New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Akku Quintet (Swiss minimalist jazz ensemble) | “Depart” (Hear here; On Tour)  |
(7d Media) |
| Rich Aucoin | “Release” (new single: “The Mind”; See here; Vinyl) |
(Haven Sounds) |
| American Sharks | “11:11” (producers: American Sharks; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(The End) |
| Greg Antista and the Lonely Streets (Southern California rock group) | “Shake, Stomp and Stumble” (producer: Paul Miner; first single: “Goodnight Ramona”; On Tour) | (Primal Beat) |
| Black Oak Arkansas | “Underdog Heroes” (their first album of new material in more than 30 years; guests: Sammy B. Seauphine, the late Shawn Lane; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra) |
| Marty Brown | “American Highway” (producers: Jon Tiven, Brown; first single: “Umbrella Lovers”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(Plowboy) |
I am hoping everyone will travel down the American Highway with me on this album,” Marty Brown tells P&P. “It is my first one in two decades – love songs, blues songs with a twist, even one about a Winnebago.
| Lewis Capaldi (Scottish singer-songwriter) | “Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent” (new single: “Someone You Loved”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Vertigo Berlin) |
| The Cash Box Kings | “Hail to the Kings!” (Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Alligator) |
| DJ Khaled | “Father of Asahd” (guests: Beyoncé, Jay Z, Justin Bieber, John Legend, Cardi B, Nipsey Hussle, Buju Banton, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, Meek Mill, Nas, CeeLo Green, etc.; new single: “Higher”; See here; Download; iTunes) |
(We The Best / Epic) |
| Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big guitarist) | “Behold Electric Guitar” (producer: John Cuniberti; first single: “Havin’ It”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Music Theories Recordings / Mascot Label Group) |
| The Head and the Heart | “Living Mirage” (guitarist-vocalist Josiah Johnson has been replaced by Matt Gervais, husband of singer-violinist Charity Rose Thielen; producers: Tyler Johnson, Alex Salibian; new single: “Missed Connection”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Reprise) |
| The Heavy | “Sons” (first single: “Heavy for You”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(BMG Rights Management) |
| Imperial Wax (the surviving members of The Fall with frontman Sam Curran) | “Gastwerk Saboteurs” (producer: Mat Arnold; first single: “No Man’s Land”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Saustex) |
| Christone “Kingfish” Ingram (20-year-old blues prodigy) | “Kingfish” (guests: Buddy Guy, Keb’ Mo’, Billy Branch; NPR First Listen; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Vampire Weekend) | (Alligator) |
| Interpol | “A Fine Mess” (five-song EP; producer: Dave Fridmann; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Matador) |
| Carly Rae Jepsen | “Dedicated” (new singles: “No Drug Like Me” and “Now That I Found You”; See here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(School Boy / Interscope) |
| Nick Lowe | “Love Starvation / Trombone [Vinyl]” (EP, backed by Los Straitjackets; first single: “Love Starvation”; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Los Straitjackets) |
(Yep Roc) |
| Lucette (Canadian singer-songwriter Lauren Gillis) | “Deluxe Hotel Room” (producer: Sturgill Simpson; NPR First Listen; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Rock Creek Music / Thirty Tigers) |
| Maluma | “11:11” (guests: Madonna, Ricky Martin, Ty Dolla $ign, Ozuna, Nicky Jam, Zion & Lennox, Sech, Chencho Corleone, Farina; first single: “HP”; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Sony Music Latin) |
| Brad Mehldau | “Finding Gabriel” (guests: Ambrose Akinmusire, Sara Caswell, Kurt Elling, Joel Frahm, Mark Guiliana, Gabriel Kahane, Becca Stevens, etc.; first single: “The Garden”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Read here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(Nonesuch) |
| The National | “I Am Easy to Find” (producers: Mike Mills, The National; guests: Sharon Van Etten, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Lisa Hannigan, Gail Anne Dorsey, Mina Tindle, etc.; first single: “You Had Your Soul With You”; Hear here; Vinyl; Vinyl Deluxe Edition; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(4AD) |
| Rammstein | “RAMMSTEIN” (their first album since 2009; first single: “DEUTSCHLAND”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Vertigo / Capitol) |
| Small Town Therapy (Bay Area roots band) | “Dreams and Consequences” (producers: Small Town Therapy; guests: Lyndsay Pruett, John Mailander, Eli West and Eli Jodziewicz; first single: “Cimarrón”; Hear here; Download; iTunes) |
(Organic) |
We often combine through-composed bits with structured or free improvisation, and that’s definitely happening in this recording,” multi-instrumentalist Leif Karlstrom tells P&P. “There is a musical arc and story but also the chance for something unexpected to happen — a chance for spontaneous musical moments, which pretty well sums up what Small Town Therapy is about.
| Tyler, the Creator | “IGOR” (Hear here; Read here; On Tour; Merch) |
(Columbia) |
| Jimmie Vaughan | “Baby, Please Come Home” (his first solo album since 2011 features covers of T-Bone Walker, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Jimmy Reed, Lefty Frizzell, etc.; first single: “Be My Lovey Dovey”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(The Last Music Co.) |
| The Vocal Chords | “Puppy Love” (all-covers album; featuring The Cud Chewing Cows; Hear here) |
(Methane Music, May 23) |
| Jimmy Webb | “SlipCover” (first solo piano album and his first new album in five years; first single: a cover of Billy Joel’s “Lullabye [Goodnight, My Angel]”; See here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) |
(S-Curve) |
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| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| The Beaches (JUNO Award-winning rock band) | “The Professional” (five-song EP; producer: Jacknife Lee; new single: “Snake Tongue”; See here; iTunes; On Tour, with Passion Pit) |
(Island) |
| Biffy Clyro | “Balance, Not Symmetry (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (frontman Simon Neil co-wrote the film with director Jamie Adams; producers: Adam Noble, Biffy Clyro; first single: “Balance, Not Symmetry”; Hear here; iTunes; Merch) |
(14th Floor / Warner) |
| Injury Reserve (Arizona hip-hop trio) | “Injury Reserve” (new single: “Koruna & Lime”; See here; iTunes) |
(Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) |
| Austin Plaine (Nashville-based singer-songwriter) | “Stratford” (producer: Jay Foote; mixed by Steve Vealey at Electric Lady Studios; first single: “Something More”; See here; iTunes) |
(Blaster) |
| Maddie Poppe (season 16 winner of “American Idol”) | “Whirlwind” (new single: “First Aid Kit”; Hear here) |
(Hollywood / 19 Recordings) |
| Seba Kaapstad (neo-soul group) | “Thina” (See here; Vinyl; CD, out May 24; iTunes) |
(Mello Music Group) |
| Steel Pulse | “Mass Manipulation” (the reggae legends’ first album in 15 years; first single: “Cry Cry Blood”; Hear here; Read here; CD, out June 14; On Tour; Merch) |
(Wiseman Doctrine / Rootfire Cooperative) |
| The Woods (aka Johnny McFadzean) | “Night Silk Threads” (six-song EP; producer: McFadzean; Hear here; Read here; On Tour) | (The Woods) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| A Certain Ratio | “ACR:BOX” (four-CD box set of singles and B-sides, plus more than 20 unreleased tracks; remastered by Martin Moscrop at Abbey Road studios; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl, seven-LP colored box set; On Tour) |
(Mute) |
| Judy Collins | “The Elektra Albums, Volume 1 (1961-68)” (eight-CD box set; On Tour) |
(Edsel / Demon Music Group) |
| Stephen Duffy | “I Love My Friends” (1996 album, produced by XTC’s Andy Partridge; remastered, with a bonus disc of songs titled “Blown Away – Selected Demos Volume 1”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) |
(Needle Mythology) |
| Bobby Goldsboro | “With Pen in Hand: The Definitive Hits Collection” (two CDs, 50 songs) |
(Humphead) |
| Sonny James | “The Capitol Hits 1963-1972” (two CDs, 50 songs) |
(Humphead) |
| Elton John | “Diamonds” (expanded edition of the two-CD 2017 compilation, with 16 bonus tracks of personal favorites curated by Elton John himself; On Tour; Merch) |
(Island / UMe) |
| Kingdom Come | “Classic Album Collection” (three-CD set includes “Kingdom Come,” “In Your Face” and “Hands of Time”) |
(Polydor / UMe) |
| Ronnie Lane | “Just For a Moment (Music 1973-1997)” (six-CD box set focuses on his post-Faces/Small Faces solo career; Read here; Single CD; Vinyl; Download) |
(UMC) |
| Paul McCartney | “Egypt Station: Explorer’s Edition” (2018 album; two-CD set assembles all the material from the “Traveller’s Edition” and a Target exclusive; Vinyl, three-LP set; On Tour; Merch) |
(Capitol / UMe) |
| Umphrey’s McGee | “Anchor Drops Redux” (2004 album; remastered and expanded, with 14 extra remixed songs; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour; Merch) |
(Nothing Too Fancy Music) |
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