| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| ADR (Aaron Davis Ross of Gatekeeper) | “Chunky Monkey” (Hear here; MP3) | (Hippos in Tanks) |
| The Afters | “Life Is Beautiful” (Hear here; MP3) | (Fair Trade Services) |
| Anika | “Anika EP” (six songs, including covers of The Kinks’ “I Go to Sleep,” The Crystals’ “He Hit Me,” Chromatics’ “In the City” and The Shocking Blue’s “Love Buzz”; Hear here) | (Stones Throw) |
| Bryan Art | “Bryan Art [MP3]” (guests: Queen Ifrica, Warrior King, Capleton & Hawkeye; Hear here) | (Altafaan) |
| Beatallica (Beatles/Metallica mashup band) | “Abbey Load” (covers of songs from “Abbey Road”; Hear here; MP3) | (Oglio) |
| The Belle Game (Vancouver quintet) | “Ritual Tradition Habit” (producer: John Raham; first single: “Wait Up For You”; Hear here; MP3) | (Boompa) |
| Jeff Berlin (virtuoso electric bassist) | “Low Standards” (Hear here; MP3) | (Random Act) |
| Big Country (new lead singer: The Alarm’s Mike Peters) | “The Journey” (their first studio album since lead singer Stuart Adamson’s death in December 2001; Hear here; Read here) | (U.K. – Cherry Red, April 15) |
| Biv and the Mnemonics (San Francisco indie-rock/alt-rolk quintet) | “The Pace” (Hear here; MP3) | (Moo Moo) |
| Born Ruffians | “Birthmarks” (producer: Roger Leavens; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Yep Roc) |
| Sarah Brightman | “Dreamchaser” (first single: “Angel”; Hear here; MP3) | (Simha LLC) |
| Carla Bruni | “Little French Songs” (the former French first lady’s first album in five years; Hear here; MP3) | (Verve) |
| The Casket Girls (Savannah, Ga., trio) | “The Casket Girls [MP3]” (five-song EP; Hear here) | (Graveface, April 20) |
| Charli XCX | “True Romance” (producers: Ariel Rechtshaid, Patrik Berger, Dimitri Tikovoi, J£ZUS MILLION, Greg Kurstin, Andrew Wyatt, Blood Diamonds, MNEK; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (U.K. – IAMSOUND, April 15) |
| Cosmic Punch (alterno-electro-power pop duo) | “Clay Pit Road [MP3]” (Hear here) | (sunsetrecordings) |
| Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. | “Patterns [MP3]” (four-song EP; Hear here; See here) | (Warner) |
| Dead Can Dance | “In Concert” (a selection of recordings from their 2012 U.S. tour; Hear here; See/read here) | ([PIAS] America) |
| Dead Confederate (Athens, Ga., rock group) | “In the Marrow” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Spiderbomb / Redeye) |
| Drivin N Cryin | “Songs from the Psychedelic Time Clock” (third of four EPs released over 12 months; Hear here; MP3) | (New! Records/Redeye) |
| Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) | “The Low Highway [CD/DVD]” (producers: Earle, Ray Kennedy; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (New West) |
| Electric iLL (Viva Voce’s Kevin Robinson) | “Twisted Light” (five-song EP; Hear here; MP3) | (Amore!Phonics) |
| Fall Out Boy | “Save Rock and Roll” (their first album since 2008; guests: Elton John, Courtney Love, Big Sean; first single: “My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark [Light Em Up]”; Hear here; See here; Read here; MP3) | (Island) |
| Fallstar (Portland, Ore., hard-rock band) | “Backdraft” (guest: Memphis May Fire vocalist Matty Mullins; first single: “Shallow Believer”; Hear here; See here) | (Facedown) |
| The Flaming Lips | “The Terror” (producers: Dave Fridmann, The Flaming Lips; first single: “Sun Blows Up Today”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Warner) |
| Foreign Talks (Portland, Ore., indie-pop quartet) | “Foreign Talks” (producers: Brandon Johnson, Kyle Dieker; Hear here; MP3) | (Expunged) |
| Glee Cast | “More Than Words [MP3],” “Say [MP3],” “Your Song [MP3]” | (Columbia) |
| JJ Grey & Mofro | “This River” (producers: Grey, Dan Prothero; Hear here; MP3) | (Alligator) |
| Iron and Wine | “Ghost on Ghost” (producer: Brian Deck; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Nonesuch) |
| John Brown’s Body (Boston reggae band) | “Kings & Queens” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Easy Star) |
| Kid Cudi (aka Scott Mescudi) | “Indicud” (producers: Mescudi, Ratatat, Dot da Genius, Kanye West, No I.D., Jeff Bhasker, 88-Keys, Hit-Boy; guests: Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T, Too $hort, King Chip; new single: “Immortal”; Hear here) | (Universal Republic) |
| The Laurels (psychedelic-shoedaze quartet from Sydney, Australia) | “Plains [MP3]” (producer: Liam Judson; Hear here; See here) | (Rice Is Nice) |
| Locust (electronica duo) | “You’ll Be Safe Forever” (their first album in 12 years; first single: “Strobes”; Hear here; MP3) | (Editions Mego) |
| Major Lazer (musical project by DJ/producer Diplo) | “Free the Universe” (guests: Bruno Mars, Wyclef Jean, Shaggy, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, Tyga, Flux Pavilion, etc.; new single: “Watch Out For This [Bumaye]”; Hear here; MP3) | (Mad Decent/Downtown) |
| Shannon McNally | “Small Town Talk” (a tribute to Bobby Charles; producer: Dr. John; first single: “I Must Be in a Good Place Now”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Sacred Sumac) |
| Meat Puppets | “Rat Farm” (producer: frontman Curt Kirkwood; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Megaforce) |
| Jane Monheit | “The Heart of the Matter” (12-track homage to songwriters from several genres; producer: Gil Goldstein; Hear here; MP3) | (eMarcy/Decca) |
| Olly Murs (U.K. pop star) | “Right Place, Right Time” (guests: Flo Rida, Chiddy Bang; first single: “Heart Skips a Beat”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Syco Music / Columbia) |
| Willie Nelson and Family (Nelson turns 80 on April 30) | “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” (producer: Buddy Cannon; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Legacy) |
| Pharaohs | “Replicant Moods” (first single: “Miraculous Feet”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (100% Silk) |
| The Red Paintings | “You’re Not One of Them [EP]” (six songs, including a cover of “Mad World”; Hear here; MP3) | (The End) |
| Kim Richey | “Thorn In My Heart” (producer: Neilson Hubbard; guests: Jason Isbel, Trisha Yearwood, Carl Broemel, Pat Sansone; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Yep Roc) |
| Sanchez (reggae gospel artist) | “Giving Praises {Live} [MP3]” (Hear here) | (JASFAR / VPAL Music) |
| Skid Row | “United World Rebellion: Chapter One” (five-song EP; Hear here; MP3) | (MRI) |
| Amy Speace | “How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat” (Hear here; MP3) | (Thirty Tigers) |
| The Summer Set | “Legendary” (guest: Dia Frampton; first single: “Boomerang”; Hear here; MP3) | (The Militia Group) |
| Thee Oh Sees | “Floating Coffin [MP3]” (Hear here) | (Castle Face) |
| The Thermals (post-pop-punk trio) | “Desperate Ground” (producer: John Agnello; first single: “Born to Kill”; Hear here; MP3) | (Saddle Creek) |
| Ugly Kid Joe | “Stairway to Hell” (nine-song EP; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (MRI) |
| Various artists | “False Idols Label Sampler EP [MP3]” (five-song collection of artists signed to Tricky’s label, including Tricky himself; Hear here) | (False Idols, April 15) |
| Various artists | “Way to Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake” (tribute album, produced by Drake’s original producer, Joe Boyd; among the contributors are Teddy Thompson, Green Gartside, Robyn Hitchcock, Vashti Bunyan and Lisa Hannigan; MP3) | (StorySound) |
| Vicky Cryer (Louis XIV frontman Jason Hill and friends) | “The Synthetic Love of Emotional Engineering” (guests: Dominic Howard, Mark Stoermer, Nick Fyffe, Dave Elitch, Jeff Kite, Alex Carapetis, David Johanssen; Hear here; MP3) | (Fancy Animal) |
| Jessica Ware (British singer-songwriter) | “Devotion” (producers: Julio Bashmore, Kid Harpoon, Dave Okumu, Keith Uddin; Hear here; MP3) | (Cherrytree / Interscope) |
| Andrew Wyatt (of the Swedish electronic pop band Miike Snow) | “Descender” (recorded with a 75-member symphony; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Downtown) |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | “Mosquito” (producers: TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, Nick Launay; first single: “Sacrilege”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Interscope) |
