New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Herb Alpert | “50” (his 50th studio album and 50 years of marriage to singer Lani Hall; 10-track LP features covers and new original compositions; new single: “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”; Hear here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)   |
Herb Alpert Presents |
| Blossoms | “Gary” (English indie rock group’s fifth album; producers: James Skelly, Josh-Lloyd Watson; new single: “Gary”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
ODD SK Recordings |
| Bright Eyes | “Five Dice, All Threes” (guests: Cat Power, The National’s Matt Berninger, Alex Orange Drink; new single: “Bells and Whistles”; See here; Double Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Red and Orange Splatter Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Dead Oceans |
| Manu Chao | “Viva Tu” (French-Spanish singer-guitarist’s first studio album since 2007; guests: Willie Nelson, Laeti; new single: “São Paulo Motoboy”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Because Music |
| Erland Cooper | “Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence” (Scottish composer and multi-instrumentalist buried the master tape of this album three years ago, deleting all digital files, and will unearth it in a world premiere live performance with a chamber string ensemble at London’s Barbican Hall on June 8; Amazon UK; Recycled Black Vinyl; Download; Apple Music) |
Mercury KC / Decca |
| The Damned | “AD 2022 – Live in Manchester” (Double CD + DVD; Nov. 3, 2022 reunion concert at O2 Apollo, featuring the four founding members: Dave Vanian, Brian James, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
earMUSIC |
| Steve Forbert | “Daylight Savings Time” (his 21st album; producer: Steve Greenwell; joined by Rob Clores on keyboards and accordion, Gurf Morlix on electric guitar, Aaron Comess on drums, Byron House on bass, and Layonne Holmes on backing vocals; new single: “Sound Existence”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Blue Rose Music |
| Alexis Ffrench | “Classical Soul Vol. 1” (original compositions for piano and orchestra, with snippets of soul anthems; new single: “Soar”; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Sony Classical |
| Nelly Furtado | “7” (her seventh album and first since 2017; producers: Furtado, SG Lewis, T-Minus, WondaGurl, et al; guests: Bomba Estéreo, Tove Lo, SG Lewis, et al; new single: “Corazón”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Silver Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music) |
Republic |
| Future | “MIXTAPE PLUTO” (17 tracks; guests: Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, et al; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download) |
Epic |
| Nubya Garcia | “Odyssey” (British jazz tenor saxophonist’s third album; guests: esperanza spalding, Richie, Georgia Anne Muldrow; new single: “The Seer”; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Concord Jazz |
| Dave Guy | “Ruby” (Roots musician’s debut solo album; new single: “7th Heaven,” feat. Clairo; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) |
Big Crown |
| JP Harris | “JP Harris Is a Trash Fire” (his first album since 2018; producer: JD McPherson; guests: Erin Rae, The Watson Twins, Shovels & Rope; new single: “Old Fox”; See here; Coke Clear Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Bloodshot |
| Honeyglaze | “Real Deal” (South London-based trio’s second album; producer: Claudius Mittendorfer; new single: “Don’t”; See here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Fat Possum |
| IST IST | “Light a Bigger Fire” (U.K. post-punk band’s fourth album; producer: Joe Cross; new single: “Repercussions”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Kind Violence Records |
| Jamie xx | “In Waves” (London musician, DJ and producer’s second album, coming nine years after his debut; guests: Robyn, The Avalanches, Kelsey Lu, John Glacier and Panda Bear, Oona Doherty, his The xx bandmates Romy and Oliver Sim; new single: “All You Children”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Deluxe Edition: White and Black Vinyl, featuring a bonus 12-inch of previous singles and two new tracks; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Young |
| Joan As Police Woman | “Lemons, Limes, and Orchids” (Joan Wasser’s 10th album; guests: Meshell Ndegeocello, Chris Bruce, Daniel Mintseris, Parker Kindred, Otto Hauser’ new single: “Long for Ruin”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) |
[PIAS] America |
| Lutalo | “The Academy” (Vermont-based postmodern indie rocker’s debut album; new singles: “The Bed” and “Broken Twin”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Meadow Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Winspear |
| Midland | “Barely Blue” (Grammy-nominated Texas country trio’s eight-song EP; producer: Dave Cobb; new single: “Vegas”; Hear here; See here; Metallic Marble Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Big Machine |
| Thurston Moore | “Flow Critical Lucidity” (Sonic Youth co-founder’s ninth solo album; new single: “New in Town”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
The Daydream Library Series |
| Mortimer | “From Within” (Jamaican singer-songwriter’s debut album; guests: Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Kabaka Pyramid, Lila Iké; new single: “Bruises”; Hear here; See here; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Easy Star |
| Nightwish | “Yesterwynde” (Finnish symphonic metal band’s 10th album; producer: keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen; new single: “Perfume of the Timeless”; See here; Double White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Nuclear Blast |
| Neon Trees | “Sink Your Teeth” (pop-rock band’s fifth album and first since 2020; new single: “Bad Dreams”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Round Hill |
| NONPAREILS | “Rhetoric & Terror” (Berlin-based Aaron Hemphill’s second album since leaving Liars in 2016; new single: “Predictable Pan [Theme From A Book Of Perfectly Drawn Lines]”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Mute |
| Katy J Pearson | “Someday, Now” (U.K. singer-songwriter’s third album; producer: Bullion; new single: “Those Goodbyes”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Coke Bottle Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Heavenly / [PIAS] |
| Katy Perry | “143” (her sixth album; producers: Aaron Joseph, Dr. Luke, Rocco Did It Again!, Vaughn Oliver; new single: “Woman’s World”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with one bonus song; Silver Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Clear Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Clear Red Vinyl, with one bonus song; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Clear Black Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch) |
Capitol |
| Kate Pierson | “Radios & Rainbows” (B-52’s singer’s second solo album; includes collaborations with Sia, Chris Braide, Jimmy Harry, Tim Andersen, Bleu McCauley and Adele bass player Sam Dixon; new single: “Evil Love”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl) |
Songvest Records |
| Rogers & Butler | “Studio 3” (recorded at Abbey Road Studios; producer: Don Piper; Vinyl; Download) |
Think Like a Key Music |
| Secret Garden | “Songs in the Circle of Time” (Irish-Norwegian instrumental duo’s 12th album; new single: “Fionnuala’s Violin”; See here; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music) |
Decca |
| Seether | “The Surface Seems So Far” (South African rockers’ ninth album; producer: lead singer Shaun Morgan; new single: “Judas Mind”; Hear here; White Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch) |
Fantasy / Concord |
| Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band | “Dirt On My Diamonds, Volume 2” (new single: “Long Way Down”; See here; Blue Marble Vinyl; On Tour) |
Provogue / Mascot Label Group |
| JD Simo & Luther Dickinson | “Do the Rump!” (new single: “Lonesome Road”; Hear here; Vinyl; On Tour) |
Forty Below |
| Skid Row | “Live in London” (16-song set recorded in October 2022 at a sold-out O2 Forum Kentish Town; Double Vinyl; Merch) |
earMUSIC |
| Mitchell Tenpenny | “The 3rd” (country singer-songwriter’s fifth album; 20-song set includes a cover of Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris”; new single: “The 3rd”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Riser House Entertainment / Sony Music Nashville |
| Tasha | “All This and So Much More” (third album from the vocalist in the Tony Award-winning musical “Illinoise”; producer: Gregory Uhlmann; new single: “The Beginning”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music) |
Bayonet |
| Keith Urban | “HIGH” (his 11th studio album; producers: Dann Huff, Greg Wells, Urban, Sam Sumser, Sean Small; guest: Lainey Wilson; new single: “WILDSIDE”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Capitol Nashville |
| The WAEVE | “City Lights” (second album from Blur’s Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall; producer: James Ford; new single: “You Saw”; See here; Rough Trade-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) |
Transgressive |
| Tom Walker | “I Am” (British singer-songwriter’s second album; producers: Connor McDonough, LLC, Rupert Christie, Ryan Daly, Stuart Price; new single: “Lifeline”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; On Tour) |
Relentless / Sony Music |
| Why Bonnie | “Wish on the Bone” (Blair Howerton’s second album; producers: Howerton, Jonathan Schenke; new single: “Fake Out”; See here; Read here; Grape Purple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Aug. 30; Apple Music) |
Fire Talk |
New Releases (Downloads)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| almost monday | “DIVE” (San Diego indie-pop trio’s debut album; producers: Mark Needham, Simon Oscroft; new single: “she likes sports”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Hollywood, Sept. 25 |
| Kassi Ashton | “Made From the Dirt” (Missouri country singer-songwriter’s debut album; producers: Ashton, Luke Laird, Todd Clark; new single: “The Straw”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | MCA Nashville / Interscope |
| Zac Brown Band | “No Wake Zone” (five-song EP; guest: Mac McAnally; new single: “Two Blue Chairs & You”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Home Grown Music / Warner Music Nashville |
| George Burton | “White Noise” (guests: Marquis Hill, Siya Makuzeni, Dylan Band, Alexa Barchini, Chris Lewis, Dante Clark, The Black Opera; new single: “Heard But Not Seen”; Hear here) | George Burton |
| Julian Casblancas+The Voidz | “Like All Before You” (their third album and first since 2018; See here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out Oct. 18) | Cult |
| Neil Cowley Trio | “Entity” (their first album in seven years; new single: “Adam Alphabet”; Hear here; CD and Vinyl out Oct. 4; Apple Music) | Hide Inside |
| Jerry Douglas | “The Set” (guest: Aoife O’Donovan; new single: a cover of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”; See here; On Tour) | Nolivan |
| FIDLAR | “SURVIVING THE DREAM” (Southern California surf-punks’ fourth album and first in more than five years; producers: FIDLAR; new singles: “FIX ME” and “GET OFF MY WAVE”; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | FIDLAR |
| Golden Feather | “Golden Feather” (Hamilton, Ontario jam band’s debut full-length album; new single: “What Your Heart Is Telling You”; Hear here; Apple Music) | Hide Inside |
| Jack Jones | “Jack Jones” (Trampolene lead singer-guitarist’s debut solo album; new single: “Breathe”; See here; CD and Orange Vinyl out Oct. 18; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Strap Originals |
| Kaeto | “INTRO” (London-based artist’s eight-song debut mixtape; producers: Kaeto, Mathias Wang; new single: “U R MINE”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Republic |
| LICE | “Third Time at the Beach” (U.K. experimental rock quartet’s second album; new single: “Red Fibres”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | AD 93 |
| Lil Tecca | “Plan A” (his fourth album; new single: “BAD TIME”; Hear/Read here; Apple Music) | Republic |
| Ibrahim Maalouf | “Trumpets of Michel-Ange” (French-Lebanese trumpeter-composer’s 18th album, featuring all original material, celebrates the music of his Lebanese roots and ancestry; guests: Trombone Shorty, -M-, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, Nassim Maalouf, Nael Maalouf, et al; new single: “Fly With Me”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mister Ibé |
| Jesse Malin | “Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin” (27-track tribute and benefit album, with all proceeds going to Malin’s Sweet Relief artist fund; guests: Bruce Springsteen, Billie Joe Armstrong, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Bleachers, Tommy Stinson, the late Wayne Kramer, Tom Morello, Counting Crows, Dinosaur Jr., The Wallflowers, Spoon, Susanna Hoffs, Frank Turner, Rancid, et al; new single: “Prisoners of Paradise”; Hear here; See here; CD out Dec. 6; Triple Vinyl out Oct. 25; Apple Music; Benefit Shows, Dec. 1-2, Beacon Theatre, NYC) | Glassnote |
| Max McNown | “Willfully Blind” (Nashville-based country singer’s seven-song EP; producer: Paul Wabury; new single: “Fishing Line”; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Fugitive Recordings / The Orchard |
| Pearl & The Oysters | “Planet Pearl” (French-American pop duo’s sixth album; producers: Pearl & The Oysters, Teo Halm; new single: “Big Time”; See here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Stones Throw |
| Photay | “Windswept” (L.A.-based composer, drummer, DJ and producer Evan Shornstein’s fifth album; new single: “Derecho”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Mexican Summer |
| Sammy Rae & The Friends | “Something For Everybody” (NYC-based collective’s debut album; new single: “No Rulebook”; Hear here; Blue Vinyl; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nettwerk |
| Chase Rice | “Go Down Singin'” (country singer’s seventh album; new single: “Go Down Singin'”; Hear here; See here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out Oct. 25; Apple Music; On Tour) | Dack Janiels Records / Firebird |
| Calvin Richardson | “Five Years Later …” (new single: “Ready for the Weekend”; Hear here; CD out Oct. 18; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | SoNo Recording Group |
| RVSHVD | “IT’S RASHAD” (Georgia native/Nashville-based country singer-songwriter’s debut album; producers: Brandon Manley, Dream Addix, Phil Mosley, RVSHVD; guests: Danny Worsnop, Paul Wall, Ice Nine Kills, All That Remains; new single: “Couldn’t Be Me”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Sumerian |
| The Rubens | “SODA” (Aussie alt-rock band’s fifth album; new single: “SODA”; Hear here; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Ivy League / Mushroom |
| Steve Slagg | “I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted to This World” (Chicago singer-songwriter’s third album; producers: Slagg, Mooner, Dorian Gehring; guest: Erin McKeown; new single: “Indigo Bunting”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Steve Slagg, Sept. 21 |
| Orion Sun | “Orion” (Philly-based R&B singer-songwriter’s third album; producers: Julian Ali, Rodaidh McDonald; new single: “Mary Jane”; Hear here; See here; Read here; CD and Vinyl out Oct. 18; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour) | Mom+Pop Music |
| Sunset Rubdown | “Always Happy to Explode” (indie rock band’s first album in 15 years; producer: Jordan Koop; new single: “Reappearing Rat”; Hear here; Vinyl; Apple Music) | Pronounced Kroog / Secretly Distribution |
| Lea Thomas | “Cosmos Forever” (producers: Thomas, John Thayer; new single: “The Gift”; Hear here; See here) | Triple Dolphin |
| Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | “Into the Wild” (six-song EP includes three new originals, covers of “White Rabbit” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “good 4 u” and an alternate version of “Stranger Things”; Hear here; Read here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Nonesuch |
| JJ Wilde | “Vices” (producers: Steve Solomon, Ryan Short, Austin Goodloe, Mona Khoshoi; new single: “Best of Me”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour) | Black Box Recordings |
Reissues (CDs + Vinyl)
| ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL |
| Phil Alvin | “County Fair 2000” (1994 album; mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering; Vinyl; Download) | Liberation Hall |
| Bill Black’s Combo | “The Jasmine EP Collection” (32 tracks on one CD, compiled from EPs issued in the U.S., the U.K., France, Sweden and Holland between 1960-62; Amazon UK) | Jasmine |
| Jackson Browne | “For Everyman” (1973 album, featuring “Redneck Friend” and “Take It Easy”; remastered; Vinyl) | Inside Recordings / Rhino |
| Cher | “FOREVER” (21-song, career-spanning compilation; Read here; Amazon-Exclusive CD, with turquoise cover; Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Sea Blue Double Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Silver Opaque Vinyl, with purple cover; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download) “FOREVER FAN” (40-song digital-only edition; Amazon UK; Apple Music) | Warner |
| Curved Air | “The Rarities Series” (six-CD box set; Read here; Amazon UK) | Spirit of Unicorn / Cherry Red |
| Dion | “The Jasmine EP Collection” (32 tracks on one CD, drawn from EPs issued in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Sweden, Spain, Australia and New Zealand between 1958-62; Amazon UK) | Jasmine |
| Double Exposure | “My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979)” (four-CD, 46-track clamshell box set includes expanded editions of their albums “Ten Percent,” “Fourplay” and “Locker Room,” featuring remixes, instrumentals and a capella versions; Read here; Amazon UK) | SoulMusic Records / The Second Disc / Cherry Red |
| Bob Dylan and The Band | “The 1974 Live Recordings” (27-CD box set features 417 previously unreleased tracks, including 133 recordings newly mixed from 16-track tape, and every single surviving soundboard recording, plus new liner notes by journalist and critic Elizabeth Nelson; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download, 20-song sampler; Apple Music; On Tour, with John Mellencamp; Merch) | Columbia / Legacy |
| Fleetwood Mac | “Mirage Tour ’82” (Double CD; recorded at the Forum in Inglewood, CA; remastered; Hear here; Read here; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch) | Rhino / Warner |
| Galaxie 500 | “Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90” (band’s first release of new archival material in nearly 30 years; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Double Cassette; Download; Apple Music) | Silver Current / 20/20/20 |
| Godley & Creme | “Collected” (three-CD, 55-song set compiles their hits, B-sides and 12-inches, along with their Hotlegs and 10cc material; Amazon UK) | Music on CD |
| Grateful Dead | “Duke ’78” (Triple CD; previously unreleased complete show from Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC, on April 12, 1978; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Download; Merch) | Grateful Dead Productions / Rhino |
| Shirley Horn | “Great Women of Song: Shirley Horn” (nine songs; Vinyl; Download) | Verve / UMe |
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | “Chain of Light” (“lost” album, recorded by David Bottrill on April 29, 1990, in The Wood Room, Real World Studios, featuring four traditional qawwals [Sufi Islamic devotional songs]; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download) | Real World |
| Peggy Lee | “Great Women of Song: Peggy Lee” (16 jazz-oriented recordings Lee made for Decca Records from 1952-56, including several tracks from her “Black Coffee” album; Vinyl; Download) | Verve / UMe |
| Johnny Marr + The Healers | “Boomslang (2024 Deluxe Edition)” (2003 album; remastered at Abbey Road Studios, with seven bonus tracks; Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour) | BMG Rights Management |
| Midnight Star | “The Definitive Collection” (three CDs, 41 tracks; Read here; Amazon UK) | Robinsongs / Cherry Red |
| Sam Phillips | “A Boot and a Shoe” (2004 album, produced by then-husband T Bone Burnett; with new liner notes by Phillips; Vinyl) | Omnivore Recordings |
| Simon & Garfunkel | “Bookends” (Hybrid SACD; 1968 album, featuring “Mrs. Robinson,” “A Hazy Shade of Winter,” “America” and “Fakin’ It”) | Mobile Fidelity |