Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
Balam Acab (aka Alec Koone) | “Wander/Wonder” (producer: Koone; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Tri Angle, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Bandana Splits, The (female power-pop trio) | “Mr. Sam Presents the Bandana Splits” (producer: Sam Cohen; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Tummy Touch, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Beirut | “The Rip Tide” (first single: “East Harlem”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Pompeii, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Glen Campbell | “Ghost On the Canvas” (Campbell calls this his “farewell album,” after he was recently diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer’s; songs written with Paul Westerberg, Jakob Dylan, Robert Pollard, Teddy Thompson; producer: Julian Raymond; guests: Chris Isaak, Dick Dale, Billy Corgan, Brian Setzer, Rick Nielsen, Roger Manning, The Dandy Warhols; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Surfdog, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Cobra Starship | “Night Shades” (collaborators: Ryan Tedde, Stargate, Jump Into The Gospel, The Plasticines, etc.; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Fueled By Ramen, Aug. 29, 2011) |
John Doe | “Keeper” (producers: Doe, Dave Way; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Yep Roc, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Mike Doughty | “Yes and Also Yes” (guest: Rosanne Cash; first single: “Na Na Nothing”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Snack Bar/Megaforce, Aug. 29, 2011) |
David Guetta | “Nothing But the Beat” (guests: Flo-Rida, Nicki Minaj, Taio Cruz, Ludacris, will.i.am, Usher, Snoop Dogg, Akon, Jennifer Hudson, Sia, Timbaland, Dev, etc.; first single: “Where Them Girls At”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Capitol, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Juliana Hatfield | “There’s Always Another Girl [MP3 Download]” (entirely fan-funded via PledgeMusic, with a percentage of funds going to animal shelters; producer: Hatfield; Hear here) | (Ye Olde/Junketboy, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Icarus Line, The | “Wildlife” (guests: Ariel Pink, Giant Drag’s Annie Hardy; Hear here) | (Roar Scratch/Cobraside, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Robert Earl Keen | “Ready for Confetti” (producer: Lloyd Maines; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Lost Highway, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Tommy Keene | “Behind the Parade” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Second Motion, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Killinger (Edmonton rock group) | “Killinger” (producer: Rick Plester; guest: George Lynch; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Sunmor Entertainment/BDG, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Kittie | “I’ve Failed You” (producer: Siegfried “Siggy” Meier; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (eOne Music, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Lenny Kravitz | “Black and White America” (Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) | (Virgin, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Latebirds, The (alt-rock group from Finland) | “Last of the Good Ol’ Days” (two members were formerly in Laika & The Cosmonauts; producer: Jim Scott; guests: Levon Helm, Kris Kristofferson, Minnie Driver, Wilco’s Nels Cline; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Second Motion, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Lil Wayne | “Tha Carter IV” (Hear here; Deluxe edition) | (Young Money/Cash Money, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Eric Lindell | “West County Drifter” (Hear here; MP3 Download) | (M.C., Aug. 30, 2011) |
Edwin McCain | “Mercy Bound” (producer: Maia Sharp; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (429, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Nightwatchman, The (Tom Morello) | “World Wide Rebel Songs” (first single: “Save the Hammer For the Man”; guest: Ben Harper; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (New West, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Jake Owen | “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” (producers: Joey Moi, Rodney Clawson, Tony Brown; first single: “Barefoot Blue Jean Night”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (RCA Nashville, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Powerman 5000 | “Copies, Clones, & Replicants” (12 covers, including “20th Century Boy,” “Space Oddity,” “Whip It,” “Candy-O,” “Pop Muzik,” etc.; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Cleopatra, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Puddle of Mudd | “re:(disc)overed” (all-covers album; producer: Bill Appleberry; first single: a cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter”; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) | (Flawless, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Red Hot Chili Peppers | “I’m With You” (their first album in five years; producer: Rick Rubin; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Warner, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The | “Am I the Enemy” (first single: “Reap”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Collective Sounds, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Skelp | “Volume” (producers: Blaine Misner, David McEwan; guests: Ted Watts, Ben Azzara; first single: “The Girls Are Gone”; Hear here) | (Skelp, Sept. 3, 2011) |
Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus (father-and-son flamenca guitar and cello players) | “Barlande” (producer: Bryce Dessner of The National; Hear here; See here) | (Infiné, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Static Jacks, The | “If You’re Young [MP3 Download]” (Hear here) | (Fearless, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Stereo MC’s | “Emperor’s Nightingale” (guest: Jamie Cullum; first single: “Boy”; Hear/see here) | (U.K. – !K7, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Tommy Stinson (The Replacements bassist) | “One Man Mutiny” (half of the proceeds to benefit homeless children in Haiti; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Done to Death Music, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Ume (female indie-rock trio) | “Phantoms” (producers: Ume; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Modern Outsider, Aug. 29, 2011) |
Various artists | “Reggae’s Gone Country” (classic country hits covered by Jamaican musicians Beres Hammond, Tarrus Riley, Tessanne Chin, Etana, Luciano, Sly & Robbie, etc., with contributing vocals by Larry Gatlin; Hear/read here; MP3 Download) | (VP/Warner Music Nashville, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Butch Walker and The Black Widows | “The Spade” (first single: “Summer of ’89”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Dangerbird, Aug. 29, 2011) |
theWANDAS | “theWANDAS [MP3 Download]” (Hear here) | (TFMRA, Aug. 30, 2011) |
Dan Wolff (Silver Spring, Md.-based folk/rock musician) | “Old Fashioned Love [MP3 Download]” (Hear here) | (Dan Wolff, Sept. 1, 2011) |