| Artist: |
Title: |
Label/Due date: |
| Animal Collective |
“Centipede Hz” (first single: “Honeycomb/Gotham”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl) |
(Domino, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Azure Ray |
“As Above So Below” (first single: “Scattered Like Leaves”; Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Saddle Creek, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Bellamy Brothers |
“Pray For Me” (their second gospel album; Hear here; Read here; MP3) |
(Bellamy Brothers, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Big Bad Voodoo Daddy |
“Rattle Them Bones” (producers: Morris and Joshua Levy with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Savoy Jazz, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Blu & Exile |
“Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them.” (producer: Exile; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Dirty Science/Fatbeats, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Building 429 |
“Give Me Jesus: Live From Winter Jam [MP3]” (four-song EP; Hear here) |
(Essential, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Raymond Byron and the White Freighter (Byron is a member of Castanets) |
“Little Death Shaker” (first single: “You’ll Never Surf Again”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Asthmatic Kitty, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| California Wives (Chicago new-wave quartet) |
“Art History [MP3]” (producer: Claudius Mittendorfer; first single: “Marianne”; Hear here; CD) |
(Vagrant, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Cat Power |
“Sun” (her first album of original material since 2006; first single: “Ruin”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3, with one bonus track) |
(Matador, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Kyle Cease (actor-comedian) |
“I Highly Recommend This [CD/DVD]” (Hear here; MP3) |
(Comedy Central, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Chick Corea & Gary Burton |
“Hot House” (Hear here; See here; MP3) |
(Concord Jazz, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Cult of Youth |
“Love Will Prevail” (first single: “Man and Man’s Ruin”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Sacred Bones, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Deerhoof |
“Breakup Song” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Polyvinyl, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Melissa Etheridge |
“4th Street Feeling” (first single: “Fallin Up”; Hear here; Deluxe edition; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Island, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| The Fresh & Onlys |
“Long Slow Dance” (first single: “Yes or No”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Mexican Summer, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Gentleman Reg |
“Leisure Life Part Two [MP3]” (five-song EP; producer: Chris Stringer; Hear here) |
(Heavy Head, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Ian Hunter & The Rant Band |
“When I’m President” (Hear here; Read here; MP3) |
(Slimstyle, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Imagine Dragons (Las Vegas indie-rock band) |
“Night Visions” (producer: Alex da Kid; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(KIDinaKORNER/ Interscope, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Ronan Keating |
“Fires” (Hear here; Read here) |
(U.K. – Polydor, Sept. 3, 2012) |
| Mark Knopfler |
“Privateering” (two CDs; Hear here) |
(U.K. – Mercury, Sept. 3, 2012) |
| Land Observations (solo project of Appliance’s James Brooks) |
“Roman Roads IV-XI” (Hear here) |
(U.K. – Mute, Sept. 3, 2012) |
| Jens Lekman (Swedish indie-pop musician) |
“I Know What Love Isn’t” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Secretly Canadian, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Sondre Lerche |
“Bootlegs” (recorded at the rock venue Hulen in Bergen, Norway, and various clubs in Brooklyn, N.Y.; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Mona, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Lina |
“The Love Chronicles of a Lady Songbird: A Tribute to Soul [MP3]” (Hear here) |
(Malindy Music, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Matchbox Twenty |
“North” (their first studio album in 10 years; producer: Matt Serletic; first single: “She’s So Mean”; Hear here; Read here; MP3/Deluxe edition; MP3) |
(Emblem/Atlantic, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Mono (Japanese post rockers) |
“For My Parents” (recorded with the Wordless Music Orchestra; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Temporary Residence Ltd., Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Bob Mould |
“Silver Age” (Hear here; Read here; MP3) |
(Merge, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| The Music Tapes |
“Mary’s Voice” (Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Merge, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Bill Ortiz (Santana trumpeter) |
“Highest Wish” (includes a cover of Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson’s “Winter in America”; guests: Casual, The Grouch, Zumbi, K-Maxx, Tony Lindsey, Linda Tillery; Hear here; See here; MP3) |
(Left Angle, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Fernando Perdomo |
“Home Is Wherever You Are [MP3]” (first single: “Smile”; Hear here; See here) |
(The Rosemine Group, Sept. 3, 2012) |
| Mark Schultz |
“All Things Possible” (producers: Pete Kipley, Seth Mosley; first single: “All Things Possible”; Hear here) |
(Fair Trade Services/Columbia, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Brian Setzer |
“Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot! Live From the Planet” (Vinyl; MP3) |
(Surfdog, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| The Sheepdogs |
“The Sheepdogs” (first single: “The Way It Is”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Atlantic, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Smash Mouth |
“Magic” (producer: new guitarist Mike Krompass; guest: J-Dash; first single: “Magic”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) |
(429, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Malka Spigel |
“Every Day Is Like the First Day [MP3 Download]” (collaborators: Johnny Marr, Wire’s Colin Newman, Andy Ramsay, Matthew Simms; Hear here) |
(Swim, Sept. 3, 2012) |
| Stars |
“The North” (producers: Stars, Graham Lessard, Marcus Paquin; first single: “The Theory of Relativity”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3 Download, with one bonus track) |
(ATO, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Dave Stewart |
“The Ringmaster General” (guests: Alison Krauss, Diane Birch, Joss Stone, Jessie Baylin; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Surfdog, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Tanita Tikaram |
“Can’t Go Back” (her first album since 2005; producer: Paul Bryan; first single: “Dust On My Shoes”; Hear here; Read here; MP3) |
(Eagle, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Two Door Cinema Club (Irish indie-rock group) |
“Beacon” (producer: Jacknife Lee; first single: “Sleep Alone”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(Glassnote, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Two Gallants (San Francisco rock duo) |
“The Bloom and the Blight” (producer: John Congleton; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) |
(ATO, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Various artists |
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [Cast recording]” (Encores! production starring Megan Hilty of the TV series “Smash”; music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Leo Robin; MP3) |
(Sony Masterworks, Sept. 4, 2012) |
| Young Guns (U.K. post-hardcore band) |
“Bones” (Hear here; MP3) |
(Wind-up, Sept. 4, 2012) |
