| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| Age of Days (Canadian rock quartet) | “radioactivity [MP3]” (producer: Justin Forsley; first single: “Bombs Away”; Hear here) | (Cordova Bay) |
| Mickey Avalon | “I Get Even [MP3]” (five-song EP; guest: Paul Oakenfold; Hear here) | (Ragtop) |
| Birds and Buildings (progressive symphonic avant-garde jazz-rock band) | “Multipurpose Trap” (Hear here) | (Emkog) |
| Birdy (English singer-songwriter Jasmine van den Bogaerde) | “Fire Within (Deluxe Edition)” (with four bonus tracks; producers: Rich Costey, Ryan Tedder, Ben Lovett, Jim Abbiss, Alex H.N.Gilbert, Fraser T. Smith, Jake Gosling, Greg Wells; Hear here) | (Europe – Atlantic, Sept. 30) |
| The Blind Boys of Alabama | “I’ll Find a Way” (producer: Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon; guests: Vernon, Patty Griffin, Merrill Garbus; Hear here; MP3) | (Sony Masterworks, Sept. 30) |
| Blitzen Trapper (Portland, Ore.-based experimental country/folk act) | “VII” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Vagrant, Sept. 30) |
| Blue Sky Black Death (production duo) | “Glaciers” (guests: Child Actor, Lotte Kestner, JMSN; Hear here; MP3) | (Fake Four) |
| Basia Bulat (Canadian folk singer-songwriter) | “Tall Tall Shadow” (producers: Bulat, Mark Lawson, Tim Kingsbury; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Secret City / Universal) |
| Jonathan Butler | “Merry Christmas to You” (producer: Butler; Hear here; MP3) | (Artistry Music / Mack Avenue) |
| Neil Byrne and Ryan Kelly (of Celtic Thunder) | “Acoustically Irish” (Hear here; MP3) | (Neil Byrne and Ryan Kelly) |
| Steven Curtis Chapman | “The Glorious Unfolding” (first single: “Love Take Me Over”; Hear here; MP3) | (Reunion / Chapman) |
| Chasing Mars (Chicago synth pop band) | “Take You For Granted” (released as a limited-edition “T-Shirt Single” with all proceeds going to the Ronald McDonald House of Illinois and NW Indiana; each T-shirt will also contain a QR code and a link that will take you to a free download of their newest single; producers: Chasing Mars, Josh Shapera) | (Chasing Mars) |
| The Crookes (Sheffield, England, indie-pop quartet) | “Hold Fast” (first single: “Dance in Colour”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl) | (Modern Outsider / RED) |
| Cumulus (Seattle trio) | “I Never Meant It To Be Like This” (first single: “Do You Remember”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl) | (Trans-) |
| The Deep Dark Woods (Canadian Folk Music Award-winning group) | “Jubilee” (producer: Jonathan Wilson; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Sugar Hill, Sept. 30) |
| Deltron 3030 (rapper Del The Funky Homosapien, producer Dan “The Automator” Nakamura and DJ Kid Koala) | “Deltron 3030: Event 2” (guests: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zach De La Rocha, The Lonely Island, Black Rob, David Corss, Emily Wells, Damon Albarn, Mike Patton, Jamie Cullum, etc.; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3), “Deltron 3030: Event II – The Instrumentals [Vinyl]” | (Bulk Recordings) |
| Dr. Dog (Philly psych-rock band) | “B-Room” (first single: “The Truth”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (ANTI- / Epitaph, Sept. 30) |
| Tyler Farr | “Redneck Crazy” (producers: Jim Catino, Julian King; guest: Colt Ford; Hear here; MP3) | (Columbia Nashville, Sept. 30) |
| Fates Warning | “Darkness in a Different Light” (producer: guitarist Jim Matheos; Hear here; See here) | (InsideOutMusic) |
| Johnny Flynn (British folk singer-songwriter) | “Country Mile” (first single: “The Lady Is Risen”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Transgressive / Thirty Tigers, Sept. 30) |
| Colt Ford | “Ride Through the Country Revisited” (new versions of his early-career hits; guests: Charlie Daniels, Ronnie Dunn, John Anderson, Wynonna, Brantley Gilbert, Jamey Johnson, Bonecrusher, John Michael Montgomery, Joe Diffie, Charlie Farley; Hear here; MP3) | (Average Joes Entertainment) |
| Gambles (aka Matthew Daniel Siskin) | “Trust” (Hear here; See here; MP3) | (GMBLS / Secretly Canadian) |
| Hélène Grimaud (French pianist) | “Brahms Concertos” (two discs, with Wiener Philharmoniker and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Hear here; MP3) | (Deutsche Grammophon, Sept. 30) |
| HAIM | “Days Are Gone” (producers: Ariel Rechtshaid, James Ford; first single: “The Wire”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Columbia) |
| Hank3 | “Brothers of the 4×4” (double country album; Hear here; Vinyl), “A Fiendish Threat” (a single-disc punk album; Vinyl) | (Hank3, Sept. 30) |
| In the Valley Below (L.A. rock duo) | “Peaches EP” (four songs; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (Capitol) |
| Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | “Unvarnished” (her first album in seven years; guests: Dave Grohl, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!; first single: “Any Weather”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Blackheart) |
| K-Ci & JoJo | “My Brother’s Keeper” (their first album in five years; first single: “Knock It Off”; Read here; MP3) | (+FE Music / Hard Boiled, Sept. 30) |
| Kelela (L.A.-based singer-songwriter) | “CUT 4 ME [MP3]” (producers: Bok Bok, Kingdom, Girl Unit, Nguzunguzu, Jam City, Morri$; Hear here; See here) | (Fade to Mind) |
| Kitchens of Distinction | “Folly” (their first album in 19 years; first single: “Japan to Jupiter”; Hear/read here; Vinyl) | (U.K. – 3 Loop Music, Sept. 30) |
| Lorde (16-year-old New Zealand singer-songwriter Ella Yelich-O’Connor) | “Pure Heroine” (producer: Joel Little; new single: “Tennis Court”; Hear here) | (Lava Music / Republic, Sept. 30) |
| Mallu (São Paulo singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist) | “Highly Sensitive” (producers: Mario Caldato Jr., Marcelo Camelo; first single: “Angelina, Angelina”; Hear here) | (Sony Music Brazil / RED) |
| Matt and Kim | “Lightning Remixes [MP3]” (11 tracks; Hear here; See here; Vinyl) | (FADER Label) |
| Moby | “Innocents” (guests: Wayne Coyne, Cold Specks, Mark Lanegan, Damien Jurado, Skylar Grey, Inyang Bassey; first single: “A Case for Shame”; Hear here; Deluxe edition; Vinyl; MP3) | (Mute) |
| Nelly | “M.O.” (producers: Da Internz, Noel “Detail” Fisher, Dr. Dre, Mike Will Made It, Pharrell, Sak Pase, DJ Frank E; guests: Nicki Minaj, Pharrell, Nelly Furtado, 2 Chainz, Florida Georgia Line, T.I., etc.; new single: “Heaven”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Universal, Sept. 30) |
| Agnes Obel (Danish singer-songwriter based in Berlin) | “Aventine” (producer: Obel; first single: “The Curse”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | ([PIAS] America) |
| Peace (Birmingham, U.K., rock quartet) | “In Love [MP3]” (released in the U.K. in late March; U.S. edition contains five previously unreleased bonus tracks; producer: Jim Abiss; first single: “Lovesick”; Hear here; See here) | (Columbia) |
| The Red Paintings (orchestral art rock group) | “The Revolution Is Never Coming” (first single: “Wasps”; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (The End) |
| Rural Ghosts | “City of Elms” (producers: bandmates Erik Neilson, Devon Colella; first single: “Tenant / Oil Well”; Hear here) | (Lorem Ipsum Recordings) |
| The Sadies | “Internal Sounds” (producer: Gary Louris; guest: Buffy Sainte-Marie; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Yep Roc) |
| Saint Rich | “Beyond the Drone” (first single: “Officer”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl) | (Merge) |
| Shark? (Brooklyn garage-rock band) | “Savior [MP3]” (new single: “Wither”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Old Flame) |
| Smile Empty Soul | “Chemicals” (Hear here; MP3) | (Two Disciples Entertainment / Pavement Entertainment) |
| Soulfly | “Savages” (producer: Terry Date; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Nuclear Blast America) |
| Dave Stewart | “Lucky Numbers” (producer: Stewart; guests: Martina McBride, Karen Elson, Vanessa Amorosi, The Ringmaster’s Choir, Laura Michelle Kelly, Ann Marie Calhoun, Holly Quin Rah; first single: “Every Single Night,”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl) | (Weapons of Mass Entertainment / Kobalt Label Services, Sept. 30) |
| Thought Chamber (progressive metallers) | “Psykerion” (Hear here) | (InsideOutMusic) |
| Justin Timberlake | “The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2” (sequel to “The 20/20 Experience”; producers: Timbaland, Timberlake, Jerome “J-ROC” Harmon; first single: “Take Back the Night”; Hear here; “The Complete Experience,” containing both albums; MP3) | (RCA, Sept. 30) |
| Tired Pony (Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody with Peter Buck, Iain Archer, Richard Colburn, Scott McCaughey, Troy Stewart and Garret Jacknife Lee) | “The Ghost of the Mountain” (producer: Lee; first single: “All Things All at Once”; Hear here; MP3) | (Mom+Pop Music) |
| Randy Travis | “Influence Vol. 1: The Man I Am” (covers of songs by artists who influenced him, among them Merle Haggard, George Jones, Lefty Frizzel, etc.; guest: Joe Nichols; first single: “Tonight I’m Playing Possum”; Hear here; MP3) | (Warner) |
| Trentemøller | “Lost” (guests: members of Blonde Redhead, The Raveonettes, The Drums, Low, Marie Fisker; Hear here; Vinyl) | (In My Room) |
| Various artists | “Beatles Reimagined” (covers by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Leftover Cuties, Night Panther, Badwolf, etc.; benefits the Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls Los Angeles; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Community Music) |
| Various artists | “Mondo Zombie Boogaloo” (Halloween-themed album featuring new music from The Fleshtones, Los Straitjackets, and Southern Culture on the Skids; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Yep Roc) |
| VNV Nation (Irish/English electronic duo) | “Transnational” (Hear here; Vinyl) | (Europe – Anachron Sounds, Oct. 4) |
| Mack Wilds (NYC hip-hop artist) | “New York: A Love Story” (producers: DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Havoc, SalaAM ReMi; guests: Method Man, Raekwon, Doug E. Fresh; Hear here; See here; MP3) | (ReMiFa Music / Louder Than Life) |
| The Wood Brothers | “The Muse” (producer: Buddy Miller; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Southern Ground Artists – Zac Brown’s new label) |
