Featured New Album Releases

Alicia Keys

Here

RCA

R&B

Made primarily with husband Swizz Beats and Mark Batson, a pared-down and unrefined sixth studio album.

— Andy Kellman

Common

Black America Again

Def Jam

Rap

Reunited with 1997-2007 collaborator Karriem Riggins, the rapper delivers some of the most thoughtful and vital material of his career.

— Andy Kellman

Bon Jovi

This House Is Not for Sale

Island

Pop/Rock

Bon Jovi moves forward without Richie Sambora on this aggressive, defiant album.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Jim James

Eternally Even

Capitol / Virgin EMI

Pop/Rock

My Morning Jacket frontman offers a soulful, moody, collection about modern tensions and hopeful living in spite of hard truths.

— Thom Jurek

Hope Sandoval / Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions

Until the Hunter

Tendril Tales

Pop/Rock

The third Warm Inventions album was seven years in the making, but its tuneful mystery and Sandoval's bewitching vocals make up for the wait.

— Tim Sendra

Stevie Nicks

Bella Donna [Bonus Tracks]

Modern / Rhino

Pop/Rock

Stevie Nicks' solo debut is powered by the hits "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," "Leather and Lace," and "Edge of Seventeen."

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stevie Nicks

The Wild Heart [Deluxe Edition]

Modern / Rhino

Pop/Rock

Stevie Nicks' second solo album generated the hits "Stand Back" and "If Anyone Falls."

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Charlie Haden / Charlie Haden & the Liberation Music Orchestra

Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Beings)

Impulse!

Classical, Jazz

A gorgeous, elegiac album from Haden's long-running, socially minded big band with pianist Carla Bley.

— Matt Collar

Lambchop

FLOTUS

Merge

Pop/Rock

Long-running country-accented chamber pop band adds electronics to its formula on this 2016 release.

— Mark Deming

Shirley Collins

Lodestar

Domino

Folk

First album in nearly 40 years from the U.K. folk icon finds her older but no less commanding in her embrace of traditional songs.

— Mark Deming

Mother Love Bone

On Earth as It Is: The Complete Works

Universal

Pop/Rock

A triple-CD/single-DVD set containing everything the pre-grunge Seattle hard rock band ever cut.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

American Wrestlers

Goodbye Terrible Youth

Fat Possum Records

Pop/Rock

Gary McClure picks up a band and improved recording equipment for the lo-fi outfit's second LP without sacrificing distorted textures or songcraft.

— Marcy Donelson

Queen

Queen on Air [2 CD]

BBC / A Bbc Recording / Hollywood

Pop/Rock

A double-disc collection of Queen's complete BBC sessions.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Berwanger

Exorcism Rock

Doghouse

Pop/Rock

The former Anniversary frontman turns in a tuneful power pop set with hooks for days.

— Timothy Monger

Lee Fields / Lee Fields & the Expressions

Special Night

Big Crown

R&B

The veteran soulman and his crack band switch up to deliver a varied set about the transformational power of love.

— Thom Jurek

Esben and the Witch

Older Terrors

Season of Mist

Pop/Rock

Consisting of four epic-length songs, the band's fourth album is an ambitious, captivating mix of post-rock, shoegaze, metal, and more.

— Heather Phares

Yussef Kamaal

Black Focus

Brownswood

Jazz

This South London duo smears spiritual jazz funk onto broken beat, hip-hop, and more on their startling full-length debut.

— Thom Jurek

Tall Black Guy

Let's Take a Trip

First Word

Rap

Terrel Wallace's slightly heavier second album is another fine and modest hip-hop fusion of soul, jazz, and funk.

— Andy Kellman

The Intended

Time Will Tell

In the Red Records

Pop/Rock

Sharp, urgent debut album by a Detroit-based garage rock quartet that shares three members with Tyvek.

— Paul Simpson

Tyvek

Origin of What

In the Red Records

Pop/Rock

Detroit garage punks Tyvek return to In the Red Records with their most socially conscious album yet, Origin of What.

— Paul Simpson

Tad

God's Balls [Deluxe Edition]

Sub Pop

Pop/Rock

Powerful reissue of the suitably heavy, over the top debut from the band that made grunge as ugly as it needed to be.

— Mark Deming

Tad

8-Way Santa [Deluxe Edition]

Sub Pop

Pop/Rock

Second album from the lumberjacks of grunge gets expanded reissue; still hard and heavy but cleaner and more tuneful than before.

— Mark Deming

Tad

Salt Lick [Deluxe Edition]

Sub Pop

Pop/Rock

Grunge heavyweights team up with Steve Albini for a blistering EP, expanded from six songs to ten in this reissue.

— Mark Deming

Susan Boyle

A Wonderful World

Sony Music / Syco Music

Vocal

The seventh studio outing from the Britain's Got Talent breakout star, Wonderful World finds Boyle delivering another era-spanning set of standards and pop covers.

— James Christopher Monger

The Darcys

Centerfold

Arts & Crafts / Arts & Crafts Productions

Pop/Rock

A frothy, hooky, new wave and disco-inflected production from the Canadian duo.

— Matt Collar

Earwig

Pause for the Jets

Anyway / Lizard Family

Pop/Rock

The Ohio indie rock institution delivers another finely crafted set of dynamic, jagged, and tuneful guitar pop.

— Timothy Monger

Feral Ohms

Live in San Francisco

Castle Face

Pop/Rock

Blistering live set from an intense back-to-basics garage punk trio lead by Ethan Miller of Comets on Fire and Howlin Rain.

— Paul Simpson

XAM Duo

Sonic Cathedral

Electronic

Duo made up of Hookworms and Deadwall members making lush, expansive, semi-improvised electronic music influenced by '70s pioneers.

— Tim Sendra

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood / Chris Robinson

If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home by Now

Silver Arrow Records

Pop/Rock

An earthy companion EP to the CRB's 2016 album Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The Fray

Through the Years: The Best of the Fray

Epic

Pop/Rock

Sticking with the all-killer no-filler motif that should be the template for all retrospectives, the Fray deliver their most cohesive collection of songs to date.

— James Christopher Monger