| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Trace Adkins | “Love Will …” (producers: Tony Brown, Mark Wright, Frank Rogers, Kenny Beard, Mickey Cones; Hear here; MP3) | (Show Dog / Universal Music) |
| ADULT. | “The Way Things Fall” (first single: “Idle [Second Thoughts]”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Ghostly International) |
| American Fangs (Houston quintet) | “American Fangs” (producers: Mike Watts, American Fangs; first single: “Pomona”; Hear here; MP3) | (In De Goot / RED) |
| Bibio | “Silver Wilkinson” (first single: “À tout à l’heure”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Warp) |
| The Blank Tapes (L.A. beach party trio) | “Vacation” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Antenna Farm) |
| The Boxer Rebellion (London-based indie rock quartet) | “Promises” (producers: The Boxer Rebellion, Billy Bush; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Absentee Recordings) |
| The Del-Lords | “Elvis Club” (their first full-length album since 1990; producer: singer-guitarist Eric Ambel; Hear here; See here; Read here; MP3) | (GB Music / RED) |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan | “One of Us Is the Killer” (producers: Steve Evetts, guitarist Ben Weinman; Hear here; MP3) | (Party Smasher, Inc. / Sumerian) |
| Dungeonesse (Baltimore pop duo) | “Dungeonesse” (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Secretly Canadian) |
| Eluvium (multi-instrumentalist composer Matthew Cooper) | “Nightmare Ending” (double album; Hear here; MP3) | (Temporary Residence) |
| Escape the Fate | “Ungrateful” (producers: John Feldman, Monte Money, Brandon Saller; first single: “Ungrateful”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Eleven Seven Music) |
| Eve | “Lip Lock” (guests: Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliott, Chrisette Michele, Dawn Richard, Miss Kitty, Pusha T, Juicy J, Gabe Saporta of Cobra Starship; Hear here; MP3) | (From The Rib Music) |
| Agnetha Fältskog | “A” (the former ABBA singer’s first English-language album since 2004 and her first album of new material since 1987; producers: Jörgen Elofsson, Peter Nordahl; first single: “When You Really Loved Someone”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Verve) |
| The Features (indie rock band from Sparta, Tenn.) | “The Features” (first single: “This Disorder”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Serpents and Snakes / BMG Rights Management) |
| Glee Cast | “All or Nothing [MP3],” “To Love You More [MP3]” | (Columbia) |
| Gold & Youth (Canadian indie quartet) | “Beyond Wilderness” (producers: Colin Stewart, Gold & Youth; Hear here; MP3) | (Arts & Crafts) |
| Amy Grant | “How Mercy Looks From Here” (her first album of new material in 10 years; producer: Marshall Altman; guests: husband Vince Gill, James Taylor, Carole King, Sheryl Crow, Will Hoge, Eric Pasley; first single: “Don’t Try So Hard”; Hear here; MP3) | (EMI Christian Music Group / Sparrow) |
| John Grant | “Pale Green Ghosts” (first single: “Black Belt”; Hear here; See here) | (Partisan) |
| Kidz Bop Kids | “Kidz Bop Party Hits” (Hear here; MP3) | (Razor & Tie) |
| Ben Lee | “Ayahuasca: Welcome to the Work” (Hear here; MP3) | (Ten Fingers) |
| Demi Lovato | “Demi” (producers: TheSUSPEX, Priscilla Renea, Ryan Tedder, Emanuel “Eman” Kiriakou, Carl Falk, Rami Yacoub, Savan Kotecha, Ali Tamposi, The Monsters & Strangerz, Jonas Jeberg, Anne Preven, Matt Rad; new single: “Heart Attack”; Hear here; MP3) | (Hollywood) |
| Marianas Trench (Canadian pop-rock band) | “Face the Music” (singer Josh Ramsay co-wrote Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”; four-song EP; first single: “Desperate Measures”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Cherrytree / Interscope) |
| Bobby McFerrin | “spirityouall” (a soulful reimagining of African-American spirituals; honors the legacy of Bobby’s father, opera singer Robert McFerrin Sr., the first African-American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company; guest: Esperanza Spalding; Hear here; MP3) | (Sony Masterworks) |
| Midnite (St. Croix, Virgin Islands, reggae band) | “Be Strong [MP3]” (Hear here; CD) | (Fifth Son / VP) |
| Mindless Self Indulgence | “How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence” (Hear here; MP3) | (UCR / Metropolis) |
| MS MR (NYC-based, indie-pop duo) | “Second Hand Rapture” (first single: “Hurricane”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Columbia) |
| Laura Mvula (U.K. singer-songwriter) | “Sing to the Moon” (producer: Steve Brown; new single: “That’s Alright”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Columbia) |
| Angel Olsen | “Half Way Home” (Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Jagjaguwar) |
| Primal Scream | “More Light” (producer: David Holmes; guests: Robert Plant, Mark Stewart; Hear here) | (U.K. – 1st International, May 13) |
| Pure X (Austin-based trio) | “Crawling Up the Stairs” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Acéphale) |
| Red Line Chemistry | “Tug of War” (producer: Nick Raskulinecz; first single: “Paralyzed”; Hear here; MP3) | (Bulldog Productions) |
| Smash Cast | “The Last Goodbye [MP3]” | (Columbia) |
| Standish/Carlyon (futurist dub pop duo) | “Deleted Scenes” (first single: “Nono/Yoyo”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (felte) |
| George Strait | “Love Is Everything” (his 40th studio album; producers: Strait, Tony Brown; Hear here; MP3) | (MCA Nashville) |
| Tea Leaf Green (San Francisco jam band) | “In the Wake” (Hear here) | (Greenhouse / Thirty Tigers) |
| Marques Toliver | “Land of CanAan” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Bella Union) |
| Steve Tyrell (Grammy-winning vocalist) | “It’s Magic: The Songs of Sammy Cahn” (Hear here; MP3) | (Concord) |
| Vampire Weekend | “Modern Vampires of the City” (producer: Ariel Rechtshaid, multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (XL Recordings) |
| Vår (Danish band) | “No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Sacred Bones) |
| Wampire | “Curiosity” (first single: “The Hearse”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Polyvinyl) |
| The Wonder Years | “The Greatest Generation” (producer: Steve Evetts; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Hopeless) |
