New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| The Acacia Strain | “You Are Safe From God Here” (metalcore/deathcore vets’ 13th album; producer: Randy LeBoeuf; new single: “A CALL BEYOND”; See here; Hot Dog Strawberry Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   | Rise |
| Antibalas | “Hourglass” (a return to their instrumental roots; new single: “Solace”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Daptone |
| Bahamas | “My Second Last Album” (Canadian indie folk artist Afie Jurvanen’s seventh album; new single: “The Bridge”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Brushfire / Republic |
| Bon Jovi | “Forever (Legendary Edition)” (2024 album; every song has been reimagined, with guests Bruce Springsteen, Jelly Roll, Joe Elliott, Ryan Tedder, Jason Isbell, Lainey Wilson, Avril Lavigne, Robbie Williams, James Bay, et al; with new track, “Red, White and Jersey”; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Island |
| Bowling For Soup | “A Hangover You Definitely Deserve (Live)” (Double CD; 36-track set, recorded in the band’s home away from home of Manchester, U.K., during its 2025 tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of its fifth studio album; See here; Opaque Yellow Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Brando Records / Que-So Records |
| Daniel Caesar | “Son of Spergy” (Canadian R&B singer-songwriter’s fourth album; guests: Bon Iver, Sampha, Blood Orange, Yebba, Norwill Simmonds, 646yf4t; new single: “Moon”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Republic |
| Brandi Carlile | “Returning to Myself” (her first solo album in four years and 11th overall; producers: Carlile Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner, Justin Vernon; guests: Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Mackay, Rob Moose, Blake Mills, Mark Isham, Stewart Cole; new single: “Returning to Myself”; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; White Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Lost Highway / Interscope |
| Circa Waves | “Death & Love” (Liverpool indie rockers’ sixth album, a two-part album series combined to form an 18-track set; producer: frontman Kieran Shudall; new single: “Cherry Bomb”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Lower Third / [PIAS] |
| Billy Currington | “King of the World” (Georgia country singer-songwriter’s eighth studio album; new single: “One Thing I Ain’t Been”; Hear here; Ocean Blue Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | MCA Nashville |
| Dave | “The Boy Who Played the Harp” ( South London rapper’s third album; Read here; Yellow Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Neighbourhood Recordings / Capitol |
| Dayseeker | “Creature in the Black Night” (SoCal post-hardcore band’s sixth album; producer: Daniel Braunstein; new single: “Shapeshift”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with In This Moment) | Spinefarm |
| Dion | “The Rock ‘N’ Roll Philosopher” (a mixture of new material and reimagined versions of his classics; guests: Sonny Landreth, Joe Bonamassa, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton; new single: “I’m Your Gangster of Love”; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | KTBA Records |
| Downswing | “And Everything Was Dark” (Albany, NY-based hardcore band’s second album; new single: “Too Little Too Late”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | MNRK Heavy |
| Five Finger Death Punch | “20 Years of Five Finger Death Punch: Best Of – Volume II” (re-recorded versions of their best-known songs, coming in response to the recent sale of the band’s original master recordings by their former label, an action made without their knowledge or the opportunity to reclaim their own work; 19 tracks; Hear here; Golden Smoke Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Better Noise Music |
| Jonny Fritz | “Debbie Downers” (a new album he’s releasing four versions of, with this first version being country; producer: Jordan Lehning; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Gar Hole |
| Goo Goo Dolls | “Summer Anthem” (seven-song EP; new single: “Ocean”; See here; Download released on Aug. 22; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Warner |
| Hail the Sun | “cut. turn. fade. back.” (California experimental rock band’s seventh album; producers: Pete Adams, Johnny Kosich; new single: “Insensitive Tempo”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Equal Vision |
| Joshua Hedley | “All Hat” (11-song Western swing album, backed by members of Asleep at the Wheel; producers: Hedley, Ray Benson; new single: “Fresh Hot Biscuits”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | New West |
| Home Counties | “Humdrum” (producer: Hot Chip’s Al Doyle; new single: “New Best Thing”; Hear here; Read here; White Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Submarine Cat |
| Natalie Jane | “the world i didn’t want” (“American Idol” season 18 contestant’s debut album; new single: “r u gonna love me?”; See here; Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | 10K Projects / Capitol |
| Joyer | “On the Other End of the Line…” (East Coast indie rock brother duo’s fourth album; producer: Slow Pulp’s Henry Stoehr; new single: “At the Movies”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) | Julia’s War Recordings |
| Just Mustard | “WE WERE JUST HERE” (Irish noise rockers’ third album; producers: Just Mustard; new single: “WE WERE JUST HERE”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Partisan |
| Alexandra Kay | “Second Wind” (country singer-songwriter’s sophomore album; producer: Andrew DeRoberts; new single: “Straight for the Heart”; See here; Read here; Neon Pink Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | BBR Music Group / Wheelhouse Records |
| Mon Laferte | “FEMME FATALE” (Latin Grammy-winning Chilean/Mexican singer-songwriter’s ninth album; producers: Manú Jalil, Laferte; guests: Conociendo Rusia, Nathy Peluso, TIAGO IORC, Natalia Lafourcade, Silvana Estrada; new single: “La Tirana”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Sony U.S. Latin |
| The Lemonheads | “Love Chant” (their first album in 19 years; producer: Apollo Nove; guests: J Mascis, Juliana Hatfield, Tom Morgan, Erin Rae, John Strohm, Nick Saloman; new single: “In the Margin”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Fire Records |
| Demi Lovato | “It’s Not That Deep” (her ninth studio album; executive producer: Zhone; new single: “Here All Night”; See here; Read here; Lavender Daydream Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | DLG Recordings / Island |
| Mammoth | “The End” (third album from Wolfgang Van Halen’s Grammy-nominated rock band; producer: Michael “Elvis” Baskette; new single: “The Spell”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive Yellow Splatter Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour, with Creed) | BMG Rights Management |
| Miguel | “CAOS” (R&B singer’s fifth album and first since 2017; Vinyl; Download released on Oct. 23, his 40th birthday; Apple Music) | ByStorm Entertainment / RCA |
| Pentatonix | “Christmas in the City” (Grammy-winning a capella group’s seventh Christmas studio album; new single: “Bah Humbug”; Hear here; Red Brick Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Snow Cloud Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Republic |
| The Len Price 3 | “Misty Medway Magick” (British garage rockers’ seventh album and first since 2021; new single: “Gypsy Magick”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Wicked Cool |
| Psychonaut | “World Maker” (Belgian psychedelic post-metal band’s third album; producer: Chiaran Verheyden; new single: “And You Came With Searing Light”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Pelagic Records |
| Sigrid | “There’s Always More That I Could Say” (Norwegian pop singer’s third album; producers: Askjell, James Ford, Sigrid; new single: “Fort Knox”; See here; Crystal Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Island |
| Soulfly | “Chama” (their 13th studio album; producers: drummer Zyon Cavalera, Arthur Rizk; guests: Arch Enemy guitarist Michael Amott, Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares, No Warning vocalist Ben Cook and Unto Others vocalist/guitarist Gabe Franco; new single: “Storm the Gates”; Hear here; Yellow and Orange Corona Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nuclear Blast |
| Straight No Chaser | “Holiday Road” (their first full-length holiday album in five years; guests: Mickey Guyton, Hunter Hayes, John Splithoff, Jose Mari Chan; new single: “Christmas Is Different”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Green Hill Productions |
| Earl Sweatshirt | “Live Laugh Love” (rapper-producer’s fifth album; new single: “TOURMALINE”; See here; Vinyl; Cassette; Download released on Aug. 22; Apple Music; On Tour) | Odd Future / Tan Cressida / Warner |
| Tortoise | “Touch” (post-rock band’s first album since 2016’s “The Catastrophist”; new single: “Layered Presence”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | International Anthem / Nonesuch |
| Various artists | “Can’t Get Enough: A Tribute to Bad Company” (all-star project features covers by HARDY, Halestorm feat. Paul Rodgers, Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, Blackberry Smoke feat. Paul Rodgers and Brann Dailor, The Struts, Charley Crockett, Dirty Honey, Black Stone Cherry, Joe Elliott and Phil Collen feat. Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke, and The Pretty Reckless; new single: “Rock Steady” by Dirty Honey; See here; Silver Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Primary Wave Music |
| Jim White | “Inner Day” (Australian drummer’s second solo album features his first vocals; producers: White, Guy Picciotto; new single: “Inner Day”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Drag City |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Taylor Acorn | “Poster Child” (Nashville-based pop-punk artist’s second solo album; producer: Dan Swank; new single: “Hangman”; See here; CD and Lemonade Vinyl out Nov. 21; Apple Music; On Tour) | Fearless / Concord |
| Lily Allen | “West End Girl” (her first album since 2018, available at 00:00 EDT Oct. 24; all 14 songs were written by Allen, mainly in collaboration with her musical director Blue May; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | BMG Rights Management |
| Ax and the Hatchetmen | “So Much to Tell You” (Chicago indie-rockers’ debut album; producer: Jake Sinclair; new single: “Oasis”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Arista |
| Big Wreck | “The Rest of the Story” (Canadian rock band’s eighth album; producers: frontman Ian Thornley, Nick Raskulinecz; new single: “Holy Roller”; See here; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sonic Unyon |
| Kent Blazy | “Where I Am Now” (new single: “A Breeze”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Kent Blazy Music |
| The Cosmic Tones Research Trio | “The Cosmic Tones Research Trio” (Portland, OR-based band’s second album; new single: “Sankofa”; Hear here; Read here; CD out Nov. 14; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Mississippi Records |
| Erika Dohi | “Myth of Tomorrow” (Osaka-born, New York-based composer-pianist’s second album; producer: William Brittelle; guests: Metropolis Ensemble, poet Carol Féliz, trumpeter Adam O’Farill, violinist Lauren Cauley, and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily; new single: “Aratani”; See here; Apple Music) | Switch Hit / Figureight |
| fanclubwallet | “Living While Dying” (sophomore album from indie-pop project of Ottawa-based Hannah Judge; new single: “Know You Anymore”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Lauren Records |
| Mickey Guyton | “Feels Like Christmas” (her third album; new single: “Sugar Cookie”; See here; Apple Music) | MCA Nashville |
| Lillian King | “In Your Long Shadow” (Chicago indie-folk artist’s debut album; new single: “Echo”; See here; Vinyl out Nov. 21; Apple Music) | Pronounced Kroog / Secretly Distribution |
| Alice Phoebe Lou | “Oblivion” (South African indie-pop singer-songwriter’s sixth album; new single: “Pretender”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nettwerk |
| Low Girl | “Is It Too Late to Freak Out?“ (British indie rock band’s debut album; new single: “Overgrown”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | AWAL Recordings |
| Magic Wands | “Cascades“ (L.A.-based dark dreampop duo’s sixth album; new single: “Time to Dream”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Metropolis |
| Mugger | “Want the World” (Austin-based hardcore punk band’s four-song EP; new single: “Want the World”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Quiet Panic |
| Alexander Stewart | “What If?” (Toronto-born singer-songwriter’s second album; new single: “Friends Don’t,” feat. Lauren Spencer Smith; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Alexander Stewart |
| Sumo Cyco | “NEON VOID” (Canadian rock band’s fourth album; producer: guitarist Matt Drake; new single: “SHIVERS”; See here; Read here; Red Marble Vinyl) | Cyco City Records |
| Serj Tankian | “Covers, Collaborations & Collages” (new single: “Electric Dreams”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Serjical Strike Records / Create Music Group |
| Them | “Psychedelic Enigma” (German theatrical power/thrash metal band’s fifth album; new single: “Remember to Die”; See here; Apple Music) | Steamhammer / SPV |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Barclay James Harvest | “Eyes of the Universe / Baby James Harvest” (1979 and 1972 albums on one CD) | The Masked Weasel |
| Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart | “The Anthology” (25 tracks on one CD) | The Masked Weasel |
| Brewer & Shirley | “ST 11261 / Welcome to Riddle Bridge” (1974 and 1975 albums on one CD, with three bonus cuts, including “One Toke Over the Line” and “Tarkio Road”) | JGJ Records |
| Kate Bush | “Best of the Other Sides” (standalone release of 11 B-sides and extra tracks that never appeared on an album other than “The Other Sides” remastered box sets from 2018; Download released on Sept. 26) > Hounds of Love + The Dreaming + The Sensual World + Aerial ⛰︎ | Fish People |
| Ray Charles | “Love Country Style” (1970 album; remastered; Orange Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Tangerine |
| Clannad | “Macalla (40th Anniversary Edition)” (1985 album, featuring “In a Lifetime,” a duet with Bono; remastered by Phil Kinrade at AIR Studios; Marble Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download) | BMG Rights Management |
| Cowboy Junkies | “More Acoustic Junk” (five new acoustic recordings alongside five tracks from 2009’s “Acoustic Junk” – three of which have been remixed for this compilation; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Cooking Vinyl |
| Cymarron | “Rings: The Very Best of Cymarron” (17 tracks) | JGJ Records |
| Paul Davis | “Ride ‘Em Cowboy / Paul Davis / Cool Night” (1974, 1980 and 1981 albums and 14 bonus tracks on two CDs) | JGJ Records |
| Hazell Dean | “The Decca Years” (17 tracks from 1975-1978, making their first appearance on CD; Read here; Amazon UK) | SFE / Cherry Red |
| Don Ellis | “The 1960s Albums” (eight albums on four CDs; remastered) | Enlightenment |
| Jackdawg | “Jackdawg” (shelved early 1990s pop-rock album from Doobie Brothers’ John McFee and Keith Knudsen and CCR’s Stu Cook; Hear here; Vinyl; Download) | Liberation Hall |
| Elton John | “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (50th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 1975 album, featuring “Someone Saved My Life Tonight,” along with “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” and “Philadelphia Freedom”; with previously unreleased session demos and Captain Fantastic Live 2005 performances, with three bonus tracks; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; Merch) > Diamonds 💎 | Mercury / UMe |
| King Crimson | “In the Wake of Poseidon” (CD + Blu-ray; their second album, from 1970; featuring new mixes of the album in Dolby Atmos, 5.1 DTS-HD MA Surround and hi-res stereo by Steven Wilson, while David Singleton contributes Elemental Mixes of four of the album’s key tracks) | Panegyric |
| Little Feat | “The Last Record Album (Deluxe Edition)” (1975 album; four-CD collection; remastered, with demos, alternate versions, outtakes and other rarities, plus the 15-track “Live at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA, 10/31/75”; Read here; Double Vinyl, featuring rarities, sans the live extras; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Rhino / Warner |
| Love | “Da Capo” (1966 album, featuring “Seven & Seven Is” and “She Comes in Colors”) | Music on CD |
| Lonnie Mack | “Live from Louisville 1992” (Double Vinyl) | The Last Music Company |
| Carl Perkins | “Some Things Never Change” (unreleased recordings from 1990, thought to be lost but rediscovered last year; backed by sons Stan and Greg Perkins and studio aces Jerry Douglas and Pete Finney; producer: Bill Lloyd; new single: a version of John Hiatt’s “Memphis in the Meantime”; See here; Read here; Blue Suede Splatter Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Sun Records |
| The Pogues | “Rum Sodomy & the Lash (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 1985 album, produced by Elvis Costello, featuring “A Pair of Brown Eyes,” “Sally MacLennane” and “Dirty Old Town”; extras include “Poguetry in Motion” EP, B-sides, tracks from the July 1985 BBC Janice Long session and live recordings from Glasgow Barrowland; Red Marbled Double Vinyl out Nov. 28; Amazon UK) | Rhino |
| Pulp | “Different Class (30th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 1995 album, featuring “Common People,” “Sorted for E’s & Wizz,” “Disco 2000” and “Something Changed”; remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road, overseen by Jarvis Cocker and Mark Webber, and paired with the 13-track “Live from Glastonbury 1995”; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; On Tour) | Island / UMe |
| Kenny Rankin | “Like a Seed” (1972 album) “Silver Morning” (1974 album, featuring his version of The Beatles’ “Blackbird”; Paul McCartney asked Rankin to perform it when McCartney and John Lennon were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987) | JGJ Records |
| Bunny Sigler | “Let the Good Times Roll / Feel So Good: All His Chart Hits and More” (23 tracks on one CD) | JGJ Records |
| Horace Silver | “Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse” (recently discovered recording from August 1965, with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Teddy Smith on bass, and Roger Humphries on drums; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | Blue Note / UMe |
| Simple Plan | “The Kids in the Crowd (Music from the Documentary Soundtrack)” (23-track career-spanning compilation includes their biggest hits, fan favorites, unreleased demos and a new track, “Nothing Changes”; the film is available to stream on Prime Video; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Atlantic |
| O.C. Smith | “Little Green Apples / All His Chart Hits and More” (23 tracks on one CD) | JGJ Records |
| Bruce Springsteen | “Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition” (4 CDs + 1 Blu-ray; 2025 remaster of the original 1982 album, featuring “Atlantic City,” plus “Electric Nebraska” sessions with the E Street Band and solo home and studio recordings, along with a new performance film of all “Nebraska” songs played in sequence, recorded at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ; See here; Read here; 4 LPs + 1 Blu-ray; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on Oct. 17; Apple Music; Merch) > Greatest Hits 🎡 | Columbia / Legacy |
| Supertramp | “It’s a Long Road – BBC Sessions 1970-1974” (U.K. release; 16 tracks; remastered) | Audio Vaults |
| Various artists | “NOW 12” 80s: 1985 – Part Two” (U.K. release; four CDs, 46 tracks) | Sony Music / EMI |
| Various artists | “Verve // Remixed Holiday” (new mixes by DJ-producers Ginton, Bolden., Tourist, Two Another, and DARGZ of holiday classics by Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Mel Tormé, et al; Hear here; Crystal Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Verve / UMe |
| The Walker Brothers | “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore / Portrait” (rare Japanese editions of their 1966 albums, with 20 bonus tracks) | JGJ Records |
| Neil Young | “Official Release Series Discs 26, 27, 28, & 29” (four-CD box set; sixth volume in chronological reissue series, covering the years 1992-1995, featuring “Harvest Moon,” “Unplugged,” “Sleeping With Angels” and “Mirror Ball”; Vinyl, eight-LP box set; Merch) > Greatest Hits 🌾 | Reprise |
Reissues (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Rose Gray | “A Little Louder, Please (Deluxe)” (expanded edition of her 2025 album, “Louder, Please,” with new collaborations with Melanie C, JADE, Shygirl and Casey MQ, plus two new tracks [“April” and “Lotus”], as well as club edits, string versions and remixes; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Republic |
| Brene Wilson | “Trial and Error Session” (Bear, DE-based alt-rock artist’s seven-song EP from 2015; producer: Wilson; first single: “Baby Runaway”; See here) | BreneMusic |
