Artist:	Title:	Label/Due date:
Trace Adkins	"Cowboy's Back in Town" (first single: "This Ain't No Love Song"; Hear here; Deluxe edition)	(Show Dog Nashville/Universal, Aug. 24, 2010)
Back Ted N-Ted	"The Mirror" (Hear here)	(Modern Art, Aug. 24, 2010)
Dead Confederate	"Sugar" (producer: John Agnello; Hear here)	(TAO Recordings/Old Flame, Aug. 24, 2010)
Joe Diffie	"Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album" (Hear here)	(Rounder, Aug. 24, 2010)
Fitz & the Tantrums	"Pickin' Up the Pieces" (Hear here)	(Dangerbird, Aug. 24, 2010)
Michael Franti & Spearhead	"The Sound of Sunshine" (Hear here)	(Capitol/Boo Boo Wax, Aug. 24, 2010)
Helmet	"Seeing Eye Dog" (Hear here; Read here)	(Work Song, Aug. 24, 2010)
Little Big Town	"The Reason Why" (Hear here)	(Capitol Records Nashville, Aug. 24, 2010)

BTW: Little Big Town lost nearly everything in Nashville's devastating flooding in early May. But singer-guitarist Phillip Sweet is staying upbeat.

"Most of us store our stuff at a place called SoundCheck in an industrial part of downtown," Sweet tells P&P. "Basically, it's road cases and drums floating all over the place. Multimillion-dollars' worth of equipment lost. You could see Toby Keith's trucks floating on their sides.

"We may have experienced a total loss. But that's the great thing about this town, people pull together. We're having rehearsals and we'll try to figure it all out. Luckily, I have my own guitar with me that I can bring on the road. Music's what gets you back going, so we're anxious to get out there."

Sweet and band mates Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman and Jimi Westbrook are eager to get back on the road, not only to get their minds off their troubles back home, but to test songs off their forthcoming album, "The Reason Why."

"What are we going to do, sit around and mope about material things that we've lost?" Sweet says. "We've been off the road for six months, working on this album, so getting out there and playing again will be good for the soul."

With "The Reason Why," the Grammy-nominated quartet "wanted to grow and stretch ourselves," Sweet says. "You'll hear more depth and maturity to our songs. We changed it up in the studio with different musicians and engineers. Sonically, we wanted to make a leap, too."

Katy Perry	"Teenage Dream" (first single: "California Gurls," featuring Snoop Dogg; Hear hereRead here)	(Capitol, Aug. 24, 2010)
Sixpence None the Richer	"Strange Conversation" (first full-length album in eight years; producer: Jim Scott; Hear here)	(Nettwerk, Aug. 24, 2010)
Marty Stuart	"Ghost Train (The Studio B Sessions)" (Hear here; Read here)	(Sugar Hill, Aug. 24, 2010)
Sword, The	"Warp Riders" (producer: Matt Bayles; Hear here)	(Kemado, Aug. 24, 2010)
T.I.	"King Uncaged" (Hear here; Read here)	(Grand Hustle/Atlantic, Aug. 24, 2010)
Brian Wilson	"Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin" (covers of classic songs by songwriters George and Ira Gershwin; Hear here)	(Walt Disney, Aug. 24, 2010)
Dandy Warhols, The	"The Capitol Years: 1995-2007" (14-song best-of, including the new track "This Is the Tide")	(Capitol/EMI, Aug. 24, 2010)
Jayhawks, The	"Hollywood Town Hall" (1992 album; with five bonus tracks), "Tomorrow the Green Grass: Legacy Edition" (1995 album; disc 1 contains six bonus tracks; disc 2 has 18 previously unreleased "Mystery Demos"; Read here)	(American/Legacy, Aug. 24, 2010)
My Bloody Valentine	"Isn't Anything" (1988 album; remastered; Vinyl), "Loveless" (1991 album; 2 CDs; remastered)	(U.K. - Sony BMG, Aug. 23, 2010)
Todd Rundgren	"For Lack of Honest Work" (2-CD best-of, 44 tracks; Track list)	(Collectors' Choice, Aug. 24, 2010)
CeCe Winans	"For Always: The Very Best of CeCe Winans"	(EMI Gospel, Aug. 24, 2010)

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