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In Stores Available June 30
LESLIE MENDELSON Swan Feathers (Ryko)
LEVON HELM Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records)
MATT DUKE Kingdom Underground (acoustic EP) (Ryko)
MOBY Wait for Me (Little Idiot)
PAT METHENY Day Trip/Tokyo Day Trip (LP/CD) (Nonesuch)
RICHARD THOMPSON Walking On A Wire: Richard Thompson (1968-2009) (4-CD box set) (Shout! Factory)
ROB THOMAS Cradlesong (Atlantic)
THE BUILDERS AND THE BUTCHERS Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (Gigantic Music)
WILCO Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch/Warner Bros)

Available July 7
BOWERBIRDS Upper Air (Dead Oceans)
CASS McCOMBS Catacombs (Domino)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Live From Austin City Limits (CD/DVD) (New West)
JAYHAWKS Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology (Legacy/American)
MARCY PLAYGROUND Leaving Wonderland In A Fit Of Rage (Woz Records/Deep South)
PHISH Time Turns Elastic (produced by Steve Lillywhite)
SON VOLT American Central Dust (Rounder)
STELLASTARR Civilized (Bloated Wife Records/Warner Bros)
THE LOVER GONE Peggy Sue (EP) (Yep Roc)
THE MINUS 5 Killingsworth (w/ R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and The Decemberists) (Yep Roc)
YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS I Think This Is (Yep Roc)

Available July 14
CROSBY LOGGINS Time To Move (Jive Records)
OAKENFIELD (w/ Madonna) Perfecto Vegas (Thrive Records)
OLIVIA BROADFIELD Eyes Wide Open (Vagrant)
THE DEAD WEATHER (w/ Jack White) Horehound (Third Man Records)
THE MOST SERENE REPUBLIC...And The Ever Expanding Universe (Arts & Crafts)

Available July 21
ASSEMBLY OF DUST Some Assembly Required (RockRidge Music)
KENNY LOGGINS All Join In
IAN HUNTER Man Overboard (New West)
JENNIE DeVOE Ursa Major
MATTHEW SWEET/SUSANNA HOFFS Under the Covers Vol. 2
SUGAR RAY Music For Cougars (band's first full length studio album in 6 years) (Pulse/Fontana/Universal)
THE FIERY FURNACES I'm Going Away
WHEAT White Ink, Black Ink (The Rebel Group)

Available July 28
GOV'T MULE By A Thread (Gov't Mule)
HOWLING BELLS Radio Wars (Nettwerk Records)
TREVOR HALL Trevor Hall (Vanguard)

Available August 4
IMOGEN HEAP Ellipse (RCA)
THROW ME THE STATUE Creaturesque (Secretly Canadian)
YIM JAMES (Jim James of My Morning Jacket tribute to George Harrison - EP) Tribute To (ATO Records)

Available August 11
BUFFY ST. MARIE Running for the Dream (Appleseed Recordings)
MAIA SHARP Echo (produced by Don Was) (Crooked Crown)
MINDY SMITH Stupid Love (Vanguard Records)
ROBERT POLLARD Elephant Jokes (Guided By Voices Inc)
SAM & RUBY The Here And The Now (Ryko)

Available August 18
JOE HENRY Blood From Stars (Anti-)
SQUAREPUSHER Solo Electric Bass 1 (Warp Records)
THIRD EYE BLIND Ursa Major (Sony/RED)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Flaming Lips, Black Francis & more) New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets (Arsenal Rock N Roll/Justice)
VARIOUS ARTISTS 40 Years Out: Back To Yasgur's Farm (6-CD box set) (Rhino)

Available August 25
ARCTIC MONKEYS Humbug (Domino)
COLBIE COILLAT Breakthrough (Universal Republic)
DOLORES O'RIORDAN No Baggage (Zoe/Rounder)
MATISYAHU Light (Epic)
STILL LIFE STILL Girls Come Too (Arts & Crafts)
TIM BUCKLEY Live at the Folklore Center NYC, March 6, 1967 (Tompkins Square)

Available September 1
BLACK CROWES Before the Frost…Until The Freeze ("Freeze" is free download bonus album) (Silver Arrow/Megaforce)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS The Fine Print (A Collection Of Oddities and Rarities 2003-2008) (New West)

Available September 8
A FINE FRENZY Bomb In A Birdcage (Virgin)
POLVO In Prism (Merge Records)
THE CLEAN Mister Pop (Merge Records)
WILD BEAST Two Dancers (Domino)
YO LA TENGO Popular Songs (Matador Records)

Available September 15
GARY GO Gary Go (Decca Records)

Available September 22
ISLANDS Vapours (Anti-)

Available October 6
THE CLIENTELE Bonfires on the Heath (Merge Records)

Available October 27
STING If On A Winter's Night (Deutsche Grammophon)

May 5
AKRON/FAMILY Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (Dead Oceans Records)
ARCTIC MONKEYS Arctic Monkeys at The Apollo (CD/DVD) (Warp Films)
BEN HARPER & RELENTLESS 7 White Lies For Dark Times (Virgin)
BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO Lay Your Burden Down (Alligator)
CRACKER Sunrise in the Land of Milk & Honey (429 Records)
CONOR OBERST AND THE MYSTIC VALLEY BAND Outer South (Merge Records)
DOUBLE DAGGER More (Thrill Jockey)
FISCHERSPOONER Entertainment (FS Studios)
GALLOWS Grey Britain (Reprise/WEA)
KATIE MELUA Pictures (Dramatico/Universal)
PAUL CARRACK I Know That Name (429 Records)
PEACHES I Feel Cream (XL Recordings)
PINK MOUNTAINTOPS Outside Love (Jagjaguwar)
ST. VINCENT (aka Annie Clark) Actor (4AD)
THE GIBSON BROTHERS Ring The Bell (Compass)
THE NEW YORK DOLLS Cause I Sez So (produced by Todd Rundgren) (Atco)
THE SMITHEREENS The Smithereens Play Tommy (Koch)
YEARS Years (Arts & Crafts)
YUSUF (aka Cat Stevens) Roadsinger (Eder/UMe)
ZIGGY MARLEY Family Time (kid's album w/ Jack Johnson, Willie Nelson & Paul Simon, co-produced by Don Was) (Tuff Gong)

Available May 12
ALECIA NUGENT Hillbilly Goddess (Rounder)
ART BRUT Art Brut vs. Satan (produced by Frank Black) (Downtown Records)
BETTER THAN EZRA Paper Empire (MRI/Megaforce Records)
COLLEEN McFARLAND Let It Shine (High Horse Records)
CRYSTAL METHOD Divided By Night (Tiny e Records)
DEXATEENS Singlewide (Thirty Tigers/Skybucket)
HANNE HUKKELBERG Blood From A Stone (Nettwerk)
HILL COUNTRY REVUE Make A Move (North Mississippi Allstars' Cody Dickinson & Chris Chew) (Razor & Tie)
MEAT PUPPETS Sewn Together (Megaforce Records)
MICHELLE SHOCKED Soul Of My Soul (Mighty Sound)
OPERATION ALOHA Operation Aloha (features members of Gomez, Maroon 5 & Phantom Planet) (independent)
ROMAN CANDLE Oh Tall Tree In The Ear (Carnival Recording/RED)
STEVE EARLE Townes (2-CD tribute to late Townes Van Zandt) (New West)
THE BELLEVILLE OUTFIT Time To Stand (independent)
UNKNOWN INSTRUCTORS (w/ Mike Watt) Funland (Smog Veil Records)
VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ Fondo (Six Degrees)
WOODEN BIRDS Magnolia (Barsuk Records)

Available May 19
APOSTLE OF HUSTLE Eats Darkness (Arts & Crafts)
ASHLEY CLEVELAND God Don't Never Change (Koch)
AU REVOIR SIMONE Still Night, Still Light (Our Secret Record Company)
CARBON LEAF Nothing Rhymes With Woman (Vanguard)
CHRIS BARRON Pancho and the Kid (Valley Entertainment)
EMINEM Relapse (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
GREEN DAY 21st Century Breakdown (8th studio album) (Reprise)
IRON & WINE Around the Well (double disc of previously unreleased cuts & rarities) (Sub Pop)
JARVIS COCKER Further Complications (Rough Trade)
JASON LYTLE Yours Truly, the Commuter (Granddaddy singer-songwriter) (Anti-)
JOHN VANDERSLICE Romanian Names (Dead Oceans)
MAT KEARNEY City of Black & White (Aware/Columbia)
THE OXYGEN PONIES Harmony Handgrenade (Hidden Target)
TORI AMOS Abnormally Attracted To Sin (Universal Republic)
SCOTT H. BIRAM Something's Wrong/Lost Forever (Bloodshot Records)
STEPHANIESID Warm People (Nine Mile Records)

Available May 26
DAVID BERKELEY Strange Light (Thirty Tigers/RED)
GRIZZLY BEAR Veckatimest (Warp)
JENNY OWEN YOUNGS Transmitter Failure (Nettwerk)
PASSION PIT Manners (French Kiss/Columbia)
PHOENIX Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Astralwerks)
SIR RICHARD BISHOP The Freak Of Araby (Drag City)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Chris Gaffney Tribute: The Man Of Somebody's Dreams (w/ D. Alvin, Alejandro Escovedo, Los Lobos, J. McMurtry, Calexico, Boz Scaggs, Joe Ely) (Yep Roc)
WAR TAPES The Continental Divide (Sarathan Records)

Available June 2
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King (RCA)
ELVIS COSTELLO Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (acoustic album produced by T Bone Burnett) (Hear Music)
JEFF BUCKLEY Grace Around the World (CD/DVD retrospective) (Columbia/Legacy)
PAOLO NUTINI Sunny Side Up (Atlantic)
RYAN BINGHAM & THE DEAD HORSES Roadhouse Sun (Lost Highway)
311 Uplifter (Volcano/Jive)

Available June 9
AIMEE ALLEN A Little Happiness Everywhere (Side Tracked Records)
BUSDRIVER Jhelli Beam (Anti-)
COSMOS Jar of Jam, Ton Of Bricks (Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard & Cardinal's Richard Davies) (Happy Jack Rock)
DIRTY PROJECTORS Bitte Orca (Domino)
ELIZABETH AND THE CATAPULT Taller Children (Verve Forecast)
EUGENE McGUINESS Eugene McGuinness (Domino)
JOAN OF ARC Flowers (Polyvinyl Records)
PORTLANT CELLO PROJECT The Thao and Justin Power Sessions (Kill Rock Stars)
RHETT MILLER Rhett Miller (4th solo [studio album] from leader of Old 97’s) (Shout! Factory)
SONIC YOUTH The Eternal (Matador)
THE BLACK EYED PEAS The E.N.D. (1st studio album in 4 years) (Interscope)
THE LOW ANTHEM Oh My God, Charlie Darwin (Nonesuch Records)

Available June 16
DAVY KNOWLES & BACK DOOR SLAM Coming Up For Air (produced by Peter Frampton) (Blix Street)
HOLLY WILLIAMS Here With Me (Hank Williams granddaughter) (Mercury Nashville)
INCUBUS Monuments And Melodies (2-disc greatest hits & rarities) (Epic)
JONATHA BROOKE The Works (Bad Dog)
MICHAEL MILLER I Made You Up (independent)
STILL LIFE STILL Pastel (EP) (Arts & Crafts)


Available June 23
CHARLIE ROBISON Beautiful Day (Dualtone)
CHRISTINA COURTIN Christina Courtin (Nonesuch)
DINOSUAR JR. Farm (Jagjaguwar)
MARS VOLTA Octahedron (Warner Bros)
OTIS TAYLOR Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs (Telarc)
PATTERSON HOOD Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs) (2nd solo album by ex-Drive-By Trucker) (Ruth St. Records)
PETE YORN Back and Fourth (Columbia)
THE DEAR HUNTER Act III: Life And Death (Triple Crown Records)

Already Available In Stores/Online

Available January 20
A.C. NEWMAN Get Guilty (Matador)
ANDREW BIRD Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
ANYA MARINA Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II (Chop Shop)
BEAUSOLEIL Alligator Purse (Yep Roc)
BON IVER Blood Bank (EP) (Jagjaguwar)
CALEXICO Live From Austin, TX (CD/DVD) (New West)
DONNA ULISSE Walk This Mountain Down (Hadley Music Group)
FICTION FAMILY Fiction Family (Switchfoot's Jon Foreman & Nickel Creek's Sean Watkins) (ATO Records)
HEARTLESS BASTARDS The Mountain (Fat Possum)
J. TILLMAN (drummer from Fleet Foxes) Vacilando Territory Blues (Western Vinyl)
MATT & KIM Grand (Fader)
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS Do It Like We Used To Do (2 CD/DVD anthology set) (RED)
OTIS GIBBS Grandpa Walked a Picketline (Thirty Tigers)
REEL BIG FISH Fame, Fortune and Fornication (Rock Ridge)
THOM YORKE The Eraser Remixes (Beggars/XL Recordings)
TONY FURTADO Deep Water (Funzalo Records)
UMPHREY'S McGEE Mantis (Sci Fidelity)

Available January 27
ASA (pronounced "Asha") Naïve (Mercer Street/Downtown Records)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Working On A Dream (Columbia)
COTTON JONES Paranoid Cocoon (Suicide Squeeze)
DUNCAN SHEIK Whisper House (Victor/SonyBMG)
FRANZ FERDINAND Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Epic)
GARY LOURIS & MARK OLSON Ready For The Flood (New West)
JOHNNY CASH Remixed (Compadre/Music World)
LONELY DEAR Dear John (Polyvinyl Records)
NICKLE EYE The Time of the Assassins (w/ the Strokes bass player Nikolai Fraiture) (Rykodisc)
PIERCE PETTIS That Kind of Love (Compass)
SAFFIRE Havin' the Last Word (Alligator)
THE BIRD AND THE BEE Ray Guns Are Not The Future (Blue Note)
THE GUGGENHEIM GROTTO Happy The Man (UFO)
THE SHOWGOATS Lift Off (Mud Oyster)
TYRONE WELLS Remain (Universal Republic)

Available February 3
BELL X1 Blue Lights on the Runway (Yep Roc)
BEN KWELLER Changing Horses (ATO)
CHRIS CORNELL Scream (Interscope)
GRAHAM NASH Reflections (box set) (Rhino)
GRETCHEN PETERS/TOM RUSSELL One To The Heart, One To The Head (Scarlet Letter/Frontera)
HANDSOME FURS Face Control (Sub Pop)
KERI NOBLE Keri Noble (Telarc/CMG)
KINKY Barracuda (Kin Kon/Nettwerk)
LISA HANNIGAN Sea Saw (ATO Records)
RUTHIE FOSTER The Truth According to Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn)
THE BAD PLUS For All I Care (Heads Up)
THE FRAY The Fray (Epic)
THE NIGHTHAWKS The Nighthawks Explore American Landscape (Powerhouse Records)
THE VON BONDIES Love, Hate, and Then There's You (Shout! Factory)
TWO TONGUES Two Tongues (Vagrant)
WILLIE NELSON/ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL Willie and the Wheel (Bismeaux Records)
YOUNG DUBLINERS Saints And Sinners (429 Records)

Available February 10
CHAD KICHULA Runners in the Night (independent)
CHARLES SPEARIN (of Broken Social Scene) The Happiness Project (Arts & Crafts)
COURTNEY LOVE Nobody's Daughter (long awaited 2nd solo album after 5 years, produced by Linda Perry)
DAN AUERBACH Keep It Hid (Black Keys vocalist) (Nonesuch)
DEX ROMWEBER DUO (w/ guests Neko Case, Cat Power) Ruins Of Berlin (Bloodshot Records)
GUY DAVIS Sweetheart Like You (w/ Levon Helm) (Red House)
INDIA.ARIE Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics (Soulbird Music/Universal Republic)
JORMA KAUKONEN River of Time (Red House)
LILY ALLEN It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol Music)
MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS Light of X (Nettwerk)
MOS DEF The Ecstatic (Downtown Records)
PETER TOSH The Ultimate Peter Tosh Experience (2 DVD/CD) (Shanachie)
THE ALTERNATE ROUTES A Sucker's Dream (Vanguard)
THE LONELY ISLAND Incredibad (SNL's Andy Samberg trio) (Universal Republic)
TOM MIDDLETON Excursions (EP) (Six Degrees)
VAN MORRISON Astral Weeks: Live At the Hollywood Bowl (Listen to the Lion Records/EMI)

Available February 17
ALELA DIANE To Be Still (Rough Trade)
ANA EGGE Road To My Love (Grace/Parkinsong)
...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD The Century of Self (Richter Scale/Justice)
ANNIE LENNOX The Annie Lennox Collection (CD/DVD) (Sony)
ASOBI SEKSU Hush (Polyvinyl)
BENJY FEREE Come Back to the Five and Dime Bobby Dee Bobby Dee (Domino)
BRIDGETTE DeMEYER Red River Flower (independent)
BLOODKIN Baby, They Told Us We'd Rise Again (Sci Fidelity)
BROKEN SPINDLES Kiss/Kick (Joel Petersen, bassist of the Faint [Conor Oberst's old band] & remixer of Of Montreal and AFI) (Blank.Wav)
ELENI MANDELL Artificial Fire (Zedtone)
FAUNTS Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. (Friendly Fire Recordings)
GURF MORLIX Last Exit to Happyland (w/ Ruthie Foster, Patty Griffin) (Rootball Records)
HERE WE GO MAGIC (w/ Luke Temple) Here We Go Magic (Western Vinyl)
JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (ex-Drive-By Trucker) (Lightning Rod)
JEFFREY FOUCAULT Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes (Signature Sounds)
LAL MERI Lal Meri (Six Degrees)
LIVING THINGS Habeus Corpus (Jive/Zomba)
MORRISSEY Years Of Refusal (Attack/Lost Highway)
M. WARD Hold Time (Merge Records)
PSAPP The Camel's Back (Domino)
RANDY WEEKS Going My Way (Certifiable Records)
ROBYN HITCHCOCK (w/ the venus 3) Goodnight Oslo (Yep Roc)
SAM ROBERTS Love at the End of the World (Zoe/Rounder)
SERENA RYDER Is it OK (Atlantic)
THE SOUL OF JOHN BLACK Black John (Eclecto Groove Records)
TOMMY KEENE In The Late Bright (Second Motion)
VARIOUS ARTISTS/N.A.S.A. (including Tom Waits, David Byrne, MIA, Santogold) The Spirit Of Apollo (Anti-)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Decemberists, D. Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, MMJ & more) Dark Was the Night (Red Hot AIDS benfefit) (4AD)
VETIVER Tight Knit (Sub Pop)
WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE Animals in the Dark (Anti-)

Available February 24
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Live in New Orleans (DVD) (Saguaro Road)
CHRIS ISAAK Mr. Lucky (Reprise)
JJ CALE Roll On (1st solo album of new material in nearly 5 years) (Rounder)
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE No Better Place: Live In Chicago (DVD) (Shout! Factory)
GENTLEMAN REG Jet Black (Arts & Crafts)
GREEN RIVER ORDINANCE Out Of My Hands (Capitol Music Group)
JOE BONAMASSA The Ballad Of John Henry (J&R Adventures, Inc)
K'NAAN (w/ Damian Marley, Mos Def, Vernon Reid, Adam Levine) Troubadour (A&M/Octone)
KINKY Barracuda (Nettwerk)
LAURA GIBSON Beast of Seasons (produced by Tucker Martine w/ players from M. Ward, the Decemberists, and M. Ward) (Hush)
SHEMEKIA COPELAND Never Going Back (Telarc)
THE BLACK LIPS 200 Million Thousand (Vice Records)
TOM RUSH (w/ Emmylou, Nanci Griffith) What I Know (Appleseed)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Heroes (covers by Beck, Hot Chip, TV on the Radio - benefit for War Child) (Astralwerks)

Available March 3
BELA FLECK Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From the Acoustic Planet Vol. 3 Africa Sessions (Rounder)
BELL X1 Blue Lights on the Runway (Yep Roc)
BUDDY & JULIE MILLER Written In Chalk (w/ guests Robert Plant, Emmylou, Patty Griffin) (New West)
COHEED AND CAMBRIA Neverennder (box set) (Columbia)
COURTNEY FAIRCHILD 11 Chances (Stanley Recordings)
GREGORY DOUGLASS Battler (Emote)
JESSE HARRIS Watching The Sky (Mercer Street/Downtown)
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Midnight At The Movies (Bloodshot Records)
LIZ CARROLL/JOHN DOYLE Double Play (Compass)
MARISA NADLER Little Hell (Kemado Records)
MOLLY JENSON Maybe Tomorrow (Nettwerk)
NEKO CASE Middle Cyclone (Anti-)
RAUL MALO Lucky One (co-produced by Los Lobos' Steve Berlin) (Fantasy)
SAY HI Oohs & Aahs (Barsuk)
SETH WALKER Leap of Faith (Hyena Records)
THE ANTLERS Hospice (Fall Records)
THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES Communion (Yep Roc)
U2 No Line on the Horizon (Interscope)
WILD LIGHT Adult Nights (Star Time/Columbia)

Available March 10
ANNI ROSSI Rockwell (4AD)
ARBOURETUM Song of the Pearl (Thrill Jockey)
ARI HEST Twelve Mondays (Project 4)
BELL ORCHESTRE As Seen Through Windows (Arts & Crafts)
BISHOP ALLEN Grrr... (Dead Oceans)
CHRIS JOSS Sticks (Eighteenth Street)
CURSIVE Mama, I'm Swollen (Saddle Creek)
DANNY SCHMIDT Instead the Forest Rose to Sing (Red House)
EXTRA GOLDEN Thank You Very Quickly (Thrill Jockey)
HANDSOME FURS Face Control (Sub Pop)
JOHN WESLEY HARDING Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead (Popover Corps/Rebel Group)
JULIE DOIRON I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day (Jagjaguwar)
LOS FABULOSOS CADILLACS! La Luz del Ritmo (Nacional)
LUKA BLOOM Eleven Songs (Bar/None)
MADELEINE PEYROUX Bare Bones (Rounder)
MIRAH (A)spera (K Records)
NEW FOUND GLORY Not Without A Fight (Epitaph)
RAZORLIGHT Slipway Fires (Mercury/Vertigo/IDJ)
RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS Underneath the Owl (Volcom)
ROCCO DELUCA AND THE BURDEN Mercy (produced by Daniel Lanois) (Ironworks Music)
SOMETYMES WHY Your Heart Is A Glorious Machine (Signature Sounds)
STEVIE WONDER Live At Last (DVD) (Universal Motown) 

Available March 17
AN HORSE Rearrange Beds (independent)
BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEY BEAR Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! (produced by Spoon's Joe Eno) (Lost Highway)
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY Beware (Drag City Records)
BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music)
KELLY JOE PHELPS Western Bell (all instrumental) (Black Hen Music)
LES CLAYPOOL Of Fungi and Foe (Prawn Song)
MICK FLEETWOOD BLUES BAND Blue Again (429)
NICK LOWE Quiet Please: The New Best of Nick Lowe (Yep Roc)
MARIANNE FAITHFULL Easy Come, Easy Go (covers album w/ guests Nick Cave, Chan Marshall, Antony Hegarty, Sean Lennon, Keith Richards, Teddy Thompson, Rufus Wainwright) (Decca Records)
THE SCRIPT The Script (Epic)
TOO SLIM & THE TAILDRAGGERS Free Your Mind (Underworld)
WILLIE NELSON Naked Willie (remixes of stripped-down '66-'70-era RCA tracks produced by Willie's harp player Mickey Raphael) (RCA/Legacy)

Available March 24
AMADOU & MARIAM Welcome to Mali (Because Music/Nonesuch)
BLUE OCTOBER Approaching Normal (Universal Motown)
DAN DEACON Bromst (Carpark Records)
DAN HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS Tangled Tales (Surfdog)
CONDO F**KS (Yo La Tengo) F**kbook (Matador Records)
ERIC CHURCH Carolina (Capitol Nashville)
ERIC LINDELL Gulf Coast Highway (Alligator)
INDIGO GIRLS Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (2-CD produced by Mitchell Froom) (IG Recordings/Vanguard)
OBITS I Blame You (Sub Pop)
O+S O+S (Saddle Creek)
PEARL JAM Ten (deluxe reissue of debut 1991 album) (Legacy)
PETE DOHERTY Grace/Wasteland (Astralwerks)
RÖYKSOPP Junior (Astralwerks)
SARAH BORGES & THE BROKEN SINGLES The Stars Are Out (Sugar Hill)
THE ALTERNATE ROUTES A Sucker's Dream (Vanguard)
THE DECEMBERISTS Hazards of Love (Capitol)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Alejandro Escovedo, Delbert McClinton & more) Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm (Vanguard)
WYNTON MARSALIS He and She (Blue Note)

Available March 31
BOBBY OSBORNE & THE ROCKY TOP X-PRESS Bluegrass & Beyond (Rounder)
BRUCE COCKBURN Slice O Life: Live Solo (Rounder)
DAILEY & VINCENT Brothers from Different Mothers (Rounder)
DIANA KRALL Quiet Nights (Verve)
GOMEZ A New Tide (ATO)
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS Lost Channels (Nettwerk)
JOHN SCOFIELD Piety Street (Emarcy)
LEONARD COHEN Live in London (CD/DVD) (Sony)
MARCUS ROBERTS New Orleans Meets Harlem, Vol. 1 (J-Master)
MICHELLE MALONE Debris (SBS)
MIDIVAL PUNDITZ Hello Hello (Six Degrees Records)
NEIL YOUNG Fork in the Road (Reprise)
PETER BJORN & JOHN Living Thing (Almost Gold/Startime)
PJ HARVEY/JOHN PARISH A Woman A Man Walked By (Island)
SARA WATKINS Sara Watkins (debut solo from Nickel Creek singer/fiddler, produced by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones) (Reprise/Nonesuch)
STEVE FORBERT The Place And The Time (429/SLG)
STEVIE NICKS The Soundstage Sessions (Reprise)
THE FLATLANDERS Hills And Valleys (New West)
YEAH YEAH YEAHS It's Blitz! (Interscope)

Available April 7
ALISON BROWN The Company You Keep (Compass)
ANGEL TAYLOR Love Travels (Epic)
BAT FOR LASHES Two Suns (Astralwerks)
BOB MOULD Life and Times (Anti-)
CAROLINE WEEKS Songs For Edna (Manimal)
CASSANDRA WILSON Closer To You: The Pop Side (covers from her Blue Note albums) (Blue Note/EMI)
CHRIS VELAN Solidago (w/ members of Mother Hips, ALO, Jackie Greene) (Newsong Recordings)
CRYSTAL ANTLERS Tentacles (Touch and Go)
CYRIL NEVILLE Brand New Blues (M.C. Records)
DAVID WILCOX Open Hand (What Are Records?)
DOVES Kingdom of Rust (Astralwerks)
GLENN TILBROOK Pandemonium Ensues (Koch)
JUNIOR BOYS Begone Dull Care (Domino)
LADY SOVEREIGN Jigsaw (Midget Records)
MANDA MOSHER Everything You Need (Red Parlor)
MARIA TAYLOR LadyLuck (Nettwerk)
MICACHU AND THE SHAPES Jewellery (Rough Trade)
RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT A Stranger Here (Anti)
RAY CHARLES Genius: The Ultimate Collection (Concord)
SUPERCHUNK Leaves in The Gutter (EP) (Merge)
THE FELICE BROTHERS Yonder Is The Clock (Team Love)
THE THERMALS Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)
THE TRAGICALLY HIP We Are the Same (Rounder)
THE VEILS Sun Gangs (Rough Trade)
TIM BRANTLEY Goldtop Heights (Blackledge Music)
VIENNA TENG Inland Territory (Zoë/Rounder)
YOUTH GROUP The Night Is Ours (World's Fair)

Available April 14
BILL CALLAHAN Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City)
FASTBALL Little White Lies (33 1/3/Megaforce)
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS I Told You I Was Freaky (Sub Pop)
HANDSOME FAMILY Honey Moon (Carrot Top)
JILL SOBULE California Years (Pinko)
JOHN DOE AND THE SADIES Country Club (Yep Roc)
MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD Radiolarians II (Indirecto Records)
PAPERCUTS You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong)
ROBERT GOMEZ Pine Sticks Phosphorus (w/ members of The Polyphonic Spree, Midlake, Postmarks & Sarah Jaffe) (Nova Posta Vinyl)
SCOTT MILLER For Crying Out Loud (w/ Patty Griffin & Tim O'Brien) (F.A.Y.)
SILVERSUN PICKUPS Swoon (Dangerbird)
THE FREDDY JONES BAND Time Well Wasted (OTB Records)
WILLIE NILE House Of A Thousand Guitars (MRI)

Available April 21
ALLEN TOUSSAINT The Bright Mississippi (1st solo album in over 10 years, produced by Joe Henry) (Nonesuch)
BEARFOOT Doors and Windows (Compass Records)
BOOKER T Potato Hole (w/ Neil Young on guitar and Drive-By Truckers as backing band) (Anti-)
BOXMASTERS Modbilly (Vanguard)
BRAIN BLADE Mama Rosa (drummer for Daniel Lanois, Dylan, Joni, Emmylou) (Verve Forecast)
CAMERA OBSCURA My Maudlin Career (4AD)
COLIN HAY Transcendental Highway ('98 re-release) (Compass Records)
COMMANDER CODY Dopers, Drunks, and Everyday Losers (Blind Pig)
DAN ZIMMERMAN Cosmic Patriot (Sounds Familyre)
DEPECHE MODE Sounds Of The Universe (Mute/Capitol/Virgin)
EDDIE READER Love Is The Way (Rough Trade)
EILEN JEWEL Sea Of Tears (Signature Sounds)
FLOATING ACTION Floating Action (Park the Van)
HANNE HUKKLEBERG Blood From A Stone (Nettwerk)
JAKE SHIMABUKURO Live (Hitchhike/Thirty Tigers/RED)
JANE'S ADDICTION A Cabinet of Curiosities (box set) (Rhino)
JASON RICCI AND NEW BLOOD Done with the Devil (Eclecto Groove Records)
JESSE WINCHESTER Love Filling Station (first studio release in 10 years) (Appleseed)
JULIAN MARLEY Awake (Universal Republic)
KATIE HERZIG Apple Tree (Marion-Lorraine)
MATT FLINNER Music du Jour (Compass Records)
EL MICHELS AFFAIR Enter The 37th Chamber (Wu-Tang covers) (Truth & Soul/Fat Beats)
OKKERVIL RIVER Pop Lie (EP) (Jagjaguwar)
PET SHOP BOYS Yes (Astralwerks)
PTERODACTYL Worldwild (Brah/Jagjaguwar)
RICHARD SHINDELL Not Far Now (Signature Sounds)
ROY ROGERS Split Decision (Blind Pig)
SLAID CLEAVES Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away (Music Road)
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Dark Days/Light Years (Rough Trade)
THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Do Wrong Right (Milan Records)
THE GREENCARDS Fascination (Sugar Hill)
THE HIGH STRUNG Ode to the Inverse of the Dude (Park the Van)
THE INSOMNIACS At Least I'm Not With You (Delta Groove Music)
TINTED WINDOWS (w/ Bun E. Carlos, James Iha, Adam Schlesinger & Taylor Hanson) Tinted Windows (S-Curve)
VOLLMAR Tell the Dirt (St. Ives)
WAYNE HANCOCK Viper Of Melody (Bloodshot)
WEINLAND Breaks In The Sun (Badman Recording)
WEBB WILDER More Like Me (Blind Pig)
WUSSY Wussy (Shake It Records)

Available April 28
BEN FOLDS Presents: University a Cappella! (Epic)
BEN LEE The Rebirth of Venus (New West)
BOB DYLAN Together Through Life (1st new studio album since 2006) (Columbia)
GREAT NORTHERN Remind Me Where the Light Is (Eenie Meenie Records)
JOHN McGLAUGHLIN/CHICK COREA Five Peace Band Live (Concord)
KING WILKIE The Wilkie Family Singers (w/ Robyn Hitchcock, Abigail Washburn, David Bromberg, Peter Rowan, John McEuen, and the Be Good Tanyas' Sam Parton (Casa Nueva)
LOS STRAITJACKETS The Further Adventures Of... (Yep Roc)
MELODY GARDOT My One and Only Thrill (Verve)
NEWFOUND ROAD Same Old Place (Rounder)
PALEFACE The Show Is On the Road (Ramseur)
SAMANTHA CRAIN & THE MIDNIGHT SHIVERS Songs In The Night (Ramseur)
SLAID CLEAVES Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away (Music Road)
THE ALEX DIXON BAND (Willie Dixon's grandson) Rising From The Bushes (Dixon)
THE MOST SERENE REPUBLIC Digital Population (digital EP) (Arts & Crafts)
THE WEATHER STATION The Line (independent)
TIM EASTON Porcupine (New West)
WILCO Ashes of American Flags (2008 concert DVD) (Nonesuch)
YONLU Yonlu: A Society in Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre (Luaka Bop)
ZACHARY RICHARD Last Kiss (Artist Garage)
ZERA MARVEL Birds And Bullets Fly (In Spades)

And More....
CAT POWER Dark End of the Street (cover songs) (EP) (Matador)
CITY AND COLOUR Sometimes (Vagrant)
COLDPLAY Prospekt's March (EP) (Capitol)
COMMON Universal Mind Control (Geffen)
CONOR OBERST Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes singer-songwriter) (Merge)
DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Todomundo/Opal)
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Something About Airplanes (reissue of first album) (Barsuk)
DEREK TRUKS BAND Already Free (Victor Records)
ERIN McCARLEY Love, Save the Empty (Universal Republic)
FLEET FOXES White Winter Hymnal (Sub Pop)
FLOGGING MOLLY Float (Side One Dummy Records)
GLASVEGAS Glasvegas (Columbia)
JEB LOY NICHOLS Parish Bar (Compass)
JJ GREY & MOFRO Orange Blossoms (Alligator)
LATE OF THE PIER Fantasy Black Channel (Astralwerks)
LITTLE JACKIE The Stoop (S-Curve Records)
LOS CAMPESINOS! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Arts & Crafts)
MAROON 5 Call and Response: The Remix Album (w/ indie acts like Of Montreal & Deehoof) (Octone)
NEIL YOUNG Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 (CD/DVD) (Reprise)
ROKIA TRAORÉ Tchamantché (Nonesuch)
THE GOURDS Haymaker! (Yep Roc)
THE KILLERS Day & Age (Island)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Undone: A Musicfest Tribute to Robert Earl Keen (live) (Thirty Tigers)

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