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New Releases (CDs + Vinyl)
ARTIST
TITLE
LABEL
Absolute Losers
“In the Crowd” (Charlottetown, P.E.I. rock trio’s second album; producer: Graham Walsh; new single: “At the Same Time”; Hear here; Vinyl)
Having Fun Records / We Are Busy Bodies
Ben Arnold
“XI” (Philly-based roots-rock singer-songwriter’s ninth album; producers: Shane Smith, Barrie Maguire ; new single: “Long Tall Shadow”; See here; Coke Bottle Green Vinyl)
“BEAT LIVE” (Triple CD + Blu-ray Artbook; Adrian Belew and Tony Levin teamed with Steve Vai and Tool drummer Danny Carey last year to revisit King Crimson’s “Discipline,” “Beat” and “Three of a Perfect Pair” albums; new single: “Neal and Jack and Me”; See here; Read here; Triple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download)
InsideOutMusic
Tyron Benoit
“Mid-City” (Louisiana-based roots rocker’s third studio album; producer: Donald Markowitz; first single: “Louisiana Time”; See here; Read here; Download; Apple Music)
“Vol. 3: Ancestros Futuros” (saxophonist-composer Cochemea Gastelum enlisted an octet composed of NYC-based percussionists and members of Daptone’s famed rhythm section; producer: Gabriel Roth, who recorded and mixed the album live to 8-track analog tape; new single: “Omeyocan”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music)
“Darling Blue” (their fourth album and first full-band LP since 2018; producer: Eddie Spear; guests: Billy Strings, Noah Cyrus, Jamey Johnson, Kaitlin Butts, Jesse Welles; new single: “Here Today”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)
“Mulatu Plays Mulatu” (he reinvents his classic compositions in his pioneered Ethio-jazz style; producer: Dexter Story; Mulatu’s U.K. ensemble, Addis-based cultural musicians, contemporary artists Carlos Niño and Kibrom Birhane; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)
Strut
Perrie
“Perrie” (Little Mix singer’s debut solo album; producers: Alfie Russel, Andrew Goldstein, Colin Brittain, Johnny McDaid, Jon Bellion, Joy Anonymous, Mark “Spike” Stent, The Nocturns, Steve Solomon, Tenroc, Tré Jean-Marie, Will Reynolds; new single: “Miss You”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)
Columbia
Robert Plant
“Saving Grace” (his first solo album since 2017’s “Carry Fire”; his new Saving Grace band includes vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown; producers: Plant, Saving Grace; new single: a cover of Low’s “Gospel Plough”; Hear here; Vinyl; Indie Exclusive Fruit Punch Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)
“Uh Oh” (after a 2023 vocal cord hemorrhage left him unable to sing, the Montreal-based Polaris Prize winner invited his favorite singers to perform songs he had written, but even after he regained his voice, the project continued; guests: Martha Wainwright, November Ultra, Charlotte Oleena, MARO, La Force, Hohnen Ford, et al; new single: “House on Fire”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music)
“Kids Table” (eight-song EP; guests: Hurray for the Riff Raff, Leslie Stevens; new single: “Dyslexic Palindrome”; See here; Apple Music; On Tour)
Dead Oceans
Colbie Caillat
“This Time Around” (she revisits her hits with Maren Morris, Gavin DeGraw, Walker Hayes, Chris Young, Russell Dickerson, Amos Lee, Ryan Hurd, et al; new singles: “Live Without,” “Can’t Say No” and “Kinda Single”; See here; Read here; Amazon.ca; Apple Music; On Tour)
Blue Jean Baby Records
The Far West
“Everything We Thought We Wanted” (L.A.-based country/Americana band’s third album; producers: The Far West; mixed and mastered by Dave Trumfio; guest: Dave Alvin; Apple Music)
Blackbird Record Label
Nick Faye
“(Good) Love” (Saskatchewan indie pop-rock artist’s 10-song album; new single: “Wait Around”; Hear here; Apple Music)
“Time” (producers: Neil and Patrick Thrasher; new single: “Rearview”; See here; Read here; Apple Music)
Stone Country / Quartz Hill Music Group
Charles Wesley Godwin
“Live From the Steel City” (23-song set, including “Cue Country Roads,” “Family Ties” and “Hardwood Floors”; recorded Sept. 14, 2024 in Stage AE outdoors in Pittsburgh; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour)
“SPIRIT!” (third album from L.A. indie-pop outfit, now led solely by frontman Jason Yarger; producers: Yarger, former bassist Kevin Grimmett; new single: “title track”; See here; CD and Vinyl out Jan. 16, 2026; Apple Music)
“Lucky Horse Red” (L.A. genre-bending project’s debut album, featuring members from various DIY alternative and punk bands; new singles: “Noon Moon” and “Whiskey”; Hear here; Apple Music)
Shuga Records
Moon Panda
“Dumb Luck” (California/Danish dream-pop quartet’s third album; producers: bassist George Godwin, Adam Thein; new single: “Lost World”; See here; Apple Music)
Moon Panda / Virgin Music Group
Hunter Oliveri
“TEEN SLUG” (20-year-old Paso Robles, CA alt-rocker’s debut album; new single: “Make U Cry”; Hear here; Apple Music)
“The Virgin Suicides Redux” (Double CD + Blu-ray Digipack; 25th anniversary of the 2000 album, the score composed for the 1999 film of the same name by Sofia Coppola; new 2025 analog mix of the album, in Dolby Atmos, with music videos, along with a selection of previously unheard rarities and demos; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)
Rhino / Parlophone
Bangles
“Watching the Sky – The Bangles Box Set” (four CDs, containing their three studio albums – “All Over the Place,” “Different Light” and “Everything” – with B-sides, mixes and live recordings; Read here; Amazon UK)
Cherry Pop
Nick Drake
“The Making of Five Leaves Left” (four-CD box set containing the remastered album, along with 30 unaccompanied demos, studio outtakes and previously unheard songs from the sessions for the late British singer-songwriter’s 1969 debut; with 60-page book, written by Neil Storey in collaboration with Richard Morton-Jack, complete with full track recording details, charts and recording history; Vinyl, four-LP box set; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download released on July 25; Apple Music)
“The House of Love” (their second album, from 1990, featuring “Shine On,” “Beatles and the Stones” and “I Don’t Know Why I Love You”; See here; Amazon UK)
Music on CD
Spike Jones
“Spike Jones In Stereo: A Spooktacular In Screaming Sound!” (1959 album, featuring vocals by Paul Frees, Thurl Ravenscroft, George Rock, and Loulie Jean Norman; liner notes include new interviews with Jones’ children: multi-Grammy-winning engineer Leslie Ann Jones, Emmy-winning producer-director Spike Jones Jr., Linda Lee Jones, and Gina Jones; remastered; Hear here; Slime Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca)
Omnivore Recordings
Ronnie McNeir
“Ronnie McNeir Makes a Move” (unreleased 1971 tracks were found in Mickey Stevenson’s extensive master tape collection; McNeir has been a member of The Four Tops since 2018; Hear/Read here; Vinyl)
“Odessey and Oracle (Mono Remastered)” (1968 album, featuring “Time of the Season,” “This Will Be Our Year” and “Care of Cell 44”; first time the band’s original mono mix has appeared since the record’s British issue in April 1968 and it’s the first time ever in the U.S.; Vinyl; Amazon UK)
