Release Round-Up: Week of April 10
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores this week. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Weezer, Coloring Book (UMe)
Official Store / uDiscover Music
All six of Weezer’s self-titled albums distinguished by the color scheme of their cover (1994’s blue debut, 2001’s green, 2008’s red, 2016’s white and 2019’s covers album teal and original black) will be pressed on vinyl in those colors. The draw here is the package: a 72-page, hardcover coloring book featuring illustrations by artist Alec Longstreth, which fans can fill in using an accompanying marker set matching the colors of each album. Read more here.
Ween, Brown Box (Rhino)
10CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
White Pepper Green LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Quebec Pink 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
The color theme continues this week! Rhino celebrates all things Ween today with Brown Box, a collection of all nine of their studio albums released between 1990 and 2009 (plus the outtakes compilation Shinola, Vol. 1). Two of the early ’00s releases, White Pepper (2000) and Quebec (2003), will also get new colored vinyl pressings from the label. Read more here.
Gregg Allman Band, Great as Ever: Live in Philadelphia ’86 (Sawrite Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
This archival live release features the late artist raising the roof with 12 live tracks from 1986 in the City of Brotherly Love, including such songs as “Hot ‘Lanta,” “Sweet Feelin’,” “Melissa,” and “Midnight Rider.”
Duran Duran, The Wedding Album / Thank You (Rhino/Parlophone)
The Wedding Album: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Thank You: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Duran Duran’s 1993 and 1995 albums return to print in paper sleeve editions; the latter featured the band’s covers of favorites from Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, The Doors, and others.
Laufey, A Matter of Time: The Final Hour (Vingolf/AWAL) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Jazz-influenced Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey expands her 2025 album A Matter of Time with four bonus tracks. Available on CD, LP, cassette, and digitally.
Joe Jackson, Hope and Fury (earMUSIC) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Joe Jackson’s latest studio album returns the singer-songwriter to a pop idiom. He’s supported by Graham Maby, Teddy Kumpel, Doug Yowell, and Paulo Stagnaro for these nine original reflections on the world in which we live. Available on CD, LP, and digitally.
Suzi Quatro, Freedom (Chrysalis) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Suzi Quatro’s first solo album since 2021 and eighteenth solo set overall, Freedom boasts a baker’s dozen tracks, including a duet with fellow Detroit native Alice Cooper on legendary Motor City band MC5’s “Kick Out the Jams.” Available on CD and digitally.
Claybourne Elder, If These Stars Were Mine (Center Stage Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
The debut solo album from Broadway heartthrob Claybourne Elder (Company, Bonnie & Clyde, television’s The Gilded Age) hits CD today; a vinyl edition is slated for later in the year. If the Stars Were Mine finds the singer celebrating many of his favorite songs in a strikingly personal manner. He’s drawn selections from West Side Story (“Something’s Coming”), My Fair Lady (“On the Street Where You Live”), The Music Man (“Till There Was You”), Sunday in the Park with George (“Finishing the Hat”), and Floyd Collins (“How Glory Goes”) as well as from the wider songbook (Whitney Houston hit “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” Melody Gardot’s “If the Stars Were Mine”), reinterpreting them with a rich voice and original, often unexpected sensibility. Elder is celebrating the album’s release this month with three concerts at New York’s 54 Below (including a date on April 15).
Alfie Boe, Face Myself (Ghostlight Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
British crossover star Alfie Boe (Les Miserables, Finding Neverland) has crafted his first solo album of predominantly original pop-oriented material with Face Myself. It’s out on CD and digital formats.
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Kicking myself for buying the standard “Matter of Time” CD last week. It’s expected for anniversary reissues but I’m really getting sick of artists adding a few tracks to the current album so fans who got the new release when it first came out either buy it twice or lose out on songs.