| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Antlers, The (Brooklyn indie rockers) | “Burst Apart” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Frenchkiss, May 10, 2011) |
| Birds and Arrows | “We’re Gonna Run [MP3 Download]” (Hear here; See here) | (307 Knox, May 10, 2011) |
| Black Label Society | “The Song Remains Not the Same” (unplugged versions of material from the album “Order of the Black,” and additional material recorded during those sessions; Hear here) | (E1 Music, May 10, 2011) |
| Greg Brown | “Freak Flag” (his 24th studio album; producer: Bo Ramsey; guests: Iris Dement, daughter Pieta Brown; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Yep Roc, May 10, 2011) |
| Cars, The | “Move Like This” (their first album featuring original members Ric Ocasek, Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes and David Robinson since 1987; first single: “Sad Song”; Full stream; Hear/read here; MP3 Download) | (Hear Music/Concord, May 10, 2011) |
| Christopher Cross | “Doctor Faith” (released last year in Europe; Hear/see here; Read here) | (Eagle, May 10, 2011) |
| Delay Trees (Finnish dream-pop group) | “Delay Trees [MP3 Download]” (producer: Julius Mauranen; Hear here) | (Friendly Fire Recordings, May 10, 2011) |
| Farewell Continental | “¡Hey, Hey Pioneers!” (producer: Ed Ackerson; Hear here) | (Paper + Plastick, May 10, 2011) |
| Felice Brothers, The | “Celebration, Florida” (first single: “Ponzi”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl) | (Fat Possum, May 10, 2011) |
| Gang Gang Dance | “Eye Contact” (producer: Chris Coady; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (4AD, May 10, 2011) |
| Gardens | “Gardens” (producer: Chris Koltay; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Alive, May 10, 2011) |
| Globes, The | “Future Self” (producer: John Goodmanson; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Barsuk, May 10, 2011) |
| Warren Haynes (Gov’t Mule co-founder) | “Man in Motion” (guests: Ivan Neville, Ian McLagan, Ruthie Foster, George Porter Jr., Ron Holloway; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Stax/Fantasy, May 10, 2011) |
| Here We Go Magic | “The January EP” (producer: Jen Turner; Hear here) | (Secretly Canadian, May 10, 2011) |
| Hey Champ | “Anything At All [MP3 Download]” (five-song EP; Hear here) | (Turnout, May 10, 2011) |
| Russell Hitchcock (Air Supply singer) | “Tennessee: The Nashville Sessions” (2 CDs, 20 songs; producer: Rob Rappaport; Hear here) | (Better Angels Music, May 10, 2011) |
| Jesu (English post-metal band) | “Ascension” (Read here; MP3 Download) | (Caldo Verde, May 10, 2011) |
| Booker T. Jones | “The Road From Memphis” (guests: The Roots, Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket, Matt Berninger of the National, Sharon Jones, Lou Reed; Hear/read here; Vinyl) | (Anti-/Epitaph, May 10, 2011) |
| Liturgy | “Aesthethica” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (Thrill Jockey, May 10, 2011) |
| Lonely Island, The (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone) | “Turtleneck & Chain [CD/DVD]” (guests: Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Akon, Nicki Minaj, etc.; Hear/read here; Vinyl) | (Universal Republic, May 10, 2011) |
| Magnetic Man (British dubstep supergroup) | “Magnetic Man” (guests: John Legend, Ms. Dynamite, Angela Hunte, Sam Frank, Katy B; first single: “I Need Air”; Hear here; See here) | (StarTime International, May 10, 2011) |
| Manchester Orchestra | “Simple Math” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (Favorite Gentleman Recordings/Columbia, May 10, 2011) |
| Man Man | “Life Fantastic” (producer: Mike Mogis; Hear/read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Anti-/Epitaph, May 10, 2011) |
| Matthew Morrison (actor-singer who plays glee club director Will Schuester on Fox’s “Glee”) | “Matthew Morrison” (guest: Gwyneth Paltrow; Read here) | (Mercury, May 10, 2011) |
| Moving Mountains | “Waves” (producer: Gregory Dunn; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Triple Crown, May 10, 2011) |
| ohGr (Skinny Puppy’s Ogre and Mark Walk) | “unDeveloped” (Hear here) | (Metropolis, May 10, 2011) |
| Okkervil River | “I Am Very Far” (first single: “Mermaid”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Jagjaguwar, May 10, 2011) |
| Other Lives | “Tamer Animals” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (tbd, May 10, 2011) |
| Christina Perri | “lovestrong.” (producer: Joe Chiccarelli; new single: “Arms”; Hear here; Deluxe edition) | (Atlantic, May 10, 2011) |
| Lee Scratch Perry | “Rise Again” (producer: Bill Laswell; guests: TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Ejigayehu “Gigi” Shibabaw, Hawkman, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Bernie Worrell, Josh Werner, Sly Dunbar, Hamid Drake, Aiyb Dieng, Dominick James; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (MOD Technologies, May 10, 2011) |
| Andy Petr (19-year-old electronic whiz) | “Rapper Turned Singer [MP3 Download]” (five-song EP; Hear here) | (Mixpak, May 10, 2011) |
| Psychedelic Horseshit | “Laced” (guest: Times New Viking’s Beth Murphy; Hear here; Vinyl) | (FatCat, May 10, 2011) |
| Sam Roberts Band | “Collider” (producer: Brian Deck; first single: “The Last Crusade”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Zoë/Rounder, May 10, 2011) |
| Raphael Saadiq | “Stone Rollin’ “ (guests: Robert Randolph, Yukimi Nagano, Earth, Wind & Fire’s Larry Dunn; first single: “Radio”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Columbia, May 10, 2011) |
| Sea and Cake, The | “The Moonlight Butterfly” (producer: Mike Mogis; Hear/read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Thrill Jockey, May 10, 2011) |
| Skold | “Anomie” (Hear here) | (Metropolis, May 10, 2011) |
| Sloan | “The Double Cross” (first single: “Follow the Leader”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Yep Roc, May 10, 2011) |
| Ben Sollee (classically trained pop cellist-singer) | “Inclusions” (producer: Duane Lundy; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Tin Ear/Thirty Tigers, May 10, 2011) |
| Spindrift | “Classic Soundtracks, Vol. 1” (producer: Ethan Allen; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Xemu, May 10, 2011) |
| Chris Thile & Michael Daves | “Sleep With One Eye Open” (producers: Thile, Daves; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Nonesuch, May 10, 2011) |
| This Will Destroy You | “Tunnel Blanket” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (Suicide Squeeze, May 10, 2011) |
| Tyler, the Creator (leader of hip-hop collective Odd Future) | “Goblin” (producers: Tyler, the Creator, Left Brain; Hear here; Vinyl; Deluxe edition; MP3 Download) | (XL Recordings, May 10, 2011) |
| Steven Tyler | “(It) Feels So Good [MP3 Download]” (stand-alone single, co-written with Marti Frederiksen, will not be part of a solo album; Read here) | (Columbia, May 10, 2011) |
| Urge Overkill | “Rock&Roll Submarine” (their first album in more than 15 years; first single: “Effigy”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (UO, May 10, 2011) |
| Various artists | “Andrew Lloyd Webber’s New Production: The Wizard of Oz [MP3 Download]” (2011 London Palladium recording, featuring Michael Crawford and Danielle Hope; See/read here) | (Decca Broadway, May 10, 2011) |
| Various artists | “The Royal Wedding: The Official Album” | (Decca, May 10, 2011) |
| Wave Pictures, The (British trio) | “Beer in the Breakers” (Hear here) | (U.K. – Moshi Moshi, May 9, 2011) |
| Wild Beasts (Mercury Prize-nominated British group) | “Smother” (producers: Richard Formby, Wild Beasts; Hear/read here; See here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Domino, May 10, 2011) |
| Wilderness of Manitoba, The | “When You Left the Fire” (first single: “Orono Park”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (tinyOGRE Entertainment, May 10, 2011) |
| The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore | “Heirloom Music” (producer: Chris Coady; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Neanderthal/Redeye, May 10, 2011) |
| ZOMBI | “Escape Velocity” (producers: ZOMBI’s Steve Moore and A.E. Paterra; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Relapse, May 10, 2011) |
