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Available January 3
GUIDED BY VOICES Let's Go Eat the Factory (GBV Inc)

Available January 10
BILL RYDER-JONES If... (Domino)
NIRVANA Live at the Paramount (CD/DVD) (Geffen)
RED WANTING BLUE From The Vanishing Point (Fanatic)
SNOW PATROL Fallen Empires (Interscope)
THE LITTLE WILLIES For the Good Times (Milking Bull/EMI)

Available January 17
ANI DIFRANCO Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe/Music Allies)
CATE LE BON CYRK (The Control Group)
HOWLER America Give Up (Rough Trade)
JESSE BAYLIN Little Spark (Blonde Rat/Thirty Tigers/RED)
JUVENILE Rejuvination (Cash Money)
KATHLEEN EDWARDS Voyageur (Zoë/Rounder)
MATTHEW DEAR Headcage (EP) (Ghostly)
OLD MONK Birds Of Belize (LP/digital) (Eenie Meanie)
THE BIG PINK Future This (4AD)
THE DUKE SPIRIT Bruiser (Shangri-La Music)
THE INTERNET Purple Naked Ladies (Odd Future)

Available January 24
CARDINAL Hymns (Fire)
CHAIRLIFT Something (Columbia/Young Turks)
CHEYENNE MARIE MIZE We Don't Need (EP) (Yep Roc/Roaring Colonel)
CHUCK PROPHET Temple Beautiful (Yep Roc)
CLOUD NOTHINGS Attack on Memory (Carpark)
CRAIG FINN (of the Hold Steady) Clear Heart Full Eyes (Vagrant) 
FIRST AID KIT The Lion's Roar (Wichita)
GRACE WOODROOFE Always Want (Modular)
GRAFFITI6 Colours (Capitol)
INGRID MICHAELSON Human Again (Cabin 24/Mom + Pop Music)
JOE COCKER Hard Knocks (429/SLG)
JOHN K. SAMSON (of The Weakenthans) Provincial (Anti-)
LANA DEL REY Born 2 Die (Interscope)
LAURA GIBSON La Grande (Anti-)
MADI DIAZ Plastic Moon (tinyOgre)
MARTIN SEXTON Full Life (EP) (independent)
MOE. What Happened To the LA LAs (Sugar Hill)
NADA SURF The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy (Vagrant)
RODRIGO y GABRIELA Area 52 (ATO)

Available January 31
ADAM ACURAGI Like A Fire That Consumes All Before It... (Moon/Thirty Tigers/RED)
ELISA Steppin' On Water (Decca)
GOTYE (aka Wally De Backer) Making Mirrors (Universal Republic)
HOSPITALITY Hospitality (Merge)
IMPERIAL TEEN Feel the Sound (Merge)
JOE LOUIS WALKER Hellfire (Alligator)
LEONARD COHEN Old Ideas (1st album of new material in 7 years) (Columbia)
PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL Clay Class (DFA)
RADIOHEAD The King of Limbs: Live From The Basement (DVD/BluRay)
RUTHIE FOSTER Let It Burn (Blue Corn)
THE PINES Dark So Gold (Red House)
THE SOUL REBELS Unlock Your Mind (Rounder)
THE 2 BEARS (f/ Hot Chip's Joe Goddard) Be Strong (DFA)

Available February 7
AIR Le Voyage Sans La Lune (soundtrack album) (Astralwerks)
BEN KWELLER Go Fly A Kite (The Noise Company)
BIG JAMES AND THE CHICAGO PLAYBOYS The Big Payback (Blind Pig)
BLONDES Blondes (RVNG Intl)
CONTINO Back Porch Dogma (Blind Pig)
DIERKS BENTLEY Home (Capitol Nashville)
DR. DOG Be The Void (Anti-)
EIGHT AND A HALF Eight and a Half (Arts & Crafts)
GOLDFRAPP The Singles (Mute/Parlophone)
MARK LANEGAN BAND Blues Funeral (4AD)
OF MONTREAL Paralytic Stalks (Polyvinyl)
PAUL McCARTNEY (Title TBA) (album of standards with Diana Krall & band w/ 2 new songs) (EMI)
PERFUME GENIUS Put Your Back N2 It (Matador)
SHARON VAN ETTEN Tramp (Jagjaguwar)
THE LEMONHEADS Hotel Sessions (acoustic Evan Dando recorded in '93 in Australia) (Hall of Records/Breath of Saltwater)
THE TWILIGHT SAD No One Can Ever Know (FatCat)
VV BROWN Lollipops & Politics (Capitol)

Available February 14
AMOS LEE As The Crow Flies (B sides from Mission Bell sessions) (Blue Note)
ANDRA SUCHY Little Heart (Red House)
DAVE CARTER/TRACY GRAMMER Little Blue Egg (Compilation 10th anniversary release of Dave Carter's passing w/ new tracks) (Red House)
DREW NELSON Tilt-A-Whirl (Red House)
FRANKIE ROSE Interstellar (Slumberland/Memphis Industries)
HEARTLESS BASTARDS Arrow (Partisan)
ISLANDS A Sleep & A Forgetting (Anti-)
ROSIE THOMAS (w/ guests including Sam Beam of Iron & Wine) With Love (Sing-A-Long)
SHEARWATER Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
TENNIS Young And Old (Fat Possum)
THE CRANBERRIES Roses (Downtown/Cooking Vinyl)
WINTERPILLS All My Lovely Goners (Signature Sounds)

Available February 21
ARCHERS OF LOAF Vee Vee (remastered reissue of 2nd album) (Merge)
BAND OF SKULLS Sweet Sour (Vagrant)
CURSIVE I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
DAMIAN JURADO Maraqupa (Secretly Canadian)
GALACTIC Carnivale Electricos (Anti-)
LAMBCHOP Mr. M (1st album in 2 decades) (Merge)
THE CHIEFTAINS Voice of Ages (produced by Paddy Maloney & T Bone Burnett)
TINDERSTICKS The Something Rain (Constellation)

Available February 28
BANG ON A CAN Big Beautiful and Scary (Cantaloupe Music)
LYLE LOVETT Release Me (Curb/Universal)
MEMORYHOUSE The Sideshow effect (Anti-)
ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT Black Radio (Blue Note)
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Ghostory (Ghostly Intl/Vagrant)
THE XRAY EYEBALLS Splendor Squalor (Kanine)

Available March 6
ANDREW BIRD Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
KAISER CHIEFS Start The Revolution Without Me (4th studio album) (Fiction/Cooperative Music/Downtown)
NITE JEWEL One Second of Love (Secretly Canadian)
ROCCO DeLUCCA Drugs 'N Hymns (429/SLG) 
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
THE SHINS Port Of Morrow (Aural Apothecary/Columbia) (exact release date in March TBD)

Available March 13
DELTA SPIRIT Delta Spirit (new studio album, their 3rd) (Rounder)

Available March 20
SPIRITUALIZED Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Fat Possum)

Available March 27
JOAN OSBORNE Bring It On Home (Saguaro Road/Time Life)

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