| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Doug Benson | “Gateway Doug” (stand-up comic’s sixth album, taped live in San Francisco; Hear here; MP3) | (ASPECIALTHING) |
| Big B | “Fool’s Gold” (producer: Jim Perkins; guests: Slightly Stoopid, Colt Ford, The Dirty Heads, Jamie Allensworth, DJ Souless, DJ Product, etc.; other collaborators include P!nk and Butch Walker; Hear here; MP3) | (Suburban Noize) |
| CFCF (aka Michael Silver) | “Music for Objects [MP3]” (eight-song EP; Hear here; Read here) | (Paper Bag) |
| Ciara | “Ciara” (guests: Nicki Minaj, Future; new single: “Body Party”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Epic) |
| Dead Boots (formerly TAB the Band) | “Verónica [MP3]” (Hear here) | (North Street) |
| The Deadly Gentlemen | “Roll Me, Tumble Me” (Hear here; MP3) | (Rounder) |
| Deep Forest | “Deep Africa” (the French ambient world music group’s first album in 11 years; Hear here; MP3) | (Big3) |
| Dirty Streets (Memphis-based power trio) | “Blades of Grass” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Alive Naturalsound) |
| Omar Dykes (of Omar and the Howlers) | “Runnin’ With the Wolf” (13 Howlin’ Wolf covers and one original song; Hear here; MP3) | (Provogue / The Mascot Label Group) |
| Editors | “The Weight of Your Love” (first album to feature new band members Justin Lockey and Elliott Williams; producer: Jacquire King; first single: “A Ton of Love”; Hear here; Deluxe edition; Vinyl; MP3) | ([PIAS] America / RED) |
| Dana Fuchs (blues-rock singer appeared in the 2007 film “Across the Universe”) | “Bliss Avenue” (Hear here; MP3) | (Ruf) |
| Glasvegas | “If [EP]” (four songs; producer: frontman James Allan; “If” is the first single from “Later … When the TV Turns to Static,” out Sept. 3; Hear here) | (Go Wow / BMG) |
| Grenouer (metal band from St. Petersburg, Russia) | “Blood on the Face” (Hear here; See here) | (Mausoleum) |
| Skylar Grey (co-wrote Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie”) | “Don’t Look Down” (excutive producer: Eminem; new single: “Wear Me Out‚” feat. Eminem; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (KIDinaKORNER / Interscope) |
| David Liebe Hart Band (actor, musician, artist and puppeteer; his songs appeared on Adult Swim’s “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job”) | “David Liebe Hart Band [MP3]” (Hear here) | (Evil Weevil) |
| Jay-Z | “Magna Carta Holy Grail” (producers: Rick Rubin, Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, Swizz Beatz; Hear here; Read here) | (Def Jam) |
| Donell Jones | “Forever” (first single: “Forever”; Hear here; MP3) | (CandyMan Music / eOne Music) |
| Geoffrey Keezer | “Heart of the Piano” (Grammy-nominated pianist’s first solo project since 1999; Hear here; MP3) | (Motéma Music) |
| Maps (aka James Chapman) | “Vicissitude” (first single: “A.M.A”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Mute) |
| Alec Morrison (Northern Ontario musician) | “Nowhere Is the Place for Me [MP3]” (Hear here) | (Alec Morrison, July 10) |
| Michael Martin Murphey | “Red River Drifter” (producers: Murphey, Ryan Murphey; guests: Ryan Murphey, Pat Flynn, Jason Mowry, Troy Engle, Matt Pierson; first single: “Shake It Off”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Red River Entertainment) |
| The Octopus Project (Austin experimental pop band) | “Fever Forms” (first single: “Whitby”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Peek-A-Boo) |
| Part Time | “PDA” (first single: “I Won’t Be Your Little Secret”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Mexican Summer) |
| Robert Pollard | “Honey Locust Honky Tonk” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (GBV Inc.) |
| Preservation Hall Jazz Band | “That’s It!” (their first album of original material; songs co-written with Dan Wilson, Chris Stapleton and Paul Williams; producers: Jim James, Ben Jaffe; Hear here; MP3, with two bonus live tracks) | (Legacy Recordings) |
| Speedy Ortiz (Northampton quartet) | “Major Arcana” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Carpark) |
| Status Quo | “Bula Quo!” (two-CD soundtrack to the 90-minute action movie featuring the band as themselves and co-starring Craig Fairbrass, Laura Aikman and Jon Lovitz; See here; MP3) | (Eagle Rock) |
| Thriftstore Masterpiece (revolving collective pays homage to long-lost classics) | “Thriftstore Masterpiece Presents Lee Hazlewood’s Trouble Is a Lonesome Town” (featuring Pete Yorn, Frank Black, Isaac Brock, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Art Brut’s Eddie Argos, the late Larry Norman, etc.; Hear here; Vinyl) | (SideOneDummy) |
| Trampled Under Foot (bluesy family trio) | “Badlands” (producer: Tony Braunagel; guest: keyboardist Mike Finnigan; Hear here; MP3) | (Telarc) |
| Pat Travers Band | “Can Do” (Hear here; MP3) | (Alexus) |
| Travis Tritt | “The Calm After …” (features songs from his ill-fated 2007 album “The Storm,” co-produced by Randy Jackson; first single: a cover of the Patty Smyth/Don Henley hit “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough,” a new duet with his 15-year-old daughter, Tyler Reese Tritt; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Redneck / Post Oak Recordings) |
| Various artists | “Pippin: New Broadway Cast Recording” (starring Andrea Martin, with score by Stephen Schwartz; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Ghostlight) |
| Whirr (Bay Area six-piece) | “Around [EP]” (four songs; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Graveface) |
