A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Aug. 4–10, 2025.

Patrick Shiroishi – I shouldn’t have to worry when my parents go outside (self-released; 2021)

The Armed – The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed (Sargent House; 2025)

Dead & Company – Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 2, 2025 (ROIO/Archive.org; 2025)

Sullivan Johns – Pitched Variations – Agustín Agen, Javier Cereceda, Sanya Smileska (Moving Furniture; 2025)

Brighde Chaimbeul – Sunwise (Tak:til; 2025)

Dead & Company – Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 3, 2025 (ROIO/Archive.org; 2025)

Jacob Calland – Illegal Attic Conversion (Discreet Archive; 2025)

Zane Trow – Ibis (Room40; due Oct. 17, 2025)

Samuel Barber – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra – Wolfgang Stavonhagen, Imperial Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra/William Strickland; Symphony in One Movement – Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra/William Strickland (CRI; 1960)

IQ – Tales from the Lush Attic (The Major Record Company/Giant Electric Pea; 1983/2013)

IQ – The Wake (Sahara/Giant Electric Pea; 1985/2010)

Lisa Bielawa – A Handful of World – Lisa Bielawa, Carla Kihlstedt, Jacqueline Leclair, Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble/Kristina Boerger (Tzadik; 2007)

Lisa Bielawa – In media res – Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose (BMOPsound; 2010)

Samuel Barber – Music of Samuel Barber – St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin (EMI Classics; 1989)

Samuel Barber – Piano Concerto; William Schuman – A Song of Orpheus – John Browning, Leonard Rose, Cleveland Orchestra/George Szell – (Columbia Masterworks; 1964)

William Schuman – Symphony No. 10 (“American Muse”); New England Triptych; American Festival Overture – St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin (RCA Victor Red Seal; 1992)

Walter Piston – The Incredible Flutist; Three New England Sketches; Symphony No. 6 – St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin (RCA Victor Red Seal; 1991)

William Schuman – Symphony No. 3 – Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy (Columbia Masterworks; 1951)

William Schuman – Symphony No. 6 in One Movement; Walter Piston – Symphony No. 4 – Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy (Columbia Masterworks; 1955)

Aïyb Dieng – Akashic Bassmatter: The Space Between (BASSMATTER subscriber exclusive; 2025)

Foday Musa Suso – The Dreamtime (CMP/BASSMATTER subscriber exclusive; 1990/2025)

Last Exit – Allentown (BASSMASTER subscriber exclusive; 1987/2021)

Zeena Parkins – Modesty of the Magic Thing (Tzadik; due Aug. 15, 2025)

Various artists – Thomas de Hartmann Rediscovered (Pentatone; 2024)

Violin Concerto – Joshua Bell, INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra/Dalia Stasevska; Cello Concerto – Matt Haimovitz, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra/Dennis Russell Davies

Anqi Liu – Veiled Erosion – Kyle Motl, Schallfeld Ensemble, Palimpsest Ensemble/Steven Schick, and others (Kairos; 2025)

Editrix – The Big E (Joyful Noise; 2025)

Oneida – Expensive Air (Joyful Noise; 2024)

Hüsker Dü – Nov. 3, Salt Lake City (Numero Group; 2025, recorded 1985)

Avi C. Engel – Mote (Fenny Compton; 2025)

Blackbraid – Blackbraid III (Wolf Mountain Productions; 2025)

Prairiewolf – Upslope Brewing, Boulder, CO, July 5, 2025 (Archive.org; 2025)

Pop Music Fever Dream – Songs for Emotion (Godless America; 2024)

Hüsker Dü – Jan. 30, First Ave Pt 1 (Numero Group; 2025, recorded 1985)

Chris Williams – Odu: Vibration II (AKP Recordings; due Sept. 26, 2025)

Natacha Diels – Somewhere Beautiful (Carrier; 2025)

Philadelphia Orchestra – Symphony Hall Presents the Philadelphia Orchestra (Sirius XM; 2025)

Steven Stucky – Radical Light; Esa-Pekka Salonen – kínēma; Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 5 in E-flat – Ricardo Morales, Philadelphia Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen

Various artists/Steven Wilson – Intrigue: The Progressive Rock Show with Steven Wilson, episode 1 (Sirius XM; 2025)

Bob Dylan – Darien Lake Amphitheater, Buffalo, NY, Aug. 8, 2025 (ROIO; 2025)

Grateful Dead – Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY, June 18, 1974 (Archive.org; 1974)

Various artists/Anthony Cheung – Symphony Hall: Living American (Sirius XM; 2025)

John Zorn & Dave Lombardo – Memories, Dreams, and Reflections (Tzadik; 2025)

Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier –  Claire Watson, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp, Karl Ridderbusch, Bavarian State Opera Chorus, Bavarian State Opera Orchestra/Carlos Kleiber (Opera d’Oro; 1973)