New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Arooj Aftab | “Night Reign” (guests: Cautious Clay, Moor Mother, Joel Ross, Marc Anthony Thompson, Kaki King, Maeve Gilchrist, James Francies; new single: “Raat Ki Rani”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   | Verve |
| Ateez | “GOLDEN HOUR: Part.1” (K-pop group’s 10th mini album; Target-Exclusive CD; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Golden Nugget Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Picture Disc; Walmart-Exclusive Aqua Vinyl; On Tour) | KQ Entertainment / Hello82 / RCA |
| Bat for Lashes | “The Dream of Delphi” (Natasha Khan’s sixth album and first since 2019; new single: “The Dream of Delphi”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mercury KX |
| Big Head Todd and the Monsters | “Her Way Out” (their 12th album and first in seven years; new single: “Thunderbird”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Big Records |
| Buffalo Tom | “Jump Rope” (their 10th album; new single: “New Girl Singing”; See here; Crystal Clear Vinyl; On Tour) | Scrawny |
| Anastasia Coope | “Darning Woman” (Hudson Valley native’s debut album; new single: “He Is On His Way Home, We Don’t Live Together”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Jagjaguwar |
| Crowded House | “Gravity Stairs” (Australian band’s eighth album; current lineup: Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Mitchell Froom, Liam Finn, Elroy Finn; producers: Crowded House, Steven Schram; new single: “Teenage Summer”; See here; HMV-Exclusive CD, signed edition; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | BMG Rights Management |
| Crowder | “The EXILE” (producers: Crowder, Ben Glover, Jeff Sojka; guests: TobyMac, Buddy Miller; new single: “— [DASH]”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | sixstepsrecords / Capitol CMG |
| Andra Day | “CASSANDRA (cherith)” (Grammy winner’s third album; new single: “Chasing”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download released on May 10; Apple Music) | Warner |
| Jesse Dayton | “The Hard Way Blues” (Grammy-nominated country blues artist’s first album since 2018; producer: Shooter Jennings; new single: “Angel In My Pocket”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Hardcharger / Blue Élan |
| Habibi | “Dreamachine” (Brooklyn rock quintet’s third album; producers: Tyler Love, Jay Heiselmann; new single: “My Moon”; See here; Baby Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Kill Rock Stars |
| Maya Hawke | “Chaos Angel” (singer-actress’ third album; she is the daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke; producer: Christian Lee Hutson; new single: “Missing Out”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Opaque Yellow Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Opaque Baby Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mom+Pop Music |
| Richard Hawley | “In This City They Call You Love” (Sheffield singer-songwriter’s 10th solo album and first since 2019; new single: “Two for His Heels”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | BMG Rights Management |
| Becky Hill | “Believe Me Now?” (English singer-songwriter’s second album; producers: PARISI, Mark Ralph, Toddla T, Maur, Solardo, MJ Cole, Jax Jones, Franky Wah; new single: “Never Be Alone”; See here; Cream Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Astralwerks |
| IDAHO | “Lapse” (slowcore pioneers’ 10th album and first in more than 13 years; new single: “Snakes”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) | Arts & Crafts |
| King Hannah | “Big Swimmer” (Liverpool indie rock duo’s sophomore album; producer: Ali Chant; new single: “Davey Says”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | City Slang |
| Lucius | “Wildewoman (The New Recordings)” (a reworking of the indie-pop band’s 2013 album; producer: drummer Dan Molad; guests: Brandi Carlile, Marcus Mumford, Devon Gilfillian; new single: “How Loud Your Heart Gets [The New Recording]”; See here; Read here; Translucent Forest Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Fantasy / Concord |
| The Marías | “Submarine” (L.A.-based indie pop band’s second album; producer: Josh Conway; new single: “Run Your Mouth”; See here; White Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Blue and White Swirl Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) | Nice Life Recording Co. / Atlantic |
| Kameron Marlowe | “Keepin’ the Lights On” (16-song second album from Nashville-based country singer-songwriter, who competed on season 16 of “The Voice”; producer: Dann Huff; new single: “Keepin’ the Lights On”; See here; Double Opaque Brown Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Columbia Nashville |
| Jon Muq | “Flying Away” (Austin-based Ugandan singer-songwriter’s debut album; producer: Dan Auerbach; new single: “Shake Shake”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Easy Eye Sound / Concord |
| Willie Nelson | “The Border” (his 75th album; songs co-written with Buddy Cannon, Rodney Crowell, Shawn Camp, Mike Reid and Bobby Tomberlin; producer: Cannon; new single: “The Border”; Hear here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Orange Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Legacy Recordings |
| Nestor | “Teenage Rebel” (Swedish hard rock quintet’s second album; new single: “Victorious”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Napalm |
| Neutrals | “New Town Dream” (Bay Area punk rock trio’s second album; new single: “That’s Him On The Daft Stuff Again”; Hear here; Baby Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Slumberland |
| Ben Platt | “Honeymind” (Tony winner’s third album; first single: “Andrew”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Opaque Yellow Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Interscope |
| Priest | “Dark Pulse” (Swedish synth band’s fourth album; producer: Simon Söderberg; new single: “Just a Game”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Blue Nine |
| Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin | “Brasil” (guests: Grégoire Maret, Celso Fonseca, Tatiana Parra, Ivan Lins; new single: “Cravo E Canela [Cloves & Cinnamon]”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Candid |
| Ringo Starr | “Crooked Boy” (four-song EP, written and produced by Linda Perry, featuring The Strokes’ Nick Valensi on guitar; new single: “February Boy”; Vinyl; Download released on April 26; Apple Music; On Tour) | UMe |
| Swamp Dogg | “Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St” (producer: Ryan Olson; all-star band includes Noam Pikelny, Sierra Hull, Jerry Douglas, Chris Scruggs, Billy Contreras, Kenny Vaughan; guests: Jenny Lewis, Margo Price, Vernon Reid, Justin Vernon, The Cactus Blossoms; new single: “Ugly Man’s Wife”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Oh Boy |
| Richard Thompson | “Ship to Shore” (British folk rock legend’s 20th solo album and first in five years; producer: Thompson; new single: “Singapore Sadie”; Hear here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Deep Blue Sea Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | New West |
| Anna Tivel | “Living Thing” (producer: Shane Leonard; Vinyl; Download) | Fluff and Gravy Records / Missing Piece |
| Various artists | “JEM Records Celebrates Jagger & Richards” (featuring covers by Paul Collins, Johnathan Pushkar, The Airport 77s, The Weeklings, The Anderson Council, Nick Piunti, et al) | JEM |
| Various artists | “Long Distance Love: A Sweet Relief Tribute to Lowell George” (contributors: Elvis Costello, Ben Harper, Dave Alvin, Sam Morrow, Jonathan Wilson, The Bird and the Bee, Gaby Moreno, Chris Stills, et al; Vinyl) | Flatiron Recordings |
| Various artists | “My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert” (Double CD; recorded live at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, featuring a 40-piece orchestra and such stars as Joanna Ampil, Michael Ball, Maria Friedman, Daniel Dae Kim, Audra McDonald, Julian Ovenden, Lucy St. Louis, Aaron Tveit, Marisha Wallace and Patrick Wilson; DVD and Blu-ray out June 4) | Concord Theatricals Recordings |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Leon Alvarado | “The Changing Tide” (producer: Alvarado; Hear here) | Melodic Revolution |
| Nicola Benedetti / Benjamin Grosvenor / Sheku Kanneh-Mason | “Beethoven: Triple Concerto” (with Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali; Hear here; CD out July 12; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Decca |
| Peter Bibby | “Drama King” (Perth alt-singer-songwriter’s fourth album; producer: Dan Luscombe; new single: “Terracotta Brick”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Spinning Top |
| Bernard Butler | “Good Grief” (former Suede guitarist’s first solo album in 25 years; new single: “Camber Sands”; Hear here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out July 5; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | 355 Recordings |
| Jon Foreman | “In Bloom” (Switchfoot frontman’s second solo album; producers: Foreman, James McAlister; guests: Joy Oladokun, Abby Holliday; new single: “Eulogy”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | lowercase people / Capitol CMG |
| Scott Guild | “Plastic: The Album” (companion album to his debut novel, “Plastic,” released on Feb. 13, a saga about a postapocalyptic world populated by plastic figurines; producer: Peter Katis; new single: “Until They’re Home”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music) | North Street Records / The Orchard |
| Jordan Hamilton | “Project Freedom” (label debut from the Michigan-based cellist and R&B/soul singer; producer: Hamilton; new singles: “Roses” and “Wisdom Crow”; Apple Music) | Mello Music Group |
| Keaton Henson | “Somnambulant Cycles” (producer: Henson; guests: Hinako Omori, Daniel Herskedal; new single: “Try”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK) | Mercury KX |
| Saioa Hernández | “Il Verismo d’Oro” (Spanish opera singer’s debut album; See here) | San Francisco Classical Recording Company / EuroArts |
| Laurie Lewis | “TREES” (bluegrass-roots artist’s 24th album; new single: “Trees”; See here; Read here; Apple Music) | Spruce and Maple Music |
| Duff McKagan | “Tenderness Live in Los Angeles” (recorded June 13, 2019, at El Rey Theatre, backed by “Tenderness” producer Shooter Jennings and his band; Double CD and Double Vinyl out July 12; Apple Music; Hear here) | BFD |
| ODESZA | “The Last Goodbye Tour Live” (guest vocalists: Naomi Wild, Sudan Archives, Izzy Bizu, MARO, Mansionair, Charlie Houston; Hear here; CD and Triple Ghostly Clear Vinyl out July 12; Amazon-Exclusive Triple Teal Vinyl out July 12; Apple Music; On Tour) | Foreign Family Collective / Ninja Tune |
| Olatuja | “Olatuja” (jazz project from bassist/composer Michael Olatuja and vocalist Alicia Olatuja; new single: “Ijo”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Whirlwind Recordings |
| +/- {Plus/Minus} | “Further Afield” (NYC indietronic band’s sixth album and first in 10 years; new single: “Borrowed Time”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Ernest Jenning Record Co. |
| Shaboozey | “Where I’ve Been, isn’t Where I’m Going” (Virginia-based singer and rapper is featured on two songs on Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” album; producers: Nevin, Sean Cook; new single: “A Bar Song [Tipsy]”; CD out June 21; Vinyl out Aug. 16; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Vinyl, with signed gatefold jacket; Apple Music; On Tour) | American Dogwood / EMPIRE |
| Smerz & GAEA | “Tidligere den dagen” (Norwegian duo’s 32-minute choir piece featuring eight voices and digital sounds; new single: “Det som kom”; See here) | Shopping Records, June 6 |
| Ayra Starr | “The Year I Turned 21” (Beninese-Nigerian singer’s second album; producers: AoD, BigRagee, Dinay Beats, London, Lucas Dila, MystroSugar, Richard McClashie, Rvssian, Sparrq beatz; guests: Asake, Anitta, Coco Jones, Giveon, Seyi Vibez, et al; new single: “Bad Vibes”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour, with Chris Brown) | Mavin Global Holdings |
| Super American | “Gangster of Love” (Buffalo pop punk band’s third album; producer: Sam Guaiana; new single: “Hopefully Pitchfork Doesn’t Hear This”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Wax Bodega |
| Orlando Weeks | “LOJA” (third solo album from the former leader of The Maccabees; producer: Sergio Maschetzko; new single: “Dig”; See here; CD and Vinyl out Aug. 23; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Fiction, June 6 |
| Winnetka Bowling League | “Sha La La” (L.A.-based indie rock trio’s full-length debut album; new single: “Handsome”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Local Weather / MDDN Records |
| Wormwood | “The Star” (Swedish black metal band’s fourth album; new single: “Ro”; See here) | Black Lodge |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Amber | “Amber (25th Anniversary)” (Double CD; 1999 album, featuring “Sexual [La Da Di]” and the hit cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind” with Jocelyn Enriquez and Ultra Naté, plus four bonus mixes; Double Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive 140-Gram Metallic Silver Vinyl) | Tommy Boy |
| Jessie Baylin | “Strawberry Wind (Deluxe Edition)” (Tangerine and Strawberry Sherbet Vinyl; 2018 album; with three bonus tracks, including “Sparkle Shoelaces”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download, with four bonus tracks; Apple Music) | Blonde Rat / New West |
| Black Sabbath | “ANNO DOMINI 1989-1995” (four-CD box set contains newly remastered versions of “Headless Cross,” “Tyr,” “Cross Purposes” and “Forbidden”; band lineup: Tony Iommi, Cozy Powell, Tony Martin and Geoff Nicholls; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Merch) | Rhino |
| Mel Carter | “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me: The Best of Mel Carter” (30 songs on one CD) | Castle |
| China Crisis | “China Greatness” (compilation of their greatest hits and favorite tracks; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour) | Last Night From Glasgow |
| Dave Clark Five | “Glad All Over / The Dave Clark Five Return! / American Tour” (1964 albums on one CD) “Coast to Coast / Weekend in London/ Having a Wild Weekend” (1964 and 1965 albums on one CD) “5 By 5 (1964–69) / If Somebody Loves You” (1968 and 1970 albums on one CD) “The Dave Clark Five Play Good Old Rock & Roll / Dave Clark & Friends” (1971 and 1972 albums on one CD) | Classics |
| England Dan & John Ford Coley | “The Early Years” (their first three albums – “England Dan & John Ford Coley,” “Fables” and “I Hear the Music” – on two CDs) “Nights Are Forever / Dowdy Ferry Road / Some Things Don’t Come Easy / Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive” (four albums on two CDs, with three bonus tracks) | Classics |
| Enuff Z’nuff | “The 1987 Demos” (13 tracks, recorded before the Chicago melodic rock band’s self-titled debut album; Vinyl; On Tour) | Deadline Music |
| Erasure | “Cowboy (Expanded Edition)” (Double CD; 1997 album; remastered, with unreleased, new material, along with alternative, extended and live versions; Amazon UK) | Mute |
| Exodus | “British Disaster: The Battle of ’89 (Live At The Astoria)” (previously unreleased March 8, 1989, concert in London; Double Gold Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Nuclear Blast |
| Gina G | “Fresh! (Deluxe Edition)” (1997 debut album, featuring “Ooh Aah… Just a Little Bit,” “I Belong to You” and “Fresh!”; two-CD, one-DVD set; remastered from the original master tapes, with extended mixes and radio edits, plus six promo videos; See here; Read here; Purple Vinyl; Amazon UK) | 90/9 / Cherry Red |
| Iron Butterfly | “Live at the Galaxy 1967” (original lineup of the band on July 4 in L.A., performing early singles and songs off their debut album “Heavy,” which was released in January 1968; Hear here) | Purple Pyramid / Cleopatra |
| Howard Jones | “Human’s Lib (New Mixes)” (Expanded Deluxe Blu-ray + CD Set; 1984 debut album, featuring “What Is Love?,” “New Song,” “Pearl in the Shell” and “Hide and Seek”; with 5.1 surround and 96/24 LPCM 2024 stereo mixes on Blu-ray and 96/24 LPCM 2024 stereo mix on CD; Read here; Amazon UK) “Dream Into Action (New Mixes)” (Expanded Deluxe Blu-ray + CD Set; 1985 album, featuring “Things Can Only Get Better,” “Life in One Day” “No One Is to Blame,” “Like to Get to Know You Well” and “Specialty”; with 5.1 surround and 96/24 LPCM 2024 stereo mixes on Blu-ray and 96/24 LPCM 2024 stereo mix on CD; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Red |
| The Left Banke | “Walk Away Renée / Pretty Ballerina” (26-song compilation of their Smash Records recordings) | Common Folk |
| The Other Two | “The Other Two & You” (1993 debut album from New Order’s Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert; remastered; Download) | Rhino / Warner |
| The Rascals | “It’s Wonderful: The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings” (seven-CD, 152-song box set, with the first four albums presented in both stereo and mono, along with single edits and foreign language versions; Read here; Amazon UK) | Now Sounds / Cherry Red |
| R.E.M. | “Fables of the Reconstruction” (1985 album, featuring “Cant Get There from Here” and “Wendell Gee”; Vinyl) | I.R.S. / Capitol / UMe |
| The Salsoul Orchestra | “It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978)” (eight-CD, 103-track clamshell box set contains expanded editions of six studio albums, produced and arranged by Montana; Read here; Amazon UK) | SoulMusic / The Second Disc / Cherry Red |
| Shakatak | “Manic & Cool + Down on the Street” (1988 and 1984 albums, with seven bonus tracks; Amazon UK) | Secret Records |
| Silver Convention | “Get Up & Boogie: The Worldwide Singles” (17-song collection; Download) | Omnivore Recordings |
| Smith | “Complete Recordings” (their albums “A Group Called Smith,” featuring their Top 5 hit “Baby It’s You,” and “Minus-Plus” on one CD, with one bonus track: lead singer Gayle McCormick’s minor solo hit “It’s a Cryin’ Shame”) | Classics |
| Dodie Stevens | “Pink Shoelaces: The Singles & Albums Collection 1959-62” (two CDs, 52 tracks) | Acrobat |
| Tremeloes | “Master” (1970 album; remastered, with 11 bonus single mixes and outtakes) | Think Like a Key Music |
| Alan Vega | “Insurrection” (11-track collection of previously unreleased material by late Suicide co-founder; new single: “Mercy”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | In the Red |
| Various artists | “Didn’t I Blow Your Mind? Thom Bell – The Sound of Philadelphia Soul 1969-1983” (20-song collection, compiled by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley, featuring Spinners, The Delfonics, Elton John, Deniece Williams, Dionne Warwick, Lou Rawls, The Stylistics, et al; Hear/Read here; Amazon UK) | Kent / Ace |
| Various artists | “From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music” (three-CD box set from 1998, curated by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, expanded to a fourth disc to include 21st century artists; Read here) | Warner Music Nashville |
| Various artists | “No Songs Tomorrow: Darkwave, Ethereal Rock and Coldwave 1981-1990” (four-CD box set, featuring The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Soft Cell, Dead Can Dance, Cranes, Clan of Xymox, et al; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Red |
| Various artists | “Jon Savage’s The Secret Public: How the LGBTQ+ Aesthetic Shaped Pop Culture 1955-1979” (two-CD, 41-song compilation, coinciding with the June 6 release of Savage’s hardcover book “The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979)”; Hear/Read here; Amazon UK) | Ace |
| Various artists | “The Ultimate Classic Radio Collection” (200-CD box set contains 400 half-hour radio shows, transferred from the original masters and digitally remastered, with a 60-page booklet) | Retro Entertainment |
| Tony Joe White | “Eyes / The Real Thang / Dangerous / Live in Europe 1971” (1976, 1980, 1983 and 1971 albums on two CDs) | Classics |
| Jesse Colin Young | “The Collection” (five albums on three CDs) | Classics |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Cyndi Lauper | “Let the Canary Sing” (13-track hits compilation, a companion piece to the new documentary of the same name, streaming on Paramount+ beginning June 4; Trailer; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Epic / Legacy |