New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The Adventures | “Once More With Feeling” (Belfast band’s first album in more than 30 years, featuring original members Pat Gribben, Terry Sharpe and Eileen Gribben; includes a songwriting collaboration between Gribben and Cathy Dennis; Read here; Amazon UK)   | Cherry Red |
| Don Airey | “Pushed to the Edge” (Deep Purple keyboardist’s seventh solo album; new single: “Tell Me”; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | earMUSIC |
| Arch Enemy | “Blood Dynasty” (their 12th studio album; producer: Jens Bogren; new single: “Liars & Thieves”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Century Media |
| Joe Armon-Jones | “All the Quiet (Part I)” (Ezra Collective keyboardist’s first solo LP in six years; Part II is out June 13; producer: Armon-Jones; guests: Greentea Peng, Wu-Lu, Yazmin Lacey, Hak Baker, Nubya Garcia, Oscar Jerome, et al; new single: “Kingfisher”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Aquarii Records |
| The Blue Stones | “Metro” (Nashville-based Canadian rock duo’s fourth album; 16 songs; new single: “Come Apart”; See here; Red Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | New Weapon / Thirty Tigers |
| Butcher Brown | “Letters From the Atlantic” (guests: Yaya Bey, Melanie Charles, Leanor Wolf, Mia Gladstone, Victoria Victoria, Nicholas Payton, Neal Francis; new single: “Ibiza”; See here; Read here; Translucent Sea Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Concord Jazz |
| Butler, Blake & Grant | “Butler, Blake & Grant” (debut album from Suede co-founder Bernard Butler, Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake and Love and Money’s James Grant; new single: “Bring an End”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | 355 Recordings |
| Ricky Byrd | “NYC Made” (solo album from former Joan Jett and the Blackhearts guitarist; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) | Wicked Cool |
| Peter Capaldi | “Sweet Illusions” (former “Doctor Who” star’s second album; producer: Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys; new single: “Bin Night”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Last Night From Glasgow |
| Chase Atlantic | “LOST IN HEAVEN” (Australian R&B/rock trio’s fourth album; producers: Chase Atlantic, Christian Anthony, Clinton Cave, Mitchel Cave, Tricky Stewart; new single: “DOUBT IT”; See here; Violet Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Nov. 1; Apple Music; On Tour) | Fearless / Concord |
| CocoRosie | “Little Death Wishes” (sister duo’s eighth album; new single: “Yesterday”; Hear here; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Joyful Noise Recordings |
| Lucy Dacus | “Forever Is a Feeling” (her fourth solo album; guests: Hozier, Madison Cunningham, as well as Dacus’ boygenius bandmates Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker; new singles: “Ankles” and “Limerence”; See here; Read here; Clear Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Greek Marble Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Geffen |
| The Darkness | “Dreams on Toast” (British rock band’s eighth album; producer: guitarist Dan Hawkins; new single: “The Longest Kiss”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; On Tour) | Cooking Vinyl |
| Maya Delilah | “The Long Way Round” (London-based singer-songwriter and guitarist’s debut album; producers: Peter Miles, Josh Grant, Doug Schadt, Seth Tackaberry, Ben Fletcher, Tom Higham; new single: “Maya Maya Maya”; Hear here; Transparent Pumpkin Spice Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Blue Note |
| Destroyer | “Dan’s Boogie” (Vancouver indie rock band’s 14th album; new single: “Bologna”; See here; Vinyl; Black Swirl/Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Merge |
| Envy of None | “Stygian Wavz” (sophomore album from supergroup led by Alex Lifeson; new single: “Stygian Waves”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Kscope |
| Kyle Falconer | “The One I Love the Most” (third solo album from the lead singer of The View; new single: “Grace”; Hear here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Chick Yellow Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Feb. 7) | La Sierra Recording |
| Bryan Ferry | “Loose Talk” (his 17th solo album and first since 2018; a collaboration with performance artist Amelia Barratt; new single: “Orchestra”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Dene Jesmond Records |
| IST IST | “ON FIRE” (10 tracks recorded live at 10 different shows across the U.K. and Europe in October and November 2024; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Kind Violence |
| Pug Johnson | “El Cabron” (Texas-based country artist’s second album; new single: “El Cabron”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Break Maiden Records / Thirty Tigers |
| Alison Krauss & Union Station | “Arcadia” (their first album since 2011; new member: Russell Moore on guitar, mandolin and co-lead vocals; producers: Krauss, Union Station, Gary Paczosa; new single: “Looks Like the End of the Road”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Translucent Violet Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Down the Road |
| Janiva Magness | “Back For Me” (seven-time Blues Music Award winner’s 17th album; producer: Dave Darling; guests: Joe Bonamassa, Sue Foley, Jesse Dayton; new single: “Holes”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Blue Élan |
| Branford Marsalis Quartet | “Belonging” (a full album reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett’s 1974 ECM album of the same name; his first new release since 2019 with bandmates pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner; new single: “Spiral Dance”; Hear here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour) | Blue Note |
| Memphis May Fire | “Shapeshifter” (Texas metalcore band’s eighth album; producer: guitarist Kellen McGregor; new single: “Chaotic”; See here; Black/Grey Quad/Splatter Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Rise |
| Mumford & Sons | “RUSHMERE” (their fifth album and first in seven years; producer: Dave Cobb; new single: “Rushmere”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Clear Smoke Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Bloodshot Red Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Translucent Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) | Glassnote |
| NAV | “OMW2 REXDALE” (new single: “Real Me,” feat. Metro Boomin; See here; Download; Apple Music) | XO / Republic |
| Palmyra | “Restless” (Virginia-based indie folk/rock trio’s debut album; new single: “Palm Readers”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Oh Boy |
| Perfume Genius | “Glory” (recorded with guitarists Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann, drummers Tim Carr and Jim Keltner, and bassist Pat Kelly; producer: Blake Mills; new single: “Clean Heart”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Matador |
| Cat Ridgeway | “Sprinter” (producer: Mike Savino; new single: “Sprinter”; See/Read here; Download; Apple Music) | Cat Ridgeway Music / The Orchard |
| Bria Salmena | “Big Dog” (debut solo album from FRIGS vocalist and Orville Peck backing musician; producer: Duncan Hay Jennings; guest: Lee Ranaldo; new single: “Stretch the Struggle”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Sub Pop |
| Sandwell District | “End Beginnings” (Birmingham, UK techno group’s first album since 2010; now a duo following the January 2024 death of third member Juan Mendez, aka Silent Servant; new single: “Hidden”; See here; Double Vinyl; Transparent Blue Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | The Point of Departure Recording Company / [PIAS] |
| Somebody’s Child | “When Youth Fades Away” (Dublin indie rock band’s second album; producer: Peter Katis; new single: “Time of My Life”; See here; White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Frenchkiss |
| SPELLLING | “Portrait of My Heart” (Chrystia Cabra’s fourth album; new single: “Portrait of My Heart”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sacred Bones |
| The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble | “Gemini” (San Diego jazz/funk collective’s sixth album; recorded and mixed by keyboardist Tim Felten; new single: “Las Olas”; Vinyl; Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Colemine |
| Matt Tecu + Fernando Perdomo | “Getting Warmer” (their second collaborative album; guests: Rami Jaffee, Cheyenne Crowe; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Think Like a Key Music |
| Underoath | “The Place After This One” (Tampa hardcore/punk band’s 10th album; producers: Danen Reed Rector, Matt Huber; guest: Troy Sanders of Mastodon; new single: “All the Love Is Gone”; See here; Translucent Ruby Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | MNRK Heavy |
| Dean Wareham | “That’s the Price of Loving Me” (Galaxie 500 co-founder’s fourth solo album; it’s his first collaboration with Galaxie 500 producer Mark Kramer in 34 years; new single: “Yesterday’s Hero”; See here; Read here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Carpark |
| W.E.T. | “Apex” (fifth album from rock group led by Jeff Scott Soto; new single: “Where Are the Heroes Now”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Frontiers Music s.r.l. |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Sam Akpro | “Evenfall” (South London musician’s debut album; new single: “Evenfall”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | ANTI- / Epitaph |
| Aya | “hexed!” (London-based DJ and producer’s sophomore album; new single: “Off to the Esso”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Hyperdub |
| Hannah Cohen | “Earthstar Mountain” (Catskills-based singer-songwriter’s fourth album; producer: Sam Evian; guests: Sufjan Stevens, Clairo, Sean Mullins, Oliver Hill, Liam Kazar; new single: “Dusty”; See here; Read here; Translucent Yellow Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Congrats Records / Bella Union |
| Deafheaven | “Lonely People With Power” (San Francisco metal band’s sixth album; producer: Justin Meldal-Johnsen; guests: Paul Banks of Interpol, Jae Matthews of Boy Harsher; new single: “Magnolia”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Roadrunner |
| Michael Franti & Spearhead | “Welcome to the Family” (new single: “Be Who You Are”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Boo Boo Wax / Thirty Tigers |
| Free Range | “Lost & Found” (second album from Chicago-based musician Sofia Jensen; producer: Tommy Read; new single: “Hardly”; See here; Apple Music) | Mick Music |
| Frenchie | “Frenchie” (Franco-English artist’s debut album; producer: Femi Temowo; new single: “Love Reservoir”; See here; Apple Music) | Frenchie |
| girlpuppy | “Sweetness” (Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Becca Harvey’s sophomore album; producer: Alex Farrar; new single: “I Just Do!”; See here; Pink Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Captured Tracks |
| Great Grandpa | “Patience, Moonbeam” (Seattle indie-rock quintet’s third album and first since 2019; producer: guitarist Dylan Hanwright; new single: “Junior”; See here; Read here; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Run For Cover |
| grentperez | “Backflips in a Restaurant” (Australian singer-songwriter’s fourth full-length album; guests: Benny Sings, Ruel; CD and Vinyl out April 18; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Fast Friends / AWAL Recordings |
| Half Gringa | “Cosmovisión” (Chicago-based singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Isabel Olive’s third album; producer: Brian Deck; new single: “What’s the Word”; Hear here) | Teleférico Records |
| Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo | “Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1)” (duo covers 11 songs by American songwriter Jackson C. Frank, who died on March 3, 1999, and whose sole album was produced by Paul Simon; new single: “Golden Mirror”; See here; Apple Music) | Mute |
| Lil Durk | “Deep Thoughts” (new single: “Monitoring Me”; See here; Apple Music) | Alamo Records / Sony Music Entertainment |
| Masters of Reality | “The Archer” (their first seventh album and first in 16 years; producer: singer-guitarist Chris Goss; CD and Solid Gold Vinyl out April 11; new single: “Mr Tap N’ Go”; Read here) | Artone Label Group / Mascot Records |
| The Nixons | “Four Zero Five” (five-song EP includes a cover of The Who’s “The Seeker”; new single: “Dreams Of”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Pavement Music |
| Red Rocks Worship | “The King Is Coming (Live)” (new single: “The King Is Coming”; See here; Apple Music) | Provident Label Group |
| Emily Saunders | “Moon Shifts Oceans” (U.K. jazz vocalist-composer’s third album; producer: Saunders; new single: “Sideways”; See here; Amazon UK) | The Mix Sounds |
| Jason Scott & The High Heat | “American Grin” (Americana-country rockers’ second album; producer: Taylor Johnson; new single: “Golden”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Leo33 |
| Shurr Jr. | “Red Shelter” (Sioux Falls, SD-based sibling indie rock band’s six-song debut EP; new single: “Ink”; See here; Apple Music) | Max Trax |
| Suso Stringband | “Susto Stringband: Volume One” (collaboration between SUSTO frontman Justin Osborne and the Asheville, NC-based bluegrass group Holler Choir; new single: “Friends, Lovers, Ex-Lovers: Whatever”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | New West |
| Tigercub | “The Perfume of Decay (Redux)” (British alt-rock trio reimagines their 2023 album with new arrangements and instrumentation; new single: “You’re My Dopamine”; See here; Blue Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Loosegroove |
| Wallows | “More” (L.A. alt-rock trio’s seven-song EP; new single: “Coffin Change”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Atlantic |
| Yukimi | “For You” (Little Dragon vocalist’s debut solo album; guests: Pos of De La Soul, Lianne La Havas, Yukimi’s father Yusuke Nagano; new singles: “Sad Makeup” and “Winter Is Not Dead”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Ninja Tune |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Athlete | “Tourist (20th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 2005 album, nominated for Mercury Prize, featuring “Wires” and “Half Light”; newly remastered by Phil Kinrade, with B-sides and rarities, housed in 24-page hardback book; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Chrysalis |
| The Crusaders | “The 2nd Crusade” (1973 album; Amazon UK) | Music on CD |
| Fleetwood Mac | “Fleetwood Mac 1975 to 1987” (five-CD box set contains “Fleetwood Mac,” “Rumours,” “Tusk,” “Mirage,” and “Tango in the Night”; Vinyl, six-LP box set; Amazon UK; Download; Merch) | Rhino / Warner |
| Ariana Grande | “eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead” (2024 album; with nine bonus tracks, including six new songs; Read here; Translucent Marble Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Republic |
| Helloween | “March of Time (The Best of 40 Years)” (three CDs, 42 songs; Vinyl, five red LP box set; Amazon UK; Download) | BMG Rights Management |
| Robert Hunter | “Tiger Rose (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1975 album, produced by Jerry Garcia; remastered, with nine previously unreleased alternate versions of album tracks; Hear here; Vinyl, remastered from the original analog tapes by Grammy Award-winning engineer David Glasser using Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction; Download; Apple Music) | Rhino |
| Iron City Houserockers | “Blood on the Bricks (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1981 album, produced by Steve Cropper; remastered, with 11 previously unreleased bonus tracks; Amazon UK; Download) | Omnivore Recordings |
| The Jackson 5 | “Dancing Machine & Moving Violation” (1974 and 1975 albums on one CD, featuring “Dancing Machine,” “I Am Love” and “Forever Came Today”; Amazon UK) | Music on CD |
| Jimmy Jones | “Good Timin’: The Singles Collection 1956-62” (31 tracks on one CD, featuring “Handy Man” and “Good Timin’,” plus A- and B-sides on the Savoy, Rama, Epic and Cub labels; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) | Acrobat |
| Labelle | “Moon Shadow” (1972 album; Amazon UK) | Music on CD |
| Iry LeJeune | “Viens Me Chercher” (translated: “Come and Get Me”; two-CD collection of previously unheard master tapes, unreleased alternate takes, and a rare radio performance from the Cajun button accordion great, who was struck and killed by a car in 1955 at age 26; Opaque Sky Blue and Opaque Red Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Yep Roc |
| Quireboys | “Hey You! The Parlophone Years 1989-1993” (four-CD clamshell box set contains two complete albums, along with rare B-sides, demos and live tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Lemon / Cherry Red |
| Santana | “Sentient” (11-track retrospective, compiled by the guitar legend; remastered and sequenced in a way to tell a dramatic story; guests: Smokey Robinson, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, the late Miles Davis and Michael Jackson, Paolo Rustichelli, Cindy Blackman Santana; new single: “Please Don’t Take Your Love”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Frosted Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Candid |
| Pete Townshend | “The Studio Albums” (eight-CD box set; newly remastered by Jon Astley; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Amazon DE; Amazon ES) | Universal |
| Meghan Trainor | “Title (10th Anniversary Edition)” (2015 debut album, featuring “All About That Bass,” “Lips Are Movin,” “Dear Future Husband” and “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”; contains two bonus cuts and six tracks from “Live from Spotify London”; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Epic / Legacy |
| The Trumpeteers | “The Golden Decade: The Singles & Albums Collection 1948-1959” (two CDs, 53 songs; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) | Acrobat |
| Van Halen | “Live in Dallas 1991” (previously unreleased concert from their For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge Tour; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Merch) | Rhino / Warner |
| Various artists | “Hit & Run! More Motown Guys” (25 rare and unreleased recordings from Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Four Tops, The Contours, Jimmy Ruffin, et al; Hear/Read here; Amazon UK) | Kent / Ace |
| Various artists | “NOW Presents … Clubland” (four CDs, 54 remixes; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Various artists | “NOW Yearbook ’98 Extra” (three CDs, 60 songs; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Various artists | “Time! Gentlemen! Pub Rock Rhythm ‘N’ Grooves – Classic Cuts and Rarities 1974-1982” (three CDs, 72 tracks, featuring Elvis Costello, Dave Edmunds, Frankie Miller, Rory Gallagher, The Stranglers, Dr. Feelgood, et al; Read here; Amazon UK) | Strawberry / Cherry Red |
| Various artists | “Paul Weller Presents That Sweet, Sweet Music” (26-track curated collection of his favorite soul records; Hear/Read here; Double Vinyl; Double Yolk Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Ace |
| Dinah Washington | “Hits and Classics: The Singles Collection 1944-62” (four-CD, 108-song set, featuring singles on the Keynote, Decca, Apollo and Mercury labels; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) | Acrobat |
| The Charlie Watts Orchestra | “Live at Fulham Town Hall” (1986 performance; remastered, with 12-page booklet; Download) | BMG Rights Management |
| Wishbone Ash | “Wishbone Ash – At The BBC 1970-1988” (11-CD, one-DVD box set, with 72-page hardback book; Read here; Amazon UK) | Madfish Music |
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