I predict you’re going to hear and read a lot about Prince today. Why? Because the provocative, diminutive genius died eight years ago — on April 21, 2016 — of an accidental prescription opioid overdose. He was 57. Another prediction: You can find plenty of great new music on this roundup of the 475-plus albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes arriving next week. Dig, if you will, the long list:
Abijah | Beyond Me
Accept | Humanoid
ACxDC | G.O.A.T.
John Adams, Los Angeles Philharmonic | Girls of the Golden West
Adult Jazz | So Sorry So Slow
AG Club | Brodie World
Agriculture | Living is Easy
Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal La Boeuf, Christian Euman | Are We Dreaming The Same Dream?
Cameron Alexander | Ice Blue Punk
Alcatrazz | Rock Justice: Complete Recordings 1983-1986
Alien Ant Farm | ~mAntras~
All Are To Return | AATR III
Alvin Purple | Billie
Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin | Ghosted II
Ambroise | La Première Caresse Goûte Toujours La Neige
Amiensus | Reclamation: Part 1
Shirlette Ammons | Spectacles
Andromeda Dreams | Hyperion
Angry Blackmen | The Legend Of ABM
Anitta | Funk Generation
Anitta | Grip
Marc Anthony | Ale Ale Single
Marc Anthony | Muevense
David Arcos | Dime Más / Tù Me Das (Live)
Arð | Untouched By Fire
Maria Chiara Argirò | Closer
Armnhmr | Together As One Remixes
Lanark Artefax | Metallur EP
Artms | Candy Crush
Sibille Attar | Brutal
Awol | Tear ‘Em To Bits
Babehoven | Water’s Here In You
Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon | In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album
Chris BadNews Barnes | BadNews Travels Fast
Bairi | Fire Siren EP
The Ballistic Brothers | London Hooligan Soul
Noah Barker & Nelson Devereaux | Subtle Frequencies
Battlebeats | Meet Your Maker
Battlejuice x Power Rob | World Gone Mad
Peter Baumann | Phase By Phase: The Virgin Albums
Jeff Beal | New York Études
Bears In Trees | How to Build an Ocean: Instructions
Belfountain | Tell Me When It Rains Single
Belinda | 300 Noches
Mira Benjamin / Zubin Kanga / Scott McLaughlin | We Are Environments For Each Other
Be’o | Affection
Big League | Heathen Sound
Black Tusk | The Way Forward
Black Veil Brides | Bleeders
Blasphemous Basement | Seth
Blitz Vega | Northern Gentlemen
Olivia Block | The Mountains Pass
A. Blomqvist | Spring Memoir EP
The Blood Of Christ | Sworn Trilogy EP
Blue Fish Diamond | Service To The Hand Single
Blūmē | Everything Is Going To Be O.K.
BMX Bandits | Dreamers On The Run
Anthony Boccaleoni | Ebbs And Flows
Sega Bodega | Dennis
Bodies of Water | The Journey Is Our Home
Liz Brasher | Baby Damn
Bright Dog Red | Bad Magic
Bright Dog Red | Hegemonitized
Brother Ali | Love & Service
Luiz Bruno | Chicken Dinner
Noémi Büchi | Does It Still Matter
Bullion | Affection
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane | Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane Reissue
Cairo Knife Fight | Afterbias Single
Calico | Northern Girl
Laura Cannell | Mountainlore
Louis Carnell | 111
The Carnivals | Fiesta Time
Céu | Novela
Chaos Doctrine | Bellum
James Charles | Can We Just Be Friends Single
Joh Chase | Solo
Chase Petra | The Petrichor Series Vol. 1
Cheesedaddy | Shit Don’t Change: The Poop Album
Chetta | Sacrifice & Sabotage
Chief Keef | Almighty So 2
Child | Child Reissue
Child | I EP Reissue
Yu Ching | The Crystal Hum
Chopper One | Touch My Fuzz
Chuuwee | NxBoDies
Eric Clapton | To Save A Child
Coastal | Heartbeats Instrumentals
Cold Years | A Different Life
Aaron Cole | Sorry, I Changed
Colour Film | Half An Hour
Conociendo Rusia | Jet Love
Contours | Elevations
Cookin Soul, Yung Beef, Mucho Muchacho | Mucho Beef
Corridor | Mimi
Cottontail | Murderous Melodies I
Crack CoQueen | Junkii
Crispies | Good Times Only Single
Charley Crockett | $10 Cowboy
Crossed | Nostalgia
Arian Cruz | I Didn’t See This Coming… Single
Crystal | One More Chance
Amanda Cy | Waterworks EP
Cyril Cyril | Le Futur Ça Marche Pas
DAGames | Press Start to Rewind
Lachlan R. Dale | Shrines
Anthony D’Alessandro | Searchin’
Damn Fabric | $moke $hop
Dan + Shay | Where It All Began Reissue
Darius | Murmuration
Darko | Greyscale
Darkthrone | It Beckons Us All
The Darts | Boomerang
The New Miles Davis Quintet | Miles Reissue
Gareth Davis & Monika Bugajny | Becoming Single
Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea | Reveries
Mike Dean | 4:24
Wesley Dean | Music From Crazy Hearts
Decide | Banished by Sin
Defects | Modern Error
Def Leppard | Pyromania 40th Anniversary Edition
Deicide | Banished by Sin
Lyckle de Jong ft. Gijsje Heemskerk & Renée van Trier | Pof / Patria
Delone | Romanticismo Siempre
Nainita Desai | Tales of Kenzera: Zau
Jackie DeShannon | Nothing Can Stop Me: Liberty Records Rarities 1960-1962
Desinformant | Revving EP
Diamond Construct | Angel Killer Zero
Disillusion | Back To Times Of Splendor 20th Anniversary Reissue
Divorce From New York | Brick Lane
Double Helix Quartet | Double Helix Quartet
Doyoung | 청춘의 포말 Youth
Draugnim | Verum Malum
Dumbo | Glendale.
Isaac Dunbar | Beep Beep Repeat
Nick Dunston | Colla Voce
Jay Eazy | Kirby
Elio | Asphalt Rodeo
Ellis | No Place That Feels Like
E.M.B.E.E. | Back To My Best Deluxe
Enchantya | Symphony of Cerberus
Endzone | Welcome To The Endzone
Brian Eno | Eno
L’Entourloop | From DJs to DJs
Hayden Everett | I Miss the Sky EP
Everlend | Liminal Space // Hollow Voices
Exhumation | Master’s Personae
The Fall | Slates Live
Fat White Family | Forgiveness Is Yours
Faun Fables | Family Album Vinyl Reissue
Faun Fables | Mother Twilight Vinyl Reissue
15 15 | Saplin
Firnis DC | Firnis der Civilization
Flesh Field | Voice of Reason
Fluisteraars | Manifestaties van de Ontworteling
Forest Kids Collective | Galileo Grandiose
Stewart Forgey | Nature Of The Universe
For King + Country | The Inspired By Soundtrack
Alex Henry Foster | Kimiyo
Rich Freed | Peace Of Mind
Freeways | Dark Sky Sanctuary
Froggy | Froggy
Fujiiiiiiiiiiita | Mmm
Full Of Hell | Coagulated Bliss
Fulmine | Randagio
Savana Funk & Gaudi | Raha / Orewa
Future Analog | Lost Without You Instrumental Remixes
Andrew Gabbard | Big Belly Boogaloo
Peter Gabriel | i/o Box Set
The Red Garland Trio | Groovy Reissue
Leo Genovese, John Lockwood, Nat Mugavero | The Art of Not Playing
The Ghost Club | King Whatever
Gidge | Tundra EP
Carlos Giffoni | Dream Walker
Girl In Red | Girlfriend Is Better
Girls In Synthesis | Sublimation
Glaring Orchid | I Hope You’re Okay
Glassing | From the Other Side of the Mirror
Glvtchy | The Stage Is Slaughtered
Jess Glynne | Jess
The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick | The Iliad & The Odyssey & The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick
Gomad! & Monster | Sickness EP
Goodchilde | Email Female / Hang Up
GospelbeacH | Wiggle Your Fingers
Catherine Graindorge | Songs For The Dead
Gramercy Arms | The Making Of The Making Of
Grateful Dead | Dave’s Picks, Volume 50: Palladium, New York City, NY • 5/3/77
Grayera | Cartwheels
Luigi Grosu Not A Saint Even
Groove Chronicles | Living Bright EP
Grumpster | Grumpster
Grupo Ébano | Grupo Ébano
Steve Hadfield | Donald Byrne vs Bobby Fischer 0-1 – The Game of the Century (1956)
Halogenix | Passions
The Guy Hamper Trio ft. James Taylor | Instrument of Evil b/w Incense Rising From A Censer
Hanno Banno | Complete Failure
Hardcore Tano*C | Irregular Nation 10
Kyp Harness | Kick The Dust
George Harrison | Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison
Harvestman | Triptych: Part One
Haunter | Mytharc
Thee Headcoats | I Am The Object Of Your Desire Reissue
Luke Hemmings | Boy EP
Malik Hendricks | Heavy EP
Herandu | Ocher Red
Hexis | Relictus / Umbrae
Judith Hill | Letters From A Black Widow
Homeless Cadaver | Champale Wishes and Cadaviar Dreams
Honesty | Box
Houses of Heaven | Within/Without
Hovvdy | Hovvdy
Yuching Huang | The Crystal Hum
Husky | Deep Sleeper
Joshua Hyslop | Evergold
Lee Jin Hyuk | New Quest: Jungle
Billy Idol | Rebel Yell 40th Anniversary Edition
Ila | Ayna
Illit | Illit
The Incantus | Gallowbraids Of Greed & Gold
Inter Arma | New Heaven
Iris Official | Heart of an Artist: Resurrection Definitive Edition
Irnini Mons | Une Habitante Touchée Par Une Météorite
Iron & Wine | Light Verse
Cris Jacobs | One Of These Days
Pi Jacobs | Soldier On
Jaxxee | How It Goes Single
Dhana Jeera | Dhana Jeera
Jan Jelinek | Social Engineering
Joyer | Night Songs
Justice | Hyperdrama
Juvenile | 400 Degreez Vinyl Reissue
Daniel Kashule | Grime Throwaways Vol. 1
Leah Kate | Super Over: It’s Really Really Really Over Deluxe Edition
Nathan Katz | Parallax
Marina Kaye | Heavenbound
Kerrie | Machine Alliance
Kiesza | The Mysterious Disappearance of Etta Place
Killer Kin | Point Blank / Mr. Dynamite Single
Freddie King | Getting Ready … / Texas Cannonball / Woman Across the River Reissue
Kino Motel | Visions Vinyl
Kenneth Kirschner | Three Cellos
Andrés Koi | Aiding
Loren Kramar | Glovemaker
Kramer | Hi, I’m Kramer From Chicago
Kriegshög | Love & Revenge
Anastasia Kristensen | Moments of Inertia
Dreddy Kruger | Einstein
Kyshona | Legacy
Oscar L | Love Me
Lagoona Bloo | Underwater Bubble Pop
Cash Lansky | Man Of The House
Jeff Larsons | Adobe Home
Laufey | Bewitched: The Goddess Edition
Lauv | Potential
Leaving | Hidden View
Howie Lee | At The Drolma Wesel-Ling Monastery
Chandler Leighton | Proof You Weren’t The Only One
Len | Cobalt: SoMuchMore
Holly Lerski | Sweet Decline
Lethe | Alienation
Lexnxtdoor | South Bronx
Limina | Coming Home
Little Big | Lobster Popstar
Lividnneon | Lividpussynneon
Christian Löffler | A Life
Lost Dog Street Band | Survived
The Lostines | Meet The Lostines
Love Spirals Downwards | Flux Vinyl Reissue
Lowlives | Freaking Out
Ludwig A.F. | Halo
Luka | Colourblind
Lust Hag | Lust Hag
LustSickPuppy | Carousel From Hell
Lyodra | Tak Selalu Memiliki
Lily Lyons | Fabric
Mandy | Lawn Girl
Maruja | Connla’s Well
Flora Matos | Inventei O Seu Jeito De Amar
Kathy Mattea | Kathy Mattea / From My Heart / Walk the Way the Wind Blows / Untasted Honey
Bonnie McKee | Jenny’s Got A Boyfriend Single
Melanie | The Best of Melanie: Songs of Peace
Melanie | Stoneground Words Deluxe Edition
Melt Motif | Pilgrim Soundtrack
Shoji Merguro 目黒将司 | Persona 3 Reload Original Soundtrack
Microwave | Let’s Start Degeneracy
Mary Middlefield | Poetry (For The Scorned And Lonely)
Mars Mignon | The Great Wherever
Nick Millevoi | Moon Pulses
Andy Milne & Unison | Time Will Tell
Mirage | Legato Alla Rovina EP
Mirod | You Losers Can’t F With Mirod
Miss Jay | (untitled)
Mister Goblin | Frog Poems
Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri | Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close
MoneySign Suede | The Chosen One
Monstera Black | Awkward Attraction
Montgomery and Turner | Sound Is (Our) Sustenance
Mood Killer | Abracadabra
Morgul Blade | Heavy Metal Wraiths
Rose Mulet | Barely Human
Gerry Mulligan | Night Lights Reissue
Mythm | Mind Of Madness
Naavikaran | Chiq Discotheq
Nauseating | Subjected to Rot
Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge | Neulust EP
Night Shall Drape Us | Lunatic Choir
Nikshoww | Making Waves
Nisa | Shapeshifting
No End To The Obscure | Everyone Else Has Left
Normani | 1:59 Single
The North Country | The Future’s All We Need
Darran Nugent ft. Morris Revy | Get Out of My Way
Nu Jazz | Live Jazz
Nunchukka Superfly | Nunchukka Superfly 95
Oberst | Toil
Obscurial | Heretic
Occo | Roll Out The Fog
Tara Jane O’Neil | The Cool Cloud of Okayness
Kenia OS | Pink Aura
Anders Osborne | Picasso’s Villa
Jeff Oster, Vin Downes, Tom Eaton | Seven Conversations
Ou | 蘇醒II: Frailty
Owen | The Falls of Sioux
Ox33n | Seesaw
Pachyman | At 333 House Reissue
Pachyman | In Dub Reissue
Jane Paknia | Orchid Underneath EP
Daniel Pall | Traumatic State of Mind
Steve Palmer & The Modern Folk | SP/MF
Papo2oo4 & Subjxct 5 | We Don’t Miss
Parallax | Da Monster Mob Presents: The Renaissance
Parker & Si!va | A Exibição d’Arte
Parker & Si!va | Mjölnir / Cabeças Falantes
Parsnip | Behold
Party Cannon | Injuries Are Inevitable
PartyNextDoor | PartyNextDoor 4
Emma Peel | Static Single
Yosa Peit | Gut Buster
Pepe Deluxe | Freedom Flag Single
Personal Trainer | What Was There Before? EP
Pestilence | Levels of Perception
Pet Shop Boys | Nonetheless
Picture This | Parked Car Conversations
Piernikowski | Beyond Echo of Time
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong | Day in Time
Katy Pinke | Katy Pinke
Rachel Platten | Bad Thoughts
Pollution Opera | Pollution Opera
Porij | Teething
MacKenzie Porter | Nobody’s Born With A Broken Heart
Nolan Potter | The Perils of Being Trapped Inside A Head
Audrey Powne | From The Fire
Pretty | Live From Safe Sounds EP
Prison Profit | Gilt
Max Prosa & Stiehler | Dein Haus
Pura Pura | Just Gettin’ Hot
Sun Ra | Sun Ra At The Showcase: Live in Chicago
Ramzey | Cobalt
The Rare Occasions | Darling, The Planets
The Real Numbers | Thank You!
Regular Girl | Regular Girl
Regurgitator | Invader
Tomeka Reid Quartet | 3+3
Renaissance | Tuscany Expanded
Rhucle | Place
The Rifles | Love Your Neighbour
Johnny Rodriguez | Just Get Up and Close the Door / Love Put a Song In My Heart / Reflecting / Practice Makes Perfect Reissue
Bruk Rogers | Loopholes
Maggie Rogers | Heard It In A Past Life: Fifth Anniversary Edition
The Rogues | Run, Run, Run Single
Sonny Rollins | Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings
The Rose Haze | Heaven or Las Vegas
Lawrence Rothman | The Plow That Broke the Plains
Roving | Spindrift
Rozalén | El Abrazo
Saiko | Sakura
Stephen Sanchez | Angel Face Club Deluxe
Satapan-P さたぱん | Yababaina ヤババイナ
Greg Saunier | We Sang, Therefore We Were
Sean Nicholas Savage | Trilogy
Sect Mark | Self Obliteration
7th Place | Imanok/AE
Shelter Boy | Mercyland
The Shield Enforcers | Crash Course Reissue
Shit And Shine | You Were Very High
Shit Present | Acting Tough
Shygirl | Fabric Presents Shygirl
Siamés | The Phoenix
Sippix | Summit Blvd.
Six By Six | Beyond Shadowland
Six Organs of Admittance | Time Is Glass
Skilla Baby | The Coldest
Skink Tank | Livin Under Rock
Slam | Exhibit Remixes
Sleave | How To Get Over
Eric Slick | New Age Rage
The Slime | Trapped On Blood Island | EP
Son Of Man | Gaslight
Songs From The Road Band | Get Me Where I’m Going Single
Sørdïd | Reality’s A War EP
Kieran Spears | Kinda Like It Boy
Species | Old Me
Nicky Spence / Andrew Foster-Williams / Anna Stéphany / Gabrieli Consort And Players / Gabrieli ROAR / Polish National Youth Choir / Paul McCreesh | Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
Stackridge | The Forbidden City Live
Dodie Stevens | Pink Shoelaces: The Singles & Albums Collection 1959-62
Still Crystal | The End
Teresa Storch Band | Open Your Heart
Stormborn | Zenith
St. Vincent | All Born Screaming
Sunka | Rebirth EP
Sunny Day Real Estate | Diary Remastered & Expanded
Art Tatum | Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings
Tayir | Retro Reverie
Gileah Taylor | Slow Parade
Teffa | Nougat 94 / Frostbite
Thalía | A Mucha Honra
Thalia | The River Of Books
The Third Sound | Most Perfect Solitude
Through Mists | Prolific
Thrower | Blink
Thunder Queens | Strike One
Billy Tibbals | Nightlife Stories EP
Tigguo Cobauc | A Fountain Of Anguish Is Gone
Wolfgang Tillmans | Build From Here
Tofubeats | Nobody
Tors | Miracle
Transatlantic | Live At Morsefest 2022: The Absolute Whirlwind
Joey Trap | Today
Trashed Ambulance | Trashed At The Vat
TSR 2 | Birdstrike!
Tina Turner | What’s Love Got to Do With It 30th Anniversary Edition
2Hollis | Crush
Tytus | Rises Reissue
UKRampage | 自有律
UK Subs | The Albums 1979-82
Various Artists | A Different World: The Holland-Dozier-Holland Songbook
Various Artists | D4DJ Groovy Mix Cover Tracks Vol. 9
Various Artists | Efficient Space: Someone Like Me
Various Artists | Generation Blue
Various Artists | Nine Years Of Love, Part 1
Various Artists | Operation Mend: Hope
Various Artists | The Rough Guide To Murder Ballads
Varv | Limestone
Veezy The Virgo | You Should Smile Less: The Rowdy Edition
Ventino | Inevitables
Venusian Motel Guests | All Was Carbon
Mark Vernon | The Dramaturgy of Decay
Vesperian Sorrow | Awaken The Greylight
Vhoor | Resenha
Von Riu | Business Visa EP
Emy Vuitton | Injection Online
Walg | IV
Jordy Walker | Gifted With Fiction
War Grave | War Grave
Warhorse | The Recordings 1970-1972
Waysted | Won’t Get Out Alive: Waysted Volume One (1983-1986)
Weapon E.S.P, Ghost of the Machine & Reckonize Real | Savageland II
Chick Webb & His Orchestra ft. Ella Fitzgerald | All The Hits and More 1929-1939
Jay Wheeler | Música Buena Para Días Malos
Who Are You? | Where You Been?
Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand | Willson Williams
CeCe Winans | More Than This
Wingless | Ascension
With Sails Ahead | Infinite Void
Kim Woojin | I Like The Way
Curtis Worgan | I Want To Be A Dad
Daisy World | Toothpick
Bobby Would | Relics Of Our Life
The John Wright Trio | South Side Soul Reissue
Writhing Squares | Mythology
Xepher | Sunshine Sin
Elif Yalvaç | Vection
Mikey Young | Someone Like Me
Yuqi | Yuq1
Zerobaseone | Sweat
Zsela | Lily Of The Nile
Ege Zulu | Mammanpoika
The Zutons | The Big Decider
