Arizona metalcore band’s first album since 2015; producers: Tyler Smyth, Matt Good, Howard Benson; new single: “Melodramatic”; Hear here; Vinyl; On Tour) | (Rise) |
| Bonny Doon (Detroit combo) | “Longwave” (new single: “A Lotta Things”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Woodsist) |
| Toni Braxton | “Sex and Cigarettes” (first single: “Long As I Live”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Download; eBay) | (Def Jam) |
| BulletBoys | “From Out of the Skies” (Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) |
| Jordan Davis | “Home State” (producer: Boys Like Girls guitarist Paul DiGiovanni; first single: “Singles You Up”; Hear here; Read here; On Tour) | (MCA Nashville) |
| Grant Duncan (New Zealand indie-rock singer-songwriter based in Tokyo) | “Alliance” (Hear here; Download) | (Grant Duncan) |
| Kurt Elling | “The Questions” (producers: Elling, Branford Marsalis; guests: Marsalis, Joey Calderazzo, Stu Mindeman, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Marquis Hill, John McLean; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (OKeh / Sony Masterworks) |
| George Ezra | “Staying At Tamara’s” (guests: First Aid Kit; new single: “Paradise”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Columbia) |
| Jordan Feliz (CCM pop singer-songwriter) | “Future” (first single: “Witness”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Centricity Music) |
| Field Report (Wisconsin alt-rock group) | “Summertime Songs” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Verve) |
| Dom Flemons | “Dom Flemons presents Black Cowboys” (the Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder explores the role African American pioneers played in westward expansion; first single: “He’s a Lone Ranger”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (Smithsonian Folkways) |
| Guided By Voices | “Space Gun” (new GBV lineup includes Robert Pollard with veterans Doug Gillard and Kevin March and newcomers Mark Shue and Bobby Bare Jr.; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; eBay; On Tour) | (GBV Inc.) |
| Kasbo (Swedish electronic artist Carl Garsbo) | “Places We Don’t Know” (guests: TENDER, Amanda Fondell, Frida Sundemo, Keiynan Lonsdale, Charlie Kim; new single: “Aldrig Mer”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Foreign Family Collective / Counter Records) |
| Lissie | “Castles” (first single: “Blood & Muscle”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) | (Lionboy) |
| MaidaVale | “Madness Is Too Pure” (producer: Jari Haapalainen; Vinyl; On Tour) | (The Sign) |
| Don McLean | “Botanical Gardens” (his first album since 2009; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| The Messthetics | “The Messthetics” (NPR First Listen; Vinyl; iTunes) | (Dischord) |
| Monster Magnet | “Mindfucker” (Read here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | (Napalm) |
| The Moody Blues | “Days of Future Passed Live” (recorded at Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, accompanied by a full orchestra, during the band’s 2017 tour to celebrate the album’s 50th anniversary; narration provided by Jeremy Irons; See/read here; Vinyl; DVD; Blu-ray) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Axel Rudi Pell | “Knights Call” (Vinyl; Download) | (Steamhammer / SPV) |
| Preoccupations (formerly known as Viet Cong) | “New Material” (producer: Justin Meldal-Johnson; first single: “Espionage”; Hear here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Jagjaguwar) |
| The Price Sisters (bluegrass duo from Ohio) | “A Heart Never Knows” (producer: Bil VornDick; first single: “Singing My Troubles Away”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Rebel) |
| Squirrel Nut Zippers | “Beasts of Burgundy” (their first album in 18 years; producer: Mike Napolitano; first single: “Karnival Joe [From Kokomo]”; Hear/read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Southern Broadcasting) |
| Chris Standring | “Sunlight” (guests: Bob James, Mica Paris, John Novello; Download) | (Ultimate Vibe Recordings) |
| Starchild & The New Romantic (longtime Solange and Dev Hynes collaborator Bryndon Cook) | “Language” (Hear here; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Ghostly International) |
| Sunflower Bean (Brooklyn indie-rock trio) | “Twentytwo in Blue” (See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Mom+Pop Music) |
| The Sword | “Used Future” (producer: Tucker Martine; first single: “Deadly Nightshade”; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | (Razor & Tie) |
| The Tillers | “The Tillers” (first single: “Revolution Row”; Hear here; On Tour) | (SofaBurn) |
| Paul Thorn | “Don’t Let the Devil Ride” (his first gospel-flavored album was recorded in three legendary locations: Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals and Preservation Hall in New Orleans; producers: Billy Maddox, Colin Linden; guests: Blind Boys of Alabama, The McCrary Sisters, Preservation Hall Jazz Horns, Bonnie Bishop; first single: “Love Train”; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Perpetual Obscurity / Thirty Tigers) |
| Thunder | “Stage” (captured at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena on March 24, 2017, during the band’s U.K. tour; DVD; Vinyl; On Tour) | (earMUSIC) |
| Jack White | “Boarding House Reach” (producer: White; new single: “Connected By Love”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Third Man / Columbia) |
| Gin Wigmore | “Ivory” (first single: “Carbona”; Hear here; See here; Download) | (Island) |
| Brian Courtney Wilson | “A Great Work” (first single: “A Great Work”; Hear here; Download) | (Motown Gospel) |
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan | “Dirt” (first single: “Someplace”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) | (Paper Bag) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Kris Barras Band (MMA fighter turned singer-guitarist) | “The Divine and Dirty” (producer: Josiah J. Manning; first single: “Hail Mary”; Hear here) | (Provogue / Mascot Label Group) |
| Lakecia Benjamin (saxophonist and bandleader) | “Rise Up” (See here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Ropeadope) |
| Bibeau (Spitfire Records founder/CEO Paul Bibeau) | “Bibeau” (first single: “Leeway”; See here; iTunes) | (Fade to Silence) |
| Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox | “Jazz Me Outside Pt 2.” (guests: Wayne Brady, Casey Abrams, Vonzell Solomon, Amber Eyes, Annie Bosko, Hannah Gill, etc.; See here; iTunes; On Tour) | (mudhutdigital.com, March 22) |
| Chloe x Halle | “The Kids Are Alright” (the sisters are starring on Freeform’s “Grown-ish,” where their track “Grown” is the theme song; guests: Joey Bada$$, Kari Faux, GoldLink; Hear here) | (Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia) |
| Nicole Cross (German singer) | “Shapeshifter” (first single: “Awesome”; Hear here; See here; iTunes) | (Starwatch Entertainment GmbH) |
| The Far Field (Tacoma-based band) | “Little Poems” (five-song EP, featuring four originals and a cover of Neil Young’s “Helpless”; producer: Caleb Baker; guests: Pete Marzano, David Schultz; first single: “Sixteen Again”; Hear here; On Tour) | (The Far Field) |
| Dom Fricot (Vancouver singer-songwriter) | “Deserts” (producers: David Vertesi, Andrew Rasmussen; second single: “Help Is Needed”; Hear here; See here; On Tour) | (Dom Fricot) |
| Ben Frost (Australian experimental electronic music artist) | “All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated” (six-song EP featuring new tracks and previously unreleased remixes from Alva Noto and Steve Albini; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; iTunes; On Tour) | (Mute) |
| Hamish Hawk & the New Outfit (Edinburgh, Scotland-based band) | “From Zero to One” (Hear here) | (Epifo Music) |
| Hudson Taylor (Irish Americana-pop sibling duo) | “Feel It Again” (five-song EP; producer: Ryan Hadlock; new single: “Run With Me”; Hear here; See here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Rubyworks) |
| Kino | “Radio Voltaire” (first single: “The Dead Club”; Hear here) | (InsideOutMusic) |
| The Maghreban | “01DEAS” (guests: Rutendo Machiridza, Gatto Fritto, A-F-R-O; first single: “Sham”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; iTunes) | (R&S) |
| Marine (London quartet) | “Fable Electric” (producer: Rob Ellis; new single: “Sirens”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (The Vinyl Factory) |
| Rick Parfitt | “Over and Out” (posthumous solo album from the Status Quo guitarist, who died Christmas Eve 2016; Parfitt’s son Rick Jr. helped finish the album, along with John “Rhino” Edwards, Alan Lancaster, Queen’s Brian May and Muse bassist Chris Wolstenholme; producer: Jo Webb; Amazon UK; Vinyl; CD, out April 6) | (earMUSIC) |
| Chris Stills (son of Stephen Stills) | “Don’t Be Afraid” (his first album in more than 10 years includes songs co-written with Ryan Adams and David Saw; first single: “The Weekend”; See here) | (Rive Gauche Music) |
| Uppermost (Parisian producer and electronic musician Behdad Nejatbakhshe) | “Perseverance” (new single: “Atoms”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Uppwind) |
| Neil Young + Promise of the Real | “Paradox (Original Music from the Film)” (Western film directed by Daryl Hannah debuts on Netflix on March 23; the cast includes Young, Willie Nelson and Nelson’s sons Lukas and Micah; Read here; Vinyl; CD, out April 20) | (Reprise) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Crowded House | “Crowded House (Deluxe Edition)” (1988 album; remastered, with 17 bonus tracks; eBay) | (Capitol / UMe) |
| Miles Davis & John Coltrane | “The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6” (four-disc set includes concerts recorded in Paris, Copenhagen and Stockholm; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download), “The Final Tour: Copenhagen, March 24, 1960 [Vinyl]” (Amazon UK; Amazon.ca)  | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Pat DiNizio (late frontman of The Smithereens) | “This Is Pat DiNizio (Expanded Edition)” (2006 album; two CDs, with 18 bonus tracks) | (Sunset Blvd.) |
| Grateful Dead | “The Best of the Grateful Dead Live – Volume I: 1969-1977” (Vinyl; Download; eBay; Merch) | (Grateful Dead Productions) |
| Led Zeppelin | “How the West Was Won” (2003 collection of June 1972 concerts at the Los Angeles Forum and Long Beach Arena; three CDs; remastered; Read here; Amazon UK; Vinyl Box Set; Blu-ray Audio; Super Deluxe Edition, three CDs, four LPs and one DVD; Download; eBay; Merch) | (Atlantic / Swan Song) |
| Wynton Marsalis Septet | “United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas” (featuring performances with Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, James Taylor, Lenny Kravitz, Jimmy Buffett, John Legend, John Mayer, etc.; Vinyl; Download) | (Blue Engine) |
| Michael Nesmith | “Magnetic South [Vinyl]” (1970 album, featuring “Joanne”; blue-colored vinyl), “Loose Salute [Vinyl]” (1970 album, featuring “Silver Moon”; red-colored vinyl), “Nevada Fighter [Vinyl]” (1971 album; gold-colored vinyl) | (Sundazed Music) |
| Procol Harum | “Still There’ll Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017” (eight-disc box set contains five CDs and three DVDs, featuring their hits and others throughout their 50-year career, plus previously unreleased concerts at the Hollywood Bowl with the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra in September 1973 and Bournemouth Winter Gardens in March 1976; the DVDs include BBC and German TV appearances from 1967-1977, etc.; Read here; Amazon UK; eBay; Merch) | (Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red) |
| Steve Roach | “Dreamtime Return (30th Anniversary Remastered Edition)” (1988 album; with five bonus tracks; Hear here; Download) | (Projekt) |
| Various artists | “The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose: American Primitive Guitar & Banjo 1963-1974” (17-song compilation from the Takoma and Vanguard vaults, featuring John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho, Harry Taussig, etc.; coincides with the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose festival, April 13-15, in Takoma Park, Md., celebrating the 60th anniversary of John Fahey’s first recordings; See here; Vinyl) | (Craft Recordings) |
| Tom Waits | “Closing Time” (1973 album, featuring “Ol’ 55”; remastered), “The Heart of Saturday Night” (1974 album; remastered; Vinyl), “Nighthawks at the Diner” (1975 album; remastered), “Small Change” (1976 album; remastered), “Foreign Affairs” (1977 album; remastered), “Blue Valentine” (1978 album; remastered), “Heartattack and Vine” (1980 album; remastered; eBay) | (ANTI- / Epitaph) |
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