New Music Friday: March 7, 2025
This Week's New Releases, Reissues + More
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NEW RELEASES
Mackenzie Carpenter | “Hey Country Queen” (25-year-old country singer-songwriter’s debut album; producer: Brandon Hood; guests: Midland; new single: “Dozen Red Flags”; See here; Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; The Valory Music Co. / Big Machine Label Group)
A.J. Croce | “Heart of the Eternal” (his 11th album; producer: Shooter Jennings; new single: “I Got a Feeling”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Seedling Records / BMG Rights Management)
Caylee Hammack | “Bed of Roses” (country singer-songwriter’s second album; producers: Dann Huff, John Osborne; new single: “Bed of Roses”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Capitol Nashville)
HotWax | “Hot Shock” (Hastings-based alt-rock trio’s debut album; producers: Catherine Marks, Steph Marziano; recorded at RAK studios; new single: “Wanna Be a Doll”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Rough Trade-Exclusive Orange Vinyl, with bonus 7-inch disc; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Marathon Artists)
Jason Isbell | “Foxes in the Snow” (his first solo acoustic album; new single: “Bury Me”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Southeastern / Thirty Tigers)
JENNIE | “Ruby” (BLACKPINK singer’s solo debut album; guests: Childish Gambino, Dua Lipa, Doechii, Dominic Fike, Kali Uchis, FKJ; new single: “Love Hangover”; See here; Read here; HMV-Exclusive Digipack; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; ODDATELIER / Columbia)
Jethro Tull | “Curious Ruminant” (Ian Anderson and Co.’s 24th album; new single: “Curious Ruminant”; See here; Read here; Vinyl Box Set, 2LP + 2CD + Blu-ray Artbook; Amazon UK; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; InsideOutMusic)
Lady Gaga | “Mayhem” (her seventh solo album and first since 2020’s “Chromatica,” featuring “Die With a Smile” and “Disease”; producers: Lady Gaga, Andrew Watt, Cirkut, Gesaffelstein; new single: “Abracadabra”; See here; Read here; Target-Exclusive CD, with bonus song + alternate cover; Opaque Black Double Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Opaque White Vinyl, with alternate cover + poster; Target-Exclusive Opaque Yellow Vinyl, with bonus song, alternate cover + poster; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch; Streamline / Interscope)
Hamilton Leithauser | “This Side of the Island” (The Walkmen frontman’s third solo album; producers: Leithauser, wife Anna Stumpf, The National’s Aaron Dessner; new single: “Burn the Boats”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Cassette; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Glassnote)
Livingston | “A Hometown Odyssey” (new single: “Glow”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on March 8, 2024; Apple Music; On Tour; Republic)
Bob Mould | “Here We Go Crazy” (his 15th solo album and first in nearly five years; producer: Mould; new single: “Here We Go Crazy”; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Granary Music / BMG Rights Management)
SASAMI | “Blood on the Silver Screen” (her third album; producers: Jenn Decilveo, Rostam; guest: Clairo; new single: “Slugger”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Domino)
Daniel Seavey | “Second Wind” (former Why Don’t We frontman’s debut solo album; producer: Michael Pollack; new single: “If I Ever Get To Heaven”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Atlantic)
Spiritbox | “Tsunami Sea” (Grammy-nominated Canadian progressive heavy metal band’s second album; producers: Dan Braunstein, guitarist Mike Stringer; new single: “Perfect Soul”; See here; Vinyl; Target-Exclusive White With Black Splatter Vinyl, with poster; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Pale Chord / Rise)
Benmont Tench | “The Melancholy Season” (his second solo album; with contributions from Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, Sara Watkins and Jenny O; producer: Jonathan Wilson; new single: “The Melancholy Season”; See here; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Dark Horse / BMG Rights Management)
TobyMac | “Heaven On My Mind” (seven-time Grammy winner’s ninth album; guests: Juan Winans, Terrian; new single: “God Did It”; See here; Milky Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Capitol CMG)
The Wiggles | “Wiggle Up, Giddy Up!” (32-track, country-themed album; guests: Dolly Parton, Lainey Wilson, Orville Peck, Dasha, MacKenzie Porter, et al; See here; Read here; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; The Wiggles Pty / ABC Kids)
REISSUES + MORE
Jacques Brel | “The Jasmine EP Collection” (26 tracks on one CD; Amazon UK; Jasmine)
Eric Burdon & WAR | “Eric Burdon & WAR – The Complete CD Collection” (four-CD box set; remastered by Bernie Grundman; Amazon UK; Rhino)
De La Soul | “Clear Lake Auditorium” (six-track EP, released in 1994 exclusively as a promotional item to A-list DJs; Sea Green Vinyl; Amazon UK; Merch; Chrysalis)
Disturbed | “The Sickness (25th Anniversary Edition)” (Double CD; 2000 debut album, featuring “Stupify,” “Down with the Sickness,” “Voices” and “The Game”; with B-sides, unreleased demos and rarities; Read here; Green Vinyl, with no extra tracks; Super Deluxe Edition, three-CD and silver vinyl box set, with B-sides, unreleased demos, and an unreleased 14-track concert from The Palladium in Los Angeles from April 2001 as well as songs recorded at Chicago’s Metro in March 2000 and the London Astoria in February 2001, plus book, poster, cloth patch, backstage pass and guitar picks; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download, 39 tracks; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch; Reprise)
Fleetwood Mac | “Rumours” (1977 album, featuring “Go Your Own Way,” “Dreams,” “Don’t Stop,” “You Make Loving Fun” and “The Chain”; won Album of the Year at the 1978 Grammy Awards; Merch; Rhino / Warner)
Fleetwood Mac | “Mirage” (Hybrid SACD; 1982 album, featuring “Hold Me,” “Gypsy” and “Love in Store”; sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LP-style packaging; Double Vinyl, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California and housed in a Stoughton jacket; Merch; Mobile Fidelity)
Kraftwerk | “Autobahn (50th Anniversary Edition)” (Blu-ray Audio; 1974 album, released in the United States in January 1975; featuring Dolby ATMOS mix, 5.1 mix, stereo mix, 2024 edits of “Autobahn” and “Kometenmelodie 2” [in Dolby ATMOS mix, 5.1 mix, stereo] plus a visualizer video of “Autobahn” [edit] using Kraftwerk’s live projections; Read here; Picture Disc, 2009 stereo remaster; Amazon UK; Rhino / Warner)
The Orlons | “Stereo Singles Collection and More” (two CDs, 60 songs; Classics)
Neil Sedaka | “Stereo Singles Collection, Volume 2: His Classic Years 1956-68” (two CDs, 57 tracks; Classics)
Sonic Youth | “Hold That Tiger” (live album from their 1987 Sister tour, recorded at Cabaret Metro, Chicago; originally released in 1991 on Goofin’; mastered from the original tapes by Bob Weston; Hear here; Read here; Double Vinyl; Superior Viaduct)
Billy Stewart | “Stereo Singles Collection and More” (two CDs, 44 songs; Choice Collection)
The Tymes | “70s LP Collection” (two-CD set includes “Trustmaker,” “Tymes Up,” “Turning Point” and “Diggin’ Their Roots,” featuring “You Little Trustmaker” and “Miss Grace”; Classics)
Kitty Wells | “Honky Tonk Angel: All the Early Hits & More, 1952-62” (two CDs, 75 songs; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Jasmine)
Wild Cherry | “Electrified Funk / I Love My Music” (1977 and 1978 albums on one CD, featuring “Baby Don’t You Know”; Choice Collection)
Yes | “Close to the Edge (Super Deluxe Edition)” (1972 album, featuring “And You and I”; box set contains five CDs, one LP, and a Blu-ray disc, featuring rare and unreleased recordings; Blu-ray has Steven Wilson’s 2025 mixes, including the album in Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Mix DTS-HD MA; Read here; Amazon UK; Rhino / Atlantic)
Neil Young | “Oceanside Countryside” (Vinyl; part of his Analog Original Series; unreleased album, recorded between May and December 1977, around the same he was working on 1978’s “Comes a Time”; Hear here; Read here; CD out April 25; Download; Apple Music; Reprise)
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