New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Arcade Fire | “Pink Elephant” (their seventh album; producers: Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Daniel Lanois; new single: “Year of the Snake”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK-Exclusive Metal Meltdown Gold Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)   | Columbia |
| Behemoth | “The Sh*t ov God” (Polish extreme metal band’s 13th album; producer: Jens Bogren; new single: “The Sh*t ov God”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nuclear Blast |
| Black Map | “Hex” (Bay Area-based post-hardcore band’s fourth album; producer: Saosin guitarist Beau Burchell; new single: “Hex [Come Get It]”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Spinefarm |
| Brandon | “Before You Go” (27-year-old singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “Right Back”; See here; Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Secretly Canadian |
| Counting Crows | “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!” (four tracks from their 2021 release, “Butter Miracle, Suite One,” with five new songs; new single: “Spaceman in Tulsa”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | BMG Rights Management |
| Cuco | “Ridin'” (L.A. singer-songwriter’s third album; producer: Tom Brenneck; new single: “My 45”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Interscope |
| Deradoorian | “Ready for Heaven” (former Dirty Projectors member Angel Deradoorian’s first solo album since 2020; producers: Deradoorian, Sonny DiPerri; new single: “Set Me Free”; See here; Read here; Gold Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Fire |
| The Freedom Affair | “The Freedom Affair” (Kansas City soul ensemble’s second album; new single: “Get My Share”; Hear here; Orange and Black Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Colemine |
| Ghost Bath | “Rose Thorn Necklace” (North Dakota post-metal band’s fifth album; new single: “Red Thorn Necklace”; See here; Red Swirl Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nuclear Blast |
| The Head and the Heart | “Aperture” (indie folk band’s sixth album; producers: The Head and the Heart; new single: “After the Setting Sun”; See here; Vinyl, with fold-out poster; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Verve Forecast |
| Johnny Iguana | “Johnny Iguana: At Delmark” (recorded in unedited single takes, straight to analog tape, at Delmark Riverside Studio; Vinyl; Download released on April 11) | Delmark |
| I’m With Her | “Wild and Clear and Blue” (second album from Grammy-winning folk trio of Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan and Sara Watkins; new single: “Find My Way to You”; See here; Blue Eco-Mix Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Rounder / Concord |
| Bob James | Dave Koz | “Just Us” (piano-and-saxophone collaboration, featuring originals and re-imaginings of Great American Songbook standards; new single: “New Hope”; Hear here; Vinyl) | Just Koz Entertainment |
| Sheku Kanneh-Mason | “Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2; Britten: Cello Sonata” (performed with John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Decca |
| The Kooks | “Never/Know” (Brighton rock band’s seventh album, featuring a cover of Wings’ “Arrow Through Me”; new single: “Never Know”; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Virgin Music Group |
| Laibach | “Alamut” (Double CD; new original symphonic work, featuring RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Human Voice Ensemble, Gallina Vocal Group, AccordiOna Accordion Orchestra and Navid Gohari; new single: “Fedayeen”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Mute |
| Leftover Salmon | “Let’s Party About It” (their 13th album marks their 35th anniversary; guests: Sam Bush, Del McCoury, Jason Carter, Jeff Coffin, et al; new single: “Big Wheel”; Hear here; Deep Yellow / Purple Twisted Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Compass |
| Little Feat | “Strike Up the Band” (guests: Larkin Poe, Molly Tuttle, Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams; new single: “Too High to Cut My Hair”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Hot Tomato Productions |
| Mclusky | “the world is still here and so are we” (indie rock band’s fourth album and first in 21 years; producers: Mclusky, Anthony Chapman; new singles: “way of the exploding dickhead” and “unpopular parts of a pig”; See here; Baby Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Ipecac Recordings |
| Maren Morris | “Dreamsicle” (her fourth album; producers: Jack Antonoff, Greg Kurstin; new single: “bed no breakfast”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Columbia |
| Peter Murphy | “Silver Shade” (producer: Youth; new single: “Swoon”; Hear here; Vinyl) | Metropolis |
| PARTYNEXTDOOR & Drake | “$ome $exy $ongs 4 U” (debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart; Double Red Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Clear Double Vinyl; Cassette; Download released on Feb. 14) | OVO Sound / Santa Anna / Republic |
| 98º | “Full Circle” (vocal group’s seventh album and first since 2017; five new songs and five rerecorded hits; producers: Aaron Ellsworth, Adam H. Hurstfield, Anders Bagge, Cameron Mitchell, Dave Audé, Jeff Timmons, Noah Conrad, Paul Duncan; new single: “Got U”; Hear here; Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Orange Smoke Vinyl, with poster; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | XOXO Entertainment |
| PinkPantheress | “Fancy That” (U.K. star’s sophomore mixtape; producer: PinkPantheress; new single: “Tonight”; See here; Read here; Red Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | 300 Entertainment / Warner UK |
| Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke | “Tall Tales” (their first collaborative album; new single: “This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice”; See here; Read here; Deluxe Edition, in casebound sleeve with 36-page suspended booklet, debossed cover with tipped in central image; Double Vinyl; Vinyl Deluxe Edition, two LPs in polylined paper inners, housed in casebound sleeve with printed sleeves held in front and back cover, 36 page suspended booklet, debossed cover with tipped in central image; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Warp |
| QUINQUIS | “eor” (Breton musician and songwriter Émilie Quinquis’ second album; producers: Quinquis, Gareth Jones; new single: “Dec’h”; See here; Blue of the Water Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Mute |
| Röyksopp | “True Electric” (Double CD; 19 studio versions of the music from their True Electric tour in 2023, featuring previously unreleased track “The ‘R'” as well as newly reworked versions of originals and remixes taken from their catalog; new single: “What Else Is There?”; See here; Read here; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Dog Triumph |
| Blake Shelton | “For Recreational Use Only” (producer: Scott Hendricks; guests: wife Gwen Stefani, Craig Morgan, John Anderson; new single: “Let Him In Anyway”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | BBR Music Group / BMG Nashville |
| Skinny Lister | “Songs From the Yonder” (London indie band’s seventh album; producer: frontman Dan Heptinstall; new single: “Yorkshire Belle”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Xtra Mile Recordings |
| Sleep Token | “Even in Arcadia” (alt-metal band’s fourth album; producer: Carl Bown; new single: “Damocles”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Hot Topic-Exclusive Metallic Marble Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | RCA |
| Sleigh Bells | “Bunky Becky Birthday Boy” (noise-pop duo’s seventh album; new single: “Bunky Pop”; See here; Read here; Clear with Pink and Blue Splatter Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on April 4; On Tour) | Mom+Pop Music |
| Spacey Jane | “If That Makes Sense” (Australian indie rock band’s third album; producer: Mike Crossey; new single: “All the Noise”; See here; Read here; Translucent Ruby Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Fantasy / Concord |
| Tetrarch | “The Ugly Side of Me” (nu-metal quartet’s third album; producers: Dave Otero, lead guitarist Diamond Rowe, singer-guitarist Josh Fore; new single: “Never Again [Parasite]”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Napalm |
| Toilet Rats | “Synth Redux Vol. 1” (stripped-down, synth-punk resurrection of fan favorites; new single: “Drug Bird”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette) | Steadfast |
| Kali Uchis | “Sincerely,” (her fifth album; new single: “ILYSMIH”; Hear here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD; Pink Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Vintage Bottle Vinyl, with poster + alternate artwork; Download; Apple Music) | Capitol |
| Jack Van Cleaf | “JVC” (Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s second album; guests: Zach Bryan, Gaitlin; new single: “Smoker”; See here; Double Vinyl, with three bonus tracks; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Dualtone |
| Brandon Woody | “For the Love of It All” (Baltimore trumpeter-composer’s debut album, with his band Upendo; new single: “Real Love, Pt. 1”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Blue Note |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Alex Orange Drink | “Victory Lap (#23)” (third solo release from Alex Zarou Levine, lead singer of Brooklyn punk band The So So Glos; guests: label owner Conor Oberst, Sadhis Rivas; new single: “Everything Is Broken”; Hear here) | Million Stars |
| The Amazons | “21st Century Fiction” (British rock band’s fourth album; producer: Catherine Marks; new single: “Pitch Black”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Nettwerk |
| Forrest Frank | “CHILD OF GOD II” (Texas-based, Grammy-nominated Christian artist’s eighth album; 20 songs; guests: Thomas Rhett, Nathan Davis Jr., Limoblaze; new single: “Woke Up This Morning”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | River House / 10K Projects |
| Ben Gallaher | “Bullet” (five-song EP; producers: Neil Thrasher, Patrick Thrasher; new singles: “Kinda Can’t Say No” and “Cuts Like a Knife”; See here; Apple Music) | Quartz Hill / Stone Country |
| Jazzanova | “In Between Revisited: Jazzanova Live” (Berlin-based collective reimagines its sample-based debut album “In Between” 20 years after its release; nine-song session recorded at Little Big Beat Studios in Liechtenstein; new single: “Another New Day”; Apple Music) | Sonar Kollektiv |
| Arlo McKinley | “Live At The Burl” (recorded over two sold-out nights in May 2024 at the Lexington, KY venue; Hear here; Apple Music) | Oh Boy |
| Idina Menzel, et al | “Redwood (Original Broadway Cast Recording)” (cast includes De’Adre Aziza, Michael Park, Zachary Noah Piser, et al; producers: Neil Avron, Kate Diaz; orchestrations and arrangements by Diaz; new single: “In the Leaves”; See here; CD out June 13; Double Vinyl out July 25; Apple Music; On Broadway) | Masterworks Broadway, May 13 |
| Moncrieff | “maybe it’s fine.” (Irish singer-songwriter’s debut album; producers: Mark Elliott, Max Cooke, Moncrieff; new single: “Hard Feelings”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Parlophone |
| Jake Wesley Rogers | “In the Key of Love” (Missouri-born pop artist’s debut album; producers: Dallas Caton, Eren Cannata, Rogers, Mike Sabath; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour, with Cyndi Lauper) | Facet Records / Warner |
| Dan Wilson | “good night, los angeles” (Grammy-winning musician-producer’s 18-song collection of improvised piano meditations recorded on a restored piano from 1918; new single: “laurel”; See here; Apple Music) | Ballroom Recordings, LLC |
| billy woods | “Golliwog” (producers: The Alchemist, Kenny Segal, ELP, Conductor Williams, Preservation, Messiah Musik, Sadhugold, Ant[Atmosphere], Shabaka Hutchings, Steel Tipped Dove, DJ Haram, WillieGreen, Jeff Markey, Saint Abdullah, Human Error Club; guests: ELUCID, Cavalier, Bruiser Wolf, Despot, Al. Divino, Yolanda Watson; new single: “Misery”; Hear here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out June 27; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour) | Backwoodz Studioz |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | “Classic Albums 1960-62” (five albums on three CDs) | Acrobat |
| Butthole Surfers | “Live at the Leather Fly” (21-track live album’s origins, the “where” or “when” it was recorded, are shrouded in mystery; mixed by guitarist Paul Leary and mastered by Gene Grimaldo at Oasis Mastering; Hear here; Opaque Pink Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Sunset Blvd. |
| Johnny Cash | “The Complete Columbia Albums 1958-62” (three CDs, 89 tracks from eight of his Columbia albums; Merch) | Acrobat |
| Eric Clapton | “Unplugged: Enhanced Edition” (Double CD; 1992 album, featuring “Layla” and “Tears in Heaven”; the best-selling live album of all time and winner of three Grammys, including Album of the Year; remastered; Japan Exclusive; Double Vinyl; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) | Surfdog / Eric Clapton |
| Petula Clark | “Solitude & Sunshine: The Songs of Rod McKuen” (14-song album from 2007, originally only available on McKuen’s website and Clark’s fan club; with six bonus tracks; Amazon UK) | Real Gone Music |
| Jesse Ed Davis | “Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day: The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971” (17-song collection; remastered by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision; Amazon UK) | Real Gone Music |
| Jackie DeShannon | “Love Forever: Demo Recordings 1966-68” (10 of the 16 tracks are previously unreleased; Amazon UK) | Real Gone Music |
| The Fixx | “Phantoms” (1984 album, featuring “Are We Ourselves?,” “Sunshine in the Shade” and “Less Cities, More Moving People”; On Tour) | Music on CD |
| George Harrison | “Wonderwall Music” (Eco-Wallet CD; 1968 debut solo album) “Electronic Sound” (Eco-Wallet CD; 1969 album) “All Things Must Pass” (Eco-Wallet Double CD; 1970 album, featuring “My Sweet Lord,” “Isn’t It a Pity” and “What Is Life”) “Dark Horse” (Eco-Wallet CD; 1974 album, featuring the title track and “Ding Dong, Ding Dong”; Vinyl) “Extra Texture” (Eco-Wallet CD; 1975 album, featuring “You”; it was his final LP under his Apple Records contract; Vinyl) “Thirty Three & 1⁄3” (Vinyl; 1976 album, featuring “This Song” and “Crackerbox Palace”) “Early Takes: Volume 1” (Eco-Wallet CD; 10-song compilation of outtakes and demos, released posthumously in 2012) | Dark Horse / BMG Rights Management |
| Murray Head | “Say It Ain’t So – Live!” (Double CD; 2023 album) | Broken Silence |
| INXS | “Listen Like Thieves (40th Anniversary Extended Edition)” (Double CD; 1985 album, featuring “What You Need,” “This Time” and “Kiss the Dirt [Falling Down the Mountain]”; new stereo mix by Giles Martin and Paul Hicks, with a selection of B-sides, remixes and live recordings; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Rhino / Atlantic |
| Wanda Jackson | “The Classic Albums Collection” (eight albums on four CDs) | Enlightenment |
| Lamb | “An Extension of Now: Unreleased Recordings 1968-1969” (19 songs; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Real Gone Music |
| Nellie McKay | “Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos” (18 previously unreleased demos for her 2004 debut album; mastered by Michael Graves; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) | Omnivore Recordings |
| Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys | “The Father of Bluegrass: The Singles Collection 1940-60” (three-CD, 80-track compilation, featuring A- and B-sides on Bluebird, Columbia and Decca) | Acrobat |
| Carly Pearce | “hummingbird: no rain, no flowers (deluxe)” (Amazon-Exclusive CD; 2024 album; with five new tracks; new single: “no rain”; See here; Download released on March 14; Apple Music; On Tour) | Big Machine |
| Pearl Harbor & the Explosions | “Pearl Harbor & the Explosions (Expanded Edition)” (1980 album, featuring “Drivin'” and “You Got It [Release It]”; with seven bonus tracks; Download) | Liberation Hall |
| Art Pepper | “An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert” (U.K. release; Double CD; previously unreleased set from 1980, recorded at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival; See here; Double Vinyl, audio transferred from the original stereo tape reels and mastered by Matthew Lutthans at the Mastering Lab) | Elemental Music |
| Pezband | “Best of Pezband” (remixed and remastered) | Pavement Music |
| Pilot | “The Singles Collection” (two CDs, 31 songs, featuring “Magic,” “January,” “Just a Smile” and “Monday Tuesday”; Read here; Amazon UK) | Glam / 7Ts / Cherry Red |
| Rilo Kiley | “That’s How We Choose to Remember It” (11-track best-of; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Saddle Creek |
| Sly & The Family Stone | “SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)“ (Questlove’s new documentary features seven rare edits and previously unreleased alternate versions, along with three unreleased new edits by Questlove and remixer-producer J.PERIOD; Read here; Trailer; Double Vinyl; Download released on Feb. 13; Apple Music) | Epic / Legacy |
| Steeler | “Come Hell or Hollywood … 1981-1982” (16-track retrospective of the Hollywood heavy metal band; Double Vinyl; Double Red Vinyl; Double Yellow Vinyl; Amazon.ca) | Lost Realm |
| Cat Stevens | “Teaser and the Firecat” (1971 album, featuring “Peace Train,” “Moonshadow” and “Morning Has Broken”) | A&M / UMe |
| Al Stewart | “Live At Radio Bremen TV (Musikladen Extra November 7, 1979)” (14 songs; Hear here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour) | Made in Germany Music |
| Stiff Little Fingers | “The Singles 1978-1983” (two CDs, 30 tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Captain Oi! / Cherry Red |
| Translator | “Beyond Today: Live at The Farm – San Francisco 1986” (CD and digital versions contain two new studio tracks, recorded in 2023; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download) | Liberation Hall |
| Various artists | “40 Country Hits” (two-CD collection; Amazon UK) | Not Now Music |
| Wang Chung | “Clear Light / Dark Matter” (Double CD; 21-track retrospective, including an Eric Kupper remix of “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”; See here; White and Black Ice Double Vinyl; Clear with Black Speckle Vinyl, 10 tracks; On Tour, with Rick Springfield) | SING / Symphonic / AMPED Distribution |
| The Weeknd | “Hurry Up Tomorrow (Complete Edition)” (Double CD; featuring all 22 standard tracks from the 2025 album, initially available as download; Double Vinyl; On Tour; Merch) | XO / Republic |
INXS | Kali Uchis | Blake Shelton | Rilo Kiley | Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings | Air Supply | Ray Barretto + many more