Artist:	Title:	Label/Due date:
Alternate Routes, The	"The Watershed [EP]" (producer: Peter Katis; Hear here)	(Vanguard, Sept. 9, 2008)
Joan Baez	"Day After Tomorrow" (her first studio album since 2003's "Dark Chords On a Big Guitar"; producer: Steve Earle; Hear here)	(Bobolink/Razor & Tie, Sept. 9, 2008)
Eric Benét	"Love & Life" (first single: "You're the Only One"; Hear here)	(Warner, Sept. 9, 2008)
Born Again Floozies, The	"Street Music: 13 Rebellions and a Song of Consolation" (producer: Steve Albini; first single: "We Got the Power [Love Letter from America]"; Hear here)	(Triple R, Sept. 9, 2008)
Jim Brickman	"Unspoken"	(Savoy Jazz, Sept. 9, 2008)
Calexico	"Carried to Dust" (Hear here; Read here)	(Touch & Go, Sept. 9, 2008)
Civet	"Hell Hath No Fury" (self-described "femme fatale punk rock"; producer: Julian Raymond; Hear here)	(Hellcat/Epitaph, Sept. 9, 2008)
Anat Cohen	"Notes From the Village" (Hear here)	(Anzic, Sept. 9, 2008)
Natalie Cole	"Still Unforgettable" (a return to the American songbook; includes a virtual duet with her late father, Nat King Cole, on "Walkin' My Baby Back Home"; Hear here)	(Rhino, Sept. 9, 2008)
Common Market	"Tobacco Road" (producer: Sabzi; Hear here; Read here)	(Massline Media, Sept. 9, 2008)
Albert Cummings	"Feel So Good" (live album; producer: Jim Gaines; Hear here)	(Blind Pig, Sept. 9, 2008)
Catie Curtis	"Sweet Life" (producer: Garry West; Hear here)	(Compass, Sept. 9, 2008)
Kimya Dawson (of The Moldy Peaches)	"Alphabutt" (children's album; Hear here)	(K, Sept. 9, 2008)
Ettes, The	"Look at Life Again Soon" (producer: Liam Watson; Hear here)	(Take Root, Sept. 9, 2008)
Michael Franti & Spearhead	"All Rebel Rockers" (producers: Sly & Robbie, Matt Wallace; guests: Zap Mama's Marie Daulne, Jamaican dancehall star Cherine Anderson; Hear here; See here)	(Anti-/Epitaph, Sept. 9, 2008)
Fujiya & Miyagi	"Lightbulbs" (Hear/read here)	(Deaf, Dumb + Blind Recordings, Sept. 9, 2008)
Gym Class Heroes	"The Quilt" (producers: The-Dream, Cool & Dre, Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump; guests: Busta Rhymes, Estelle, Daryl Hall; first single: "Cookie Jar"; Hear here)	(Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic, Sept. 9, 2008)
I'm Not Jim (Jonathan Lethem and Walter Salas-Humara)	"You Are All My People" (Read here)	(Bloodshot, Sept. 9, 2008)
Leigh Jones	"Music in My Soul" (first single: "Free Fall"; Hear here)	(Peak/Concord, Sept. 9, 2008)
Kardinal Offishall	"Not 4 Sale"	(Geffen, Sept. 9, 2008)
Hal Ketchum	"Father Time" (Hear here; Read here)	(Curb, Sept. 9, 2008)
LL Cool J	"Exit 13" (producers: Freebase, Illmind, The Pusher, Suits, Tha Bizness; guests: 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Jim Jones, Lil' Kim, Trey Songz, Method Man, KRS-One, etc.; Hear here; Read here)	(Def Jam, Sept. 9, 2008)
Lonesome River Band	"No Turning Back" (first single: "Them Blues"; Hear here; Read here)	(Rural Rhythm, Sept. 9, 2008)
Patty Loveless	"Sleepless Nights" (producers: Loveless, Emory Gordy Jr.; guests: Vince Gill, Harold Bradley, John Hobbs, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Harry Stinson, Steve Gibson, Biff Watson; Hear here)	(Saguaro Road/Time Life, Sept. 9, 2008)
Lovely Sparrows, The	"Bury the Cynics" (Hear here)	(Abandoned Love/The Rebel Group, Sept. 9, 2008)
Magic Slim & The Teardrops	"Midnight Blues" (guests: James Cotton, Elvin Bishop, Lonnie Brooks, Lil' Ed Williams, Otis Clay, Gene Barge, Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings; Hear here)	(Blind Pig, Sept. 9, 2008)
Metallica (new bassist: Robert Trujillo)	"Death Magnetic" (group's first studio album since 2003; producer: Rick Rubin; first single: "The Day That Never Comes"; Read here)	(Warner, Sept. 12, 2008)
Okkervil River	"The Stand Ins" (sequel to 2007's "The Stage Names"; producer: Brian Beattie; Hear here)	(Jagjaguwar, Sept. 9, 2008)
Joan Osborne	"Little Wild One" (producers: Rick Chertoff, Rob Hyman, Eric Bazilian; Hear here)	(Womanly Hips/Plum, Sept. 9, 2008)
People in Planes	"Beyond the Horizon" (producers: Raine Maida, Matt Squire, Dan Austin; first single: "Mayday [M'aidez]"; Hear here)	(Wind-up, Sept. 9, 2008)
Plushgun	"Plushgun [Vinyl LP]" (four-song EP; first single: "Just Impolite"; Hear here; See here)	(Tommy Boy, Sept. 9, 2008)
Jason Reeves (wrote Colbie Caillat's "Bubbly")	"The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache (And Other Frightening Tales ...)" (Hear here)	(Warner, Sept. 9, 2008)
Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin	"Amparo" (guests: James Taylor, Joshua Bell, Chris Botti, Renée Fleming)	(Decca, Sept. 9, 2008)
Sam Champion	"Heavenly Bender" (Hear here)	(North Street/Ryko, Sept. 9, 2008)
Sasha	"Invol2ver" (includes reworkings of tracks by Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Ray LaMontagne, Apparat, Ladytron, etc.; Hear here)	(Global Underground, Sept. 9, 2008)
Jessica Simpson	"Do You Know" (country album; producers: Brett James, John Shanks; guest: Dolly Parton, who wrote the title track; first single: "Come on Over"; Hear here; Read here)	(Columbia Nashville, Sept. 9, 2008)
Sound of Animals Fighting, The	"The Ocean and the Sun" (Hear here; See here)	(Epitaph, Sept. 9, 2008)
Static Thought	"The Motive For Movement" (producer: Dave Tweedie; Hear here; See here)	(Hellcat/Epitaph, Sept. 9, 2008)
Emiliana Torrini	"Me and Armini" (producer: Dan Carey; Hear here)	(Rough Trade, Sept. 9, 2008)
Tricky	"Knowle West Boy" (first single: "Council Estate"; Hear here; Read here)	(Domino, Sept. 9, 2008)
Various artists	"Disney Girlz Rock 2"	(Disney, Sept. 9, 2008)
Various artists	"The Women [film soundtrack]" (movie, which opens Sept. 12, stars Meg Ryan, Eva Mendez, Jada Pinkett Smith, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Candace Bergen, Bette Midler, Carrie Fisher, etc.; Hear here)	(Verve Forecast, Sept. 9, 2008)
Dar Williams	"Promised Land" (producer: Brad Wood; guests: Suzanne Vega, Marshall Crenshaw, Gary Louris; Hear here)	(Razor & Tie, Sept. 9, 2008)
Steve Wynn	"Crossing Dragon Bridge" (his first solo album since 2001's "Here Come the Miracles"; producer: Chris Eckman; Hear here)	(Rock Ridge Music, Sept. 9, 2008)