Today in musical birthdays: Machine maven Florence Welch turns 36, LeAnn Rimes hits the big 4-0, Tenacious D leader Jack Black turns 53, Shania Twain is 57, onetime Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell is 73, and Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison would have turned 80. There; now you’ve got the basis for a pretty decent playlist. While you put it together, cruise through this list of the 245 albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes arriving next week:
Aeternam | Heir Of The Rising Sun
Akintoye | Anxiety and Circumstance
Marina Allen | Centrifics
The Amazons | How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?
AMS | Eden EP
Anarbor | Love & Drugs
And Now The Owls Are Smiling | Epitaph
Angel-Ho | I Am Alive
Anxious Wave | Live From the Poison Factory
Kim Areum | Ocean Wave
Asynchrone | Kling Klang EP
Ayka | Eleven EP
DJ Jubril B | Something / U R IN + Versions
Bacenka | Angel’s Presence EP
Badge Époque Ensemble | Clouds Of Joy
Baseball Gregg | Windows of My House
The Baudelaires | Tilt
Bazrah | Not Made To Fit
Kenny Beats | Louie
Be:First | Be:1
Billlie | The Billage Of Perception: Chapter Two
Bitchin Bajas | Bajascillators
Blind Guardian | The God Machine
Boci | We Are Each Other, This Will Set Us Free
Boon | Bad Machine
Pi’erre Bourne | Good Movie
Anthony Braxton | Duet (Other Minds) 2021
Bruxula | Dark Farfisa EP
Bubble Tea And Cigarettes | There’s Nothing But Pleasure
The Butterfly Effect | IV
Armani Caesar | The Liz 2
The Callous Daoboys | Celebrity Therapist
The Challenger Disaster Conspiracy | The Challenger Disaster Conspiracy EP
Tom Chaplin | Midpoint
The Chieftains | Bear’s Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt, The Chieftains Live in San Francisco 1973 & 1976
Gaspar Claus | 2359
Codeine | Dessau
Coma Girls | No Umbrella For Star Flower
Compro Oro | Buy The Dip
Copenhagen Clarinet Choir | Organism
Jeremy Cornwell | Improvisation Of The Gnoll 1-5
The Corrupting Sea | Lungs Like Lead
Webb Crawford | Joiners
Cryalot | Icarus
Creature Canyon | Remarks
Crippled Black Phoenix | Banefyre
Crunt | Crunt
Cryalot | Icarus EP
Curha | III
Current Value | Platinum Scatter
Dead Rabbits | A Different Place
Hazell Dean | 8
Defacing God | The Resurrection Of Lilith
Demon Hunter | Master
Denials | Past Lives
Dentist | Making A Scene
DF98 | This Is Fine
Diabolic Oath | Aischrolatreia
Dictator | Rubik’s Cube
Disembodied Tyrant | The Divine Stigmata
Dröög | Blodörn
Garek Druss | Soft Facination
Ensaguinate | Eldritch Anatomy
Epica | Consign To Oblivion Reissue
Epica | Live At the Paradiso
Epica | The Phantom Agony Reissue
Epica | The Score Reissue
Epica | We Will Take You With Us
Fear Disease | Floodgates
Luc Ferrari | Solitude Transit
George FitzGerald | Stellar Drifting
The Flamingos Pink | Free Livin
Flash | Flash
Foolie | The Reason
Tennessee Ernie Ford | Give Me Your Word: The Very Best Of Tennessee Ernie Ford 1951-1961
44 Bird | Duran
The Front Bottoms | Theresa EP
Gawjuss | Prototypical
Parker Gispert | Golden Years
Gone Cosmic | Send For A Warning, The Future’s Calling
Gorillaz | New Gold
Max Gowan | Glossolalia
Grand Theft Audio | Pass Me The Conch
Grave Goods | Tuesday. Nothing Exists.
Milez Grimez & DJ Mekalek | Funkshwā
Steve Hackett | Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More
Terry Lee Hale | The Gristle And Bone Affair
Heads For The Dead | The Great Conjuration
The Hi | Rumble of Thunder
Martha High | Soul Bother Where Art Thou? Vol. 2
Nils Hoffmann | A Radiant Sign
Hollow Ship | Live From Earth
Hopelifter | Anthemology
The Hu | Rumble Of Thunder
Janet Jackson | Japanese Singles Collection
Jazz Emu | Digital Spool
Jesse Jukebox | Just A Minute
Junior Brother | The Great Irish Famine
Kevin Kaarl | Paris Texas
Keg | Girders
Key | Gasoline
Kibby | Ta Da
King Buffalo | Regenerator
Klein | Cave in the Wind
Krajenski | B-3 Vol. 1
KrispyLife Kidd & YSR Gramz | The Hardy Boyz
Kris Kristofferson | Live At Gilley’s, Pasadena, TX: Sept. 15th, 1981
Deborah Aime La Baggare | Daily Routine EP
Tiana La-Belle | Love To The World EP
Lake Haze | Henosis LP
Lauer | Cyclone Days
Josh Lawrence | Call Time
Lean Year | Sides
Sébastien Léger | Regina Blue EP
Lentra | A Happy Medium
Life of Crime | Street Gospel
Living Hour | Someday Is Today
Lindsey Lomis | Daydreaming EP
L.O.T.I.O.N. Multinational Corporation | W.A.R. In The Digital Realm
Shawn Lovato | Microcosms
LOVV66 & Платина | ВАЛЫНА
Low Ceilings | Catch The Apathy
Loxy & Ink | Irrelevant EP
Machine | Machine Reissue
Massgrav | Slowly We Rock
Master A | Can’t Wake Up Single
Ava Max | Million Dollar Baby
Daniel McClennan | Unfurling Redemption
John McCutcheon | Leap!
Jack McDuff | Live at Parnell’s
Megadeth | The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
Merope | Naktės
Sol Messiah | God Cmplx
Metamatics | Bodypop
Mezzoa | Dunes Of Mars
Mily | Eternal Ring
Kenneth Minor | Retirement
Miss May I | Curse Of Existence
Mistura | Want Me Back (Jimpster Remixes)
Moiré | Circuits
Montaigne | Making It!
Nana Mori | Album
Hitomi Moriwaki | Subtropic Cosmos
Motel Radio | The Garden
Moth Cock | Whipped Stream and Other Earthly Delights
Mo Troper | MTV
DJ Muddy | DJ Muddy
MxRxGxA, Gionni Gioielli & Tosses | Freecraxi
NateWantsToBattle | Nothing to Me
Nina Nesbitt | Älskar
Levi Nice | Utilitarian Art
J. Nicolás | A Rosary Of Bone
Night School | Invoke
Harry Nilsson | Harry Nilsson: A’s and B’s
Nogizaka46 | Suki To Lu No Wa Rock Da Ze! Special Edition
Novelists | Déjà Vu (Première Partie)
Number Teddie | Poderia Ser Pior
Oceans Ate Alaska | Disparity
Oiseaux-Tempête | What On Earth (Que Diable)
John Ondolo | Hypnotic Guitar of John Ondolo
106 | 106
156/Silence | Narrative
The Orchids | The Dreaming Kind
Outlaws | Anthology: Live & Rare
Pabst | Crushed By The Weight Of The World
Pale Blue Eyes | Souvenirs
Jon Pardi | Mr. Saturday Night
Lee “Scratch” Perry | King Scratch (Musical Masterpieces from the Upsetter Ark-ive)
Phish – Sep. 1, 2022 | Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO
Phish – Sep. 2, 2022 | Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, CO
Phobophilic | Enveloping Absurdity
P-Lo | Stunna
Poppin’Party | Shut Away in Summer
The Prize | Wrong Side Of Town EP
Professor Jess | Friends Come And Go
Prudence | Negatives
Psalm One X Custom Made | Bigg Perrm
S. Raekwon | I Like It When You Smile EP
Roxy Music | The Best Of Roxy Music Vinyl
Rush to Relax | Misli
Kieran S | Somebody New
Saint Abdullah & Eomac | Patience Of A Traitor
Romeo Santos | Formula Vol. 3
Saucisse Cocktail | Musique Savante
Rina Sawayama | Hold The Girl
Schwester | Fair and Lovely Single
Searchlight | Searchlight
See Through You | Hollowed Out
Sensational Country Blues Wonders! | The Adventures of a Psychedelic Cowboy
7yyy7yyy | Ruining of Understanding
Shoeg | Hard Fork
Luke Sital-Singh | Dressing Like a Stranger
Sobriquet | Apotheosis EP
Soft And Dumb | Soft and Dumb
Sohn | Trust
Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen | Hold On
Sswan | Invisibility Is An Unnatural Disaster
State Of You | State Of You EP
Stereolab | Pulse Of The Early Brain (Switched On Vol. 5)
Kevin Stevenson | Reality Alley
The String Theory | Origin
S.U.G.A.R. | II
Moses Sumney | A Performance in V Acts
Sunflo’er | All These Darlings And Now Me
Taleena | Time Single
Teens In Trouble | Teens In Trouble EP
Thaïs | Tout Est Parfait: Acte Deux
They Live | We Sleep | Sorrowful World
This House Of Wolf | Space Mist EP
Phil Thornalley | Now That I Have Your Attention
3 Pairs Of Boots | Mighty Love
Jake Tittle | Blood Offering
Pat Travers & Carmine Appice | Bazooka
Trial (Swe) | Feed The Fire
Trio SR9 | Déjà Vu
Trouble | Live In Stockholm Reissue
Shania Twain | Not Just a Girl: The Highlights Vinyl
Two Door Cinema Club | Keep On Smiling
Under The Oak | Rattus Norvegicus
Unhealer | Unhealer
Unloved | The Pink Album
Various Artists | All Things Considered Vol. 2 (Curated by 823 & Butter Goods)
Various Artists | Are They Hostile? Croydon Punk, New Wave & Indie Bands 1977-1985
Various Artists | Dead Formats, Vol. 1
Various Artists | Lefto Early Bird presents The Beauty Is Inside
Various Artists | Not A Minute Of Silence...
Various Artists | NOW That’s What I Call 12″ ’70s
Various Artists | Pure Noise Records: Dead Formats Vol. 1
Various Artists | Urban Waves: Kick Back & Relax
The Veldt | Entropy Is The Mainline To God
Venil | My Fears Are Not Strong Enough To Save Me
Vermin Womb | Retaliation
Vexillary | Crash and Yearn
Virgins | Signalling
Warmduscher | The Remixes
Jeremy Warmsley | American Daydream
Ralph E. White | Something About Dreaming
Wigwam | Fairyport Deluxe Edition
The Wonder Years | The Hum Goes On Forever
Xenobiotic | Hate Monolith
Yeat | Lyfë
Ylayali | Separation
Young Costello | Stories Told, Some New, Some Old
YTN DoomsD.A.Y. | Husband & Wife 2
Yungblud | Yungblud
