2025 Music Preview - Updated Edition
2024 has bowed out for good, so we're looking ahead. Here’s what’s on tap for new releases and reissues in 2025. (Click on the dates for more information.)
Jan. 3, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – Bad Bunny … Ethel Cain … BBS … Paleface Swiss … etc.
Reissues – Elton John … “The Hits Album: Later 80s” … etc.
Jan. 10, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – Ringo Starr … Joan Armatrading … Franz Ferdinand … Lambrini Girls … Moonchild Sanelly … Early James … Tremonti … Stick to Your Guns … The Halo Effect … etc.
Reissues – Rosanne Cash … Elvis Presley … Tina Turner … Pilot … Miles Davis … “NOW Yearbook Extra 1977” … Hayes Carll … etc.
Jan. 17, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – Mac Miller … Rufus Wainwright … Victoria Canal … David Gray … Ambrose Akinmusire … Steve Hackett … The Weather Station … KIDZ BOP Kids … LANCO … Rebecca Black … Ryan Lewis … jasmine.4.t … Willow Avalon … Seong-Jin Cho … Pigeon Pit … Sophie Jamieson … etc.
Reissues – Fleetwood Mac … Gracie Abrams … Vince Guaraldi … Michael Jackson … Robert Palmer … Nick Heyward … Jerry Reed … Denise LaSalle … “NOW 12″ 80s: 1984 – Part One” … The Paul Whiteman Orchestra … Doug Kershaw … etc.
Jan. 24, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – The Weeknd … Teddy Swims … Kane Brown … Eric Clapton … FKA twigs … Central Cee … Young Knives … Mogwai … Iggy Pop … Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart … Larkin Poe … Joey McIntyre … Matt Berry … Tunng … Ty Myers … Holly Cole … Max McNown … Tom Meighan … etc.
Reissues – Thin Lizzy … Hootie & the Blowfish … Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg … Al Stewart … Brass Construction … The Blue Aeroplanes … etc.
Jan. 31, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – Manic Street Preachers … Kim Wilde … Bonnie “Prince” Billy … Lilly Hiatt … Joe Satriani | Eric Johnson | Steve Vai … Loudon Wainwright III … Lil Durk … Gary Kemp … Rumer … moe. … L.S. Dunes … The Night Flight Orchestra … Maribou State … Circa Waves … Everyone Says Hi … Penny & Sparrow … etc.
Reissues – Coolio … Dio … Mat Kearney … Dwight Twilley … The English Beat … Elmore James … The Gits … etc.
Feb. 7, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – Kendrick Lamar … Dream Theater … Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory … Olly Alexander … Guided by Voices … Squid … Wilder Woods … JOHNNYSWIM … Alice Sara Ott … Michigander … Gino Vannelli … Biig Piig … The Vices … FACS … Frederico Albanese … Nia Wyn … Adwaith … Artikal Sound System … Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears … etc.
Reissues – Dave Matthews Band … Don McLean … Wilco … WAR … Amy Grant … Melanie … Sonic Youth … Clannad … Patsy Cline … Vicki Lawrence … The Pains of Being Pure At Heart … Brother Cane … Drop Nineteens… etc.
Feb. 14, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – The War and Treaty … Alessia Cara … Doves … The Velveteers … Bartees Strange … Chase Atlantic … Oracle Sisters … Bill Medley … John Lodge … The Delines … Mereba … The Altons … Richard Dawson … Lacuna Coil … Louis Dunford … Hifi Sean & David McAlmont … Denison Witmer … etc.
Reissues – Chuck Berry … Robert Palmer … World Party … Soul Coughing … MUD … Daryle Singletary… etc.
Feb. 21, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – Sam Fender … Silverstein … Roddy Ricch … The Wombats … Killswitch Engage … Sunny War … Heather Nova … Jordan Smith … The Stylistics … Saya Gray … The Murder Capital … Luke Sital-Singh … Nao … Q Lazzarus … Mitch Ryder … Lottery Winners … etc.
Reissues – Dead or Alive … Melanie … Nik Kershaw … Gene Clark & Carla Olson … JoBoxers … Mat Kearney … “The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concerts” … Martha Argerich… etc.
Feb. 28, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – LISA … “A Complete Unknown (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” … Aloe Blacc … Mdou Moctar … Panda Bear … bdrmm … The Ting Tings … The Chills … Hope Tala … Everything Is Recorded … Banks … The Men … Miya Folick … Foley … Yazz Ahmed … The Devil Makes Three … Architects … Sports Team … etc.
Reissues – Godley & Creme … China Crisis … Foster & Allen … Humble Pie … Yo La Tengo … Danny Wilson … Skids … Eugene Ormandy … etc.
March 7, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – Spiritbox … SASAMI … The Cat Empire … Smith / Kotzen … Chris Berardo … The Lathums … Haley Mae Campbell … TOKiMONSTA … HotWax … Levellers … Livingston … The Tubs … etc.
Reissues – John Mayall … BulletBoys … etc.
March 14, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – Coheed and Cambria … Davido … Florence + The Machine … Jan Lisiecki … St. Lucia … Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks … The Loft … Ricky Warwick … Jason Boland & The Stragglers … Courting … etc.
Reissues – Steve Reich … etc.
March 21, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – James Arthur … Deacon Blue … Dave Mason … Greentea Peng … McFly … Ora the Molecule … David Ramirez … The Horrors … Howard Shore … Lordi … Tommy Emmanuel … Floodlights … etc.
Reissues – Don McLean … etc.
March 28, 2025
Highlights:
New stuff – The Darkness … Peter Capaldi … Arch Enemy … Memphis May Fire … Chesney Hawkes … Ricky Byrd … Somebody’s Child … Tigercub … Pug Johnson … Frenchie … etc.
Reissues – Genesis … etc.