It’s a sad day for musical anniversaries: Suicide vocalist Alan Vega died on this date in 2016 at age 78, blues singer-guitarist Johnny Winter passed away on tour in Switzerland at 70, Deep Purple keyboardist Jon Lord died in 2012 at age 71, Nashville queen Kitty Wells went to country music heaven on the same day at 92, and folksinger Harry Chapin was killed in a car crash in New York at age 38. If you need something to listen to today, that should get you started. And if you need something to hear next week, try these 275-plus new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes:
Fred Abong | Father
Dehlia Ackley | Lewd Wilderness
Tanner Adell | Buckle Bunny
Ageless Summoning | Corrupting the Entempled Plane
Agriculture | Agriculture
Akercocke | Decades Of Devil Worship
Aleph | Sepulchre
Zoh Amba & Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt | The Flower School
The Americans | Strays
Ancestral Blood | Forgotten Myths and Legends: Chapter 1
Angel Rising | Afterlife
Tony Ann | Emotionally Orange EP
The Arcadian Wild | Welcome
As December Falls | Join the Club
Crystal Ash | Reboot^2
Ashywuff! | Bad Dog!
Atlanta Rhythm Section | Time Machine
Lauren Auder | The Infinite Spine
Babyface Ray | Summer’s Mine
Balimaya Project | When The Dust Settles
Basedment:collective | Planet Zero
Bby Goyard | Now I Become Death
Beabadoobee | The Way Things Go
Huw Marc Bennett | Days Like Now
Big Thief | Vampire Empire Single
Bile Sister | Living On The Edge
Andrew Bird | Outside Problems
Raquel Bitton | C’est Magnifique
Black Birdie | Black Birdie
Black Milk | Everybody Good?
Blargg | Blarggmobile
Bloc Party | The High Life EP
Bloodsuckers | Saint Agnes
Blur | The Ballad Of Darren
Boomclap | See The Light
Liz Bordeaux | Slaughter
Dante Bowe | Dante Bowe
Boy Golden | For Jimmy EP
Bill Brewster | Late Night Tales presents After Dark: Vespertine
Brix’n Mortar | Something Ain’t Right
Bruh Collective | Untitled
Michaël Brun | Fami Summer EP
Roy Buchanan | When A Guitar Plays The Blues Reissue
Burial and Kode9 | Infirmary / Unknown Summer EP
Sam Burton | Dear Departed
Donald Byrd | Electric Byrd Reissue
Kai Campos & Mount Kimbie | City Planning Deluxe
Chris Carrapetta | Nothing Left To Lose
Ken Carson | It’s Over
Grace Carter | A Little Lost, A Little Found
CC:Disco! | Chez Moi (Waiting For You ft. Confidence Man)
Charm School | Finite Jest EP
Chuck The Great | The Purple EP
Circe | Drawing Wings From the Light EP
Cloudland Canyon | Circuit City
Coma World | Coma Wong
Consumer Culture | The Future Is A Pile Of Bodies
Nadine Coyle | If I Lay Here (Chasing Cars)
The Criticals | Front Door Confrontations EP
The Cucumbers | Old Shoes
Cultic | Seducer
Cult of Sobek | Petsuchos
Cut Worms | Cut Worms
Cypress Hill | Black Sunday Expanded 30th Anniversary Edition
Dead or Alive | Let Them Drag My Soul Away: Singles, Demos, Sessions and Live Recordings 1979-1982
DeadSeraphin | DeadSeraphin
Death Bells | Take My Spirit Now EP
Demons | Under The Western Heel
Fabiano do Nascimento | Das Nuvens
Dismember | Historia Mortis
Cian Ducrot | Victory
Elf Power | Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs Vinyl Reissue
Embr | Black Single
Lizzie Esau | Lazy Brain Single
Face of Korruption | Demo
Fatboi Sharif & Steel Tipped Dove | Decay
Charlie Faye | Charlie Faye & The Fanimals
Felbm | Cycli Infini
Alan Ferber Nonet | Up High, Down Low
Feuerschwanz | Fegefeuer
Sherry Finzer | The Empress
Paul Flaherty, Jim Matus, Larry Derdeyn | Wednesday Weld
The Flashcubes | Forget About You
Ford. | Guiding Hand
Forever Autumn | Crowned in Skulls EP
From20 | Beat It
DJ Mell G | Issues
Mort Garson | Journey To The Moon And Beyond Reissue
General Jihad / Shaka Amazulu The 7th | Jihad By The Sword (Jihad Bis Saif)
Oliver Ghoul | The Big Reveal EP
Ludwig Göransson | Oppenheimer Soundtrack
Gorgon City | Salvation
Greta Van Fleet | Starcatcher
Daryl Groetsch | Frozen Waste
Daryl Groetsch | Gardens in Glass
Guardin | If We’re Being Honest
Guided By Voices | Welshpool Frillies
Ben Gunning | No Magic Hand
Half Japanese | Jump into Love
Hallucinogen | The Albums Remastered
Hardball | Hardball
Head High | Break Away EP
Zeus B. Held | Attack Time
Hey It’s Liron, Jesse James, Chumpion | Tipsy
Hi, I’m Chris | Gum
Wren Hinds | Don’t Die In The Bundu
Hiverlucide / Spaceseer | Φαλαινομανιτάρι
The Holy Family | Go Zero
John Lee Hooker | …And Seven Nights Vinyl Reissue
House of Warmth | Surrenderland
Huw | The Lost Buttons
Inhuman Condition | Panic Prayer EP
Inji | LFG EP
The Isley Brothers | Make Me Say It Again, Girl
James & The Cold Gun | James & The Cold Gun
Jamie’s Elsewhere | Paradise EP
Bubba Janko | Cheap Glamorous
Jazzbois | Higher Dimension Waiting Room
Waylon Jennings | Lonesome, On’ry & Mean / Honky Tonk Heroes / This Time / The Ramblin’ Man
Johnny’s Uncalled Four | The Lost Album
Kush Jones | City Planning
Steven L. Jones | Murder Ballads Old & New Book
Thad Jones | Detroit-New York Junction Reissue
Tony K | Island Single
Kaminski | Black Salad
Al Karpenter | The Forthcoming
Al Karpenter & CIA Debutante | Al Karpenter & CIA Debutante
Kehli | Pity Party EP
Ketamine Kow | No Spam Callers
Dan Kibler | Idiomatic
Kitba | Kitba
KKbutterfly27xx | Party All Night Single
Frankie Knight & Ink Project | Space Pop
Allegra Krieger | I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
Bernd Krueger & Mikado Koko | Suite Bergamasque
Kurtains | Skin Single
Landowner | Escape the Compound
Landscape | Landscape A Go-Go: The Story of Landscape 1977-83
Oscar Lang | Look Now
Nathanael Larochette | Old Growth
Leone | GTFOH EP
Gerald Levert | When It’s Right: The Anthology (1991-2007)
The Lightning Kids | FM (Remix Album)
The Lilac Time | Dance Till All the Stars Come Down
Little Falls Trophy | Dutch Motel
Nils Lofgren | Mountains
London Grammar | The Remixes
David Long and Shane O’Neill | And You Can’t Dream That
Lost Cousins | Point No Point
Logan Lynn | Distracted EP
Madmadmad | Behavioural Sink Delirium
DJ Maff & Elena Rose | Limonadita Fresca Single
Izzy Mahoubi | How To Run EP
Bruno Major | Columbo
Will Manning | Don’t Single
Mauve | About the Weather
Delbert McClinton | Live From Austin Reissue
Lori McKenna | 1988
MDN | black_hole
Mega Drive | 200XAD
Idina Menzel | Beast Single
MF Ruckus | The Front Lines of Good Times Vol. I
Midnight Magic | I Found Dubs
Mission The Sleep | White Death EP
Miss Tiny | Den 7
Mittere | Boy
Mizmor | Prosaic
MLRU | Verano (Summer Edition)
Model Home & Wolf Eyes | More Difficult Messages
Imogen Moon | When They Start Rebelling
More More Jump! | IF/Parasol Cider
Mori Calliope | Future Island
Daryl Mosley | A Life Well Lived
Mother Tongues | Love In A Vicious Way
Mount Kimbie | City Planning Deluxe
Mòzâmbîqúe | Peril 1998 EP
Mull Historical Society | In My Mind There’s A Room
Róisín Murphy | You Knew
MxPx | Find A Way Home
Sim Nagai | Shimmer From The East
Jonny Nash | Point of Entry
NCT Dream | ISTJ
Nevāda Nevada | Past Life
NewJeans | Get Up
New Math | New Math Die Trying & Other Hot Sounds (1979-1983)
Nikshoww | The New Xotica
Nitroverts | Endogenous
Noname | Balloons ft. Jay Electronica & Eryn Allen Kane Single
Nostalghia | The Last Path
Nouveau Arcade | Dead Hearts
Nu Deco Ensemble | Duende
Odesza & Yellow House | Flaws In Our Design EP
Outer Heaven | Infinite Psychic Depths
Oxbow | Love’s Holiday
Pantera | The Complete Studio Albums 1990-2000
Paris Texas | Mid Air
Pedroso & Pedrosa | No Bico do Corvo
Pelican | The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw Deluxe Edition
Perfume Thief | Sasha Today
Phish | Burgettstown 2023
Phish | July 18, 2023 | Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park, Wilmington, NC
Phish | July 19, 2023 | Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park, Wilmington, NC
Phish | July 21, 2023 | The Pavilion at Star Lake, Burgettstown, PA
Phish | July 22, 2023 | The Pavilion at Star Lake, Burgettstown, PA
Phish | July 23, 2023 | St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview, Syracuse, NY
Phish | Wilmington 2023
Poppy | Knockoff Single
PsalmOne & Custom Made | The Return Of Bigg Perrm
Brontez Purnell | No Jack Swing
Ike Quebec | Heavy Soul Reissue
Steve Queralt & Michael Smith | Sun Moon Town Versions
Rain Parade | Last Rays OF A Dying Sun Vinyl
Reboot | As If EP
Rempis Percussion Quartet | Harvesters
Restraining Order | Locked In Time
Rezz | It’s Not A Phase
Ruusu-Aura | Dream Pussy
Rachel Sage | The Other Side
Saint Agnes | Bloodsuckers
Samurai Pizza Cats | Hellcome
Stephanie Santiago | Campo de Minas
Scarlxrd | Made In Hell
Luke Schneider | It Is Solved By Walking
Sha EK, Bandmanrill, & Defiant | Jiggy In Jersey
David Shea | Una Nota Solo
The Sherlocks | Remember All the Girls
Shinkiro | The Birth Of The Gods
Silent Planet | Antimatter
Nina Simone | You’ve Got To Learn
SkyeChristy | The Summer I Lost My Lover EP
Slayyyter | Miss Belladonna
Sleepy Jean | Shoot Me In A Dream
SLW cc Watt | Purple Pie Plow
Smiley | I Did What I Did
Lonnie Smith | Turning Point Reissue
Reuben Vaun Smith | Da Cuckoo YaYa
Sam Smith | Man I Am Single
Somnuri | Desiderium
Sorcia | Lost Season
Soul Liberation | Who Are You? Reissue
Soundscapism Inc. | Staring Down on Incandescent Cities
Spill Tab | Klepto
Spiritual Front | The Queen Is Not Dead
Spiritual Front | Rotten Roma Casino Deluxe Edition
Strange Ranger | Pure Music
Jim Sullivan | Backstage & Beyond Vol. 1: 45 Years Of Classic Rock Chats & Rants (Book)
Sunshine Convention | Sunshine Convention
Syrte | 396.847
Anna Talpe | Home EP
Kaidi Tatham | The Only Way
Tending Bike | Waves Forever
Thank | Torture Cube / Dead Dog In A Ditch
Thunder Horse | After The Fall
Tomorrow’s Tigers | Tomorrow’s Tigers EP
Trevor’s Everywhere | A Testament to the Root of Our Character
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway | City of Gold
Tweaks | Move San, Let Gate
Underwards | Delve
Upper Wilds | Jupiter
Valee and Harry Fraud | Virtuoso
The Vandals | Hitler Bad, Vandals Good 25th Anniversary Edition
Grace VanderWaal | Boyfriends Single
Vangas | Vangas
Various Artists | After Dark: Vespertine Compiled by Bill Brewster
Various Artists | Barbie: The Album Soundtrack
Various Artists | Delmark Records: 70th Anniversary Blues Anthology
Various Artists | Fixt Noir: Signals
Various Artists | Some Like It Hot Broadway Cast Recording
Alan Vega | Just A Million Dreams Reissue
Vhyce | Out Of The Blue
Erin Viancourt | Won’t Die This Way
Viral Tyrant | Vultures Like You
Voivod | Morgöth Tales
Matt Von Roderick | Celestial Heart
Whisper Hiss | Shake Me Awake
Whobejaz & Tenten | Absinthe
Williams / Kleijn / Kassinger | Two or Three
Johnny Winter | Guitar Slinger Reissue
Yellowcard | Childhood Eyes
Jaboukie Young-White | All Who Can’t Hear Must Feel
Yumi | Lost
Zayn | Love Like This
Zedned | Zedned Back From The Dead
The Zenith Passage | Datalysium
John Zorn | Quatrain
