Artist:	Title:	Label/Due date:
Aerosmith	"Legendary Child [MP3 Download]" (new single, from the film "GI Joe: Retaliation")	(Columbia, May 29, 2012)
Joan Armatrading	"Starlight" (Hear here)	(U.K. - Hypertension, May 28, 2012)
Azealia Banks (Harlem-raised rapper-singer)	"1991 [MP3 Download]" (four-song EP; producer: Jef Martens; Hear here; CD)	(Interscope/Polydor, May 29, 2012)
David Benoit	"Conversation" (Hear here; MP3 Download)	(Heads Up, May 29, 2012)
Wade Bowen	"The Given" (first single: "Saturday Night"; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download)	(Sea Gayle/BNA, May 29, 2012)
Crystal Bowersox ("American Idol" season 9 finalist)	"Once Upon a Time …" (producer: Bowersox; guest: Frankie May; Hear here; MP3 Download)	(Crystal Bowersox, May 29, 2012)
Rory Block	"I Belong to the Band: A Tribute to Rev. Gary Davis" (producers: Block, Rob Davis; Hear here; MP3 Download)	(Stony Plain Music, May 29, 2012)
Petula Clark	"Petula Clark EP [MP3 Download]" (four songs from her new French album, "Petula"; Hear here)	(Vogue, May 29, 2012)
Cadence Weapon (rapper Rollie Pemberton, poet lauerate of Edmonton)	"Hope in Dirt City" (first single: "Conditioning"; Hear here; See here; MP3 Download)	(Upper Class Recordings, May 29, 2012)
Danny Elfman	"Men in Black 3 [Film soundtrack]" (sequel starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin opens May 25; See here; MP3 Download)	(Sony Masterworks, May 29, 2012)
Rebecca Ferguson (runner-up on the British "X Factor")	"Heaven" (released in the U.K. in early 2011; U.S. version contains a bonus track; producers: Eg White, Fraser T. Smith, Claude Kelly; first single: "Nothing's Real But Love"; Hear here; ; Read here)	(Syco/Columbia, May 29, 2012)
Fort Atlantic (Alabama lo-fi band)	"Fort Atlantic" (first single: "Up From the Ground"; Hear here; See here)	(Dualtone, May 29, 2012)
For Today (Sioux City-based Christian metalcore band)	"Immortal" (producer: Will Putney; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download)	(Razor & Tie, May 29, 2012)
Melody Gardot (French jazz/folk chanteuse)	"The Absence" (producer: Heitor Pereira; Hear here; Deluxe edition; MP3 Download)	(Verve, May 29, 2012)
Intelligence, The	"Everybody's Got It Easy But Me" (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download)	(In the Red, May 29, 2012)
Juanes	"Tr3s Presents Juanes: MTV Unplugged" (recorded on Feb. 1, 2012, at Miami's New World Center; Hear here; MP3 Download)	(Universal Latino, May 29, 2012)
King Tuff	"King Tuff" (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl)	(Sub Pop, May 29, 2012)
Ladyhawke (New Zealand singer-songwriter)	"Anxiety" (producers: Pip Brown, Pascal Gabriel; first single: "Black White & Blue"; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download)	(Casablanca, May 29, 2012)
Little Comets	"Jennifer and Other Short Stories [MP3 Download]" (four-song EP; Hear here; See here)	(Dirty Hit, May 28, 2012)
Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles (Minneapolis sextet)	"Heat" (producer: Matt Boynton; first single: "Just a Kid"; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download)	(Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles, May 29, 2012)
Marissa Nadler	"The Sister" (first single: "The Wrecking Ball Company"; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download)	(Box of Cedar, May 29, 2012)
Kalen Nash (frontman of Ponderosa)	"Urked [MP3 Download]" (Hear here)	(Normaltown/New West, May 29, 2012)
Public Image Ltd.	"This is PiL" (their first album in 20 years; first single: "One Drop"; Hear here; MP3 Download)	(PiL Official/Redeye, May 29, 2012)
Preteen Zenith (fronted by Polyphonic Spree's Tim DeLaughter)	"Rubble Guts and BB Eye" (producers: DeLaughter, his former Tripping Daisy bandmate Philip E. Karnats; first single: "Damage Control," feat. Erykah Badu; Hear here; MP3 Download)	(Good Records Recordings, May 29, 2012)
Gemma Ray	"Island Fire" (first single: "Runaway"; Hear here; Vinyl)	(Bronze Rat, May 29, 2012)
Saint Etienne	"Words and Music by Saint Etienne" (their first album in seven years; producers: Saint Etienne, Ian Catt, Richard X, Nick Coler; Hear here; MP3 Download)	(U.K. - Heavenly, May 28, 2012)
Scissor Sisters	"Magic Hour" (producers: Scissor Sisters, Calvin Harris; collaborators: Harris, Pharrell Williams, Diplo, Alex Rihda [BoysNoize], Azealia Banks; new single: "Only the Horses"; Hear here; See here; MP3 Download)	(Casablanca, May 29, 2012)
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros	"Here" (Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download)	(Community Music, May 29, 2012)
Sigur Rós	"Valtari" (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl)	(XL Recordings, May 29, 2012)
Simian Mobile Disco	"Unpatterns" (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download)	(Wichita Recordings, May 29, 2012)
Sleepy Turtles (Atlanta folk-rock quintet)	"Summer, Hither [MP3 Download]" (first single: "Natures Hymn"; Hear here; See here)	(Autumn + Colour, May 29, 2012)
Regina Spektor	"What We Saw From the Cheap Seats" (first single: "All the Rowboats"; Hear/read here)	(Sire, May 29, 2012)
Sun Kil Moon (Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek)	"Among the Leaves" (Hear/read here)	(Caldo Verde, May 29, 2012)
2:54 (sister duo from U.K.)	"2:54" (producer: Rob Ellis; first single: "You're Early"; Hear here; Vinyl)	(Fat Possum, May 28, 2012)
Travis Porter (hip-hop group from Decatur, Ga.)	"From Day 1" (first single: "Aww Yea"; Hear here; Read here)	(Porterhouse/RCA, May 29, 2012)
12 Stones	"Beneath the Scars" (producer: Skidd Mills; first single: "Infected"; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download)	(Executive Music Group/Fontana/ Universal, May 29, 2012)
Ian Tyson	"Raven Singer" (the 78-year-old Canadian icon's first album in four years; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download)	(Stony Plain, May 29, 2012)
Ultravox	"Brilliant" (first album from the original lineup in 28 years; Hear here; Read here)	(U.K. - EMI, May 27, 2012)
Walkmen, The	"Heaven" (producer: Phil Ek; guest: Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold; first single: "Heaven"; Hear here; Vinyl)	(Fat Possum, May 29, 2012)
Jody Wisternoff (of Way Out West)	"Trails We Blaze" (guests: Pete Josef, Jonathan Mendelsohn; Hear here)	(U.K. - Anjunadeep, May 28, 2012)