| Artist: | Title: | Label/Due date: |
| American Babies | “Knives and Teeth” (first single: “Cold Blooded”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl) | (The Royal Potato Family) |
| Anberlin | “Devotion” (Hear here) | (Big3) |
| The Avett Brothers | “Magpie and the Dandelion” (producer: Rick Rubin; first single: “Another Is Waiting”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (American / Universal Republic) |
| Courtney Barnett (Melbourne-based singer-guitarist) | “The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas [MP3]” (12 songs; first single: “Avant Gardener”; Hear here) | (House Anxiety / Marathon Artists, Oct. 14) |
| Diane Birch | “Speak a Little Louder” (Hear here; Read here; Deluxe edition; MP3) | (S-Curve) |
| Black Oak Arkansas | “Back Thar N’ Over Yonder” (five new songs, with 10 previously unreleased 1970s tracks produced by Tom Dowd; Hear here; MP3) | (Atlantic / Atco) |
| Mary J. Blige | “A Mary Christmas” (producer: David Foster; Hear here; MP3) | (Matriarch / Verve / Interscope) |
| Bloc Party | “Tapes” (compilation mixed by frontman Kele Okereke; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Retrofit / !K7) |
| Cults | “Static” (producers: Cults, Shane Stoneback, Ben Allen; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Columbia) |
| Crystal Antlers (art-garage rockers) | “Nothing Is Real” (first single: “Rattlesnake”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Innovative Leisure) |
| Gavin DeGraw | “Make Your Move” (producers: Butch Walker, Ryan Tedder, Busbee, Martin Johnson, Benny Blanco, Kevin Rudolf; first single: “Best I Ever Had”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (RCA) |
| The Dismemberment Plan | “Uncanney Valley” (the indie-rock quartet’s first album of new music in 12 years; producers: guitarist Jason Caddell, The Dismemberment Plan; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Partisan) |
| Eliza Doolittle | “In Your Hands” (first single: “Big When I Was Little”; Hear here; See here; Read here) | (U.K. – Parlophone, Oct. 14) |
| Fall Out Boy | “PAX AM Days [MP3]” (eight-song EP; Hear here; Read here) | (Island) |
| Field Study | “Feverland” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Nine Mile) |
| Flying Colors (Mike Portnoy, Dave LaRue, Neal Morse, Casey McPherson and Steve Morse) | “Live in Europe” (recorded in Tilburg, Holland, in September 2012; See here; DVD; MP3) | (Music Theories Recordings Label / Mascot Label Group) |
| Four Tet (electronic musician Kieran Hebden) | “Beautiful Rewind” (producer: Hebden; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Text) |
| Glee Cast | “The Quarterback [MP3]” (the third episode of “Glee’s” fifth season features a tribute to the late Cory Monteith and his character, Finn Hudson; Hear here) | (Columbia) |
| Natalie Grant (five-time Dove Award winner) | “Hurricane” (guest: Gary LeVoux; first single: “Hurricane”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Curb) |
| Brian Haas / Matt Chamberlain | “Frames” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Kinnara / The Royal Potato Family) |
| Halestorm | “ReAnimate 2.0: The CoVeRs eP” (six songs; Hear here; MP3) | (Atlantic) |
| Happy Jawbone Family Band (Vermont psych-pop band) | “Happy Jawbone Family Band” (first single: “Everybody Knows About Daddy”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Mexican Summer) |
| The Head and the Heart (indie-folk group) | “Let’s Be Still” (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Sub Pop) |
| Heavenly Beat (aka John Pena) | “Prominence” (new single: “Honest”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Captured Tracks) |
| Tim Hecker (experimental electronic artist) | “Virgins” (producer: Valgeir Sigurðsson; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Kranky) |
| Will Hoge | “Never Give In” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Cumberland Recordings / Thirty Tigers) |
| Icon For Hire (rock band from Decatur, Ill.) | “Icon For Hire” (producer: Mike Green; Hear here; MP3) | (Tooth & Nail) |
| Kwes (British singer/producer) | “ilp” (first single: “36”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl) | (Warp) |
| Glenn Lewis | “Moment of Truth” (the Canadian R&B singer’s first album since 2002; producers: Andre Harris, Vidal Davis, Ivan Barrias, Carvin Haggins, CertiFYD, Matrax; guest: Melanie Fiona; first single: “Can’t Say Love”; Hear here; MP3) | (Ruffhouse / Capitol) |
| The Lonely Forest | “Adding Up the Wasted Hours [MP3]” (producer: Chris Walla; Hear here) | (Trans / Chop Shop / Republic) |
| Lucius (Brooklyn indie-pop quintet) | “Wildewoman” (producers: Dan Molad, Lucius; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Mom+Pop) |
| Paul McCartney | “New” (producers: Ethan Johns, Mark Ronson, Paul Epworth, Giles Martin; first single: “New”; Read here; Deluxe edition; Vinyl; MP3) | (Hear Music / MPL) |
| Cass McCombs (Northern California singer-songwriter) | “Big Wheel and Others” (double album includes a duet with actress Karen Black, who died of cancer in August; first single: “There Can Be Only One”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl) | (Domino) |
| Scotty McCreery (“American Idol” season 10 winner) | “See You Tonight” (producer: Frank Rogers; first single: “See You Tonight”; Hear here; MP3) | (Mercury Nashville / 19 Recordings / Interscope) |
| Wymond Miles (The Fresh & Onlys guitarist) | “Cut Yourself Free” (first single: “Night Drives”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Sacred Bones) |
| Elizabeth Mitchell | “The Sounding Joy: Christmas Songs In and Out of the Ruth Crawford Seeger Songbook” (a 70-minute collection of folk carols drawn from Ruth Crawford Seeger’s 1953 songbook “American Folk Songs for Christmas,” with 32-page booklet; producers: Mitchell, Daniel Littleton; guests: John Sebastian, Peggy Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Dan Zanes, Aoife O’Donovan, etc.; Hear here; MP3) | (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) |
| Monster Magnet | “Last Patrol” (producers: frontman Dave Wyndorf, guitarist Phil Caivano; Hear here; Vinyl; Deluxe edition; MP3) | (Napalm) |
| Morcheeba | “Head Up High” (their first full-length album in eight years; first single: “Gimme Your Love”; Hear here; See here; Vinyl; MP3) | ([PIAS] America) |
| Willie Nelson | “To All the Girls …” (18 duets with female singers, among them Dolly Parton, Mavis Staples, Sheryl Crow, Loretta Lynn, Wynonna Judd, Rosanne Cash, Alison Krauss, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones; Hear here; MP3) | (Legacy Recordings) |
| Gary Numan | “Splinter (Songs From a Broken Mind)” (his 20th studio album; producers: Numan, Ade Fenton; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Machine Music) |
| Patrick Park (Colorado-based singer-songwriter) | “We Fall Out of Touch” (six-song EP; Hear here) | (rsrch + dvlp – label founded by producer Dave Trumfio) |
| Pearl Jam | “Lightning Bolt” (their first album since 2009; producer: Brendan O’Brien; first single: “Mind Your Manners”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Monkeywrench / Universal) |
| Red Fang (Portland, Ore.-based rock group) | “Whales and Leeches” (producer: Chris Funk; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Relapse) |
| Lucy Wainwright Roche | “There’s a Last Time For Everything” (producer: Jordan Brooke Hamlin; guests: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Colin Meloy, Robby Hecht; Hear here; MP3) | (maeby music) |
| Shine 2009 (Finnish duo) | “Our Nation [MP3]” (first single: “Eurozone”; Hear here; Vinyl) | (Cascine) |
| Testament | “Dark Roots of Thrash [CD/DVD]” (live album, recorded at the Paramount in Huntington, N.Y., in February 2013; producer: Get Hammered Productions; Hear here; MP3) | (Nuclear Blast) |
| Linda Thompson | “Won’t Be Long Now [MP3]” (her first album in six years; guests: Richard Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Muna Thompson, Amy Helm, Sami Amidon, John Doyle, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Dave Swarbrick, Tony Trischka; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; CD) | (Pettifer Sounds) |
| TLC | “20” (their first album since 2002; a collection of their hits, plus a new track, “Meant to Be,” written by Ne-Yo; coincides with the VH1 Original Movie, “CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story,” which airs Oct. 21 and stars Keke Palmer, Drew Sidora and Lil Mama; Hear here; Read here; MP3) | (Epic / LaFace) |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket | “New Constellation” (their first album in 16 years; producer: Mikal Blue; first single: “New Constellation”; Hear/read here; MP3) | (Abe’s Records) |
| Tristen | “Caves” (producer: Mike Mogis; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) | (Pupsnake) |
| Trivium | “Vengeance Falls” (producer: Disturbed and Device frontman David Draiman; Hear here) | (Roadrunner) |
| Anneke van Giersbergen (Dutch singer-songwriter and former frontwoman of The Gathering) | “Drive” (producer: Arno Krabman; Hear here; MP3) | (InsideOutMusic) |
| We Are Scientists | “Business Casual [MP3]” (five-song EP; producer: Chris Coady; first single: “Dumb Luck”; Hear here; See here) | (Dine Alone Music) |
| Ryan Webster | “The Point of Pointlessness [MP3]” (producer: Bobby Hartry; guests: Aaron Sterling, Jonathan Ahrens, Greg Liesz; Hear here) | (CatBeach Music) |
| Wet (soulful Brooklyn-based trio) | “Wet [MP3]” (four-song EP; guest: Paul Oakenfold; Hear here) | (Neon Gold) |
