I have been in Memphis for most of the past week watching bands, eating BBQ and drinking beer (not necessarily in that order). So I have had neither the time nor the inclination to put together the usual weekly lists of upcoming books, televised music and top albums. Sorry (not sorry); this is all you get. But I’m pretty sure you easily can find the best options among the 400-plus new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes arriving next week. Regular programming will resume shortly. Promise.
Michael Abdow | Séance In Black
Abilene | Endee Burial
Accidental President | Was It Meant To Be This Way?
A Day To Remember | For Those Who Have Heart Reissue
Adeline Hotel | Hot Fruit
Adulkt Life | There Is No Desire
Alle The Dreamer | Starting Over EP
Ihsan Al-Munzer | Belly Dance
&Team | First Howling: We EP
Ão | Ao Mar
Omar Apollo | Live For Me EP
Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham | Sankofa Season Remixes
Yara Asmar | Synth Waltzes And Accordion Laments
Rick Astley | Are We There Yet?
Rami Atassi | Dancing Together
David August | Vīs
Axis: Sova | Blinded By Oblivion
Azimut | Dans Les Méandres
Babyfxce E | The X Tape
Bad Company | 10 From 6 Vinyl Reissue
Bad Company | Bad Company Vinyl Reissue
Victoria Bailey | A Cowgirl Rides On
The Ballistic Brothers | Blacker Reissue
The Band | The Last Waltz Vinyl Reissue
Band Of Pulses | Pulses
Jakob Battick | Slow Motion Summer
BCMC | Foreign Smokes
Be | Here
Jacob Bellens | Off My Meds
Mare Berger | Dreaming Blue
Laurie Berkner | Buzz Buzz 25th Anniversary Edition
Best Ex | With A Smile
Bewilder | From the Eyrie
Aidan Bissett | Supernova
Blak Emoji | Antidote Deluxe Edition
Blitzen Trapper | Cheap Fantastical Takedown 12″ Vinyl
Blondshell | Blondshell Deluxe Edition
The Blood Brothers | Burn, Piano Island, Burn 20th Anniversary Edition
Blu x Med & Bane Capital | Good Fortune EP
BNXN | Sincerely, Benson
Bodies | All The Songs I Know About Fire
Joe Bonamassa | Blues Deluxe Vol. 2
Born Days | My Little Dark
Born In Blood | Can’t Save Us All
BoyWithUke | Lucid Dreams
Braake | Kann Ja Alles Sein
The Brains | Drunk Not Dead Reissue
Breeze | Sour Grapes
Peter Broderick & Ensemble 0 | Give It to the Sky: Arthur Russell’s Tower of Meaning Expanded
Buffalo Springfield | Buffalo Springfield Again Mono Vinyl Reissue
Tré Burt | Traffic Fiction
Butcher Brown | Solar Music
Colbie Caillat | Along the Way
JJ Cale | Tulsa Sound
Camylio | Before We Say Goodbye
Capra | Errors
Carnifex | Necromanteum
John Carpenter | Anthology II: Movie Themes 1976-1988
The Cars | Greatest Hits Vinyl Reissue
Daniel Carter, Patrick Holmes, Matthew Putman, Hilliard Greene, Federico Ughi | Electric Telepathy, Vol. 2
CC Heaven | See You in Hell
Dolph Chaney | Mug
Cherry Cheeks | CCLPII
La Chinga | Primal Forces
Cin the Ciege | The Gaytrix
Citizen | Calling the Dogs
Class | If You’ve Got Nothing
Steve Cole | Without A Doubt
Max Cooper | Motif EP
Corner Club | In The Rearview Mirror EP
Corto.alto | Bad With Names
John Course | What Am I Gonna Do? (ft. Emily Williams)
Creation Rebel | Hostile Environment
Cultchild | Darkforest
Cyanide Pills | Hope You’re Having Fun
The Damned | The Best of The Damned
Moniek Darge / Vanessa Rossetto | Dream Soundies
The Darkness | Permission to Land… Again
Dead Alright | Dancing Through The End Of Days
Del Paxton | Auto Locator
Depeche Mode | Delta Machine: The 12″ Singles
Hannah Diamond | Perfect Picture
Mario Diaz de Leon | Spark and Earth
Jesse Dietschi | Gradient
Distraxi | Distraxi
Dogstar | Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees
Aaron Dooley The International Disassociation Of
Dopelord | Songs for Satan
DPR Ian | Dear Insanity… EP
Drake | For All The Dogs
Dreamweapon | Ars Moriendi
Drift | 11 Points in Time
David Duffy Quartet | Where The Branches Begin
Duke Jupiter | Duke Jupiter 1
Dusk | Wheels Of Twilight
Jeremy Dutcher | Motewolonuwok
Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly | Hopeful Monster
ElCamino | They Spit on Jesus
Dorian Electra | Fanfare
Danny Elfman | Corpse Bride Soundtrack Reissue
Eradikated | Descendants
Espanola | Espanola, Again
Exek | The Map and the Territory
Extensive Slaughter | More Than A Nightmare
Extrema | Tension At The Seams 30th Anniversary Edition
Anna Fedorova | Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos and Other Works
The Feeling | Live In London
Fires In The Distance | Air Not Meant For Us Instrumental
Ethan P. Flynn | Abandon All Hope
Foreigner | Foreigner Vinyl Reissue
Joby Fox | I Once Was A Hawk, Now I’m A Dove
Neil Frances | It’s All A Bit Fuzzy
Kirk Franklin | Father’s Day
Freschard & Stanley Brinks | Iron Eye
Arina Fujiwara | Neon
Courtney Gains | Safe Haven
Games We Play | Life’s Going Great
Garrison & Orange Island | Songs From a Central Massachusetts Mill Town
Sam Gendel & Marcella Cytrynowicz | Audiobook
Ġenn | Unum
Georgia Gets By | Fish Bird Baby Boy EP
John Ghost | Thin Air . Mirror Land
(G)-Idle | Heat
Allen Ginsberg & Various Artists | The Fall Of America II
Glasser | Crux
Gob Psychic | Gob Psychic
The Golden Vampire Experience | Polaris
Jesús Goméz | Jesus Gomez
Good Lovelies | We Will Never Be The Same
Amy Grant | Lead Me On Live 1989
Natalie Grant | Seasons
Grateful Dead | Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 3/9/81 Vinyl Reissue
Gratin Carnival | Such December
Gruzja | Koniec Wakacji
Corey Gulkin | Half Moon
Gyasi | 23 EP
Half Stack | Sitting Pretty
Hanford Reach | Precipice EP
Madil Hardis | Natural Darkness
Jason Hawk Harris | Thin Places
Shuta Hasunuma | Unpeople
Hayfitz | Everything Else
Headcheese | Expired
Heatmiser | The Music Of Heatmiser
The Heavy Minds | Beyond Gloom
Heka | Swan Songs EP
Hello June | Artifacts
Ibrahim Hesnawi | The Father of Libyan Reggae
Tom Heyman | 24th Street Blues
The Hi End | Nothing To Hide
Hiromi | Sonicwonderland
Jolie Holland | Haunted Mountain
Honeydrip | Psychotropical
Jon Hopkins | Immunity 10th Anniversary Edition Vinyl
Wayne Horvitz | The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari Original Score
Joseph Houck | Haunts & Wants
Holiday Howe | God In Maine
Hunny | New Planet Heaven
Ida Mae | Thunder Above
Impure Wilhelmina | Dead Decades
Jiro Inagaki | WaJazz Legends: Selected by Yusuke Ogawa
Index for Working Musik | Indexe’e
Inu | Don’t Eat Food Reissue
Iogi | We Can Be Friends
Iration | Daytrippin
Iron Butterfly | In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Vinyl Reissue
Iron Savior | Firestar
Ilsey | From The Valley
Impure Wilhelmina | Dead Decades EP
Incubus | Morning View XXIII
The Jack Rubies | Poltergeist
Jane Woe | Jane Woe
Elijah Johnston | Hometown Vampire
Molly Johnson | It’s A Snow Globe Vinyl
Chris Jones & The Night Drivers | Pages In Your Hand EP
Howard Jones | Celebrate It Together: The Very Best Of Howard Jones
Howard Jones | We’re In This Together (Book)
Jord | Tundra
Jordsjø | Salighet
Kadabra | Umbra
Kamakarmic | God In Maine
Kanga | Under Glass
The Keening | Little Bird
Leon Keita | Leon Keita: Analog Africa Dance Edition No.16
Cevin Key | Brap And Forth Vol. 9
King Ov Wyrms | The Womb Ov Borealis
Timbo King | Tmb Kng
Linus Klausenitzer | Tulpa
Lo Kristenson | Förnimmelser
Kultur Shock | Acoustic Live
Kyuss | Blues for the Red Sun Vinyl Reissue
Alex Lahey | The Answer Is Always Yes Expanded
Lanco | Run, Run, Baby
Larkin Poe | An Acoustic Companion EP
Laroye | First Sight EP
Laster | Andermans Mijne
Mary Lattimore | Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
Lavelle | Contemporary DJ’s from the Past
Layperson | I Want To (Single)
Pete “Padre” Lazonby | Beautiful Lies EP
Lily & Madeleine | Nite Swim
Lofting | All That Leaves
Bob Log III | Live! Surprise!
Young James Long | Orogeny
Michelle Lordi | Two Moons
Inger Lorre | Death Is A Horizon
Lowest Of The Low | Welcome To The Plunderdome
The Lowlies | The Lowlies
Lssns | Transit
LTtheMonk | Uptown Intern #333
Lufthaus | Visions Volume 1
Lung / Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends | Adult Prom Split Album
The Lurkers | Live At The Queen’s Hotel
Leo Lyons & Hundred Seventy Split | Movin’ On
Ian MacPhee | Distance
Magma | Une Histoire De Mekanïk: 50 Years Of Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
Mansions | Tuff Luff
Matchbox Twenty | Yourself or Someone Like You Vinyl Reissue
Johnny Mathis | Christmas Time Is Here Reissue
Hank May | Tails
Reba McEntire | Not That Fancy
MC5 | High Time Vinyl Reissue
MC5 | Back In The USA Vinyl Reissue
MC5 | Kick Out The Jams Vinyl Reissue
Rod McKuen / Heins Hoffman-Richter | Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease Reissue
Jackie McLean | Demon’s Dance Reissue
Meadowlark | Hiraeth
Meat Puppets | Camp Songs
Meat Puppets | In a Car EP Reissue
Meat Puppets | Up On The Sun Reissue
Meernaa | So Far So Good
Alex Miller | Country EP
Allison Miller | Rivers In Our Veins
John R. Miller | Heat Comes Down
Joni Mitchell | Archives, Vol 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)
Mndsgn. | Snaxxx
Moebius | Aspirin
Molécule | RE-201
Chris Mondak | Blank With Colour
John Morgan | Remember Us?
Moron’s Morons | Cadillac Eyes b/w You’re A Sleaze Single
Mouths of Babes | World Brand New
Mutabaruka | Black Attack
Mutual Benefit | Growing at the Edges
Mystical Valley Parkway | Mystical Valley Parkway
My Violence | My Violence
Manabu Nagayama | Light And Shadow
Natura Est | The Folly Of Mars
Joey Nebulous | Joey Spumoni Creamy Dreamy Party All The Time
River Nelson & AltoBeats | We Should Escape
Olivia Newton-John | Just the Two of Us: The Duets Collection Vol. 2
Herbie Nichols Trio | Herbie Nichols Trio Reissue
Elsa Nilsson | Pulses
Notturno | Inside
Nova-Kane & Pro The Laader | American Poets 2099 Presents: Know The Names
No Valentia | Here 2 Flo
Novere | Nothing Stays Hidden In Daylight
Nytt Land | Torem
Ocean of Lotion | LouiLouiLoui
October Tide | The Cancer Pledge
Of Mice And Men | Tether
Sophie Ogilvie | Crocus EP
Ohio Players | Pleasure Vinyl Reissue
Old Dominion | Memory Lane
Sophie Ogilvie | Coming Up, Crocus
Onipa | Off The Grid
Only Now | Fate / Will
Mike Opani | Charon
Open City | Hands In The Honey Jar
Open Fracture & Pale World | Inferno
Otep | Hydra 10th Anniversary Edition
Pale Saints | In Ribbons 30th Anniversary Edition
Pangaea | Changing Channels
Jessica Pavone | Clamor
P.E. | Nope Tapes Vol. 3
Peretsky | Pianovoz Electroacústica
Persecution Blues | Downright Dirty
Craig Peyton | Overflight
Ethan Philion Quartet | Gnosis
The Pleasure Dome | Equinox
Population II | Électrons Libres Du Québec
Portugal. The Man | Woodstock Vinyl Reissue
Powfu | Gathered By The Lantern
P-Rallel | Movement
Princess Goes | Come Of Age
Prong | State Of Emergency
Provoker | Demon Compass
Sun Ra | Haverford College, Jan. 25, 1980
Trevor Rabin | Rio
Hania Rani | Ghosts
Rat Boogie | Ignoring the Cost EP
Miki Ratsula | I’ll Be Fine If I Want To
Rave The Reqviem | Ex-Eden
Tina Raymond | Divinations
Lou Reed: The King of New York By Will Hermes (Book)
Restless Spirit | Afterimage
Michael Rider | Libra Season Boy (Demo)
Emily Robb | If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection
Stephen Roddy | Leviathan
Tom Rogerson | Retreat to Bliss Reworks
The Rolling Stones | England’s Newest Hit Makers Vinyl Reissue
Brad E. Rose | I’m Scared of Dying
Claire Rosinkranz | Just Because
Mitch Rowland | Come June
Darius Rucker | Carolyn’s Boy
Heikki Ruokangas | Karu
The Rural Alberta Advantage | The Rise & The Fall
Youmna Saba | Wishah
Salacious Gods | Oalevluuk
Sangre De Muérdago | O Vento Que Lambe As Miñas Feridas
Saton | A La Espera Del Momento
A. Savage | Several Songs About Fire
S Club 7 | Best: The Greatest Hits of S Club 7 Vinyl Reissue
S.C.R.A.M. | The Inner City
Screaming Eagles | High Class Rock N Roll
The Seshen | Nowhere
SG | For Lovers Only / Rain Suite
Sally Shapiro | Rent
Sharkswimmer | Serenity
Mark Shippy & Alex Cunningham | Please Advise
Short Fictions | Oblivion Will Own Me and Death Alone Will Love Me (Void Filler)
Silvertone Hills | Big Empty Sky Single
Clare Siobhan | Seek the Sun
Slauson Malone 1 | Excelsior
Soft Covers | Soft Serve
Somerdale | Let’s Get Started
Giuliano Sorgini | Scappo Per Cantare
Aho Ssan | Rhizomes
Lecx Stacy | A Glint In The Holocene EP
The Steel Woods | On Your Time
Frankie Stein and His Ghouls | Ghoul Music Reissue
Frankie Stein and His Ghouls | Shock! Terror! Fear! Reissue
Sufjan Stevens | Javelin
Stingray | Fortress Britain
Stone Temple Pilots | Thank You Vinyl Reissue
The Stooges | The Stooges Vinyl Reissue
The Stooges | Fun House Vinyl Reissue
Sam & Louise Sullivan | Papier-Mâché
Sun Araw / Tarzana | Aqua X: Super Coracle / Tarzana Split
Superabundance | Extrasolar
Call Super | Eulo Cramps
Supernova 1006 | Chains
Svalbard | The Weight Of The Mask
Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist | Voir Dire
Ed Sweeney with Cathy Clasper-Torch | A Sunday Drive
Teddy Swims | I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy Part 1
Leo Takami | Next Door
Talking Heads | True Stories Vinyl Reissue
Talking Heads | Little Creatures Vinyl Reissue
Talking Heads | Remain in Light Vinyl Reissue
The David Tattersall Group | The David Tattersall Group
Teeth Of The Sea | Hive
Tele Novella | Poet’s Tooth
Television | Marquee Moon Vinyl Reissue
Temic | Terror Management Theory
Tired Cossack | I Know, I Guess
Torn The Fuck Apart | Kill. Bury. Repeat
Total | Jede Nacht derselbe Traum
Tōth | Juliette b/w Muerto
Truth Club | Running From The Chase
20 Year Short Break | Bring It On Single
UFO | Hot N’ Ready In Texas
The Umlauts | Slags
Uni Boys | Buy This Now!
Unitcode:machine | Critical Fault
Unschooling | New World Artifacts
Van Halen | The Collection II
Vanishing Twin | Afternoon X
Vånna Inget | True Romance
Various Artists | Alligator Records Christmas Collection Reissue
Various Artists | A Mighty Wind: The Album Reissue
Various Artists | Dicks: The Musical Soundtrack
Various Artists | Allen Ginsberg’s The Fall of America II
Various Artists | Heavenly Recordings: Heavenly Remixes Vol. 8
Various Artists | Meditations On Crime (Book)
Various Artists | Muscut x Mida: Volia x Rahu
Various Artists | The NID Tapes: Electronic Music from India 1969-1972
Various Artists | Numero Group: Eccentric Boogie
Various Artists | Polylog 5
Various Artists | Stir The Cauldron: The Big Stir Records Halloween Collection
Velvet Two Stripes | No Spell For Moving Water
Daniel Villarreal | Lados B
Virta | Horros
Tom Waits | The Black Rider Reissue
Tom Waits | Bone Machine Reissue
Rita Was | Captain Obvious
Roger Waters | The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux
Ida Wenøe | Undersea
Westcoast Goddess | Time 4 Change EP
The Wheel | The Wheel
White Poppy | Sound Of Blue
The White Stripes | The Complete John Peel Sessions
Sam Wilkes | Driving
Wingtips | Remixes
Hawksley Workman | Lover/Fighter 20th Anniversary Edition
World’s First Cinema | Palm Reader EP
Xorsist | At The Somber Steps Of Serenity
Yes | Yessingles
Hiroshi Yoshimura | Surround
Yung Bae | Groove Continental: Side B
Zbonics | Keep On Walkin’
