Jerry Garcia would have turned 80 on Aug. 1. If you need an excuse to listen to The Grateful Dead, there you go. But while you do, take a long, strange trip through this list of 250 new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes arriving next week.
Abaddon Incarnate | The Wretched Sermon
John Calvin Abney | Tourist
Ace of Cups | Extended Play
Acidgvrl | Summer’s Over
Aerosmith | Live From The Capital Centre, Landover, MD, 1989 Video
Agender | Top Bottom Top Remix EP
Airport People | From Nine Mornings
Aiysheff | Idomorphic Heaven
Alonelyness | Unknown Territory
Amon Amarth | The Great Heathen Army
Chris Antonik | Morningstar
Art Moore | Art Moore
Ascending Divers | Water Domains
Ayria | This Is My Battle Cry
Lee Bains & The Glory Fires | Old-Time Folks
Basalt Shrine | From Fiery Tongues
Bloodz Boi, Claire Rousay, More Eaze | A Crying Poem
Alexia Bomtempo | Doce Carnaval
Bi Da Boom | Graceful Collision
Big Wild | Red Sun
Tim Bowness | Butterfly Mind
Breath Of Air | Breath Of Air
Brijean | Angelo
The Brother Brothers | Cover to Cover
Hablot Brown | Hablot Brown
Bullet For My Valentine | Bullet For My Valentine Deluxe Edition
T Bone Burnett | The Invisible Light: Spells
Colyn Cameron | Freehand
Cooper Castelle | Welcome To My World
Frank Catalano | Live At Birdland
Cones | Almanac
The Cookers Quintet | The Path
Crack Cloud | Tough Baby
Crazy Minecraft Animals | Parrots Are Awesome
DaBaby | Baby On Baby 2
Rico Dalasam | Fim Das Tentativas
Madame Daley | Classic EP
Datura4 | Neanderthal Jam
Dawn Razor | Scary Movies
Dayaway | Dayaway EP
DeathbyRomy | No Mercy
Demon Hunter | Heaven Don’t Cry
Travis Denning | Might As Well Be Me EP
Rick Derringer | Rock And Roll Hoochie Koo: The Best Of — Relaunched
Devils Paradise | Post Morthem
Sam Dillon / Andrew Gould Quartet | It Takes One To Know One
Dnash Tha Rapper | It Was Proven
Doechii | She / Her / Black Bitch EP
Dogbreth | Believe This Rain
Paul Draper | Attack Of The Grey Lantern (Live At The Ritz)
Billy Drummond | Valse Sinistre
Dub War | Westgate Under Fire
Duneeater / Planet of the 8s | Turned To Stone Chapter 5 Split
Van Duren | Waiting: The Van Duren Story DVD
Dust Star | Open Up That Heart
Early Moods | Early Moods
Earth Boys | Ditties
Kaktus Einarsson | Remix The Ladder
Einherjer | Norse And Dangerous (Live… From The Land Of Legends)
Eleon | Magnetica
Elio | Elio’s Inferno
Emanuel | Panorama
Eminem | Curtain Call 2
Ereb Altor | Nattramn Reissued
Fast Eddie | Shake A Tail Feather
Felivand | Ties
Fireboy DML | Playboy
First Rodeo | First Rodeo
The Flatliners | New Ruin
Franken-Driz | Love Is A Whole Other Entity
Front Line Assembly | Corrosion
Gangi | As Fake Estates
Generation Radio | Generation Radio
Bobbie Gentry | The Girl From Chickasaw County: Highlights From The Capitol Masters
Ghia | Down At The Hilton / Curaçao Blue
Girls’ Generation | Forever 1
Glass Animals | Dreamland: Real Life Edition
Ben Goldberg School | Vol. 2 | Hard Science
Goldfinger | Never Look Back Deluxe
Goo Age | Open Zone
Goodparley | Meditations Vol. 2
Felipe Gordon | Natural Born Climber EP
Magnus Granberg | Night Will Fade and Fall Apart
Guards | More Cover Songs
Calvin Harris | Funk Wav. Bounces Vol. 2
Hautajaisyö | Ei Hauta Kysy Lupaa
Healing Potpourri | Paradise
H.E.A.T. | Force Majeure
Heavy Gus | Notions
Hood Guy | Mad Scientist
Hot Milk | The King And Queen Of Gasoline
Hourloupe | Sleepwalker
Eric Hutchinson | Sing Along! with Eric Hutchinson
Ilean | Heridas
Insane Clown Posse | Pug Ugly EP
Insect Factory | Celestial Cycles
The Interrupters | In The Wild
Keefe Jackson / Oscar Jan Hoogland / Joshua Abrams / Mikel Patrick Avery | These Things Happen
J3M | Afronaut EP
Judy and the Jerks | Music to Go Nuts
Kasabian | The Alchemist’s Euphoria
Kaye | Neon God
Kel Marks | My Name Is Hell
Kyle Kidd | Soothsayer
Kid Muztard | Fornication Usurpation
The Killers | Boy
Kill Lincs | Reinkarnáció
Kokoroko | Could We Be More
Koloah | Time Traveller
Nina Kraviz | This Time Remixes EP
KSI | It’s Not Over Yet
J.Lately | Breakfast
Lauv | All 4 Nothing
Lecrae | Spread The Opps
José Lencastre | Inner Voices
Michael Lightborne | Slí Na Fírinne
Lil Terrestrial | Dreamstate Vol. 2
Lincoln | Repair and Reward
Liraz | Roya
Lonely Pirate Committee | Too Much Fun
Lunar Lemur | Shifting Stars
Thomas Linger | Out In It
LodiLodi | Who Knows?
Andy Loebs | Flexuous Vertex
Russ Lossing | Folks
Lunar | Expendables 3: Horse
Mayu Maeshima | Story
Massimo Magee | Toneflower
Mall Grab | What I Breathe
Marci | Marci
Briana Marela | You Are A Wave
Kal Marks | My Name Is Hell
The Mars Volta | Vigil
Metro Marrs | Last Train 2 Marrs EP
Māsa | My Love Went To Sea
Master | The Human Machine Reissued
Master | The New Elite Reissued
Paul McCartney | McCartney I II III Box Set
Andy McCoy | Jukebox Junkie
Mega Ran × Penny The Great × Slopfunkdust | Protoculture Season
Henrik Meierkord & Sole Gipp Ossler | Lära
Meridian Brothers | Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento
Miraculous Mule | Old Bones, New Fire
Mirod | The Past Is Required To Present The Future
MIT | The Male Idiot Theory
Modular Sleep Patterns | Modular Sleep patterns
Moirai | Blood Treasure, Woven Fates
Pablo Moser | Lenguaje Secreto
Grim Moses & Solomon Strange | Supreme Grodd
Motel Radio | The Garden
The Movers | Vol.1 – 1970-1976
Masao Nakajima Quartet | Kemo Sabe
Rico Nasty | Las Ruinas
NewJeans | New Jeans
Eliza Niemi | Staying Mellow Blow
Niki | High School in Jakarta
Jonah Nilsson | Now Or Never
9m88 | 9m88 Radio
The 1975 | Happiness
Nite Fleit | Day Fleit / Nite Fleit
Nitelight | Oblivion
Non Serviam | We Are Nothing But Your Krill
Nordic Union | Animalistic
Nukebirds | Vanguard MK1
Nutrients | Different Bridges
Olivia O’Brien | Bitch Back
Odd Circus | Deus
OKZharp | Outside The Ride
Omni Gardens & Zen Monk Jogen | New Directions in Meditation Tonalities
Peach Banquet | Rubber Leaves
Phish | Aug. 2, 2022 | Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Phish | Aug. 3, 2022 | Pine Knob Music Amphitheatre, Clarkston, MI
Phish | Aug. 5, 2022 | Atlantic City Beach, Atlantic City, NJ
Phish | Aug. 6, 2022 | Atlantic City Beach, Atlantic City, NJ
Pianos Become The Teeth | Drift
Planet Drum | In The Groove
Planet of the 8s / Duneeater | Turned To Stone Chapter 5 Split EP
Psycroptic | Divine Council
Pussy Riot | Matriarchy Now
Jurgan R. | Suburbs
Sam Robbins | Bigger Than In Between
Kenny Roby | Kenny Roby
Jason Ross | Atlas
Ricky Ross | Short Stories Volume 2
Vanessa Rossetto | The Actress
Sakurazaka46 | As You Know?
Sauvo | Woods
Luke Schneider | Imaginational Anthem Vol. XI: Chrome Universal – A Survey of Modern Pedal Steel
Dylan Scott | Livin’ My Best Life
Seal Party | MMXXII
Senior | Ostrogoth
Sentidos Apuestos | Vámonos Al Lobby
Sergeant Thunderhoof | Ride Of The Hoof Vinyl Reissue
Sergeant Thunderhoof | Terra Solus Vinyl Reissue
Sergeant Thunderhoof | Zigurat Vinyl Reissue
Roy Shakked | Throwback
Sha Na Na | Woodstock: 20 Years After
Shitty Boyz | Trifecta 2
Bobby Shmurda | BodBoy EP
Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement | Constructing The Cataclysm
Si!va | Malamadu / Noventa&dez
Sinzere | Tabula Rasa
Erika Sirola | Who? EP
Liv Slingerland | Hey You
Slipknot | Yen
Soulfly | Totem
Glim Spanky | Into the Time Hole
SRSQ | Ever Crashing
Shepherd Stevenson | Man Down
Will Stewart | Slow LIfe
Stormbound | December
AJ Suede | Oil On Canvas
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light | Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light
Sunray Minor | One Day, Maybe
Surfaces | Rooftops
These Southern Lands | Midnight Oil
The Three Seas | Afterlife
Rolo Tomassi | Closer (The Edits) EP
Tomato Flower | Construction EP
Tool | Fear Inoculum Vinyl Reissue
Toxik | Dis Morta
T-Rock | I Grind, I Hustle 2
Tropidelic | All The Colors
Richard Turgeon | Rough Around The Edges
Underground Lovers | Get To Notice
U/nu | Teknovortex Club; Sound Pictures From Professor Bad Trip’s Comics
Jennifer Vanilla | Castle In The Sky
Various Artists | All Day I Dream: Summer Sampler 2022
Various Artists | Afro-Beat Airways: West African Shock Waves – Ghana & Togo 1972-1978
Various Artists | JEM Records Celebrates Pete Townshend
Various Artists | No Silence! Russian Music For Peace
Various Artists | NOW That’s What I Call Music! 83
Various Artists | Pay It All Back Vol. 8 Vinyl
Various Artists | Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute To John Anderson
Various Artists | Time Is Now Allstars Vol. 4
Waax | At Least I’m Free
Wampyric Rites | The Wolves Howl to the Moon
Pierce Warnecke | Deafened by the Noise of Time
Windhand | Live At Levitation
Roy Woods | Mixed Emotions
Worthitpurchase | Truthtelling
Jay Worthy and Harry Fraud | You Take The Credit, We’ll Take The Check
Sven Wunder | Sun-Kissed
Yena | Smartphone
YoungBoy Never Broke Again | The Last Slimeto
Neil Young & Promise Of The Real | Noise & Flowers
Richard Youngs | New Emptiness
Yungmorpheus & Theravada | Up Against The Wall: A Degree Of Lunacy
Yung Retrro | Airplane Mode Deluxe