Artist:	Title:	Label/Due date:
Joseph Arthur	"Let's Just Be" (Hear here; Read here)	(Lonely Astronaut, April 17, 2007)
Lloyd Brown	"Said and Done" (Hear here)	(Cousins, April 17, 2007)
Cat Empire, The	"The Cat Empire EP" (Hear here)	(Velour, April 17, 2007)
Comas, The	"Spells" (producer: Bill Racine; Hear here)	(Vagrant, April 17, 2007)
Bucky Covington ("American Idol" finalist)	"Bucky" (producer: Sawyer Brown frontman Mark Miller; first single: "A Different World"; Hear here)	(Lyric Street, April 17, 2007)
Cowboy Junkies	"At the End of Paths Taken" (producer: band member Michael Timmins)	(Zoë/Rounder, April 17, 2007)
DJ Shadow	"Bay Area EP"	(Univeral Motown, April 17, 2007)
Dolly Varden	"The Panic Bell" (Hear here)	(Undertow, April 17, 2007)

BTW: It has been five years between albums for Dolly Varden. Why the long time? Singer-guitarist Steve Dawson tells P&P that the band, which includes wife Diane Christiansen, needed a hiatus after constant touring.

"At first, the goal was just to play together again," he says. "After touring the U.S. for 'Forgiven Now' in 2002, and a very rough U.K. tour just after Sept. 11 (2001), we were exhausted. We decided to take a break. No hard feelings or anything - we'd just been at it for eight years and needed to be away from the band to pursue other things."

In the interim, Dawson and Christiansen cut a duets album; guitarist Mark Balletto did a solo album, and Dawson did a solo of his own.

"Dolly Varden got back together in 2004 to have fun and try out some new songs I'd written," he says. "It felt great, so we kept doing it once a month or so with no real goal. We sounded tougher than before, to me at least. I started writing songs with a little more edge to them and we started recording them. The more we got together the better it felt and the better the songs got. The goal then became to make a great album. By the mddle of last year, we had more than enough songs recorded so we picked our favorites and took them to Matt Pence to mix.

"I think the years we all spent playing together and touring, etc., have given us a sort of unspoken bond - and that when we get together to play we just know what to do, nothing needs to be discussed, even if it's a brand new song. I haven't found that with any other musicians and I've grown to really value it. So this album, for me at least, is an acknowledgement of that."

Greyboy Allstars, The	"What Happened to Television?" (first single: "How Glad I Am"; Hear here)	(SCI Fidelity, April 17, 2007)
Richard X. Heyman	"Actual Sighs" (a reworking of his 1986 album "Actual Size"; first single: "All in the Way You Found Me"; Hear here)	(Turn-Up/Redeye, April 17, 2007)
Hot Club Sandwich	"Green Room" (Hear here)	(Modern Hot, April 17, 2007)
Lady Saw	"Walk Out" (Hear here)	(VP, April 17, 2007)
Avril Lavigne	"The Best Damn Thing" (producer: Butch Walker; first single: "Girlfriend"; Hear here; Read here; also available with a DVD)	(RCA, April 17, 2007)
Lumidee	"Unexpected" (first single: "She's Like the Wind," featuring Tony Sunshine; Hear here)	(TVT, April 17, 2007)
Daniel Lee Martin	"On My Way to You" (producer: Jan Stolpe; first single: "Stark Ravin' Crazy In Love"; Hear here)	(ChinMusic, April 17, 2007)
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers	"In the Palace of the King" (Mayall's 55th album is a tribute to the late Freddie King; Hear here; Read here)	(Eagle, April 17, 2007)
Page McConnell (ex-Phish keyboardist)	"Page McConnell" (guests: former bandmates Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon, plus drummer Jim Keltner; Hear here; Read here)	(Legacy, April 17, 2007)
Kate McGarry	"The Target" (producer: Matt Balitsaris; Hear here)	(Palmetto, April 17, 2007)
Messer Chups	"Hyena Safari" (Hear here)	(AeroCCCP Recordings, April 17, 2007)
Nields, The	"All Together Singing in the Kitchen" (producer: Dave Chalfant; Hear here)	(Nields/Goldenrod, April 17, 2007)
nine inch nails	"Year Zero" (Hear here; Read here)	(Nothing/Interscope, April 17, 2007)
Noisettes	"What's the time Mr. Wolf?" (Hear here)	(Motown, April 17, 2007)
Old Soul, The	"The Old Soul" (first single: "River of Daughters"; See here)	(Friendly Fire, April 17, 2007)
Paul Rodgers (Free/Bad Company)	"Live in Glasgow" (October 2006 concert at Clyde Auditorium; Read here)	(Eagle, April 17, 2007)
Mark Ronson (producer of Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen)	"Version" (all-covers album; producer: Ronson; first single: a cover of The Smiths' "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"; Hear here; Read here)	(U.K. - Allido/Columbia, April 16, 2007)
7 Sons of Soul	"Witness" (Hear here)	(Verity, April 17, 2007)
Ryan Shaw	"This Is Ryan Shaw" (producers: Jimmy Bralower, Johnny Gale; Hear here)	(One Haven/RED, April 17, 2007)
Six Feet Under	"Commandment" (Hear here)	(Metal Blade, April 17, 2007)
Swati	"Small Gods" (Hear here)	(bluhammock music, April 17, 2007)
Pam Tillis	"Rhinestoned" (her first studio album of all-new material in five years; producers: Tillis, Matt Spicher, Gary Nicholson; guest: John Anderson, who sings on "Life Has Changed Us"; Hear here)	(Stellar Cat/Thirty Tigers/RED, April 17, 2007)
Until June	"Until June" (producer: Brian Garcia; Hear here)	(Flicker, April 17, 2007)
Waking Ashland	"The Well" (producer: Chris Shaw; Hear here)	(Immortal, April 17, 2007)
Clay Walker	"Fall" (producer: Keith Stegall; first single: "'Fore She Was Mama"; Hear here)	(Curb, April 17, 2007)
W.A.S.P.	"Dominator" (Hear here)	(U.K. - Demolition, April 16, 2007)
Watermelon Slim and the Workers	"The Wheel Man" (producer: Chris Wick; guests: Magic Slim, Dave Maxwell; Hear here)	(Northern Blues, April 17, 2007)
Wedding, The	"Polarity" (producer: Mark Lee Townsend; first single: "Say Your Prayers"; Hear here)	(Brave New World/Word, April 17, 2007)