New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The Alarm | “Transformation” (recorded between sessions of late frontman Mike Peters’ grueling treatment for Richter’s syndrome; new single: “Live Today”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music)   | Twenty First Century Recording Company / Virgin Music Group |
| All Them Witches | “House of Mirrors” (Nashville-based psychedelic blues rock band’s seventh album; producer: Eddie Spear; new single: “Starting Line”; See here; Apple/Black Wave Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | BMG Rights Management |
| Rodney Atkins | “True South” (ACM Award winner’s first new album in seven years; new single: “The Years Are Short”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Curb |
| Balmora | “These Graven Halls” (Connecticut metalcore band’s debut album; new single: “Ophelia”; See here; Clear Yellow Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | DAZE |
| The Bug Club | “Every Single Muscle” (Welsh duo’s fifth album; producer: Tom Rees; 18 tracks; new single: “Watching the Omnibus”; Hear here; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sub Pop |
| Emmet Cohen | “Universal Truth” (fourth Mack Avenue album from DownBeat Magazine’s 2025 Pianist of the Year, recorded celebration of the 2026 centennial year of Miles Davis and John Coltrane; guests: Ron Carter, George Coleman; new single: “I. Eternal Glimpse”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mack Avenue |
| The Cruel Intentions | “All Hail Hypocrisy” (Scandinavian sleaze rockers’ third album; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Indie Recordings |
| Dogstar | “All In Now” (fourth album from Keanu Reeves, Bret Domrose and Rob Mailhouse; producer: Nick Launay; new single: “All In Now”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dillon Street Records |
| Doublespeak | “Doublespeak” (debut collaboration from Erasure’s Vince Clarke, Blancmange’s Neil Arthur and electronic producer-writer Benge; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | London |
| Kat Eaton | “What Happens Now” (Welsh-born, Yorkshire-based soul/jazz artist’s third album; new single: “Break Free”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Reason & Rhyme Records |
| Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck | “The Fiddle and the Drum” (Grammy-winning soprano and banjo virtuoso team for a celebration of Appalachian folk music; producer: Fleck; guests: Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Mike Bub, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, Bryan Sutton; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Renée Fleming Records / Thirty Tigers |
| Gipsy Kings feat. Tonino Baliardo | “Historia” (Grammy-winning rumba catalana group’s 15th studio album; new single: “Señorita”; Hear here; White and Blue Marble Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Cooking Vinyl |
| The Greenberry Woods | “It’s All Good, Sugar …” (Baltimore power-pop band’s first album in more than 30 years; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Big Stir |
| Violet Grohl | “Be Sweet to Me” (debut album from daughter of Dave Grohl; producer: Justin Raisen; new single: “Cool Buzz”; Hear here; Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Vinyl, with alternate cover; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Auroura Records / Republic |
| Guided By Voices | “Crawlspace of the Pantheon” (their 43rd album; new single: “We Outlast Them All”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | GBV Inc |
| Iceage | “For Love of Grace & the Hereafter” (Danish rock band’s sixth album; new single: “The Weak”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Mexican Summer |
| Jayler | “Voices Unheard” (U.K. rock band’s debut album; new single: “Down Below”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Silver Lining Music |
| KÁRYYN | “PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL)” (Syrian-Armenian-American singer and producer’s second album; new single: “COLLAPSE PHASE”; See here; White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Mute |
| Jonas Kaufmann | “Magische Töne” (22-track album, recorded in Vienna and Budapest with the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra under conductor Dirk Kaftan; featuring soprano Nikola Hillebrand in several duets; Amazon UK) | Sony Classical |
| Manchester Orchestra | “Union Chapel (London, England)” (Double CD; recorded during their 2023 three-night residency; 21 songs; See here; Translucent Sea Blue Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Loma Vista Recordings / Concord |
| Paul McCartney | “The Boys of Dungeon Lane” (his 18th solo album; songs about his childhood in post-war Liverpool, the resilience of his parents, and early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon long before Beatlemania; producer: watt; new single: “Days We Left Behind”; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with lyric card; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive White Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Gold Vinyl; Indie Exclusive Pink Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Gold Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Red Vinyl, with lyric card; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | MPL / Capitol |
| Greg Mendez | “Beauty Land” (Philadelphia singer-songwriter’s fourth full-length album; producer: Mendez; new single: “No Evil”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Red Nebula Splash Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dead Oceans |
| Troy Mercy | “Let the Night Begin” (blues-rock artist’s debut album; producer: Tim Carman; new single: “Cheap Machine”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Gitcha Records |
| Monolord | “Neverending” (Swedish doom metal band’s first full-length album in five years; producer: Sylvia Massy; new single: “You Bastard”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Relapse |
| Kip Moore | “Reason to Believe” (country singer-songwriter’s seventh album; producers: Moore, Andrew DeRoberts; new single: “Faith in the Wind”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Virgin Music Group |
| Willie Nelson | “Dream Chaser” (his 79th solo studio album and 156th album overall; producer: Buddy Cannon; new single: “We’d Make a Good Movie”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Legacy Recordings |
| Joey Quiñones | “Inna Soul Steady Situation” (Thee Sinseers lead singer’s debut solo album; new single: “Don’t Let Go”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Colemine |
| The Real McKenzies | “Paul McKenzie Sings On Yer Bike” (Vancouver Celtic punk band’s 12th studio album; producer: guitarist Mario Nieva; new single: “Black Agnes”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Stomp |
| Freya Ridings | “Mother of Pearl” (English singer-songwriter-musician’s third album; producers: Jennifer Decilveo, Sam de Jong, Toby Gad; new single: “I Have Always Loved You”; See here; Pearl Sunrise Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | BMG Rights Management |
| Saint Agnes | “Your God Fearing Days Are About to Begin” (East London-based rock band’s fourth album; producers: Saint Agnes; mixed by Jim Pinder; first single: “The Father, the Son and the Holy Beast”; See here; Magenta Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Spinefarm |
| Shinedown | “EI8HT” (Jacksonville rock band’s eighth album; 18 songs; producer: bassist Eric Bass; new single: “Safe and Sound”; See here; Read here; Evergreen Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Orange Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Atlantic |
| JP Soars & Anne Harris | “Gypsy Blue Revue” (their first collaborative album; new single: “Goin’ to South Carolina”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Forty Below |
| Sparta | “Cut a Silhouette” (El Paso alt-rock band’s sixth album; producer: J. Robbins; recorded in seven days at Magpie Cage Recording Studio; new single: “Everything You Say”; See here; Spanish Heart Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Equal Vision |
| Devin Townsend | “The Moth” (24-song rock opera, with symphonic elements and choirs; new single: “Enter the City”; See here; Read here; Deluxe Edition, four discs; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | InsideOutMusic |
| Kurt Vile | “Philadelphia’s been good to me” (his 10th solo album and first in four years; new single: “Chance to Bleed”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Verve Forecast |
| Joshua Ray Walker | “Ain’t Dead Yet” (his sixth album, written when he hadn’t yet received the cancer diagnosis that rearranged and threatened his life; producer: John Pedigo; new single: “Shoot Me Straight”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | East Dallas Records / Thirty Tigers |
| The Who | “Live at Eden Project 25 / 07 / 2023” (Double CD; recorded at the Cornwall site with the Heart of England Philharmonic Orchestra; Hear here; Read here; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | earMUSIC |
| Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts | “as time explodes” (13-track live album, recorded during their 2025 “The Love Earth Tour,” originally released on Record Store Day; producers: Lou Adler, The Volume Dealers; Read here; Double Vinyl; Apple Music; Merch) | Reprise |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Cole Berliner | “The Black Door” (ambient chamber folk artist’s debut solo album; producers: Berliner, Cesar Maria; new single: “The Black Door”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Drag City |
| Boards of Canada | “Inferno” (Scottish electronic duo’s fifth album and first in 13 years; 18 tracks; Read here; Apple Music) | Warp |
| District Five | “GLUT” (Zürich-based art-rock band’s fifth album; new single: “Push,” feat. poet-actor Saul Williams; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Stone Pixels |
| I Will Destroy You | “Dead Before Dawn” (San Diego hard rockers’ six-song debut EP; new single: “Witchhammer”; See here; Apple Music) | Futureless |
| Jann Klose | “The Future Trap” (his ninth album; 17 songs; producer: Marcus Dembinski; new single: “Future Trap”; See here; Apple Music) | Jann Klose |
| Labrinth | “Cosmic Opera Act II” (British singer-songwriter’s fifth album; new single: “SHUT YOUR DAMN 95.7892”; Hear here; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour) | Columbia |
| Latto | “Big Mama” (rapper’s fourth album; new single: “Business & Personal [Intro]”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Streamcut / RCA |
| Lenka | “Good Days” (Australian singer-songwriter’s eighth album; producer: Tony Buchen; new single: “Sunshine Girl”; Apple Music) | Skipalong Records |
| Paper Pools | “Everything” (debut solo project of L.A.-based artist Allen Orr; new single: “Gentian”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Twelve Twenty Two Music |
| Red Sky | “Nostalgia del Futuro” (masked Italian rapper-guitarist’s 15th album; new single: “Il Paese Dell’Arte”; See here; Apple Music) | Epictronic / The Orchard |
| Lauren Sanderson | “LAUREN” (L.A.-based singer-songwriter’s third album; Vinyl; On Tour) | Pack Records |
| Alana Springsteen | “I HOPE THIS HELPS” (her second album; producers: Mark Trussell, Springsteen, Will Weatherly, Sam Martinez, Chris LaCorte, Zach Crowell, Jared Keim, Dave Clauss, Ido Zmishlany, Steve Rusch; new single: “Black Sheep”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Santa Anna Nashville |
| SUSTO | “Susto Stringband (Volume Two)” (new single: “Hands in the Dirt”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Missing Piece |
| Turnover | “Down On Earth” (Virginia rock band’s sixth studio album; producer: Zac Montez; new singles: “Nightjar” and “I See You And Realize”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Community Music |
| Various artists | “Les Misérables: The 40th Anniversary All-Star Cast” (cast drawn from both the current West End company and the ongoing “Les Misérables: The Arena Concert Spectacular” world tour, featuring Killian Donnelly, Bradley Jaden, Katie Hall, Shan Ako, Adam Gillen, Marina Prior, Beatrice Penny-Touré , Jac Yarrow and James D. Gish; Double CD out July 17; Apple Music) | Warner Classics |
| Alicia Waller | “Louder, Then” (soul-jazz vocalist’s debut album; producers: Marcos Varela, Waller; new single: “Tempo 120”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | FRENTE Recordings / Missing Piece |
| Widemouth | “No Gasoline” (Chicago alt-country band’s debut album; new single: “No Gasoline”; See here; Apple Music) | Urban Scandal |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer | “Trilogy (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1972 album, featuring “From the Beginning”; with Jakko M. Jakszyk stereo mixes) “Love Beach” (1978 album; 24-bit/96 kHz remaster) “Black Moon (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1992 album; with bonus B-sides and additional recordings from the period) “In the Hot Seat (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1994 album, their final studio LP; with bonus mixes and session recordings) | BMG Rights Management |
| Dave Matthews Band | “Take Me Back / Live From the Gorge” (Triple CD; recorded during their annual Labor Day 2025 weekend at The Gorge Amphitheater in George, WA; Vinyl, five-LP box set; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | ATO |
| MFSB | “MFSB / TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) / Universal Love / Philadelphia Freedom” (1973, 1975 and 1976 albums on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK) | BGO |
| The Monkees | “Good Times! (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 2016 album, produced by Adam Schlesinger; with four bonus tracks and 13 instrumentals; Vinyl, minus bonus tracks, lacquers cut by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing’s plant in Oxnard, CA; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Rhino / Warner |
| Teddy Pendergrass | “Teddy Pendergrass / Life Is a Song Worth Singing / Teddy / T” (his first four Philadelphia International albums from 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980 on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK) | BGO |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service | “Who Do You Love? The Recordings 1967-1972” (seven-CD clamshell box set includes seven complete albums, with 15 bonus tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Esoteric Recordings / Cherry Red |
| RuPaul | “Foxy Lady (30th Anniversary)” (1996 album, featuring “Snapshot” and “A Little Bit of Love”; remastered, with four bonus tracks; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Tommy Boy |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | “Live From Asbury Park 2024” (three-CD set, recorded at Sea.Hear.Now festival; Vinyl, five-LP box set; Amazon UK; On Tour; Merch) | Columbia / Legacy |
| Allen Toussaint | “Songbook” (Double CD; 2013 album; with 20 previously unreleased tracks, including a cover of Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans”; Grammy-nominated for Best Americana Album and Best American Roots Song, for “Shrimp Po-Boy, Dressed”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download, 45 songs; Apple Music) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
| Various artists | “Promise Me Delight: Italo Disco and European Pop From the Golden Age” (17 songs; Hear/Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Ace |
| Various artists | “Where the Willow and the Dogwood Grow: Words and Music By Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan” (19-song collection, featuring covers by Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, Bob Seger, Joan Baez, Solomon Burke, Norah Jones, John Hammond, et al; Hear/Read here; Amazon UK) | Ace |
| Don Williams | “Epilogue: The Cellar Tapes” (12 previously unheard recordings, circa 1979-1984, produced by Williams and Garth Fundis, and held in reserve for decades at his family’s Tennessee home; restored from the original multitrack tapes, with contributions from Williams’ longtime collaborators and touring band; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Red Velvet Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
