Today’s musical birthdays: Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo — the inspiration for my T-shirt that reads ‘I waited three hours to interview Lars Ulrich and I got was 20 lousy minutes with Robert Trujillo’ — turns 58, while ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic is 63 and Dwight Yoakam is 66. Other big events on this day: Stevie Wonder recorded his first Motown single in 1962, The Beatles recorded I Wanna Be Your Man and Bob Dylan recorded The Times They Are A-Changin’ on the same day in 1963, The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded Hey Joe in 1966, and Def Leppard played three gigs in three continents in 24 hours, visiting Tangiers, London and Vancouver. While you ponder the point of that little jaunt, why not traverse the 450-plus new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes showing up any day now (unlike my Lars Ulrich interview):
Josh A | Back From The Dead
Abraxas | Monte Carlo
Bryan Adams | So Happy It Hurts Super Deluxe
Akaiama | Solo
AK Sports | Lost In The Sauce EP
Tommy Alexander | Feelings
Alice | Dance On
Allman Brothers Band | Syria Mosque: Pittsburgh, PA January 17, 1971
Oren Ambarchi / Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke | Caught in the Dilemma of Being Made to Choose / This Makes the Modesty Which Should Never Been Closed off Itself Continue to Ask Itself: Ready or Not?
Trey Anastasio Band | Oct. 28 2022 | Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL
Antropofagus | Origin
Virgilio Armas | De Repente Reissue
Virgilio Armas | Espejismo Reissue
Arm’s Length | Never Before Seen, Never Again Found
Louis Armstrong | Louis Wishes You A Cool Yule
Hans Arnold | Interim
ASA 808 | Boy, Crush
Ásgeir | Time On My Hands
The Asimov Soul Orchestra | The Asimov Soul Orchestra
Assafrão | Rokovoj Bereg
Astromeda | Shadowplay
Asylums | Signs Of Life
Autumn Fair | Autumn Fair
Emanual Ayvas | Via Romana
Babehoven | Light Moving Time
Babyface | Girls Night Out
BabyTron | Bin Reaper 3
The Backseat Lovers | Waiting To Spill
Derek Bailey, Charlie Morrow, & Friends | New York 1982
Ian M. Bailey | You Paint The Pictures
Ryan Baine | Morning Flight
Michael Ball & Alfie Boe | Together In Vegas
Band of Pulses | Cycles of Formation
Ila Barker | Fool Under Water
Bby Goyard | 4thwallbreaker
The Beatles | Revolver (Special Edition)
Callum Beattie | andals
Beau Dommage | Beau Dommage Remixed
Behind Closed Doors | Caged In Helices
Beinsüre | Beinsüre
Chris Belliveau | Chris Belliveau
Hannes Bennich | When Losing a Dream to Reality
Espen Berg | The Tronheim Concert
Laurie Berkner | Another Laurie Berkner Christmas
Between Mermaids And Me | Reality Cravings
Bikelane | Bikelane EP
Brant Bjork | Bougainvillea Suite
Black Anvil | Regenesis
Black Birdie | Happily
Forest Blakk | Every Little Detail EP
Kodak Black | Kutthroat Bill Vol. 1
Bleep Bloop | Prime
Blessed | Circuitous
Blinker The Star | Walk Through The Park
Bliss Street Queens | Deep Hows EP
Blue | Heart & Soul
Vera Blue | Mercurial
Lisa Bodnar & Whistlegrass | 40 Years in the Desert
Bones | Vomit
Book of Wyrms | Sodapop Glacier Single
Brian! | The Cataclysmic Engine
Bright Falls | Dusk
The Brother Moves On | $/he Who Feeds You…Owns You
BSCBR | Master Of Rehearsal Vol. 2
Rocky Burnette | The Son of Rock and Roll
Cactus | Evil Is Going On: The Atco Albums 1970-1972
Cakes Da Killa | Svengali
Lomond Campbell | Under This Hunger Moon We Fell
Matt Carmichael | Marram
Jonas Carping | Change Single
Cate | Tell Me Things You Won’t Take Back
Cave Deco | Get Out of My Computer
Celtic Frost | Danse Macabre: Complete Recordings 1984-1987
Jason Chan | The Fight Goes On
Chanel | Toke
Chaoist | Annul EP
Annie Charlie | It Hurts So Many Lives Single
Charlie Bit My Finger | Back and Fourth
Chlöe | For The Night
Endy Chow | Hyakki Yagyo
Christine and the Queens | Redcar Les Adorables Étoiles Vinyl
Zach Churchill | Greater Than
M.Chuzi | Papara
Clamoris | Opus Limbonica
Alicia Clara | Velveteen EP
Monique Clare | Sight
Class | Epoca de Los Vaqueros
Class:y | Day & Night
Benjamin Clementine | And I Have Been
Emmet Cohen | Uptown In Orbit
Coldpast & Tuff Trax | Time Is Now White Vol. 25
Carl Cox | Electronic Generations
The Cribs | The Cribs Vs. The Moths: College Sessions 2001
Daisy The Great | All You Need Is Time
The Damned | A Night Of A Thousand Vampires
Dead Or Alive | You Spin Me Round EP
Dorian Concept | What We Do For Others
Conjunto Ingeniería | Conjunto Ingeniería: Compiled by El Dragón Criollo & El Palmas
Crawlers | Loud Without Noise
Crones | Laugh Freely, Laugh Often
Cubicolor | Sometime Not Now
Ellis D | EP II
Daisy The Great | All You Need Is Time
Darkthrone | Astral Fortress
DArtagnan | Felsenfest
Dazy | Outofbody
Dead Cross | II
Dear Nora | Human Futures
DeathbyRomy | Entropy
Defleshed | Grind Over Matter
Demon Hunter | Exile
Taiyamo Denku | Articles of Mind
Despised Icon | Déterré
Devenial Verdict | Ash Blind
Devil’s Witches | In All Her Forms
Devora | God Is Dead EP
De’wayne | My Favorite Blue Jeans
Neil Diamond | A Neil Diamond Christmas
Digawolf | Ini
Discovery | LP Vinyl Reissue
Dr. Acula | Dr. Acula
Doss | 4 New Hit Songs Remix EP
Jeff Draco | Freezing In Hollywood: Sunrise Sessions
Dragonette | Twennies
Dram | What Had Happened Was
Drugdealer | Hiding in Plain Sight
Candy Dulfer | We Never Stop
Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre | Sèances
Duo Atanasovski | Liberte Toujours
Dustbowl Revival | Set Me Free
Dylan | The Greatest Thing I’ll Never Learn
Angela Easterling | Witness
Brendan Eder Ensemble | Cape Cod Cottage Reissue
Edrix Puzzle | Coming of the Moon Dogs
Ekkehard Ehlers | Plays
Elder Island | Additions Attachments EP
Elke | My Human Experience
Elskavon | Copper Hills
Emei | End Of An Era
The End A.D. | It’s All In Your Head EP
Lawrence English | Themes and Atmospheres for Adam Curtis’s Russia 1985-1999 TraumaZone
Eteraz | Villain
Evolfo | The Changer
Eyes of Tomorrow / Perfect Sky | Songs of Faith and Demolition Split
Faetooth | Remnants Of The Vessel
Fantasy Camp | Casual Intimacy
Fatboi Sharif & Noface | Preaching In Havana
Fauness | The Golden Ass
Fear Factory | Recoded
Field Guide | Field Guide
Lee Fields | Sentimental Fool
Fifth Ring | Masochist
Fire From The Gods | Soul Revolution
Montell Fish | Her Love Still Haunts Me Like a Ghost
Fit For A King | The Hell We Create
Flaccid Mojo | Flaccid Mojo
June Flannery | Quiet By Your Side
Flash Amazonas | Uva-Uva
Filip Agada | Mission Control
Florelle | Flying Colours
Foo Fighters | The Essential Foo Fighters
Forlesen | Black Terrain
Firmaet Forvoksen | Undone Shal
Josephine Foster | There Are Eyes Above
Four Year Strong | Enemy of the World Re-Recorded
Lancey Foux | Life In Hell
Aoife Nessa Frances | Protector
Fred Again | Actual Life 3 (Jan. 1 – Sept. 9, 2022)
Frenchy and the Punk | Zen Ghost
Friday Pilots Club | I Love You, Robot Superstar! EP
Galahad | The Last Great Adventurer
Garbage | Anthology
Jerry Garcia Band | Garcia Live Vol. 19: Oakland Coliseum, Oct. 31, 1992
Gay Meat | Bed of Every
Ghost Car | Truly Trash
Ghost Funk Orchestra | A New Kind Of Love
Scout Gillett | No Roof No Floor
Giordano | Transmute
Giovannie & The Hired Guns | Tejano Punk Boyz
Girlpuppy | When I’m Alone
The Gloom In The Corner | Trinity
Phoebe Go | Player EP
Phillip Golub | Filters
Pol Granch| Amor Escupido
Tim Green | Eastbound Silhouette EP
Guided by Voices | Scalping The Guru
Guranfoe | Gumbo Gumbo
Hermanos Gutiérrez | El Bueno Y El Malo
Grave Guy & Yung Lain | Alive Gv¥/Meltmans’s Theme
GV | It’s Only The Beginning
Gwar | This Is Gwar Blu-Ray / DVD
Luke Haines & Peter Buck | All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out
Hammered Hulls | Careening
Rosie Harborne | Stars Shine Single
Harmonic Cross | The Grand Paradise Soundtrack
Darryl Harper | Chamber Made
Honey Harper | Honey Harper & The Infinite Sky
Hebbe | Quotha EP
Hell Theater | S’Accabadora
Hermanos Gutiérrez | El Bueno Y El Malo
Daniel Herskedal | Out of the Fog
Kate Hindle | The Ocean Single
Rupert Hine | Surface Tension: The Studio Works 1981-1983
Hoaxed | Two Shadows
The Holdouts | 325 EP
John Lee Hooker | The Healer Reissue
Hotel Fiction | Enjoy Your Stay EP
Holliday Howe | My Friends Live In My Pocket
Holy Similaun | Arcaskathel
Jordan Hull | Ducks
The Hunna | The Hunna
Iglu & Hartley | & Then Boom Deluxe Edition
Masaru Imada Trio + 1 | Planets
INXS | Shabooh Shoobah Deluxe Edition
Iron Butterfly | Live At The Galaxy 1967
Ivory Fields | Ivory Fields
I Was A King | Follow Me Home
I Ya Toyah | Ghosts EP
Boldy James & Futurewave | Mr.Ten08
Ella Jane | Marginalia
Jarv Is… | This Is Going To Hurt Original Soundtrack
Lauren Jauregui | Always Love
Jesters Of Destiny | Distorting Everything
Johnnyswim and Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors | Goodbye Road: Vol 2
Jesus Jones | Zeroes and Ones: The Best of Jesus Jones
Jin | The Astronaut
Molly Joyce | Perspective
Jptrey | Mixed Emotions
Junior Boys | Waiting Game
Leven Kali | Let It Rain
Rafael Karlen | Equally True
Leah Kate | Alive and Unwell
Henry Kawahara | Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm 2: Other Sides of Henry Kawahara
Kenia OS | K23
Martin Kennedy & Steve Kilbey | The Strange Life of Persephone Nimbus
King Crimson | Beat Vinyl Reissue
King Crimson | Discipline Vinyl Reissue
King Crimson | Three Of A Perfect Pair Vinyl Reissue
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Changes
Kombynat Robotron / Arcane Allies | Split
Koudlam | Precipie Fantasy Part 1
Eloh Kush | Theme Music For Alpha Male Scorpios
Lady Blackbird | Black Acid Soul Deluxe
Natalia Lafourcade | De Todas Las Flores
Kirsten Lambert | From a Window to a Screen
Bill Laurance | Affinity
Anja Lauvdal | From a Story Now Lost
The Leaf Library | Library Music: Volume One
Luke LeBlanc | Fugue State
Lexer | The First Last Day
Lil Killah | Snipez
Lil Rubbi | My Story
Charles Lloyd | Trios: Sacred Thread
Michael Lockwood | As The Village Sleeps
Steve Long | Code Talker II
Losing Lustre | Losing Lustre
Macaroni Birthday | Sing Rock ‘N’ Roll Songs for Children
Magma | Kãrtëhl
Dan Mangan | Being Somewhere
Marlowe | Marlowe 3
Lola Marsh | Shot Shot Cherry
Martha | Please Don’t Take Me Back
Massive Wagons | Triggered!
Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs | Awakening:Sleeping
Massud Matin | Jazz High
Matters Unknown | We Aren’t Just
Mauskovic Dance Band | Bukaroo Bank
McChakra | Flowers Thrown EP
June McDoom | June McDoom
Mdl Chld | EP
Means&3rd | Lifes Glorious Mosaic EP
Metal Hall Of Fame | Metal Hall Of Fame All-Stars
Milk & Bone | Chrysalism
MindAhead | 6119 Part 1
Ministry | Beers, Steers & Queers Reissue
Miriodor | Elements
Mdou Moctar | Niger EP Vol. 2
Moin | Paste
Moiré | Circuits Remixes
Joey Montenegro | Do What You Feel (Birdee Remix)
Morbikon | Ov Mournful Twilight
Kailee Morgue | Girl Next Door
Mother Sun | Train Of Thought
Moullinex | A Fistful Of Stars EP
Los Mundos | En Sistema Modular
Nancy | English Leather
NateWantsToBattle | Scrap Heap
Nik Navy | So I Can Start Over Again EP
Near Dusk | Through The Cosmic Fog
Aoife Nessa | Protector
New Atlas | Dazed II
Nhoah | Tune
Judy Niemack | What’s Love?
Sara Niemietz | Superman
Nightmares On Wax | Shout Out! To Freedom… (Live at Pikes Ibiza)
96 Back | Cute Melody, Window Down!
Noctem | Credo Certe Ne Cras
Che Noir | The Last Remnants
No Sisters | Live At The Mabuhay Gardens: March 22, 1980
Nostromo | Bucephale
Mali Obomsawin | Sweet Tooth
Obsidious | Iconic
Eliades Ochoa | Vamos A Bailar Un Son Special Edition
Tom Odell | Best Day Of My Life
Oiseaux-Tempête | What On Earth (Que Diable)
Oki | Kai Kai As To EP
Old Sea Brigade | 5AM Paradise
Omaar | Marcha
Seiko Oomori | Cho Tengoku
0xy Beat$ | Haladok
Palaye Royale | Fever Dream
Palm Ghosts | Post Preservation
Diana Panton | Blue
Lee Paradise | & Co
Theo Parrish | DJ-Kicks: Detroit Forward
Party Dozen | The Real Work
Peanut Butter Sunday | Quoi-c’ya Pour Souper?
Pentatonix | Holidays Around the World
Petrolio | La Disobbedienza
Pleasance House | The Burning Memory EP
Polyphia | Remember That You Will Die
Protect Your Heart | [re]introduction
Psionic Madness | Rotting Dominion
Psychonaut | Psychonaut
The Pyramids | Penetration! The Best Of The Pyramids
DJ Psychiatre | Lucidity EP
Pytko | The Way We Blush
Quadeca | Tell Me A Joke
Tim Reaper & Dwarde | End Of The Universe EP
Redveil | PG Baby Remix (ft. Denzel Curry)
Rest Easy | Hope You’re Okay
Jordan Reyes | Everything Is Always
DJ Riddem | Asylum Beat
Rival Schools | United By Fate Deluxe Edition
Emily Scott Robinson | Built On Bones
Roedelius & Friesz | Hoffnung
Ronia | Oh You And Me Single
Roselia | Swear / Day & Night
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Celebration
The Rutabega | Leading Up To
Rýr | Transient
Saint Christopher | Pop Shit
Same | Does It Go Any Faster?
Schwermut | Gestalt im Wandel
Sea Moss | Seamoss2
Secret Shame | Autonomy
Senyawa | The Prey And The Ruler
Shakunay | Perspective
Shape Of Water | Amor Fati
Ship Wrek | Metaphysical EP
Les Shirley | More Is More
Show Me The Body | Trouble The Water
Holy Similaun | Arcaskathel
Shit and Shine | New Confusion
Show Me The Body | Trouble The Water
Sigur Rós | ( ) 20th Anniversary Reissue
Bekah Simms | Bestiaries
Single Mothers | Everything You Need
Skelethal / Outre-Tombe | Skelethal / Outre-Tombe
Skinshape | High Tide, Storm Rising
Slaughterhouse | Halloween Single
Slaughter the Giant | Depravity
Sleep Party People | Heap Of Ashes
Smino | Luv 4 Rent
Sobs | Air Guitar
Sodom | 40 Years At War: The Greatest Hell of Sodom
Dave Soldier & William Hooker | The LeWitt Etudes
Solitary Experiments | Transcendent
Soothsayers | Meets Victor Rice & Friends
Soraia | Bloom
Tyshawn Sorey | The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism
Spell | Tragic Magic
Sphere | Howl
Joachim Spieth | Terrain
Steady Weather | Steady Weather EP
Steffi | The Red Hunter
S10 | Ik Besta Voor Altijd Zolang Jij Aan Mij Denkt
Kipp Stone | Kipp Stone Presents: Room 109 EP
Tim Story and Hans-Joachim Roedelius | Lunz 20th Anniversary Edition
Sub Lights | Half-Life EP
Sugar Horse | Waterloo Teeth EP
Sunburned Hand of the Man | Headdress 20th Anniversary Remaster
Superorganism | World Wide Pop Reeeemix! EP
Swingin’ Utters | More Scared: The House Of Faith Years
SZA | Shirt
Yuji Takahashi, Mamoru Fujieda | Music for Cyber Café
Joanne Shaw Taylor | Nobody’s Fool
Terror Telboy | Rebirth
‘T Geruis | Vast
Them | Fear City
Theos | Angels Die Of XTC
Theotoxin | Fragment: Totenruhe
Therion | Gothic Kabbalah Reissue
Therion | Lemuria! Reissue
Therion | Secrets Of The Runes Reissue
Therion | Sirius B Reissue
Nosaj Thing | Continua
Thotcrime | D1g1t4l_Dr1ft
Throwing Bricks | The Burden
Thursday | Full Collapse 21st Anniversary Box Set
Tidal | Sunday’s Best
Tigers Jaw | Old Clothes EP
Devin Townsend | Lightwork + Nightwork
Trampled By Turtles | Alpenglow
Bonnie Trash | Malocchio
The Trashmen | The Best Of The Trashmen
Travis Japan | TBA
Tr One | Never Be As Much Fun EP
Joe Lynn Turner | Belly Of The Beast
Nik Turner | Space Ritual 1994
TVAM | High Art Lite
Rosie Valland | Emmanuelle
Vægtløs | Kakofoni
Vananidr | Beneath the Mold
Vévaki | Fórnspeki
Vuara | Нормальный человек (A Normal Man)
Vanessa Wagner | Mirrored
Various Artists | Bound For Hell: On The Sunset Strip
Various Artists | Climb Aboard My Roundabout! The British Toytown Sound 1967-1974
Various Artists | Conjunto Ingeníería: Compiled by El Palmas & El Dragón Criollo
Various Artists | Gary Crowley’s Indie 90s Playback: Classics, Curveballs and Bangers
Various Artists | Do It Again! The Songs of Brian Wilson
Various Artists | Greasy Mike’s Halloween Monsters
Various Artists | Nekotrance4Life: The Breakers Gang Compilation Vol. 1
Various Artists | NOW That’s What I Call Classic Rock
Various Artists | NOW That’s What I Call Music! 84
Various Artists | Pure Hate: Blades
Various Artists | The Skippy White Story: Boston Soul 1961-1967
Various Artists | Wiretap Records: Fest 20
Skye Wallace | Terribly Good
Wand | Spiders In The Rain
Matt Watson | See You There
Westside Gunn | Hitler Wears Hermes 10
Whokilledxix | Pullback
The Wild Century | Organic
Willie The Kid & V Don | Deutsche Marks 3
Lainey Wilson | Bell Bottom Country
Sly Withers | Overgrown
Wolf! | Adult Entertainment
Gia Woods | Heartbreak County, Vol. 2 EP
Working Men’s Club | Fear Fear Deluxe Edition
Working Men’s Club | Steel City EP
World Party | Egyptology Vinyl Reissue
Worm | Bluenothing
The Wrecks | Sonder Deluxe
Amir Yaghmai | Go Bozo
Your Old Droog | The Yodfather
Your Planet Is Next | Sexy Dreams EP
Yung Gravy | Marvelous
Jo Yuri | Op.22 Y-Waltz
Klein Zage | Feed The Dog
Zong | Astral Lore
Ben Zucker | Vitamalisms/Revitalism