Updated March 10, 2010

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"Valleys of Neptune"
March 9

Gary Allen

Get Off On The Pain (first single: "Today")

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Beat The Devil's Tattoo

Broken Bells

Broken Bells (Danger Mouse and The Shins' James Mercer; first single: "The High Road")

The Chieftains feat. Ry Cooder

San Patricio (guests: Linda Ronstadt, Liam Neeson, Los Tigres del Norte, Chavela Vargas, Van Dyke Parks, Lila Downs)

Alberta Cross

Broken Side Of Time

Gorillaz

Plastic Beach (guests: Bobby Womack, Mos Def, De La Soul, Little Dragon, Lou Reed, Snoop Dogg, The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble; first single: "Stylo")

Jimi Hendrix

Valleys Of Neptune (unreleased material taken from Jimi Hendrix Experience and solo sessions, 1969-1970; includes covers of Elmore James' "Bleeding Heart," Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love," as well as original material, such as "Ships Passing Through the Night," "Lullaby For The Summer," etc.)

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

Greatest Hits (2 CD's)

The Knife

Tomorrow, In A Year (a 2-CD electro-opera about Charles Darwin, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock)

Patty Larkin

25 (she reworks love songs from her 25-year career; guests: Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Rosanne Cash, Bruce Cockburn, Chris Smither, John Gorka, Catie Curtis, etc.)

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

The Brutalist Bricks

Liars

Sisterworld (first single: "Scissor")

Ludacris & Shawnna

Battle Of The Sexes

Josh Rouse

El Turista

March 16

Drive By Truckers

The Big To-Do

Fun Lovin' Criminals

Classic Fantastic

One For The Team

Ghosts (producer: singer-guitarist Ian Anderson)

Graham Parker

Imaginary Television

Schiller

Atemlos (2-CD's) *import*

The Stranglers

Decades Apart *import* (2-CD best-of; 35 tracks, including two new songs, "I Don't See the World Like You Do" and "Retro Rockets")

Streetlight Manifesto

99 Songs Of A Revolution

The Whigs

In The Dark

The White Stripes

Under Great White Northern Lights (music from the documentary on their summer 2007 tour of Canada)

Gin Wigmore

Holy Smoke (guests: The Cardinals; first single: "Too Late For Lovers")

March 23

Mose Allison

The Way Of The World (guest: Amy Allison)

Austins Bridge

Times Like These (producer: Rascal Flatts)

Autechre

Oversteps *import*

Chuck Berry

Have Mercy: His Complete Chess Recordings 1969 to 1974 (4 CDs, 71 tracks)

Joe Bonamassa

Black Rock (guest: B.B. King)

Boy George

Amazing Grace (CD single)

Harold Budd and Clive Wright

Little Windows

Craig David

Signed Sealed Delivered (soul-music covers album; first single: "One More Lie [Standing In The Shadows]")

De/Vision

Popgefahr *release date March 19*

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Option Paralysis

Goldfrapp

Head First (first single: "Rocket")

Dave Holland Octet

Pathways

Mindy McCready

I'm Still Here (first single: "I'm Still Here")

Monica

Still Standing (producers: Johnta Austin, Babyface, Bryan-Michael Cox, Jermaine Dupri, J Ferrari, etc.; guests: Ludacris, Rocko)

Pet Shop Boys

Pandemonium Live (CD/DVD)

Elvis Presley

On Stage: Legacy Edition (1970 album; remastered; 2 CDs; the original 10-song live album, with four bonus tracks, plus a second disc of 1969's "In Person," with six bonus tracks)

Paul Revere & The Raiders feat. Mark Lindsay

The Complete Columbia Singles (3 CDs, 66 songs; 62 hits and B-sides, with four bonus tracks)

Scorpions

Sting In The Tail (group says this is its final album)

She & Him

Volume Two (M Ward and Zooey Deschanel)

Snoop Dogg

More Malice {CD/DVD}

Various Artists

NOW That's What I Call Music! 33

Various Artists

The Runaways {film soundtrack} (movie about the pioneering female punk band stars Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning and opens March 19)

March 30

Joan Armatrading

This Charming Life

The Association

Birthday (Deluxe Mono Edition) *import* (1968 album, in its original mono mix; includes their final Top 10 hit, "Everything That Touches You")

Melissa Auf der Maur

Out Of Our Minds

Erykah Badu

New Amerykah, Part II: Return of the Ankh

Barenaked Ladies

All In Good Time (first single: "You Run Away")

V.V. Brown

Travelling Like The Light

Mariah Carey

Angels Advocate (newly remixed duets with some of her favorite artists, performing songs off her 2009 album "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel"; includes new songs "Angels Cry," with Ne-Yo, and "Up Out My Face," with Nicki Minaj)

Ferry Corsten

Once Upon A Night (2 CDs, 25 tracks)

Delerium

Remixed: The Definitive Collection

The Doors

When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors {film soundtrack} (Tom DiCillo documentary narrated by Johnny Depp)

Evelyn Evelyn

Evelyn Evelyn (conjoined-twin singer-songwriter duo)

Extra Life

Made Flesh (first single: "(Pay Up) The Ladder")

Amy Grant

Somewhere Down The Road (11 previously unreleased tracks, plus a new version of "Arms of Love"; first single: "Better Than a Hallelujah")

Alan Jackson

Freight Train (guest: Lee Ann Womack; first single: "It's Just That Way")

Redman

Reggie Noble 9 and-a-half

Seabear

We Built A Fire (Icelandic experimental/indie/ folk septet; first single: "Lion Face Boy")

Jon Secada

Classics / Clasicos (Spanish version)

Turin Brakes

Outbursts (first single: "Sea Change")

Usher

Raymond vs. Raymond (first single: "Papers")

April 6

Balligomingo

Under An Endless Sky

David Bowie

David Bowie: Deluxe Edition (1967 album; 2 CDs, with stereo and mono mixes and rarities)

BoDeans

Mr. Sad Clown

Solomon Burke

Nothing's Impossible (the last album produced by longtime Al Green producer and Hi Records founder Willie Mitchell, who died on Jan. 5, 2010)

John Butler Trio

April Uprising

David Byrne & Fatboy Slim

Here Lies Love (2 CD's) (guests: Tori Amos, Cyndi Lauper, Sharon Jones, Kate Pierson, Santigold, Natalie Merchant, Steve Earle, Nellie McKay, etc.)

Codeine Velvet Club

Codeine Velvet Club (Fratellis' Jon Lawler with Lou Hickey)

The Cure

Disintegration: 20th Anniversary Edition (3 CDs; 1989 album; remastered)

Jakob Dylan

Women And Country (producer: T Bone Burnett; guests: Neko Case, Kelly Hogan; first single: "Nothing But the Whole Wide World")

8Ball & MJG

Ten Toes Down (guests: Snoop Dogg, T.I., Bun B, David Banner, Young Dro; first single: "Bring It Back")

Vince Guaraldi

Peanuts Portraits: Peanuts 60th Anniversary

Jeff Healey

Last Call (his final jazz/swing recording before his death from cancer in March 2008; includes a video of "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter," recorded live at Healey's Roadhouse in Toronto on July 21, 2007)

Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3

Propellor Time (guests: Johnny Marr, Nick Lowe, John Paul Jones)

In The Nursery

Aubade *import* (collection of early recordings from 1983-1985)

Angelique Kidjo

OYO (guests: John Legend, Dianne Reeves, Roy Hargove)

Bobby McFerrin

VOCAbuLarieS (a new choral project with compositions by McFerrin and longtime collaborator Roger Treece)

Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez

The Deep End (guests: Dion, Ian Hunter, Marshall Crenshaw, Big Al Anderson, etc.)

Slash

Slash (producer: Eric Valentine; guests: Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Grohl, Flea, Fergie, Nichole Scherzinger)

Various Artists

Songs Of The Spectrum (all-star collection in support of Autism Awareness Month in April; contributors: Jackson Browne, Dar Williams, Marshall Crenshaw, Teddy Geiger, Jonatha Brooke, etc.)

Peter Wolf

Midnight Souvenirs (J. Geils Band singer's first solo album in eight years; guests: Merle Haggard, Shelby Lynne, Neko Case)

April 13

Jeff Beck

Emotion & Commotion (his first album in six years; producers: Steve Lipson, Trevor Horn; guest: Joss Stone )

Jason Castro

Jason Castro (first single: "Let's Just Fall in Love Again")

Coheed and Cambria

Year Of The Black Rainbow {CD/Book/DVD}

Dru Hill

InDRUpendence Day (first single: "Love M.D.")

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Welcome To The Pleasuredome: Deluxe Edition *import* (2 CDs; 1984 album; remastered, with 13 bonus tracks, including the previously unreleased "Watusi Love Juicy")

Freelance Whales

Weathervanes (first single: "Generator 2nd Floor")

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Legends: Rarities Edition (contains only the bonus tracks featured on the second CD of the Deluxe Edition release of the 1984 album, which is the biggest selling reggae album of all time)

Matt Pond PA

The Dark Leaves (first single: "Starting")

Natalie Merchant

Leave Your Sleep (2 CD's) (her first album since 2001)

Jo Dee Messina

Unmistakable (her first album in five years; first single: "That's God")

MGMT

Congratulations

Debi Nova

Luna Nueva (Costa Rican singer, multi-instrumentalist; producer: Gustavo Santaoalla; first single: "Drummer Boy")

Carrie Rodriguez

Love And Circumstance

The Stooges

Raw Power: Legacy Edition (1973 album; 2 CDs, featuring a previously unreleased 1973 live show in Atlanta recently unearthed in Iggy Pop's private tape stash)

April 20

AC/DC

Iron Man 2 {Soundtrack} (sequel opens May 7)

Airbourne

No Guts, No Glory

Alpha Rev

New Morning

The Apples In Stereo

Travellers In Space And Time

Aqualung

Magnetic North (guests: Sara Bareilles, A Fine Frenzy's Alison Sudol, Kelly Sweet)

David Benoit

Earthglow

Caribou

Swim

Cornershop

Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast (released in the U.K. in 2009, with the bonus track "The Battle of New Orleans")

Cypress Hill

Rise Up (guests: Tom Morello, Mike Shinoda, Daron Malakian, Marc Anthony, Pitbull, Everlast, Young De, Evidence, The Alchemist, Cheech & Chong; first single: "Rise Up")

Roky Erickson and Okkervil River

True Love Cast Out All Evil (the 13th Floor Elevators founder's first album of new material in 14 years; producer: Okkervil frontman Will Sheff)

Grateful Dead

Crimson White And Indigo {CD/DVD} (3-CD, 1-DVD collection, recorded July 7, 1989, at Philadelphia's John F. Kennedy Stadium)

Merle Haggard

I Am What I Am

Kottonmouth Kings

Long Live The Kings

Shelby Lynne

Tears, Lies And Alibis (first single: "Rains Came")

Willie Nelson

Country Music

Ratt

Infestation (band's first studio album in 11 years; producer: Elvis Baskette; first single: "Best of Me")

Recoil

Selected *import* (remastered Best of)

Sevendust

Cold Day Memory

Trombone Shorty

Backatown (guests: Lenny Kravitz, Allen Toussaint, Marc Broussard)

Rufus Wainwright

All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu

April 27

Big Audio Dynamite

This Is Big Audio Dynamite: Legacy Edition (1985 album; 2 CDs, featuring unreleased tracks, B-sides and 12-inch mixes)

Bullet For My Valentine

Fever (first single: "Your Betrayal")

Mary Chapin Carpenter

The Age Of Miracles (guests: Alison Krauss, Vince Gill)

Melissa Etheridge

Fearless Love

Peter Frampton

Thank You Mr. Churchill

Hole

Nobody's Daughter

Carole King

The Essential Carole King (2 CD's)

KMFDM

Krieg (remix companion piece to 2009's "Blitz")

Lonestar

Party Heard Around The World

May 4

Asia

Omega (all four original members; first single: "Finger on the Trigger")

Tony Bennett

Sings The Ultimate American Songbook Vol. 2 (16 tracks handpicked by Bennett)

Michael Bolton

One World One Love (released in Europe in September 2009; includes collaborations with Ne-Yo, Lady GaGa, etc.; producer: Bolton; first single: "Just One Love")

Toni Braxton

Pulse (first single: "Yesterday," featuring Trey Songz)

Broken Social Scene

Forgiveness Rock Record

Court Yard Hounds

Court Yard Hounds (Emily Robison and Martie Maguire of The Dixie Chicks)

Flaming Lips

The Dark Side Of The Moon (a cover of Pink Floyd's classic 1973 album)

The Hold Steady

Heaven Is Whenever

Leela James

Mr. Soul (producers: Gerrard Baker, Carl "Chucky" Thompson, Kanye West, Commissioner Gordon; guest: Raheem DeVaughn; first single: "Tell Me You Love Me")

Greg Laswell

Take A Bow

Darlene Love

Sound Of Love: The Very Best of Darlene Love

Sergio Mendes

Bom Tempo

Minus The Bear

Omni (first single: "My Time")

The New Pornographers

Together

Papa Roach

To Be Loved

Josh Ritter

So Runs The World Away

Tonic

Tonic (their first album since 2003; producers: Tonic, Nathaniel Kunkel)

Paul Weller

Wake Up The Nation (guests: former Jam bandmate-bassist Bruce Foxton, My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, The Move's Bev Bevan, drummer Clem Cattini; first single: "Wake Up the Nation/No Tears Left to Cry")

Lucy Woodward

Hooked!

Chely Wright

Lifted Off The Ground (producer: Rodney Crowell)

May 11

Jessica Harp

A Woman Needs (first single: "Boy Like Me")

Hoodoo Gurus

Purity Of Essence

Keane

Night Train (EP)

Carole King & James Taylor

Troubador Reunion {CD/DVD} (live album, backed by Danny Kortchmar, Lee Sklar and Russ Kunkel)

Taproot

Plead The Fifth

May 18

Alex Band (of The Calling)

We've All Been There (first single: "Tonight")

The Black Keys

Brothers

Crash Test Dummies

Oooh La La!

The Depreciation Guild

Spirit Youth

Faithless

The Dance *import*

Macy Gray

The Sellout (first single: "Beauty in the World")

Tracey Thorn

Love And Its Opposite

May 25

B.o.B. (Bobby Ray)

B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray (first single: "Nothin' on You")

Beth Nielsen Chapman

Back To Love

Smashing Pumpkins

Teargarden By Kaleidyscope

Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots

Hank Williams III

Rebel Within

June

Chamillionaire

Venom (first single: "Good Morning")

Herbie Hancock

The Imagine Project (guests: Jeff Beck, Dave Matthews, Chaka Khan, Pink, Seal, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, The Chieftains, Juanes, Anoushka Shankar)

Jack Johnson

To The Sea (first single: "You and Your Heart")

Renee Fleming

Dark Hope (covers of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," Death Cab for Cutie's "Soul Meets Body," etc.)

Steve Hackett

Out Of The Tunnel's Mouth

Lil Jon

Crunk Rock (guests: R. Kelly, Game, R. Kelly, Mario, LMFAO, Pitbull, David Guetta, Soulja Boy, 3OH!3, Elephant Man, Ying Yang Twins)

Nada Surf

If I Had a Hi-Fi (covers of The Moody Blues, Depeche Mode, Kate Bush, Dwight Twilley, the Go-Betweens, etc.)

The Roots

How I Got Over

Three 6 Mafia

Laws Of Power (first single: "Feel It")

Various Artists

All My Friends Are Here (producers: Arif Mardin, who wrote and assembled the album before his death in 2006, and Joe Mardin; contributors: Bette Midler, Barry Gibb, Chaka Khan, Dianne Reeves, Danny O'Keefe, Carly Simon, Dr. John, Norah Jones, Hall & Oates, etc.)

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