New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| After | “Fell Asleep in the Sun” (L.A. rock-pop duo’s debut album; new single: “Blind”; Hear here; Metallic Silver Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Sea Glass Vinyl; Download released on Sept. 18; Apple Music; On Tour)   | Mom+Pop Music |
| Ashe | “The Girl of Your Dreams” (singer-songwriter Ashlyn Wilson’s fourth solo album, featuring “Stop the Wedding!”; producer: Noah Conrad; new single: “Funeral”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Excusive Blue Hour Periwinkle Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) | Atlantic |
| @ | “Autosmile” (second album from art-folk project of Philly-based multi-instrumentalists/songwriters Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak; new single: “Autosmile”; See here; Read here; Soil Brown Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | 4AD |
| The Avalanches | “No Bad Memories” (their fourth album; 31 tracks; guests: Carly Simon, Rivers Cuomo, Mike Patton, Haruomi Hosono, Karen O, Jamie xx, Portraits of Tracy, et al; new single: “Far Away”; See here; Yellow Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Modular Recordings |
| Babehoven | “I See Them, I See Me” (Hudson, NY-based indie folk duo’s third studio album; 14 tracks; new single: “Wave Has a Place”; See here; Read here; Milky Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Sept. 18; Apple Music; On Tour) | Double Double Whammy |
| Mary Bragg | “Secrets to Strangers” (Nashville-based Americana singer-songwriter’s sixth album; producers: John Paul White, Ben Tanner; recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals; new single: “The Game”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Single Lock Records |
| Car Seat Headrest | “Teen of Denial (Joe’s Story)” (10th anniversary reimagining of their breakout album, with tweaked lyrics and threads to improve the main character’s story; producer: Steve Fisk; Hear here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on May 22; Apple Music) | Matador |
| Rachel Chinouriri | “I think I spoke too soon” (London-based pop singer-songwriter’s second album; producers: apob, Chinouriri; new single: “Broken chair”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour, including dates with Gracie Abrams) | Warner |
| Bruce Cockburn | “The Blood of Others” (his 39th album, featuring 15 cover songs that shaped his musical path before he wrote his own material; new single: “Yellow Dog Blues”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sunset Blvd. |
| Joey DeFrancesco | “Live at Keystone Korner” (recorded in Baltimore just weeks before the jazz organist’s untimely passing in August 2022 at age 51; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Mack Avenue |
| John Diva and the Rockets of Love | “Your Favorite Drug” (German melodic rockers’ fourth album; producer: Hannes Brun; new single: “Soundtrack of My Life”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Frontiers Music s.r.l. |
| Dummy | “do you love the color of the sky?” (L.A. indie pop band’s third album; producers: Dummy, Joo-Joo Ashworth; new single: “April Limousine / Alluvial Fan”; See here; Read here; Yellow Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Polyvinyl |
| Eels | “Cookie Happened” (rocker Mark Oliver Everett’s 16th studio album; new single: “Cap in Hand”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | E Works / Play It Again Sam |
| Béla Fleck | “Live Heart: My Bluegrass Heart at the Ryman” (Double CD; recorded on Jan. 8, 2022, joined by Billy Strings, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull, Tony Trischka, et al; new single: “Tennessee”; See here; Read here; Triple Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Béla Fleck Productions / Thirty Tigers |
| Fontaines D.C. | “Dopamine Chamber” (Dublin rock band’s fifth studio album; producer: James Ford; new single: “Tongue”; See here; Read here; Blue Vinyl; Blue Marble Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | XL Recordings |
| Giant Rooks | “IF HEAVEN EXISTS, THIS MIGHT BE IT” (German indie-pop band’s third album; producers: Giant Rooks, Jonathan Gilmore; new single: “The Better Life”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mercury / Republic |
| Gloryhammer | “Space 1993: Wrath of Kor-Virliath” (Anglo-Swiss power metal band’s fifth album; producers: Gloryhammer; new single: “Warriors of Auchtermuchty”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Napalm |
| Jeonghan X Joshua | “DREAMSCAPE” (seven-track debut mini album from SEVENTEEN members; new single: “12 o’clock”) | PLEDIS Entertainment, Oct. 19 |
| Wyatt McCubbin | “650” (debut album from one of Nashville’s most successful songwriters; producer: Cobb; recorded live to tape at Cobb’s Thunderbolt Studios in Savannah, GA; new single: “I Love You”; Hear here; Read here; Country Yellow Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Zach Top this fall and Luke Combs next year) | Lucille Records / MCA |
| June McDoom | “Follow the Light” (NYC singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “Without You”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Jagjaguwar |
| Eric Nam | “Confessions of a Lonely Heart” (singer-songwriter’s fourth album; new single: “Someday”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | The Eric Nam Company / The Orchard |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You | “Howls From the Holographic Heart” (New Jersey-bred metalcore band’s sixth album and first in seven years; producers: Jeremy Cormitas, Trae Titus, guitarist Alexis Pareja; new single: “Glow in the Dark Skin”; See here; Pink Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Equal Vision |
| Mali Obomsawin | “Automatic” (second album from Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and citizen of Abenaki First Nation’s Odanak community in Quebec; new single: “Triage”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Out of Your Head Records |
| Charlie Parr | “Rooming House” (country blues musician’s 20th album, a seven-song folk opera set in the Upper Midwest; joined by drummer and fellow Minnesotan Dave King of The Bad Plus; new single: “[what’s so funny about] Universal Healthcare?”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings |
| SAVE US | “Death to Something” (transcontinental alt-metal trio’s debut album; producer: Landon Tewers of The Plot In You; new single: “Last of Me”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Saosin) | Solid State |
| So Soon | “Everything Matters, Nothing Matters” (German indie-pop duo’s second album; new single: “Everywhere”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Clouds Hill |
| Temperance | “Arcani” (Italian symphonic power metal band’s eighth album; concept structured around the Major Arcana tarot cards, with each of the 13 songs corresponding to a different card; new single: “The Tower: Lean Into Fear”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Napalm |
| Richard Thompson | “Hippies, Thugs and Heroes” (English folk rock legend’s 20th studio album; producers: Thompson, James Frazee; new single: “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”; Hear here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Pink with Pink Cream and Purple Marble Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | New West |
| Two Shell | “Infinite Now” (U.K. electronic duo’s second album; new single: “Thing About You”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Young |
| Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble | “Return to the Red Planet” (featuring bassist Lee Pomeroy, guitarist Dave Colquhoun, drummer Adam Falkner and vocalist Mollie Marriott, daughter of the late Steve Marriott; new single: “Bowie’s Vision”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Madfish |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Angèle | “Instinct” (Belgian pop singer-songwriter’s third album; producers: Angèle, Justice, Tristan Salvati; guests: Caroline Polachek, SebastiAn, Justice, Soulwax; new single: “Love Triangle”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Angèle VL Records / Sony Music |
| Tina Arena | “Way of the World” (six-track covers EP; producers: François Tétaz, Luke Howard; new single: her version of New Order’s “True Faith”; See here; Read here; Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Universal Music Australia |
| Defects | “Artificial Icons” (U.K. metalcore band’s sophomore album; producer: Jim Pinder; guest: Matt Heafy of Trivium; new single: “Where Did I Go Wrong”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mascot Records |
| Galantis | “The Devil’s Tax Return: Volume 1” (six-song EP of reworked tracks; new single: “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Counter Records / Ninja Tune |
| Andy Grammer | “Big Stupid Heart” (his sixth album; producers: Grammer, Jon Levine; new single: “Love Showed Up”; Apple Music; On Tour) | Giant Soul Records / S-Curve |
| Jacques Greene | “jg” (Montreal producer’s third album; guests: DJ Boring, Ouri, Jonah Yano, CFCF, SEES0000, umru, SAM-E; new single: “Everyone”; Hear here; CD and Vinyl out Dec. 4; Apple Music; On Tour) | LuckyMe |
| Gucci Mane | “Against All Odds” (his 18th studio album; 17 tracks; producer: Zaytoven; guests: Summer Walker, OJ da Juiceman, Ice Davis; Apple Music) | 1017 Records / Atlantic |
| K. Michelle | “Jesus & Whiskey” (R&B singer’s first country album; producer: Sugarland’s Kristian Bush; guests: ERNEST, Jordan Dozzi, Rocky Block, Kelly Sheehan, Justin Wilson, Jamie Moore, Ant Clemons, et al; new single: “Yodel”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Real Outlawz Records / BBR Music Group |
| PÆRISH | “RITA” (French alt-emo band’s fourth album; LP named after the patron saint of lost causes; producer: Will Yip; See here; new single: “What You Want”; CD and Clear With Pink and Blue Swirl Vinyl out Nov. 13; Apple Music) | SideOneDummy |
| Sophia Stel | “the greatest album of all time” (Vancouver-based alt-pop artist’s debut album; producer: Stel; new single: “I Do”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | A24 Music |
| Superfan | “My Piledriver Heart” (debut album from Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Kali Priya Flanagan; producer: Hudson Pollock; new single: “Ode to Hum [I want it to rise]”; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | AD 93 |
| Tinie Tempah | “The Night’s Not Dead” (Brit Award-winning rapper-singer’s fourth album and first in nine years; 17-song LP combines three EPs – titled “9PM,” “12AM” and “3AM”; producers: Aladdin Awad, Daecolm, Punctual, Skepsis; new single: “Rude”; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Imhotep Records / Believe UK |
| Worldpeace DMT | “Stick Around For Tea” (London-based duo’s sophomore album; new single: “Gabriel”; See here; Apple Music) | WPDMT |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Dave Alvin | “Blackjack David (Deluxe Edition)” (1998 album; remastered, with two bonus tracks, including previously unreleased “Angel On Your Shoulder”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Craft Recordings / HighTone |
| Ash | “1977 (30th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 1996 debut album, featuring “Girl From Mars,” “Goldfinger,” “Kung Fu” and “Oh Yeah”; with four bonus tracks, plus a 2021 live set from STABAL Studios in the U.K. where the band performed the album in its entirety; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | BMG Rights Management |
| Mariah Carey | “Daydream (30th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 1996 album, featuring “Fantasy,” “One Sweet Day” and “Always Be My Baby”; nominated for six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; with previously unreleased “rare writing demos” and bonus tracks, remixes, etc.; Read here; Triple Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Pink Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Columbia / Legacy |
| Robert Lester Folsom | “Music and Dreams (50th Anniversary Edition)” (1976 album; remastered, with 10 demos; See here; Double Vinyl; Download, featuring digital-only covers of “April Suzanne” by Beach House and “Music and Dreams” by Hannah Cohen; Apple Music) | Anthology Recordings |
| heavens to betsy | “baby’s gone” (16-track collection combining a lost 1992 demo tape with their 1993 and 1994 EPs; See here; Tangerine Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) | Kill Rock Stars |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience | “Magic Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at Berkeley (First Show)” (recorded at Berkeley Community Theater in May 1970; newly remixed by Eddie Kramer from the original multi-track tapes; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Experience Hendrix / Legacy |
| Taking Back Sunday | “Louder Now (20th Anniversary)” (2006 album; with two bonus B-sides: “Brooklyn [If You See Something, Say Something]” and “Sleep”; Silver Vinyl, with 7-inch of the two B-sides; On Tour) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
| Tears For Fears | “The Seeds of Love (Deluxe Edition)” (Triple CD; 1989 album, featuring “Sowing the Seeds of Love,” “Woman in Chains” and “Advice for the Young at Heart”; with B-sides, alternate mixes, and rare recordings from the era; booklet contains interviews conducted by Paul Sinclair with band members and key contributors to the album; Blue Marble Double Vinyl, with alternate cover art; Amazon UK; Merch) | Mercury / UMe |
| Television | “Marquee Moon (Expanded Edition)” (1977 debut album, featuring the title track and “Prove It”; with five bonus tracks, including “Little Johnny Jewel”) “Adventure (Expanded Edition)” (1978 album; with four extra songs) | Rhino / Elektraa |
| Various artists | “Before the Gold Rush: An American Country Rock Anthology 1966-1973” (three-CD, 76-song compilation, featuring The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, The Everly Brothers, Rick Nelson, The Band, Flying Burrito Brothers, Poco, Linda Ronstadt, Michael Nesmith, et al; Read here; Amazon UK) | Cherry Red |
| Various artists | “Club Reggae ’69” (three CDs, 83 tracks, featuring chart hits, club classics, rarities and instrumentals – from Desmond Dekker & The Aces to The Upsetters; Read here; Amazon UK) | Doctor Bird / Cherry Red |
| Various artists | “80s Pop Explosion! The Decades’ Greatest Pop: Volume Two: 1985-1989” (three CDs, 60 hits; Amazon UK) | Sony Music |
| Various artists | “NOW 12″ 80s: 1987 – Part Two” (four CDs, 46 hits; Amazon UK) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Bill Withers | “Just As I Am / Still Bill / + Justments / Making Music / Live At Carnegie Hall” (his first five albums on three CDs; Read here; Amazon UK) | Robinsongs / Cherry Red |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Dave Frishberg | “Oklahoma Toad” (jazz pianist-songwriter’s 1970 debut album; remastered; artist-approved producer’s mix includes all 10 original tracks and a bonus 7-inch featuring “Peel Me a Grape” and the previously unheard “Schoolhouse Rock!” recording “A World Without Verbs”; Green Vinyl) | Oglio Records |
| Hootie & the Blowfish | “Fairweather Johnson (Deluxe Edition)” (1996 album, featuring “Old Man & Me,” “Tucker’s Town” and “Sad Caper”; with unreleased studio outtakes, track commentary, B-sides, and rare live recordings: “1996 MTV Unplugged” and “1997 Hong Kong Live”; Apple Music) | Rhino / Atlantic |
| Nina Simone | “Verve Remixed // Nina Simone” (reworkings of her classic tracks by DJ/producers Solomun, Mochakk, DESIREE, Supershy, HAAi, dublon, Antdot and Austin Millz; Hear here; Magenta Smush Vinyl) | Verve / UMe |
