Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
Acrylics (Brooklyn duo) | “Lives and Treasure” (producers: Patrick Wimberly, Matt Boynton, Britt Myers; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Friendly Fire Recordings, March 1, 2011) |
Alexander (Alexander Ebert, lead singer of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros) | “Alexander” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Community Music/Vagrant, March 1, 2011) |
Marsha Ambrosius (of Floetry) | “Late Nights & Early Mornings” (collaborators: Alicia Keys, Canei, Dre & Vidal, Just Blaze ; first single: “Hope She Cheats on You [With a Basketball Player]”; Hear here) | (J, March 1, 2011) |
American Heritage | “Sedentary [MP3 Download]” (producer: Buried at Sea’s Sanford Parker; Hear here) | (Translation Loss, March 1, 2011) |
Beady Eye (offshoot of Oasis, led by Liam Gallagher) | “Different Gear, Still Speeding” (producer: Steve Lillywhite; Hear here) | (Dangerbird, March 1, 2011) |
Big Head Blues Club | “100 Years of Robert Johnson” (covers album featuring Big Head Todd and the Monsters, with guests B.B. King, Hubert Sumlin, Honeyboy Edwards, Charlie Musselwhite, Ruthie Foster, Cedric Burnside, Lightnin’ Malcolm; producer: Chris Goldsmith) | (Ryko/Big, March 1, 2011) |
Blessid Union of Souls | “The Mission Field” (Hear here) | (MRI Associated Labels, March 1, 2011) |
Blow Monkeys, The | “Staring at the Sea” (producer: Bob Rose; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (U.K. – FOD, Feb. 28, 2011) |
Anna Calvi (London singer-guitarist) | “Anna Calvi” (producers: Rob Ellis, Calvi; Hear here; Full stream; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Domino, March 1, 2011) |
DeVotchKa | “100 Lovers” (producer: Craig Schumacher; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl) | (Anti-/Epitaph, March 1, 2011) |
Dropkick Murphys | “Going Out in Style” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (Hellcat/Epitaph, March 1, 2011) |
Dum Dum Girls | “He Gets Me High” (four-song EP, includes a cover of The Smiths’ “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”; producers: lead singer Dee Dee, Richard Gottehrer, The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Sub Pop, March 1, 2011) |
Linda Eder | “Now” (reunited with prolific Broadway and pop composer Frank Wildhorn; producers: Wildhorn, Eder, Jeremy Roberts; Hear here) | (Sony Masterworks, March 1, 2011) |
Eisley | “The Valley” (producers: Gary Leach, Austin Deptula; first single: “Ambulance”; Hear here) | (Equal Vision, March 1, 2011) |
Forever the Sickest Kids (Dallas rock group) | “Forever the Sickest Kids” (Hear here; Read here) | (Universal Motown, March 1, 2011) |
Go Radio | “Lucky Street” (producer: Tim O’Heir; Hear here) | (Fearless, March 1, 2011) |
Ari Hest | “Sunset Over Hope Street” (Hear here) | (Downtown/Mercer Street, March 1, 2011) |
David Lanz | “Liverpool: Re-imagining the Beatles” (Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Blind Man Sound, March 1, 2011) |
Left Lane Cruiser | “Junkyard Speed Ball” (producer: Jim Diamond; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Alive, March 1, 2011) |
Aaron Lewis (Staind frontman) | “Town Line” (seven-song EP; producers: James Stroud, Lewis; guests: George Jones, Charlie Daniels, Chris Young; first single: “Country Boy”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Stroudavarious, March 1, 2011) |
Lykke Li | “Wounded Rhymes” (producer: Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn & John; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Atlantic, March 1, 2011) |
Middle Brother (featuring the lead singers of Deer Tick, Dawes and Delta Spirit) | “Middle Brother” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Partisan, March 1, 2011) |
Buddy Miller’s Majestic Silver Strings (with Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz) | “Buddy Miller’s Majestic Silver Strings” (producer: Miller; guests: Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, Lee Ann Womack, Chocolate Genius, Ann McCrary, Julie Miller; Read here; MP3 Download) | (New West, March 1, 2011) |
NEeMA (Canadian singer-songwriter) | “Watching You Think” (producers: Leonard Cohen, Pierre Marchand; first single: “Escape”; Hear here; See here; MP3 Download) | (SIN, March 1, 2011) |
Papercuts | “Fading Parade” (producer: Thom Monahan; first single: “White Are the Waves”; Full stream; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Sub Pop, March 1, 2011) |
John Popper & The Duskray Troubadours | “John Popper & The Duskray Troubadours” (producer: guitarist Jono Manson; first single: “Something Sweet”; Hear here; Read here) | (429, March 1, 2011) |
Ron Sexsmith | “Long Player, Late Bloomer” (producer: Bob Rock; first single: “Love Shines”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Thirty Tigers, March 1, 2011) |
Sick Puppies (Australian rock trio) | “Polar Opposite [MP3 Download]” (features re-imagined tracks from their sophomore release “Tri-Polar”; producer: Rock Mafia; Hear here) | (Virgin, March 1, 2011) |
Mike Watt | “Hyphenated-Man” (his third rock opera; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (ORG Music/Clenchedwrench, March 1, 2011) |
Lucinda Williams | “Blessed” (producers: Don Was, Eric Liljestrand, Tom Overby; guests: Elvis Costello, Matthew Sweet, Rami Jaffe, Greg Leisz; Hear here; Full stream; Read here; Deluxe edition; Vinyl) | (Lost Highway, March 1, 2011) |