New vinyl releases and reissues for this week and months ahead. (Check out Past LP Releases.)
GEORGE BENSON
“Breezin'” (1976 album; 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Hear here; Friday Music)
RY COODER
“Paris, Texas (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (1984 film; Hear here; eBay; Real Gone Music)
THE DEL-VETTS (1960s garage-rock band from Chicago)
“The Del-Vetts” (1965-66 recordings; Hear here; Sundazed Music)
GARY NUMAN
“I, Assassin” (1982 album; dark green vinyl; eBay; Merch; Beggars Banquet)
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
“The Best of Everything – The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection (1976-2016)” (four-LP, 38-song set features tracks by the Heartbreakers, Petty’s solo work and Mudcrutch; eBay; Merch)
POCO
“Collected” (two-LP, 26-song greatest hits set; Track list; Amazon UK; Music on Vinyl)
THE RUNAWAYS
“The Best of The Runaways” (1982 compilation; eBay; Merch; Mercury / UMe)
TOM TOM CLUB
“Tom Tom Club” (1981 album; white vinyl; See here; Real Gone Music)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS
“Happy Woman Blues” (1980 album; eBay; On Tour; Smithsonian Folkways)
$3.99 Albums » … $5 Albums » … $6.99 Albums » … $0.69 Song Store » … Band T-Shirts »
JAMES BROWN
“Motherlode” (1988 compilation; first vinyl edition of the 2003 expanded edition, with two bonus tracks; eBay; Merch; Polydor / UMe)
CHER
“3614 Jackson Highway (Expanded Edition)” (1969 album; with 11 bonus tracks; eBay; On Tour; Merch; Run Out Groove)
EAGLES
“Hell Freezes Over” (1994 live album; double vinyl; eBay; On Tour; Merch; Geffen / UMe)
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
“Hangin’ Tough: 30th Anniversary Edition” (1988 album; remastered, with three new songs, including “80s Baby” with Salt N Pepa, Naughty By Nature, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, plus five rare remixes; See here; Columbia / Legacy)
ELVIS PRESLEY
“For LP Fans Only” (1959 compilation; translucent red vinyl; eBay; Merch; Friday Music)
THE ALARM
“Strength 1985-1986” (1985 album; remastered, with 11 previously unreleased session recordings and outtakes; See here; Twenty First Century Recording Company)
DAVID BYRNE
“Grown Backwards” (2004 album; released for the first time on vinyl; mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound; double LP features six bonus tracks; See here; Nonesuch)
JUKEBOX THE GHOST
“Let Live & Let Ghosts (10th Anniversary Edition)” (2008 album; moon-colored vinyl, with a digital download code for the full remastered album along with a download of unreleased session tracks; Hear here; eBay; On Tour; Yep Roc)
THE KINKS
“Word of Mouth” (1984 album; translucent pink and white swirl vinyl, with poster; Translucent Red Vinyl; See here; eBay; Merch; Friday Music)
ARETHA FRANKLIN
“Songs of Faith: Aretha Gospel” (recorded at the New Bethel Baptist Church in 1956 when she just 14 years old; Geffen / UMe)
VAN MORRISON
“The Healing Game” (1997 album; On Tour; Exile / Legacy Recordings)
ELVIS PRESLEY
“Elvis Now” (1972 album; translucent blue and black swirl vinyl; Merch; Friday Music)
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN AND DOUBLE TROUBLE
“Texas Flood” (1983 album; UltraDisc One-Step collector’s edition; Mobile Fidelity)
MUDDY WATERS
“I’m Ready” (1978 album; 180-gram translucent refd vinyl; Friday Music)
JOHN COLTRANE
“Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings” (eight 180-gram LPs, remastered from the original analog tapes by Paul Blakemore and cut by Clint Holley from 24-bit/192kHz transfers, with 40-page linen-wrapped, portfolio-style book with extensive liner notes, rare photos, etc.; Merch; Craft Recordings / Concord)
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
“Creedence Clearwater Revival” (1968 album; half-speed master)
MARVIN GAYE
“You’re the Man” (his lost follow-up to “What’s Going On” was never released in 1972; first single: “My Last Chance [SalaAM ReMi Remix]”; Hear here; Read here; Merch; Motown / UMe)
KISS
“KISSWORLD: The Best of KISS” (double vinyl collection; eBay; Merch; End of the Road World Tour; Mercury / UMe)
KEITH RICHARDS
“Talk Is Cheap (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1988 album; remastered, with six bonus tracks, featuring Mick Taylor, Bootsy Collins and Johnnie Johnson; Read here; Super Deluxe Edition, with CD, 180-gram vinyl, 80-page hardback book, etc.; BMG Rights Management)
DONNA SUMMER
“Another Time and Place – 30th Anniversary” (1989 album, featuring “This Time I Know It’s For Real”; two-LP deluxe edition, 180-gram heavyweight color vinyl, with singles mixes and a special anniversary megamix; See here; Amazon UK; Driven By the Music)
FRANK ZAPPA
“Zappa In New York (40th Anniversary Edition)” (three LPs; eBay; Merch; Zappa)
JOAN ARMATRADING
“Joan Armatrading” (180-gram, all-analog mastered by Kevin Gray at CoHEARent Audio; eBay; Intervention)
DAVID BOWIE
“Spying Through a Keyhole” (7-inch vinyl singles box set includes two early versions of “Space Oddity” to mark the song’s 50th anniversary; Read here; Merch; Rhino / Parlophone)
L7
“Best of the Slash Years” (Rhino)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Cleveland Rocks” (13-song collection of Cleveland International Records classics, featuring Meat Loaf, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Jim Steinman, Ronnie Spector & The E Street Band, Ian Hunter, The Rovers, etc.; Cleveland International)
FEAR OF POP (Ben Folds side project)
“Volume I” (1998 album, featuring “In Love” with William Shatner; orange-colored vinyl; Hear here; SRCVinyl)
NIRVANA
“Live at the Paramount” (concert in Seattle from Oct. 31, 1991; double LP, 180-gram vinyl, with 12×24-inch poster insert, a cloth sticky VIP pass replica of the original pass used that night, and a download card; See here; Merch; Geffen / UMe)
PET SHOP BOYS
“Agenda” (four-song EP, released digitally on Feb. 8; Merch; X2)
KAREN DALTON
“The Karen Dalton Archives Box” (four-LP, four-CD, one-DVD box set; Read here; Megaphone)
GIL EVANS
“New Bottle, Old Wine” (1958 album; mastered-from-the-original-master-tape 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Blue Note / UMe)
MASSIVE ATTACK
“Mezzanine (20th Anniversary Edition)” (1998 album; remastered, with eight previously unreleased Mad Professor remixes; See here; eBay; Merch; Virgin / UMe)
THE BYRDS
“Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965 album, featuring the title track, “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” and “All I Really Want to Do”; red vinyl; Hear here; Merch; Sundazed Music)
LIT
“A Place in the Sun” (1999 album, featuring “My Own Worst Enemy”; blue smoke-colored vinyl; srcvinyl)
BILL EVANS TRIO
“Portrait in Jazz” (1960 album; mastered from the original master tapes, pressed at RTI on MoFi SuperVinyl; Mobile Fidelity)
DAVID BOWIE
“Clareville Grove Demos” (7-inch box set, commemorating the 50th anniversary of “Space Oddity,” features unreleased tracks recorded alongside John “Hutch” Hutchinson; Merch; Rhino / Parlophone)
STEVE MILLER BAND
“Complete Albums Volume 2 (1977-2011)” (18-LP box set, from 1977’s “Book of Dreams” to 2011’s “Let Your Hair Down”; also available as individual 180-gram black LPs; Read here; On Tour; Merch; Capitol / UMe)
NAT KING COLE
“Ultimate Nat King Cole” (21-song collection; See here; eBay; Merch; Capitol / UMe)
SOLANGE
“When I Get Home” (released digitally on March 1 and on CD on April 26; producers: Solange Knowles, Chassol, Daniel Julez J Smith II, Dev Hynes, Earl Sweatshirt, Panda Bear, Pharrell, Tyler, the Creator, etc.; guests: Gucci Mane, Standing on the Corner, Playboi Carti, Sampha; On Tour; Merch; Columbia)
New vinyl releases and reissue: Miles Davis Quintet, John Hiatt, Ariana Grande, Todd Rundgren, Jim Carroll, Muse, Reba McEntire, Mick…
More updates: Monsta X, The Orb, Mark Hummel, Early James, Algiers, etc
More new songs: Tame Impala, Alanis Morissette, Halsey, Huey Lewis & The News, Cyndi Lauper, Brad Paisley, Monsta X, etc
New releases and reissues: Camila Cabello, The Who, XXXTentacion, Liam Payne, Sufjan Stevens & Timo Andres, Kylie Minogue, Yann Tiersen,…
More updates: Stone Temple Pilots, Matt Redman, Greg Dulli, MAITA, Neneh Cherry, The Meters, The Honeycombs, etc
New music book releases: Andrea Corr's "Barefoot Pilgrimage: A Memoir," Andrew Grant Jackson's "1973: Rock at the Crossroads," and many…