| 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) |
