| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Blue October | “Any Man in America” (first single: “The Chills”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Up/Down, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Bottle Rockets, The | “Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening With the Bottle Rockets” (recorded at the historic Lucas School House in St. Louis; Hear here) | (Bloodshot, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Jeff Bridges | “Jeff Bridges” (producer: T Bone Burnett; guests: Rosanne Cash, Ryan Bingham, Sam Phillips, Benji Hughes; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Blue Note, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Guy Clark | “Songs and Stories” (23 songs; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Dualtone, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Cut Off Your Hands (indie pop band from New Zealand) | “Hollow” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Frenchkiss, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Rodney Dillard & The Dillard Band | “Don’t Wait for the Hearse to Take You to Church” (Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Rural Rhythm, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| The Duke & The King (fronted by ex-Felice Brother Simone Felice) | “The Duke & The King” (Hear here; MP3 Download) | (So Recordings, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Hercules and Love Affair | “Blue Songs” (producer: Patrick Pulsinger; guests: Kim Ann Foxman, Aerea Negrot, Shaun Wright, Kele Okereke, Mark Pistel; first single: “My House”; Hear/read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Moshi Moshi, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Jewel | “The Merry Goes ‘Round” (16 family-friendly songs, including four originals; Hear here) | (Fisher-Price/Somerset Entertainment, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Natalia Kills (U.K. singer-songwriter) | “Perfectionist” (producers: Akon, Jeff Bhasker, “The-Ron” Feemster, Fernando Garibay, Martin “Cherry Cherry Boom Boom” Kierszenbaum, Giorgio Tuinfort; guest: will.i.am.; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Cherrytree/Kon Live/Interscope, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Ana Popovic | “Unconditional” (producer: John Porter; guests: Sonny Landreth, Jason Ricci; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Eclecto Groove, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Margo Rey | “Let the Rain [MP3 Download]” (first single, co-written with John Oates; Hear here) | (Organica Music Group, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Scream | “Scream’s Complete Control Sessions [Vinyl EP]” (punk band’s first album since 1993; producers: John Lousteau, Scream; Hear here) | (SideOneDummy, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Sly Stone | “I’m Back! Family & Friends” (his first album since 1982 features reworkings of his hits, plus three previously unreleased tracks including “His Eye Is On the Sparrow”; guests: Jeff Beck, Ray Manzarek, Ann Wilson, Johnny Winter, Bootsy Collins, etc.; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Cleopatra, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Various artists | “One Day: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [MP3 Download]” (Anne Hathaway-Jim Sturgess movie opens Aug. 19; includes “Sparkling Day,” a new song by Elvis Costello; Hear here; See here; CD, out Sept. 6) | (Hip-O/UMe, Aug. 16, 2011) |
| Various artists | “We Remember Gregory Isaacs” (two-CD tribute album, featuring Tarrus Riley, Etana, Romain Virgo, J Boog, Gyptian and Duane Stephenson; Hear here) | (VP, Aug. 16, 2011) |
