A bonanza of promising new releases in a wide array of genres is headed your way today. Highly touted US acts Foster the People and Lana Del Rey fly the pop flag,  Damian Marley represents reggae, soundtrack king Hans Zimmer scores Dunkirk, Sherman Holmes, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and The Nighthawks bring the blues, and Tyler, The Creator has the highest profile new hiphop record.

On the CanCon side, new artists Allie and White Hot Guilt are creating a buzz, while Change of Heart releases its masterpiece album on vinyl.

July

21: Foster the People - Sacred Hearts Club (Columbia Records)

21: Dele O - 20/20 (Independent)

21: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band -- Lay It On Down (Provogue/Mascot Label Group)

21: Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life (Polydor)

21: Holy Fuck- Bird Brains ( Last Gang)

21: Goldtop - You Possess Me (Independent)

21: Sherman Holmes - The Sherman Holmes Project: The Richmond Sessions (M.C. Records)

21: Earth Girl Helen Brown - Mars EP (Empty Cellar Records)

21: Stanton Moore -  With You In Mind: The Songs of Allen Toussaint ( Cool Green Recordings / Mascot Label Group)

21: Avey Tare - Eucalyptus (Domino)

21: Amber Cross - Savage on the Downhill (Independent)

21: Violent Femmes -Two Mics & The Truth: Unplugged & Unhinged In America (Independent)

21: Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley -Stony Hill (Republic Records/UMC)

21: Hans Zimmer - Dunkirk soundtrack (Sony)

21: Paul Heaton &Jacqui Abbott - Crooked Calypso (UMC)

21: Raleigh - Costume Party (Independent)

21: Change of Heart - Smile vinyl reissue (Label Obscura)

21: a l l i e - Nightshade (Independent)

21: White Hot Guilt - s/t  (TDM Inc)

21: The Nighthawks-  All You Gotta Do (EllerSoul Records)

21: Daphni - Fabriclive 93 (Independent)

21: The Chris Robinson Brotherhood- Barefoot In The Head  (Silver Arrow Records)

21: To Speak Of Wolves- Dead In The Shadow (Solid State)

21: Tyler, The Creator - Scum Fuck Flower Boy (Columbia)

21: Goldfinger - The Knife (Rise)

21: Sara Evans - Words (Born To Fly)

21: Shattered Sun -  The Evolution Of Anger (Victory)

28: Mappe Of -A Northern Star, A Perfect Stone (Paper Bag)

28: Arcade Fire - Everything Now (Columbia)

28: Ontario Kelly & Caravan Haylan - Highway 7 Project  (Booth Street Records)

28: Snoqualmie -  Sad Sack Canadiana  (Independent)

28: Cage The Elephant - Unpeeled (RCA)

28: BadBadNotGood- Late Night Tales (Late Night Tales)

28: Humble Fire - Builder (Independent)

28: People Like You - Verse (Top Shelf)

28: Julia Michaels-  Nervous System (Republic Records/Universal Music)

28: Chris Barnes - Hokum Blues (Vizz Tone Label Group)

28: Luke Christopher - TMRWFRVR (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA)

28: Logan Mize - Come Back Road (Big Yellow Dog Music)

28: Rex Brown- Smoke On This (eOne)

28: Annie Hart - Impossible Accomplice (Uninhabitable Mansions)

28: Aminé - Good For You (Columbia)

28: Accept -The Rise Of Chaos (NuclearBlast)

28: Alice Cooper- Paranormal (Earmusic)

28: Joywave- Content  (Cultco Music/Hollywood Records)

28: Madchild - The Darkest Hour (Battle Axe)

28: Raveen - Always (So Sorry Records)

28: Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs - S/T (Burger Records/Dine Alone)

28: Prong- Zero Days (Steamhammer)

28: People Like You - Verse (Topshelf Records)

28: Manchester Orchestra- A Black Mile To The Surface (Loma Vista)

28: Mark Fosson - Solo Guitar (Drag City)

28: Ben Gibbard -  Bandwagonesque ( Canvasback Music/Turntable Kitchen)

August

4: Walter TV- Carpe Diem (Sinderlyn)

4: Hard Working Americans - We’re All In This Together  (Melvin/Thirty Tigers)

4: Preoccupations - Cassette EP on vinyl (Flemish Eye)

4: Get the Shot - Infinite Punishment (New Damage)

4: Def3  - Small World (Urbnet)

4: Def Leppard - Hysteria (reissue) (Universal)

4: The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Lime and Limpid (ATO)

4: Spacewave - Space Dubs (MDW)

4: Steve Adey - Do Me A Kindness (Grand Harmonium)

4: Brother Octopus - Serenaded Through Seaweed (Independent)

4: Moon King - Hamtramck '16 (Arbutus)

4: Johnson Crook - The Album (Coalition)

4: The Isley Brothers & Santana - Power of Peace

4: The Milligan Vaughan Project - MVP (Mark One Records) 

4: Brian Eno -- vinyl reissues of Another Green World, Before And After Science, Here Come The Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (UMC/Virgin)

8: Unbuttoned-  Liquid (Round 4  Records)

11: Slow Leaves -Enough About Me (Independent)

11: 5 Billion In Diamonds - S/T (100% Records)

11: Hamell On Trial - Tackle Box (New West)

11: Kesha - Rainbow (Kemosabe)

11: Oneohtrix Point  - NeverThe Good Time [OST]

11: Ben Sollee and Kentucky Native - S/T (Soundly Music)

11: Frankie Rose - Cage Tropical (Slumberland/Grey Market)

11 David Rawlings - Poor David's Almanack (Acony)

11: Arrows Of Love - Product (London Records)

11: Hymn River Suite - Hundred Proof (CEN/The Orchard)

11: Peter Himmelman - There is No Calamity (Independent)

11: Chris Fullerton - Epilepsy Blues (Eight 30 Records)

11: Paul Kelly - Life Is Fine (Cooking Vinyl)

11: AJ Croce- Just Like Medicine (Compass Records)

11: Jason Wilber - Reaction Time (Independent)

11: Jon Cohen Experimental - Go Getters (Sugar Gator Records) 

18: Interpol - Our Love To Admire - reissue (UMC)

18: Grizzly Bear -- Painted Ruins (RCA)

18: San Eco - S/T (Beatphreak)

18: Ron Pope - Work (Brooklyn Basement Records)

18: Dan Blakeslee and The Calabash Club - The Alley Walker (Independent)

18: Rick Estrin - Groovin' In Greaseland (Alligator)

18: Kacy & Clayton-- The Siren's Song (New West)

18: Camille DeLean- Music on the Grey Mile (Independent)

18: Loretta Lynn - Wouldn't It Be Great (Legacy)

18: James Heather- Stories From Far Away On Piano (Ahead Of Our Time)

18: The Accidentals - Odyssey  (Sony Masterworks) 

18: Ray Wylie Hubbard - Tell The Devil I’m Getting There As Fast As I Can  (Bordello Records/Thirty Tigers)

18: The Yawpers - Boy In A Well (Bloodshot)

18: Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer - Not Dark Yet  (Silver Cross Records/Thirty Tigers)

19: Liona Boyd - No Remedy For Love (Universal)

25: Old Dominion - Happy Endings (RCA)

25: Iron & Wine - Beast Epic (Sub Pop)

25: Gogol Bordello - Seekers and Finders (Cooking Vinyl)

25: The Fall -The Fontana Years - Six CD box set (UMC)

25: Fairbanks & the Lonesome Light -Nothing to Escape (Independent)

25: Wild Ponies - Galax (Gearbox Records)

25: Leif Erikson - s/t (Arts & Crafts)

25: Jack Cooper - Sandgrown (Trouble In Mind)

25: Karen and the Sorrows - The Narrow Place (indie)

25: Buffalo Sunn- The Long Road (Reekus Records)

25: Aron D'Alesio - S/T (Paper Bag)

25: Woolworm- Deserve To Die (Mint)

25: Betty Moon - Chrome (Current)

25: Kim Churchill -Weight Falls (Cadence Music)

September

1: Goodbye Honolulu -No Honey (Fried Records)

1: Bicep -s/t (Ninja Tune)

1: Soft Fangs - Fractures  (Disposable America) 

1: Tender - Modern Addiction (Culvert Music)

1: Hayley Thompson-King -Psychotic Melancholia (Independent)

1: Rush - A Farewell to Kings= Reissue (UMe/Anthem/ole) 

1: LCD Soundsystem - American Dream (DFA/Columbia)

1: Walter Trout - We're All In This Together  (Provogue/Mascot Label Group)

8: Alvvays - Antisocialites  (Royal Mountain Records)

8: Belle Game - Fear/Nothing ( Arts & Crafts)

8: Mon Doux Saigneur - S/T (Grosse Boite)

8: The Waterboys - Out Of All This Blue

8: Jonny Lang - Signs (Concord)

8: Ghetto Priest - Every Man For Every Man (Ramrock)

8: Lomelda - Thx  (Double Double Whammy)

8: The Dream Syndicate-  How Did I Find Myself Here? ( ANTI-)

8: Pierre Kwenders -MAKANDA at The End of Space, the Beginning of Time (Bonsound)

8: Odesza - A Moment Apart (Counter)

8: Faith Healer Try ;-) (Mint)

8: Francesco Tristano - Piano Circle Songs (Independent)

8: Bash & Pop - Friday Night Is Killing Me (Omnivore Recordings)

8: Nosaj Thing - Parallels (Innovative Leisure)

8: Nothing But Thieves - Broken Machine (RCA)

8: Tom Russell - Folk Hotel (Proper Records)

8: Paul Brady - Unfinished Business (Proper Records)

8: Nice Horse - s/t (Independent)

8: Comeback Kid- Outsider (New Damage)

8: Chad VanGaalen -Light Information (Sub Pop)

8: Lowest of the Low - Do The Right Now (Pheromone Recordings)

15: The Lone Bellow - Walk Into a Storm (Independent)

15: Wyclef Jean -Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee (Legacy)

15: Stacey-  First Move EP (Independent)

15: Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold (Roswell/RCA)

15: Bruce Cockburn - Bone On Bone (True North)

15: Sass Jordan - Racine Revisited (Linus Entertainment)

15:  Superfruit - Future Friends (Part Two) (RCA)

15: Willie Watson -Folksinger Vol. 2  (Acony Records)

15: Dennis Johnson -  Rhythmland (Root Tone Records)

15: Radney Foster - For You To See The Stars (Devil's River Records) 

15: Mike Gordon - OGOGO ( Megaplum / ATO Records.)

15: Prophets Of Rage  -S/T ((Fantasy Records)

15: Quinn XCII -The Story Of Us (Columbia)

15: Dee Dee Bridgewater - Memphis... Yes I'm Ready (Okeh)

15: David Myles - Real Love (Little Tiny Records)

22: JP Cooper - Raised Under Grey Skies (Island Records)

22: Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers -- The Long-Awaited Album  (Rounder)

22: Tricky - Ununiform (False Idols)

22: Haley Reinhart - What’s That Sound?( Concord)

22: Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun (Sargent House)

22: Shilpa Ray-  Door Girl (NSPY)

22: Sons of Texas - Forged By Fortitude (Razor & Tie)

22: Beliefs - Habitat (Outside)

22: Metz -Strange Peace (Royal Mountain/Sub Pop)

29: Young'Uns - Strangers (Hereteu)

29: Vessels - The Great Distraction (Different Recordings)

29: Wolf Alice- Visions Of A Life (Dirty Hit/RCA)

29: Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent (Domino)

29: Propagandhi - Victory Lap (Epitaph)

29: Mo Kenney- The Details (Pheromone)

29: Shania Twain- Now (UMG)

October

6: The Weather Station - S/T (Outside)

6: Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry (Sub Pop)

13: Barney Bentall - The Drifter & The Preacher (True North)

Canadian releases are in red