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The Beaches
No Hard Feelings
Beaches Touring Inc

The Beaches have spent the past decade building something unstoppable. Their third album No Hard Feelings finds the band blaming themselves (rather than their exes), embracing their partying ways and accepting the occasional semi-self-destructive thoughts and actions. The LP includes the last-call anthem “Last Girls At The Party”, fan favorite “Jocelyn” and self-reflective “Takes One to Know One.”

Wolf Alice
The Clearing
RCA Records

Wolf Alice trade youthful chaos for poise and depth. Rich in reflection, it’s their most nuanced, mature work yet—dreamy, sharp, and emotionally clear-eyed. Ellie Rowsell’s songwriting glows with wisdom, while the band evolve without losing their spark. A luminous, layered triumph that confirms: some bands don’t just age gracefully, they get greater.

Lola Young
I'm Only F**king Myself
Island

Packaged in a sleek digipack, this CD includes the hit single 'One Thing' and feels like the emotional glue holding everything in place. It's for the ones still burning CDs in their cars and holding on to something physical in a world that won't stop glitching. Easy to play, hard to ignore. Whether you're spiraling in your bedroom or cruising at midnight, this is the version that stays with you.

Kingfishr
Halcyon
Atlantic

Limerick trio Kingfishr soar on Halcyon, a debut rich in heart, heritage, and ambition. Blending traditional Irish folk with widescreen indie, it’s both grounded and skyward. From the anthemic lift of “Man On The Moon” to the tender ache of “21”, each track pulses with purpose. It’s a striking arrival, raw, resonant, and brimming with promise.

Blood Orange
Essex Honey
RCA

Essex Honey refines the Blood Orange palette with a beautifully fractured collage of grief, memory, and place. From glum post-punk to lush soul and ambient drift, it’s rich with quiet revelations. Nods to New Order, Yo La Tengo, and Elliott Smith haunt the mix, while Hynes’ sorrowful hooks linger longest. A genre-fluid, emotionally resonant triumph from a master of musical alchemy.

John Fogerty
Legacy: the Creedence Clearwater Revival years
Concord

Fogerty celebrates the songs that shaped rock history—on his own terms. For the first time, he fully owns the rights to his music. This marks both celebration and reclamation. With newly recorded versions of his hits, Legacy captures his raw energy with renewed fire. It’s not just a celebration of one of the greatest catalogs in rock & roll—it’s the sound of an American original claiming his place, once more, at center stage.

Three Days Grace
Alienation
RCA

For the first time in over a decade, the original line-up rejoins to define a significantly new, but nostalgic, chapter of the band. It’s a journey through inner collapse and outward defiance, reflecting isolation as a condition of existence, not just circumstance. Anxiety, addiction, heartbreak, disconnect, are often a different wave of the same storm. And yet, beneath is something human-still reaching out.

Tedeschi Trucks Band & Leon Russell
Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited Live at LOCKN'
Fantasy

In 2015, TTB, fronted by Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, revived the historic event at Lockn’ Festival. Featuring original Mad Dogs members and guest stars like Chris Robinson and Warren Haynes, the concert combined Southern soul, blues, and rock with a 20+ musician ensemble honoring the past while infusing modern energy.

Mike Reid & Joe Henry
Life And Time
Thirty Tigers / Work Song Inc.

Forged from a chance meeting at a songwriting camp, Joe Henry and Mike Reid’s collaboration unfolds like a whispered prayer. With Reid’s weathered, soulful voice guiding Henry’s elegiac lyrics, these songs carry the weight of grief, grace, and redemption. A quietly transcendent folk-soul communion—raw, intimate, and profound. A spiritual journal disguised as song.

R.E.M.
Radio Free Europe 2025
Craft

This limited-edition 10-inch EP revisits R.E.M.’s landmark debut single led by a brand-new 2025 remix from Jacknife Lee. Completing the set are Mitch Easter’s original 1981 recordings – the sought-after Hib-Tone single mix and its flipside “Sitting Still,” the “Wh. Tornado” demo, and Easter’s 1981 remix “Radio Free Dub” – all pressed on orange vinyl.

The Cast of Phineas and Ferb
Phineas and Ferb: Holiday Favorites
Walt Disney Records

Surprisingly strong beyond the novelty, Phineas and Ferb Holiday Favorites delivers festive cheer with real songwriting chops. Drawn from the show's Christmas special, the tracks are clever, catchy, and full of character-driven charm—outshining much of the seasonal standards.

Rob Thomas
All Night Days
Universal Records

Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (Matchbox Twenty) continues to pen songs about living life to the fullest, even if those "All Night Days" come less often than they used to. Co-produced with Gregg Wattenberg (John Legend, Goo Goo Dolls), this record is as fitting a soundtrack for Saturday night, as much as it is Sunday morning.

Chris Stamey
Anything Is Possible
Label 51 Recordings

On Anything is Possible, Chris Stamey delivers a masterclass in melodic craftsmanship. With nods to Kern, Pet Sounds, and his dB’s heyday, this is pop both timeless and tuned-in. Joined by The Lemon Twigs, Stamey pens gems that shimmer with smarts and soul. A refined late-career triumph from a songwriting savant.

The Who
Live At The Oval 1971
UMe

With 35,000 in attendance, on September 18, 1971, The Who headlined Goodbye Summer at The Oval cricket ground in Kennington, South London. Newly mixed from the original 8-track analog multi-track tapes, this concert shows The Who continuing their dominance as the top live rock band of the era, culminating in Pete Townshend and Keith Moon destroying their equipment in a grand finale.

Brad Mehldau
Ride into the Sun
Nonesuch

Brad Mehldau's Ride into the Sun is a luminous tribute to Elliott Smith, reimagining his fragile songbook through chamber-folk elegance and jazz-touched nuance. With guests like Chris Thile and Daniel Rossen, Mehldau blends reverence with invention. Originals, plus nods to Big Star and Nick Drake, make this a haunting, graceful meditation on melancholy and melody.

Teyana Taylor
Escape Room
Def Jam

Escape Room is a cinematic R&B odyssey—raw, sultry, and soul-baring. Framed by star-studded interludes (including Taraji P. Henson, Sarah Paulson, Kerry Washington, Regina King, and Issa Rae), it blurs life and art in a lush, emotionally charged narrative of transformation. With Kaytranada grooves and aching ballads, Taylor peels back every layer.

Bailey Zimmerman
Different Night Same Rodeo
Warner Music Nashville

Bailey Zimmerman’s Different Night Same Rodeo doubles down on heartland grit and chart-topping polish. With Austin Shawn at the helm and a cameo from Luke Combs, Zimmerman spins tales of heartbreak and resilience into arena-sized anthems. It's country for the streaming era—slick, sincere, and built for mass singalongs. A sophomore swing that lands with force.

Helloween
Giants & Monsters
Reigning Phoenix Music

Helloween roar into their 40th year with a thunderous, shape-shifting beast of an album. With seven virtuosos and five songwriters firing at full tilt, it’s their most expansive, fearless work yet. Power metal theatrics meet prog ambition, proving this colossus still stomps with purpose. Reinvention never sounded so joyfully colossal.

Olivia Dean
The Art of Loving
Island

On her sophomore effort, Dean offers a tender, intentional deep dive into the many dimensions of love—romantic, platonic, self, and everything in between. It’s tender yet assured, pairing velvet vocals with understated soul-pop finesse. With “Nice To Each Other” as its gentle centerpiece, this is a quietly luminous step forward from one of Britain’s brightest voices.

Texas Headhunters
Texas Headhunters
Blue Elan Records LLC

Texas Headhunters is a raw, roaring blues revival from Texas titans Ian Moore, Johnny Moeller, and Jesse Dayton. Cut live at Willie’s place, it’s 12 tracks of unfiltered swagger and soul, channeling the legacy of Blues mentor Clifford Antone. No gimmicks, just grit. This isn’t a throwback, it’s a battle cry. Texas blues lives, loud and proud.

Rosetta Stone
Dose Makes The Poison
Cleopatra Records

Dose Makes The Poison finds the veteran British goth pioneers sharpening shadows with masterful intent. Icy, driving, and steeped in unease, it’s a brooding soundtrack for a world fraying at the edges. Familiar in mood but mature in execution, this is no nostalgia trip, it’s a dark mirror held up to now. Chilling, elegant, essential.

Various Artists
The Black Album
Cleopatra Records

Cleopatra’s latest comp summons goth’s past and future into one spectral embrace. The Black Album reimagines iconic gloom through acts like The KVB, Aesthetic Perfection, and Rosetta Stone, melding minimal wave, industrial bite, and deathrock drama. It’s not retro, it’s resurrection. A thrilling, pulse-darkening reminder that the shadows never sleep. Darkness, it seems, is having its moment.

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Laufey - A Matter of Time Tour

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Laufey brings her enchanting blend of jazz, pop, and classical to the big stage with theA Matter of Time Tour—her first-ever all-arena headlining run. Kicking off September 15 in Orlando, the 26-date North American tour supports her critically acclaimed third album A Matter of Time. With Suki Waterhouse opening, expect an elegant, emotionally rich evening of modern romance and timeless melodies.

Haim - I quit tour

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Haim hit the road this fall forI quit tour, celebrating their bold, critically acclaimed fourth album I quit. Produced by Rostam Batmanglij and Danielle Haim, the album is a fierce ode to self-liberation and personal growth. Expect a high-energy set packed with fan favorites like “All Over Me” and “Relationships”—unapologetic anthems from a band confidently stepping into their next era.

Turnpike Troubadours - Wild America Tour 2025

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Oklahoma legends Turnpike Troubadours are set to embark on their 2025 Wild America Tour, showcasing their signature Red Dirt country sound across iconic U.S. venues. With opening acts like Old Crow Medicine Show, Trample By Turtles, and Dawes, the tour will support their surprise new album The Price of Admission, produced by Shooter Jennings.

Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails has long defined industrial rock’s shadowy edge, from the harrowing intensity of The Downward Spiral to the sprawling ambition of The Fragile, the sharper hooks of With Teeth, and the brooding textures of Add Violence. Now, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross push their vision further with the Tron: Ares soundtrack, fusing cinematic scope with NIN’s dark, immersive power.

Margo Price
Hard Headed Woman
Loma Vista Recordings

For nearly a decade Margo Price has created a lane where independent-minded, insurgent country music can exist and thrive alongside the mainstream. Now she’s back with an exquisite, timeless album that reconnects with her roots. At its core Hard Headed Woman is about that furious instinct to never waver—especially when our values and future are so clearly on the line. It's country music as only Price can make it: free of rules, cherishing tradition, hard headed but with a delicate beating heart.

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