| 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) |
