Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
John Amadon (Portland, Ore.-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist) | “The Bursting Sheaf [MP3]” (guests: Scott McPherson, Mike Coykendall; Hear here) | (Hirngespinst, March 5, 2013) |
Ólöf Arnalds (Icelandic singer-songwriter) | “Sudden Elevation” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (One Little Indian, March 5, 2013) |
Autechre | “Exai” (two CDs; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Warp, March 5, 2013) |
Bajofondo (Latin Grammy-winning band) | “Presente” (producer: founder Gustavo Santaolalla; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Sony Masterworks, March 5, 2013) |
Luke Bryan | “Spring Break … Here to Party” (Read here; MP3) | (Capitol Nashville, March 5, 2013) |
Marcus Canty (fourth-place finisher on the first season of “The X Factor USA”) | “This Is … Marcus Canty [EP]” (seven songs; Hear here; MP3) | (Epic, March 5, 2013) |
Colette Carr | “Skitszo (Part 3) [MP3]” (four-song EP; Hear here) | (UMGRI / Interscope, March 5, 2013) |
The Cave Singers (Seattle indie rock quartet) | “Naomi” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Jagjaguwar, March 5, 2013) |
Chelsea Light Moving (led by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore) | “Chelsea Light Moving” (Hear/read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Matador, March 5, 2013) |
Anthony Child (U.K. electronic music legend, also known as Surgeon) | “The Space Between People and Things [MP3]” (Hear here) | (NNA Tapes, March 5, 2013) |
Charlotte Church | “Two [MP3]” (Welsh singer-songwriter’s five-song EP of goth rock; Hear here) | (Alligator Wine, March 4, 2013) |
Cloud Cult (Midwestern chamber rock band) | “Love” (first single: “Good Friend”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Earthology, March 5, 2013) |
Drew Davidsen (instrumental guitarist) | “True Drew” (producers: Eric Copeland, Preston Glass, Norman Connors; guests: Bobby Lyle, Ron Tyson, Eric Marienthal, Gerald Veasley, Bob Baldwin; Hear here) | (Oznot, March 5, 2013) |
Dead Leaf Echo | “Thought & Language [MP3]” (first single: “Memory Traces”; Hear here) | (Neon Sigh, March 5, 2013) |
Hatchet | “Dawn of the End” (first single: “Fall From Grace”; Hear here; MP3) | (The End, March 5, 2013) |
Highasakite (Norwegian indie-pop quintet) | “In and Out of Weeks [MP3]” (five-song EP; producer: Thomas Dahl; first single: “Son of a Bitch”; Hear here) | (Propeller Recordings, March 5, 2013) |
Hiromi (pianist/composer) | “Move” (with contra-bass guitarist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips; See here; MP3) | (Telarc, March 5, 2013) |
Robyn Hitchcock | “Love From London” (producer: Paul Noble; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Yep Roc, March 5, 2013) |
Hollis Brown (NYC rock quartet) | “Ride on the Train” (first single: “Down On Your Luck”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Alive, March 5, 2013) |
The Howlin’ Brothers (Nashville-based band) | “Howl” (producer: Brendan Benson; guests: Warren Haynes, Jypsi; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Readymade/Thirty Tigers, March 5, 2013) |
How to destroy angels (Trent Reznor with his wife Mariqueen Maandig, Atticus Ross, and Rob Sheridan) | “Welcome Oblivion” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Columbia, March 5, 2013) |
Icona Pop (Swedish DJ and synthpop duo) | “Iconic [EP]” (six songs; guests: Charli XCX, The Knocks, St. Lucia; Hear here; MP3) | (Big Beat/Atlantic, March 5, 2013) |
Jamaican Queens (Detroit duo) | “Wormfood [MP3]” (Hear here) | (Notown, March 5, 2013) |
Javelin | “Hi Beams” (first single: “Nnormal”; Hear here; MP3) | (Luaka Bop, March 5, 2013) |
jozif (English DJ/producer) | “Balance Presents jozif” (Hear/read here; MP3) | (Balance Music, March 5, 2013) |
Krokus | “Dirty Dynamite” (producer: Chris Von Rohr; recorded at Abbey Road studios in London; Hear here; MP3) | (The End, March 5, 2013) |
Ashley Monroe | “Like a Rose” (producer: Vince Gill; Hear here; MP3) | (Warner Music Nashville, March 5, 2013) |
Gurf Morlix | “Gurf Morlix Finds the Present Tense” (guests: Gene Elders, Ray Bonneville, Eliza Gilkyson, Rick Richards, Ian McLagan, Nick Connolly, Patterson Barrett; Hear here; MP3) | (Rootball, March 5, 2013) |
Kate Nash | “Girl Talk” (producers: Tom Biller, Jeff Ellis; first single: “3AM”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Have 10p, March 5, 2013) |
The 1975 (U.K. rockers) | “Music For Cars [MP3]” (five-song EP; Hear/read here) | (Vagrant, March 5, 2013) |
Madeleine Peyroux | “The Blue Room” (covers of songs from Ray Charles’ “Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music,” plus Randy Newman, Leonard Cohen, etc.; producer: Larry Klein; first single: “Changing All Those Changes”; Hear here; MP3) | (Emarcy/Decca, March 5, 2013) |
Raekwon and DJ Fresh | “The Tonight Show [MP3]” (guests: Mean Doe Green, FaShawn; Hear here; CD) | (Siccness.net, March 5, 2013) |
The Replacements | “Songs For Slim [MP3]” (five-song EP benefits their former guitarist, Slim Dunlap, who suffered a stroke in 2012; Read here) | (New West, March 5, 2013) |
Reverend and The Makers | “@Reverend_Makers” (Hear here; MP3) | (The End, March 5, 2013) |
Josh Ritter | “The Beast In Its Tracks” (producer: Sam Kassirer; first single: “Joy to You Baby”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Pytheas Recordings, March 5, 2013) |
Caitlin Rose | “The Stand-In” (two songs co-written with Gary Louris; producers: Jordan Lehning, Skylar Wilson; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (ATO, March 5, 2013) |
Satellite (alt-rock quartet) | “Calling Birds” (producer: Mitch Allan; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Descendant, March 5, 2013) |
Boz Scaggs | “Memphis” (his first album in five years; producer: Steve Jordan; first single: “Mixed Up Shook Up Girl”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (429, March 5, 2013) |
Scanners (U.K. alt-pop band) | “Mexico EP [MP3]” (three songs; Hear here) | (Dim Mak, March 5, 2013) |
Soilwork | “The Living Infinite” (double album; producer: Jens Bogren; first single: “This Momentary Bliss”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Nuclear Blast, March 5, 2013) |
Son Volt | “Honky Tonk” (their first album since 2009; Hear here; MP3) | (Rounder, March 5, 2013) |
Stereophonics | “Graffiti on the Train” (producers: Kelly Jones, Jim Lowe; Hear here) | (U.K. – Stylus/EMI, March 4, 2013) |
Stubborn Heart (electronic soul group) | “Stubborn Heart” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (One Little Indian, March 5, 2013) |
Superhuman Happiness | “Hands” (first single: “See Me On My Way”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (The Royal Potato Family, March 5, 2013) |
They Might Be Giants | “Nanobots” (producer: Patrick Dillett; first single: “Call You Mom”; Hear/read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Idlewild Recordings/Megaforce, March 5, 2013) |
The Tossers (punk-infused Irish rockers from Chicago) | “The Emerald City” (first single: “The Emerald City”; Hear here) | (Victory, March 5, 2013) |
Twofold (U.K./U.S. production duo) | “The Prelude [MP3]” (six-song EP; Hear here) | (Firepower, March 5, 2013) |
Various artists | “Shake It Up: I <3 Dance [TV soundtrack]” | (Disney, March 5, 2013) |
Various artists | “This Is Dubstep 2013” (two CDs, 40 tracks; Track list) | (EMI, March 5, 2013) |
Brooke Waggoner | “Originator” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Swoon Moon Music, March 5, 2013) |
Waxahatchee | “Cerulean Salt” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Don Giovanni, March 5, 2013) |
Young Dreams (Norwegian band) | “Between Places” (first single: “First Days of Something”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Modular/Interscope, March 5, 2013) |
Youth Lagoon (aka Trevor Powers) | “Wondrous Bughouse” (Hear/read here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Fat Possum, March 5, 2013) |