| Artist: |
Title: |
Label: |
| AFI |
“AFI (The Blood Album)” (Hear here; MP3)  |
(Concord) |
| Animotion (led by original members Bill Wadhams and Astrid Plane) |
“Raise Your Expectations” (their first studio album in 26 years; Hear/read here; MP3) |
(Invisible Hands Music) |
| As It Is (U.K. pop rockers) |
“Okay” (first single: “okay”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Fearless) |
| As Lions (British rock quintet fronted by singer Austin Dickinson, son of Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson) |
“Selfish Age” (producers: David Bendeth, Kane Churko; first single: “okay”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Better Noise) |
| Austra |
“Future Politics” (first single: “Utopia”; See here; MP3; iTunes) |
(Domino) |
| Blackfield |
“V” (producer: Alan Parsons; Hear/read here; Deluxe Edition; MP3) |
(Kscope) |
| Ronnie Baker Brooks |
“Times Have Changed” (the Chicago soul blues guitarist’s first album in 10 years; producer: Steve Jordan; guests: Felix Cavaliere, father Lonnie Brooks, “Big Head” Todd Mohr, the late Bobby “Blue” Bland, Steve Cropper, Angie Stone, Eddie Willis, Al Kapone, Lee Roy Parnell; Hear here) |
(Provogue / Mascot Label Group ) |
| Cherry Glazerr |
“Apocalipstick” (new single: “Nurse Ratched”; See here; MP3) |
(Secretly Canadian) |
| Alex Clare (London-born, Jerusalem-based singer-songwriter and producer) |
“Tail of Lions” (first single: “Tell Me What You Need”; Hear here; MP3) |
(ETC Recordings) |
| Tim Cohen (of The Fresh & Only’s and Magic Trick) |
“Luck Man” (first single: “Meat Is Murder”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Sinderlyn) |
| Rose Elinor Dougall (formerly of The Pipettes) |
“Stellular” (See here) |
(Vermilion) |
| Nathan East |
“Reverence” (includes covers of Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Serpentine Fire,” Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground” and “Over the Rainbow,” featuring his 16-year-old son Noah East on piano; producer: Chris Gero; guests: Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Yolanda Adams; See here; MP3; On Tour) |
(Yamaha Entertainment Group) |
| Foxygen |
“Hang” (guests: The Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd, Matthew E. White, the Lemon Twigs, a 40-plus-piece symphony orchestra, etc.; new single: “Follower the Leader”; See here; MP3; iTunes) |
(Jagjaguwar) |
| Mick Harvey |
“Intoxicated Women” (fourth and final volume of his Serge Gainsbourg translations; guests: Channthy Kak, Xanthe Waite, Sophia Brous, Lyndelle-Jayne Spruyt, Jess Ribeiro, Andrea Schroeder, and Harvey’s son, Solomon; Hear here; Read here; MP3) |
(Mute) |
| Kidz Bop Kids |
“Kidz Bop 34” (14 songs; MP3; Target Exclusive CD, with four extra tracks) |
(Kidz Bop) |
| Norma Jean Martine |
“Only In My Mind” (producers: Danton Supple, Ed Harcourt; See here; MP3) |
(Casablanca / Republic) |
| The McIntosh County Shouters |
“Spirituals & Shout Songs from the Georgia Coast” (producers: Daniel E. Sheehy, Art Rosenbaum; Hear here; MP3) |
(Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) |
| The Proper Ornaments |
“Foxhole” (first single: “Memories”; Hear here; MP3) |
(Slumberland) |
| Starset |
“Hang” (producer: Rob Graves; new single: “Back to the Earth”; Hear here; MP3; On Tour) |
(Razor & Tie) |
| Curtis Stigers with the Danish Radio Big Band |
“One More for the Road” (covers of Frank Sinatra, recorded live in Copenhagen; MP3) |
(Concord Jazz) |
| Tycho (ambient rock group) |
“Epoch” (released digitally on Sept. 30; Hear here; MP3)  |
(Ghostly International) |
