New Releases for June 25, 2021

Social Media Program Titles Released This Week:

Lady Gaga – Chromatica LP (Interscope)

Limited edition color vinyl pressing. On the heels of her comeback single “Stupid Love”, – an infectious dance-pop collaboration with producer/songwriters Bloodpop (Michael Tucker), Max Martin, Tchami, Martin Joseph and Eli Rise – Lady Gaga delivers her sixth studio album, Chromatica, which finds the Grammy and Academy-Award winning artist triumphantly reclaiming the dancefloor. It also features collaborations with Ariana Grande, Elton John and Blackpink.

Maple Glider – To Enjoy Is The Only Thing CD/LP (Pie Eater)

Maple Glider is the new project of solo artist Tori Zietsch (Peach With A Z). In the singer-songwriter tradition, the music on To Enjoy Is The Only Thing is centered around the lyrics, exploring intimate themes and often serving as a self-catharsis. Offsetting the heavy nature of some of the words, Maple Glider herself is humorous, fabulous and warm. Over plucked acoustic guitar or deftly weighted piano chords, Maple Glider shares vignettes of her life; growing up in a restrictive religious household, falling in an out of love, interstate and international relocations, the new perspectives travel can bring along with the alienation of being away from the familiar. [Includes a lyric/photo book while supplies last. A limited-edition gold color vinyl pressing is also available.]

My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves [Reissue/2003] 2xLP (ATO)

My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges [Reissue/2008] 2xLP (ATO)

Limited edition remixed/remastered color vinyl pressings. My Morning Jacket’s reverb-drenched, landmark third studio album It Still Moves boasts some of the great American rock music of our time. Everything would shift for My Morning Jacket after It Still Moves – as the conclusion to their initial trilogy of albums, it remains one of their most pivotal and enduring releases. The Grammy-nominated Evil Urges remains to be the band’s most ambitious and controversial album to date. On their fifth studio effort, an emboldened MMJ created a fiercely uncompromising, highly eclectic, and deeply personal record that catapulted the band into public consciousness and solidified their place as innovators and titans of indie rock.

Marketing Program/ Banner/ Listening Station Titles Promoted This Week:

Amenra – De Doorn CD/2xLP (Relapse)

Amenra’s first release for Relapse Records is at once a departure and a momentous act of deliverance. Stepping outside the run of albums titled Mass I-VI, De Doorn casts a 21-year journey from the heart of Belgium’s crusading hardcore scene to world-renowned, spiritually guided innovators in an enthralling new light. Written for the purpose of that rite, De Doorn (‘The Thorn’) occupies a place between Amenra’s recorded and live work, less a testimony to the band’s individual bereavements, more an invitation for others to come forward, and to pass through darkness into light. Where the Mass albums have taken the form of solitary struggles whose fearless honesty has aligned itself to the most intrinsically human of chords, the dynamics of De Doorn are as stricken by destiny as ever, but sonically looser. [A limited-edition gold color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Beartooth – Below CD/LP (Red Bull)

Beartooth harness the sacred and profane, purging inner darkness with a dizzying light. The fearlessly determined and boundlessly creative Midwest powerhouse perfects a sound sought by a generation of bands. Their marriage of colossally catchy choruses and post-hardcore, soaked in sweaty metal, is without rival. Below is a pure distillation of rage – weaponizing its deceptively radio-ready bombast to deliver stone cold truth missives, each packed like a bomb with noisy rock chaos. The album revels in the darker underbelly of traditional metal, soaked in stoner rock tones and doomy dirge. [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Lucy Dacus – Home Video CD/LP+MP3 (Matador)

This new gift from Lucy Dacus, her third album, was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, VA. Many songs start the way a memoir might – “In the summer of ‘07 I was sure I’d go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS” – and all of them have the compassion, humor, and honesty of the best autobiographical writing. Most importantly and mysteriously, Home Video displays Dacus’s ability to use the personal as portal into the universal. “I can’t hide behind generalizations or fiction anymore,” Dacus says, though talking about these songs, she admits, makes her ache. This album is a gorgeous example of the transformative power of vulnerability. Dacus’s voice, both audible and on the page, has a healer’s power to soothe and ground and reckon. [A limited-edition indie store exclusive vinyl pressing is available.]

Neil Vincent Emerson – Neil Vincent Emerson CD/LP (La Honda)

Vincent Neil Emerson is a torchbearer of the Texas songwriter tradition. He channels the straightforward truth-telling and resonance of his songwriting heroes in Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and Steve Earle into something fresh and distinctly his own. Where his 2019 debut Fried Chicken And Evil Women proved that he is one of the most reverent students of country and Western musical traditions, his eponymous follow-up LP, the masterful Rodney Crowell-produced Vincent Neil Emerson, is a brave step forward that solidifies his place as one of music’s most compelling and emotionally clarifying storytellers. His songs are cathartic and bluntly honest, never mincing words or dancing around uncomfortable truths. [A limited-edition indie store exclusive vinyl pressing is available.]

Paula Fuga – Rain On Sunday CD (Brushfire/Republic)

Rain On Sunday is Paula Fuga’s much-anticipated second full-length album and her debut on Jack Johnson’s own Brushfire Records. Since the release of her EP, Misery’s End, Fuga has performed on stage at Madison Square Garden, The Sydney Opera House, and is a three-time return guest artist to The White House. Her music is dedicated to inspiring positive social change – rooted in perseverance and hope.

Jerry Garcia Band – GarciaLive Volume 16: November 15th, 1991 Madison Square Garden 3xCD (Round/ATO)

GarciaLive Volume 16 presents the Jerry Garcia Band’s first performance at the world’s most famous arena during their legendary Fall ’91 tour. Produced from remastered soundboard recordings, The Grateful Dead co-founder is joined by John Kahn (bass), David Kemper (drums), Melvin Seals (keyboard), Gloria Jones and Jacklyn LaBranch (backing vocals) delivering a transcendent performance of classics from the Jerry Garcia Band songbook.

John Grant – Boy From Michigan CD/2xLP+MP3 (Bella Union/Partisan)

John Grant has established himself as one of the great musical chroniclers of the American Dream, angled mostly from its flip side – from those who did not thrive. Grant stopped being a boy in Michigan at 12, when he moved to Denver, shifting rust to Bible belt, a further vantage point to watch collective dreams unravel. “I quickly learned all about the American caste system and where I fit in. Or didn’t,” he recalls. A John Grant album always feels like vignettes divined from a tart book of poetry. Boy From Michigan is the author’s shaggy-dog story, a novelistic approach where songs are more like chapters in a leatherbound book bought from a favorite thrift store. “I guess I’m just thinking about where I came from,” he notes, “and what I went into.” With Cate Le Bon in the production chair, Grant has pared back his zingers, maximizing the emotional impact of the melodies, stripping the noise of vaudeville and mood-enhancing a fruitful, spare, strangely orchestrated new world for him to live in. [Several deluxe vinyl pressings are available, each including a unique print autographed by Grant and a 36-page photo book and packaged in a beautiful Black Velvet O-Card Sleeve with Glitter Spark Eye.]

Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant CD/LP+MP3 (Brainfeeder)

Twice Grammy nominated, Melbourne-based group Hiatus Kaiyote returns with the new album Mood Valiant. Comprised of Naomi “Nai Palm” Saalfield (guitar, vocals), Paul Bender (bass), Simon Mavin (keys), and Perrin Moss (drums), the new record is the follow up to 2015’s Choose Your Weapon, which Rolling Stone described as “a stunning step up.” The new project comes after being sampled on songs by The Carters (Beyonce & Jay-Z), Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, Chance The Rapper, and Drake – with whom Nai Palm collaborated on his Scorpion album. Mood Valiant has been in the making for six years, but that interval reflects more hustle than hiatus. The result is an album that relaxes into a groove: sunlit, sublime, masterful. Behind everything is Hiatus’ familiar sense of musical adventure, their knack for making the complex sound simple. [A deluxe glow-in-the-dark vinyl pressing is available.]

Hiss Golden Messenger – Quietly Blowing It CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)

Hiss Golden Messenger’s Quietly Blowing It was written and arranged by M.C. Taylor in his home studio – his 8′ × 10′ sanctuary packed floor to ceiling with books, records, and old guitars – as he watched the chaotic world spin outside his window. Between March and June 2020, Taylor wrote and recorded upwards of two dozen songs – in most cases playing all of the instruments himself – before winnowing the collection down and bringing them to the Hiss band. In July, the group of musicians, with Taylor in the production seat, went into Overdub Lane in Durham, NC, for a week, where they recorded Quietly Blowing It as an organic unit honed to a fine edge from their years together on the road. Throughout the album, Taylor brings his keen eye to our “broken American moment” – as he first sang on Hiss Golden Messenger’s critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated Terms Of Surrender – in ways that feel devastatingly intimate and human. [A limited-edition blue color vinyl pressing is available.]

Island – Yesterday Park CD/LP (Frenchkiss)

“Yesterday Park is an album about nostalgia, that feeling of looking back, not to one specific time or place but rather the feeling associated with the hazy blur of childhood and teenage memories. The songs cover a lot of different themes, but at their heart they all stem from formative memories. When writing we considered how our understanding of past experiences had shifted through the many different retrospective lenses we have. Life has become more complex and we wanted to capture that feeling of looking back, finding the beauty in those simple moments that exist as silver-linings in our memories. That reflection also brought us to think differently about the complexity and challenges of life today. It inspired us to consider the importance of taking responsibility for the harm that the world is doing to itself, at the same time as needing to take more responsibility in our own lives.” [A limited-edition indie store exclusive vinyl pressing is available.]

Duncan Lawrence – Small Town Boy CD (Capitol)

Back in 2019, Duncan Laurence won the Eurovision Song Contest with his debut single “Arcade”. This is quite the way to start off a story about a small town boy. Growing up in the Netherlands, Duncan experienced bullying all throughout his childhood. He would isolate himself at home and play the piano and write music as a way to process his emotions and turn them into something positive. Duncan’s debut album Small Town Boy feels like you’re listening to a musical diary. It’s an intimate experience. He says, “Each song opens a window into my life and tells my own story. Creating this album allowed me to grow as a person and learn more about myself and who I want to be as a musician. It is a dreamy, raw and poppy invitation into my world – really everything I could ever wish for in my first album.”

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – Roundtable CD (Billy Blue)

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, fronted by the longtime member of progressive bluegrass pioneers the Country Gentlemen, is a bluegrass ensemble that has made both gospel and secular recordings since its inception in 1979. (Though, as Lawson is a devout Christian, the numbers tip in favor of the gospel.) The group has had numerous members move through its ranks over the years, the one constant being Lawson, who jokingly refers to his group as a “farm team” for professional bluegrass. In April 1979, he laid the foundation for the unit that would become Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.

Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band – Banned CD/LP+MP3 (ANTI-)

Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band – aka Yves Jarvis and Romy Lightman – are a pair of idiosyncratic and restlessly creative artists. Banned was recorded in the tranquil environment of the Tree Museum, an outdoor art gallery in rural Ontario hosting residencies for contemporary sculptors over the past 20 years. The pair credit its 200 acres of natural spaces intermingling with human-made creations as the fuel for their unfettered process. Recorded over two weeks in a free-flowing stream of improvisation, the album finds Lightman on synthesizer with Jarvis on drums and guitar, as their voices weave together into an electrified pastoral tapestry. Beyond leaving the city behind to live alone in the woods, the album title Banned also highlights an element of risk. Like the late ’60s counterculture musical Hair, the duo rejects notions of repression with unspoken celebrations of naturalism, openness, and sexual liberation. [A limited-edition yellow color vinyl pressing is available.]

Maple Glider – To Enjoy Is The Only Thing CD/LP (Pie Eater)

Maple Glider is the new project of solo artist Tori Zietsch (Peach With A Z). In the singer-songwriter tradition, the music on To Enjoy Is The Only Thing is centered around the lyrics, exploring intimate themes and often serving as a self-catharsis. Offsetting the heavy-nature of some of the words, Maple Glider herself is humorous, fabulous and warm. Over plucked acoustic guitar or deftly weighted piano chords, Maple Glider shares vignettes of her life; growing up in a restrictive religious household, falling in an out of love, interstate and international relocations, the new perspectives travel can bring along with the alienation of being away from the familiar. [Includes a lyric/photo book while supplies last. A limited-edition gold color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket CD/Cassette (Epic)

Returning with their first new album in six years, Grammy-nominated band Modest Mouse deliver their anxiously awaited seventh full-length, The Golden Casket. The new collection is introduced by the anthemic “We Are Between”, a song driven by Isaac Brock’s trademark vocals vacillating between sonic isolation and the support of a full chorus, with lyrics alternating between “the best” and “the worst” parts, determining that “we are somewhere between the dust and the stars.” The album hovers in the liminal space between raw punk power and experimental studio science as Brock explores themes ranging from the degradation of our psychic landscapes and invisible technology, to fatherhood. The twelve tracks behave like amorphous organisms, undergoing dramatic mutations and mood swings that speak to the chronic tug-of-war between hope and despair that plays out in Brock’s head. [Deluxe edition CD includes a t-shirt. Vinyl edition due August 8.]

Hardy Morris – The Digital Age Of Rome CD/LP (Normaltown)

Heading into the spring of 2020, T. Hardy Morris had 12 demos that he thought would make-up his next album, then, everything changed. The world took a break and so his plans to record did as well. As we all watched and waited out the storms; viral and societal, we seemed to wake up scrolling through a whole new century, a time Morris began to refer to as The Digital Age of Rome. He scrapped the demos and began a collection of songs in quarantine where the unprecedented times and topics were unavoidable. He wanted to document the era sonically and lyrically in some way. “I wanted it to sound like how the world felt to me in the second half of 2020. Uncomfortable and chaotic, dystopian but still beautiful,” Morris says. The Digital Age of Rome was recorded in a deserted downtown Athens, GA with long-time collaborator/producer Adam Landry. [A limited-edition indie store exclusive vinyl pressing is available.]

The Mountain Goats – Dark In Here CD/2xLP+MP3 (Merge)

When The Mountain Goats got together in early March 2020, it was to make not one album, but two: Getting Into Knives and Dark In Here. That’s how many keepers the band’s superhumanly prolific frontman, John Darnielle, had come up with since they’d recorded In League With Dragons in Nashville back in 2018. “One of the words that John used when we were talking about the direction for Dark In Here was “wild,” which I liked a lot,” explains the band’s Peter Hughes. “Not wild in the sense of abandon – these aren’t those kind of songs. But wild in the sense of something undomesticated, untamable. Wild like the immutability of nature, the way it will take back any piece of untended space as its own, whether amidst the AutoZones and Chick-fil-A’s of Muscle Shoals [home of FAME Studios, where the album was recorded] or among the ruins of a scientific outpost on the Kola Peninsula. Wild like the whale; like a powerful animal. Or a virus – the beast that awakes, emerges from a forest, and stops the world. You can fight the calamity all you want, but either way, it’s going to demand your surrender.” [A limited-edition blue color vinyl pressing is available.]

The Murlocs – Bittersweet Demons CD/LP (ATO)

With their fifth album, Bittersweet Demons, The Murlocs share a collection of songs reflecting on the people who leave a profound imprint on their lives, the saviors and hell raisers and assorted other mystifying characters. The most personal and boldly confident work yet, the album sets that storytelling to 11 infectious tracks written mostly on piano, lending a greater emotional intensity to the band’s restless and radiant brand of garage-rock. What emerges is a beautifully complex body of work, one that shines a light on the fragilities of human nature while inducing the glorious head rush that accompanies any Murlocs outing. [A limited-edition indie store exclusive vinyl pressing is available.]

Pom Pom Squad – Death Of A Cheerleader CD/LP+MP3 (City Slang)

Death Of A Cheerleader moves through moods like a camera panning across an expertly collaged bedroom wall: a Ronettes drum beat here (“Head Cheerleader”), a Doris Day nod there (“This Couldn’t Happen”), the impossible romance of swelling strings (“Crying”) collapsing into guitar thrash (“Drunk Voicemail”). Here, too, are all the overlapping, contradictory tenets of 21st-century young womanhood – the carnality and the vulnerability, the sugar and the defiance. With Death Of A Cheerleader, Pom Pom Squad offer a fresh and decidedly queer take on picking up the pieces – from heartbreak, from injustice – and creating yourself anew. [A limited-edition red color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Jack Savoretti – Europiana CD (Capitol)

Jack Savoretti returns with a wonderful new album that arrives complete with its own genre, Europiana. Europiana is the follow-up to Jack’s breakthrough 2019 album Singing To Strangers, his third consecutive gold seller and first UK number one. While that album was recorded in Rome at Ennio Morricone’s studio, this new disc was conceived in between lockdowns at Jack’s Oxfordshire home.“Europiana isn’t a sound. It’s references and inspirations and the emotions they evoke,” Jack says. “It’s the music of my childhood summers, remade for today.”

Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion – Let The Soil Play It’s Simple Part CD/LP (Nonesuch)

Recently, Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion, who have known each other since their student days, were presented with three days of gratis studio time and decided to experiment with ideas they had begun putting to tape during the sessions for their January 2021 release Narrow Sea. With Shaw on vocals and Sō – Eric Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting – filling out this new band, they developed songs in the studio, with lyrics inspired by their own wide-ranging interests: James Joyce, the Sacred Harp hymn book, a poem by Anne Carson, the Bible’s Book of Ruth, the American roots tune “I’ll Fly Away”, and the pop perfection of ABBA, among others.

Various Artists – Sweet Relief Benefit: A Tribute To Joey Spampinato CD (True North)

The Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-related problems. That life is hard is true, and yet we’re graced with gifts that make it easier. One of those gifts is Joey Spampinato. The singer, songwriter and bassist was co-founder of NRBQ, a rock quartet who released their first album in 1969 and whose genre-defying music inspired a generation of music fans and especially other musicians. Many of those musicians answered the call from Kami Lyle, and producer Sheldon Gomberg when they contacted them about recording one of Joey’s songs for an album to help raise funds for Joey when it was revealed he was battling cancer. The result is Sweet Relief – A Tribute To Joey Spampinato, an inspired album of songs written by Joey and recorded by an astounding group of musicians who are all generously donating their proceeds from these previously unreleased recordings to the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund to support Joey and other struggling musicians. [Vinyl edition due in September.]

CDs + Vinyl:

The Absence – Coffinized CD/LP (M-Theory Audio)

New album from the Florida melodic death metal band.

Gary Allan – Ruthless CD (EMI Nashville)

With the allure of a modern-day outlaw, Gary Allan has won over fans, peers and critics with his signature blend of smoldering vocals, rebellious lyrics and raucous live performances. The superb instrumentation is a stand-out of Ruthless which adds a layer of complexity and appeal, drawing from Allan’s deep-rooted influences of the ‘80s and ‘90s. [Vinyl edition due October 22.]

Amenra – De Doorn CD/2xLP (Relapse)

Arcana – Arc Of The Testimony [Reissue/1997] CD (Mod Reloaded)

Arcana is the collaboration between visionary bassist/producer Bill Laswell and legendary master drummer Tony Williams joined by John Coltrane acolyte, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, and mutant guitar shredder Buckethead with cornetist Graham Haynes, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, saxophonist Peter Apfelbaum and saxophonist Byard Lancaster. A hybrid fusion of avant-rock and futuristic-jazz.

Asia – The Reunion Albums: 2007-2012 5xCD (BMG)

This five-CD deluxe clamshell box set features ‘The Reunion Albums’ from the 2006 reformed classic line-up of lead vocalist / bassist John Wetton of King Crimson, guitarist Steve Howe of Yes, keyboardist Geoff Downes of Yes, and drummer Carl Palmer from Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Gaspard Auge – Escapades CD/LP (Because Music)

Gaspard Auge, best known as one half of Justice – the duo that united rock and rave and whose dancefloor smashes defined a generation – releases his debut album. Escapades is an instrumental album whose sound will be familiar to Justice fans, echoing some previous works and inspirations of the cult duo. It sounds like a UFO landing from another galaxy or time, a baroque masterpiece that reimagines European classical music for this century.

Beartooth – Below CD/LP (Red Bull)

Buckcherry – Hellbound CD/LP (Round Hill)

Ninth album from the long-running California rockers. Hellbound was produced by Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Jonny Lang, Sheryl Crow), who previously produced the California rockers’ fourth album, Black Butterfly, and co-wrote one of their biggest hits, “Sorry”. [A limited-edition color vinyl pressing is available.]

The CEO – Redemption CD/LP (Rat Pak)

Debut album from the Georgia hard rockers.

Ceramic Dog – Hope CD/2xLP+MP3 (Northern Spy)

By May 2020, Marc Ribot had begun to find being depressed depressing. The guitarist and his Ceramic Dog trio – bassist/multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith – hadn’t played for months. With precautions in place, the trio headed to Ismaily’s Figure 8 Recording studio in Brooklyn, NY and set about capturing eight originals that reflect the era’s uncertainty.

Lucy Dacus – Home Video CD/LP+MP3 (Matador)

Dance Gavin Dance – Tree Sessions 2 CD/2xLP (Rise)

Dance Gavin Dance’s Tree City Sessions 2 streaming event was produced in association with Danny Wimmer Presents and saw the band end an enormously successful year with a bang. Performing a fan-voted setlist featuring deep cuts that had never been played live before, the band and their team shut down iconic home town landmark, the Sacramento Tower Bridge for a mind-blowing, in the round performance, featuring an incredible light show, multi-cam and drone footage all against the beautiful Sacramento skyline.

Darkthrone – Eternal Hails CD (Peaceville)

With the highly revered Norwegians remaining ever dedicated to the art of the riff after 35 years of existence, Darkthrone returns for album number nineteen and a new dose of metallic godliness. [Vinyl edition due July 23.]

Miles Davis – Merci, Miles! Live At Vienne CD/2xLP (Rhino)

Miles Davis’ performance at Vienne Jazz Festival on July 1^st, 1991 became one of his final live performances before he passed away on September 28^th, 1991, and this previously unreleased set includes two songs written by Prince, “Penetration” and “Jailbait”.

Matthew Dear – Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album CD/LP+MP3 (Ghostly Int’l)

Twenty-plus years into his career, producer/vocalist/songwriter/DJ Matthew Dear remains artistically unpredictable in pursuit of his prescient strain of electronically formed, organically-delivered indie pop. His work traverses myriad musical worlds, belonging to none. Preacher’s Sigh & Potion finds Dear unknowingly at an intersection in his young run, a burgeoning songwriter at his most freewheeling and unaffected. The album is filled with the reckless notions of an artist dashing the history of pop and rock, the twang of country, the build and release of techno.

Dream Theater – Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Images And Words – Live In Japan, 2017 CD/2xLP+CD (Inside Out U.S.)

Dream Theater, the two-time Grammy-nominated and millions-selling legends of progressive music, are pleased to announce the Lost Not Forgotten Archives. This series will see the virtuosic quintet’s long-standing Ytsejam Records catalogue reissued, alongside some brand-new additions. [Next up: Lost Not Forgotten Archives: Dramatic Tour Of Events: Board Mixes due July 23.]

Neil Vincent Emerson – Neil Vincent Emerson CD/LP (La Honda)

Bill Evans – Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans 5xCD (Craft Recordings)

Bill Evans – On A Friday Evening CD/2xLP (Craft Recordings)

First-ever career-spanning collection of music from the legendary American jazz pianist. Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans features over 60 tracks that spotlight his exceptional work as a leader and co-leader, spanning his catalogs. Disc 5 is comprised entirely of a previously unreleased Bill Evans Trio live performance from 1975 (which is also available as a separate release on CD and vinyl).

Eve 6 – Grim Value CDEP/12” (Velocity)

Eve 6’s new five song EP, Grim Value shows the band returning to their punk roots with fast-paced, aggressive songs.

Evidence – Unlearning Vol. 1 CD/2xLP (Rhymesayers)

Throughout his career, Evidence has always been adept at both staying true to his roots and evolving as he grows and learns from life experiences, including recognizing when the time comes to unlearn. During the campaign for his last album, Weather Or Not (2018), he expressed a desire to close the chapter on the weather-related theme that had been a staple of his solo career to that point. Unlearning Vol. 1 not only sees that vision come to life, but shines brilliantly in the process.

Big Paul Ferguson – Virtual Control CD/LP (Cleopatra)

Founding member and co-creative mind behind proto-industrial post-punk icons Killing Joke, Big Paul Ferguson, steps into the spotlight for his first-ever solo album. Includes guest appearances from former Marilyn Manson/KDFDM band member Tim Skold as well as Die Krupps mastermind Jürgen Engler. [A limited-edition red color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Paula Fuga – Rain On Sunday CD (Brushfire/Republic)

Jerry Garcia Band – GarciaLive Volume 16: November 15th, 1991 Madison Square Garden 3xCD (Round/ATO)

Gentle Giant ‎– Free Hand [Reissue/1975] CD+Blu-ray Audio (Alucard)

Gentle Giant ‎– Free Hand: Steven Wilson Mix + Flat Mix [Reissue/1975] 2xLP (Alucard)

Award-winning producer and musician Steven Wilson has added his delicate touch in remixing the prog rock band’s seventh in Dolby Atmos & 5.1 surround sound. [A limited-edition red color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Goo Goo Dolls – Rarities CD/2xLP (WB)

Rarities is a retrospective collection of 20 songs spanning Goo Goo Dolls’ career from 1995 to 2007; a prolific period during which the band released several chart-topping hits and ascended to mainstream stardom. The set features numerous tracks previously unreleased on digital streaming platforms or any physical format, including B-sides, live songs, acoustic renditions, radio performances, international releases and additional non-album tracks.

Randall Goosby – Roots CD (Decca)

Randall Goosby presents Roots, a celebration of classical music by Black composers and inspired by Black American culture. This debut album is a homage to the pioneering musicians that paved the way for Goosby’s generation of young artists. It features world premiere recordings of pieces by Florence Price, as well as looking to the future, opening with a new work by Xavier Foley.

John Grant – Boy From Michigan CD/2xLP+MP3 (Bella Union/Partisan)

Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead (Skulls & Roses) Live 2021 Remaster 2xCD (Grateful Dead)

For the Grateful Dead’s second live album, released in 1971 and two years after its predecessor Live/Dead, the band delivered an equally magnificent, but entirely different sound. Whereas Live/Dead was a perfect sonic encapsulation of the band at the peak of their primal Dead era, Skull & Roses captures the quintessential quintet, the original five piece band, playing some of their hardest hitting rock ‘n’ roll (“Johnny B. Goode”, “Not Fade Away”), showing off their authentic Bakersfield bona fides (“Me & My Uncle”, “Mama Tried”, “Me & Bobby McGee”), and some originals that would be important parts of the Dead’s live repertoire for the next 24 years (“Bertha”, “Playing In The Band”, “Wharf Rat”). [Vinyl edition due August 6.]

PJ Harvey – White Chalk: Demos CD/LP (Island)

2007’s White Chalk served as PJ Harvey’s eighth studio album and first new material since 2004’s critically acclaimed Uh Huh Her. It finds her once again teaming up with Flood and John Parish who had previously worked together on the Grammy-nominated To Bring You My Love and Is This Desire? White Chalk also includes musical contributions from Harvey’s longtime associate Eric Drew Feldman, and Jim White from The Dirty Three. This collection of previously unreleased White Chalk demos includes early versions of the singles “When Under Ether”, “The Piano” and “The Devil”. It also features brand new artwork with previously unseen photos by Maria Mochnacz. [A stand-alone vinyl reissue of White Chalk is also available this week.]

Haunt – Beautiful Distraction CD (Iron Grip Metal LLC)

Formed by Trevor William Church, Haunt is more or less a solo project that started back in 2017. Hearing his rigorous anthems could fool anyone easily into thinking he’s been around for decades. With a style similar to bands like Helloween, Iron Maiden, and even early Anthrax, Haunt isn’t a modern day cookie-cutter rock band.

Hiatus Kaiyote – Mood Valiant CD/LP+MP3 (Brainfeeder)

High Reeper / Hippie Death Cult – Doom Sessions 5 CD/LP (Heavy Psych Sounds)

A split album between the Philly doom riffers High Reeper and the Portland heavy rockers Hippie Death Cult. [A variety of color vinyl editions is available.]

Hippie Death Cult ‎– ‘111’ [Reissue/2019] CD/LP (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Hippie Death Cult ‎– Circle Of Days CD/LP (Heavy Psych Sounds)

An album that serves as a musical bridge to their critically acclaimed debut ‘111’, while being a fresh exploration of sound and vision, Circle Of Days is a pensive reflection of frustration and hope, experienced as we evolve from the confinements of self-indulgence and into a more altruistic mindset. [A variety of color vinyl editions is available.]

Hiraes – Solitary CD (Napalm)

Out of the ashes of the disbanded Dawn Of Disease, a furious death metal steamroller embarks.

Hiss Golden Messenger – Quietly Blowing It CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)

Home Free – Land Of The Free CD (Home Free)

The beloved all-vocal country group cover a string of patriotic favorites.

Island – Yesterday Park CD/LP (Frenchkiss)

Etta James – Etta James: The Montreux Years CD/2xLP (BMG)

Etta James: The Montreux Years is a treasure trove of timeless classics, powerful and electrifying performances and raw, soaring vocals by one of the greatest ever female vocalists. The collection, featuring recordings from James’ Montreux Jazz Festival concerts in 1977, 1978, 1989 1990 and 1993, encapsulates and reflects Etta’s dynamic artistry and long-lasting impact. Spanning performances from across three decades, ‘Etta James: The Montreux Years’ offers deeply personal and intimate snapshots into James’ acclaimed musical journey, highlights and her phenomenal career.

Dave Kalz – Relish CD (Sono Recording Group)

Dave Kalz was a founding member of Devon Allman’s Honeytribe, which toured as the opening act for Devon’s father, Gregg Allman, and also performed shows with The Allman Brothers Band, Dickey Betts, Chuck Berry, Little Feat, Molly Hatchet, Night Ranger, Gregg Rolie and many others.

Killing Joke ‎– Pylon [Reissue/2015] 2xCD/3xLP (Spinefarm)

Expanded reissue. Famously described as “the sound of the earth vomiting,” Killing Joke continue to be a punishing antidote to mainstream music and corporate life. [A limited-edition green color vinyl pressing is available.]

Duncan Lawrence – Small Town Boy CD (Capitol)

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver – Roundtable CD (Billy Blue)

Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band – Banned CD/LP+MP3 (ANTI-)

Lindemann – Live In Moscow CD+Blu-ray (Caroline)

Super deluxe CD + Blu-ray pressing in hardback digibook with 40-page booklet, two wearable masks, five art prints, and a certificate of authenticity. On March 15^th, 2020, Rammstein singer Till Lindemann and Swedish multi-instrumentalist/producer Peter Tagtgren played Moscow’s VTB Arena with their project Lindemann to play two triumphant shows, released here as a live album and concert film.

Lipstick Killers – Strange Flash – Studio & Live ’78-’81 CD/LP (Growing Up Wrong)

A long-awaited anthology of material by the legendary Lipstick Killers, who blazed a trail in late ’70s post-Radio Birdman Sydney before gigging with the likes of the Gun Club and the Flesh Eaters in Los Angeles, where they crashed and burned in 1981.

Maple Glider – To Enjoy Is The Only Thing CD/LP (Pie Eater)

Maple Glider is the new project of solo artist Tori Zietsch (Peach With A Z). In the singer-songwriter tradition, the music on To Enjoy Is The Only Thing is centered around the lyrics, exploring intimate themes and often serving as a self-catharsis. Offsetting the heavy-nature of some of the words, Maple Glider herself is humorous, fabulous and warm. Over plucked acoustic guitar or deftly weighted piano chords, Maple Glider shares vignettes of her life; growing up in a restrictive religious household, falling in an out of love, interstate and international relocations, the new perspectives travel can bring along with the alienation of being away from the familiar. [Includes a lyric/photo book while supplies last. A limited-edition gold color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Melechesh – The Ziggurat Scrolls CD (Vic)

Melechesh was formed in Jerusalem, Israel in 1995 by two ambitious young extreme metal musicians, Moloch (guitars) and Ashmedi (vocals & guitars). Influenced by both the extreme European metal scene (Bathory and other Scandinavian black metal bands) and their own Middle Eastern roots, they created something rather unique. Both founding members are the core on this release as well together with Proscriptor McGovern on drums (Absu).

Mindfield – Seclusion Of Sanity CD (Bullet Tooth)

Florida’s Mindfield release their thrashy hardcore debut album.

Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket CD/Cassette (Epic)

Roy Montgomery – That Best Forgotten Work CD (Grapefruit)

Roy Montgomery, a pioneer of the NZ underground, believes there is always new sonic terrain to investigate. His latest series of albums for Grapefruit marks 40 years of rigorous exploration in which he’s managed to navigate disparate genres, scenes, and atmospheres, always at the forefront of experimental independent music. To commemorate, Grapefruit will be releasing four new Montgomery albums in 2021. The first installment, Island Of Lost Souls, arrived to great acclaim in January. The second and latest album, His Best Forgotten Work, features Montgomery’s rare, brooding vocals across nine gorgeous tracks recorded from his home in Christchurch, New Zealand. [Vinyl edition due July 16.]

Hardy Morris – The Digital Age Of Rome CD/LP (Normaltown)

Motörhead – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith [Reissue/1981] 2xCD (Sanctuary)

Upon release, No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith went straight to number one, Motörhead’s first and only in the UK and is still the most necessary live album of all time. This brand new remaster was created from the original tapes. [Deluxe box set edition due July 9.]

The Mountain Goats – Dark In Here CD/2xLP+MP3 (Merge)

The Murlocs – Bittersweet Demons CD/LP (ATO)

Jennifer Nettles – Always Like New CD/LP (Concord)

Grammy Award-winning Sugarland frontwoman and Broadway performer Jennifer Nettles delivers a genre defying re-imagination of the American Songbook with her new album Always Like New.

Jeb Loy Nichols – Jeb Loy CD/LP (Timmion)

10 shining examples of rootsy modern R&B that fuse together southern soul, folk music and world class balladry.

Pestilence – Exitvm CD (Agonia)

35 years into their career, Pestilence continue to explore distant outposts of extreme metal.

Pom Pom Squad – Death Of A Cheerleader CD/LP+MP3 (City Slang)

Possessed – Death Metal Demo [Reissue/1984] CD (Vic)

This expanded reissue of the extreme metal band’s 1984 release contains a rehearsal from 1984 featuring five tracks and live tracks from 1987.

Queensrÿche ‎– Operation: Mindcrime [Reissue/1988] 2xCD/2xLP/4xCD+DVD (Capitol)

Queensrÿche ‎– Empire [Reissue/1990] 2xCD/2xLP/3xCD+DVD (Capitol)

Expanded reissues of the band’s third and fourth albums – each available in a variety of configurations. With a unique blend of progressive rock and heavy metal propelled by the first class musicianship of guitar shredders Chris DeGarmo and Micheal Wilton, power vocalist Geoff Tate, and the solid rhythm section of Scott Rockenfield (drums) and Eddie Jackson (bass guitar), Queensrÿche has struck a universal chord with eleven gold and platinum plaques and several Top 10 hard rock anthems.

Anthony Ramos – Love And Lies CD (Republic)

Anthony Ramos is a timeless talent. Born and raised in Bushwick, NY and of Puerto Rican descent, Ramos rose from humble beginnings to star in the original cast of the Tony and

Grammy Award-winning Broadway phenomenon Hamilton and opposite Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in the Academy Award-winning movie A Star Is Born.

Gyan Riley – Silver Lining CD (Tzadik)

Gyan Riley is a virtuoso guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn whose unique work expands the rich legacy of classical guitar music with influences from minimalism, flamenco, bossa nova, and the folk-jazz sounds of John Fahey and Leo Kottke. Silver Lining, recorded during the pandemic lockdown, is his best yet – a breathtaking and fabulous collection of music for solo guitar.

Rose City Band – Earth Trip CD/LP+MP3 (Thrill Jockey)

Rose City Band is celebrated guitarist Ripley Johnson. A prolific songwriter, Johnson started the project as an outlet nimble enough to match the pace of his writing as well as to explore songwriting styles apart from Wooden Shjips and Moon Duo. Rose City Band allows him to follow his musical muses as they greet him and not be bound by the schedules of bandmates and demands of a touring group. On Earth Trip, Johnson’s third album as Rose City Band, the guitarist colors songs with a country-rock twang and a melancholic, wistful undertone.

The Rubinoos – The CBS Tapes CD/LP+MP3 (Yep Roc)

Recorded at CBS Studios in San Francisco in 1976, before they were signed to the legendary Beserkley Records, The CBS Tapes captures The Rubinoos as the scrappy, bratty kids they were. It also shows the huge talent and energy of a young band near the beginning of their career, who believed they were unstoppable. This never before released recording is the perfect way to kick off the band’s 50th anniversary celebration. [A limited-edition red color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Rudimentary Peni – Great War CD (Sealed Records)

Recorded several years ago before Rudimentary Peni engaged in another mysterious hiatus, Great War has finally emerged to kiss the gas-tinged light of a mustered morn. Expanding on the skeletal sounds and subject of 2009’s “Wilfred Owen” single, the band has seen fit to concentrate on a more mechanized approach doing away with even more of the humanizing aspects in their music this time delivering ten painful familiar shards fraught with brittle anxiety and anguished simplicity. [Vinyl edition due July 30.]

Jack Savoretti – Europiana CD (Capitol)

JP Saxe – Dangerous Levels Of Introspection CD (Arista)

The new 13-track album from JP Saxe features the smash hit “If the World Was Ending” and previously released track “Line By Line” ft. Maren Morris. JP worked with a number of exciting people on this album including one of his musical heroes John Mayer. JP has been nominated for five JUNO awards (tied with Justin Bieber and Jessie Reyez for second most nominated artists this year) including Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Single of the Year, Pop Album of the Year and Fan Choice Award. [Vinyl edition due August 27.]

Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion – Let The Soil Play It’s Simple Part CD/LP (Nonesuch)

Nina Simone –Nina Simone: The Montreux Years CD/2xLP (BMG)

The Montreux Jazz Festival takes place for two weeks every summer in Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva. Created in 1967 by Claude Nobs, the Montreux Jazz Festival has become over the years an essential event, generating fantastic stories and legendary performances. In its 50 year plus history, Montreux has hosted iconic performances by artists including Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, Prince, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Elton John and Stevie Wonder. The High Priestess of Soul made five appearances at the Montreux Festival between 1968 and 1990. This set gathers material from all five of her storied performances.

Spellling – The Turning Wheel CD/2xLP (Sacred Bones)

Red velvet curtains draw back to reveal a cosmic wheel of fortune, floating in the deep black star-studded theater of infinite space. A whirl of timbres, personalities, and stories. The Turning Wheel, the third full-length by the Bay Area artist Spellling (Chrystia Cabral), revolves around themes of human unity, the future, divine love and the enigmatic ups and downs of being a part of this carnival called life. Venturing to push the boundaries of her primarily synth-based work, Spellling took on the ambitious task of orchestrating and self-producing an album that features an ensemble of 31 collaborating musicians. The Turning Wheel incorporates a vast range of rich acoustic sounds that cast Spellling’s work into vibrant new dimensions.

Squirrel Flower – Planet (i) CD/LP+MP3 (Polyvinyl)

Squirrel Flower’s heart-rending sophomore album Planet (i), following her 2020 debut I Was Born Swimming, is exactly that. A singular planet, a world entirely of artist Ella Williams’ making. The title came first to her as a joke: it’s her made-up name for the new planet people will inevitably settle and destroy after leaving Earth, as well as the universe imagined within her music. Buoyed by her steadfast vision and propelled by her burning comet of a voice, the record is a love letter to disaster in every form imaginable. Tornadoes, flooding, gaslighting assholes, cars on fire – these songs fully embrace a planet in ruin. As Williams rides from melancholy to jubilance to complete emotional devastation over the course of twelve songs, she carves out a future for herself and those she loves. Planet (i) is at once a refuge, an act of self-healing, and a musical reflection of Squirrel Flower’s inner and outer worlds. [A limited-edition translucent red color vinyl pressing is also available.]

The Sweet Lillies – Common Ground CD (Americana Vibes)

With their acoustic string-band lineup of guitar, viola, and upright bass given flight by ethereal, vocal harmonies that float like a dream, the Sweet Lillies’ music has an old-time soul with a forward-looking eye.

Theodor Bastard – Volch’ya Yagoda CD/LP (Season Of Mist)

Theodor Bastard albums aren’t released very often, but they invariably attract increased attention of audiophiles and music critics. The multilayered and unpredictable album inherits the band’s recognizable multi-genre approach where psychedelic trip-hop combines with cinematic instrumentals and archaic world music meets modern technological electronics.

Thy Catafalque – Vadak CD/2xLP (Season Of Mist)

Thy Catafalque’s humble genius Tamás Kátai abandons any and all pre-notions of tradition. Intertwining elements from a vast swath of unrelated genres, from jazz to pop to folk, and everything in between, Thy Catafalque masterfully crafts an eclectic sound that breaks down any generic barriers or borders.

Asmus Tietchens and Miki Yui – Neues Boot CD/LP (Tal)

Neues Boot is the first musical collaboration between Hamburg based Asmus Tietchens and Japanese artist Miki Yui, operating out of Düsseldorf for almost 20 years now. Highly respected and hugely influential artist Asmus Tietchens first made his mark on the electronic music scene in the late 1970s, whereas Miki Yui debuted her sonic settings in 1999.

Tilian – Factory Reset CD/LP (Rise)

Factory Reset, Tilian’s (Dance Gavin Dance) fourth full solo release, is both a universal and personal album that he crafted almost entirely single handily, with production starting just weeks after California was placed into lockdown due to the pandemic. Tilian stated that “I was searching for meaning in isolation and found it in creating this album as well as how having complete creative control allowed true experimentation” which allowed him to be true to himself in the process. [A limited-edition clear pink & blue color vinyl pressing is available.]

Toto – With A Little Help From My Friends CD/2xLP (The Players Club)

With A Little Help From My Friends captures one special night on November 21, 2020 when Steve Lukather, Joseph Williams and David Paich appeared with the new line-up of Toto for a global event originating from Los Angeles, CA. Joining Lukather, Williams and Paich for this next chapter in their indelible history are new band members bassist John Pierce (Huey Lewis and The News), drummer Robert “Sput” Searight (Ghost-Note, Snarky Puppy), and keyboardist/background vocalist Steve Maggiora (Robert Jon & The Wreck). Keyboardist Dominique “Xavier” Taplin (Prince, Ghost-Note) and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Warren Ham (Ringo Starr) segued over continuing their tenure in the ensemble. [A stand-alone Blu-ray + CD edition is available, as well as a limited-edition transparent vinyl pressing.]

Devin Townsend – Devolution Series #2: Galactic Quarantine CD/2xLP+CD (Inside Out U.S.)

Devolution Series #2: Galactic Quarantine was recorded between July and September 2020 in various places around the world. It was originally streamed on September 5, 2020 on StageIt.com as a replacement show for the COVID affected “Empath Vol 2 European Tour” and various cancelled Summer festivals. The show features Devin Townsend on vocals and guitars, Samus Paulicelli III on drums, Wes Hauch on guitars and Diego Tejeida on keyboards.

Josh Turner – Your Man [15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition] CD (MCA Nashville)

This Deluxe Edition of Turner’s double-platinum album, Your Man includes the platinum #1 song, “Your Man” which was co-written by Chris Stapleton as well as two other Top Country hits, “Would You Go With Me” and “Me And God”. 2021 marks the 15th Anniversary of the album and this special edition includes three bonus live tracks that were recorded while Josh was on tour.

UB40 – Bigga Baggariddim CD (Sono Recording Group)

Before any of the dozens and dozens of ska, reggae, and jam bands bombarded the music scene with their version of reggae rock, there was UB40. Bigga Baggariddim is the group’s 21^st studio album.

Frankie Valli – A Touch Of Jazz CD (Green Hill)

Featuring world-renowned jazz organist Joey DeFrancesco, A Touch Of Jazz showcases Valli’s indelible voice on some of his favorite tunes from the American Songbook.

Various Artists – Sweet Relief Benefit: A Tribute To Joey Spampinato CD (True North)

Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? The Platinum Pleasure Edition 2xCD/2xLP (Interscope)

Deluxe Edition of Jessie Ware’s 2020 album. What’s Your Pleasure? The Platinum Pleasure Edition features the original album plus six new songs, including the single “Please, 0208 With Kindness”, and the Endless Remix of “Adore You”. What’s Your Pleasure? received critical acclaim for its cohesive songwriting, killer grooves, and flawless production. It was featured on

many Best of 2020 lists. Pitchfork raved, “Jessie reminds us why we listen to dance music in the first place.”

Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny Haha CD/LP (Secretly Canadian)

Faye Webster loves the feeling of a first take: writing a song, then heading to the studio with her band to track it live the very next day. When you listen to the 23-year-old Atlanta songwriter’s poised and plainspoken albums, you can hear why: she channels emotions that are so aching, they seem to be coming into existence at that very moment. Webster captures the spark before it has a chance to fade; she inks lyrics before they have a chance to seem fleeting. Her signature sound pairs close, whisper-quiet, home-recorded vocals with the unmistakable sound of musicians together in a room. Webster’s sound draws as much from the lap-steel singer-songwriter pop of the 1970s and teardrop country tunes as it does from the audacious personalities of her city’s rap and R&B community.

The Whatever – Valley Of Death (Or Whatever) CD/LP (Beatrocket)

Unheard garage greatness. Whatever you call this many monikered group, their impossibly rare 1967 single has been making collectors everywhere salivate. But there’s more to the story’ these NY teens made it into the studio to cut six additional songs, plus a couple car dealership jingles that rowdily repurpose their iconic single. [A limited-edition white color vinyl pressing is also available.]

Withered – Verloren CD/LP (Season Of Mist)

Masters of tortured blackened death metal, Withered return with Veloren (“lost”). A congruous evolution from albums past, the startling record serves as the most emotional chapter in Withered’s career. The quartet wield abyssal passion and pain for a heavy, emotional and volatile exposition of churning, tempestuous metal.

Emily Wolfe – Outlier CD/LP (Crows Feet)

Emily Wolfe transcends the ranks of ordinary musicians. As a triple-threat rock & roll singer-songwriter-guitarist and producer from Austin, TX, Wolfe is on a mission to breathe new life into classic rock & roll with her incendiary guitar chops and original songwriting.

DVDs + Blu-ray:

Earthless – Earthless Live In The Mojave Desert Volume 1 Blu-ray (CDWA)

Nebula – Nebula Live In The Mojave Desert Volume 2 Blu-ray (CDWA)

Live In The Mojave Desert is a livestream desert rock concert film series created deep in the deep sand and huge boulders of some insanely beautiful California wilderness, inspired by Pink Floyd’s Live At Pompeii.

Toto – With A Little Help From My Friends Blu-ray+CD (The Players Club)

This Week’s Vinyl Exclusives:

1000 Homo DJs – Supernaut [Reissue/1990] 12” (Cleopatra)

Purple vinyl reissue of the 1990 EP by the duo of Ministry’s Al Jourgensen & Paul Barker with vocals by Trent Reznor.

Daniel Avery – Together In Static LP (Mute)

Daniel Avery’s new album Together In Static is comprised of songs created specifically for live shows, yet developed into an album during the process. The record follows 2020’s surprise release Love + Light and the collaborative album with Nine Inch Nails keyboardist Alessandro Cortini, Illusion Of Time.

Justin Bieber – Justice 2xLP (Def Jam)

Now on vinyl – the sixth studio album from the pop megastar. [A limited-edition picture disc pressing is also available.]

Caterina Barbieri – Fantas Variations 2xLP (Editions Mego)

“Fantas” is the epic opening track on Caterina Barbieri’s acclaimed 2019 release Ecstatic Computation. The original “Fantas” laid out a magical path of patterns leading the listener on a journey into the sound itself. Fantas Variations maps out eight new potentials sprung from this initial path as constructed by a diverse mix of artists lending to a wide spectrum of new works extrapolated from the original work.

Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood – Live 2xLP (International Anthem)

Live was mostly recorded on November 1st, 2019, at Haus der Berliner Festspiele in Berlin, Germany, during the 2019 edition of JazzFest Berlin. For Angel Bat Dawid and her band Tha Brothahood – which includes Deacon Otis Cooke, Viktor Le Givens, Xristian Espinoza, Norman W. Long, Dr. Adam Zanolini, and Asher Simiso Gamedze – it was the first stop of their first European tour.

Tony Bennett and Count Basie – Legend LP (Stardust)

Limited gold color vinyl pressing. Recordings from the late ’50s including the timeless classics “Anything Goes”, “With Plenty Of Money And You”, “Chicago”, “Jeepers Creepers” and more.

François J. Bonnet and Stephen O’Malley – Cylene Suisse Redux LP (Editions Mego)

Cylene Suisse Redux documents François J. Bonnet and Stephen O’Malley’s Switzerland tour in December 2019, following the release of their first album, Cylene. The two musicians chose to entrust sound material recorded on the tour to the expert ears of two friends and great musicians Jim O’Rourke and Ryoji Ikeda, giving them carte blanche, and each in turn chose a distinct personal approach.

Brainstory – Ripe 12” (Big Crown)

Ripe pulls from jazz, hip-hop, ‘70s funk, ‘60s soul, and life in Southern California in the year 2021.

Sonny Clark ‎– Cool Struttin’ [Reissue/1958] LP (Blue Note)

Sonny Clark was the quintessential hard bop pianist. Possessed of a lyrical flow and inventive melodic ideas, he had a deeply rooted feeling for the blues. It was in 1958 that Clark arrived at his masterwork, Cool Struttin’, recorded with a quintet featuring Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Paul Chambers, and ‘Philly’ Joe Jones. The album has only grown in stature since his premature death at age 31 in 1963.

Alice Cooper ‎– School’s Out [Reissue/1972] LP (Friday Music)

Limited 180gm vinyl audiophile pressing of the shock rocker’s fifth studio album.

The Danse Society – Heaven Is Waiting [Reissue/1984] LP (Spittle)

Vinyl reissue of the second album by the English gothic rock band.

DMX ‎– Greatest Hits [Reissue/2013] LP (X-ray/Cleopatra)

Special limited-edition splatter vinyl pressing of this career retrospective from one of the most dominating rappers in the game.

The Drifters ‎– The Drifters’ Golden Hits [Reissue/1972] LP (Atlantic)

An Atlantic compilation from 1968, this was included in Rolling Stone’s best albums of all time in 2012. Packaged in its original sleeve, illustrated by Loring Eutemey.

Dyke & The Blazers – Down On Funky Broadway: Phoenix (1966-1967) 2xLP (Craft Recordings)

Dyke & The Blazers – I Got A Message: Hollywood (1968-1970) 2xLP (Craft Recordings)

Two new compilation albums from the funk legends. Long coveted by cratediggers and beatmakers, Dyke & The Blazers was one of the earliest funk acts to emerge in the mid-’60s soul scene, alongside artists like James Brown and The Meters. Hailing from Phoenix, AZ, the band was known for their tight guitar riffs, grooving jazz organs, upbeat horns, and frontman Arlester “Dyke” Christian’s coarse yet commanding vocals.

Ethiopian & His All Stars ‎– The Return Of Jack Sparrow [Reissue/2017] LP (Omnivore)

Reggae legend, Leonard Dillon, known as the Ethiopian, was the founder of one of Jamaica’s premier ska, rocksteady, and early reggae sensations The Ethiopians, but got his start under the name Jack Sparrow. His early solo Jack Sparrow single efforts, some backed by The Wailers, didn’t yield any hits and prompted him to form a group, The Ethiopians, where he found his first success.

Free Throw – Piecing It Together LP (Triple Crown)

Limited-edition white color vinyl pressing. Produced by Will Yip, Piecing It Together is the fourth full-length album from Free Throw and it finds the band grappling with hard truths, and making music about the present and how seeking balance in our lives is far more meaningful work than the endless pursuit of whatever you deem to be enough. In essence, Piecing It Together is an exploration of self-acceptance.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Back The Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011-2021) 2xLP/4xLP+7”+2xCD (Sour Mash)

The new release from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021), celebrates 10 years since the inception of NGHFB. This double album, curated and compiled entirely by Noel, includes tracks from the three albums (Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Chasing Yesterday and Who Built The Moon?) and the three acclaimed EPs (Black Star Dancing, This Is The Place and Blue Moon Rising) – plus two previously unreleased tracks including the brand new single “We’re On Our Way Now”. [The deluxe four-LP box set edition includes a 32-page coffee table photo book with a three-CD set and an etched 7″ of “She Taught Me How To Fly”. Bonus content includes previously unreleased acoustic versions, remixes, instrumentals and an unheard demo.]

Gospelbeach – Jam Jam 12” (Curation)

Red color vinyl pressing. As folk rockers GospelbeacH continue to work on the follow-up to their third and most successful studio album Let It Burn (2019) they are back to raise the vibrations and celebrate the good times with a little detour through the past.

Gym Class Heroes ‎– As Cruel As School Children [Reissue/2006] LP (Fueled By Ramen)

Silver color vinyl reissue of the alt hip-hop band’s third album.

PJ Harvey – White Chalk [Reissue/2007] LP (Island)

Hellish Form – Remains LP (Translation Loss)

Limited translucent vinyl pressing. Vermont-California two piece Hellish Form (featuring members of Body Void and Keeper) present a new album of crushing funeral doom intertwined with beautiful drone soundscapes.

Hexvessel ‎– Dawnbearer [Reissue/2011] 2xLP (Svart)

Double-vinyl reissue of an influential record of the modern occult rock revival.

HorrorPops – Live At The Wiltern 2xLP (Cleopatra)

The first-ever live album from the psychobilly band.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – This Is A Mindfulness Drill LP (Jagjaguwar)

Opaque black & white color vinyl pressing. This is a Mindfulness Drill encompasses the second installment of the Jagjaguwar’s commemorative Jag Quarterly series — a year-long, four-part celebration of collaboration and community — and it features a fully reimagined reissue of Richard Youngs’ 1998 album, Sapphie. In this new take on a definitive moment of the Jagjaguwar catalog, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble transforms Youngs’ intimate compositions, originally recorded with just classical guitar and voice, expanding the instrumentation to include affecting and intuitive arrangements of horns and more. Moses Sumney, Perfume Genius and Sharon Van Etten pay homage to Youngs’ plaintive vocal performances, delivering remarkable, reinterpreted renditions to each of Sapphie‘s three torch songs.

Iceburn ‎– Asclepius LP (Southern Lord)

Asclepius is the new album from the ever-evolving and adventurous collective Iceburn, who return with their first new material in 20 years. The rawness of Asclepius harks back to the days of their early records (such as Hephaestus), and fuses elements of metal, jazz, psychedelia, and rock with a seamless flow, monolithic riffs, swirling harmonies, and a groove that are the cornerstones of their sound.

Interpol ‎– Our Love To Admire [Reissue/2007] LP+CD (Matador)

Limited sky blue color vinyl pressing including bonus CD edition. Interpol’s 2007 classic, Our Love To Admire is available on black vinyl in Matador’s first pressing of the band’s third album. “The songs ripple with [New York City’s] energy,” NME said of the album, “enveloping atmospherics seep into the senses giving the everyday a film noir quality.”

Jonzun Crew – Lost In Space [Reissue/1983] LP (Tommy Boy)

Limited yellow color vinyl pressing. Jonzun Crew used experimental techniques and deep-space inspired motifs to help pioneer a sound all their own that would resonate the world over.

Juju – Live At 131 Prince Street LP (Strut)

Strut continue their in-depth archive reissues from the Black Fire label with a definitive edition of Juju’s Live At 131 Prince Street, recorded in 1973 at Ornette Coleman’s gallery in New York.

John Carroll Kirby – Septet 2xLP (Stones Throw)

Ubiquitous producer and keyboardist John Carroll Kirby presents a live instrumental jazz record featuring seven musicians who came together to perform Kirby’s compositions in Los Angeles.

Kojaque – Town’s Dead LP (Different Recordings)

Kojaque is part of a new wave of Irish artists that have emerged from a social revolution stonewalled by late-stage capitalism, and are flooding the world with blistering and sophisticated literature, film, music, ideas and work. He follows his critically acclaimed cult concept record, Deli Daydreams, with an expansive, urgent, landmark debut that mines both his emotional interior as an artist, and the external forces of a love triangle barreling towards chaos. Sonically the record smashes hip-hop expectations with an aural palate that leaps from rage to solace, from clattering musical combustions to tender ruminations. [CD edition due July 9.]

Lady Gaga – Chromatica LP (Interscope)

Lord Vicar ‎– The Black Powder [Reissue/2019] LP (Svart)

2019’s The Black Powder, the fourth Lord Vicar full length album, is a sonically and emotionally devastating journey in doom metal featuring songs about war, fought both between people and within us all. Slow and intense riffage, progressive structures, and introspective lyrics create a hard and yet magical journey to the relief that waits at the end of all things.

L’Rain – Fatigue LP+MP3 (Mexican Summer)

Brooklyn-born and based experimentalist and multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek aka L’Rain, is mapping the enormity of how to change. Her second album, Fatigue, demands introspection from ready ears with an array of keyboards, synths, and hauntingly delicate vocals that create a genre entirely her own. Cheek has dipped her toes in every corner of the arts, through her work at some of the most prestigious art institutions in NYC and collaborations with the likes of Naama Tsabar, Kevin Beasley, Justin Allen, and others in contemporary arts.

The Marías – Cinema LP (Atlantic)

The Marías quickly grew a passionate local following, prompting the Los Angeles Times to declare them the perfect indie band for L.A. kids. With sold-out shows and rapidly increasing national attention, the band made an auspicious debut with their twin EPs: Superclean, Vol. I and Vol II. Cinema, which features tracks in English and Spanish – draws inspiration from the classic films and directors that María and Josh grew up watching, including Pedro Almodóvar and Wes

Anderson. The title also pays homage to how the band first began creating music in the first place.

Mayako Xo – XO LP (Post Present Medium)

Mayako Xo is the solo music project of Sara Gernsbacher based in Los Angeles. XO is an exercise in singing to multiple selves, non-human, past and future, converging in one looping currant. It is a structure of sparse layers, new age no wave of post punk femme, notes repeating. Guitar phrases asking and answering each other over and over, each time though somehow distinct, with a voice sewn through and around the middle. Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio.

(The) Melvins ‎– (A) Senile Animal [Reissue/2006] LP (Ipecac)

Melvins ‎– Nude With Boots [Reissue/2008] LP (Ipecac)

Melvins ‎– The Bride Screamed Murder [Reissue/2010] LP (Ipecac)

Limited-edition color vinyl reissues. Alt-rock legends The Melvins keep it exciting by ignoring any set of rules, by their exorbitant ability to make the most beautiful noise ever heard and by their humor, which is an essential brandmark of the band. They never compromise or apply for anything: they just do their own thing in their very own way. They always keep it challenging for themselves and potential listeners.

Mother Mother – Inside LP (WB)

Inside takes its inspiration from self-reflection, something band frontman and songwriter Ryan Guldemond was forced to do in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. After several months of writing and recording demos in his home, the album was recorded with Juno award-winning producer Howard Redekopp, who produced the band’s first two releases.

Peter Murphy – Cascade [Reissue/1995] 2xLP (Beggars Banquet)

Peter Murphy – Last And Only Star: Rarities LP (Beggars Banquet)

Peter Murphy’s solo career began in 1986 with the release of Should The World Fail To Fall Apart and continues to this day. In addition to his work as the frontman of the legendary and groundbreaking Bauhaus, he has issued ten solo albums and several live releases. Beggars Arkive presents 2021 colored vinyl reissues for all five Peter Murphy solo releases on Beggars Banquet, plus the release of the brand new rarities album, The Last And Only Star.

My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves [Reissue/2003] 2xLP (ATO)

My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges [Reissue/2008] 2xLP (ATO)

Oliver Nelson ‎– The Blues And The Abstract Truth [Reissue/1961] LP (Verve

Primarily known as a big band leader and arranger, on this landmark 1961 Creed Taylor recorded set Oliver Nelson provides and arranges all of the material while holding down alto and tenor saxophone duties to boot. He also assembled one of jazz’s most potent modern jazz sextets here which included such jazz heavyweights as Bill Evans (piano), Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Paul Chambers (bass), Roy Haynes (drums) and Eric Dolphy (alto sax & flute). Featuring incredible tunes (“Stolen Moments”), phenomenal players and amazing performances, The Blues And The Abstract Truth is unequivocally Nelson’s high water mark and is as breathtaking and balanced a recording as they come.

Nine Inch Nails ‎– Hesitation Marks [Reissue/2013] 2xLP (Sony Legacy)

180gm vinyl reissue of Nine Inch Nail’s eighth studio album. Like previous albums, the album was produced by frontman Trent Reznor alongside longtime collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder.

Nipsey Hussle – Victory Lap [Reissue/2018] 2xLP (Atlantic)

Vinyl reissue of the debut and only studio album by the late rapper.

Thomas Nordmark – Exit Ghosts LP (Valley Of Search)

Exit Ghosts is partly influenced by the history of film scores and the aesthetics carried by that tradition. As an instrumental album, Nordmark is tasked with conjuring emotions without words, and the way he utilizes specific cues mirrors the process of film scores, in addition to the work of seminal composers such as Tim Hecker, Arthur Russell, and Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Daniel Norgren – Live 2xLP (Superpuma)

This was 2020. A year meant for touring, but instead ended with just a handful of dates. These are the recordings from that first and final tour. New arrangements and full band performances of songs from the past four Daniel Norgren. Much of this release is centered on the unique guitar sound of Daniel Norgren and the comfortable feel of his longtime band.

Old Sea Brigade – Motivational Speaking LP (Nettwerk)

Limited blue color vinyl pressing. Life happens between all of the changes around us. We adapt to the ebbs and flows in our environment and ultimately grow in the middle of major milestones. Old Sea Brigade documents the space between those changes in his songs. Atlanta-born and Nashville-based singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Cramer captures anxiety, nostalgia, confusion, love, loss, and, ultimately, hope in tender true-life snapshots colored by folk eloquence, Americana bliss, rock energy, and country heart.

Perturbator ‎– Lustful Sacraments 2xLP (Blood Music)

French cyberpunks Perturbator crashed onto the scene with an insane force. A perfect rehash and improvement upon 1970s and 1980s analog synthesized film scores – recounting Escape From New York, Halloween, and Blade Runner – Perturbator became known as the face of dark synthwave.

Rico – That Man Is Forward [Reissue/1981] LP (Chrysalis)

Rico – Jama Rico [Reissue/1982] LP (Chrysalis)

Vinyl reissues of two albums by the British ska/reggae trombonist.

Sonny Rollins ‎– On Impulse! [Reissue/1965] LP (Verve)

Sonny Rollins made some excellent recordings for Impulse! in the mid-1960s, a time when his unassailable skills and acrobatic approach made him a leading saxophonist, and one of the few to rival John Coltrane. Each of the five tracks collected here tell the complex, glorious story of Rollins’s talent, especially in the stretched-out solos where his knack for inventively de- and re-constructing melodies is evident.

The Roots ‎– Do You Want More?!!!??! [Reissue/1995] 3xLP (Geffen)

Coming two years after their independent debut Organix (1993), The Roots’ official major-label debut album, 1995’s Do You Want More?!!!??! marked a shift in how hip-hop sounded at the time. While Stetsasonic were known as a hip-hop band, The Roots took that distinction to a whole different level with a full band of talented musicians anchored by Questlove on the drums and two MCs in Black Thought and Malik B. This vinyl triple-LP reissue was remastered from the original tapes and include bonus tracks curated by Questlove.

Six Organs of Admittance – The Veiled Sea LP (Three Lobed)

The Veiled Sea is easily one the most viscerally satisfying records in the Six Organs Of Admittance discography. As always, Ben Chasny finds the invisible threads between incongruous sound worlds. Here it’s American (electric) guitar heroics and galactic postpunk, Popol Vuh-ish pastoralism and heavy psych.

The Incredible Jimmy Smith ‎– Back At The Chicken Shack [Reissue/1960] LP (Blue Note)

Jimmy Smith ruled the Hammond organ in the ’50s and ’60s. He revolutionized the instrument, showing it could be creatively used in a jazz context and popularized in the process. His Blue Note sessions from 1956 to 1963 were extremely influential and many, like 1960’s Back at the Chicken Shack.

STRFKR – Reptilians [Reissue/2011] 2xLP (Polyvinyl)

Clear emerald & clear pink vinyl featuring four bonus tracks. On Reptilians, STRFKR’s second full-length album, the band built on what they had accomplished with their self-titled debut album (2008) and the Jupiter EP (2009) to create an infectious combination of acoustic instrumentation and electronic production.

Useless ID – Most Useless Songs LP (Fat Wreck Chords)

Useless ID’s greatest hits collection, Most Useless Songs, spans the longtime ambassadors of Middle East punk rock’s twenty-seven year history and includes two brand new exclusive songs.

Various Artists – Eccentric Disco LP (Numero)

“Party people pink” color vinyl pressing. Ten Numero-minted, dance floor ready dive bombers from disco’s all-to-brief heyday, previously swept under rug by the whitewashed glitz and glam of the era. Chugging grooves, bubbling synths, soaring strings, and sonorous voices are guaranteed to light up your night, on living room rugs and dance floors alike.

Various Artists – Shaolin Soul Episode 4 [Reissue/2018] 2xLP+CD (Because Music)

Vinyl reissue of the fourth in the series of unmistakably great soul, as sampled by the Wu-Tang Clan and on their various solo albums.

White Lion ‎– The Best Of White Lion [Reissue/1992] 2xLP (Friday Music)

Audiophile color vinyl pressing. The Best Of White Lion is a strong collection gathering pretty much all of the glam metal band’s biggest singles and album tracks, including the Top Ten hits “Wait” and “When The Children Cry”, plus “Little Fighter” and “Radar Love”.

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Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket (Epic)

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