New Releases (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Age of Taurus (London doom metal band) | “The Colony Stain” (first single: “In Dreams We Die”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download)  | (Rise Above) |
| Joan Armatrading | “Not Too Far Away” (first single: “No More Pain”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (BMG Rights Management) |
| Ash | “Islands” (producer: frontman Tim Wheeler; first single: “Buzzkill”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download) | (Infectious Music) |
| Kurt Baker Combo | “Let’s Go Wild!” (producer: Paco Loco; Vinyl) | (Wicked Cool) |
| Courtney Barnett | “Tell Me How You Really Feel” (new single: “Need a Little Time”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; iTunes; On Tour)  | (Mom+Pop / Marathon Artists / Milk!) |
| Basia | “Butterflies” (produced and written with longtime collaborator Danny White; Download; eBay) | (Shanachie) |
| James Bay | “Electric Light” (producers: Bay, Jon Green, Paul Epworth; new single: “Pink Lemonade”; Hear here; Target-Exclusive CD, with two extra songs; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Republic) |
| Spencer Brown (San Francisco electronic DJ/producer who was mentored by Avicii) | “Illusion of Perfection” (guests: Jules, Liam Hathaway, ALPHA 9, Roderick Demmings Jr., WIlt Claybourne; Hear here; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Anjunabeats) |
| BTS | “LOVE YOURSELF: Tear” (See here; iTunes; eBay; Merch) | (Big Hit Entertainment) |
| Burn the Priest (aka Lamb of God, returning to its roots and its original name) | “Legion: XX” (featuring covers of Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Quicksand, Ministry, Bad Brains, Melvins, S.O.D., the Accused, Big Black, etc.; first single: “Inherit the Earth”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download) | (Epic) |
| Matt Costa | “Santa Rosa Fangs” (the Southern California singer-songwriter’s first album in five years; producers: Peter Matthew Bauer of the Walkmen and Nick Stumpf of French Kicks; first single: “I Remember It Well”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Dangerbird) |
| EXO-CBX | “Magic” (first Japanese studio album by the South Korean-Chinese boy group EXO sub-unit; new single: “Horololo”; See here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Avex Trax) |
| Family of the Year (L.A.-based indie rock outfit) | “Goodbye Sunshine, Hello Nighttime” (new single: “Let Her Go”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Reprise) |
| Five Finger Death Punch | “And Justice for None” (includes a cover of The Offspring’s “Gone Away”; Amazon UK; Deluxe Edition, with three bonus tracks; Vinyl; eBay; On Tour, with Shinedown and then Breaking Benjamin; Merch) | (Prospect Park) |
| GAS (German electronic musician Wolfgang Voigt) | “Rausch” (produced as a single composition designed to be listened through from beginning to end; See here; Vinyl; Download) | (Kompakt) |
| Half Man Half Biscuit (Northern English indie cults) | “No-one Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin’ Hedge Cut” (Hear here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; eBay; On Tour) | (Probe Plus) |
| Trent Harmon | “You Got ‘Em All” (the debut album from the 15th and final winner of “American Idol” during its original run; he co-wrote eight of the album’s 11 songs; producers: Jimmy Robbins, Scott Borchetta; first single: “You Got ‘Em All”; Hear here; Download; On Tour, with Rascal Flatts) | (Big Machine) |
| Ray LaMontagne | “Part of the Light” (producer: LaMontagne; first single: “Such a Simple Thing”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour, with Neko Case) | (RCA) |
| Mary Lattimore (L.A.-based harpist) | “Hundreds of Days” (first single: “Hello From the Edge of the Earth”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; On Tour, with Iceage) | (Ghostly International) |
| Locash | “Brothers” (first single: “Don’t Get Better Than That”; Hear here; On Tour) | (Reviver) |
| Lords of Acid | “Pretty in Kink” (featuring new singer Marieke Bresseleers; Vinyl; Download) | (Metropolis) |
| Low Cut Connie | “Dirty Pictures (Part 2)” (first single: “Beverly”; Hear here; NPR’s Songs We Love; Download; On Tour) | (Contender) |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks | “Sparkle Hard” (producer: The Decemberists’ Chris Funk; new single: “Shiggy”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Matador) |
| Maluma | “F.A.M.E.” (guests: Timbaland, Prince Royce, Jason Derulo, Marc Anthony, Nego do Borel; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Sony Music Latin) |
| Ziggy Marley | “Rebellion Rises” (guests: Stephen Marley, Gideon Marley, Samuill Kalonji; first single: “Rebellion Rises”; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Tuff Gong Worldwide) |
| Nellie McKay | “Sister Orchid” (Vinyl) | (Palmetto) |
| Brad Mehldau Trio | “Seymour Reads the Constitution!” (Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Nonesuch) |
| Now, Now | “Saved” (producer: drummer Bradley Hale; new single: “SGL”; Hear here; NPR First Listen; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Trans-) |
| The Ozark Mountain Daredevils | “Off the Beaten Path” (their first album of all-new material since 1997; producers: Nick Silbey, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils; Hear here; On Tour) | (Ozark Mountain Daredevils, May 17) |
| Parquet Courts | “Wide Awake!” (producer: Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse; first single: “Almost Had To Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience”; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Rough Trade) |
| Gretchen Peters | “Dancing With the Beast” (producers: Peters, Doug Lancio, Barry Walsh; new single: “Disappearing Act”; Hear here; Amazon UK; On Tour) | (Proper) |
| Poster Children | “Grand Bargain!” (producer: Steve Albini; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Lotuspool) |
| Quiet Slang (Beach Slang’s James Alex) | “Everything Matters But No One Is Listening” (producers: Alex, Dave Downham; first single: “Dirty Cigarettes”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour, with Dashboard Confessional) | (Polyvinyl) |
| The Ramona Flowers (Bristol electronic rock quintet) | “Strangers” (producer: Chris Zane; Hear here; Amazon UK; On Tour) | (Distiller) |
| Michael Rault (Montreal-based singer-songwriter) | “It’s a New Day Tonight” (producer: Wayne Gordon; new single: “Dream Song”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Wick / Daptone) |
| Ike Reilly | “Crooked Love” (producers: Reilly, Phil Karnats; On Tour) | (Rock Ridge Music) |
| Arturo Sandoval | “Ultimate Duets” (the Cuban trumpeter’s first album in five years; guests: Stevie Wonder, Ariana Grande, Pharrell Williams, Josh Groban, ABBA’s Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Prince Royce, Alejandro Sanz, Big Phat Band, etc.; first single: “Andante, Andante”; See here; Download; iTunes; eBay; On Tour) | (Universal Music Latino) |
| Rat Scabies | “P.H.D. (Prison, Hospital, Debt)” (The Damned co-founder’s first solo album features 11 originals plus a cover of Louis Prima’s “Sing, Sing, Sing”; producer: Scabies; first single: “Chew On You”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Cleopatra) |
| The Sheepdogs (Canadian rock quartet) | “Changing Colours” (producer: Ewan Currie; Vinyl; Download, originally released on Feb. 2; Hear here; On Tour) | (Dine Alone) |
| The Sidekicks (Cleveland indie-punk band) | “Happiness Hours” (producer: John Agnello; first single: “Twin’s Twist”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes; On Tour) | (Epitaph) |
| Matthew Sweet | “Tomorrow’s Daughter” (first single: “I Belong to You”; Vinyl; Hear here; Read here; eBay; On Tour) | (Sweet Honeycomb Hideout / MRI / Sony) |
| Various artists | “Deadpool 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (first single: “Ashes,” Céline Dion; See here; Vinyl; Download; Original Score, by Tyler Bates; iTunes; eBay; Merch; In Theaters, on May 18) | (Columbia) |
| Charles Watson (of Slow Club) | “Now That I’m a River” (producers: Watson, David Glover; new single: “Abandoned Buick”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; iTunes) | (Moshi Moshi) |
| Kelly Willis | “Back Being Blue” (her first solo album in 11 years; first single: “Back Being Blue”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) | (Premium / Thirty Tigers) |
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New Releases (Downloads)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Jesse Ainslie (Phosphorescent alum and former Straight No Chaser member) | “Only in the Dark” | (Epifo Music) |
| MC Paul Barman | “(((echo chamber)))” (features six tracks produced by ?uestlove, two by MF DOOM, five from Memory Man, plus others by Prince Paul, Kenny Segal and Mark Ronson; guests: Open Mike Eagle, Masta Ace; first single: “(((echo chamber)))”; Hear here; CD, out June 22; iTunes) | (Mello Music Group) |
| Catherine Bent (cellist and Berklee professor) | “Ideal” (a tribute to traditional Brazilian styles; Hear here) | (Catherine Bent) |
| Big Ups | “Two Parts Together” (first single: “PPP”; Hear here; Vinyl; On Tour) | (Exploding in Sound) |
| DJDS | “Big Wave More Fire” (guests: Khalid, Empress Of, Amber Mark, Marco McKinnis, The-Dream, Vory, Kacy Hill, Vic Mensa, Kevin Drew, Kelly Zutrau, Charlie Wilson, Charlotte Day Wilson; new single: “I Heard”; Hear here; iTunes) | (Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) |
| Matt Dorrien | “In the Key of Grey” (new single: “I Can’t Remember”; Hear here; CD, out June 8; On Tour) | (Mama Bird Recording Co.) |
| Xavier Dunn (Australian singer-songwriter) | “Isic Tutor” (five-song EP; new single: “Warming”; Hear here; iTunes) | (1825 Records / Atlantic) |
| Fiùran (Canadian Celtic rock group) | “Friochd” (first single: “The Skye Boat Song”; Hear here) | (Fiùran) |
| Shlomo Franklin (NYC-based singer-songwriter ) | “Don’t Love Anybody” (five-song EP; first single: “Don’t Love Anybody”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Shlomo Franklin) |
| Frog Eyes | “Violent Psalms” (the Vancouver art-rock quartet says this will be its final album; first single: “Idea Man”; Hear here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Paper Bag) |
| Laura Glyda (Chicago singer-songwriter) | “Radio Ghosts” (first single: “Radio Ghosts”; See here; On Tour) | (Laura Glyda) |
| Hidden Hospitals (Chicago rock trio) | “Liars” (Hear here; On Tour) | (Exploding in Sound) |
| Kevlar (Pennsylvania metal band) | “Aftermath” (six-song EP; See here) | (CB Entertainment) |
| Leon + the Fantastic | “Let Me Cool” (six-song EP; first single: “Grieving Friend of a Superman”; Hear here) | (F Pop) |
| Harrison Lipton (Brooklyn-based vocalist, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist) | “Loveliness” (new single: “Clouds”; Hear here) | (Yellow K) |
| New Yeller | “Pandora’s Regrets” (producer: SchweinHard Publishing; guest: Jim Meigs, harmonica; first single: “The Miracle”; Hear here) | (SchweinHard, May 20) |
“The songs on ‘Pandora’s Regrets’ are about love, death, regret, songwriting, peace, justice, and hiking – in other words, topics we are all working through and things we care about deeply,” New Yeller’s Bill Lienard tells P&P. “In particular, this album is about a feeling that America has set loose monsters that we can’t control that will change the world irreparably. It operates on many levels – it’s supposed to be funny, but it’s also serious, it’s dark but joyful.”
| The Presets | “Hi Viz” (guests: Jake Shears, Alison Wonderland, the DMA’s; new single: “Do What You Want”; See here; iTunes; On Tour) | (Casablanca) |
| TT (Warpaint singer-guitarist Theresa Wayman) | “LoveLaws” (producers: Wayman, brother Ivan Wayman; first single: “Love Leaks”; Hear here) | (LoveLeaks) |
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Reissues (CDs / Vinyl)
| Artist: | Title: | Label: |
| Stephen Bishop | “Red Cab to Manhattan” (1980 album; remastered, with six bonus tracks; Hear here; eBay) | (Blixa Sounds) |
| Gomez | “Bring It On (20th Anniversary Edition)” (Mercury Prize-winning debut album from 1998; remastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road studios, with 35 previously unreleased tracks; Amazon UK; Super Deluxe Edition, four-CD box set; Vinyl) | (Virgin / UMe) |
| John Wesley Harding | “Greatest Other People’s Hits” (10-song Record Day Store 2018 collection, with seven bonus covers, including “Like a Prayer”; Hear here) | (Omnivore Recordings) |
| Screamin’ Jay Hawkins | “Are YOU One of Jay’s Kids? The Complete Bizarre Sessions 1990-1994” (43 songs; Download; eBay) | (Manifesto) |
| Paul McCartney | “Thrillington” (1977 album; 180-gram Black Vinyl; Marbled Vinyl), “Wings Greatest” (1978 compilation; 180-gram Black Vinyl; Blue Vinyl), “Chaos and Creation in the Backyard” (2003 album; 180-gram Black Vinyl; Gold Vinyl), “NEW” (2013 album; 180-gram Black Vinyl; Pink Vinyl; all vinyl reissues include a download card; eBay; Merch) | (MPL / Capitol) |
| Steve Miller Band | “Complete Albums Volume 1 (1968-1976) [Vinyl]” (180-gram vinyl box set of his first nine albums, from “Children of the Future” to “Fly Like an Eagle”; remastered; also available as individual 180-gram black LPs; eBay; On Tour; Merch) | (Capitol / UMe) |
| Nirvana (U.K. band) | “Rainbow Chaser: The 60s Recordings (The Island Years)” (two CDs, 52 songs; Download) | (Island / UMe) |
| Pink Floyd | “Pulse [Vinyl]” (1995 double live album; four-LP box set, which includes “The Dark Side of the Moon” performed live in full, features a 52-page hardback photo book; remastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman; See here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; eBay; Merch) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Pointer Sisters | “The Pointer Sisters / That’s a Plenty (Expanded Editions)” (1973, 1974 albums, featuring “Yes We Can Can,” “Wang Dang Doodle” and “Fairytale”; remastered, with five bonus tracks; See here; Amazon UK) | (SoulMusic / Cherry Red) |
| Otis Redding | “Dock of the Bay Sessions” (his biggest hit was released 50 years ago in January 1968, shortly after his death in a plane crash; this 12-song collection is assembled from his final recordings and thought to be intended for his next album; Read here; Amazon UK; Vinyl; Download; eBay; Merch) | (Rhino / Atlantic) |
| Shalamar | “Uptown Festival / Disco Gardens / Big Fun” (1977, 1978 and 1979 albums on two CDs, featuring “The Second Time Around” and “Take That to the Bank”; remastered; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; eBay) | (Robinsongs / Cherry Red) |
| Simon & Garfunkel | “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme [Hybrid SACD]” (1966 album; remastered; eBay; Merch) | (Mobile Fidelity) |
| Bruce Springsteen | “The Album Collection Vol. 2, 1987-1996 [Vinyl]” (10-LP box set, containing albums from “Tunnel of Love” to “Blood Brothers”; Read here; eBay; Springsteen on Broadway; Merch) | (Columbia / Legacy) |
| Supertramp | “Breakfast in America [Hybrid SACD]” (1979 album; remastered) | (Mobile Fidelity) |
| Various artists | “Outlaws & Armadillos: Country’s Roaring ’70s” (36-song compilation, featuring tracks by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Jessi Colter, Jerry Jeff Walker, Guy Clark, John Hartford, etc.; Download) | (Legacy Recordings) |
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DVD / Blu-ray
| Artist(s)/cast: | Title: | Studio/label: |
| Jeff Beck | “Still On The Run: The Jeff Beck Story [DVD]” (documentary directed by Matthew Longfellow includes interviews with Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, David Gilmour, Ronnie Wood, Slash, Jan Hammer, Joe Perry, Beth Hart, etc.; Blu-ray; On Tour, with Paul Rodgers and Ann Wilson) | (Eagle Vision) |
| Joe Bonamassa | “British Blues Explosion Live [DVD]” (two-disc homage to guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, filmed at Greenwich Music Time at The Old Royal Naval College in London in July 2016; Blu-ray; CD; Vinyl; Download) | (J&R Adventures) |
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