| Artist: |
Title: |
Label/Due date: |
| The Airborne Toxic Effect |
“Such Hot Blood” (producer: Jacquire King; first single: “Timeless”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Island) |
| Alessi’s Ark |
“The Still Life” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Bella Union) |
| Beacon (Brooklyn duo) |
“The Ways We Separate” (Hear here; MP3) |
(Ghostly International) |
| The Blow Monkeys |
“Feels Like a New Morning [MP3]” (with a bonus acoustic disc; Hear here; CD) |
(U.K. – Cherry Red, April 29) |
| Jessica Campbell |
“The Anchor & The Sail” (producer: Cason Cooley; guest: Dave Barnes; Hear here; MP3) |
(Rock Ridge Music) |
| Kenny Chesney |
“Life On a Rock” (producers: Chesney, Buddy Cannon; first single: “Pirate Flag”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) |
(Blue Chair / Columbia Nashville) |
| !!! (chk chk chk) |
“Thr!!!er” (producer: Spoon drummer Jim Eno; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Warp) |
| Coyote Clean Up (Detroit DJ-musician Ice Cold Chrissy) |
“2 Hot 2 Wait” (first single: “Awesome Luv”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(100% Silk) |
| Daughter (London folk-rock trio) |
“If You Leave” (producers: guitarist Igor Haefeli, Rodaidh McDonald; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Glassnote) |
| Decades (Toronto quartet) |
“Decades” (producer: Alex Bonenfant; Hear here) |
(White Girl) |
| Deep Purple |
“Now What?!” (producer: Bob Ezrin; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Eagle Rock) |
| Glee Cast |
“At the Ballet [MP3],” “Everybody Hurts [MP3],” “Little Girls [MP3],” “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ [MP3]” |
(Columbia) |
| Guided By Voices |
“English Little League” (first single: “Flunky Minnows”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(GBV, Inc) |
| Hands (L.A. indie rockers) |
“Synesthesia” (Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Kill Rock Stars) |
| Hanni El Khatib |
“Head in the Dirt” (producer: The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach; first single: “Family”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Innovative Leisure) |
| Hawk and Dove (Brooklyn indie-rock duo) |
“This Yesterday Will Never End” (Hear here; MP3) |
(Big Round) |
| HIM |
“Tears On Tape” (producer: Hiili Hiilesmaa; Hear here; MP3) |
(Razor & Tie) |
| Iggy and the Stooges |
“Ready to Die” (Mike Watt fills in for the late Ron Asheton on bass; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Fat Possum) |
| Tom Keifer |
“The Way Life Goes” (first single: “The Flower Song”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Merovee / ADA) |
| Junior Kelly |
“Piece of the Pie” (producer: Anthony Senior; guests: Lion Face, Smiley, Mark Wonder; Hear here) |
(VP) |
| LL Cool J |
“Authentic” (new single: “Take It”; Hear here; MP3) |
(429) |
| The Melvins |
“Everybody Loves Sausages” (an eclectic collection of covers; Hear here; Read here) |
(Ipecac Recordings) |
| Meta & The Cornerstones (Senegalese vocalist Meta Dia and his band) |
“Ancient Powers” (guests: Damian Marley, Dean Fraser, Julian Marley, Mikey Chung, Wayne “C-Sharp” Clark, Wilburm “Squidly” Cole; Hear here; MP3) |
(VP) |
| Tom Odell (British singer-songwriter) |
“Songs From Another Love [MP3]” (four-song EP; Hear here) |
(ITNO / Columbia) |
| Ola Podrida (soundtrack composer David Wingo) |
“Ghosts Go Blind” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Western Vinyl) |
| Os Mutantes (Brazilian psychedelic rock band) |
“Fool Metal Jack” (Hear here; MP3) |
(Krian Music Group) |
| Over the Ocean |
“Be Given to the Soil [MP3]” (producer: Jeremy S.H. Griffith; first single: “In This Darkness”; Hear here) |
(Spartan) |
| The Postelles |
“… And It Shook Me” (producer: The Postelles, Eric Spring; first single: “Caught By Surprise”; Hear here; MP3) |
(+1) |
| Pretty & Nice (experimental indie pop quartet) |
“Golden Rules for Golden People” (producer: singer-guitarist Jeremy Mendicino; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Rory / Equal Vision) |
| Pushmen |
“The Sun Will Rise Soon on the False and the Fair” (supergroup contains members of The Sword, Made Out of Babies, Bad Powers, Heartless Bastards, RATKING and Sea of 1000; Hear here; MP3) |
(The End) |
| Randy Rogers Band (Texas country band) |
“Trouble” (producer: Jay Joyce; Hear here; MP3) |
(MCA Nashville) |
| Alice Russell (British soul singer) |
“To Dust” (first single: “Heartbreaker”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Differ-ant / Tru Thoughts) |
| Sacred Mother Tongue (British metal quartet) |
“Out of the Darkness” (producer: Scott Atkins; Hear here; MP3) |
(The End) |
| Jessica Sanchez (“American Idol” season 11 runner-up) |
“Me, You & the Music” (first single: “Tonight,” feat. Ne-Yo; Hear here) |
(Interscope) |
| Keaton Simons |
“Beautiful Pain” (producers: Simons, Mikal Blue; first single: “Beautiful Pain”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Best Revenge) |
| Smash Cast |
“High and Dry [MP3],” “The Love I Meant to Say [MP3],” “Vienna [MP3]” |
(Columbia) |
| Spin Doctors |
“If the River Was Whiskey” (their first album since 2005; Hear here; MP3) |
(Ruf) |
| Colin Stetson (Montreal saxophonist-composer) |
“New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light” (producer: Ben Frost; first single: “High Above a Grey Green Sea”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Constellation) |
| Ten Foot Polecats (Boston blues-stomp band) |
“Undertow [MP3]” (Hear here) |
(Hillgrass Bluebilly) |
| Valleys |
“Are You Going to Stand There and Talk Weird All Night?” (producer: Alec “Orson Presence” Dippie of The Monochrome Set; first single: “Undream a Year”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Kanine) |
| Vandaveer (D.C.-based alt-folk collective) |
“Oh, Willie, Please …” (a collection of traditional murder/folk ballads; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Relix) |
| Various artists |
“Iron Man 3 [Film soundtrack]” (sequel opens May 3; See here; MP3) |
(Hollywood) |
| The Weeks (Mississippi indie rockers) |
“Dear Bo Jackson” (Hear here; Vinyl) |
(Serpents & Snakes – Kings of Leon’s label) |
| Wolf People |
“Fain” (first single: “All Returns”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Jagjaguwar) |
