| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Apache Relay, The (Nashville indie-rock band) | “American Nomad” (producer: Nielson Hubbard; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Thirty Tigers, April 12, 2011) |
| Atmosphere (hip-hop duo) | “The Family Sign” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Rhymesayers Entertainment, April 12, 2011) |
| Ian Axel | “This Is the New Year” (Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) | (Tinyogre Entertainment/RED, April 12, 2011) |
| Bass Drum of Death | “GB City” (first single: “Young Pros”; Hear here) | (Fat Possum, April 12, 2011) |
| Bell X1 (Irish rockers) | “Bloodless Coup” (producer: Rob Kirwan; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Yep Roc, April 12, 2011) |
| Between the Buried and Me | “The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues” (<Hear here) | (Metal Blade, April 12, 2011) |
| Bouncing Souls, The | “Complete Control Recording Sessions [MP3 Download]” (six-song live album; Vinyl) | (SideOneDummy, April 12, 2011) |
| Chase and Status (British production duo) | “No More Idols [MP3 Download]” (guests: Dizzee Rascal, Plan B, Clare Maguire, Liam Bailey, White Lies, Cee Lo Green; Hear here) | (Vertigo/Mercury, April 12, 2011) |
| Conflicted (Toronto power-metal group) | “Never Be Tamed” (Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Nightmare/RED, April 12, 2011) |
| Brett Dennen | “Loverboy” (first single: “Sydney [I’ll Come Running]”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Dualtone, April 12, 2011) |
| Elbow | “Build a Rocket Boys!” (producers: Elbow; Hear here) | (Downtown/Cooperative Music, April 12, 2011) |
| Feelies, The | “Here Before” (their first album of new material in 19 years; producers: Feelies founders Glenn Mercer and Bill Million; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Bar/None, April 12, 2011) |
| Figurines | “Figurines” (Danish group’s first album in four years; first single: “New Colors”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (The Control Group, April 12, 2011) |
| Foo Fighters | “Wasting Light” (producer: Butch Vig; first single: “Rope”; Hear here; Read here) | (Roswell/RCA, April 12, 2011) |
| Diego Garcia (formerly of Elefant) | “Laura” (first single: “You Were Never There,” co-written by Dhani Harrison, George’s son; Hear here; Full stream; MP3 Download) | (Nacional, April 12, 2011) |
| Garage A Trois | “Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Royal Potato Family, April 12, 2011) |
| GDP | “Useless Eaters” (Hear here; See here) | (Run For Cover, April 12, 2011) |
| Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band (18-piece jazz ensemble) | “That’s How We Roll” (includes a cover of “Rhapsody in Blue”; guests: Gerald Albright, Dave Koz, Eric Marienthal, Marcus Miller, Take 6; Hear here) | (Telarc, April 12, 2011) |
| Hauschka | “Salon des Amateurs” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (130701/FatCat, April 12, 2011) |
| Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | “Here We Rest” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Lightning Rod, April 12, 2011) |
| Jamaica (Parisian duo) | “No Problem” (Hear here; See here; MP3 Download) | (Cooperative USA/Downtown Music, April 12, 2011) |
| Jessie J (U.K. singer-songwriter) | “Who You Are” (producers: Dr. Luke, Martin K, Oak, Parker and James, The Invisible Men; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Lava/Universal Republic, April 12, 2011) |
| Alison Krauss & Union Station | “Paper Airplane” (Hear here) | (Rounder, April 12, 2011) |
| Kristeenyoung | “V the Volcanic [MP3 Download]” (producer: Tony Visconti; Hear here) | (Tony Visconti Productions, April 12, 2011) |
| k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang | “Sing It Loud” (her first new band in more than two decades; producers: lang, Joe Pisapia; first single: “I Confess”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Nonesuch, April 12, 2011) |
| James Leg (aka John Wesley Myers of Black Diamond Heavies) | “Solitary Pleasure” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Alive, April 12, 2011) |
| Low | “C’mon” (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Sub Pop, April 12, 2011) |
| Maná | “Drama y Luz” (their first album in five years; English: “Drama and Light”; producers: Fher Olvera, Alex González; first single: “Lluvia al Corazón”; Hear here; CD/DVD; MP3 Download) | (WEA Latina, April 12, 2011) |
| Mazes (U.K. foursome) | “A Thousand Heys” (first single: “Most Days”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (FatCat, April 12, 2011) |
| The Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band | “American Legacies” (MP3 Download) | (McCoury Music/Preservation Hall Recordings, April 12, 2011) |
| Meat Puppets (new drummer: Shandon Sahm, son of Doug Sahm) | “Lollipop” (producer: frontman Curt Kirkwood; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Megaforce, April 12, 2011) |
| Mouthful of Snow (indie quartet from Temecula, Calif.) | “The Truth Hurts, But You Would Still Like to Hear It [MP3 Download]” (Hear here) | (Mouthful of Snow, April 11, 2011) |
| John Oates | “Mississippi Mile” (producers: Oates, Mike Henderson; guests: Jerry Douglas, Peter Huttlinger, Sam Bush; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Elektra/Warner Nashville, April 12, 2011) |
| Agnes Obel (Danish singer-songwriter) | “Philharmonics” (Hear here; MP3 Download) | (PIAS America, April 12, 2011) |
| Panda Bear (Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox) | “Tomboy” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Paw Tracks, April 12, 2011) |
| Plug in Stereo (17-year-old pop wunderkind Trevor Dahl) | “Something to Nothing” (Hear here) | (Triple Crown, April 12, 2011) |
| Ponytail | “Do Whatever You Want All the Time” (producer: J. Robbins; Hear here; Vinyl) | (We Are Free, April 12, 2011) |
| Rebirth Brass Band | “Rebirth of New Orleans” (producer: Tracey Freeman; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Basin Street, April 12, 2011) |
| Red Fang | “Murder the Mountains” (producer: The Decemberists’ Chris Funk; Full stream; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Relapse, April 12, 2011) |
| Paul Simon | “So Beautiful or So What” (his first album since 2006; producer: Phil Ramone; CD/DVD) | (Hear Music/Concord, April 12, 2011) |
| D. Charles Speer & The Helix | “Leaving the Commonwealth” (Hear/read here; Vinyl) | (Thrill Jockey, April 12, 2011) |
| Laura Story | “Blessings” (producer: Nathan Nockels; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (INO/Columbia, April 12, 2011) |
| Eddie and Frank Thomas | “Maggie’s House [MP3 Download]” (producers: Eddie and Frank Thomas; Hear here) | (Misty Owl Music, April 11, 2011) |
| Thursday | “No Devolución” (Hear/read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Epitaph, April 12, 2011) |
| Trampled Under Foot (sibling blues trio) | “Wrong Side of the Blues” (Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) | (TUF/Vizzitone, April 12, 2011) |
| TV on the Radio | “Nine Types of Light” (Hear here; Deluxe edition; MP3 Download) | (DGC/Interscope, April 12, 2011) |
| Ultraviolet Sound | “Ultraviolet Sound” (first single: “Suck My Kiss”; Hear here; See here) | (Odds On, April 12, 2011) |
| Various artists | “Lemonade Mouth [TV movie soundtrack]” (Disney Channel film, based on the book of the same name by Mark Peter Hughes, premieres on April 15; Hear/read here) | (Walt Disney, April 12, 2011) |
| Vivian Girls (Brooklyn trio) | “Share the Joy” (first single: “I Heard You Say”; Full stream; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Polyvinyl, April 12, 2011) |
| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| a-ha | “Ending on a High Note: The Final Concert” (live at Oslo Spektrum on Dec. 4, 2010; 20 tracks; DVD) | (Europe – Universal, April 11, 2011) |
| George Benson | “Beyond the Blue Horizon” (1971 album; remastered) | (Masterworks Jazz, April 12, 2011) |
| Booker T. & The MG’s | “The Best of Booker T. & the MG’s [Vinyl]” (1968 album; remastered) | (Friday Music, April 12, 2011) |
| Jeff Buckley | “Grace [180g Vinyl]” (1994 album; remastered) | (Columbia/Legacy, April 12, 2011) |
| Church, The | “Starfish” (1988 album, including “Under the Milky Way”; remastered, with a second CD of 12 bonus tracks) | (Second Motion, April 12, 2011) |
| Bob Dylan | “Bob Dylan In Concert — Brandeis University 1963” (a previously unknown live recording of a 21-year-old Dylan taped at the Brandeis First Annual Folk Festival in Waltham, Mass., recently found in the archives of Rolling Stone co-founder Ralph Gleason; MP3 Download) | (Columbia/Legacy, April 12, 2011) |
| Danny Elfman | “The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box” (16 CDs; Hear/read here) | (Warner, April 12, 2011) |
| Fleetwood Mac | “Rumours [Vinyl]” (1977 album; remastered; two-LP Deluxe edition) | (Reprise, April 16, 2011 – Record Store Day) |
| John Holt | “40 Greatest Hits” (2 CDs; MP3 Download) | (Justice, April 12, 2011) |
| Freddie Hubbard | “First Light” (1971 album, a Grammy winner for Best Jazz Performance by a Group; remastered) | (Masterworks Jazz, April 12, 2011) |
| Jack Johnson | “Brushfire Fairytales” (2002 album; MP3 Download) | (Everloving, April 12, 2011) |
| Journey | “Infinity [Vinyl]” (1978 album; remastered) | (Friday Music, April 12, 2011) |
| Phish | “Live Phish: October 26, 2010: VZW Arena, Manchester, NH” (3 CDs; MP3 Download), “Live Phish: October 30, 2010, Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ” (3 CDs; MP3 Download) | (JEMP, April 12, 2011) |
| Stanley Turrentine | “Salt Song” (1971 album; remastered) | (Masterworks Jazz, April 12, 2011) |
| Various artists | “Shattered Dreams: Funky Blues 1967-78” (21 tracks; Hear/read here) | (U.K. – Beat Goes Public/Ace, April 11, 2011) |
| Who, The | “ICON” (best-of) | (Geffen/UMe, April 12, 2011) |
| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Rory Gallagher | “Irish Tour ’74 [DVD]” (Blu-ray) | (Eagle Rock, April 12, 2011) |
| Jimi Hendrix | “Band of Gypsies: Live at the Fillmore East [DVD]” | (Experience Hendrix/Legacy, April 12, 2011) |
| Stan Kenton | “Artistry in Rhythm: Portrait of a Jazz Legend [DVD]” | (Jazzed Media, April 12, 2011) |
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