New vinyl releases and reissues for this week and months ahead. (Check out Past LP Releases.)
MARCH 11, 2022 RELEASESBRYAN ADAMS
“So Happy It Hurts” (his 15th album; new single: “So Happy It Hurts”; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK; On Tour; Badams Music / BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW 
COLIN BLUNSTONE
“One Year (50th Anniversary Edition)” (1971 debut solo album; mastered by Joe Lizzi, with 14 bonus tracks and new liner notes by Blunstone; Hear here; Sundazed Music) » BUY NOW
THE BYRDS
“Byrds” (Translucent Violet Vinyl; their 12th and final album, from 1973, featuring a reunion among the five original band members: Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE
“Duke Ellington & John Coltrane” (1962 album; all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging; Verve / UMe) » BUY NOW
FRANZ FERDINAND
“Hits to the Head” (two-LP, 20-song compilation includes two new tracks, “Billy Goodbye” and “Curious”; Hear here; See here; Amazon UK) » BUY NOW
GHOST
“IMPERA” (producer: Klas Åhlund; mixed by Andy Wallace; new single: “Call Me Little Sunshine”; Hear here; On Tour; Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
GOLDEN EARRING
“Moontan (Expanded & Remastered Edition)” (Crystal Clear Vinyl; 1973 album, featuring “Radar Love”; remastered from the first-generation master tapes, overseen by Red Bullet catalog and band archivist Wouter Bessels; with three previously unreleased mixes and four bonus tracks; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
PJ HARVEY
“The Hope Six Demolition Project” (2016 album; remastered) » BUY NOW
“The Hope Six Demolition Project – Demos” (10 unreleased demos written for her ninth studio album from 2016; mastering by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering, under the guidance of her longtime producer John Parish; Island / UMe) » BUY NOW
KISS
“KISS Off the Soundboard: Live in Virginia Beach” (three-LP, 20-song set, recorded on July 25, 2004, during their Rock the Nation Tour; lineup: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer; Hear here; On Tour; Merch; UMe) » BUY NOW
THE OUTFIELD
“Play Deep” (Translucent Blue Vinyl; 1985 debut album, featuring “Your Love,” “All the Love” and “Say It Isn’t So”; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
REX ORANGE COUNTY
“WHO CARES?” (collaborator: Benny Sings; guest: Tyler, the Creator; first single: “Keep It Up”; Hear here; Read here; On Tour; Rex Orange County / Sony Music Entertainment) » BUY NOW
IRMA THOMAS
“Full Time Woman: The Lost Cotillion Album” (Light Blue Vinyl; recordings from 1971-72; Real Gone Music) » BUY NOW
SUMMER WALKER
“Still Over It” (2021 album, featuring “Ex for a Reason”; Target-Exclusive White Vinyl, with one extra song; LVRN / Interscope) » BUY NOW
HANK WILLIAMS
“I’m Gonna Sing: The Mother’s Best Gospel Radio Recordings” (three-LP, 40-song set; Read here; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
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MARCH 18, 2022 RELEASESFLAMIN’ GROOVIES
“Flamin’ Groovies Now” (1978 album, produced by Dave Edmunds; Liberation Hall) » BUY NOW
SON HOUSE
“Forever On My Mind” (lost ’60s recordings, newly restored by Dan Auerbach; Hear here; Easy Eye Sound / Concord) » BUY NOW
MILT JACKSON
“Milt Jackson And The Thelonious Monk Quintet” (1956 album; all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180-gm vinyl at Optimal; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
MODEST MOUSE
“We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank” (Best-Buy Exclusive Translucent Orange Vinyl; 2007 album, featuring Johnny Marr as a full member; Epic) » BUY NOW
OHIO PLAYERS
“Skin Tight” (Turquoise Vinyl; 1974 album; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
BUD POWELL
“Time Waits: The Amazing Bud Powell” (1957 album; all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
THE RAINCOATS
“The Raincoats (40th Anniversary Remaster)” (1979 album; in 2020, Rolling Stone ranked the album at No. 398 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; Kill Rock Stars) » BUY NOW
SANTANA
“Blessings and Miracles” (2021 album; Target-Exclusive White, Blue + Yellow Tri-Color Vinyl; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
SONIC YOUTH
“In/Out/In” (rarities from the band’s 2000-2010 era; Merch; Three Lobed Recordings) » BUY NOW
FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS
“Live At Fillmore East, June 1971 (50th Anniversary)” (Triple Vinyl; with two additional vinyl discs of vintage mixes from the vaults; includes the John Lennon and Yoko Ono encore and the original “Billy The Mountain!”; pressed on 180-gram vinyl by Optimal and cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering) » BUY NOW
“Live At The Rainbow Theatre” (Triple Vinyl; infamous final show of the Flo & Eddie line-up, recorded on Dec. 10, 1971; new 2021 mix and liner notes by Eddie Kramer and mastering by Bernie Grundman, pressed on 180-gram vinyl by Optimal; Merch; Zappa Records / UMe) » BUY NOW
BON IVER
“Bon Iver (10th Anniversary Edition)” (White Vinyl; 2011 album, featuring “Holocene” and “Beth/Rest”; won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2012; See here; Jagjaguwar) » BUY NOW
NATALIE COLE
“Unforgettable … with Love (30th Anniversary Edition)” (1991 album, winner of six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year; remastered, with two bonus tracks, “At Last” and “Cottage for Sale”; See here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Pearl White Vinyl; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
ORNETTE COLEMAN
“Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums” (deluxe box set, newly remastered by Bernie Grundman, contains recordings from Lester Koenig’s Contemporary Records; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
MILES DAVIS
“His Ultimate Collection” (Merch; Columbia / Sony Music) » BUY NOW
GOLDFRAPP
“Felt Mountain (Special Edition)” (Gold Vinyl; 2000 debut album, featuring “Lovely Head,” “Paper Bag” and “Human”; remastered, with new sleeve notes; Mute) » BUY NOW
AL GREEN
“Let’s Stay Together” (1972 album; Fat Possum) » BUY NOW
DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES
“Marigold Sky” (1997 album; remastered, making its debut on vinyl; U-Watch / BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
KRAFTWERK
“Kraftwerk Remixes (three-LP collection of 12-inch singles, CD singles and digital releases from 1991-2021; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK; On Tour; Merch; Atlantic / Parlophone) » BUY NOW
RICHARD MARX
“Stories to Tell: Greatest Hits and More” (27 songs on two LPs; Amazon UK; On Tour; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
MAREN MORRIS
“Humble Quest” (producer: Greg Kurstin; songs written with husband Ryan Hurd, Julia Michaels, Jimmy Robbins, Natalie Hemby, Laura Veltz and Jon Green; new single: “Circles Around This Town”; Target-Exclusive Bone White Vinyl; Columbia Nashville) » BUY NOW
BILLY OCEAN
“His Ultimate Collection” (14 songs; Zomba / Sony Music) » BUY NOW
THIN LIZZY
“Live and Dangerous” (Translucent Orange Vinyl; 1978 album; two LPs; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
BONNIE TYLER
“Her Ultimate Collection” (13 songs; Columbia / Sony Music) » BUY NOW
SUZANNE VEGA
“Close-Up Series Volumes 1-4” (four-LP bookpack, each LP in a different color, with a 28-page booklet and lyrics; Cooking Vinyl) » BUY NOW
MARVIN GAYE
“What’s Going On: 50th Anniversary 2LP Edition” (1971 album, featuring the title track, “Inner City Blues [Make Me Wanna Holler]” and “Mercy Mercy Me [The Ecology]”; double LP contains a previously unreleased “stripped” version of the title song, plus all six original mono single mixes and their B-sides; direct-to-analog mastering from the original primary album tape reels by engineer Kevin Gray; Motown / UMe) » BUY NOW
DOLLY PARTON
“Run, Rose, Run” (coincides with the March 7 release of the novel of the same name, which she co-authored with James Patterson; guests: Joe Nichols, Rhonda Vincent, The Isaacs, Dailey & Vincent, Ben Haggard; new single: “Big Dreams and Faded Jeans”; Hear here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Opaque Blue Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Translucent Green Vinyl; Butterfly) » BUY NOW
SONNY RED
“Out of the Blue” (1960 album, with Wynton Kelly on piano, Sam Jones and Paul Chambers on bass, plus Roy Brooks and Jimmy Cobb on drums; all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
“Unlimited Love” (17-song album, their first since 2016; producer: Rick Rubin; new single: “Black Summer”; Hear here; See here; Read here; Vinyl Deluxe Edition; Target-Exclusive Apple Red Vinyl; On Tour; Merch; Warner) » BUY NOW
LINDA RONSTADT
“Greatest Hits” (1976 compilation) » BUY NOW
“Greatest Hits, Volume Two” (1980 compilation; Rhino / Elektra) » BUY NOW
ROXY MUSIC
“Roxy Music” (1972 debut album, featuring “Virginia Plain”) » BUY NOW
“For Your Pleasure” (1973 album, featuring “Do the Strand”; both mastered at half-speed and cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, with revised artwork with a gloss laminated finish; Read here; Merch; Island / UMe) » BUY NOW
AREA21
“Greatest Hits, Vol. 1” (debut album from Martin Garrix + Maejor, featuring “La La La” and “Lovin’ Every Minute”; Target-Exclusive Red Vinyl; STMPD RCRDS / Hollywood) » BUY NOW
FOSTER THE PEOPLE
“Torches X (Deluxe Edition)” (2011 album, featuring “Houdini,” “Helena Beat” and “Don’t Stop [Color on the Walls]”; Double Orange Vinyl, with a new version of “Pumped Up Kicks,” plus B-sides and remixes; See here; Merch; Columbia / Legacy) » BUY NOW
AL JARREAU
“Breakin’ Away” (Crystal Clear & Pink Mixed Vinyl; 1981 album, featuring “We’re in This Love Together”; also, his version of Dave Brubeck’s “[Round, Round, Round] Blue Rondo à la Turk” won Grammys for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male, and Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male; the LP was also nominated for Album of the Year; Hear here; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
B.B. KING
“Completely Well” (Translucent Gold Vinyl; 1969 album, featuring “The Thrill Is Gone”; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
PARAMORE
“All We Know Is Falling” (Silver Vinyl; 2005 debut album; Merch; Fueled by Ramen) » BUY NOW
PAUL RODGERS
“Cut Loose” (Arctic White Vinyl; 1983 debut solo album; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
TAME IMPALA
“The Slow Rush (Deluxe Box Set)” (2020 album; two transparent red LPs and alternate artwork, with B-sides and remixes and a 40-page booklet; Hear here; Merch; Interscope) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (2021 album; original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Cobalt Blue Vinyl; Walt Disney) » BUY NOW
MUDDY WATERS
“Muddy Waters at Newport 1960” (1960 album; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
DIRTY HEADS
“The Best of Dirty Heads” (13-song collection; Better Noise Music) » BUY NOW
MARK KNOPFLER
“The Studio Albums 1996-2007” (11-LP box set; Read here; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
M83
“Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (10th Anniversary Edition)” (Double Orange Vinyl; 2011 album; Mute) » BUY NOW
THE POLICE
“Greatest Hits” (new deluxe 30th anniversary, two-LP edition of the hits collection from 1992; remastered at Abbey Road Studios and cut at half-speed; Amazon UK; Merch; Polydor / UMC) » BUY NOW
RUSH
“Moving Pictures (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1981 album, featuring “Tom Sawyer,” “Limelight” and “Vital Signs”; five-LP box set, cut at half-speed with Direct-to-Metal Mastering for the first time and pressed on 180-gram vinyl; includes the 2015 remaster of the original album and the complete unreleased Toronto concert from March 25, 1981; Super Deluxe Edition, box set contains three-CD set, five-LP set and Blu-ray Audio disc featuring Dolby Atmos, new 5.1 surround and music videos, plus book, model car, drumsticks, posters, etc.; Merch; Mercury / UMe) » BUY NOW
CUTE IS WHAT WE AIM FOR
“The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch” (2006 debut album; Fueled by Ramen) » BUY NOW
BILL EVANS TRIO
“Trio ’65” (1965 album, with bassist Chuck Israels and drummer Larry Bunker; transfers from analog tapes and remastered on 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging; Verve / UMe) » BUY NOW
CHARLES MINGUS
“Mingus Three” (1957 album, with pianist Hampton Hawes and drummer Dannie Richmond; remastered, with previously unreleased outtakes; April 22 marks Mingus’ birth centenary; Hear here; Rhino) » BUY NOW
THE NEON PHILHARMONIC
“To Be Continued: The Complete Warner Bros. Non Album Singles & More” (12-song compilation; Read here; Hanky Panky / Light in the Attic) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Love Is All I Bring: Reggae Hits and Rarities By the Queens of Trojan” (Orange Vinyl; two-LP set featuring Millie Small, Althea & Donna, Marcia Griffith, Phyllis Dillion, Susan Cadogan, etc.; Trojan) » BUY NOW
CHICAGO
“Chicago II” (Transluent Blue Vinyl, two LPs; 1970 album, featuring “Make Me Smile,” “Colour My World” and “25 or 6 to 4”; Grammy-nominated for Album of the Year; On Tour; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS
“American Babylon (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1995 album, featuring friend and guest Bruce Springsteen throughout much of the LP; two-LP set with demos and live tracks; producer: Springsteen; Hear here; Cleveland International) » BUY NOW
NORAH JONES
“Come Away With Me (20th Anniversary Edition)” (2002 album, featuring “Don’t Know Why”; winner of eight Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best New Artist; See here; Super Deluxe Vinyl Edition, four-LP box set, with 22 previously unreleased tracks and booklet; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, with lithograph; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
WILLIE NELSON
“A Beautiful Time” (his 72nd studio album, released on his 89th birthday; producer: Buddy Cannon; new single: “I’ll Love You Till the Day I Die,” co-written by Rodney Crowell and Chris Stapleton; Hear here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Orange Vinyl; Legacy Recordings) » BUY NOW
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
“How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can’t Even Smile Today” (1988 album, featuring “Trip at the Brain” and “How Will I Laugh Tomorrow”; Merch; Century Media / Legacy) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Lost Boys (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Translucent Red Vinyl; 1987 album; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Rough Guide to Legends of the Delta Blues” (12-song collection; World Music Network) » BUY NOW
THE WEEKND
“Dawn FM” (producer: The Weeknd; contributors: Max Martin, Oscar Holter, Quincy Jones, Oneohtrix Point Never; guests: Jim Carrey, Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne; Read here; Target-Exclusive Translucent Silver Vinyl, with alternate artwork; Merch; XO / Republic) » BUY NOW
GO WEST
“Go West” (Clear Vinyl; 1985 debut album, featuring “We Close Our Eyes,” “Call Me” and “Don’t Look Down”; newly remastered by the original producer, Gary Stevenson, from the original production tapes and cut by Alchemy at AIR; Chrysalis) » BUY NOW
FREDDIE HUBBARD
“Breaking Point” (1964 album; mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
SOFT CELL
“*Happiness not included” (the synth duo’s first album in 20 years; new single: “Bruises on my illusions”; Hear here; Read here; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
THE BLACK KEYS
“Dropout Boogie” (contributors: Billy F. Gibbons, Greg Cartwright, Angelo Petraglia; first single: “Wild Child”; Hear here; Apple Music; On Tour, with Band of Horses; Easy Eye Sound / Nonesuch) » BUY NOW
DUKE ELLINGTON & COLEMAN HAWKINS
“Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins” (1962 album; transfers from analog tapes and remastered on 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging; Verve / UMe) » BUY NOW
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
“Dance Fever” (new single: “My Love”; Hear here; See here; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, with alternate artwork; Republic) » BUY NOW
ROXY MUSIC
“Stranded” (1973 album, featuring “Street Life”) » BUY NOW
“Country Life” (1974 album, featuring “All I Want Is You” and “The Thrill of It All”; both mastered at half-speed and cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, with revised artwork with a gloss laminated finish; Read here; Merch; Island / UMe) » BUY NOW
BELLAMY BROTHERS
“40 Years (The Vinyl Album)” (12-song compilation, issued on CD in 2015; On Tour; Bellamy Brothers / Select-O-Hits) » BUY NOW
THE FIXX
“Reach the Beach” (Translucent Gold Vinyl; 1983 album, featuring “One Thing Leads to Another,” “Saved by Zero” and “The Sign of Fire”; See here; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
WAYLON JENNINGS
“The Lost Nashville Sessions” (14-song collection, released in 2016; Country Rewind) » BUY NOW
THE LEMONHEADS
“The Lemonheads” (2006 album; Vagrant) » BUY NOW
JOHN MELLENCAMP
“Strictly A One-Eyed Jack” (producer: Mellencamp; Bruce Springsteen guests on three songs; new single: “Chasing Rainbows”; Hear here; Republic) » BUY NOW
ROBERT PALMER
“Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley” (Emerald Green Vinyl; 1974 album; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Summer of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) [Highlights From Official Motion Picture Soundtrack]” (Target-Exclusive Red Vinyl, with alternate cover; 2021 film; Trailer; Legacy Recordings) » BUY NOW
DOJA CAT
“Planet Her (Deluxe Edition)” (Double Vinyl; 2021 album, featuring “Kiss Me More,” “You Right,” “Need to Know” and “Woman”; Merch; Kemosabe / RCA) » BUY NOW
FLEET FOXES
“A Very Lonely Solstice” (2021 album; Hear here; ANTI- / Epitaph) » BUY NOW
THE GET UP KIDS
“On a Wire” (2002 album; Vagrant) » BUY NOW
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
“Physical” (1981 album; remastered, with 24×36″ poster; Target-Exclusive Pink Vinyl, with poster; Primary Wave) » BUY NOW
NIRVANA
“Nevermind (Super Deluxe Edition)” (1991 album, featuring “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Come As You Are,” “Lithium” and “In Bloom”; eight-LP box set features the newly remastered album from the original analog tapes, with four complete concerts from the Nevermind Tour, plus the 7-inch for “Endless, Nameless,” with B-sides “Even In His Youth” and “Aneurysm,” and a 40-page hardcover book; See here; Merch; Geffen / UMe) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“David Hepworth: Deep 70s: Underrated Cuts From A Misunderstood Decade” (two-LP collection, compiled by the best-selling author of “Never a Dull Moment: 1971 – The Year That Rock Exploded”; Track List; Read here; Amazon UK; Bibliography; Edsel / Demon Music Group) » BUY NOW
THE WALKMEN
“You & Me” (Double Vinyl; 2008 album; with four bonus tracks; Marcata Recording) » BUY NOW
THE LINDA LINDAS (teenage punk rock band from L.A.)
“Growing Up” (producer: Carlos de la Garza; new single: “Growing Up”; Hear here; See here; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Opaque Orange Vinyl; Epitaph) » BUY NOW
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
“Life After Death (25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)” (1997 album; eight-LP box set, with 12-inch editions of “Hypnotize,” “Mo Money Mo Problems,” “Sky’s the Limit” and “Nasty Boy”; Read here; Target-Exclusive Silver Vinyl; Merch; Bad Boy / Rhino / Atlantic) » BUY NOW
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JUNE 17, 2022 RELEASESINFORMATION SOCIETY
“Information Society” (Clear Vinyl; 1988 album, featuring “What’s On Your Mind [Pure Energy],” “Walking Away” and “Running”; See here; Tommy Boy) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Romeo Must Die: The Album” (2000 soundtrack album, including Aaliyah’s No. 1 pop hit “Try Again”; See here; Blackground) » BUY NOW
JETHRO TULL
“Aqualung (The 2011 Steven Wilson Stereo Remix)” (Clear Vinyl; 1971 album, featuring “Locomotive Breath” and “Hymn 43”; Rhino / Parlophone) » BUY NOW