Artist:	Title:	Label/Due date:
Ryan Adams	"Digital Single: No. 1 [MP3 Download]" (featuring the tracks "Lost and Found" and "Go Ahead and Rain"; Read here)	(PAX.AM, Sept. 11, 2009)
Amusement Parks On Fire	"Young Fight [MP3 Download]" (Hear here)	(Filter U.S. Recordings, Sept. 8, 2009)
BarlowGirl	"Love & War" (first single: "Beautiful Ending"; Hear here)	(Fervent, Sept. 8, 2009)
Boys Like Girls	"Love Drunk" (producers: Brian Howes, S*A*M, Sluggo; first single: "Love Drunk"; Hear here)	(Columbia, Sept. 8, 2009)
Cribs, The (led by Johnny Marr)	"Ignore the Ignorant [MP3 Download]" (producer: Nick Launay; first single: "Cheat on Me"; Hear here; Read here; Import CD)	(Warner, Sept. 7, 2009)
Howie Day	"Sound the Alarm" (his first album in six years; first single: "Be There"; Hear here; Read here)	(Epic, Sept. 8, 2009)
Spencer Day	"Vagabond" (Hear here)	(Concord Jazz, Sept. 8, 2009)
Andrew Duggan	"MMXII" (Hear here)	(Foretold, Sept. 11, 2009)
A Fine Frenzy	"Bomb in a Birdcage" (Hear here; Read here)	(Virgin, Sept. 8, 2009)
Mayer Hawthorne	"A Strange Arrangement" (Hear here; Read here; Twitter)	(Stones Throw, Sept. 8, 2009)
Jay-Z	"The Blueprint 3" (producer: Kanye West; first single: "D.O.A. [Death of Auto-Tune]"; Hear here; Read here)	(Roc Nation/Atlantic, Sept. 8, 2009)
Danko Jones	"Never Too Loud" (producer: Nick Raskulinecz; first single: "Code of the Road"; Hear here; MP3 Download)	(Bad Taste/Caroline, Sept. 8, 2009)
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers	"The Bear" (producers: Tom Schick, Sam Kassirer; guests: Serena Ryder, Josh Ritter, The Alternate Routes, Mike Daly; Hear here)	(Vanguard, Sept. 8, 2009)
Sondre Lerche	"Heartbeat Radio" (producers: Lerche, Kato Ådland; Hear here)	(Rounder, Sept. 8, 2009)
Mike & The Ravens	"No Place for Pretty" (producer: Will Shade; Hear here; Read here)	(Zoho Roots, Sept. 8, 2009)

BTW: Mike & The Ravens' first real album, last year's "Noisy Boys! The Saxony Sessions," came out nearly 46 years after the Vermont quintet was forced to disband for piping rock 'n' roll through the PA system of a church in Stowe.

Now Mike Brassard and Co. are back for another round of well-received garage rock - not bad for guys in their 60s.

For "No Place for Pretty," Brassard says, "the truth is, we wanted to just kick butt and rock like we used to on stage ... let me tell ya ... it sure felt like it! In our book, rock is for rock 'n roll! Turn it up!"

What's next for Mike & The Ravens?

"More recording this summer," Brassard says. "Them Bird Things, a Finnish rock band, is releasing their new CD this month, 'Fly Them Bird Things Fly,' and (fellow Raven) Steve Blodgett wrote most of the songs. I wrote two and Steve went over to Helsinki and performed on the album. I have heard the CD and it is really something else ... wonderful ... their single is getting a lot of play in Finland now - and Steve has recorded a solo album in Helsinki.

"Both the Bird Things album and Steve's were produced by Will Shade. Let me tell ya, wait till you hear it. He is one hell of a talent. I am writing more stuff and the Ravens will record two of mine this summer at the Saxony in New York. Health permitting, I will begin work on my project in the spring. I intend to record in New York and in Finland. I hope to do some of it here at Paradox studios. So there is lots brewing in the pot!"

Os Mutantes	"Haih ... or Amortecedor ..." (their first album in 35 years; Hear here; See here)	(Anti-/Epitaph, Sept. 8, 2009)
Phish	"Joy" (first single: "Time Turns Elastic"; producer: Steve Lillywhite; Hear here; Read here)	(JEMP, Sept. 8, 2009)
Prefab Sprout	"Let's Change the World With Music" (group's first album in eight years; producer: frontman Paddy McAloon; Hear here; Read here)	(U.K. - Kitchenware/Sony Music, Sept. 7, 2009)
Raekwon	"Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II" (guests: Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Slick Rick, GZA, Lyfe Jennings, Jadakiss, etc.; Hear here)	(IceH2O, Sept. 8, 2009)
Rodrigo y Gabriela	"11:11" (producers: Rodrigo y Gabriela, John Leckie; guests: Testament's Alex Skolnick, Strunz & Farah; Hear here; MP3 Download)	(ATO, Sept. 8, 2009)
Saosin	"In Search of Solid Ground" (producers: Butch Walker, John Feldman, Lucas Banker/Logan Mader; Hear here; Twitter)	(Virgin, Sept. 8, 2009)
Taken By Trees	"East of Eden" (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download)	(Rough Trade, Sept. 8, 2009)
3 Inches of Blood	"Here Waits Thy Doom" (Hear here; MP3 Download)	(Century Media, Sept. 8, 2009)
Frank Turner	"Poetry of the Deed" (first single: "The Road"; Hear here)	(Epitaph, Sept. 8, 2009)
Various artists	"This Is Sander Kleinenberg 2" (2-CD mix compilation; Hear here; Twitter)	(Ultra, Sept. 8, 2009)
Peter White	"Good Day" (Hear here)	(Concord, Sept. 8, 2009)
Yo La Tengo	"Popular Songs" (first single: "Periodically Double or Triple"; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl)	(Matador, Sept. 8, 2009)