New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| aespa | “Armageddon” (K-pop girl group’s first full-length album; new single: “Supernova”; Read here)   | SM Entertainment, May 27 |
| American Jetset | “1987” (eight-song EP; producers: Tony Correlli, frontman Ian Kaine Macgregor; new single: “1987”; See here; Download) | Golden Robot |
| Bess Atwell | “Light Sleeper” (producer: Aaron Dessner; new single: “Release Myself”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Real Kind |
| Andrew Bird Trio | “Sunday Morning Put-On” (an album of classic jazz covers with drummer Ted Poor and bassist Alan Hampton, featuring guitarist Jeff Parker and pianist Larry Goldings; producer: Bird; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Loma Vista Recordings / Concord |
| The Blow Monkeys | “Together/Alone” (British pop band’s 12th album; new single: “Stranger to Me Now”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Last Night From Glasgow |
| CHEN | “DOOR” (EXO member’s fourth mini-album; six songs) | DREAMUS COMPANY, May 29 |
| The Courettes | “Hold On, We’re Comin’ “ (garage-rock duo’s album of covers; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Cleopatra |
| Travis Denning | “Roads That Go Nowhere” (Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s debut album; he is married to Madison Montgomery, daughter of John Michael Montgomery; guests: HARDY, Josh Ross; new single: “Roads That Go Nowhere”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with HARDY) | Mercury Nashville |
| Dexys | “The Feminine Divine + Dexys Classics: Live!” (recorded across the course of their 2023 tour; Rough Trade-Exclusive Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | 100% Records |
| DIIV | “Frog in Boiling Water” (rock quartet’s fourth album; producer: Chris Coady; new single: “Everyone Out”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Fantasy / Concord |
| Gyasi | “Rock n’roll Sword Fight” (11-track live album; new single: “All Messed Up [Medley]”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Alive Naturalsound |
| The Howlers | “What You’ve Got to Lose to Win It All” (East London trio’s debut album; producer: Black Honey; new single: “Lady Luck”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; On Tour) | Dead Centre Recordings |
| Lenny Kravitz | “Blue Electric Light” (his 12th album and his first since 2018; new single: “Tk421”; See here; Deluxe Media Book CD, with 28-page booklet; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Roxie Records / BMG Rights Management |
| La Luz | “News of the Universe” (Seattle rock band’s fourth studio album; producer: Maryam Qudos; new single: “I’ll Go With You”; See here; Orange Crush Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sub Pop |
| Old Man Luedecke | “She Told Me Where to Go” (two-time JUNO Award winner’s 10th album; producer: Afie Jurvanen, a.k.a. Bahamas; guest: Reeny Smith; new single: “She Told Me Where to Go”; See here; Read here; Spring Green Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Outside Music |
| Kim Richey | “Every New Beginning” (her first album of new music in six years; producer: Doug Lancio; new single: “Floating on the Surface”; Hear here; Clear Coke Bottle Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Yep Roc |
| RM | “Right Place, Wrong Person” (BTS member’s second solo album; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive CD, with photo card; Target-Exclusive CD, with photo card; Download) | BIGHIT MUSIC |
| Say Anything | “… Is Committed” (new single: “I, VIBRATOR”; Hear here; Read here; Double Vinyl out June 14; Rough Trade-Exclusive Black Ice with White Splatter Vinyl out June 14; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dine Alone Music |
| Shenseea | “Never Gets Late Here” (Jamaican singer-rapper’s sophomore album; producers: Di Genius, ILYA, London on da Track, Rvssian, Supa Dups; guests: Wizkid, Coi Leray, Anitta, Masicka; new single: “Dolla [A COLORS SHOW]”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Rich Immigrants / Interscope |
| Michael Shrieve (original Santana drummer) | “Drums of Compassion” (producers: Shrieve, Eric Oz; guests: Jack DeJohnette, Zakir Hussain, Airto Moreira, Trey Gunn, et al) | 7D Media |
| Alex Sipiagin | “Horizons” (includes two songs composed by Pat Metheny specifically for the Russian-born trumpeter’s album; his all-instrumental quintet includes Chris Potter, John Escreet, Eric Harland and Matt Brewer) | Blue Room Music |
| Connie Smith | “Love, Prison, Wisdom and Heartaches” (country great’s 37th album; producer: husband Marty Stuart; Download released on April 11; Hear here) | Fat Possum |
| The Spinners | “Full Circle” (final album from the last original member, the late Henry Fambrough, and also marks the group’s 70th anniversary; executive producer: Bernard Grobman; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Reservoir Recordings |
| twenty one pilots | “Clancy” (their seventh studio album; new single: “Next Semester”; See here; HMV-Exclusive CD, with alternate artwork slipcase; Amazon-Exclusive Yellow Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Clear Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive White Opaque Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) | Fueled by Ramen / Atlantic |
| Vegyn | “The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions” (British producer and Frank Ocean collaborator’s second album; guests: John Glacier, Léa Sen, Matt Maltese, Lauren Auder, Ethan P. Flynn; new single: “A Dream Goes On Forever”; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on April 5; Apple Music) | PLZ Make It Ruins |
| Wallows | “Model” (L.A.-based alt-rock trio’s third album; producer: John Congleton; new single: “Calling After Me”; Hear here; Amazon-Exclusive White Vinyl, with double-sided poster; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Sea Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Atlantic |
| Paul Weller | “66” (his 17th solo album; guests: Noel Gallagher, Madness frontman Suggs, Bobby Gillespie, Richard Hawley, Dr Robert, Say She She, et al; new single: “Soul Wandering”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Polydor |
| Gary Wilson | “A Beautiful Bliss” (new single: “Kiss Me Once and I’ll Kiss You Twice”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Cleopatra |
| Young Jesus | “The Fool” (producer: Shahzad Ismaily; new single: “Brenda & Diane”; See here; Opaque White Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Saddle Creek |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Bring Me the Horizon | “POST HUMAN: NeX GEn” (long-delayed concept album, their first in five years and seventh overall; producers: vocalist Oli Sykes, Zakk Cervini, Dan Lancaster; guests: Lil Uzi Vert, Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw, Underoath, AURORA; new single: “Kool-Aid”; See here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out Sept. 27; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Columbia |
| Capstan | “The Mosaic” (Florida-based post-hardcore band’s third album; new single: “Misery Scene”; See here; CD and Aqua Vinyl out July 12; Apple Music) | Fearless / Concord |
| Deap Vally | “(ep)ilogue” (their final EP; new single: “It’s My World”; Hear here) | Deap Vally Records |
| Luke Francis | “Saguaro” (Seattle-based singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “Michael Collins”; Hear here) | Luke Francis |
| Halima | “EXU” (Lagos-born, Brooklyn-based artist’s five-song debut EP; new single: “Ways”; Hear here; See here; Apple Music) | drink sum wtr |
| Bronywn Keith-Hynes | “I Built a World” (second solo album from fiddler for Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway; producers: Brent Truitt, Keith-Hynes; guests: Tuttle, Dierks Bentley, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Bryan Sutton, et al; new single: “Trip Around the Sun”; See here) | Sugar Petunia |
| Machinedrum | “3FOR82” (electronic artist-producer Travis Stewart’s 11th album; guests: Tinashe, KUČKA, Duckwrth, Jesse Boykins III, AKTHESAVIOR, Mick Jenkins, Ezri, Tanerélle, Deniro Farrar, Topaz Jones, et al; new single: “ZOOM”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Ninja Tune |
| Bill MacKay | “Locust Land” (new single: “When I Was Here”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Drag City |
| Zach John King | “Wannabe Cowboy” (Georgia country singer-songwriter’s six-song debut EP; producers: King, Ryan Wilson, Tom Whall; Hear here; Apple Music) | Zach John King |
| Carín León | “Boca Chueca Vol. 1” (guests: Kane Brown, Leon Bridges, Pepe Aguilar, Panteón Rococo; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sony Music Entertainment México, May 30 |
| Vinícius Mendes | “Macunaísmo Tardio Vol. 1 & 2” (Hear here; Vinyl) | Notes On A Journey / Sonar Kollektiv |
| Joshua Moshier | “Semipermanence” (Emmy-nominated composer’s debut solo album; guests: Macie Stewart, Jeff Parker, Sabina Sciubba, Caroline Davis, Akenya, Marquis Hill; new single: “Fountain Glass”; See here; Apple Music) | Teardrop Mandolin |
| Nathy Peluso | “Grasa” (Argentine-Spanish rapper and singer’s third album and first in four years; Read here; Apple Music) | Sony Music Latin U.S. |
| Vince Staples | “Dark Times” (his final album for Def Jam; new single: “Shame on the Devil”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Def Jam |
| Tiny Habits | “All For Something” (indie-harmony trio’s debut album; producers: Tony Berg, Will Maclellan; new single: “Wishes”; See here; Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl out July 19; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mom+Pop Music |
| Jayce Turley | “Broke Down” (Kentucky-based Americana singer-songwriter’s full-length debut album; new single: “Misery”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Rock Ridge Music |
| Winter | “… and she’s still listening” (Brazilian-American artist Samira Winter’s four-song EP ; new single: “shaniatwainlovestory”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Everything Blue Records |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| B.T. Express | “The Definitive Collection: Do It ‘Til You’re Satisfied” (four-CD box set contains seven full albums, with bonus tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Robinsongs / Cherry Red |
| Dorsey Burnette | “The Rockabilly Years: The Singles & Albums Collection 1955-62” (two CDs, 63 tracks) | Acrobat |
| John Denver | “The RCA Albums Collection” (25-CD clamshell box set features 24 original albums released between 1969 and 1986, plus the rare privately pressed 1966 LP, “John Denver Sings,” created for family and friends, with a 40-page booklet; Amazon UK) | Music on CD |
| Don and the Goodtimes | “The Original Northwest Sound of Don and the Goodtimes” (Yellow Vinyl) | BeatRocket |
| Chris Farlowe | “Stormy Monday: The Blues Years 1985-2008” (three-CD, 55-song collection; Read here; Amazon UK) | Strawberry / Cherry Red |
| Joe Grushecky | “Houserocker: A Joe Grushecky Anthology” (two CDs, 35 songs; remastered by Grammy winner Michael Graves; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Omnivore Recordings |
| Davy Jones | “Incredible!” (deluxe version of his lost mid-’80s album; remastered, with seven bonus tracks and 36-page color booklet; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK) | 7a Records |
| Laibach | “Opus Dei (Remastered)” (Double CD; 1987 album; with 16 unreleased live tracks from 1987-1989 and three bonus tracks; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Mute |
| Bettye LaVette | “Let Me Down Easy: Bettye LaVette in Memphis” (1960s recordings she made for Silver Fox Records, part of the Sun Records family; remastered) | Sun Records |
| Lindisfarne | “Brand New Day: The Mercury Years 1978-1979” (three complete albums, with 15 tracks previously unreleased on CD; Read here; Amazon UK) | Lemon / Cherry Red |
| Rainbow | “Boston 1981” (Ritchie Blackmore-led performance includes “Smoke on the Water”; Amazon UK) | Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra |
| Jeannie C. Riley | “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (1968 album, featuring the Tom T. Hall-penned title track, which won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance; she was the first female artist to ever top the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts with the same song – it didn’t happen again until Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” in early 1981; remastered) | Sun Records |
| Barry Ryan | “The Albums 1969-79 (five-CD, 95-track clamshell box set; Read here; Amazon UK) | 7T’s / Cherry Red |
| Sue Thompson | “Sad Movies: Singles & Albums Collection 1950-62” (two CDs, 59 tracks) | Acrobat |
| Conway Twitty | “Hello Darlin’ / Fifteen Years Ago / How Much More Can She Stand / I Wonder What She’ll Think About Me Leaving” (four Decca Records albums from 1970 and 1971 on two CDs; Amazon UK) | BGO |
| Various artists | “The Best 80s Movies Album in the World … Ever!” (three CDs, 60 tracks; Amazon UK) | Sony Music |
| The Vibrators | “The Singles 1976-2017” (three CDs, 69 tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Captain Oi! / Cherry Red |
| Yes | “The Yes Album” (Hybrid SACD; 1971 album, featuring “Yours Is No Disgrace” and “Your Move”) “90125” (Hybrid SACD; 1983 album, featuring the No. 1 “Owner of a Lonely Heart” and “Leave It”; “Cinema” won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance; Double Vinyl, mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from a 1/2″ tape copy of the original analog master tape and pressed at Quality Record Pressings; On Tour, with Deep Purple) | Analog Productions |