New Releases

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Pick Up the Brand NEW Live at The World Cafe, Volume 26.
19 tracks,  including artists: Joe Jackson, Mike Doughty, Levon Helm, Nada Surf, Ingrid Michaelson,
Kathleen Edwards, Back Door Slam, The Black Keys, Counting Crows, Feist, Eli "Paperboy" Reed,
Gary Louris, and more.

 

 

 

 

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Available In Stores/Online September 16
AMANDA PALMER Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (Roadrunner)
DARIUS RUCKER Learn To Live (Capitol Nashville)
GEORGE CLINTON (w/ guests Santana, Sly, Chili Peppers) George Clinton and Some Gangsters of Love (Shanachie)
JAMES Hey Ma (Decca)
JEFF AMENT Tone (1st solo from Pearl Jam bassist) (Ten Club)
JEM Down to Earth (ATO Records)
KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON Rattlin' Bones (Sugar Hill Records)
LINDSAY BUCKINGHAM Gift Of Screws (Warner Bros)
MARC BROUSSARD Keep Coming Back (Vanguard)
MARK OLSON/GARY LOURIS Ready for the Flood (Hacktone Records)
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS Buena Vista (Red House Records)
THE BREAK AND REPAIR METHOD milk the bee. (w/ Paul Doucette from Matchbox Twenty) (Bluhammock Music)

Available In Stores/Online September 23
COMMON Invincible Summer (Geffen)
ELVIN BISHOP The Blues Rolls On (Delta Groove Music)
GOLDEN SMOG Stay Golden Smog (best of Rykodisc years) (Rhino)
JACKSON BROWNE Time the Conqueror (Inside Recordings)
JENNY LEWIS Acid Tongue (Warner Bros.)
KINGS OF LEON Only By The Night (RCA)
LAURA WARSHAUER Laura Warshauer (Island/Pink Chariot/Fontana)
LENKA Lenka (Epic)
MATT DUKE Kingdom Underground (Rykodisc/MAD Dragon)
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Tennessee Pusher (produced by Don Was) (NettwerK)
PETER, BJORN AND JOHN Seaside Rock (Almost Gold/Star Time International)
THEA GILMORE Liejacker (Rykodisc)
TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science (Interscope)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Nights in Rodanthe (w/ Emmylou Harris) (OST) (New Line Records)

Available In Stores/Online September 30

ANI DiFRANCO Red Letter Year (Righteous Babe)
BEN FOLDS Way To Normal (Epic)
JAMES MORRISON Songs For You, Truths For Me (Interscope)
JAMES TAYLOR Covers (Hear Music)
JOE LOUIS WALKER Witness To The Blues (w/ Shemekia Copeland duet) (Stony Plain Records)
JOHN BROWN'S BODY Amplify (Easy Star Records)
JOSEPH ARTHUR Temporary People (Lonely Astronaut)
MELISSA ETHERIDGE A New Thought for Christmas (Island)
MERCURY REV Snowflake Midnight (instrumental) (Yep Roc)
RORY BLOCK Blues Walkin' Like A Man (Stony Plain Records)
TAJ MAHAL Maestro (w/ guests Ben Harper, Jack Johnson & more) (Heads Up)
THE IGUANAS If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times (Yep Roc)
TODD RUNDGREN Arena (Cooking Vinyl)
TOM MORELLO: THE NIGHTWATCHMAN The Fabled City (Epic)

Available In Stores/Online October 7
BOB DYLAN Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series No. 8 (unreleased, alternate and movie tracks) (Columbia/Legacy)
LAMBCHOP OH (ohio) (Merge Records)
OASIS Dig Out Your Soul (Epic)
RACHAEL YAMAGATA Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart (Warner Bros.)
THE PRETENDERS Break Up The Concrete (Shangri-La Music)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Rich Man's War: New Blues & Roots Songs of Peace and Protest (Ruf)

Available In Stores/Online October 14
DAVE MASON 26 Letters and 12 Notes (Out Of The Box Records)
HOLLY GOLIGHTLY AND THE BROKE-OFFS Dirt Don't Hurt (Megaforce Records)
JIMMY THACKERY AND THE DRIVERS Inside Tracks (Telarc)
KAISER CHIEFS Off With Their Heads (Universal Motown)
KEANE Perfect Symmetry (Interscope)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Little Honey (Lost Highway)
TODD SNIDER Peace Queer (EP) (Aimless Records/RED)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Hotel Café Presents Winter Songs (includes Sara Bareilles, Ingrid Michaelson) (Hotel Café/Epic)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Red House 25: A Silver Anniversary Retrospective (3-CD box set w/ booklet) (Red House)

Available In Stores/Online October 21
BRETT DENNEN Hope For The Hopeless (Dualtone)

Available In Stores/Online October 28
BLOC PARTY Intimacy (Atlantic)
ERIN McCARLEY Love, Save The Empty (Universal Republic)
QUEEN + Paul Rodgers The Cosmos Rocks (Disa)
SNOW PATROL A Hundred Million Suns (Polydor/Fiction/Geffen)
THE 88 Not Only…But Also (Island Records)

Available In Stores/Online November 4
MAVIS STAPLES Live: Hope at the Hideout (Anti-)

Available In Stores/Online November 11

Available In Stores/Online November 18
SCOTT WEILAND Happy In Galoshes (Softdrive Records)

 

 

Already Available in Stores and Online 

Available In Stores/Online August 19
AARON PARKS Invisible Cinema (Blue Note)
AMY MACDONALD This Is The Life (Decca)
BURNING SPEAR Jah is Real (Burning Music)
CAESARS Strawberry Weed (Astralwerks)
DAVID BRYNE/BRIAN ENO Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (everythingthathappens.com)
DONAVON FRANKENREITER Pass It Around (Lost Highway)
GLEN CAMPBELL Meet Glen Campbell (EMI/Capitol)
HOTEL LIGHTS Firecracker People (Bar/None)
HUMAN HIGHWAY Moody Motorcycle (Suicide Squeeze/Secret City)
INDIGENOUS Broken Lands (Vanguard)
JAGUAR LOVE Take Me to the Sea (Matador Records)
JENNIFER O'CONNOR Here With Me (Matador Records)
JERRY DOUGLAS Glide (Koch)
JOE BONAMASSA Live From Nowhere in Particular (JR Adventures)
JON McLAUGHLIN Ok Now (Island)
JULIANA HATFIELD How To Walk Away (Ye Olde Records)
KRISTOFFER RAGNSTAM Wrong Side Of The Room (bluhammock)
LAURA MARLING Alas I Cannot Swim (Astralwerks)
LYKKE LI Youth Novels (Atlantic/LL Recordings)
MATTHEW PERRYMAN JONES Swallow the Sea (Thirty Tigers)
MURRY HAMMOND (1st solo from Old 97's bass player) Don't Know Where I'm Going... (independent)
PICTURES AND SOUND Pictures And Sound (Vanguard)
RA RA RIOT The Rhumb Line (Barsuk)
RANDALL BRAMBLETT Now It's Tomorrow (New West Records)
SONNY J Disastro (Astralwerks)
STARLING ELECTRIC Clouded Staircase (Bar/None)
TEN SHEKEL SHIRT Jubilee (Rounder)
THE DANDY WARHOLS Earth To The Dandy Warhols (Beat the World Records)
THE DUHKS Fast Paced World (Sugar Hill Records)
THE FIERY FURNACES Remember (Thrill Jockey)
THE STILLS Oceans Will Rise (Arts & Crafts)
THE UGLY SUIT The Ugly Suit (Quarterstick Records)
THE VERVE Forth (On Our Own/RED)
THE WALKMEN You & Me (Gigantic Records)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumayo Presents Acoustic France (Putumayo)
XAVIER RUDD Dark Shade of Blue (Anti-)

Available In Stores/Online August 26

BACKYARD TIRE FIRE The Places We Lived (Hyena Records)
B.B. KING One Kind Favor (produced by T Bone Burnett) (Geffen Records)
BLUES TRAVELER North Hollywood Shootout (Verve Forecast)
DELTA SPIRIT Ode to Sunshine (Rounder Records)
CORDERO de donde eres (Bloodshot Records)
JJ GREY & MOFRO Orange Blossoms (Alligator)
JONATHA BROOKE The Works (Woody Guthrie songs w/ guests Keb Mo, Derek Truks) (Bad Dog)
LIL' ED & THE IMPERIALS Full Tilt (Alligator Records)
LITTLE FEAT Join The Band (w/ guests Dave Matthews, Emmylou, Chris Robinson, Jimmy Buffett) (429)
MATTHEW SWEET Sunshine Lies (Shout! Factory)
SOLAS For Love and Laughter (Compass Records)
THE VERVE Forth (On Your Own Records/Megaforce/RED)

Available In Stores/Online September 2
AMIE MIRIELLO I Came Around (BellaSonic/Jive/Zomba)
APOLLO SUNSHINE Shall Noise Upon (Headless Heroes)
BIRDMONSTER From The Mountain To The Sea (Fader LABEL)
BRIAN WILSON That Lucky Old Sun (Capitol/EMI)
CHEMICAL BROTHERS Brotherhood (Best Of compilation) (Astralwerks)
CHIWONISO Rebel Woman (Cumancha)
CHRIS KNIGHT Heart Of Stone (Drifter's Church)
RODNEY CROWELL Sex and Gasoline (Yep Roc)
SONYA KITCHELL This Storm (Decca/Velour)
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND LA BAMBA'S BIG BAND Grapefruit Moon: The Songs Of Tom Waits (Redeye)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Calypsoul 70: Caribbean and Calypso Crossover 1969-1979 (Strut)

Available In Stores/Online September 9
CALEXICO Carried To Dust (Touch and Go/Quarterstick Records)
CATIE CURTIS Sweet Life (Compass Records)
DAR WILLIAMS Promised Land (Razor & Tie)
HAL KETCHUM Father Time (Curb Records)
HORSE FEATHERS House With No Home (Kill Rock Stars)
IDA My Fair, My Dark (EP) (Polyvinyl Records)
I'M NOT JIM You Are All My People (Bloodshot Records)
JEFFERSON STARSHIP Jefferson's Tree of Liberty (The Lab/Fuel)
JOAN BAEZ Day After Tomorrow (produced by Steve Earle) (Razor & Tie)
JOAN OSBORNE Little Wild One (Womanly Hips/Plum Records)
OKKERVIL RIVER The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD All Rebel Rockers (Anti-/Epitaph)
ROKIA TRAORÉ Tchamantché (Nonesuch)
STEVE WYNN Crossing Dragon Bridge (Rock Ridge Music)
THE BITTERSWEETS Goodnight, San Francisco (Compass Records)
THE LOVELY SPARROWS Bury the Cynics (Rebel Group)
THE BROKEN WEST Now or Heaven (Merge Records)
TRICKY Knowle West Boy (Domino Recording Co)

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ABIGAIL WASHBURN & THE SPARROW QUARTET Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet (Nettwerk)
ADELE 19 (XL/Columbia)
AIMEE MANN #@%&! Smilers (pronounced "Smilers") (SuperEgo Records/Music Allies)
ALANIS MORISSETTE Flavors of Entanglement (Reprise)
ALBERT HAMMOND JR. (Strokes guitarist) Como Te Llama? (RCA/RED)
AL GREEN Lay It Down (Blue Note)
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO Real Animal (Manhattan)
ALKALINE TRIO Agony and Irony (Epic)
ALLISON MOORER Mockingbird (New Line)
ALISON MOYET The Turn (Decca)
AMOS LEE Last Days at the Lodge (Blue Note)
AMY RAY Didn't It Feel Kinder (3rd solo from Indigo Girl) (Daemon Records)
ANDRE WILLIAMS & THE NEW ORLEANS HELLHOUNDS (Bloodshot)
ANNA TERNHEIM Halfway To Five Points (Decca)
AUGUSTANA Can't Love, Can't Hurt (Epic)
BASIA BULAT Oh My Darling (Rough Trade)
BECK Modern Guilt (DGC/Interscope)
BEN SOLLEE Learning To Bend (SonaBLAST! Records)
BEN WEAVER The Ax in the Oak (Bloodshot)
BE YOUR OWN PET Get Awkward (Ecstatic Peace/Universal)
BILL FRISELL History, Mystery (Nonesuch)
BILLY BRAGG Mr. Love & Justice (Anti-)
BLACK KIDS Partie Traumatic (Columbia)
BLIND MELON For My Friends (Adrenaline)
BRAZILIAN GIRLS New York City (Verve Forecast)
BRITISH SEA POWER Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)
BUDDY GUY Skin Deep (w/ Clapton and guests) (Silvertone/Zomba)
CARLY SIMON This Kind Of Love (Hear Music/Concord Music Group)
CAROLE KING Tapestry (2 CD reissue) (Epic/Legacy)
CAROLINA LIAR Coming To Terms (Atlantic)
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ She Ain't Me (Manhattan/Back Porch)
CASSANDRA WILSON Loverly (Blue Note Records)
CASSETTES WON'T LISTEN Small-time Machine (independent)
CAT POWER Jukebox (Matador)
CHICHA LIBRE Sonido Amazonico! (Barbes)
CHIP TAYLOR New Songs Of Freedom (Train Wreck)
CHRIS WALLA (Death Cab For Cutie) Field Manual (Barsuk)
CHUCK PROPHET Soap & Water (Yep Roc)
CLARENCE SPADY Just Between Us (Severn Records)
CLINIC Do It! (Domino)
COLDPLAY Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (Capitol)
COLIN MELOY (Decemberists leader) Colin Meloy Sings Live! (Kill Rock Stars)
CONOR OBERST Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes singer-songwriter) (Merge)
COUNTING CROWS Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings (Geffen/Interscope)
DAN TYMINSKI Wheels (Rounder)
DANIELIA COTTON Rare Child (Adrenaline Records/ADA)
DANIEL LANOIS Here Is What Is (RedFloorRecords.com)
DARKER MY LOVE Darker My Love (Dangerbird Records)
DAVE STEWART & HIS ROCK FABULOUS ORCHESTRA The Dave Stewart Songbook Vol. 1 (Surfdog)
DAVID SANBORN (w/ Clapton, Sam Moore, Derek Truks, Joss Stone) Here & Gone (Decca)
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
DEL McCOURY BAND Moneyland (w/ Bruce Hornsby, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris) (McCoury Music)
DELTA GOODREM Delta Goodrem (Decca)
DENNIS WILSON Pacific Ocean Blue/Bambu (reissue) (Sony Legacy)
DESTROYER Trouble in Dreams (Dan Bejar from the New Pornographers) (Merge)
DEVOTCHKA A Mad and Faithfull Telling (Anti-/Epitaph)
DOES IT OFFEND YOU You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into (Almost Gold)
DONNA THE BUFFALO Silverlined (Sugar Hill)
DOSH Wolves and Wishes (Anticon)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
DR. DOG Fate (Park The van Records)
DR. JOHN City That Time Forgot (w/ Clapton, Willie, Ani DiFranco & more) (429/SLG)
DUFFY Rockferry (Mercury)
EARLIMART Hymn and Her (Shout! Factory)
ED HARCOURT The Beautiful Lie (Dovecote Records)
ELBOW The Seldom Seen Kid (Geffen)
ELF POWER In a Cave (Rykodisc)
EL PERRO DEL MAR From the Valley to the Stars (Control Group)
ELIZA GILKYSON Beautiful World (Red House)
ELVIS COSTELLO Momofuku (Lost Highway)
EMMYLOU HARRIS All I Intended To Be (Nonesuch)
ERIC AVERY Help Wanted (Dangerbird Records)
ERIC BIBB Get Onboard (Telarc)
ERIC LINDELL Low on Cash, Rich in Love (Alligator)
ERNIE HALTER Starting Over (Rock Ridge Music)
ERSI ARVIZU Friend For Life (produced by Ry Cooder) (Anti-)
FIREWATER The Golden Hour (w/ drummer Tamir Muskat of Balkan Beat Box) (Bloodshot Records)
FLEET FOXES White Winter Hymnal (Sub Pop)
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Flight of the Conchords (Sub Pop)
FLOGGING MOLLY Float (Side One Dummy Records)
FOXBORO HOT TUBS Stop Drop And Roll (Jingle Town Records)
FREE KITTEN Inherit (w/ Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon & Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz, first new album in over 10 years) (Ecstatic Peace)
GARY LOURIS (of The Jayhawks/Golden Smog) (produced by Chris Robinson) Vagabonds (Ryko)
GAVIN ROSSDALE Wanderlust (Interscope)
G LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE Superhero Brother (Brushfire/Music Allies)
GNARLS BARKLEY The Odd Couple (Downtown/Atlantic)
GOLDFRAPP Seventh Tree (Mute)
GRAND ARCHIVES The Grand Archives (Sub Pop)
GREAT BIG SEA Fortune's Favor (Sonic)
GREG LASWELL Three Flights From Alto Nido (Vanguard)
GRETA GAINES Whiskey Thoughts (Justice Records)
GRIFFIN HOUSE Flying Upside Down (Nettwerk)
GRUPO FANTASMA Sonidos Gold (Aire Sol Records)
HAYDEN In Field & Town (Fat Possum Records)
HAYES CARLL Trouble In Mind (Lost Highway)
HOWARD TATE Blue Day (Evidence)
HOWLIN' RAIN Magnificent Fiend (Birdman/American)
IRMA THOMAS Simply Grand (Decca/Rounder)
ISLANDS Arm's Way (Anti)
ISSA BAGAYOGO Mali Koura (Six Degrees Records)
JACKIE BRISTOW Crazy Love (Beanbag 1/Craving Records)
JACKIE GREENE Giving Up The Ghost (produced by Los Lobos' Steve Berlin) (429 Records)
JAKOB DYLAN Seeing Things (Columbia Records/Starbucks Ent)
JAMES HUNTER The Hard Way (Hear Music)
JAMES JACKSON TOTH Waiting In Vain (Rykodisc)
JAMES McMURTRY Just Us Kids (Lightning Rod)
JAMIE LIDELL Jim (Warp)
JASON MRAZ We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. (Atlantic)
JD & THE STRAIGHT SHOT Right On Time (Artist Garage/Fontana)
JEFF HEALEY Mess Of Blues (Ruf Records)
JEFF COFFIN MU'TET Mutopia (w/ Bela Fleck and more) (Compass Records)
JESSIE BAYLIN Firesight (Verve Forecast)
JIM NOIR Jim Noir (Barsuk)
JIM WHITE Transnormal Skiperoo (Luaka Bop)
JAYMAY Autumn Fallin' (Blue Note Records)
JEB LOY NICHOLS Days Are Mighty (Compass Records)
JENNY SCHEINMAN Jenny Sheinman (Koch)
JEREMY SCHONFELD 37 Notebooks (Two Sheps That Pass)
JIM BOGGIA Misadventures in Stereo (Bluhammock Music)
JOE SATRIANI Professor Satchifunkilus and the Musterion of Rock (Epic)
JOE ELY/JOEL GUZMAN Live Cactus! (Rack'em Records)
JOE JACKSON Rain (Rykodisc)
JOE STRUMMER The Future Is Unwritten (DVD) (Legacy)
JOHN HIATT Same Old Man (New West)
JOHN MAYER Where The Light Is: Live In Los Angeles (2 CD/DVD) (Epic)
JOHN MELLENCAMP Life, Death, Love and Freedom (produced by T-Bone Burnett) (Hear Music)
JOHNNY FLYNN A Larum (Lost Highway Records)
JONATHAN RICHMAN Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild (Vapor)
JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN To Survive (Cheap Lullaby)
JORDAN ZEVON Insides Out (New West)
JOY ASKEW The Pirate of Eel Pie (Red Parlor/Ryko)
JUDITH OWEN Mopping Up Karma (Courgette Records)
JUSTINE CURRIE (of Del Amitri) What Is Love For (Rykodisc)
JUSTIN NOZUKA Holly (Glassnote Records)
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE The Good Life (Bloodshot Records)
KAISERCARTEL March Forth (bluhammock)
KAKI KING Dreaming of Revenge (Velour)
KARL HECTOR & THE MALCOUNS Sahara Swing (Now-Again Records/Stones Throw)
KASSIN+2 Futurismo (Luaka Bop)
KATHLEEN EDWARDS Asking For Flowers (Zoe/Rounder)
KATHLEEN HASKARD Don't Tell (produced by Simon Alpin & Chuck Prophet) (Nine Mile Records)
KATHY MATTEA Coal (Captain Potato)
KENNY NEAL Let Life Flow (Blind Pig)
KRIS DELMHORST Shotgun Singer (Signature Sounds)
LES SAVY FAV After the Balls Drop (Frenchkiss)
LILY HAYDN Place Between Places (Nettwerk)
LIONEL LOUEKE w/ Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter) Karibu (Blue Note)
LITTLE JACKIE The Stoop (S-Curve Records)
LIZ PHAIR Exile in Guyville (deluxe reissue) (ATO/RED)
LOS CAMPESINOS Hold On Now, Youngster (produced by Broken Social Scene's David Newfeld) (Arts & Crafts)
LOS LONELY BOYS Forgiven (Epic)
MADONNA Hard Candy (Warner Bros)
MAD TEA PARTY Found A Reason (Nine Mile Records)
MAN MAN Rabbit Habits (Anti-)
MARIA MULDAUR (w/ Bonnie Raitt) Yes We Can! (Telarc)
MARK BRYAN End Of The Front (Hootie and The Blowfish guitarist) (Left Turn Music)
MARK PICKEREL AND HIS PRAYING HANDS Cody's Dream (Bloodshot)
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT I know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too (Rounder)
MASON JENNINGS In The Ever (Brushfire Records/Universal)
MATES OF STATE Re-Arrange us (Barsuk Records)
MATT KEATING Quixotic (Kealon Records)
MEG HUTCHINSON Come Up Full (Red House Records)
MELISSA ERRICO Lullabies & Wildflowers (Velour)
MIA DOI TODD Gea (City Zen Records)
MIKE GORDON The Green Sparrow (Rounder Records)
MIKE PATTON A Perfect Place (OST) (Ipecac Recordings)
MUDCRUTCH Mudcrutch (w/ Tom Petty) (Reprise)
MUDHONEY The Lucky Ones (Sub Pop)
MUTLU Livin' It (Manhattan)
MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND A Thousand Shark's Teeth (Asthmatic Kitty)
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE The Black Parade is Dead (Warner Bros)
MY MORNING JACKET Evil Urges (ATO)
NATALIA ZUKERMAN Brand New Frame (Weasel Records)
NATASHA BORZILOVA Cheap Escape (Hadley Music Group)
NEIL DIAMOND Home Before Dark (produced by Rick Rubin) (Columbia)
NEIL HALSTEAD Oh Mighty Engine (Brushfire Records)
NEWTON FAULKNER Hand Built By Robots (Aware/Columbia)
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Anti-)
NINE INCH NAILS The Slip (double CD) (RED)
NINE INCH NAILS Ghosts I-IV (The Null Corporation)
NORTEC COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: BOSTICH + FUSSIBLE Tijuana Sound Machine (Nacional Records)
O.A.R. All Sides (everfine/Atlantic)
OLD 97s Blame It On Gravity (New West)
ORCHESTRA BAOBAB Made in Dakar (Nonesuch)
PADDY CASEY Addicted To Company (Victor/Red)
PANIC AT THE DISCO Pretty. Odd. (Fueled By Ramen)
PATTI ROTHBERG Double Standards (Double On Tundra)
PATTI SMITH/KEVIN SHIELDS The Coral Sea (spoken word) (Pask Records)
PAUL WELLER 22 Dreams (first new album in 3 years) (Yep Roc)
PETER BRADLEY ADAMS Leavetaking (Sarathan Records)
PETER MORÉN The Last Tycoon (Quarterstick Records)
PHIL ROY The Great Longing (Decca)
PISTOLERA En Este Camino (Luchadora)
POI DOG PONDERING 7 (PDP)
PORTISHEAD Third (Mercury/Island)
PRISCILLA AHN A Good Day (Blue Note)
RADIOHEAD The Best of Radiohead (Capitol)
RAILROAD EARTH Amen Corner (SCI Fidelity)
RANDY NEWMAN Harps and Angels (first album of new material in 9 years) (Nonesuch)
RAY MANZAREK/ROY RODGERS Ballads Before The Rain (instrumental) (Friday Music)
R.E.M. Accelerate (Warner Bros)
RECKLESS KELLY Bulletproof (Yep Roc)
REVEREND PEYTON'S BIG DAMN BAND The Whole Fam Damnily (SideOneDummy)
RICHIE HAVENS Nobody Left to Crown (Verve Forecast)
RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947 (SkaggsFamilyRecords)
ROBERT FORSTER (The Go-Betweens) The Evangelist (Yep Roc)
ROBERT POLLARD Robert Pollard is Off to Business (GBV Inc)
ROBIN DANAR Altered States (w/ Pete Yorn & Kinky, Rachael Yamagata, Inara George) (Shanachie)
ROBYN HITCHCOCK Luminous Groove (5 disc box set) (Yep Roc)
ROLLING STONES Martin Scorsese: Shine A Light (OST) (Interscope)
RON SEXSMITH Exit Strategy Of The Soul (Yep Roc)
ROSALIE SORRELS Strangers in Another Country: The Songs of Bruce "Utah" Phillips (Red House)
RUSTIC OVERTONES Light at the End (Velour/Music Allies)
RY COODER I, Flathead (Nonesuch/Perro Verde)
SAM PHILLIPS Don't Do Anything (Nonesuch)
SANDRINE Dark Fades Into The Light (Nettwerk)
SANTOGOLD Santogold (Downtown)
SARAH McLACHLAN Rarities, B-Sides And Other Stuff, Vol 2 (Arista/Nettwerk)
SCARLET JOHANSSON Anywhere I Lay My Head (Tom Waits covers) (Atco)
SERGIO MENDES Encanto (Concord)
SHARON LITTLE Perfect Time for a Breakdown (CBS Records)
SHAWN MULLINS Honeydew (Vanguard)
SHEARWATER Rooks (Matador)
SHE & HIM Volume One (Zooey Deschanel & M. Ward) (Merge Records)
SIGUR RÓS Med sud í eyrum vid spilum endalaust (Beggars Group)
SLOAN Parallel Play (Yep Roc)
S.M.V. (Stanley Clarke/Marcus Miller/Victor Wooten) Thunder (Heads Up)
SNOOP DOGG Ego Trippin' (Doggystyle/Geffen)
SOLOMAN BURKE Like a Fire (Shout! Factory)
SON AMBULANCE Someone Else's Deja Vu (Saddle Creek)
SONNY LANDRETH From the Reach (w/ Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler) (Landfall)
SPIRITUALIZED Songs in A&E (Fontana)
STANTON MOORE Emphasis! (On Parenthesis) (Galactic drummer) (Telarc)
STATIC REVENGER Love Song Surprise (Adrenaline Music)
STEPHEN CLAIR What Luck (Robert Earl Keen guitarist) (Stephenclair.com)
STEPHEN MALKMUS & JICKS Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
STEVE RILEY & THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS Best Of (Rounder)
STEVE WINWOOD Nine Lives (Columbia)
STEVE WYNN/SCOTT McCAUGHEY/LINDA PITMON/PETER BUCK The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (Yep Roc)
SOUTH You Are Here (Bluhammock Music)
SUPERGRASS Diamond Hoo Ha (Astralwerks)
TAPES 'N TAPES Walk It Off (XL Recordings)
T-BONE BURNETT Tooth of Crime (Nonesuch)
TEDDY THOMPSON A Piece Of What You Need (Verve Forecast)
THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT The Airborne Toxic Event (Shout! Factory)
THE A.K.A.s Everybody Make Some Noise! (Metropolis Records)
THE APPLES IN STEREO Electronic Projects for Musicians (compilation) (Yep Roc)
THE B-52's Funplex (first new album in 16 years) (Astralwerks)
THE BLACK ANGELS Directions To See A Ghost (Light in the Attic)
THE BLACK CROWES Warpaint (Silver Arrow/Megaforce/Red)
THE BLACK KIDS I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (Almost Gold)
THE BLACK KEYS Attack & Release (Nonesuch)
THE BODEANS Still (produced by T-Bone Burnett) (He & He LP/Koch)
THE BOTTICELLIS Old Home Movies (Antenna Farm)
THE BRAKES Tale of Two Cities (Hyena)
THE BREEDERS Mountain Battles (first album in six years) (4AD)
THE CAB Whisper War (Fueled by Ramen)
THE CONSTANTINES Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts)
THE FELICE BROTHERS The Felice Brothers (Team Love)
THE FRATELLIS Here We Stand (Interscope)
THE FRENCH KICKS Swimming (Vagrant)
THE GUTTER TWINS Saturnalia (Afghan Wig Greg Dulli and Screaming Tree Mark Lanegan) (Sub Pop)
THE HACIENDA BROTHERS Arizona Motel (Proper American)
THE HOLD STEADY Stay Positive (Vagrant Records)
THE KILLS Midnight Boom (Domino)
THE KOOKS Konk (Astralwerks)
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS The Age Of The Understatement (Artic Monkeys' Alex Turner & Miles Kane from The Rascals) (Domino)
THE LITTLE ONES Morning Tide (Astralwerks) 
THE LONG BLONDES Couples (Rough Trade)
THE MELVINS Nude Boots (Ipecac Records)
THE NOTWIST The Devils, You, + Me (Domino)
THE PROCLAIMERS Life With You (Decca)
THE RACONTEURS (Jack White, Brendan Benson) Consolers of the Lonely (Third Man/XL/WB)
THE REPUBLIC TIGERS Keep Color (Chop Shop)
THE ROOTS Rising Down (Def Jam)
THE RUBY SUNS Sea Lion (Sub Pop)
THE SOUTH AUSTIN JUG BAND Strange Invitation (independent)
THE SUBMARINES Honeysuckle Weeks (Nettwerk)
THE TEENAGERS Starlett Johannson (XL Recordings)
THE TING TINGS We Started Nothing (RED/Columbia)
THE VIRGINS The Virgins (Atlantic)
THE WAIFS Sundirtwater (Compass Records)
THE WAR ON DRUGS Wagonwheel Blues (Secretly Canadian)
THE WATSON TWINS Fire Songs (Vanguard)
THE WAYBACKS Loaded (Compass Records)
THE WEEPIES Hideaway (Nettwerk)
THE WILDERS Someone's Got To Pay (Free Dirt)
THE WOOD BROTHERS Loaded (Blue Note Records)
TIM O'BRIEN Chameleon (Proper American/Howdy Skies Records)
THESE NEW PURITANS Beat Pyramid (Domino)
THRICE The Alchemy Index Vol 3 & 4 (Vagrant)
TOBIAS FROBERG Turn Heads (Cheap Lullaby)
TOKYO POLICE CLUB Elephant Shell (Saddle Creek)
TONY JOE WHITE Deep Cuts (Swamp)
TREVOR MENEAR Reason To Believe (Shangri-La Music)
TREY ANASTASIO AND THE UNDECTET Original Boardwalk Style (live) (Rubber Jungle)
TRISTAN PRETTYMAN Hello (Virgin)
VAN MORRISON Keep It Simple (Lost Highway)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Michael Franti & Spearhead and more) Power To The Peaceful Festival 2005 (Friday Music)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Warren Haynes Presents: The Benefit Concert Volume 8 (Evil Teen)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumayo Presents: Québec (Putumayo)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumayo Presents African Party (Putumayo)
VARIOUS ARTISTS In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2 (Shout! Factory)
VARIOUS ARTISTS My Blueberry Nights (w/ Norah Jones, Cat Power, Ry Cooder & more) (OST) (Blue Note)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Easy Like Sunday Morning (Winterpills, Peter Bradley Adams, Eleni Mandell, and more) (Circle Back Music)
VARIOUS ARTISTS w/ Les Claypool National Lampoon Presents Electric Apricot: Quest For Festeroo (Hip-O/Universal)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Zappa Plays Zappa (Dweezil, Steve Vai & more) (Razor & Tie)
VICTOR WOOTEN Palmystery (Heads Up International)
VIRGINIA COALITION Home This Year (Bluhammock Music)
WALTER BECKER Circus Monkey (Mailboat Records)
WALTER MEEGO Voyager (Almost Gold)
WAS (NOT WAS) Boo! (Ryko)
WE ARE SCIENTISTS Braintrust Mastery (Astralwerks)
WEEZER The Red Album (Interscope)
WEINLAND La Lamentor (Badman)
WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS What Doesn't Kill Us (Barsuk Records)
WILD STREET ORANGE We Have Cause To Be Uneasy (Canvasback/Columbia)
WILLIE NELSON & WYNTON MARSALIS Two Men With The Blues (EMI/Blue Note)
WILLIE NELSON One Hell Of A Ride (4-CD box set) (Columbia/Legacy)
WOLF PARADE At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
WYE OAK If Children (Merge)
YOUNG KNIVES Superabundance (Rykodisc)
ZACH GILL Stuff (Music Allies/Brushfire Records)


 

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