Your Vinyl Store (Aug. 21-27 and Beyond)
New vinyl releases and reissues for this week and months ahead. (Check out Past LP Releases.)
ZAC BROWN BAND
“Greatest Hits So Far …” (2014 compilation; Walmart-exclusive bourbon-brown colored vinyl; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW 
CRASH TEST DUMMIES
“A Worm’s Life” (1996 album) » BUY NOW
“Give Yourself a Hand” (1999 album; Arista Europe) » BUY NOW
STAN GETZ
“The Essential Works 1962” (21 songs on two LPs; Masters of Jazz) » BUY NOW
VINCE GUARALDI
“Peanuts Portraits” (2010 compilation; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
GUIDED BY VOICES
“Alien Lanes (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1995 album; remastered; Matador) » BUY NOW
PJ HARVEY
“Rid of Me” (1993 album) » BUY NOW
“4-Track Demos” (1993 album; Island / UMe) » BUY NOW
X
“ALPHABETLAND” (their first album in 27 years and the first with their original line-up since 1985; The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger plays on “All the Time in the World”; producer: Rob Schnapf; See here; Fat Possum) » BUY NOW
Other Notable Releases
| Bright Eyes | Tim McGraw | Anthrax |
| Erasure | Old 97’s | Cut Copy |
| The Lemon Twigs | The Mavericks | The Front Bottoms |
| Nubya Garcia | Blues Pills | Future |
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
“Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson” (1957 album; Verve / UMe) » BUY NOW
DOKKEN
“The Lost Songs: 1978-1981” (11-song collection; Silver Lining Music) » BUY NOW
MARVIN GAYE
“Dream of a Lifetime” (1985 album, released posthumously, featuring “Sanctified Lady”; transparent blue vinyl; Merch; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
STAN GETZ & JOÃO GILBERTO
“Getz/Gilberto” (1964 album, featuring “The Girl from Ipanema”; it won four Grammys, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year; Verve / UMe) » BUY NOW
JOE HENDERSON
“The State of the Tenor: Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume 1” (1985 album; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
BOBBY HUTCHERSON
“The Kicker” (1963 album wasn’t released until 1999; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
CYNDI LAUPER
“True Colors” (1986 album, featuring “True Colors,” “Change of Heart” and “What’s Going On”; 180-gram “flaming” orange colored vinyl; See here; Merch; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
JACKIE McLEAN
“It’s Time” (1964 album; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
MAC DeMARCO
“Here Comes the Cowboy Demos” (demo versions of album tracks from 2019’s “Here Comes the Cowboy”; Merch; Mac’s Record Label) » BUY NOW
MY MORNING JACKET
“Z” (2005 album; double LP on purple vinyl, with download code) » BUY NOW, “The Waterfall II” (2020 album; clear vinyl; ATO) » BUY NOW
NEW YORK CITY
“I’m Doin’ Fine Now” (1972 album; 140-gram black vinyl; Demon) » BUY NOW
KATY PERRY
“Smile” (new single: “Smile”; Hear here; Read here; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, translucent cobalt LP, with one extra song and voice memo; Walmart-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Capitol) » BUY NOW
GREGORY PORTER
“All Rise” (producer: Troy Miller; first single: “Revival”; See here; Deluxe Triple LP Edition, pressed on teal vinyl; Blue Note) » BUY NOW
DEL SHANNON
“Runaway: The Best of Del Shannon” (Not Now UK) » BUY NOW
ELLIOTT SMITH
“Elliott Smith: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition” (1995 album; remastered, with a bonus disc of the earliest known recording of Smith performing as a solo act, from Sept. 17, 1994 at Portland’s café and “art salon” Umbra Penumbra; encased within a 52-page coffee table book with handwritten lyrics, reminiscences from Smith’s friends and colleagues and two dozen previously unseen photographs from the era by JJ Gonson, who shot the image on the album’s cover; first single: “Big Decision [Live at Umbra Penumbra – September 17th, 1994]”; Hear here; Kill Rock Stars) » BUY NOW
NORMA TANEGA
“Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog” (1966 album; sky blue vinyl; Real Gone Music) » BUY NOW
THE WEEKND
“After Hours” (2020 album; clear vinyl with red splatter; Merch; XO / Republic) » BUY NOW
JACKIE WILSON
“Whispers” (1966 album; 140-gram black vinyl; Demon) » BUY NOW
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FLEETWOOD MAC
“Fleetwood Mac: 1973 to 1974” (four-LP, one-7-inch disc box set; Merch; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
GRATEFUL DEAD
“Skeletons From the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead” (1974 compilation; Merch; Grateful Dead Production) » BUY NOW
OHIO PLAYERS
“Pleasure” (1972 album, featuring “Funky Worm”; Westbound) » BUY NOW
THE O’JAYS
“Philly Chartbusters: The Best of The O’Jays” (double 140-gram black vinyl; United Souls / Snapper Music) » BUY NOW
REX ORANGE COUNTY
“Bcos U Will Never B Free” (2015 album; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Pink Vinyl; Rex Orange County) » BUY NOW
THE ROLLING STONES
“Goats Head Soup (Deluxe Edition)” (1973 album; with new stereo album mix, sourced from the original session files and three previously unreleased tracks, “Scarlet,” “All the Rage” and “Criss Cross”; See here; Read here; Super Deluxe Box Set, with three CDs and one Blu-ray, featuring rarities, alternative mixes and “Brussels Affair – Live 1973”; Standard Vinyl; Super Deluxe Vinyl Box Set, four LPs; Amazon UK; Polydor / Interscope / UMe) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex” (all-star tribute project was produced by the late Hal Willner; contributors: U2 with Elton John, Todd Rundgren, Nick Cave, Marc Almond, Joan Jett, Kesha, Maria McKee, Perry Farrell, Nena, etc.; See here; Read here; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
THE WEEKND
“After Hours” (2020 album; double vinyl; Clear Vinyl, with red splatter; Merch; XO / Republic) » BUY NOW
YO LA TENGO
“Electr-o-pura” (1995 album; 25th anniversary reissue, gatefold double LP pressing cut from original 58-minute master for HQ sound; Hear here; Matador) » BUY NOW
MARTIN DENNY
“Exotica” (1957 album, featuring “Quiet Village”; red-colored vinyl; Hear here; Jackpot) » BUY NOW
THE FLAMING LIPS
“American Head” (producers: Dave Fridmann, The Flaming Lips; guest: Kacey Musgraves; new single: “My Religion Is You”; See here; Merch; Warner) » BUY NOW
PJ HARVEY
“To Bring You My Love” (1995 album) » BUY NOW
“To Bring You My Love – Demos” (Island / UMe) » BUY NOW
MARILYN MANSON
“WE ARE CHAOS” (producers: Manson, Shooter Jennings; first single: “WE ARE CHAOS”; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, translucent black ice LP, with limited-edition art print; Merch; Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
REBA McENTIRE
“Rumor Has It (30th Anniversary Edition)” (1990 album, featuring “Fancy,” “You Lie” and “Fallin’ Out of Love”; remastered, with two bonus tracks; See here; MCA Nashville / UMe) » BUY NOW
STRAY CATS
“Rocked This Town: From LA to London” (23 tracks recorded during the band’s 40th anniversary tour in 2019; See here; Merch; Surfdog / BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Round Midnight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (1986 album, produced by Herbie Hancock; See here; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
SUZANNE VEGA
“An Evening of New York Songs and Stories” (recorded live last year at New York’s Café Carlisle, backed by longtime guitarist Gerry Leonard, bassist Jeff Allen and keyboardist Jamie Edwards; producer: Gerry Leonard; mixed by Kevin Killen and mastered by Bob Ludwig; Cooking Vinyl) » BUY NOW
CHARLI XCX
“how i’m feeling now” (Neon Orange Vinyl; producers: Danny L Harle, Dijon, Dylan Brady, Palmistry; new single: “Enemy”; Hear here; Download, released on May 15; Atlantic) » BUY NOW
JOHN COLTRANE
“Giant Steps (60th Anniversary Edition)” (1960 album; remastered, with a bonus LP of alternate takes and versions only previously included in “The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane” box set; Merch; Rhino / Atlantic) » BUY NOW
THE CRANBERRIES
“No Need to Argue (Expanded Edition)” (1994 album, featuring “Zombie”; remastered; two-LP set includes three B-sides: “Away,” “I Don’t Need” and “So Cold In Ireland” from the original tapes, plus 19 previously unreleased demos and live tracks; See here; Island / UMe) » BUY NOW
SERGIO MENDES
“The Beat of Brazil” (1967 album; Culture Factory) » BUY NOW
JOHN PRINE
“John Prine” (1971 debut album, featuring “Angel from Montgomery,” “Hello in There,” “Paradise” and “Sam Stone”; he was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1972 but lost to America) » BUY NOW
“Diamonds in the Rough” (1972 album) » BUY NOW
“Sweet Revenge” (1973 album) » BUY NOW
“Common Sense” (1975 album; Rhino / Atlantic) » BUY NOW
RON WOOD
“I’ve Got My Own Album To Do” (1990 album; 180-gram translucent red audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
CHUBBY CHECKER
“Dancin’ Party: The Chubby Checker Collection (1960-1966)” (21-song collection; Read here; ABKCO) » BUY NOW
BRUCE COCKBURN
“True North: A 50th Anniversary Box Set” (five-LP collection; True North) » BUY NOW
ELBOW
“Asleep in the Back” (2001 debut album) » BUY NOW
“Cast of Thousands” (2003 album) » BUY NOW
“Leaders of the Free World” (2005 album) » BUY NOW
“Dead in the Boot” (2012 compilation) » BUY NOW
“The Take Off and Landing of Everything” (2014 album; Polydor / UMe) » BUY NOW
BILLIE EILISH
“don’t smile at me” (2017 EP; Target-exclusive yellow/red split vinyl; Merch; Interscope / UMe) » BUY NOW
EMINEM
“Curtain Call: The Hits” (2005 compilation; Target-exclusive double translucent blue vinyl; Merch; Shady / Aftermath / Interscope) » BUY NOW
VINCE GUARALDI
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965 album; Target-exclusive green vinyl with original art poster; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Vinyl, red and green splattered clear LP; Merch; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
GUNS N’ ROSES
“Greatest Hits” (2004 compilation makes its vinyl debut; 180-gram audiophile black double vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive Paradise City Splatter Vinyl; Merch; Geffen / UMe) » BUY NOW
HERBIE HANCOCK
“My Point of View” (1963 album, featuring Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Grachan Moncur III, Grant Green, Chuck Israels and Tony Williams; all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
IMAGINE DRAGONS
“Evolve” (2017 album, featuring “Believer,” “Thunder,” “Whatever It Takes” and “Next to Me”; Target-exclusive tanslucent green vinyl; See here; Merch; KIDinaKORNER / Interscope / UMe) » BUY NOW
KENDRICK LAMAR
“DAMN.” (2016 album, featuring “Humble,” “Loyalty” and “Love”; Target-exclusive 180-gram double translucent forest green vinyl; Merch; Aftermath / Interscope / UMe) » BUY NOW
PEGGY LEE
“Ultimate Christmas” (22 songs on two LPs; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW
BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
“Live At The Rainbow: 4th June 1977” (Amazon-exclusive vinyl; Merch; Tuff Gong) » BUY NOW
PRINCE
“Sign ‘O’ the Times (Deluxe Edition)” (1987 album, featuring the title track, “If I Was Your Girlfriend,” “U Got the Look” and “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man”; peach-colored vinyl; See here; Standard Double CD; Double Vinyl, peach-colored; Super Deluxe Vinyl Edition, 13-LP, one-DVD box set; Apple Music; Merch; Rhino / NPG / Warner) » BUY NOW
LOU REED
“New York (Deluxe Edition)” (1989 album, featuring “Dirty Blvd.”; remastered three-CD, one-DVD, two-LP box set contains “The New York Album” concert video, unreleased demo versions, rough mixes, etc.; Read here; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
CARLOS SANTANA & MAHAVISHNU JOHN McLAUGHLIN
“Love Devotion Surrender” (1973 album; 180-gram translucent gold and red swirl audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
HORACE SILVER QUINTET
“Further Explorations” (1958 album; all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
SLADE
“Cum On Feel the Hitz: The Best of Slade” (two-LP, 24-song set; Track list; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
JIMMY SMITH
“Prayer Meetin'” (1963 album, with Stanley Turrentine; all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
SUFJAN STEVENS
“The Ascension” (new single: “America”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; Asthmatic Kitty) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Forrest Gump: The Soundtrack (25th Anniversary Edition: Box of Chocolates Brown Vinyl)” (1994 album; 32 songs on three LPs; 25th Anniversary Edition: Metallic Silver Vinyl; Bubba Gump Shrimp Pink Vinyl; srcvinyl) » BUY NOW
THE WEEKND
“Starboy” (2016 album, featuring “Starboy,” “I Feel It Coming,” “Party Monster,” “Reminder,” etc.; Target-exclusive double translucent blue vinyl; Merch; XO / Republic) » BUY NOW
WEEZER
“Weezer (Blue Album)” (1994 debut album; Target-exclusive blue and white marbled vinyl; Merch; Geffen / UMe) » BUY NOW
STANLEY CLARKE
“School Days” (1976 album; 180-gram translucent golden yellow and blue swirl audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
LANA DEL REY
“Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass” (spoken word album, coinciding with the Sept. 29 release of her debut book of poetry; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Sky Blue Vinyl; Merch; Interscope) » BUY NOW
EMINEM
“Music To Be Murdered By” (2020 album, featuring “Darkness” and “Godzilla”; Merch; Shady / Aftermath / Interscope) » BUY NOW
RILO KILEY
“Rilo Kiley” (1999 debut album; released on vinyl for the first time; Read here; Little Record Company) » BUY NOW
LANY
“mama’s boy” (new single: “you!”; See here; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive White Vinyl; Polydor / Interscope) » BUY NOW
FOALS
“Collected Reworks Vol. 1” (limited-edition color triple-vinyl box set of remixes; Rhino) » BUY NOW
TROYE SIVAN
“In a Dream” (six-song EP on blue mist vinyl; released on CD and Download on Aug. 21; new single: “Easy”; Hear here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with one extra song and a poster; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Vinyl, light blue, dark blue with splatter; Capitol) » BUY NOW
EAGLES
“Live From The Forum MMXVIII” (26-song live album and concert film recorded over three nights in September 2018, joined by Deacon Frey and Vince Gill; aired on ESPN on July 5; CD + DVD; Blu-ray Audio; Merch; Rhino) » BUY NOW
MASTODON
“Medium Rarities” (16-song collection includes a new track, “Fallen Torches,” recorded in 2019, as well as “Rufus Lives,” included the upcoming film “Bill & Ted Face the Music”; pink vinyl set; Hear here; Reprise) » BUY NOW
BOY PABLO (21-year-old Norwegian/Chilean indie pop artist Nicolas Muñoz)
“Wachito Rico” (first single: “hey girl”; See here; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Vinyl, opaque purple with yellow splatter; 777 Music) » BUY NOW
DAN FOGELBERG
“Greatest Hits” (1982 compilation, featuring “Missing You” and “Make Love Stay,” both of which were previously unreleased tracks that were issued as singles off this best-of; 180-gram translucent blue and black swirl audiophile vinyl, gatefold cover and poster; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
SURVIVOR
“The Best of Survivor” (2006 compilation; 180-gram orange and red swirl audiophile vinyl; gatefold cover with poster; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Original Soundtrack)” (1975 album; Picture Disc; Ode Sound and Visuals) » BUY NOW
SAM COOKE
“Sam Cooke At the Copa” (1964 album; remastered) » BUY NOW
“Ain’t That Good News” (1964 album; his final studio LP; remastered; Hear here) » BUY NOW
“Keep Movin’ On” (23-song compilation from 2001; two 180-gram vinyl LPs; remastered; Read here; Merch; ABKCO) » BUY NOW
ELTON JOHN
“Elton John” (1970 album, celebrating its 50th anniversary, featuring “Your Song,” “Border Song” and “Take Me to the Pilot”; gold 180-gram vinyl, with download code; Read here; Merch; Mercury / UMe) » BUY NOW
LINDA RONSTADT
“Get Closer” (1982 album, featuring “Get Closer,” “I Knew You When” and “Easy for You to Say”; 180-gram translucent red marble audiophile vinyl; See here; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
MARY J. BLIGE
“My Life (Deluxe Edition)” (1994 album, featuring “Be Happy,” “I’m Goin’ Down” and “Mary Jane [All Night Long]”; double vinyl set; See here; Republic / UMe) » BUY NOW
COLDPLAY
“Parachutes” (2000 album, featuring “Shiver,” “Yellow,” “Trouble” and “Don’t Panic”; 180-gram yellow vinyl; Merch; Atlantic / Parlophone) » BUY NOW
ELVIS PRESLEY
“From Elvis in Nashville” (two-LP compilation of sessions with the legendary “Nashville Cats” in RCA Studio B in 1970; remixed by Matt Ross-Spang; Hear here; Read here; Merch; RCA / Legacy) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Best of Bond … James Bond” (triple-vinyl collection; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW
BECK
“Hyperspace (Deluxe Edition)” (2019 album; with two unreleased songs, “Dark Places [Soundscape]” and “I Am the Cosmos (42420),” plus new 2020 mixes of “Star,” “Hyperspace,” “See Through” and “Die Waiting”; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW
JOJO
“good to know (Deluxe)” (2020 album; with five new tracks; Clover Music / Warner) » BUY NOW
DOKKEN
“Breaking the Chains” (debut album released in Europe in 1981 and the U.S. in 1983; 180-gram translucent gold audiophile vinyl; See here; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
“Fillmore West 1-31-71” (double vinyl; Merch; Allman Brothers Band Recording Company) » BUY NOW
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