Catalyst’s 1973 cratedigger-favorite sizzler, Perception, is a showcase of the band’s effortless mastery in dancing in the groovy sonic space between avant-garde jazz and moody fusion. Cut from the original tapes (AAA) by Kevin Gray.

Pianist & composer Aaron Parks expands his trio with bassist Ben Street & drummer Billy Hart into a quartet with the addition of tenor saxophonist Ben Solomon to explore a new color palette on his luminous 3rd Blue Note album By All Means. Although Parks has made his band Little Big the center of his recorded output in recent years, he never stopped writing music that belonged to a different harmonic universe influenced by the likes of Wayne Shorter, Kenny Wheeler, Horace Silver, Duke Ellington, Joe Henderson, Kurt Rosenwinkel and others. By All Means presents seven new Parks original compositions including poignant dedications to his wife & son.

Capping off a year that saw her popularity skyrocket after what Goldmine magazine has called "one of the most significant reissue campaigns of recent years," folk icon Melanie brightens up this holiday season with a fantastic new collection of Christmas treasures! Includes all new mixes of previously released gems that feature production and guitar work from rockabilly maestro Danny B. Harvey as well as Stray Cat drummer Slim Jim Phantom! Befitting this special, family-oriented album, Melanie's children Beau Jarred and Jeordie Schekeryk contribute their own prodigious talents to these recordings!

Mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile’s Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2 is due November 7, 2025, on Nonesuch Records. The two-LP album comprises Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005; and Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006.

Grammy award winning artist, Trisha Yearwood, is set to release her album, Christmastime, on 11/7, which is accompanied by a symphony orchestra across all tracks. The 12 track album will be supported by her 12 days of Christmas tour in December of 2025 and one of the tracks features her husband, Garth Brooks. Trisha will be featured in the Disney Christmas special set to air on ABC and will also be performing some of the tracks live on Good Morning America in November.

Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle is Willie Nelson’s 78th solo studio album and 155th album overall. It features Willie's new interpretations of classic songs written by Merle Haggard, the latest in Nelson’s storied history of focusing entire albums on a single songwriter’s or artist’s work. Nelson and Haggard were longtime friends and collaborators who released three collaborative albums together: 1983’s Pancho and Lefty, 2007’s Last of The Breed (alongside Ray Price) and 2015’s Django and Jimmie.

With Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival, Guitar legend Slash brings the blues roaring back to life. A full-throttle concert film capturing his electrifying July 17, 2024 performance at the Mission Ballroom, Colorado. Touring as part of the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival, Slash and the formidable ensemble known as Slash’s Blues Ball deliver a gritty, soulful set paying homage to the legends who shaped rock and blues. Together, they tear through a blistering set of blues standards and rock staples, paying tribute to icons like Bukka White, Fleetwood Mac, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Bob Dylan, and Elmore James, while also debuting Slash’s brand-new original, Metal Chestnut. The CD features the complete concert audio, while the DVD / Blu-ray video presents the full concert film, intercut with candid behind-the-scenes interviews. Slash reflects on his deep personal connection to the blues, sharing stories behind the songs and his reverence for the artists who paved the way.

Grim days call for fierce love, and Mavis Staples, one of the most enduring figures in American music, is laying it down. Sad And Beautiful World is the latest solo album from a national treasure and multigenerational talent.

“A good song can survive and shine in different ways in the hands of different musicians,” says Emmylou Harris. “It can have different meanings at different times in your life. A good song can travel with you anywhere.” It’s that philosophy which has guided her fifty-year career in music, where she has covered countless songs across countless genres and put her own indelible stamp on each one. The same philosophy animates both Spyboy, her touring band in the late 1990s, and Spyboy, the 1998 live album that demonstrates how these musicians made her songs shine. Sequencing old songs alongside new ones, the album tests the tensile strength of each one, pushing them into wilder and more psychedelic territory while remaining grounded in earthy country music. It’s completely unique in her catalog, a crucial document of an important chapter in her career, and it’s finally getting reissued after years of being unavailable. “It’s such a special record,” she says. “Well, they all are, but this one is really, really special. That was such a fantastic band and such an amazing time.”

Paul McCartney has today announced WINGS, a new Wings ‘best of’ that will be available across a number of formats including a McCartney and SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio with Dolby Atmos Mixes. Unlike the Wingspan compilation from 2001, this new collection sticks strictly to songs from Wings albums (and Wings non-album singles) and so doesn’t include any solo hits adjacent to this era (such as ‘Another Day’ or ‘Coming Up’) or anything from 1971’s Ram (credited to Paul and Linda McCartney), despite ‘Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey’ being a US No 1 hit single in September 1971.

The Cranberries performed on MTV's Unplugged in 1995 in promotion for their sophomore album, No Need To Argue, but the audio has never been released, until now. Released in the full 9-song, 45-minute performance.