New vinyl releases and reissues for this week and months ahead. (Check out Past LP Releases.)
MAY 28 RELEASESANIMAL COLLECTIVE
“Sung Tongs” (2004 album; Domino) » BUY NOW
MADISON BEER
“Life Support” (2021 album; producers: 1993, Madison Beer, Leroy Clampitt, Pete Nappi, One Love; Sing It Loud / Epic) » BUY NOW
DAVID BOWIE
“The Man Who Sold the World” (Vinyl 12″ Picture Disc, with poster; Merch; Rhino / Parlophone) » BUY NOW
DONALD FAGEN
“The Nightfly” (1982 album, featuring “I.G.Y. [What a Beautiful World]” and “New Frontier”; 180-gram black vinyl; See here; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE
“Welcome Interstate Managers” (2003 album, featuring “Stacy’s Mom”; 180-gram transparent red vinyl; See here; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
PJ HARVEY
“The Peel Sessions 1991-2004” (2006 collection; remastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering under the guidance of longtime PJ Harvey producer John Parish; Island / UMe) » BUY NOW
THE JAM
“This Is the Modern World” (1977 album, featuring “The Modern World”; Vinyl Lovers) » BUY NOW
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD
“L.W.” (2021 companion piece to its 2020 release, “K.G.”; Merch; KGLW) » BUY NOW
THE KORGIS
“The Korgis Kollection” (19-song compilation from 2005; Track List; Let Them Eat Vinyl) » BUY NOW
K.D. LANG
“makeover” (a new collection of classic dance remixes of her songs from 1992 to 2000; Transparent Turquoise Vinyl; first single: “Miss Chatelaine [St. Tropez Mix]”; See here; Read here; Nonesuch) » BUY NOW
ABBEY LINCOLN
“Abbey Is Blue” (1959 album, featuring Kenny Dorham, Stanley Turrentine, Wynton Kelly, Sam Jones, Philly Joe Jones and Max Roach; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
PARAMORE
“Riot!” (2007 album, featuring “Misery Business,” “Hallelujah,” “Crushcrushcrush” and “That’s What You Get”; silver vinyl; Merch; Fueled by Ramen) » BUY NOW
ELLIOTT SMITH
“An Introduction To … Elliott Smith” (14-song compilation from 2010; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Red & Black Vinyl; Kill Rock Stars) » BUY NOW
TAYLOR SWIFT
“evermore” (2020 album, featuring “Willow,” “No Body, No Crime” and “Coney Island”; producers: Aaron Dessner, Swift, Bryce Dessner, Jack Antonoff; double green vinyl, with two bonus tracks; Target-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Merch; Republic) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Best of Philadelphia International Records” (label compilations features hits by The O’Jays, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass, Lou Rawls, Patti Labelle, MFSB, The Three Degrees, etc.; Philadelphia International / Legacy) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Fawlty Towers: For the Record” (four vintage albums plus two new volumes, narrated by Andrew Sachs as Manuel, on 140-gram white vinyl; Demon / Edsel) » BUY NOW
MUDDY WATERS
“Electric Mud” (1968 album; Endless Happiness) » BUY NOW
WORLD PARTY
“Dumbing Up” (2000 album; with six bonus tracks; Seaview) » BUY NOW
YELLO
“YELL40 Years” (21-song, two-LP hits compilation, including “Oh Yeah,” “Desire,” “I Love You,” “The Rhythm Divine” and “Vicious Games”; Polydor) » BUY NOW
More Vinyl Releases for May 28, 2021 »
Other Notable Releases
Can | Playboi Carti | Moby |
black midi | Blackberry Smoke | Del Amitri |
Porter Robinson | Texas | Travis |
Dispatch | Mustafa | Shannon McNally |
Belinda Carlisle | easy life | The Chills |
Girlschool | Gizelle Smith | Brian Setzer |
BLACK PUMAS
“Capitol Cuts – Live From Studio A” (recorded direct to acetate – all live, no overdubs, includes a 7-minute rendition of “Colors,” which received a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year; red vinyl; See here; ATO) » BUY NOW
ART BLAKELY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
“The Witch Doctor” (1967 album; all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
CHEAP TRICK
“In Another World” (their 20th studio album; producer: Julian Raymond; first single: “Light Up the Fire”; Hear here; Read here; CD and Download released on April 9; Merch; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
CHICAGO
“Chicago Transit Authority” (1969 album, featuring “Questions 67 and 68,” “I’m a Man,” “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” and “Beginnings”; 180-gram red audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
CROWDED HOUSE
“Dreamers Are Waiting” (their first studio album since 2010; first single: “To the Island”; See here; Read here; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
COLIN HAY
“Going Somewhere” (2001 album, featuring “Beautiful World,” “Waiting For My Real Life To Begin” and “I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You,” which appeared in the hit film “Garden State”; white vinyl; Hear here; Compass) » BUY NOW
JACK’S MANNEQUIN
“People and Things” (2011 album; 180-gram orange-colored audiophile vinyl; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
MIRIAM MAKEBA
“Keep Me in Mind” (1970 album; Strut) » BUY NOW
OSCAR PETERSON
“Exclusively For My Friends” (six-LP box set of private recordings made between 1963 and 1968; MPS) » BUY NOW
LIZ PHAIR
“Soberish” (her first album in 11 years; producer: Brad Wood; first single: “Spanish Doors”; Hear here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Blue Vinyl; Chrysalis) » BUY NOW
RISE AGAINST
“Nowhere Generation” (their first album in four years; producer: Bill Stevenson; new singles: “Nowhere Generation” and “Broken Dreams, Inc.”; See here; Vinyl Deluxe Edition, black and white smoke LP, 12-page booklet and bonus 7-inch single; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, metallic silver LP, with an alternate album cover; Merch; Loma Vista Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
ROD STEWART
“Rod Stewart: 1975-1978” (five-LP box set includes “Atlantic Crossing,” “A Night on the Town,” “Foot Loose and Fancy Free,” “Blondes Have More Fun” and an LP of previously unreleased recordings; Read here; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
SWELL MAPS
“Mayday Signals” (compilation of rare and unreleased tracks from the vaults of band founder Jowe Head; Easy Action) » BUY NOW
TOO $HORT
“Life Is … Too $hort” (1988 album; Jive / Legacy) » BUY NOW
MUDDY WATERS
“Muddy Waters At Newport 1960” (1960 album; 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
THE ARCHIES
“Sugar, Sugar” (45rpm 7-inch vinyl pressing on pink vinyl, backed with “Bang Shang-A-Lang”; Merch; Cleopatra) » BUY NOW
BLACK SABBATH
“Sabotage (Super Deluxe Edition)” (1975 album; four-LP box set featuring “North American Tour Live ’75” and other bonus live material; Read here; Merch; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
DEAD BOYS
“Young, Loud and Snotty” (1977 debut album; sourced from the original master tapes, pressed at RTI, on yellow vinyl with red streaks; Jackpot) » BUY NOW
DEF LEPPARD
“The Vinyl Boxset: Volume Three” (nine-LP box set of recordings from the band in the 2000s, including the albums “Yeah!,” “X” and “Songs From The Sparkle Lounge”; Merch; Mercury / UMe) » BUY NOW
GARBAGE
“No Gods No Masters” (green-colored vinyl; producers: Garbage, Billy Bush; new single: “The Men Who Rule the World”; See here; Read here; Stunvolume / Infectious Music) » BUY NOW
HOWARD JONES
“The 12″ Album” (1984 album, featuring remixes of “New Song,” “What Is Love” and “Pearl in the Shell,” the first appearance of “Like to Get to Know You Well,” plus “Always Asking Questions” and “Total Conditioning”; it was released between his first two studio albums, “Human’s Lib” and “Dream into Action”; See here; Cherry Red) » BUY NOW
QUINCY JONES
“The Dude” (1981 album, featuring “Ai No Corrida,” “Just Once” and “One Hundred Ways”; available in gatefold jacket for the first time; A&M / UMe) » BUY NOW
KISS
“KISS Off the Soundboard: Tokyo 2001” (three-LP 20th anniversary live recording at the Tokyo Dome, the first of a “new official live bootleg series” from KISS; lineup: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer and Ace Frehley; See here; Merch; UMe) » BUY NOW
KIP MOORE
“Wild World (Deluxe Edition)” (2020 album; with four extra songs; Merch; MCA Nashville / UMe) » BUY NOW
MARK MORRISON
“Return of the Mack” (1996 album, featuring the title track; purple vinyl; See here; Rhino / Atlantic) » BUY NOW
WILSON PICKETT
“The Best of Wilson Pickett Vol. II” (1971 compilation; 180-gram audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND
“‘Live’ Bullet” (1976 album; newly remastered from original analog master tapes, with lithograph; Merch; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW
THE SHINS
“Oh, Inverted World (20th Anniversary Remaster)” (2001 debut album; mastering by Grammy-winning engineer Bob Ludwig; Sub Pop) » BUY NOW
3 DOORS DOWN
“The Better Life (20th Anniversary Edition)” (2000 album, featuring “Kryptonite,” “Loser” and “Be Like That”; two-LP black vinyl and one-LP green vinyl of the never-released original demos album, “The Escatapwa Sessions,” with lithograph poster; See here; Republic) » BUY NOW
BRIAN WILSON
“Brian Wilson” (1988 album, featuring “Love and Mercy,” “Rio Grande,” “Night Time” and “Melt Away”; 180-gram translucent blue audiophile vinyl; Hear here; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
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
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
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
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
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
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
HENRY GROSS
“Release” (1976 album, featuring “Shannon” and “Springtime Mama”; Renaissance) » 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
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
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
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
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Lost Boys (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (1987 album; 180-gram red audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Stand By Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (1986 album; 180-gram aqua blue audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » 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
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
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
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“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
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
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; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
BEASTIE BOYS
“Same Old Bullshit” (1994 compilation of their early 1980s EPs; Merch; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW
BREAD
“The Best of Bread” (1973 compilation; 180-gram translucent gold audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » 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
FLEETWOOD MAC
“Live” (1980 album; two-LP 180-gram vinyl; Merch; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
ARETHA FRANKLIN
“ARETHA” (Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Opaque Purple Vinyl; two LPs; Download; Merch; Rhino / Atlantic) » 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
ELLIOTT SMITH
“Elliott Smith (25th Anniversary Remaster)” (1995 album, featuring “Needle in the Hay”; Kill Rock Stars) » 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
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
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
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
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
BILLIE EILISH
“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
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
PRINCE
“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
YOLA
“Stand for Myself” (producer: Dan Auerbach; new single: “Diamond Studded Shoes”; See here; Read here; Easy Eye Sound) » 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
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
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
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
THE LONDON SUEDE
“Coming Up (25th Anniversary Edition)” (Clear Vinyl; 1996 album, featuring “Beautiful Ones,” “Trash,” “Filmstar” and “Lazy”; See here; Edsel / Demon Music Group) » 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
CARLY SIMON
“The Best of Carly Simon” (1975 album; 180-gram translucent red audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
“Shades of Two Worlds” (1991 album; 180-gram orange and red swirl audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
VINCE GUARALDI TRIO
“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
KANSAS
“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; Target-Exclusive Blue Transparent Vinyl, with alternate artwork and poster; 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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