Your Vinyl Store (Sept. 24-30 and Beyond)
New vinyl releases and reissues for this week and months ahead. (Check out Past LP Releases.)
THE CHICKS / DIXIE CHICKS
“Taking the Long Way” (Amazon-Exclusive Clear Vinyl; 2006 album, produced by Rick Rubin and featuring “Not Ready to Make Nice” and “Everybody Knows”; won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year; Columbia Nashville / Legacy) » BUY NOW 
DJ SHADOW
“Endtroducing …” (1996 album; half-speed mastered at Abbey Road Studios; Half-Speed Master 7″ Single; Mercury / UMe) » BUY NOW
ERIC DOLPHY
“Out to Lunch!” (1964 album, with Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis and Tony Williams; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
HERBIE HANCOCK
“Maiden Voyage” (1965 album, featuring bassit Ron Carter, drummer Tony Williams, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and tenor saxophonist George Coleman; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
BRITTANY HOWARD
“Jaime Reimagined” (Neon Magenta & Black Splotch Vinyl; some songs from her 2019 debut solo album are reimagined by other artists and other tracks are remixed; guests: Childish Gambino, Bon Iver, Common, Laura Mvula, Michael Kiwanuka, Little Dragon, Jungle, etc.; Hear here; ATO) » BUY NOW
GARY NUMAN
“Warriors” (Orange Vinyl; 1983 album; Beggars Arkive) » BUY NOW
PIXIES
“Trompe le Monde” (Marbled Green Vinyl; 1991 album; Merch; 4D) » BUY NOW
PRINCE PAUL
“A Prince Among Thieves” (1999 album; Tommy Boy) » BUY NOW
ELLIOTT SMITH
“Elliott Smith (25th Anniversary Remaster)” (1995 album, featuring “Needle in the Hay”; Kill Rock Stars) » BUY NOW
TOM TOM CLUB
“Downtown Rockers” (2012 album; See here; Nacional) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Bob’s Burgers Music Album Vol. 2” (three-LP box set contains every musical morset from season 7-9, with a 56-page hardbound lyric book, 62-page softcover song book, two posters, die-cut colorform clings and custom dust sleeves; Merch; Sub Pop) » BUY NOW
ROBBIE WILLIAMS
“Life Thru a Lens” (1997 debut album, featuring “Angels,” “Old Before I Die” and “Lazy Days”) » BUY NOW
“I’ve Been Expecting You” (1998 album, featuring his first U.K. No. 1 “Millennium,” plus “No Regrets,” “Strong,” “She’s the One” and “Wine Some Lose Some”; See here; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW
More Vinyl Releases for Sept. 24, 2021 »
Other Notable Releases
| Sufjan Stevens | Angels & Airwaves | Angel Olsen |
| Badflower | Rare Earth | Natalie Imbruglia |
| SOJA | Mac McCaughan | Native Soul |
| The Queers | The Bootheels | Trashcan Sinatras |
Join the Vinyl of the Month: The Golden Era Club. »
CHRISTINA AGUILERA
“My Kind of Christmas” (2000 album; RCA / Legacy) » BUY NOW
TONY BENNETT & LADY GAGA
“Love For Sale” (the follow-up to their 2014 duets album “Cheek to Cheek” marks the final studio recordings for the 95-year-old Bennett; first single: “I Get a Kick Out of You”; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Vinyl Box Set; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, with alternate artwork; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Yellow Vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive Picture Disc; Columbia / Interscope) » BUY NOW
BLACK SABBATH
“Technical Ecstasy (Super Deluxe Edition)” (1976 album; five-LP box set includes a newly remastered version of the original, a new mix by Steven Wilson, plus more than 90 minutes of previously unreleased outtakes, alternative mixes and live tracks; Merch; Rhino / Warner) » 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
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
“Flowers” (2001 album; 180-gram white vinyl) » BUY NOW
“Siberia” (2005 album, featuring “Stormy Weather,” “What If We Are?” and “Parthenon Drive”; 180-gram translucent vinyl; Amazon UK; Demon) » 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
WHITNEY HOUSTON
“One Wish: The Holiday Album” (2003 album; Walmart-Exclusive White Vinyl; Arista / Legacy) » 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
DUKE PEARSON
“Merry Ole Soul” (1969 holiday album, with Bob Cranshaw on bass and Mickey Roker on drums, as well as percussionist Airto Moreira on several tracks; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
JOHN PRINE
“Fair & Square” (2005 album; Grammy winner for Best Contemporary Folk Album; Oh Boy) » BUY NOW
TAYLOR SWIFT
“Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” (2021 album, a re-recording of her 2008 album; triple gold LP, with six unreleased tracks; Hear here; Target-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Merch; Republic) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Breaking Bad (Music From the Original TV Series)” (multicolored five-LP box set; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
NEIL YOUNG
“Carnegie Hall 1970” (23 songs from his two Dec. 4 acoustic shows, mixed from the original ¼ inch tapes by Young and Niko Bolas; Merch; Reprise) » BUY NOW
BAD BRAINS
“Rock for Light” (1983 album, produced by Ric Ocasek; mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing; Bad Brains Music; Hear here; Merch; Org 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
THE CHARLATANS
“The Charlatans” (Marbled Yellow Vinyl; 1995 album, featuring “Just When You’re Thinkin’ Things Over,” “Crashin’ In” and “Just Lookin'”; Beggars Banquet) » 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
DR. DRE
“The Chronic” (Target-Exclusive Clear Vinyl; 1992 album, featuring “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang”; Alliance Entertainment) » BUY NOW
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA PART II (led by Bev Bevan)
“Electric Light Orchestra Part Two” (1990 album; Renaissance) » BUY NOW
ELLA FITZGERALD
“Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas” (1960
album, with a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol; transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging; Verve / UMe) » BUY NOW
VINCE GUARALDI TRIO
“A Charlie Brown Christmas (Original Sound Track Recording of the CBS Television Special)” (1965 album; collectible silver foil edition; See here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Picture Disc, silver foil edition; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, silver foil edition, on metallic gold swirl vinyl, with new art poster; Walmart-Exclusive Red Glitter Vinyl, silver foil edition; Merch; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
“Ready to Die” (Amazon-Exclusive Silver Vinyl; 1994 debut album; Bad Boy) » BUY NOW
P!NK
“All I Know So Far: Setlist” (2021 soundtrack to the documentary film “P!nk: All I Know So Far”; RCA) » BUY NOW
SUBURBAN LAWNS
“Suburban Lawns” (1981 album, originally released by I.R.S. Records, featuring “Janitor”; See here; Superior Viaduct) » BUY NOW
SUGARCULT
“Start Static (20th Anniversary Edition)” (2001 debut album, featuring “Bouncing Off the Walls,” “Pretty Girl” and “Stuck in America”; remastered, with three bonus tracks; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
DONNA SUMMER
“I’m a Rainbow – Recovered & Recoloured” (Clear Vinyl; original 1981 double album, produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, was not officially released until 1996 and now has been slimmed down to 10 tracks and additional remixes, which have been re-imagined by producers Junior Vasquez, Le Flex, Figo Sound, Jean Tonique, Ladies On Mars and Oliver Nelson; Hear here; Amazon UK; Driven By the Music / Crimson Productions) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Best of Bond … James Bond” (triple-vinyl collection; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Neon Noir Splatter Vinyl; 2011 album; original score by Cliff Martinez; Lakeshore) » BUY NOW
VIOLENT FEMMES
“Why Do Birds Sing?” (1991 album, featuring “American Music”; remastered; On Tour, with Flogging Molly; Merch; Craft Recordings / Concord) » 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
THE BEATLES
“Let It Be (Special Edition)” (1970 album, their 12th and final studio LP, featuring the title track, “Get Back” and “The Long and Winding Road”; all editions newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell, sourced from the original session and rooftop performance eight-track tapes; 180-gram heavy vinyl; See here; Read here; Super Deluxe Vinyl Edition, four-LP + 12″ EP box set; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, with T-shirt; Walmart-Exclusive Vinyl, with four collectible prints; Merch; Apple / Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW
TONY BENNETT
“Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album” (1968 album; newly remixed and remastered; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Snow White Vinyl; Columbia / Legacy) » BUY NOW
COLDPLAY
“Music of the Spheres” (140-gram recycled color vinyl in die-cut sleeve; producer: Max Martin; new single: “Coloratura”; See here; Merch; Atlantic) » BUY NOW
DAVID CROSBY
“If I Could Only Remember My Name (50th Anniversary Edition)” (1971 debut solo album; remastered from the original analog tapes on 180-gram vinyl, with liner Notes by Steve Silberman; Rhino / Atlantic) » BUY NOW
EAGLES
“Eagles” (Walmart-Exclusive Vinyl, with collectible backstage pass replica; 1972 album) » BUY NOW
“Desperado” (Walmart-Exclusive Vinyl, with collectible backstage pass replica; 1973 album) » BUY NOW
“On the Border” (Walmart-Exclusive Vinyl, with collectible backstage pass replica; 1974 album) » BUY NOW
“One of These Nights” (Walmart-Exclusive Vinyl, with collectible backstage pass replica; 1975 album) » BUY NOW
“Hotel California” (Walmart-Exclusive Vinyl, with collectible backstage pass replica; 1976 album) » BUY NOW
“The Long Run” (Walmart-Exclusive Vinyl, with collectible backstage pass replica; 1979 album) » BUY NOW
“Long Road Out of Eden” (Walmart-Exclusive Vinyl, with collectible backstage pass replica; 2007 album) » BUY NOW
“Eagles Vinyl Box Set” (Walmart-Exclusive Vinyl, featuring all seven albums with collectible backstage pass replicas; Rhino / Elektra) » BUY NOW
RANDY EDELMAN
“Ghostbusters II (Original Motion Picture Score)” (1989 album; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Glow in the Dark Vinyl; Sony Masterworks) » BUY NOW
FINNEAS
“Optimist” (debut album from the producer, singer-songwriter and brother of Billie Eilish; new single: “A Concert Six Months From Now”; See here; Target-Exclusive Dark Red Vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive White Vinyl; OYOY, Inc. / Interscope) » BUY NOW
MARVIN GAYE
“What’s Going On (Original Detroit Mix)” (1971 album; Motown / Universal Japan) » BUY NOW
BERT JANSCH
“The Ornament Tree” (1990 album; Earth Recordings / Light in the Attic) » BUY NOW
NORAH JONES
“I Dream of Christmas” (her first holiday album, featuring covers and new originals; producer: Leon Michels; first single: “Christmas Calling [Jolly Jones]”; Hear here; Amazon-Exclusive White Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Red Vinyl, with one extra song and a Christmas card; Blue Note) » 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
JUDAS PRIEST
“Judas Priest: 50 Heavy Metal Years of Music” (Red Vinyl; 16-song compilation, including seven previously unreleased live cuts from the band’s archive; Read here; On Tour; Merch; Columbia / Legacy) » BUY NOW
NICK LOWE
“Labour of Lust” (Pink Vinyl; 1979 album, featuring “Cruel to Be Kind”) » BUY NOW
“The Impossible Bird” (1994 album; remastered) » BUY NOW
“Dig My Mood” (1998 album; remastered; Yep Roc) » BUY NOW
MAC MILLER
“Faces” (2014 mixtape; available on vinyl for the first time; three LPs; with one bonus track, “Yeah”; Hear here; See here; Warner) » BUY NOW
MOVING SIDEWALKS (psychedelic blues rock band founded by ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons)
“Flash” (1969 album; Hear here; Rockbeat) » BUY NOW
NORTH AMERICANS
“Going Steady” (2018 album; with one bonus track, “Catch & Release”; Hear here; Third Man) » BUY NOW
NINA SIMONE
“Nina Simone: The Montreux Years” (double blue and yellow splatter vinyl; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
CARROLL THOMPSON (“Queen of Lovers Rock”)
“Hopelessly in Love (Deluxe 40th Anniversary Edition)” (1981 album, featuring “Simply in Love”; 180-gram blue vinyl; Hear here; Trojan / Sanctuary) » BUY NOW
TRASHCAN SINATRAS
“I’ve Seen Everything” (Opaque Red Vinyl; 1993 album, featuring “Hayfever”; See here; Last Night From Glasgow) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Arthur Baker Presents Dance Masters: Shep Pettibone – The Classic 12″ Master-Mixes (Volume One: Part One)” (Clear Vinyl; 16 classic 1980s dance mixes on 180-gram heavyweight double vinyl; Track List; Hear here; Amazon UK; Demon Music Group) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Christmas #1’s” (Target-Exclusive Opaque White Vinyl; 16-song compilation from 2007, featuring Bing Crosby, Brenda Lee, Gene Autry, Burl Ives, Nat King Cole, Elton John, Jimmy Boyd, etc.; Track List; UMe) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Titanic (Music From the Motion Picture)” (Translucent Pink Vinyl; 1997 album, featuring Céline Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On”; music composed and conducted by James Horner; Music on Vinyl) » BUY NOW
PAUL WELLER
“Days of Speed” (2001 live album; 18 songs on two LPs) » BUY NOW
“Illumination” (2002 album; Craft Recordings / Concord) » 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
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
BAD SUNS
“Language & Perspective” (2014 album; Vagrant) » BUY NOW
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
“Bullet For My Valentine” (first single: “Knives”; See here; Gold Vinyl; Merch; On Tour; Spinefarm / Search & Destroy) » BUY NOW
JOHNNY CASH
“Christmas: There’ll Be Peace in the Valley” (Walmart-Exclusive Holly Green Vinyl; 2016 compilation of 14 holiday classics and spiritual songs; Merch; Columbia / Legacy) » BUY NOW
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
“B-Sides & Rarities (Part II)” (two-LP set featuring 19 rare and unreleased tracks from 2006-2020; Vinyl Box Set, seven LPs; Mute / BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
CLINIC
“Fantasy Island” (first single: “Fantasy Island”; See here; On Tour; Domino) » 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
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA PART II
“Moment of Truth” (1994 album; Renaissance) » BUY NOW
FREDDIE HUBBARD
“Ready for Freddie” (1961 album, with Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Bernard McKinney on euphonium, McCoy Tyner on piano, Art Davis on bass and Elvin Jones on drum; all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
TORI KELLY
“A Tori Kelly Christmas” (Target-Exclusive Santa Red Vinyl; 2020 album; Capitol / UMe) » BUY NOW
CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR
“Live at the Troubadour” (Gold Vinyl; 2010 album, recorded in 2007; lacquers cut by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering; two-LP set pressed on 180-gram vinyl at The Pallas Group; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Translucent Orange Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Metallic Gold Vinyl, with commemorative concert poster; Craft Recordings / Concord) » BUY NOW
MAC MILLER
“K.I.D.S.” (Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Multicolored Vinyl; 2010 mixtape; Rostrum / Ingrooves) » BUY NOW
MY MORNING JACKET
“My Morning Jacket” (Clear Vinyl; their first new music since 2015; producer: frontman Jim James; new single: “Regularly Scheduled Programming”; See here; Target-Exclusive Yellow & Violet Vinyl; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Pink Vinyl; On Tour; ATO) » BUY NOW
ELVIS PRESLEY
“Merry Christmas Baby” (Walmart-Exclusive Winter Wonderland Swirled Vinyl; 2016 compilation, 17 songs; Merch; RCA / Legacy) » BUY NOW
THE ROLLING STONES
“Tattoo You (2021 Remaster)” (1981 album, featuring “Start Me Up,” “Waiting on a Friend” and “Hang Fire”; 40th anniversary edition, remastered by Stephen Marcussen, with “Lost & Found,” a new collection of nine previously unreleased songs from the period of the album’s original release; Read here; Standard Vinyl; 5 LP Box Set, with “Lost & Found” and “Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982,” plus a bonus Picture Disc pressing of “Tattoo You” and a 124-page book featuring more than 200 rare photos from recording sessions and world tour and interviews with producer Chris Kimsey and photographer Hubert Kretzscmar; Merch; Interscope / UMe) » BUY NOW
SEPULTURA
“The Studio Albums 1998-2009” (eight-LP box set; half-speed cut and remastered, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, with rare “RevoluSongs” EP; BMG Rights Management) » BUY NOW
DONNA SUMMER
“All Systems Go” (180-Gram Translucent Orange Vinyl; 1987 album, featuring “Dinner With Gershwin” and “Only the Fool Survives,” a duet with Mickey Thomas; See here; Driven By the Music) » BUY NOW
SUPERCHUNK
“Here’s to Shutting Up (20th Anniversary Reissue)” (2001 album; remastered, with “Bestial Warning,” a bonus CD of 13 previously unreleased demos; See here; Rough Trade-Exclusive Orange Vinyl, with “Bestial Warning” and a 24″ by 24″ poster; Merge) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Reggae Business” (four-LP, four-CD box set of 160 hits and rarities, with vintage posters, postcards, a Trojan embossed medallion and 90-page book; Trojan) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Stand By Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (1986 album; 180-gram aqua blue audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » 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
THE WHITE STRIPES
“White Blood Cells” (2001 album, featuring “Fell in Love With a Girl,” “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” and “Hotel Yorba”; See here; Third Man / Legacy) » 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
ALICE COOPER
“Killer” (180-gram audiophile vinyl, with die-cut gatefold cover and calendar) » BUY NOW
“Alice Cooper’s Greatest Hits” (1974 compilation; On Tour, with Ace Frehley; Merch; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
FOR KING & COUNTRY
“A Drummer Boy Christmas” (2020 album; Word Entertainment) » BUY NOW
AL GREEN
“Greatest Hits” (Walmart-Exclusive Translucent Pink Vinyl; Fat Possum) » BUY NOW
DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES
“Abandoned Luncheonette” (180-Gram Translucent Red Audiophile Vinyl; 1973 album, featuring “She’s Gone” and “When the Morning Comes”; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
WHITNEY HOUSTON
“I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston” (2012 compilation, released for the first time on vinyl; Arista / Legacy) » BUY NOW
CHARLES MINGUS
“Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus” (1964 album, featuring Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin and Jaki Byard; transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging; Verve / UMe) » BUY NOW
KYLIE MINOGUE
“Fever (20th Anniversary Edition)” (White Vinyl; 2001 album, featuring “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” “In Your Eyes,” “Love at First Sight” and “Come into My World”; See here; Parlophone) » BUY NOW
JONI MITCHELL
“Live At Carnegie Hall 1969” (triple-LP set, mastered by Bernie Grundmal; Rhino / Warner) » BUY NOW
PHISH
“Joy” (2004 album; tri-color mix of blue, red and black vinyl; On Tour; Merch; ATO) » BUY NOW
RARE EARTH
“One World” (1971 album, featuring “I Just Want to Celebrate”; ruby red translucent vinyl; Culture Factory) » BUY NOW
ED SHEERAN
“=” (new single: “Visiting Hours”; See here; Read here; Walmart-Exclusive Ultra Clear Vinyl; Merch; Atlantic) » BUY NOW
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (The Original TV Soundtrack)” (Target-Exclusive Green Vinyl; 1966 album; Merch; WaterTower Music / ADA) » BUY NOW
WAR
“Greatest Hits 2.0” (expanded edition of their 1976 hits compilation; Rhino / Avenue) » BUY NOW
WHITESNAKE
“Restless Heart (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1997 album; remixed and remastered, with unreleased demos and studio recordings; Read here; Super Deluxe Edition, five-CD, one-DVD box set; On Tour, with Foreigner in 2022; Merch; Rhino) » 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
ABBA
“Voyage” (their first album in 40 years; first single: “I Still Have Faith in You”; See here; ABBA: The Voyage Interview; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon-Exclusive Orange Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Yellow Vinyl, with alternate artwork; Merch; Capitol) » BUY NOW
THE BLACK KEYS
“El Camino (10th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)” (five-LP box set, featuring the remastered album, an unreleased Portland, Maine, live recording, a BBC Radio 1 Zane Lowe session from 2012, a 2011 session at Electro-Vox studio, etc.; Read here; Triple Vinyl; Merch; Nonesuch) » BUY NOW
ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
“First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings” (featuring trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt; newly transferred from the original 1/4″ tape reels; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
THE CITY OF PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
“The Complete Harry Potter Film Music Collection” (four-LP box set; Merch; Diggers Factory) » BUY NOW
FAUST
“1971-1974” (seven-LP box set; Hear/Read here; Bureau B) » BUY NOW
GARBAGE
“beautifulgarbage (20th Anniversary)” (2001 album, featuring “Androgyny,” “Cherry Lips” and “Breaking Up the Girl”; remastered by Billy Bush and Butch Vig; triple-LP set featuring the original album, B-sides, demos and remixes housed in a deluxe clamshell; Standard Vinyl; Geffen / UMe) » BUY NOW
BILLY JOEL
“The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1” (nine-LP box set contains everything from 1971’s “Cold Spring Harbor” to 1981’s “Songs in the Attic,” plus the previously unreleased “Live at the Great American Music Hall” from 1975; all sourced from the original album tapes and prepared by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound; Columbia / Legacy) » BUY NOW
DEMI LOVATO
“Dancing with the Devil … the Art of Starting Over” (Target-Exclusive Translucent Red Vinyl, with two extra songs; 2021 album; Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Orange Vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive Turquoise Vinyl; Island) » BUY NOW
GRAEME REVELL
“The Crow (Original Motion Picture Score)” (1994 album; two-LP deluxe edition includes 14 unreleased tracks and features a wide-spine embossed jacket, inner-sleeves full of film stills and new notes and a fold-out 18×24 movie poster; Varѐse Sarabande) » BUY NOW
LeANN RIMES
“Blue (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1996 debut album, featuring “Blue,” “Hurt Me,” “One Way Ticket [Because I Can],” “Unchained Melody” and “The Light in Your Eyes”; Walmart-exclusive sea grass blue vinyl; See here; Curb, Nov. 4) » BUY NOW
DIANA ROSS
“Thank You” (her first album in 15 years; first single: “Thank You”; See here; On Tour; Decca) » BUY NOW
DARIUS RUCKER
“#1’s – Volume 1” (Walmart-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Capitol Nashville) » 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
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Elf (Music from the Major Motion Picture)” (Walmart-Exclusive Narwohl Blue Vinyl; 2003 soundtrack; Trailer; WaterTower Music) » BUY NOW
THE CHICKS
“The Essential Chicks” (two-LP, 30-song set from 2010, released on vinyl for the first time; Columbia Nashville / Legacy) » BUY NOW
EAGLES
“Live At The Forum ’76” (recorded during their three-night run at the L.A. venue in October 1976, just as the band was finishing up their “Hotel California” album; two-LP set on 180-gram vinyl; Merch; Rhino / Elektra) » BUY NOW
ARLO PARKS
“Collapsed in Sunbeams” (Urban Outfitters-Exclusive Lemonade Vinyl; 2021 album; On Tour; Transgressive) » BUY NOW
ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
“The Big Beat” (1960 album, with Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt; all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal; Blue Note / UMe) » 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
JAMES BLUNT
“The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021)” (Clear White Vinyl; 30-track compilation, featuring four new songs; Read here; Clear White Vinyl; Atlantic) » BUY NOW
DONALD BYRD
“Places and Spaces” (1975 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
RAY CHARLES
“True Genius” (double vinyl collection of recordings on his Tangerine label; remastered from the original masters; Tangerine) » 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
FLAMIN’ GROOVIES
“Flamin’ Groovies Now” (1978 album, produced by Dave Edmunds; Liberation Hall) » BUY NOW
JOE GRUSHECKY & THE HOUSEROCKERS
“American Babylon (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1995 album, featuring friend and guest Bruce Springsteen throughout much of the LP; Hear here; Cleveland International) » BUY NOW
BOBBI HUMPHREY
“Fancy Dancer” (1975 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
CHARLES MINGUS
“The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady” (1963 album; transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging; Verve / UMe) » BUY NOW
ROBERT PLANT | ALISON KRAUSS
“Raise the Roof” (producer: T Bone Burnett; guests: Jay Bellerose, Marc Ribot, David Hidalgo, Bill Frisell, Buddy Miller, Dennis Crouch, Viktor Krauss, Russ Pahl; first single: a cover of Lucinda Williams’ “Can’t Let Go”; Hear here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Translucent Blue Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, with two extra songs and alternate art; Rounder) » BUY NOW
HORACE SILVER QUINTET
“6 Pieces of Silver” (1956 album, featuring Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes; all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal; Blue Note / UMe) » BUY NOW
STING
“The Bridge” (first single: “If It’s Love”; Hear here; Read here; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive White Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Vinyl, with three extra songs; A&M) » BUY NOW
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
“Scaled and Icy” (Amazon-Exclusive Orange Vinyl; 2021 album; Target-Exclusive White Vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive Curacao Color Vinyl; Merch; Fueled By Ramen) » BUY NOW
TWISTED SISTER
“Big Hits and Nasty Cuts” (1992 compilation; 16 songs; double translucent gold vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
CARRIE UNDERWOOD
“Greatest Hits: Decade #1” (2014 compilation, released on vinyl for the first time; Arista Nashville / Legacy) » BUY NOW
THE WEEKND
“The Highlights” (Target-Exclusive Red Sparkle Vinyl; 2021 compilation; 18 songs on two LPs; XO / Republic) » 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
BREAD
“The Best of Bread” (1973 compilation; 180-gram translucent gold audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
LARRY CORYELL AND THE ELEVENTH HOUSE
“Larry Coryell and the Eleventh House At Montreux” (1974 album; double split red and yellow translucent vinyl; Culture Factory) » BUY NOW
GROUPLOVE
“Never Trust a Happy Song (10 Year Anniversary Green Vinyl)” (2011 debut album, featuring “Tongue Tied” and “Colours”; See here; On Tour; Merch; Canvasback / Atlantic) » BUY NOW
K.D. LANG
“All You Can Eat” (Orange Translucent Vinyl; 1995 album; Warner) » BUY NOW
THE MONKEES
“Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.” (Violet Vinyl; 1967 album, featuring “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” “Words,” “Daily Nightly,” “Star Collector” and “Cuddly Toy”; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
RARE EARTH
“Live in Chicago” (1973 album; red translucent vinyl; Culture Factory) » BUY NOW
TODD RUNDGREN
“A Wizard, A True Star” (1973 album, featuring “Sometimes I Don’t Know What to Feel” and “Just One Victory”; double turquoise blue vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
CARLY SIMON
“The Best of Carly Simon” (1975 album; 180-gram translucent red audiophile vinyl; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
FRANKIE VALLI AND THE 4 SEASONS
“Anthology” (1988 compilation, originally released on Rhino Records; two LPs, 26 songs; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
CHUCK BERRY
“Chuck Berry Is On Top” (Red Audiophile Vinyl; 1959 album, featuring “Maybellene,” “Johnny B. Goode,” “Almost Grown,” “Carol” and “Little Queenie”; Friday Music) » BUY NOW
JOHNNY CASH
“Bear’s Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968” (recorded just days before Cash’s legendary “At Folsom Prison” was released; Hear/Read here; Merch; Owsley Stanley Foundation / Renew Records / BMG / Legacy) » BUY NOW
THE DOORS
“L.A. Woman (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” (1971 album; three-CD, one-LP set, with more than two hours of studio outtakes, including the original demo of “Riders on the Storm” recorded at Sunset Sound Studios; remastered by original engineer Bruce Botnick; Hear here; Merch; Rhino / Elektra) » BUY NOW
ELMORE JAMES
“The Fire/Enjoy Singles” (box set includes nine 7″ discs and a Fire Records tote bag; P-Vine) » BUY NOW
THE WATERBOYS
“Room to Roam” (1990 album; half-speed mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios; two LPs at 45 rpm on 180-gram vinyl; Chrysalis) » BUY NOW
BLACK PUMAS
“Black Pumas” (Target-Exclusive Red and Black Vinyl, with digital download; 2019 album; ATO) » BUY NOW
LADY GAGA
“Born This Way The Tenth Anniversary” (2011 album; three-LP set includes the original album, with six alternate versions reimagined by LGBTQIA+ artists and advocates, including Big Freedia’s version of “Judas”; Hear here; Read here; Merch; Interscope) » BUY NOW
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
“Mass Romantic” (2000 debut album; red vinyl, including a bonus 7-inch, “Letter From An Occupant,” which features two rare B-sides, “The End of Medicine” and “When I Was a Baby”; On Tour; Matador) » BUY NOW
RuPAUL
“Supermodel of the World” (1993 album, featuring “Supermodel [You Better Work]”; Hear here; Merch; Tommy Boy) » BUY NOW
DION
“Stomping Ground” (producers: Wayne Hood, Dion; guests: Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Billy F Gibbons, Boz Scaggs, Mark Knopfler, Peter Frampton, Rickie Lee Jones, Keb’ Mo’, Joe Bonamassa, etc.; new single: “Take It Back”; Hear here; KTBA Records) » BUY NOW
JAMIROQUAI
“Travelling Without Moving (25th Anniversary Edition)” (1996 album, featuring “Virtual Insanity,” “Cosmic Girl” and “Alright”; double 180-gram yellow vinyl; Read here; Sony UK) » BUY NOW
SUM 41
“Does This Look Infected?” (Blue Swirl Vinyl; 2002 album; Green Swirl Vinyl; Orange Swirl Vinyl; Red Swirl Vinyl; Aquarius / Unidisc Music Inc.) » BUY NOW
DEBBIE GIBSON
“The Body Remembers” (her first album in 20 years features 15 new tracks written or co-written by Gibson, along with a studio version remake of her 1989 hit power ballad “Lost in Your Eyes,” now a duet with Joey McIntyre; new single: “One Step Closer”; See here; Stargirl) » 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
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
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
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
“Physical” (1981 album; remastered, with 24×36″ poster; Target-Exclusive Pink Vinyl, with poster; Primary Wave) » BUY NOW
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