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>Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas CD/LP+CD (Columbia)
The legendary Leonard Cohen’s first new album in eight years!


>Damon & Naomi/Ghost – Damon & Naomi/Ghost CD/LP+7” (Drag City)
It was back in 1995 that Damon Krukowski andNaomi Yang first met Ghost. They felt an immediate kinship and soon plans were afoot to collaborate in some way -- but it wasn't until 2000 that they encountered Masaki Batoh and Michio Kurihara in the studio.


>Lana Del Rey - Born To Die CD (Interscope)
Del Rey calls herself the “gangsta Nancy Sinatra” and defines her genre as “Hollywood pop/ sadcore” a dramatic new loop for pop music. Her debut features the hit singles "Blue Jeans" and "Video Games."


>Mike Doughty - The Question Jar Show 2xCD (Snackbar)
For The Question Jar Show, Mike Doughty's audience wrote notes on scraps of paper, and put them in a jar on stage. Doughty and his droll, eccentric sidekick and cello player, Andrew "Scrap" Livingston, answered them between songs. When not answering questions, Doughty and Scrap played stripped down, rhythmically intense, and haunting version of Doughty's best songs.


>Gotye - Making Mirrors CD/2xLP (Universal)
Belgian-Aussie artist Gotye (Wally de Backer) delivers a great art-pop album that delves into dub, Detroit-era Motown soul, stadium-sized politi-pop, synth-folk and world music.


>Hospitality - Hospitality CD/LP (Merge)
The angular, intricate, and intelligent compositions of Hospitality signal a sophisticated new pop voice. Singer Amber Papini's idiosyncratic songwriting coupled with the band's rich arrangements on their self-titled debut is recommended for fans of Camera Obscura and Twin Sister.


>Imperial Teen – Feel The Sound CD/LP (Merge)
ELO-like symphonic pop has become a touchstone for everyone from Justice to Cut Copy in recent years, but this makes it manifest through live instrumentation that possesses a Krautrock level of intuitive synchronicity and a desert island jukebox's sense of fun.


>Lilacs & Champagne – Lilacs & Champagne CD/LP (Mexican Summer)
Members of Grails and Om, who have also played with Jandek, Damo Suzuki and Stephen Malkmus.


>Prinzhorn Dance School – Clay Class CD (DFA)
Sophomore album from UK indie/post-punk two-piece. Vinyl version due February 21.


>Jamie Woon - Mirror Writing CD (Verve)
New from the dubstep producer and singer/songwriter featuring production by Burial.


>Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory CD/LP (Carpark)
Recorded in Chicago with Steve Albini, Cloud Nothing’s second full length showcases the growth they've experienced as a constantly touring band, opening the songwriting process up for more improvisation and input from the other band members.


>Big Pink - Future This CD/LP+MP3 (4AD)
“The Big Pink’s follow up to 2009’s A Brief History Of Love is an example of what UK electro-rock should be: thunderous, ’80s-style drumbeats, sleek keyboard grooves, and a selection of samples that you can’t help but nod your head to.” -- Playback:STL


>Kathleen Edwards - Vogageur CD/LP+MP3 (Zoe/Rounder)
Fourth album from the acclaimed Canadian singer/songwriter. Produced by Justin Vernon (AKA Bon Iver) and featuring guest appearances by Vernon and Norah Jones.


>Howler - America Give Up CD/LP (Rough Trade)
"Howler is a delightfully disaffected surf-pop quartet... there's a high ceiling for these little punks." -- A.V. Club


>Cate Le Bon - Cyrk CD (The Control Group)
A collection of pop nuggets imbued with the playfulness of Faust and Syd Barrett and the tropical melodies of Os Mutantes. Existential word play and fuzz fused guitar lines tear through like an angry bee in a can.


>Los Nombres - Los Nombres CD/LP (Numero)
One part War, two parts Santana, a dash of Motown, immersed in a rich Puerto Rican stock, the Nombres were the undisputed kings of Northern Ohio's rust-belt barrios. Following the explosions of brown-eyed and latin soul in L.A. and NYC, and with a voice that rivaled any on the Fania roster, Willie Marquez led the rotating cast of Latino teens through numerous underfunded recordings sessions, the lo-fi fruits of which are compiled here.


>Steve Aoki - Wonderland CD (Ultra)
New album from one of L.A.'s most well-known electro/house DJs. Features collaborations with Rivers Cuomo, Lil Jon, and others.


>Mark Van Hoen - Revenant Diary CD/LP (Editions Mego)
Founding member of Seefeel. Van Hoen’s adroit juxtapositions of gauzy textures evoke the blurred luminescence of 16mm film and the rich, color-saturated hues of rediscovered Polaroid pictures. Expertly renders displaced memory daze in lushly melodic, gently delirious electronic sound.


>Bill Ryder-Jones - If CD/LP (Domino)
Debut solo album from the founding member and lead guitarist from The Coral.


>Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires CD/CD+DVD/2xLP (Island)
Sixth album from the Glasgow, Scotland-based lush indie rock group. Available in Regular and Deluxe Editions. Deluxe features a DVD of the group live at the Royal Albert Hall.


>Alex Chilton - Free Again: The “1970” Sessions CD/LP (Omnivore Recordings)
Collects the first solo recordings by Chilton -- post-Box Tops/pre-Big Star. Includes previously unreleased material.


>Charlie Haden/Hank Jones - Come Sunday CD (Emarcy)
Two jazz legends team up for an unforgettable and moving album of classic spirituals.


>Various Artists (Brodinsky) - Fabriclive 60 CD (Fabric)
French DJ/ producer Brodinski has built his craft upon a broad bed of tastes. Over the last decade the self-confessed internet junkie has fed off everything from rap and indie to minimal and bass. This musical eclecticism shines through on Fabriclive 60, as the youngster exhibits both his youthful abandon and precocious maturity, with a blistering selection of electro, techno and house.



LUNA music 2011 essentials...

>Common - The Dreamer/The Believer CD (Think Common)
New independently released album from the hip-hop star, featuring guest appearances by Nas and John Legend.


>Soundtrack (Jónsi) - We Bought A Zoo CD (Columbia)
Original soundtrack to the new motion picture, composed by SIGUR RÓS frontman/songwriter Jónsi.


>Charlotte Gainsbourg - Stage Whisper CD (Elektra)
Stage Whisper includes seven studio recordings and eleven live songs. Many of the studio tracks come from sessions for the Beck-produced 2010 album IRM.


>Anthony Hamilton - Back To Love CD (RCA)New album from the R&B singer -- available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds four bonus tracks.


>X - The Unheard Music: Silver Edition DVD/Blu-ray (Angel City Media)
X: The Unheard Music takes long, detailed, and often-funny look at the L.A. music scene of the late ‘70s and ‘80s and focuses on the group that critics had singled out as the leader of the underground pack. The Unheard Music is a documentary that combines live footage of the band and interviews with the four members (as well as their friends and families) with surreal music videos and montages of newsreel footage and vintage television commercials which help to illustrate X's uphill struggle against the music industry. 84 minutes.


>Freddie Gibbs And Madlib - Thuggin’ 12” (Madlib Invazion)
Gibbs' rough-hewn raps landing atop smoldering soul and jagged psychedelia. Contains vocals, instrumentals and two bonus beats.


>The Black Keys - El Caminio CD/LP+CD (Nonesuch)
An exhilarating, stadium-sized sound produced by Danger Mouse with no-nonsense brilliance. The pace is fast, the mood is upbeat, the choruses are unfailingly addictive and made for shouting along.


>The Roots - Undun CD (Def Jam)
New concept album from the influential hip-hop group.


>The Fall - Ersatz G.B. CD (Cherry Red)
Album 29 from the Manchester alt-rock band--fronted by the always-lovely Mark E. Smith.

>Various Artists [Gold Panda] - DJ Kicks CD (!K7)
Gold Panda’s installment of the ongoing DJ series mixes tracks by Gold Panda,
Melchior & Pronsato, Bok Bok, Drexciya, Muslimgauze, Pawel, Ramadanman, SND, Zomby, Closer Musik, Jan Jelinek, Brainiac, Matthewdavid, and others.

>Jacaszek - Glimmer CD/LP (Ghostly International)
Jacaszeks creations are painstakingly crafted collages of electronic textures and baroque instrumentation, harpsichords being swarmed by woolly static one minute and pulled apart by billowing wind the next.


>Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Lost Treasures CD (Universal Republic)
Posthumous collection of previously unreleased tracks, alternate versions of existing classics, as well as a couple of brand new compositions. Vinyl version due December 13.


>The Cure - Bestival Live 2011 2xCD (PIAS)
The Cure headlined the Isle Of Wight-based festival in September 2011, playing a 32-song, 2 ½ hour set.


>Phish - Hampton/Winston-Salem '97 7xCD (Jemp)
Live set from three nights (November 21-23, 1997) in Massachusetts -- 45 tracks total.


>Elvis Costello - The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook [Super Deluxe Edition] CD+DVD+10" (Hip-O)
Live box set, recorded over a two-night stand at The Wiltern in Los Angeles May 11-12, 2011. Each set is individually numbered with a special commemoration card autographed by Elvis Costello, and includes a 40-page hardcover book packed with candid photos, a tour diary of Costello's musings from each tour stop, a 20" x 30" concert tour poster and a limited edition postcard.


>Black Truth Rhythm Band - Ifetayo CD/LP+7”+MP3 (Soundway)
Super-rare 1976 Afro-centric Caribbean album. Singer Oluko Imo went on to record with Fela Kuti and perform with members of Fela's Egypt 80 band.


>Dome - 1-4+5 CD/5xLP (Editions Mego)
Complete recorded works in deluxe box sets. Dome was a forward-thinking, early-‘80s art rock band featuring Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis of Wire.


>Desertshore - Drawing Of Threes CD (Caldo Verde)
Drawing Of Threes combines shimmering guitar notes, resonant piano, subtle distortion and noise with Mark Kozelek's (Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters) distinctive vocals.

>Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow CD/LP (Anti)
50 Words For Snow includes seven tracks set against a background of falling snow, and features a number of special guest musicians including Elton John, Andy Fairweather (Low) and, on the title track, the British writer/broadcaster/raconteur Stephen Fry.


>Cloud Control - Bliss Release CD (Turnout)
“There's an appealing open-heartedness about the debut from Australian psychedelic poppers Cloud Control, a sense of wide-eyed, slightly fried wonder.” -- The Guardian


>Rhett Miller - The Interpreter: Live At Largo CD/LP (Maximum Sunshine)
A dozen live acoustic covers of some of Miller’s favorite songs by David Bowie, The Pixies, The Kinks, Elliott Smith and others.


>Death Cab For Cutie - Codes And Keys Remix CDEP (Atlantic)
New companion EP to DCFC’s recent album.


>Throbbing Gristle - Bring You 20 Jazz Funk Greats [Reissue/1979] CD/LP (Industrial)
Remastered reissue now available. CD versions include a bonus disc of live recordings and remastered singles.


>The Rolling Stones - Some Girls [Reissue 1978/Deluxe Edition] 2xCD/3xCD/2xLP (Universal)
Digitally remastered deluxe editions of the Rolling Stones' 1978 masterpiece include bonus discs of previously unreleased recordings taped during the Some Girls sessions.


>The Rolling Stones - Some Girls Live In Texas ’78 DVD/Blu-ray (Eagle Rock)
The Rolling Stones 1978 tour of the US in support of that year’s Some Girls album is considered by fans to be one of their very best. By the time the band arrived in Texas in mid-July the album had hit the No.1 spot on the stateside charts. 85 minutes.


>Ty Segall - Singles 2007-2010 CD/LP (Goner)
Jet-packing around the indie/garage cosmos for the last four years, Ty Segall has done too many singles and EPs and split records and shared records and albums and cassettes to count.


>Eddy Current Suppression Ring - So Many Things CD/LP (Goner)
Collection of out-of-print singles, demo recordings and other hard-to-find material.


>Sigur Ros - INNI 2xCD+DVD/2xCD+Blu-ray/3xLP+DVD (XL)
The definitive Sigur Ros live experience, comprised of a live album and a 75-minute concert film, capturing the last show before their well-documented “indefinite hiatus” at the end of 2008. Recorded over two nights at London's Alexandra Palace. PLEASE NOTE: THE VINYL IS LIMITED TO ONLY 3000 COPIES--WORLDWIDE! And is not going to be re-pressed...


>Crystal Stilts - Radiant Door CDEP/12” (Sacred Bones)
Opening track "Dark Eyes" may be their strongest song to date, unshackling them from their fuzzy reputation, which, even at its heaviest, could never obscure one from this bands dexterous songcraft.


>Tegan And Sara - Get Along CD+DVD (WB)
This live album and three films offer a rare and intimate glimpse into the lives of widely celebrated songwriters.


>Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy And Geometry CD/2xLP (Kranky)
A gorgeous, flowing, floating world of postkosmische musik, Steve Hauschildt's (Emeralds) first widely available release, and his first major statement as a solo artist.


>Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven CD/LP (Acephale)
A blissful journey through influences as far flung as Southern rap, dream pop, reggae, and minimal techno. Lush, dubbed-out instrumentals perfectly complement trance-pop vocal cuts.


>Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness CD/LP (Arts & Crafts)
Fourth album with tracks covering love, loss, heartbreak, football (always football).


>Odonis Odonis - Hollandaze CD (Fat Cat)
Hollandaze is a grimy, gum-splattered ménage of surf-gaze, punk and lo-fi, cut from twanging reverb and fuzz heavy guitars, thick, driving bass-and-drum machines and overdriven Hammond organ.


>Childish Gambino - Camp CD (Glassnote)
A unique blend of hip-hop with multiple genres, combined with lyrical genius, Gambino has gone from a viral cult following to a mega sensation. Vinyl version due December 6.


>Drake - Take Care CD (Cash Money)
Drake’s sophomore album features collaborations and production from Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Andr‚ 3000, Boi-1da, Noah 40 and others. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe includes bonus tracks.


>Betty Wright And The Roots - Betty Wright: The Movie CD (S-Curve)
14 earthy, funk-drenched soul anthems, all of which were co-written by Wright and co-produced by Ahimir "Questlove" Thompson of The Roots, and Angelo Morris. The album features guest performances by Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Joss Stone, and more.


>Can - Tago Mago [40th Anniversary Edition] 2xCD (Mute)
40th Anniversary Edition of this Krautrock masterpiece features original UK artwork and a bonus CD featuring 50 minutes of unreleased live material from 1972.


>The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage: Animation Music, Vol. 1 [Reissue/1991] 2xCD (Cloud)
Remastered and expanded reissue of their ambitious, highly influential second album. Perfect symphonic pop songs in an elaborate tapestry of tape manipulation, free jazz and electronics. Bonus disc includes rare tracks including B-sides and live material.


>The Who - Quadrophenia [Deluxe Edition] 2xCD (Geffen)
>The Who - Quadrophenia: The Director's Cut [Super Deluxe Edition] 4xCD+DVD+7” (Geffen)
Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1973 concept album by the British rock icons adds Pete Townshend's previously unheard demos including songs that didn't make it onto the original album. Super Deluxe version adds an exclusive eight track 5.1 surround sound DVD, a deluxe hard-back book, previously unseen personal notes, photographs, memorabilia and other exclusive material.


>R.E.M. - Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 2xCD (WB)40-song career-spanning retrospective collects songs from R.E.M.'s entire back catalog, including the band's years on both the IRS label (1982-1987) and Warner Bros. Records (1988-2011). Includes three previously unreleased new songs.


>Ray Charles - Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles 5xCD (Concord)
106-song collection presents the A and B-sides of 53 singles, including eleven #1 hits, such Grammy Award winners "Hit The Road Jack," "Busted," "Georgia On My Mind," "I Can't Stop Loving You," "Crying Time," "America The Beautiful," and many more.


>The Supremes - More Hits By The Supremes [Reissue/1965] 2xCD (Hip-O Select)
Includes mono and stereo mixes of the original album -- with the mono version on CD for the first time -- and features the #1 hits "Stop! In The Name Of Love" and "Back In My Arms Again," plus live recordings from the group's appearances supporting the album.


>Atlas Sound - Parallax CD/LP (4AD)
Third long player from the ever-expansive solo project from Bradford Cox of Deerhunter. Atlas Sound is not a "side-project," but rather a fully fleshed musical landscape chock-full of pop chronicles culled from sci-fi fever dreams and mid century rock.


>Cass McCombs - Humor Risk CD/LP (Domino)
Humor Risk is perhaps Cass' most upbeat album yet, showing him in a more optimistic mood, and could be seen as the happier, more hopeful sister record to Wit's End.

>DRC Music - Kinshasa One Two CD (Warp Records)
DRC Music is comprised of Damon Albarn, producers: T-E-E-D (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs), Dan The Automator, Jneiro Jarel, Richard Russell, Actress, Marc Antoine, Alwest, Remi Kabaka, Rodaidh McDonald and Kwes. Each of them has donated their time and waived all royalties to this work to raise funds for Oxfam.


>Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream CD/LP (In The Red)
New album captures the riot-sparking energy of their live show. While Castlemania was more of a vocal tirade, Carrion Crawler/The Dream is meant to pummel and throb.


>The Bees - Every Step’s A Yes CD/2xLP+CD (ATO)
Formerly A Band Of Bees. “Mellow and spaced-out. Paul Butler seems to have internalized the feel of bossa nova and samba. These songs showcase a gentle melodicism as akin to Gilberto Gil as it is to Pink Floyd's ‘Arnold Layne.’ I guess the simplest term for it would be psych-folk.” -- Pitchfork


>Oneohtrix Point Never - Replicas CD/LP (Software)
Replica is an electronic song cycle based around audio procured from TV ad compilations. These sample-based meditations are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed "ghost vocals" which serve as narration for Lopatin's signature amorphous, ambient passages.


>David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time CD (PlAS America)
Visionary filmmaker David Lynch makes his solo debut with 14 original songs that spotlight him on guitar and vocals. Vinyl version due November 21.


>Joker - The Vision CD/LP (4AD)
The British electronica/dubstep wunderkind continues to playfully subvert pop conventions.


>King Midas Sound - Without You CD (Hyperdub)
King Midas Sound released their enthralling debut album Waiting For You in November 2009. A hyper-modern nocturnal take on lovers rock, featuring delicate but sour electronic instrumentals topped with Roger Robinson's bitter-sweet falsetto and Kiki Hitomi’s fragile voice, it highlighted a hitherto less-exposed side of producer Kevin Martin’s musical evolution. For Without You Kevin Martin has sourced a pool of radical reinterpretations that follow somewhat in the tradition of reggae, in the same way that the original Waiting For You album did.

>Ben Frost/Daniel Bjarnason - Solaris CD (Bedroom Community)
A symphonic suite inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris.


>Alva Noto - Univrs CD/2xLP (Raster-Noton)
“...rugged industrial barrages of beats, violent noise and occasional glassy tones. It's like Pan Sonic or Sleeparchive thrown through the corroded guts of Ted Hughes's Iron Man then fed into Bill Gates's nightmares...” -- Boomkat


>Kaskade - Fire And Ice CD (Ultra)
Kaskade defines the signature San Francisco house sound, with his luscious productions and mixes being slices of shimmering house perfection.


>Olof Arnalds - Olof Sings CD (One Little Indian)
On this covers album, the Icelandic songbird brings her own inimitable, intimate spin to classics by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Arthur Russell, Caetano Veloso, and Neil Diamond.


>Dwarr - Starting Over CD/LP (Drag City/Yoga)
“An outsider in an already left-of-center genre, Duane Warr, better known by recording moniker Dwarr, began his journey into the annals of musical obscurity as a factory worker with dreams of making it big in Columbia, SC. His music is an eccentric combination of psychedelic rock and doom metal, drawing from influences like Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, and Pentagram to create an atmospheric and riff-oriented sound that was made all the stranger by occasional bursts of piano and saxophone.” -- All Music


>Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds CD/CD+DVD/LP (Mercury)
Gallagher's first solo album/project since the 2009 split of multi-platinum band Oasis.


>Brian Eno - Panic Of Looking CDEP/12” (Warp/Whale Blubber)
From the recordings that produced Drums Between The Bells -- Eno’s recent collaboration with British poet Rick Holland -- comes six new tracks that continue the exploration of how lyric and songwriting are perceived in the post-everything era.

>Meshell Ndegeocello - Weather CD (Naive)
Weather finds the eclectic songwriter expanding on her iconic style, a lush album of intimate songwriting. Produced by Joe Henry, and featuring Benji Hughes and Chris Connelly.


>Randy Newman - Live In London CD+DVD (Nonesuch)
The 22-song London set features songs from throughout Newman's four-decade long career, including some of his best-known songs like "Short People," "Louisiana 1927," and "I Think It's Going To Rain Today," as well as newer songs such as "A Few Words In Defense Of Our Country" and "Laugh And Be Happy." An interview from the BBC broadcast also is included on the DVD.


>Laura Viers - Tumble Bee: Sings Folk Songs For Children CD/LP (Raven Marching Band)
Collection of folk songs for children covers a wide range of American folk songs, from early 20th century work songs to the ballads of Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Peggy Seeger and Harry Belafonte.


>This Mortal Coil - This Mortal Coil 4xCD (4AD)
All three albums have been remastered from the original analogue studio tapes. Additionally there is a fourth album, Dust & Guitars, that compiles all the singles, including an unreleased one that was to have been part of the Rough Trade Singles Club and features the otherwise unavailable recording of Neil Young's "We Never Danced."


>Royal Trux - Singles Live Unreleased [Reissue/1997] 2xCD3xLP (Drag City)
Royal Trux was a band to which the word "definition" had no meaning. This 32-song bomb was dropped on a highly suspect America back in the early winter of 1997. Collected from 1988 to around the time they were signed to Virgin in 1994, this collection represents a living, breathing entity built of contradictions, rhythm, gleeful exploitation of limitations and clichés, the short con (and when you finally notice, they'd slip into the long one) and above all, total commitment.


>Various Artists - Eccentric Soul: Nickel & Penny Labels CD (Numero)
Numero’s final release of 2011 took five years to assemble. Astute readers of previous liner notes may remember a section on acclaimed Chicago dusties DJ Richard Pegue in Eccentric Soul: Twinight’s Lunar Rotation. But for those who are more aurally connected to Numero, he’s brilliant arranger and producer on Renaldo Domino’s “Not Too Cool To Cry” and “Nevermore,” the Perfections “Why Do You Want To Make Me Sad” and “Which One Am I,” and Sidney Pinchback’s “Soul Strokes.” As soon as Twinight was done Numero approached Richard about doing a similar treatment for his Nickel and Penny concerns. He was immediately interested, but then again, Pichard Pegue was interested in everything. He died in the middle of working on this project, but we think he’d be pretty thrilled with the finished product. Vinyl version due November 21.


>Lijadu Sisters - Danger [Reissue 1976] CD/LP (Knitting Factory)
The Lijadu Sisters debut album, Danger (originally released in 1976), is as funky and mellifluous as it gets, the twins gorgeous harmonies underpinned by a solid Afro-rock beat and framed by Biddy Wright's funky organ and guitar work.


>ESG - Come Away With Me [Reissue/1983] CD (Fire)
>ESG - ESG [Reissue/1991] CD (Fire)
Reissue of the influential band’s first two albums. “It certainly wasn't by design that the South Bronx-based group ESG affected post-punk, no wave, hip-hop, and house music. They opened for Public Image Ltd. and A Certain Ratio, they released records on the same label as Liquid Liquid, they had their music sampled countless times, and they became a playlist staple at '70s dance clubs like the Paradise Garage and the Music Box.” -- All Music


>Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here [Reissue/1975] 2xCD/2xLP (Capitol)
Features the original remastered album and a disc of additional material.
>Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here [Immersion Box] 2xCD+2xDVD+Blu-ray (Capitol)
The Immersion version features the classic studio album digitally remastered and presented as a limited edition high quality boxset featuring rare and unreleased audio and video material, plus a new 40-page oversized perfect-bound booklet, a book of original photographs edited by Jill Furmanovsky, exclusive merchandise and facsimile collectables.


>Rush - Rush: Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland DVD (Zoe)
An evening with Rush performing their classic hits and features the legendary Moving Pictures album, performed live in its entirety. 151 minutes. Blu-ray version due December 20.


>Flowers And Sea Creatures - S/T CD/2-LP (Buzzin' Fly)
Hailing from Montreal, the debut from Graham Baxter and Kosta Megalos has captured our decks and ears, unlike any record in quite a while.
Baxter's soaring impressionistic vocals (think of a charcoal-purple bruised Autumn sunset), coupled with Megalos' shimmering instrumental backdrops (with production courtesy of Ewan Pearson, Fred Everything and The Revenge)--you'll fall in love with their deeply atmospheric and cinematic sound…


>Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials CD (Universal Republic)
Florence + The Machine’s new album is a rich tapestry that unpicks the conventions of classic pop, shoots them through a black hole and reconstitutes them into a multi-layered, future-primitive stomp. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds four bonus tracks. Vinyl version due November 8.


>The Decemberists - Long Live The King CD/LP (Capitol)
New EP is a mostly-acoustic set of six Americana-based songs, recorded around the same time as The King Is Dead, and including their cover of The Grateful Dead’s "Row Jimmy."


>The Soft Moon - Total Decay CDEP/LP (Captured Tracks)
“The title track ably walks the line between Factory Records ghost-moan postpunk and straight-up scary noise.” -- Stereogum


>Blouse - Blouse CD/LP (Captured Tracks)
“Blouse tags along the wave of dream pop, shoegaze, chill wave -- whatever you want to call it.” -- Twentyseven Views


>Black Milk/Danny Brown - Black And Brown! CD (Fat Beats)
Collaboration between the two celebrated Detroit hip-hoppers finds Danny Brown exclusively handling mic duties, with Black Milk showcasing his masterful production.


>Lou Reed + Metallica - Lulu 2xCD (WB)
Originally the lyrics and musical landscape were sketched out by Lou for a theatrical production in Berlin, but after coming together with Metallica for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame concerts in New York in 2009 they knew they wanted to make more music together.


>Beach Boys - SMiLE Sessions 2xCD/5xCD+2xLP+2x7”/2xLP (Capitol/EMI)
With the full participation of original Beach Boys Al Jardine, Mike Love, and Brian Wilson, Capitol/EMI has collected and compiled the band's legendary 1966-'67 sessions for the never-completed SMiLE. Available as a double-disc edition and as a Deluxe box set. Deluxe adds a wealth of bonus material for the super fan.


>U2 - Actung Baby [Reissue/1991] CD/2xCD/6xCD+4xDVD/4xLP (Island)
Reissue of U2’s 1991 smash, available in an array of editions. Deluxe double CD edition features the original album plus an additional 14 tracks including B-sides and remixes. Super Deluxe 10 disc edition includes the original album, the follow-up album, Zooropa, B-sides and re-workings of previously unheard material recorded during the Achtung Baby sessions; and four DVDs, including "From The Sky Down", Zoo TV, all the videos from Achtung Baby plus bonus material. Extremely limited 4xLP color vinyl pressing includes the original album plus seven bonus remixes.


>Jethro Tull - Aqualung [40 Anniversary Special Edition] 2xCD/2xCD+DVD+LP (Capitol)
Digitally remastered and expanded reissue of the classic 1971 album. Disc One features a new, previously unreleased stereo mix of the album. Disc Two contains additional recordings from 1970-71 and includes unheard stereo mixes. Also available as a limited Super Deluxe Edition which adds a bonus DVD, a vinyl LP pressing and more.


>Tom Waits - Bad As Me CD/2xCD/LP+CD (Anti)
Waits’ first studio album of all new music in seven years. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe package includes a 40-page book and three bonus tracks.


>Dirty Projectors + Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca CD/LP (Domino)
A collaboration between the orchestral Brookyln group and the avant-pop princess... inspired by a whale sighting.


>Dntel - Life Is Full Of Possibilities [Reissue/2001] CD/2xLP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
“Now reissued with bonus material, this album is best remembered for birthing the Postal Service, via the Jimmy Tamborello and Ben Gibbard collaboration ‘The Dream Of Evan And Chan.’ A decade on, it offers a vision of how ‘experimental’ met ‘catchy’ in 2001. [8.8]” -- Pitchfork


>Justice - Audio Video Disco CD (Elektra)
New club jams from the Ed Banger wonderkids.


>JC Brooks And The Uptown Sound - Want More CD/LP+MP3 (Bloodshot)
With a sound like a meeting between Otis Redding and The Stooges, Brooks erupts with raw emotion, harnessing the Uptown Sound's post-punk edge and delivering music ranging from sweaty on-the-one workouts, dance-punk booty shakers, garage rock thump humps, and aching R&B ballads.


>Coldplay - Milo Xyloto CD (Capitol)
New album now available -- vinyl version due November 1.


>Surfer Blood - Tarot Classics CDEP/LP+DVD(Kanine)
New EP featuring remixes by Totally Sincere and Speculator. Deluxe vinyl version features bonus remixes by School Of Seven Bells and Allen Blickle and alternative mixes of the EP tracks by Sune Rose Wagner (The Raveonettes) in the download, along with live concert bootleg DVD.


>Mark Sultan - Whatever I Want, Whenever I Want CD/LP (In The Red)
New album from singer/songwriter Mark Sultan, better known as BBQ of The King Khan & BBQ Show. Sultan has been pounding out his own stew of R&B, rockabilly, garage, doo-wop, psychedelia, punk and whatnot since he was a mere child fronting Montreal's Spacesh!ts. Also available on two separately sold, expanded vinyl LPs: Whatever I Want and Whenever I Want.


>John Prine - The Singing Mailman Delivers 2xCD (Oh Boy)
Specially priced double CD set of John Prine's earliest recordings, one year before his debut, with classic hits and one unreleased song. Both discs consist of recently unearthed tapes -- the first disc is a August 1970 recording for John recording songs that would make up his first album at the WFMT studios in Chicago. Disc Two is a live set from November 1970, featuring versions of many of the same songs, recorded during his residency at Chicago's Fifth Peg.


>The Strange Boys - Live Music CD (Rough Trade)
“ Texas skuzz-punks The Strange Boys made a move toward cleaning up its screechy R&B on last year's Be Brave, but the new Live Music is a whole other level of good behavior for the band. The record prominently features piano and even a ballad or two, though singer Ryan Sambol's love-it-or-hate-it vocals keep the Strange Boys on the drunk and unkempt side of pop” -- A.V. Club. Vinyl version due November 8.


>Thomas Dolby - A Map Of The Frozen City CD/2xCD (Lost Toy People)
First new album in 20 years featuring appearances by special guest artists Mark Knopfler, Regina Spektor, Natalie MacMaster, Bruce Woolley, Imogen Heap and Eddi Reader. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds a disc of instrumentals and bonus tracks.


>Prurient - Time’s Arrow CD/LP (Hydra Head)
Prurient veer away from punishing noise, hitting a new trajectory where structured songs are shaped via a core of dark synths.


>Roots Manuva - 4everevolution CD/2xLP (Big Dada)
New 17-track album covers every style from wonky reggae through pop-funk, street spitting, straight up hip-hop, sung ballads and epic death-disco.


>El Rego - El Rego CD/LP (Daptone)
El Rego is a true legend of African soul music. Here for the first time on album are twelve of his greatest recordings from the late '60s and early '70s hand-picked by Daptone Records.


>Various Artists - East Of Underground 3xCD/3xLP (Now Again)
Soul, funk and rock recorded by US Army Servicemen during the height of the Vietnam War and released as albums by the US Army as recruitment tools.


>Diana Ross & The Supremes - 50th Anniversary: The Singles Collection 1961-1969 3xCD (Motown)
On the occasion of the legendary R&B group's 50th anniversary, every single from the legendary Diana Ross & The Supremes is now in one package, featuring every A and B-side.


>The Temptations - 50th Anniversary: Singles Collection 1961-1971 3xCD (Motown)
Every single from the legendary Temptations lineup through 1971 is now in one package. This 3xCD box set features every A and B side, from The Temptations very beginning to the moment original members Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams left the group.


>Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More [Deluxe] 2xCD+DVD (Glassnote)
Limited deluxe edition includes the original album plus a bonus track and a 12-song live set recorded at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, plus a three-part DVD documentary.


>Real Estate - Days CD/LP+MP3 (Domino)
A gorgeous suite of timelessly melodic, achingly melancholy pop songs. This is the next big step in the career of a uniquely close songwriting collective that feel more important with every release.


>M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming 2cCD/2xLP (Mute)
Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, NIN, The Mars Volta, Goldfrapp) Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming features contributions from Brad Laner (from ‘90s band Medicine) on guitar, Zola Jesus, and Saturdays=Youth vocalist Morgan Kibby.


>My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind CD/LP (Asthmatic Kitty)
All Things Will Unwind is the third offering from Detroit based experimental pop chanteuse My Brightest Diamond, aka Shara Worden, known for her many collaborations with indie rock royalty (Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, David Bryne, The Decemberists, and The National).


>Gauntlet Hair - Gauntlet Hair CD/LP (Dead Oceans)
Gauntlet Hair is a subtle refinement of the sounds we've come to associate with the band: the trunk-rattling bass; the ecstatic, tinny post-punk guitar; the din of ecstasy.


>Various Artists (Four Tet) - Fabriclive 59 CD (Fabric)
“Fabriclive 59 sticks pretty consistently to one scene. But it's a restless scene built on a premise of constant reinvention: UK garage, which from the late 1990s to the early 2000s mutated from a simultaneously roughed-up and opulent take on house music to the fierce and rap-derived clang-and-bang of grime. [8.0] -- Pitchfork


>Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Smoking In Heaven CD (Verve)
From ska-tinged rock & roll crafted upon seductive trumpet solos, luau guitar riffs and exotic vocals, to boldly pulsating rhythms that connote ‘60s soul and blues, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis have created an album that is rooted in the past but remains entirely original.


>Class Actress - Reproacher CD/LP (Carpark)
Brooklyn's Class Actress put forth their debut long­player, which features front person Elizabeth Harper’s winking coo darting about in the deep drums and lofty arpeggios, and her passion backed mostly with electronics, a style reminiscent of Yaz's Alison Moyet.


>T Bone Burnett - T Bone Burnett Presents The Speaking Clock Revue - Live From The Beacon Theatre CD (Shout Factory)
In October 2010, producer T Bone Burnett organized an impressive group of musicians, dubbed The Speaking Clock Revue, and joined with Participant Media for concerts benefiting arts education. The Speaking Clock Revue was recorded at the Beacon Theater in New York, and featured a house band made up of musicians from many Burnett-produced recordings and led by music director and guitarist Marc Ribot.


>Psychic Ills - Hazed Dream CD/LP (Sacred Bones)
Since their formation in 2003 as a home-recording experiment, the Ills have evolved into a live band, in their element playing the extended jam. Musically, it also marks a departure from some of the band's more recent sonic explorations. The raga rumbles and synthesizer space-outs aren't gone all together; the singular blasted musical perspective of the Ills remains.


>Pujol - Nasty, Brutish, And Short CD/10”+MP3 (Saddle Creek)
Garage pop with real hooks and a palpable DYI edge.


>Jonti - Twirligig CD/LP (Stones Throw)
For fans of: Animal Collective, Caribou, Flying Lotus, Four Tet.


>Penguin Prison - Penguin Prison CD/2xLP (Downtown)
Penguin Prison has been described as Chic produced by James Murphy, or a collaboration between Prince and the Human League.


>Chris Isaak - Beyond The Sun CD/2xCD (Vanguard)
Chris Isaak pays tribute Sun Records producer Sam Phillips by covering some of the artists he discovered, including: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis Available on Regular and Deluxe Editions. Deluxe adds an extra CD of material. Vinyl version due November 1.


>Jane’s Addiction - The Great Escape Artist CD (Capitol)
Spun through a kaleidoscope of tightly wound riffs, hypnotic harmonies, booming beats, and an unmistakable howl, The Great Escape Artist announces the beginning of the next chapter for the alternative rock torchbearers.


>Mike James Kirkland (Mike And The Censations) - Don’t Sell Your Soul CD/LP (Luv N Haight)
Before the release of his seminal, socially-conscious, 1972 soul album, Hang On In There, a young Mike James Kirkland released a number of singles as Mike And The Censations. Here for the first time are all of his early-releases, along with some unreleased gems discovered on tapes.


>The Smiths - The Smiths Complete 8xLP (Rhino)
Limited 8xLP box set containing digitally remastered editions of all eight Smiths albums: The Smiths (1984), Meat Is Murder (1985), The Queen Is Dead (1986), and Strangeways, Here We Come (1987) plus their sole live album Rank (1988) as well as the compilations Hatful Of Hollow (1984), The World Won't Listen (1987) and Louder Than Bombs (1987). Due October 24.


>Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Tape Club CD/2xLP+MP3 (Polyvinyl)
A carefully curated 26-song collection that serves as the culmination of a decade's worth of unreleased tracks.


>Supreme Dicks - Breathing And Not Breathing 4xCD (Jagjaguwar)
A 4xCD set that includes both of the band's studio albums, The Unexamined Life (1993) and The Emotional Plague (1996), along with 1994's Workingman's Dick, a collection of early archival recordings, and the 1996 EP This Is Not A Dick, which has been fleshed out with rare and unreleased tracks.


>Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire CD (PAX-AM/Capitol)
Ashes & Fire features guest turns from Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench as well as Norah Jones who contributes piano and backing vocals on several tracks. Vinyl version due November 1.


>Björk - Biophilia CD/2xLP+MP3 (Nonesuch)
The artistic and technological reach of Biophilia is nothing short of visionary. As New York Times critic Jon Pareles has put it, "Biophilia is a possible paradigm for the 21st-century album, one that welcomes the interactivity of the Internet and harnesses the power and flexibility of devices that incorporate video, audio and user control far beyond the play button."


>Crooked Fingers - Breaks In The Armor CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)
A cohesive and diverse set of songs with less adorned and more direct and affecting arrangements. Beautifully understated, artfully phrased, and ultimately a paean to perseverance.


>Peter Gabriel - New Blood CD/2xCD (Real World)
New Blood is a continuum of Peter's previous Scratch My Back album -- the song-swap project where he covered the songs of others, all to an orchestral backing. Thanks to the precise arrangements by John Metcalf and Peter, the treatment was so successful that Peter very quickly knew where he wanted to take it next, and work began to apply the same principals to his own songs. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds a bonus disc of instrumental versions. Vinyl version due November 15. Free 15 x 15 litho with purchase, while supplies last!


>Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien CD/LP (Barsuk)
“New York psych-rockers Cymbals Eat Guitars have been paying homage to ‘90s indie rock for several years now, but you can really hear the influence of bands like Pavement and Built To Spill in the band’s newest LP, Lenses Alien.” -- Paste Magazine


>Jeffrey Lewis - A Turn In The Dream-Songs CD/LP (Rough Trade)
Leaving behind most of the garage-rock bursts that peppered his previous albums, this is perhaps the sweetest record Jeffrey has released. Features contributions from members of Dr. Dog, The Vaselines, and Au Revoir Simone.


>Mayer Hawthorne - How Do You Do CD/LP (Republic)
The classic Motown sound that provided the blueprint for his self-produced independent debut, A Strange Arrangement, remains, but is joined on How Do You Do by music reminiscent of late ‘60s California pop and the best work from the likes of Steely Dan and Chicago.


>Joe Henry - Reverie CD/LP (Anti)
New album from the singer/songwriter featuring guest appearances by guitarist Marc Ribot and Lisa Hannigan.


>John Wesley Harding - The Sound Of His Own Voice CD/LP (Yep Roc)
New album features the all-star King Charles Trio, whose lineup includes John Moen, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee and Nate Query, all members of The Decemberists, Peter Buck of R.E.M. and McCaughey. Rosanne Cash, Laura Veirs and John Roderick (The Long Winters) also lend their vocal talents to the record.


>Scott H. Biram - Bad Ingredients CD/LP+MP3 (Bloodshot)
"A tour-de-force of gutbucket guitar squabble, vocals so feral they'll make you lock your doors at night...goes down like a cocktail of whiskey, amphetamines and black-humored despair." -- L.A. Times


>Black Cobra - Invernal CD (Southern Lord)
Punk/hardcore-fueled sludge metal.


>Murs - Love & Rockets Vol. 1 CD (DD172)
New album from the hard-working rapper.


>Various Artists - Christophe Lemaire Presents: Where Are You From? CD (Now Again)
16 tracks of global psychedelic rock, funk and folk grooves from 1968 to the present day. Tracks from Satwa, Kourosh Yaghamaei, MRR-ADM, Galt MacDermot, Rikki Ililonga, Koushik, Mazhar Ve Fuat, Karl Hector & The Malcouns, Gary Wilson, Panbers, Damon, and more.

>The Field - Looping State Of Mind CD/2xLP (Kompakt)
“As that might suggest, Looping often strays far from the Field we know, into territory that recalls deep house, post-punk, shoegaze, noise-rock, and cosmic techno. Best New Music [8.5]” -- Pitchfork


>Radiohead - TKOL Rmx 1234567 2xCD (TBD)
19-track double-disc compiles all commissioned remixes of tracks from The King Of Limbs.


>Water Borders - Harbored Mantras CD/LP (Tri Angle)
Dusted, chaotically danceable songs, influenced by the likes of Coil, Popul Vuh, Scott Walker and Rinse FM.


>Modeselektor - Monkeytown CD/LP (Monkeytown)
“Berlin-based electro duo Modeselektor’s third album, Monkeytown, is a slicker, more compact effort than the duo’s previous work, and few of this year’s dance releases will dare to sound this eclectic. Hip-hop, house and dubstep influences ripple through the album, so any att


>Martyn - Ghost People CD/LP+MP3 (Brainfeeder)
Pulls Brainfeeder out of L.A. and straight into the fluorescent bounce of West London's two-step, massaging the darker edge of Croydon's dub roots, and drum ‘n’ bass’ otherwordly and sci-fi sonics, while simultaneously moving through the grit of Detroit's mechanic grooves, and into the freewheeling vibe of Berghain.


>Leyland Kirby - Eager To Tear Apart The Stars CD (History Always Favors The Winners)
Echoes and refracts the maverick solo synth classics of Roedelius and Harold Budd, but with a temporal warping and sense of decayed decadence.


>Fennesz - Seven Stars CD (Touch)
Using acoustic and electric guitars, bass, synths and computers, Fennesz continues to engage and entrance us in equal measure. Features Chicago-based drummer extraordinaire Steven Hess.


>Erasure - Tomorrow’s World CD/2xCD (Mute)
New album from the veteran synthpop duo, their first album in more than four years. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds a bonus CD featuring remixes and demos.


>Ben Folds - The Best Imitation Of Myself: A Retrospective CD/3xCD (Sony Legacy)
Available in two editions: single CD and 3xCD box set. The single disc version is an 18 track retrospective featuring re-mastered hits, fan favorites, alternate mixes and one brand new track by Ben Folds Five. The multi-disc edition includes over 60 hits, live and rarities tracks spanning Ben Folds' entire recording career from 1991 to 2011, including three brand new tracks. Vinyl version due November 21.


>John Fahey - Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years 1958-1965 5xCD+Book (Dust To Digital)
Features the earliest recordings by one of the most influential guitarists from the '60s and '70s. 115 tracks, most of which are available on CD for the first time with an 88-page hardback book.


>Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets [Reissue/1982] CD (MVD Audio)
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II [Reissue/1984] CD (MVD Audio)
Meat Puppets - Huevos [Reissue/1987] CD (MVD Audio)
Reissues of the Meat Puppets’ first, second, and fourth albums with bonus tracks.


>Johnny Cash - Bootleg Vol. III: Live Around The World 2xCD (Sony Legacy)
A collection of rare and unreleased live recordings -- a travelogue from his earliest days on the road during the ‘50s through to ‘70s.

>Dean & Britta - 13 Most Beautiful [Limited Edition] CD (Double Feature)
Single-disc version of 2010 album, re-sequenced to match the running order of the live show that they have been performing over the past years.


>Yuck - Yuck [Bonus Disc] 2xCD (Fat Possum)
Includes an extra disc featuring six new tracks. This is a confident, wildly ambitious record, but also one which brims over with a ragged warmth and tenderness, tipping its hat at alt music heroes past such as East River Pipe, Dinosaur Jr. and Sparklehorse while at the same time retaining a unique identity entirely its own.


>Feist - Metals CD/LP (Interscope)
Like The Reminder, Metals is astoundingly intimate, yet often exuberant; rife with transcendent and unforgettable pop gems.


>Dreamers Of The Ghetto - Enemy/Lover CD/LP (Temporary Residence)
Dreamers Of The Ghetto marries the sentiment of classic ‘80s film soundtracks to minimalist, romantic dream-rock.


>Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - Wolfroy Goes To Town CD/LP (Drag City)
Wolfroy Goes To Town was recorded in Kentucky and mixed by Shahzad Ismaily, Emmett Kelly and Will Oldham. In addition to Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, the players are: Ben Boye (keyboards and extra singing), Van Campbell (drums and percussion), Shahzad Ismaily (percussion, guitar, extra singing), Emmett Kelly (guitars, mandolin, harmony singing), Danny Kiely (basses) and Angel Olson (singing).


>Loney Dear - Hall Music CD/LP (Polyvinyl)
An expansive record that finds Loney Dear closer to creating the type of orchestral music he has always sought to bring to life on stage.


>Prince Rama - Trust Now CD/LP (Paw Tracks)
Trust Now takes the kaleidoscopic mysticism of ancient devotional music and focuses it through the fierce urgency and archetypal language of pop, forming an environment that is both accessible and impenetrable. First conceived as a ritual to be performed live, the songs were fittingly recorded inside a 19th century church in Seattle by Scott Colburn (Sun City Girls, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire).


>DJ Shadow - The Less You Know, The Better CD (Verve)
Joshua Paul Davis better known as DJ Shadow is back with a new album. Vinyl version due October 18.


>We Were Promised Jetpacks - In The Pit Of The Stomach CD/LP (Fat Cat)
A huge leap forward from their debut -- full of prickly ambition and grand-scale vision, but with no shortage of the hooks and personal engagement that have earned their debut such a wide and devoted following.


>Zola Jesus - Conatus CD/LP (Sacred Bones)
A huge leap forward in production, instrumentation and song structure. From thumping ballads to electronic glitch, this is an icy exploration in refined chaos and controlled madness, an effort to break through capability and access a sonic world that crumbles as it shines.

>S.C.U.M. - Again Into Eyes CD/LP+CD (Mute)
Debut album reels from carnival-esque toughness to a second side that comes close to despair before mainlined redemption in the form of "Whitechapel," a utopian, future-disco monolith, washed in otherworldly mellotron and choirs.


>Charalambides - Exile CD/2xLP (Kranky)
Remaining as the core duo of Christina and Tom Carter, Charalambides celebrate their 20th year of existence with Exile, an album imbued with the full historical spectrum of American folk and blues, making it a tapestry of suppliant innovations directed at the heart of the unseen spiritual forces surrounding us.


>George Benson - Guitar Man CD (Concord Jazz)
New 12-song album includes a mix of jazz and pop standards -- some in a combo setting and some solo, but all tied together seamlessly by Benson's soulful and exploratory signature sound. Vinyl version due October 18.


>Various Artists (Hank Williams) - The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams CD (Columbia)
Premieres the first-ever performances of 12 previously unheard Hank Williams lyric compositions newly set to music by 13 artists: Norah Jones, Jack White, Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, Alan Jackson, Lucinda Williams, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell, Merle Haggard, Patty Loveless, Jakob Dylan, and Holly Williams.


>Wilco - The Whole Love CD/2xCD/2xLP+CD (Anti)
Twelve new songs that showcase Wilco in a new light, on bold rockers, somber acoustic ballads and punchy pop songs, bookended by the propulsive seven-minute opener “Art Of Almost,” and a meditative twelve-minute closing track, “One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend).” Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe includes a 52-page book and a bonus disc featuring four bonus tracks. HQ-180 double vinyl version includes a bonus track and a copy of the CD.


>Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy/The Phantom Family Halo - The Mindeater CD (Partisan/Knitting Factory)
The Mindeater is a collaborative project birthed by the ever-prolific Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Dominic Cipolla, multi-instrumentalist and main brain behind the elusive Phantom Family Halo.


>Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams CD/LP (Sub Pop)
Only In Dreams blends deeply personal lyrics inspired by the death of singer Dee Dee's mother and the strain of separation from loved ones with the band's signature blend of '60s girl-gang pop, the primitive propulsion of The Cramps and the moody atmospherics of Mazzy Star.


>Shin Joong Hyun - Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974 CD (Light In The Attic)
Career spanning compilation from the Korean rock legend. Shin Joong Hyun's tale is personal, spiritual, and deep, not only reflecting the full spectrum of human emotions, but one that produced reverberating echoes of sound, some beautiful and life-giving, others restless and ungovernable.


>Josh Rouse And The Long Vacations - Josh Rouse And The Long Vacations CD/LP (Bedroom Classics)
“Seems Rouse is getting into the whole island feel of things with a ridiculously laid back sound that makes full use of a maraca.” -- Merchants Of Rock


>Twin Sister - In Heaven CD/LP (Domino)
Twin Sister’s debut full-length after two beloved EPs. In Heaven radiates and glows. It's a firework show set against a broad black canvas; youthful exuberance echoes throughout.


>Mark McGuire - Get Lost CD/LP (Editions Mego)
A few more electronic elements than usual and even some voices, but still the unique blend of feel-good riffs, electric and acoustic loops and melodies that just stick in the head. This album is chockablock with short hits and one long jam of blissed-out McGuire (Emeralds) ambience.


>Big Troubles - Romantic Comedy CD/LP (Slumberland)
Second album from New Jersey four-piece is a masterpiece of modern pop; a perfect balance of grit and polish, gorgeous guitar sounds and angelic vocals, underpinned by a set of superb songs.


>Walls - Coracle CD/LP+CD (Kompakt)
Sonic shapes often collide in slow motion, while a greater usage of guitars and pedals -- twisted to push the instruments beyond their comfort zone -- have further cemented links to Krautrock (Cluter/Popul Vuh) and shoegaze (My Bloody Valentine/Ulrich Schnauss).


>Apparat - The Devil’s Walk CD/LP (Mute)
With its cool, contemplative dream-pop, The Devil’s Walk is informed as much by the Cure, Roxy Music and Cocteau Twins as James Blake and Four Tet.


>Plaid - Scintilli CD/2xLP (Warp)
Plaid's music involves emotive riffs that sit proudly over complex syncopated rhythms, the songs have melodic narratives and only rarely is the human voice used to spell these out. Synthetic layers are heaped on, producing euphoric highs at times and uncomfortable dark spaces at others.


>Arthur Russell - Let’s Go Swimming [Reissue/1986] CDEP/12” (Audika)
Remastered reissue of his most mind-bending (and boggling) psychedelic dance-raga originally released in 1986.


>Spank Rock - Everything Is Boring & Everyone Is A F---ing Liar CD (Bad Blood)
''[Spank Rock] doesn’t look or sound like any other rapper as he delivers hyper, clever lyrics over high BPM beats... It knocks, it's creative, and it's tailor-made for people already out for a different sort of fix.'' -- The Fader


>Boom Bip - Zig Zaj CD/LP (Lex)
New album from the hip-hop/electronica producer features guest spots from Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand), Money Mark, Luke Steele (Empire Of The Sun, The Sleepy Jackson), Josh Klinghoffer (Red Hot Chili Peppers) singer/songwriter Cate le Bon and Miley Noyce (Gayngs).


>9th Wonder - The Wonder Years CD (Traffic)
The former Little Brother member brings a star-studded cast to his new album, including: Erykah Badu, Raekwon, Talib Kweli, Murs, Mac Miller, Saigon, Kendrick Lamar, Warren G, Big K.R.I.T, Pharoahe Monch, Marsha Ambrosius, Skyzoo, Big Remo, Rapsody, and former Little Brother groupmate Phonte Coleman.


>Madlib - Medicine Show No. 12: Raw Medicine - Madlib Remixes CD (Madlib Medicine Show)
Features a host of unsuspecting collaborators that run the gamut from thugs, street poets, star emcees and underdogs.


>Phonte - Charity Starts At Home CD (HBD Label Group)
In addition to his impressive body of work as part of rap group Little Brother, Phonte has also achieved substantial critical acclaim as a singer/songwriter for genre bending soul ensemble The Foreign Exchange.


>The Mekons - Ancient And Modern CD/LP+MP3 (Bloodshot)
Mekons formed in Leeds, England 34 years ago in 1977 and Ancient & Modern is their 26th album.


>Matthew Sweet - Modern Art CD/LP (Missing Piece)
Defiantly unorthodox, but often playfully so, Modern Art features twelve new compositions of Sweet's trademark wistful, yearning pop that recall some of his recurrent touchstones: the Beatles, Beach Boys and Big Star.


>Kasabian - Velociraptor CD (Red Ink)
New from the roguish English swagger-rock band. Features the LL Cool J remix of "Days Are Forgotten." Free Kasabian lithograph with purchase -- while supplies last!



>Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn [Reissue/1967] CD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets [Reissue/1968] CD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - More [Reissue/1969] CD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma [Reissue/1969] 2xCD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother [Reissue/1970] CD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - Meddle [Reissue/1971] CD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds [Reissue/1972] CD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon [Reissue/1973] CD/LP (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here [Reissue/1975] CD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - Animals [Reissue/1977] CD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - The Wall [Reissue/1979] 2xCD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut [Reissue/1983] CD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason [Reissue/1987] CD (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell [Reissue/1993] CD (Capitol)
All 14 original studio albums have been digitally remastered by James Guthrie (co-producer of The Wall), and are reissued with newly crafted packaging and booklets created by the band’s long-time artwork collaborator Storm Thorgerson.


>Pink Floyd - Discovery Box Set 16xCD (Capitol)
Collects all 14 of the Pink Floyd reissues with a 60-page book.


>Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon [Experience Edition] 2xCD (Capitol)
>Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon [Immersion Box Set] 3xCD+2xDVD+Blu-ray (Capitol)
Experience Edition adds a bonus disc featuring The Dark Side Of The Moon performed live at Wembley 1974. Immersion Edition features an additional disc of rare/unreleased tracks, a disc of DVD audio (5.1 surround mixes and Alan Parson’s Quad Mix), a live DVD, a audio/video Blu-ray disc and other collectables.


>Nirvana - Nevermind [Reissue/1991] CD/2xCD (Geffen)
A remastered version of the 1991 (has it been a quarter of a century?) smash. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds a disc of B-sides, the Smart Studio sessions, boombox rehearsals and BBC sessions. 40-track quad vinyl version due October 4. The very fancy 4xCD+DVD Collector’s Edition due October 25.


>Various Artists - Note Of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie CD (429)
The first in a series of events leading up to the 2012 centennial celebration of Guthrie's birth. Note Of Hope features bassist Rob Wasserman's collaborations with Jackson Browne, Ani DiFranco, Kurt Elling, Michael Franti, Nellie McKay, Tom Morello, Van Dyke Parks, Madeleine Peyroux, Lou Reed, Pete Seeger, Studs Terkel, Tony Trischka, and Chris Whitley.


>Jens Lekman - An Argument With Myself CD/LP (Secretly Canadian)
With more fractured textures that combine horns, flutes, string swells and arpeggiated guitars, the opening of An Argument With Myself finds Jens in constant state of musical transition.

>The Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time CD/CD+DVD (Rounder)
Eighth album, The Jayhawks’ first with the original lineup since 1995's Tomorrow The Green Grass. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe edition includes an exclusive DVD featuring a making of the album documentary, rehearsal sessions videos, two bonus tracks, and more. Vinyl version due October 11.


>Alias - Fever Dream CD/2xLP (Anticon)
Spurred by the psychedelic sound and off-kilter groove of electronic experimentalists like Flying Lotus, Modeselektor and Bibio, Alias ditches quantized beats, embraces warmth and sets the whole thing wobbling to a warped dance pulse.


>Tori Amos - Night Of Hunters CD/CD+DVD (Deutsche Grammophon)
Amos’ new album is a 21st century song cycle inspired by select classical pieces spanning the last 400 years. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe features a bonus DVD containing two music videos; "Carry" and "Nautical Twilight" along with a making of the album video. Vinyl version due October 11.


>Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical CD/LP/2xLP+MP3 (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
From the chrome-plated licks of “Maniac” and the title track to the sheets of eddying synths and emotive motorik pulsebeats of Into “Your Alien Arms” and “Ketamine And Ecstasy,” CYHSY delivers up sonically provocative pop music that is simultaneously jubilant, mesmeric, and altogether infectious.


>Ramsey Lewis - Ramsey Taking Another Look CD (Hidden Beach)
The three time Grammy Award winning jazz pianist returns with his Electric Band to take another look at the material from the early ‘70s, specifically the Sun Goddess era.


>Megafaun - Megafaun CD/2xLP (Hometapes)
Critically-praised and publicly-loved for their ability to speak in the many tongues of American musical history -- all while blending it with their own energetic and personal form of rock.


>Patton Oswalt - Finest Hour CD (Comedy Central)
On his fourth (and quite possibly best) album, Patton covers a range of topics from how hipsters make the Spam museum sad, the greatness of sweatpants, and revisits his attack on KFC Famous Bowls.

>Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam Twenty [Soundtrack] 2xCD (Monkeywrench)
In honor of Pearl Jam's twentieth anniversary, award-winning director and music journalist Cameron Crowe created a definitive portrait of the seminal band carved from over 1,200 hours of rarely and never-before-seen footage, plus 24 hours of recently shot concert and interview footage. This soundtrack features 29 rare and unreleased tracks, hand-picked by Cameron Crowe with his original liner notes and never-before-seen photos in a 36-page booklet, all packaged in a hardbound book.


>Southerly - Youth CD/LP (Greyday)
Third album from the Portland, OR dark-pop auteur is a poignant exploration of life's varying stages of uncertainty and self-deception. Likewise, musically it explores shades of song structure with equal measures of childlike wonder and nuanced pop expertise.


>SuperHeavy - SuperHeavy CD/LP (Universal)
Mick Jagger has teamed up with Eurythmics founder Dave Stewart, soul singer Joss Stone, Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack composer A.R. Rahman and reggae star Damian Marley to form a band cooperative project called SuperHeavy. Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds four bonus tracks.


>Tammar - Visits CD/LP (Suicide Squeeze)
Tammar mine the classic sounds of paranoia, malaise and misanthropy (Joy Division, The Velvet Underground, The Fall and early ‘90s alt-rock), and fill it all with so much exuberance and joy of playing that each song becomes a triumph over anxiety and ennui.


>Various Artists - This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel On 45RPM 1957-1982 3xCD (Tompkins Square)
Fiery sanctified soul, heavy Pentecostal jams, drum machine gospel, slow-burning moaners, glorified guitar sermons and righteously ragged acappela hymns, originally released on small label 45s, mostly in the ‘60s and ‘70s. At least one-third of the records were self-released, paid for by a church congregation or the artists themselves. Others were on regional labels (typically run by one single producer) little known today outside of a small circle of collectors.


>Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost CD/LP+7” (True Panther Sounds)
More spontaneous and stripped-down than either their self-made debut or their lush EP, Father, Son, Holy Ghost is a gorgeous, largely minor-key record, enlivened by flashes of innocent pop and given depth by its wealth of influences and willingness to face sadness. Available on CD and on black and white vinyl with bonus flexi disc.


>Neon Indian - Era Extrana CD/LP (Mom & Pop)
Second album from the brilliantly lucid synth-wizard.


>St. Vincent - Strange Mercy CD/LP (4AD)
Strange Mercy showcases St. Vincent’s (Annie Clark) gift for fusing the cerebral and the visceral, her melodically elegant arrangements packing hefty emotional punches.


>CANT - Dreams Come True CD/LP (Terrible)
New project from Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear) and George Lewis Jr. (Twin Shadow).


>Das Racist - Relax CD/LP (MRI)
New album featuring production from El-P, Vampire Weekend's Rostam, Yeasayer's Anand Wilder, Drake songwriter Francis Farewell Starlite, Diplo, and cameos from Detroit rap eccentric Danny Brown, underground hip-hopper El-P, and the ever-reclusive rapper Despot.


>Toro y Moi - Freaking Out CDEP/12” (Carpark)
Freaking Out finds the chillwaver reveling in twenty minutes of boogie, roping in the heavy sounds of groups like the Gap Band and Mtume.


>Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing CD/COLORED LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
On American Goldwing, Blitzen Trapper let their love of hard guitar rock, country picking, and pawnshop Casio aplomb hang out.


>Mogwai - Earth Division CDEP/12” (Sub Pop)
New EP highlights a more subdued side of Mogwai, with three quietly plaintive piano/string-infused tracks, plus the fuzz-drenched haze of "Drunk And Crazy."


>Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage CD (Southern Lord)
In contrast to the bleakly hypnotic architecture of 2008's Black Cascade, this expands into a more expansive and visionary territory. There is a stronger thread of Popul Vuh-inspired underworld synth-scapes and star-lit pulse woven with the intertwining guitar lines.


>A.A. Bondy - Believers CD (Fat Possum)
Ten new songs by A.A. Bondy. They were conjured during and between dreams, in bare rooms, and on the late night streets of America. Vinyl version due October 11.


>Aardvarck - Anti Concept CD (Eat Concrete)
Showcases a taste for deep ambient and minimalist soundscapes, dub, Detroit techno and bass-heavy beats, mixed into a perfect flow. Includes samples of artists such as Jon Hassel, Fennesz and Talk Talk.


>Barn Owl - Lost In The Glare CD/LP+MP3 (Thrill Jockey)
At the heart of Lost In The Glare the dual guitar interaction between Caminiti & Porras, a spiraling web of interlocking gestures that give way to bone rattling, monolithic progressions and dusty drifts. The mostly fingerpicked guitars weave in and out of each other in precise movements that recall the hypnotic influence of American minimalists.


>Gui Boratto - III CD (Kompakt)
Arguably the biggest dance music artist to emerge from Brazil.


>The Kooks - Junk Of The Heart CD/LP (Astralwerks)
Third album of giddy, hit heavy, jangle pop.

>Nick Lowe - The Old Magic CD/LP (Yep Roc)
Amidst urbanely insistent grooves (''Sensitive Man''), and spare-yet-imposing shuffles (''Checkout Time''), The Old Magic features three exceptional Lowe ballads -- album opener ''Stoplight Roses,'' ''House For Sale'' and ''I Read A Lot.'' As is his custom, Lowe also peppers the album with three covers -- by Elvis Costello, Tom T. Hall and Jeff West -- that fit seamlessly with his originals. Additional musicians include Ron Sexsmith, Paul Carrack, and Jimmie Vaughan.


>Laura Marling - A Creature I Don’t Know CD/LP (Ribbon)
BRIT award winner and two-time UK Mercury Prize nominee's third album is comprised of ten original compositions of intricate and captivating storytelling, buoyed by Marling's rich voice, evocative lyrics and precise, confident instrumentation on every track.


>The Drums - Portamento CD/LP (Frenchkiss)
An escapist collection of beach pop fantasies; tracks suffused with a wistful, longing nostalgia that never panders to cheap sentimentality.


>Primus - Green Naugahyde CD/2xLP (ATO)
Influential alternative rock icons are back with their first album of brand new music since 1999's Antipap. Available on CD and on green vinyl.


>Superchunk - Foolish [Reissue/1994] CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)
Reissue of Superchunk’s fourth album -- which was originally recorded with Brian Paulson (Wilco, Slint).


>Sounds And Silence: Travels With Manfred Eicher - DVD (ECM)
Over a period of five years, Swiss filmmakers Norbert Wiedmer and Peter Guyer followed producer Manfred Eicher and the artists of ECM around the world. In footage from Estonia, Tunisia, Germany, France, Denmark, Greece, Argentina and elsewhere, their documentary movie Sounds And Silence, has captured aspects of the music-making process at ECM, and provided glimpses of unique players and composers at work. Amongst the artists included: Arvo Pärt, Eleni Karaindrou, Dino Saluzzi and Anja Lechner, Anouar Brahem, Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia, Marilyn Mazur, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Kim Kashkashian, Jan Garbarek and others. Soundtrack available on CD.


>The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love CD/LP (DFA/MRI)
Through the course of its eleven tracks, you can immerse yourself as waves of lyrical optimism and introspection crash between angular guitars and pulsing synthesizers, pounding drums and into sweet rhythmical lullabies.


>Roberts & Lord - Eponymous CD/LP (Asthmatic Kitty)
A supercombo collaboration between Simon Lord (ex Simian) and Rafter Roberts. Roberts' rough and grimy (yet complexly arranged) analog backing tracks paired with Lord's clean, digitally-recorded vocals, gives these songs a tricky kind of depth that is immediately engaging.


>The Horrible Crowes - Elsie CD/LP (Side One Dummy)
New project featuring Brian Fallon (Gaslight Anthem).


>WU LYF - Go Tell Fire On The Mountain CD/LP (L Y F)
“Heavy pop” debut from World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation.


>TV On The Radio - World Café Live CDEP/12” (Interscope)
Special EP featuring five live tracks from the NPR program World Cafe Live.


>Hank3 - Ghost To A Ghost/Gutter Town 2xCD/2xLP (Hank III Records)
This double album is a straight-shooting country collection, flavored with Hank3’s trademark hellbilly sound, and heavily weighted with Cajun influence, an ambient, lonesome mood and a very few special guests such as Tom Waits, Les Claypool, Alan King, Hanks Dog and more.
>Hank3 - Hank3 Attention Deficit Domination CD/LP (Hank III Records)
Attention Deficit Domination is a pressure-dropping, doom rock statement that allows the listener into his crunching, metal world of the heavy and the slow, complete with his renowned, fundamental percussion.
>Hank3 - Cattle Callin CD/LP (Hank III Records)
Cattle Callin explores a new-mind-bending “cattle core” sound, featuring Hank3’s speed metal woven in and around actual cattle auctioneering.


>AM And Shawn Lee - Celestial Electric CD (ESL Music)
The L.A. to London, transatlantic musical collaboration between AM and Shawn Lee was conceived after AM heard Lee's Music And Rhythm album on the radio in Los Angeles and reached out to him via email. The two became quick friends sharing a love for vintage grooves and ‘60s and ‘70s soundtrack music and decided to embark on making an album 21st century style.


>Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow CD (Buckingham Records)
Sixth solo album from the Fleetwood Mac songwriter and guitarist.


>The Chemical Brothers - Hanna [OST] CD (Relativity Music Group)
The Chemical Brothers score the soundtrack to a movie about of a Finnish teenage girl sent out on a covert mission.


>HTRK - Work (Work Work) CD/LP (Ghostly International)
HTRK craft a stark soundscape: achingly slow 808 beats, eerie synth arpeggios, vaporous guitar noise, and Jonnine Standish's androgynous, detached vocals, dripping with reverb.


>Pregnant - Life Hard: I Try CD (Mush)
Fourteen stuttery pop songs encompassing beautiful instrumentation, glitchy beats, and the unique voice of singer-songwriter-producer Daniel Trudeau.


>Beirut - The Rip Tide CD/LP+MP3 (Pompeii)
Beginning life as small melodies conceived on piano or ukulele, the Rip Tide was built upon by the entire band in the studio before Zach Condon's paring down and retrofitting. The results sound like they were recorded in a single session, with exciting rhythms matching the upbeat horns and contrasting the mournful strings.


>Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder CD/LP (Tri Angle)
A mysterious and genuinely haunting record. Even though Wander/Wonder is undeniably an electronic album, it feels strangely organic, rooted in nature, synthetic textures and distorted voices harmonizing with ever-present oceanic shimmer.


>Male Bonding - Endless Now CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
An album animated by infectious, evangelical zeal that reflects their roots in the DIY indie rock community. “[...] a fast, fuzzy rock band racing from hook to hook, plowing happily through breakdowns and guitar blasts, springing through scrappy melodies with style.” -- Pitchfork


>Thundercat - The Golden Age Of The Apocalypse CD/LP (Brainfeeder)
Flying Lotus-produced debut from the jazz bassist offers both stone-cold skill and uncanny astrality, picking up where the pair left off on 2010's Cosmogramma and further distilling the jazz current running through that landmark release.


>Tinariwen - Tassili CD (Anti)
New release from this band of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. Features collaborations with Nels Cline, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone of TV On The Radio.


>Yacht - Shangri-La CD/2xLP (DFA)
Compelling pop melodies, fiercely druggy grooves and an endlessly diverse canon of influences.


>Alias - Fever Dream CD/LP (Anticon)
Spurred by the psychedelic sound and off-kilter groove of electronic experimentalists like Flying Lotus, Modeselektor and Bibio, he ditches quantized beats, embraces warmth and sets the whole thing wobbling to a warped dance pulse.


>B - Jesus CD (Nature Sounds)
Latest lo-fi masterpiece from enigmatic L.A. rapper Blu, featuring Madlib, Planet Asia, Alchemist, and Hezekiah. Vinyl version due September 13.


>Glenn Campbell - Ghost On The Canvas CD/LP (Surfdog)
Ghost On The Canvas is Campbell’s “farewell album,” a deep, meaningful look back at his career/life.

>Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down CD (Nonesuch)
The 14 songs on Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down are, by turns, angry, outraged, bitterly funny, and deeply poignant. With brilliant, Woody Guthrie-like directness and a healthy dollop of satire, Cooder's lyrics address the often-sorry state of our domestic affairs: the bank bailout, the anti-immigration movement, the ever-growing gap between rich and poor, and the never-ending war in the Middle East and its devastating physical and emotional toll on young soldiers.


>John Doe - Keeper CD/LP (Yep Roc)
A keystone of the legendary L.A. punk rock band X, Doe has also cultivated an expansive solo career. His latest album features performances from Patty Griffin, Don Was, Smokey Hormel, Steve Berlin, Cindy Wasserman and Jill Sobule.


>Mike Doughty - Yes And Also Yes CD (Megaforce)
New solo album from the singer/songwriter best known for his work as the leader of Soul Coughing. Vinyl version due September 13.


>Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks - Mirror Traffic CD/2xLP+MP3 (Matador)
Produced by Beck, this is Malkmus' most heartfelt and indelible work in years. Gone are the long guitar workouts and jams that marked the previous Jicks albums, replaced here by incredibly catchy and endearing pop songs.


>CSS - La Liberación CD/LP (Cooperative Music/Fontana)
On La Liberación the Brazilian crew's core of party-starting dance pop, reggae, and punk has expanded to include new sonic tricks and a wider range of lyrical themes.


>Sun Araw - Ancient Romans CD/2xLP (Drag City/Sun Ark)
Heartfelt and marbled, Ancient Romans is documentation of the slow exit (the triumphal entry): moving the camera back eight stages along the circumference of the circle to the point where the obverse is reverse, in order to celebrate the building of an edifice and then walk away from it in wisdom, gaining freedom from it. Available on CD and on gatefold white vinyl with art book.


>Stephin Merritt - Obscurities CD/LP (Merge)
A collection of Merritt's (Magnetic Fields) hard-to-find recordings dating back to his time on Merge (1994-1999) and prior. The 14 tracks -- including five previously unreleased songs -- were recorded prior to the seminal album 69 Love Songs.


>Active Child - You Are All I See CD/LP (Vagrant)
Pat Grossi, otherwise known as Active Child -- is also a child of the ‘80s. You Are All I See sounds like a lost New Order album.


>Beequeen - Port Out Of Starboard Home CD (Important)
New album from the veteran ethereal/ambient/electronic/experimental group -- Port Out Starboard Home features surreal dream-pop, but always with Beequeen’s unique twist.


>Ganglians - Still Living CD/2xLP (Lefse)
Ringing in at just under an hour, Still Living stays true to their psychedelic roots established on their first two albums. Here they step it up a notch both stylistically and sonically by enlisting the help of producer Robby Moncrieff (who also played a crucial role in the shaping of The Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca).


>Mickey Newbury - An American Trilogy 4xCD (Drag City)
Four CD box set from the influential American singer/songwriter featuring all three of his original albums (Looks Like Rain, ‘Frisco Mabel Joy, and Heaven Help The Child) along with a disc of previously unreleased demos, single tracks, and live radio performances.


>Patti Smith - Outside Society CD/2xLP (Sony Legacy)
Patti Smith's first career-spanning singles collection includes 18 signature songs. The chronologically arranged tracks move from her 1975 debut album, Horses ("Gloria", "Free Money"), through her last release in 2007, Twelve ("Smells Like Teen Spirit").


>Charles Packy Axton - Late Late Party CD/LP+MP3 (Light In The Attic)
A collection of tracks from the overlooked soul/rock/funk sax player spanning 1965-67. Features Stax and Hi Records legends Steve Cropper, Booker T., and Teenie Hodges.


>War On Drugs - Slave Ambient CD/2xLP+MP3 (Secretly Canadian)
War On Drugs sophomore album is a brilliant 47-minute sprawl of rock & roll, conceptualized with a sense of adventure and captured with seasons of bravado.


>Hercules & Love Affair - Blue Songs 2xCD/2xLP (Moshi Moshi)
Sophomore album from the electronic pop outfit. Contains a bonus disc featuring seven remixes.


>Awol One & Nathaniel Motte - Child Star CD/LP (Fake Four Inc.)
Ten tracks of electro hip-hop featuring appearances by Slug (Atmosphere) and Abstract Rude.


>Amen Dunes - Through Monkey Jaw CD/LP (Sacred Bones)
“Amen Dunes is not something you put on to just listen to. It is an invitation to possession. Somewhat in the vein of Exuma, Death In June, or Sam Ashley, Damon McMahon (the ‘mind’ behind Amen Dunes) seems to have an intimate relationship with songwriting as a medium to conjure spirits and recording as a way to capture and exorcise them.” -- WFMU


>Kyle Andrews - Robot Learn Love CD (Thirty Tigers)
Despite its walls of electric guitars, raw synths and blasting drums, Robot Learn Love was conceived and recorded almost exclusively by Kyle himself. Genre seems to shift between dance, pop-rock and indie electro-pop more effortlessly than Andrews’ previous albums.


>Bottle Rockets - Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening With Bottle Rockets CD (Bloodshot)
Bottle Rocket’s first live document in their storied 19-year career. Recorded live on their home turf in St. Louis, MO in a hundred-plus year old school house, this intimate show captures 13 classic tracks played acoustically for a small audience.


>Case Studies - The World Is Just A Shape To Fill The Night CD/LP (Sacred Bones)
Debut solo album from Dutchess & The Duke songwriter, Jesse Lortz. For fans of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, and Will Oldham.


>Fool’s Gold - Leaves No Trace CD/LP (Iamsound)
Blends African influences with ‘80s new wave and indie pop.


>Mister Heavenly - Out Of Love CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
Comprised of Nick Thornburn (Islands/Unicorns), Ryan Kattner (Man Man) and Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse), Mister Heavenly is a threesome drawing inspiration from a shared love of 1950s vocal-based R&B classics by ensembles like The Penguins, The Platters and The Moonglows and also a fascination with ill-fated romance.


>The Routes - Alligator CD/LP (Dirty Water)
Freaked-out 100 mph fuzz-bucket guitar garage rock & roll executed with more than the usual amount of frenziedly primitive zeal.


>Ursula 1000 - Mondo Beyondo CD (ESL)
Ursula 1000 (aka multi-instrumentalist Alex Gimeno) sets his time machine for globetrotting mutant grooves for this collection of new originals. Features Fred Schneider of the B-52s, French avant-jazz singer Isabelle Antena, and Thievery Corporation chanteuse Natalia Clavier.


>Various Artists - Johnny Boy Would Love This: A Tribute To John Martyn 2xCD+DVD (Liaison Music)
Among the contributors are Robert Smith, Beck, Swell Season, Lisa Hannigan, Beth Orton, Phil Collins, David Gray, Snow Patrol, Joe Bonamassa, and Paolo Nutini. In the late ‘60s, the late British guitarist and songwriter broke ground by leaping from acoustic folk into highly successful experiments with tape delay, wild recording scenarios, and jazz-inspired arrangements.


>Yellow Ostrich - The Mistress CD (Barsuk)
"When I think of Alex Schaaf, the immensely talented individual behind Yellow Ostrich, I'm reminded of the little engine that could... Of all the bedroom projects in recent years none has seemed more organic and earnest than this one. He seems completely unswayed by the micro-trends of the last few years, veering away from blog-house, chill-wave, and lo-fi punk.” -- I Guess I’m Floating


>The Horrors - Skying CD/LP+MP3 (XL)
Third studio album, produced by Portishead's Geoff Barrow. British art-rock for the lonely and haunted.


>Sleeping Bag - Sleeping Bag CD (Joyful Noise)
“A raw and edgy sound that harkens back Starflyer’s Silver album in the early ‘90s, with a power pop sound that takes me back to Weezer’s Blue album.” -- Puddlegum


>Pepper Rabbit - Red Velvet Snowball CD/LP (Kanine)
Incorporating eleven instruments and influences spanning generations from Portishead to David Bowie and Supertramp to Jamie Lidell, the group expands on their brand of psychedelic pop music. “Pepper Rabbit makes swinging pop that sounds like the result of a raid on Sufjan Steven’s instrument stash.” -- Filter

>Various Artists - West Indies Funk 3 : Deja Vu Tropical Steel Funk CD/LP (Trans Air)
Third (and final) volume of rare, vintage funk straight out of the Caribbean.


>Dom - Family Of Love CDEP/12” (Astralwerks)
Ever since he went from selling low budget beats out of a Worcester bedroom to pursuing his own twisted version of pop music, Dom has made one thing clear: his undying desire to deliver heaven-sent harmonies and hooks that are heavier than -- and about as colorful as -- his pink paisley guitar.


>The Throne (Jay Z + Kanye West) - Watch The Throne CD (Def Jam)
Available before Friday, August 12. A year-in-the-making collaboration between the two hip-hop heavy weights features production from The RZA, The Neptunes and Kanye’s longtime collaborator Mike Dean.


>Ducktails - Killin' The Vibe (self-released) LP
Matthew Mondanile (solo wunderkind and Real Estate guitarist) releases a stellar taster of his forthcoming release and some essential new tracks, on his new e.p. Panda Bear is also in the house...


>Arcade Fire - The Suburbs [Deluxe Edition] CD+DVD (Merge)
The original album augmented by a longer version of the track “Wasted Hours (A Life That We Can Live),” as well as the previously unreleased “Culture War” and “Speaking In Tongues,” the latter of which features David Byrne on additional vocals. Highlights of the DVD portion include the complete half-hour short film Scenes From The Suburbs, directed by Spike Jonze, the companion documentary Behind The Scenes From The Suburbs, and the music video for the track “The Suburbs.” Also includes extensive 80-page booklet.


>Archers Of Loaf - Icky Metal [Reissue/1993] 2xCD/LP (Merge)
Double-CD reissue of AOL’s acclaimed 1993 debut. Bonus CD includes the entire Archers Of Loaf vs. The Greatest Of All Time EP as well as singles and B-sides from the Icky Mettle era. Also available on blue vinyl with download code.


>Richard Buckner - Our Blood CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)
Since 2006's Meadow, fans of Richard Buckner have been clamoring for new material and wondering what was keeping their hero from releasing the new songs he would perform on the road. Well, it's a long story!


>Fruit Bats - Tripper CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
Fifth Fruit Bats album is a bittersweet meditation on hitting the road, leaving the familiar behind and reinventing yourself.


>Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx II CD/LP (ATO)
MEB II bristles with intensity, drama and emotion -- hallmarks of both mariachi and punk music. The 12-song collection contemplates the nature of love -- a traditional topic in mariachi music, as men often hire bands to serenade the women they are courting -- but Mariachi El Bronx brings a unique sensibility to the subject.


>John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns CD/CDVD/LP (New West)
Produced by Kevin "Caveman" Shirley (Silverchair, Aerosmith, Joe Bonamassa), Hiatt's timeless songwriting is paired with the aggressive blues guitar. Deluxe Edition Includes bonus DVD featuring over 20+ minutes of exclusive content including an interview with John and behind the scenes footage of the making of the record.


>DMZ/Lyres - Radio Demos/Live At Cantones Boston 1982 CD (Munster)
Two essential documents of Boston’s rock underground compiled on one CD. Also available as two separate vinyl editions.


>The Ettes - Wicked Will CD (Varese Sarabande)
New album from the beat punk trio.


>Machinedrum - Room(s) CD/LP (Planet Mu)
Machinedrum turns the 160 BPM footwork conventions inside out, filling the usually fierce, stripped-down form with elegant, sun-kissed and impressionistic songs built from R&B, autotune and dance music’s most exuberant stabs and kicks.


>Tig Notaro - Good One CD+DVD/LP (Secretly Canadian)
Debut album from comedian Tig Notaro. Good One contains well crafted and silly material touching on subjects such as her family tree, Mexican hotel door signs, birthing a dinosaur, and how Taylor Dayne is the easiest person in the world to run into, amongst other things. Includes the bonus DVD Have Tig At Your Party.


>Steve Roden - I Listen To The Wind That Obliterates My Traces 2xCD+Book (Dust-To-Digital)
Book+2xCD collection culled from internationally known artist Steve Roden's collection. The discs bring together a variety of recordings, including one-off amateur recordings, regular commercial releases, and early sound effects records. Images range from professional portraits to ethereal, accidental, double exposures -- and includes a range of photographic print processes.


>Deadmau5 - Live At Earl's Court DVD (Ultra)
The official video from the 4x4=12 world tour, featuring his acclaimed live show, all Deadmau5 tracks and mind-blowing visuals. This DVD also takes you backstage for the construction of the show. 90 minutes.


Pure X - Pleasure CD (Acéphale)
Pure X (formally known as Pure Ecstasy) specializes in making music that feels more than sounds. Pleasure is an atmospheric record that reaches the boundaries of dream pop, shoegaze and other emotional and hazy genres.


>Dex Romweber Duo - Is That You In The Blue? CD/LP (Bloodshot)
Pioneering the template for the stripped to-the-essentials guitar/drums duo format in the psycho/surf/rockabilly/garage/punk combo Flat Duo Jets, Dex forges ahead with this new album.


>Jim Ford - Harlan County CD/LP [Reissue/1969] (Light In The Attic)
1969 country-funk classic features Ford’s powerful whiskey fueled voice, down home rhythms, a tight horn section, and occasional spectral orchestration from Gene Page (The Righteous Brothers, Barry White, Marvin Gaye).


>Racebannon - Six Sick Sisters CD/LP (Tizona)
Midway between a deleted scene from River's Edge and the resurrection of Frankenstein to unleash havoc upon the villagers that put him under, the Racebannon sound is one of many disparate influences that blend seamlessly into one lethal cocktail of hatred and aggression, draped in a terrycloth of pure molten rock that is as unforgiving as it is pulse-quickening.


>Atari Teenage Riot - Is This Hyperreal? CD (Dim Mak)
First new album in 12 years from the electro/punk trio.


>Nikki Jean - Pennies In A Jar CD (S-Curve)
New album from the R&B singer features guest vocals by Carly Simon, Lupe Fiasco, Bob Dylan, Black Thought, Carole King, and Burt Bacharach.


>Release The Sunbird - Come Back To Us CD/LP (Brushfire/Republic)
Release The Sunbird is a new project from Zach Rogue of Rogue Wave, and leans toward the prettier, acoustic sound of his band, but was recorded with a whole new group of friends from Bloomington, Indiana.


>Vanessa Carlton - Rabbits On The Run CD (Razor & Tie)
Ten intimate, evocative songs, recorded direct to tape with a close-knit team of collaborators including producer Steve Osborne, drummer Patrick Hallahan from My Morning Jacket, and guitarist Ari Ingber of The Upwelling.


>Wu-Tang - Legendary Weapons CD (eOne)
Legendary Weapons includes a heavy dose of Ghostface Killah (he is featured on eight of the album's 11 songs) alongside The RZA and all of the other core Wu-Tang group members. The Remains are indisputably remembered as Boston's finest rock group of the sixties. “Let Me Through” was recorded live on the Ed Sullivan Show.


>Autre Ne Veut - Body LP (Hippos In Tanks)
The Brooklyn-based solo singer/producer combines R&B emotion, leftfield haze, and pop acrobatics through flair-heavy songcraft and effortless vocal delivery (often in falsetto).


>Pokey Lafarge And The South City Three - Middle Of Everywhere CD (Free Dirt)
Channeling American roots, country blues and jazz traditions of the early 20th century, Middle Of Everywhere blends Midwestern country blues mashed up with Western swing, sweet vocal harmonies, and hints of New Orleans style horns and lap steel. Vinyl version due August 23.


>Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain In The Cloud CD/LP (Atlantic)
Portugal. The Man’s sixth album in as many years was produced by John Hill, who has previously worked with Santigold and M.I.A.


>Eternal Tapestry/Sun Araw - Night Gallery CD/LP (Thrill Jockey)
Collaborative album from two masters of modern psychedelia.


>Wiley - 100% Publishing CD/LP (Big Dada)
New from the British rapper/producer.


>Crystal Antlers - Two-Way Mirror CD (Recreation Ltd.)
“Punk rock can be a lot of things: visceral, angsty, direct, catchy, anthemic. But rare is the band that makes punk rock sound soulful.” -- Popmatters.com


>Early Day Miners - Night People CD/LP (Western Vinyl)
Night People is a series of character studies. Alienated and out of fashion, these people stay up all night, stumbling through isolation to explore trauma and ecstasy in search of their own glamour. The boundaries of reality dissolve in their environment, and the light from within transforms street lamps at last call into beacons towards infinity.


>The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Peyton On Patton CD (Side One Dummy)
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band covers the works of legendary blues man Charley Patton. Vinyl version due August 9.


>They Might Be Giants - Join Us CD/LP (Rounder)
New album from the alt-rock veterans. Combining a knack for infectious melodies with a quirky, bizarre sense of humor and a vaguely avant-garde aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk underground, They Might Be Giants became one of the most unlikely alternative success stories of the late '80s and early '90s.


>Washed Out - Within And Without CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
Bent synth-pop gems that are equal parts psychedelia and anthemic club bangers.


>Zomby - Dedication CD/LP (4AD)
Zomby is both a purist and a perfectionist. One of the most talented producers of a generation and someone capable of negotiating skillfully between genres, be it jungle, dubstep, rave, garage or whatever tag you want to put on it.


>Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)
New from one-half of Chicago's Fiery Furnaces.


>Various Artists - West Indies Funk Vol.2: Spicy Island Funk CD/2xLP (Trans Air)
Second volume of rare, vintage funk straight out of the Caribbean.


>MellowHype - BlackenedWhite CD/LP (Fat Possum)
Alternative hip-hop featuring Hodgy Beats and Left Brain from the collective Odd Future. “Yet another fascinating, bizarre, expectation-defying piece of work from a group of young artists who don't make anything else.” -- Pitchfork


>Sons & Daughters - Mirror Mirror CD/LP (Domino)
A slow burning sensation, a wiry, raw, sensual injection of primal monochrome rock, it is thrillingly contemporary and totally unique by today's standards.


>William Elliott Whitmore - Field Songs CD/LP (Anti)
Documents a vanishing American landscape with all the heartfelt soul and quiet fury one could hope for. Whitmore utilizes a powerful singing voice beyond his years and a stark dramatic sound rooted in bluegrass, blues and folk protest music.


>The Real Tuesday Weld - The Last Werewolf CD (Six Degrees)
Ninth album from the eclectic UK band.


>Dirty Mittens - Heart Of Town CD (Magic Marker)
RIYL: Laura Gibson, Y La Bamba, The Thermals, Dirty Projectors, Orange Juice. “A monstrous force of breezy pop goodness.” -- KBOO 90.7 FM (Portland)


>Dos - Dos y Dos CD/LP+MP3 (Original Recordings Group)
Intriguing, melancholy at times, and with more musicality than most bands with at least twice the members, this album features 13 new bass masterpieces from Mike Watt (The Minutemen) and Kira Roessler (Black Flag).


>R.E.M. - Life’s Rich Pageant [Reissue/1986] 2xCD (Capitol)
25th Anniversary Edition includes a bonus disc of 19 previously unreleased demos recorded in 1986.


>Old 97’s - The Grand Theater Vol. 2 CD (New West)
Old 97’s delve further into their experiments in gritty garage rock and at times spin further into lush psychedelia. 13 new tracks.


>Memory Tapes - Player Piano CD/LP+MP3 (Carpark)
While Seek Magic was quite an electronic sounding record with lots of dance music tropes, Player Piano is all about the melody. Also available on clear vinyl.


>Clams Casino - Rainforest CDEP/12” (Tri Angle)
Debut EP by the hotly-tipped, young New Jersey hip-hop producer -- the man responsible for some of Lil B and Soulja Boy’s weirdest, most inventive beats.


>The Deer Tracks - The Archer Trilogy Pt. 2 CD/LP (The Control Group)
“The Deer Tracks combine folk-ishly delicate melodies with glitch techno techniques: twinkling keyboard lines that sound as though they re being played on toy instruments (as per that other micro-genre, toytronica) are frequently interrupted by static and hiss, crackles and jumps.” -- The Guardian


>SebastiAn - Total CD/2xLP (Ed Banger)
SebastiAn is a long time cohort of Daft Punk, Cassius, Justice and the other elite of the French electronic music scene.


>Samiyam - Sam Baker’s Album CD/LP (Brainfeeder)
A series of woozy, off-center hip-hop instrumentals drawing heavily on Samiyam’s love of electronic funk.

>Kate Simko - Lights Out CD (Hello Repeat)
From the magnetic Chicago vibe on “Mind On You,” to the dark, sexy meanderings of minimal mastery in “Last Breath” and “Bikini Atoll,” to the shuffling, Perlon-influenced “Mira Vos,” Kate offers up an impressive lot of songs that crossover from headphone listening to ignite the dancefloor.

>Biosphere - N-Plants CD (Touch)
A soundtrack to specific Japanese nuclear power plants, finished a month before the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant earthquake/tsunami disaster of March 11, 2011. Widely regarded as one of Norwegian electronic music's most important artists.


>David Sinclair - Take My Hand CD (Regenerator/Light In The Attic)
Originally released in Canada in 1973, Regenerator features West Coast folk/rock/psych stylings with sudden tempo shifts from mellow dreamy acoustic with occasional female backing vocals to sudden bursts of electric guitar wailing.


>Michael Hurley - Paroles Des Chansons De Michael Hurley BOOK (L'oie De Cravan)
Book of lyrics to 19 songs by the American folk legend.


>Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest CD (Acony)
New release from the Americana/bluegrass singer/songwriter. The Harrow & The Harvest, Gillian's first album in eight years, is an all-acoustic affair containing 10 new songs.


>SBTRKT - SBTRKT CD/LP+MP3 (XL/Young Turks)
Debut full-length from the South London producer who has recently left his imprint on the UK scene by seamlessly fusing Detroit techno, Berlin electro and classic two-step into the thriving London dubstep scene.


>The Thievery Corporation - Culture Of Fear CD/2xLP (ESL)
Sixth album from the DC duo is a simmering and hazy collection of atmospheric gems that recalls their early production work but reflects a thoroughly contemporary zeitgeist of socio-political angst and unease.


>John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves CD/LP (Ribbon)
Questing synthesizers, tensely strung bass lines and chasing drum machines provide the perfect backdrop for John's deeply resonant reverb-drenched vocal. It’s a world where The Germs jam with Jerry Goldsmith, Cabaret Voltaire relocate to Eternia and Josquin des Prez writes a new score for RoboCop.


>Lean Left - The Ex Guitars Meet Nilssen-Love/Vandermark Duo: Volume 2 CD (Smalltown Superjazz)
The Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilssen-Love Duo work within free expression while including a strong element of heavy rhythmic groove, melody, sound and noise.


>Jolie Holland + The Grand Chandeliers - Pint Of Blood CD/LP (Anti)
With her band The Grand Chandeliers, Jolie works through ten songs with a loose, live-in-the-studio feel that recalls the vibe of classic ‘70s album s from Neil Young to The Grateful Dead.


>Various Artists - Rave On CD/3xLP (Fantasy)
19-song collection of indelible Buddy Holly covers by a stellar lineup, including: Black Keys, Paul McCartney, Florence + The Machine, She & Him, Cee Lo Green, Modest Mouse, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, and more.


>The Red Krayola - Parable Of Arable Land [Reissue/1967] CD (Snapper)
>The Red Krayola - God Bless The Red Krayola And All Who Sail With It [Reissue/1968] CD (Snapper)
Reissues of The Red Krayola’s first two albums. “One of the longest-lived underground rock groups (if not the longest-lived), The Red Krayola lasted through the birth pangs of psychedelia past the death throes of post-punk.” -- AllMusic


>Make [Scott Ogden And Malcolm Hearn] - DVD (Asthmatic Kitty)
An intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott and Ike Morgan. Isolated and struggling with the disabilities life has dealt them, these artists all find their most powerful voice through art. Using the simplest of materials, they each produce work that is both sublime and at the same time completely their own.


>Dirty Three - Whatever You PLAYBUTTON (Touch & Go)
This is a playbutton -- a wearable button that plays music. The musical content cannot be changed or downloaded from the button. The music can be played, paused, or skipped with volume controls on the backside. An audio jack has the dual role of earphone jack and USB battery charger. Affixed with a pin back, the playbutton uses a re-chargeable lithium battery and is made of stainless steel.


>Bon Iver - Bon Iver CD/LP (Jagjaguwar)
Justin Vernon returns to former haunts with a new spirit. The reprises are there -- solitude, quietude, hope and desperation compressed -- but always a rhythm arises, a pulse vivified by gratitude and grace notes. The winter, the legend, has faded to just that, and this is the new momentary present.


>Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra CD/LP (Fat Possum)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra melds break-beats with ‘70s pop harmonies and minimal Krautrock rhythms.


>Gomez - Whatever’s On Your Mind CD/LP (ATO)
Over the course of their 15-year career, the guys from Gomez have continued to span genres from pop/rock to country to blues, earning them a strong fan-base and critical acclaim with their unique, versatile sound. Free 6-song bonus CDEP with purchase -- while supplies last!


>Heirlooms Of August - Forever The Moon CD (Caldo Verde)
10 songs written by Jerry Vessel, formerly of Red House Painters and recently a touring member of Sun Kil Moon.


>Jeff The Brotherhood - We Are The Champions CD/LP (Infinity Cat)
“The secret weapon on their second album is an un-ironic embrace of the elegant, harmony-rich hooks and wide-eyed lyrics of rock forebears the Righteous Brothers, which gives the Orralls' blistering tunes their own earnest, romantic edge.” -- Spin


>Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread CD/LP (Drag City)
“Ty Segall can kick out jams with the best of them, but there's more to the 23-year-old garage rock wunderkind than fuzz riffs and Cro-Magnon bashing. He has a sensitive side, too. On ‘Goodbye Bread,’ the title track from his Drag City debut, Segall reconnects with his roots as a Laguna Beach surfer dude, dialing down the distortion in favor of chill and chiming guitar chords. Best New Music.” -- Pitchfork

>Father’s Children - Who’s Gonna Save The World CD (Numero)
As much spiritual adherents of black sounds as they were of black Islam, Father’s Children was born in the dirt and grime of Washington, D.C. Unreleased until now, Father's Children’s true debut is an amalgam of sunny vocal group harmonies, fuzz-guitar solos, shimmering keys, bubbling percussion, spiritual prophecy, and dub experiments. Vinyl version due July 5.

>Dave Alvin - Eleven Eleven CD/LP (Yep Roc)
On his new album, the man who many credit with pioneering what has come to be known as roots rock revisits the burning, guitar-centered blues rock that initially defined his career along with his band The Blasters in the late ‘70s.


>Bodies Of Water - Twist Again CD/LP (Secretly Canadian)
The fuzzed out guitar lines and heavy organs of previous BoW recordings have morphed into a J.C. Vannier-inspired stew of buzzing reeds and rich brass. The choral blasts have been replaced by cascades of strings and driving pianos a la Roy Orbison or Ennio Morricone.


>Laura Cantrell - Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music CD (Diesel Only)
Kitty Wells Dresses was prompted by Cantrell’s invitation in May 2009 from the Country Music Hall Of Fame in Nashville to present a musical program for their “Kitty Wells: Queen Of Country Music” exhibit.


>Headhunters - Platinum CD (Owl Studios)
Founded in 1973, the Headhunters are a legendary jazz-funk fusion band who became immortalized as a result of their long recording and touring stint with jazz giant Herbie Hancock. Hancock's 'Headhunters' album was the first to be recorded with the group and has been heralded as the first platinum Jazz/Fusion project in history. One of their own recording, 'Survival of the Fittest,' featured the funk anthem "God Make Me Funky," one of the most sampled jazz/fusion songs in modern music history. The Headhunters' music is a complex but harmonious blend of many styles and genres, spanning the globe. The group is acclaimed for its musical pioneering and innovative concepts.  Their new release 'Platinum' is a multi-genre project that brilliantly incorporates elements of Jazz / Funk / Rap / R & B & Global sounds.


>Liam Finn - Fomo CD/LP (Yep Roc)
Just as on his auspicious debut I'll Be Lightning, Finn delivers an amalgam of dense sonic flourishes and hummable melodies, a dichotomy that has quickly become his hallmark. A tightly coiled 36 minutes of dreamy pop, visceral, thumping experimental funk, and near perfect studies of early ‘60s pop classicism.


>Grieves - Together/Apart CD/LP (Rhymesayers)
An album infused with soulful horns, keys and guitar. Lyrically the album encompasses both the difficulties and joys of maintaining his professional and personal relationships on the road and back at home.


>Helms Alee - Weatherhead CD/LP (Hydra Head)
Helms Alee's gamut of timbres -- from the most guttural blown-out roar to the most graceful lilting melody -- summon a sense of triumph, empowerment, and conquest. The relentless chugging fuzz and vocal harmonies of “Elbow Grease,” the concrete thrust of the central riff of “8/16,” the thunderstruck arpeggio of “Pretty As Pie,” the siren song of “Pig Pile,” the unbridled scuzz of “Ripper No Lube,” and the alternating agit-punk and anthemic approach of the title track all reinforces Helms Alee's position as masters of diametrically opposed tactics.


>Peter Tosh - Legalize It [Reissue/1976/Legacy Edition] 2xCD (Sony Legacy)
>Peter Tosh - Equal Rights [Reissue/1977/Legacy Edition] 2xCD (Sony Legacy)
Legacy Editions of the legendary reggae artists’ first two albums add a wealth of bonus material, including alternate mixes, demos, outtakes and more.


>Junior Boys - It’s All True CD/2xLP+MP3 (Domino)
Fourth album from the electro/pop duo, known for their romantic, synth-laden style of indie-pop.


>DiskJokke - Sagara CD (Smalltown Supersound)
Written, produced and recorded in Oslo, many of the sounds on Sagara were recorded various places in Indonesia, like the crickets from the Bandung jungle, the waves of Bali, etc.


>Vetiver - The Errant Charm CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
Vetiver’s fifth full-length is a superb album for afternoon idyll. Some of the group's most unabashed pop songs to date.


>Woods - Sun & Shade CD/LP (Woodsist)
Folk-rock, fuzz, tambourines and tapes. “Loose, shuffling and tuneful, the abridged Woods experience sounds more like Wowee Zowee than Workingman’s Dead, but it hits just the right contradictory note of tight arrangements and breathing-room playing to get that back-porch, weird America vibe.” -- Pitchfork


>Smoke Fairies - Through Low Light And Trees CD/LP (Year Seven)
Reminiscent of early ‘70s acid folk -- heartfelt, sensual, poised and elegant. RIYL: PJ Harvey, Fleet Foxes, Joni Mitchell, Mumford & Sons.


>Random Axe - Random Axe CD (Duckdown)
Random Axe is the rap group comprised of Sean Price, Black Milk, and Guilty Simpson.


>13 & God - Own Your Ghost CD (Anticon)
Sophomore album from the collaborative project featuring art-rap stalwarts Themselves (Adam Doseone Drucker and Jeffrey Jel Logan, plus Subtle's Dax Pierson and Jordan Dalrymple) and German pop experimentalists The Notwist. Vinyl version due June 28.


>J.Period/Q-Tip - The [Abstract] Best CD (RBC)
J.Period’s tribute to The Abstract Poetic features new and classic Q-Tip, exclusive J.Period remixes and all new tribute tracks from De La Soul, ?uestlove, Talib Kweli, Skillz, Consequence, Kid Cudi, and more.


>Neil Young - A Treasure CD/CD+Blu-ray/2xLP+MP3 (Reprise)
12-track live album includes songs recorded during Young’s 1984 and 1985 US tours without the support of an album, or Young's then record label due to unique and unusual circumstances. Includes five previously unreleased tracks. The deluxe CD+Blu-ray version features a curated selection of video that lends context and imagistic power to the tracks.


>Paul McCartney - McCartney [Reissue/1970] 2xCD/2xCD+DVD/2xLP+MP3 (Hear Music)
>Paul McCartney - McCartney II [Reissue/1980] 2xCD/3xCD+DVD/2xLP+MP3 (Hear Music)
Special remastered editions of the classic 1970 and 1980 solo album from Paul McCartney. Bonus audio CDs feature B-sides and alternative versions. Also available in Deluxe Editions, which add a DVD and are packaged with an in-depth hardcover book. Double-vinyl versions include MP3 download.


>Sebadoh - Bakesale [Reissue] 2xCD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
Deluxe reissue of Sebadoh’s acclaimed 1994 album includes a bonus disc of B-sides, EP tracks and rarities.


>Various Artists - Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-1973 CD/2xLP (Light In The Attic)
First ever Mowest anthology. Sweet soul, heavyweight funk, and even a dose of potent West Coast hippy rock.


>Foo Fighters - Back And Forth DVD (RCA)
A true chronicling of the triumphs and tragedies of the bands 16 year history, Back And Forth chronicles Foo Fighters’ entire existence: from Dave Grohl’s cassette demos to the band forming to play those songs to their ascent to becoming one of the biggest rock bands on the planet. 135 minutes. Blu-ray version due July 12.

>Pat Metheny - What’s It All About CD (Nonesuch)
New solo acoustic album from guitarist and composer. Vinyl version due June 28.


>Madeleine Peyroux - Standing On The Rooftop CD (Decca)
Brand new album from jazz singer/songwriter featuring a cover version of “Martha, My Dear” by The Beatles. Vinyl version due July 19.


>Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure CD/LP (Software)
"Spectacular and engrossing electro-pop... beautiful and rich with ambient texture with a soft heartbeat pulsing underneath." -- New York Times


>Arctic Monkeys - Suck It & See CD/LP+MP3 (Domino)
Arctic Monkey’s fourth album is light and airy, filmic but intimate, carefully arranged but deceptively powerful. They've perfectly meshed their hard and soft sides on this one.


>Battles - Gloss Drop CD/2xLP (Warp)
A bewitching, entrancing album that defies both categorization and easy analysis. Just as Mirrored was a massive leap on from the early EPs, this is truly another seismic shift, propelling them once more into uncharted territory. It is a sheer sense of fun, unpredictability and inventiveness that sets them apart.

>Bedouin Soundclash - Light The Horizon CD (Nat Geo Music)
West-friendly, world-pop.


>Black Lips - Arabia Mountain CD/LP/LP+7” (Vice)
The founding fathers of Atlanta’s “flower punk” movement’s sixth album is produced by Mark Ronson, Lockett Pundt of Deerhunter and a human skull with a mic jammed into it. Limited edition vinyl version contains bonus 7”.


>Nels Cline/Tim Berne/Jim Black - Veil CD (Cryptogramophone)
Combining elements of avant-garde jazz, skronk rock, heavy metal, and other uncategorizable influences, BB&C is a collaboration between three international jazz pioneers.


>Cults - Cults CD/LP (Columbia)
Self-titled debut from enigmatic, pop duo Cults was recorded and self-produced in the band's hometown of New York City. Working with engineer Shane Stoneback (Vampire Weekend, Sleigh Bells) the album is chock full of some of the most deliciously offbeat, slanted and enchanted songs you're likely to hear all year.


>Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - It’s A Corporate World CD (WB)
“DEJJ’s sound is the best of indie rock infused with '60s pop psychedelia, which could easily be two irreconcilable styles. Their music splits the difference between The Beach Boys and Beach House. It's dreamy rock with nostalgic roots.” -- boiseweekly.com. Vinyl version due June 28.

>Depeche Mode - Remixes 2: 81-11 CD/3xCD (Reprise)
Collection of new and classic mixes of material covering their entire career, Remixes 2 includes remixes of tracks from their 1981 debut Speak And Spell, through to 2009’s Sounds Of The Universe. Expanded triple-disc edition expanded editions include exclusive remixes by former band members Vince Clarke and Alan Wilder.


>Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressure CD/LP (Software)
"Spectacular and engrossing electro-pop... beautiful and rich with ambient texture with a soft heartbeat pulsing underneath." -- New York Times


>F##ked Up - David Comes To Life CD/2xLP (Matador)
“An 80-minute odyssey of flailing and howling that could be the most epic punk album ever. [9/10 stars].” -- Spin


>Ladybug Transistor - Clutching Stems CD (Merge)
A lush collection of potent refrains and ballads. Set to an invigorated soundtrack of wave-pop arrangements, the songs detail stories of humbling heartbreak, profound longing, undoing distress, nagging regret, and coming-of-age awakenings.


>Sondre Lerche - Sondre Lerche CD/LP (Mona)
Here the Norwegian-born artist relishes in exploring friendships and creative alliances forged in his new Williamsburg, Brooklyn neighborhood. The album features longtime producer/collaborator Kato Adland, Dave Heilman, drummer for Lerche-collaborator Regina Spektor, and co-producer, mixer and owner of Rare Book Room Studio, Nicolas Verhnes (Spoon, Animal Collective).


>Peter Murphy - Ninth CD (Nettwerk)
Peter Murphy’s first solo album in seven years and the first since the permanent dissolution of Bauhaus in 2009. Vinyl version due July 12. THE FIRST TEN FOLKS THAT PICK UP MR. MURPHY'S NEW CD GET AN AUTOGRAPHED BOOKLET--FREE!


>The Black Swans - Don’t Blame The Stars CD/LP (Misra)
“Don't Blame The Stars is one of the best records you'll hear all year. It is full of sad songs about happy things, and happy sounding songs about very, very strange things. They are irreverent, eidetic tales of superstition, addiction, being lost, getting found, and just being alone. In short, lyrical, hilarious meditations on being alive and living -- for which, as frontman Jerry DeCicca will tell you, ‘there is no known cure.’” -- James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand)


>Kate Bush - Director’s Cut CD/LP (Fish People)
On Directors Cut, Kate Bush revisits a selection of tracks from her albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes, a process that presents a fascinating portrait of an artist in a constant state of evolution. She has re-recorded some elements whilst keeping the best musical performances of each song -- making it something of a director's cut but in sound, not vision.


>Death Cab For Cutie - Codes And Keys CD/2xLP (Barsuk/Atlantic)
DCFC’s seventh album breaks away, though not completely, from the guitar-driven style they are known for, instead making use of piano and electronically centered songs.


>Flogging Molly - Speed Of Darkness CD/LP (Borstal Beat)
New album from the Celtic punk ensemble features more of their signature blend of rock, folk, punk, blues and traditional Irish music.


>Madlib - Medicine Show No. 9: Channel 85 Presents Nittyville (Season One) CD (Madlib Medicine Show)
Madlib follows his detour into jazz with a punch-you-in-the-face return to hip-hop form -- a collaborative album with Detroit rapper Frank Nitti. A hazy, funk-filled rap album.


>My Morning Jacket - Circuital CD/2xLP (ATO)
Circuital was recorded in Louisville, KY and Nashville, TN, and was co-produced by frontman Jim James and Tucker Martine (R.E.M., Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists). The result is yet another reinvention of their sound that both forges new ground and maintains the distinct spirit of MMJ’s previous work.


>Reatards - Teenage Hate/F##k Elvis, Here’s The Reatards CD (Goner)
Deluxe reissue of Jay Reatard's first LP with a bonus album of early tracks recorded on four-track and only released on cassettes. “Best New Reissue” [8.6] -- Pitchfork


>Seapony - Go With Me CD/LP (Hardly Art)
Debut full-length from this refreshingly simplistic Seattle dream-pop trio. Fuzz-drenched guitar playing with simple chord progressions, topped with concise melodic hooks and breathy vocals.


>Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs CD (Universal)
A collection of original songs and covers performed by Vedder on ukulele. Featuring a number of songs that Vedder penned and first played live but never released nearly a decade ago, Ukulele Songs also includes a uke version of Pearl Jam's 2002 track “Can't Keep” and guest vocalists Glen Hansard and Cat Power on two tracks.


>David Byrne - Ride, Rise, Roar DVD/Blu-ray (Eagle Vision)
Concert film featuring David Byrne blends riveting onstage performances with intimate details of the creative collaborations that make the music and performance happen. Shot with multiple cameras over several concerts during the ’08-’09 tour, the film blends the energy and charisma of classic Talking Heads with the heartfelt pathos of David Byrne and Brian Eno’s most recent collaboration. 87 minutes.


>Eddie Vedder - Water On The Road DVD (Geffen)
It's Eddie Vedder with a ukulele and then some! Live concert DVD from his 2008 solo tour at DC's Warner Theatre. Directed by Christoph Green and Fugazi’s Brendan Canty.


>Death Cab For Cutie - Live At The Mount Baker Theatre DVD (Atlantic)
On April 22 and 23, 2009, Death Cab For Cutie returned to Bellingham, WA, where the band formed over 10 years prior, to perform two sold out concerts at the historic Mt. Baker Theatre.


>Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts CD/LP (Matador)
Third solo album from Sonic Youth’s frontman, produced by Beck.


>Art Brut - Brilliant! Tragic! CD (Cooking Vinyl)
Tapping the genius of Frank Black to produce your record may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime event for many bands, but the pop culture obsessive Art Brut have once again nabbed the Pixies frontman to rule the boards for their fourth LP.


>Joseph Arthur - The Graduation Ceremony CD (Lonely Astronaut)
Arthur’s first solo album since 2006’s Nuclear Daydream. His music has been described as “a dynamic swirl of noise that somehow appears magically around him” (NPR), “emotional (but tuneful) exorcisms” (Entertainment Weekly), and “lush, poetic, squalling, spiritual, and strange.” (Boston Globe)


>Nat Baldwin - People Changes CD/LP (Western Vinyl)
New from Dirty Projectors member. The serene isolation of 17 million acres of New England forestland make this cabin-born set intimate and sincere.


>David Bazan - Strange Negotiations CD/LP+MP3 (Barsuk)
Pedro The Lion frontman’s first solo album performed with a full band.


>Boris - Attention Please CD/LP (Sargent House)
>Boris - Heavy Rocks CD/LP (Sargent House)
A pair of new albums from the Japanese trio. Be it psychedelic metal, colossal drone, blistering punk or distortion-ravaged shoegaze, a Boris song is an exploration of sound as physical mass.

>Cave In - White Silence CD/LP (Hydra Head)
“Two years in the making, this is by far the most experimental and diverse record Cave In have made to date. The riffs and volume are still present but then there’s the layering (‘Iron Decibels’), the acoustic closer ‘Reanimation’ and the static noise ‘White Silence.’ This is a grower not a shower but persevere because White Silence has been worth the wait.” -- rocksound.tv


>Face Candy - Waste-Age Teenland CD (Rhymesayers)
Waste-Age is live improvisational music and freestyle MCing that pushes the boundaries of hip-hop by freestyle champion Eyedea (HBO Blaze Battle, Scribble Jam, Rocksteady, etc.) and friends.


>Foster The People - Torches CD/LP (Columbia)
“Accessible yet challenging, gleaming yet gritty, pop yet petrifying: Foster The People are a fresh evolution of modern music.” - NME Includes a bonus Foster The People CDEP free with purchase -- while supplies last!


>Friendly Fires - Pala CD/2xLP (XL)
“...(Friendly Fires) songs are wonderfully overstuffed with reshuffled and reinvigorated ideas from the 1970s and ‘80s post-punk guitars, funk beats, sing-along choruses, worldbeat percussion...” --New York Times


>Robin Guthrie - Emeralds CD (Darla)
New solo album from the Cocteau Twins guitarist.


>Lady Gaga - Born This Way CD/2xCD (Interscope)
Lady Gaga's much-anticipated sophomore set finds the superstar re-teaming with her frequent collaborator RedOne on an album that builds upon the daring dance-pop of The Fame Monster, highlighted by the first single and title track, “Born This Way.” Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe adds a disc featuring three additional new songs and five remixes. Vinyl version due June 7.


>Efrim Manuel Menuck - Plays “High Gospel” CD/LP+CD (Constellation)
Debut solo record by Menuck, co-founder of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion.


>Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts CD/LP (Matador)
Third solo album from Sonic Youth’s frontman, produced by Beck.


>Brendan Perry - Ark CD (The End)
New album from former Dead Can Dance founder.


>Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything’s Getting Older CD (Chemikal Underground)
Eight years in the making, the debut album by Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat is full of gorgeous, jazz-inflected love songs fleshed out with a mixture of spoken word pieces and vocals delivered in Aidan's distinctive singing voice.


>White Denim - D CD/LP (Downtown)
Sophomore effort from Austin, TX based psych rock/punk trio.


>The Antlers - Burst Apart CD/LP (French Kiss)
An inspired melding of complex electronic textures and acutely emotive song craft.


>Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Present: Rome CD (Capitol)
An homage to the spaghetti western film music that is a passion for both, Rome combines the original musicians from the Morricone scores of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and Once Upon A Time In The West and augments them with revelatory vocals from Jack White and Norah Jones. Vinyl version due June 21. Free lithograph with purchase -- while supplies last!


>Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age [Reissue/1998] CD/2xLP+MP3 (Domino/Rekords Rekords)
Remastered and expanded edition of QOTSA’s 1998 debut includes three bonus tracks.


>Glasvegas - Euphoric /// Hearbreak \\\ CD (Columbia)
Sophomore album -- produced by Flood (U2, The Killers, Depeche Mode).


>Ben Harper - Give Til It’s Gone CD (Virgin)
Harper’s tenth album -- and first in five years -- features two tracks co-written with Ringo Starr and a guest appearance by Jackson Browne. Vinyl version due June 21.


>Hank Williams III - Hillbilly Joker CD/LP+CD (Curb)
Hank Williams III had a contentious and turbulent relationship with Nashville's Curb Records during his 14-year run at the label, a run that recently ended. The catalyst for the departure -- the oft-bootlegged This Ain't Country, gets a new title and a dress-up with some unreleased material. Also available on clear vinyl with black, red and white flecking.


>Brian Eno - 1971-1977: The Man Who Fell To Earth DVD (Sexy Intellectual)
Musician, composer, producer, music theorist, singer and visual artist; probably best known for his early work with Roxy Music, his production duties for U2 and Coldplay, and as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. This documentary film, the first ever about Eno, explores his life, career and music between the years '71 and '77.


>Moby - Destroyed CD/2xLP+CD (Mute)
Destroyed was written by Moby on the road during the small hours of the night, when his insomnia was in full tilt. CD available in Regular and Deluxe Editions. Deluxe version is packaged in a hardcover book with expanded artwork. Double vinyl includes a copy on CD and a fold-out poster.


>Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes CD (Downtown)
Cat’s Eyes’ eponymous debut album is a romantic pop masterpiece fit to dine at the same table as mid-‘60s productions by Phil Spector, Joe Meek or Shadow Morton, but with a fiercely modern, experimental premise.


>Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Let Love In [Reissue/1994] CD+DVD (Mute)
>Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads [Reissue/1996] CD+DVD (Mute)
>Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Boatman’s Call [Reissue/1997] CD+DVD (Mute)
>Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part [Reissue/2001] CD+DVD (Mute)
Each of the Nick Cave The Bad Seeds reissues includes B-sides, short films, videos, exclusive sleeve notes and more.


>Let’s Wrestle - Nursing Home CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)
Nursing Home, the second album by Let's Wrestle, was recorded in Chicago with Steve Albini. With themes that include being trapped in the suburbs and dancing boys on drugs, the band show that their view of the world is the same, they've just put on some darker sunglasses.


>The Rentals - Resilience: A Benefit Album For The Japanese Relief Effort CD/LP (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)


>Various Artists (Richard Dorfmeister) - Private Collection: G-Stone Master Series No.2 CD (G-Stone)
Obscure pop songs, classics and experimental instrumentals you may not have heard of -- it’s all there for you to explore, to find out what’s special about these tracks and why they’ve come to be so important for the artistic expression of the G-Stone artists themselves.


>Jookabox - The Eyes Of The Fly CD/LP+MP3 (Asthmatic Kitty)
Jookabox is. Jookabox is from Indianapolis. Jookabox is four albums deep. Jookabox sees The Eyes of the Fly. Jookabox is a bit paranoid. Jookabox is very much paranoid. Jookabox causes paranoia. Jookabox is more than jittery. Jookabox wonders what the hell is going on here. Jookabox looks not quite right. Jookabox makes us shift. Jookabox sounds like Garbage Pail Kids. Jookabox is not clean. Jookabox is music. Jookabox is too busy to clean. Jookabox is busy. Jookabox is without author. Jookabox is David Adamson. Jookabox is The Eyes of the Fly. Jookabox is no more. Jookabox lives forever.


>Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues CD/2xLP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
Drawing inspiration from folk and rock from about '65 to '73, and Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks in particular, Fleet Foxes heighten and extend themselves, adding instrumentation (clarinet, music box, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, Tibetan singing bowls, vibraphone, etc., along with more traditional instrumentation), with a focus on clear, direct lyrics, and an emphasis on group vocal harmonies.

>Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two CD (Capitol)
Long awaited eighth album -- Hot Sauce Committee Part Two was produced by Beastie Boys and mixed by Philippe Zdar. This album marks Mike "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "Ad Rock" Horovitz and Adam "MCA" Yauch's first full-length effort since 2007's Grammy-winning all-instrumental The Mix-Up. Vinyl version due June 21.


>James Pants - James Pants CD/2xLP (Stones Throw)
“One of the most weirdly engaging new wave/dance/experimental records to come out this year, James Pants’ third album features cheap-sounding keyboards, muffled falsetto vocals, buried --but driving -- dance-punk beats, ‘70s boogie rock, plucky guitar rhythms and more oddball sound-effects than a Dr. Who episode, and sounds like it was recorded in a shag-carpeted, wood-paneled basement with old analog tape.” -- L.A. Times Music Blog


>Wild Beasts - Smother CD/LP (Domino)
Maintaining the oscillating falsetto and baritone vocals, lyrical wit, and a penchant for seedier topics present in their earlier work, Smother incorporates rich electronic textures and a subtlety of melody not heard before.


>Architecture In Helsinki - Moment Bends CD/LP (Downtown)
New album is equal parts Italia '82, California '79 and Melbourne 2011.


>Dave Depper - The Ram Project CD/LP (Jackpot)
Multi-instrumentalist Dave Depper re-imagined Paul McCartney’s Ram, part by part, at home, all by himself, in 30 days. The result is a gorgeous document that both pays homage to the colorfully cinematic McCartney classic and is uniquely Depper’s.


>Mick Harvey - Sketches From The Book Of The Dead CD (Mute)
Renowned for his career with The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Harvey returns with his first fully self-penned album.


>Eliza Gilkyson - Roses At The End Of Time CD (Red House)
Once again pushing the boundaries of folk music, Eliza cleverly disguises her sly social commentaries within catchy acoustic ballads, edgy folk rockers and fresh electronic atmospheres that paint a vivid image of life’s struggles and triumphs in a world that she feels is “poised on the edge of moral, economic and environmental bankruptcy.”


>John Martyn - Heaven & Earth CD (Liaison)
Final studio album from British singer/songwriter John Martyn -- who passed away January 29, 2009. He has been described by The Times as “an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues.”


>Pricilla Ahn - When You Grow Up CD (Blue Note)
Produced by Ethan Johns (Ray LaMontagne, Laura Marling, Ryan Adams, The Jayhawks), singer/songwriter Priscilla Ahn's new album features songwriting collaborations with Sia Furler, Inara George, Eleni Mandell, and Charlie Wadhams, as well as a cover of Benji Hughes frolicsome love call “Vibe So Hot.”


>Cass McCombs - Wit’s End CD/LP+MP3 (Domino)
The idiosyncratic, and hugely underrated singer/songwriter's third album for Domino is his darkest yet. “Best New Music” [8.4] -- Pitchfork


>Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care CD/2xLP (Temporary Residence)
Explosions In The Sky takes some of their greatest creative leaps yet, experimenting with layers of haunting, alien sounds, euphoric vocals, classical guitar, body percussion, and Japanese singing bowls.


>Kort - Invariable Heartache CD/LP (City Slang)
Kurt Wagner's (Lambchop) gravelly rumble and Cortney Tidwell's willowy Southern inflections compliment and celebrate the spirit of the material atop airtight production, over which local session musicians have added an air of twangy volatility.


>Julian Lynch - Terra CD/LP (Underwater Peoples)
“From the Durutti Column-smooth melodies and the Indian-inspired tabla beats to the sound of circular breathing on a clarinet, Terra mines our collective past, scouring the edges of obscurity and reconstruing its findings into something unclassifiable.” -- Altered Zones


>Of Montreal - Thecontrollersphere CDEP/12”+MP3 (Polyvinyl)
Five new songs, all exclusive to this release. “Here's your folk record, I hope you like that I've carried on the tradition of such folk luminaries as Abu Bahr Khairat, Benny More, and Nawal Al Zoghbi.” -- Kevin Barnes


>Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost! CD/2xLP (DFA)
Eponymous debut album from electro duo and remixers extraordinaire Nick Millhiser and Alex Frankel. Hailing from New York, the twosome made their mark with remixes of tunes from the likes of Moby, MGMT and Cut Copy, and the album includes the single “Do It Again.”


>Steve Earle - I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive CD/CD+DVD/LP (New West)
Earle’s first new album in four years -- produced by T Bone Burnett. Limited Edition adds a DVD featuring an interview and Behind The Scenes documentary.

>Emmylou Harris - Hard Bargin CD/CD+DVD (Nonesuch)
On Hard Bargain, Harris offers 11 new original songs -- three of them co-written with Grammy and Oscar-winning composer Will Jennings -- that touch on the autobiographical while reaching for the universal. Deluxe Edition includes a DVD that features six performances interspersed with interviews.


>Kode9 & The Spaceape - Black Sun CD/2xLP (Hyperdub)Starting as a dense onslaught, Black Sun proceeds to expand and contract its galaxy, sucking you into its orbit, and daring you to come and bathe in the warmth of its toxic glow.


>Daniele Luppi - Bad Habbits [Soundtrack] CD (Ipecac)
Trained in classical piano and jazz organ, Luppi was immersed from an early age in the film scores of the most influential Italian composers of the era. He wrote the emotional, orchestral score for this award-winning film, Malos Habitos (Bad Habits), which premiered at both Sundance and Cannes Film Festival.


>Prefuse 73 - Only She Chapters CD/2xLP (Warp)
New conceptual female-vocals-based album featuring Zola Jesus, Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, Angel Deradoorian and the late Trish Keenan of Broadcast, amongst others.


>Thao & Mirah - Thao & Mirah CD/LP (Kill Rock Stars)
The two enlisted dear friend and colleague Merril Garbus (tUnE-yArDs) as co-producer/guest musician.


>Times New Viking - Dancer Equired CD/LP (Merge)
Though it abandons the pissy histrionics of the past, the record retains the loud, brash, mammoth guitars but also magnifies the bright, beautiful traits the band has nurtured since the beginning.


>An Horse - Walls CD/LP (Mom + Pop Music)
Sophomore album from Australian indie rock duo.


>Art Department - The Drawing Board CD (Crosstown Rebels)
The haunting, yet lucid and melancholic house of Art Department is reminiscent of early Chicago house through a 21st century paradigm.


>Dennis Coffey - Dennis Coffey CD/LP (Strut)
Fans of his wah-wah and breakbeat laden solo material, as well as his pioneering work backing folks like The Temptations, Parliament, Edwin Starr, and more will be delighted with what they hear.


>Bootsy Collins - Tha Funk Capitol Of The World CD (Mascot)
Bootsy’s first new album in four years features an all-star lineup of musicians and cultural luminaries including rappers Snoop Dogg, Chuck D, and Ice Cube; actor Samuel L. Jackson; banjo phenom Bela Fleck; the Rev. Al Sharpton; scholar Dr. Cornell West; and guitarists Buckethead and Catfish Collins -- Bootsy's late brother.


>Dirty Vegas - Electric Love CD (Om)
New album finds that elusive sweet spot between the slickly polished electronic sounds of their past and a more decidedly rock edge, deftly balancing beats and guitar-led melodies.


>The Donkeys - Born With Stripes CD/LP (Dead Oceans)
San Diego's The Donkeys strike a balance of smiling, surfer mysticism and winking, slacker mystique. They reanimate the charming hallmarks of sunshine-rock past without being sepia-toned retro or bubblegum-cloying.


>Fresh & Onlys - Secret Walls CDEP/12” (Sacred Bones)
The cavernous opening sounds reveal the strong threads of hazy post-punk melancholy that have been woven throughout the band's catalog and have now fully matured.


>Holly Golightly And The Brokeoffs - No Help Coming CD/LP (Transdreamer)
No Help Coming is the fourth full-length release by Holly Golightly And The Brokeoffs, and the latest of nearly 30 albums on which the veteran indie icon is featured.


>tUnE-yArDs- w h o k i l l CD/LP+MP3 (4AD)
Garbus has applied the tUnE-yArDs live approach to her studio work for the first time. Her tools have not changed. Rather, she's added more buttons and joints to those already being used (one essential new joint is dexterous bass member Nate Brenner, who co-wrote a few songs).


>Del The Funky Homosapien - Golden Era 3xCD (The Council)
Compiling ten years of recordings, Golden Era features one complete new album and two CDs of tracks that were previously download-only.


>Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship CD (Fantasy)
Dengue Fever, with their exotic blend of Cambodian rock, Afro grooves, surf and garage psych, returns with their first studio album since 2008.


>Gorillaz - The Fall CD/LP (Virgin)
From Montreal to Vancouver via Seattle, Texas and Toronto, over 32 days on their North American Tour this autumn, Gorillaz recorded a musical diary. The result is a collection of 15 tracks, some with vocals, some without, some combined performances and some solo.


>Various Artists (Pearson Sound/Ramadanma) - Fabriclive 56 CD (Fabric)
30 track mix is a snapshot of today’s electronic/dance scene, featuring a variety of styles including drum ‘n’ bass, dubstep, house and ambient.


>The Head And The Heart - The Head And The Heart CD (Sub Pop)
The Head And The Heart’s music pulses effervescently both explosively danceable and intuitively intelligent. With Americana roots and strong vocal harmonics that swell like a river, this band finds its anchor in solid songwriting that has even the jaded humming along by the second listen.


>The High Llamas - The Talahomi Way CD/LP (Drag City)
New album from the veteran indie rockers led by Sean O'Hagan (Stereolab).


>I’m From Barcelona - Forever Today CD/LP (Mute)
With their optimistic sing along anthems and their massive line up, I'm From Barcelona has proved that, sometimes, less is not more. The biggest band in Sweden returns with an album that embraces all that went before and everything they hope to achieve.


>Kinks - Kinks [Reissue/1964] 2xCD (Sanctuary)
>Kinks - Kinda Kinks [Reissue/1965] 2xCD (Sanctuary)
>Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy [Reissue/1965] 2xCD (Sanctuary)
Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe double-CD editions of the first three Kinks albums featuring a plethora of bonus tracks.

>kd lang And The Siss Boom Bang - Sing It Loud CD (Nonesuch)
lang’s first record made entirely with a band of her own since the pair of albums with The Reclines that launched her career more than 20 years ago.


>Blackfield - Welcome To My DNA CD (K-Scope)
Collaboration between Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and Israeli artist Aviv Geffen.


>MF Doom - Operation Doomsday: Lunchbox 2xCD (Metal Face)
Two CDs packaged in a lunchbox with trading cards.


>Pantha Du Prince - XI Versions Of Black Noise CD/LP (XL)
Reworkings of tracks originally on Pantha Du Prince’s album Black Noise by friends and contemporaries, including Animal Collective, Moritz Von Oswald, Four Tet, Efdemin and North American pioneer Hyroglyphic Being.


>Ralph Stanley - A Mother’s Prayer CD (Rebel)
New album from the bluegrass icon.


>The Unthanks - Last CD (Rough Trade)
Last was made predominantly at the snowed-under Northumberland farmhouse that is home of Rachel and Adrian. Having made the highly successful Here's The Tender Coming in a studio, the return to home recording might have signaled a move back to the intimacy of their earlier work, but in practice, Last takes on the epic hallmarks of a masterpiece, in terms of the scale and atmosphere of the setting.


>Xray Eyeballs - Not Nothing CD/LP (Kanine)
Drawing comparisons to the frantic pop of Jay Reatard and The Urinals, and the moodiness of Velvet Underground and The Jesus And Mary Chain, Xray Eyeballs twist it all into their own pop concoction. Liz Berg from WFMU described their sound as, ''fuzzy, over modulated garage pop at a languid trot.''


>Panda Bear - Tomboy CD/LP (Paw Tracks)
Noah Lennox (Animal Collective) steps away from the sample-based parameters of his previous record Person Pitch, incorporating more guitar and synth. Tomboy is the welcome return of one of the most prolific and consistent audio pioneers in recent memory.

>Foo Fighters - Wasting Light CD/2xLP (RCA)
Produced by Butch Vig and mixed by Alan Moulder, Wasting Light was recorded entirely on analog tape in the garage of Grohl’s home in California’s San Fernando Valley. Guests include Bob Mould (“Dear Rosemary") and Krist Novoselic ("I Should Have Known").


>TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light CD/Deluxe CD/LP (DGC/Interscope)
A lush and beautiful album that stands apart from the group's previous work. If their other albums had shades of dystopia and distress, this album, sung by Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone, is filled with songs about longing and love. Deluxe Edition adds three bonus tracks. Free “Nine Types Of Light” movie poster with purchase -- while supplies last!


>Figurines - Figurines CD (The Control Group)
"This self-titled tour de force is a fantastic achievement and a contender for the best European indie rock album of a 2011." -- Sputnikmusic. Vinyl version due April 26.


>Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys CD (Downtown/Cooperative Music)
New album from the Manchester-based indie rock quintet, the follow-up to their Mercury Prize winning 2008 album The Seldom Seen Kid.


>Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Here We Rest CD/LP (Lightning Rod)
Second album from Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit, and Isbell’s third.


>Amiina - Puzzle CD/LP (Sound Of A Handshake)
Second album from the Icelandic group, formerly the string section for Sigur Ros. More rhythmically rugged than previous work and features a heavier use of electronics.


>Alison Krauss & Union Station - Paper Airplane CD (Rounder)
Krauss' 14th album and the band's follow-up to 2004's triple Grammy winning Lonely Runs Both Ways. It is Krauss' first release since her 2007 multi-platinum collaboration with Robert Plant, Raising Sand. Vinyl version due May 17.


>Low - C’mon CD/2xLP (Sub Pop)
C’mon ranks among the most succinct and straightforward entries in Low’s variegated discography. Comprised of new material written on and off the road, this ten-song set was recorded in a former Catholic church. Warmer, fuller, and more introspective.


>Bass Drum Of Death - Gb City CD/LP (Fat Possum)
Armed with a guitar, drum kit, and USB microphone, frontman John Barrett threw together scuzzy pop songs steeped in punk and doo-wop that dive into topics such as taking drugs, having sex, and other regular teenage activities.


>Black Devil Disco Club - Circus CD/2xLP (Lo Recordings)
Latest disco-pop opus from Bernard Fevre features ten guest vocalists, including Jon Spencer, Nancy Fortune, Cosmetics, Faris Badwan, Yacht, Nancy Sinatra, Cocknbullkid, Nicolas Kerr, Michael Lovett and Afrika Bambaataa.


>The Church - Starfish [Reissue/1988] 2xCD (Second Motion)
The Church’s 1988 college radio breakthrough (featuring “Under The Milky Way Tonight”) gets the reissue treatment, adding twelve bonus tracks.


>Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan In Concert: Bradeis University 1963 CD (Columbia/Legacy)
New Columbia/Legacy edition features liner notes penned exclusively for this release by noted Bob Dylan scholar Michael Gray, author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, providing an explication of the album's seven songs and historical/cultural context for the performances. Vinyl version due May 10.


>Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field CD/LP (PIAS America)
Digging in deeper than ever before, The Deep Field begins with the words “I want you to fall in love with me,” and continues to unfurl an unashamed lust for life. In Joan's own words, “my most open, joyous record.”


>Jonny - Jonny CD (Merge)
Debut album from Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and Euros Childs (Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci) proclaims the advent of an infectious new strain of psychedelic pop.


>Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band - American Legacies CD (McCoury Music)
Blending jazz from the streets and music halls and clubs of New Orleans and beyond with bluegrass from rural festivals, school auditoriums and more restrained settings, American Legacies presents two giants of traditional American music in one spirited stream of deliciously inviting, boldly innovative and yet profoundly familiar music.

>The Meat Puppets - Lollipop CD/LP (Megaforce)
New album from the indelible Kirkwood brothers. Spin summed up the hypnotic power by saying, 'the interplay of Curt's drowsy vocals and freaky guitar can still induce vertiginous spells.”


>The One AM Radio - Heaven Is Attached By A Slender Thread CD/LP (Dangerbird)
The One AM Radio is a band from New England by way of Los Angeles who make dreamy synth-pop songs about the feeling of being alone at night in a car on a street in a city that never really seems like home, and other modern problems.


>Sonny And The Sunsets - Hit After Hit CD/LP (Fat Possum)
Vintage-style west coast pop songs that tell sordid tales of distant travels, heavenly visions and otherworldly despair.


>TV Ghost - Mass Dream CD/LP (In The Red)
Taking their name from the phenomenon of analog television frequency disturbances, TV Ghost conjures an especially sludgy and punishing brand of art-punk. Mass Dream echoes the Scientists, Suicide and The Cramps' '70s output.


>Vivian Girls - Share The Joy CD/LP (Polyvinyl)
Third album continues to sharpen and refine their transcendent mix of garage thrash, girl-group warmth and infectious pop hooksmanship.


>Blueprint - Adventures In Counter-Culture CD/LP (Rhymesayers)
“Experimenting with synths, keyboards, and drum machines, Adventures In Counter-Culture touches on Blueprint’s cynicism with the world, his disdain for pop culture, the state of politics and an apathetic, uninspired society.” -- Fifthelementonline


>Bill Callahan - Apocalypse CD (Drag City)
Callahan corrals and guides his band single-handedly through the valley of death with love and ferocity. This record makes us wonder what has really happened in the last 100 years, and what will happen in the next 10. The soul of your country called and left you a message. Seven messages.

>Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years CD/LP (Matador)
Cold Cave's second album is a tour-de-force of pounding synths and soaring romantic melody. It manages to unite Power, Corruption And Lies-era New Order, late-'70s Scott Walker, and the dark stadium pop of mid-period Depeche Mode, with the sensibilities of LCD Soundsystem and The National.


>Ha Ha Tonka - Death Of A Decade CD/LP (Bloodshot)
As with their previous releases, Ha Ha Tonka marries Southern songs with modern edges. Traditional instrumentation and four-part gospel vocal harmonies never sound forced as the group merges Alabama and Arcade Fire.


>The Kills - Blood Pressures CD/LP (Domino)
New album keeps their basic sound intact -- searing guitars, driving rhythms and sexually charged lyrical savvy. The 11 tracks on Blood Pressures find The Kills embracing a fuller sound; there is heavier instrumentation and layered, huge-sounding harmonies with Jamie and Alison uniting in their trademark singsong vocal style over tom heavy primitive beats.


>Maritime - Human Hearts CD/LP (Dangerbird)
New album from the band fronted by singer/songwriter Davie VonBohlen, ex-captain of a ship called The Promise Ring.


>The Raveonettes - Raven In The Grave CD/LP (Vice)
The fifth album from the Danish duo is their darkest yet.


>Robbie Robertson - How To Become Clairvoyant CD (429)
Fifth solo album and Robertson’s first in more than 10 years. Guitar virtuosos Eric Clapton (who co-wrote three tracks with Robertson), Tom Morello and Robert Randolph guest on the album, along with Steve Winwood and Trent Reznor.


>Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin’ On CD/LP (Arts & Crafts)
From guttural groans to eerie doo-wop inspired pleas, Creep On Creepin’ On is textured and commanding, stirring proof of the unwavering powers of obsession and possession.


>Various Artists (Midlake) - Late Night Tales CD (Late Night Tales)
Midlake’s installment of Late Night Tales mixes tracks by Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Espers, Scott Walker, Björk, Beach House, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Nico and others.


>The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong CD/LP (Slumberland/Collective Sounds)
The beginning of “Belong” -- the title track of their new album -- features the indie-pop band casually jangling along. But it's something of a red herring. Right at the fifteen-second mark, the guitars blitz out louder and harder than anything on their self-titled debut. The gargantuan distortion recalls nothing less than prime-era Smashing Pumpkins, which makes sense considering Belong was produced by Flood and mixed by Alan Moulder.


>Bibio - Mind Bokeh CD/2xLP (Warp)
''Bokeh is a Japanese word,'' explains British artist-composer Stephen Wilkinson, aka Bibio, in reference to his new album. ''The word from which it originated, boke, means blur or haze. Bokeh with an 'h' on the end, however, is more specific to photography; it's the out-of-focus region of a picture. Bokeh is a good analogy for Wilkinson's newest work, where his alternately dreamy/woozy atmospherics surround ever more confident song craft.


>Radiohead - The King Of Limbs CD/LP (TBD)
Produced by longtime collaborator, Nigel Godrich, The King Of Limbs is Radiohead’s eighth studio release and contains single “Lotus Flower.”


>Broken Bells - Meyrin Fields CDEP/12” (Columbia)
New EP featuring the previously unreleased tracks "Windows" and "Heartless Empire," and "An Easy Life."


>Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen CD/2xLP (Mute)
Pearson was a founder member of the short-lived but critically acclaimed band Lift To Experience, who released only one record, the 2001 concept album The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, before splitting up soon after.


>Obits - Moody, Standard And Poor CD/LP (Sub Pop)
These twelve songs will take you on a series of emotional road trips. Some will be as brief as a walk to the fridge. Others will be epic pilgrimages to the shady hinterlands of your subconscious. Also available on red vinyl.


>Peter Bjorn And John - Gimme Some CD/LP (Columbia)
New album from the Swedish indie pop trio. Gimme Some, the follow up to 2009's more experimental Living Thing, is a definite return to Peter Bjorn And John's Pop roots.


>Hunx And His Punx - Too Young To Be In Love CD/LP (Hardly Art)
Too Young To Be In Love is the first fully realized Hunx And His Punx album. It was recorded in New York City by Ivan Julian-one of the founding members of inimitable NYC punk legends Richard Hell and the Voidoids.


>The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)
All Eternals Deck, which refers to an apocryphal tarot deck. "The songs cluster around themes of hidden things and the dread that hidden things inspire," says singer/songwriter John Darnielle, "but also the excitement, the attraction, the magnetic draw that scary unknown hidden things exert."


>The Books - Lost And Safe [Reissue] CD/LP (Temporary Residence)
As with the recently reissued Thought For Food and The Lemon Of Pink, Lost And Safe is repackaged with new artwork and expanded to include lyrics for every song. Included in The Wire's 2005 Rewind: 50 Records Of The Year.


>Brian Eno/Bang On A Can - Music For Airports (Live) CD (Cantaloupe)
Twenty years later after the album was originally released (1978), Bang On A Can All-Stars created their own version of the work with live musicians, all the while staying true to the source by working with Eno. Released in 1998 on vinyl, the collaboration is now available for the first time on CD.


>Gangpol & Mit - The 1000 Softcore Tourist People Club CD (Ipecac)
14 tracks of mutant synth pop blending virtual orchestra fantasies and digital lyricism.


>Moon Duo - Mazes CD/LP (Secretly Canadian)
Ripley Johnson (Wooden Shjips) and Sanae Yamada have been burning up the scene with their propulsive beats and compelling acid washed shows. Formed in San Francisco, the duo relocated to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. This record, however, was cut in Berlin. Certainly the most pop-oriented batch of songs the band has ever delivered.


>Pearl Jam - Vs/Vitalogy [Expanded/Deluxe Edition) 3xCD (Sony Legacy)
Combines the two remastered albums plus a 16-track performance recorded April 12, 1994, at the Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA.


>Radiohead - The King Of Limbs CD/LP (TBD)
Produced by longtime collaborator, Nigel Godrich, The King Of Limbs is Radiohead’s eighth studio release and contains single “Lotus Flower.”
Free 19”x19” lithograph with purchase, while supplies last!


>Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers CD (Atlantic)
The third album from R&B rapper Cameron Jibril Thomaz, more commonly known as Wiz Khalifa. The album includes the first single “Black And Yellow,” produced by Grammy winning team Stargate (Rihanna, Beyonce and Katy Perry). Wiz Khalifa was recently named MTV's Hottest Breakthrough MC Of 2010, beating acts such as Nicki Minaj and