| Artist: |
Title: |
Label/Due date: |
| Acid House Kings |
“Music Sounds Better With You” (Swedish indie pop band’s first album since 2005; first single: “Are We Lovers or Are We Friends?”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Labrador, March 22, 2011) |
| Art of Dying (Vancouver rock band) |
“Vices and Virtues” (first single: “Die Trying”; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Intoxication/Reprise, March 22, 2011) |
| Richard Ashcroft (of The Verve) |
“United Nations of Sound” (released in 2010 in his native U.K.; producer: No I.D.; first single: “Are You Ready?”; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Razor & Tie, March 22, 2011) |
| Federico Aubele |
“Berlin 13” (collaborators: Natalia Clavier, Ka, Mauro Refosco, Jesse Harris; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(ESL Music, March 22, 2011) |
| Bing Ji Ling |
“Shadow to Shine” (producers: Embassy Sound Productions; guests: members of the Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Scissor Sisters, Antibalas and Phenomenal Handclap Band; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Tummy Touch, March 22, 2011) |
| Joe Bonamassa |
“Dust Bowl” (producer: Kevin “Caveman” Shirley; guests: John Hiatt, Vince Gill; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) |
(J&R, March 22, 2011) |
| Chris Brown |
“F.A.M.E.” (producers: Benny Benassi, DJ Frank E, Diplo, Jim Jonsin, Kevin McCall, Polow da Don; guests: Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Ludacris, Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes, etc.; new single: “Look At Me Now”; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) |
(Jive, March 22, 2011) |
| Solomon Burke & De Dijk (Dutch band) |
“Hold On Tight” (the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s last album before his death in October 2010; Hear/read here; MP3 Download) |
(Verve, March 22, 2011) |
| Edwyn Collins |
“Losing Sleep” (released in the U.K. in September 2010; songs co-written with Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy, Magic Numbers’ Romeo Stodart, the Cribs’ Ryan Harman, The Drums, Johnny Marr; producers: Collins, Sebastian Lewsley; guests: Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Heavenly Recordings/Cooperative Music USA/Downtown, March 22, 2011) |
| Duran Duran |
“All You Need Is Now [CD/DVD]” (originally released Dec. 21 via iTunes; CD version contains five bonus tracks; producer: Mark Ronson; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) |
(S-Curve/Tape Modern, March 22, 2011) |
| Sky Ferreira |
“As If! [MP3 Download]” (five-song EP; first single: “Sex Rules”; Hear here) |
(Capitol, March 22, 2011) |
| Kirk Franklin |
“Hello Fear” (producers: Franklin, Shaun “Harold” Martin; guests: Rance Allen, Beverly Crawford, Marvin Sapp, Marvin Winans; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) |
(Gospo Centric, March 22, 2011) |
| Grasstowne |
“Kickin’ Up Dust [MP3 Download]” (producers: Steve Gulley, Alan Bibey; guests: Steve Gulley, Alan Bibey, Justen Jenkins, Adam Haynes, Kameron Keller; first single: “Kickin’ Up Dust”; Hear here) |
(Rural Rhythm, March 22, 2011) |
| Green Day |
“Awesome As F**k [CD/DVD]” (live album, recorded during the band’s Tokyo shows in January 2010; See here; Read here) |
(Reprise, March 22, 2011) |
| Gucci Mane |
“The Return of Mr. Zone 6” (guests: Waka Flocka Flame, OJ Da Juiceman, Birdman, Wale, Master P, Webbie, 8ball, Rocko, Wooh the Kid; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Warner, March 22, 2011) |
| Jennifer Hudson |
“I Remember Me” (collaborators: Alicia Keys, Ryan Tedder, Swizz Beatz, Rich Harrison, Ne-Yo, Stargate; first single: “Where You At”; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Arista, March 22, 2011) |
| If By Yes |
“Salt On Sea Glass” (features David Byrne, Petra Haden, Cibo Matto’s Yuka Honda, experimental Japanese artists Yuko Araki and Hirotaka Shimizu; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Chimera, March 22, 2011) |
| Immortal Dominion |
“Primortal [MP3 Download]” (producer: Sterling Winfield; Hear here) |
(427, March 22, 2011) |
| Josh Kelley |
“Georgia Clay” (Hear here; Read here) |
(MCA Nashville, March 22, 2011) |
| Keren Ann |
“101” (first single: “My Name Is Trouble”; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Blue Note, March 22, 2011) |
| Adam Lambert |
“Glam Nation Live [CD/DVD]” (recorded at Clowes Hall in Indianapolis in August 2010; Hear here; Read here) |
(19 Recordings/RCA, March 22, 2011) |
| Lonely Forest, The |
“Arrows” (producer: Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Trans, March 22, 2011 – Walla’s label) |
| Panic! at the Disco |
“Vices & Virtues” (producers: John Feldmann, Butch Walker; first single: “The Ballad of Mona Lisa”; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen/Atlantic, March 22, 2011) |
| Pet Shop Boys |
“The Most Incredible Thing: Original Score” (a 2-disc collaboration with Sadler’s Wells dance theater in London, choreographed by Javier De Frutos and based on a Hans Christian Andersen story adapted by playwright-director Matthew Dunster; See here; MP3 Download) |
(Astralwerks, March 22, 2011) |
| Protest the Hero (Canadian progressive metal band) |
“Scurrilous” (producer: Julius Butty; first single: “C’est La Vie”; Hear here) |
(Vagrant, March 22, 2011) |
| Roys, The |
“Lonesome Whistle” (producers: The Roys, Andy Leftwich; guests: Mark Fain, Justin Moses, Randy Kohrs, Cody Kilby, Andy Leftwich; first single: “Coal Minin’ Man”; Hear here) |
(Rural Rhythm, March 22, 2011) |
| Saliva |
“Under Your Skin” (producer: Howard Benson; first single: “Nothing”; Hear here; MP3 Download) |
(Island, March 22, 2011) |
| Tommy Shaw (Styx singer-guitarist) |
“The Great Divide” (his first bluegrass album; guests: Alison Krauss, Dwight Yoakam, Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Rob Ickes, Stuart Duncan, etc.; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(Pazzo Music/Fontana, March 22, 2011) |
| Strokes, The |
“Angles” (first single: “Under Cover of Darkness”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) |
(RCA, March 22, 2011) |
