Today’s musical birthdays are a bittersweet affair: Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey would have been 74, Texas tornado Doug Sahm would have blown out 80 candles, Guy Clark would have turned 81 and Willie Nelson‘s longtime drummer Paul English would have celebrated his 90th birthday. Speaking of rock stars and death, New York Dolls drummer Billy Murcia died after ODing on tour in England on this date in 1972. But nothing tops this: Also on this date in 1972, Gram Parsons’ road manager Phil Kaufman and a friend were fined $750 each for stealing the deceased country-rockers’ body from LAX to cremate it at Joshua Tree (as Parsons’ supposedly wanted). If that isn’t the definition of friendship, I don’t know what is. On a more lively note, dig into this list of the 375-plus new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes coming down the road:
About Us | About Us
Acidgvrl | Hangover (A International Backrooms Broadcast)
Acidgvrl | Thank You! (Porter Robinson x Goodbye to a World Remix)
Action/Adventure | Imposter Syndrome
Actress | Dummy Corporation
Air Traffic Controller | Dash
Aittala | Live To Regret
A.J. | Graveyards
Rauw Alejandro | Saturno
AleXa | Girls Gone Vogue
Josh Alexander | Forevermore EP
Aloe Vera & Steel Tipped Dove | Days Pass Strange
Altered States | Eve Maret | Earth and Space
Dave Alvin | Eleven Eleven 11th Anniversary Expanded Edition
Dominic Angelella | Silver Dreams Don’t Move Me
Alex Anwandter | Maricoteca
Anxious Arms | Crimes Of Despair
Arallu | Death Covenant
A River of Trees | Cultum Americae
Avawaves | Savage Waters
A Vulture Wake | One.Kingdom.Animal
Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos & Yo-Yo Ma | Beethoven For Three: Symphony No. 6 Pastorale and Op. 1, No. 3
Baby Pantera | Nonchalant
Bad Colours | Always With U
Balka Sound | Balka Sound
Chris Bangs | Samba do Sueno / Soccer Samba
Breanna Barbara | Nothing But Time
Beat Happening | Beat Happening Vinyl Reissue
Beat Happening | Black Candy Vinyl Reissue
Beat Happening | Dreamy Vinyl Reissue
Beat Happening | Jamboree Vinyl Reissue
Beat Happening | Music To Climb The Apple Tree By Vinyl Reissue
Beat Happening | You Turn Me On Vinyl Reissue
Benjike | Break
Biwo | Life and Death
The Black Dahlia | Yule ’Em All: A Holiday Variety Extravaganza
Black Eyed Peas | Elevation
Blinker the Star | Love Oblast
Blue Season | Live Session 918
Bog Bodies | Bog Bodies
Bonecarver | Carnage Funeral
Bothers | II
Nicolas Bougaïeff | Begin Within
David Bowie | Moonage Daydream DVD
Ty Brasel | Transcendent
Tyondai Braxton | Telekinesis
Bright Eyes | Digital Ash in a Digital Urn: A Companion
Bright Eyes | I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning: A Companion
Bright Eyes | Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A Companion
Roy Brooks | Beat Vinyl Reissue
Ben Buck | B-Sides: Remixes and Flips
Burla22 | Haboob
Sam Bush | Radio John: Songs of John Hartford
Candlemass | Sweet Evil Sun
Carobae | Scared To Go To Sleep
CD Ghost | Night Music
Cerberus Shoal | Homb: Anniversary Edition
Sarah Mary Chadwick | Flipped It
Chancha Via Circuito | La Estrella
Sarah Elizabeth Charles | Blank Canvas
Chelsea Grin | Suffer In Hell
Yang Chen | Longing for _
Wild Billy Childish & The Singing Loins | The Fighting Temeraire
Suzie Chism | Pobrecita
City Of Industry | Spiritual West
Clean Cut Kid | Hiss
Xhosa Cole | Ibeji
Collocutor | Pause Reprise Live at 91 Single
Destin Conrad | Satin
Alice Coltrane | Ptah, the El Dauod Vinyl Reissue
Constellatia | Magisterial Romance
The Cool Greenhouse | Sod’s Toastie
Cosmo Gold | Krong
Patrick Cowley | Malebox
Cru Servers | Eel
Crywolf | Exuvium (Obliviøn Pt. II)
La Dame | Zumbidos
Morris Day | Last Call
Dead Horses | Sunny Days
Deca | Smoking Gun
Joseph Decosimo | While You Were Slumbering
Deer Tick | Divine Providence 11th Anniversary Edition
Delivery | Forever Giving Handshakes
Demahjiae | Angels Wear Black
Demonstealer | The Last Reptilian Warrior: Instrumental Edition
Depeche Mode | Playing The Angel | The 12” Singles
Destroyer of Light | Panic
Deux Furieuses | Songs From Planet Earth
Frans de Waard & Martijn Comes | Equal Weights
Dirt Forge | Interspheral
Dodesz | Alvó Angyalok
Dope KNife | The Dope One
MC Poze Do Rodo | O Sabio
Dream Unending | Song Of Salvation
Lila Drew | All The Places I Could Be
Drowse | Wane Into It
Drudkh | All Belong to the Night
Dubinski | Beyond Me
Dumb | Pray 4 Tomorrow
Dysgnostic | Scar Echoes
The Edison Singers / Noel Edison | The First Nowell: Christmas Carols Through the Ages
Jimmy Edgar | Liquids Heaven
Eibon | The Garden of Theophrastus
Sophie Ellis-Bextor | Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco (Live at The London Palladium)
Enuff Z’Nuff | Finer Than Sin
Envy | Seimei EP
Epica | The Alchemy Project
Etceteral | Rhizome
Eventless Plot | Memory Loss
FaltyDL | A Nurse To My Patience
Famous Dex | Lost On Saturn
Fell Ruin | Cast In Oil The Dressed Wrought
Sam Fender | Live From Finsbury Park
Fenella | The Metallic Index
Fiction Fake | Slay Her
Fitz and The Tantrums | Let Yourself Free
Florida Georgia Line | Greatest Hits
Robert Lester Folsom | Sunshine Only Sometimes Archives Vol. 2, 1972–1975
The Foreign Landers | Travelers Rest
Chad Fowler, Zoh Amba, Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Steve Hirsh | Alien Skin
FreqGen | Future 1990s
Bill Frisell | Four
Frolin | Arrival of Peace
Fucked Up | Hidden World Vinyl Reissue
Fuckwolf | Goodbye, Asshole
Gatherers | (Mutilator.)
Ben LaMar Gay | Certain Reveries
Ghetto Kumbé | Clubbing Remixes
Glaston | I Am Whole
GloRilla | Anyways, Life’s Great… EP
Glow & The Dark | Holy Shit EP
Cosmo Gold | Krong
Gold Dust | The Late Great Gold Dust
Gold Panda | The Work
Addison Grace | Things That Are Bad For Me EP
Dave Graney & Clare Moore | In A Mistly
Avi Granite | In Good Hands
JJ Grey & Mofro | Country Ghetto Vinyl Reissue
Groove Armada | GA25
Guns N’ Roses | Use Your Illusion I & II Super Deluxe Edition
Haavard | Haavard
Charbel Haber | A Common Misunderstanding Of The Speed Of Light
Eddie Hale | Far Beyond
Happie | Heartbreak Season
Harvest Gulgaltha | Ancient Woods
Helena Hauff | Living with Ladybirds EP
H.C. Behrendtsen | H.C. Behrendtsen
Thee Headcoats | Head Box
Thee Headcoats Sect | Tribute to Don Craine EP
Headie One | No Borders: European Compilation Project
Heavenly | Heavenly vs Satan Reissue
Heavy Color | Soft Light
He Is Legend | Endless Hallway
Tettix Hexer | Aero
Her Shadow | The Ghost Love Chronicles
Steve Hill | Dear Illusion
Olli Hirvonen | Kielo
Holobody | Three Feet Up EP
The Holy Circle | Don’t Disturb My Waking Dream
Homeboy Sandman | Still Champion
Ernest Hood | Back to the Woodlands
Randy Houser | Note To Self
The Human League | The Virgin Years Vinyl Box Set
Hunting | You’ve Got Love (But it Even Tears You Apart)
Hyd | Clearing
Illogic | The Transition
Indigo Bay | After Dark
Inkswel | Follow The Stars
Inverted Matter | Harbinger
Ivory (IT) | Feelin’
Jambinai | Apparition
Jordana | I’m Doing Well, Thanks For Asking EP
Kampfar | Til Klovers Takt
Kauan | Lumikuuro Live
Jack Kays | Cessation
Kierst | Thud EP
Knowsum | Midnight Special
Gordon Koang | Community
Kode9 | Astro-Darien
Kormac | Equivalent Exchange
Sarathy Korwar | Kalak
K-Saulz & Risk1 | Puppet Ears
Kurushimi | Return III: Death EP
Matt LaJoie | Crop Circle
David Knudson | Undo / Redo EP
Steve Lane | The Great Imposter
Hamish Lang | Seasons
Larkin Poe | Blood Harmony
Lazerbreak | Lava Bangers II
Christian Leave | Superstar EP
Peggy Lee | Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota Expanded Edition
Dev Lemons | Ghosted My Dentist
Less Than Jake | In With The Out Crowd Vinyl Reissue
Joshua Lewis | Friction
Ramsey Lewis | The Beatles Songbook
Lil Karat Stixx | Balenciaga Kilt
Loney Dear | Atlantis
Nana Lourdes | Wyoming
Lous And The Yakuza | Iota
L.S. Dunes | Past Lives
The Luka State | More Than This
Caro Lyne | Acuarelas
Lyrics Born | Vision Board
Mammoth WVH | Mammoth WVH Digital Deluxe Edition
Man-Made Sunshine | Man-Made Sunshine
Paul Maroon & Jenny Lin | 13 Short Piano Pieces
Math Club | Suddenly
Ava Max | Weapons
Dan McCarthy | Songs of the Doomed: Some Jaded Ativistic Freakout
Stephen McCarthy & Carla Olson | Night Comes Falling
Cass McCombs + Weak Signal | Vacation From Thought b/w Give it Back
Meek Mill | Flamerz 5
The Merkin Sisters | The Merkin Sisters
Meskerem Mees | Caesar EP
MGMT | 11-11-11
MichRyc | Under The Surface
Miramar | Spacer Single
Mister Strange | Nothing At All EP
ML Rootless | ML Rootless
MMXX | Sacred Cargo
Elizabeth Moen | Wherever You Aren’t
Mono | My Story, The Buraku Story
Monster Magnet | Test Patterns: Vol. 1
More Eaze | Strawberry Season
Craig Morgan | God, Family, Country Deluxe Edition
Mud Morganfield | Portrait
DJ Muggs & Jay Worthy | What They Hittin 4
My Friend Peter | In Between (5yrs Jubilee)
MyGo!!!!! | Mayoi Uta「迷星叫」
Bill Nace | Through A Room
Nara | Fuoriorario
Nas | King’s Disease III
The Nervous Eaters | Monsters + Angels
Nina Nesbitt | Älskar: Deluxe Edition
Olivia Newton-John | The 1976 Christmas Broadcast
Nexwomb | Nexwomb
Jeb Loy Nichols | United States Of The Broken Hearted
Franz Nicolay | New River
Ninajirachi | Second Nature
Timothy Norton | Visions of Phaedrus
Oak | The Quiet Rebellion of Compromise
Ociya | Celestial Body Music
Offset | Blame It On Set
Richard Öhrn | Sounds In English
Egil Olsen | Big Babies
Only Now | Timeslave (II)
Egil Olsen | Big BabiesOnslaught | Sounds Of Violence Anniversary Edition
Onségen Ensemble | Realms
Oort Smog | Every Motherfucker Is Your Brother
Orchid Mantis | How Long Will It Take
Bobby Oroza | Get On The Otherside Instrumentals
Owls | End Me EP
The Randy Paserntes Trio ft. Sam Gendel and Gabe Noel | Now at Last
Yosa Peit | Phyton
Personal Trainer | Big Love Blanker
Kim Petras | If Jesus Was A Rockstar
Phomea | Me And My Army
Phoxjaw | Notverynicecream
Pioneer 11 | Humanoid
Plaid | Feorm Falorx
Planet Asia & Snowgoons | U.Z.I.: Universal Zeitgeist Intelligence
Positive+ | The Thought Of Losing You
Powerwolf | Call Of The Wild: Touredition / Missa Cantorem II
Powerwolf | Lupus Dei 15th Anniversary Edition
Stefan Prigmore | Everything Is At Least Both
Prima Queen | Eclipse + Bonus Unreleased Single
Pryti | Searching for Now Lost in Again
Quadeca | I Didn’t Mean To Haunt You
Queasy Pieces | Queasy Pieces
Genya Ravan | Urban Desire
Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish | Angry Reissue
Katy Rea | The Urge That Saves You
Reagan Youth | It’s A Beautiful Day...For A Matinee!
Redcar | Christine and the Queens presents Redcar Les Adorables Étoiles
Rejection Pact | Can We Wait?
Remina | Strata
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers | Back in Your Life Reissue
Dawn Riding | You’re Still Here
Ritual Howls | Ritual Howls 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Roanoke | Wolf Motel
Sizzy Rocket | Live Laugh Love
Claire Rousay | A Heavenly Touch Vinyl
Ruin The Nite | Sound The Alarm
Run The Jewels | RTJ Cu4tro
Rx1f | r8c180
Sammal | Aika Laulaa
Pharoah Sanders | Karma Vinyl Reissue
S.C.A.B. | S.C.A.B.
Scar | The Road Less Travelled
Scarlet | Circle Of Bones
Scattered Storm | In this Dying Sun
Jack Schneider | Best Be On My Way
Schwefelgelb | Whirlpool-Gedanken
Sconsacrata | Paroxysms
S’efforcer | Metamorphosis
Seething Akira | Nozomi
Seventeen | Dream
Seventh Station | Heal The Unhealed
The Shapeshifters | Let Loose
Tony Shhnow | Plug Motivation
Sicard Hollow | Brightest Of Days
Silence Is Spoken | 11
Slaney Bay | A Life Worth Living EP
Slowthai | Ugly
Smidley | Here Comes the Devil
Smut | How The Light Felt
SoFaygo | Pink Heartz
Akai Solo | Spirit Roaming
Sonora Pine | II Reissue
Soul Blind | Feel It All Around
Souza & M27 | Blessed
Izzy Spears | Monstar EP
Spider God | Fly In The Trap
Bruce Springsteen | Only The Strong Survive
The Staves | Dead & Born & Grown 10th Anniversary Reissue
Colin Stetson | Chimæra I
Macie Stewart | Mouth Full of Glass
Jamie Stillway | Lullaby For A Stranger
Str4ta | Str4tasfear
Anthony Strong | Easy Sailing
Soul Blind | Feel It All Around
AJ Suede | Darth Sueder 7: Rogues Gallery
Svart Katt | Svart Katt
Luke Sweeney | Rishi
Sweet Cobra | Threes
Swr.quinn | Deletions Vol. 1
Symposium | Do You Remember How It Was? The Best of Symposium 1996/1999
Third Lung | Gameplay
Deniz Tek | Long Before Day
Thank You Driver | Nothing You Do Can Stop This
Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission | Back In The Day EP
Thy Listless Heart | Pilgrims On The Path Of No Return
Duval Timothy | Meeting with A Judas Tree
Louis Tomlinson | Faith In The Future
Tribilin Sound | Jalea Mixta
Heather Trost | Desert Flowers
Trup | Nie
Twit One | Venetian Blinds
Tyroneisaacstuart | S!ck
Ulfuls | Tanoshii Oshigoto Aikokai
Useless Idea | Glitch In The Colors
UVB | Assassination Techniques
Sharon Van Etten | We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong Deluxe Edition
Christina Vantzou | No. 5
Various Artists | Folding Cassettes Greatest Hits
Various Artists | Here It Is: A Tribute To Leonard Cohen
Various Artists | Hocus Pocus 2 Soundtrack
Various Artists | Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes
Various Artists | Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver
Various Artists | This Is Techno Jazz Vol. 2
Venetian Veil | The Lands of the Living and the Dead
Venus Ex Machina | Doxa
Void Of Vision | Chronicles III: Underworld
Von Pea & Æon | Duly Noted 2
Rick Wakeman | GasTank Highlights
Warhaus | Ha Ha Heartbreak
Warkings | Monsters
Matt Watson | See You There
Wau Wau Collectif | Mariage
The Weber Brothers | Wild As The Wild Dogs
Wesley | Glows In The Dark
We Stood Like Kings | Away
The White Buffalo | Year Of The Dark Horse
Wild Wes | Moonquake: Anniversary Edition
Wishlane | Catch22
J.Wlsn | 1993
Dexter Wiggle | The Brown Dracula
Wütrio | Wütrio
Jason Yeager Septet | Unstuck In Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite
Young Culture | You Had To Be There
Youth In A Roman Field | Get Caught Trying
Yuna | Y5
Yung Bleu | Tantra
Zëlot | Supplices EP
Emilie Zoé | Hello Future Me: The Companion EP