New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Alexandre Desplat, various artists | “Isle of Dogs (Original Soundtrack)” (Wes Anderson’s stop-motion film opened March 23; See here; Vinyl; Download; In Theaters; Merch)  | (ABKCO) |
| Amen Dunes (indie psych-folk band project led by Damon McMahon) | “Freedom” (new single: “Believe”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Sacred Bones) |
| Anna & Elizabeth (avant-garde folk duo) | “The Invisible Comes To Us” (first single: “Mother in the Graveyard”; Hear here; NPR’s All Songs Considered; Vinyl; Download) | (Smithsonian Folkways) |
| Mary Chapin Carpenter | “Sometimes Just the Sky” (producer: Ethan Johns; recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios; first single: a reworking of her 1989 track “Heroes and Heroines”; Hear/read here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour)  | (Lambent Light) |
| Chris Carter | “Chris Carter’s Chemistry Lessons Volume One” (Throbbing Gristle founding member’s first solo album in 17 years; first single: “Blissters”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) | (Mute) |
| DADDY (Will Kimbrough & Tommy Womack) | “Let’s Do This” (Hear here) | (Soundly Music) |
| Ramin Djawadi, various artists | “A Wrinkle in Time (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Madeleine L’Engle; Download; In Theaters; Merch) | (Walt Disney) |
| Escape the Fate | “I Am Human” (first single: “Empire”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Eleven Seven Music) |
| Frankie Cosmos (NYC indie-pop quartet) | “Vessel” (producer: Hunter Davidsohn; new single: “Apathy”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Sub Pop) |
| The Garden | “Mirror Might Steal Your Charm” (first single: “No Destination”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Epitaph) |
| Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite | “No Mercy In This Land” (first single: “No Mercy In This Land”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with three bonus live tracks; iTunes) | (ANTI- / Epitaph) |
| Holy Wave | “Adult Fear” (first single: “Adult Fear”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Reverberation Appreciation Society) |
| Jukebox the Ghost | “Off to the Races” (first single: “Everybody’s Lonely”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Jukebox the Ghost, LLC / Caroline) |
| KIDZ BOP Kids | “KIDZ BOP Summer ’18” (22 songs) | (KIDZ BOP) |
| Hayley Kiyoko (singer-actress) | “Expectations” (new single: “Curious”; Hear here; Read here; Download; iTunes; Filmography) | (EMPIRE / Atlantic) |
| Ruth Koleva (Bulgarian singer-songwriter) | “Confidence. Truth” (featuring the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra; producer: Gueorgiu Linev; new single: “Didn’t I”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes) | (Fat Beats / Flat Live Collective) |
| Bettye LaVette | “Things Have Changed” (covers of Bob Dylan songs; producer: Steve Jordan; guests: Keith Richards, Trombone Shorty; first single: “Things Have Changed”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Verve) |
| Light the Torch (L.A. trio formerly known as Devil You Know) | “Revival” (first single: “Die Alone”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| The Lonely Biscuits (Nashville indie-rock trio) | “The Universe in You” (first single: “Blue Glass”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Soundly Music) |
| The Manhattan Transfer | “The Junction” (first single: “Cantaloop [Flip Out!]”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Ashley McBryde | “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” (producer: Jay Joyce; first single: “A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega”; Hear here; Vinyl; On Tour) | (Atlantic / Warner Nashville) |
| The Motels | “The Last Few Beautiful Days” (their first album in 10 years; iTunes; eBay) | (Sunset Blvd.) |
| Kacey Musgraves | “Golden Hour” (Musgraves co-wrote and co-produced her fourth album with Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (MCA Nashville) |
| Naked Giants (Seattle trio) | “SLUFF” (producer: Steve Fisk; first single: “TV”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; On Tour) | (New West) |
| Octopus | “Supernatural Alliance” (first single: “Supernatural Alliance”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) | (Rise Above) |
| Orquesta Akokán (Cuban big-band collective led by vocalist José Pepito Gómez) | “Orquesta Akokán” (producer: Jacob Plasse; first single: “Mambo Rapidito”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Daptone) |
| Lindi Ortega | “Liberty” (a three-part concept album reflecting loss, seance, resurrection and freedom; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Shadowbox Music) |
| Kim Richey | “Edgeland” (guests: Chuck Prophet, Pat McLaughlin, Mando Saenz; first single: “The Get Together”; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | (Yep Roc) |
| The Shacks (young NYC band) | “Haze” (producers: guitarist Max Shrager, Big Crown co-founder Leon Michels; first single: “Follow Me”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Big Crown) |
| Red Shahan (West Texas troubadour) | “Culberson County” (producer: Elijah Ford; new single: “Revolution”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (7013 / Thirty Tigers) |
| The Vaccines | “Combat Sports” (producer: Ross Orton; new single: “I Can’t Quit”; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Columbia) |
| The Voidz (Julian Casablancas’ band) | “Virtue” (new single: “Leave It in My Dreams”; Hear here; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (RCA) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Andre Akinyele | “Telegram Mews” (producer: Akinyele; guests: EFFIIGY, Jon O’Bergh; first single: “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker”; Hear here) | (Orange River) |
| Caitlin Canty (Nashville-based singer-songwriter) | “Motel Bouquet” (producer: Noam Pikelny; guests: Aoife O’Donovan, Stuart Duncan; first single: “Take Me for a Ride”; Hear/read here; On Tour) | (Tone Tree Music) |
| Delroy Edwards (L.A. retro-synth producer) | “Rio Grande” (first single: “When I Think”; Hear here; iTunes) | (L.A. Club Resource) |
| Jean Grae & Quelle Chris (hip-hop couple) | “Everything’s Fine” (guests: Michael Che, Nick Offerman, Ashok “Dap” Kondabolu, Denmark Vessey, Anna Wise, Your Old Droog, Big Tone; first single: “OhSh,” feat. Hannibal Buress; Hear here; NPR First Listen; CD, out April 27; iTunes) | (Mello Music Group) |
| Great Peacock (Nashville-based Americana quartet) | “Gran Pavo Real” (producer: Dexter Green; Hear here; On Tour) | (Ropeadope) |
| Her | “Her” (new single: “Neighborhood”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Republic) |
| Leah James (daughter of former Eagles member Don Felder) | “While She Sleeps” (producer: James; new single: “Wildfire”; Hear here) | (Leah James) |
| Lowlight (N.J. synth-pop quintet) | “Born to Run” (four-song EP; new single: “Nights & Weekends”; Hear/read here; On Tour, with The Pretenders) | (BNS Sessions) |
| OKLO (U.K. electronic band) | “International Waters” (five-song EP; producer: Tom Carmichael; first single: “I Climatize”; Hear here) | (GODEATGOD, April 3) |
| Eva Salina & Peter Stan | “Sudbina” (a tribute to Serbian Roma singer Vida Pavlović; iTunes; On Tour) | (Vogiton) |
| Sampson | “Dark Sky Nights” (producers: the Balconies; new single: “Damned”; Hear here; iTunes) | (CCS Rights Management) |
| SOOMA (Swiss rock trio) | “SOOMA” (first single: “Karoshi”; See here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Ambulance Recordings) |
| Trace Mountains (Brooklyn musician Dave Benton of LVL UP) | “A Partner To Lean On” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (Figure 2 RC) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Eric Andersen | “The Essential Eric Andersen” (two CDs, 33 songs; remastered by Mark Wilder at Battery Studios in New York; eBay) | (Real Gone Music) |
| BTS | “Face Yourself” (Japanese versions of all their singles, with two new songs; See here; Merch) | (BigHit Entertainment) |
| The Cars | “Shake It Up (Expanded Edition)” (1981 album; remastered, with eight bonus demos, remixes and studio outtakes; Vinyl; Download), “Heartbeat City (Expanded Edition)” (1984 album; remastered, with seven bonus demos, remixes and studio outtakes; Vinyl; Download) | (Elektra / Rhino) |
| The Damnation of Adam Blessing (1960s proto-metal/psych band from Cleveland) | “The Damnation of Adam Blessing [Vinyl]” (1968 album; Hear here), “The Second Damnation [Vinyl]” (1970 album; both releases, on vinyl for the first time since 1969-70, were remastered from the original master tapes by Eliot Kissileff; Hear here; Read here) | (Exit Stencil Recordings) |
| The Lawrence Arms | “We Are the Champions of the World” (29-song best-of, handpicked by the band; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Fat Wreck Chords) |
| Bette Midler | “Live at Last” (1977 album, recorded at the Cleveland Music Hall during her 1976 Depression Tour; remastered; eBay; Merch; Filmography) | (Friday Music) |
| Geoff & Maria Muldaur | “Pottery Pie” (1968 album; remastered), “Sweet Potatoes” (1972 album; remastered) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
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