New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Herb Alpert | “Christmas Time Is Here” (third Christmas album of his career; new single: “Jingle Bells”; Hear here; Download; On Tour)   | Herb Alpert Presents |
| BENEE | “Ur an Angel I’m Just Particles” (alt-pop artist’s sophomore album; new single: “Underwater”; See here; Amazon UK; Angel White Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Republic |
| Finger Eleven | “Last Night on Earth” (Toronto-based rock band’s first studio album in more than a decade and their seventh overall; new single: “Last Night on Earth”; See here; Silver Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Better Noise Music |
| Steve Gunn | “Daylight Daylight” (singer-guitarist’s seventh studio album, working with longtime collaborator James Elkington; new single: “Nearly There”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | No Quarter |
| Hatchie | “Liquorice” (Australian indie pop artist Harriette Pilbeam’s third album; producer: Melina Duterte; new single: “Lost It Again”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Secretly Canadian |
| G Herbo | “Lil Herb” (Chicago rapper’s seventh album; producers: No I.D., Chase Davis, Oz On The Track, C-Sick; new single: “Whatever U Want,” feat. Jeremih; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Republic |
| Paul Kelly | “Seventy” (Australian legend’s 30th album; guests: Meg Washington, Rebecca Barnard; new single: “Rita Wrote a Letter”; See here; Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Cooking Vinyl |
| Jeff Larson with Gerry Beckley | “Jeff Larson with Gerry Beckley” (producers: Beckley, Larson; new single: “Oh Wow!”; Hear here; Download released on Oct. 24; Apple Music) | Melody Place |
| Lost Signal | “Light of Other Days” (Upstate New York electronic musician Charles Rehill’s first new album as Lost Signal in 19 years; new single: “Not the End of Me”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Metropolis |
| Vincent Mason | “There I Go” (Georgia country singer-songwriter’s debut album; producers: Brett Truitt, Chris LaCorte, Jake Gear, Mason; new single: “Days Are Numbered”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | MCA Nashville / Music Soup / Interscope |
| Sabine McCalla | “Don’t Call Me Baby” (indie folk artist’s debut album; she is the younger sister of Grammy-winning former Carolina Chocolate Drops singer-cellist Leyla McCalla; new single: “Anything Without You”; See here; Download; Apple Music) | Gar Hole |
| Midlake | “A Bridge to Far” (* title is not a typo; producer: Sam Evian; guests: Madison Cunningham, Hannah Cohen, Meg Lui; new single: “The Ghouls”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Bella Union |
| The Mountain Goats | “Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan” (their 23rd album; producer: multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas; new bassist: Cameron Ralston; guests: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tommy Stinson, harpist Mikaela Davis; new single: “Armies of the Lord”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Cadmean Dawn |
| Willie Nelson | “Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle” (his 78th solo album and 155th overall, this time paying tribute to his friend Merle Haggard; recorded at Nelson’s Pedernales Studios in Austin, featuring the final recordings he did alongside longtime Family band members “Sister Bobbie” Nelson and Paul English; producer: Mickey Raphael; new single: “Workin’ Man Blues”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Legacy Recordings |
| Omnium Gatherum | “May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way” (Finnish metal band’s 10th studio album; new single: “My Pain”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Century Media |
| Brad Paisley | “Snow Globe Town” (16-track album includes holiday classics and eight new songs written by Paisley; one of the tracks, “Counting Down the Days,” is the official anthem of Hallmark Channel’s 16th annual Countdown to Christmas programming event, which launches Oct. 17; new single: “Leave the Christmas Lights On”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | MCA |
| Aaron Parks | “By All Means!!” (jazz pianist’s third album for Blue Note; with bassist Ben Street, drummer Billy Hart and tenor saxophonist Ben Solomon; producers: Parks, Street; new single: “For María José”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Blue Note |
| Pupil Slicer | “Fleshwork” (London metal trio’s second album; producer: Joe Clayton; new single: “Fleshwork”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Prosthetic |
| Rosalía | “LUX” (Grammy-winning Spanish singer-songwriter’s fourth album; recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra: guest vocals from Björk, Carminho, Estrella Morente, and Silvia Pérez Cruz, as well as choir contributions from the Escolania de Montserrat and L’Orfeó Català; with three bonus tracks and 12-page lyric and photo booklet; Read here; Crystal Clear Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Columbia |
| Sessa | “Pequena Vertigem de Amor” (translation: “Little Love Vertigo”; São Paulo-based singer-songwriter Sergio Sayeg’s sixth album; new single: “Nome de Deus”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mexican Summer |
| Slash | “Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival” (2 CD + Blu-ray Digipak; 15-track set captured at Denver’s Mission Ballroom on July 17, 2024, accompanied by a concert film, mixed in PCM Stereo and DTS 5.1 audio; See here; 2 CD + DVD Digipak; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | earMUSIC |
| sombr | “I Barely Know Her” (20-year-old NYC native Shane Boose’s debut album, featuring his Top 40 hits “back to friends” and “undressed”; he won Best Alternative Video for “back to friends” at MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 7; producers: sombr, Tony Berg; new single: “12 to 12”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Indie Exclusive Ruby Red Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Baby Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download released on Aug. 22; Apple Music; On Tour) | Warner |
| Sorry | “COSPLAY” (London-based indie quintet’s third album; producers: band members Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen, with Dan Carey; new single: “Echoes”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Domino |
| Mavis Staples | “Sad and Beautiful World” (a mixture of original material and cover versions; producer: Brad Cook; guests: Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Jeff Tweedy, Derek Trucks, Justin Vernon, Katie Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman; new single: “Beautiful Strangers”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | ANTI- / Epitaph |
| Chris Thile | “Bach: Sonatas & Partitas, Vol. 2” (recorded in several locations: Reservoir Studios and Tompkins Square Park in New York City; Farrell Recital Hall at Murray State University in Murray, KY; and Blackberry Farm in Walland, TN; new single: “Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: IV. Giga”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Nonesuch |
| Westerman | “A Jackal’s Wedding” (his third album; producer: Marta Salogni; new single: “Adriatic”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Partisan |
| White Lies | “Night Light” (West London-based alt-rock trio’s seventh studio album; new single: “In the Middle”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | PIAS America |
| Hayley Williams | “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party” (producer: Daniel James; 18 songs; Yellow Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Pool Water Blue Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Aug. 28; Apple Music) | Post Atlantic |
| Trisha Yearwood | “Christmastime” (accompanied by a symphony orchestra across all 12 tracks; producer: Don Was; arranged and conducted by David Campbell; guest: husband Garth Brooks; Green Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | Gwendolyn Records / Virgin Music Group |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The Boy Detective | “Disco Lunch” (Ypsilanti, MI-based ska-punk band’s sophomore album; producer: Roger Lima; new single: “American Farts”; Hear here; CD and Vinyl, picture disc, out Nov. 28; Apple Music) | Punkerton |
| Danny Brown | “Stardust” (Detroit rapper’s seventh album; guests: Jane Remover, Frost Children, Quadeca, underscores, Femtanyl, JOHNNASCU, 8485, IssBrokie, Nnamdi, Ta Ukrainka, Zheani; new single: “Starburst”; See here; Read here; CD and White Vinyl out Feb. 20, 2026; Apple Music; On Tour) | Warp |
| Caskets | “The Only Heaven You’ll Know” (U.K. metalcore band’s third album; producers: Zach Jones, Josh Strock; new single: “The Only Heaven You’ll Know”; See here; CD and Orange Sky Blue Splatter Vinyl out Nov. 21; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour) | SharpTone |
| Constant Smiles | “Moonflowers” (producer: Katie Von Schleicher; guests: Fred Thomas, Cassandra Jenkins, Shahzad Ismaily, Steven R. Smith, P.G. Six, et al; new single: “Harriman”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Apple Music) | felte |
| Alex Cuba | “Índole” (Grammy-winning Cuban-Canadian artist’s 11th studio album; new single: “Palabras Vacías”; See here) | Caracol Records |
| Charlotte de Witte | “Charlotte de Witte” (Belgian DJ-producer’s debut album; guests: Lisa Gerrard, Alice Evermore, Comma Dee, XSALT; new single: “The Heads That Know”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | KNTXT |
| Sam Gellaitry | “Anywhere Here Is Perfect” (Scottish electronic producer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “CURIOUS,” feat. Toro y Moi; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Major Recordings / Warner |
| Henri Herbert | “Get It While It’s Hot” (British-raised, Austin-based piano-playing rocker’s eighth album; new single: “If I Could”; See here; Apple Music) | HH Records |
| Jordana | “Jordanaland” (25-year-old L.A.-based pop artist’s seven-song EP; new single: “Like That”; See here; Apple Music) | Grand Jury Music |
| Drake Milligan | “Tumbleweed” (country singer’s second album; he portrayed a young Elvis Presley on the CMT series “Sun Records”; guest: Randall King; new single: “Old Flames, Old Whiskey”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Stoney Creek |
| Miss Emily | “The Medicine” (JUNO-nominated and Maple Blues Award-winning artist’s third album; producer: Colin Linden; new single: “Solid Ground”; See here; CD and Vinyl out Dec. 5; Apple Music) | Gypsy Soul Records |
| Mykel | “Hometown Runaway” (six-song debut EP; new single: “HOW DO YOU KNOW”; See here; Apple Music) | Pay Publishing LLC |
| Overnight | “Put Me In Your Light” (Halifax sibling duo’s sophomore album; producer: Charles Austin; new single: “Strong and Good”; See here; Apple Music) | Label Obscura |
| Jake Owen | “Dreams to Dream” (Florida country singer-songwriter’s eighth album; producers: Shooter Jennings, Owen; guests: Jamey Johnson, Savannah Conley; new single: “Middle Age Crazy”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Good Company Entertainment |
| Portugal. The Man | “SHISH” (Alaskan-bred, Portland-based band’s 10th album; producer: Kane Ritchotte; new singles: “Tanana” and “Mush”; See here; CD and Vinyl out Dec. 12; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | KNIK / Thirty Tigers |
| Whitney | “Small Talk” (Chicago duo’s fourth album; guest: Madison Cunningham; new single: “Dandelions”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Red Velvet Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | AWAL Recordings |
| Young Miko | “Do Not Disturb” (Grammy-nominated Puerto Rican rapper-singer’s second album; producers: Elie Rizk, Mauro; new single: “Likey Likey”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | The Wave Music Group / Capitol |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The All-American Rejects | “Move Along” (2005 album, featuring title track, “It Ends Tonight,” and “Dirty Little Secret”; Translucent Grape Vinyl; On Tour, with Jonas Brothers; Merch) | Interscope / UMe |
| Luke Bell | “The King Is Back” (Double CD; 28-track collection of unheard studio recordings and early takes of previously released tracks; country singer-songwriter, who had severe bipolar disorder, died from fentanyl overdose in August 2022 at age 32; net proceeds from the album will benefit the Luke Bell Memorial Affordable Counseling Program in Wyoming; new single: “The King Is Back”; Hear here; Read here; Cloudy Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | All Blue Recordings / Thirty Tigers |
| The Blasters | “American Music” (1980 debut album, featuring “Marie Marie” and title track; reissued with its original front and back covers, plus new liner notes written by Chris Morris, with band member interviews; Vinyl; Download) “Non Fiction” (1983 album; new liner notes written by Chris Morris, with band member interviews; Vinyl) | Liberation Hall |
| Clock DVA | “White Souls in Black Suits” (1980 debut album; remastered; available for the first time in 35 years; Hear here; Grey Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | The Grey Area of Mute |
| The Cranberries | “MTV Unplugged” (1995 nine-song performance, filmed at Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn, never before available as a standalone release; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Island / UMe |
| Emmylou Harris | “Spyboy” (1998 live album; remastered, with five bonus tracks, including a version of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “Thing About You”; Hear here; Clear Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | New West |
| George Harrison | “Thirty Three & 1/3” (Eco-Wallet, CD Digipak; 1976 album, featuring “Crackerbox Palace” and “This Song”) | Dark Horse / BMG Rights Management |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | “Bold As Love” (4 CD + Blu-ray package features 27 previously unreleased recordings from 1967, including demos and alternate takes, as well as TV and radio performances; includes the stereo and mono mixes for the “Axis: Bold As Love” album, all newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original flat master tapes; high-resolution 24bit/96kHz audio, as well as a newly created, immersive Dolby Atmos mix by Eddie Kramer and Chandler Harrod; 5 LP + Blu-ray; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) “Electric Ladyland” (Blu-ray Audio; 1968 album, featuring “All Along the Watchtower,” “Voodoo Chile” and “Crosstown Traffic”; Merch) | Experience Hendrix / Legacy |
| Hüsker Dü | “1985: The Miracle Year” (Double CD; includes Beau Sorenson’s restoration of an entire Jan. 30, 1985 set at First Avenue in Minneapolis, plus 20 extra live tracks from that year’s touring schedule; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Numero Group |
| Al Jarreau | “The Definitive Warner Brothers Collection” (three CDs, 50 songs, including “We’re In This Love Together,” “Mornin’,” “Boogie Down,” “So Good” and “Moonlighting”; Read here; Amazon UK) | Robinsongs / Cherry Red |
| Lighthouse | “One Fine Morning (Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 1971 album, featuring the title track; with nine bonus tracks; Yellow, Orange and Green Splatter Double Vinyl) | Anthem |
| Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony | “Disco Baby (50th Anniversary)” (1975 album, featuring “The Hustle”; with two bonus mixes of “The Hustle”; Zoetrope Picture Disc) | Amherst |
| Kate & Anna McGarrigle | “Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Dancer With Bruised Knees” (their first two albums, from 1976 and 1977, on one CD; remastered; Read here; Amazon UK) | Morello / Cherry Red |
| Melanie | “Melanie’s Christmas Treasury” (23-track collection; Red Vinyl, 14 tracks) | Cleopatra |
| James Newton Quartet | “Live in Willisau, Switzerland 1983” (with Geri Allen on piano, Anthony Cox on bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums) | Rhythm ‘n’ Flow Records / MVD Entertainment Group |
| The Primitives | “Bloom! The Full Story 1985-1992” (U.K. release; five-CD box set contains three full albums, demos, singles, abandoned album sessions, B-sides, cover versions, BBC sessions, material recorded live at Bath Moles and four previously unreleased recordings; On Tour) | Cherry Red |
| Suzi Quatro | “A’s, B’s & Rarities” (20 tracks on one CD; remastered from the original master tapes by Phil Kinrade at AIR Mastering; Red Vinyl, 16 songs; Amazon UK) | Chrysalis |
| LeAnn Rimes | “Greatest Hits Christmas” (16-track collection features a mix of her past Christmas recordings, including songs from her holiday albums and movie soundtracks, along with two new tracks; Double Vinyl; On Tour) | Curb |
| Nina Simone | “A Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Recordings” (her final studio album, released in 1993, produced by André Fischer, backed by a 50-piece orchestra; remastered, with 11 bonus tracks, four of which were previously unreleased, and new liner notes by David Nathan; Hear here; Double Vinyl) | Omnivore Recordings |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees | “All Souls” (10-track seasonal compilation of singles, B-sides and album tracks, curated by Siouxsie, “to celebrate the autumn equinox and its festivities”; remastered at Abbey Road Studios and originally released digitally and vinyl in October 2022; Amazon UK) | Polydor |
| Various artists | “NOW Yearbook ’91” (four CDs, 78 hits from 1991; Track List; Yellow Triple Vinyl, 43 tracks) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Various artists | “Opry 100: Country’s Greatest Songs” (Double CD; 22 live Grand Ole Opry performances from as far back as Patsy Cline’s 1962 appearance; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Opry Music / Grand Ole Opry LLC |
| Brian Wilson | “Live at the Roxy Theatre (25th Anniversary Edition)” (recorded across two sold-out nights in April 2000 at the West Hollywood venue, backed by the Wondermints; remastered and expanded to 40 tracks; See here; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK) | Oglio |
| Wings | “WINGS” (12-song companion anthology to Paul McCartney’s hardcover book, “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” out Nov. 4; See here; Read here; Deluxe Edition, 32 tracks on two CDs; Vinyl, 12 songs; Triple Vinyl, 32 songs, in a die-cut hardback slipcase, designed by McCartney and Aubrey “Po” Powell of Hipgnosis, and includes two posters and a sticker sheet; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download, 12 songs; Deluxe Download, 32 songs; Apple Music; Paul McCartney: Got Back Tour; Merch) | Capitol / UMe |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Caligula’s Horse | “Bloom (10th Anniversary Edition)” (2015 album; with four previously unreleased demos, including “Across the Universe”; Hear here; Apple Music) | InsideOutMusic |
