New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Austra | “Chip Up Buttercup” (fifth album from the pop project of Katie Austra Stelmanis; producers: Stelmanis, Kieran Adams; new single: “Math Equation”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   | Domino |
| AVTT/PTTN | “AVTT/PTTN” (debut collaborative album for Scott and Seth Avett and Mike Patton; producers: Patton, Scott Avett, Dana Nielsen; new single: “Eternal Love”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Ramseur / Ipecac Recordings / Thirty Tigers |
| The Bros. Landreth | “Dog Ear” (Americana band’s fourth album; producers: Joey Landreth, Dave Landreth, Murray Pulver, Roman Clarke; guests: Bonnie Raitt, Begonia; new single: “Knuckles”; Hear here; Read here; Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Birthday Cake |
| Robert Callender | “Rainbow: The Anniversary Concert” (CD + DVD; first live performance of his 1968 debut album in its entirety, in Orlando, with a four-piece string quartet, the musical backing of Golden Flower, as well as sitarist and tabla players; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Think Like a Key Music |
| Lewis Capaldi | “Survive” (four-song EP; new single: “Almost”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Capitol |
| Celeste | “Woman of Faces” (British-Jamaican singer-songwriter’s sophomore album; producer: Jeff Bhasker; new single: “On With the Show”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Polydor |
| Cheap Trick | “All Washed Up” (Rock and Roll Hall of Famers’ 21st album; producers: Cheap Trick, Julian Raymond; new single: “Twelve Gates”; See here; Read here; Graphite Marble Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | BMG Rights Management |
| The Devil Wears Prada | “Flowers” (Ohio metalcore band’s ninth studio album; producers: keyboardist Jonathan Gering, Austin Coupe, MYTH; new singles: “Where the Flowers Never Grow” and “Wave”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Solid State |
| JJJJJerome Ellis | “Vesper Sparrow” (Virginia multi-instrumentalist’s second album; producers: Ellis, James Harrison Monaco; new single: “Vesper Sparrow”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Shelter Press |
| 5 Seconds of Summer | “Everyone’s a Star!” (Australian band’s sixth album; producers: Jason Evigan, Mark Schick; new single: “Boyband”; Hear here; Read here; Neon Pink Glitter Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Blue Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Highlighter Yellow Glitter Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Republic |
| Jonny Greenwood | “One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (dark comedy/action thriller opened Sept. 26, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Sept. 26; Apple Music) | Nonesuch |
| Ed Harcourt | “Orphic” (new single: “The Low Spirits”; See here; On Tour) | Deathless Recordings |
| Jonas Brothers | “A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (Original Soundtrack)” (streaming on Disney+ and Hulu on Nov. 14; featuring seven new Jonas Brothers songs, including “Coming Home This Christmas” with Kenny G; Trailer; Emerald Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Hollywood |
| Dave McMurray | “I LOVE LIFE even when I’m hurting” (saxophonist’s fourth Blue Note album; producers: McMurray, Don Was; recorded with a cast of Detroit musicians, including bassists Was and Ibrahim Jones, keyboardists Luis Resto and Maurice O’Neal, guitarist Wayne Gerard, drummer Jeff Canady, percussionist Mahindi Masai, and vocalist Herschel Boone; new single: a cover of Al Jarreau’s “We Got By,” feat. Kem; See here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Blue Note |
| Tony Molina | “On This Day” (21 tracks; producers: Molina, wife Alicia Vanden Heuvel; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Slumberland / Olde Fade / Speakeasy Studios SF |
| Steve Morse Band | “Triangulation” (their first new music since 2009; guests: Eric Johnson, John Petrucci, Scott Sim, father Kevin Morse; new single: “Break Through”; See here; Read here; Orange Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Music Theories Recordings |
| NF | “FEAR” (five-song EP; producers: NF, Jeff Sojka; guests: mgk; James Arthur; Download) | NF Real Music LLC / Capitol CMG |
| Of Mice & Men | “Another Miracle” (their ninth studio album; produced, mixed and mastered by frontman Aaron Pauley; new single: “Flowers”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Century Media |
| Pavement | “PAVEMENTS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (2024 biopic film, which went into wide release on June 6; soundtrack includes dialogue snippets, scenes from the fake Oscar-bait biopic “Range Life,” and cast recordings from the “Slanted! Enchanted!” jukebox musical, as well as live and rehearsal recordings from the group’s 2021 reunion tour, etc.; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on May 30; Apple Music) | Matador |
| The Steel Wheels | “The Steel Wheels” (Virginia-based Americana band’s ninth album, marking their 20th anniversary; producers: D. James Goodwin, The Steel Wheels; new single: “Chase It All Away”; Hear here; On Tour) | Big Ring |
| Kalia Vandever | “Another View” (jazz/alternative trombonist-composer’s new quartet features Mary Halvorson, Kanoa Mendenhall and Kayvon Gordon; new single: “Cycle In Mourning”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music) | Northern Spy |
| Various artists | “No Life ‘Til Leather – A Tribute to Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All” (featuring covers by members of Saxon, Diamond Head, Motörhead, Testament, et al; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Merch) > Kill ‘Em All 🎯 | Silver Lining Music |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call Music! 122” (U.K. version; 41 hits on two CDs; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Various artists | “Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (film starring Michael B. Jordan, Jack O’Connell, Saul Williams, Audrene Ward-Hammond, et al, opened on April 18; Double Vinyl; Download released on April 18) | Mutant / Sony Masterworks |
| Anna von Hausswolff | “ICONOCLASTS” (Swedish artist’s sixth album and first in five years; producers: von Hausswolff, Filip Leyman; guests: Iggy Pop, Ethel Cain; new singles: “Stardust” and “The Whole Woman”; See here; Double Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Clear Double Vinyl; Download released on Oct. 31; On Tour) | Year0001 |
| Rufus Wainwright | “I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Wainwright Does Weill” (15-track tribute to German-American composer Kurt Weill, with the Pacific Jazz Orchestra; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) | Rock and Roll Credit Card |
| Summer Walker | “Finally Over It” (Grammy-nominated R&B singer’s third album, featuring her 2024 hit “Heart of a Woman”; See here; Read here; Translucent Light Blue Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | LVRN / Interscope |
| Colter Wall | “Memories and Empties” (his fifth album; recorded live at historic RCA Studio A; Opaque Bone Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | La Honda Records / RCA |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Kelsea Ballerina | “Mount Pleasant” (six-song EP; new single: “I Sit in Parks”; See here; Apple Music) | Black River Entertainment |
| Hélène Barbier | “Panorama” (Montreal-based singer and bassist’s third album; producers: Emmanuel Éthier, Barbier; new single: “Lapin”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Bonsound |
| Jeff Bates | “Don’t Hold Me to It” (country singer’s first album in more than a decade; new single: “Good Man Going Home [Charlie’s Song]”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Tall Grass |
| Blondshell | “Another Picture” (“If You Asked for a Picture” companion album features covers of her songs by Folk Bitch Trio, Conor Oberst, and Samia, along with new songs with Gigi Perez and John Glacier, plus one live track; new single: “Arms”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Partisan |
| Ashley Cooke | “ace” (country singer-songwriter’s second album; producer: Dann Huff; new single: “the hell you are”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Big Loud / Mercury |
| Ethan Daniel Davidson | “Lear” (Detroit singer-songwriter’s 14th studio album; producers: Luther Dickinson, David Katznelson; guests: Duane Betts, Alvin Youngblood Hart; new single: “Stop Breaking Down”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Blue Arrow |
| Dick Move | “Dream, Believe, Achieve” (Aotearoa punk quintet’s third album; producer: Peter Ruddell; new single: “Nurses”; See here; Apple Music) | Flying Nun |
| Good Health Good Wealth | “This Time Next Year, We’ll Be Millionaires!“ (London duo’s debut album; new single: “This Time Next Year, We’ll Be Millionaires”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Good Health Good Wealth |
| Greenness | “Honeymoons” (Franco-English duo’s second album; new single: “Psychopomps”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | One Fern Records |
| The Klezmatics | “Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah“ (2006 album; most of the lyrics written by Guthrie in 1949; remastered) | Shamus Records / TRO Essex Music Group |
| Men Without Hats | “Men Without Hats On The Moon” (Canadian synth-pop band’s ninth album; producer: Brian Howes; new single: “In Glorious Days”; Hear here; On Tour) | Shocore Music / MWH Entertainment |
| Murals | “Murals” (progressive post-hardcore trio’s seven-song debut EP; new single: “tough”; See here; Apple Music) | Equal Vision |
| The Neighbourhood | “(((((ultraSOUND)))))” (alt-rock band’s first album since 2020; producer: Jono Dorr; new singles: “Private,” “Lovebomb” and “OMG”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Warner |
| Obongjayar | “Paradise Now & Forever” (deluxe version of his 2025 album “Paradise Now,” with four bonus tracks; new single: “Give Me More”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | September Recordings, Nov. 20 |
| OSLO | “The Great Divide” (L.A. indie rock trio’s six-song EP; new single: “Accidental Tourist”; Apple Music; On Tour) | OSLOBAND MUSIC |
| Orville Peck | “Appaloosa” (seven-song EP; new single: “Drift Away”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Warner |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Blackberry Smoke | “Rattle, Ramble & Roll: The Best of Blackberry Smoke — Volume One” (Double CD; 22-track compilation includes two previously unreleased songs, “We Got Company” and “Southern Child [Live]”; Triple Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | 3 Legged Records |
| The Black Crowes | “Amorica (Super Deluxe Edition)” (Triple CD; 1994 album, featuring “Wiser Time”; newly remastered, sourced from the original 1/4″ production master tapes and featuring three “Amorica”-era bonus tracks; disc 2 features 14 previously unreleased recordings, including “Tallest,” nine newly mixed songs recorded during the sessions for “Tall,” an unreleased album the band worked on before Amorica but was scrapped by Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson; disc 3 contains “Marie Laveau Sessions,” a seven-song recording session from 1992 recorded at Kingsway Studios in New Orleans, plus “Live at AIR Studios, London, October 25, 1994″; box set also contains 20″ x 30” poster, fanzine and bumper sticker; Hear here; Vinyl, five-LP box set; Amazon UK; Download, 34 tracks; Apple Music; On Tour) | American Recordings / UMe |
| Christopher Cross | “All Right: The Worldwide Singles 1980-1988” (Double CD; 31 tracks, featuring 20 singles and 11 B-sides; remastered by Michael Graves; Read here; Translucent Pink and Green Double Vinyl; On Tour) | Omnivore Recordings |
| A Day to Remember | “What Separates Me From You (15th Anniversary)” (2010 album; includes a bonus acoustic version of their hit single “All I Want”; Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl; On Tour, with Yellowcard) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
| Doves | “So, Here We Are: Best of Doves” (Double CD; 19-track collection of singles, album tracks and rarities; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | EMI North |
| Drive-By Truckers | “The Definitive Decoration Day” (Triple CD; 2003 album “Decoration Day,” the first to feature Jason Isbell on guitar; remixed and remastered, with previously unreleased double album “Heathens Live at Flicker Bar, Athens, GA – June 20, 2002”; Hear here; Vinyl, four-LP box set, with 40-page full-color book filled with rare photos, artwork, and a new essay from DBT biographer Stephen Deusner; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | New West |
| Ian Dury | “Too Nutty to Be Naughty: Studio Recordings 1977-2002” (nine-CD box set contains the remastered albums “New Boots and Panties!!,” “Do It Yourself,” “Laughter,” “Lord Upminster,” “4,000 Weeks’ Holiday,” “Apples,” “The Bus Driver’s Prayer & Other Stories,” “Mr. Love Pants” and “Ten More Turnips From the Tip”) | Edsel / Demon Music Group |
| Everything But the Girl | “The Best of Everything But the Girl” (16 tracks on one CD, with 16-page booklet; mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Buzzin’ Fly / Chrysalis |
| Bryan Ferry | “Bête Noire (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1987 album, featuring “The Right Stuff” and “Kiss and Tell”; with remixes, packaged in Japanese-style oversized sleeve; Purple Vinyl, without bonus tracks; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) | BMG Rights Management |
| Ella Fitzgerald | “Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Volume 2” (three CDs, 50 songs; Download) | Verve / UMe |
| Green Day | “Warning (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (4CD Box Set; 2000 album, featuring “Warning,” “Waiting” and “Minority”; remastered, with eight unreleased demos, two unreleased mixes, B-sides and other rarities, along with a 21-track “Live at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan, March 18, 2001” and a 32-page book, cloth patch, button set and sticker; See here; Orange Vinyl, original album; Green, Yellow and Orange Vinyl, five-LP box set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Reprise |
| Josh Groban | “Hidden Gems” (10 rarities and one new track, “The Constant”; See here; Download; Apple Music) | Reprise |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain | “Psychocandy (40th Anniversary Edition)” (1985 debut album, featuring “Just Like Honey,” “Never Understand” and “You Trip Me Up”; remastered; Vinyl, cut by Warren Defever at Third Man Mastering, using super high definition 192khz transfers of the original mix) | Third Man |
| Davy Jones | “Davy Jones – Music and Memories: The MGM Recordings” (rare and long-out-of-print singles, alongside selections from his starring role as Oblio in the London stage production of Harry Nilsson’s “The Point”; with 16-page color booklet; Read here; Amazon UK) | 7a Records |
| Nicolette Larson | “Look In My Direction: The Warner Bros. Recordings” (four-CD, 57-track collection includes her original Warner albums and bonus tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Lemon / The Second Disc / Cherry Red |
| Mötley Crüe | “Theatre of Pain (40th Anniversary)” (1985 album, featuring “Smokin’ in the Boys Room” and “Home Sweet Home”; remastered; Vinyl; Vinyl Box Set, four multicolor splatter LPs, with hardcover book, “Live From Long Beach 1985,” demos and session mixes; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | BMG Rights Management |
| Oasis | “Familiar to Millions” (Double CD; 2000 live album, recorded at Wembley Stadium; Triple Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Red and Black Marble Triple Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Blue Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour; Merch) | Big Brother Recordings |
| Sister Irene O’Connor | “Fire of God’s Love” (1973 album of original folk spirituals; restored and remastered from the best available sources by Jessica Thompson, with liner notes and 18-page lyric booklet; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Freedom To Spend |
| Pavement | “Hecklers Choice: Big Gums and Heavy Lifters – A Pavement Collection” (12-song compilation; remastered; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on Sept. 18; Apple Music) | Matador |
| Propaganda | “A Secret Sense of Rhythm : A Secret Sense of Sin (The Complete ZTT Propaganda)” (six-CD box set contains their 1985 debut album, “A Secret Wish,” featuring “Duel” and “Dr. Mabuse”; remastered at Abbey Road Studios, along an extended version of the remix album “Wishful Thinking” and three EPs originally released only on cassette, plus a collection of demos, singles, outtakes and unreleased material; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl, original remastered album “A Secret Wish”; Amazon UK) | ZTT |
| The Rolling Stones | “Black and Blue (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1976 album, featuring “Fool to Cry” and “Memory Motel”; with a new Steven Wilson mix and unreleased outtakes; Standard CD; Super Deluxe Edition, four CDs and one Blu-ray, containing a live recording from their 1976 Earls Court show, a previously unreleased live TV recording from Paris, Dolby Atmos mixes, a 100-page hardcover book with a new essay by Stones expert Paul Sexton, including an interview with Ronnie Wood, and a Paris show poster; Standard Vinyl; Super Deluxe Vinyl Edition, five LPs and one Blu-ray; Download, 35 tracks; Apple Music; Merch) | Interscope / UMe |
| Roxette | “Don’t Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! Roxette’s Greatest Hits (30th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 1995 compilation; with two bonus tracks; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Parlophone |
| Split Enz | “ENZyclopedia – Volumes One & Two” (five-CD box set features their first two albums – “Mental Notes” [1975] and “Second Thoughts” [1976] – plus a collection of singles, previously unreleased and rare material and the band’s 1975 Ormond Hall show; remastered by Phil Kinrade at AIR Studios in London; Hear here; Read here; Triple Vinyl, lacquers cut by Harry Rudkins at AIR Studios, pressed on 140-gram vinyl, housed in heavy-stock inner sleeves within a rigid slipcase, accompanied by an obi-strip, and a 40-page booklet; Amazon UK; Download) | Chrysalis |
| Gwen Stefani | “You Make It Feel Like Christmas (Deluxe Edition)” (Amazon-Exclusive CD; 2017 album; with two bonus tracks: “Shake the Snow Globe” and “Hot Cocoa”; Amazon-Exclusive Snow and Baby Pink Double Vinyl) | Interscope / UMe |
| Tears For Fears | “Songs From the Big Chair (Deluxe Edition)” (Triple CD; 1985 album, featuring “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” “Shout,” “Head Over Heels” and “Mothers Talk”; remastered, with B-sides, alternate versions, and remixes; Hear here; Transparent Red Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Las Vegas Residency; Merch) | Mercury / UMe |
| Various artists | “The Chess Records Christmas Album” (14 holiday classics and hidden gems from the legendary Chicago label, including Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolph Run”; Blue Frost Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Verve / Interscope / UMe |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call an Era – Disco: 1973>1980” (four CDs, 88 tracks; Blue, Violet and Pink Triple Vinyl, 48 tracks; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
