Your Vinyl Store (June 18-24 and Beyond)
New vinyl releases and reissues for this week and months ahead. (Check out Past LP Releases.)
AVERAGE WHITE BAND
“Cover to Cover / Soul to Soul” (10-song collection includes their 2017 version of “Harvest for the World,” produced by Chris Jasper, who also provides backup vocals; 180-gram heavyweight clear vinyl; Demon) » BUY NOW 
BLACKFOOT
“Strikes” (1979 album, featuring “Highway Song” and “Train Train”; 180-gram audiophile red vinyl; Hear here; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
CRACK THE SKY
“Crack Attic (Best of Crack the Sky)” (16-song collection; Renaissance) » BUY NOW
FOGHAT
“Stone Blue” (1978 album, produced by Eddie Kramer; 180-gram audiophile blue vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » 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
MILT JACKSON & RAY CHARLES
“Soul Brothers” (1958 album; 140-gram vinyl; Rhino / Atlantic) » 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
THE SELECTER
“Too Much Pressure (40th Anniversary Edition)” (1980 debut album, featuring the title track, “Three Minute Hero” and “Missing Words”; double 180-gram half-speed mastered at Alchemy, with a bonus 40-gram 7-inch single; See here; Merch; 2 Tone Records / Chrysalis) » BUY NOW
SILVERCHAIR
“Freak Show” (1997 album, featuring “Freak,” “Abuse Me” and “Cemetery”; Music on Vinyl) » 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
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Alligator Records: 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music” (two-LP label retrospective; Alligator) » BUY NOW
ZAPP & ROGER
“All the Greatest Hits” (double 140-gram neon half/half colored vinyl; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
FRANK ZAPPA
“Zappa ’88: The Last U.S. Show” (four-LP box set of his final U.S. concert at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY, on March 25, 1988, featuring the first official release of the much-talked-about “The Beatles Medley”; newly mixed by Craig Parker Adams from the 48-track digital master tapes; Read here; Merch; Zappa / UMe) » BUY NOW
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Other Notable Releases
JUSTIN BIEBER
“Justice” (2021 album; double vinyl; Picture Disc; Schoolboy / RBMG / Def Jam) » BUY NOW
THE CHURCH
“priest = aura” (1992 album, featuring “Ripple,” “Dome” and “Feel”; 180-gram black audiophile vinyl; See here; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
SONNY CLARK
“Cool Struttin'” (1958 album, with Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Paul Chambers and “Philly” Joe Jones; all-analog, mastered from the original tapes on 180-gram vinyl; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
ALICE COOPER
“School’s Out” (1972 album, featuring the title tracks; 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
THE DRIFTERS
“The Drifters’ Golden Hits” (1968 compilation; 180-gram black vinyl; Rhino / Atlantic) » BUY NOW
DYKE & THE BLAZERS
“Down On Funky Broadway: Phoenix 1966-1967” (20 songs; featuring new stereo mixes of old favorites and previously unreleased material, including demos, radio spots, and unearthed songs; remastered by engineer Dave Cooley; Download; Apple Music) » BUY NOW
“I Got a Message: Hollywood 1968-1970” (21-song collection; featuring new stereo mixes of old favorites and previously unreleased material, including demos, radio spots, and unearthed songs; remastered by engineer Dave Cooley; Download; Apple Music; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
SELENA GOMEZ
“Revelación” (2021 Spanish-language EP; Merch; Interscope) » BUY NOW
HENRY GROSS
“Release” (1976 album, featuring “Shannon” and “Springtime Mama”; Renaissance) » BUY NOW
GYM CLASS HEROES
“As Cruel As School Children” (2006 album, produced by Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump; silver vinyl; Fueled By Ramen) » BUY NOW
PJ HARVEY
“White Chalk” (2007 album, featuring “When Under Ether,” “The Piano” and “The Devil”; remastered) » BUY NOW
“White Chalk – Demos” (a collection of unreleased demos; Island / UMe) » BUY NOW
HIATUS KAIYOTE
“Mood Valiant” (new single: “Get Sun”; Hear here; Deluxe Glow in the Dark Vinyl; Merch; Brainfeeder / Ninja Tune) » BUY NOW
INTERPOL
“Our Love to Admire” (2007 album, featuring “The Heinrich Maneuver,” “Mammoth” and “No I in Threesome”; Matador) » BUY NOW
JANIS JOPLIN
“Pearl” (1971 album, featuring “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Mercedes Benz,” “Cry Baby” and “Get It While You Can”; UltraDisc One-Step 180-gram 45RPM two-LP box set; Mobile Fidelity) » BUY NOW
LADY GAGA
“Chromatica” (2020 album; special trifold jacket on 180-gram black vinyl; Merch; Interscope / UMe) » BUY NOW
MEAT LOAF
“Blind Before I Stop” (1986 album; 180-gram gold and black vinyl; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
MORPHINE
“Good” (1992 debut album; Hear here; Music on Vinyl) » 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
QUEENSRŸCHE
“Operation: Mindcrime” (1988 album; newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios) » BUY NOW
“Empire” (1990 album, featuring “Silent Lucidity,” “Empire” and “Jet City Woman”; newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios; Capitol / UMe) » 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
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
JIMMY SMITH
“Back At The Chicken Shack” (1963 album, recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in 1960 with Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Kenny Burrell on guitar and Donald Bailey on drums; all-analog, mastered from the original tapes on 180-gram vinyl; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
BIG COUNTRY
“The Buffalo Killers” (1993 album; deluxe edition, with bonus tracks) » BUY NOW
“Without the Aid of a Safety Net” (1994 live album, recorded at a homecoming gig at The Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow; Chrysalis) » BUY NOW
CHRIS LeDOUX
“Wyoming Cowboy – A Collection” (13-song collection of hits and rarities; Read here; Capitol Nashville / UMe) » BUY NOW
JONI MITCHELL
“The Reprise Albums (1968-1971)” (four-LP box set features her first four studio albums; remastered by Bernie Grundman; Hear here; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
RARE EARTH
“Live in Chicago” (1974 album; red translucent vinyl; Culture Factory) » BUY NOW
SAVES THE DAY
“Through Being Cool” (1999 album; Equal Vision) » BUY NOW
THE VACCINES
“What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?” (2011 album; 180-gram black vinyl with download code featuring unreleased demos; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
AWOLNATION
“Megalithic Symphony (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (2011 album; includes the original album on Ultraclear Vinyl, a bonus LP of previously unreleased material on Gold Vinyl, and a download card containing all songs from the digital release; Red Bull) » BUY NOW
THE BLUES BROTHERS
“Briefcase Full of Blues” (1978 live album, recorded at Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles when the band opened for comedian Steve Martin; featuring “Soul Man” and “Rubber Biscuit”; 180-gram blue vinyl; Atlantic) » BUY NOW
MILEY CYRUS
“Plastic Hearts” (2020 album; RCA) » BUY NOW
ELLA FITZGERALD
“Sunshine of Your Love” (1969 live album; remastered; MPS) » BUY NOW
HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL
“White People” (2004 album; white opaque vinyl; Tommy Boy) » BUY NOW
EUGENE McDANIELS
“Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse (50th Anniversary Edition)” (1971 album; purple vinyl, cut from the original LP master; Read here; Real Gone Music) » BUY NOW
EDDIE MONEY
“Take Me Home Tonight: The Best of Eddie Money” (pink vinyl; Cleopatra) » BUY NOW
MUSE
“ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY XX Anniversary RemiXX” (new remixes of their 2001 album, with producer Rich Costey, along with “Futurism,” originally a bonus track on the album’s Japanese release; Warner) » BUY NOW
JOHNNY PAYCHECK
“Country Outlaw: Take This Job and Shove It” (12-song compilation, on gold vinyl; Cleopatra) » BUY NOW
THE ROLLING STONES
“A Bigger Bang Live On Copacabana Beach” (entire Feb. 18, 2006, concert in Rio de Janeiro on multi-colored three-LP set; Merch; Mercury Studios) » BUY NOW
SAGA
“Worlds Apart” (1981 album, featuring “On the Loose”; See here; earMUSIC) » 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
“Almost Famous: Music From the Motion Picture (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (2000 album, 2001 Grammy Award winner for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media; remastered; Hear/Read here; 5-CD Super Deluxe Edition; Deluxe 6-LP Box Set; Target-Exclusive Purple and Magenta Vinyl; Blu-ray + Digital”; 4K Ultra HD + Digital; Geffen / UMe) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“In The Heights (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (the movie hits theaters and HBO Max on June 11; written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes and directed by “Crazy Rich Asians” filmmaker Jon M. Chu, starring Anthony Ramos and Melissa Barrera; Hear here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Violet Vinyl; WaterTower Music / Atlantic) » BUY NOW
GROVER WASHINGTON JR.
“Winelight” (1980 album, featuring the Grammy-winning “Just the Two of Us”; 180-gram burgundy audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
GARY WRIGHT
“The Dream Weaver” (1975 album, featuring “Dream Weaver,” “Love Is Alive” and “Made to Love You”; 180-gram yellow audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
BEASTIE BOYS
“Same Old Bullshit” (1994 compilation of their early 1980s EPs; Merch; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW
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
ALICE COLTRANE
“Kirtan: Turiya Sings” (originally released in 1982 on cassette as a collection of devotional songs including vocals, organ, strings and synthesizers available only at Coltrane’s Sai Anantam Ashram; See/Read here; Impulse! / UMe) » BUY NOW
LUKE COMBS
“The Trilogy” (featuring three of his hit songs chronicling his relationship with his wife, Nicole: “Beautiful Crazy,” “Better Together” and “Forever After All”; See here; On Tour; River House Artists / Columbia Nashville) » BUY NOW
FLEETWOOD MAC
“Live” (1980 album; two-LP 180-gram vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Merch; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
ARETHA FRANKLIN
“ARETHA” (Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Opaque Purple Vinyl; two LPs; Download; Merch; Rhino / Atlantic) » BUY NOW
AL GREEN
“Greatest Hits” (1975 compilation; Barnes & Noble-exclusive clear vinyl with gold splatter; Fat Possum) » BUY NOW
THE INTRUDERS
“The Best of The Intruders” (14 songs; Philadelphia International / Legacy) » BUY NOW
CURTIS MAYFIELD
“Curtis (50th Anniversary Edition)” (1970 solo debut album, featuring “Move On Up” and “[Don’t Worry] If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go”; remastered, with bonus demos and alternate takes; Hear here; Rhino) » BUY NOW
MR. BIG
“Lean Into It – The Singles” (7-inch vinyl box set, with a guitar pick and poster; Evoxs) » BUY NOW
THE O’JAYS
“The Best of The O’Jays” (18 songs; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Clear Vinyl; Philadelphia International / Legacy) » BUY NOW
TEDDY PENDERGRASS
“The Best of Teddy Pendergrass” (18 songs; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Hot Pink Vinyl; Philadelphia International / Legacy) » BUY NOW
LOU RAWLS
“The Best of Lou Rawls” (10 songs; Philadelphia International / Legacy) » BUY NOW
ELLIOTT SMITH
“Elliott Smith (25th Anniversary Remaster)” (1995 album, featuring “Needle in the Hay”; Kill Rock Stars) » BUY NOW
TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND
“Layla Revisited (Live At LOCKN’)” (a one-off live recording of “Derek & The Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs,” performed in its entirety with special guest Trey Anastasio on Aug. 24, 2019 at the LOCKN’ Festival in Arrington, Va., plus a studio version of “Thorn Tree In The Garden”; new single: “Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?”; See here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Opaque Violet Vinyl; Fantasy / Concord) » BUY NOW
THE TIME
“The Time” (1981 debut album, co-produced by Morris Day and Prince, credited as “Jamie Starr”; double red and white vinyl; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Ramona Flowers Edition)” (2010 album; pressed on three separate colors of vinyl: translucent blue, green and magenta; each color is associated with Ramona Flowers’ hair in the film; includes Brie Larson’s version of Metric’s “Black Sheep”; See/Read here; Download, expanded edition; ABKCO) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Stand By Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (1986 album; 180-gram aqua blue audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
LEON BRIDGES
“Gold-Diggers Sound” (guests: Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin, Ink; new single: “Motorbike”; See here; Target-Exclusive Gold Vinyl; Columbia) » BUY NOW
JACKSON BROWNE
“Downhill from Everywhere” (new single: “My Cleveland Heart”; See here; Read here; On Tour, with James Taylor; Inside Recordings) » BUY NOW
CINDERELLA
“Night Songs” (1986 album, featuring “Nobody’s Fool”; 180-gram violet audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
ENIGMA
“MCMXC a.D.” (1990 album, featuring “Sadeness [Part I],” “Mea Culpa [Part II]” and “Principles of Lust”; released in the U.S. in 1991, spent 282 weeks on the Billboard chart and sold more than 12 million copies worldwide; See here; Republic / UMe) » BUY NOW
DEXTER GORDON
“Go” (1962 album; featuring Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH
“A Woman A Man Walked By” (2009 album, featuring “Black Hearted Love”; See here; Island / UMe) » BUY NOW
MADNESS
“Absolutely (40th Anniversary Edition)” (1980 album, featuring “Embarrassment,” “Baggy Trousers” and “The Return of the Los Palmas 7”; 180-gram black vinyl; See here; Merch; Union Square Music / BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
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; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Translucent Deep Blue Vinyl; Merch; Capitol) » BUY NOW
R.E.M.
“Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single)” (their 1981 debut single, reissued in its original format: as a 45-RPM single housed in a black-and-white jacket featuring photography by Michael Stipe; Hear here; Merch; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
SPICE GIRLS
“Wannabe25” (25th anniversary 12-inch Picture Disc, featuring the original 1996 single, a demo version, a Junior Vazquez remix and the previously unreleased ballad “Feed Your Love”; See here; Silver Cassette; Merch; Virgin / UMe) » 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
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Call Me By Your Name (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (2017 album, featuring Sufjan Stevens’ Oscar-nominated “Mystery of Love”; limited edition countryside green viny; Read here; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
BLEACHERS
“Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night” (new single: “Stop Making This Hurt”; See here; RCA) » BUY NOW
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND
“Sex Packets” (1990 debut album, featuring “The Humpty Dance” and “Doowutchyalike”; See here; Tommy Boy) » BUY NOW
“Happier Than Ever” (featuring “my future” and “Therefore I Am”; new single: “Your Power”; See here; Read here; Amazon-Exclusive Green Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Light Blue Vinyl, with poster; Walmart-Exclusive Pale Yellow Vinyl; Merch; Darkroom / Interscope) » BUY NOW
ERASURE
“The Neon Remixed” (Amber and Yellow Vinyl; re-workings of their 2020 album from producers like Octo Octa, OMD’s Paul Humphreys, and Gareth Jones, along with a new song, “Secrets”; Hear here; Merch; Mute) » BUY NOW
BRYAN FERRY
“Boys and Girls” (1985 album, featuring “Slave to Love” and “Don’t Stop to Dance”; remastered from the original tapes by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl; See here; Virgin / UMe) » BUY NOW
MARVIN GAYE
“What’s Going On (Original Detroit Mix)” (1971 album; Motown / Universal Japan) » BUY NOW
AMY GRANT
“Heart in Motion (30th Anniversary)” (1991 album, featuring “Baby Baby,” “Every Heartbeat” and “That’s What Love Is For”; remastered, with a second LP of unheard tracks, updated remixes and more; See here; Amy Grant) » BUY NOW
HOUSE OF PAIN
“House of Pain” (1992 album, subtitled “Fine Malt Lyrics,” featuring “Jump Around”; green, red and yellow splatter vinyl; Merch; Tommy Boy) » BUY NOW
LOS LOBOS
“Native Sons” (L.A.-themed covers album; Hear here; Read here; New West) » BUY NOW
LEE MORGAN
“The Complete Live at the Lighthouse” (12-LP box set contains all 12 sets of music the trumpeter’s quintet of saxophonist Bennie Maupin, pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Jymie Merritt and drummer Mickey Roker recorded at The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, CA, on July 10-12, 1970; mixed from the original half-inch 4-track tapes by Steve Genewick at Capitol Studios with LP mastering by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio; Hear here; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
LAURA NYRO
“Laura Nyro: American Dreamer” (seven-LP box set, housing her seven studio albums, plus the exclusive “Rarities and Live Recordings” and a 36-page 12″ book with extensive liner notes from author Peter Doggett; Madfish) » BUY NOW
“Welcome 2 America” (unreleased album from 2010; first single: “Welcome 2 America”; Hear here; Read here; Deluxe Edition, two-LP and one-CD versions of the album with a never-before-released Blu-ray of Prince’s full April 28, 2011, performance at the Forum, part of the Welcome 2 America Tour’s historic 21 Nite Stand in Los Angeles; Target-Exclusive Clear Vinyl; Deezer; Merch; NPG / Legacy Recordings) » BUY NOW
BRIAN SETZER
“Setzer GOES Instru-MENTAL!” (2011 album, Grammy-nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Album in 2012; red, yellow and blue splatter vinyl; See here; Surfdog) » BUY NOW
SUBURBAN LAWNS
“Suburban Lawns” (1981 album, originally released by I.R.S. Records, featuring “Janitor”; See here; Superior Viaduct) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Chicago (Music from the Miramax Motion Picture)” (2002 album; winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Catherine Zeta-Jones; two-LP red with yellow streaks “Chicago Fire” vinyl edition; Real Gone Music) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Even More Dazed and Confused: Music from the Motion Picture” (1993 album; white with red splatter vinyl; Real Gone Music) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Lost Boys (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (1987 album; 180-gram red audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
YOLA
“Stand for Myself” (producer: Dan Auerbach; new single: “Diamond Studded Shoes”; See here; Read here; Easy Eye Sound) » BUY NOW
JULIE ANDREWS, ET AL
“The Sound of Music (An Original Soundtrack Recording)” (1964 album; winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Scoring of Music; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Golden Sun Vinyl; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
WILLIE COLÓN & RUBÉN BLADES
“Siembra” (1978 album; remastered from its original analog master tapes by Phil Rodriguez at Elysian Masters and pressed on 180-gram, black audiophile quality vinyl at Memphis Record Pressing; Hear here; Craft Latino / Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
BILL EVANS
“Symbiosis” (1974 album; remastered; MPS) » BUY NOW
FRANZ FERDINAND
“Tonight: Franz Ferdinand” (2009 album, featuring “Ulysses,” “No You Girls,” “Can’t Stop Feeling,” “What She Came For” and “Live Alone”; See here; Domino) » 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 vinyl with Stoughton tip-on jacket and sticker insert; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Neon Orange Vinyl; Merch; Grateful Dead Production) » BUY NOW
JOE HENDERSON
“Mirror Mirror” (1980 album; MPS) » BUY NOW
THE KINKS
“Misfits” (1978 album, featuring “A Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy”; 180-gram blue audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
LOGGINS & MESSINA
“The Best of Friends” (1976 hits compilation; 180-gram red audiophile vinyl, with poster; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
MODEST MOUSE
“The Golden Casket” (producers: Dave Sardy, Jacknife Lee; new single: “We Are Between”; See here; Amazon-Exclusive Vinyl, with alternative cover; Epic) » BUY NOW
WILLIE NELSON
“Make Way for Willie Nelson” (1966 album, featuring “One in a Row”; 180-gram blue swirl audiophile vinyl, with poster; Hear here; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
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
ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK
“Liberator” (1993 album, featuring “Stand Above Me” and “Dream of Me”) » BUY NOW
“Universal” (1996 album, featuring “Walking on the Milky Way”; remastered at Abbey Road Studios; Republic / UMe) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“NOW That’s What I Call A Decade: 1980s” (Walmart-Exclusive Yellow and Red Vinyl; Sony Legacy, Aug. 5) » BUY NOW
JOHN DENVER
“Poems, Prayers & Promises” (1971 album, “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” “Sunshine on My Shoulders” and “My Sweet Lady”; RCA / Legacy) » BUY NOW
JENNIFER HUDSON
“RESPECT (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Aretha Franklin biopic opens Aug. 13, co-starring Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald and Marc Maron; also, Mary J. Blige portrays Dinah Washington and Heather Headley plays Clara Ward; Trailer; Trailer; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, with alternate cover and photobook; Epic) » BUY NOW
PEARL JAM
“No Code” (1996 album, featuring “Who You Are,” “Hail, Hail” and “Off He Goes”; 25th anniversary 150-gram vinyl edition; mastered specifically for vinyl by Grammy Award-winning engineer Bob Ludwig; features recreations of the original packaging, including the set of nine random replica Polaroids/lyric cards; On Tour; Merch; Epic / Legacy) » BUY NOW
ELVIS PRESLEY
“His Hand in Mine” (1960 album, the first of his three gospel music albums; 180-gram white and platinum swirl audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
QUEEN LATIFAH
“All Hail the Queen” (1989 debut album, featuring “Ladies First” and “Wrath of My Madness”; See here; Tommy Boy) » BUY NOW
REO SPEEDWAGON
“Hi Infidelity” (1980 album, the biggest-selling LP of 1981; featuring “Keep On Loving You,” “Take It on the Run,” “Don’t Let Him Go” and “In Your Letter”; 180-gram platinum swirl audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
SCRITTI POLITTI
“Cupid & Psyche 85” (1985 album, featuring “Perfect Way,” “The Word Girl,” “Wood Beez [Pray Like Aretha Franklin]” and “Absolute”; remastered; See here) » BUY NOW
“Anomie & Bonhomie” (1999 album, featuring “Tinseltown to the Boogiedown”; remastered, making its debut on vinyl; See here; Rough Trade) » BUY NOW
NINA SIMONE
“Little Girl Blue” (1959 album; new stereo mix by four-time Grammy winner Michael Graves; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
TRAVIS
“12 Memories” (vinyl debut of the 2003 album, featuring “Re-Offender,” “The Beautiful Occupation” and “Love Will Come Through”; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
“Shades of Two Worlds” (1991 album; 180-gram orange and red swirl audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
THE BANGLES
“Ladies and Gentlemen … The Bangles!” (2014 compilation of 1981-84 recordings; Omnivore Recordings) » BUY NOW “A Boy Named Charlie Brown (The Original Sound Track Recording)” (1969 album; newly remastered from the original analog tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio; with eight collectible baseball cards of Peanuts characters; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
CHRISSIE HYNDE
“Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan” (BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
“Audio-Visions” (1980 album, featuring “Hold On”; 180-gram translucent blue swirl audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
THE KINKS
“Give the People What They Want” (1981 album, featuring “Better Things,” “Destroyer” and “Predictable”; 180-gram translucent clear audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
OLIVIA RODRIGO
“SOUR” (featuring “drivers license,” “deja vu” and “Good 4 U”; producer: Dan Nigro; Amazon-Exclusive Purple Transparent Vinyl; HMV-Exclusive Crystal Fuchsia Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Blue Transparent Vinyl, with alternate artwork and poster; Walmart-Exclusive Magenta Transparent Vinyl; See here; Geffen / Interscope) » BUY NOW
SKID ROW
“Skid Row” (1989 album, featuring “Youth Gone Wild,” “18 and Life” and “I Remember You”; 180-gram gold metallic audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
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
BREAD
“The Best of Bread” (1973 compilation; 180-gram translucent gold audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
ANGEL CANALES
“Sabor” (1975 album; remastered from its original analog master tapes by Phil Rodriguez at Elysian Masters and pressed on 180-gram audiophile quality vinyl; Craft Latino / Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
CHVRCHES
“Screen Violence” (new single: “How Not to Drown,” feat. Robert Smith; Hear here; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Clear Green Vinyl; On Tour; Glassnote) » BUY NOW
GUY CLARK
“Somedays The Song Writes You” (2009 album; birchwood vinyl; Dualtone) » BUY NOW
THE KOOKS
“Inside In / Inside Out (15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (2006 album, featuring “Eddie’s Gun,” “Sofa Song,” “You Don’t Love Me,” “Naïve,” “She Moves in Her Own Way” and “Ooh La”; remastered, with a second LP containing 13 previously unreleased tracks; Hear here; Astralwerks) » BUY NOW
MADELEINE PEYROUX
“Careless Love (Deluxe Edition)” (2004 album; remastered three-LP set, with a previously unreleased live performance at 2005’s Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain; Hear here; Read here; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS
“The Capitol Session ’73” (Green Marble Vinyl; first official release of the October 1973 session at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles; Hear here; Read here; Target Vinyl; Merch; Mercury Studios) » BUY NOW
MY MORNING JACKET
“Live 2015” (their first live album in 15 years; triple white vinyl; On Tour; ATO) » BUY NOW
THE LONDON SUEDE
“Dog Man Star” (Clear Vinyl; 1994 album, featuring “We Are the Pigs,” “The Wild Ones” and “New Generation”; See here) » BUY NOW
“Coming Up (25th Anniversary Edition)” (Clear Vinyl; 1996 album, featuring “Beautiful Ones,” “Trash,” “Filmstar” and “Lazy”; See here) » BUY NOW
“Head Music” (Clear Vinyl; 1999 album, featuring “She’s in Fashion,” “Electricity” and “Everything Will Flow”; See here) » BUY NOW
“A New Morning” (Clear Vinyl; 2002 album, featuring “Positivity” and “Obsessions”; See here; Edsel / Demon Music Group) » BUY NOW
METALLICA
“Metallica” (1991 album; Standard Remastered Vinyl; Remastered Deluxe Vinyl Box Set; Merch; Rhino / Blackened Recordings) » BUY NOW
LAURA NYRO
“Go Find the Moon: The Audition Tape” (previously unreleased summer 1966 performance of the then-18-year-old Nyro auditioning for Milt Okun and Artie Mogull; restored and mastered by Michael Graves; Read here; Omnivore Recordings) » BUY NOW
DIANA ROSS
“Thank You” (her first album in 15 years; first single: “Thank You”; See here; On Tour; Decca) » BUY NOW
CARLY SIMON
“The Best of Carly Simon” (1975 album; 180-gram translucent red audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
WARREN ZEVON
“Excitable Boy” (1978 album, produced by Jackson Browne and Waddy Wachtel and featuring “Werewolves of London,” “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner,” “Excitable Boy,” “Johnny Strikes Up the Band” and “Nighttime in the Switching Yard”; 180-gram translucent red audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
BAD COMPANY
“Holy Water” (1990 album, featuring “Holy Water,” “If You Needed Somebody” and “Walk Through Fire”; 180-gram aqua blue opaque audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA AND THE SOULSONIC FORCE
“Planet Rock: The Album” (1986 album, featuring “Planet Rock,” “Looking for the Perfect Beat” and “Renegades of Funk”; Tommy Boy) » BUY NOW
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
“Lindsey Buckingham” (Amazon-Exclusive Sky Blue Vinyl; his eighth solo album and first since 2011’s “Seeds We Sow”; first single: “I Don’t Mind”; Hear here; On Tour; Reprise) » BUY NOW
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
“Buena Vista Social Club (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1997 album, produced by Ry Cooder, and winner of the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album; See here; World Circuit) » BUY NOW
VINCE GUARALDI
“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Music From the Soundtrack)” (1966 album; orange pumpkin-shaped LP; See here; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ
“Local Valley” (the Swedish singer-songwriter’s first album since 2015; new single: “Visions”; Hear here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Vinyl, with hand-signed art print; Mute) » BUY NOW
N.O.R.E.
“N.O.R.E.” (1998 debut album, featuring “N.O.R.E.,” “Banned From T.V.” and “Superthug”; two LPs; Tommy Boy) » BUY NOW
PRINCE PAUL
“A Prince Among Thieves” (1999 album; Tommy Boy) » BUY NOW
TOM TOM CLUB
“Downtown Rockers” (2012 album; See here; Nacional) » BUY NOW
MELISSA ETHERIDGE
“One Way Out” (she revisits and reworks songs she had written in the late 1980s and early 1990s that never made it onto an album; first single: “One Way Out”; See here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Ruby Red Vinyl; On Tour; M.L.E. Music / BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
VINCE GUARALDI
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965 soundtrack; Barnes & Noble-exclusive vinyl; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
METALLICA & VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Metallica Blacklist” (all-star remakes of songs off Metallica’s 1991 “Black Album”; contributors include Elton John, Miley Cyrus, Weezer, Mac DeMarco, Juanes, St. Vincent, Jason Isbell, My Morning Jacket, etc.; all profits from the tribute record are being split between charities of the artist’s choice and Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation; See here; Read here; Rhino / Blackened Recordings) » BUY NOW
DE LA SOUL
“De La Soul Is Dead” (White Vinyl; 1991 album, featuring “A Roller Skating Jam Named ‘Saturdays,'” “Ring Ring Ring [Ha Ha Hey],” “Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa” and “Keepin’ the Faith”; Tommy Boy) » BUY NOW
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
THE ALARM
“History Repeating 1981-2021” (two-LP, 40-song anthology includes a new recording of “History Repeating”; Vinyl; Twenty First Century Recording Company) » BUY NOW
GARY ALLAN
“Ruthless” (his first studio album in more than eight years; producers: Allan, Mark Wright, Tony Brown, Greg Droman, Jay Joyce; CD and Download released on June 25; EMI Nashville) » BUY NOW
HORACE ANDY
“The King Tubby Tapes” (two LPs, 24 songs; featuring selections from Andy’s 1979 album “Pure Ranking” and a second LP of dub remixes; Read here; Demon Music Group) » BUY NOW
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
“Bullet For My Valentine” (first single: “Knives”; See here; Gold Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Merch; On Tour; Spinefarm / Search & Destroy) » BUY NOW
DURAN DURAN
“FUTURE PAST” (their first album in six years; producers: Giorgio Moroder, Mark Ronson, Erol Alkan; guests: Graham Coxon, Lykke Li, Mike Garson; first single: “Invisible”; Read here; Merch; On Tour; Tape Modern / BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
VIOLA BEACH (all four members of the U.K. band and their manager were killed in a car crash in February 2016)
“Viola Beach” (their 2016 debut album, released on vinyl for the first time; rainbow-colored picture disc; Hear here; Fuller Beans) » BUY NOW
DAVE CHAPPELLE
“8:46” (recording comes from Chappelle’s 2020 viral video ruminating on the murder of George Floyd; B-side features poet Amir Sulaiman; proceeds benefit Duke Ellington School of the Arts; Third Man) » BUY NOW
JONI MITCHELL
“Live At Carnegie Hall 1969” (triple-LP set, mastered by Bernie Grundmal; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
WORLD PARTY
“Goodbye Jumbo” (1990 album, featuring “Way Down Now,” “Put the Message in the Box,” “Thank You World” and “When the Rainbow Comes”; See here; Amazon UK; Seaview) » BUY NOW
FLAMIN’ GROOVIES
“Flamin’ Groovies Now” (1978 album, produced by Dave Edmunds; Liberation Hall) » BUY NOW
PETER TOSH
“Live at My Father’s Place 1978” (recorded at the Long Island venue and simulcast by radio station WLIR; Rockbeat) » BUY NOW
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Gerry Galipault Gerry Galipault debuted Pause & Play online in October 1997. Since then, it has become the definitive place for CD-release dates — with a worldwide audience.
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