New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Abramelin | “Sins of the Father” (Australian death metal band’s fourth album; new single: “Conflagration of the Dreamers”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music)   | Hammerheart |
| Abstract Crimewave | “The Longest Night” (third album from Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John and Joakim Åhlund of Caesars / Teddybears; guests: Chrissie Hynde, Lykke Li, Dungen; See here; Read here; Orange/Blue Effect Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Chimp Limbs |
| James Bay | “Changes All the Time” (BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter’s fourth album; producer: Gabe Simon; new single: “Up All Night,” feat. The Lumineers and Noah Kahan; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mercury / Republic |
| Leon Bridges | “Leon” (his fourth album; producers: Ian Fitchuk, Tyler Johnson; new single: “Peaceful Place”; See here; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Bone Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Columbia |
| Jake Bugg | “A Modern Day Distraction” (U.K. indie singer-songwriter’s sixth album; producers: Mark Taylor, Patrick Mascall; new single: “All Kinds of People”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | RCA |
| Caribou | “Honey” (musician/producer Dan Snaith’s sixth album and first in four years; new single: “Come Find Me”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Oct. 4; Apple Music; On Tour) | Merge |
| Kasey Chambers | “Backbone” (Australian country legend’s 13th album; new single: “Backbone [The Desert Child]”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Essence Music |
| Coldplay | “Moon Music” (their 10th album; producer: Max Martin; new single: “feelslikeimfallinginlove”; Translucent Pink EcoRecord Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Translucent Blue EcoRecord Vinyl; HMV-Exclusive Transparent Yellow EcoRecord Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Atlantic |
| Alessandro Cortini | “Nati Infiniti” (Italian musician’s 40-minute album is separated into five movements, based on an immersive audio installation that ran across four floors of the Museu de Lisboa’s Fábrica da Moagem, a disused flour mill; new single: “IV”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mute |
| The Devlins | “All the Days” (Irish alt-rock band’s fifth album and first in 20 years; producer: Rob Kirwan; new single: “All the Days”; Read here; Vinyl; Download) | Blue Élan |
| Jordan Feliz | “Everything Good” (Dove Award winner’s fourth album; producers: Colby Wedgeworth, Luke Johns, AJ Pruis; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Centricity Music |
| Fever 333 | “Darker White” (Inglewood, CA rock band’s third album; new single: “No Hostages”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Century Media |
| FINNEAS | “For Cryin’ Out Loud” (Grammy- and Academy Award-winning producer-singer’s second album; producer: FINNEAS; new single: “For Cryin’ Out Loud”; See here; Gold BioVinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Polydor / Interscope |
| Orla Gartland | “Everybody Needs a Hero” (Dublin-born singer-songwriter’s second album; producers: Gartland, Peter Miles, Tom Stafford; new single: “The Hit”; Hear here; Read here; Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | New Friends Music |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” (their eighth album; the title refers to the ongoing tragedy in Gaza; new single: “GREY RUBBLE – GREEN SHOOTS”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Constellation |
| Ian Gothe & Fernando Perdomo | “Never Let Go: A Tribute to Camel” (featuring Dave Kerzner and longtime Pink Floyd backing vocalist Durga McBroom) | Think Like a Key Music |
| Robyn Hitchcock | “1967: Vacations in the Past” (acoustic covers album, a musical companion to his new memoir, “1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left”; producers: Hitchcock, Charlie Francis; new single: “Itchycoo Park”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Sept. 13; Apple Music) | Tiny Ghost |
| Jett Holden | “The Phoenix” (country singer-songwriter’s debut album; producer: Will Hoge; guests: Cassadee Pope, Emily Scott Robinson, Charlie Worsham, John Osborne; new single: “West Virginia Sky”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Black Opry / Thirty Tigers |
| Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | “Live From The Ryman Vol. 2” (recorded during their residency in 2020 and 2023; includes a cover of Tom Petty’s “Room at the Top”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Southeastern |
| Little Big Town | “The Christmas Record” (six holiday classics and five new songs; Download) | Capitol Nashville |
| Michelle Malone | “Southern Comfort” (Americana singer-songwriter’s 20th album; producers: Malone, Paul Warner; guests: Buddy Miller, Will Kimbrough, Randall Bramblett, Blackberry Smoke members Charlie Starr and Paul Jackson, The Georgia Satellites’ Rick Richards; new single: “Simple Life”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | SBS Records |
| Michael Mayo | “Fly” (L.A.-based jazz/R&B singer-songwriter’s second album; producer: Mayo; new single: “Four”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) | Mack Avenue / Artistry Music |
| Daryl Mosley | “Long Days & Short Stories” (his fourth album for Pinecastle; producers: Mosley, The Grascals’ Danny Roberts; guests: Jeff and Sheri Easter, New Tradition, Sarah Davidson; new single: “When I Can’t Reach Up”; Hear here) | Pinecastle |
| Mötley Crüe | “Cancelled” (three-song EP; producer: Bob Rock; new single: a cover of Beastie Boys’ “Fight For Your Right”; Hear here; Read here; Red/Black Splatter Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) | Big Machine Rock |
| Alison Moyet | “Key” (a collection of reworked singles, fan favorites, deep cuts and two new songs, celebrating her 40th year as a solo artist; producer: Sean McGhee; new single: “Where Hide Sleeps”; See here; Double White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Moyet Moments Edition, featuring tracks and conversations; Apple Music; On Tour) | Cooking Vinyl |
| Naked Giants | “Shine Away” (Seattle indie rock trio’s third album; producer: Dylan Wall; new single: “Apartment 3”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Download; On Tour) | DevilDuck Records |
| Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn | “Quiet in a World Full of Noise” (new single: “Breath Out”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Merge |
| The Smile | “Cutouts” (third album from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner – it’s their second LP of 2024; producer: Sam Petts-Davies; new singles: “Foreign Spies” and “Zero Sum”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) | XL Recordings |
| Mindy Smith | “Quiet Town” (Americana Award-winning singer-songwriter’s sixth album and first LP of new material in 12 years; producer: Neilson Hubbard; guests: Matraca Berg, Will Kimbrough, Megan McCormick, Juan Solorzano, Lex Price, Danny Mitchell, et al; new single: “Quiet Town”; Hear here; Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Compass |
| Thee Sacred Souls | “Got a Story to Tell” (California soul trio’s second album; producer: Gabriel Roth; new single: “Live For You”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Daptone |
| Trash Boat | “Heaven Can Wait” (St Albans punk-rock quintet’s fourth album; producers: Jason Perry, Trash Boat; guests: Eric Vanlerberghe of I Prevail, Kenta Koie of Crossfaith; new single: “Be Someone”; Hear here; See here; Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Hopeless |
| Various artists | “Joker: Folie à Deux (Music From the Motion Picture)” (film starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga opens Oct. 4; Trailer; Translucent Red Vinyl; Download) | Warner / Interscope |
| Matthew West | “Don’t Stop Praying” (Grammy-nominated Christian singer-songwriter’s 13th album; guests: Anne Wilson, Stephen McWhirter; new single: “Chosen”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Provident Music Group |
| The Wild Feathers | “Sirens” (Nashville country rockers’ sixth album; producer: Shooter Jennings; new single: “Sanctuary”; Hear here; Opaque Jade Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | New West |
| Yasmin Williams | “Acadia” (guests: Aoife O’Donovan, Dom Flemons, Kaki King, Darian Donovan Thomas, Allison de Groot, Tatiana Hargreaves, Darlingside, Malick Koly, Magro, Marcus Gilmore, Immanuel Wilkins; new single: “Virga”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nonesuch |
| Jonah Yano | “Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop” (Montreal-based musician’s third album; producer: Yano; guests: Clairo, Helena Deland, Ouri; new single: “Romance ESL”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | Innovative Leisure |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| All Feels | “This Place Is a Message” (recorded with Justin Pizzoferrato; new single: “Possessed”; Hear here) | Flower Sounds |
| Becky G | “Encuentros” (Mexican American pop star’s fourth album; producers: Adrián Pieragostino, Edge, Guerrero, Sara Schell; new single: “Como Diablos”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Kemosabe Records / Sony Music Latin / RCA, Oct. 10 |
| Casiokids | “Tid for hjem” (Norwegian group’s first album in 13 years; new singles: “Brunsniggelen” and “Tid for hjem”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Jansen |
| Eric Clapton | “Meanwhile” (six new tracks and eight previously released singles; guests: Van Morrison, the late Jeff Beck, Bradley Walker, Simon Climie, Judith Hill, Daniel Santiago; new single: “One Woman”; Hear here; CD and Blue Double Vinyl out Jan. 24, 2025; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour) | Surfdog |
| Andy Grammer | “Monster” (his first full-length album in five years; guests: Maddie & Tae, AIJIA; new single: “I Do”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Giant Soul Records / S-Curve |
| Half Waif | “See You at the Maypole” (Nandi Rose’s sixth full-length album; new single: “Figurine”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Double Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | ANTI- / Epitaph |
| Snorri Hallgrímsson | “Longer shadows, softer stones” (Icelandic composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist’s six-song EP; new single: “With Love, Despite the pain”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Benjamin William Hastings | “Sold out, sincerely” (singer-songwriter/worship leader’s second album; producers: Ben Tan, Hank Bentley; new single: “If it wasn’t for Jesus”; See here; CD out Oct. 25; Apple Music; On Tour) | Invorto / Capitol CMG |
| Taylor Hollingsworth | “Yahola” (new single: “Couldn’t Get to Heaven”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dial Back Sound |
| Jabee | “The Spirit Is Willing, But the Flesh Is Weak” (producers: Conductor Williams, Apollo Brown, Marv Won, M. Stacks, Quelle Chris, Evidence; new single: “Hear Me When I Pray”; Hear here; CD out Oct. 25; Apple Music) | Mello Music Group |
| Palomino Blond | “You Feel It Too” (Miami rock trio’s sophomore album; new single: “Left”; Hear here; Vinyl) | Kanine |
| Presence | “TEARS IN THE MOSHPIT!” (So-Cal alt-pop artist’s debut album; new single: “I DON’T WANNA BE LIKE YOU”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Nettwerk |
| Sixpence None the Richer | “Rosemary Hill” (six-song EP; their first release since 2012; new single: “We Are Love”; Hear here; CD and Vinyl out Oct. 18; Apple Music; On Tour) | Flatiron Recordings |
| Nate Smith | “California Gold” (California-born country singer-songwriter’s second album; producers: Lalo Guzman, Lindsay Rimes, Zach Skelton, Alesso; guests: Avril Lavigne, Alesso; new single: “Fix What You Didn’t Break”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sony Music Nashville |
| sunsetto | “THE SUN, THE MOON AND THE BIG MACHINE” (Canadian singer-songwriter’s debut album; new single: “SHE’S THE WHOLE WORLD”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Sony Music Entertainment Canada |
| Jesse Terry | “Arcadia” (John Lennon Songwriting Contest winner’s seventh album; new single: “Burn the Boats”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Wander Recordings |
| Texas Hippie Coalition | “Gunsmoke” (metal quintet’s eighth album; new single: “Bones Jones”; Hear here; CD and Red Orange Black Vinyl out Nov. 1; Apple Music; On Tour) | MNRK Heavy |
| Toosii | “JADED” (producers: Anthoine Walters, Dson Beats, Gabe Lucas, Imregii, Vision EXE; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour, with Rod Wave) | South Coast Music Group / Capitol |
| Various artists | “Bad Monkey (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)” (new TV series, starring Vince Vaughn, is based on Carl Hiassen’s novel; soundtrack includes many 21 covers of Tom Petty songs by other artists and eight score selections; Play Free Episode; Apple Music; Merch) | WaterTower Music / Warner |
| Nick Ward | “House With the Blue Door” (Australian singer-songwriter’s debut album; producers: Ward, Gab Strum, Golden Vessel, Len20, Tim Nelson, Simon Lam, SOLLYY, FRIDAY*; new single: “All Your Life”; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour, with Troye Sivan) | Republic |
| ZZ Ward | “Mother” (six-song EP; producer: Ryan Spraker; new single: “Mother”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dirty Shine / Sun Records |
| Tucker Wetmore | “Waves on a Sunset” (Kalama, WA, native’s eight-song debut EP; new single: “Silverado Blue”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour, with Thomas Rhett) | Back Blocks Music / EMI Records Nashville |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Aphex Twin | “Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition)” (Triple CD; 1994 album; with additional tracks, including “#19”; Hear here; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Amazon UK; Download) | Warp |
| Keith Carradine | “I’m Easy” (two albums, “I’m Easy” and “Lost and Found,” on one CD) | Classics |
| Chris de Burgh | “50 Years of Music” (Double CD; 29-track career retrospective includes “Don’t Pay the Ferryman” and “The Lady in Red,” as well as three new songs; Triple Vinyl on Nov. 15; On Tour) | V2 |
| The English Beat | “Wha’ppen? (Expanded Edition)” (1981 album; with 10 bonus tracks and B-sides; On Tour) | Rhino / Warner |
| Five Man Electrical Band | “Signs” (four albums on two CDs: “Five Man Electrical Band,” “Good-byes and Butterflies,” “Coming of Age” and “Sweet Paradise,” featuring “Signs,” “Absolutely Right” and “Werewolf”) | Choice Collection |
| Foreigner | “Turning Back the Time” (18-track hits compilation includes a previously unreleased song, “Turning Back the Time”; Double Vinyl; Download; The Farewell Tour) | Atlantic |
| Hanson | “Underneath: Complete” (Double CD; expanded edition of their 2004 album; with 23 tracks, including “Penny & Me [Moonlight Version]”; Triple Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | 3CG Records |
| Bobby Helms | “A Bobby Helms Christmas” (five-song EP, featuring “Jingle Bell Rock”) | Geffen / UMe |
| Jimi Hendrix | “Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision” (three-CD, one-Blu-ray box set, a companion piece to a new documentary on the creation of Electric Lady Studios; Hear here; Trailer; Vinyl, five-LP, one-Blu-ray box set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Experience Hendrix / Legacy Recordings |
| Hugo Largo | “Huge, Large and Electric: Hugo Largo 1984-1991” (two-CD compilation; Triple Vinyl) | Missing Piece |
| The Intrigues | “In a Moment – Best Of” (1969 album “In a Moment,” with nine bonus cuts; Hear here) | Choice Collection |
| Toby Keith | “Christmas to Christmas” (1995 album; remastered, with a bonus cover of Roger Miller’s “Old Toy Trains”; Translucent Green Vinyl) “13 Number Ones” (collection of tracks from 1993 to 2005; Vinyl) | Show Dog Nashville |
| Lightning Seeds | “Tomorrow’s Here Today: 35 Years of Lighting Seeds” (19 songs; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Sony UK |
| Abbey Lincoln | “The Classic Albums 1957-1961” (six complete albums on three CDs) | Acrobat |
| Mastodon | “Crack the Skye (15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (Double CD; 2009 album; remastered, with an instrumental mix of the entire album; Sky Blue Double Vinyl; Gold Double Vinyl + Blu-ray; Amazon UK; On Tour) | Reprise |
| Melanie | “Ragamuffin (Deluxe Edition)” (2016 EP; expanded to 17 tracks) | Cleopatra |
| Joni Mitchell | “Joni Mitchell Archives, Volume 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980)” (six-CD box set, featuring nearly 100 unreleased demos, studio outtakes, live recordings, etc., plus a 36-page booklet of unpublished photos and liner notes in conversation with Cameron Crowe; Vinyl, four-LP box set of highlights; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) | Rhino / Elektra |
| Sherbet | “Very Best of Sherbet” (42 tracks on two CDs, including their 1976 international hit “Howzat”; See here) | Choice Collection |
| Talk Talk | “It’s My Life” (1984 album, featuring the title track, “Such a Shame” and “Dum Dum Girl”; Vinyl, 40th anniversary half-speed master cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, overseen by Talk Talk drummer Lee Harris and Charlie Hollis, son of the late Mark Hollis; Amazon UK) | Rhino / Parlophone |
| Pete Townshend | “Live: In Concert 1985-2001” (14-CD box set; newly remastered by Jon Astley, with 28-page book; Download released on July 26) | UMe |
| Twisted Sister | “Stay Hungry (40th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 1984 album, featuring “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “I Wanna Rock”; with previously unreleased “Live in San Bernardino, CA, 5/19/1984” from their Stay Hungry tour; Download) | Atlantic |
| Various artists | “He Took Us By Storm: 25 Lost Classics From the Bob Dylan Folk-Rock Revolution Era” (anthology compiled by French producer Philippe Le Bras, featuring Dylan-inspired tracks by Dion, Lou Reed, Bobby Darin, Leon Russell, David Crosby, Donovan, Boz Scaggs, Bob Seger, et al; Read here) | Bear Family |
| Brenton Wood | “Brenton Wood’s 18 Best” (1992 compilation, featuring “Gimme Little Sign” and “Oogum Boogum”; Vinyl) | Craft Recordings / Concord |
| Neil Young | “Freedom” (1989 album, featuring “Rockin’ in the Free World”; See here; Double Vinyl) | Reprise |
| Neil Young + Crazy Horse | “Weld” (Double CD; 1991 live album; 16 songs; Triple Vinyl) “Arc” (1991 live album; Vinyl) | Reprise |
