| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Amor de Días (led by Alasdair MacLean of The Clientele) | “Street of the Love of Days” (first single: “Bunhill Fields”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Merge, May 17, 2011) |
| Patti Austin | “Sound Advice” (Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) | (Shanachie, May 17, 2011) |
| Bachelorette | “Bachelorette” (producer: Nicholas Vernhes; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Drag City, May 17, 2011) |
| Matraca Berg | “The Dreaming Fields” (producer: Berg; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) | (Dualtone, May 17, 2011) |
| Elvin Bishop | “Raisin’ Hell Revue” (recorded live on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise; MP3 Download) | (Delta Groove, May 17, 2011) |
| Black ‘N Blue | “Hell Yeah!” (producer: guitarist Jef “Woop” Warner; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Frontiers, May 17, 2011) |
| Cat’s Eyes | “Cat’s Eyes” (producer: Steve Osborne; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Cooperative Music USA/Downtown, May 17, 2011) |
| Company of Thieves | “Running From a Gamble” (producer: Rob Schnapf; first single: “Death of Communication”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Wind-up, May 17, 2011) |
| Damon & Naomi | “False Beats and True Hearts” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (20/20/20, May 17, 2011) |
| Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi | “Rome” (guests: Jack White, Norah Jones; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl) | (Capitol, May 17, 2011) |
| Elected, The | “Bury Me In My Rings” (third album from group fronted by Rilo Kiley’s Blake Sennett; producers: Stennett, Jason Cupp, Mike Bloom; first single: “Babyface”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Vagrant, May 17, 2011) |
| Béla Fleck & The Flecktones | “Rocket Science” (first Flecktones album to feature founding member Howard Levy in the regular band lineup since 1992; Hear here; See here; MP3 Download) | (E1 Music, May 17, 2011) |
| Gallhammer (Japanese doom duo) | “The End” (Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) | (Peaceville/Snapper, May 17, 2011) |
| Glasvegas (U.K. alt-rock quartet) | “Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\” (producer: Flood; Hear here; Read here; MP3 Download) | (Columbia, May 17, 2011) |
| Michael Grimm (season 5 winner of “America’s Got Talent”) | “Michael Grimm” (Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Epic, May 17, 2011) |
| Hank III | “Hillbilly Joker” (Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Curb, May 17, 2011) |
| Ben Harper | “Give Till It’s Gone” (guests: Jackson Browne, Ringo Starr; first single: “Rock N’ Roll Is Free”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Virgin, May 17, 2011) |
| Idiot Glee | “Paddywhack [MP3 Download]” (Hear here) | (Moshi Moshi, May 17, 2011) |
| Il Volo (trio won the popular Italian talent show “Ti Lascio Una Canzone” in 2009) | “Il Volo” (producers: Tony Renis, Humberto Gatica; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Geffen, May 17, 2011) |
| Sarah Jarosz | “Follow Me Down” (producers: Jarosz, Gary Paczosa; guests: Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Viktor Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Shawn Colvin, Darrell Scott, The Punch Brothers, etc.; first single: “Come Around”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Sugar Hill, May 17, 2011) |
| Justice of the Unicorns | “Animals Will Be Stoned [MP3 Download]” (Hear here) | (Little Lamb Recordings, May 17, 2011) |
| Kidz Bop Kids | “Kidz Bop Sings Monster Ballads” (includes Bret Michaels and daughters Raine and Jorja on a cover of Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Razor & Tie, May 17, 2011) |
| Let’s Wrestle | “Nursing Home” (producer: Steve Albini; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Merge, May 17, 2011) |
| Living With Lions | “Holy Shit” (first single: “Honesty, Honestly”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Adeline, May 17, 2011) |
| Moby | “Destroyed” (first single: “The Day”; Hear here; Deluxe edition; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Mute, May 17, 2011) |
| Naughty By Nature | “Anthem Inc.” (Hear here) | (Illtown/Tommy Boy Entertainment, May 17, 2011) |
| New Boyz (hip-hop/rap duo) | “Too Cool to Care” (producers: Dominic “Legacy” Thomas, Matt Squire, Damon Sharpe, The Cataracs, DJ Khalil, Bei Maejor, Kane Beatz, H Money; new single: “Better with the Lights Off”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Shotty/Asylum/ Warner, May 17, 2011) |
| Parachute (Charlottesville, Va., pop-rock group) | “The Way It Was” (first single: “Something to Believe In”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Mercury, May 17, 2011) |
| Jim Quick | “Down South [MP3 Download]” (producer: Gary Nicholson; Hear here) | (iSuwanee/Quick-Warren Entertainment/Hit Brothers, May 17, 2011) |
| The Rentals | “Resilience: A Benefit Album for the Relief Effort in Japan” (18 instrumental compositions; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Ernest Jenning Record Co., May 17, 2011) |
| Seether | “Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray” (producer: Brendan O’Brien; first single: “Country Song”; Hear here; Read here; Deluxe edition; MP3 Download) | (Wind-up, May 17, 2011) |
| Swimming With Dolphins (Austin Tofte, formally of Owl City) | “Water Colours” (producers: Aaron Sprinkle, Zack Odom, Kenneth Mount; first single: “Sleep to Dream”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Tooth & Nail, May 17, 2011) |
| Tinie Tempah (Brit Award-winning rapper) | “Disc-Overy” (producers: Stargate, Boi 1Da; first single: “Written in the Stars”; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Capitol, May 17, 2011) |
| Thee Oh Sees | “Castlemania [MP3 Download]” (Hear here) | (In the Red, May 17, 2011) |
| Mia Doi Todd (L.A. singer-songwriter) | “Cosmic Ocean Ship” (producer: Jonathan Wilson; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (City Zen/Virtual Label, May 17, 2011) |
| Chad VanGaalen | “Diaper Island” (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3 Download) | (Sub Pop, May 17, 2011) |
| Various artists | “A Nod to Bob 2: An Artists Tribute to Bob Dylan on his 70th Birthday” (featuring Hot Tuna, Danny Schmidt, John Gorka, Eliza Gilkyson, Meg Hutchinson, Lucy Kaplansky, etc.; MP3 Download) | (Red House, May 17, 2011) |
| Kate Voegele | “Gravity Happens [MP3 Download]” (first single: “Heart in Chains”; Hear here) | (ATO, May 17, 2011) |
| Warrant | “Rockaholic” (producer: Keith Olsen; Hear here; MP3 Download) | (Frontiers, May 17, 2011) |
| Zombies, The | “Breathe Out, Breathe In” (Hear here) | (U.K. – Red House, May 16, 2011) |
