| Artist: |
Title: |
Label/Due date: |
| Alphabeat |
"The Spell" (single: "Hole in My Heart"; Hear here) |
(U.K. - Universal, March 1, 2010) |
| Benny Andersson Band (16 musicians) |
"Story of a Heart" (the ABBA co-founder's first U.S. release, collaborating with longtime songwriting partner and former bandmate Björn Ulvaeus; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) |
(Decca, March 2, 2010) |
| Athlete |
"Black Swan" (producer: Tom Rothrock; Hear here) |
(Original Signal Recordings, March 2, 2010) |
| Black 47 |
"Bankers and Gangsters" (Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(United For Opportunity, March 2, 2010) |
| Black Water Rising |
"Black Water Rising" (first single: "Brother Go On"; Hear here) |
(Giddy Up!, March 2, 2010) |
| Dee Dee Bridgewater |
"Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee" (Hear here; Read here) |
(DDB/Emarcy/ Universal, March 2, 2010) |
| Citizen Cope |
"The Rainwater LP" (producer: Citizen Cope, a.k.a. Clarence Greenwood; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) |
(RainWater Recordings/RED, March 2, 2010) |
| Easton Corbin |
"Easton Corbin" (producer: Carson Chamberlain; first single: "A Little More Country Than That"; Hear here; See here) |
(Mercury Nashville, March 2, 2010) |
| Jamie Cullum |
"The Pursuit" (his first album in four years; producer: Greg Wells; Hear here; CD/DVD) |
(Verve, March 2, 2010) |
| Krishna Das |
"Heart As Wide As the World" (his first studio album in 10 years; producer: David Nichtern; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Nutone/Nettwerk, March 2, 2010) |
| Benjy Davis Project |
"Lost Souls Like Us" (producers: Bobby Capps, Jason Spiewak; first single: "Stay With Me"; Hear here) |
(Rock Ridge Music, March 2, 2010) |
| Jason Derülo |
"Jason Derülo" (Hear here) |
(Beluga Heights/Warner, March 2, 2010) |
| Raheem DeVaughn |
"The Love & War MasterPeace" (first single: "Bulletproof"; Hear here; Deluxe edition) |
(Jive, March 2, 2010) |
| Nils Frahm |
"The Bells" (Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Erased Tapes, March 2, 2010) |
| Peter Gabriel |
"Scratch My Back" (on his first album in seven years, he radically reinterprets songs by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Lou Reed, etc.; producer: Bob Ezrin; Read here; Deluxe edition; MP3 Download) |
(Virgin, March 2, 2010) |
| Danny Gokey ("American Idol" season 8 finalist) |
"My Best Days" (first single: "My Best Days Are Ahead of Me"; Read here) |
(19 Recordings/RCA Nashville, March 2, 2010) |
| Great American Taxi |
"Reckless Habits" (producer: Tim Carbone; Hear here) |
(Thirty Tigers, March 2, 2010) |
| Groove Armada |
"Black Light" (guests: Bryan Ferry, Will Young, Jess Larabee, Nick Littlemore; first single: "I Won't Kneel"; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) |
(Om, March 2, 2010) |
| John Hiatt |
"The Open Road" (Hear here) |
(New West, March 2, 2010) |
| Holmes Brothers, The |
"Feed My Soul" (Hear here; Read here) |
(Alligator, March 2, 2010) |
| Shooter Jennings & Hierophant |
"Black Ribbons" (author Stephen King provides the voice of Will O' The Wisp, a late-night talk radio host; producer: Dave Cobb; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl) |
(Rocket Science/RED, March 2, 2010) |
| The Library Is On Fire |
"Magic Windows, Magic Nights" (producer: Todd Tobias; first single: "Vanessa's Theater of Peace"; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Fill in the Blank/RED Distribution, March 2, 2010) |
| Lifehouse |
"Smoke & Mirrors" (producer: Jude Cole; guest: Chris Daughtry; first single: "Halfway Gone"; Hear here; Deluxe edition) |
(Interscope, March 2, 2010) |
| Little Boots |
"Hands" (released in the U.K. in June 2009; producers: Greg Kurstin, Joe Goddard, RedOne, etc.; Hear here) |
(Elektra, March 2, 2010) |
| Marley's Ghost with Cowboy Jack Clement |
"Ghost Town" (producer: Clement; Hear here; Read here) |
(Sage Arts, March 2, 2010) |
| Moreland & Arbuckle |
"Flood" (Hear here; See here) |
(Telarc, March 2, 2010) |
| Peasant |
"Shady Retreat" (first single: "The End"; Hear here) |
(Paper Garden, March 2, 2010) |
| Point of Grace (now a trio, sans Heather Payne) |
"No Changin' Us" (producer: Nathan Chapman; Hear here; Read here) |
(Word, March 2, 2010) |
| Portugal. The Man |
"American Ghetto [MP3 Download]" (Hear here; Read here) |
(Equal Vision, March 2, 2010) |
| Right Now, The (soul group fronted by Stefanie Berecz, who appeared on Diddy's "Making the Band" in 2005) |
"Carry Me Home [MP3 Download]" (Hear here) |
(The Right Now, March 3, 2010) |
| Rogue Wave |
"Permalight" (producer: Dennis Herring; Hear here; Read here) |
(Brushfire/Universal, March 2, 2010) |
| Shearwater |
"The Golden Archipelago" (producer: John Congleton; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Matador, March 2, 2010) |
| Blake Shelton |
"Hillbilly Bone [EP]" (producer: Scott Hendricks; first single: "Hillbilly Bone," featuring Trace Adkins; Hear here) |
(Warner Bros. Nashville, March 2, 2010) |
| Michael J Thomas (saxophonist-songwriter) |
"City Beat [MP3 Download]" (producer: Shannon Wallace; Hear here) |
(Harbor Breeze, March 2, 2010) |
| Texas Tornados, The (Augie Meyers and Flaco Jiménez with Shawn Sahm) |
"¡Esta Bueno!" (includes five previously unreleased vocal performances from the late Freddy Fender; Hear here; Read here) |
(Bismeaux, March 2, 2010) |
| These New Puritans |
"Hidden" (first single: "We Want War"; Hear here) |
(Domino, March 2, 2010) |
| Twin Tigers (psych-indie-pop band from Athens, Ga.) |
"Gray Waves" (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Old Flame, March 2, 2010) |
| Various artists |
"Alice in Wonderland [Film soundtrack]" (Tim Burton film, starring Johnny Depp, opens March 5; music by Danny Elfman; See here; Read here), "Almost Alice [Film soundtrack]" (artists "re-imagining songs from the Disney classic," featuring Avril Lavigne, Robert Smith, Owl City, etc.; first single: Avril Lavigne's "Alice [Underground]"; Read here) |
(Buena Vista/Disney, March 2, 2010) |