| Artist: |
Title: |
Label/Due date: |
| AVAN LAVA |
“Flex Fantasy [MP3 Download]” (first single: “It’s Never Over”; Hear here) |
(AVAN LAVA, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Bright Moments (Kelly Pratt, multi-instrumentalist for Beirut, Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem) |
“Natives” (Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Luaka Bop, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Buckethead |
“Electric Sea” (producers: Buckethead, Janet Rienstra-Friesea; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Metastation, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Cheap Girls |
“Giant Orange” (producer: Tom Gabel of Against Me!; first single: “Ruby”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Rise, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Chieftains, The |
“Voice of Ages [CD/DVD]” (Irish band celebrating its 50th anniversary; producers: Paddy Moloney, T Bone Burnett; guests: Bon Iver, The Decemberists, The Low Anthem, Civil Wars, Pistol Annies, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Punch Brothers, etc.; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Hear Music/Concord, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Chelsea Crowell (daughter of Rosanne Cash and Rodney Crowell) |
“Crystal City” (producer: Loney John Hutchins; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Cleft Music, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Dirty Ghosts |
“Metal Moon” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Last Gang, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Field Music |
“Plumb” (first single: “[I Keep Thinking About] A New Thing”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Memphis Industries, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| fun. (New York indie-pop band) |
“Some Nights” (producer: Jeff Bhasker; first single: “We Are Young,” feat. Janelle Monáe; Hear here; Vinyl) |
(Fueled By Ramen, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Galactic |
“Carnivale Electricos” (guests: Cyril and Ivan Neville, Mystikal, Mannie Fresh, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, Moyseis Marques, etc.; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(ANTI-/Epitaph, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Grimes (Montreal singer Claire Boucher) |
“Visions” (first single: “Genesis”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Arbutus/4AD, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Penelope Houston |
“On Market Street” (her first album since 2004; producer: Jeffrey Wood; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Devoted Ruins, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Jonquil |
“Point of Go [MP3 Download]” (first single: “It’s My Part”; Hear here; Vinyl) |
(Dovecote, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Damien Jurado (Seattle indie rocker) |
“Maraqopa [MP3 Download]” (producer: Richard Swift of The Shins; Hear here) |
(Secretly Canadian, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Angelique Kidjo |
“Spirit Rising” (live album, featuring Josh Groban, Dianne Reeves, Ezra Koenig and Branford Marsalis; see DVD version below; MP3 Download) |
(Razor & Tie, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Lambchop |
“Mr. M” (dedicated to Vic Chesnutt; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Merge, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Leland Sundries |
“The Foundry EP [MP3 Download]” (Hear here) |
(L’Echiquier, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| James Vincent McMorrow |
“We Don’t Eat EP [MP3 Download]” (five songs; Hear here) |
(Vagrant, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Menzingers, The (punk-rock group from Scranton, Pa.) |
“On the Impossible Past” (producer: Matt Allison; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Epitaph, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| My Best Fiend (Brooklyn quintet) |
“In Ghostlike Fading” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Warp, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Sinéad O’Connor |
“How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?” (Hear/read here; MP3 Download) |
(MRI, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Perfume Genius (Seattle singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas) |
“Put Your Back N 2 It” (producers: Drew Morgan, John Goodmanson; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Matador, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Max Raabe (German singer and leader of Palast Orchester) |
“One Cannot Kiss Alone” (Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Decca, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Fionn Regan |
“100 Acres of Sycamore” (Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Heavenly Recordings/Cooperative Music/Downtown, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Gemma Rey |
“Gemma Ray Sings Sparks with Sparks [MP3 Download]” (two songs; Hear/read here) |
(Bronze Rat, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Josh Ritter |
“Bringing in the Darlings” (six-song EP; producer: Josh Kaufman; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Pytheas Recoridngs, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Sleigh Bells |
“Reign of Terror” (producer: guitarist Derek E. Miller; Hear here; See/read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Mom + Pop/N.E.E.T. Recordings, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Christopher Paul Stelling (Brooklyn singer-songwriter) |
“Songs of Praise & Scorn [MP3 Download]” (producers: Stelling, Spencer Scanlon, Jonny Leather, Kevin Ratterman; first single: “Mourning Train to Memphis”; Hear here) |
(Mecca Lecca Recording Co., Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Julia Stone (of Angus & Julia Stone) |
“Let’s Forget All The Things That We Say [MP3 Download]” (four songs; Hear here) |
(Nettwerk, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Tindersticks |
“The Something Rain” (Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Constellation, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Tyga (rapper is Travie McCoy’s cousin) |
“Careless World: Rise of the Last King” (guests: Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brow, Robin Thicke, Nas, etc.; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Republic, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Various artists |
“Act of Valor [Film soundtrack]” (movie starring real-life Navy SEALs opens Feb. 24; first single: Keith Urban’s “For You”; See here; MP3 Download) |
(Relativity Music Group, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Various artists |
“Radio Rebel” (Disney Channel original movie premieres Feb. 17, featuring Disney Channel star Debby Ryan, pop singer Kari Kimmel, etc.; Hear/see here; MP3 Download) |
(Razor & Tie, Feb. 21, 2012) |
| Jim White |
“Where It Hits You” (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Yep Roc, Feb. 21, 2012) |
