Upcoming CD Releases

Updated February 11

 

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"As the Crow Flies"
February 14

Barry Adamson

I Will Set You Free (new single: "Turnaround")

Band Of Skulls

Sweet Sour (producer: Ian Davenport; first single: "The Devil Takes Care of His Own")

Big Country

The Crossing: Deluxe Edition *import* (1983 album; remastered, with a second disc of bonus material)

The Explorers Club

Grand Hotel (first single: "Run Run Run")

Kevin Gordon

Gloryland (Southern music poet laureate's first album in seven years; producer: Joe McMahan)

Heartless Bastards

Arrow (Austin indie quartet; producer: Spoon drummer Jim Eno; first single: "Parted Ways")

Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny

Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose (U.K. psychedelic pop band; first single: "Liliputt")

Islands

A Sleep & A Forgetting (Montreal avant-pop band)

Amos Lee

As The Crow Flies {EP}(six songs from the "Mission Bell" sessions; producer: Calexico frontman Joey Burns)

Audra Mae and The Almighty Sound

Audra Mae and The Almighty Sound (producers: Audra Mae, Deana Carter)

The Phenomenal Handclap Band

Form & Control (first single: "Following")

Mitch Ryder

The Promise (his first U.S. release in nearly 30 years; producer: Don Was)

Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters

Underrated Silence *import*

Sugar + The Hi-Lows

Sugar + The Hi-Lows (Trent Dabbs and Amy Stroup; first single: "See It For Yourself")

Otis Taylor

Otis Taylor's Contraband (guests: Cassie Taylor, Larry Thompson, Anne Harris, Jon Paul Johnson, Chuck Campbell, Ron Miles, The Sheryl Renee Choir)

Rosie Thomas

With Love (guests: Pedro the Lion frontman David Bazan, Sam Beam of Iron & Wine, Blake Wescott, Jen Wood)

Vintage Blue

Strike The Mics (Chicago rock quintet formerly known as Tanglewood)

February 21

The Chieftains

Voice Of Ages {CD/DVD}(Irish band celebrating its 50th anniversary; producers: Paddy Moloney, T Bone Burnett; guests: Bon Iver, The Decemberists, The Low Anthem, Civil Wars, Pistol Annies, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Punch Brothers, etc.)

Field Music

Plumb (first single: {I Keep Thinking About} A New Thing")

Galactic

Carnivale Electricos (guests: Cyril and Ivan Neville, Mystikal, Mannie Fresh, Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, Moyseis Marques, etc.)

Jonquil

Point Of Go (first single: "It's My Part")

Angelique Kidjo

Spirit Rising (live album, featuring Josh Groban, Dianne Reeves, Ezra Koenig and Branford Marsalis; DVD version available)

Sinead O'Connor

How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? (first single; "How About I Be Me")

Diana Ross

Diana Ross: Special Edition (1976 album; remastered, with a second CD of 15 single-only mixes, non-LP singles, the promo single "Coming Home" and new alternate mixes)

Sleigh Bells

Reign Of Terror

Tindersticks

The Something Rain

February 28

Celtic Thunder

Voyage

Chiddy Bang

Breakfast (hip-hop duo; first single: "Ray Charles")

Christian Mistress

Possession (Olympia, Wash., traditional heavy metal band)

Suzanne Ciani

Lixiviation (retrospective of unreleased material, some of which were used for Atari, PBS, Ballys and Coca-Cola spots)

The Cranberries

Roses (their first studio album since 2001; producer: Stephen Street)

Earth, Wind & Fire

Now, Then & Forever (career retrospective; songs selected by such artists as Andre 3000, Lenny Kravitz, Pharrell, Raphael Saadiq, will.i.am and David Foster)

Robert Glasper Experiment

Black Radio (guests: Erykah Badu, Musiq Soulchild, Chrisette Michele, Meshell Ndegeocello, Mos Def, Bilal, etc.; first single: "Ah Yeah")

Sophie B. Hawkins

The Crossing (first single: "Betchya Got a Cure")

Ja Rule

PIL2 (Pain Is Love 2) (guests: Leah Siegel, Anita Louise, Somong, Kenny Dark, Jon Doe, etc.; single: "Parachute")

Mark Lindsay

The Complete Columbia Singles (24 tracks, including a previously unreleased version of Tim Hardin's "Reason to Believe")

Little Barrie

King Of The Waves (English rock trio; new drummer is Virgil Howe, son of Yes guitarist Steve Howe; producer: Edwyn Collins)

Lonesome River Band

Discography, Volume One (30th anniversary album; producers: Lonesome River Band; first single: "Close the Door Lightly When You Go")

Lyle Lovett

Release Me (guests: k.d. lang, Kat Edmonson, Sara & Sean Watkins)

Loreena McKennitt

Troubadours On The Rhine

Mouse On Mars

Parastrophics (German duo's first album in six years)

Rick Nelson

The Complete Epic Recordings (two CDs, 41 songs)

Nneka

Soul Is Heavy (Nigerian-German soul singer; producer: DJ Farhot; first single: "My Home")

Oak Ridge Boys and the Dukes Of Dixeland

When Country Meets Dixie (group's 31st album; includes a remake of "Elvira"; producer: James Stroud)

Orcas

Orcas (first single: "Carrion")

Pink Floyd

The Wall: Immersion Box Set (1979 album; two CDs; remastered, with a third CD of demos); Immersion Box Set, (feat. six CDs, including demos and "Is There Anybody Out There: The Wall Live," plus a DVD)

Amy Ray

Long Of Love (Indigo Girls singer; guests: Brandi Carlile, Jim James, Lindsay Fuller)

Chip Taylor & The New Ukrainians

Fuck All The Perfect People

VCMG

Blip (CD single)

Anna Vogelzang

Canary In A Coal Mine

Amelia White

Beautiful And Wild (Nashville singer-songwriter; producer: Marco Giovino; guest: A.J. Croce)

The White Buffalo

Once Upon A Time In The West

March 6

Big Wreck

Albatross (their first album since 2001; producer: frontman Ian Thornley)

Kitty Clementine

Kitty Clementine (Sydney soul-pop vocalist; first single: "Blow That Horn")

Everytime I Die

Ex Lives

Good Old War

Come Back As Rain (producer: Jason Cupp; first single: "Calling Me Names")

The Honeydogs

What Comes After (their first album since 2006; first single: "Aubben")

Human Nature

The Motown Record (covers of Motown songs; guest: Smokey Robinson)

Kaiser Chiefs

Start The Revolution Without Me (released last year in the U.K. as "The Future Is Medieval"; U.S. version contains five new tracks; producer: Stephen Street)

Brian Lopez

Ultra (first single: "Montjuic")

The Magnetic Fields

Love At The Bottom Of The Sea

Neal McCoy

XII (producers: Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Brent Rowan; first single: "A-OK")

New Riders Of The Purple Sage

17 Pine Avenue (seven of the 12 songs written by guitarist David Nelson and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter)

Now, Now

Threads

Said The Whale

Little Mountain (2011 Juno winner for Best New Group)

Todd Snider

Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables

Bruce Springsteen

Wrecking Ball (first single: "We Take Care Of Our Own")

The Stranglers

Giants *import* (their first new album in six years)

David Sylvian

A Victim Of Stars 1982-2012

'til Tuesday

Voices Carry: Expanded Edition (1985 album; remastered, with three bonus tracks)

UFO

Seven Deadly

March 13

Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin

Live At The Carousel Ballroom 1968 (previously unavailable concert recording from June 23, 1968)

B.o.B.

Strange Clouds (producers: Dr. Luke, Salaam Remi, Ryan Tedder, Jim Jonsin, Boi-1da, SouthSide; new single: "Play the Guitar")

The Decemberists

We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11) (2 CDs, 20 songs)

The Doors

L.A. Woman: The Workshop Sessions {Vinyl} (two-LP set includes the previously unreleased material found on the CD collection on three sides of the vinyl, with the fourth side featuring a laser etching of the original "Electric Woman" art originally included with "L.A. Woman")

Elisa

Steppin' On Water

Erasure

Fill Us With Fire (CD single)

Shooter Jennings

Family Man (producer: Jennings; first single: "The Deed and the Dollar")

Lucero

Women & Work (producer: Ted Hutt; first single: "Sometimes")

Meat Loaf

Hell In A Handbasket (producers: Rob Cavallo, Paul Crook, Lil Jon; guests: Chuck D, Patti Russo, Lil Jon, John Rich, Mark McGrath)

Katie Melua

Secret Symphony

Ministry

Relapse

Gilbert O'Sullivan

A Singer And His Songs: The Very Best of Gilbert O'Sullivan *import* (22 tracks)

Katy Perry

Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection (2010 album; with bonus material)

Mike Posner

Sky High (first single: "Looks Like Sex")

Say Anything

Anarchy, My Dear (first single: "Burn a Miracle")

Soulfly

Enslaved

Ruben Studdard

Letters From Birmingham (first single: "Rock Witcha")

VCMG

Ssss (Vince Clarke & Martin L. Gore)

Peter White

Here We Go

March 20

Anti-Flag

The General Strike

LaToya Jackson

Hearts Don't Lie (1984 album; remastered, with seven bonus tracks), Imagination (1986 album; remastered, with four bonus tracks)

Casey James

Casey James ("American Idol" season 9 finalist; first single: "Let's Don't Call It a Night")

Adam Lambert

Trespassing (collaborators: Pharrell Williams, Dr. Luke, Claude Kelly, Benny Blanco, Bonnie McKee, Nile Rodgers, Sam Sparro, Bruno Mars, Nikka Costa, BC Jean; first single: "Better Than I Know Myself")

Margot & The Nuclear So And So's

Rot Gut, Domestic (producer: John Congleton; first single: "Prozac Rock")

New Order

The Lost Sirens (LP + CD} (previously unreleased tracks from the 2005 "Waiting For the Sirens' Call" sessions)

One Direction

Up All Night (British boy band was a 2010 finalist on the U.K. "X Factor"; producers: Ash Howes, BeatGeek, Brian Rawling, Carl Falk, Jimmy Joker, Matt Squire, Paul Meehan, Rami Yacoub, RedOne, Richard "Biff" Stannard, Toby Gad, etc.)

The Shins

Port Of Morrow (drummer Jesse Sandoval and keyboardist Mary Crandall are no longer in the band; producer: Greg Kurstin)

Esperanza Spalding

Radio Music Society

Paul Van Dyk

Evolution

Various Artists

The Hunger Games {Film soundtrack}(the sci-film drama opens March 23; first single: "Safe & Sound," Taylor Swift feat. The Civil Wars)

Whispertown

Parallel (producers: Andy LeMaster, Jake Bellows; first single: "Open the Other Eye")

Yukon Blonde

Tiger Talk (producer: Colin Stewart; first single: "Stairway")

March 27

Clay Aiken

Steadfast

The All-American Rejects

Kids In The Street (producer: Greg Wells; first single: "Beekeeper's Daughter")

Amadou & Mariam

Folila (Malian duo; guests: Santigold, TV on the Radio, Nick Zinner, Theophilus London, Bassekou Kouyate, etc.)

Chicago

Hot Streets: Expanded Edition (1978 album; remastered, with bonus tracks)

Deuce

Nine Lives (former Hollywood Undead frontman)

Dev

The Night The Sun Came Up (producers: The Cataracs; first single: "In the Dark")

Justin Townes Earle

Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel (first single: "Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel")

Macy Gray

Covered (covers of Metallica, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Kanye West, etc.; first single: "Here Comes the Rain Again")

Julio Iglesias

Julio Iglesias 1, Volumen 1 (newly rerecorded versions of 15 of his hits)

Iron Maiden

En Vivo! (recorded/filmed on April 10, 2011, at the Estadio Nacional, Santiago during the "The Final Frontier World Tour")

Madonna

MDNA (first single: "Give Me All Your Luvin'")

The Mars Volta

Noctouriquet

Oberhofer

Time Capsules II (producer: Steve Lillywhite; first single: "Heart")

Joan Osborne

Bring It On Home (covers of vintage blues, R&B and soul songs; first single: "Shake Your Hips")

Overkill

The Electric Age

Races

Year Of The Witch (first single: "Big Broom")

Lionel Richie

Tuskegee (country duets album, featuring Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Shania Twain, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Darius Rucker, etc.)

Shinedown

Amaryllis (producer: Rob Cavallo; first single: "Bully")

3 Inches Of Blood

Long Live Heavy Metal

The Used

Vulnerable (producer: John Feldmann; first single: "I Come Alive")

Paul Weller

Sonik Kicks (guests: Noel Gallagher, Graham Coxon; first single: "Around the Lake")

Elliot Yamin

Let's Get To What's Real (former "American Idol" finalist; first single: "3 Words")

April 3

Bear In Heaven

I Love You, It's Cool (first single: "The Reflection of You")

Breton

Other People's Problems (first single: "Edward the Confessor")

Carter Tutti Void

Transverse (Throbbing Gristle's Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti and Factory Floor's Nik Void)

Johnny Cash

Bootleg Vol. IV: The Soul Of Truth (two-CD, 51-track collection of gospel and spiritual recordings from the 1970s and '80s, some previously unreleased)

Elvis Costello & The Imposters

The Return Of The Spectacular Spining Songbook!!! (double live album, 35 tracks, recorded during 2011 tour; incl. DVD)

Dr. John

Locked Down (producer: The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach)

Art Garfunkel

Singer (best of)

Great Lake Swimmers

New Wild Everywhere (Canadian folk rock band; first single: "Easy Come Easy Go")

The Human League

Dare: Deluxe Edition (1981 album; remastered, with a second CD of bonus tracks)

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson

Thick As A Brick 2 (a sequel to the 1972 classic)

Natalie LeBrecht

Ascend At The Dead End (producers: LeBrecht, Animal Collective's Avey Tare)

Lostprophets

Weapons

Monica

New Life (first single: "Until It's Gone")

MxPx

Plans Within Plans

Orbital

Wonky (British electronic duo's first album in eight years; producer: Flood; first single: "Never")

Our Lady Peace

Curve (producers: Jason Lader, frontman Raine Maida; first single: "Heavyweight")

Ryan Power

I Don't Want To Die (Burlington, Vt., pop singer)

Rascal Flatts

Changed (producers: Rascal Flatts, Dann Huff; first single: "Banjo")

Marvin Sapp

I Win

Willow Smith

Knees And Elbows

Obie Trice

Bottoms Up (producers: Dr. Dre, Eminem, K.I.D.D., Dame Grease, Rezza Brothers, Emile, Black Milk, Swizz Beatz, No I.D., ILLFONICS, The Neptunes; guests: Eminem, MC Breed)

Wilson Phillips

Dedicated (the trio pays tribute to their famous parents)

April 10

Accept

Stalingrad

Alabama Shakes

Boys & Girls

The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers: Don't Think {CD/DVD/Book}(concert movie)

Counting Crows

Underwater Sunshine (or what we did on our summer vacation) (all-covers album, featuring versions of songs by Big Star, Teenage Fanclub, Bob Dylan, The Faces, Travis, etc.; producer: Shawn Deale)

Aaron Freeman

Marvelous Clouds (features 13 versions of songs written by 20th century poet-songwriter Rod McKuen; producer: Ben Vaughn)

Lords Of Acid

Deep Chills (Belgian electro-industrial pioneers' first album in 11 years; producer: Praga Khan; first single: "Pop That Tooshie")

Nicki Minaj

Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

John Oates Band

The Bluesville Sessions (recorded Oct. 11, 2011, at the Sirius/XM Radio Station Studios in Washington, D.C.)

Bonnie Raitt

Slipstream (her first album since 2005; a mixture of covers and original songs)

Joe Satriani

Satchurated: Live in Montreal (incl. DVD)

Spiritualized

Sweet Heart Sweet Light

Taproot

Episodes

M. Ward

A Wasteland Companion (guests: Zooey Deschanel, Howe Gelb, Mike Mogis, John Parish, Steve Shelley, etc.)

Zambri

House Of Baasa (New York electronic sister duo; first single: "ICBYS")

April 17

Brendan Benson

What Kind Of World

DragonForce

The Power Within (new singer: Marc Hudson)

Eric Hutchinson

Moving Up Living Down (producers: Mike Elizondo, Martin Terefe; first single: "Watching You Watch Him")

Janis Joplin

The Pearl Sessions (1971 album; remastered; two CDs, featuring the original album and original mono singles and a second disc of outtakes, song demos and alternate takes)

Neon Trees

Picture Show (alt-rock band from Provo, Utah; first single: "Everybody Talks")

Pete Seeger

The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960 (2 CDs, 35 songs)

Thousand Foot Crutch

The End Is Where We Begin

April 24

ABBA

The Visitors: Deluxe Edition (1981 album; remastered, with bonus tracks, including the new song "From a Twinkling Star to a Passing Angel")

Theresa Andersson

Street People (Swedish-born, New Orleans-based soul singer; guest: Peter Moren of Peter Bjorn and John)

Curtis Stigers

Let's Go Out Tonight (covers of pop, folk, country and soul songwriters, including Bob Dylan, Eddie Floyd, Richard Thompson, Jeff Tweedy, Hayes Carll, David Poe, etc.)

Jack White

Blunderbuss (first single: "Love Interruption")

May

Ane Brun

It All Starts With One (first single: "Do You Remember," featuring First Aid Kit)

King Charles

LoveBlood (2010 winner of the International Songwriting Competition; first single: "LoveBlood")

The Cult

Choice Of Weapon (producers: Chris Goss, Bob Rock)

Garbage

Not Your Kind Of People (their first album in seven years)

Pat Green

Songs We Wished We'd Written II (covers of Tom Petty, Joe Ely, Lyle Lovett, Todd Snider, etc.)

Jon McLaughlin

Promising Promises (producer: McLaughlin; guest: Sara Bareilles; first single: "Summer Is Over")

Marissa Nadler

The Sister

Lisa Marie Presley

Storm And Grace (producer: T Bone Burnett)

Royal Thunder

CVI (Atlanta rock quartet)

The Spring Standards

yellow//gold (NYC folk-rock trio)

Stellar Revival

Love, Lust And Bad Company (Florida quintet; producer: Brian Howes; first single: "The Crazy Ones")

Rufus Wainwright

Out Of The Game {CD/DVD} (producer: Mark Ronson; guests: sister Martha Wainwrght, The Dap-Kings, Sean Lennon, Wilco)

Rita Wilson

AM/FM (actress and wife of Tom Hanks; covers of '60s and '70s classics; producer: Fred Mollin; guests: Jackson Browne, Faith Hill, Chris Cornell, Sheryl Crow, Jimmy Webb, Vince Gill, Patty Scialfa)

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