Your Vinyl Store (May 10-16 and Beyond)
New vinyl releases and reissues for this week and months ahead. (Check out Past LP Releases.)
ALICE COLTRANE
“Eternity” (1976 album) 
, “Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana” (1977 album) , “Transcendence” (1977 album) , “Transfiguration” (1978 album; Antarctica Starts Here) 
THE DELFONICS
“The Delfonics” (1970 album, featuring “Didn’t I [Blow Your Mind This Time]” and “Trying to Make a Fool of Me”; Music on Vinyl)
DEXTER GORDON
“Doin’ Allright” (1961 album; Blue Note / UMe)
BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS
“See You Later, Alligator” (1956 album, originally released in Brazil; Hear/read here; Bear Family)
HERBIE HANCOCK
“Takin’ Off” (1962 debut album; Blue Note / UMe)
GLEN HANSARD & MARKÉTA IRGLOVÁ
“Once (Music From the Motion Picture)” (2007 album, featuring “Falling Slowly,” which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song; colored vinyl; Music on Vinyl)
JOHNNY RIVERS
“The Best of Johnny Rivers” (1990 compilation; Friday Music)
ESPERANZA SPALDING
“12 Little Spells” (2018 album; double vinyl; On Tour; Concord)
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ANGELO BADALEMENTI & TIM BOOTH
“Booth & The Bad Angel” (1996 album; 180-gram red translucent colored vinyl LP pressing; Demon)
DAVID BOWIE
“Clareville Grove Demos” (7-inch box set, commemorating the 50th anniversary of “Space Oddity,” features unreleased tracks recorded alongside John “Hutch” Hutchinson) , “Boys Keep Swinging (40th Anniversary Edition)” (7-inch Picture Disc; Merch; Rhino / Parlophone)
A CERTAIN RATIO
“ACR:BOX” (seven-LP 40th anniversary box set; remastered by Martin Moscrop at Abbey Road Studios; Read here; Mute)
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
“I Am” (1979 album, featuring “After the Love Has Gone”; gold-colored vinyl; Music on Vinyl)
EVANESCENCE
“Fallen” (2003 album; Target-exclusive vinyl; On Tour; Merch; Epic)
GRETA VAN FLEET
“From the Fires” (2017 eight-song EP; On Tour; Merch; Lava Music / Republic)
INTERPOL
“A Fine Mess” (five-song EP; producer: Dave Fridmann; Hear here; On Tour; Merch; Matador)
PAUL McCARTNEY
“Egypt Station (Explorer’s Edition)” (2018 album; triple vinyl features six live studio recordings and four live performances; On Tour; Merch; Capitol / UMe)
MICHAEL NESMITH & THE FIRST NATIONAL BAND
“Loose Salute” (1970 album, featuring “Silver Moon”; transparent colored vinyl; Hear here; Music on Vinyl)
WEEZER
“Weezer (Teal Album)” (2019 all-covers album, featuring their version of Toto’s “Africa”; On Tour; Merch; Crush Music)
DAVID BOWIE
“Diamond Dogs” (1974 album; 45th anniversary red vinyl; Merch; Rhino / Parlophone)
BROWNSVILLE STATION
“Brownsville Station” (1977 album, featuring “The Martian Boogie” and “Lady [Put the Light On Me]”; opaque white vinyl LP; Culture Factory)
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)
MORRISSEY
“California Son” (protest-themed covers album; producer: Joe Chiccarelli; guests: Billie Joe Armstrong, Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste, LP, Petra Haden, Ariel Engle, Sameer Gadhia, Lydia Night, etc.; first single: a cover of Roy Orbison’s “It’s Over”; Hear here; Read here; On Tour; Merch; Etienne / BMG Rights Management)
LEE MOSES
“How Much Longer Must I Wait? Singles & Rarities 1965-1972” (13 non-album singles and B-sides, plus three never-released tracks; Hear/read here; Future Days Recordings / Light in the Attic)
SNOW PATROL
“When It’s All Over We Still Have To Clear Up” (2001 album; On Tour; House Arrest)
STRAY CATS
“40” (the first new album from Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom in 25 years; they are marking their 40th anniversary with a new album and tour; producer: Peter Collins; engineered by Vance Powell; first single: “Cat Fight [Over a Dog Like Me]”; On Tour; Merch; Surfdog)
TEARS FOR FEARS
“The Hurting” (1983 album; On Tour; Merch; Mercury / UMe)
JEFF BECK
“Blow By Blow” (1975 album; translucent gold vinyl; Merch; Friday Music)
THE B-52’S
“The B-52’s” (1979 album, featuring “Rock Lobster”; See here) , “Wild Planet” (1980 album, featuring “Private Idaho”; See here; On Tour; Merch; Rhino / Warner)
BREAD
“Baby I’m a-Want You” (1972 album, featuring the title cut, “Everything I Own,” “Mother Freedom” and “Diary”; mastered from the original master tapes; Hear here; Mobile Fidelity)
THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET
“Jazz Goes to College” (1954 album; Music on Vinyl)
ALICE COOPER
“Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits” (1974 compilation; See here; On Tour, with Halestorm; Merch; Rhino / Warner)
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG
“So Far” (1974 compilation; Rhino / Atlantic)
DEPECHE MODE
“Black Celebration | The 12″ Singles” (four 12-inch singles) , “Music For The Masses | The 12″ Singles” (seven 12-inch singles; Merch; Rhino / Warner)
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER
“The Anthology” (four-LP box set; “Galaxy Effect” colored vinyl; mastered digitally from HD sources and at half-speed; BMG Rights Management)
BILL EVANS TRIO
“Portrait in Jazz” (1960 album; mastered from the original master tapes, pressed at RTI on MoFi SuperVinyl; Mobile Fidelity)
ARETHA FRANKLIN
“Aretha’s Gold” (1969 compilation; Rhino / Atlantic)
RORY GALLAGHER
“Blues” (two-LP collection of previously unreleased tracks from the vaults of the Gallagher estate’s tape archive; includes special guest sessions with blues legends Muddy Waters and Albert King and lost radio sessions; UMe)
J. GEILS BAND
“The Morning After” (1971 album, featuring “Looking for a Love”; mastered from the original master tapes; Merch; Mobile Fidelity)
DONNY HATHAWAY
“Everything Is Everything” (1970 debut album, featuring “The Ghetto”; Hear here; Speakers Corner)
HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH
“Cracked Rear View (25th Anniversary Expanded Edition)” (1994 album; remastered, with unreleased and rare studio tracks; On Tour; Rhino / Atlantic)
BILLY JOEL
“The Bridge” (1986 album, featuring “Modern Woman,” “A Matter of Trust,” “This Is the Time” and “Baby Grand”; translucent red and orange swirl audiophile vinyl; See here; On Tour; Merch; Friday Music)
KHALID
“Free Spirit” (2019 album; producers: Charlie Handsome, Digi, Denis Kosiak, D’Mile, Stargate, Disclosure; first single: “Talk”; Hear here; Target-Exclusive Translucent Orange Vinyl; On Tour; Merch; Right Hand Music Group / RCA)
THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES
“Don’t Know How to Party” (1993 album, featuring “Someday I Suppose”; See here; On Tour; Merch; Music on Vinyl)
THE MONKEES
“The Monkees Greatest Hits” (1976 compilation; On Tour; Merch; Rhino)
MORPHINE
“Cure for Pain” (1993 album; Music on Vinyl)
LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY & FRIENDS
“The Early Upsetter Singles” (box set containing 10 7-inch vinyl singles; Trojan)
THOMAS RHETT
“Center Point Road” (producers: Julian Bunetta, Dann Huff, Rhett; new single: “Look What God Gave Her”; Hear here; On Tour; Merch; The Valory Music Co. / Big Machine)
SNEAKER PIMPS
“Becoming X” (1996 album, featuring “6 Underground”; half-speed direct metal mastered LP, pressed on 200-gram virgin vinyl from the original master tapes; Hear here; One Little Indian)
SPICE GIRLS
“The Greatest Hits” (2008 compilation; Picture Disc; Merch; Virgin)
STEREO MC’S
“Connected” (1992 album, featuring the title track and “Step It Up”; See here; Island / UMe)
TRAFFIC
“The Studio Recordings 1967-74” (seven-LP box set; Island / UMe)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Soul Explosion” (1969 compilation of Stax tracks, on vinyl for the first time in 50 years; two LPs, 28 songs; Craft Recordings / Concord)
ZZ TOP
“Tejas” (1976 album, featuring “It’s Only Love” and “Arrested for Driving While Blind”) , “El Loco” (1981 album, featuring “Pearl Necklace” and “Tube Snake Boogie”; On Tour; Merch; Rhino / Warner)
BON JOVI
“Slippery When Wet” (1986 album; translucent red 180-gram vinyl; See here; On Tour; Merch; Mercury / Island / UMe)
MILES DAVIS
“The Complete Birth of the Cool” (1957 album; remastered, with a second LP of live material from 1948; Merch; Blue Note / UMe)
GENESIS
“Seconds Out” (1977 live album; Rhino / Atlantic)
GRATEFUL DEAD
“Aoxomoxoa (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1969 album; Picture Disc; remastered, with previously unreleased live recordings; Read here; Merch; Grateful Dead Production / Rhino)
JANET JACKSON
“Control” (1986 album; remastered; See here; Las Vegas Residency at Park MGM; Merch; A&M / UMe)
PINK FLOYD
“The Division Bell” (1994 album; translucent blue vinyl; Merch; Columbia / Legacy)
MARTY ROBBINS
“Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs” (1959 album, the Grammy winner for Best Country & Western Recording; Wax Time)
THE ROLLING STONES
“The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (Expanded Edition)” (1968 concert show, with newly remixed and remastered audio and unreleased performances; triple vinyl; See here; Deluxe Box Set; Vinyl; Download; Merch; ABKCO)
SANTANA
“Africa Speaks” (producer: Rick Rubin; recorded at Rubin’s Shangri La Studios in Malibu; guest: Afro-Latin singer Buika; first single: “Los Invisibles”; Hear here; On Tour; Merch; Concord)
STING
“My Songs” (new versions of his solo hits and three reworked Police hits, “Every Breath You Take,” “Demolition Man” and “Can’t Stand Losing You”; Hear here; Read here; On Tour; Merch; Cherrytree / A&M / Interscope)
KEITH URBAN
“Greatest Hits” (double vinyl; On Tour; Merch; Capitol Nashville / UMe)
NEIL YOUNG + STRAY GATORS
“Tuscaloosa” (archival live show from 1973, recorded at the University of Alabama with his backing band the Stray Gators, featuring material from “Harvest,” “Time Fades Away,” etc.; Hear here; On Tour; Merch; Reprise)
NAT KING COLE
“Ultimate Nat King Cole” (21-song collection; See here; eBay; Merch; Capitol / UMe)
DEF LEPPARD
“Pyromania” (1983 album, featuring “Foolin'” and “Rock of Ages”; red vinyl; See here; On Tour; Merch; Mercury / UMe)
STAN GETZ
“Getz at the Gate: The Stan Getz Quartet Live at The Village Gate, November 26, 1961” (previously unreleased concert recording; three LPs; Read here; Verve / UMe)
BILLY IDOL
“Vital Idol: Revitalized” (2018 compilation; silver, white orange and red swirls vinyl; On Tour, with Bryan Adams; Merch; Capitol / UMe)
CAROLE KING
“Live at Montreux 1973” (previously unreleased performance from July 15, 1973; DVD + CD; Eagle Rock)
MADONNA
“Madame X” (producer: Mirwais; guests: Maluma, Quavo, Swae Lee, Anitta; first single: “Medellín”; Hear here; Read here; Merch; Boy Toy / Live Nation Worldwide / Interscope)
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS
“Legend” (35th anniversary edition of the 1984 compilation, which is the biggest-selling reggae album of all time, with sales of an estimated 28 million copies worldwide; two-LP, 180-gram release; remastered, with two bonus tracks that were originally issued on U.K. cassettes only; Merch; Tuff Gong)
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
“Rhino’s Choice” (Target-exclusive collection of 2018 summer tour highlights; Translucent Rosé Wine Color Vinyl; On Tour; Merch; Bama Rags Recordings / RCA)
MEAT LOAF
“Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell” (1994 album, featuring his only No. 1 U.S. hit “I’d Do Anything For Love [But I Won’t Do That]”; translucent blue vinyl; See here; Merch; Geffen / UMe)
LUKE NELSON & PROMISE OF THE REAL
“Turn Off the News (Build a Garden)” (guests: Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Kesha, Micah Nelson, Shooter Jennings, Randy Houser, Lucius, etc.; first single: “Bad Case”; Hear here; On Tour, with Zac Brown Band and Outlaw Music Festival; Fantasy / Concord)
POISON
“Look What the Cat Dragged In” (1986 album; 180-gram audiophile translucent purple vinyl; See here; Merch; Friday Music)
DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE
“Nashville Obsolete” (2015 album, with Gillian Welch; See here; Acony)
R.E.M.
“In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003” (2003 compilation; Merch; Craft Recordings / Concord)
SCORPIONS
“Love At First Sting” (1984 album, featuring “Rock You Like a Hurricane” and “Still Loving You”; white vinyl; See here; On Tour; Merch; Mercury / UMe)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
“Western Stars” (his first studio album in five years; producers: Ron Aniello, Springsteen; mixed by Tom Elmhirst; guests: wife Patti Scialfa, Jon Brion, Soozie Tyrell, David Sancious; first single: “Hello Sunshine”; Read here; Merch; Columbia)
THE WHO
“Who’s Next” (1971 album; blue vinyl; See here; On Tour; Merch; Geffen / UMe)
U2
“The Joshua Tree” (1987 album, featuring “Where the Streets Have No Name” and “With or Without You”; gold vinyl; See here) , “Zooropa” (1993 album, featuring “Numb,” “Lemon” and “Stay [Faraway, So Close!]”; blue 180-gram double vinyl; See here; Merch; Island / UMe)
THE VERVE
“Urban Hymns” (1997 album, featuring “Bitter Sweet Symphony”; green 180-gram double vinyl; See here; Merch; Virgin / UMe)
JAMES BROWN
“Get on the Good Foot” (1972 album; new edition includes art sleeves with master tape box images, and its closing track, “I Know It’s True,” makes its U.S. vinyl debut with this two-LP release; Republic / UMe)
CHIC
“C’est Chic” (1978 album, featuring “Le Freak” and “I Want Your Love”; See here; Rhino / Atlantic)
DEF LEPPARD
“Def Leppard – Volume Two” (10-LP, 180-gram vinyl box set features “Adrenalize,” “Retro Active,” “Slang” and “Euphoria,” plus “Rarities” Vols. 2-4, compiled by lead singer Joe Elliott; remastered by Ronan McHugh at Joe’s Garage and cut by Greg Moore; Read here; On Tour; Merch; Mercury / UMe)
LOU DONALDSON
“Mr. Shing-A-Ling” (1968 album, featuring Blue Mitchell, Lonnie Smith, Jimmy Ponder and Leo Morris, aka Idris Muhammad; Blue Note / UMe)
ENIGMA
“MCMXC a.D.” (1991 album, featuring “Sadeness [Part I]”; translucent red vinyl; See here) , “The Cross of Changes” (1993 album, featuring “Return to Innocence”; translucent yellow vinyl; See here) , “Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!” (1996 album, featuring “Beyond the Invisible”; See here; light green vinyl) , “The Screen Behind the Mirror” (2000 album; translucent orange vinyl) , “Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits” (2001 compilation; translucent white vinyl) , “A Posteriori” (2006 album; translucent pink vinyl) , “Seven Lives Many Faces” (2008 album; translucent light blue vinyl) , “The Fall of a Rebel Angel” (2016 album; Polydor / UMe)
GOLDFINGER
“Hang-Ups” (1997 album; gold-colored vinyl; On Tour; Merch; srcvinyl)
THE INNOCENCE MISSION
“Befriended” (2003 album; milky white-colored vinyl; Badman)
LIT
“A Place in the Sun” (1999 album, featuring “My Own Worst Enemy”; blue smoke-colored vinyl; srcvinyl)
MASSIVE ATTACK
“Mezzanine (Deluxe Edition)” (1998 album; remastered, with eight previously unreleased Mad Professor remixes; See here; On Tour; Merch; Virgin / UMe)
MEGADETH
“Peace Sells … But Who’s Buying?” (1986 album; purple vinyl; Capitol / UMe)
LEE MORGAN
“Cornbread” (1967 album, Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley and Larry Ridley; Blue Note / UMe)
WILLIE NELSON
“Ride Me Back Home” (producer: Buddy Cannon; guests: Lukas Nelson, Micah Nelson; first single: “Ride Me Back Home”; Hear here; On Tour; Merch; Legacy Recordings)
P!NK
“Hurts 2B Human” (2019 album; Hear here; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, pink and blue translucent marble color LP, with poster and MP3 codes; On Tour; Merch; RCA)
THE ROLLING STONES
“Bridges To Bremen” (full-length show on the fifth and final leg of the band’s Bridges To Babylon Tour, filmed at the German city’s Weserstadion on Sept. 2, 1998; See here; DVD + CD; Blu-ray + CD, with four bonus tracks from their Soldier Field performances in Chicago; Merch; Eagle Rock)
SWITCHFOOT
“The Beautiful Letdown” (2003 album, featuring “Meant to Live” and “Dare You to Move”; half-blue, half-clear vinyl; See here; On Tour; Merch; srcvinyl)
TRAVIS
“The Man Who (20th Anniversary Edition)” (1999 album; remastered, with 19 bonus B-sides; See here) , “Live at Glastonbury ’99” (previously unreleased 16-song set; Read here; Craft Recordings / Concord)
TYPE O NEGATIVE
“Bloody Kisses” (1993 album; Rhino)
JENNIFER WARNES
“Another Time, Another Place” (2018 album; BMG Rights Management)
DAVE ALVIN
“King of California (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1994 album; with three bonus tracks; Craft Recordings / Concord)
THE BLACK KEYS
” ‘Let’s Rock’ “ (their first album in five years; producers: singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach, drummer Patrick Carney; new single: “Eagle Birds”; Hear here; On Tour; Merch; Easy Eye Sound / Nonesuch)
DAVID BOWIE
“The Mercury Demos” (recorded in spring 1969 with collaborator John “Hutch” Hutchinson on guitar and vocals; Read here; Merch; Rhino / Parlophone)
KYLIE MINOGUE
“Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection” (two-LP, 42-song compilation; green vinyl; iTunes; On Tour; Merch; BMG Rights Management)
STEVIE NICKS
“Stand Back 1981-2017” (six-LP box set; Read here; Rhino / Atlantic)
THE POLICE
“Certifiable” (2008 album, capturing a stop in their 2007 reunion tour at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires; Hear here; Merch; Cherrytree / A&M / Interscope)
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)
ANDERSON .PAAK
“Ventura Black” (2019 album; On Tour; Aftermath / 12 Tone Music)
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
“Amplified Heart (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1994 album, making its debut on vinyl; mastered at half-speed for optimum audio fidelity by Miles Showell at London’s Abbey Road Studios; Hear here; Buzzin’ Fly / Chrysalis)
ROY HAYNES QUARTET
“Out of the Afternoon” (1962 album; Impulse!)
GREGORY ISAACS
“Mr. Isaacs” (1982 album; VP)
PRINCE
“Originals” (14 previously unreleased demos by Prince of songs he wrote for other artists; this collection, selected by Troy Carter, on behalf of The Prince Estate, and Jay Z, will stream exclusively on Tidal for 14 days, starting June 7; Read here; Merch; Rhino / NPG / Warner)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“For the Throne (Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones)” (includes Maren Morris’ “Kingdom of One” and The Lumineeers’ “Nightshade”; Hear here; Merch; Columbia)
THE RUTS
“The Crash” (1979 album; See here; Universal)
THE GERMS
“Live At Starwood Dec. 3 1980” (Run Out Groove Vinyl)
RIDE
“This Is Not a Safe Place” (producer: Erol Alkan; mixed by Alan Moulder; first single: “Future Love”; Hear here; Wichita Recordings)
ZZ TOP
“Goin’ 50” (five-LP, 50-song compilation celebrates the band’s 50th anniversary; On Tour; Merch; Rhino / Warner)
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