Artist:	Title:	Label/Due date:
Bad Plus, The	"Prog" (includes covers of "Everybody Wants to Rule The World," "This Guy’s In Love With You," "Tom Sawyer" and "Life On Mars"; producer: Tony Platt; Hear here)	(Heads Up, May 8, 2007)
Bellamy Brothers, The	"Jesus Is Coming"	(Curb, May 8, 2007)
Paris Bennett (fifth-place finisher on "Americal Idol" season 5)	"Princess P" (producers: Jon Jon Traxx, Darren Lighty, Rodney Jerkins; guests: her mother, Jameica Bennett, and her grandmother, Ann Nesby, both formerly in Sounds of Blackness; first single: "Ordinary Love"; Hear here)	(306 Entertainment/TVT, May 8, 2007)
Steve Bertrand (former lead singer of the Tories and Avion)	"Pain Is a Megaphone" (producer: Bertrand; guests: The Wallflowers' Rami Jaffee, Vertical Horizon's Sean Hurley, Lifehouse's Sean Woolstenhulme; first single: "The Last Mile Is the Longest"; Hear here)	(Icon MES, May 8, 2007)

BTW: For "Pain Is a Megaphone," Steve Bertrand did not have a manifesto, other than "World domination and tackling the garbage situation in Russia," he jokingly tells P&P, but seriously, "actually I was just trying to document where I was in my life at that particular time. Music is therapy for me. It's a bit darker than other albums I've made but sums up things."

Bertrand has developed a comfort zone producing himself. "I love locking myself away from the world for weeks at a time," he says. "Ultimately, you have no one to blame except yourself at the end of the process if everything sucks ... which is great."

Björk	"Volta" (producer: Timbaland; guests: Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, Toumani Diabate, Konono No. 1, Brian Chippendale; Hear here; Read here)	(One Little Indian/Atlantic, May 8, 2007)
Bone Brothers	"Bone Brothers 2"	(Real Talk/Koch, May 8, 2007)
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony	"Strength & Loyalty" (rap group's first album in five years; first single: "I Tried," featuring Akon; Hear here; Read here)	(Full Surface/Interscope, May 8, 2007)
Brakes	"The Beatific Visions" (released in the U.K. in November 2006; producer: Stuart Sikes; Hear here)	(Rough Trade/World's Fair, May 8, 2007)
Brokedowns, The	"New Brains for Everyone" (Hear here)	(Thick, May 8, 2007)
Chasing Victory	"Fiends" (producer: Nathan Dantzler; Hear here)	(Mono Vs Stereo, May 8, 2007)

BTW: "We just wanted to make a balls-to-the-wall rock record," Chasing Victory singer Adam Harrell says. "I couldn't be happier with the outcome. These days in music, it's so easy to sing the same two-note chorus, play the same chuggy riffs, throw it into Pro Tools, and slap it up your MySpace page before Beethoven has time to roll over in his grave. We approached everything in the exact opposite way as that last sentence."

Clientele, The	"God Save the Clientele" (producer: Mark Nevers; Hear here)	(Merge, May 8, 2007)
DJ Encore	"Unique" (Hear here)	(Koch, May 8, 2007)
Exies, The	"A Modern Way of Living with the Truth" (producer: James Michael; first single: "Different Than You"; Hear here)	(Eleven Seven Music, May 8, 2007)
Scott Fisher	"Step Into the Future" (producer: Fisher; first single: title track; Hear here)	(1 a.m. Approach, May 8, 2007)
Sage Francis	"Human the Death Dance" (guests: Jolie Holland, Buck 65, Mark Isham; Hear here)	(Anti-/Epitaph, May 8, 2007)
Lisa Gerrard (of Dead Can Dance)	"The Silver Tree" (released in Australia in November 2006; Hear here)	(High Wire Music, May 8, 2007)
Great Lake Swimmers	"Ongiara" (producer: Dale Morningstar; guests: Bob Egan, Serena Ryder, Sarah Harmer, Owen Pallett; Hear here)	(Nettwerk, May 8, 2007)
Groove Armada	"Soundboy Rock" (first single: "Get Down"; Hear here; Read here)	(U.K. - Columbia, May 7, 2007)
Harper	"Day By Day" (Hear here)	(Blind Pig, May 8, 2007)
Dave Hole	"Rough Diamond" (Hear here)	(Blind Pig, May 8, 2007)
Keren Ann	"Keren Ann" (producer: Keren Ann; first single: "Lay Your Head Down"; Hear here)	(Metro Blue/Blue Note, May 8, 2007)
Beverley Knight	"Music City Soul" (producer: Guy Chambers; Hear here)	(U.K. - Parlophone, May 7, 2007)
Jimmy LaFave	"Cimarron Manifesto" (Hear here)	(Red House, May 8, 2007)
Lang Lang	"Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4" (producer: Arend Prohmann; Hear here)	(Deutsche Grammophon, May 8, 2007)
Hamilton Loomis	"Ain't Just Temporary" (guest: Bo Diddley; Hear here)	(Blind Pig, May 8, 2007)
Manic Street Preachers	"Send Away the Tigers" (producer: Dave Eringa; first single: "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough,"; Hear here)	(U.K. - Columbia, May 7, 2007)
Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadours	"Trailercana" (guests: Lindsey Buckingham, Bobby Cochran of Steppenwolf, Tommy Smothers, Bonnie Bramlett; Hear here)	(DPR, May 8, 2007)
Mother Mother	"Touch Up" (producers: Mother Mother, Howard Redekopp; Hear here)	(Last Gang, May 8, 2007)
Mystery Jets	"ZooTime" (producers: Erol Alkan, James Ford; Hear here)	(Dim Mak, May 8, 2007)
New Years Day	"My Dear" (enhanced; first single: "I Was Right"; Hear here)	(TVT, May 8, 2007)
Chuck Ragan (of Hot Water Music)	"Los Feliz" (Hear here)	(SideOneDummy, May 8, 2007)
Ike Reilly Assassination, The	"We Belong to the Staggering Evening" (Hear here)	(Rock Ridge Music, May 8, 2007)
Rush of Fools	"Rush of Fools" (first single: "Undo"; Hear here)	(Midas, May 8, 2007)
Sea & Cake, The	"Everybody" (producer: Brian Paulson; Hear here)	(Thrill Jockey, May 8, 2007)
Sea Wolf	"Get to the River Before It Runs Too Low [EP]" (Hear here)	(Dangerbird, May 8, 2007)
Barbra Streisand	"Streisand: Live in Concert 2006" (2-CD set was recorded during her record-breaking tour's Oct. 4 opening night at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center and at New York's Madison Square Garden; Read here)	(Columbia, May 8, 2007)
Mary Timony Band, The	"The Shapes We Make" (producer: Devin Ocampo; Hear here)	(Kill Rock Stars, May 8, 2007)
Travis	"The Boy With No Name" (producer: Nigel Godrich; first single: "Closer"; Hear here; Read here)	(Epic, May 8, 2007)
Uncle Moe's Space Ranch	"Moe's Town" (Hear here)	(Tone Center/Ryko, May 8, 2007)
Bobby Valentino	"Special Occasion" (producers: Sean Garrett, Rodney Jerkins, Dre & Vidal, Brian Michael Cox, Tim & Bob; Hear here; Read here)	(DTP/Island Def Jam, May 8, 2007)
View, The	"Hats Off to the Buskers" (album debuted at No. 1 in the U.K. in January 2007; producer: Owen Morris; Hear here; See here; Read here)	(Columbia, May 8, 2007)
Shannon Wright	"Let in the Light" (Hear here)	(Quarterstick, May 8, 2007)