It was 44 years ago today that the movie Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. And an uninterested one, judging by the fact that the film was a critical and commercial dud. If you still haven’t seen it, you don’t know what you missed. But you can find out by watching the trailer and some musical highlights below. After that, carry on and browse the 265 new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes arriving next week. Unlike the movie, they’re guaranteed to raise a smile.
Ace of Spit | Ace of Spit
Adellaide | Deja Vu
Aerosmith | Live From The Summit, Houston, TX, 1977 Video
A Family Curse | A Family Curse
A Giant Dog | Bone
A Giant Dog | Fight
AJR | I Won’t
Alaska Sargent | To Thin Air
Anberlin | Silverline EP
Ann-Margret & Mickey Gilley With The Rockats & Linda Gail Lewis | Splish Splash Single
Deaton Chris Anthony | Sid The Kid
Arch Enemy | Deceivers
Banks Arcade | Future Lovers
Area Resident | Polycanard
Joe Armon-Jones & Mala | A Way Back
Babii | Screamer
Bakongo + Scuba | OneZeroFive
Barbarian | Viperface
Beach Rats | Rat Beat
Beddy Rays | Beddy Rays
Beer Sleep | Honesty Is Violence Reissue
Beetlebat | This Year
Natalie Beridze | Of Which One Knows
Beyoncé | Renaissance
Black Magnet | Body Prophecy
Black Pines | Talk Of The Devil EP
Blacktoothed | Juli
Benson Boone | Walke Me Home EP
Bossfight | Agony District
Box | Cherry Blossoms at Night
Boys World | So What
The Brothers Comatose | Ear Snacks!
Canadensis | The Decades Apart Have Weathered Us Both
Chaos Emeralds | II
Chat Pile | God’s Country
Clube Tormenta | O Som Do Labirinto OST
Brady Cohan | Studies, Vol. 3
Colon Cancer | I Am God N Chief Keef Is My Angel
Contemplator | Morphose
Bobby Cool | Family Time
Jemima Coulter | Grace After A Party
The Cribs | The Cribs Reissue
The Cribs | Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs Reissue
The Cribs | The New Fellas Reissue
Richie Culver & Pavel Milyakov | A Change of Nothing
Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan | A Better Ghost
CVC | Real to Reel
The Damn Shame | Oh No
Damn The Witch Siren | Gold Magic
Dance Gavin Dance | Jackpot Juicer
Danceland | Pink Lem
Dez Dare | Tyrannosaurus Shake EP
Death Bells | Between Here & Everywhere
Death’s Dynamic Shroud.wmv | Messe De E-102
Deimos Rising | Shedding Skin
DevilDriver | Clouds Over California: The Studio Albums 2003-2011
Mickey Diamond | No Liquor Before 12
Mario Diaz de Leon | Heart Thread
Ani DiFranco | Living In Clip 25th Anniversary Edition
Doc Flippers | Human Pork
Domi & JD Beck | Not Tight
Dominus | In The Shadows EP
DPR Ian | Moodswings In To Order
Drama Store | Last Day(S) Last
Dreamcastmoe | Sound Is Like Water Part 1
The Driver Era | Malibu
Dry Cleaning | Anna Calls From the Arctic
Mark Duda | Bodega Flowers
Wyatt Easterling | From Where I Stand
Ensemble Ektòs | Semèia Kài Tèrata
Entropy | Death Spell EP
Equinox | It’s Hard To Be Happy When Your Head Is Full Of Sin Remastered
Evil In | Age Of Immortal Darkness
Fera | Corpo Senza Carne
Fields Of Mist | Illuminated60
Colin Fisher & Mike Gennaro | Tactile Stories
Kirk Fletcher | Heartache By The Pound
Florist | Florist
Graham Forbes & The Trio | The Martini Set
Former Hero | Play Ur Old Stuff
Friendship | Love the Stranger
Front Line Assembly | Nerve War
Funeral Chic | Roman Candle
Crystal Gates | Torment & Wonder: The Ways Of The Lonely Ones
Nico Georis | A Rainbow In Curved Air
Professor Goldstein | The Fork Universe of Funky Love EP
Dexter Gordon | The Complete Columbia Albums Collection
DC Gore | All These Things
The Grateful Dead | Europe ’72 50th Anniversary Edition
The Grateful Dead | Lyceum 1972: The Complete Recordings
Grima | Frostbitten
Owen Hamlin | Right As Rain
Heart of the Ghost | Summons
Highway Sniper | The Great Satan EP
Holiday Ghosts | Credit Note EP
Patrick Holland | You’re The Boss
Homeboy Sandman & Aesop Rock | Anjelitu Deluxe Edition
Hooveriii | A Round of Applause
Horslips | More Than You Can Chew Box Set
Suisei Hoshimachi | Steller Into The Galaxy
The House of Love | Burn Down the World: The Fontana Years 1989-1993
Warren Hue | Boy Of The Year
Iceberg | Final Thaw
Imogen | What? EP
El Irreal Veintinuno | Vestigio
Ithaca | They Fear Us
Jim James | Regions Of Light And Sound Of God Deluxe Reissue
Phil Jamieson | Somebody Else
Jethro Tull | Thick As A Brick 50th Anniversary
Josephate | Best Life
Joywave | Live
Paul Kelly | Rivers And Rain
Wiz Khalifa | Multiverse
Bobby Kimball | Mysterious Sessions
King Flizz | Being Flizz
King Princess | Hold On Baby
Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse | Gimme Altamont EP
Hayley Kiyoko | Panorama
Knife | Sounds of Sacrifice
Maxo Kream | Weight of the World Deluxe
Krisiun | Mortem Solis
Kuedo | Infinte Window
Lava La Rue | Hi-FidelityEP
Stevieray Latham | Hinterland EP
Lathe | Tongue of Silver
Layke | Frequency EP
Sean Leon | Herd Immunity
Janel Leppin | Ensemble Volcanic Ash
Matteo Liberatore | Lacquer
Lil’ Diabetes | Because Social Media
Lilyisthatyou | The Character
Little Feat | Waiting For Columbus Super Deluxe Edition
LMD | Flying High
Tove Lo | 2 Die 4
The Lord | Forest Nocturne
Lord Leopard | Club Saturn (ft. Conal Kelly)
Lost Boy? | Pop Songs For Dummies
Anna Lunoe | Saturday Love
Lureto | A Peak From The Crow’s Nest
Mayu Maeshima | No Man’s Dawn
Majoredm | Drive
Myele Manzanza | Peaks Remixed
Payden McKnight | iKnight Radio: Saturday Knight Vibe Edition
The Meltdown | It’s A Long Road
Marc Merza & Nuno O | Névoa
Midnight Grand Orchestra | Overture
Allison Miller & Carmen Staaf | Nearness
Roger Miller | Waterhole #3 Reissue
Roger Miller | Walkin’ In The Sunshine Reissue
Roger Miller | Words and Music Reissue
Montrose | I Got the Fire: Complete Recordings 1973-1976
Moobootica | Holding On
Sereno Moreno | Incertilumbre
Moundabout | Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones
Murder By Death | Spell/Bound
Whiskey Myers | Tornil
My Sleeping Karma | Atma
Matt Nathanson | Boston Accent
Nav | Demons Protected By Angels
Sarah Bethe Nelson | Mental Picture
New Villain & Onaje Jordan | Supervillain Team Up: Injustice For All
Night Porter | Spaces EP
Harry Nilsson | Harry Nilsson: A’s and B’s
93feetofsmoke | Goodgrief
Nishina | 1999
Obijuan & Yungmorpheus | Slang Casino
The Offspring | Greatest Hits Vinyl Reissue
of Montreal | Freewave Lucifer fck
Ryo Okumoto | The Myth of the Mostrophus
Hinako Omori | A Journey With Friends…
Orbital | 30 Something
The Outlaws | Anthology: Live and Rare
Payton | Insomnia EP
Peak Eyes | Sawubona
Perfume | Plasma
Los Peyotes | Virgenes
Phish | July 26, 2022, Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
Phish | July 27, 2022, Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
Phish | July 29, 2022, Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY
Phish | July 30, 2022, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD
Phish | July 31, 2022, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD
Phony | At Some Point You Stop
Pist.On | Cold World EP
Pekka Pohjola | Sinfonia No 1
Ariel Posen | Downtown EP
Precipitation | Glass Horizon
Pretty Lightning | Dust Moves
Derrick Procell | Hello Mojo!
Psychic Ills & Gibby Haynes | Nowhere In The Night
Purity Ring | Shrines X
Purple Kiss | Geekyland
Push Baby | Every Time I Think About You Baby, I Hate It, You Blow My Mind
Pyrolator | Niemandsland
Harish Raghavan | In Tense
Raptore | Blackfire
Räven Musen | Peppermint Soldier
Reeking Aura | Blood and Bonemeal
Ree-Vo | All Welcome on Planet Ree-Vo
Maggie Rogers | Surrender
Josh Rouse | Going Places
Hanna Rua | Light Up Your Dark EP
Saccage | Charogne
Saint Diablo | Odio
Sam Sanders | Mirror, Mirror Vinyl
Sandflower | The Quantum Seed
Sator | Return of The Barbie-Q-Killers
Rina Sawayama | Hold The Girl
Seaming To | Natural Process EP
Sedimentum | Suppuration Morphogénésiaque
Julie Seiller | Éclipse
Sexmag | Żelazna Dziewica
S Eyes Finest | Mural of Rhymes
Amanda Shires | Take It Like A Man
Germaine Sijstermans | Betula
Grinch Simpson | First Thoughts
Guilty Simpson | Guilt
Rishin Singh with Martin Sturm | Mewl Infans
Skyway Man & Andy Jenkins | Nothing No. 1 EP
Heather Small | Colour My Life
Snarky Puppy | Bet
Sons Of Adam | Saturday’s Sons | The Complete Recordings: 1964-1966
Soul Mass Transit System | Need Someone EP
Souls Of Diotima | Janas
Hailee Steinfeld | Coast
Stick To Your Guns | Spectre
Still Bill | Step Out Of The Box
$uicideboy$ | Sing Me A Lullaby My Sweet Temptation
Sun’s Signature | Sun’s Signature
Sunye | Genuine
Swallow The Sun | When A Shadow Is Forced into the Light
The Swedish Railway Orchestra | The Ballhaus Vinyl
The Swedish Railway Orchestra | Dance To The Drum Machine
Swing Out Sister | Blue Mood, Breakout & Beyond – The Early Years Part 1
Tallies | Patina
Kaidi Tatham | Don’t Rush The Process
Tedeschi Trucks Band | I Am The Moon: III. The Fall
Teenage Disaster | Drive Alone
Throwaway | Hand That Takes
Seaming To | Natural Process
Triptides | So Many Days
Traffik Island | Nature Strip Reissue
Triumvir Foul | Onslaught to Seraphim
Trouble | The Distortion Field Reissue
Andrew Tuttle | Fleeting Adventure
Shania Twain | Not Just A Girl (The Highlights)
Twice | Celebrate
Dwight Twilley | Wild Dogs Expanded Edition
Unknownexit | We Are Not Expecting You To Return
Unwritten Law | The Hum
Urban Primate | Desolation Reissue
UTO | Touch The Lock
Various Artists | Gotta Get a Good Thing Goin’: Black Music in Britain in the Sixties
Various Artists | Happy in Hollywood: The Productions of Gary Usher
Mark Vernon | A World Behind This World
Voision Xi | 5 Loops in Her Way
Voivod | Forgotten In Space: The Noise Records Years
David Ward | LoZ
Water Damage | But The Rat Was Very Smart Cassette
Wilder Maker | Male Models
Wombo | Fairy Rust
Will Wood | In Case I Make It
Nate Wooley | Ancient Songs of Burlap Heroes
Xqui | Dreams Of Isochronicity
Emily Yacina | All The Things 10th Anniversary Compilation
Youth & Gaudi | Stratosphere
Yung Spinach Cumshot | Goofy Ahh!
Zenizen | P.O.C (Proof of Concept)
