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Includes collaborations with Bruce Springsteen.

John Mellencamp Strictly a One-Eyed Jack

Republic Records

Guest Artist: Bruce Springsteen

John Mellencamp releases the follow-up to his 2018 album Other People’s Stuff. His 25th studio album features three collaborations with Bruce Springsteen, including the landmark duet Wasted Days. 14742464 $13.99

Tears for Fears The Tipping Point

Concord Records Tears for Fears release their first new album in nearly two decades, an inspired song cycle that vividly recalls the depth and emotional force of the group’s earliest triumphs. 14621368 $14.99

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 25

Mitski Laurel Hell

Dead Oceans, Inc. With this release, Mitski cements her reputation as an artist in possession of such power, capable of using her talent to perform the alchemy that turns the most savage and alienated experiences into the very elixir that cures them. 14733677 $14.99

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 4

Slash 4

BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

Guest Artists: Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators

It’s been a decade since Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators released their first album together. True to the band’s expanding legacy, this new album is everything fans have come to expect, with a touch of something new. 14738930 $16.99

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 11

Jack White Fear of the Dawn

Third Man The fourth studio album from Jack White, founding member of the White Stripes, the Raconteurs, and the Dead Weather. True to his DIY roots, this album was recorded at White’s Third Man Studio throughout 2021. 14768402 $14.99

AVAILABLE APRIL 8

Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

4AD To truly dig into all that the music Big Thief desired in 2020, the band decided to write and record a rambling account of growth as individuals, musicians, and chosen family over four distinct recording sessions. 14714296 $15.99

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 11

Steve Vai Inviolate

Favored Nations Steve Vai’s newest and tenth solo album, a nine-song opus that does indeed push the boundaries of instrumental guitar music, Vai quite literally invented not just a new guitar, but also a new guitarplaying technique. 14737813 $15.99

Hurray for the Riff Raff Life on Earth

Nonesuch Hurray for the Riff Raff’s new album features eleven new ‘nature punk’ tracks based on the theme of survival that are music for a world in flux; songs about thriving, not just surviving, while disaster is happening. 14738928 $12.99

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 18

Beach House Once Twice Melody

Sub Pop Records The eighth studio album by Beach House is a double album, featuring eighteen songs presented in four chapters. Across these songs, many types of style and song structures can be heard. 14733686 $13.99 2 Discs

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 18

Dashboard Confessional All the Truth That I Can Tell

Hidden Note Records Dashboard Confessional’s ninth studio album is both a remarkable renewal and fortunate step forward for the band’s songwriter, frontman, and founder, Chris Carrabba. 14769240 $13.99

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 25

Johnny Marr Fever Dreams Pts 1-4

BMG Rights Management In the wake of his time leading the Healers, Marr’s solo career has given rise to three UK Top Ten albums: The Messenger (2013); Playland (2014); and 2018’s Call the Comet. He now returns with his most expansive work to date. 14746393 $17.99

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AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 25

A Place to Bury Strangers See Through You

Dedstrange Across thirteen tracks recorded in seclusion throughout the nihilistic absurdity of the pandemic, this is proof positive that the group hailed as ‘The Loudest Band in New York’ is still finding new ways to push the needle deeper in the red. 14714297 $12.99

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 4

Cate Le Bon Pompeii

Mexican Summer Cate Le Bon’s sixth full-length studio album, and the follow-up to 2019’s Mercury-nominated Reward, bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any ‘dissection of immediacy,’ says Le Bon. 14760930 $14.99

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 4

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