New Music Friday: June 20, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
Badflower | “No Place Like Home” (Nashville-based rockers’ third album; new single: “Snuff”; See here; Pure Cloudy Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; John Varvatos Records / Big Machine Label Group)
William Beckmann | “Whiskey Lies & Alibis” (Texas singer-songwriter’s second album; producer: Jon Randall; new single: “Games I Like to Play”; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Warner Music Nashville)
Benson Boone | “American Heart” (his second album; producers: Jason Evigan, Malay; new single: “Mystical Magical”; See here; Red and White Splatter Vinyl, with poster; Amazon-Exclusive Translucent Red Galaxy Vinyl, with poster; Target-Exclusive Red Violent Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch; Night Street / Warner)
Loyle Carner | “hopefully !” (Mercury Prize-nominated British rapper’s fourth album; new singles: “all i need / in my mind”; Hear here; Read here; Crystal Clear Vinyl; Indie Exclusive Rose Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Republic)
The Farm | “Let the Music (Take Control)” (Liverpool band’s fifth album and first since 1994’s “Hullabaloo”; producer: Mike Cave; new single: “Moment in Time”; See here; Purple Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Modern Sky UK)
GoGo Penguin | “Necessary Fictions” (Manchester experimental trio’s seventh album; new single: “Fallowfield Loops”; See here; Double Vinyl out July 11; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; XXIM Records / Sony Masterworks)
HAIM | “I quit” (their fourth album and first since 2020; producers: Rostam Batmanglij, Danielle Haim; new single: “Down to be wrong”; Hear here; Read here; Amazon UK-Exclusive Signed O-Card; Double Vinyl; HMV-Exclusive Purple Double Vinyl; Indie Exclusive Translucent Light Blue Double Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Deep Purple Double Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Columbia)
D.K. Harrell | “Talkin’ Heavy” (Louisiana-born blues guitarist-singer’s second album; producer: Christoffer “Kid” Andersen; new single: “Grown Now”; See here; Translucent Blue Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Alligator)
Hotline TNT | “Raspberry Moon” (NYC alt-rock band’s third album; producer: Amos Pitsch; new single: “Julia’s War”; See here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Ruby Brambleseed Blast Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Third Man)
KAROL G | “Tropicoqueta” (Download; Grammy-winning Colombian singer-songwriter’s fifth album; producers: Édgar Barrera, Karol G, Mazzarri, Misha, Sky Rompiendo; new single: “Latina Foreva”; See here; Read here; CD and Tropical Blue Double Vinyl out Sept. 26; Apple Music; Bichota Records / Interscope)
James McMurtry | “The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy” (his 11th album; producers: McMurtry, Don Dixon; guests: Sarah Jarosz, Charlie Sexton, Bonnie Whitmore, Bukka Allen, et al; new single: “The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; New West)
Lukas Nelson | “American Romance” (Grammy-winning singer-songwriter’s first solo album; producer: Shooter Jennings; guests: Sierra Ferrell, Stephen Wilson Jr.; new single: “Ain’t Done”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Translucent Green with Gold Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Sony Music Nashville)
Willie Nile | “The Great Yellow Light” (his 21st studio album; producers: Nile, Stewart Lerman; guests: Steve Earle, Paul Brady, Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian, Larry Kirwan, Waddy Wachtel, et al; new single: “We Are, We Are”; Hear here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; River House)
Pretenders | “Pretenders Live – Kick ‘Em Where It Hurts!” (Download; 17-song set, recorded during their 2024 theater tour; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Parlophone)
Joshua Redman | “Words Fall Short” (eight original compositions, with his new quartet: pianist Paul Cornish, bassist Philip Norris, drummer Nazir Ebo; guests: vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa, saxophonist Melissa Aldana, trumpeter Skylar Tang; new single: “A Message to Unsend”; Hear here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Creative Control / Blue Note)
Various artists | “Sweet Relief: We Can Help” (Double CD; 18-track compilation benefits Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, featuring Lucinda Williams, Ben Harper, Richard Thompson, Sixpence None the Richer, Peter Case, Laura Veirs, et al; new single: “Hallelujah, I’m a Bum,” Michael Penn and Aimee Mann; Hear here; Double Vinyl; Flatiron Recordings)
The Wandering Hearts | “Déjà vu (We Have All Been Here Before)” (British folk-Americana trio reimagines Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s 1970 classic album “Déjà Vu”; producers: Michael Rault, Robin Miller; new single: “Teacher Your Children”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Chrysalis)
Brett Young | “2.0” (his fifth album; producers: Jimmy Robbins, Dann Huff; guests: Lady A, Hannah McFarland, George Birge; new single: “Drink With You”; Read here; Black Ice Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment)
YUNGBLUD | “Idols” (British rocker’s fourth album, the first part of a double LP; new single: “Lovesick Lullaby”; See here; Read here; Amazon-Exclusive CD, with alternate cover art; Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Magenta Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Locomotion Recordings / Capitol)
Plus … Yaya Bey | Edna Vazquez | Nad Sylvan | U.S. Girls | Malevolence | Eric Hilton | S.G. Goodman | Boy George | Benét | UNIVERSITY | Kelsey Waldon … and many more
REISSUES + MORE
After the Fire | “Bright Lights 1974-1983” (six-CD clamshell box set includes the band’s five albums, along with their U.S. Top 5 hit “Der Kommissar” and demos, B-sides and live tracks; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Lemon / Cherry Red)
Gregg Allman Band | “One Night in DC, May 15, 1984” (13-song set at The Bayou, drawn from the late rocker’s personal archives; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; Sawrite Records)
The B-52’s | “The Warner Reprise Years” (eight-CD box set, featuring six albums and two EPs from 1979 to 1992; Amazon.ca; Merch; Rhino / Warner)
Christopher Cross | “Christopher Cross (Expanded Edition)” (1979 debut album, featuring “Ride Like the Wind,” “Sailing” and “Never Be the Same”; won Grammys for Album, Song and Record of the Year, as well as Best New Artist; with previously unreleased demos and bonus tracks recorded during the album’s sessions; See here; Vinyl; Amazon.ca; Download released on May 2; Apple Music; On Tour, with Toto and Men At Work; Omnivore Recordings / Seeker Music)
Bobby Goldsboro | “The LP Collection Vol. 1” (two-CD set contains “The Bobby Goldsboro Album,” “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” “Little Things” and “Broomstick Cowboy,” with 14 bonus cuts; JGJ Records)
Melanie | “United Kingdom Live” (20-song performance in Morecambe, a seaside town in Lancashire, from 2008, featuring her son Beau Jarred on guitar; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Cleopatra)
John Mellencamp | “A Biography” (his second album, from 1978, credited as Johnny Cougar; initially released by Riva Records in the U.K. and Australia but not the U.S.; “I Need a Lover” was a Top 10 hit in Australia but didn’t surface in the U.S. until his third album, “John Cougar,” in 1979; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Merch; Music on CD)
Natural Gas | “Natural Gas (Original Master Edition)” (1976 debut album from supergroup featuring Joey Molland, Jerry Shirley, Mark Clarke and Peter Wood; remastered, with 10 bonus tracks: two pre-album demos and eight live soundboard recordings; Iconoclassic)
Peso Pluma | “ÉXODO” (2024 album; Tan Smoke Double Vinyl; Target-Exclusive Double Vinyl; Walmart-Exclusive Ink and Paint Double Vinyl; Download released on June 20, 2024; On Tour; Merch; Double P Records)
Soft Cell | “Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing (Deluxe Edition)” (Download; 1982 remix album, featuring “Where Did Our Love Go”; remastered, with bonus extended versions of “Torch” and “What!,” along with additional unreleased mixes and highlights from 2007’s long-deleted “Heat – The Remixes”; Pink and Blue Double Vinyl; Amazon UK; Apple Music; On Tour, with Simple Minds; Mercury / UMe)
Various artists | “Feelin’ Alright? Mod, Rock, Funky Prog & Heavy Jazz 1967-1972” (three CDs, 64 tracks, featuring Deep Purple, The Kinks, Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Georgie Fame, Spooky Tooth, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, Fleetwood Mac, et al; Read here; Amazon UK; Strawberry / Cherry Red)
Various artists | “Y2K25: The Music That Made The Millennium” (20-track compilation; Read here; Vinyl, 12 songs; Target-Exclusive Hot Pink Vinyl; Amazon UK; Legacy Recordings)
Sarah Vaughan | “Her Classic 1950s Albums” (eight remastered albums on four CDs; Amazon UK; Enlightenment)
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