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Hollywood RecordsThe British singer-songwriter showcases a voice of remarkable range and pop sensibility that balances classic soul and contemporary R&B. Stardust introduces Skye with genuine emotional depth alongside commercial instincts. Her collaborators bring polish without stripping personality as she sounds fully in command of her identity from the very first track.
UMeThe guitar legend's new album pairs his signature melodic rock with a newly collaborative spirit, featuring guest appearances and warmth that suits his playing perfectly. Frampton has spoken about the creative freedom this project brought, and that openness is audible throughout. For fans of his Humble Pie and solo years, Carry The Light is a welcome reminder of his singular touch.
DualtoneAlejandro Rose-Garcia's newest collection balances warm folk-rock storytelling with growing emotional range. Fondness, etc. finds him cataloging relationships and moments with wry observational wit. The production is intimate without being sparse, and his acoustic guitar work remains among the most distinctive in American roots music. A grower that genuinely rewards returning to.
New West RecordsThe Virginia roots rock quintet builds on earlier New West Records releases with a record balancing raucous energy and genuine tenderness. Change of Plans finds Isaac Gibson and the band in fine form, blending Southern rock, Americana, and country with natural authority. If you haven't discovered them yet, this is the record to start with.
Yep Roc RecordsJobi Riccio writes with a classic ease recalling the best of '70s California folk-rock, while distilling that sensibility into a beautifully crafted set of songs. Riccio makes her influences feel lived-in rather than borrowed, and Beau Sample's warm production suits her voice perfectly. One of the quiet discoveries of the season.
VerveNew Orleans' most genre-defiant band delivers another album moving freely between soul, hip-hop, neo-soul, and jazz without losing its rootedness in the city's DNA. Tarriona "Tank" Ball remains one of the most captivating vocalists in American music, and The Last Balloon gives her extraordinary voice plenty of space. Joyfully unclassifiable, as always.
CAPTo celebrate Pet Sounds' 60th anniversary, Capitol compiles 25 standout tracks from the 1997 box set, all making their vinyl debut. Alternate takes, a cappella stacks, and tracking sessions illuminate the painstaking craft behind one of pop music's most celebrated recordings. New liner notes by Howie Edelson add context for newcomers and completists alike.
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What's New 8-4-23
GeffenVictory provides an insight into the soul-bearing vulnerability and supreme songcraft that Cian has demonstrated through his career. For him, it represents the culmination of a lifelong dream. But even more significantly, it represents a triumph in the face of insurmountable odds in which his mothers selfless bravery, determination and support changed his future for the better.
10k Projects / CapitolFocusing on melancholic, emotional guitar-infused ballads, the ALLTY series has become a staple in Trippies discogrpahy melding him into the superstar he is today. As the Ohio rapper puts it, This is gonna be, if not the best body of music Ive ever did, one of them, for sure. Im not trying to be experimental with this project, just drop straight Trippie Redd hits.
Warner Music NashvilleReligiously is an impactful blend of thunderous stadium anthems and introspective ballads from the gravel-voiced Illinois native. Amongst the polished production, however, there's a refreshing allegiance to traditional instrumentation and moments where Zimmerman truly excels, particularly in the more reflective, vulnerable offerings.
Round Records / ATOA collection of Garcias most beloved solo studio recordings and collaborations with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Contains 16 remastered recordings including Sugaree, They Love Each Other, and Rubin & Cherise, among others, highlighting the performances that helped enshrine the The Dead and Garcia in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
BMGThese are insanely tight, bodybuilder-sculpted rock songs, and while Wolfgang Van Halen (son of Eddie) dresses each in his six-string wizardry its all commendably contained. Arguably, the music is so big that its best ideas get lost in the echo of its heavy footsteps, but Mammoth II remains, inarguably, a worthy follow-up to that equally muscular debut.
Smithsonian FolkwaysMcCormicks massive collection features never-before-heard performances not only from musicians who became icons in their own rightincluding Lightnin Hopkins and Mance Lipscombbut also, crucially, performers whose names may be unfamiliar to even the most devoted blues fans and scholars. Spanning gospel, ragtime, country blues dirges and the unclassifiable music of George Bongo Joe Coleman.
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Now Hear This! August 2023


Various Artists
Barbie The Album
AtlanticBuy Now The star-studded musical companion to the film features new tracks from an unprecedented lineup of artists including Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice, Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Karol G, Charli XCX, Tame Impala, Haim and more. Barbie star Ryan Gosling also joins the robust roster of soundtrack artists with his iconic original song performed as his character, Ken. 
The Hives
The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
Disques HivesBuy Now The undisputed rock and roll icons are back! Their colossal new album, The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons, reignites the band's lore in arresting fashion, exploring the disappearance of the band's mysterious sixth member Randy Fitzsimmons even leading them to dig up his grave. What they found inside the casket is what you can now hear on record. Go fetch! 
Various Artists
Tell Everybody
Easy Eye SoundBuy Now Recorded by Dan Auerbach, Tell Everybody! spans the diverse blues spectrum, a payment of respect and admiration for the musicians carrying this American tradition into this century and beyond. Includes new recordings from The Black Keys, RL Boyce, Gabe Carter, Robert Finley, Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, Moonrisers, Nat Myers and more. 
Blur
The Ballad of Darren (Deluxe Edition)
Warner BrothersBuy Now The Magic Whip hinted at the essence of their chemistry but The Ballad of Darren revels in it, resulting in an album that feels age-appropriate without being stodgy: it's mature and nuanced, cherishing the connections that once were taken for granted but now seem precious. A brilliant, brave, and perhaps most importantly, truly creative album. *Features two bonus tracks* 
Rick Springfield
Automatic
Sonvest RecordsBuy Now Somewhere between Working Class Dog and Tao. Sonically, Automatic sees Springfield returning to his first love of guitar-based power pop and keyboards, while lyrically featuring his favored subjects of love, sex and death. My goal was solid three-minute tunes with the biggest hooks I could come up with, Springfield explains. 
Darlingside
Everything Is Alive
More Doug RecordsBuy Now While 2020s Fish Pond Fish celebrated the unity and harmony of the multi-instrumentalists, Everything Is Alive showcases the individuality of each band member. While their talent for lush harmonies and intricate songwriting has distinguished Darlingside, the evolution hereinspires listeners with a new degree of intimacy and nuance. 
Teenage Wrist
Still Love
EpitaphBuy Now From the atmospheric, fuzzed out opener Sunshine to the midtempo rocker Dark Sky (featuring 311s SA Martinez), the album will undoubtedly please fans who favor distorted guitars and crunchy chords. However, Teenage Wrist arent ashamed to admit that theres a strong pop sensibility on the album that shows how much theyve grown. 
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
City of Gold
NonesuchBuy Now Follow up to last years GRAMMY-winning Best Bluegrass Album. The album, which was produced by Bluegrass legend Jerry Douglas, and features a guest appearance from Dave Matthews, presents a band of top notch musicians, fronted by Tuttle, firing on all cylinders. The songs are rooted in Bluegrass, but expand on Tuttles ability to add elements of Indie Rock, Folk and Americana. 
Phoebe Hunt
Nothing Else Matters
Popped Corn RecordsBuy Now Phoebe Hunts sparse and vulnerable new album feels like an exercise in stripping things away. After years of writing, recording, and touring as a band member and bandleader, her latest finds her as a woman standing alone, just her voice and her fiddle. Nothing Else Matters asks many questions, the most central being, Is this enough? Am I enough? 
PJ Western
Here I Go
New WestBuy Now PJ Western creates music of contradictions. His tripped out pop-rock psychedelia evokes a haze of 60s AM radio as heard emanating from someone elses car window. Here I Go, Westerns debut album, was written in dreams. In visions. Wild but refined, classic but modern. The album is a lot like the man who wrote it: complex, celebratory, grateful. 
Amythyst Kiah
Wary + Strange
RounderBuy Now Wary + Strange marks the collision of two vastly different worlds: the iconoclastic alt-rock that first sparked her musical passion, and the roots music scene where she's found breakout success in recent years. This album arrives as an immersive body of work, redefining the limits of roots music in its inventive rhythms and textures. 
Gabriels
Angels & Queens
AtlanticBuy Now The worlds most exhilarating band return with the complete version of their Angels & Queens debut. Every song here is a wonder with the additional six tracks taking an already outstanding album to a whole different level. Its proud, its seductive, and unlikely toinspire many imitators of its retro-future soul and damaged doo-wop. Its simply too good to be copied. 
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Sunset 666 (Live at Hollywood Palladium)
Cooking VinylBuy Now Sunset 666 was Recorded live at Hollywood Palladium over six nights supporting Nine Inch Nails in 2018. Featuring the final nights full set in sequence, with the show-opening, here-we-fucking-go drums of Just Like Honey to the ferocious euphoria of an eight-and-a-half minute Reverence closer. Sunset 666 finds the noise rock evergreens in fiery form. 
Gus Dapperton
Henge
WarnerBuy Now Alt-pop icon Gus Dappertons vast and ambitious album Henge builds a new world tugging the listeners between night and day, socializing and solitude. The album delivers a contemporary eclectic sprawl, at times landing between 80s new-wave and 70s funk while fusing dance rhythms with melancholic ambience all providing a truly stunning experience. 
The Front Bottoms
You Are Who You Hang Out With
Fueled By RamenBuy Now Armed with the duos signature anthemic melodies, take-no-prisoners lyrics and tight musical interplay, every spin of the album is a chance to peek behind the curtain at two friends having one hell of a time doing what they do best. Its a stunning 10-track album full of explosive hooks and even harder-hitting melodies. 
Lori McKenna
1988
CN RecordsBuy Now With more of an electric edge than her past projects, 1988 feels in step with classic 90s albums by Sheryl Crow or Gin Blossoms, where lyrics pulled you in as much as melody or production. Playing together on acoustic guitars while facing one another in the studio, McKenna and producer Dave Cobb tracked the album live, giving it a feeling of immediacy and authenticity. 
William Matheny
That Grand Old Feeling
Hickman Holler RecordsBuy Now Many artists find inspiration on the road, but few do so with the keen eye and narrative talents of William Matheny. The West Virginia-based singer-songwriter finds inspiration for his brand of Appalachian Americana at truck stops and hotel lobbies, filtering his experiences through a perspective thats equal parts curious and compassionate. Here Matheny shares that perspective across nine new tracks. 
Margaret Glaspy
Echo The Diamond
ATO RecordsBuy Now Echo The Diamond expands on the frenetic vitality of her debut Emotions and Math which The New Yorker hailed as an album in which pretty songs often turn prickly, enriched by carefully measured infusions of dissonance and grit. Her first album in three years finds Glaspy at her most open, exploring grief and a highly personal sense of loss. 
Grentperez
When We Were Younger
Fast Friends US Co.Buy Now Fused signifiers of a wide variety of nostalgic sounds: his beloved bossa nova, yes, but also sprightly Philadelphia soul, the swelling strings of golden-era Hollywood, even the soundtracks and general vibe of 90s romcoms. Different musical gestures and lyrics stimulating long-dormant memories while simultaneously providing a soundtrack for new ones. 


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Bethany Cosentino
Natural Disastert
ConcordBuy Now On Natural Disaster, the debut solo album from Best Coasts Bethany Cosentino, the Los-Angeles based singer/songwriter takes close account of the endless catastrophes and upheavals of modern life, offering a high-minded and open-hearted response that makes room for compassion, imagination, and a radical sense of possibility.
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Now Hear This! - May 2026


Skindred
You Got This
Earache RecordsBuy Now The ragga-metal veterans return as a newly slimmed trio on their ninth album and most fully realized record yet. Finally closing the gap between their legendary live show and their studio output, You Got This crackles with dancehall-meets-metal hooks from the stomping title track through the sun-drenched reggae closer "Give Thanks." Joyous, festival-ready, impossible to stand still to. 
The Milk Carton Kids
Lost Cause Lover Fool
Thirty Tigers/Far Cry RecordsBuy Now Seven albums in, Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan have made their signature minimalism even smaller. Lost Cause Lover Fool opens with a banjo handled like light across grass, zooms in on small domestic moments, and ends with the tender ache of "Young Love." Two voices, two guitars, a world magnified. Essential Milk Carton Kids. 
Lolo
god forbid a girl spits out her feelings
FearlessBuy Now Lauren Mandel turns emotional oversharing into an art form on her diaristic second album. More acoustic and intimate than her debut, it balances sharp pop-punk bite with genuine vulnerability. "007" and "dumbest girl in the world" are bracingly self-aware, while "me with no shirt on" cuts deepest. Chaotic, unhinged, but never careless. 
Pussycat Dolls
PCD + Doll Domination
IGA/UMeBuy Now Two decades on, The Dolls make the case that PCD remains a defining pop statement of the 2000s. This double reissue pairs the platinum-certified debut with Doll Domination on vinyl for the first time. "Don't Cha," "Buttons," and "When I Grow Up" still hit hard, and new remixes by Devault and Charlotte Plank feel right at home. 
Valve
Half-Life: Alyx (Official Game Soundtrack)
Ipecac RecordingsBuy Now Mike Morasky's score for the landmark VR game gets its first physical release, extending the long Valve/Ipecac partnership that began with Portal 2. Drawing inspiration from Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, and Skinny Puppy, the music blends ominous ambient textures with pulsating electronics into a deeply immersive listening experience that holds up well outside the game itself. 
Brother Wallace
Electric Love
ATO RecordsBuy Now K-12 music teacher turned soul revivalist Brother Wallace makes a stunning debut. Produced by Dan Taylor of The Heavy at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, Electric Love is thirteen tracks of Stax-and-Motown soul built around Wallace's extraordinary voice. The same voice that had "Who's That?" charting Top 20 before radio play was even planned. 
India Ramey
Villain Era
Blue Elan RecordsBuy Now Nashville outlaw India Ramey's sixth album does exactly what the title promises. Recorded in Los Angeles with Grammy-nominated producer Eric Corne, Villain Era is ten spaghetti-western-meets-honky-tonk vignettes laced with gallows humor and emotional precision. She wanted it to sound like Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn scoring a Tarantino film. On songs like "Six Feet Under," she gets there. 
Lip Critic
Theft World
Partisan RecordsBuy Now Electro-punks Lip Critic built their sophomore album around an extraordinary true story: frontman Bret Kaser's identity thief turned out to be a fan who believed the catalog contained hidden codes. They scrapped their existing material and built Theft World around the mythology the kid invented. The result is a focused, maximalist transmission of breakbeats, jagged guitars, and hardcore urgency. 
Sofiane Pamart
Movie
88 Touches ProductionBuy Now France's most-streamed classical pianist opens his universe to fourteen collaborators on this cinematic fourth album. From a Wyclef Jean meditation on peace to Sia's powerhouse "Gimme Love Orchestra" and NBA star Jimmy Butler narrating "Midnight in California," the Prague Philharmonic providing orchestral sweep throughout, Movie is conceived as a film Pamart himself directed, the piano always holding the lead role. 
Tiga
Hotlife
Secret CityBuy Now Ending a decade-long album drought with a career-defining record, Tiga worked with Boys Noize, Matthew Dear, and newer names like Fcukers, HOTLIFE to create something crackling with wit and dancefloor muscle. An INXS cover transmuted into frost-covered electro and a New Order-esque closer with genuine emotional warmth remind you why Tiga has always been one of electronic music's most endearing characters. 
Death Lens
What's Left Now?
Epitaph RecordsBuy Now Four working-class, multicultural SoCal punks make their most urgent record. Produced by Zach Tuch (Knocked Loose, Touche Amore), What's Left Now? examines breakups, fascism, and self-worth with an anger that never loses its melody. From the Spanish-language opener "Monolith" to the anthemic "Pulling Teeth," this is sharp, politically charged punk-rock that crackles from start to finish. 
Mavi
The Pilot
Loma VistaBuy Now The Pilot documents the Charlotte rapper's initial year of sobriety and the contradictions that come with it. Boom bap, jazz rap, and lo-fi hip-hop underpin candid reckoning with new wealth and old anxieties. Guest appearances from Earl Sweatshirt, Smino, and MIKE add texture to a brief but weighty 26-minute mixtape. 
Liam Kazar
Pilot Light
Congrats RecordsBuy Now Kazar's sophomore album is warm, comforting, and quietly confident. Folk-pop Americana with a jazzy undertow and a storyteller's instinct, Pilot Light develops his sound without abandoning it. Think Josh Ritter-adjacent songwriting with a more contemplative, melancholy tone. No dramatic reinventions, just a talented songwriter refining what he does best. 
Julia Cumming
Julia
Partisan RecordsBuy Now Sunflower Bean's Julia Cumming steps out alone with a debut that trades guitar fuzz for piano clarity and Carole King-to-Carly Simon songwriter warmth. Described as her "anti-cool" statement, Julia is a joyous celebration of misfits shaped by two years in Los Angeles with producer Brian Robert Jones. Beneath the sunny arrangements, songs like "Ruled By Fear" carry a darker, more anxious underbelly. 
Mama's Gun
Dig!
Blue Elan RecordsBuy Now Recorded live to 16-track analogue tape in Leeds, Dig! has the warmth of musicians playing together for nearly two decades. The title track features a co-lead vocal from Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron's legendary collaborator. Timeless soul built from Motown, Marvin Gaye, and Al Green, delivered without leaning on nostalgia. 
Benjamin Tod
Vengeance And Grace
Thirty Tigers/Lost Dog Street BandBuy Now Lost Dog Street Band frontman presents ten songs twice - once with a full band, once alone on acoustic guitar. Following major personal change including the birth of his first child, Vengeance and Grace explores classic country terrain: redemption, regret, and hard-won faith. The stripped acoustic version in particular showcases the quiet power of Tod's songwriting. 
Taj Mahal
Time
Thirty TigersBuy Now Five-time Grammy winner Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band finally release 2010 sessions anchored by a remarkable find: an unrecorded Bill Withers demo, brought to Taj with the family's blessing. Spanning blues, soul, reggae, and Afro-Cuban grooves, with Ziggy Marley guesting on a Bob Marley cover, Time is deep-groove, grown-folks music from a living legend. 
Jack Johnson
Surfilmusic
Brushfire/Universal RecordsBuy Now A companion double album to Johnson's documentary of the same name, Surfilmusic splits across two discs: a new score co-written with Hermanos Gutierrez, and archival four-track home recordings from Johnson's earliest days. Hearing raw pre-production versions of "Flake," "Bubble Toes," and "Taylor" strips away the beach-playlist familiarity and reveals how strong those songs were from the beginning. 


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Foo Fighters
Your Favorite Toy
RCABuy Now The 12th Foo Fighters album is the leanest and most raw since Wasting Light. With new drummer Ilan Rubin (a NIN veteran) providing tightly mechanical energy, Your Favorite Toy is 36 minutes of high-octane catharsis. Grohl exorcises recent personal demons through sheer volume as the band crackles with conviction. 
Castle Rat
The Bestiary
Loma VistaBuy Now Your favorite medieval fantasy doom quartet deliver a wicked sophomore record that seals the deal. Metal Hammer called it the perfect response to a metal mainstream gone mad. Steeped in Black Sabbath, Pentagram, and Candlemass, The Bestiary follows Rat Queen Riley Pinkerton through dragons, wolves, and wizards. Crushing riffs, gothic atmosphere, and enough hooks to make even skeptics headbang. 
Young the Giant
Victory Garden
FearlessBuy Now Victory Garden is an ode to radical empathy, written largely during retreats in Idyllwild and Joshua Tree and produced by Brendan O'Brien at Henson Studios in Hollywood. Reconnecting with full-band collaboration after 2022's American Bollywood, it ditches the gloss for grit. Warm, anthemic and quietly sure of itself, this is a record that earns its emotional payoff rather than demanding it. 


Kacey Musgraves
Live From The Middle of NowhereBuy Now Kacey Musgraves has always written from somewhere most people are afraid to admit they live. Her new album, Middle of Nowhere, doubles down on that honesty, and now she's bringing it to a city near you. Expect dreamy production, razor-sharp songwriting, and all the cosmic Texan charm that has made her a generation-defining artist. Get lost in The Middle of Nowhere Tourit's the surest way home you'll find all year. 

Kacey Musgraves Buy Now Some artists make albums. Kacey Musgraves makes maps. From the small-town wisdom of Pageant Material to the starlit heartbreak of Star Crossed, the sun-warmed haze of Golden Hour, and the still, searching quiet of Deeper Well, she has charted a course that is entirely her own. Wherever she is headed next, you'll want to follow... even if it's to the Middle of Nowhere. 
Billie Eilish Buy Now Billie Eilish does not ask for your attention, she just has it. From the eerie, whispering darkness of When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, where trap beats collided with nightmare imagery and a generation found its anxious heartbeat, to the bright bitterness of Happier Than Ever, where she shed the shadows and stepped into her own anger with breathtaking clarity, she has made discomfort feel like home and vulnerability like strength. Read More























