A Routes & Branches Guide To Feeding Your Monster

JANUARY 2025
Ethel Cain, Perverts  (Jan 8)
Early James, Medium Raw  (Easy Eye, Jan 10)
Nolan Taylor, Nolan Taylor  (Atlantic, Jan 10)
Ethan Samuel Brown, Small Actors  (ESB, Jan 10)
Jason Eady, Mississippi (Unplugged)  (Torrez, Jan 10)
John R Miller, Heat Comes Down (Deluxe)  (Rounder, Jan 10)
Weather Station, Humanhood  (Fat Possum, Jan 17)
Yola, My Way EP  (S-Curve, Jan 17)
Luther Russell, Happiness For Beginners  (Curation, Jan 17)
Ryan Necci & Buffalo Gospel, The Letting Go: Part 1 EP  (Necci, Jan 17)
Greg Freeman, I Looked Out (Reissue)  (Transgressive, Jan 17)
Pigeon Pit, Crazy Arms  (Ernest Jenning, Jan 17)
Cave Flowers, Western Spectre  (Hard Bark, Jan 17)
Olivia Wolf, Silver Rounds  (Wolf, Jan 17)
Melissa Mary Ahern, Kerosene  (FatCat, Jan 17)
Matthew Logan Vasquez, Frank's Full Moon Saloon Pt 3 Side A EP  (MLV, Jan 17)
Infamous Stringdusters, Songs From the Mountain  (Americana Vibes, Jan 22)
Larkin Poe, Bloom  (Trick-Woo, Jan 24)
Roger Street Friedman, Long Shadows  (Jan 24)
Rose City Band, Sol y Sombra  (Thrill Jockey, Jan 24)
Benjamin Booker, Lower  (Fire Next Time, Jan 24)
Sam Amidon, Salt River  (River Lea, Jan 24)
Courtney Patton, Carry You With Me  (Patton, Jan 24)
Ben Nichols & Rick Steff, Lucero Unplugged  (Liberty & Lament, Jan 24)
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Looking For the Thread  (Lambent Light, Jan 24)
Yahtzee Brown, You Got This  (Deko, Jan 24)
Pernice Brothers, Chappaquiddick Skyline (LP reissue)  (New West, Jan 24)
Ty Myers, The Select  (Columbia, Jan24)
Evan Westfall, Is This Our Exit  (Super Sport, Jan 24)
Tennessee Jet, Ranchero  (Tennessee Jet, Jan 24)
Rose Hotel, A Pawn Surrender (Deluxe)  (Strolling Bones, Jan 24)
Josh Gilligan, Party of One  (Easy Does It, Jan 24)
Lily Talmers, It Is Cyclical Missing You  (El Tee, Jan 30)
Anna B Savage, You & I Are Earth  (City Slang, Jan 31)
Penny & Sparrow, Lefty  (I Love You, Jan 31)
Lilly Hiatt, Forever  (New West, Jan 31)
Bonnie Prince Billy, The Purple Bird  (No Quarter, Jan 31)
Eddie Chacon, Lay Low  (Stones Throw, Jan 31)
Jim White, Precious Bane  (Fluff & Gravy, Jan 31)
Heather Maloney, Exploding Star  (Signature Sounds, Jan 31)
Freckle, Freckle  (God?, Jan 31)
Preservation Brass, For Fat Man  (Sub Pop, Jan 31)
Brother Elsey, Brother Elsey  (River House, Jan 31)
Drayton Farley, Live & Acoustic From Germany  (Hargrove, Jan 31)
Sierra Ferrell, Trail of Flowers (Deluxe)  (Rounder, Jan 31)
Prison, Downstate  (Drag City, Jan 31)
Various Artists, Home Free Soundtrack  (Nine Mile, Jan 31)
David Quinn, Up To Snuff  (Quinn, Jan 31)

FEBRUARY 2025
Moon Orchids, Moon Orchids  (Positively 4th St, Feb 3)
Massy Ferguson, You Can't Tell Me I'm Not What I Used To Be  (North and Left, Feb 4)
Wilder Woods, Curioso  (Dualtone, Feb 7)
Sean Thompson's Weird Ears, Head In the Sand  (Ears Over America, Feb 7)
Michigander, Michigander  (Totally Normal, Feb 7)
Nadia Reid, Enter Now Brightness  (Chrysalis, Feb 7)
Horsebath, Another Farewell  (Strolling Bones, Feb 7)
Sharon Van Etten, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory  (Jagjaguwar, Feb 7)
Zack Keim, Battery Lane  (Super Sport, Feb 7)
Andy Fairweather Low, Invisible Bluesman  (Last Music Co, Feb 7)
Vashti Bunyan, Lookaftering (Expanded Version)  (DiCristina, Feb 7)
Wilco, Ghost Is Born (Expanded Edition)  (Nonesuch, Feb 7)
Cowboy Junkies, Whites Off Earth Now (Reissue)  (Latent, Feb 7)
Will Hoge, Carousel (Reissue)  (Hoge, Feb 7)
Sleeper's Bell, Clover  (Fire Talk, Feb 7)
Miss Tess, Cher Reve  (Miss Tess, Feb 7)
Sarah Klang, Beautiful Woman  (Nettwerk, Feb 7)
New Orthodox, Bull Market on Corn  (Joyful Noise, Feb 7)
Matt Pond PA, Ballad Of the Natural Lines  (Sounder House, Feb 7)
Katie Pruitt, Mantras (Deluxe)  (Rounder, Feb 7)
Joel Timmons, Psychedelic Surf Country  (Timmons, Feb 7)
Joe Ely, Love and Freedom  (Rack 'Em, Feb 7)
Caroline Rose, Year Of the Slug  (Rose, Feb 7)  (via Bandcamp)
Jack White, No Name Live EP  (Third Man, Feb 11)
Ron Pope, American Man American Music  (Brooklyn Basement, Feb 14)
Dead Gowns, It's Summer I Love You and I'm Surrounded By Snow  (Mtn Laurel, Feb 14)
Third Mind, Live Mind  (Yep Roc, Feb 14)
Delines, Mr Luck and Ms Doom  (El Cortez, Feb 14)
Denison Witmer, Anything At All  (Asthmatic Kitty, Feb 14)
War & Treaty, Plus One  (Mercury Nashville, Feb 14)
Tophouse, Practice EP  (Tophouse, Feb 14)
Nicole Hale, Some Kind Of Longing  (Feb 14)
Gary Louris, Dark Country  (SHAM, Feb 14)
Lumineers, Automatic  (Dualtone, Feb 14)
Califone, Villager's Companion  (Jealous Butcher, Feb 14)
Father John Misty, I Love You Honeybear (10th Anniversary)  (Sub Pop, Feb 14)
Frog, 1000 Variations On the Same Song  (tapewormies, Feb 14)
Sara Jean Stevens, Lovesick EP  (Tumbleweeds & Regret, Feb 14)
John Calvin Abney, Awful Quiet  (JCA, Feb 14)
Wyatt Flores, Live At Cain's Ballroom  (Island, Feb 14)
James Felice, The Little Ones  (Million Stars, Feb 14)
The Altons, Heartache In Room 14  (Daptone, Feb 14)
Darrin Bradbury, What the Heaven What the Hell EP  (Like You Mean It, Feb 14)
Ryan Adams, Another Wednesday  (PaxAm, Feb 14)
Candi Staton, Back To My Roots  (Beracah, Feb 14)
Justin Wells, Cynthiana  (Wells, Feb 20)
Sunny War, Armageddon In a Summer Dress  (New West, Feb 21)
Sam Fender, People Watching  (Polydor, Feb 21)
Paul Thorn, Life Is Just a Vapor  (Perpetual Obscurity, Feb 21)
Patterson Hood, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams  (ATO, Feb 21)
Rev Peyton's Big Damn Band, Honeysuckle  (Family Owned, Feb 21)
Tony Logue, Dark Horse  (Feb 21)
Youth Lagoon, Rarely Do I Dream  (Fat Possum, Feb 21)
Souled American, Rise Above It: A Souled American Anthology  (Omnivore, Feb 21)
Cash & Skye, Just a Stranger  (Little Record Co, Feb 21)
Jesse Welles, Middle  (Welles, Feb 21)
Liam Grant, Prodigal Son  (VHF, Feb 21)
Caamp, Somewhere EP  (Mom + Pop, Feb 21)
John R Miller, Fireside Sessions Vol 2 EP  (Rounder, Feb 21)
Paradise Motel Lounge, Welcome To the ...  (Halloween On Raspberry Hill, Feb 26)
Sean McConnell, Skin  (Silent Desert, Feb 28)
Them Coulee Boys, No Fun In the Chrysalis  (Some Fun, Feb 28)
Devil Makes Three, Spirits  (New West, Feb 28)
Cornelia Murr, Run To the Center  (22Twenty, Feb 28)
Edith Frost, In Space  (Drag City, Feb 28)
Echolalia, Echolalia  (Full Time Hobby, Feb 28)
Statesboro Revue, Statesboro Revue  (Statesboro, Feb 28)
David Grubbs, Whistle From Above  (Drag City, Feb 28)
Yo La Tengo, Old Joy EP  (Mississippi, Feb 28)
Miya Folick, Erotica Veronica  (Nettwerk, Feb 28)
Will Stewart, Moon Winx  (Earth Libraries, Feb 28)
Marty Bohannon, A Scar is Born  (Cornelius Chapel, Feb 28)
Matt Bohannon, Go Back to Your Roots  (Cornelius Chapel, Feb 28)
Shannon & the Clams, Moon is in the Wrong Place (Deluxe Edition)  (Easy Eye, Feb 28)
Gunn-Truscinski Duo, Flam  (Three Lobed, Feb 28)
JD Clayton, Blue Sky Sundays  (Rounder, Feb 28)
Thea Gilmore, These Quiet Friends  (Gilmore, Feb 28)
Charles Wesley Godwin, Lonely Mountain EP  (Big Loud, Feb 28)
Muireann Bradley, I Keep These Old Blues (Remastered)  (Decca/Tompkins Square, Feb 28)
Carter Sampson, Live At the Blue Door  (Horton, Feb 28)
Daniel Bachman, Moving Through Light  (Bachman, Feb 28)
Joshua Burnside, Teeth Of Time  (Nettwerk, Feb 28)
Walt Wilkins & the Ramble, Through the Stars  (Wilkins, Feb 28)

MARCH 2025
Darci Phenix, Sable  (Get Loud, Mar 6)
Arny Margaret, I Miss You I Do  (one little independent, Mar 7)
The Tubs, Cotton Crown  (Tubs, Mar 7)
Mike Farris, Sound Of Muscle Shoals  (Compass, Mar 7)
Kris Delmhorst, Ghosts In the Garden  (Delmhorst, Mar 7)
Will Stratton, Points Of Origin  (Bella Union, Mar 7)
Pete Mancini, American Equator  (Mancini, Mar 7)
Bob Mould, Here We Go Crazy  (Granary, Mar 7)
Fust, Big Ugly  (Dear Life, Mar 7)
Tobacco City, Horses  (Scissor Tail, Mar 7)
Burning Hell, Ghost Palace  (You've Changed, Mar 7)
Jason Isbell, Foxes in the Snow  (Southeastern, Mar 7)
Jon Snodgrass, Stoked Ghost  (Rad Girlfriend, Mar 7)
LAKE, Bucolic Gone  (Don Giovanni, Mar 7)
Silver Synthetic, Rosalie  (Curation, Mar 7)
Sierra Hull, Tip Toe High Wire  (Hull, Mar 7)
Benmont Tench, Melancholy Season  (BMG, Mar 7)
Nicotine Dolls, An Attempt At Romantic  (Nettwerk, Mar 7)
Divorce, Drive To Goldenhammer  (Gravity, Mar 7)
Pinkerton Raid, Hazy Shade Of Winter EP  (Pinkerton, Mar 7)
Jason Boland & the Stragglers, Last Kings Of Babylon  (Proud Souls, Mar 14)
Seldom Scene, Remains To Be Scene  (Smithsonian, Mar 14)
Neal Francis, Return To Zero  (ATO, Mar 14)
Melissa Carper & Theo Lawrence, Havin' a Talk  (Tomika, Mar 14)
Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet  (Blue Note, Mar 14)
Steven Wilson, The Overview  (Fiction, Mar 14)
Charley Crockett,  Lonesome Drifter  (Island, Mar 14)
Judy Blank, Lil' Mood EP  (Rounder, Mar 14)
Wilder Blue, Still In the Runnin'  (Hill Country, Mar 14)
Ruston Kelly, Dirt Emo Vol 2 EP  (Rounder, Mar 14)
Stephen Fearing, The Empathist  (Ging, Mar 14)
Nikki O'Neill, Stories I Only Tell My Friends  (Blackbird, Mar 14)
David Mayfield Parade, Sapphire Town EP  (Mountain Fever, Mar 18)
Jeff Black, Anthology  (Lotos Nile, Mar 20)
David Ramirez, All the Not So Gentle Reminders  (Blue Corn, Mar 21)
Lucette, Nice Girl From the Suburbs  (Prairie Blue, Mar 21)
Japanese Breakfast, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)  (Dead Oceans, Mar 21)
Liz Longley, New Life  (Longley, Mar 21)
Kinky Friedman, Poet of Motel 6  (Blue Elan, Mar 21)
Lola Kirke, Trailblazer  (One Riot, Mar 21)
Lonnie Holley, Tonky  (Jagjaguwar, Mar 21)
Jeffrey Lewis, Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis  (Don Giovanni, Mar 21)
Phil Cook, Appalachia Borealis  (Psychic Hotline, Mar 21)
Herculeons, Andrea Zonn & John Cowan Are the Herculeons  (True Lonesome, Mar 21)
Ghost Hounds, Almost Home  (Gibson, Mar 21)
Dutch Interior, Moneyball  (Fat Possum, Mar 21)
James Bradley Earl, Four Songs EP  (Woodsist, Mar 21)
Silverada, Texas 42 EP  (Prairie Rose, Mar 21)
Ed Kuepper & Jim White, After the Flood  (Kuepper, Mar 21)
Boy Golden, Finding Eden EP  (Six Shooter, Mar 21)
Sam Outlaw, Nonessential Sam Outlaw  (Black Hills, Mar 24)
Garrett T Capps, Life Is Strange  (Capps, Mar 25)
Anna St Louis, Home Recordings  (St Louis, Mar 27)
Pug Johnson, El Cabron  (Break Maiden, Mar 28)
Destroyer, Dan's Boogie  (Merge, Mar 28)
Janiva Magness, Back For Me  (Blue Elan, Mar 28)
Mumford & Sons, Rushmere  (Glassnote, Mar 28)
Bria Salmena, Big Dog  (Sub Pop, Mar 28)
Lucy Dacus, Forever Is a Feeling  (Geffen, Mar 28)
Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, Gemini  (Colemine, Mar 28)
Palmyra, Restless  (Oh Boy, Mar 28)
Hannah Cohen, Earthstar Mountain  (Bella Union, Mar 28)
Tyler Grant, Flatpicker  (Grant Central, Mar 28)
Cactus Lee, Cactus Lee  (Western Vinyl, Mar 28)
Alison Krauss & Union Station, Arcadia  (Down the Road, Mar 28)
Free Range, Lost & Found  (Mick, Mar 28)
Sacred Paws, Jump Into Life  (Merge, Mar 28)
James Elkington, Pastel de Nada  (No Quarter, Mar 28)
Susto Stringand, Susto Stringband Vol 1  (New West, Mar 28)
Rachel Brooke, Sings Sad Songs  (MAL, Mar 28)
Dustin Brown, Dustin Brown  (Dustin Brown, Mar 28)
Jason Scott & the High Heat, American Grin  (Leo33, Mar 28)
Matt Daniel, The Poet  (Banjo, Mar 28)
Medium Build, takeaways ep  (Slowplay, Mar 28)
Half Gringa, Cosmovision  (Isabel Olive, Mar 28)
Kathleen Edwards, Covers  (Dualtone, Mar 28)

APRiL 2025
Waterboys, Life Death and Dennis Hopper  (Sun, Apr 4)
Mekons, Horror  (Fire, Apr 4)
Josh Joplin Group, GpYr  (Narrow Moat, Apr 4)
Parmalee, Fell In Love With a Cowgirl  (This is Hit, Apr 4)
Florist, Jellywish  (Double Double Whammy, Apr 4)
Mallett Brothers Band, Higher Up in the Hills  (Mallett, Apr 4)
Seth Walker, Why the Worry  (Royal Potato Family, Apr 4)
Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters, Good Morning Sunshine  (Blackbird, Apr 4)
Brown Horse, All the Right Weaknesses  (Loose, Apr 4)
Marlon Williams, Te Whare Tiwekaweka  (Williams, Apr 4)
Craig Finn, Always Been  (Tamarac, Apr 4)
Lily Seabird, Trash Mountain  (Lame-O, Apr 4)
Grey DeLisle, Grey Album  (Hummin'bird, Apr 4)
SYML, Nobody Lives Here  (Nettwerk, Apr 4)
Andrew Duhon, Parish Record  (Well Kept Secret, Apr 4)
Elton John & Brandi Carlile, Who Believes In Angels  (Mercury, Apr 4)
Ophelias, Spring Grove  (Get Better, Apr 4)
Sarah Mary Chadwick, Take Me Out To a Bar/What Am I Gatsby  (Kill Rock Stars, Apr 4)
Will Johnson, Diamond City  (Keeled Scales, Apr 4)
Cameron Knowler, CRK  (Knowler, Apr 4)
Perennial, Perennial '65  (Ernest Jenning, Apr 4)
Silverlites, Enfant Prodigue EP  (Sunyata, Apr 4)
Clarence Tilton, Queen Of the Brawl  (Clarence Tilton, Apr 4)
Billy Strings & Bryan Sutton, Live At the Legion  (Reprise, Apr 7)
Cold Specks, Light For the Midnight  (Mute, Apr 9)
Valerie June, Owls Omens and Oracles  (Concord, Apr 11)
Daughter Of Swords, Alex  (Psychic Hotline, Apr 11)
Mark Morton, Without the Pain  (Snakefarm, Apr 11)
Bon Iver, SABLE fABLE  (Jagjaguwar, Apr 11)
Joni, Things I Left Behind  (Keeled Scales, Apr 11)
Muscadine Bloodline, And What Was Left Behind  (Stancaster, Apr 11)
Abbey Cone, Greener  (Cone, Apr 11)
Galactic & Irma Thomas, Audience With the Queen  (Tchoup-Zilla, Apr 11)
Dean Johnson, "Blue Moon" b/w "Lake Charles"  (Saddle Creek, Apr 11)
Mike Delevante, September Days  (Truly Handmade, Apr 11)
Johanna Warren, Night Of the Wind EP  (Warren, Apr 11)
Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert, Volume 4  (Dead Reckoning, Apr 11)
Eric Schroeder, Cat's Game  (Enabler No 6, Apr 11)
Turnpike Troubadours, Price Of Admission  (Bossier City, Apr 11)
Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill, Long After the Fire  (Label 51, Apr 12)
Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, (Not) Indoor Safari Vol 1  (Yep Roc, Apr 12)
David Mayfield Parade, Pawpaw's Spirit EP  (Mountain Fever, Apr 15)
Tony Kamel, We're All Gonna Live  (Blue Corn, Apr 17)
Joe Pug, Live At the Old Town School Of Folk Music  (Pug, Apr 18)
John Howie Jr, Return Of John Howie Jr & Rosewood Bluff  (Schoolkids, Apr 18)
Kora Feder, Some Kind of Truth  (Feder, Apr 18)
Pitney Meyer, Cherokee Pioneer  (Curb, Apr 18)
Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto, Electric War  (Easy Eye, Apr 18)
Julien Baker & TORRES, Send a Prayer My Way  (Matador, Apr 18)
Peter Holsapple, Face Of '68  (Label 51, Apr 18)
Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson, What Did the Blackbird Say To the Crow  (Nonesuch, Apr 18)
Beirut, A Study Of Losses  (Pompeii, Apr 18)
Chaparelle, Western Pleasure  (Mom + Pop, Apr 18)
Dallas Ugly, See Me Now  (Dallas Ugly, Apr 18)
Taylor Rae, The Void  (TaylorRae, Apr 18)
Adrianne Lenker, Live At Revolution Hall  (4AD, Apr 24)
Matt Andersen, Hammer & the Rose  (Sonic, Apr 25)
Samia, Bloodless  (Grand Jury, Apr 25)
Ally Venable, Money & Power  (Ruf, Apr 25)
Mason Via, Mason Via  (Mountain Fever, Apr 25)
Mike Frazier, April Days  (Geneva, Apr 25)
Blue Cactus, Believer  (Sleepy Cat, Apr 25)
Various Artists, Heart Of Gold: Tribute to Neil Young Vol 1  (Killphonic, Apr 25)
Tennis, Face Down In the Garden  (Mutually Detrimental, Apr 25)
William Tyler, Time Indefinite  (Psychic Hotline, Apr 25)
Samantha Fish, Paper Doll  (Rounder, Apr 25)
Jon Cleary & Absolute Monster Gentlemen, Bywater Sessions  (Well Kept Secret, Apr 25)
Joan Osborne, Dylanology Live  (Womanly Hips, Apr 25)
Jerry David DeCicca, Cardiac Country  (JDC, Apr 25)
Olive Klug, Lost Dog  (Signature Sounds, Apr 25)
Colin Miller, Losin'  (Mtn Laurel, Apr 25)
Mattie Schell, Everything Means Nothing  (Compass, Apr 25)
Southern Avenue, Family  (Alligator, Apr 25)
Jo Schornikow, Quiet Excerpts EP  (Keeled Scales, Apr 25)
Amy Irving, Always Will Be  (Queen Of the Castle, Apr 25)
Shinyribs, Leaving Time  (Nine Mile, Apr 25)
Willie Nelson, Oh What a Beautiful World  (Legacy, Apr 25)
Barlow, High Spirits  (ESquared, Apr 25)
Jensen McRae, I Don't Know But They Found Me  (Dead Oceans, Apr 25)
Kate Rusby, When They All Looked Up  (Pure, Apr 25)
Jim Kweskin, Doing Things Right  (Jalopy, Apr 25)
Tisburys, A Still Life Revisited  (Double Helix, Apr 25)
Rodeo Boys, Junior  (Don Giovanni, Apr 25)
David Eugene Edwards w/Al Cisneros, "Pillar Of Fire/Capernaum"  (Drag City, Apr 25)
Will Hoge, Blackbird On a Lonely Wire (Will's Version)  (Hoge, Apr 25)
Jack Barksdale, Voices  (Truly Handmade, Apr 25)
Jessica Lea Mayfield, Choose Myself EP  (JLM, Apr 25)
Goose, Everything Must Go  (No Coincidence, Apr 27)
GA-20, Volume 2 EP  (Colemine, Apr 29)
Pearl Charles, Desert Queen  (Taurus Rising, Apr)

MAY 2025
Angela Autumn, I'm Not Around EP  (Autumn, May 1)
Carriers, Every Time I Feel Afraid  (Brassland, May 2)
Samantha Crain, Gumshoe  (Real Kind, May 2)
Kassi Valazza, From Newman Street  (Fluff & Gravy, May 2)
Suzzallo, The Quiet Year  (Suzzallo, May 2)
Lucius, Lucius  (Fantasy, May 2)
Esther Rose, Want  (New West, May 2)
M Ross Perkins, What's the Matter M Ross  (Colemine, May 2)
Sterling Drake, Shape I'm In  (Calusa, May 2)
James Krivchenia, Performing Belief  (Planet Mu, May 2)
Lael Neale, Altogether Stranger  (Sub Pop, May 2)
Autumn Hollow, Say No More  (Animal Years, May 2)
Eli Winter, A Trick Of the Light  (Three Lobed, May 2)
Jedd Hughes, Night Shades  (Truly Handmade, May 2)
Suzanne Vega, Flying With Angels  (Cooking Vinyl, May 2)
Abigail Lapell, Anniversary & More Songs About Love  (Outside, May 2)
Paco Cathcart, Down On Them  (Wharf Cat, May 2)
Eric Church, Evangeline vs The Machine  (EMI, May 2)
Young Gun Silver Fox, Pleasure  (Blue Elan, May 2)
Yarn, Live Yarn Vol 1  (May 2)
Clem Snide, Oh Smokey  (Foreign Leisure, May 2)
Real Estate, Wee Small Hours: B-Sides and Other Detritus 2011-2025  (Domino, May 2)
Adam Melchor, Diary Of Living  (Many Hats, May 2)
Watson Twins, Seeing Double  (Bloodshot, May 2)
Laney Jones and the Spirits, OurVinyl Sessions EP  (OurVinyl, May 5)
Jack Van Cleaf, JVC  (Dualtone, May 9)
Kristina Murray, Little Blue  (Normaltown, May 9)
Dope Lemon, Golden Wolf  (Angus Stone, May 9)
Maia Friedman, Goodbye Long Winter Shadow  (Last Gang, May 9)
Caitlin Cannon, Love Addict  (Cannon, May 9)
Rilo Kiley, That's How We Chose To Remember It  (Saddle Creek, May 9)
Head & the Heart, Aperture  (Verve, May 9)
I'm With Her, Wild and Clear and Blue  (Rounder, May 9)
Nora O'Connor, My Heart (Reissue)  (Pravda, May 9)
Leftover Salmon, Let's Party About It  (Compass, May 9)
Little Feat, Strike Up the Band  (Hot Tomato, May 9)
Maren Morris, D R E A M S I C L E  (Columbia, May 9)
Varo, World That I Knew  (Varo, May 9)
Arlo McKinley, Live At the Burl  (Oh Boy, May 9)
Laura Marling, Patterns in Repeat (Deluxe)  (Chrysalis, May 14)
Brigid Mae Power, Silver Strand Tapes EP  (BMP, May 15)
Neal Casal, No One Above You: The Early Years 1991-1998  (Royal Potato Family, May 16)
Ken Pomeroy, Cruel Joke  (Rounder, May 16)
Mayflies USA, Kickless Kids  (Yep Roc, May 16)
Friendship, Caveman Wakes Up  (Merge, May 16)
Charlie Musselwhite, Look Out Highway  (Forty Below, May 16)
Lowtimers, Cracks  (Alabama Sound Co, May 16)
Dan Mangan, Natural Light  (Arts & Crafts, May 16)
Julia Sanders, Dark Matter  (Sanders, May 16)
Erin Durant, Firetrail  (Ruination, May 16)
Fleck, Castaneda & Sanchez, BEATrio  (Fleck, May 16)
Gold Dust, In the Shade Of the Living Light  (Gold Dust, May 16)
Bobby Lee & Joe Harvey-White, Last Ride  (Curation, May 16)
Nicole Lawrence, Time In Love  (Durango, May 16)
Drew Kennedy, Drew Kennedy  (BMG, May 16)
Sweet Megg, Never Been Home  (Sweet Megg, May 16)
Ma'am, Out the Window  (Ma'am, May 16)
Good Looks, Lived Here For a While (Deluxe)  (Keeled Scales, May 16)
Scott Hirsch, Lost Padres  (Echo Magic, May 16)
Grace Rogers, Mad Dogs  (Sophomore Lounge, May 16)
Elliott BROOD, Ballads & Badlands EP  (Elliott BROOD, May 20)
Lana Del Rey, The Right Person Will Stay  (May 21)
Steeldrivers, Outrun  (Sun, May 23)
Taj Mahal & Keb Mo, Room On the Porch  (Concord, May 23)
Florry, Sounds Like ...  (12XU, May 23)
Marc Ribot, Map Of a Blue City  (New West, May 23)
Home Is Where, Hunting Seasons  (Wax Bodega, May 23)
Silverada, Texas 42 (LP)  (Prairie Rose, May 23)
Amble, Reverie  (Warner, May 23)
Sam Stoane, Tales of the Dark West  (Cloverdale, May 23)
Band of Heathens, All That Remains (Live)  (BoH, May 23)
Wine Country, Hard Times EP  (May 27)
Ben Kweller, Cover the Mirrors  (Noise, May 30)
Anderson East, Worthy  (Rounder, May 30)
Minus 5, Oar On Penelope  (Yep Roc, May 30)
Amy Millan, I Went To Find You  (Last Gang, May 30)
David Lowery, Fathers Sons and Brothers  (Cooking Vinyl, May 30)
Reed Turchi, World On Fire  (Xenon, May 30)
Watchhouse, Rituals  (Tiptoe Tiger, May 30)
Shootouts, Switchback  (Transoceaenic, May 30)
Ty Segall, Possession  (Drag City, May 30)
Matt Berninger, Get Sunk  (Concord, May 30)
Chad Price Peace Coalition, Perfect Pearl  (SofaBurn, May 30)
Alan Sparhawk & Trampled By Turtles, Alan Sparhawk & Trampled By Turtles  (Sub Pop, May 30)
Foxwarren, 2  (Anti, May 30)
Ava McCoy, Dragonfly  (Acrophase, May 30)
Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)  (Asthmatic Kitty, May 30)
Pine Hill Haints, Shattered Pieces Of the True Cross  (Single Lock, May 30)
Budos Band, VII  (Diamond West, May 30)
Ethan Daniel Davidson, Cordelia  (Blue Arrow, May 30)
One Mississippi, One Mississippi  (Strolling Bones, May 30)
Shelby Means, Shelby Means  (Means, May 30)
Kathryn Joseph, WE WERE MADE PREY.  (Rock Action, May 30)

JUNE 2025
Attention Bird Utopia, Best Of Kings  (here here, Jun 6)
Suzie Ungerleider, Among the Evergreens  (Stella, Jun 6)
Eli Paperboy Reed, Sings Walkin' and Talkin' and Other Smash Hits!  (Yep Roc, Jun 6)
Drunken Prayer, Thy Burdens  (Dial Back Sound, Jun 6)
Ben de la Cour, New Roses  (Jullian, Jun 6)
Jesse Daniel, Son Of the San Lorenzo  (Lightning Rod, Jun 6)
North Mississippi Allstars, Still Shakin'  (New West, Jun 6)
Crow Boys, Made To Wander  (EMI Nashville, Jun 6)
Hailey Whitters, Corn Queen  (Pigasus, Jun 6)
Caamp, Copper Changes Color  (Mom + Pop, Jun 6)
Hayden Pedigo, I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away  (Mexican Summer, Jun 6)
Cold Stares, The Southern Pt 2  (Deko, Jun 6)
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Personal History  (Lambent Light, Jun 6)
Christian Lee Hutson, Paradise Pop. 10 (Deluxe)  (Anti, Jun 6)
Westerlies, Paradise  (Westerlies, Jun 13)
Buick Audra, Adult Child  (Buick Audra, Jun 13)
Hallelujah the Hills, DECK  (Discrete Pageantry, Jun 13)
Common Holly, Anything glass  (Keeled Scales, Jun 13)
Murder By Death, Egg & Dart  (MBD, Jun 13)
Gasoline Lollipops, Kill the Architect  (ALP, Jun 13)
Swell Season, Forward  (Masterkey, Jun 13)
Joseph Allred, Old Time Fantasias  (Scissor Tail, Jun 13)
Jazmine Mary, I Want To Rock and Roll  (Flying Nun, Jun 13)
Micky & the Motorcars, Micky & the Motorcars  (Micky, Jun 19)
Bones Of JR Jones, Radio Waves  (Bones, Jun 20)
Lukas Nelson, American Romance  (Sony, Jun 20)
Vegabonds, Young & Afraid  (Vegabonds, Jun 20)
SG Goodman, Planting By the Signs  (Slough Water, Jun 20)
MJ Lenderman & Wednesday, Guttering EP  (Julia's War, Jun 20)
Wandering Hearts, Deja Vu (We Have All Been Here Before)  (Chrysalis, Jun 20)
Kelsey Waldon, Every Ghost  (Oh Boy, Jun 20)
Little Mazarn, Mustang Island  (Dear Life, Jun 20)
James McMurtry, Black Dog & the Wandering Boy  (New West, Jun 20)
Elijah Johnston, Stupid Soul  (Strolling Bones, Jun 20)
Sally Anne Morgan, Second Circle the Horizon  (Thrill Jockey, Jun 20)
Billy Allen + the Pollies, Black Noise  (Single Lock, Jun 20)
Mason Jennings, Magnifier  (Loosegroove, Jun 20)
Nathan Salsburg, Ipsa Corpora  (No Quarter, Jun 20)
Feelies, Rewind  (Bar None, Jun 20)
Durand Jones & the Indications, Flowers  (Dead Oceans, Jun 27)
Parker McCollum, Parker McCollum  (MCA Nashville, Jun 27)
Jeremy Garrett, Storm Mountain  (Americana Vibes, Jun 27)
Willi Carlisle, Winged Victory  (Signature Sounds, Jun 27)
Robert Randolph, Preacher Kids  (Sun, Jun 27)
Jeanines, How Long Can It Last  (Slumberland, Jun 27)
Vandoliers, Life Behind Bars  (Break Maiden, Jun 27)
Various Artists, A Tribute To the King Of Zydeco  (Valcour, Jun 27)
Jackson & the Janks, Write It Down  (Jalopy, Jun 27)
Laura Stevenson, Late Great  (Really, Jun 27)

JULY 2025
Tucker Zimmerman, Music By River Words By Ear  (Big Potato, Jul 4)
Reds Pinks and Purples, Past Is a Garden I Never Fed  (Fire, Jul 4)
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, New Threats From the Soul  (Sophomore Lounge, Jul 5)
Wildmans, Longtime Friend  (New West, Jul 11)
Bonnie Dobson & Hanging Stars, Dreams  (Loose, Jul 11)
Tami Neilson, Neon Cowgirl  (Outside, Jul 11)
Brent Cobb & the Fixins, Ain't Rocked In a While  (Ol Buddy, Jul 11)
Tanner Usrey, These Days  (Atlantic, Jul 11)
Murry Hammond, Trail Songs Of the Deep  (Fluff & Gravy, Jul 11)
Mal Blum, The Villain  (Get Better, Jul 11)
Benjamin Dakota Rogers, This Ol' Way  (Good People, Jul 11)
Allo Darlin', Bright Nights  (Slumberland, Jul 11)
Mike Polizze, Around Sound  (Paradise Of Bachelors, Jul 11)
Ketch Secor, Story the Crow Told Me  (Secor, Jul 11)
Eli West, Shape of a Sway  (Tender and Mild, Jul 11)
Billie Marten, Dog Eared  (Fiction, Jul 18)
Jade Bird, Who Wants To Talk About Love  (Glassnote, Jul 18)
Natalie Bergman, My Home Is Not In This World  (Third Man, Jul 18)
Cole Quest and the City Pickers, Homegrown  (Jalopy, Jul 18)
Dougie Poole, At Tubby's  (Wharf Cat, Jul 18)
Lord Huron, Cosmic Selector Vol 1  (Mercury, Jul 18)
Ian James Bain, At Your Service EP  (ArtHaus, Jul 18)
Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley, Living in a Song  (Compass, Jul 18)
Alex Williams, Space Brain  (Lightning Rod, Jul 18)
Last Revel, Gone for Good  (Hassle House, Jul 18)
Night Moves, Double Life  (Domino, Jul 25)
Yoshika Colwell, On the Wing  (PIAS, Jul 25)
Indigo de Souza, Precipice  (Loma Vista, Jul 25)
Cody Jinks, In My Blood  (Late August, Jul 25)
Cory Hanson, I Love People  (Drag City, Jul 25)
Honeydogs, Algebra for Broken Hearts  (Jullian, Jul 25)
Folk Bitch Trio, Now Would Be a  Good Time  (Jagjaguwar, Jul 25)
Grayson Jenkins, Country Parables  (Jenkins, Jul 25)

AUGUST 2025 ... and everything after!
Wood Brothers, Puff Of Smoke  (Honey Jar, Aug 1)
Emily Hines, These Days  (Keeled Scales, Aug 1)
Eli Young Band, Strange Hours  (UnLevel, Aug 1)
Patrick Sweany, Baby It's Late  (Nine Mile, Aug 1)
Chris Staples, Don't Worry  (Hot Tub, Aug 5)
Ashley Monroe, Tennessee Lightning  (Mountainrose Sparrow, Aug 8)
Hayes Carll, We're Only Human  (Hwy 87, Aug 8)
Trevor Sensor, A Few Tears Of Eros  (High Black Desert, Aug 8)
Rachel Baiman w/Viv & Riley, Kissing Other People  (Peacedale, Aug 8)
Ada Lea, When I Paint My Masterpiece  (Saddle Creek, Aug 8)
Black Keys, No Rain No Flowers  (Easy Eye, Aug 8)
Kyle Morgan & Tamar Korn, Darkening Green  (Jalopy, Aug 15)
Robert Jon & the Wreck, Heartbreak & Last Goodbyes  (Journeyman, Aug 22)
Greg Freeman, Burnover  (Transgressive, Aug 22)
Texas Headhunters, Texas Headhunters  (Blue Elan, Aug 22)
CMAT, Euro-Country  (AWAL, Aug 29)
Mickey Newbury, Heaven Help the Child Reissue  (Fat Possum, Aug 29)
Caroline Spence, Heart Go Wild  (Spence, Aug 29)
Grant-Lee Phillips, In the Hour of Dust  (Yep Roc, Sep 5)
Kimmie Rhodes, West Texas Heaven Revisited  (Sunbird, Sep 12)
West Texas Exiles, 8000 Days  (Floating Mesa, Sep 12)
Brothers Comatose, Golden Grass  (Swamp Jam, Sep 12)
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler, 41 Longfield Street Late 80s  (Temporary Residence, Sep 19)
Malin Pettersen, Wildflower  (Die With Your Boots On, Sep 19)
Whiskey Myers, Whomp Whack Thunder  (Wiggy Thump, Sep 26)
Jr Thomas & the Volcanoes & Eraserhood Sound, Jr Thomas In the Eraserhood  (Deep Matter, Sep 26)
Heavy Diamond Ring, All Out Of Angels  (Cowboy Cowabunga, Nov 17)

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