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Evergreen (CD)

Evergreen (CD)

Soccer Mommy
Sophie Allison’s fourth album is steeped in a loneliness darker than that of her youth, pairing raw reflections on grief with the most laidback, pastoral music of her career. But the music isn’t about moving on from your grief but rather living in it and facing its truths.
Genre: Rock
Pacific Highway Music (CD)

Pacific Highway Music (CD)

Skegss
With their entertaining choruses and sublime combination of surf and garage rock, Skegss have delivered an album that captures the scene just right: your garage door open, you facing the beach on a sweaty, lazy day when you have nothing to do. What a dream.
Genre: Rock
The Shape Of Punk To Come [Remastered] (LP)

The Shape Of Punk To Come [Remastered] (LP)

Refused
Complacency is a creeping, crippling disease. It's a central theme that Refused drills in on their 1998 classic album, remastered in 2010 on vinyl, with moments that annihilate, rallying against society’s structures favoring conformity as the band feeds off their own raw energy.
Genre: Rock
Companion (BLU)

Companion (BLU)

Romance, horror, and technology collide in this dark comedy/sci-fi thriller when Josh (Jack Quaid) brings his "emotional support robot" girlfriend Iris (Sophie Thatcher) on a weekend getaway to the lake house of his well-off acquaintance Sergey (Rupert Friend). It becomes apparent that not all is as it seems... More
Love Hurts

Love Hurts

In this action/comedy epic, Marvin (Ke Huy Quan) leaves a violent life to hide in suburban Milwaukee as a mild-mannered realtor. He also left behind Rose (Ariana DeBose), his former partner in crime, who returns to get Marvin to help take revenge against his crime lord brother, Knuckles (Daniel Wu)... More
Dog Man [2025] (BLU)

Dog Man [2025] (BLU)

When a faithful police dog and his human police officer owner are injured on the job, a harebrained surgery fuses the two of them together and Dog Man is born. As he embraces his new identity, Dog Man must stop the villainous Petey the Cat (Pete Davidson) from cloning himself and creating an evil kitten... More
Wolf Man (BLU)

Wolf Man (BLU)

Seeking a fresh start, Blake moves his wife Charlotte and daughter Ginger to his childhood home in rural Oregon. Upon arrival, they encounter a brutal animal attack, forcing the family to barricade themselves inside the house as an unseen creature prowls the perimeter. As the night wears on, Blake's... More
The Penguin: The Complete First Season (BLU)

The Penguin: The Complete First Season (BLU)

Following the events of The Batman (2022), the gritty HBO Max series The Penguin finds Colin Farrell reprising his role as the conniving Gotham City mob lieutenant Oz Cobb (aka Oswald Cobblepot, aka the Penguin) as he attempts to exploit the current power vacuum atop the Falcone crime family in... More
Wicked [2024] (BLU)

Wicked [2024] (BLU)

The screen adaptation of the wildly popular book and musical, Wicked , stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, a misunderstood young woman who has yet to discover her true power, and Ariana Grande as Glinda, who is popular but has yet to discover her true heart. The two meet at Shiz University and... More
So Kono (CD)

So Kono (CD)

Salif Keita
Legendary Malian singer-songwriter Salif Keita is back with So Kono . This is Salif Keita as you've never heard him before: stripped-down, minimalist, raw, and acoustic. Having long resisted the idea of an acoustic album, Salif Keita decided to strike out in a new direction while at Japan's Kyotophonie Festival in... More
Genre: World
Owls, Omens, And Oracles (CD)

Owls, Omens, And Oracles (CD)

Valerie June
Every so often, an album comes along that seems made for the moment. That's the case with Valerie June's miraculous, magical Owls, Omens and Oracles . Produced by M.Ward, the album features The Blind Boys of Alabama as well as an excerpt from Valerie's book Maps for the Modern World . Album... More
Genre: Rock
And The Adjacent Possible (CD)

And The Adjacent Possible (CD)

OK Go
OK GO are here to make you feel good. On their first album in nearly a decade, And the Adjacent Possible , the ever-entertaining rock 'n' rollers have crafted a funky, infectious, ultra fun, and reassuring record. "A Good, Good Day at Last" feels like just that, an ebullient, ecstatic track that finds a reason to... More
Genre: Rock
Big Ideas (CD)

Big Ideas (CD)

Remi Wolf
California singer/songwriter Remi Wolf writes quirky alt-pop with catchy melodies and blunt, relatable lyrics. The music in "Pitiful" is wildly infectious and upbeat, but it's cleverly contrasted with self-deprecating, heartbroken lyrics. Phrases like "Soak up the sound of crypto bros" add a wry touch to a... More
Genre: Rock
Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacio (CD)

Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacio (CD)

The Mars Volta
The latest album from The Mars Volta is a grooved out, unexpected, deeply moving album. Titled Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos del Vacio , the songs incorporate elements of psych rock, jazz, tropicalia, heavy metal, electronic, and indie, and to create an atmospheric, heady sound. These tracks will sweep you... More
Genre: Rock
The Sacrificial Code (LP)

The Sacrificial Code (LP)

Kali Malone
Originally released in 2019, minimalist composer Kali Malone's breakthrough record The Sacrificial Code returns in an updated 2025 version. Timeless, experimental, and bordering on the sacred, these pipe organ compositions seem to reach through time from the days when medieval churchgoers... More
Genre: Classical
SABLE, fABLE [Black & Salmon Color Vinyl] (LP)

SABLE, fABLE [Black & Salmon Color Vinyl] (LP)

Bon Iver
Bon Iver is back with the mood-setting, idyllic SABLE, fABLE . The songs blend elements of rollicking country rock, lonesome folk, throwback electronic, upbeat '80s soft rock, glitchy chillwave and wistful indie rock into a sound that feels at once innovative and inviting. Bon Iver and producer Jim-E Stack... More
Genre: Rock
A Paradise In The Hold (CD)

A Paradise In The Hold (CD)

Yazz Ahmed
The British-Bahraini trumpeter weaves a stunning tapestry on her latest album, the mystical A Paradise In The Hold . The album was thematically influenced by the tales of Bahraini pearl divers and jewel hunters, and inspired by the music of her ancestral home. A Paradise In The Hold is a lavish journey to... More
Genre: Jazz
Welcome To The Plains (LP)

Welcome To The Plains (LP)

Wyatt Flores
Oklahoma’s Wyatt Flores is the latest singer-songwriter to fall into the Red Dirt subgenre of Oklahoman country music. On his full-length debut, Welcome to the Plains , the 23-year old Flores boldly tackles the history and hard life of his home state on tracks like “Little Town,” the title track “Welcome to the... More
Genre: Country
Surgery And Pleasure (CD)

Surgery And Pleasure (CD)

Vundabar
Vundabar is back and ready to rock on their sixth go-round, Surgery and Pleasure . The vibe sways back and forth on Surgery and Pleasure , like when the ass-shakin’, jangly post-punk of “Hurricane” gives way to the subdued shoegaze-ey pleading of “I Need You.” At times invoking the spirit of Queens of... More
Genre: Rock
Restless (LP)

Restless (LP)

Palmyra
Virginia alt-folk trio Palmyra has dropped their label debut album, Restless , and it’s a doozy. Following up their self-released debut Shenandoah from 2022, Palmyra has crafted ten tracks of alt-country/indie folk flowing with undercurrents of traditional folk and bluegrass. Opulent, heartfelt songs... More
Genre: Rock