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BEST OF JUNE The In-Demand Titles Patrons Will Be Looking For
OneRepublic
The Killers
Mosley Music/ Interscope Records Pop/Rock Coming Soon 13059659 $13.99 Grammy Award nominees OneRepublic release their highly anticipated new studio album, which features the singles Rescue Me; Somebody to Love; and Wanted; as well as the new single Didn’t I.
Island Pop/Rock Coming Soon 13058698 $13.99 The sixth studio album from the Killers was the first one to be recorded outside of their native Las Vegas. Includes several superstar collaborators including Lindsey Buckingham, k.d. lang, Weyes Blood, and more.
Human
Imploding the Mirage
Dixie Chicks
Jackboys
Columbia (USA) Country Coming Soon 12981432 $13.99 After fourteen years, Grammy Award winners Dixie Chicks are back with a brand new album. When talking about the title track, Rolling Stone’s headline said ‘You Definitely Need to Hear This New Dixie Chicks Song.’
Epic Records Rap/Hip-Hop Parental Advisory 13130861 $8.99 Upon its digital release in January, the album from the Travis Scott-led collective debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. Now it is available for fans to enjoy on CD.
Gaslighter
Jackboys
NOW That’s What I Call Music 74
NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock 2
NOW Pop/Rock 13059660 $18.99 The popular music series is back with a new collection featuring the biggest chart hits from the worlds of rock, pop, rap, country, and more.
NOW Pop/Rock 13061071 $18.99 Set sail with tons of summertime yacht rock classics with the lastest special collection from the popular music series.
Various Artists
Various Artists
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HOT NEW RELEASES The In-Demand Titles Patrons Will Be Looking For Queen & Slim Original Motion Picture Score Devonte Hynes
Domino Recording Co. Soundtracks Songwriter, composer, director, and visual artist Devonté Hynes, best known under his moniker Blood Orange, has created the score for the critically acclaimed film. 13058236 $13.99
Steve Earle & the Dukes Ghosts of West Virginia
New West Records Country In ten deftly drawn, roughly eloquent, powerfully conveyed sonic portraits, Steve Earle and his longtime band the Dukes explore the historical role of coal in rural communities. 13058685 $14.99
Margo Price
That’s How Rumors Get Started
Loma Vista Recordings Country Margo Price commits her genre-bending rock n’ roll show to album for the first time, stretching out her emotive twang over sky-high soft-rock, burning psychedelic rock ballads, stomping road songs, and sprinkles of pop.
Hayley Williams Petals for Armor
Atlantic • Pop/Rock Known by millions as the lead singer of Paramore, Hayley Williams releases her highly anticipated solo album. It includes the lead single Simmer. Parental Advisory 12830065 $11.99
Johnny Cash
Easy Rider The Best of the Mercury Recordings
Mercury Nashville Country This 24-track collection features highlights from Johnny Cash’s time at Mercury Records and includes I Shall Be Free; Waymore Blues (with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins); and Tennessee Flat Top Box. Available June 26 12935928 $13.99
Clannad
Glass Animals
BMG Rights Management (UK) • World A career-spanning collection from one of the most successful Irish bands ever. The collection captures Clannad’s incredible and enduring body of work which has created a legacy that’s influenced a generation of fellow Irish musicians. 12874326 $11.99
Republic / Universal Pop/Rock Guest Artist: Denzel Curry Amassing over two billion streams, British four-piece Glass Animals is led by singer/songwriter/producer Dave Bayley with bandmates and childhood friends Joe Seaware, Ed Irwin-Singer, and Drew MacFarlane.
In a Lifetime
Dreamland
Available July 10 Parental Advisory 13333523 $13.99
Bug Out!
Shelby Lynne
Aurora Elephant Music Children’s The seventh album from Caspar Babypants is full of super fun sing-along good time music for the whole family to enjoy together. The energy on the album goes from upbeat and fun at the beginning to sleepy and mellow at the end. 13305924 $12.99
Everso Records • Country An album of mostly solo, spare but emotionally rich, original torch songs done the only way this idiosyncratic artist knows how: at once tortured and vulnerable, with intimate feelings laid bare, but ultimately offering hope. 12915173 $11.99
Caspar Babypants
Shelby Lynne
Available July 10 13058695 $14.99
The Killers
Imploding the Mirage Island • Pop/Rock
Available December 31 13058698 $13.99 The sixth studio album from the Killers was the first one to be recorded outside of their native Las Vegas. Includes several superstar collaborators including Lindsey Buckingham, k.d. lang, Weyes Blood, and more.
Kip Moore Wild World
MCA Nashville • Country Kip Moore’s highly anticipated fourth studio album features thirteen insightful tracks. The weathered heartlandrock sound Moore has embraced gets its emotional volume pumped up, recorded live with a full band. 13254737 $11.99
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HOT NEW RELEASES Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Just Coolin’
Blue Note • Jazz A never-before-released studio album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on March 8, 1959. The set includes two previously unissued compositions: Quick Trick and Jimerick. Available August 7 12935927 $11.99
Fiona Apple
Fetch the Bolt Cutters Epic • Pop/Rock
Available July 15 13333535 $10.99 After nearly a decade, singer-songwriter Fiona Apple has returned with one of the most acclaimed albums of the year so far. Following its digital release in April, it is now making its way onto CD.
“Fetch the Bolt Cutters is exactly what so many expected it to be: brilliant.” - Paste Magazine
Sex Education Original Soundtrack
Hot Country Knights
Bella Union • Soundtracks Ezra Furman’s soundtrack to the Netflix original series features soundtrack exclusives alongside new recordings of some of Furman’s best-loved songs. 13017607 $14.99
Capitol Nashville • Country With a sound that recalls country music’s acidwashed and Aqua Netted golden era, the ‘90s-influenced band Hot Country Knights’ debut album is produced by Dierks Bentley. 12981492 $11.99
Ezra Furman
The K Is Silent
JACKBOYS
David Bowie
Epic Records Rap/Hip-Hop Guest Artists: Travis Scott, Lil Baby, Rosalia Upon its digital release in January, the album from the Travis Scott-led collective debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. Now it is available for fans to enjoy on CD.
Rhino/Parlophone Pop/Rock A nine-track session recorded for radio and broadcast by the BBC on David’s 50th birthday on January 8, 1997. This mostly acoustic session was a stripped-back affair featuring some of Bowie’s favorites.
JACKBOYS
Parental Advisory 13130861 $8.99
Lucinda Williams Good Souls Better Angels
Self Produced • Pop/Rock Three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams unabashedly takes on some of the human, social, and political issues of the day with her boldest and most direct album to date. 12981479 $14.99
Changesnowbowie
Available June 20 13296716 $16.99
Indigo Girls Look Long
Rounder • Pop/Rock The first new studio album in five years from Indigo Girls is a testament to their storied 40-year career. Features eleven brand new tracks, all written by the pair. Available May 22 12915000 $14.99
Car Seat Headrest Making a Door Less Open
Matador • Pop/Rock Car Seat Headrest’s first set of brand-new songs since 2016’s Teens of Denial. Created for four years, the album is the result of a fruitful ‘collaboration’ between the band and 1 Trait Danger, an electronic side project. 12981488 $15.99
OneRepublic Human
Mosley Music/Interscope Records • Pop/Rock
Coming Soon 13059659 $13.99 Grammy nominees OneRepublic have announced their highly anticipated new album, their first in nearly four years. It includes previously released singles Rescue Me; Somebody to Love; and Wanted.
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HOT NEW RELEASES The In-Demand Titles Patrons Will Be Looking For Boney James
NOW That’s What I Call Country Classics ‘90s
NOW That’s What I Call Country Volume 13
Available June 12 12915163 $14.99
NOW • Country Country music fans will be able to get all of their favorite ‘90s country songs in one place and relive all of the ‘90s nostalgia. There will be eighteen tracks on this compilation that includes George Strait, Trisha Yearwood, Lonestar, and more.
NOW • Country The thirteenth volume in NOW’s country series will include hits from country superstars Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Kane Brown, Old Dominion, Jon Pardi, and many more.
Alanis Morissette
Sidewalk Prophets
Epiphany Music • Pop/Rock Alanis Morissette’s ninth album is her first new release since 2012’s Havoc and Bright Lights. It includes the single Reasons I Drink.
Word Entertainment Religious After five years, Sidewalk Prophets are back with a brand new studio album. It includes the previously released singles Real to Me; Chosen; The Comment Section; and the top 15 hit Smile.
Solid
Concord Music Group, Inc. Jazz With eleven original songs and featuring R&B star Kenny Lattimore on the single Be Here, Boney James’s new record is an uplifting collection. It is his seventeenth album as a band leader.
Such Pretty Forks in the Road
Available September 18 12912296 $12.99
Austra
Hirudin
Domino Recording Co. Pop/Rock Guest Artist: Cecile Believe Being in a toxic relationship can sometimes feel like being lost in a maze. The fourth album from Austra, aka Katie Stelmanis, is both a bold acknowledgment of such patterns of behavior and a testament to the power of breaking them. 13058662 $13.99
The 1975
Notes on a Conditional Form Interscope • Pop/Rock Parental Advisory 13296713 $13.99
The 1975 release their highly anticipated fourth studio album. The 22-track epic includes hit singles People and Me and You Together Song.
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Various Artists
Available June 5 13305911 $18.99
Things That Got Us Here
Available July 3 13155164 $11.99
Dinosaurs and Metaphors
Danny Weinkauf
Red Pants Music Children’s Best known as the bassist for multi-platinum band They Might Be Giants, Danny Weinkauf is a Grammy-winning songwriter who now adds his fifth album for kids and families to his catalog. 13305926 $12.99
Various Artists
Available June 5 13305912 $18.99
The Pretenders Hate for Sale
BMG Rights Management Pop/Rock Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees the Pretenders return with their latest studio album, which follows their critically acclaimed 2016 album, Alone. Available July 17 13129053 $14.99
Bush
The Kingdom
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC • Pop/Rock British rockers Bush, known for such hits as Glycerine and Come Down, return with a brand new album that includes the single Flowers on a Grave. Available July 17 13129052 $13.99
Duke Dumont Duality
Astralwerks • Pop/Rock London-based producer and DJ Duke Dumont has built a solid discography of dance hits over the years, garnering a massive, worldwide fanbase. His latest project includes the single Therapy, as well as The Power and Ocean Drive. 12892774 $13.99
HOT NEW RELEASES GoGo Penguin GoGo Penguin
Blue Note • Jazz GoGo Penguin’s new album signifies their conviction that they’ve struck upon the mother lode, hit the jackpot, stepped up, and generally arrived at a point they’ve always striven for but never quite attained before.
JoJo
Good to Know
Warner Bros. • Pop/Rock 13058690 $11.99 After facing some personal struggles and slowly becoming comfortable in her own skin, singer-songwriter JoJo returns with her first new album in four years.
Available June 5 12981491 $11.99
Rough Guide to Spiritual Blues Reborn and Remastered Various Artists
World Music Network Blues Artists: Blind Willie Johnson, Rev. Gary Davis Flowing from the same bedrock of experience, blues and gospel music have long been closely connected. The Rough Guide features legendary artists who straddled the line between the music of worship and the blues. 12991435 $14.99
Not Our First Goat Rodeo
Shabazz Palaces
Sony Classical • Classical Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile join forces once again for an album that brings together classical and Americana.
Sub Pop Records Rap/Hip-Hop Guest Artists: Purple Tape Nate, Stas Thee Boss, Darrius Shabazz Palaces’ Black Up, the group’s Sub Pop debut, was recently hailed as one of the best albums of the decade by outlets like Pitchfork. Now the band is back with a brand new album. Parental Advisory 12981434 $9.99
Various Artists
Available June 19 13090746 $11.99
The Don of Diamond Dreams
Norah Jones
Elevation Worship
Rufus Wainwright
Blue Note • Jazz Norah Jones’s new album features lyrics that confront loss and portend hope, and a mood that leans into darkness before ultimately finding the light.
Provident Music Group Religious Guest Artists: Tauren Wells, Isaiah Templeton Elevation Worship is passionate about producing songs for the local church that connect others to God. Their latest release is a live recording that features appearances from Tauren Wells, Kari Jobe, Brandon Lake, and more.
BMG Rights Management Pop/Rock Rufus Wainwright’s ninth album finds him at the peak of his powers, entering artistic maturity with passion, honesty, and a newfound fearlessness, while remaining as mischievous as ever.
Pick Me Up Off the Floor
Available June 12 13061072 $13.99
Kenny Chesney Here and Now
Warner Music Nashville Country Over the span of eighteen months, Kenny Chesney has been working on a new collection of songs inspired by the world around him and everyone’s unique personal journey. His latest includes the single Here and Now. 13058689 $10.99
Graves Into Gardens
Available June 12 12946507 $8.99
Unfollow the Rules
Available July 10 13129054 $13.99
Jimmy Buffett
Life on the Flip Side
Mailboat Records • Pop/Rock 13311580 $14.99 Jimmy Buffett is one of the most beloved figures in music, with millions of fans and an empire that includes restaurants and hotels. Now he is releasing his first new album in seven years, complete with his signature feel-good vibe.
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TOP MUSIC PICKS Titles People Are Talking About Bon Jovi
Shawn Stockman
Kanye West
Island • Pop/Rock Bon Jovi’s new album is the fifteenth from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band. It features the new single Limitless as well as Unbroken, which was featured in the documentary To Be of Service.
Independent Label Services, Inc. • R&B Guest Artist: Raphael Saadiq Boyz II Men’s Shawn Stockman releases his first solo album, which features collaborations with super-producer Tim Kelley (Boyz ll Men, TLC, Sisqo, 112) and R&B star Raphael Saadiq (Tony! Toni! Tone!).
Def Jam • Religious Kanye West made headlines in the music world with the digital release of his first gospel album. Now the album, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart, is available on CD. 12912293 $13.99
Bon Jovi 2020
Available December 31 12874315 $13.99
NOW That’s What I Call Country Songs of Inspiration Volume 2 Various Artists
NOW • Country For their second collection of inspirational country hits, the popular NOW series presents a CD that includes songs from Carrie Underwood, Josh Turner, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Vince Gill, and more. 12810123 $18.99
Foreword
Parental Advisory 12723775 $12.99
Jesus Is King
Lil Baby
Maddie & Tae
Quality Control Music, LLC Rap/Hip-Hop Grammy-nominated rap superstar Lil Baby releases his latest studio project. It includes the single Forever featuring Lil Wayne. There are also collaborations with Gunna, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, and more.
Mercury Nashville Country Guest Artist: Dierks Bentley Maddie & Tae first took country by storm in 2013 with their single Girl in a Country Song. Since then they have toured with the likes of Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood. Now they are back with a new full-length album. 12821665 $11.99
My Turn
Parental Advisory 12847090 $11.99
The Way It Feels
Jhene Aiko
Ashley McBryde
Kierra Sheard
Def Jam • R&B Guest Artists: Big Sean, H.E.R. The album is about relationships, love, and self-discovery. Jhene Aiko spent months in Hawaii recording, meditating, and working on discovering. Her message of self-actualization, self-worth, and self-love is both timely and relevant.
Warner Music Nashville Country The CMA and ACM Awardwinning singer-songwriter releases the follow-up to her acclaimed debut album, 2018’s Girl Going Nowhere. Her new album features the songs One Night Standards; Hang in There Girl; and Never Will. 12821666 $11.99
RCA Inspiration • Religious Grammy-nominated singer Kierra Sheard releases a brand new album that includes the single It Keeps Happening, as well as collaborations with Le’Andria Johnson, Sir the Baptist, Todd Dulaney, and Jacob Sheard. 12904498 $8.99
Chilombo
Never Will
Kierra
Parental Advisory 12875956 $13.99
Thundercat
Joe Satriani
Grey Daze
Brainfeeder • R&B Produced by Flying Lotus and Thundercat, the album features musical contributions from Ty Dolla $ign, Childish Gambino, Lil B, Kamasi Washington, Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington, Badbadnotgood, Louis Cole, and Zack Fox. 12742604 $13.99
Legacy Recordings Pop/Rock Rock guitar icon Joe Satriani puts his skills on display with a new album that includes the single Nineteen Eighty. 12850476 $12.99
Loma Vista Recordings Pop/Rock Prior to his untimely passing, Chester Bennington personally announced a Grey Daze reunion. As he never got the chance to launch the reunion himself, various collaborators stepped up to help finish what the late singer started.
It Is What It Is
Shapeshifting
Amends
Available June 26 12830069 $13.99
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TOP MUSIC PICKS Willie Nelson
First Rose of Spring
Legacy Recordings Country Following a Grammy win for Best Country Solo Performance, living legend Willie Nelson releases his 70th studio album. Along with the title track, it includes the songs Blue Star; Love Just Laughed; and We Are the Cowboys.
Lady Gaga Chromatica
Interscope • Pop/Rock Lady Gaga follows up her Grammy and Academy Awardwinning soundtrack for A Star Is Born with her sixth studio album. The first single, Stupid Love, is already making its way up the charts. 12935947 $13.99
Available July 3 12912294 $13.99
Haim
The Weeknd
Columbia Records Pop/Rock Grammy-nominated rock trio Haim releases their third album, which includes the single The Steps. The video for The Steps was co-directed by Danielle Haim and Paul Thomas Anderson.
Republic Records • R&B Filtering R&B, pop, and hip-hop through an ambitious widescreen lens, the Weeknd quietly took over popular music and culture on his own terms. Features the global hits Heartless and Blinding Lights. Parental Advisory 12874314 $13.99 Edited Version 12912292 $13.99
Women in Music Pt. III
Available June 26 Parental Advisory 12946508 $13.99
After Hours
The Strokes
J. Balvin
RCA Records • Pop/Rock The Strokes make their long-awaited return with their first new album in seven years. Produced by the legendary Rick Rubin, it includes the single At the Door. 12846857 $13.99
Universal Music Latin Entertainment • Latin J Balvin continues to change Latin music on his own terms while staying true to his Colombian roots and reggaeton essence. 12904496 $10.99
The New Abnormal
KIDZ BOP Kids
KIDZ BOP Party Playlist
KIDZ BOP • Children’s Featuring kid-friendly versions of songs such as Dance Monkey; Shake It Off; and Uptown Funk sung by the KIDZ BOP Kids, it is sure to be an instant favorite among families everywhere. 12810122 $10.99
Luke Bryan
Colores
Born Here Live Here Die Here
Capitol Nashville • Country The new album from country music superstar Luke Bryan features the chart-topping hit Knockin’ Boots, as well as the new single Whatever She Wants Tonight. Available August 7 12850368 $11.99
John Anderson
The Clark Sisters
Stormzy
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC • Country Guest Artist: Blake Shelton Produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach and David Fergie Ferguson, the album includes ten new original songs as well as special guest appearance by Blake Shelton on the track Tuesday I’ll Be Gone. 12773921 $14.99
Motown Gospel • Religious Guest Artist: Snoop Dogg The Clark Sisters’ first collective release in over ten years harks back to the formative sound of their early productions, incorporating original instruments and a ‘70s and ‘80s R&B/soul sound. 12842467 $12.99
Atlantic UK • Rap/Hip-Hop UK artist Stormzy has become one of the world’s most talked-about music stars with his sophomore album. Following a digital release in 2019, it is now available on CD.
Years
The Return
Heavy Is the Head
Parental Advisory 12708257 $10.99
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John Prine Tribute: tiny desk concerts
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John Prine
Prime Prine
Atlantic Records Pop/Rock A 12-track 1976 compilation album from rock singer and songwriter John Prine. The notables include Sam Stone and Illegal Smile. 10162977 $10.99
SET LIST: margo price and jeremy ivey “that’s the way that the world goes round”
courtney marie andrews “speed of the sound of loneliness”
That’s How Rumors Get Started
Old Flowers
Loma Vista Recordings Country Margo Price commits her genre-bending rock n’ roll show to album for the first time, stretching out her emotive twang over sky-high soft-rock, burning psychedelic rock ballads, stomping road songs, and sprinkles of pop. Available July 10 Parental Advisory 13058695 $14.99
Fat Possum Country Courtney Marie Andrews’s highly anticipated new album was produced by Andrew Sarlo (Bon Iver, Big Thief). Available July 24 12991411 $11.99
john paul white “sam stone”
nathaniel rateliff “all the best”
brandy clark “speed of the sound of loneliness”
The Hurting Kind
And It’s Still Alright
Your Life Is a Record
Single Lock Records Folk Guest Artist: Lee Ann Womack John Paul White draws on the lush, orchestrated music made in Nashville in the early 1960s, writing about overwhelming love, unraveling relationships, and the fading memory of a loved one. 12320223 $9.99
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Concord Music Group, Inc. Pop/Rock Nathaniel Rateliff delivers an intensely personal ten-song album of vibrant country-blues, badland ballads, ornate Americana, and jazzinflected R&B. Parental Advisory 12703991 $14.99
Warner Bros. Country Guest Artists: Randy Newman, Jay Joyce, Jedd Hughes Brandy Clark’s latest album takes her unerring eye for detail and a genre-melting sense of melody to examine personal truths, revelations, and emancipations with wit, grace, and compassion. 12739838 $11.99
SmartBrowse ‘2020 Bonnaroo’ for more from this year’s fest. Vampire Weekend
Morgan Wallen
Columbia Records Pop/Rock 12330312 $10.99
Big Loud Records Country 12392827 $9.99
Father of the Bride
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats’ Nest
ATO Records Pop/Rock 12412170 $12.99
Bill Frisell Harmony Blue Note Jazz 12576241 $13.99
Lizzo
Cuz I Love You
Atlantic R&B Parental Advisory, Super Deluxe Edition 12613276 $12.99
Leon Bridges & Khruangbin Texas Sun EP Dead Oceans, Inc. Pop/Rock 12846854 $10.99
If I Know Me
Cuco
Caamp
Interscope Pop/Rock Parental Advisory 12439219 $11.99
Mom+Pop Folk 12378544 $13.99
Para Mi
By and By
Lana Del Rey
Brittany Howard
Billy Strings
Interscope Pop/Rock Parental Advisory 12435701 $13.99
ATO Records Pop/Rock Parental Advisory 12406175 $13.99
Rounder Records Country 12460478 $12.99
NFR!
Dermot Kennedy Without Fear
Interscope Pop/Rock 12444412 $11.99
Tones and I
The Kids Are Coming
New Elektra Pop/Rock 12657683 $4.99
Tame Impala
The Slow Rush Interscope Pop/Rock 12599063 $13.99
Jaime
Home
Grace Potter
Kevin Gates
Fantasy Pop/Rock 12452297 $14.99
Atlantic Mod Rap/Hip-Hop Parental Advisory 12622142 $20.99
Daylight
Pinegrove Marigold
Rough Trade Records Pop/Rock 12631717 $15.99
I’m Him
The Growlers Natural Affair
Beach Goth Records Pop/Rock 12689757 $15.99
Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Loma Vista Recordings Rap/Hip-Hop Parental Advisory 12835930 $12.99
Southeastern Records Pop/Rock 12847088 $13.99
Unlocked
Reunions
ROCK Indigo Girls
Car Seat Headrest Making a Door Less Open
Look Long
Rounder 12915000 $14.99 Indigo Girls’ first new studio album in five years is a testament to their storied 40-year career. Features eleven brand new tracks, all written by the pair.
Matador The new album from Car Seat Headrest is their first set of brand new songs since 2016’s Teens of Denial. It is the result of a fruitful ‘collaboration’ between the band and 1 Trait Danger, a CSH electronic side project. 12981488 $15.99
PVRIS
Lamb of God
Dance Gavin Dance
Warner Bros. PVRIS set the foundation for the new era with a recent EP, spawning the lead single and title track Hallucinations, as well as fan favorites Old Wounds and Death of Me. Those tracks are included here.
Epic Lamb of God releases their first new studio album of all-new material since 2015’s VII: Sturm und Drang and the first to feature Art Cruz as the replacement for original drummer Chris Adler, who left Lamb of God in July 2019.
Rise Records After eight full-lengths, an EP, and a live album, Dance Gavin Dance is back at it with thirteen tracks that showcase the band on a new level, while still staying true to their roots.
Use Me
Lamb of God
Afterburner
Available July 10 12981475 $11.99
Available June 19 12981476 $15.99
Available July 10
Lucinda Williams
Jarv Is...
Deep Purple
Rough Trade After a legendary career as the enigmatic frontman for Pulp, and a successful run of solo albums and collaborations, Jarvis Cocker debuts his first new full-length album since 2009.
Earmusic Classic rock icons Deep Purple return with their 21st studio album. It features the tracks Nothing at All; What the What; The Long Way Round; and Man Alive.
Good Souls Better Angels
Self Produced Three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams unabashedly takes on some of the human, social, and political issues of our day with her boldest and most direct album to date. 12981479 $14.99
The Pretenders Hate for Sale
BMG Rights Management The Pretenders are back with their first new studio album since 2016, their eleventh overall. It includes the new single The Buzz. Available July 17 13129053 $14.99
Beyond the Pale
Available September 4 12981486 $15.99
Parental Advisory 12905441 $13.99
Whoosh!
Available August 7 12981482 $27.99
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Reunions
Southeastern Records 12847088 $13.99 Since the release of his Grammy Award-winning 2017 album, The Nashville Sound, Jason Isbell has contributed to the soundtrack to A Star Is Born as well work with the Highwomen and Sheryl Crow. Now he is back with a new album.
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ROCK Asking Alexandria
Hayley Williams
Sumerian Records Asking Alexandria releases their sixth studio album, which includes the single Antisocialist.
Atlantic Parental Advisory 12830065 $11.99
Like a House on Fire
Available June 26 Parental Advisory 13058691 $11.99
Perfume Genius Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Matador The fifth studio album from Perfume Genius sees artist and musician Mike Hadreas re-teaming with Grammy-nominated producer Blake Mills and features contributions from musicians Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino, and Matt Chamberlin. 12981489 $15.99
Petals for Armor
Known by millions as the lead singer of Paramore, Hayley Williams releases her highly anticipated solo album. It includes the lead single Simmer.
Jerry Garcia Band
Garcialive Volume 13 September 16th, 1989 Poplar Creek Music Theatre
ATO Records Guest Artist: Clarence Clemons On the final night of their longest and arguably finest tour, the band played repertoire favorites, such as the Garcia/Hunter composition Cats Under the Stars and infrequent jams like Let’s Spend the Night Together.
The Airborne Toxic Event
Hollywood Park
Rounder The Airborne Toxic Event has completed a twelvesong concept album drawing from themes in singer Mikel Jollett’s memoir. It incorporates real audio from his family, gospel singers, and orchestral flourishes from violins to timpani to horns. Parental Advisory 12946506 $13.99
2 Discs 12850373 $15.99
Rufus Wainwright
Bush
BMG Rights Management The ninth album from Rufus Wainwright finds the singer-songwriter at the peak of his powers, entering artistic maturity with passion, honesty, and a newfound fearlessness, while remaining as mischievous as ever.
BMG Rights Management As they prepare to hit the road this summer with Breaking Benjamin, UK rockers Bush release a brand new album that features the single Flowers on a Grave.
Unfollow the Rules
Available July 10 13129054 $13.99
The Kingdom
Available July 17 13129052 $13.99
Alanis Morissette
Such Pretty Forks in the Road Epiphany Music
Available September 18 12912296 $12.99 Alanis Morissette’s ninth album is her first new release since 2012’s Havoc and Bright Lights. It includes the single Reasons I Drink.
Liam Gallagher
MTV Unplugged Live at Hull City Hall
BMG Rights Management Recorded in Hull, UK, in August of last year, this album showcases Liam Gallagher’s solo career highlights alongside Oasis classics in new arrangements featuring backing choir, a string section, and more. Available June 26 13090747 $11.99
NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock 2 Various Artists
Now Set sail with tons of summertime yacht rock classics with the lastest special collection from the popular music series. 13061071 $18.99
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JAZZ Norah Jones
Gogo Penguin Gogo Penguin
Pick Me Up Off the Floor Blue Note
Available June 12 13061072 $13.99 Guest Artist: Jeff Tweedy Norah Jones’s new album features lyrics that confront loss and portend hope, and a mood that leans into darkness before ultimately finding the light.
Joel Harrison
Curtis Stigers
Sunnyside Guitarist and composer Joel Harrison’s new large ensemble recording is a musical meditation on a lifetime of ruinous armed conflicts conducted by the United States. 13017609 $16.99
EmArcy Curtis Stigers returns with a new album that offers a wry yet elegant reassessment of the modern male. Along with his own observations, he also commiserates and celebrates with the words of top songwriters like Nick Lowe. 12991416 $13.99
America at War
Ella 100 Live at the Apollo! Various Artists
Concord Jazz Recorded in 2016, this concert pays homage to one of great jazz vocalists with performances and appearances from Patti Austin, David Alan Grier, Lizz Wright, Cassandra Wilson, Ledisi, the Count Basie Orchestra, and more. 12935942 $15.99
John Coltrane Giant Steps
Atlantic Deluxe CD with the original album plus a bonus disc of alternate takes and versions, only previously included in The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane boxed set. Available June 19 60th Anniversary Edition 13130896 $21.99
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Gentleman
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Four Questions
ZOHO Six-time Grammy Award winner Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra create two large-scaled compositions that are inspired by the work of Dr. Cornel West. 12892834 $16.99
Blue Note Back with their self-titled album, which signifies GoGo Penguin’s conviction that they’ve struck upon the motherlode, hit the jackpot, stepped up, and generally arrived at a point they’ve always striven for but never quite attained before. Available June 5 12981491 $11.99
Dave Liebman & Martial Solal Masters in Paris
Sunnyside Their second Sunnyside album of duets finds Dave Liebman and Martial Solal before a knowledgeable and appreciative audience at Studio 104 de Radio France, a center of uncompromising music in the City of Light. 13018501 $16.99
Boney James Solid
Concord Music Group, Inc. With eleven original songs and featuring R&B star Kenny Lattimore on the single Be Here, Boney James’s new record is an uplifting collection. It is his seventeenth album as a bandleader. Available June 12 12915163 $14.99
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Just Coolin’ Blue Note
Available August 7 12935927 $11.99 A never-before-released studio album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on March 8, 1959. The set includes two previously unissued compositions: Quick Trick and Jimerick.
CLASSICAL The Vienna Berlin Music Club Philharmonix
Decca Philharmonix breathes fresh life into great musical history with ingenious arrangements and new compositions that are fused with jazz, folk, pop, and other genres. Features works from artists ranging from Beethoven to Queen. 12850369 $16.99
Beethoven String Quartets Opp. 132 & 130/133 Tetzlaff Quartett
Ondine Monumental works which are given fresh interpretations by the quartet are among the greatest achievements in the history of Western art music written by a composer who had already largely lost contact with the world. 2 Discs 13058147 $16.99
Bruckner Symphony No. 4 Mariss Jansons
BR Klassik Guest Artists: Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks Premiered in 1881, this Bruckner work conjures up an ideal world in bright, unbroken colors, and looks back on an intact and carefree past. 13058110 $16.99
Elgar Sea Pictures The Music Makers Various Artists
Onyx Classics Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra continue their critically acclaimed Elgar project featuring Kathryn Rudge as soloist. Sea Pictures is one of the composer’s most popular works. 13017610 $19.99
Not Our First Goat Rodeo Various Artists Sony Classical
Available June 19 13090746 $11.99 Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile join forces once again for an album that brings together classical and Americana.
The Mythos Suite Debbie Wiseman & Stephen Fry
Decca Guest Artists: National Symphony Orchestra Stephen Fry’s storytelling talents are combined with Debbie Wiseman’s celebrated skills as a composer to create a musical work that re-tells the classic Greek myths. 12821657 $16.99
Beethoven Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7
Anne-Sophie Mutter & Yo-Yo Ma
Deutsche Grammophon Guest Artist: Daniel Barenboim After four decades, musical legends Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yo-Yo Ma reunite to record Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. 12835928 $16.99
Scattered on the Wind
Sophie Hutchings
Mercury KX A piano-driven album with strings and other elements, all about surrendering to the unknown, trusting that any path will lead someone to their rightful place. 12991418 $16.99
Macmillan Symphony No. 5, ‘Le Grand Inconnu’ - The Sun Danced Harry Christophers
Coro Guest Artists: The Sixteen, Britten Sinfonia Imagine a vision too wondrous for eyes alone, ‘the lady more brilliant than the sun.’ ‘The lady’ is the Virgin Mary, and The Sun Danced is an ecstatic choral celebration of the Miracle of Fatima commissioned for the celebration of the Centennial of the Apparitions in Portugal. 13058116 $18.99
Veni, Vidi, Vinci Franco Fagiloli
Deutsche Grammophon Guest Artists: Il Pomo D’Oro, Zefira Valova Franco Fagioli lavishes his ‘extraordinary agility and richly upholstered voice’ (Gramophone) on Leonardo Vinci, the Neapolitan composer who influenced Handel and many later masters of Italian opera. 12935949 $16.99
Voice of Hope
Camille Thomas
Deutsche Grammophon Guest Artists: Brussels Philharmonic, Mathieu Herzog Cellist Camille Thomas creates an album featuring works of peace and hope, including a world premiere recording of Fazil Say’s Never Give Up Concerto for Cello and Orchestra. Available June 5 12883300 $16.99
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SOUNDTRACKS Sex Education Original Soundtrack
Queen & Slim Original Motion Picture Score
Ezra Furman
Various Artists
Bella Union 13017607 $14.99
Gathering the music from seasons one and two of the Netflix series, this CD features soundtrack exclusives alongside new recordings of some of Ezra Furman’s best-loved songs.
Domino Recording Co. Songwriter, composer, director, and visual artist Devonté Hynes, best known under his moniker Blood Orange, created the score for the critically acclaimed film Queen & Slim. 13058236 $13.99
Whiplash Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Hackers Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2 Original Score
Varese Sarabande Artists: Justin Hurwitz, Dana Williams This Deluxe Edition 2-CD set contains 36 tracks including unreleased cues, outtakes, and remixes.
Concord Music Group, Inc. Artists: Massive Attack, Leftfield Features tracks from the film that were not on the original, as well as unreleased score tracks.
Invada Records Guest Artists: Mario Batkovic, Colin Stetson Building on the evocative score of the original Red Dead Redemption, this is a powerful, emotional journey through the final days of America’s outlaw era and the second installment of music from Red Dead Redemption 2. 12991425 $20.99
Various Artists
Various Artists
Available June 19 2 Discs 12915161 $24.99
Deluxe Edition, 2 Discs 12892775 $21.99
Woody Jackson
WORLD Celtic Woman Celebration 15 Years of Music & Magic
Capitol Music Celtic Woman brings together favorites from the journey that have an incredible bond with audiences all over the world. 12904497 $13.99
Gordon Grdina’s the Marrow Safar-E-Daroon
Songlines The second release from the virtuoso oud player’s avant-middle Eastern band features master improvisers Mark Helias and Hank Roberts. 12892810 $16.99
Bamba Wassoulou Groove Dankélé
Lusafrica The Bamba Wassoulou Groove is composed of six musicians and is here to create a real wall of sound. The band is a heavy dance machine that electrifies the Malian music and recreates the excitement of the hot nights in Bamako. Available June 12 12892805 $14.99
Clannad
In a Lifetime
BMG Rights Management (UK) A career-spanning collection captures Clannad’s incredible and enduring body of work which has, over sixteen studio albums, created a legacy that’s influenced a generation of fellow Irish musicians and artists. 12874326 $11.99
Trio Tekke
Aquarela
Riverboat Undoubtedly their most ambitious album to date, this sees Trio Tekke continue to reinvent Greek rembetiko in their own pioneering way. 12991439 $12.99
Buda Musique Oboe and cor anglais player Oboman wanted to satisfy his craving for Brazilian music. He shares this musical adventure with Edu Miranda (mandolin), Tuniko Goulart (guitar), and Zé Luis Nascimento (percussions). 12892779 $15.99
Strovilos
A Bela Vida
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CHRISTIAN Sidewalk Prophets
Elevation Worship
Graves Into Gardens
Provident Music Group Elevation Worship is passionate about producing songs for the local church that connect others to God. Their latest release is a live recording that features appearances from Tauren Wells, Kari Jobe, Brandon Lake, and more.
Things That Got Us Here Word
Available July 3 13155164 $11.99
Available June 12 12946507 $8.99
After five years, Sidewalk Prophets are back with a brand new studio album. It includes the previously released singles Real to Me; Chosen; The Comment Section; and the top 15 hit Smile.
Chris Renzema
The Kramers
Centricity Music Chris Renzema’s new album will give fans exactly what they’ve come to expect from Renzema: soul-stirring music with an earnest, drowning-man vocal singing about a hope that cuts through life’s inevitability. 13174332 $9.99
Stowtown Records Throughout nine songs, the Kramers deliver a powerful message. From fun, up-tempo pieces to fully orchestrated ballads, this release promises to encourage and strengthen listeners as they navigate this ever-changing world. 13155596 $8.99
Let the Ground Rest
The Hope of All Tomorrows
Silver Dollar City’s Jubilee A Collection of Southern Gospel Favorites Various Artists
Stowtown Records Guest Artists: Ernie Haase & Signature Sound, the Isaacs Every year Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, hosts the Southern Gospel Picnic. As part of the park’s 60th anniversary, this collection celebrates artists who have taken part in the event. 13155597 $8.99
BLUES Sass Jordan
Rebel Moon Blues
Stony Plain Records Guest Artist: Champagne Hookers This is Juno Award winner Sass Jordan’s ninth studio album and first release in nearly a decade. It’s the first time she has focused exclusively on creating an album of songs that showcase her talent as a blues singer. 12759515 $16.99
John Primer & Bob Corritore
The Gypsy Woman Told Me
Vizz Tone Label Group With a team of A-list players, John Primer and Bob Corritore fulfill and expand their branded presentation of Chicago blues on their third collaborative effort. 13058663 $14.99
Victor Wainwright and the Train Memphis Loud
Ruf As the Grammy-nominated kingpin of American roots, Victor Wainwright’s second release with the cracksquad band he assembled in 2018 is a snapshot of all the nation’s great cities and genres with a modern twist. 13018502 $16.99
Tony Holiday Soul Service
Vizz Tone Label Group With this release, Tony Holiday proves to be a powerful, soulful singer, and a songwriter of smart, moving roots music songs that expand his palette beyond blues to show his diverse influences. 12991441 $14.99
Crystal Shawanda
Church House Blues
True North Records Consumed by the desire to let the world know just how much she adores and is influenced by some of the most timeless blues songs ever written, Crystal Shawanda presents updated modern takes on some classic songs. 12882767 $16.99
Jay Willie & James Montgomery Cadillac Walk
Zoho Roots Detroit-born harmonica legend James Montgomery, along with guitarist Jay Willie, pays tribute to acts including Johnny Winter and the Rolling Stones. 12892835 $16.99
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RAP Jay Electronica
A Written Testimony
Roc Nation Jay Electronica’s longawaited debut studio album was recorded over forty days and forty nights starting in December 2019. It includes appearances from Travis Scott, The-Dream, and more. Coming Soon Parental Advisory 13155162 $11.99
Shabazz Palaces The Don of Diamond Dreams
Sub Pop Records Shabazz Palaces’ Black Up, the group’s Sub Pop debut, was recently hailed as one of the best albums of the decade by outlets like Pitchfork. Now the band is back with a brand new album. Parental Advisory 12981434 $9.99
Jackboys Jackboys
Epic Records Parental Advisory 13130861 $8.99 Guest Artists: Don Toliver, Pop Smoke Upon its digital release in January, the album from the Travis Scott-led collective debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. Now it is available for fans to enjoy on CD.
Kool Keith & Thetan
Space Goretex
Anti-Corp Guest Artists: Gwar, Three 6 Mafia Following their liaison last year for the Complicated Trip Record Store Day single, legendary Bronx-based rapper Kool Keith and Nashville power-violence duo Thetan present a collaborative LP. 12882762 $12.99
Knxwledge 1988
Stones Throw Records Guest Artists: Nxworries, Durand Bernarr Knxwledge is a Grammy Award-winning producer and a pivotal figure in the new generation of beat makers based in LA. This is the follow-up to his last solo full-length, Hud Dreems. 12882784 $9.99
ELECTRONIC Austra
Duke Dumont
Buscabulla
Domino Recording Co. Guest Artist: Cecile Believe Being in a toxic relationship can sometimes feel like being lost in a maze. The fourth album from Austra, aka Katie Stelmanis, is both a bold acknowledgment of such patterns of behavior and a testament to the power of breaking them. 13058662 $13.99
Astralwerks London-based producer and DJ Duke Dumont has built a solid discography of dance hits over the years, garnering a massive, worldwide fanbase. His latest project includes the single Therapy, as well as The Power and Ocean Drive. 12892774 $13.99
Domino Recording Co. Recorded in its entirety in Raquel and Luis Alfredo’s home studio in Puerto Rico, this is an emotional roller coaster in which they face and ponder the issues affecting them and Puerto Rican society at large. 13058671 $13.99
Hirudin
Duality
Regresa
John Carroll Kirby
Robot Koch
Lorenzo Senni
Stones Throw Records John Carroll Kirby has arranged, produced, and played on records by artists as diverse as Solange, Moses Sumney, Connan Mockasin, Yellow Days, and Mark Ronson. 12765980 $9.99
Modern Recordings Guest Artists: Viktor Orri Árnason, Julien Marchal The new album from Robot Koch is inspired by the connection to modern-day survival and the survival of the planet. It includes the tracks Dragonfly and Liquid.
Warp Records With this release, Lorenzo Senni wanted to see how far he could push new ideas. The title means checkmate in Italian, and references the constant chess game Senni plays with himself when writing music.
My Garden
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The Next Billion Years
Available July 3 12981466 $15.99
Scacco Matto
Parental Advisory 13058237 $22.99
COUNTRY & FOLK Johnny Cash
Easy Rider The Best of the Mercury Recordings
Mercury Nashville This 24-track collection features highlights from Johnny Cash’s time at Mercury Records and includes I Shall Be Free; Waymore Blues (with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins); and Tennessee Flat Top Box.
Dixie Chicks Gaslighter
Columbia (USA)
Available December 31 12981432 $13.99 After fourteen years, Grammy Award winners Dixie Chicks are back with a brand new album. When talking about the title track, Rolling Stone’s headline said ‘You Definitely Need to Hear This New Dixie Chicks Song.’
Available June 26 12935928 $13.99
Hot Country Knights
Courtney Marie Andrews
Capitol Nashville With a sound that recalls country music’s acidwashed and Aqua Netted golden era, the ‘90s-influenced band Hot Country Knights release their debut album, which is produced by Dierks Bentley. 12981492 $11.99
Fat Possum Courtney Marie Andrews’s highly anticipated new album was produced by Andrew Sarlo (Bon Iver, Big Thief) and features only three musicians: Andrews, Twain’s Matthew Davidson, and Big Thief’s James Krivchenia.
The K Is Silent
Old Flowers
Available July 24 12991411 $11.99
Chatham County Line
Watkins Family Hour
Yep Roc Records North Carolina’s cherished Americana band is back with a new look and feel. The group demonstrates their sharp self-awareness with a good dose of humor.
Family Hour Records Returning to the studio as Watkins Family Hour, Sean and Sara Watkins consider Brother Sister a duocentric album, yet one that feels bigger than just two people. 12882770 $12.99
Strange Fascination
Available June 15
Brother Sister
Shelby Lynne Shelby Lynne
Everso Records It has been twenty years since the release of the album that earned Shelby Lynne a Best New Artist Grammy nod. This release gets direct to the heart of the singer/songwriter/instrumentalist who gives it her name. 12915173 $11.99
Sarah Siskind
Modern Appalachia
Soundly Music, LLC Sarah Siskind embarks on her most vulnerable and autobiographical album to date. Joining her are Justin Vernon and Bill Frisell, as well as a band of her favorite players. 12915175 $15.99
First Edition 12847094 $15.99
Andrew Farriss Andrew Farriss
BMG Rights Management (Australia) Pty Ltd.
Coming Soon 12946509 $13.99 For his first solo album, former INXS keyboardist Andrew Farriss goes down a new musical path with a country music album. It includes the tracks Come Midnight and Good Mamma Bad.
Eliza Gilkyson 2020
Red House Records Features songs designed to be audience singalongs in the Pete Seeger tradition of motivational political anthems, from the call for unity of Peace in Our Hearts to condemnations of President Trump’s policies with Sooner or Later. 12882756 $16.99
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Pointed Man Band
Doo-Dah Records A musical reflection on the evolving landscape of seeking happiness and wonder while immersed in a complicated world. 13321904 $16.99
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Best Friends Kid Pan Alley
Self Produced Guest Artists: Heather Mae, The Not-Its!, Vance Gilbert Features songs written with kids, for kids, performed by some of the best-known children’s artists in the country. It’s a new classic for the whole family to enjoy over and over again. 12579723 $14.99
Hunk-tabunk-ta Holidays Songs and Stories That Celebrate Global Light
Wild Life Justin Roberts
Katherine Dines
Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta Music Songs, stories, ethnic instruments, and fascinating historical facts honoring holiday traditions from around the planet that share and celebrate one thing in common: light. 12477603 $19.99
Carpet Square Records Joined by an eclectic group of instrumentalists including pianist Lisa Kaplan, baroque cellist Anna Steinhoff, percussionist Gerald Dowd, and vocalist Nora O’Connor, this tender and uplifting collection of songs is his most personal project yet. 12759467 $15.99
Silver Award Winners 2020 Growing Up
Small but Mighty
Stonycroft Records Guest Artist: Frances England The second family album from Josh Lovelace, member of the Grammy-nominated rock band NEEDTOBREATHE, pulls back the curtain and digs deep into beautiful and complicated elements of childhood and family life. 12412487 $9.99
Ginalina Guest Artists: Mario Vaira, Joseph Lam, Kathleen Nisbet The new album from Ginalina is themed on the value of every child, and the power they have to make the world better. Backed by a chorus of children’s voices, with Taiwaninfused cello, and a solid folk-pop feel, this album will make listeners dance, laugh, cry, and shout. 12714976 $22.99
Josh Lovelace
Ginalina
Waiting for the Elevator
The Laurie Berkner Band
Concord Music Group, Inc. For children, every moment is about learning, growth, and development, so it’s only natural that these are the themes for Laurie Berkner’s new album. Intellectual development sits right next to emotional development in these interactive songs. 12447826 $10.99
Recommended Award Winners 2020 Muevete! Songs for a Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body Jose-Luis Orozco
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Jose-Luis Orozco is an internationally acclaimed performer and composer of Spanish and English bilingual children’s music. Orozco’s humor and skills as a dynamic educator connect to his world of joy, discovery, and exuberant musical expression. 12882773 $14.99
Bach and the Pipe Organ Various Artists
Maestro Classics Guest Artists: David Enlow, Yadu, Dongsok Shin Learn about Johann Sebastian Bach and the pipe organ, also known as the ‘king of instruments.’ Organist David Enlow performs some of Bach’s greatest hits on the organ. 12622170 $19.99
Let’s Sing Songs from Around the World
Lucky Foot & Sunny Moon
Self Produced A collection of sing-along songs from different countries that give students and teachers a peek into other cultures and languages. 12704004 $19.99
Not Your Daddy’s Records Guest Artist: Dean Jones Ratboy Jr. has become well known for their fun live shows, and they have a knack for blurring the lines between music for kids and music for adults so that it becomes everyone’s music. 12352427 $25.99
Kathy Sherman, the Good Folk Collective
20 June 2020
Ratboy Jr.
Kokowanda Bay Ruth & Emilia
Baa Baa Farms Ruth & Emilia create a musical tale where a friendly alien helps a group of friends save their beloved bay. Listeners will rock their way through the three Rs: recycling, reducing, and reusing. 12934277 $10.99
Thank You, Mister Rogers Music & Memories Various Artists
BFD Artists: Kellie Pickler, Vanessa Williams, Lee Greenwood Mister Rogers’s songs have been reimagined and newly recorded into a tapestry of modern styles with performances from Jon Secada, Rita Wilson, Vanessa Williams, Kellie Pickler, and more. 12448757 $13.99
NEW CHILDREN’S Muevete! Songs for a Healthy Mind In a Healthy Body
Hold the Phone
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Encouraging young children to move their bodies in joyous ways, Jose-Luis Orozco perfectly complements his Grammynominated album Come Bien! Eat Right! 12882773 $14.99
Recess Monkey’s Jack Forman returns after his acclaimed 2019 album, Office Hours, with twelve hysterical, kid-driven songs that will resonate equally with kids and their adult handlers.
Dinosaurs and Metaphors
I Am Kind (Songs for Unique Kids)
Red Pants Music A day in the life of a child, Mondays, haircuts, hiccups, perfect days, lazy days, and sometimes bugs on the toilet. Add to that dinosaurs, Halloween, and a few other kid-favorite topics and you’ve got the new album by Danny Weinkauf. 13305926 $12.99
Craft Recordings Guest Artist: Raffi Lindsay Munroe is a Massachusetts-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter whose engaging sing-alongs bring joy to kids and parents via her YouTube channel, Singalong with Lindsay.
Jose-Luis Orozco
Danny Weinkauf
Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena Evan Mack & Joshua McGuire
Albany Music Guest Artists: Alejandra Tejeda, San Francisco Opera Scouts A children’s opera with music by Evan Mack and libretto by Joshua McGuire. The concept was conceived when Mack, McGuire, and director Anthony Radford agreed that operas for children were missing from new American opera. 13305938 $14.99
Jack Forman
Monkey House Music 13305922 $14.99
Lindsay Munroe
Available June 12 13317918 $10.99
The Curlytops Volume 1 The Curlytops
Self Produced Caitlin and Melinda Dahl of the Dahls provide a musical visit to the Curlytops Dollhouse by way of ten original and delightful songs crafted to entertain children as well as their parents. 13129060 $19.99
Bug Out!
Caspar Babypants Aurora Elephant Music 13305924 $12.99
The seventh album from Caspar Babypants is full of super fun sing-along good time music for the whole family to enjoy together. The energy on the album goes from upbeat and fun at the beginning to sleepy and mellow at the end.
Rockabye Baby! Renditions of Wu-Tang Clan Various Artists
Rockabye Baby Music The music of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan is transformed into soothing, child-friendly lullabies that are designed to help young music fans fall asleep. Available September 25 13129059 $16.99
Fruit
Pears 4 Bears
Squirrel Mechanic Records Pears 4 Bears creates sweet and quirky indie music that is dunked in true friendship. 13181344 $19.99
Songs for Singin’ The Okee Dokee Brothers
OKEE DOKEE MUSIC The Okee Dokee Brothers ask their audience to join the chorus and sing along. The prolific duo wrote 27 songs in the vein of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, inspiring families to engage in the current social conversation. 13333540 $17.99
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CHILDREN’S TOP PICKS Storytime Singalong Volume 3 Emily Arrow
Burnside Records Emily Arrow shares all-new songs about picture books, including her own book Studio: A Place for Art to Start. Other fun tunes include the interactive If You Can Hear Me and Dance Like the Sun, her original freeze dance song. 12579603 $12.99
Kokowanda Bay Ruth & Emilia
Baa Baa Farms Ruth & Emilia create a musical tale where a friendly alien helps a group of friends save their beloved bay. Listeners will rock their way through the three Rs: recycling, reducing, and reusing. 12934277 $10.99
ACAPOP 1
Fun and Games
Warner Bros. From some of the world’s most influential a cappella minds, Acapop! KIDS delivers current and classic hits, unforgettable and aspirational vocal performances, and best-in-class music videos. 12766192 $11.99
ABC It’s time to kick back and have some fun with the Wiggles on an album that features over 25 tracks, including Baby Shark; Skinnamarink; Mexican Hat Dance; and many more. 12934278 $15.99
Acapop! KIDS
Zombies 2 Original TV Movie Soundtrack Various Artists
The Wiggles
KIDZ BOP Party Playlist KIDZ BOP Kids
Walt Disney Records The sequel to the hit Disney Channel film features the pop beats and hip-hop flow from the previous story, while adding elements of world music to the mix. 12690477 $11.99
KIDZ BOP Featuring kid-friendly versions of songs such as Dance Monkey; Shake It Off; and Uptown Funk sung by the KIDZ BOP Kids, it is sure to be an instant favorite among families everywhere. 12810122 $10.99
Ooh La La Too Doo Na Na Oop Bop Oop Bop Ribbit
10,000 Reasons Kids Praise! Company (Bless the Lord)
Trolls World Tour Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Self Produced A compilation of favorite Kelli Welli songs for kids and the people who love them. Sing-along and storytelling songs, along with lovely lullabies. Smart, fun, often hilarious, sometimes reflective, and deeply sweet, always filled with love. 12934279 $18.99
Maranatha The most popular praise and worship songs of today are sung by kids for kids in a collection that includes tracks from such acclaimed songwriters as Phil Wickham, Chris Tomlin, Reuben Morgan, and more. 12799381 $7.99
RCA Records The colorful world found in the animated sequel comes to life with a soundtrack featuring a mix of musical styles that are showcased in the film. 12748038 $12.99
Kelli Welli
You Are Special Mister Rogers
Omnivore Recordings Features fifteen classic songs including Won’t You Be My Neighbor; It’s Such a Good Feeling; Pretending; and more. 12721245 $17.99
Various Artists
Various Artists
Hopping Around from Place to Place Volume 2
Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Ed Sheeran
Smithsonian Folkways Travel with Ella Jenkins to many cities, states, countries, and cultures. These rhymes and songs with their vibrant rhythms will inspire children to learn about other cultures and their own communities as they hop from place to place. 12689750 $19.99
Rockabye Baby Music Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the bestselling artists in UK chart history. This collections sees his songs transformed into soothing lullabies. 12742605 $16.99
Ella Jenkins
Various Artists
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Lil Baby My Turn
Quality Control Music, LLC • Rap/Hip-Hop
Parental Advisory 12847090 $11.99 Lil Baby’s most recent album has become his first to reach number one on the charts. It includes the single Forever featuring Lil Wayne. There are also collaborations with Gunna, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, and more.
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Map of the Soul 7
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James Taylor Roddy Ricch Justin Bieber 3 4 5 American Standard
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Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial
Changes
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Parental Advisory 12823122 $16.99
6 7 8 9 Five Finger Post Malone YoungBoy A Boogie Wit Death Punch F8
Parental Advisory 12666801 $14.99
Hollywood’s Bleeding
Parental Advisory 12454759 $13.99
Never Broke Again Still Flexin, Still Steppin
da Hoodie Artist 2.0
Digital album available on hoopla.
Digital album available on hoopla.
Harry Styles Billie Eilish Pop Smoke 10 11 12 13 Frozen 2 Fine Line
12614206
$10.99
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
12307484
$13.99
Meet the Woo V. 2
Parental Advisory 12870927 $15.99
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Various Artists
12564853
$12.99
Eminem Halsey Trippie Redd DaBaby 14 15 16 17 Music to Be Murdered By
Parental Advisory 12751862 $13.99
18 Taylor Swift Lover
12398004
$13.99
Manic
Parental Advisory 12468739 $13.99
A Love Letter to You 4
Parental Advisory 12617771 $12.99
KIRK
Digital album available on hoopla.
19 20 21 Code Orange Ozzy Summer Underneath
Parental Advisory 12766196 $11.99
Osbourne
Walker
12733754
Parental Advisory 12581629 $11.99
Ordinary Man
$12.99
Over It
22 23 24 25 Jackboys Post Malone Lizzo Juice WRLD Jackboys
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Beerbongs & Bentleys
Parental Advisory 12118731 $13.99
Cuz I Love You
Parental Advisory, Super Deluxe Edition 12613276 $12.99
Goodbye & Good Riddance
Digital album available on hoopla.
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