Some say music feeds the soul. Others call it the food of love. All I can tell you is that food and music seem intertwined on Jan. 20. On this day in 1982, Ozzy Osboure took a bite out of a bat that was tossed onstage. In 1997, Ben & Jerry’s unveiled their Phish Food flavour. In 1988, The Beatles — who served us Savoy Truffle, Wild Honey Pie and a Glass Onion over the years — were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. In 1952, Paul Stanley of KISS — the man who wailed Lick It Up — was born. And of course, Jan. 20, 2022 was the day Meat Loaf died. If that last one doesn’t kill your appetite, nothing will. So here are the 315-plus new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes on next week’s menu. Order up!
Acidgvrl | The Iri-chan Files: Corrupted
Jordan Adetunji | A Jaguar’s Dream
Callum Allardice | Elementa
The Allergies | Koliko / God Walked Down
David Allred | The Beautiful World
Al-Qasar | Uncovered
Alt Blk Era | Rave Immortal
Vanessa Amara | Café Life
Sam Amidon | Salt River
Ant | Collection of Sounds Vol. 3
Architectural | Good Night, Whatever That Is
Armnhmr | The Love We Had
À Terre | Embrasser La Nuit
Atmospheric Trio | Following Polaris
Atramentum | The Wrath Within
August Burns Red | Thrill Seeker: 20th Anniversary Edition
Avatarium | Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead
The Backfires | This Is Not an Exit
Bagefter | Anything You Need Deluxe
Beneath A Steel Sky | Cleave
Matt Berry | Heard Noises
Bilk | Essex, Drugs and Rock and Roll
BiteIsMe | Polaroid
Apollo Bitrate | Respectral Aid
Brant Bjork | Jalamanta Reissue
Rebecca Black | Salvation
Blacktoothed | Headway
The Blue Aeroplanes | Magical Realism: The Best of the Blue Aeroplanes 1985-2025
Blue Violet | Faux Animaux
Bodyimage | The Rot
Bog Bodies | Intimate Geology
Boilermaker | Not Enough Time To Get Anything Halfway Done
Marko Bojkovic | Powercore
Boldy James | Permanent Ink
Bonfire | Higher Ground
Benjamin Booker | Lower
Alexander Brandon & Michiel Van Den Bos | Tournament Rematch: Unreal Tournament Remixed
Brass Construction | The Definitive Collection: Don’t Stop Keep On
Kane Brown | The High Road
Bumblefoot | Bumblefoot …Returns!
Laura Cahen | De L’Autre Côté
Eric Cannata | Holding Onto the Holy
Canvaz | Mó Fita…
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, and Karine Polwart | Looking For The Thread
Kate Carr and Matt Atkins | Organelles
Lou-Adriane Cassidy | Journal d’un Loup-Garou
Cecilia Castleman | Cecilia Castleman
Isaac Castor & Foul Mouth | The Rabbit Hole 3: Smoking Caterpillar
Central Cee | Can’t Rush Greatness
Ceephax Acid Crew | Slam Zone
Century | Sign of the Storm
Charm School | Debt Forever
Choof | A Very Special Blend Of Psychology And Extreme Violence
CIX | Thunder Fever
The Clean | Late Last Night Single
The Clean | Modern Rock Remastered
Code 90 | Local Motion 6021
Holly Cole | Dark Moon
Sofia Coll | Auroraboreal
Hend Collin | Let Me Think
Corroding Soul | Corroding Soul
Joe Crepúsculo | Museo De Las Desilusiones
Da Uzi | Original Gangsta
Dead Boys | Night Of The Living Dead Dolls
Deadspawn | Bile Of The Gods
DeathbyRomy | La La Land
Decline Of Order | Interpretations of Psychopathic Ideation
Roe Deers | Edits Vol. 9
The Dickies | Incredible Shrinking Dickies Reissue
Ditz | Never Exhale
Djo | Basic Being Basic
Peter Donohoe | Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica; Chopin Variations; Sonatina Prima; Sonatina Seconda
The Doohickeys | All Hat No Cattle
Dream Theater | Midnight Messiah
Dromedaries x Alexoteric | The Burning Bright Light
Duda In The Sky | Quase Amor
C Duncan | It’s Only A Love Song
Echoes | Quiet, In Your Service
Chris Eckman | The Land We Knew the Best
Brian Ellis | Lifetime Supply
Epis Dym KNF | 33
Expose | Etc
Robert Connely Farr | Good Hope
Fat Mattress | How Can I Live? Complete Recordings
Férina | Freedom
Sam Fender | Arm’s Length
The Ferrymen | Iron Will
First In Line | Connect the Dots
FKA Twigs | Eusexua
Fleshbore | Painted Paradise
Flipturn | Burnout Days
Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg | No Resemblance Whatsoever
Foreign Air | Royalty
Found Tape | For Mairead
400 Lonely Things | Children of Eidolon
Fousey | G7 The Crashout
Frog | Mixtape Liner Notes
Gammer | Roots (Festival VIP)
John Gilligan | Party of One
Goblyn | Stray
GOT7 | Winter Haptagon
The Great Old Ones | Kadath
Alexandra Grimal & Giovanni Di Domenico | Shakkei
Ghais Guevara | Goyard Ibn Said
Guster | Ooh La Luxe
Keiji Haino | What Happened There?
Hanozje | Webs
Harakiri For The Sky | Scorched Earth
Chihei Hatakeyama | Lucid Dreams
Heavyheartedmusic | Gleam
Hello, Stacks! | Haystacks
He’s Dead Jim | Head Like A Toyshop
High. | Come Back Down EP
Devra Hoff | Solve/Coagula
Drew & Ellie Holcomb | Memory Bank
Hølls | Ill
Hootie & The Blowfish | The Atlantic Years 1994-2003
Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta | Mapambazuko
Horsegiirl | VIP: Very Important Pony
Rose Hotel | A Pawn Surrender Deluxe Edition
Hourloupe | Levitating Fields
Ioneweb | Lily EP
Irae | Promiscuous Fire
Jahhlu | Finally Sober
Chris James | Superbloom
Jaze Official | Lean With It
Jazz Emu | Ego Death
Jeffery Sez | Building Rafts Out Of Burnt Bridges
Jeshi | Airbag Woke Me Up
Joaquina | Desahogo
JoJo | NGL
Eugenie Jones | Eugenie
Keziah Jones | Alive & Kicking
Juice WRLD | The Party Never Ends Deluxe
Kagami Smile | Lifeless
The Kartech | The Fallacy
Isabel Kia Kia | Be Kind
KickFlip | Flip It, Kick It!
Adamn Killa | ADHD Rant Vol. 1
Jacob Kirkegaard | Snowblind
Knogjärn | Bly
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Thomas Kaufmann & Camerate Bern | Exile
Krizbeatz | Daddy Daycare
Florian Kupfer | Unmasked
Clemens Kuratle Ydivide | The Default
Kyn | Kyn
Larkin Poe | Bloom
Edvard Graham Lewis | Alreet?
Lizki | Back Out Alive Single
Local Orange | Dying to Meet You
The Locust | The Peel Sessions Reissue
Brandon Lopez, DoYeon Kim | Syzygy, Vol. 1
The Machinist | Contempt For Life
Manafest | Silent Beast
Marathon Runner | I Dream A Highway
Marseille | History
Linda Martini | Passa-Montanhas
Maxwell Quartet | Joseph Haydn: String Quartets Op. 77 & Folk Music from Scotland
Rob Mazurek | Nestor’s Nest
Joey McIntyre | Freedom
Max McNown | Night Diving
MeeeZ | Nosebleed
Tom Meighan | Roadrunner
Melanie | Ace O’Diamonds
Membaris | Black Plasma Armor
Menores Atos | Fim Do Mundo
Messier 13 | Stay For A While
Emily Mikesell & Kate Campbell Strauss | Give Way
Milky Chance | Live From Vienna FM4 Session
Jonathan Thomas Miller | Environments For A Burning Planet III
Minnie | Her
Minor Conflict | Parallels
Josh Mitcham | A Few Cries And A Laugh
AJ Mitchell | As Far as the Eye Can See
Mogwai | The Bad Fire
Kathryn Mohr | Waiting Room
Luna Morgenstern | Heartbreak Hotel EP
Motherhood | Thunder Perfect Mind
Muerte | Stoned To Death
Ty Myers | The Select
Nafarroa 1512 | Osasuna
NateWantsToBattle | Curtain Call
Negative Thirteen | Recover What You Can
Ben Nichols & Rick Steff | Lucero Unplugged
No Guidance | Different Ways
North Country | The New You Single
NotLewy | Summer Rain 2
Oceanic-Air | Limestone
Oh The Humanity! | Ground To Dust
øjeRum | A Juxtaposition Of Distant Realities
Moka Only | More Vibes & B-Sides
Open Head | What Is Success
The Oral Cigarettes | AlterGeist0000
Orchid Mantis | Rain Tape
OsamaSon | Jumpout
Papa Roach | Even If It Kills Me
Wes Parker | Splinter
Bernard Parmegiani | Multichannel Works 01
Pentagram | Lightning In A Bottle
Pentagram | Show ’Em How Remastered
Joe Pernice | Chappaquiddick Skyline 25th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue
Pet Needs | Kind of Acoustic
Phunkadelica | Luv U Darling
Jeannie Piersol | The Nest
Iggy Pop | Live At Montreux Jazz Festival 2023
Jackson Potter | Small Things
Merzotna Potvora | Poliuvannia
Putred | Megalit Al Putrefacției
QBK | 7 Grzechów Głownych
Quiescente | Dormire, Vol. 7
Will and James Ragar | The Acoustic Album
Raison D’être & Nihil | Cambium
Razorface | Razorface
Alba Reche | No Soy Tu Hombre
Graham Reynolds | Mountain
Dax Riggs | 7 Songs For Spiders
Riverside | Live ID
Marty Robbins | The Jasmine EP Collection
Edmundo Ros | And Then! Selected Singles 1950-1962
Rose City Band | Sol Y Sombra
Roze | 1:24
Rshand | Overthinking
Sabhankra | Nocturnal Elegies
Salvador Sánchez | Años De Rechazo
Sankofa & Eshbeats | Shoes Too Slow
Marina Satti | Epano Sto Trapezi
Anna B Savage | You & i Are Earth
The Scenesters | The Ride
Schwizzle D.A.W.G. | They Not Like Us
Scitalis | If the Flies Could Sing
Brueder Selke & Midori Hirano | Split Scale
Sharks | Car Crash Supergroup: The Island Years 1973-1974
Shinedown | 365 / Dance, Kid, Dance
Short Wave | Start, Pause, Restart
Shura | Recognise
Sisters Doll | Scars
Dwa Sławy | Dobrze By Było
SLF | We The Squad Vol. 2
The Slime | Crabwalk To Oblivion
Slowly Slowly | Forgiving Spree
Sophrosyne | Scorpionic EP
Sorrows | Out Of My Head
Speedmaster | Space Boys Vol 1
Lauren Spencer Smith | Pray Single
Candi Staton | Back To My Roots
Justin Stephens | Late at Night
Al Stewart | Zero She Flies Reissue
Stojche | Stomping Ground
Studio | West Coat Reissue
Subculture | Fred
Hoshimachi Suisei | Shinsei Mokuroku
Dina Summer | Girls Gang
Sunrot | Passages
Sutekh Hexen | Primeval
Taffy | Lull
Tamino | Sanctuary
Tariq | Scroll Before You Sleep EP
Tarune | Let Him Cry
Tatyana | It’s So Over
Diego TC, Binarium | Psychedelic Evolution
Teddy Swims | I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy Pt. 2
Ten Fé | Still In Love
Terrenoire | Protégé.e
Thin Lizzy | Acoustic Sessions
Tigerbalm | Tokyo Business (Ben Gomori’s 5.5 Minutes In A Shibuya Love Hotel)
Tigercub | The Perfume Of Decay Redux
Tigertailz | For A Few Dollarz More (The Archives Vol 1: 1984-1991)
Tokyo Tea Room | No Rush
Tormentor Tyrant | Excessive Escalation Of Cruelty
Samba Touré | Baarakelaw
Joey Trap | Johnny Blaze 2
Trinka | Trinka EP
Tunng | Love You All Over Again
Turrobaby | I Love Wachas
Simon Fisher Turner | Under The Arches
TV Dust | Transition
Twofaced | Software Update Failed
Umbersound | If the Flies Could Sing
Unreqvited | A Pathway To The Moon
Vacant Home | Can You Show Me Who I Am?
Various Artists | Agora 5 Years
Various Artists | C92
Various Artists | Elemento: Organic Collision
Various Artists | Embassy Records: The 78 RPM Years 1954-1957
Various Artists | Fania Records: The Latin Sound of New York (1964–1978)
Various Artists | KPains10
Various Artists | The Magic Forest: More Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975
Various Artists | Tranzas Del Swing Vol. 9
VBS | Electro Color+
Veezy The Virgo | In Case You Miss The Message I Attempt To Send To You
The Veils | Asphodels
Vertigini | Marathon / Blowfish
The Verve | This Is Music: The Singles 20th Anniversary Edition
Nicolas Vogler | A Cyberpunk Novel EP
Voidfallen | The Rituals Of Resilience
Vo1dpunk | Midnight Sessions
Vukovi | My God Has Got A Gun
Tsuki No Wa | Moon Beams
Waldo’s Gift | Malcolm’s Law
Walking Bombs | Bong Hits For The Death Of Imperialism
Warduna | Birna
Chris Wenner | Not Old Enough
Westside Gunn | 12
White 2115 | Rockst4r
Hannah Wicklund | Live At The Troubadour
Die Wilde Jagd, Metropole Orkest | Lux Tenera: A Rite To Joy
Will To Live | Kyōgen
Xqui | Breaking Ice With Ice
Young Franco | it’s Franky Baby!
Young Knives | Landfill
Ytgut | Wash My Hands
Yuragi | In Your Languages
Zerobaseone | Doctor! Doctor!
Georg Zichy + Reinhold Freidl | Vleisch
John Zorn | The Complete String Quartets
Nicole Zuraitis | Siren Songs Vol. 1