Here are a few things to celebrate next week: Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger turns 47 on Monday, Diana Krall will be 57 on Tuesday, Gordon Lightfoot is 83 on Wednesday, and Carly Rae Jepsen turns 36 next Sunday. Here are a few more things to celebrate: More than 450 new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks and vinyl reissues on the way. Light the candles:
Josh Abbott Band | Christmas Was EP
Accordo dei Contrari | UR-
Mike Adams at His Honest Weight | Oscillate Wisely 10th Anniversary Reissue
Adele | 30
Adiant | Killing Dreams
Aephanemer | A Dream of Wilderness
Albinotron | Glitchwave Vol. 1
Tamera | Afrodite EP
Alfa Mist | Two For Mistake EP
Hasaan Ibn Ali | Retrospect In Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings
David James Allen | The Architect
Malik Alston | Painted Pictures: Air
Jonathan Antoine | ChristmasLand
Ichiko Aoba | Windswept Adan
Apostle of Solitude | When The Darkness Goes
The Appleseed Cast | Lost Songs Vinyl Reissue
Arovane | Reihen
Asa Tone | Live at New Forms
Atom Driver | Is Anything Alright
Autechre | Chiastic Slide Vinyl Reissue
Autechre | LP5 Vinyl Reissue
Avenues | We’re All Doomed
Axlaustade | Ouverture
Max B | Negro Spirituals
Badi and Boddhi Satva | Enjaillement
Baldi/Gerycz Duo | Roadsided and Double Toothed
Banned in G.B.G. | What The Hell Is Going On?
Claudio F. Baroni & Dario Calderone | Ursae Minoris
Gabby Barrett | Goldmine Deluxe
Cecilia Bartoli | Unreleased
Beach Fossils | The Other Side Of Life: Piano Ballads
Bears In Trees | And Everybody Smiled Back
Belmont | Browser’s Mixtape
Benny Benack with The Steven Feifke Big Band | Season’s Swingin’ Greetings
Bentrees | Two Of Swords
Best Breakfast | Panacea
Between You & Me | Armageddon
Big Wreck | Big Wreck: 7.1 EP
Biyi | The Fix
Julius Black | Together We Go Down In The Dark EP
The Black Watch | Here & There
Blockheads | Trip To The Void
Olivia Block | Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea
Colin Blunstone | One Year 50th Anniversary Edition Vinyl
James Blunt | The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021)
Blurt | Uzi Single
Body/Dilloway/Head | Body/Dilloway/Head
Boundless Relaxation | Tranquility of the Infinite
Boy Deluxe | Risen EP
Tyler Braden | What Do They Know EP
Simon Bromide | Following The Moon
Apollo Brown & Stalley | Blacklight
Lydia Brownfield | Dig
Bruisey Peets | Poached Eggs
Johanna Burnheart | Burnheart Remixed
Bush | Razorblade Suitcase (In Addition) (Pink Vinyl)
Dan Campbell | Other People’s Lives
Clams Casino | Winter Flower
Le Cast | Lucid Dream
Chartreuse | Is It Autumn Already EP
Cherokee | Blood And Gold
Chong Wizard | Blessing Season
David Christian And The Pinecone Orchestra | For Those We Met On The Way
Christian Death | The Wind Kissed Pictures EP Reissue
Cien | Redemption
Citizen Soldier | This is Your Sign (Part 1)
Civerous | Decrepit Flesh Relic
Clowns | Does It Matter?
Coldbones | The Cataclysm
Compact Beach | Star Wars Episode VI Single
Concrete Castles | The Densest Fog
Hans Condor | Breaking And Entering
Confusion Master | Haunted
Consecration | Reanimated
Converge & Chelsea Wolfe | Bloodmoon: I
Phil Cook | All These Years
Cooly G | Save Me EP
Copeland, King, Cosma & Belew | Gizmodrome Live
Crafty 893 | Weapon X
Crashdïet | No Man’s Land Single
Crash the Calm | A Town Called Nowhere Volume III
Dark Arts / Minimal Compact | Split EP
The Darkness | Motorheart
Yousef Dave | Changing Perspectives, Pt. 2
Benjamin Lazar Davis | Benjamin Lazar Davis
Daxma | Unmarked Boxes
DC The Don | My Own Worst 3nemy
Jean Deaux | Most Wanted
Deca | Source Material
Deap Vally | Marriage
DED | School of Thought Vinyl
Deekapz | Super Funk EP
Robert DeLong | Walk Like Me
Desert Limnal | Glass Fate
Destructo | Demonic Possession
Dev/Null | Microjunglizm
Dion | Stomping Ground
Dixon / Akers | Slime Resolution
Tom Dissevelt | Fantasy In Orbit
Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan | The Fascinating World of Electronic Music
Donato Dozzy | 124
Dream Unending | Tide Turns Eternal
John Duncan & T.R. Kirstein | John Duncan & T.R. Kirstein
Dunkelziffer | Songs For Everyone
Dust In Mind | My Own Worst 3nemy
Duval Timothy | Son Book
Eagles of Death Metal | Presents A Boots Electric Christmas
Earth Crisis / Snapcase / Strife | The Return Of The California Takeover
Callum Easter | System
Kat Edmonson | Holiday Swingin! A Kat Edmonson Christmas Vol. 1
John Edwards, N.O. Moore, Eddie Prévost, Alan Wilkinson | EMPoWered
e4444e | Autumnal Eve
Elbow | Flying Dream 1
Eldritch | Eos
Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins | Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins Vinyl Reissue
Kahil El’Zabar Quartet | A Time For Healing
Stella Emmett | In Case of Loss
Enablers | Output Negative Space Reissue
Eraan | Up In Flames EP
Errunhrd | You Can Be You, I Can Be Me
Eternity’s End | Embers of War
Exodus | Persona Non Grata
Eye Flys | Exigent Circumstance
Nathan Fake | Blizzards Remixes EP
Ty Farris | No Cosign Just Cocaine 4
Field Guide | Parachutes
Fine Place | This New Heaven
Fire-Toolz | Eternal Home Instrumentals
Jacob Fitzgerald | Pretend I’m Cool
FKA Twigs | Measure Of A Man
The Foreign Resort | OutRemixed
Nick Frater | Earworms
Lars Frederiksen | To Victory EP
Robert Fripp | Music For Quiet Moments
Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion | We Are The Truth
Frogpond | TimeThief
Furnace And The Fundamentals | A Very Furnace Christmas
Fuzzybrains | Lost Single
Cooly G | Save Me / We Can Find Love Too
Galaxy | On The Shore Of Life
Gavinco | Beriza LP
Ben LaMar Gay | Open Arms to Open Us
Marvin Gaye x Salaam Remi | The Remix Suite
Genesis | The Last Domino Vinyl
Gentleman Jesse | Lose Everything
Ghost Rhythms | Spectral Music
The Ghosts of Searchlight | Sprawl
Godless | State Of Chaos
Godtet | Meditations
Netta Goldhirsch and Pete Murphy | You Cannot Know What You Know
Goodboy Noah | Cool EP
Good Looking Son | Fantasy Weekend
Matt Goss | The Beautiful Unknown
Jaki Graham | 35th Anniversary Collection
Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers | American Babylon 25th Anniversary Edition Vinyl
Gurrumul | The Gurrumul Story Deluxe Edition
Snorri Hallgrímsson | Landbrot II
Tom Hamilton & Holly Bowling | Lacuna
Bev Lee Harling | Little Anchor
Annie Hart | Everything Pale Blue Vinyl
Adam Hattaway & The Haunters | Rooster
Angel Haze | Girl With The Gun EP
Hearts & Hand Grenades | Between the Lines
Houeida Hedfi | Fleuves de l’Âme
Heir | Urban Birthmark
Hellenica | Blood Meridian: An Imagined Soundtrack
Hello Cosmos | Golden Dirt
Isaac Helsen | Burning House
Gregory Hernandez | Demos to a Non-Existent Life
Heruka | Dust from the Deception Sun
Hidden Figures | Damaged Art
Hien | Bloom EP
Jools Holland | Pianola: Piano & Friends
Hollow Ship | Future Remains Deluxe Edition
Holy Other | Lieve
The Holy Rollercoasters | The Odyssey I
Hoo | We Shall Never Speak
Christian Hornbostel | Liber Prodigiorum
Candice Hoyes | Blue Lagoon Woman EP
Engelbert Humperdinck | Regards EP
Infinite Coles | Destiny EP
Instasamka | Moneydealer
Jack and the Dull Boy | Failure In Three Parts
Jack Quartet | Bell Threads
James | The Campfire EP
José James | Merry Christmas from José James
Cassandra Jenkins | (An Overview on) An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
Ross Jennings | A Shadow of My Future Self
Jerome | LP2
Joe & The Shitboys | The Reason For Hardcore Vibes (Again)
J.R.C.G. | Ajo Sunshine
June | A Son’s Soliloquy
Jyrki 69 & Steve Stevens | White Rabbit
Alai K | Kila Mara
Mickael Karkousse | Where Do We Begin EP
Kasai Allstars | Black Ants Remixes
Kasfelgues | | Other Morning
Kavinsky | Renegade
Ori Kawa And The Entals | Draw 4 EP
Kaytranada | Intimidated EP
Kcin | Decade Zero (Ambient Edition)
Paul Kelly | Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train EP
K. Flay | Outside Voices EP
Sean Khan | Supreme Love: A Journey Through Coltrane
Khemmis | Deceiver
Kid Acne + Spectacular Diagnostics | Null & Void
King Crimson | Music Is Our Friend (Live in Washington and Albany, 2021)
Kiss | Destroyer 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Anniversary Edition
Klein | Harmattan
Steph Kretowicz | I Hate It Here
Ashley Kutcher | One Eighty EP
Fela Kuti | Live! With Ginger Baker 50th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue
Ladyhawke | Time Flies
Lake Mosaic | Perseverance Single
Merdh Laleh | Ardent Flux
Jessy Lanza | DJ-Kicks
L.A. Peach | Welcome to L.A. Peach
Bill Laurance | Zeal
Nathan Leigh & The Crisis Actors | House on Stilts EP
Cantique Lépreux | Sectes
LE$ | E30
Santino Le Saint | Beautiful Disaster
Danielle Lewis | Dreaming In Slow Motion
Leona Lewis | Christmas, With Love Always
Lexxicon | Tropicon Islands
Chris Liebing | Another Day
The Light The Heat | Afterlife EP
Chloe Lilac | New Mixtape
Lil Pump | TBA
Lil Tati | Ninet33n
Jim Lindberg | Songs From The Elkhorn Trail
Lisi | Perspective
LMNOP | Alphabet Soup Vol. 1
Dusty Locane | Untamed
Muni Long | Pubic Displays of Affection EP
L00ping | Zero-Point Energy EP
Allison Lorenzen | Tender
Love By Numb3rs | Colours EP
Love Tractor | Themes From Venus Vinyl Reissue
Loviet | 777
Ben Lupus | V D’Ici
The Lurking Fear | Death, Madness, Horror, Decay
Lusitania Ghosts | Exotic Quixotic
Mabilene | The Other Side
Madlib, M.E.D., and Blu | Bad Neighbor Reissue
Magnetic Skies | Not A Fire Single
Mandy, Indiana | …EP
Myele Manzanza | Crisis & Opportunity Vol.2: Peaks
Mapache | 3 EP
Jaye Marsh | Flute In The Wild
Massive Charge | For Those We Hate
Maybeshewill | No Feeling Is Final
Mayday Parade | What It Means To Fall Apart
Makaya McCraven | Deciphering The Message
McKenzie & Gardiner | Got To Get Away 2020 / From Time
Me And That Man | New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.2
Merlock | You Cannot Be Saved EP
Micajah | Nested Light EP
Mirod | Don’t Trust The Weird Kid
Alfa Mist | Two For Mistake EP
Mr. Twin Sister | Al Mundo Azul
Chloe Mk | All the Same All OK
Modern Nature | Island Of Noise
Hedvig Mollestad | Tempest Revisited
The Moment KLKTV | Be A Bridge
Monsta X | No Limit
Malo Moray & His Inflatable Knee | Improvisations From The Solar System (And Other Solo Pieces)
Jessica Moss | Phosphenes
Mother Nature | Island Of Noise
Jake Muir | Mana
Bryan Murray & Jon Lundbom | Beats by Balto! Vol. 2
Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm | Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm
µ-Ziq & Mrs Jynx | Secret Garden
The Mystery Plan | Thought Bubbles
Napoleon Da Legend & Amerigo Gazaway | The World Changed
Willie Nelson | The Willie Nelson Family
NervoChaos | Dug Up… Diabolical Reincarnations
The New Twentys | The Power EP
The Night Eternal | Moonlit Cross
Nightland | The Great Nothing
Folke Nikanor | Främmande
Leo Nocentelli | Another Side
Nocturnal Wanderer | Gift of the Night
Noir Disco | Now! 2073
Forrest Nolan | You (Make Me Feel Alright) EP
No Strange | …E Continuerò Ad Esistere
Noveliss & Dixon Hill | Book of Changes
Nyt Liv | Den Døde Sol
Oasis | Oasis Knebworth 1996
Obscura | A Valediction
Odd Ned | Long Mile Works
100 Gecs | Me Me Me
Orcha | Reflections Remixed
Ordeal | Ovmbr: Hits No Mrs
Orelsan | Civilisation
Ovlov | Buds
OSS | Enter The Kettle
Our Darkest Days | Snakes & Ladders
Overmono | Diamond Cut / Bby EP
Ovlov | Buds
Pachiderma | Il Diavolo, La Peste, La Morte Vinyl
Rick Pagano | Untitled
Palm Ghosts | The Lost Frequency
Papercuts | Baxter’s Bliss EP
Parris | Can You Feel The Sun
Matt Patershuk | An Honest Effort
Pathology | The Everlasting Plague
Pé | Inherited Heteronomous Perception
Peakes | Peripheral Figures
Pegasus Warning | Inspiration Equation
Leonie Pernet | Le Cirque de Consolation
Perveration | Perversion In Manifest Disease
Phantom Limb | Pastoral
Pikes | Manasollasa
Ping | The Zig Zag Manoeuvre
Michael Pisaro-Liu | Revolution Shuffle
Duane Pitre | Omniscient Voices
Van Plating | The Way Down
Plebian Grandstand | Rien Ne Suffit
Ploy | Rayhana EP
Potty Mouth | 1% Happier EP
Mike Pride | I Hate Work
Primal Scream | Live At Levitation
Qilin | Petrichor
Sissi Rada | Nanodiamond
Raibard | Angel of the Clockwork Single
Rare Americans | Rare Americans 3: Jamesy Boy & The Screw Loose Zoo
Allen Ravenstine | The Tyranny of Fiction: Electron Music | Shore Leave
Allen Ravenstine | The Tyranny of Fiction: Nautilus | Rue Du Poisson Noir
Reptaliens | Multiverse
Resina | Speechless
Rezz | Spiral
André Rieu | Happy Together
Penny Rimbaud & Youth | Corpus Mei
Rioghan | Covers II
John Robinson | Muzik Minded
Vanessa Rossetto / Lionel Marchetti | The Tower (The City)
Roughion | Newport Road
Rozen | Ballads of Hyrule II
Charles Rumback | Seven Bridges
Saar | Gods
Sacred Oath | Return Of The Dragon
Saint Solitude | Twilight Reduction
The Salvation Army | Mind Gardens (40th Anniversary Double 45)
Same Side | In Place EP
Schoolly D | Cuz Schoolly D’s Crazy
Scowl | How Flowers Grow
Sea Wolf | Through A Dark Wood Deluxe
Sennen | Transmissions
Carl Sentance | Electric Eye
Shake the Temple | Shake the Temple
Sharon, Lois & Bram | Best of the Best Live
Nadia Sheikh | Undefined EP
The Sherlocks | World I Understand
Signs Of The Dying Summer | Oto Jest Pustka
Silver Lining | Among The Waves EP
Simon & The Island | Simon & The Island
Single Girl, Married Girl | Three Generations of Leaving
Chris Skillz & Zain | The Void
Sleep Diet | Void Everywhere EP
Slump6s | Origin
Smile | Phantom Island
Wadada Leo Smith, Jack DeJohnette & Vijay Iyer | A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday
Snake Eyes | The Lovehate Mixtape
Snake Lips | Spore Sessions No. 10
Snake Mountain Revival | Everything in Sight
Snoop Dogg | Algorithm
Snowdrops | Inner Fires
Socio La Difekta | Kreski
Solar Cross | Echoes Of The Eternal World
Soup | Visions
Spice | A Better Treatment b/w Everyone Gets In
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts
Tasos Stamou | Monoliths
Brion Starr | A Night To Remember
States of Nature | Songs To Sway
Stats | Powys 1999
Steppenwolf | Magic Carpet Ride: The Dunhill / ABC Years 1967-1971
Stillbirth | Strain of Gods
Sting | The Bridge
Kelly Stoltz | Antique Glow Vinyl Reissue
Stores | Stores EP
Stranguliatorius | Doctor’s Orders: Do Not Touch!
Strick | Strick Land
Stromboli | Exiles
Sun Below | Sun Below
Sur Duda | Total Distortion
Swallow The Sun | Moonflowers
Swansea Sound | Live at the Rum Puncheon
Swedish Magazines | I Wish Life Could Be … The Best Of 2004-2011
The Sweetheart Revue | Good News, Bad News
Syberian98 | Speed-Up Traxx EP
SYML | Sacred Spaces (Recorded at St. Mark’s Cathedral)
Taking Meds | Terrible News From Wonderful Men
Phương Tâm | Magical Nights: Saigon Surf, Twist & Soul (1964-1966)
Tamera | Afrodite EP
Paula Tape | Astroturismo
TDW | Fountains
Temperance | Diamanti
Tender Mercy | The Veil Falls
Morjane Ténéré | You’re Not That Strong Single
Terra | Hypercube
Jesse Terry | Peace
Thank You Scientist | Plague Accomodations
John Thayer | Supermundane
Theatres Des Vampires | In Nomine Sanguinis
Dakota Theim | Tangled Heart
Toehider | 12in12
Kazuki Tomokawa | Kazuki Tomokawa 1975–1977
Kazuki Tomokawa | Try Saying You’re Alive!
Total Hell | Total Hell EP
Tower | Shock to the System
Traffic Island | A Shrug Of The Shoulders
Traitrs | Horses In The Abattoir
Phong Tran | The Computer Room
Trend Kill Ghosts | Until The Sun Rise Again
The Trews | Wanderer
21LilKay | Living And Dying
Ultra-Q | Get Yourself A Friend
Under The Influence | Dark Side Of The Brain
Ur New Favorite War Criminals | Full Life Consequences
Kaya Usher & The Family Band | All This Is
Various Artists | Animals Reimagined: A Tribute To Pink Floyd
Various Artists | Breakthrough: Underground Sounds of 1971
Various Artists | Bruised Soundtrack
Various Artists | @0 (Curated by Coldcut & Mixmaster Morris)
Various Artists | Buganda Royal Music Revival
Various Artists | Last Wisps of the Old Ways: North Carolina Mountain Singing
Various Artists | Motown: A Symphony of Soul With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Vinyl
Various Artists | Salsoul Revisions Vol. 2
Various Artists | Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Sound of Philadelphia International Records Volume 2
Various Artists | 10 Years of Double Double Whammy
Vaulted | Left In Despair
Versus | Endless Duality
Vigilantes | Ambedo Auras
Will Vinson | Solo
Vintergrav | Elderwoods
Marcel Vogel & Tim Jules | If You Don’t Love EP
Volumes | Happier
Vrsty | Welcome Home
The Wanted | Most Wanted: The Greatest Hits
Simon Ward | Simon And The Island
Wavy Da Ghawd | Ghawd’s Eden
Weakened Friends | Quitter
The Weather Station | Ignorance Deluxe Edition
W.E.B. | Colosseum
Cory Weeds | Cory Weeds With Strings: What Is There To Say?
Der Weg Einer Freiheit | Noktvrn
Christina Wheeler | That Was Then, This Is Now EP
When Rivers Meet | Saving Grace
Whoop | Whoop!
Wild Blue Herons | You & I
JJ Wilde & Billy Raffoul | Born To Die EP
Brian Wilson | At My Piano
Wolves Among Us | Hollow Gloom
Jonny Woolnough | Mayurqa
Wos | Oscuro Éxtasis
X-Blu | Fear
Yonder Mountain String Band | Town by Town
Youth | Spinning Wheel
Joey Yung | 薜丁格的貓
Frank Zappa | 200 Motels 50th Anniversary Edition
Zmarlym | Druga Fala