TODAY IN SAD ANNIVERSARIES: On March 9 in 1997, rapper Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls aka Christoper Wallace was gunned down in a drive-by shooting after leaving a party in L.A. The 24-year-old artist was two weeks away from releasing his second LP, the prophetically titled Life After Death.
TODAY IN HAPPY ANNIVERSARIES: On this day in 1987, U2 released their landmark fifth album The Joshua Tree. I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you it’s the best thing they ever did; just look at the sales figures, chart listings and awards it hauled in. Better yet: Listen to it while you peruse this list of the nearly 400 albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes on the way. If you still haven’t found what you’re looking for after that, I can’t help you:
AC Soul Symphony | The Ray Mang Remixes
Ainda | Fuimos Los Dos
Ainsoph | Affection & Vengeance
AkiaveL | InVictus
Alba Muzikk | Hypnotized
Max Alduca | Monastery
Aleph | Refractor
All Against | Straight Down To Hell
AllKnight | Home
A.M.C. | X12
Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks | Live: Perpetual Change
Angelic Upstarts | Teenage Warning Reissue
AtHeart | GoodGirl AtHeart
Autodealer | Draper Point
Awairo | Gradation
Azteca | Inger & D3mon
Rameses B | Old School
Ian M Bailey | Lost In A Sound
Bambara | Birthmarks
Kap Bambino | No Domination
Barbarelle | Celesta
Das Beat | Frau Fatal
Be Still the Earth & We Dream of Eden | Som
Biollante | J’Espère Que Tu Danseras
Jean-Michel Blais | Désert
Judy Blank | Lil’ Mood
Jason Boland & The Stragglers | The Last Kings of Babylon
Borgne | Renaître De Ses Fanges
Dennis Bovell and Friends | Different: The Singles Collection 1977-1981
Bruised Core | Cloaked World
Jordana Bryant | Right Key, Wrong Porch
Buddy Wynkoop | Better Than Botox
Building Instrument | Månen, Armadillo
Chris Bullinger | Waitin’ To Be Seen
Terry Callier | I Don’t Want To See Myself (Without You) / If I Could Make You
Kate Carr | Rubber Band Music
Cartilage | Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology
Casino Hearts | A Walk In the Grass EP
C418 | Wanderstop
Hayden Chisholm and Jonathan Crayford | Release and Return
Chris Church | She Looks Good In Black Single
Chxuni | Future Of Music
Cinema Royal | Cinema Royal
Circuit Des Yeux | Halo On The Inside
Cleopatrick | Fake Moon
Nels Cline | Consentrik Quartet
clipping. | Dead Channel Sky
Cloudcage | Under An Orange Sky
Cmon Cmon | Headwind EP
Charlie Coast | All We Need
Coheed & Cambria | Vaxis Act III: The Father Of Make Believe
Stela Cole | I Die Where You Begin
Edwyn Collins | Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation
The Courettes | Back In Mono Vinyl Reissue
The Courettes | The Soul Of… The Fabulous Courettes Vinyl Reissue
Courting | Lust for Life, Or: How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson | Bone Bells
Cousin Kula | After Sun
Cousines Like Shit | Permanent Earthquake
Rose Cousins | Conditions Of Love Vol. 1
Coyote Theory | Still
Crisis Actor | Long Live the New Flesh
Charley Crockett | Lonesome Drifter
Crystal Clear | 10-15
Culturally Dead | Sumerki
Charlie Cunningham | In Light
Curren$y | Never Catch Us
Cyrus, Darqwan, Ghost, Slaughter Mob | Foundation Vol. 1
Daffy | Cool It
Meredith d’Ambrosio with Frédéric Loiseau | Midnight Mood
Dano | Nuevos Trapos
Davido | 5ive
Dead Bandit | Dead Bandit
The Dead Rabbitts | Redefined
Dear Gravity | Sleep Scenes Vol. IV • Nocturne
Degiheugi & Miscellaneous | Everything’s Fine
Déhà | Nethermost & Absolute Comfort
Derision Cult | Mercenary Notes Pt. 2
Dessiderium | Keys To The Palace
Beatrice Dillon / Hideki Umezawa (梅沢英樹) | Basho / Still Forms
Dirty Talons | Deep Dive
Disembodied Tyrant | 8.6 Blackout
Divider | Reciprocate
Dorothy | The Way
Dough Networkz | Dis For The Project (Side B)
André Drage | Journeyman
Dream Brigade | Dream Brigade
D$ Luqi | Coleus
Dubloadz | Savagewonk4ever
Silke Eberhard Trio w/ Jan Roder & Kay Lübke | Being-A-Ning
Brett Eldredge | Lonestar Lovers EP
Eisbrecher | Kaltfront
Elmoe | Battle Zone
Empty Old City | Blood in the Void
Envy Of None | Stygian Waves
Errortica, Reptiloid | Psycho
Luciano Esse | Echoes In The Night EP
Theo Evan | ESC2025
The Faint | Blank-Wave Arcade Deluxe Edition
The Faint | Wet From Birth Deluxe Edition
Fange | Purulences
Stephen Fearing | The Empathist
Fex | Subways Of Your Mind (TMMS Version)
Sherry Finzer | Heart Meditations
The Five Blind Boys of Alabama | The Singles Collection 1948-1962
The 5.6.7.8’s | Best Hits of The 5.6.7.8’s
Flora From Kansas | Melodic EP
Florence + The Machine: Symphony of Lungs (BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall) Vinyl
Fluxion | Haze
FM Skyline | Music 2
4batz | Mortal Kombat
44 Bird | Vagabond 2
44th Move | Anthem
Neal Francis | Return To Zero
Nick Frater | Oh Contraire!
F.R.B. | Askap
Hannah Frey | Lucky Girl
David Frizzell | The Very Best of David Frizzell
Fucked Up | Disabuse Single
Stephen Gallagher | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Soundtrack
Enzo Garcia | I Love Rabid Fish!
Dana Gavanski | Again Again
Brock Geiger | Some Nights
Genocidal Rites | Genocidal Upheaval of Subservient Abrahamic Law
Ging Nang Boyz | Blew Blue
Giovannie And The Hired Guns | Quitter
Girls | On Demand
Golem Mecanique | Siamo Tutti In Pericolo
Holly Golightly | My First Holly Golightly Album Vinyl Reissue
Goo Goo Dolls | A Boy Named Goo 30th Anniversary Edition
T. Gowdy | Trill Scan
Matty Grace | Cheap Shame
Hayes Greenfield | Gravity Unplugged
Tom Grennan | Boys Don’t Cry
Charlie Griffiths | Gods of Pangaea
Judith Hamann | Aunes
Hanging Garden | The Unending
Happy Family | 4037
Harlow Road | Shed A Tear
Viola Odette Harlow | Porn Star
Calvin Harris | Smoke The Pain Away
Ruby Haunt | Blinking in the Wind
Havukruunu | Tavastland
Heathen | Bleed The World: Live
Joe Heaven | Godlike Judgment
Hekla | Turnar
The Hell | The Hell EP
Here | A Quiet Unease
Haley Heynderickx | Seed Of A Seed Vinyl
Dakota Higgins | Curator of Domestic Life
Holo | Pink Wax EP
Sun-Mi Hong | Fourth Page: Meaning Of A Nest
Latbiu Hookt | Light Up!
Hoshi X Woozi | Beam
Paryż Hrypton | Hiperseksualna
HxW | Beam
Idialedyournumber | Mourning Glow
Iliona | What If I Break Up With U?
Chaerin Im | Midnight Resets
In A Minute | Unboxing: What You Wanted
Indy | Savior
Intensive Care & The Body | Was I Good Enough?
Inturist | Tourism
Isophe | Mercury Fading
David J | On Glass
Jace | Das Wär Doch Nicht Nötig Gewesen
Jade | FUFN (Fuck You For Now)
Loraine James | Whatever The Weather II
Valley James | Star
Jasiah | No Holds Barred
Kito Jempere | New Life EP
Jeong / Bisio Trio | Morning Bells Whistle Bright
Kerberos | Apostle to the Malevolent
Jisoo | Amortage Vinyl
JKriv | Intuition EP
Jordana | Physical Attraction
Joy Spheres Rees | Trust The Feeling
Mia June | Brain Like Computer EP
Odin Kaban | Open Borders Soundtrack
Kaisa’s Machine | Moving Parts
Keg | Fun’s Over
Ruston Kelly | Dirt Emo Vol. 2
Kerberos | Apostle to the Malevolent
Keze | !RDR3M1X2025!
Khorti | Echoes & Glitches
Kid Spatula | Joozy
Saeko Killy | Dream In Dream
Magda Kluz | Twarz
Mela Koteluk | Harmonia
Hakui Koyori | First Step
Nic Krog | Perfect Pattern
Kronos Quartet and Mary Kouyoumdjian | Witness
Dreddy Kruger | Cinephile
Santiago Lacabe | Presvicio
Lady Kabela | Goathead
Mon Laferte | Otra Noche de Llorar
Lau | Digital Dream Remixes
Leash Eye | Destination: 125
The Lewis Express | Doo-Ha!
Riki Lindhome | No Worries If Not
Jan Lisiecki | Preludes
The Loft | Everything Changes Everything Stays The Same
Lone Striker | Lone Striker
Louane | ESC2025
Lurch | Lurch
Michelle Helene Mackenzie & Stefan Maier / Olivia Block | Orchid Mantis / Breach
Magic Wands | Moonshadow
Hekla Magnúsdóttir | Turnar
Magon | Tales Of A Mountain Child
Maison Close | Overthink
Mantis The Miasma | Wonderland
Aaron May | 803Mayjor Vol. 2
Mayweather | $3 Bill
Zoë Më | ESC2025
Golem Mecanique | Siamo Tutti In Pericolo
Memory Entry | Our World Is Going To Disappear
Memotone | Pruning
Messer | Die Unerhörten: A Rarities Compilation
Mikau | Agartha
Mike + The Mechanics | Looking Back: Living the Years
Taz Modi | Involuntary Memories
Modus Pitch | Re:Polyism
Morfonica | Polyphony
Monkey Okay | Mausoleum
Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos | Sol
Kristian Montgomery & The Winter Kill Band | Prophets Of The Apocalypse
Moon Owl’s Mages | Step On It!
Daisy Mortem | Flash
Mos Def | Money Christmas
Mother Mother | Make Believe
Museum Of Light | Diviner
Luca Musto | Calling Colombus EP
DJ Narciso | Diferenciado
Nasty | Black My Heart
Neo Lux | Radio Sounds
Nico | Chelsea Town Hall
Nightstalker | Return From The Point Of No Return
Nite | Cult of the Serpent Sun
Nobody | Shadow Companions
No Guidnce | Confessions of A Loverboy
Noisepicker | The Earth Will Swallow the Sun
NTX | Over Track
OD1 vs The Sixth Sense | Hope Is A Beautiful Trap
Oehl | Lieben Wir
Of Montreal | The Sunlandic Twins 20th Anniversary Edition
Og3ne | Garden of Hera
Okemma | Better As An Idea
Olivia’s World | Greedy & Gorgeous
Ozzy Osbourne | See You On The Other Side Box Set
Oslo Twins | Tresor
Ovlov | Buds Demos
Owls | Rare Birds
Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes | Live at the Greek Expanded Reissue
Panchiko | Mac’s Omelette
Pvris | White Noise 10 Year Anniversary Edition
Partyof2 (fka grouptherapy.) | We Owe You An Explanation
Carly Pearce | Hummingbird: No Rain, No Flowers
Jonathan Personne | Nouveau Monde
Michael Pichon | Vigilance Orange
Pitch 92 | Submerge (Beat Edits)
Shawn Pittman | My Journey
Giffy Pluggo | Douda
The Pogues | The Rest of the Best Vinyl Reissue
Steve Postell | Walking Through These Blues
Principe Valiente | I Am You (Bootblacks Remix – Principe Valiente Edit)
Project DSF | Xenon
ProleteR | Temperamental Cats
The Pseudonym Experiment | Despite Everything
Purified In Blood | Primal Pulse Thunder
The Queef Quartet | Crab People
Sun Ra | Uncharted Passages
Real Sickies | Under A Plastic Bag
Red Fang | Deep Cuts
Jerry Reed | Birth Of A Legend: The Singles And Sessions Collection 1955-62
Reg3n | War
Duane Regretzky | Live From Death Mountain
Steve Reich | Collected Works
Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali | At the Feet of the Beloved
Chappell Roan | The Giver
M Row | What The Fans Wanted
Ruckus & Keir GoGwilt | The Edinburgh Rollick
Rufus and Chaka Khan | Stompin’ at the Savoy: Live / Seal in Red
Rwake | The Return Of Magik
Sai Galaxy | Analogue Recital
St. Lucia | Fata Morgana: Dawn
Sanhedrin | Heat Lightning
Sa Pa | The Fool
Sasha & Artche | Hold On
Save Your Last Breath | Elegies
Alexandra Savior | Unforgivable
Caroline Savoie | Rom-Com
Say My Name | My Name Is…
Penelope Scott | Water Dogs
Scratch Acid | Vinyl Box Set
Secret Echoes | Particles
The Seldom Scene | Remains To Be Scene
Senses | I’m Still Breathing EP
Seulgi | Accidentally On Purpose
SF9 | Love Race
Kev Sherry | Wrath Of Can
Anoushka Shankar | Chapter III: We Return To Light
Shiv and the Carvers | Tell Me You Love Me Again EP
Sho-Nuff | Body Pressure Reissue
Sippix | All You Can Do Is Watch
Sleep Token | Emergence
Slow Readers Club | Out Of A Dream
Smellingsalts | Hologram Landscape
The Smithereens | 2011 Vinyl Reissue
Snowbeasts | +-
Som | Let The Light In
Peter Sommer | Verdens Volume
Sopraterra | Seven Dances to Embrace the Hollow
Soundwire | Collider
Space Drum Meditation | SDM006
Springhouse | From Now to OK Reissue
Spring Onion | Seated Figure
Le Sserafim | Hot
The States | Gimme Joy
Gwen Stefani | Bouquet Deluxe
Streetlight | Night Vision
Gianni Suave | Ich Falle In Frieden
Suck | Gimme Gabba Gabba EP
Ray Suhy / Lewis Porter Quartet | What Happens Next
Sunda Arc | 001
Supernova | Zero Relation
Fredrik Svabø | Kingo’s Treat
Talk Talk | Very Best Of Reissue
James Taylor Quartet | In The Hand Of The Inevitable 30th Anniversary Edition
Telepathy | Transmissions
Temperance | From Hermitage To Europe
Terraplana | Natural
Théa | Comète
The Thingz | From A to Z
XIII Nights & Thought Beings | Constellation
Throwing Muses | Moonlight Concessions
Thurnin | Harmr
Tibia | See What Heaven Looks Like Now
Tiktaalika | Gods of Pangaea
Tito & Tarantula | !Brincamos!
Townhome | Hands
Kim Trinidad | Blinders
Truck Stop Ambient | Daughter Of Darkness
Twin Shadow | Georgie
Tytxn | All Eyes On Me
Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes | Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes
Upperroom | 1350: Live
The Useless 4 | The Useless 4
Utopie | Virage
Vallorch | The Circle
Various Artists | BCCO BCCOVA14
Various Artists | Heist Recordings: The Round Up Pt. 11
Various Artists | Mizik Maladi: Disques Debs International Vol. 3
Various Artists | Mozart: Masterpieces
Various Artists | NOW That’s What I Call Gold: The Ultimate Hits
Various Artists | O’Dessa Soundtrack
Various Artists | Primordial Energy
Various Artists | Primordial God
Various Artists | WWE 2K25
Vazz | Your Lungs and Your Tongues
Veezy The Virgo | Desperado Eternal Deluxe!
Rose Villain | Radio Vega
Viperactive | Anxious
Visions Of Atlantis | Armada Live Over Europe
Vitória & The Kalashnicoles | Sentimental Machine Gun
Vlozey | Chaos Concept
Joni Void | Every Life Is A Light
The Waeve | Eternal EP
Warbringer | Wrath And Ruin
ZZ Ward | Liberation
Warhammer | Total Maniac
Ricky Warwick | Blood Ties
WateRR | Almighty II
Roger Waters | The Dark Side Of The Moon Redux Super Deluxe Edition
Tyler Watts | Youngin’
Weaving | Webs
Whatever The Weather | II
The Paul Whiteman Orchestra | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: The Hits Collection Vol. 2 – 1928-54
The Paul Whiteman Orchestra | Whispering: The Hits Collection Vol. 1 – 1920-27
The Wilder Blue | Still in the Runnin’
Steven Wilson | The Overview
Windu | Juxtapose
Woesum | Protected EP
Wolven Daughter x Order of the Wolf | Split EP
Womb | One Is Always Heading Somewhere
Wombbath | Beyond The Abyss
World Party | Best in Show Vinyl Reissue
Mia Wray | Hi, It’s Nice To Meet Me
Xiumin | Interview X
YayEverest | Hyperwave
YC-CY | YC-CY Reissue
Yeji | Air
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek | Yarın Yoksa
Yu-Ka 由薫 | Wild Nights
Bruce Zalcer | Target Eyes
Warren Zeiders | Relapse, Lies, & Betrayal
Ziomcy | Skarb Państwa
