Vinyl Vinyl Releases 4.2.2021

Published on April 4th, 2021 | by Gerry Galipault

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Your Vinyl Store (April 2-8 and Beyond)

New vinyl releases and reissues for this week and months ahead. (Check out Past LP Releases.)

APRIL 2 RELEASES

THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS
“Move Along” (2005 debut album, featuring “Dirty Little Secret”; See here; Merch; Interscope / UMe) » BUY NOW

THE BANGLES
“Doll Revolution” (2003 album; limited-edition white vinyl; See here) » BUY NOW
“Sweetheart of the Sun” (2011 album; teal vinyl; Real Gone Music) » BUY NOW

EAGLES
“Eagles Live” (1980 double album; 180-gram black vinyl) » BUY NOW
“The Millennium Concert” (recorded Jan. 31, 1999 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, this is the first time the album is being released as a stand-alone vinyl; originally included in the “Selected Works 1972-1999” CD box set; 180-gram black vinyl) » BUY NOW
“Long Road Out of Eden” (2007 album; 180-gram black vinyl; Merch; Rhino) » BUY NOW

FAITH NO MORE
“Who Cares A Lot? The Greatest Hits” (gold-colored vinyl; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW

ALLEN GINSBERG
“Allen Ginsberg At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading of Howl & Other Poems” (Read here; Omnivore Recordings) » BUY NOW

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD
“Live Album” (1970 album; 180-gram translucent red audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
“Teenage Gizzard” (early band recordings from 2010 and 2011 in Victoria, Australia; pressed on transparent yellow with pink splatter colored vinyl; Merch; Org Music) » BUY NOW

LIONEL RICHIE
“The Definitive Collection” (2003 compilation; Target-exclusive double opaque baby blue vinyl; Motown / UMe) » BUY NOW

SAIGON KICK
“Saigon Kick” (1991 debut album; white vinyl; Real Gone Music) » BUY NOW

TRAVIS
“Good Feeling” (1997 debut album, featuring “All I Want to Do Is Rock,” “U16 Girls,” “Happy,” “More Than Us” and “Tied to the 90’s”; 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl; See here; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW

WARREN ZEVON
“Stand in the Fire – Recorded Live at The Roxy (Deluxe Edition)” (1980 live album; with six bonus tracks; Rhino) » BUY NOW

Other Notable Releases

Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders Sturgill Simpson Dry Cleaning
Shakey Graves The Head & the Heart The Glitch Mob
Mythic Sunship The Fratellis Mark Bryan
No Use For A Name La Femme Cha Wa
Helen Reddy Flux Pavilion Ozzy Osbourne

APRIL 9 RELEASES

LAURIE ANDERSON
“Big Science” (1982 debut album, featuring “O Superman”; red vinyl; See here; Nonesuch) » BUY NOW

GEORGE BENSON
“The Other Side of Abbey Road” (1970 album; 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

THE B-52’S
“The B-52’s” (1979 album, featuring “Rock Lobster,” “Planet Claire” and “Dance This Mess Around”; See here; Merch; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW

ART BLAKELY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
“Moanin'” (1958 album; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW

FLEETWOOD MAC
“Fleetwood Mac Live (Super Deluxe Edition)” (two-LP, three-CD box set includes more than an hour of unreleased live material recorded between 1977 and 1982, plus unreleased demos of “Fireflies” and “One More Night” on a bonus 7-inch vinyl; Read here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Merch; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW

ARIANA GRANDE
“Positions” (2020 album; Coke Bottle Clear LP; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Spring Green Vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive Clear Vinyl; Republic) » BUY NOW

SARAH JAROSZ
“Build Me Up From Bones” (2013 album; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW

KEITH JARRETT
“Budapest Concert” (from his 2016 European tour; ECM) » BUY NOW

THE KINKS
“Low Budget” (1979 album, featuring “[Wish I Could Fly Like] Superman”; 180-gram red audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

HANK MOBLEY
“Soul Station” (1960 album, with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Blakey; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW

PETER MURPHY
“Should the World Fail to Fall Apart” (1986 album; blue vinyl) » BUY NOW
“Love Hysteria” (1988 album, featuring “All Night Long”; indigo vinyl; See here; Beggars Arkive) » BUY NOW

NADA SURF
“High/Low” (1996 album, featuring “Popular”; 180-gram gold vinyl; See here; Merch; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW

YES
“The Yes Album” (1971 album, featuring “I’ve Seen All Good People: Your Move, All Good People,” “Yours Is No Disgrace” and “Starship Trooper”; 180-gram audiophile vinyl 45rpm two-LP box set; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

APRIL 16 RELEASES

APPARAT
“Soundtracks” (four-LP box set featuring songs from the films “Capri-Revolution,” “Stay Still,” “Dämonen” and “Equals Sessions”; Hear here; Mute) » BUY NOW

ERIC CHURCH
“Heart” (the first release of his three-part project called “Heart & Soul”; a vinyl EP titled “&” will be available to fan club members on April 20, and the album “Soul” will follow on April 23; producer: Jay Joyce; new single: “Heart On Fire”; Hear here; Read here; Merch; EMI Nashville) » BUY NOW

PATSY CLINE
“Walkin’ After Midnight: The Essentials” (double pink vinyl; Merch; Cleopatra) » BUY NOW

ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS
“Armed Forces” (1979 album, produced by Nick Lowe and featuring “Oliver’s Army” and “Accidents Will Happen”; nine-LP box set, with seven custom notebooks, 23 unreleased live songs, vintage grenade, gun poster, four original postcards of each band member and pulp novel covers of songs from “Armed Forces” commissioned by artist Todd Alcott; See here; Merch; Elvis Costello / UMe) » BUY NOW

GRETA VAN FLEET
“The Battle at Garden’s Gate” (producer: Greg Kurstin; Read here; Merch; Lava / Republic) » BUY NOW

THE JAM
“This Is the Modern World” (1977 album, featuring “The Modern World”; Vinyl Lovers) » BUY NOW

DONNA LEWIS
“Now in a Minute (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1996 album, featuring “I Love You Always Forever”; orange vinyl; See here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Black Marble Vinyl; Real Gone Music) » BUY NOW

BOB MOULD
“Distortion: 2008-2019” (the third of four vinyl box sets chronicling his solo career; six studio albums on 140-gram clear splatter vinyl, with bonus tracks, mastered by Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering in Boston; Hear here; See here) » BUY NOW
“Distortion: The Best of 1989-2019” (24-song collection, compiled by Mould, and pressed on 140-gram black vinyl; Read here; Demon) » BUY NOW

THE MUFFS
“The Muffs” (1993 debut album, featuring “Big Mouth”; Hear here; Drastic Plastic) » BUY NOW

THE OFFSPRING
“Let the Bad Times Roll” (their first album in nine years; producer: Bob Rock; new single: “Let the Bad Times Roll”; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive Lemonade Vinyl Edition; Merch; Concord) » BUY NOW

TONY JOE WHITE
“Tony Joe White” (1971 album, produced by Peter Asher and featuring “They Caught The Devil and Put Him in Jail in Eudora, Arkansas,” “The Daddy” and “I Just Walked Away”; 180-gram white vinyl; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW

WINGER
“Winger” (1988 album, featuring “Headed for a Heartache,” “Seventeen” and “Madalaine”; 180-gram translucent gold audiophile vinyl; remastered, with one bonus track, “Higher and Higher”; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

APRIL 23 RELEASES

BAD BRAINS
“Bad Brains” (1981 debut album; mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering; Merch; Org Music) » BUY NOW

THE B-52’S
“Wild Planet” (1980 album, featuring “Private Idaho,” “Give Me Back My Man” and “Party Out of Bounds”; See here; Merch; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW

ERIC CHURCH
“Soul” (the final release of his three-part project called “Heart & Soul”; “Heart” was issued on April 16 and a vinyl EP titled “&” is available to fan club members on April 20; producer: Jay Joyce; Hear here; Read here; Merch; EMI Nashville) » BUY NOW

DEEP PURPLE
“Rapture of the Deep” (2005 album; Merch; earMUSIC) » BUY NOW

IBRAHIM FERRER
“Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer” (1999 album; producers: Ry Cooder, Nick Gold, Juan de Marcos González; World Circuit) » BUY NOW

PETER FRAMPTON
“Frampton Forgets the Words” (instrumental covers album, featuring versions of George Harrison’s “Isn’t It a Pity,” Radiohead’s “Reckoner,” David Bowie’s “Loving the Alien,” etc.; Merch; UMe) » BUY NOW

GANG OF FOUR
“Entertainment!” (1979 album, featuring “At Home He’s a Tourist,” “Natural’s Not In It” and “Damaged Goods”; remastered from the original tapes by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road, with supervision by founding member Jon King) » BUY NOW
“Solid Gold” (1981 album; remastered from the original tapes by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road, with supervision by founding member Jon King; Merch; Matador) » BUY NOW

BOBBIE GENTRY
“Fancy” (1970 album, featuring “Fancy” and “He Made a Woman Out of Me”; See here; Pleasure for Music) » BUY NOW

JOSH GROBAN
“Harmony (Deluxe Edition)” (2020 album; with six bonus tracks; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Silver Vinyl; Reprise) » BUY NOW

YUSEF LATEEF
“Eastern Sounds” (1961 album; mastered from the original stereo tapes by Grammy-winning mastering engineer Bernie Grundman and pressed utilizing Neotech’s VR9000 compound on 180-gram vinyl at RTI in a one-step lacquer process; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW

JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND
“John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (The Ultimate Collection)” (1970 album; newly remixed from the original multi-tracks at Abbey Road Studios by Paul Hicks, overseen by Yoko Ono Lennon; two-LP gatefold edition includes a second LP of outtakes, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, with a booklet and WAR IS OVER! poster; Merch; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW

MAGGIE ROGERS
“Notes From The Archive: Recordings 2011-2016” (16-track collection; marigold vinyl; CD, released on Dec. 18; Debay Sound) » BUY NOW

THE SELECTER
“Too Much Pressure (40th Anniversary Edition)” (1980 album; 180-gram half-speed mastered at Alchemy, with a bonus 40-gram 7-inch single; See here; Merch; Chrysalis) » BUY NOW

ELLIOTT SMITH
“Either/Or” (1997 album, featuring “Speed Trials” and “Ballad of Big Nothing,” and the tracks “Between the Bars,” “Angeles” and “Say Yes” also appeared on the “Good Will Hunting” soundtrack; Kill Rock Stars) » BUY NOW

THE WHO
“The Who Sell Out (Deluxe Edition)” (1967 album; remastered, with 12 bonus tracks, rare photos and memorabilia, psychedelic poster and track by track liner notes; See here; Read here; Super Deluxe Edition; Merch; Geffen / UMe) » BUY NOW

APRIL 30 RELEASES

CAN
“Future Days” (1973 album; limited-edition gold vinyl) » BUY NOW
“Delay 1968” (1981 compilation; limited-edition pink vinyl; Mute) » BUY NOW

FALL OUT BOY
“Take This To Your Grave (25th Anniversary Edition)” (2003 album, featuring “Dead on Arrival,” “Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy” and “Saturday”; silver vinyl; Merch; Fueled By Ramen) » BUY NOW

FUNKADELIC
“The Electric Spanking of War Babies” (1981 album, featuring Sly Stone singing lead on “Funk Gets Stronger [Killer Millimeter Longer Version]”; Merch; Charly) » BUY NOW

DIZZY GILLESPIE
“The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band: 20th and 30th Anniversary” (1968 album; MPS) » BUY NOW

PJ HARVEY
“Uh Huh Her” (2005 album) » BUY NOW
“Uh Huh Her – Demos” (CD; Island / UMe) » BUY NOW

HOWARD JONES
“In the Running” (1992 album, featuring “Lift Me Up”; translucent clear vinyl; Cherry Red) » BUY NOW

LIL BABY
“My Turn (Deluxe)” (2020 album, featuring “Woah,” “Sum 2 Prove,” “Emotionally Scarred,” “All In” and “The Bigger Picture”; triple black ice vinyl; See here; Merch; Quality Control Music) » BUY NOW

ENNIO MORRICONE
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (1966 album; with a 30x30cm insert full of vintage posters and lobby cards; BTF) » BUY NOW

MY MORNING JACKET
“At Dawn (20th Anniversary Edition)” (2001 album; with a bonus Jim James live acoustic set recorded three weeks before the initial release and later broadcast on KVRX; on orange-colored vinyl; Darla) » BUY NOW

THE RASCALS
“Time Peace: The Rascals’ Greatest Hits” (1968 compilation; 180-gram translucent gold vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

KENNY ROGERS
“21 Number Ones” (2006 compilation, making its vinyl debut; with a bonus track, his duet with Kim Carnes, “Don’t Fall In Love With A Dreamer”; Walmart-Exclusive Gold Vinyl; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW

ULTRAMAGNETIC MC’S
“Critical Breakdown (Expanded Edition)” (1988 album, featuring “Ego Trippin’,” “Critical Beatdown” and “Kool Keith Housing Things”; 180-gram yellow vinyl, with bonus tracks; Hear here; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW

CARRIE UNDERWOOD
“My Savior” (her first inspirational album, on white vinyl; guest: CeCe Winans; new single: “Softly and Tenderly”; Hear here; Read here; Target-Exclusive Clear Vinyl; released on CD and Download on March 26; Capitol Nashville) » BUY NOW

BOBBY WOMACK
“The Poet” (1981 album; remastered) » BUY NOW
“The Poet II” (1984 album, featuring Patti LaBelle on three songs; remastered; Read here; ABKCO) » BUY NOW

MAY 7 RELEASES

THE BEAT FARMERS
“Tales of the New West” (1985 album; remastered; Extra Term Audio) » BUY NOW

BREAD
“The Best of Bread” (1973 compilation; 180-gram translucent gold audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

GEORGE DUKE
“The Era Will Prevail: The MPS Studio Years 1973-1976” (seven-LP box set; MPS) » BUY NOW

ERASURE
“The Innocents” (1988 album, featuring “Ship of Fools,” “Chains of Love” and “A Little Respect”; See here; Merch; Mute) » BUY NOW

DEXTER GORDON
“One Flight Up” (1964 album, featuring Donald Byrd, Kenny Drew, Niels-Henning Orsted and Art Taylor; all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW

ANDREW HILL
“Passing Ships” (recorded in 1969 but unreleased until 2003 when it was issued on CD; featuring Woody Shaw, Dizzy Reece, Julian Priester, Joe Farrell, Howard Johnson, Bob Northern, Ron Carter and Lenny White; all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW

LULU
“Gold” (13 songs on 140-gram black vinyl; Track List; See here; Crimson Productions / Demon Music Group) » BUY NOW

MONTROSE
“Montrose” (1973 debut album; it’s also the recording debut of singer Sammy Hagar; 180-gram yellow audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

PETER MURPHY
“Deep” (1989 album, featuring “Cuts You Up”; clear vinyl; See here) » BUY NOW
“Holy Smoke” (1992 album, featuring “The Sweetest Drop”; smoky vinyl; See here; Beggars Arkive) » BUY NOW

TOM PETTY
“Finding Wildflowers (Alternate Versions)” (highlights from 2020’s “Wildflowers & All the Rest” box set; gold vinyl; Hear here; Read here; Merch; Warner) » BUY NOW

JOHNNY RIVERS
“The Best of Johnny Rivers” (1987 compilation; 15 songs; 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

TONY JOE WHITE
“Smoke from the Chimney” (nine songs built on demos of White playing acoustic guitar and singing, then transformed into band arrangements by Dan Auerbach with Nashville session players, including drummer Gene Chrisman, keyboardist Bobby Wood, bassist Dave Roe, guitarist Marcus King and others; Auerbach also plays electric and acoustic guitar, bass, drums and percussion; See here; Read here; Easy Eye Sound) » BUY NOW

WHITE LION
“The Best of White Lion” (180-gram translucent purple audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

AMY WINEHOUSE
“At the BBC” (three-CD set features tracks from appearances on “Later… with Jools Holland” and the Mercury Prize show; See here; Merch; Republic / UMe) » BUY NOW

FRANK ZAPPA
“Zappa (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (21-song collection from documentary directed by “Bill & Ted” actor Alex Winter; double 180-gram crystal clear vinyl; See here; Read here; CD, released on Feb. 19; Download, released on Nov. 27; Merch; Frank Zappa Catalog / UMe) » BUY NOW

MAY 14 RELEASES

RAY CHARLES
“Genius + Soul = Jazz” (1961 album; all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl; Impulse! / Verve / UMe) » BUY NOW

CHEAP TRICK
“In Another World” (their 20th studio album; producer: Julian Raymond; first single: “Light Up the Fire”; Hear here; Read here; CD and Download released on April 9; Merch; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG
“Déjà Vu (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1970 album; four-CD, one-LP box set featuring 28 previously unreleased tracks; Read here; Amazon UK; Rhino / Atlantic) » BUY NOW

EMINEM
“Music To Be Murdered By – Side B (Deluxe Edition)” (2020 album; Opaque Grey 4-LP Vinyl; Merch; Shady / Interscope) » BUY NOW

THE GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA
“Out of the Cool” (1961 album, featuring Jimmy Knepper on trombone, Ron Carter on bass and Elvin Jones on drums; all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl; Impulse! / Verve / UMe) » BUY NOW

FLEETWOOD MAC
“Tusk” (1979 double album, featuring “Sara,” “Tusk,” “Think About Me” and “Not That Funny”; See here; Merch; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW

THE GO-GO’S
“God Bless The Go-Go’s” (2001 reunion album, making its debut on vinyl; 140-gram opaque blue LP; Read here; Merch; Eagle / UMe) » BUY NOW

KENNY ROGERS
“21 Number Ones” (2006 compilation, released on vinyl for the first time; Capitol Nashville / UMe) » BUY NOW

ST. VINCENT
“Daddy’s Home” (producers: Annie Clark, Jack Antonoff; guests: Cian Riordan, Evan Smith, Sam KS, Greg Leisz, Daniel Hart, Michael Leonhard, Lynne Fiddmont, Kenya Hathaway; first single: “Pay Your Way in Pain”; See here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Vinyl, with three trading cards and poster; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Cool Gray Vinyl; Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW

TRAFFIC
“Mr. Fantasy” (1967 album, featuring “Paper Sun,” “Hole in My Shoe” and “Dear Mr. Fantasy”; remastered from the original tapes, pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl) » BUY NOW
“Traffic” (1968 album, featuring “Feelin’ Alright?”; remastered from the original tapes, pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl) » BUY NOW
“John Barleycorn Must Die” (1970 album, featuring “Empty Pages” and “Freedom Rider”; remastered from the original tapes, pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl) » BUY NOW
“The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” (1971 album, featuring the title track and “Rock & Roll Stew”; remastered from the original tapes, pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl) » BUY NOW
“Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory” (1973 album; remastered from the original tapes, pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl) » BUY NOW
“When the Eagle Flies” (1974 album; remastered from the original tapes, pressed on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl) » BUY NOW

KEITH URBAN
“THE SPEED OF NOW Part 1” (2020 album, featuring “God Whispered Your Name” and “One Too Many”; Capitol Nashville / UMe) » BUY NOW

VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Impulse! Records: Music, Message and the Moment” (four-LP box set; Read here; Impulse! / Verve / UMe) » BUY NOW

MAY 21 RELEASES

BARENAKED LADIES
“Maroon (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (2000 album, featuring “Pinch Me,” “Too Little Too Late” and “Falling for the First Time”; double vinyl includes rarities, B-sides and demos; See here; Rhino) » BUY NOW

IRON CITY HOUSEROCKERS
“Have a Good Time But … Get Out Alive!” (1980 album; with bonus CD containing 16 previously unreleased tracks; Cleveland International) » BUY NOW

QUINCY JONES
“The Dude” (1981 album, featuring “Ai No Corrida,” “Just Once”
and “One Hundred Ways”; available in gatefold jacket for the first time; A&M / UMe) » BUY NOW

MEGAN THEE STALLION
“Good News” (2020 album; guests: Beyoncé, DaBaby, City Girls, Lil Durk, SZA, Popcaan, Mustard, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Young Thug; Target-exclusive vinyl; Merch; 1501 Certified / 300 Entertainment) » BUY NOW

MY BLOODY VALENTINE
“m b v” (2013 album; Merch; mbv / Domino) » BUY NOW

TODD RUNDGREN
“Nearly Human” (1989 album, featuring “The Want of a Nail,” with Bobby Womack; 180-gram translucent orange vinyl; translucent yellow vinyl; Hear here; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Cleveland Rocks” (1995 label roster compilation; with download card; Cleveland International) » BUY NOW

VIOLENT FEMMES
“Add It Up (1981-1993)” (23-track compilation, originally released in 1993; Merch; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW

MAY 28 RELEASES

MADISON BEER
“Life Support” (2021 album; producers: 1993, Madison Beer, Leroy Clampitt, Pete Nappi, One Love; Sing It Loud / Epic) » BUY NOW

ALICE COOPER
“School’s Out” (1972 album, featuring the title tracks; 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
“Sung Tongs” (2004 album; Domino) » BUY NOW

DONALD FAGEN
“The Nightfly” (1982 album, featuring “I.G.Y. [What a Beautiful World]” and “New Frontier”; 180-gram black vinyl; See here; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE
“Welcome Interstate Managers” (2003 album, featuring “Stacy’s Mom”; 180-gram transparent red vinyl; See here; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW

PJ HARVEY
“The Peel Sessions 1991-2004” (2006 collection; remastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering under the guidance of longtime PJ Harvey producer John Parish; Island / UMe) » BUY NOW

K.D. LANG
“makeover” (a new collection of classic dance remixes of her songs from 1992 to 2000; Transparent Turquoise Vinyl; first single: “Miss Chatelaine [St. Tropez Mix]”; See here; Read here; Nonesuch) » BUY NOW

ABBEY LINCOLN
“Abbey Is Blue” (1959 album, featuring Kenny Dorham, Stanley Turrentine, Wynton Kelly, Sam Jones, Philly Joe Jones and Max Roach; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW

TAYLOR SWIFT
“evermore” (2020 album, featuring “Willow,” “No Body, No Crime” and “Coney Island”; producers: Aaron Dessner, Swift, Bryce Dessner, Jack Antonoff; double green vinyl, with two bonus tracks; Target-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Merch; Republic) » BUY NOW

VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Fawlty Towers: For the Record” (four vintage albums plus two new volumes, narrated by Andrew Sachs as Manuel, on 140-gram white vinyl; Demon / Edsel) » BUY NOW

WORLD PARTY
“Dumbing Up” (2000 album; with six bonus tracks; Seaview) » BUY NOW

YELLO
“Yell40 Years” (21-song, two-LP hits compilation, including “Oh Yeah,” “Desire,” “I Love You,” “The Rhythm Divine” and “Vicious Games”; Mercury / UMe) » BUY NOW

JUNE 4 RELEASES

BLACK PUMAS
“Capitol Cuts – Live From Studio A” (recorded direct to acetate – all live, no overdubs, includes a 7-minute rendition of “Colors,” which received a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year; red vinyl; See here; ATO) » BUY NOW

CHICAGO
“Chicago Transit Authority” (1969 album, featuring “Questions 67 and 68,” “I’m a Man,” “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” and “Beginnings”; 180-gram red audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

CROWDED HOUSE
“Dreamers Are Waiting” (their first studio album since 2010; first single: “To the Island”; See here; Read here; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW

OSCAR PETERSON
“Exclusively For My Friends” (six-LP box set of private recordings made between 1963 and 1968; MPS) » BUY NOW

RISE AGAINST
“Nowhere Generation” (their first album in four years; producer: Bill Stevenson; new singles: “Nowhere Generation” and “Broken Dreams, Inc.”; See here; Vinyl Deluxe Edition, black and white smoke LP, 12-page booklet and bonus 7-inch single; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, metallic silver LP, with an alternate album cover; Merch; Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW

MUDDY WATERS
“Muddy Waters At Newport 1960” (1960 album; 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

JUNE 11 RELEASES

DEAD BOYS
“Young, Loud and Snotty” (1977 debut album; sourced from the original master tapes, pressed at RTI, on yellow vinyl with red streaks; Jackpot) » BUY NOW

GARBAGE
“No Gods No Masters” (green-colored vinyl; producers: Garbage, Billy Bush; new single: “The Men Who Rule the World”; See here; Read here; Stunvolume / Infectious Music) » BUY NOW

JUNE 18 RELEASES

THE MONTY ALEXANDER TRIO
“The Monty Alexander Trio: Live! At The Montreux Festival” (1976 album; remastered; MPS) » BUY NOW

ARETHA FRANKLIN
“I Knew You Were Waiting: The Best of Aretha Franklin 1980-2014” (updated edition of 2012 compilation; Arista / Legacy) » BUY NOW

THE MONKEES
“The Monkees (Deluxe Edition)” (1966 debut album, featuring “Last Train to Clarksville,” “[Theme From] The Monkees” and “I Wanna Be Free”; mastered for vinyl by Kevin Grey and Andrew Sandoval; lacquers cut from the original analog stereo tapes for the first time since 1966; contains two previously unissued songs and two new mixes; Read here; Merch; Rhino) » BUY NOW

AL STEWART
“Year of the Cat” (1976 album, featuring “Year
of the Cat,” “On the Border” and “Lord Grenville”; 45th anniversary 180-gram audiophile vinyl, gatefold cover; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

JUNE 25 RELEASES

SELENA GOMEZ
“Revelación” (2021 Spanish-language EP; Merch; Interscope) » BUY NOW

GRATEFUL DEAD
“Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses)” (1971 live album; newly remastered by engineer David Glasser with Plangent Process Speed Correction; on 180-gram black ivnyl with Stoughton tip-on jacket and sticker insert; Merch; Grateful Dead Production) » BUY NOW

HENRY GROSS
“Release” (1976 album, featuring “Shannon” and “Springtime Mama”; Renaissance) » BUY NOW

HIATUS KAIYOTE
“Mood Valiant” (new single: “Get Sun”; Hear here; Deluxe Glow in the Dark Vinyl; Merch; Brainfeeder / Ninja Tune) » BUY NOW

LADY GAGA
“Chromatica” (2020 album; special trifold jacket on 180-gram black vinyl; Merch; Interscope / UMe) » BUY NOW

PETER MURPHY
“Cascade” (1995 album; scarlet vinyl; with four bonus tracks) » BUY NOW
“The Last and Only Star” (rarities collection; gold-colored vinyl;
Beggars Arkive) » BUY NOW

THE ROOTS
“Do You Want More?!!!??! (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1995 album, featuring “Distortion to Static,” “Proceed” and “Silent Treatment”; triple 180-gram black vinyl with five bonus tracks and 24-page booklet; Geffen / UMe) » BUY NOW

CARLY SIMON
“The Best of Carly Simon” (1975 album; 180-gram translucent red audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW

JULY 2 RELEASES

BIG COUNTRY
“The Buffalo Killers” (1993 album; deluxe edition, with bonus tracks; Chrysalis) » BUY NOW

JULY 9 RELEASES

MILEY CYRUS
“Plastic Hearts” (2020 album; RCA) » BUY NOW

TINY TIM
“God Bless Tiny Tim” (1968 album, featuring “Tiptoe Thru’ the Tulips with Me”; limited-edition yellow tulip vinyl; See here; Real Gone Music) » BUY NOW

JULY 16 RELEASES

THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET
“Time OutTakes” (2020 album of previously unreleased alternate versions of pieces from the iconic LP; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Opaque Dark Blue Swirl Vinyl; Brubeck Editions) » BUY NOW

ARETHA FRANKLIN
“ARETHA” (Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Opaque Purple Vinyl; two LPs; Download; Merch; Rhino / Atlantic) » BUY NOW

JULY 23 RELEASES

PAUL McCARTNEY
“McCartney III Imagined” (a set of remixes and reinterpretations of songs off his 2020 album “McCartney III”; guests: Beck, Khruangbin, St. Vincent, Blood Orange, Phoebe Bridgers, Ed O’Brien, Damon Albarn, Josh Homme, Anderson .Paak, 3DRDN, Idris Elba; first single: “The Kiss of Venus,” feat. Dominic Fike; See here; Merch; Capitol) » BUY NOW

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
“Tiny Music … Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop (25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)” (1996 album, produced by Brendan O’Brien and featuring “Big Bang Baby,” “Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart” and “Lady Picture Show”; three-CD, one-LP box set; See here; Merch; Rhino / Atlantic) » BUY NOW

2PAC
“Until the End of Time” (2001 album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and sold 426,870 copies in its first week; featuring “Happy Home,” “Until the End of Time” and “Letter 2 My Unborn”; four-LP set of material recorded while the rapper was on Death Row Records from 1995-1996; Merch; Interscope / UMe) » BUY NOW

JULY 30 RELEASES

MARVIN GAYE
“What’s Going On (Original Detroit Mix)” (1971 album; Motown / Universal Japan) » BUY NOW

AUG. 6 RELEASES

OHIO PLAYERS
“Fire” (1974 album, featuring the title track; red translucent vinyl) » BUY NOW
“Honey” (1975 album, featuring “Love Rollercoaster,” “Sweet Sticky Thing” and “Fopp”; orange translucent vinyl; LMLR) » BUY NOW

OCT. 8 RELEASES

VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Best of Bond … James Bond” (triple-vinyl collection; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW

HANS ZIMMER
“No Time To Die (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (the 25th James Bond film has been rescheduled to open on April 2; Target-Exclusive Picture Disc; Merch; Decca) » BUY NOW




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