New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Acid Dad (NYC trio) | “Acid Dad” (first single: “2Ci”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour)  | (Greenway) |
| ACTORS (Vancouver-based post-punk group) | “It Will Come to You” (Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Artoffacts) |
| Between the Buried and Me | “Automata I” (two-part concept album; “Automata II” expected in summer 2018; Read here; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Sumerian) |
| Alexandra Burke (U.K. season 5 winner of “The X Factor” and daughter of the late Soul II Soul singer Melissa Bell) | “The Truth Is” (Amazon UK) | (Decca) |
| David Byrne | “American Utopia” (his first solo album in 14 years; producers: Brian Eno, Rodaidh McDonald, Daniel Lopatin, Jack Pinate, Jam City, Thomas Bartlett; first single: “Everybody’s Coming To My House”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Todomundo / Nonesuch) |
| Tania Chen (U.K.-based pianist) | “John Cage: Electronic Music for Piano” (modern interpretation of Cage’s 1964 composition, guests: Thurston Moore, David Toop and Jon Leidecker; Hear here; Download; iTunes) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| Eric Chenaux | “Slowly Paradise” (producers: Chenaux, Cyril Harrison, Constellation; first single: “Wild Moon”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Constellation) |
| Editors | “Violence” (producers: Leo Abrahams, Editors; new single: “Magazine”; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Play It Again Sam) |
| Embrace | “Love Is a Basic Need” (producer: Richard McNamara; first single: “The Finish Line”; Hear here; Download; On Tour) | (Cooking Vinyl) |
| Erasure | “World Beyond” (their 2017 album, “World Be Gone,” is given a post-classical rework in a collaboration with Echo Collective, a Brussels-based group of post-classical musicians; See here; Vinyl; On Tour) | (Mute) |
| The Fratellis | “In Your Own Sweet Time” (first single: “The Next Time We Wed”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Cooking Vinyl) |
| Albert Hammond Jr. (of The Strokes) | “Francis Trouble” (first single: “Muted Beatings”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Red Bull) |
| Haley Heynderickx | “I Need to Start a Garden” (new single: “Untitled God Song”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Tiger’s Eye LP; Download) | (Mama Bird Recording Co.) |
| Judas Priest | “Firepower” (producer: Tom Allom; first single: “Lightning Strike”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch)  | (Epic) |
| Myles Kennedy | “Year of the Tiger” (the Alter Bridge frontman’s debut solo album; producer: Michael “Elvis” Baskette; See here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes) | (Napalm) |
| Levellers | “We the Collective” (new acoustic arrangements of eight previous singles, with two new songs, to celebrate their 30th anniversary; producer: John Leckie; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (On The Fiddle Recordings) |
| Liza Anne (Nashville-based singer-songwriter Liza Anne Odachowski) | “Fine But Dying” (producer: Zachary Dyke; new single: “Paranoia”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Arts & Crafts) |
| Brad Mehldau | “After Bach” (four preludes and one fugue from J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, each followed by an “After Bach” piece written by Mehldau; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Nonesuch) |
| Ministry | “AmeriKKKant” (producer: frontman Al Jourgensen; guests: DJ Swamp, Burton C. Bell, Arabian Prince, Lord of the Cello; first single: “Antifa”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| The Nick Moss Band featuring Dennis Gruenling (nominated for two Blues Music Awards this year) | “The High Cost of Low Living” (producers: guitarist Kid Andersen, Moss; Hear here) | (Alligator) |
| Nap Eyes (indie rock band from Halifax, Nova Scotia) | “I’m Bad Now” (new single: “Dull Me Line”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Paradise of Bachelors) |
| The Neighbourhood | “The Neighbourhood” (new single: “Void”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) | (Columbia) |
| of Montreal | “White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood” (first single: “Paranoiac Intervals/Body Dysmorphia”; Hear here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Polyvinyl) |
| Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | “Tearing at the Seams” (producer: Richard Swift; first single: “You Worry Me”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Vinyl Deluxe Edition; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with two extra tracks; iTunes; On Tour) | (Stax) |
| Calum Scott (semi-finalist on the ninth series of “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2015) | “Only Human” (producers: John McIntyre, Jayson DeZuzio, Phil Paul, Warren “Oak” Felder, OzGo; new single: “You Are the Reason”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Capitol) |
| The Skull Eclipses (Lushlife + Botany, aka Austin producer Spencer Stephenson and Philly emcee Raj Haldar) | “The Skull Eclipses” (guests: Open Mike Eagle, Def Rain, Baba Maraire, Felicia Douglass, Lojii, Laraaji; new single: “Gone”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Western Vinyl) |
| Suicidal Tendencies | “GET YOUR FIGHT ON” (first single: “Nothing to Lose”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Suicidal) |
| Svartanatt | “Starry Eagle Eye” (producer: Emil Drougge; Hear here; See here; Vinyl) | (The Sign) |
| Three Days Grace | “Starry Eagle Eye” (producers: Gavin Brown, Howard Benson; mixed by Mike Plotnikoff and Chris Lord-Alge; first single: “The Mountain”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (RCA) |
| Turbowolf (U.K. alt-rock band) | “The Free Life” (producers: Turbowolf; first single: “The Free Life”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (So Recordings / Silva Screen) |
| Victor Wainwright and The Train | “Victor Wainwright and The Train” (On Tour) | (Ruf) |
| Young Fathers (U.K.-based, Mercury Prize-winning trio) | “Cocoa Sugar” (new single: “Toy”; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Ninja Tune) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| August Greene (Common, Robert Glasper and Karriem Riggins) | “August Greene” (Amazon Original album; first single: a cover of The Sounds of Blackness’ “Optimistic,” feat. Brandy; Hear here; NPR First Listen) | (August Greene) |
| Charlie Barnes (singer-songwriter and touring member of Bastille) | “Oceanography” (first single: “All I Have”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Superball Music) |
| Ross Cooper | “I Rode the Wild Horses” (producer: Eric Masse; Hear here; On Tour) | (Ross Cooper) |
| Datarock | “Face the Brutality” (first single: “Ruffle Shuffle”; See here; iTunes) | (YAP) |
| Ricky Hell & The Voidboys (Cleveland gutter-pop trio) | “Ricky Hell & The Voidboys” (new single: “The Valium”; Hear here; See here; iTunes) | (Quality Time / Greenway / Dirty Water) |
| The Mallett Brothers Band (Maine-based southern-infused rockers) | “Vive L’Acadie” (Hear here) | (The Mallett Brothers Band) |
| Jake Miller | “Silver Lining” (guest: Jabbar Hakeem; first single: “That Girl That’s Underneath”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Jake Miller Music Inc. / EMPIRE) |
| PJ Morton (erstwhile Maroon 5 keyboardist and Solange’s musical director) | “Gumbo Unplugged” (recorded with a 22-piece backing band at NYC’s Power Station Studio; guests: BJ The Chicago Kid, Anthony Hamilton, Matt Jones Orchestra, The Hamiltones, Lecrae, Keyon Harold; Hear here; iTunes) | (Morton) |
| Brett Naucke (Chicago-based experimental producer) | “The Mansion” (Hear here; NPR First Listen; Vinyl) | (Spectrum Spools) |
| Port Cities (Canadian band) | “Port Cities” (first single: “Back to the Bottom”; Hear here; On Tour) | (turtlemusik) |
| Scenic Route to Alaska (Edmonton prairie indie rock trio) | “Tough Luck” (producer: Howard Redekopp; first single: “How It Feels”; Hear here; On Tour) | (popTrip) |
| Ruben Studdard | “Ruben Sings Luther” (10-song tribute to Luther Vandross; Hear here; On Tour) | (Seg Music) |
| Tax the Heat | “Change Your Position” (first single: “Money in the Bank”; Hear here; CD, out March 16; Vinyl; iTunes) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| Various artists | “Walk Like a Panther (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (British wrestling comedy opens in the U.K. on March 9; See here) | (Sony Classical) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Nat Adderley | “The Classic Albums Collection 1955-1962” (eight original albums on four CDs; eBay) | (Enlightenment) |
| Bad Religion | “Stranger Than Fiction” (1994 album; remastered; See here; Vinyl; Grey Vinyl; Download; Digital Deluxe Edition, with three bonus tracks) | (ANTI- / Epitaph) |
| Leonard Bernstein | “Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon & Decca” (100th anniversary box set contains 121 CDs, 36 DVDs of his Unitel live recordings, one Blu-ray audio disc and a 200-page book; eBay) | (Deutsche Grammophon) |
| Ken Boothe | “Freedom Street [Vinyl]” (1970 album; remastered; limited grey “asphalt” vinyl edition) | (Real Gone Music) |
| Eva Cassidy | “Songbird (20th Anniversary Edition)” (1998 compilation; remastered, with four bonus acoustic tracks; Hear here; eBay) | (Blix Street) |
| Digable Planets | “Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (25th Anniversary Edition) [Vinyl]” (1993 album, featuring the Grammy-winning “Rebirth of Slick [Cool Like Dat]”; unavailable on vinyl since shortly after its release) | (Modern Classics) |
| Matthew Fisher (founding member of Procol Harum) | “Matthew Fisher / Strange Days” (1980 and 1981 albums on one CD; remastered; Amazon.ca; Amazon UK) | (Angel Air) |
| Dizzy Gillespie | “The Classic Verve Collection 1957-1961” (eight original albums on four CDs; eBay) | (Enlightenment) |
| Jimi Hendrix | “Both Sides of the Sky” (10 of the 13 songs, circa 1968 and 1970, are previously unreleased; NPR First Listen; Read here; Amazon.ca; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; eBay; Merch) | (Experience Hendrix / Legacy) |
| Marillion | “Brave (Deluxe Edition)” (1994 album; four-CD, one-Blu-ray Audio box set / 2018 Steven Wilson Remix; See here; Vinyl; Download; eBay) | (Rhino / Parlophone) |
| Nightwish | “Decades” (two-CD, 22-song compilation; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| Leo Sayer | “Endless Flight” (1976 album, featuring “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing,” “When I Need You” and “How Much Love”; remastered from the original Warner tapes; eBay) | (Friday Music) |
| Uncle Walt’s Band | “Anthology: Those Boys From Carolina, They Sure Could Sing …” (21-song compilation includes five previously unreleased tracks; Read here; Download; iTunes) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| Various artists | “The 1962 R&B Hits Collection” (four CDs, 103 songs; Track list) | (Acrobat) |
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