New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Clay Aiken | “Christmas Bells Are Ringing!” (his seventh album and first since 2012; producer: Ron Fair; new single: “Do You Hear What I Hear?”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)   | Alvis Records |
| Black Pumas | “Live From Brooklyn Paramount” (Double CD; 16-track set, recorded in 2024, captures the “Electric Church” live experience created by Eric Burton, Adrian Quesada and their six-piece band; includes their version of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car”; Hear here; Brooklyn Brownstone Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | ATO |
| Body Count | “Merciless” (guests: former Killswitch Engage vocalist Howard Jones, Max Cavalera, Fit For An Autopsy’s Joe Bad, Cannibal Corpse’s Corpsegrinder; new single: “Comfortably Numb,” feat. David Gilmour; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Century Media |
| Zach Bryan | “The Great American Bar Scene” (producer: Bryan; new single: “Pink Skies”; Hear here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Download released on July 4; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Belting Bronco/ Warner |
| Jay Chang | “Neighborhood” (ONE PACT member’s second mini album; Hear here) | Warner Music Korea |
| Chicago | “Chicago & Friends: Live at 55” (Nov. 17-18, 2023, concerts at Atlantic City’s Ovation Hall to celebrate 55 years of their debut album “The Chicago Transit Authority”; aired on PBS stations on May 31; guests: Robin Thicke, Chris Daughtry, Steve Vai, VoicePlay, Judith Hill, Robert Randolph and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram; See here; DVD + Double CD; Blu-ray + Double CD; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Mercury Studios |
| Crossbone Skully | “Evil World Machine” (rock quintet’s debut album; executive producer: Mutt Lange; guests: Phil Collen, Nikki Sixx; new single: “High On You”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Better Noise Music |
| Kim Deal | “Nobody Loves You More” (full-length debut solo album from the Pixies / Breeders member; the record’s last recording was helmed by engineer and Deal’s close friend Steve Albini, tracking “A Good Time Pushed”; Albini died in May 2024; new single: “Crystal Breath”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Indie-Exclusive Orange Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | 4AD |
| Father John Misty | “Mahashmashana” (Josh Tillman’s sixth album; producers: Tillman, Drew Erickson, Michael Harris; executive producer: Jonathan Wilson; new single: “Screamland”; See here; Double Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sub Pop |
| Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, et al | “Wicked: The Soundtrack” (opens in theaters on Nov. 22; music and lyrics by composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz; “Wicked Part Two” is scheduled to arrive in theaters in November 2025; Trailer; Target-Exclusive CD, with fold-out poster; Double Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Split Pink + Green Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Cinemark Showtimes; Merch) | Republic |
| Natalie Imbruglia | “London – Live” (18-track set, recorded on Oct. 12, 2022, at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Edsel |
| Killer Mike | “Michael & The Mighty Midnight Revival: Songs For Sinners & Saints” (guests: Offset, Anthony Hamilton, Troy Durden, Key Glock, Project Pat, Jori, Adonica Nunn, Lena Byrd Miles, et al; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download released on Aug. 2; On Tour) | Loma Vista Recordings / Concord |
| Michael Kiwanuka | “Small Changes” (his fourth album; producers: Danger Mouse, Inflo; new single: “Lowdown”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Brittany Howard) | Geffen / Polydor |
| Marilyn Manson | “One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1” (producer: Tyler Bates; new single: “Sacrilegious”; Hear here; Target-Exclusive CD, with alternate O-card packaging; Red Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Black Ghostly Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nuclear Blast |
| Opeth | “The Last WILL and TESTAMENT” (Swedish progressive metal band’s 14th studio album and first in five years; strings conducted and co-arranged by Dave Stewart; guests: Ian Anderson, Joey Tempest; new single: “§1”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Gold Opaque Vinyl; Blu-ray; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Reigning Phoenix Music |
| The Philly Specials | “A Philly Special Christmas Party” (third and final holiday charity album from Philadelphia Eagles players; producer: The War on Drugs drummer Charlie Hall; guests: Stevie Nicks, Boyz II Men, Mt. Joy, Travis Kelce, Devon Gilfillian, Immanuel Wilkins, Kylie Kelce; first single: “It’s Christmas Time [In Cleveland Heights]”; Read here; Download; Apple Music) | Vera Y Records |
| Razorlight | “Planet Nowhere” (English indie-rock band’s fifth album and first since 2018; producer: Youth; new single: “Empire Service”; Hear here; Amazon-Exclusive CD, with alternate cover; White Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Transparent Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Oct. 25; Apple Music; On Tour) | V2 |
| Seven Hours After Violet | “Seven Hours After Violet” (new metalcore band formed by System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian; new single: “Cry”; See here; Translucent Black Ice Vinyl, with download card; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on Oct. 11) | Sumerian |
| Smashing Pumpkins | “Aghori Mhori Mei” (their 13th album; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Aug. 2; Apple Music; On Tour) | Martha’s Music / Thirty Tigers |
| Van Zant | “Always Look Up” (first Christian rock album from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Johnny Van Zant and 38 Special’s Donnie Van Zant; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Frontiers Music s.r.l. |
| Various artists | “Sunset Blvd.: The Album” (Double CD; cast recording at the Savoy Theatre in London’s West End, featuring Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond; Broadway previews begin on Sept. 28; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Oct. 25; On Broadway) | The Other Songs Records |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Joan Armatrading | “How Did This Happen and What Does It Now Mean” (her 13th album; producer: Armatrading; new single: “I’m Not Moving”; See here; CD and Vinyl out Jan. 21, 2025; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | BMG Rights Management |
| Ice Cube | “Man Down” (N.W.A. alum’s 11th album and first since 2018; guests: Snoop Dogg, Too Short, E-40, Xzibit, B-Real, Busta Rhymes, Kurupt, October London, et al; new single: “Ego Maniacs”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Lench Mob Records / Hitmaker Distro |
| Bella Mackenzie | “WILD THING” (seven-song debut EP from country singer who was a semifinalist on “The Voice Australia” in 2023; producer: Jacky McCormack; new single: “WASTED”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Island Records Australia |
| Jonathan Thomas Miller | “Environments for a Burning Planet II” (part of his three-part solo album series; Apple Music) | Shoegaze Publishing |
| Various artists | “Moana 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (animated sequel opens Nov. 27; original songs by Abigail Barlow, Emily Bear, Opetaia Foa’i, and Mark Mancina; voice cast includes Auliʻi Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Temuera Morrison and Nicole Scherzinger; Trailer; CD and Vinyl out Jan. 10, 2025; Apple Music; Merch; Disney Store) | Walt Disney |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Addrisi Brothers | “We’ve Got To Get It On Again: Stereo Singles Collection” (27 songs on one CD) | Choice Collection |
| The Allman Brothers Band | “Final Concert 10-28-14” (Triple CD; 10th anniversary of their career-ending run of shows at their home base, NYC’s Beacon Theatre; Download released on Oct. 25) | Peach Records / The Orchard |
| Black Star | “No Fear of Time” (2022 album; producer: Madlib; Vinyl) | Rhymesayers Entertainment |
| Bon Jovi | “Bon Jovi (Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1984 debut album, featuring “Runaway”; remastered, with nine bonus tracks, five of them previously unreleased; Merch) | Island / UMe |
| Jerry Butler | “Soul Artistry / Mr. Dream Merchant / The Soul Goes On / The Ice Man Cometh” (his first four albums for Mercury Records, from 1967 and 1968, on two CDs; remastered; Amazon UK) | BGO |
| Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan | “Ballad of the Broken Seas” (2006 album; Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Cooking Vinyl |
| Can | “Can Live in Keele 1977” (Hear here; Amazon UK; Download) | Mute |
| Eva Cassidy | “Walkin’ After Midnight” (12 previously unreleased live tracks, recorded on Nov. 2, 1995, at the King of France Tavern in Annapolis; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl out Jan. 10, 2025; Download; Apple Music) | Blix Street |
| Clannad | “Legend (40th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 1984 soundtrack from the TV series “Robin of Sherwood,” with 11 previously unreleased tracks; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK) | BMG Rights Management |
| Cracker | “Alternative History: A Cracker Retrospective” (Double CD; 24-song collection of re-recordings, demos, outtakes, collaborations and live tracks; Hear here; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Cooking Vinyl |
| Miles Davis | “Miles ’54: The Prestige Recordings” (Double CD; 20 tracks from albums released that year, featuring Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, et al; new liner notes by Grammy Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn and session notes by Grammy winner Dan Morgenstern, with mastering by Paul Blakemore; Hear here; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
| Fabian | “Complete Singles” (two-CD, 60-track collection includes his first two albums, “Hold That Tiger!” and “The Fabulous Fabian”) | Choice Collection |
| John Hammond | “Bear’s Sonic Journals: You’re Doin’ Fine Blues at the Boarding House, June 2 & 3, 1973” (three-CD set) | Owsley Stanley Foundation |
| Don Henley | “I Can’t Stand Still” (1982 debut solo album, featuring “Dirty Laundry,” “Johnny Can’t Read” and the title track; remastered; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) “Cass County Deluxe” (2015 album, featuring duets with Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, Mick Jagger, Alison Krauss, Martina McBride, Dolly Parton, Trisha Yearwood; Double Vinyl) | Rhino |
| Jefferson Airplane | “Original Album Classics” (five-CD box set includes the albums “Surrealistic Pillow,” “After Bathing at Baxter’s,” “Crown of Creation,” “Takes Off” and “Bless It’s Pointed Little Head”; Amazon UK) | Music on CD |
| Judas Priest | “Rocka Rolla (50th Anniversary Edition)” (1974 debut album; remixed and remastered; Amazon-Exclusive Red Opaque Vinyl; Download released on Sept. 6; On Tour; Merch) | MNRK Heavy |
| Longbranch/Pennywhistle | “Longbranch/Pennywhistle Featuring John David Souther and Glenn Frey” (their complete 1969 album, originally released on Jimmy Bowen’s Amos Records label) | Choice Collection |
| Mötley Crüe | “Dr. Feelgood (35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Triple CD; 1989 album, featuring the title track, “Kickstart My Heart” and “Don’t Go Away Mad [Just Go Away]”; box set contains the remastered original album, with rare demos and live tracks, plus a 24-page replica tour book, a replica Dr. Feelgood Tour itinerary, poster, patch, backstage pass, live show handbill, press kit, medical envelope and guitar pick; Standard CD; Standard Vinyl; Green/Black Triple Vinyl, with the same extras as CD box set; Amazon-Exclusive Picture Disc; On Tour; Merch) | BMG Rights Management |
| NEEDTOBREATHE | “Live From the Woods” (2015 album; with two bonus tracks; Vinyl) “Acoustic Live Vol. 1” (2018 album; Double Vinyl, with cover art laser-etched on fourth side; On Tour) | Omnivore Recordings |
| New Order | “Brotherhood (Definitive Edition)” (1986 album, featuring “Bizarre Love Triangle”; box set containing one LP, two CDs and two DVDs; remastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios, with nine unreleased tracks and demos from a recording session in Japan in 1985; Amazon UK; Download) | Rhino / Warner |
| Olivia Newton-John | “Angels in the Snow” (reimagined holiday recordings, with new audio and arrangements; guests: John Travolta, Michael McDonald, Jane Lynch; new single: “Oh Come All Ye Faithful”; See here; Read here; Snowy White Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Green Hill Productions / Primary Wave |
| Nothing More | “Nothing More (10th Anniversary Edition)” (2014 album; with five bonus remixes and acoustic versions; Hear here; Download; On Tour, with Disturbed) | Endurance Music Group / Better Noise Music |
| Steve Perry | “Street Talk (Deluxe Edition)” (1984 debut solo album, featuring his No. 3 hit, “Oh Sherrie,” plus “Foolish Heart,” “She’s Mine” and “Strung Out”; remastered, with five bonus tracks; Amazon UK) | Rock Candy |
| Pet Shop Boys | “Nonetheless (Expanded Edition)” (Double CD; 2024 album; with demos of the entire album and four new tracks; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on April 26; Apple Music) | Warner / Parlophone |
| Paul Simon | “The Early Years Featuring Art Garfunkel” (two CDs, 50 tracks) | Choice Collection |
| Simple Minds | “Sparkle in the Rain (40th Anniversary)” (1984 album, featuring “Waterfront,” “Up on the Catwalk” and “Speed Your Love to Me”; four-CD box set includes B-sides, extended mixes, BBC sessions and a previously unreleased Glasgow Barrowlands concert; Transparent Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour) | A&M / UMe |
| Space | “Space: The Anthology” (seven-CD, 108-track box set includes six studio albums, with B-sides and rarities; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Edsel / Demon Music Group |
| Thompson Twins | “Into the Gap (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Triple CD; 1984 album, featuring “Hold Me Now,” “Doctor! Doctor!,” “You Take Me Up” and “Sister of Mercy”; remastered at Abbey Road Studios, with 30 bonus tracks, including unreleased mixes, B-sides and remixes and new liner notes with the band members; Read here; Opaque Red Vinyl, original album; Amazon UK; Download, original album; Digital Deluxe Edtion; Apple Music) | BMG Rights Management |
| McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson | “Forces of Nature: Live At Slugs’ “ (Double CD; 1966 unreleased live recording, with bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Jack DeJohnette, at the NYC jazz venue; recorded by legendary engineer Orville O’Brien, the tape had been in DeJohnette’s personal archives for nearly 60 years and is being released for the first time; Double Vinyl) | Blue Note / UMe |
| U2 | “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (20th Anniversary)” (Super Deluxe Edition; 2004 album, featuring “Vertigo,” “City of Blinding Lights” and “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own”; winner of eight Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; five-CD box set featuring the remastered original album and unreleased songs from the album sessions; Read here; Super Deluxe Vinyl Edition, eight-LP box set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca) “How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb” (Download; “shadow album” containing 10 tracks from that era, five of them previously unreleased; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; Merch) | Island / UMe |
| Various artists | “NOW That’s What I Call a Massive 70s Party” (four CDs, 88 tracks; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
