The Bad Penny New Music Releases Schedule
Byrds of Paradise – TBA (Don Giovanni)
• Bad Penny download: “Barefoot Generation”
Cut Copy – TBA (TBA)
Dave Hause (Loved Ones guitarist/vocalist) – TBA (Paper + Plastick)
Iron and Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Bros.)
Haroula Rose – These Open Roads (TBA)
Spectrals – Spectrals Extended Play EP (physical version; previously available digitally; Moshi Moshi)
• Bad Penny download: “Chip a Tooth (Spoil a Smile)“
Tennis – TBA (Fat Possum)
The Ting Tings – TBA (TBA)
Wire – TBA (Pinkflag)
JANUARY 11
Cage the Elephant – Thank You, Happy Birthday (Jive)
Cake – Showroom of Compassion (first new album in seven years; pre-order bundles come with an instant MP3, autographed LPs and CDs, a limited-edition 7-inch and more; Upbeat)
Dearling Physique – Deadeye Dealer (self-released)
• Bad Penny feature: “Cover Me: Dearling Physique’s Deadeye Dealer”
• Bad Penny download: “Discipline Your Hands”
Jane Lui – Goodnight Company (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Jailcard”
Madison – The Noise Some People Make EP (G)
• Paper Magazine download: “Hot Hot Love”
• free download: “#1” (e-mail address required)
Moon Hotel Lounge Project – Into the Ojalá (Frosty Cordial)
Oh No Oh My – People Problems (Koenig)
Over the Rhine – The Long Surrender (features Lucinda Williams; produced by Joe Henry; Great Speckled Dog )
J. Ralph – “Wretches & Jabberers” soundtrack (features Norah Jones, Antony, Devendra Banhart, Scarlett Johannson, more; TBA)
Nader Sadek – Nader Sadek: In the Flesh (features ex-members of Morbid Angel, Mayhem, more; Greyhaze)
Sodom – In War and Pieces (SPV)
Clive Tanaka – Jet Set Siempre 1º (LP version; previously available on cassette; Tall Corn)
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For quick roundups of the Bad Penny’s recommended MP3s, check out “Best of 2010” parts one, and two and three.
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JANUARY 18
Audio Bullys – Higher Than the Eiffel (The End)
Auditorium – Be Brave (TBA)
Aurelio – Laru Beya (Next Ambiance)
Ian Axel – This Is the New Year (features Regina Spektor and Sia collaborators; TinyOgre)
Braids – Native Speaker (Kanine)
Broken Records – Let Me Come Home (4AD)
Dolorean – The Unfazed (Partisan)
Drozd (Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips) – “The Heart Is a Drum Machine” score (features cover of Elton John’s “Rocket Man” with Maynard James Keenan; TBA)
Fergus & Geronimo – Unlearn (Hardly Art)
Lake – “You Are Alone” 7-inch (K)
Steve Lukather – All’s Well That Ends Well (Mascot)
The Memorials (features ex-Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen) – The Memorials (BloodThirsty Unicorn)
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers – Teenage and Torture (Knitting Factory)
Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)
Social Distortion – Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes (first release in six years; Epitaph)
Times of Grace (features Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz and former vocalist Jesse Leach) – The Hymn of a Broken Man (Roadrunner)
• free download: “Strength in Numbers” (available from October 15 at 8 a.m. PT to October 17 at 8 a.m. PT)
JANUARY 24
Hour of 13 – The Ritualist (Earache)
Apex Manor – The Year of Magical Drinking (Merge)
• Bad Penny download: “Under the Gun”
Nicole Atkins – Mondo Amore (Razor & Tie)
• free download: “Vultures” (e-mail address required)
Ben + Vesper – Honors (Sounds Familyre)
Chikita Violenta – Tre3s (produced by Dave Newfeld; Arts & Crafts)
Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings (Carpark)
Cold War Kids – Mine Is Yours (Downtown)
Death – Spiritual, Mental, Physical (previously unreleased material; available on CD and vinyl; Drag City)
Deerhoof – Deerhoof vs. Evil (deluxe-limited-edition LP is limited to 2,000 copies; album download also available with Deerhoof T-shirts; Polyvinyl; cassette, which is limited to 500 copies and comes with digital download, available via Joyful Noise)
• free download: “The Merry Barracks” (e-mail address required)
The Ex – Catch My Shoe (Ex)
Exray’s – Exray (features members of the Decemberists, Evangelista, more; Howells Transmitter)
• Bad Penny feature: “My City Rules: Exray’s On San Francisco”
• Pitchfork download: “Hesitation”
Fujiya & Miyagi – Ventriloquizzing (Yep Roc)
• Pitchfork download: “Sixteen Shades of Black & Blue”
Funeral Party – Golden Age of Nowhere (RCA)
• Bad Penny download: “Finale”
Gang of Four – Content (first new material in 16 years; recorded and produced by Andy Gill; on CD and vinyl; also available as an Ultimate Content Can package with the CD, books, more; Yep Roc)
• free download: “Never Pay for the Farm” (e-mail address required)
I Was a King – Old Friends (Sounds Familyre)
• Stereogum download: “Nightwalking”
Lia Ices – Grown Unknown (Jagjaguwar)
Wanda Jackson – The Party Ain’t Over (produced by Jack White; Third Man/ Nonesuch)
• Bad Penny interview: “The Magic Wanda Jackson”
• Bad Penny feature: “Wanda Jackson’s Personalized Card – And A Matchbook Too”
Amos Lee – Mission Bell (features Lucinda Williams and Willie Nelson, Sam Beam, more; produced by Calexico’s Joey Burns; Blue Note)
Magnum – The Visitation (SPV/Steamhammer)
Monotonix – Not Yet (recorded by Steve Albini; Drag City)
My Disco – Little Joy (Temporary Residence Limited)
Sic Alps – Napa Asylum (Drag City)
Sidi Touré – Sahel Folk (Thrill Jockey)
FEBRUARY
Assassin – Breaking the Silence (SPV/Steamhammer)
The Duke Spirit – Kusama EP (previously available digitally; Shangri-La)
FEBRUARY 1
Delicate Steve – Wondervisions (Luaka Bop)
The Go! Team – Rolling Blackouts (Memphis Industries)
Ivan & Alyosha – Fathers Be Kind EP (Missing Piece)
Tristen – Charlatans at the Garden Gate (American Myth)
• free download: “Baby Drugs” (Twitter, Facebook or MySpace referral required)
FEBRUARY 8
The Asteroid #4 – Hail to the Clear Figurines (The Committee to Keep Music Evil)
• Bad Penny download: “Ignition Slated for Eight”
Martial Canterel – You Today (Wierd)
Salva – Complex Housing (available digitally and on vinyl; Friends of Friends)
• Fader download: “Blue”
• XLR8R download: Ango’s “Part Time (Salva Remix)”
FEBRUARY 15
The Dears – Degeneration Street (Dangerbird)
Five O’Clock Heroes – Different Times (Glaze)
• Bandcamp download: “Rough Boys”
Neuraxis – Asylon (Prosthetic)
FEBRUARY 21
Rachel Goodrich – Rachel Goodrich (Yellow Bear)
FEBRUARY 22
Chain & the Gang – Music’s Not for Everyone (recorded by Calvin Johnson; K)
DevilDriver – Beast (Roadrunner)
Tahiti 80 – The Past, the Present & the Possible (Human Sounds)
• Bad Penny download: “Keys to the City”
MARCH
Arrington de Dionysos – Suara Naga (K)
Ramesses – Possessed by the Rise of Magik (Ritual Productions)
MARCH 8
The Curious Mystery – We Creeling (K)
Rival Schools – Pedals (Photo Finish/ Atlantic)
Vicious Rumors – Razorback Killers (Steamhammer/SPV)
Western Hymn – Out of the Way EP (physical version; previously available digitally; K)
MARCH 29
Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat dan Singa – Suara Naga (K)
APRIL
Method of Defiance (features Bill Laswell, Funkadelic’s Bernie Worrell, more) – Dub Arcanum Arcandrum (remix album; M.O.D. Technologies)
• Bad Penny download: “One World”
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Don’t want to download all the above MP3? Go here and here for the Bad Penny’s recommended cuts.
Already out (please note that some of the MP3s and links below may have expired):
December 14
December 7
November 30
November 23
November 16
November 9
November 2
October 26
October 19
October 12
October 5
September 28
September 21
September 14
September 7
August 31
August 24
August 17
August 10
August 3
July 27
July 20
July 13
July 5
June 29
June 22
June 15
June 8
June 1
May 25
May 18
May 11
May 4
April 27
April 20
April 17 (Record Store Day)
April 13
April 6
March 30
March 23
March 16
March 9
March 2
February 23
February 16
February 9
February 2
January 26
January 19
January 12
January 5
The Damned Things (features members of Every Time I Die, Anthrax, more) – Ironiclast (Island)
Like Moths to Flames – Sweet Talker (digital version; Rise)
Solar Temple Suicides – Sentinels of the Heliosphere (Sleepy)
• Bad Penny download: “A Rough Road Leads to the Stars”
Lonnie Walker – These Times Old Times (TBA)
• Bad Penny download: “Summertime”
Anika – Anika (Stones Throw/ Invada)
• Bad Penny download: “Yang Yang”
Paul Avion – R U With Me (TBA)
• Bad Penny download: “Henry Sage & Mrs. Wolverton”
Dream Cop – Basement Tapes EP (digital only; Output Noise)
The Duke Spirit – Kusama EP (digital version; available on other formats in February; Shangri-La)
Freezepop – Imaginary Friends (Archenemy)
The Hive Dwellers – “Get In” 12-inch (K)
Memoryhouse – “Caregiver” single (Suicide Squeeze)
Nightmares for a Week – Don’t Die (Academy Fight Song)
Now, Now (formerly Now, Now Every Children) – Neighbors EP (No Sleep)
• Bad Penny download: “Neighbors”
Queens of the Stone Age – Queens of the Stone Age (reissue with three bonus tracks; vinyl version already available; Rekords Rekords)
Zoon Van Snook – Falling From the Nutty Tree (Mush)
• Bad Penny download: “Cuckoo”
Stay Ahead of the Weather – We Better Get Goin’ if We’re Gonna (No Sleep)
While Heaven Wept – Triumph:Tragedy:Transcendence – Live at the Hammer of Doom Festival (includes DVD; February 2010 performance; Cruz Del Sur/ Iron Kodex/ High Roller)
White Buffalo – Prepare for Black & Blue EP (physical version; previously available digitally; Ruff Shod/ Nettwerk)
• RCRD LBL download: “Oh Darlin’, What Have I Done?”
DECEMBER 6
Crystal Castles – “Not in Love” single (includes two acoustic demos; Fiction)
Deadmau5 – 4X4=12 (Ultra)
Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly (previously available digitally; features vocals by Au Revoir Simone, Sky Ferreira, more; Ultra)
Ane Brun – Live at Stockholm Concert Hall (iTunes release; Balloon Ranger)
Ron Isley – Mr. I (Def Jam/ Def Soul)
Oberhofer – “Away Frm U” 7-inch (Inflated)
Terry Ohms (Vulture Whales frontman) – What Do You Mean, What Do I Mean? (Skybucket)
• free album download
Sleeping in the Aviary – Great Vacation (Science of Sound)
• Bad Penny download: “Y.M.C.A. (No, Not That One)”
Solvents – Forgive Yr Blood (Bee Resin)
• Bad Penny download: “Forgive Yr Blood”
Sonny Smith – 100 Records Volume 2: I Miss the Jams (five-CD box set version; LP edition previously available; Turn Up)
Surf City – Kudos (Fire)
• Bad Penny download: “Kudos”
Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 – Northern Aggression (Yep Roc)
NOVEMBER 29
Various artists – Kitsuné Maison 10: The Fireworks Issue (features Yelle, Digitalism, more; two-CD version; previously available digitally; Kitsuné)
NOVEMBER 27
Bonded by Blood – Exiled to Earth (reissue with bonus CD; also available as a three-pack with Evile‘s Infected Nations and Gama Bomb‘s Tales From the Grave in Space; Earache)
Evile – Infected Nations (reissue with bonus CD; also available as a three-pack with Bonded by Blood‘s Exiled to Earth and Gama Bomb‘s Tales From the Grave in Space; Earache)
Gama Bomb – Tales From the Grave in Space (reissue with bonus CD; also available as a three-pack with Bonded by Blood‘s Exiled to Earth and Evile‘s Infected Nations; Earache)
NOVEMBER 26 (Black Friday)
Anthrax – Live at the Sonisphere 10-inch (picture disc; features two songs from “The Big Four Live From Sofia” DVD; Metal Club)
The Damned Things (features members of Anthrax and Every Time I Die) – “We’ve Got a Situation Here” single (Metal Club)
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (40th anniversary remastered reissue; limited-edition three-LP version available exclusively at Record Store Day-participating indie stores; digital version available exclusively at GeorgeHarrison.com; EMI)
Metallica – Live at Grimey’s (June 2008 performance at Nashville record store; available as one-CD and two-LP sets; sold exclusively at Metal Club-affiliated stores; Warner Bros.)
Queens of the Stone Age – Queens of the Stone Age (LP reissue with three previously released bonus tracks, CD version of album and download card; straight-CD version available December 7; Rekords Rekords)
David Bowie – “Rare and Unseen” DVD (MVD Visual)
• Bad Penny interview: “David Bowie Faces Reality”
• Bad Penny interview transcript: “David Bowie Transcript, 7.9.03: ‘I Am The Man Who Found Velvet Underground!’ ”
Broughton’s Rules (features ex-members of Don Caballero) – Bounty Hunter 1853 (Relapse)
Dio – Holy Diver (deluxe limited-edition picture disc reissue; Niji)
Eux Autres – Broken Bow (Bon Mots)
• Bad Penny download: “Go Dancing”
David “Rock” Feinstein (ex-Elf) – Bitten by the Beast (features Ronnie James Dio; Niji)
Five Finger Death Punch – The Way of the Fist: Iron Fist Edition (deluxe-box-set reissue; includes a bonus CD with 11 B-sides and rarities, a DVD with a documentary, new artwork, trading cards, a poster and a calendar; Century Media)
Fresh Millions – Fresh Millions (produced by the Sword’s Bryan Richie; [iN]Sect)
• Bad Penny download: “Monty”
Giant Sand – Blurry Blue Mountain (Fire)
• Bad Penny download: “Fields of Green”
Glaciers – Of Mountains and Monuments EP (self-released)
Haarp – The Filth (produced by Philip Anselmo; Housecore)
Into It. Over It. and Koji – IIOI/KOJI (No Sleep)
Job for a Cowboy – Ruination (limited-edition box-set reissue containing three LPs and one CD; bonus tracks include Exhumed cover, live material recorded in 2007 and 2009; Metal Blade)
Love in the Circus – Love in the Circus (Xlantic)
• free three-song sampler (e-mail address required)
Yngwie Malmsteen – Relentless (features Tim “Ripper” Owens; Rising Force)
Murder Construct – Murder Construct (Relapse)
Off! (features members of Black Flag, Burning Brides, Hot Snakes, more) – First Four EPs (four 7-inches, each housed in its own box with sleeve artwork by Raymond Pettibon; Vice)
• Bad Penny download: “Upside Down”
• RCRD LBL download: “Jeffrey Lee Pierce”
Phobia – Unrelenting (Relapse)
The Smashing Pumpkins – Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Vol. II: The Solstice Bare (only available as a limited-edition CD and a limited edition deluxe vinyl picture disc; Martha’s Music/ Rocket Science Ventures)
Soulive – “Bowlive: Live in the Brooklyn Bowl” DVD (Brooklyn concert from March 2010; features Rahzel, ?uestlove, more; MVD Visual)
The Spits – Haunted Fang Castle EP (CD and 10-inch versions come with book illustrated by JJ Rudisill; Scion A/V)
T. Rex – The Slider (remastered reissue; LP version; previously available digitally and on CD; Fat Possum)
William Tyler – Behold the Spirit (LP limited to 500 copies; Tompkins Square)
Virgin Steele – The Black Light Bacchanalia (limited-edition LP box set; previously available in other configurations; SPV/Steamhammer)
Brian Wilson – “Songwriter 1962 – 1969: Exploring Brian’s Music in a Decade of Dreams” DVD (MVD Visual)
Yuck – “Georgia” 7-inch (Fat Possum)
Various artists – “The Sacred Triangle: Bowie, Iggy & Lou 1971-1973” DVD (MVD Visual)
NOVEMBER 22
The Chariot– Long Live (Good Fight)
• ShockHound download: “The Audience”
The Doors – “Live in Vancouver 1970” (two CDs; Rhino)
French Horn Rebellion – This Moment EP (two new tracks and three remixes; French Horn Rebellion/ Once Upon a Time)
Limozine – “Siamese Twins” single (Beatatlas)
Massive Attack – EP (in Aid of War Child) (includes new song, remixes, film; 12-inch limited to 1,000 copies; proceeds go to charity for children affected by war; Virgin/EMI)
My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (produced by Rob Cavallo; Reprise)
Orange Juice – Coals to Newcastle (box set with six CDs and one DVD; Domino)
Pantera – Cowboys From Hell (Ultimate Edition three-CD set comes with T-shirt designed by Dimebag Darrell, plus other ephemera; Deluxe Edition has three CDs; Expanded Edition has two CDs; Rhino)
Places and Numbers – Notes From the Dead Zone EP (Equal Vision)
Minitel Rose – Atlantique (!K7)
Regina Spektor – Live in London (includes tribute to recently deceased cellist Daniel Cho; available digitally and as a DVD/CD, Blu-ray/CD and LP; Sire/ Warner Bros.)
Volcanoes – “Monkey. Gossip. Cross. Tessaract” single (Indiecan)
Evan Voytas – Tomorrow Night We’ll Go Anywhere EP (physical version; previously available digitally; Cascine)
While She Sleeps – The North Stands for Nothing (digital version; Good Fight)
Mariage Blanc – Mariage Blanc (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Rag to a Bull”
• Bad Penny download: “Whatever You Say I Am”
Calm Hatchery – Sacrilege of Humanity (Selfmadegod)
The Church – Heyday and Seance (remastered reissues with bonus tracks; pre-orders come with instant album downloads, digital sampler, more; Second Motion)
Crushed Stars – Convalescing in Braille (Simulacra)
• Bad Penny download: “Black Umbrellas”
Deerhoof/ Physical Forms – “Hoofdriver” 7-inch (limited to 1,000 copies; only available via Polyvinyl mail order)
DVAS – Society (Upper Class)
False Positive – False Positive (One Mad Son)
• Bad Penny download: “Hasty Martyrs Sing Fantastic”
• Bad Penny download: “Strike Up the Band”
Faun Fables (features Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s Nils Frykdahl) – Light of a Vaster Dark (Drag City)
Black Francis – “The Golem” DVD (score of 1920 film “The Golem: How He Came Into the World”; available at BlackFrancis.net and Amazon)
Black Francis – The Golem Rock Album (rock opera derived from Black Francis’ previously available “Golem” score; available at BlackFrancis.net and Amazon)
French Miami – Motor Skills (Death by Audio)
• Bad Penny feature: Cover Me: French Miami
The Glass – At Swim Two Birds (Plant)
Gold Motel – Summer House (physical version; previously available digitally; self-released)
Harmonious Bec – Her Strange Dreams (Monotreme)
• Bad Penny download: “Solitary Bonze Prayer”
• Bad Penny download: “Progress”
Hellmouth – Gravestone Skylines (Paper + Plastick)
Home Video – The Automatic Process (101 Distribution)
Japandroids – “Heavenward Grand Prix” 7-inch (limited to 2,000 copies; Polyvinyl)
Jesu – Heart Ache & Dethroned (Hydra Head)
Johanna and the Dusty Floor – The Forest EP (Red Valise)
• Bad Penny download: “Forest of Sorrows”
Norah Jones – … Featuring (features new and past collaborations with Foo Fighters, Belle & Sebastian, Outkast, more; Blue Note)
Jonquil – One Hundred Suns EP (digital only; Dovecote)
• RCRD LBL download: “Fighting Smiles”
Killing Joke – Absolute Dissent (first recording with original lineup in 27 years; two-CD deluxe edition, titled Absolute Respect, includes bonus disc featuring Killing Joke songs covered by Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, more; Spinefarm)
• Crave Online album stream
Kisses – The Heart of the Nightlife (This Is Music)
• RCRD LBL download: “Kisses”
La Sera – “Never Come Around” 7-inch (Hardly Art)
Lavinia (features members of Caspian, Eksi Ekso, more) – There Is Light Between Us EP (The Mylene Sheath)
Lord Huron – “Into the Sun” 7-inch (Hit City U.S.A.)
Radical Face – Touch the Sky EP (Morr)
• Bad Penny download: “Doorways”
The Russian Futurists – The Weight’s on the Wheels (Upper Class)
• free download: “Hoeing Weeds Sowing Seeds” (e-mail address required)
Shapers – “Virginia Reel” (Whistler)
• Bad Penny download: “When I Was A Zygote”
The Shondes – Lines & Hooks +3 EP (Fanatic)
• Bad Penny download: “Lines & Hooks”
Shuteye Unison – Our Future Selves (Parks and Records)
• Bad Penny download: “Our Future Selves”
Shy Child – Liquid Love (Gigantic)
Sonny Smith – 100 Records Volume 2: I Miss the Jams (five-LP box set version; CD edition due November 30; Turn Up)
The Soft Moon – The Soft Moon (Captured Tracks)
Soviet League (features members of the Autumns and the Sugarplastic) – Soviet League (Angel Oven)
Stereolab – Not Music (Drag City)
The Stooges – 1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions (reissue of seven-CD box set; previously out of print; Rhino Handmade) and Have Some Fun: Live at Ungano’s (New York concert from 1970; includes performance of all Fun House songs, save “L.A. Blues,” plus previously unreleased songs “Have Some Fun” and “My Dream Is Dead”; comes with a poster, liner notes by Lenny Kaye and two photos; Rhino Handmade)
• Bad Penny interview: “Iggy Pop: ‘I Didn’t Want To Sell Out’ The Stooges”
• Bad Penny interview transcript: “Iggy Pop, Transcript, 7.18.03: ‘I Was Shooting Dope At The RIAA Awards When It Wasn’t Chic’ ”
Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck – Bottom of the Sky (self-released)
• free download: “Buffalo Joe” (e-mail address required)
Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death – Some of Us Are in This Together (two LPs; Don’t Stop Believin’)
Sharon Van Etten – “I’m Giving Up on You” 7-inch (limited to 500 copies; Polyvinyl)
Rusty Willoughby – Cobirds Unite (features Visqueen’s Rachel Flotard; Local 638)
• Bad Penny download: “C’mon C’mon”
Robert Wyatt – Cuckooland; EPs (CD only); Schleep; and Theatre Royal Drury Lane (reissues; Domino)
NOVEMBER 15
The Bug – Infected EP (features Justin Broadrick, Roots Manuva, a remix by Autechre, more; Ninja Tune)
Harper Blynn – Harper Blynn EP (self-released)
• free download: “Everybody’s Talkin’ ”
Midnight Juggernauts – The Crystal Axis (North American release; previously available overseas; Siberia)
• Bad Penny download: “Lara Vs. the Savage Pack (Kisses Remix)”
Mirrors – “Hide and Seek” single (Skint)
Seapony – “Dreaming” 7-inch (Double Denim)
Various artists – Kitsuné Maison 10: The Fireworks Issue (features Yelle, Digitalism, more; digital version; two-CD edition due November 29; Kitsuné)
NOVEMBER 13
My Gold Mask – A Million Miles (From Where We Were Last) EP (12-inch version; Goldy Tapes)
• Bandcamp download (available beginning September 10): “A Million Miles (From Where We Were Last)”
Årabrot – Revenge (Fysisk Format)
Bad Books (features Manchester Orchestra’s Kevin Devine) – Bad Books (previously available digitally; pre-orders come with three instant downloads; Favorite Gentlemen)
• Bad Penny download: “You Wouldn’t Have to Ask”
Bad Religion – 30 Years LP Box Set (features all 15 of band’s studio albums; limited number available; available exclusively at KingsRoadMerch.com; Epitaph)
Behemoth – “Evangelia Heretika” DVD (three-DVD-plus-CD set featuring full concerts from Paris in 2008 and Warsaw in 2009, all the band’s music videos, a tour documentary and more; bundles available; Metal Blade)
The Big Pink – Tapes (previously available overseas; !K7)
Botany (Spencer Stephenson; formerly Abacus) – Feeling Today EP (Western Vinyl)
• Stereogum download: “Agave”
• Pitchfork download: “Waterparker”
• Gorilla vs. Bear download: “Feeling Today”
Cassorla – Stay Stay Go (Engine Studios)
• Bad Penny exclusive song premiere: Cassorla’s “My Tree” (from their Songs of Hair, Trees, Portraits, Shouts and Alphabets EP)
• Bad Penny feature: “Cover Me: Cassorla’s Songs of Hair, Trees, Portraits, Shouts And Alphabets EP”
Julie Christmas (of Made to Babies, Battle of Mice) – The Bad Wife (Rising Pulse)
City Center – “Zen Kids” 7-inch (previously available digitally; K)
Eric Clapton – “Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010” DVD (four-hour double-disc set; features B.B. King, Bill Murray, more; also includes cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile” with Steve Winwood; Rhino)
Cradle of Filth – Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa (limited-edition “fans’ ” version is an LP-size, 64-page hardcover book that also includes extra CD of bonus tracks, DVD with a documentary and promo video, a short story written by Dani Filth, an exclusive T-shirt, 3-D imagery, more; Nuclear Blast)
• free download: “Lilith Immaculate” (e-mail address required)
Creation’s End – A New Beginning (Sensory)
Deer Tick and Jonny Corndawg – split 7-inch (Deer Tick song is a cover of ZZ Top’s “Cheap Sunglasses”; Partisan)
Depeche Mode – “Tour of the Universe – Live in Barcelona” DVD (features November 21-22 2009 performances in Barcelona; deluxe edition comes with two CDs; super-deluxe edition comes with two CDs and an extra DVD; deluxe editions available exclusively at Amazon; Capitol)
Digitalism – Blitz EP (Kitsune)
• free download: Blitz teaser (e-mail address required)
Dio – Dio at Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987 (two CDs; Niji)
Einstürzende Neubauten – Strategies Against Architecture IV (digital version; two-CD set due December 7; compiles archival material from 2002-’10; includes rare cuts; Mute)
El Ten Eleven – It’s Still Like a Secret (Fake)
Electric Owls – Cullowhee Songs EP (available digitally and on vinyl; Vagrant)
• Bad Penny download: “When I Was a Flood”
Evocation – Apocalyptic (Metal Blade/ Cyclone Empire)
Facebreaker – Infected (Metal Blade/ Cyclone Empire)
Fern Knight – Castings (VHF)
• Stereogum download: “Winter’s Year”
Former Ghosts – New Love (Upset the Rhythm)
• Pitchfork download: “Chin Up”
The Good Ones – Kigali Y Izahabu (Dead Oceans)
• Bad Penny download: “Sara”
The Greenhornes – ★★★★ (vinyl is limited; features liner note by Jim Jarmusch; Third Man)
Gregory and the Hawk – Leche (FatCat)
Head Like a Kite – Dreams Suspend Night (reissue; includes bonus track featuring Smoosh; Roll Call)
Hellogoodbye – Would It Kill You? (Rocket Science Ventures/ Wasted Summer)
Helloween – 7 Sinners (The End)
Invisible Hand – Invisible Hand (Funny/ Not Funny)
• Bad Penny download: “There’s Room in My Will”
Koji – Some Small Way (Run for Cover)
Maserati – Pyramid of the Sun (features Zombi’s Steve Moore; available on CD and vinyl; Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Masonic – Live Like a Millionaire (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Lifetime of Deception”
Mecca Normal – “Malachi” 7-inch (previously available digitally; K)
Modest Mouse – The Fruit That Ate Itself EP and Sad Sappy Sucker (available on CD and vinyl; Glacial Pace)
Motorifik (features Working for a Nuclear Free City’s Phil Kay) – Secret Things (Modern Language)
• Bad Penny download: “Secret Things”
Netherfriends – Barry and Sherry (vinyl release; Lateral)
Nightlands – Forget the Mantra (Secretly Canadian)
Nitzer Ebb – Industrial Complex (first album in 15 years; Artists’ Addiction)
• Bad Penny download: “Promises”
The Notekillers – We’re Here to Help (Prophase)
The Ocean – Anthropocentric (Metal Blade)
Oceano – Contagion (Earache)
The Parting Gifts (the Reigning Sound’s Greg Cartwright and the Ettes’ Coco Hames) – Strychnine Dandelion (features members of the Black Keys, the Raconteurs, more; In the Red)
Jesse Payne – Nesting (Capture)
• Bad Penny download: “Manhattan Project”
Place of Skulls – As a Dog Returns (Giddy Up!)
Animal Prufrock (of Bitch and Animal) – congratulations; thank you + I’m sorry (Righteous Babe)
Röyksopp – Senior (physical version; previously available digitally; instrumental album; MB3)
Shigeto – Full Circle (Ghostly International/ Moodgadget)
• Bad Penny download: “Relentless Drag”
Smoke or Fire – The Speakeasy (first album with Darkest Hour’s Ryan Parrish on drums; Fat Wreck Chords)
Social Distortion – “Machine Gun Blues” single (available only on iTunes; Epitaph)
Ronnie Spector – Ronnie Spector’s Best Christmas Ever EP (Bad Girl Sounds/ The Orchard)
Sub Swara – Triggers (features Dead Prez, Lyrics Born, more; Low Motion)
• International Tapes download: Triggers Vol. 1 Mix
• Fader download: “Bend You”
The Tallest Man on Earth – Sometimes the Blues Is Just a Passing Bird EP (previously available on iTunes only; Dead Oceans)
Thunderball – 12 Mile High (ESL)
• Bust download: “Enter the Brahmin”
• URB download: “12 Mile High”
Tyvek – Nothing Fits (In the Red)
Underoath – Ø (Disambiguation) (pre-orders come with bonus material; Solid State/ Tooth & Nail)
Valleys – Stoner EP (Semprini)
Virgin Steele – The Black Light Bacchanalia (available digitally, and as a standard CD and limited-edition digipak with a bonus CD; limited-edition LP box set due November 23; SPV/Steamhammer)
War From a Harlots Mouth – MMX (special digital edition comes with two bonus tracks; Lifeforce)
• free download: “Recluse MMX” (Facebook or Twitter referral required)
• album stream
We Are Trees – Boyfriend EP (physical version; previously available digitally; Collective Crowd)
Weekend – Sports (Slumberland)
Cassandra Wilson – Silver Pony (Blue Note)
Gary Wilson – Electric Endicott (previously available digitally; Western Vinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Electric Endicott”
Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen – For the Ghosts Within (Domino)
Various artists – Tradi-Mods vs. Rockers: Alternative Takes on Congotronics (features cover songs by Deerhoof, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, more; CD version has two discs; Crammed Discs)
• Pitchfork download: Deerhoof’s “Travels Broaden the Mind” (cover of Kasai Allstars’ “Wa Muluendu”)
NOVEMBER 8
Artificial Peace – Complete Session (reissue; available digitally and on vinyl; Dischord)
The Concretes – WYWH (Friendly Fire)
• Bad Penny download: “Good Evening”
Government Issue – Boycott Stabb Complete Session (reissue with bonus material; available digitally and on vinyl; Dischord)
Humanfly – Darker Later (U.K. release; Brew)
Reptile House – 4-Song 7 Inch EP (reissue; available digitally and on vinyl; Dischord)
NOVEMBER 6
The Black Ryder – Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride (previously available in Australia; Kemado)
• free download: “Gone Without Feeling”
• album stream
Method of Defiance (features Bill Laswell, Funkadelic’s Bernie Worrell, more) – Incunabula (features guest appearance by Herbie Hancock; M.O.D. Technologies)
• Bad Penny download: “One World”
Young Adults – Black Hole 12-inch (includes a cover of the Wipers’ “Over the Edge”; vinyl limited to 500 copies; also to be made available digitally; Amdiscs)
NOVEMBER 5
Yogi Lang (RPWL frontman) – No Decoder (features Pink Floyd’s Guy Pratt; Gentle Art of Music/ Soulfood)
Various artists – Modeselektor – Modeselektion Vol. 1 (Monkeytown)
NOVEMBER 4
Future Islands/ Lonnie Walker split 7-inch (Friends)
• Bad Penny download: Lonnie Walker’s “Love Turns”
NOVEMBER 3
While Heaven Wept – Triumph:Tragedy:Transcendence – Live at the Hammer of Doom Festival CD/DVD (limited to 3,000 copies; DVD has bonus material including rehearsal clips, an interview and three songs performed in Pittsburgh in January; limited-edition double-LP version previously available; Cruz del Sur)
Violens' Amoral
The 1900s – Return of the Century (Parasol) Autumn Defense – Once Around (Yep Roc)
• Bad Penny download: “Back of My Mind”
Barn Owl – Ancestral Star (Thrill Jockey)
Bear Hands – Burning Bush Supper Club (Cantora)
• free download: “The Rumpus Session” (e-mail address required)
Amy Bezunartea – Restaurants & Bars (Kiam)
• Bad Penny download: “Doubles”
Black Dub (features Daniel Lanois) – Black Dub (previously available on vinyl; Jive)
Chord (features members of Pelican & X-Bax) – Progression (available as a CD and an LP limited to 500 copies; CD and LP intended to be listened to concurrently; Important)
The City Champs – The Set Up (includes cover of “Mad Men” theme song, RDJ2’s “A Beautiful Mine”; Electraphonic)
Complaints Choir – TBA DVD/triple-CD (Smog Veil)
Cornershop – The Battle of New Orleans EP (features three unreleased songs and an unreleased remix; only available digitally; Ample Play)
Dark Party – Light Years (Old Tacoma/ 1320)
Dead Can Dance – DCD 1 (box set featuring the Garden of the Arcane Delights, Spleen &
Ideal and John Peel sessions from 1983; packaged in deluxe gatefold sleeves on heavyweight cardboard stock; Vinyl 180)
Destroyer – “Archer on the Beach” 12-inch (limited to 1,000 copies; with download card; Merge)
Neil Diamond – Dreams (features covers of songs by the Beatles, Harry Nilsson, more; Columbia)
Dinosaur Bones – Birthright EP (digital release; vinyl due in 2011; Dine Alone)
Dr. Dog – Shame, Shame EP (available digitally and as a double-7-inch only sold at Dr. Dog concerts; Anti-)
• Spinner download: “Nobody Knows Who You Are”
Erase Errata – “Damaged” single (7-inch comes with free download; Kill Rock Stars)
Eyes Around – Beta EP (World Citizen)
Johnny Flynn – Been Listening (Transgressive/ Thirty Tigers)
Josephine Foster & the Victor Herrero Band – Anda Jaleo (Fire)
• Bad Penny download: “Anda Jaleo”
Kristian Hoffman (former Rufus Wainwright musical director) – Fop (Kayo Stereophonic)
Koen Holtkamp (member of Mountains) – Gravity/Bees EP (Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Bees”
Horse Feathers – “Drain You” 7-inch (Nirvana cover; Kill Rock Stars)
The Hundred in the Hands – TBA (available digitally and on vinyl; Warp)
Impossible Hair – Toast a Dozen (On the Outside) (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “You Can Own”
Kav (ex-Happy Mondays guitarist) – The Mr. Nice EP (features Howard Marks; Sidecho)
Sharron Kraus – The Woody Nightshade (Stranger Attractors)
Peter Laughner and various artists – TBA (10-CD box set containing more than 100 archival tracks and a video; Smog Veil)
Lazer Sword – Lazer Sword (features Turf Talk, Zackey Force Funk, more; Innovative Leisure)
• XLR8R download: “Batman (Nguzunguzu Remix)”
• The Fader download: “Batman”
Lord Huron – Mighty EP (self-released)
• Pitchfork download: “Mighty”
Matt & Kim – Sidewalks (Fader)
Paul McCartney & Wings – Band on the Run (reissue; available as a single-CD standard edition, a two-CD/one-DVD special edition with nine bonus tracks, a three-CD/one-DVD deluxe edition that also comes with a hard-bound book and other ephemera, and a double-LP with downloads for all the original and bonus tracks; standard and deluxe editions also available digitally; MPL/Concord)
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax – “The Big Four Live From Sofia” DVD (recorded in June in Bulgaria; two discs; also available as a limited-edition “super deluxe” box set with two DVDs, five CDs, a poster, a guitar pick and more ephemera; Warner Bros.)
Mini Mansions (features Queens of the Stone Age’s Michael Shuman) – Mini Mansions (with mixing contributions from Josh Homme; Rekords Rekords)
• Filter album review
Necrite – Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Flenser)
OK Go – Of the Blue Colour of the Sky: Extra Nice Edition (comes with bonus CD featuring unreleased songs, an interview with Ira Glass, more; pre-orders made at band’s site come with Twelve Remixes of Four Songs download; Capitol)
• Sarasota Herald-Tribune interview: “OK Go‘s Damian Kulash Recalls ‘Jerry Springer’ Moment”
One Hundred Flowers – Mechanical Bride (Stem and Leaf)
• Bad Penny download: “Rat Trap”
The Roller – Wasted Heritage (Cyclopean)
Elliott Smith – An Introduction To … (all previously released material; available on CD and vinyl; Kill Rock Stars)
Violens – Amoral (Friendly Fire/ Static Recital)
Voxhaul Broadcast – Timing Is Everything (TBA)
• Bad Penny download: “Leaving on the 5th”
Weezer – Death to False Metal (new recordings of previously discarded songs; includes cover of Toni Braxton’s “Un-Break My Heart”; DGC/UMe)
• Bad Penny interview: “Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo In 2002: ‘I Think I Had A Falling Out With The Fans’ ”
• Bad Penny interview: “Weezer’s Brian Bell Was ‘Overwhelmed’ By Maladroit Material”
Weezer – Pinkerton – Deluxe Edition (two CDs; features 25 bonus tracks, 16 of which are previously unreleased; includes live material from 1996-’97; DGC/UMe)
• Bad Penny interview: “Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo In 2002: ‘I Think I Had A Falling Out With The Fans’ ”
• Bad Penny interview: “Weezer’s Brian Bell Was ‘Overwhelmed’ By Maladroit Material”
White Buffalo – Prepare for Black & Blue EP (digital edition; physical version drops December 7; Ruff Shod/ Nettwerk)
• RCRD LBL download: “Oh Darlin’, What Have I Done?”
Robert Wyatt – Dondestan; Nothing Can Stop Us; Old Rottenhat; and Rock Bottom (reissues; Domino)
Various artists – AfroCubism (World Circuit/ Nonesuch)
Various artists – Blow Your Head Volume 1 – Diplo Presents Dubstep (features Major Lazer, Rusko, more; includes previously unreleased tracks; Mad Decent)
Various artists – New Hope (double-LP reissue with download code; features the Guns, Agitated, more; Smog Veil)
Various artists – People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938 (digipak version; features notes by Tom Waits; Tompkins Square)
NOVEMBER 1
Chickenhawk – Modern Bodies (U.K. release; available as a digipak, a digipak with an exclusive T-shirt and a digipak with a limited-edition poster; later to be released digitally; Brew)
• Bandcamp (free) download: “Scorpieu”
Procol Harum – Grand Hotel; Exotic Birds and Fruit; Procol’s Ninth; and Something Magic (reissues with bonus tracks; Union Square)
SETI-X (The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Exile) – Scrambles of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record, Remixed by Extraterrestrials (Seeland)
• Bad Penny download: “I Am Getting Married in a Spaceship”
• Bad Penny download: “Psychlo Killer Total Transmission”
• Bad Penny download: “Pulsar Plus”
• Bad Penny download: “Uranium Nations Hello Children”
• Bad Penny download: “Visit to the Observatory”
Yuck – “Rubber” 7-inch (The Pharmacy Recording Company)
OCTOBER 31
Deadmau5 – “Sofi Needs a Ladder” single (Ultra)
Mellow Hype (Odd Future’s Hodgy Beats and Left Brain) – Blackenedwhite (self-released)
• Fader download: “Sandwitches”
Odd Future – Blackenedwhite (self-released)
Sand Snowman – Nostalgia Ever After (Beta-lactam Ring)
OCTOBER 28
Pas Chic Chic (features former members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Fly Pan Am, more) – 12″ (available digitally and as a 12-inch; Semprini)
Active Child/ School of Seven Bells – split 7-inch (features each artist remixing a track by the other; limited edition; pre-orders come with downloads for both songs; Lefse)
• Bad Penny download: School of Seven Bells’ “Heart Is Strange (Active Child Remix)”
Anoraak – Wherever the Sun Sets (Naive)
• Bad Penny download: “Don’t Be Afraid (Featuring Sally Shapiro; Alternative Version)”
Atlantic/Pacific (features Texas Is the Reason’s Garrett Klahn) – Meet Your New Love (features Rival Schools’ Ian Love; No Sleep)
• My Old Kentucky Blog: “Meet Your New Love”
• Filter download: “One of One” (e-mail address required)
Syd Barrett – An Introduction to Syd Barrett (executive produced by David Gilmour; Capitol/EMI)
Bedouin Soundclash – Light the Horizon (digital version; available physically in early 2011; Pirates Blend/ Nat Geo)
Bing & Ruth – City Lake (Happy Talk)
Brian Bonz – The Triborough Odyssey (Triple Crown)
• free download: “Honey Bee” (e-mail address required)
John Cale & Band – Live (October 1984 performance; available as a double-CD, a double-DVD and an LP; MIG)
Cashes Rivers – Cashes Rivers (Aqui Estamos)
• Bad Penny download: “Our Boats”
• Bad Penny download: “As I Drift”
Ray Charles – Focus of Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters (features unreleased and rare material, including a duet with Johnny Cash; Concord)
Johnny Clegg – Human (first album in 17 years; Appleseed)
Comic Wow – Asthmatic Kitty Library Catalog Music: Music for Mysteries of Mind Space and Time (Asthmatic Kitty)
• Impose download: “Jazz Computer”
Juliette Commagere (Hello Stranger frontwoman) – The Procession (Manimal)
• Bad Penny download: “Impact”
Control Denied – The Fragile Art of Existence (two-CD reissue; Relapse)
Cough – Ritual Abuse (Relapse)
Crowded House – The Very Very Best of Crowded House (CD has 19 songs; digital version has 32 songs; Capitol/EMI)
Crystal Stilts – “Shake the Shackles” single (Slumberland)
Dååth – Dååth (co-produced by guitarist Eyal Levi and Mark Lewis; Century Media)
• Metal Sucks download: “Destruction/Restoration”
Dark Castle – Spirited Migration (vinyl version of 2009 album; At a Loss)
Dead Snares (Remy Zero’s Jeffrey Cain) – Speak the Language (features Remy Zero’s Cedric LeMoyne, the late Gregory Slay, more; Popantipop)
Deluka – You Are the Night (physical version; previously available digitally; Vel)
• RCRD LBL download: “OMFG (Lauren Flax Remix)”
• PopMatters download: “Nevada”
Diamond Rings – Special Affections (Secret City)
Diego and the Dissidents – Contaminated Waters (Quite Scientific)
• free download: “Nerve Storm” (e-mail address required)
Diskreet – Engage the Mechanicality (Siege of Amida/ Candlelight)
Dolorean – Anticipation Blues EP (digital only; available with pre-orders of January 18 release The Unfazed; Partisan)
Down – Diary of a Mad Band (London concert from 2006; triple-LP/one-DVD edition; previously available as a two-CD/one-DVD set; Warner Bros.)
Dream Cop – Mango EP (vinyl only; Tough Love)
El Boy Die – Black Hawk Ladies & Tambourins (Semprini)
Elizabeth & the Catapult – The Other Side of Zero (Verve Forecast)
• My Old Kentucky Blog download: “Go Away My Lover”
• Huffington Post download: “You and Me”
The Fall – The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall (Omnibus Edition) (four-CD reissue; Beggars Banquet)
Bryan Ferry – Olympia (features Scissor Sisters, Groove Armada, members of Roxy Music, more; includes covers of songs by Tim Buckley and Traffic; co-produced by Bryan Ferry and Rhett Davies; Astralwerks)
Firewind – Days of Defiance (pre-order bundles come with an instructional DVD, T-shirts, posters, more; Century Media)
• free download: “The Ark of Lies” (Twitter or Facebook referral required)
Jeremy Fisher – Flood (Aquarius/EMI)
Johnny Flynn – Been Listening (Transgressive/ Thirty Tigers)
• Bad Penny download: “Kentucky Pill”
William Ryan Fritch – Asthmatic Kitty Library Catalog Music: Music for Honey and Bile (Asthmatic Kitty)
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (features Sean Lennon) – Acoustic Sessions (Chimera)
• Stereogum download: “Jardin du Luxembourg”
Ghostland Observatory – Codename: Rondo (Trashy Moped)
Gospel Claws – C-L-A-W-S (Common Wall/ Modern Art)
• Bad Penny download: “Walk Me Down”
• Bad Penny download: “Avenues”
• Bad Penny download: “Summer Nights Lakeside”
Growlers – Hot Tropics (LP version; comes with MP3; previously available on CD; Everloving)
• Filter album stream
Holy Grail – Crisis in Utopia (produced by Danny Lohner; Prosthetic)
• Metal Sucks download: “My Last Attack”
Jefferson Airplane – Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 10/15/66 Late Show — Signe’s Farewell; Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 10/16/66 Early & Late Shows — Grace’s Debut; Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 11/25/66 & 11/27/66 — We Have Ignition; and Return to the Matrix 2/1/68 (previously unreleased live albums; Collectors’ Choice Music Live)
Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains bassist) – In Search of Black Judas (Roir)
K.C. Accidental (pre-Broken Social Scene project featuring Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin) – Anthems for the Could’ve Bin Pills and Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub (reissues; Arts & Crafts)
Kill the Client – Set for Extinction (Relapse)
Krieg – The Isolationist (Candlelight)
Kylesa – Spiral Shadow (Season of Mist)
Lesbian – Stratospheria Cubensis (only available on CD; Important)
Lyrics Born – As U Were (features Francis and the Lights’ Francis Farewell Starlite; Decon)
• Bad Penny download: “Something Better” (features Francis and the Lights’ Francis Farewell Starlite)
Make Do and Mend – End Measured Mile (digital version; LP due later; Paper + Plastick/ Panic)
Chico Mann – Analog Drift (Wax Poetics)
Quinn Marston – Can You Hear Me See Me Now? (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
• Bad Penny download: “Can You Hear Me See Me Now”
Roger McGuinn – “Thunderbyrd: West Coast Legends Vol. 4” DVD (live material from 1977; MIG)
Melechesh – The Epigenesis (Nuclear Blast)
Monster Magnet – Mastermind (Napalm)
Mugstar – Lime (only available on CD; Important)
My Jerusalem (features members of Polyphonic Spree, ex-members of Cursive and Great Norther, more) – Gone for Good (00:02:59/Sony/RED)
My Dry Wet Mess – Irrational Alphabet (Magical Properties)
• Pitchfork download: “Etcetera”
• Yours Truly download: “Yours Truly”
• XLR8R download: Actress’ “Maze (My Dry Wet Mess Remix)”
Neaera – Forging the Eclipse (Metal Blade)
None More Black – Icons (Fat Wreck Chords)
The Octopus Project – Hexadecagon (Peek-a-Boo)
• Bad Penny download: “Fuguefat”
Old Man Markley – “For Better, For Worse” 7-inch (Fat Wreck Chords)
Panico – Kick (Chemikal Underground)
• free download: “Reverberation Mambo (Joakim Mix)”
Parallels – Visionaries (deluxe edition; comes with a bonus CD featuring an unreleased song, a Ramones cover and four remixes; exclusive to the U.S.; Marigold)
Pepper Rabbit – Beauregard (Kanine)
The Phantom Band – The Wants (digital release; Chemikal Underground)
• Bad Penny download: “Walls”
Pomegranates – One of Us (Afternoon)
Prefab Sprout – Let’s Change the World With Music (Tompkins Square)
Pretty Lights – Glowing in the Darkest Night EP (self-released)
• free EP download (e-mail address required)
Purling Hiss – Public Service Announcement (Woodsist)
The Radha Krishna Temple – The Radha Krishna Temple (reissue; produced by George Harrison; Apple/EMI)
R.E.M. – “Live From Austin, TX” DVD (remastered and remixed version of Austin City Limits performance; includes three songs that weren’t broadcast; New West)
Röyksopp – Senior (digital version; LP drops November 9; instrumental album; MB3)
Kermit Ruffins (from HBO’s “Tremé”) – Happy Talk (Basin St.)
• Bad Penny download: “Hey Look Me Over”
• Bad Penny download: “I Got A Treme Woman”
The Sainte Catherines – Fire Works (features Lagwagon’s Joey Cape; Anchorless)
Michael Schenker Group – Hard Rock Legends Vol. 2 (January 1981 performance; available as a CD and a DVD; MIG)
Seeland – How to Live (Loaf)
• Bad Penny download: “Local Park”
Shadows Fall – “Madness in Manila” DVD/CD (Everblack Industries)
Small Black – New Chain (Jagjaguwar)
Sarah Kirkland Snider – Penelope (features My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden; New Amsterdam)
• Bad Penny download: “This Is What You’re Like”
Societys Parasites – 1753 (Hellcat)
Angelo Spencer et les Haut Summits – “L’Argent” 7-inch (previously available digitally; K)
Star One – Victims of the Modern Age (CD and CD-with-T-shirt bundles available for pre-order; InsideOut)
Sun Airway – Nocturne of the Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)
• Pitchfork download: “Put the Days Away”
The Superions – Destination … Christmas! (Fanatic)
• Bad Penny download: Destination … Christmas! Sampler
• Bad Penny interview: “B-52s’ Fred Schneider: ‘It’s Better to Make Up Stuff for Interviews Than Tell the Truth’ ”
T. Rex – The Slider (remastered reissue; CD and digital versions; available on vinyl November 23; Fat Possum)
Tangents (features Unearth’s Derek Kerswill) – One Little Light Year (co-produced by Tangents and Benjamin Jon; Restricted Release/ Angle Side Side)
• AOL Radio download: “The Pieces Fall”
Avey Tare (of Animal Collective) – Down There (Paw Tracks)
Ebo Taylor – Love and Death (Strut)
• free download: “Love and Death” (e-mail address required)
Tesseract – Concealing Fate EP (Century Media)
Martina Topley Bird – Some Place Simple (previously available overseas; Honest Jon’s/ Ipecac)
• Bad Penny download: “Baby Blue (Badgerbrown Remix)”
Triptykon – Shatter: Eparistera Daimones Accompanied EP (includes two live songs, one featuring vocals by Darkthrone’s Nocturno Culto; Century Media)
UFO – Hard Rock Legends Vol. 1 (November 1980 performance; available as a CD and a DVD; MIG)
Vanity Theft – The Anatomy EP (Vigilante Music/ Adamant)
Viking Skull – Heavy Metal Thunder (remastered reissue that includes Born in Hell, the Chapter One EP, five bonus tracks and new artwork; Restricted)
The War on Drugs – Future Weather (Secretly Canadian)
The Warlocks – Rise and Fall, EP and Rarities (two-CD compilation of remastered material with eight bonus tracks; Zap Banana)
Warpaint – The Fool (vinyl version has album-download coupon; pre-orders come with a poster; Rough Trade)
• Bad Penny concert review: “FYF Fest 2010: Sleep Are Reawakened, Growlers Are Scary-Good, Titus Andronicus Prove Weak
Bob Wayne – Outlaw Carnie (Century Media)
We Are Standard – The Golden League (remix album; available digitally and on CD; Mushroom Pillow)
Gary Wilson – Electric Endicott (digital version; available in other formats on November 9; Western Vinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Electric Endicott”
Witchsorrow – Witchsorrow (Metal Blade)
♥♥♥ Withered – Dualitas (Prosthetic)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “The Progenitor’s Grasp”
• Adult Swim download: “Extinguished With the Misery”
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Wolf & Cub – Science & Sorcery (Last Gang)
Wooden Wand – Death Seat (features members of Lambchop, Mercury Rev, more; produced by Michael Gira; Young God)
• Bad Penny feature: “Revising History: Wooden Wand On Guided By Voices, Black Flag, Rolling Stones, More”
Young the Giant – Young the Giant (digital version; available physically in early 2011; Roadrunner)
• free download: “My Body” (e-mail address required)
• Filter download: “I Got”
Various artists – Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records (features archival songs by Billy Preston, Ronnie Spector, more; Apple/EMI)
Various artists – Swedish House Mafia – Until One (features reworked versions of songs by MGMT, Coldplay, more; Astralwerks)
Various artists – “Jackass 3D” soundtrack (previously available digitally; features Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O, more; Epitaph)Various artists – “Wah Do Dem” DVD (movie featuring Norah Jones, Sean Bones, more; Factory 25)
OCTOBER 25
1,2,3 – “Little Cure” single (Chess Club)
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast (reissue; available as an LP and a CD; features Glenn Kotche and others; Fat Possum)
• Bad Penny download: “Hot Math”
Bot’Ox – Babylon by Car (I’m a Cliché)
• XLR8R album stream
• RCRD LBL download: “Blue Steel (Still Going Remix)”
Darkthrone – Høstmørke (reissue with bonus disc of commentary by drummer/lyricist Fenriz; Peaceville) Panzerfaust (reissue; two-CD has commentary by Fenriz; vinyl version limited to 2,000 numbered copies; Peaceville)
• Bad Penny game: Extreme-Metal Word Search
• Bad Penny interview: “An Extremely Long Conversation About Extreme Metal With Albert Mudrain”
El Sportivo & the Blooz – El Sportivo & the Blooz EP (only available as a limited-edition 12-inch; White Iris)
• Los Angeles Times download: “All My Alibis”
Every Time I Die – “Shit Happens: The Series?” DVD (includes an hour of unreleased bonus material, copy of recent album New Junk Aesthetic, more; Epitaph)
Ill Niño – Dead New World (Victory)
• Crave Online album stream
Lykke Li – “Get Some” single (digital version available for free on LykkeLi.com beginning October 25; limited-edition 7-inch available in record stores; LL)
The Mamas and the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (mono LP reissue; features uncensored cover; Sundazed)
Lisa Miller – Within Myself (CD reissue; Sundazed)
My Other Friend – My Other Friend (wide release of previously available album; self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Beast (Separated From You at Birth)”
Oh Land – Oh Land EP (Epic)
• Bad Penny download: “Sun of a Gun”
• Bad Penny download: “Son of a Gun (Yuksek Remix)”
• Bad Penny download: “Son of a Gun (Savage Skulls Remix)”
Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms (LP reissue; Sundazed)
Pure Reason Revolution – Hammer and Anvil (limited-edition digipak comes with bonus DVD of live material from 2010; Superball)
• free download: “Hammer and Anvil” (Facebook or Twitter referral required”
The Ventures – The Ventures’ Christmas Album (LP reissue; Sundazed)
Various artists – Fool’s Gold Vol 1 (features A-Trak, Kid Sister, more; available digitally and as a limited-edition CD only available at Opening Ceremony boutiques; Fool’s Gold)
OCTOBER 23
While Heaven Wept – Triumph:Tragedy:Transcendence – Live at the Hammer of Doom Festival (double-LP version; comes with poster and insert; limited to 1,000 copies; CD/DVD, limited to 3,000 copies, due November 3; Cruz del Sur/ High Roller/ Iron Kodex)
OCTOBER 22
Jarema – Live (features three previously unreleased songs; self-released)
• free download: “Your Mum”
OCTOBER 20
Pretty Lights – TBA EP (TBA)
Alessi’s Ark – Soul Proprietor EP (Bella Union)
G.G. Allin & the AIDS Brigade – “Live in Boston 1989” DVD (MVD Visual)
Brent Amaker and the Rodeo – Please Stand By (Spark & Shine)
• PopMatters download: “Saddle Up”
• Seattle Show Gal download: “Man in Charge”
The Scott Amendola Trio (features Jeff Parker) – Lift (self-released)
Bad Books (features Manchester Orchestra’s Kevin Devine) – Bad Books (digital version; available physically November 9; pre-orders come with three instant downloads; Favorite Gentlemen)
• Bad Penny download: “You Wouldn’t Have to Ask”
Baptized in Blood – Baptized in Blood (digital version; Roadrunner)
Bassnectar – Wildstyle EP (Rock Steady)
• free download: “Wildstyle Method (Featuring 40 Love)”
The Beatles – 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 (remastered two-CD collections; Capitol/Apple)
Blixaboy – Kliks & Politiks (Astroblaque)
• XLR8R download: “Sci-Fi Jack”
Boom Boom Satellites – Over and Over (previously available digitally; best-of collection; Sony Independent Network)
The Church – The Blurred Crusade; Deep in the Shallows (double-disc singles collection); and Of Skins & Heart (remastered reissues with bonus tracks; pre-orders come with instant album downloads, digital sampler, more; Second Motion)
Dag Nasty – Dag With Shawn (reissue with bonus material; available as a CD and an LP with download; Dischord)
Desertshore (features Phil Carney, formerly of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon) – Drifting Your Majesty (co-produced by Mark Kozelek; Caldo Verde)
• Bad Penny exclusive: “Ex-Red House Painters Guitarist Phil Carney Gives First-Ever Interview, Premieres Desertshore MP3”
Dimentianon – Collapse the Void (Paragon)
Dwarr – Animals (reissue; Drag City)
Erland & the Carnival (features the Verve’s Simon Tong) – Trouble in Mind EP (only available digitally; Yep Roc/ Full Time Hobby)
Eskmo – Eskmo (Ninja Tune)
The Extra Lens (formerly the Extra Glenns; the Mountain Goats; John Darnielle and Nothing Painted Blue’s Frank Bruno) – Undercard (Merge)
• Bad Penny download: “Only Existing Footage”
Faun Fables – Light of a Vaster Dark (Drag City)
Filthybird – Songs for Other People (Holidays for Quince)
• Bad Penny download: “Hiders (Edit)”
• Bad Penny download: “Pick Me Up”
For the Ghosts Within (features Robert Wyatt) – For the Ghosts Within (Domino)
The Fucking Wrath – Terra Fire EP (Tee Pee)
Gigi – Mesgana Ethiopia (MOD Technologies)
• Bad Penny download: “Shemum Mune”
Girl in a Coma – Adventures in Coverland EP (CD version with three bonus tracks; previously available digitally; features covers of songs by the Velvet Underground, Joy Division, David Bowie, more; Blackheart)
Goose – Synrise (European release; !K7)
The Heavy – How You Like Me Now EP (Counter/+1)
• Bad Penny download: “That Kind Of Man (1.1)”
Zach Hill – Face Tat (features Devendra Banhart, No Age, more; Sargent House)
• Amazon (free) download: “The Primitives Talk” (available through September)
Houses – All Night (Lefse)
• Stereogum download: “Endless Spring”
• Altered Zones download: Houses & Teen Daze’s “Bikes”
How to Dress Well – How to Dress Well (CD and LP versions; Lefse Records Web site pre-orders come with instant download; LP comes with bonus hidden track and poster; previously available digitally; Lefse)
• Pitchfork download: “Decisions (Featuring Yuksel Arslan)”
• Stereogum download: “Decisions (Spirit Animal Remix)”
Ima Robot – Another Man’s Treasure (produced by guitarist Tim Anderson; Werewolf Heart)
• Bad Penny download: “Ruthless”
Jed and Lucia – Super Human Heart (available digitally and on CD; Ubiquity)
• Bad Penny download: “The Park”
The Jigsaw Seen – Bananas Foster (Vibro-Phonic)
Syl Johnson – Syl Johnson: Complete Mythology (career-spanning archival box set with four CDs, six LPs, unpublished photos, more ephemera; Numero Group)
• Bad Penny download: “I’m Talkin’ Bout Freedom”
Khors – Cold/ The Flames of Eternity’s Decline (two-CD reissue set; includes nine bonus tracks and a rare video; Paragon)
Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown (deluxe edition has bonus tracks; RCA)
Kisses – The Heart of the Nightlife (This Is Music)
Liars – Proud Evolution EP (includes title track, Thom Yorke remix of title track, one live song and three B-sides; Mute)
The Limiñanas – The Limiñanas (Trouble in Mind)
Local H – Awesome Mix Tape #1 EP (available digitally, on CD and on limited-edition cassette; features covers of songs by the Jesus Lizard, TV on the Radio, Concrete Blonde, more; G&P)
• Bad Penny interview: “Local H’s Scott Lucas In ’02: ‘Sometimes It’s Almost Better To Be Poor’ ”
Scott Lucas & the Married Men – The Absolute Beginners EP (includes covers of David Bowie, Local H; G&P)
• Bad Penny interview: “Local H’s Scott Lucas In ’02: ‘Sometimes It’s Almost Better To Be Poor’ ”
Massy Ferguson – Hard Water (Spark & Shine)
The Mommyheads – Finest Specimens (Dromedary)
• Bad Penny download: “Work”
• Bad Penny download: “Needmore, PA (Live at the Cave, Sundyberg, Sweden, 2010)”
Mt. Desolation (features Keane’s Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin) – Mt. Desolation (Cherrytree/Interscope)
Danbert Nobacon (ex-Chumbawamba singer) – Woebegone (TBA)
Steven Page – Page One (features Glen Phillips, Pete Thomas, more; Anthem/Zoë/Rounder)
Parlovr – Heaven/Hell/Big/Love EP (Dine Alone)
• Bad Penny download: “Hell, Heaven”
Pelican – Pelican (10-LP wooden box set; limited to 500 copies; Viva Hate)
Liz Phair – Funstyle (double-CD set; comes with Girlysound, collection of pre-Exile in Guyville demos and rarities; Rocket Science)
• Bad Penny interview: “Liz Phair Was ‘Heartbroken’ Over Missing Exile In Guyville Master Tapes”
• free download: “Miss September” (Facebook referral required)
Philistines Jr. – If a Band Plays in the Woods … (Tarquin/EmBarque)
• My Old Kentucky Blog download: “If I Did Nothing but Train for Two Years, I Bet I Could Be in the Olympics”
• Pitchfork download: “Hell No! We Won’t Go! (We Were Promised Jetpacks Remix)”
Iggy Pop & James Williamson – Kill City (remixed and remastered reissue; Alive)
• Bad Penny interview: “Iggy Pop: ‘I Didn’t Want To Sell Out’ The Stooges”
• Bad Penny interview transcript: “Iggy Pop, Transcript, 7.18.03: ‘I Was Shooting Dope At The RIAA Awards When It Wasn’t Chic’ ”
Rubblebucket – Triangular Daisies EP (includes a cover of the Beatles’ “Michelle”; Roll Call)
• Bad Penny download: “Triangular Daisies”
Ravi Shankar and George Harrison – Collaborations (limited-edition numbered box set with three CDs and one DVD; encompasses studio and concert material; rare photos and 56-page book with forward by Philip Glass also included; Dark Horse)
Shonen Knife – “Live at Mohawk Place” DVD (digital version; previously available at indie brick-and-mortar stores; recorded on 2009 North American tour; Good Charamel)
Third Day – Move (features the Blind Boys of Alabama; Essential)
Times of Grace (features Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz and former vocalist Jesse Leach) – “Strength in Numbers” single (Roadrunner)
• free download: “Strength in Numbers” (available from October 15 at 8 a.m. PT to October 17 at 8 a.m. PT)
Ursula 1000 – Fuzz EP (features Fred Schneider; physical release; previously available digitally; ESL)
• Bad Penny interview: “B-52s’ Fred Schneider: ‘It’s Better to Make Up Stuff for Interviews Than Tell the Truth’ ”
Wax Fang – “The Astronaut (Part 1)” single (Removador Recordings & Solutions)
Ben Weaver – Mirepoix & Smoke (Bloodshot)
♥♥♥ Wow & Flutter – Equilibrio! (Mt. Fuji)
• Bad Penny download: “Scars”
Various artists – Aux Vol. 2 (featuring songs from the Olivia Tremor Control, Horaflora, more; Aux)
• Bad Penny download: Jay Nackashi’s “My Earthly Creature”
Various artists – Germs of Perfection: A Tribute to Bad Religion (features Tegan and Sara, Ted Leo, more; available for free on MySpace; MySpace/Spin)
Various artists – Radioclit Present: The Sound of Club Secousse (features songs by the Very Best, Bab Lee, more; Crammed Discs)
OCTOBER 18
Recoil – Want – The Architect Mixes EP (features three remixes; only available digitally; Mute)
Sharks – Show of Hands EP (U.K. release; Best Before)
Evan Voytas – Tomorrow Night We’ll Go Anywhere EP (digital version; physical release drops in November; Cascine)
Walls – Gaberdine Remixe EP (Kompakt)
OCTOBER 14
Jane Birkin – Di Doo Dah (reissue; CD version has two bonus tracks; also available on vinyl; Light in the Attic)
Climber – The Mystic (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “I Have Seen Everything”
Xiu Xiu – “Razor Scooter”/ “Sashay Away” single (digital only; available exclusively on XiuXiu.org)
Absinthe Rose/Humanwine – split album (Rodent Popsicle)
Agent Ribbons – Chateau Crone (Antenna Farm)
All That Remains – For We Are Many (available on CD and vinyl; produced by Killswitch Engage’s Adam Dutkiewicz; Prosthetic)
• free download: “For We Are Many” (e-mail address required)
Angra – Aqua (LP has three bonus tracks; SPV/Steamhammer)
Antony and the Johnsons – Swanlights (special edition includes 144-page art book; download card available with pre-orders; Secretly Canadian)
• RCRD LBL download: “The Spirit Was Gone”
Arson Anthem (features Phil Anselmo, Hank Williams III, more) – Insecurity Notoriety (Housecore)
Atreyu – Covers of the Damned EP (five covers of songs by Aerosmith, Thin Lizzy, Deftones, more; features members of Chiodos, Blessthefall, more; digital version to be available for free; limited-edition vinyl version to be sold at band’s shows; Hollywood)
• Monster Energy EP stream (available October 6-7)
Beats Antique – Blind Threshold (features John Popper, Lynx, more; Antique)
• Pop Matters download: “There Ya Go (Featuring John Popper)”
Andy Bell – “Non-Stop” single (digital only; Mute)
Belle and Sebastian – Belle and Sebastian Write About Love (Rough Trade)
Bird by Snow – Common Wealth (recorded with Tim Green; Gnome Life)
• Fader download: “Friends in the City”
Birds & Batteries – Panorama (Velvet Blue/ Spune)
• Magnet download: “Strange Kind of Mirror”
The Black (features ex-members of … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Voxtrot) – Sun in the Day, Moon at Night (Moon)
• Bad Penny download: “Throwing Away”
• Bad Penny download: “Love Don’t Need a Reason”
The Black Heart Procession – Blood Bunny/ Black Rabbit EP (includes three new songs and remixes by Lee “Scratch” Perry, Eluvium, more; limited copies available; Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Blank Dogs – Land and Fixed (Captured Tracks)
Blue Water White Death (Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart and Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg) – Blue Water White Death (Graveface)
British Sea Power – Zeus E.P. (limited-edition vinyl version; previously available digitally; Rough Trade)
• Bad Penny interview: “British Sea Power: ‘Girls Are A Lot Prettier In The U.S.- And So Are The Boys’”
• free download: “Zeus” (e-mail address required)
Callers – Life of Love (Western Vinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Life of Love”
• Bad Penny download: “How You Hold Your Arms”
• Village Voice download: “You Are an Arc”
Chiddy Bang – The Preview (EMI)
• Hypetrak download: “Opposite of Adults (Kids – Big Gigantic Remix)”
Circle of Animals – Destroy the Light (Relapse)
Nels Cline – Dirty Baby (two-CD set; Cryptogramophone)
Cloud Nothings – Turning On (rarities collection; Carpark)
Coke Bust – Lines in the Sand (remastered and remixed reissue with 15 unreleased and rare bonus tracks; Six Weeks)
• Dying Scene download: “Time Theft”
The Crown – Doomsday King (Century Media)
Dead Leaf Echo – Truth (available digitally via Apollo Audio; vinyl version released by Custom Made)
Deluka – You Are the Night (previously available digitally; Vel)
• Bad Penny download: “Nevada”
• Bad Penny download: “Cascade (Acoustic)”
Dimmu Borgir – Abrahadabra (previously available overseas; Nuclear Blast)
Dive Index – The Surface We Divide (features Joseph Arthur, ex-Ride vocalist Mark Gardener, more; Neutral)
• Bad Penny download: “Cut”
• Magnet download: “Love Like Ghosts” (features Mark Gardener)
Dusted Angel – Earth Sick Mind (recorded by Billy Anderson; Mankind)
The Empire Shall Fall (features ex-Killswitch Engage vocalist Jesse David Leach) – Awaken (previously available overseas; Restricted)
Envy – Recitation (available on CD and vinyl; Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Exit Calm – Exit Calm (Sonic Unyon)
Exray’s – Ammunition Teeth EP (available digitally and on cassette; features the Decemberists’ Nate Query; Howells Transmitter)
• Bad Penny feature: “My City Rules: Exray’s On San Francisco”
K.Flay – K.Flay EP (self-released)
Fox in the Henhouse (Wakefield’s Ryan Escolopio) – Fox in the Henhouse (iBot)
• Bad Penny download: “Up (Change)”
• Bad Penny download: “Fears”
Free Moral Agents (features Mars Volta keyboardist Isaiah “Ikey” Owens) – Control This (Chocolate Industries)
The Fresh & Onlys – Play It Strange (In the Red)
Friendly Fires – Bugged Out! Presents Suck My Deck (previously available overseas; !K7)
• free download: Friendly Fires and Azari & III’s “Stay Here” (e-mail address required)
Gay for Johnny Depp – Sex Vid Singles Club EP (Shinebox)
• The Village Voice download: “You Have a Theory, I Have a Gun”
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “Suckcess”
Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner (physical version; previously available digitally; Ghostly International)
Gram Rabbit – Miracles & Metaphors (Cobraside)
The Green Children – Encounter (Spinside)
Growlers – Hot Tropics (CD version; LP drops October 26; Everloving)
♥♥♥ Hail of Bullets – On Divine Winds (Metal Blade)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
• Metal Underground album stream (expires October 11)
Hauschka – Foreign Landscapes (130701)
• The Hype Machine album stream (expires October 11)
Holy Sons (Om and Grails drummer Emil Amos) – Survivalist Tales (Partisan)
• Bad Penny download: “Slow Days”
Hot Panda – How Come I’m Dead? (co-produced by New Pornographers’ John Collins; Mint)
• Bad Penny download: “Mindlessnesslessness”
Hurtbird – Nature Vs. City (previously available in limited release; Hurtbird)
Idlewild – Post Electric Blues (Nice Music Group)
Indigo Girls – Holly Happy Days (holiday album consisting of Christmas songs and cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Happy Joyous Hanukkah”; IG/Vanguard)
Intronaut – Valley of Smoke (Century Media)
Liz Janes – Say Goodbye (Asthmatic Kitty)
K.Flay – K.Flay EP (self-released)
Las Robertas – Cry Out Loud (available digitally and as a limited-edition CD, cassette and 12-inch; Art Fag)
• album stream
• Altered Zones download: “In Between Buses (Algodón Egipcio Remix)”
• Gorilla vs. Bear download: “Back to the End”
Less Than Jake – TV/EP (available as a download, a CD and a limited-edition die-cut 7-inch; Sleep It Off)
Los Cenzontles – Raza de Oro (Golden People)
Lovers – Dark Light (Badman)
• Bad Penny download: “Figure 8”
• MOG download: “Don’t You Want It”
Dina Maccabee – Who Do You Suppose You Are (Antephonic)
• Bad Penny download: “Driving Is Fun”
• Bad Penny download: “Hi Yo”
Madball – Empire (Good Fight)
Masters of Reality – Pine/ Cross Dover (features members of Eagles of Death Metal, ex-Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Brendon McNichol, more; Cool Green)
• JamBase download: “King Richard TLH”
¡Mayday! – Stuck on an Island (¡Mayday!)
Cheyenne Marie Mize – Before Lately (SonaBlast!)
The Moondoggies – Tidelands (Hardly Art/ Sub Pop)
Mutemath – “Armistice Live” DVD (recorded last fall; comes with CD; Teleprompt/ Warner Bros.)
Negligence – Coordinates of Confusion (Metal Blade)
Silje Nes – Opticks (FatCat)
Nottz – You Need This Music (features Snoop Dogg, Travis Barker, more; Raw Koncept)
Off! (features members of Black Flag, Burning Brides, Hot Snakes, more) – 1st EP (only available as a limited-edition 7-inch; features artwork by Raymond Pettibon; Vice)
• Bad Penny download: “Upside Down”
Old 97’s – The Grand Theatre Volume One (New West)
• Bad Penny interview: Old 97’s Frontman Rhett Miller On Getting Married, His Literary Ambitions, ‘Total Anarchy’ With Jon Brion
The Orb featuring David Gilmour – Metallic Spheres (deluxe edition has bonus disc with surround-sound mixes; Columbia)
Doug Paisley – Constant Companion (features Leslie Feist and the Band’s Garth Hudson; No Quarter)
Pantha du Prince – Lay in a Shimmer EP (only available as a 12-inch; Beggars Banquet)
Pepper – Stitches EP (Law)
Pigeon John – Dragon Slayer (Quannum)
• Bad Penny download: “Before We’re Gone”
Poobah – Let Me In (CD version has 12 bonus tracks; deluxe-double-gatefold 12-inch has 10 bonus tracks; also available digitally; remastered reissue; Ripple)
Pujol – Alive at the Same Time EP (limited-edition vinyl version; Turbo Time)
Punches – Sleepless City EP (only available digitally; Our Label)
• Filter download: “Feeling Right”
• free download: “Feeling Right (The Phantom’s Revenge Remix)”
• free download: “Feeling Right (Justin Faust Remix)”
Joshua Radin – The Rock and the Tide (Mom + Pop)
Salteens – Grey Eyes (first album in seven years; Boompa)
• Bandcamp download: “If Love Is Gone Where Do We Go From Here”
Sister Hazel – Heartland Highway (Rock Ridge)
Sky Larkin – Kaleide (previously available digitally; Wichita)
Slayer – The Vinyl Conflict (limited-edition package featuring all 10 studio albums; American Recordings/ Sony Legacy)
Small Sins – Pot Calls Kettle Black (Small Sins/ Arts & Crafts)
• free download: “Pot Calls Kettle Black”
Smegma – Mirage (includes material recorded live at the Smegma House Party in September 2009; only available on CD and vinyl; CD has two bonus tracks, one of which is previously unreleased; Important)
The So So Glos – Low Back Chain Shift EP (Green Owl)
Spectrals – Spectrals Extended Play EP (digital edition; physical version available in January; Moshi Moshi)
• Bad Penny download: “Chip a Tooth (Spoil a Smile)”
Spiritual Beggars (features members of Arch Enemy, Opeth, Firewind) – Return to Zero (InsideOut)
Starfucker – “Julius” single (limited-edition 7-inch; comes with MP3; previously available digitally; Polyvinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Julius”
• Bad Penny download: “Julius (Painted Palms Remix) MP3”
Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty)
Kelley Stoltz – To Dreamers (Sub Pop)
Sun Araw – Off Duty EP (CD and digital versions come with Boat Trip; also available as a 12-inch; Woodsist)
• Pitchfork download: “Last Chants”
Sunns – Zeroes QC (Secretly Canadian)
• free Zeroes EP download (e-mail address required)
Tesseract – Concealing Fate EP (available digitally and as a limited-edition digipak sold exclusively at CM Distro; Prosthetic)
• free download: “IV – Perfection” (Facebook or Twitter referral required)
Richard and Linda Thompson – Shoot Out the Lights (Deluxe Edition) (reissue of 1982 album; includes bonus CD of unreleased songs; Rhino)
Thrift Store Cowboys – Light Fighter (DIY)
Yann Tiersen – Dustlane (Anti-)
• Amazon (free) download: “Ashes” (e-mail address required)
Titan – Sweet Dreams. Sweet Dreams (Relapse)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “Wooded Altar Beyond the Wander”
Turbo Fruits – “Where the Stars Don’t Shine” 7-inch (Turbo Time)
Unknown Component – The Infinite Definitive (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Moving Out of Frame”
Unsun (features ex-Vader guitarist Maurycy “Mauser” Stefanowicz) – Clinic for Dolls (Armoury/ Eagle Rock)
White Moth – White Moth (features Alec Empire, Lydia Lunch, Dälek, more; Angel Oven)
Kathryn Williams – Relations (covers album of songs by Kurt Cobain, Neil Young, more; One Little Indian)
• Bad Penny feature: Revising History: Kathryn Williams On Nick Drake’s Bryter Layter, Björk’s Homogenic, More
Kendl Winter – Apple Core (K)
Winterfylleth – The Mercian Sphere (previously available in Europe; Candlelight)
The Winterlings – The Animal Groom (Redwood River)
• Bad Penny feature: “Memento: Winterlings’ Autumn Harvest”
Woe – Quietly, Undramatically (Candlelight)
Wolf People – Steeple (Jagjaguwar)
♥♥♥ Working for a Nuclear Free City – The Jojo Burger Tempest (available as a double-CD and a double-LP; Melodic)
• Bad Penny download: “Silent Times”
Yellowbirds – “The Rest of My Life” single (only available digitally; The Royal Potato Family)
Young Man – Boy EP (physical version; previously available digitally; Frenchkiss)
• Bad Penny download: “Five”
• Bad Penny download: “Up So Fast”
Hans Zimmer – “Inception” score (clear-vinyl version; limited to 1,000 copies; available exclusively at BecauseSoundMatters.com; Warner Bros.)
Zola Jesus – TBA EP (includes new and rare songs; Sacred Bones)
Various artists – Bugged Out! Presents Suck My Deck – Mixed by Friendly Fires (features songs by the Phenomenal Handclap Band, the Egyptian Lover, more; Bugged Out!)
Various artists – From the Land of Ice and Snow: The Songs of Led Zeppelin (features covers by Chris Walla, M. Ward, Portland Cello Project, more; two CDs; portion of proceeds goes to First Octave; Jealous Butcher)
Various artists – Simian Mobile Disco Is Fixed (features remixes of songs by Hot Chip, DJ Hell, more; Defend)
Various artists – “Jackass 3D” soundtrack (available digitally; physical version drops October 26; features Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O, more; Epitaph)
Various artists – “The Vampire Diaries” soundtrack (features exclusive songs by the Smashing Pumpkins, Gorillaz, Goldfrapp, more; EMI)
And She Whispered – Some Call it Writers Block, I Call It Heartache EP (Extreme Visions)
Evile – Infected Nations Redux (limited-edition reissue with bonus CD featuring cover of Pantera’s “Cemetery Gates,” six live songs from Hammerfest 2009 and eight more bonus tracks with new bassist Joel Graham; pre-orders come with patch and sticker sheet; Earache)
Various artists – Gilles Peterson Presents: Worldwide – A Celebration of His Syndicated Radio Show (two-CD compilation featuring songs by M.I.A., Gotan Project, more; BBE)
Lesser/Matmos/Wobbly – Simultaneous Quodlibet (only available on vinyl; Important)
Mortiis – Perfectly Defect (free album; self-released)
• free album download (available starting October 10)
Nihiti – Other People’s Memories (Lo Bit Landscapes)
OCTOBER 9
John Lennon – Box Of Vision (released in conjunction with 70th anniversary of Lennon’s birth and the John Lennon Tim Capsule Project; limited to 7,500 copies; designed to hold 32 Lennon albums; includes hard-bound book, album artwork, and two recordable CDs and two recordable DVDs intended for fans to store additional content of their choosing; EMI)
OCTOBER 8
Tom Zé – Estudando a Bossa (Luaka Bop) and Studies of Tom Zé: Explaining Things So I Can Confuse You (vinyl box; includes Estudando a Bossa, and reissues of Estudando o Samba and Estudando o Pagode; Luaka Bop)
Various artists – Balance 017: Timo Maas (features songs and remixes of songs by Placebo, William Orbit, more; Balance)
11 Acorn Lane – Happy Holy Days (holiday album; Wooden Hat)
Aficionado – When It Comes to Creation EP (produced by Don Fury; vinyl version includes download card; No Sleep)
Allo Darlin’ – Allo Darlin’ (Fortuna Pop!)
Amusement Parks on Fire – Road Eyes (Filter)
Apache Beat – Last Chants (features members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Rapture and Lightspeed Champion; Babylon/ Beverly Martel)
• Bad Penny download: “Another Day (Blood Diamonds Remix)”
Articles of Faith – TBA (available digitally and on vinyl; Alternative Tentacles)
♥♥♥ Blood Red Shoes – Fire Like This (V2/Nice)
• Bad Penny download: “Light It Up”
Bonjay – Broughtupsy (The Orchard)
• Nylon download: “Jamelia”
British Sea Power – Zeus E.P. (digital version; limited-edition vinyl available October 12; Rough Trade)
• Bad Penny interview: British Sea Power: ‘Girls Are A Lot Prettier In The U.S.- And So Are The Boys’
• free download: “Zeus” (e-mail address required)
Brute Force – I, Brute Force – Confections of Love (reissue with bonus tracks; on CD for the first time; Bar/None)
Cheap Time – Fantastic Explanations (and Similar Situations) (In the Red)
Clinic – Bubblegum (available as a CD and a special-edition vinyl set that also includes the Son of Bubblegum LP, a fold-out poster and more; Domino)
The Creepshow – They All Fall Down (Hellcat)
Crowbar – Crowbar, Live +1 and Time Heals Nothing (reissues; E1 Metal)
Dark Dark Dark – Wild Go (Supply and Demand)
♥♥♥ Down – Diary of a Mad Band (London concert from 2006; two-CD/one-DVD version; pre-orders comes with a bonus live song; bundles with limited-edition T-shirt, and T-shirt and flag, also available; triple-LP/one-DVD set arrives October 26; Down)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Emergency Gate – The Nemesis Construct (Metalville/Twilight)
Sharon Van Etten – Epic (features members of Espers, She Keeps Bees, more; Ba Da Bing!)
• Crave Online download: “Stone the Crow”
Fistful of Mercy (Joseph Arthur, Ben Harper and Dhani Harrison) – As I Call You Down (first 300 pre-orders come with signed poster; previously available on vinyl; Hot)
• Bad Penny download: “Fistful of Mercy”
Flattbush – Otomatik Attak (Koolarrow)
Wolfgang Gartner – “Illmerica” single (Ultra)
The Gay Blades – Savages (Triple Crown)
• Bad Penny download: “Try to Understand”
♥♥♥ Glasser – Ring (True Panther)
Guster – Easy Wonderful (Aware/Universal)
• free download: “Bad Bad World” (e-mail address, or Facebook or Twitter referral, required)
• Wall Street Journal album stream
Fran Healy – Wreckorder (features Paul McCartney and Neko Case; special edition also available; portion of special-edition proceeds goes to Save the Children; Ryko)
The Hours – It’s Not How You Start, It’s How You Finish (digital version; iTunes deluxe edition has three bonus songs and three videos; Adeline)
Husky Rescue – Ship of Light (domestic deluxe edition; Catskills)
• RCRD LBL download: “Fast Lane”
• Under the Radar download: “Fast Lane (Two Bit Thugs Remix)”
• RCRD LBL download: “They Are Coming (Warrior One Remix)”
Alain Johannes – Spark (includes “Endless Eyes,” ode to late wife and Queens of the Stone Age collaborator Natasha Shneider; Rekords Rekords/ Dangerbird)
• Bad Penny download: “Endless Eyes”
• free download: “Fall to Grace” (e-mail address required)
Julius C – OK, OK. (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Don’t Want Anybody”
Jupe Jupe – Invaders (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Add as a Friend”
• Bad Penny download: “Something About Love”
Tim Kasher (Cursive/ Good Life frontman) – The Game of Monogamy (all orders made on Saddle Creek Web site come with instant album download; bundles come with 7-inches, a signed poster, a T-shirt, other ephemera; Saddle Creek)
• free download: “Cold Love” (e-mail address required)
• Absolute Punk album stream (expires October 2)
The Kindergarten Circus – “No More Wizards” 7-inch (Chicken Ranch)
• Bad Penny download: “Twin Evils”
Kordan – The Longing (Last Bummer)
• RCRD LBL download: “Mirror”
• RCRD LBL download: Houses’ “Endless Spring (Kordan Remix)”
La Plebe – Brazo en Brazo (Koolarrow)
Legendary Pink Dots – Seconds Late for the Brighton Line (limited-edition vinyl version has two LPs and one bonus track; ROIR)
Leland Sundries – The Apothecary EP (L’Echiquier)
John Lennon – Double Fantasy Stripped Down/ Double Fantasy; Gimme Some Truth (available as a four-CD set and also digitally; EMI); Imagine (EMI); John Lennon/ Plastic Ono Band (EMI); John Lennon Signature Box (available as an 11-CD box and also digitally; both versions have 13 unreleased tracks; EMI); Milk and Honey (EMI); Mind Games (EMI); Power to the People: The Hits (with DVD; EMI); Rock ‘n’ Roll (EMI); Some Time in New York City (EMI); and Walls and Bridges (EMI)
James Vincent McMorrow – James Vincent McMorrow EP (Vagrant)
Method of Defiance (features Bill Laswell, Funkadelic’s Bernie Worrell, more) – Jahbulon (M.O.D. Technologies)
Mexicans With Guns/ Robot Koch – Friends of Friends Volume 3 (digital version; limited-edition LP due later; remixes collection; Friends of Friends)
• Yes Yes Y’All download: album mini-mix by My Hollow Drum’s Tully
• Los Angeles Times download: “Icaros (Free the Robots Remix)”
The Microscopic Septet – Friday the 13th: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform)
Middle Class Rut – No Name No Color (Bright Antenna)
Mumdance (a.k.a. Jack Adams)) – Mum Decent EP (features Esser and Badness; Mad Decent)
• Stereogum download: “Battle (Featuring Esser)” (Wookie cover; non-EP track)
Arthur Nasson – Echo Garden (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Unglued”
• Bad Penny download: “Summer Drops”
New Collisions – The Optimist (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Ne’er-Do-Well”
• Bad Penny download: “Over”
Nurse With Wound/ Larsen – Erroneous: A Selection of Errors (only available on CD; Important)
Ozzy Osbourne – Scream (two-CD tour edition reissue with seven bonus tracks and additional video content; four-sided vinyl also available; Epic)
Redstone Hall – Elephant EP (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Get Back Jack”
Jason Robinson – The Two Faces of Janus (Cuneiform)
Royal Baths – Litanies (Woodsist)
Rumspringa – Sway (Cantora)
• Bad Penny download: “Queer Eyed Boy”
Sailors With Wax Wings (features R. Loren of Pyramids) – Sailors With Wax Wings (features members of Swans, Unwound, Mamiffer, more; Angel Oven)
• album stream
Shadow Shadow Shade – Shadow Shadow Shade (available at select indie retailers; Public)
• Bad Penny download: “Say Yes”
Sistol (Vladislav Delay) – Sistol (reissue of 1999 album On the Bright Side; available digitally and as a deluxe double-CD with additional remixes and reworked songs; Phthalo)
• Fact download: “On the Bright Side (Scuba’s The Bright Side Remix)”
• Fact download: “Funseeker (Oneohtrix Point Never’s Rainbro Mix)”
Soars – Soars (La Société Expéditionnaire)
Soundgarden – Telephantasm (single-disc reissue; Deluxe Edition dropped September 28; A&M/UMe)
Marnie Stern – Marnie Stern (Kill Rock Stars)
• free download: “For Ash”
Still Flyin’ – “Victory Walker” 7-inch (Ernest Jenning)
Stimulators – Loud Fast Rules! (reissue; available on CD and vinyl only; ROIR)
Tricky – Mixed Race (features Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Terry Lynn, more; Domino)
Tu Fawning – Hearts on Hold (Provenance)
Corin Tucker Band – 1,000 Years (Kill Rock Stars)
• free download: “Doubt”
Ursula 1000 – Fuzz EP (features Fred Schneider; digital version; physical release drops October 19; ESL)
• Bad Penny interview: “B-52s’ Fred Schneider: ‘It’s Better to Make Up Stuff for Interviews Than Tell the Truth’ ”
The Very Best – “Julia” single (12-inch version; previously available digitally; features the title track and four remixes by Javelin, Lazy Flow, more; Green Owl)
• Bad Penny download: “Angonde (Johan Hugo Remix Featuring Mo Laudi)”
White Sea (M83’s Morgan Kibby) – Saturdays = Youth EP (self-released)
• Urban Outfitters download: full EP (expires October 9)
• RCRD LBL download: “Mountaineer”
Dustin Wong (member of Ponytail and Ecstatic Sunshine) – Infinite Love (available as a two-CD/one-DVD and two-LP/one-EP/one-DVD set; Thrill Jockey)
Tom Zé – Estudando a Bossa (available digitally, on CD and as part of the Studies of Tom Zé: Explaining Things So I Can Confuse You vinyl box set; Luaka Bop)
Tom Zé – Studies of Tom Zé: Explaining Things So I Can Confuse You (limited-edition vinyl box set; includes three 180-gram LPs, a 7-inch, a CD, a booklet and a key to download digital versions of all the music content; pre-order comes with Luaka Bop T-shirt; Luaka Bop)
Various artists – Ninja Tune XX Box Set (includes four CDs, limited-edition 7-inches and 12-inches, a book, posters, more; Ninja Tune)
• Ninja Tune downloads (various songs; e-mail address required)
Various artists – “I’m Here” soundtrack (features Animal Collective, Girls, more; Chocolate Industries)
OCTOBER 4
Adam Kesher – Gravy Train EP (Disque Primeur)
• Bad Penny download: “Gravy Train (Fortune Remix)”
MiM0SA – Silver Lining EP (Muti)
• URB download: “Pushing Little Daisies”
Various artists – G.I. Disco: The History of the Cold War’s Hottest 80’s Club Music in West Germany – Compiled by Kalle Kuts & Daniel W. Best (BBE)
OCTOBER 2
Atlantean Kodex – The Golden Bough (Cruz del Sur)
Cut Copy – “Where I’m Going” single (limited-edition 7-inch version; Modular/ Universal Music Group Australia)
Pink Nasty – Pink Nasty (self-released)
UNKLE's The Answer
The 88 – The 88 (self-produced; previously available on iTunes only; 88/ Rocket Science)
• AOL download: “Center of the Sun”
Abigail Williams – In the Absence of Light (Candlelight)
Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly (digital version; available in other formats on November 30; features vocals by Au Revoir Simone, Sky Ferreira, more; Ultra)
Alexisonfire – iTunes Originals (includes album tracks, live songs and interview clips; iTunes exclusive; Vagrant)
Ólöf Arnalds – Innundir Skinni (One Little Indian)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “Innundir Skinni”
The Atlas Moth – The One Amongst the Weed Fields EP (covers release featuring songs by Failure, the Doors, Pink Floyd, more; Candlelight)
Bad Religion – The Dissent of Man (produced by Joe Barresi; Epitaph)
Bajah + the Dry Eye Crew – Bajah + the Dry Eye Crew (One Haven)
♥♥♥ Black Anvil – Triumverate (Relapse)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Black Dub (features Daniel Lanois) – Black Dub (special vinyl version with download card; available in other formats November 2; Jive)
Blackbird Blackbird – Summer Heart 12-inch (Arcade Sound Ltd.)
David Bowie – Station to Station (available as a three-CD special edition; a limited-edition five-CD super-deluxe edition; a three-LP deluxe edition; a digital special edition; and a DVD Audio disc; Virgin/EMI)
• Bad Penny interview: “David Bowie Faces Reality”
• Bad Penny interview transcript: “David Bowie Transcript, 7.9.03: ‘I Am The Man Who Found Velvet Underground!’ ”
Breathe Owl Breathe – Magic Central (Hometapes)
• Bad Penny download: “Own Stunts”
Ana Caravelle – Basic Climb (available digitally and on vinyl; Non Projects)
• LA Weekly download: “Blackberries (Asura Remix)”
• Los Angeles Times download: “Shapeshifting (Anenon Just One Shape Remix)”
Johnny Cash – Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison and San Quentin (vinyl reissues; Sundazed)
The Chemical Brothers – “Another World” single (three-song 12-inch version; previously available digitally with one bonus track; Astralwerks)
Clutch – Robot Hive/ Exodus (CD/DVD dual-disc reissue; DVD has eight songs performed on Sounds of the Underground in 2005 and “Burning Beard” video; vinyl version due later this year; Weathermaker)
The Coast – Queen Cities (Aporia)
Katie Costello – The City in Me EP (Tiny Tiny)
• Filter download: “Cityscape”
The Dance Party – Touch (features contributions from members of the Darkness, Neon Trees, more; Hell Ya!)
Darlings – Warma EP (Famous Class)
Miles Davis featuring Sonny Rollins – Dig (enhanced reissue; Concord)
Deluka – You Are the Night (digital version; available physically October 26; Vel)
• RCRD LBL download: “OMFG (Lauren Flax Remix)”
• PopMatters download: “Nevada”
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (LP version has album-download card; pre-orders come with a poster; 4AD)
Del Rey – Immemorial (only available as a 12-inch with CD included; At a Loss)
• album stream
Deluka – You Are the Night (digital only; physical version drops October 26; Vel)
Diamond Rings – “Something Else” 7-inch (limited to 500 copies; Secret City)
Duran Duran – Big Thing and Notorious (limited-edition remastered reissues; each has two CDs, one DVD, a poster and other ephemera; also available digitally; Capitol/EMI)
Electric Six – Zodiac (Metropolis)
Emil & Friends – Downed Economy EP (Cantora)
• Bad Penny download: “Short Order Cooks”
• Bad Penny download: “Girlfriend on Girlfriend (Phoenix + Michael)”
• Bad Penny download: “Josephine”
• Bad Penny download: Passion Pit’s “Passion Pit’s Sleepyhead (Emil & Friends Remix)”
Fences – Fences (produced by Tegan and Sara’s Sara Quin; Onto Entertainment/ ADA)
Fistful of Mercy (Joseph Arthur, Ben Harper and Dhani Harrison) – As I Call You Down (vinyl version; available in other formats October 5; Hot)
• Bad Penny download: “Fistful of Mercy”
The Flatliners – “Monumental” 7-inch (Fat Wreck Chords)
Flight – The Lead Riders EP (only available as a 12-inch limited to 500 copies; Zoo)
• Fader EP stream
Floored by Four (features Mike Watt, Nels Cline, more) – Floored by Four (Chimera)
• Bad Penny feature: “Revising History: Mike Watt On John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, More”
Frames – Mosaik (SPV)
Fucked Up – Year of the Ox 12-inch (available digitally and as a limited-edition 12-inch; features Zola Jesus’ Nika Roza Danilova; Merge)
Glasser – Ring (True Panther)
• True Panther download: “Mirrorage”
• True Panther download: “Home”
Chilly Gonzales – Ivory Tower (Arts & Crafts)
Grand Magus – Grand Magus and Monument (reissues; Metal Blade)
Grandchildren – Everlasting (Green Owl)
• free download: “Saturn Returns” (e-mail address required)
• Spinner album stream (expires September 25)
The Green Children – Dragons EP (features remixes by Paul Oakenfold and Digital Dog; Spinside)
Half-Handed Cloud – As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf, We Live-Out in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth (Asthmatic Kitty)
Halford – Halford IV: Made of Metal (Metal God)
Jesse Harris – Cosmo (Tzadik)
Heavy Hawaii – HH (12-inch is limited to 500 copies; digital version has five outtakes Art Fag)
• album stream
• Altered Zones download: “Sleeping Bag”
• Weekly Tape Deck download: “Teen Angel”
Highlife (Sleepy Doug Shaw) – Best Bless EP (features members of White Magic, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti and Gang Gang Dance; The Social Registry)
Hoodless – Music for Jerks (self-released)
The Hush Now – Shiver Me Starships EP (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “The Other Ones”
• free EP download (available beginning September 28)
Jimmy Eat World – Invented (DGC/Interscope)
In Grenada – Break (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Hills (Flooded Valleys)”
• Bad Penny download: “Distance and Temptation”
Klaxons – Surfing the Void (previously available on iTunes and overseas; produced by Ross Robinson; TinyOgre)
Axel Krygier – Pesebre (Crammed Discs)
James Labrie (Dream Theater singer) – Static Impulse (InsideOut)
• free download: “Mislead” (Twitter or Facebook referral required)
Joe Lapaglia – Soon (Moongadget)
Lazerbeak – Legend Recognize Legend (comes with DVD; Doomtree)
Liars – Live at Shepherds Bush Empire EP (five songs recorded in May 2010; iTunes exclusive; Mute)
Madball – “The Real American HC” 7-inch (limited to 400 copies; Reaper)
Benny Marchant – Conversations Missed EP (Marina)
• Blender EP stream
Meridene – Something Like Blood (produced and mixed by Peter Wolf Crier’s Brian Moen; Amble Down)
• AmbleDown.com download: “Parade of Fools”
The Most Serene Republic – Fantasick Impossibliss (Home of the Rebels)
My Chemical Romance – “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)” single (only available digitally; Reprise)
Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms (available as a double-CD and a double-LP on September 28; previously available digitally; deluxe edition with Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms Possessed, which consists of nine bonus remixes and cover songs by Toro y Moi, Javelin and more; Fader/ Static Tongues)
No Age – Everything in Between (Sub Pop)
♥♥♥ Nuclear Power Pants – Wicked Eats the Warrior (Anchor Brain)
• Bad Penny download: “Screwdriver”
Nymph (features members of Coyote and Dark Meat) – Nymph (available digitally and on CD; The Social Registry)
October Tide – A Thin Shell (Candlelight)
OMD – History of Modern (first new album in 14 years; domestic version, featuring exclusive track with Aretha Franklin guest appearance; Bright Antenna)
OSI – Office of Strategic Influence (reissue; limited-edition version comes with bonus video-enhanced CD featuring covers of Pink Floyd, Neil Young songs; Metal Blade)
Owen – “Abandoned Bridges” 7-inch (limited to 500 copies; includes cover of Wilco’s “I’m Always in Love”; Polyvinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Abandoned Bridges”
Paleo – A View of the Sky (Partisan)
Owen Pallett – A Swedish Love Story EP (Domino)
Parlour – Simulacrenfield (available on CD and vinyl; Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Peelander-Z – P-TV-Z (Chicken Ranch)
• Bad Penny download: “E-I-E-I-O”
Richard Pinhas – Metal/Crystal (double album; features Merzbow, Wolf Eyes, more; Cuneiform)
The Posies – Blood/Candy (features members of Broken Social Scene, the Stranglers, Letters to Cleo; Ryko)
• Bad Penny download: “Licenses to Hide” (features Broken Social Scene’s Lisa Lobsinger)
♥♥♥ Powerglove – Saturday Morning Apocalypse (E1 Metal)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Pro-Pain – Absolute Power (Regain)
• Stereokiller album stream
Refried Ice Cream – Witness to the Storm (Team Love)
The River City Rebels – Done With Love (available as a limited-edition colored LP and an iTunes download; Modhouse)
Luke Roberts – Big Bells and Dime Songs (LP version; Ecstatic Peace)
Mark Ronson & the Business Intl. – Record Collection (features contributions by Ghostface Killah, members of Duran Duran and the Drums, more; marks Ronson’s debut as a vocalist; RCA)
Sailors With Wax Wings – Sailors With Wax Wings (Angel Oven)
Salem – King Night (I Am Sound)
• Bad Penny download: “Asia (oOoOO Remix)”
• Stereogum download: “King Night”
The ♥♥♥ Secret – Solve Et Coagula (Southern Lord)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “Double Slaughter”
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
The Sleeping – The Big Deep (Victory)
Slipknot – “(Sic)nesses” DVD (June 2009 concert; also has documentary, videos; Roadrunner)
Soundgarden – Telephantasm (retrospective collection with one unreleased song; expanded version has two CDs, five unreleased songs and limited-edition DVD; deluxe three-LP version also available; limited-edition Super Deluxe Collector’s Edition collates all assets, also includes poster and other ephemera; A&M/UMe)
Adam Haworth Stephens (of Two Gallants) – We Live on Cliffs (pre-orders come with link to stream album, download it beginning September 14; pre-order bundles also include limited-edition silkscreen poster, exclusive T-shirt, more; Saddle Creek)
• free download: “Second Mind” (e-mail address required)
• free download: “The Cities That You’ve Burned” (e-mail address required)
♥♥♥ Sweet Cobra – Mercy (Black Market Activities)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Three Mile Pilot – The Inevitable Past Is the Future Forgotten (first album in 13 years; available on CD and vinyl; Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Tired Pony (features members of Belle & Sebastian, R.E.M. and Snow Patrol) – The Place We Ran From (Mom + Pop)
Twin Shadow – Forget (physical release; previously available digitally; produced by Chris Taylor; Terrible)
• Bad Penny download: “I Can’t Wait”
• Pitchfork download: “Slow”
• RCRD LBL download: “Slow (Gordon Voidwell Remix)”
Twin Shadow/ Violens – split single (7-inch version; previously available digitally; Terrible)
♥♥♥ Unearthly Trance – V (Relapse)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Univers Zero – Heresie (expanded and remixed reissue; Cuneiform)
The Upsidedown – The Town With Bad Wiring (Reverb)
Uz Jsme Doma – Caves/Jeskyne (Cuneiform)
Victoire – Cathedral City (features the National’s Bryce Dessner; New Amsterdam)
Hank Williams – Hank Williams Complete Mother Best Recordings … Plus! (collector’s box set containing 15 CDs and one DVD; Time Life)
The Wonder Years – The Upsides (reissue with four new songs; Hopeless)
♥♥♥ Women – Public Strain (Jagjaguwar)
• Bad Penny download: “Eyesore”
• Pitchfork download: “Narrow With the Hall”
XBXRX – O EP (available digitally and as a 7-inch limited to 500 copies; Polyvinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “I Can See”
Y La Bamba – Lupon (Tender Loving Empire)
• Bad Penny download: “Juniper”
Yaz – Reconnected Live (available as a two-CD limited-edition hardback with a download and other ephemera, and on iTunes with an exclusive bonus track; Mute)
Pete Yorn – Pete Yorn (produced by Frank Black; Vagrant)
• Bad Penny interview: Pete Yorn On Musicforthemorningafter: ‘It’s Too Clean’
• Bad Penny download: “Velcro Shoes”
• Bad Penny download: “Precious Stone”
Neil Young – Le Noise (also available as a deluxe CD/DVD; features Daniel Lanois on production and more; Reprise)
Yuppicide – Anthology: ’88-’98 (two-CD set featuring all the material the band recorded during that span; includes unreleased tracks, rare flyers, more ephemera; Dead City)
Various artists – … A Show of Love, Respect & Grace – A Tribute to Mick Karn (features members of Calla, Porcupine Tree, more; only available digitally; The Council)
Various artists – DJ Spinna & BBE Soundsystem Present Strange Games & Funky Things Volume 5 (two CDs; BBE)
Various artists – In Defense: A Benefit Album for the Civil Liberties Defense Center (only available digitally; features Willie Nelson, Pitch Black, more; Autonomous)
Various artists – “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” soundtrack (features new track by Broken Social Scene, additional songs by Pink Mountaintops, the Damned, more; iTunes version has exclusive new Broken Social Scene instrumental; Rhino)
Various artists – “Until the Light Takes Us” (Norwegian-black-metal documentary; limited-edition includes bonus DVD of material, including short film, outtakes, alternate endings and additional interviews with members of Enslaved, Mayhem, more; Factory 25)
• Bad Penny game: Extreme-Metal Word Search
• Bad Penny interview: “An Extremely Long Conversation About Extreme Metal With Albert Mudrain”
SEPTEMBER 27
Fops (features members of Thee More Shallows and Ral Partha Vogalbacher) – Yeth, Yeth, Yeth (Monotreme)
SEPTEMBER 24
Turzi – B (Record Makers)
• Bad Penny download: “Bombay”
SEPTEMBER 23
White Denim – Last Day of Summer (self-released)
• free album download
A Classic Education – Hey There Stranger EP (Lefse)
The Black Twig Pickers – Ironto Special (Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Don’t Drink Nothing but Corn”
Brass Bed – Melt White (Park the Van)
• Bad Penny download: “Begs Me Not to Beg”
• Bad Penny download: “Pop Mission”
Chuck Brown – We Got This (live CD/DVD surrounding Brown’s 74th birthday gig at Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club; also includes bonus CD featuring five new songs and appearances by Jill Scott, Ledisi, more; Raw Venture)
Tony Castles – No Service EP (Famous Class)
• Bad Penny download: “Black Girls in Dresses”
Clare and the Reasons – Live In Amsterdam (available on iTunes and CD; recorded in June; features Van Dyke Parks on a cover of Harry Nilsson’s “He Needs Me”; Frog Stand)
Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions (proper U.S. release; available at select indie stores; produced by Garth Richardson and mixed by Andy Wallace; Warner Bros.)
Copy – Hard Dream (includes R. Kelly remixes; Audio Dregs)
• XLR8R download: “Breakfast”
Amelia Curran – Hunter, Hunter (Six Shooter)
Luke Doucet – Steel City Trawler (Six Shooter)
Drunken Barn Dance (features members of Great Lakes Myth Society, Saturday Looks Good to Me, more) – Grey Buried (Quite Scientific)
• Bad Penny download: “A Winter’s Tale”
Dwarr – Animals (reissue; Drag City)
Karen Elson – “The Truth Is in the Dirt” single (available digitally and on vinyl; includes cover of Donovan’s “Season of the Witch”; Third Man/ XL)
Fake Problems – Real Ghosts Caught on Tape (SideOneDummy)
• free album track (e-mail address required)
Michael Franti & Spearhead – The Sound of Sunshine (Capitol/ Boo Boo Wax)
Future Islands – Undressed EP (limited number available; features Double Dagger’s Denny Bowen; Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Walking Through That Door”
The Green Children – “Dragons” single (features remixes from Paul Oakenfold, Digital Dog; Spinside)
Grubbs/Belfi/Pilia – Onrushing Cloud (Drag City)
Darren Hanlon – I Will Love You at All (features Shelley Short, Bright Eyes collaborator Rachel Blumberg, more; Yep Roc)
• Bad Penny download: “All These Things”
Twig Harper & Daniel Higgs – Clairaudience Fellowship (LP limited to 1,000 copies; Thrill Jockey)
How to Dress Well – How to Dress Well (digital version; CD and LP due October 19; Lefse)
• Pitchfork download: “Decisions (Featuring Yuksel Arslan)”
• Stereogum download: “Decisions (Spirit Animal Remix)”
The Hundred in the Hands – The Hundred in the Hands (Warp)
Klaxons – Surfing the Void (iTunes version only; available on other digital outlets September 28; previously available overseas; produced by Ross Robinson; TinyOgre)
La Otracina – Reality Has Got to Die (Holy Mountain)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “Raze the Sky”
John Legend & the Roots – Wake Up! (Columbia)
The Long Winters/ Spiral Stairs – split single (available digitally and as a limited-edition 7-inch with download code; Mt. Fuji)
Nick Lowe – At My Age – The Impossible Bird, Dig My Mood and The Convincer (LP reissues; all three albums on vinyl for the first time; Yep Roc)
Magnetic Island – Out at Sea EP (available digitally and on cassette limited to 125 copies; Disregard)
• Bandcamp download: “Sung (Not Said)”
• Spinner album stream
Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom – Duppy Writer (features Riddla; Big Dada)
• Pop Matters download: Duppy Writer mix
• RCRD LBL download: “Butterfly Crab Walk (Featuring Riddla)”
Meligrove Band – Shimmering Lights (Last Gang)
Midlake – Fortune EP (digital only; features alternate and live versions of songs from The Courage of Others; Yep Roc)
The Migrant – Travels in Lowland (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “In the Sun”
• Bad Penny download: “The Organ Grinder”
Vincent Minor – Vincent Minor (Social Science)
• Bad Penny download: “Heavy Metal Lover”
The Moaners – Nocturnal (Holiday for Quince)
• Bad Penny download: “Cowboy Bob”
• Bad Penny download: “Humid Air”
Roots Manuva vs. Wrongtom – Duppy Writer (Big Dada)
• RCRD LBL download: “Butterfly Crab Walk (Featuring Riddla)”
Opeth – “In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall” (available as a double-DVD with bonus features; a two-DVD and three-CD set; and as a two-DVD/four-LP limited-edition box with a lithograph and other ephemera; April 2010 performance; Roadrunner)
Pete International Airport – Pete International Airport (Custom Made)
• Bad Penny download: “21 Days”
Frankie Rose and the Outs – Frankie Rose and the Outs (Slumberland)
Laetitia Sadier – The Trip (Drag City)
John K. Samson (Weakerthans’ frontman) – Provincial Road 222 EP (available digitally and as a limited-edition 7-inch; Epitaph/Anti-)
Shit Robot – From the Cradle to the Rave (DFA)
• Bad Penny download: “Tuff Enuff (Radio Edit)”
• Bad Penny download: “I Found Love (Radio Edit)”
• XLR8R album stream
Strength – Mind-Reader (self-released)
Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (Young God)
Serj Tankian – Imperfect Harmonies (Serjical Strike/ Reprise)
Tegan and Sara – The Complete Recollection: 1999-2010 (includes their catalog plus the unreleased Live at the Phoenix 2005, all their videos and two documentaries; iTunes exclusive; Sire)
Thievery Corporation – It Takes a Thief (best-of collection; ESL)
Torche – Songs for Singles (Hydra Head)
• Adult Swim download: “Arrowhead”
• SPIN download: “Out Again”
• album stream
Vonnegutt – The Appetizer EP (reissue; Purple Ribbon/ Favorite Gentlemen)
• Bad Penny download: “Bright Eyes”
White Noise Sound – White Noise Sound (vinyl version is limited; Alive)
The Wonder Years – The Upsides (reissue with four bonus tracks and new artwork; Hopeless)
Xu Xu Fang – China Girl EP (self-released)
You Say Party – Remixxxx (only available digitally; Paper Bag)
Young Hunting – “Into Yr Mind” 7-inch (self-released; distributed by K)
Young Scamels (features members of Rachel’s, Rodan, Shipping News) – Tempest (File 13)
Various artists – Imaginational Anthem IV: New Possibilities (features members of Band of Horses, Lambchop, more; CD and LP include artwork by Paul Romano; LP limited to 500 copies; Tompkins Square)
Various artists – The State: Comedy for Gracious Living (unreleased material recorded in January 1996; Rhino Handmade)
Various artists – “Bored to Death” soundtrack (features TV on the Radio, Freelance Whales, more; WaterTower)
Various artists – “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” soundtrack (features songs by Owl City, more; WaterTower)
Various artists – “Trash Humpers” DVD (Drag City)
SEPTEMBER 20
U.S. Christmas – Run Thick in the Night (Neurot)
We Are Standard – “Don’t Give Up (John Talabot’s Slowing It Down Remix)” single (only available digitally; Mushroom Pillow)
Various artists – Ninja Tune XX (box set consisting of six CDs, six 7-inches and a hardcover book housed in three hardcover cases in a hardback box; features exclusive tracks and remixes by Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, El-P, more; non-exclusive material to be made available digitally and on CD; Ninja Tune)
SEPTEMBER 19
Wolfgang Gartner – “Animal Rights (Featuring Deadmau5)” single (Ultra)
SEPTEMBER 17
Acid Washed – Acid Washed (Record Makers)
• Bad Penny download: “Acid Washed (Danger Remix)”
The 88 – The 88 (self-produced; iTunes only; available elsewhere September 28; 88/ Rocket Science)
• AOL download: “Center of the Sun”
The Absence – Enemy Unbound (Metal Blade)
Accept – Blood of the Nations (U.S. version; European edition dropped in late August; Nuclear Blast)
The Animals – Animalism (vinyl reissue; Sundazed)
Azure Ray – Drawing Down the Moon (deluxe edition limited to 100 copies and bundle with T-shirt, signed poster and other ephemera also available; Saddle Creek)
• free download: “Make Your Heart” (e-mail address required)
• free download: “Don’t Leave My Mind” (e-mail address required)
Bad Cop – Harvest the Beast (Roir)
• Bad Penny download: “One in the Same”
The Bad Plus – Never Stop (first album of all-original songs; E1)
Banner Pilot – Resignation Day (Fat Wreck Chords)
♥♥♥ Bear in Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth (reissue with bonus CD of remixes by Justin Broadrick, the Field, more; Hometapes)
• Bad Penny download: “Ultimate Satisfaction (The Field Remix)”
• Pitchfork download: “Lovesick Teenagers”
• Village Voice download: “Wholehearted Mess”
Beneath the Massacre – Marée Noire EP (Prosthetic)
Bishop Morocco (features ex-Deadly Snakes member Jim Sayce) – Bishop Morocco (Hand Drawn Dracula)
• Bad Penny download: “Last Year’s Disco Guitars”
The Black Angels – Phosphene Dream (produced and mixed by Dave Sardy; Blue Horizon)
Black Milk – Album of the Year (features Royce Da 5′ 9″, Danny Brown, more; Fat Beats/ Decon)
• Bad Penny download: “Closed Chapter (Featuring Mr. Porter)”
Black Mountain – Wilderness Heart (produced by Dave Sardy and Randall Dunn; Jagjaguwar)
• free download: “Old Fangs” (e-mail address required)
The Black Pacific (features ex-Pennywise member Jim Lindberg) – The Black Pacific (SideOneDummy)
Blonde Redhead – Penny Sparkle (LP has album-download coupon; CD version is limited, comes in a flip-top box and includes a poster; 4AD)
Blue Cranes – Observatories (self-released)
Boom Boom Satellites – Over and Over (digital version; available on other formats October 19; best-of collection; Sony Independent Network)
The Brokedowns – Species Bender (physical version; previously available digitally; Fat Wreck Chords)
Brutal Truth – Need to Control (reissue with five bonus tracks, including Pink Floyd and Celtic Frost covers; double-LP deluxe edition limited to 100 copies; double-LP and CD sets also available in other bundles; Earache)
Buke and Gass – Riposte (Brassland)
Armin van Buuren – Mirage (features BT, Adam Young, more; Ultra)
Clare Burson – Silver and Ash (Rounder)
The Chapin Sisters – Two (Lake Bottom)
• Bad Penny feature: “Chapin Sisters Reveal Best Songs To Get Dressed To”
The Charlatans – Who We Touch (The End)
• Bad Penny download: “Love Is Ending”
Chocolate Genius Inc. – Swansongs (One Little Indian)
Chromeo – Business Casual (iTunes version comes with bonus song featuring Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig; Atlantic)
Cloud Cult – Light Chasers (Earthology)
Conditions – Fluorescent Youth (available digitally via iTunes and ShockHound; CD version available at Hot Topic, Best Buy and FYE; Good Fight)
Amelia Curran – Hunter, Hunter (previously available in Canada; Six Shooter)
Das Racist – Sit Down, Man mixtape (features Diplo, El-P, more; Diplo/ Mad Decent)
Davila 666 – Mala EP (In the Red)
• Bad Penny concert review: “FYF Fest 2010: Sleep Are Reawakened, Growlers Are Scary-Good, Titus Andronicus Prove Weak
Dawn of Ashes – Genocide Chapters (Metal Blade)
The Dead Weather – “Blue Blood Blues” single (available as a 7-inch/12-inch Triple Decker Record limited to 300 copies; as an alternate 7-inch; and as an alternate 12-inch; Third Man)
Matthew Dear – “Little People (Black City)” single (available digitally and as a limited-edition 12-inch; features remixes by Mark E; Ghostly International)
Death Angel – Relentless Retribution (Nuclear Blast)
DragonForce – Twilight Dementia (double-CD of concert material from 2008-’09 tour; Roadrunner)
The Drums – The Drums (CD version; previously available digitally and on vinyl; Downtown)
Dungen – Skit I Allt (available digitally and as an LP limited to 3,000 copies; Mexican Summer)
Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues (Bloodshot)
Jimmy Edgar – XXX (previously available overseas; !K7)
El Guincho – Pop Negro (LP has album-download coupon and poster; Young Turks)
• ElGuincho.com download: “FM Tan Sexy”
Eluvium – Leaves Eclipse the Light EP (only available as a video-enhanced CD limited to 2,000 copies; also has Four Tet remix; Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Eyes Around – Alpha EP (digital version; World Citizen)
Father Befouled – Morbid Destitution of Covenant (Relapse)
Fever Ray – “Mercy Street” single (Peter Gabriel cover; digital only; Mute)
Brandon Flowers – Flamingo (Island)
Betsy Franck & the BareKnuckle Band – Still Waiting (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “City of Gold”
• Bad Penny download: “Lowdown”
Free Energy/ Local Natives – split single (remixes by Fool’s Gold’s Lewis Pesacov; also available on limited-edition 7-inch; White Iris)
• Stereogum download: “Bang Pop (Fool’s Gold Remix)”
Chilly Gonzales – Ivory Tower (soundtrack to film of the same name; produced by Boys Noize; Arts & Crafts)
• RCRD LBL download: “Never Stop (Rap Mix)”
The Gracious Few – The Gracious Few (produced by Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison; Questionable Entertainment)
Grinderman (features Nick Cave) – Grinderman 2 (iTunes version has four bonus tracks – including Robert Fripp collaboration – plus videos, digital booklet, other ephemera; also available as a CD, limited-edition deluxe CD, LP with CD and regular download; Anti-)
Herra Terra – Quiet Geist (The Mylene Sheath)
Bill Hicks – The Essential Collection (retrospective box set with two CDs, two DVDs and Lo-Fi Troubadour download card; includes previously unreleased audio and video material; Ryko)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “Please Do Not Disturb” (previously unreleased)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “Turn Your Mind Over to Your Heart” (from Lo-Fi Troubadour)
• Vanity Fair video stream: “The Early Years” (previously unreleased)
The Hollies – Hear! Here! and Here I Go Again (mono vinyl reissues; Sundazed)
Infantree – Would Work (Vapor)
Joan of Arc – Cassette Box Set (career-encompassing box set containing 10 cassettes plus digital downloads; limited to 100 copies; Joyful Noise)
Junip (features José González) – Rope & Summit EP (digital release; vinyl release due in June exclusively to indie retailers; Mute)
• free EP download (e-mail address required)
Kamelot – Poetry for the Poisoned (EarMusic)
Fela Kuti – Opposite People/ Sorrow, Tears and Blood; Shuffering & Shmiling/ No Agreement; Stalemate/ Fear Not for Man; Upside Down/ Music of Many Colours; V.I.P./ Authority Stealing; and Zombie (Knitting Factory)
• Bad Penny download: “Zombie”
La Dispute + Touche Amore – “Searching for a Pulse/ The Worth of the World” 7-inch (No Sleep)
Led to Sea (Mirah and Laura Viers touring musician Alex Guy) – Into The Darkening Sky (Eleven)
• Bad Penny download: “Is This the Last Time”
♥♥♥ Les Savy Fav – Root for Ruin (Frenchkiss)
• Pitchfork download: “Let’s Get Out of Here”
Lobisomem – Onze Pedras (engineered by John McEntire; Tall Corn)
• Ears of the Beholder download: “She’s Made of Clay”
• XLR8R download: “Concussus”
The Lonely Forest – The Lonely Forest E.P. (digital only; Trans)
• Bad Penny download: “Live There”
Megafaun – Heretofore EP (Hometapes)
MF Doom – Expektoration Feat. Big Benn Klingon (Gold Dust)
Ingrid Michaelson – “Parachute” single (available on iTunes; Cabin 24/ Mom + Pop)
André Obin – Front Runner (available digitally and on CD; Moongadget)
• Bad Penny download: “The Arsonist”
Oceansize – Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up (Superball)
• free download: “SuperImposer” (Facebook or Twitter referral required)
Of Montreal – False Priest (cassette version, limited to 500 hand-numbered copies and featuring download card, available on Joyful Noise; available on other formats via Polyvinyl; CD, double-LP and cassette come with MP3)
• Bad Penny download: “Coquet Coquette”
The Open Sea (Ari Hest and Rosi Golan) – Little Apple EP (available on iTunes; self-released)
Orgone – Killion Vaults (instrumental album; Ubiquity)
Robert Plant – Band of Joy (features Patty Griffin, Byron House, more; includes covers of songs by Low, Los Lobos, others; co-produced by Plant and Buddy Miller; Rounder)
Prince Rama – Shadow Temple (Paw Tracks)
• Pitchfork download: “Lightening Fossil”
Madame Récamier – Chocolate (Cosmica)
School of Seven Bells – Heart Is Strange EP (digital only; title track plus three remixes; Vagrant)
• free download: “ILU (Phantogram Remix)” (e-mail address or referral required)
• Bad Penny download: “ILU”
Screaming Females – Castle Talk (Don Giovanni)
Secret Cities – “Oh Holiday” single (B-side is a cover of “You Don’t Know,” written by Ellie Greenwich; Western Vinyl)
Jason Simon (Dead Meadow frontman) – Jason Simon (Tee Pee)
Sodom – Better Off Dead (SPV)
Starfucker – “Julius” single (digital version; 7-inch available October 12; Polyvinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Julius”
• Bad Penny download: “Julius (Painted Palms Remix) MP3”
Superchunk – Majesty Shredding (Merge)
• Bad Penny download: “Digging for Something”
• Bad Penny interview: “Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan And Laura Ballance Open Up About Shutting Up, Running Merge And More”
• Bad Penny interview: “Superchunk’s Laura Ballance In 1998: ‘The Music Industry Is Nuts Right Now’ ”
System Divide – (features members of Aborted, Malignancy, more) The Conscious Sedation (Metal Blade)
Tamaryn – The Waves (available digitally and as an LP limited to 3,000 copies; Mexican Summer)
Teengirl Fantasy – 7AM (True Panther Sounds)
• Bad Penny download: “Cheaters”
Terror – Keepers of the Faith (produced by New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert; Century Media)
J. Tillman – Singing Ax (only available on vinyl; recorded by Steve Albini; mastered by Bob Weston; Western Vinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Diamondback”
• Bad Penny download: “Three Sisters”
Tarja Turunen – What Lies Beneath (features All That Remains’ Phil Labonte, Joe Satriani, more; deluxe edition has three bonus tracks; The End)
Underworld – Barking (available as a CD, a CD/DVD, a double-12-inch, a special-edition box set, a download and an iTunes download with one bonus track; Cooking Vinyl/ OM)
• album stream
UNKLE – The Answer EP (available as a limited-edition CD and a limited-edition 12-inch; has two new tracks: one featuring Lupe Fiasco and a remix by Tim Goldsworthy; Surrender All)
• RCRL LBL download: “Runaway, Lupe’s Revenge (Lupe Fiasco vs UNKLE Reconstruction)”
• free download: “Set No Sun” (e-mail address required)
The Wagner Logic – The Wagner Logic (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Waiting for Snow”
Weezer – Hurley (Epitaph)
• Bad Penny interview: “Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo In 2002: ‘I Think I Had A Falling Out With The Fans’ ”
• Bad Penny interview: “Weezer’s Brian Bell Was ‘Overwhelmed’ By Maladroit Material”
White Sea (M83’s Morgan Kibby) – “Heart Is Strange” single (digital only; self-released)
Selene Vigil-Wilk (of 7 Year Bitch) – That Was Then (Tuck and Roll)
• Bad Penny download: “I Brought the Rain With Me”
Jen Wood – Finds You in Love (New Granada)
• Bad Penny download: “Morning Light”
• Bad Penny download: “Pills”
Various artists – We Were So Turned On (two CDs; iTunes version has eight bonus tracks; David Bowie tribute; features Warpaint, Vivian Girls, Duran Duran, more; all proceeds go to War Child charity; Manimal Vinyl)
• My Old Kentucky Blog download: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros’ “Memory of a Free Festival” (e-mail address required)
SEPTEMBER 13
Autopsy – The Tomb Within EP (available as a CD and a 12-inch limited to 1,000 numbered copies; CD pre-orders come with postcard; first new release in more than a decade; Peaceville)
Lungfish – Pass and Stow (reissue; Dischord)
Robert Plant – Band of Joy (features reinterpretations of American songbook selections; Rounder)
Three – Dark Days Coming (reissue; available digitally and as a 12-inch; Dischord)
Various artists – Young & Research (features Dream Cop, more; available exclusively on Bandcamp; Tough Love)
SEPTEMBER 10
Kavinsky – “Nightcall (Featuring CSS’ Lovefoxxx)” single (produced by Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo; Record Makers)
My Gold Mask – “A Million Miles (From Where We Were Last)” single (Goldy Tapes)
• Bandcamp download (available beginning September 10): “A Million Miles (From Where We Were Last)”
Swashbuckle – Crime Always Pays … (Europe only; Nuclear Blast)
Sébastien Tellier – Sexuality Remix (features remixes by A-Trak, Boys Noize, more; Record Makers)
• Bad Penny download: “Kilometer (A-Trak Remix)”
SEPTEMBER 8
Amon Tobin – untitled limited-edition 12-inch picture-disc EP (includes MP3 and WAV files, a T-shirt, a poster, more; only available at AmonTobin.com)
The Acorn – No Ghost (previously available digitally; Bella Union)
• My Old Kentucky Blog download: “Kindling to Cremation (Megafaun Remix)”
The Airborne Toxic Event – “All I Ever Wanted: Live From the Walt Disney Concert Hall” DVD (Island)
Atmosphere – To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EPs (two EPs; Rhymesayers)
The Beatles – “The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring the Beatles” DVD (two discs; Sofa/UMe)
Boredoms – “77 Boa Drum” DVD (previously available in Japan; U.S. version comes with postcards, new artwork; Thrill Jockey)
The Brokedowns – Species Bender (available digitally; physical version drops September 14; Fat Wreck Chords)
Ô Paon (Geneviève Castrée, who previously recorded as Woelv) – Courses (Ô Paon)
Cloudland Canyon – Fin Eaves (Holy Mountain)
• Altered Zones download: “No One Else Around”
• Stereogum download: “Mothlight Part 2”
Constants – If Tomorrow the War (available digitally and on vinyl limited to 250 hand-numbered copies; produced by Justin Broadrick; features members of Tombs, Comeback Kid; Science of Silence)
Debutaunts – Why Can’t We Have Fun (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Everything’s Perfect”
Electric Sunset (ex-Desolation Wilderness frontman Nic Zwart) – Electric Sunset (K)
The Factory (features ex-Obsessed member Vance Bockis) – The Factory (Acetate)
Fever Ray – “Mercy Street” single (Peter Gabriel cover; available digitally and as a 7-inch with one bonus track; Mute)
Gasoline Silver – Gasoline Silver (Victorian Pictures)
Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner (digital only; physical version available October 12; Ghostly International)
Goldfrapp – “Believer” single (includes remixes; Mute)
Grinderman – “Heathen Child” single (available digitally and as a limited-edition 12-inch; vinyl includes a bonus track featuring Robert Fripp and a poster; Anti-)
Helmet – Seeing Eye Dog (Work Song)
Hood Internet/ Kid Static – split 7-inch (Whistler)
Hot Chip – We Have Remixes EP (features remixes by Caribou, Hot City, more; EMI)
The Intelligence – Males (In the Red)
Interpol – Interpol (Matador)
Jukebox the Ghost – Everything Under the Sun (Yep Roc)
• My Old Kentucky Blog download: “Empire (Freelance Whales Remix)”
Maynard James Keenan – “Blood Into Wine” (DVD/Blu-Ray; documentary involving Keenan’s wine vineyard; also features Bob Odenkirk, Milla Jovovich, Patton Oswalt, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim; bonus features include interviews, Puscifer performances and deleted scenes; Puscifer Entertainment)
Let’s Wrestle – “Getting Rest” single (digital only; Merge)
Jerry Lee Lewis – Mean Old Man – Deluxe Edition (Verve Forecast)
Loch & Key (features members of American Music Club, the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, more) – Jupiter’s Guide for Submariners (self-released)
Megadeth – Rust in Peace Live (available as a DVD and a CD; Shout! Factory)
Nils Petter Molvaer – Hamada (Thirsty Ear)
Neon Bastard – Meikhaus (Robotic Empire)
No Redeeming Social Value – High in Holland (live video-enhanced CD; Dead City)
Oval – O (available as a double LP or double CD; vinyl includes six exclusive bonus tracks, digital-download coupon; Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Ah!”
Sam Prekop (Sea and Cake frontman) – Old Punch Card (only available on CD and vinyl; each come with hand-painted covers; Thrill Jockey)
Puscifer – Sound Into Blood Into Wine (“Blood Into Wine” soundtrack; Puscifer Entertainment)
Robyn – Body Talk PT 2 (features Snoop Dogg, Diplo, more; Cherrytree)
Siskiyou – Siskiyou (Constellation)
• free download: “This Land” (e-mail required)
Southern Culture on the Skids – The Kudzu Ranch (Kudzu)
• free download: “Pig Pickin’” (e-mail address required)
Stone Axe – Stone Axe (deluxe-vinyl reissue; includes one bonus track; deluxe-CD/DVD version with additional bonus tracks due later this year; Ripple)
Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy (Roadrunner)
STLS (features members of Explode Into Colors and Cadallaca) – “Drumcore” 7-inch (comes with download; Kill Rock Stars)
Suicidal Tendencies – No Mercy Fool!/ The Suicidal Family (re-recorded versions of early songs; Suicidal)
Sungod – First Matter (Cyclopean)
The Superbees – Top of the Rocks EP (Acetate)
The Tallest Man on Earth – Sometimes the Blues Is Just a Passing Bird EP (iTunes release; available in other formats on November 9; Dead Oceans)
Tera Melos – Patagonian Rats (Sargent House)
• Bandcamp download: “Frozen Zoo”
The Thermals – Personal Life (CD and LP versions come with download; first 200 orders come with poster and buttons; produced by Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla; Kill Rock Stars)
Andreya Triana – Lost Where I Belong (Ninja Tune)
Truckasaurus – Quarters (Fourth City/ Journal of Popular Noise)
Two Hours Traffic – Territory (Bumstead)
• Bad Penny download: “Happiness Burns”
• Bad Penny download: “Noisemaker”
Unicycle Loves You – Mirror, Mirror (Highwheel)
• Bad Penny download: “Mountain Lungs”
• Bad Penny download: “Mirror, Mirror”
Wait. Think. Fast. – Luces del Sur (physical release; previously available digitally; AT)
Winter Gloves – All Red (Paper Bag)
• URB download: “Plastic Slides”
• URB download: “Plastic Slides (Teen Daze Remix)”
SEPTEMBER 6
Armagedda – I Am EP (Eisenwald/Nordvis)
Bee vs. Moth – Acronyms (available digitally and on CD; Aggraveire)
My Jerusalem – Gone for Good (One Little Indian)
Summer Camp – Young EP (digital version; available on other platforms in spring 2011; Moshi Moshi)
SEPTEMBER 1
Brent Amaker and the Rodeo – Pink EP (Spark & Shine)
Big Gigantic – A Place Behind the Moon (features STS9; 1320)
Signal Path – Imaginary Lines (self-released)
• free album (e-mail address required)
Various artists – “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” soundtrack (Extreme/ Fox/ FX)
Quest for Fire's Lights From Paradise
Kyle Andrews – Kangaroo E.P. (Elephant Lady)
• Filter download: “Lov3r” (e-mail address required)
Doug Benson – Hypocritical Oaf (with DVD; Comedy Central)
Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket guitarist) – All Birds Say (ATO)
• Bad Penny download: “Heaven Knows”
Brothers Young – Good People EP (Emeritus)
• Bad Penny download: “Good Deeds”
• Magnet download: “The Roman Sun”
Dillon Campbell – Save Yourself EP (Silver Zipper)
Cephalic Carnage – Misled by Certainty (Relapse)
Chingón (features Robert Rodriguez) – Mexican Spaghetti Western (Bonus Edition) (digital reissue with four bonus tracks from Rodriguez’s “Machete” movie; Rocket Racing Rebels)
Clean Equations – People/Variables (State Capital)
• Bad Penny download: “A Little More 14 On 26”
• Bad Penny download: “Buried Translations”
The Clientele – Minotaur EP (available digitally and as a limited-edition CD; Merge)
Leonard Cohen – “Bird on a Wire” DVD (reissue of 1972 tour documentary; MVD Visual)
Comeback Kid – Symptoms + Cures (enhanced CD also has songs without vocals; Victory)
Complete Failure – Heal No Evil (Relapse)
The Contortionist – Exoplanet (produced by Unearth’s Ken Susi; Good Fight)
Cornershop – “In June” single (includes Ayumu remix; Ample Play)
The Cribs – “Housewife” single (digital version only available on iTunes; 7-inch also available; Wichita)
Devils Brigade (features Rancid bassist Matt Freeman) – Devils Brigade (Hellcat)
Dunes – “Old Souls” single (7-inch limited to 500 copies; digital version has one bonus track; produced by Best Coast’s Bobb Brunoof; Art Fag)
Film School – Fission (FFO)
• Bad Penny download: “Heart Full of Pentagons”
From a Fountain – Shale & Sandstone (Park the Van)
Goo Goo Dolls – Something for the Rest of Us (Warner Bros.)
• Sarasota Herald-Tribune interview: “Goo Goo Dolls‘ Johnny Rzeznik Feels Your Pain”
Jarrod Gorbel (features members of Azure Ray, Mystic Valley Band, more) – Devil’s Made a New Friend (produced by Rilo Kiley’s Blake Sennett; Burning-house/Gorbel)
Heart – Red Velvet Car (Legacy)
Hero Destroyed – Throes (Relapse)
Infernaeon – Genesis to Nemesis (features Gwar’s Oderus Urungus, Hate Eternal’s Erik Rutan, more; includes cover of Metallica’s “Creeping Death”; Prosthetic)
Interment – Into the Crypts of Blasphemy (Pulverised)
Rafael Anton Irisarri (of the Sight Below) – The North Bend (Room 40)
Jenny and Johnny (features Johnathan Rice and Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis) – I’m Having Fun Now (Warner Bros.)
• Amoeba download: “Animal”
Jon Lemmon – Kindling EP (self-produced; self-released)
• Bandcamp EP download
Magic Kids – Memphis (True Panther Sounds)
• Bad Penny concert review: “FYF Fest 2010: Sleep Are Reawakened, Growlers Are Scary-Good, Titus Andronicus Prove Weak
MakeupBreakup – Scents (Cozy)
Matt & Kim – “Cameras” single (Fader)
Midnight Juggernauts – The Crystal Axis (international CD version only; international digital and vinyl versions dropped in late May; international limited-edition two-CD deluxe set also available; North American release due December 12; Siberia/Acephale)
• Bad Penny download: “Lara Vs. the Savage Pack (Kisses Remix)”
Motörhead – Icon (archival material; Sanctuary/UMe)
Murderdolls – Women and Children Last (Roadrunner)
Mux Mool – Wax Rose Saturday EP (only available digitally; includes seven remixes and one additional track; Moodgadget)
• Bad Penny download: “Enceladus (Daso Remix)”
• Bad Penny download: “Hog Knuckles (Alex B Remix)”
Neon Indian – Psychic Chasms (digital version; available as a double-CD and a double-LP on September 28; deluxe edition; Fader/ Static Tongues)
Nightfall – Astron Black and the Thirty Tyrants (Metal Blade)
Nirvana – Icon (available as a single or double CD; archival material; Sanctuary/UMe)
The Other – New Blood (exclusive digipak, limited to 1,000 copies and featuring bonus CD with covers of Johnny Cash and Damned songs, available at FYE; SPV/Steamhammer)
Portico Quartet – Isla (produced by John Leckie; Real World)
Quest for Fire – Lights From Paradise (Tee Pee)
Philip Selway (Radiohead drummer) – Familial (Nonesuch)
She & Him – “Thieves” 7-inch (limited edition; Merge)
She Has a Fashion Vice – Stop Stalking, Start Sweating (Static Age)
Shonen Knife – Fun! Fun! Fun! (English-language reissue; available digitally and on vinyl; Good Charamel) and Free Time (English-language reissue with two bonus tracks; Good Charamel)
Sonny and the Sunsets – Tomorrow Is Alright (Fat Possum/ Soft Abuse)
Street Dogs – Street Dogs (Hellcat)
Tegan and Sara – The Official Vinyl Collection Box Set (includes five albums on vinyl for the first time and bonus LP Home Recordings; pre-orders come with limited-edition signed poster; Warner Bros.)
Telekinesis – Parallel Seismic Conspiracies EP (CD version is limited; features covers of songs by Guided by Voices and Warsaw; Merge)
Ten Kens – For Posterity (Last Gang)
• This Is Fake DIY download: “Screaming Viking”
Richard Thompson – Dream Attic (special edition with bonus CD of demos available at RichardThompsonDreamAttic.com; Shout! Factory)
• free download: “Big Sun Falling in the River” (e-mail address required)
Tracey Thorn – Opposites EP (previously available exclusively at Beatport; digital-only remixes collection; Merge)
• Bad Penny download: “Kentish Town (Walls Remix)”
TV Buddhas – TV Buddhas EP (We Are Busy Bodies)
• Bad Penny exclusive: TV Buddhas’ third vlog premiere
• Bad Penny feature: “Great Debate: TV Buddhas On Supermarket Lunches Vs. Eating Out”
• Bad Penny download: “Fun Girls”
The Weepies – Be My Thrill (Nettwerk)
Within the Ruins – Invade (Victory)
Young Man – Boy EP (digital version; available physically October 12; Frenchkiss)
• Bad Penny download: “Five”
• Bad Penny download: “Up So Fast”
Various artists – I Love J-Rock (features Shonen Knife, more; Good Charamel)
AUGUST 30
Hot as Sun – “Come Come” single (self-released)
• Bandcamp download: “Come Come” (e-mail address required)
How to Dress Well – “Ecstasy With JoJo/ Take It On” 7-inch (limited to 300 copies; Transparent)
Logo – “La Vie Moderne”
• Fairtilizer download: mini-mix (e-mail address required)
Neurosis – Enemy of the Sun (reissue; Neurot) and Live at Roadburn (Neurot)
The Weepies – Be My Thrill (Nettwerk)
AUGUST 27
Sonic Syndicate – We Rule the Night (European release; Nuclear Blast)
Abner Trio – The Giant Crushes You (Joyful Noise)
• Bad Penny download: “Let Go of the Dream”
• Bad Penny download: “You’re Gorgeous, Believe It!”
All Tiny Creatures – “An Iris” single (features Justin Vernon; Hometapes) and An Iris Mixtape (cassette limited to 250 copies; features Justin Vernon and the Caribbean’s Matthew Byars; Hometapes)
Antony and the Johnsons – Thank You for Your Love EP (Secretly Canadian)
Aphasia – The Crocodile Society of Aphasia (White Wabbit/ Arts & Crafts)
Apocalyptica – 7th Symphony (includes eight instrumentals and four songs with vocals; features Gavin Rossdale, members of Slayer and Gojira, more; produced by Joe Barresi and Howard Benson; Jive)
Back Ted N-Ted – The Mirror (Modern Art)
• Bad Penny download: “The Mirror”
• Bad Penny download: Imogen Heap’s “Imogen Heap’s Say Goodnight and Go (BTNT Remix)”
Barb (features Liam Finn, Lawrence Arabia, more) – Barb (Yep Roc)
Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg – J’Taime…Moi Non Plus (deluxe reissue of 1969 album; available as a CD and an LP; Light in the Attic)
James Blackshaw – All Is Falling (Young God)
Blind Guardian – At the Edge of Time (deluxe digipak has bonus CD, exclusive digital content, more; Nuclear Blast)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Hawk (also features Willy Mason; includes two Townes Van Zandt covers; Vanguard)
S. Carey (of Bon Iver) – All We Grow (Jagjaguwar)
Christian Mistress – Agony & Opium (20 Buck Spin)
• Stereogum download: “Home in the Sun”
City of Fire (features Fear Factory’s Burton C. Bell and Byron Stroud) – City of Fire (Candlelight)
Cloudland Canyon – “Mothlight, Pt. 2” 7-inch (limited to 300 copies; Bathetic)
• Stereogum download: “Mothlight, Pt. 2”
Coil Sea (Arbouretum’s Dave Heumann and friends) – Coil Sea (available on vinyl only; limited to 1,000 copies; features artwork by the Sea and Cake’s Archer Prewitt; Thrill Jockey)
Elvis Costello – Pomp & Pout – The Universal Years (archival collection; Hip-O)
Paul Collins – Big Red & Barbacoa (Alive)
Dandy Warhols – The Capitol Years: 1995-2007 (includes one new song; Capitol/EMI)
Dead Confederate – Sugar (includes guest appearance by J. Mascis; TAO/ Old Flame)
• Bad Penny download: “Run From the Gun”
Sarah Jezebel Deva – A Sign of Sublime (Candlelight)
The Devil Wears Prada – Zombie EP (deluxe iTunes version comes with two live videos; Hot Topic edition includes comic book; Ferret)
Dimmu Borgir – “Gateways” single (available on iTunes; Nuclear Blast)
Eels – That’s Not Her Way (vinyl edition already available; Tomorrow Morning)
Fennesz/Daniell/Buck – Knoxville (available digitally and on CD; concert album featuring performance from February 2009; Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Antonia (Edit)”
Filligar – The Nerve (self-released)
Fitz & the Tantrums – Pickin’ Up the Pieces (Dangerbird)
• free download: “MoneyGrabber” (e-mail address required)
The Foxymorons – Bible Stories (Foxyphoton)
• Bad Penny download: “Skinny Cow Blues”
• Bad Penny download: “Say It Aloud”
Grass Widow – Past Time (CD and LP come with download; first 100 pre-orders come with button; Kill Rock Stars)
• Impose download: “11 of Diamonds”
• Fader download: “Fried Egg”
• Stereogum download: “Shadow”
Neil Hamburger – Hot February Night (Drag City)
Jesse Harris – Through the Night (Secret Sun/ Mercer Street)
Heavy Cream – Danny (Infinity Cat)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “Watusi”
Imbogodom (features Alexander Tucker) – The Metallic Year (only available on vinyl; limited to 1,000 copies; Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Unseen Ticket”
Ion Dissonance – Cursed (Century Media)
Jesu – Pale Sketches Demixed (Ghostly International)
JP Chrissie & the Fairground Boys (features Chrissie Hynde; mixed by Bob Clearmountain) – Fidelity! (La Mina)
Kataklysm – Heaven’s Venom (Nuclear Blast)
Katatonia – Night Is the New Day (special edition of previously available album; has one bonus track, hardback book, more; Peaceville)
Land of Talk – Cloak and Cipher (features members of Arcade Fire, Stars, Besnard Lakes; available as three bundles with a magnet set, a signed poster and a signed notebook; Saddle Creek)
• free download: “Swift Coin” (e-mail address required)
• free download: “Quarry Hymns” (e-mail address required)
Brad Laner – Natural Selections (Hometapes)
Dylan LeBlanc – Pauper’s Field (LP has album-download coupon; Rough Trade)
Nils Lofgren – I Came to Dance (reissue; Hip-O Select)
Los Campesinos! – All’s Well That Ends EP (digital only; Arts & Crafts)
Malevolent Creation – Invidious Dominion (produced by Hate Eternal’s Erik Rutan; Nuclear Blast)
Miami Horror – Illumination (EMI)
Lana Mir – Lana Mir (Unfiltered)
Mirah – “Gone Are All the Days” 12-inch (previously available digitally; K)
Mogwai – “Burning”/Special Moves (live DVD and CD; limited edition; Rock Action)
• free download: “New Paths to Helicon Pt. 1” (e-mail address required)
Land of Talk – Cloak and Cipher (features members of the Arcade Fire, Stars, more; Saddle Creek)
• free download: “Quarry Hymns” (e-mail address required)
Lana Mir – Lana Mir (Unfiltered)
• Bad Penny download: “I Wanna Be Adored” (Stone Roses cover)
Gary Numan – untitled box set (includes The Plan; The Pleasure Principle; Replicas; and Tubeway Army; Vinyl 180 label)
Oberhofer – “o0O0o0O0o” 7-inch (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “I Could Go”
• Stereogum download: “Dontneedya”
Conan O’Brien – And They Call Me Mad? (features Jack White; Third Man)
Oholics – Disgraceland (Lose It)
Ra Ra Riot – The Orchard (mixed by Chris Walla and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij; Barsuk)
Rattlehead – Tales From the Gutter (available on iTunes; self-released)
Revolver – Music for a While (previously available overseas; Astralwerks)
• My Old Kentucky Blog download: “Luke, Mike & John (Demo)”
• PopMatters download: “Do You Have a Gun? (Demo)”
Jeff Rowe – Barstool Conversations (Anchorless)
Royal Trux – Cats and Dogs (reissue; Drag City)
The Showdown – Blood in the Gears (Solid State)
Juston Stens & the Get Real Gang (ex-Dr. Dog member) – Get Real EP (Park the Van)
• free EP download (Facebook or Twitter referral required)
Sungod – First Matter (Cyclopean)
The Sword – Warp Riders (produced by Matt Bayles; Kemado)
• Metal Sucks download: “Tres Brujas”
Terrapin Pond – Calling All Stations (Garden Gate)
• Bad Penny download: “Medicines and Motions”
Tracey Thorn – Opposites EP (Beatport exclusive; available wide on August 31; digital-only remixes collection; Merge)
• Bad Penny download: “Kentish Town (Walls Remix)”
The Torches – The Torches EP (available digitally and on vinyl; Lujo)
• Bad Penny download: “Mr. Vampire”
Trigger the Bloodshed – Degenerate (Candlelight)
Trumans Water – O Zeta Zunis (Asthmatic Kitty)
Vampire Weekend – “Holiday” 7-inch (XL)
• Bad Penny Contra album review
Jenny Wilson – Hardships! (features El Perro Del Mar and Mapei; Gold Metal Recordings)
• Bad Penny download: “Hardships (Gospel Version)”
• Bad Penny download: “Only Here for the Fight”
Various artists – Bloody War : Songs 1924 – 1939 (features archival songs by Dixon Brothers, Ernest Stoneman, more; portion of proceeds go to Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America; Tompkins Square)
Various artists – “Going the Distance” soundtrack (features Cat Power, Passion Pit, more; WaterTower)
AUGUST 23
The Evens – Get Evens (available digitally and as a 12-inch; Dischord)
Hoover – The Lurid Traversal of Route 7 (available digitally and as a 12-inch; Dischord)
Ignition – Orafying Mysticle Of … (available digitally and as a 12-inch; Dischord)
My City Burning – Lone Wolves (I Scream)
Slant 6 – “What Kind of Monster Are You” 7-inch (Dischord)
Trumans Water – O Zeta Zunis (Asthmatic Kitty)
Zola Jesus – Stridulum (Europe-only reissue with three bonus tracks; Souterrain Transmissions)
AUGUST 20
Accept – Blood of the Nations (European release only; U.S. version drops September 14; Nuclear Blast)
Broken Water – “Normal Never Happened” 7-inch (Fan Death)
• Bad Penny download: “Normal Never Happened”
AUGUST 18
Cassorla – Songs of Hair, Trees, Portraits, Shouts and Alphabets EP (Engine Studios)
• Bad Penny exclusive song premiere: Cassorla’s “My Tree”
• Bad Penny feature: “Cover Me: Cassorla’s Songs of Hair, Trees, Portraits, Shouts And Alphabets EP”
Drivan – Disko (Smalltown Supersound)
Antibalas – Who Is This America? (reissue; includes one bonus track; Ropeadope)
Antagonist – World in Decline (Prosthetic)
Arab Strap – The Week Never Starts Round Here and Philophobia (reissues; each comes with bonus disc of unreleased BBC material; available digitally for the first time; Chemikal Underground)
Peter Block – Peter Block (previously available digitally; produced by Mike Viola; features Tracy Bonham, members of They Might Be Giants, more; Engine Room)
Brookhaven – When the Chorus Walks (Expel)
BXI (Boris and the Cult’s Ian Astbury) – BXI EP (includes a cover of the Cult’s “Rain”; Southern Lord)
The Chemical Brothers – “Another World” single (digitally only; 12-inch, with one less track, due September 28; Astralwerks)
Chief – Modern Rituals (Domino)
Chikita Violenta – TRE3S (Mexican release; due Stateside in early 2011; Arts & Crafts)
• Arts & Crafts downloads: “Tired” and “All I Need’s a Little More” (e-mail address required)
Laura Cortese – Acoustic Project EP (self-released)
Darker My Love – Alive as You Are (previously available overseas; Dangerbird)
• free download: “Split Minute” (e-mail address required)
• free download: “Dear Author”
Matthew Dear – Black City (Ghostly International)
Dominant Legs – Young at Love and Life EP (Lefse)
Downspirit – Point of Origin (Metalville)
Eels – That’s Not Her Way (vinyl edition; available in other formats on August 24; Tomorrow Morning)
Efren – Always Been a Bleeder (SloPro)
• Bad Penny download: “Check It Down”
• Bad Penny download: “Stay High”
Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier (reissue; UMe)
♥♥♥ King of Asgard – Fi’mbulvintr (Metal Blade)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Knights of the Abyss – The Culling of Wolves (Ferret)
The Last Felony – Too Many Humans. Too Many Humans (Lifeforce)
Like Pioneers – Piecemeal (Abandoned Love)
Jon Lindsay – Escape From Plaza-Midwood (Chocolate Lab)
Orbs – Asleep Next to Science (Equal Vision)
Return to Earth (features Coheed and Cambria’s Chris Pennie) – Automata (Metal Blade)
Riotgod (features Monster Magnet’s Bob Pantella and Jim Baglino) – Riotgod (Metalville)
Slayer – “Live Intrusion,” “Still Reigning” and “War at the Warfield” (reissues; “Live Intrusion” on DVD for the first time; limited edition “Slayer Live DVD 3-Pak” available at Slayer.net; American)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Let It Sway (Polyvinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Let It Sway”
Starfucker – B-Sides EP (also includes remixes, Madonna cover; Badman)
• Filter download: “Boy Toy (Fake Drugs Remix)”
Superchunk – No Pocky for Kitty and On the Mouth (reissues; on 180-gram vinyl for the first time; LPs include download coupons; Merge)
Tallest Trees – The Ostrich or the Lark (Other Electricities)
• RCRD LBL download: “Skinny Little Wrists”
• KCRW download: “Alouette”
Camu Tao – King of Hearts (digital version comes with Forever Frozen in Television Time EP by side project Central Services; Fat Possum/ Definitive Jux)
Thee St. Major III (features the Fastbacks’ Kurt Bloch) – The Idea Factory (In Music We Trust)
Shannon Whitworth – Water Bound (Thirty Tigers)
Jenny Wilson – “Like a Fading Rainbow” single (I Am Sound)
• Bad Penny download: “Hardships (Gospel Version)”
Various artists – “The Switch” soundtrack (features Mojave 3, Eels, more; Rhino)
AUGUST 16
Nite Jewel – Am I Real? EP (vinyl version; previously available digitally; Gloriette)
AUGUST 13
Marmoset – “Doo Wop” single (cassette only; Joyful Noise)
• Bad Penny download: “Doo Wop”
• Bad Penny download: “She’s Wearing Rings”
AUGUST 12
Teen Daze – Four More Years (Arcade Sound Ltd.)
AUGUST 11
The Devil Makes Three – Live @ KEXP (digital release; Milan)
Amanda Palmer – Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele (second vinyl pressing; Bandcamp)
At Our Heels – Misanthropy and Godlessness (available in multiple gatefold-vinyl configurations and as a digipak CD; Creator-Destructor)
Sarah Blasko – As Day Follows Night (produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn and John; Dramatico)
Blood of Kingu – Sun in the House of the Scorpion (Candlelight)
Bonded by Blood – Exiled to Earth (Earache)
Bottomless Pit – Blood Under the Bridge (Comedy Minus One)
The Budos Band – The Budos Band III (Daptone)
• Bad Penny download: “Unbroken, Unshaven”
Kathryn Calder (New Pornographers singer/keyboardist) – Are You My Mother? (features members of the New Pornographers, Frog Eyes, Ladyhawk; File Under: Music)
• Bad Penny download: “Slip Away”
The Cinnamon Band – All Dressed EP (Post Modern)
Colour Revolt – The Cradle (New Fear/ Dualtone)
• Bad Penny download: “Our Names”
Common Grackle – The Great Depression (features Kool Keith and Ceschi; Fake Four Inc.)
Demians – Mute (Inside Out)
Destruction of a Rose – American Hell (physical release available exclusively at Hot Topic; recorded with Tim Lambesis; BlkHeart Group)
Divinity – The Singularity (Candlelight)
Dreamend (Ryan Graveface of Black Moth Super Rainbow) – So I Ate Myself, Bite by Bite (available as a download, CD or animated picture disc; Graveface)
The Drums – The Drums (vinyl edition; already out digitally; CD in stores September 14; Downtown)
Elsinore – Yes Yes Yes (Parasol)
• Bad Penny download: “Yes Yes Yes”
• Bad Penny download: “Lines”
• Bad Penny download: “Lines (DJ Bozak Remix)”
Bryan Ferry – “You Can Dance” single (Astralwerks)
Frontier(s) – There Will Be No Miracles Here (Arena Rock)
Gasoline Silver – Gasoline Silver (Victorian)
• Bad Penny download: “Indianapolis”
Godflesh – Streetcleaner (reissue; Earache)
♥♥♥ Grand Lake – Blood Sea Dream (vinyl version; Hippies Are Dead)
• San Francisco Weekly download: “Spark”
Hawkwind – Blood of the Earth (Plastic Head)
Landing on the Moon – We Make History Now (Young Love)
• Bad Penny download: “Bleeding Hearts”
Lost in the Trees – All Alone in an Empty House (Anti-)
Magneta Lane – Gambling With God (digital release; Last Gang)
Yaotl Mictlan – Dentro del Manto Gris de Chaac (Candlelight)
Dan Mangan – Nice, Nice, Very Nice (Arts & Crafts)
Mondo Generator – “Dog Food” single (available as a 7-inch, and in extended form digitally and on CD; Impedance)
Negura Bunge – Vîrstele Pamîntului (special edition comes in handmade wooden box and is limited to 555 copies; MVD Audio/ Aural)
Lee “Scratch” Perry – Revelation (Megawave/ MVD Audio)
Reporter – Time Incredible (Holocene)
Kelli Scarr – Piece (Silence Breaks)
The Secret Sisters – “Big River” 7-inch (Johnny Cash cover; features Jack White and My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemmel; produced by White; Third Man)
(Sic)Monic – Somnambulist (MVD Audio/ Aural)
♥♥♥ Six Finger Satellite – The Machine Cuisine Companion Cassette (reissue; Anchor Brain)
• Bad Penny download: “Love.Like.Machine.”
Sky Larkin – Kaleide (digital version; available in other formats on October 12; Wichita)
Soft Metals – The Cold World Melts EP (Captured Tracks)
Stornoway – Beachcomber’s Windowsill (4AD)
Street Sweeper Social Club (Tom Morello and Boots Riley) – The Ghetto Blaster EP (features covers of songs by M.I.A., LL Cool J, more; East West)
Teen Daze – Four More Years (12-inch version; already out digitally; Arcade Sound Ltd.)
The Thermals – “I Don’t Believe You” single (7-inch comes with download and is limited to 2,000 copies; Kill Rock Stars)
Toadies – Feeler (re-recorded version of shelved 1997 album; Kirtland)
Wait. Think. Fast. – Luces del Sur (digitally version; physical release available September 7; AT)
Waking the Cadaver – Beyond Cops. Beyond God (Siege of Amida)
Wild Beasts – We Still Got the Taste 10-inch (Domino)
Various artists – Jerry Jams for Rex (Jerry Garcia tribute featuring the Black Crowes, Bruce Hornsby, more; all proceeds go to the Rex Foundation; the Rex Foundation)
Various artists – Proximity One: Narrative of a City (Proximal)
• Pitchfork download: Dam Funk’s “A Day at the Carnival”
• Los Angeles Times download: Daedelus’ “Off Angels Edges”
Michael Angelo – “Sorcerer’s Delight” single (available digitally and as a 7-inch limited to 500 copies; Mexican Summer)
The Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (Merge)
Autolux – Transit Transit (TBD)
Bambara – Dog Ear Days EP (Emerald Weapon)
• Bad Penny download: “Stay Gray”
Clogs – Last Song EP (available digitally; features the National’s Matt Berninger; Brassland)
Dimples – “I Can Feel You Out There” single (available digitally and as a 7-inch limited to 500 copies; Mexican Summer)
David Dondero – # Zero With A Bullet (Team Love)
Dragonette – Mixin to Thrill EP (available digitally and as a limited-edition CD; I Surrender)
El-P – Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 (instrumental album; Gold Dust)
Fleshwrought – Dementia/Dyslexia (Metal Blade)
Hammers of Misfortune – The Locust Years; Fields/ Church of Broken Glass; The Bastard (previously out of print); and The August Engine (reissues; Metal Blade)
Horseback – The Invisible Mountain (Relapse)
J.J. – jj nº 2 (reissue; Secretly Canadian/ Sincerely Yours)
Los Lobos – Tin Can Trust (with guest appearance by Susan Tedeschi; Shout! Factory)
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band – Where the Messengers Meet (Dead Oceans)
• Bad Penny download: “Leaving Trails”
Night Horse – Perdition Hymns (produced and mixed by Matt Bayles; Tee Pee)
• free Sympathy Ain’t Free EP download (features one song from LP plus two exclusive tracks; e-mail address required)
• LA Weekly download: “Rollin’ On”
The Poison Arrows – Newfound Resolutions (File 13)
• Bad Penny download: “Unveiled in Sequence”
Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R – Deluxe Edition (Interscope/UMe)
Ramases – Space Hymns (reissue; available digitally and as an LP limited to 2,000 copies; Mexican Summer)
Rose’s Pawn Shop – Dancing on the Gallows (produced by Ethan Allen; self-released)
Shapes and Sizes – Candle to Your Eyes (Asthmatic Kitty)
• Stereogum download: “Tell Your Mum”
Slaughter Strike – At Life’s End EP (12-inch only; Cyclopean)
Squeeze – Spot the Difference (Anchor and Hope)
Swahili Blonde – Man Meat (Manimal Vinyl)
David Vandervelde – Summer Time Hits EP (12-inch limited to 300 copies; Secretly Canadian)
Versus (featuring original member Edward Baluyut) – On the Ones and Threes (deluxe-edition double-LP has two bonus tracks and alternate song sequence; bonus tracks also available with CD or vinyl preorder beginning June 8; Merge)
• Bad Penny download: “Gone to Earth”
• Bad Penny download: “Invincible Hero”
Viper Creek Club – Letters (self-released)
Votum – Metafiction (Armoury)
Wavves – King of the Beach (Fat Possum)
• Bad Penny concert review: “FYF Fest 2010: Sleep Are Reawakened, Growlers Are Scary-Good, Titus Andronicus Prove Weak
White Rings – Suffocation EP (vinyl version; limited to 500 copies; previously available digitally; features remixes by Los Campesinos!, Unision, more; Hi-Scores Recording Library)
Hans Zimmer – “Inception” score (vinyl version; previously available in other formats; Warner Bros.)
AUGUST 2
The Frames – Another Love Song, Dance the Devil …, and Fitzcarraldo (deluxe reissues with five bonus tracks each; Salvo)
I’m in You – I’m in You (Mean)
Propaganda – A Secret Wish (Deluxe Edition) (reissue with bonus disc of additional material; ZTT)
AUGUST 1
The Acorn – No Ghost (physical version; digital version dropped June 1; Bella Union)
• Stereogum download: “No Ghost”
JULY 30
Various artists – Repetition: A Tribute to David Bowie (features new covers by Duran Duran, Vivian Girls, Warpaint, more; limited-edition double CD; Manimal Vinyl)
JULY 29
Pretty Lights – Spilling Over the Side EP (self-released)
• free EP download (e-mail address required)
JULY 28
Mark Olson (Jayhawks co-founder) – Many Colored Kite (features Jolie Holland, Vashti Bunyan; Ryko)
Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth For Christ Choir – Like a Ship … (Without a Sail) (reissue; available on CD and vinyl; LP includes bonus 7-inch; Light in the Attic)
Best Coast – Crazy for You (Mexican Summer)
The Body – All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood (CD version only; already out on LP; At a Loss)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “A Curse”
• Bad Penny concert review: “FYF Fest 2010: Sleep Are Reawakened, Growlers Are Scary-Good, Titus Andronicus Prove Weak
Bombay Bicycle Club – I Had the Blues but I Shook Them Loose (Arena Rock)
Burning Twilight – The Reckoning EP (physical version available exclusively at Hot Topic; BlkHeart Group)
Charles Burst – The Famous Patient and “Neighbor Song” 7-inch (Ernest Jenning)
Busses – Busses (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Foundation Myth”
• Bad Penny download: “Stationary”
Clubfeet – Gold on Gold (Plant)
• Bad Penny download: “Edge of Extremes”
• Bad Penny download: “Teenage Suicide”
John Coltrane – Coltrane Jazz; Coltrane Plays the Blues; Coltrane’s Sound; and My Favorite Things (vinyl reissues; Rhino)
Common Grackle – The Great Depression (Fake Four Inc.)
Countryfied (features Myron Walden) – Countryfied (self-released)
Tony Da Gatorra vs. Gruff Rhys – The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness (Turnstile/OVNI)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – Horse Power EP (physical version; previously available digitally; Quite Scientific)
Dragonette – “Our Summer Volcano” single (I Surrender)
Ian Dury – “Rare and Unseen” DVD (MVD Visual/ Wienerworld)
Enlou – Body of Friends, Body of Water EP (Lujo)
Everyboy – The Last Lala’s (features members of backing bands for Beck, Ben Harper, more; self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Another Love (Tanqueray)”
Far From Finished – Forgettable (Old Shoe)
Insidious Disease – Shadowcast (Century Media)
♥♥♥ Jaill – That’s How We Burn (Sub Pop)
JBM – Not Even in July (Partisan)
• Bad Penny download: “Cleo’s Song”
Tom Jones – Praise & Blame (produced by Ethan Johns; Lost Highway)
La Gritona – La Gritona (two-CD career retrospective; Tortuga)
Maylene & the Sons of Disaster – “Where the Saints Roam” 7-inch (limited edition; also includes digital version of III; Ferret)
Miniature Tigers – Fortress (produced by the Morning Benders’ Chris Chu; Modern Art/ ILG)
• Stereogum download: “Gold Skull (Featuring Neon Indian)”
My Other Friend – Burning Bright Tonight (Caroline Third Party)
Neu! – Neu! Vinyl Box (limited-edition set with four LPs, one vinyl maxi-single, download coupon, picturebook, etc.; includes two unreleased albums; Groenland)
Proghma-C – Bar-do Travel (Armoury)
Red Wanting Blue – These Magnificent Miles (Fanatic)
Cliff Richard – “Rare and Unseen” DVD (MVD Visual/ Wienerworld)
Rufio – Anybody Out There (available digitally and on CD; the Militia Group)
Kelli Scarr – Piece (Silence Breaks)
The Shimmies – To All Beloved Enemies (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “The Shimmies The Thing That Seems the Hardest Is Actually the Easiest”
• Bad Penny download: “And the Radio Played On (The Delta Mirror Cover)” (the Delta Mirror cover)
Shunda K (Yo! Majesty frontwoman) – “Here I Am to Save the World” single (with Scream Club’s Cindy Wonderful; Fanatic)
• Bad Penny download: “Here I Am to Save the World (Album Version)”
Sky Sailing (Owl City’s Adam Young) – An Airplane Carried Me to Bed (unreleased archival material; Sky Harbor/ Universal Republic)
Social Studies – Wind Up Wooden Heart (Antenna Farm)
• Bad Penny download: “Time Bandit”
• RCRD LBL download: “Battle of Shiloh (Ernest Gonzales Remix)”
• RCRD LBL download: “Holler Boys”
Sodom – “Lords of Depravity II” (two DVDs featuring documentary, live material, etc.; SPV)
Still Flyin’ – A Party in Motion EP (Ernest Jenning)
The Supremes – Let Yourself Go: The ’70s Albums, Vol 2 – 1974-1977: The Final Sessions (three-CD set; Hip-O Select)
Team B – Genesis/ Reply to Censure EP (available digitally and as a 7-inch limited to 500 copies; digital version has bonus Minotaur Shock remix; Hi-Scores Recording Library)
• The Music Slut download: “Genesis/ Reply to Censure (Minotaur Shock Remix)”
Tammi Terrell – The Complete Solo Collection (Hip-O Select)
Christopher Willits – Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Ghostly International)
• Bad Penny download: “Light Into Branches”
• Bad Penny download: “Sun Body”
Alex Winston – “Choice Notes” 7-inch (limited edition; HeavyRoc)
• Bad Penny download: “Choice Notes”
Young Galaxy – Invisible Republic (Paper Bag)
• RCRD LBL download: “Queen Drum”
• RCRD LBL download: “Queen Drum (Henning Fürst of the Tough Alliance Remix)”
Various artists – “Altamont Now” (DVD; Factory 25)
Various artists – “Gold: Before Woodstock. Beyond Reality” DVD (first-ever release of unreleased comedy film shot in 1968; features bonus commentary from Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts; Wild Eye/ MVD Visual)
Various artists – “I Need That Record! The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store” (features Thurston Moore, Ian MacKaye, Noam Chomksy, more; previously available at indie stores only; MVD Visual)
Various artists – “Music for the Builder” (soundtrack featuring unreleased songs by Califone, Luke Temple, more; available only on Jagjaguwar.com; Jagjaguwar)
JULY 26
The Bewitched Hands on the Top of Our Heads – Hard to Cry (Sony)
• RCRD LBL download: “I Don’t Know”
Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals frontman) – The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness (features Tony Da Gatorra; limited-edition digital release; OVNI/Turnstile)
Insidious Disease – Shadowcast (Century Media)
Paul A. Rosales – Wonder Wheel 1 (Care in the Community)
• Altered Zones download: “Nautilus Cry”
Them:Youth – “Fever Rising” single (Big Hand)
• free download: “Fever Rising” (e-mail address required)
Violens – “Acid Reign” single (limited-edition 7-inch; Static Recital)
JULY 23
Angels of Babylon – Kingdom of Evil (previously available overseas; U.S. version has three bonus tracks; Burnhill Union)
Teen Daze – Four More Years (digital version only; 12-inch drops August 10; Arcade Sound Ltd.)
The Acacia Strain – Wormwood (Prosthetic)
Allegaeon – Fragments of Form and Function (Metal Blade)
Black River (features members of Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir) – Black ‘N’ Roll (Armoury)
Black Veil Brides – We Stitch These Wounds (Standby)
Sebastian Blanck – Alibi Coast (Rare Book Room)
The Books – The Way Out (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
• Pitchfork download: “Beautiful People”
Burning the Masses – Offspring of Time (Mediaskare)
Bill Callahan – Letters to Emma Bowlcut (book; Drag City)
Canby – Rat (Aqui Estamos)
• Bad Penny download: “For Alex, Who Hates the Word Lonely”
• Bad Penny download: “Rat”
Careful – Oh Light (Sounds Super)
Chimaira – Coming Alive (DVD featuring documentary, tour footage, more; comes with bonus live CD; Ferret)
Clutch – From Beale Street to Oblivion (with bonus CD featuring live material from 2006-2007 and “Electric Worry” video; Weathermaker)
Department of Eagles – Archive 2003-2006 (American Dust)
♥♥♥ East of the Wall – Ressentiment (Translation Loss)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Frazey Ford (of the Be Good Tanyas) – Obadiah (Nettwerk)
Francis and the Lights – It’ll Be Better (Cantora)
• Bad Penny download: “For Days”
Frontier Ruckus – Deadmalls and Nightfalls (Ramseur)
Jimmy Gnecco (ex-Ours frontman) – The Heart (Bright Antenna)
The Goodnight Loving – The Goodnight Loving Supper Club (Dirtnap)
• Bad Penny download: “Doesn’t Shake Me”
• Bad Penny download: “The Pan”
Grand Mal – Clandestine Songs (features members of Home, the Silent League, Hopewell, more; mastered by Dave Fridmann; Groover)
• Bad Penny download: “Lower Yer Heart”
The High Confessions (features Chris Connelly and Steve Shelley) – Turning Lead Into Gold With the High Confessions (Relapse)
Hospital Ships (Shearwater’s Jordan Geiger) – “Carry On” single (available digitally and as a 7-inch; Graveface)
• Bad Penny download: “Carry On”
Instruments of Science & Technology (a.k.a. Richard Swift) – Asthmatic Kitty Library Catalog Music Volume 7: Instruments of Science & Technology – Music for Paradise Armor (Asthmatic Kitty)
• Bad Penny download: “Old Hanshakes”
Rakaa Iriscience (of Dilated Peoples) – Crown of Thorns (produced by the Alchemist, El-P, more; Decon)
Dayna Kurtz/ My Brightest Diamond – “Postcards From Downtown”/ “Gone Away” split single (available digitally and as a limited-edition 7-inch; Kismet)
Lower Dens (features Jana Hunter) – Twin-Hand Movement (recorded with ex-Oxes drummer Chris Freeland; Gnomonsong)
• Bad Penny download: “Hospice Gates”
Mahjongg – The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger (K)
• Bad Penny download: “Miami Knights”
• Bad Penny download: “Whoop”
Majeure (Zombi’s A.E. Paterra) – Timespan Remixes (limited to 500 copies on black vinyl; Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Major Lazer – Lazers Never Die EP (features M.I.A., and remixes by Thom Yorke and more; Mad Decent/ Downtown/ Interscope)
Kristen Miltner – Music for Dreaming and Playing (Asthmatic Kitty)
Mose Giganticus – Gift Horse (Relapse)
Nero Order – The Tower (features Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson; self-released)
Nite Jewel – Am I Real? EP (digital version; LP due August 16; Gloriette)
Radio Freq – Alive EP (Digital Noir)
• Bad Penny download: “Where You Been”
Max Richter – Infra (FatCat)
Rosaline – The Vitality Theory (Good Fight)
Shigeto – What We Held on To EP (Ghostly International/ Moongadget)
• free EP download
Spur – Of the Moment (unreleased archival material; Drag City)
Shannon Stephens – Shannon Stephens (reissue; Asthmatic Kitty)
The Streets on Fire – This Is Fancy (The Currency Exchange)
• Bad Penny download: “Hard to Find”
• Bad Penny download: “No One’s Fucking to the Radio”
Kenseth Thibideau (Tarantel co-founder) – Repetition (Temporary Residence Ltd..)
• Bad Penny download: “Black Hole”
Trances Arc – TA (Slush Fund)
Jason Urick – “This Is Critical” 7-inch (Fan Death)
Richard Youngs – Beyond the Valley of Ultrahits (vinyl and digital only; Jagjaguwar)
• Bad Penny download: “Love in the Great Outdoors”
JULY 19
Cristal – Homegoing (digital only; FSS)
Cristal – “Swedish Child”/”Trial” 7-inch (limited to 500 copies on clear vinyl; comes with Homegoing download code; FSS)
JULY 17
Amanda Palmer – Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele EP (digital version available for donation; vinyl edition limited to 1,000 copies, comes with bonuses; self-released)
Admiral Radley (features members of Grandaddy and Earliment) – I Heart California (TBA)
• Stereogum download: “I Heart California” (limited deluxe vinyl edition comes with unreleased songs, etc.; e-mail address required)
Angel Eyes – Midwestern (The Mylene Sheath)
Automelodi – Automelodi (Wierd)
• Stereogum download: “Rose A.D.”
Backseat Dreamer – The Colors of Dreams, They’re in You (Stickfigure)
• Bad Penny download: “Gold Dust”
• Bad Penny download: “Consider”
Kevin Beadles – You Can’t Argue With Water (available digitally and on CD; Ripple)
Blue Giant (features members of the Decemberists, Viva Voce, Swords, more) – Blue Giant (features a guest appearance by Corin Tucker; Vanguard)
Bodycop – Bodycop (available on cassette; Fan Death)
• Bad Penny download: “Don’t Move”
Crowded House – Intriguer (deluxe edition comes with live DVD; Fantasy)
The Futurebirds – Hampton’s Lullaby (Autumn Tone)
• Bad Penny download: “Johnny Utah”
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – Horse Power EP (digital version; physical release due July 27; Quite Scientific)
Danger Mouse/ Sparklehorse – Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present Dark Night of the Soul (Capitol/Virgin)
Devotional (Two Gallants’ Tyson Vogel) – Devotional (Alive)
El Guincho – Piratas de Sudamérica EP (limited edition; Young Turks)
• EP stream
Engrained – Anger, Roots & Rock ‘n’ Roll EP (includes Poison Idea cover; SPV/Steamhammer)
Fen – Trails Out of Gloom (Ripple)
Gifts From Enola – Gifts From Enola (The Mylene Sheath)
Grasscut – 1 Inch/½ Mile (Ninja Tune)
Halsted – Life Underwater (Ashbury)
Hamacide – Mighty Little Machine (Stubtail)
• Bad Penny download: “Broadway Dancers”
• Bad Penny download: “Carnies (Featuring Fielded)”
Hey Champ – Star (Townie)
In This Moment – A Star-Crossed Wasteland (Century Media)
The Innocence Mission – My Room in the Trees (Badman)
Jammer – Jahmanji (Ninja Tune)
Tommy Keene – You Hear Me: Retrospective 1983-2009 (two CDs; Second Motion)
Lone Wolf – The Devil and I (Yep Roc)
• Bad Penny download: “Keep Your Eyes on the Road”
The Love Language – Libraries (Merge)
• album stream
Melvins/Isis – split 7-inch (Hydra Head)
• Bad Penny essay: “Isis’ Oceanic: Mystery Revealed?”
Miss TK and the Revenge – The Ocean Likes to Party Too (portion of proceeds goes to the Surfrider Foundation; Ernest Jenning)
Morcheeba – Blood Like Lemonade (physical version; previously available digitally; Pias America)
• RCRD LBL download: “Even Though (Afternoon Mix)”
The Mystery Jets – Serotonin (Rough Trade)
• Bad Penny download: “Flash a Hungry Smile”
Oh No Ono – Internet Warrior EP (available digitally and as a limited-edition 12-inch; Friendly Fire)
Panda Bear – “Tomboy” 7-inch (Paw Tracks)
R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction (25th anniversary remastered edition; features 14 unreleased demos and new liner notes by Peter Buck; life-top-box CD version includes two CDs, postcards, poster; also available on vinyl and digital formats; Capitol/I.R.S.)
School of Seven Bells – Disconnect From Desire (Vagrant/ Ghostly International)
Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants (Foo Fighters guitarist) – Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants (Le Coq Napoleon/ RCA)
• Bad Penny download: “Get Along”
Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast (first album to feature Peter Wichers since he rejoined band; Nuclear Blast)
Sons of Liberty (features Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer) – Brush Fires of the Mind (Century Media)
The Spires – Curved Space EP (CD version includes remix download; Beehouse)
Sun Kil Moon – Admiral Fell Promises (vinyl version includes two bonus tracks; purchases made through Caldo Verde store come with I’ll Be There EP featuring covers of songs by Stereolab, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, more; Caldo Verde)
Superchunk – “Digging for Something” single (hand-numbered 7-inch limited to 1,000 copies, with artwork by Les Savy Fav’s Harrison Haynes; Merge)
Superhumanoids – Urgency (vinyl version has one bonus track; Hit City USA)
• RCRD LBL download: “Persona”
• The Fader download: Xiu Xiu’s “Ringtone (Superhumanoids Remix)”
Torche/Boris – Chapter Ahead Being Fake (split 10-inchHydra Head)
♥♥♥ Weed – DC Hope EP (Moongadget)
• Bad Penny download: “Quilt”
Hans Zimmer – “Inception” score (available digitally and on CD; vinyl version due August 3; Warner Bros.)
Zoroaster – Matador (E1 Metal)
JULY 12
O. Children – O. Children (iTunes version; available in other formats later this year; Deadly People)
We Have Band – “Oh!” single (Naive)
• Bad Penny download: “Honey Trap”
JULY 10
Jay Bennett (ex-Wilco) – Kicking at the Perfumed Air (Rock Proper)
• Bad Penny download: “M Plates”
• Bad Penny download: “Twice a Year”
JULY 9
Amorphis – Forging the Land of Thousand Lakes (Europe only; Nuclear Blast)
JULY 8
Morcheeba – Blood Like Lemonade (digital version; physical version available July 13; Pias America)
• RCRD LBL download: “Even Though (Afternoon Mix)”
JULY 7
Electric Sunset (features ex-members of Desolation Wilderness) – “Soda” (plus three more songs; available as part of K Records’ digital Singles Zip-Pack)
Au Revoir Simone – Night Light (album of remixes by Neon Indian, Jens Lekman, more; Our Secret Record Company)
Baths – Cerulean (Anticon)
• Pitchfork download: “Hall”
Can Can – Monsters & Healers (JDub Digital)
The Cat Empire – Cinema (Velour)
The Chap – Well Done Europe (Lo)
• Bad Penny download: “We Work in Bars”
Current 93 – Baalstorm, Sing Omega (Coptic Cat)
Kevin Devine – She Stayed as Steam EP (two new songs and two remixes; LP available through These Are Not; available digitally through Favorite Gentlemen)
Fol Chen – Part II: The New December (Asthmatic Kitty)
• free In Ruins remix EP download
Frank (Just Frank) – The Brutal Wave (CD has two exclusive songs; Wierd)
• Stereogum download: “Coeur Hante”
The Ghost of the Saber Tooth Tiger (features Sean Lennon, Mark Ronson, more) – “Jardin du Luxembourg” single (available digitally and as a 7-inch; Chimera)
Good Riddance – Capricorn One: Singles & Rarities (includes six unreleased songs; Fat Wreck Chords)
Gristle (features the Sonnier Brother’s Band’s Len Sonnier and ex-Galactic Cowboys member Ben Huggins) – Cold Blue Sky (Metal Blade)
Gypsyhawk (features ex-Skeletonwitch bassist Eric Harris) – Patience and Perseverance (Creator-Destructor)
Helstar – Rising From the Grave (Metal Blade)
How to Destroy Angels (Trent Reznor project) – How to Destroy Angels (physical version; digital edition dropped June 1; Null)
Modern Skirts – Happy 81 EP (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “DUI”
• Bad Penny download: “Rebecca St. Clair”
Noun (Screaming Females frontwoman Marissa Paternoster) – Holy Hell (Don Giovanni)
Pathology – Legacy of the Ancients (pre-order comes with limited-edition T-shirt; Victory)
People Eating People – People Eating People (Control Group)
• Magnet download: “All the Hospitals”
• Bad Penny download: “I Hate All My Friends”
Robert Pollard – Moses on a Snail (Guided by Voices Inc.)
• Bad Penny download: “Moses on a Snail”
Primordial – Spirit the Earth Aflame (Metal Blade)
Silver Seas – Chateau Revenge (Cheap Lullaby)
Sons of Aurelius – The Farthest Reaches (digital-only deluxe edition with five unreleased songs; Good Fight)
The Stone Foxes – Bears & Bulls (TBA)
Thieves Like Us – Again and Again (previously available on iTunes; Shelflife)
• Bad Penny download: “Forget Me Not”
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza – Danza III: The Series of Unfortunate Events (Black Market Activities)
Valkyrie (features members of Baroness) – Man of Two Visions and Valkyrie reissue (MeteorCity)
White Rings – Suffocation EP (digital version; LP drops August 3; features remixes by Los Campesinos!, Unision, more; Hi-Scores Recording Library)
Kathryn Williams – The Quickening (One Little Indian)
• Bad Penny download: “Little Lesson”
Various artists – Kitsuné x Ponystep – Mixed by Jerry Bouthier (Kitsuné)
Various artists – Unearthing (features Alan Moore, Zach Hill, Justin Broadrick, Mike Patton, more; deluxe limited-edition box set that includes vinyl, a CD, an EP and more; Lex)
JULY 5
Thee Piatcions – “Time” 7-inch (A Giant Leap)
Wire – Send Ultimate (retooled two-disc collection of 2000-2003 studio recordings; Pinkflag)
JULY 1
Frank (Just Frank) – The Brutal Wave (CD version comes with two bonus tracks; Wierd)
Minotaurs – Eat Your Hate (available digitally or as a CD limited to 500 copies; Cottage Industries)
Mirah – “Gone Are All the Days” (plus four more songs; available as part of K Records’ digital Singles Zip-Pack)
JUNE 30
Konono N°1/ Staff Benda Bilili/ Kasai Allstars – Congotronics Vinyl Box Set (includes six LPs, one 7-inch, USB, MP3, more; available exclusively at Crammed Greedbag store)
Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro/ Where Fire Rains (two CDs; Earache)
And Hell Followed With – Proprioception (bundle with T-shirt available for pre-order; Earache)
Angelus Apatrida – Clockwork (initial pressing includes O-Card and cover of Iron Maiden’s “Be Quick or Be Dead”; Century Media)
Peter Block – Peter Block (available digitally; physical version drops June 29; produced by Mike Viola; features Tracy Bonham, members of They Might Be Giants, more; Engine Room)
Lydia Burrell (producer Alexander Smith) – Lydia Burrell (Removador Recordings and Solutions)
• Bad Penny download: “Ring”
Cream – Disraeli Gears (picture-disc-LP reissue; UMe)
Delphic – Acolyte (Dangerbird)
• free download: “Doubt” (e-mail address required)
Brock Enright and Kirsten Deirup – Torben (limited-edition bundle includes DVD with the film “Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same,” film poster, more; Factory 25)
Alejandro Escovedo – Street Songs of Love (features Bruce Springsteen and Ian Hunter; produced by Tony Visconti; Fantasy/Concord)
Fight Fair – California Kicks (Triple Crown)
The Flying Change – Singer/Songwriter EP (Scarlet Shame)
• Bad Penny download: “Songwriter”
• Bad Penny download: “Singer”
Forest City Lovers – Carriage (Out of This Spark)
Foxes in Fiction – Swung From the Branches (Moongadget)
Adam Franklin & the Bolts of Melody (Swervedriver frontman) – I Could Sleep for a Thousand Years (Second Motion)
The Harvey Girls – I’ve Been Watching a Lot of Horror Movies Lately (Circle Into Square)
• Bad Penny download: “Smile Like Gwynplaine”
The Herbaliser – Herbal Tonic (best-of collection; Ninja Tune)
Hey Marseilles – To Travels and Trunks (Onto/ADA)
• Under the Radar download: “To Travels & Trunks”
Indigo Girls – Staring Down the Brilliant Dream (two CDs featuring live material from 2006-’09; IG/Vanguard)
Inu – Not for Anyone (Vertebrae)
Iwrestledabearonce – It’s All Happening (two-CD/one-DVD reissue with bonus remixes and videos; five packages include “Golden Ticket” granting special concert access, more prizes; Century Media)
Katzenjammer – Le Pop (Nettwerk)
Knut – Wonder (Hydra Head)
Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra – Honker (TBA)
• Bad Penny download: “When You Die” (with the National’s Matt Berninger)
• Bad Penny download: “You Were Right + It’s OK”
The Main Street Gospel – Love Will Have Her Revenge (Tee Pee)
• ShockHound download: “I Won’t Be Stayin’ ” (e-mail address required)
Maps & Atlases – Perch Patchwork (Barsuk)
Mastodon – “Jonah Hex” score EP (digital only; Reprise)
Hamper McBee – The Good Old-Fashioned Way (Drag City)
The Mission – Dum Dum Bullet (collection of unreleased songs, rarities, etc.; SPV) and “The Final Chapter” (three DVDs of live material; SPV)
Monotonix – “Fun Fun Fun/ Try Try Try” single (vinyl only; recorded by Steve Albini; Drag City)
Motörhead – Ace of Spades (picture-disc-LP reissue; UMe)
Parkway Drive – Deep Blue (Epitaph)
Alasdair Roberts & Friends – Too Long in This Condition (Drag City)
Scissor Sisters – Night Work (Downtown)
• free download on Downtown sampler (e-mail address required)
Screen Vinyl Image – “Siberian Eclipse” 7-inch (Fan Death)
Spin̈al Tap – Break Like the Wind (picture-disc-LP reissue; UMe)
Steel Train – Steel Train (Terrible Thrills)
• free download: “You and I Undercover”
The Stone Foxes – Bears & Bulls (iTunes exclusive; available wide on July 6; TBA)
STS9 – Axe the Cables (1320)
To Rococo Rot – Speculation (Domino)
Abdoulaye Traoré – Abdoulaye Traoré (Drag City)
Toba Seydou Traore – Toba Seydou Traore (Drag City)
Kate Tucker – White Horses (Red Valise)
Witchery – Witchkrieg (Century Media)
Wolf Parade – Expo 86 (Sub Pop)
Various artists – “Trash Humpers” soundtrack (Drag City)
Various artists – Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts: Rare and Unheard Gramophone Recordings From Around the World (1916-1964) – From the 78 RPM Record Collection of Frank Fairfield (Pawn/ Tompkins Square)
JUNE 28
My Jerusalem – “Love You When You Leave” single (One Little Indian)
The Undertones – The Undertones; Hypnotised; Positive Touch; The Sin of Pride; Teenage Kicks EP (digital reissues; only available at iTunes; Union Square)
The Undertones – Best of the Undertones (only available digitally, at iTunes; Union Square)
Various artists – Aquarium Drunkard Presents: L’Aventure (suggested‐donation digital compilation of L.A. bands covering songs from Television’s Adventure; features the Henry Clay People, Imaad Wasif, Local Natives, more; all proceeds go to the Silverlake Conservatory of Music; Aquarium Drunkard)
JUNE 24
Cloud Nothings – “Didn’t You” single (available digitally and on vinyl; Old Flame)
22-20s – Shake/Shiver/Moan (tbd)
A Place to Bury Strangers – I Lived My Life to Stand in the Shadow of Your Heart EP (digital only; Mute)
Dot Allison – Room 7½ (features Paul Weller, Pete Doherty, members of the Bad Seeds; Arthoused)
• Bad Penny download: “I Wanna Break Your Heart (Featuring Peter Doherty)”
Sebastian Blanck (Black Dice cofounder) – Alibi Coast (Rare Book Room)
• Bad Penny download: “Thunder”
♥♥♥ Chambers – Old Love (digital only; self-released)
• Bad Penny album review
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
The Chemical Brothers – Further (Astralwerks)
Chief – “Night & Day” single (available as a 10-inch or digital download; Domino)
Coliseum – House With a Curse (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
The Constellations – Southern Gothic (features Cee-Lo, members of the Whigs, more; Virgin)
Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth (first new album in six years; available early and with bonus CD at Danzig concerts; The End)
• Amazon (free) download: “On a Wicked Night”
Bob Desper – New Sounds (reissue; Bob Desper Music/ Discourage)
((Eagle Winged Palace)) – Where We’re Coming From (Western Crest)
♥♥♥ Early Graves – Goner (Ironclad)
Extra Life – Splayed Flesh EP (remixes by Justin Broadrick, JG Thirlwell, more; Planaria/Sockets)
• Bad Penny download: “Headshrinker (Tyondi Braxton Remix)”
The Germs – Live at the Starwood: December 3, 1980 (complete unreleased recording of final concert with Darby Crash; includes handwritten set list, replica of original poster, more ephemera; Rhino Handmade)
Herbie Hancock – The Imagine Project (features Los Lobos, India.Arie, more; deluxe edition comes with DVD, sheet music, photo book; Hancock/RED)
Sarah Harmer – oh little fire (Rounder)
Hey Rosetta! – Into Your Lungs (and around in your heart and on through your blood) (Sonic)
Holy Hail – The Dying (After) Party (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Riverine”
Jackson 5 – Live at the Forum (CD/DVD reissue; Hip-O)
Joemca – 16 Devils (One Stone/ The Orchard)
• Bad Penny download: “Big Dreams”
JPT Scare Band – Acid Blues Is the White Man’s Burden (double-12-inch version has two previously unreleased bonus tracks; Ripper Music Store)
Kele (ex-Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke) – The Boxer (Glassnote)
Kozeljnik – Deeper the Fall (Paragon)
Lille – Tall Shoulders EP (Whaleheart)
• Bad Penny download: “Tall Shoulders”
Steve Mason – Boys Outside (Domino)
Orgone – Cali Fever (Ubiquity)
Ozzy Osbourne – Scream (free digital copy comes with purchase of Ozzfest ticket – link expires August 25; Epic)
Parlovr – Parlovr (Dine Alone)
• Bad Penny download: “Archy & Mehitabel”
• Bad Penny download: “Pen to the Paper”
Vinnie Paz (of Jedi Mind Tricks) – Season of the Assassin (features Beanie Sigel, Ill Bill, more; Enemy Soil)
• Bad Penny download: “Drag You to Hell”
• Bad Penny download: “Street Wars (Featuring Clipse and Block McCloud”
Procedure Club – Doomed Forever (Slumberland)
Psychic Ills – “Catoptric” (12-inch; limited to 500 copies; the Social Registry)
Rage – Strings to a Web (previously available in Europe; North American version comes with bonus DVD featuring live material; Sonic Unyon Metal)
Robert Randolph – We Walk This Road (includes covers of songs by Bob Dylan, Prince and John Lennon; produced by T Bone Burnett; Warner Bros.)
Regina – Puutarhatrilogia (Friendly Fire)
RPWL – The Gentle Art of Music (ADA)
Sabbath Assembly – Restored to One (:AJNA:)
• Bad Penny download: “We Give Our Lives”
Sia – We Are Born (features Inara George and Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi; Monkey Puzzle/ Jive)
• Bad Penny download: “(Clap Your Hands) Diplo Mix”
Son of the Sun – The Happy Loss (Stubtail)
• Bad Penny download: “The Other Side”
• Bad Penny download: “Get Together”
Stars – The Five Ghosts (features Broken Social Scene’s Andrew Whiteman; Soft Revolution/ Vagrant)
Still Flyin’ – A Party in Motion EP (12-inch; Ernest Jenning)
Suicidal Angels – Sanctify the Darkness (previously available in Europe; Sonic Unyon Metal)
Swingin’ Utters – “Lungs” single (available digitally and on vinyl; Fat Wreck Chords)
Teen Daze – untitled EP (remixes; iTunes exclusive; Arcade Sound Ltd.)
Tender Trap – Dansette Dansette (Slumberland)
This or the Apocalypse – Haunt What’s Left (Good Fight)
Paul Thorn – Pimps and Preachers (Perpetual Obscurity)
Trash Talk – Eyes & Nines (features members of the Bronx and Circle Jerks; Trash Talk Collective)
Windsor for the Derby – Against Love (Secretly Canadian)
Various artists – Raise Hope for Congo (features songs by Rodrigo y Gabriella, Norah Jones, more; Mercer Street)
Various artists – This Comp Kills Fascists Vol. 2 (new and exclusive songs from Despise You, Lack of Interest, more; Relapse)
Various artists – Welcome to the Family Compilation Vol. 4 (features Riverboat Gamblers, the Street Dogs, the Briggs, more; Old Shoe/ Innes Clothing)
Various artists – “Rules to Rock By” soundtrack (features Deerhoof cover of Liliput’s “Hitch Hike” and more; the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls)
• Pitchfork download: Deerhoof’s cover of Liliput’s “Hitch Hike”
JUNE 20
We Have Band – Oh! EP (Beatport exclusive; Naive)
• Bad Penny download: “Honey Trap”
JUNE 19
Ramesses – Take the Curse (Ritual)
JUNE 18
The Amity Affliction – Youngbloods (Modern Music)
• free download: “I Hate Hartley” (Facebook/Twitter referral required)
Diamond Rings – “Show Me Your Stuff” 12-inch single (vinyl only; Big Silence)
Gold Panda's You
Bad Veins – Outliers EP (physical copies only sold at tour stops; also available digitally; Dangerbird)
• free download: “Falling Tide” (e-mail address required)
The Candy Snatchers – Down at Delilah’s (also available on limited-edition numbered picture disc; Drug Front)
Child Bite – The Living Breathing Organ Summer (available on cassette; Joyful Noise/ Forge Again)
• Bad Penny download: “Paws Perilous”
• Bad Penny download: “Odd Inn”
Dream Syndicate – Medicine Show (reissue; Water)
Laura Escudé – Pororoca (Electronic Creatives)
Flowers of Hell – Come Hell or High Water (features members of Broken Social Scene, Guided by Voices, Spiritualized and more; Unfamiliar)
Foals – Total Life Forever (CD and LP versions; previously available digitally; Sub Pop)
The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang (SideOneDummy)
Gold Panda – You EP (available digitally or as a limited-edition 12-inch; digital version comes with four bonus remixes; Ghostly International)
Grand Mal – Lower Yer Heart (digital EP featuring five songs previously unavailable in U.S.; Groover)
• Bad Penny download: “Lower Yer Heart”
Grupo Fantasma – El Existential (Nat Geo)
• Bad Penny download: “El Consejo”
• Bad Penny download: “Telaraña (Featuring Curt Kirkwood)” (featuring Curt Kirkwood)
Ed Harcourt – Lustre (Piano Wolf)
Heartsounds – Until We Surrender (Epitaph)
JDSY – Blue Newspaper (Moongadget)
• Bad Penny download: “Telluride”
Kacey Johansing – Many Seasons (Porto Franco)
• Bad Penny download: “Oh Brother”
Let Me Run – Broken Strings EP (Paper + Plastick)
Light Pollution – Apparitions (Carpark)
• Bandcamp download: “Magic Kingdoms Kick My Teeth In”
• RCRD LBL download: “Witchcraft”
• Bad Penny download: “Good Feelings”
• Bad Penny download: “Oh, Ivory!”
The Like – Release Me (produced by Mark Ronson; Downtown/Universal)
• free download on Downtown sampler (e-mail address required)
Locks (features Joan of Arc drummer) – Suicides Don’t Commit Themselves (vinyl version comes with downloads of Locks covering Wall of Voodoo and J Church; Static Station)
• free download: “The SD” (e-mail address required)
• Impose Magazine download: “That Will Never Get Blood Out of a Clown Suit”
Magic Bullets – Magic Bullets (Mon Amie)
• Pitchfork download: “Lying Around”
Mates of State – Crushes (The Covers Mixtape) (features covers of songs by Nick Cave, Death Cab for Cutie, Girls, more; digital version only; self-released)
• free download: “Laura” (e-mail address required)
John Mellencamp – On the Rural Route 7609 – Special Edition (four-CD reissue; UMe)
Microphonies – Time Kills (Track Number)
Naked Raygun – “Growing Away”/ “Just for Me” (7-inch; Riot Fest)
Oval – Oh (12-inch vinyl-EP; limited to 1,000 copies; Thrill Jockey)
People Like Us & Wobbly – Music for the Fire (Illegal Art)
Racebannon – Wrap the Body (features guest appearances by Kid Static, We Are Hex’s Jilly Weiss, Yea Big; 12-inch; Joyful Noise)
Rasputina – Sister Kinderhook (Filthy Bonnet)
• free download: “Holocaust of Giants”
Jack Rose with D. Charles Speer & The Helix – Ragged and Right (limited-edition EP; Thrill Jockey)
Shlohmo – Camping EP (Friends of Friends)
Spirit – Rockpalast: West Coast Legends Vol. 3 (SPV)
Stewart – Kicks (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Dance With Me”
Sunglasses – Sunglasses EP (Lefse)
• Bad Penny download: “Stand Fast”
Venice Is Sinking – Sand & Lines (One Percent Press)
• Bad Penny download: “Falls City”
• Bad Penny download: “Tugboat” (Galaxie 500 cover)
We Are Scientists – Barbara (Masterswan)
Joe Worricker – EP (Rough Trade)
• Bad Penny download: “Wrap Me Up (Pocketknife Mix)”
Young Galaxy – Invisible Republic (previously available in Canada; U.S. edition has two exclusive bonus tracks; Paper Bag)
Various artists – “Ain’t My Fault” single (Gulf Coast benefit song featuring Mos Def, Tim Robbins, more; all proceeds go to GulfAid.org)
Various artists – New Noise Vol. 1 (features Every Time I Die, Alkaline Trio, Off With Their Heads, more; physical copies limited and only available at Warped Tour; also available digitally; Epitaph)
JUNE 14
Grave – Burial Ground (Regain)
Setherial – Ekpyrosis (Regain)
JUNE 10
Batusis (features Cheetah Chrome and Sylvain Sylvain) – Batusis EP (available digitally and as vinyl limited to 2,000 silver copies; Smog Veil)
Against Me! – White Crosses (Sire)
AM Taxi – We Don’t Stand a Chance (previously available exclusively on iTunes; Virgin)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (pre-order includes “Bright Lit Blue Skies” MP3; 4AD)
• Bad Penny concert review: “FYF Fest 2010: Sleep Are Reawakened, Growlers Are Scary-Good, Titus Andronicus Prove Weak
Ólafur Arnalds – … and they have escaped the weight of darkness (Erased Tapes)
Lou Barlow + the Missingmen – =Sentridoh III EP (features new songs, new versions of old Barlow songs, more; digital only; Merge)
Andy Bell – Non-Stop (Mute)
Bellflur – asleep.asleep. (Sad Sewer Alligator)
• Bad Penny download: “Insect Politics”
• District of Sound album stream
Better Left Unsaid – Only the Dead to Witness (Static Age)
• free download: “To the Last Man” (e-mail address required)
Blitzen Trapper – Destroyer of the Void (best-of album; Sub Pop)
• album stream
• free download: “Heaven and Earth” demo (e-mail address required)
BLK JKS – ZOL! EP (Secretly Canadian)
Casiokids – Topp stemning på lokal bar (Polyvinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Finn Bikkjen!”
The Chemical Brothers – iTunes Pass (includes multimedia download of new album, Further; unlocks additional songs, videos, etc.; Astralwerks)
Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire – Songs of Ill Hope and Desperation (Prosthetic)
The Constellations – Southern Gothic (features Cee-Lo and Asher Roth; includes tribute to Tom Waits; Virgin)
• download: “Setback” (e-mail address required)
Samantha Crain – You (Understood) (three-CD set with unreleased songs, remixes, outtakes, more; Ramseur)
The Cure – Disintegration – Deluxe Edition (Rhino)
Deer Tick – The Black Dirt Sessions (Partisan)
• Bad Penny download: “Piece by Piece, Frame by Frame”
Delta Spirit – History From Below (Rounder)
The Dig – Electric Toys (Wall of Sound)
• Bad Penny download: “You’re Already Gone”
D.O.A. – Talk – Action = 0 (Sudden Death)
The Drums – The Drums (digital only; vinyl drops August 10; CD in stores September 14; Downtown)
Dutch (Jedi Mind Tricks’ Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind and singer/songwriter Liz Fullerton) – A Bright Cold Day (Enemy Soil)
Eyes Set to Kill – Broken Frames (BreakSilence)
• Bad Penny download: “All You Ever Knew”
Fatal Embrace – The Empires of Inhumanity (Metal Blade)
William Fitzsimmons – Derivatives (features reimagined songs from The Sparrow and the Crow; digital version previously available; Mercer Street)
The Funeral Pyre – Vultures at Dawn (digipak CD; bundle with T-shirt available for preorder; Prosthetic)
Pierre de Gaillande – Bad Reputation (reworkings of songs by Georges Brassens; Barbès)
The Ghost Inside – Returners (features guest appearance by ex-Bury Your Dead vocalist Mat Bruso; Mediaskare)
Gitar – Stuffed (Seeland)
Goldfrapp – “Alive” single (Mute)
John Hancock (ANR singer) – Antenna Death (available digitally and on limited-edition vinyl made from recycled materials; 10K Islands/ St. Ives)
• free download: “Not Scared at All”
• free download: “Wet Added”
The Haunted – Road Kill (live DVD/CD; also includes documentary, promo clips, more; Century Media)
HeWhoCanNotBeNamed (of the Dwarves) – Sunday School Massacre (features Nick Oliveri, Blag Dahlia, more; MVD Audio)
The Henry Clay People – Somewhere on the Golden Coast (tbd)
• Bad Penny download: “Switch Kids”
• Bad Penny download: “Glory”
• Bad Penny download: “Your Famous Friends”
Here We Go Magic – Pigeons (Secretly Canadian)
• Bad Penny download: “Casual”
• free download: “Collector” (e-mail address required)
Heaven Shall Burn – Invictus (Century Media)
• album stream
• Metal Sucks download: “Buried in Forgotten Grounds”
Hot Hot Heat – Future Breeds (Dine Alone/ Dangerbird)
• Bad Penny download: “Goddess on the Prairie”
• free download: “21 @ 12 (Alternate Version)” (e-mail address required)
Huoratron – Prevenge (deluxe-digital version of previously released EPs Corporate Occult and $$ Troopers; Last Gang)
Humo Del Cairo – Humo Del Cairo (MeteorCity)
Istapp – Blekinge (Metal Blade)
Kaiser Cartel – Secret Transit (Daniel)
• Bad Penny download: “Ready to Go”
Keep of Kalessin – Reptilian (Nuclear Blast America)
Kingdom of Sorrow – Behind the Blackest Tears (Relapse)
Dylan LeBlanc – “If Time Was for Wasting” single (available digitally and as a 7-inch limited to 500 copies; Rough Trade)
Masakari – The Prophet Feeds (Southern Lord)
• Bad Penny download: “Rapid Dominance”
Angela McCluskey – You Could Start a Fight in an Empty House (features Girls Against Boys’ Scott McCloud, Shudder to Think’s Craig Wedren, more; Bernadette)
Mouse Fire – Big Emotion (Lujo)
• Bad Penny download: “True I May Have Lost It”
MyChildren MyBride – Lost Boy (Solid State)
Nachtmystium – Addicts: Black Meddle Part 2 (limited-edition gatefold vinyl and iTunes editions come with bonus track; Century Media)
• Metal Sucks download: “Addicts”
• Stereogum download: “Every Last Drop”
• Stereogum download: “No Funeral”
Nada Surf – If I Had a Hi-Fi (covers album; double-LP version has three bonus tracks; Mardev)
The New Loud – Measures Melt (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Wrapped In Plastic”
• Bad Penny download: “Secrets”
Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy (Century Media)
• Revolver download: “She Comes in Colors”
Off With Their Heads – In Desolation (Epitaph)
Ov Hell – The Underworld Regime (Prosthetic)
Pain (features Hypocrisy frontman Peter Tägtgren) – Cynic Paradise (with bonus CD of live material recorded in Paris on March 23-24, 2009; Nuclear Blast America)
Pain of Salvation – Road Salt One (Inside Out)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “Say No to Love” single (Slumberland)
Ratatat – LP4 (pre-order includes free poster; XL)
• Bad Penny download: “Party With Children”
Recoil – Recoil Selected (two CDs featuring classic tracks, alternate versions and remixes; Mute)
Reef the Lost Cauze – Fight Music (features Vinnie Paz, Kool G Rap, more; Enemy Soil)
Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come – Deluxe Edition (three-disc reissue featuring unreleased live album and DVD with “Refused Are Fucking Dead” documentary; Epitaph)
Robbers on High Street – “Electric Eye” single (7-inch; Engine Room)
Rooney – Eureka (California Dreaming/ Independent Label Group)
Social Studies – “Holler Boys” single (Antenna Farm)
• RCRD LBL download: “Holler Boys”
• Bad Penny download: “Time Bandit”
Starring – Wife of God (Death by Audio)
• Impose Magazine download: “July”
Suckers – Wild Smile (Frenchkiss)
• Bad Penny download: “A Mind I Knew”
Tarot – Gravity of Light (Nuclear Blast America)
Teenage Fanclub – Shadows (Merge)
Tokyo Police Club – Champ (pre-order bundles include bonus tracks, limited-edition T-shirts, etc.; Mom + Pop)
Trash Talk – Eyes & Nines (features members of the Bronx and Circle Jerks; physical version; already available digitally; Trash Talk Collective)
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal (already available overseas; Domino)
Voyager/Monolith – split LP (clear vinyl limited to 500 copies; vinyl includes album-download card; digital version includes bonus track; Science of Silence)
• Metal Sucks album stream
The Wailing Wall – The Low Hanging Fruit (JDub)
• Bad Penny download: “Bones Become Rainbows”
• Bad Penny download: “Dandelion”
What Laura Says – Bloom Cheek (Terpsikhore)
Whitechapel – A New Era of Corruption (iTunes pre-order has one bonus track; Metal Blade)
• album stream
Wild Moccasins – Skin Collision Past (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Skin Collision Past”
Wormrot – Abuse (Earache)
Wye Oak – My Neighbor/ My Creator EP (limited-edition CD; previously available digitally; Merge)
Young Veins – Take a Vacation! (One Haven)
Various artists – Beyond Berkeley Guitar (artwork designed by Baroness frontman John Baizley; Tompkins Square)
Various artists – Eccentric Breaks and Beats (Numero)
Various artists – “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” soundtrack (features Muse, Band of Horses, Beck, more; deluxe edition comes with bonus CD featuring songs by Battles, Metric, more)
JUNE 7
Thee Piatcions – Time EP (digital only; A Giant Leap)
Watain – Lawless Darkness (Season of Mist)
JUNE 5
Tom Schraeder – Once Lace, Now Cotton (Township)
• Bad Penny download: “Carry On”
• Bad Penny download: “Patbaby (An Ode To)”
JUNE 3
Jeff Klein – Death of the Fox EP (self-released)
A Forest of Stars – Opportunistic Thieves of Spring (Transcendental Creations)
The Acorn – No Ghost (digital only; physical version drops August 1; Bella Union)
• Stereogum download: “No Ghost”
Active Child – Curtis Lane EP (available digitally and as 10-inch vinyl; Merock)
Andy Bell – “Call on Me” single (Mute)
Big Tree – Home(here) (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “The Concurrence of All Things”
Boys Like Us (a.k.a. Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij) – “You and Your Heart” (remix of Jack Johnson song; XL)
• Bad Penny album review of Vampire Weekend’s Contra
Common Prayer – There Is a Mountain (digital only; Big Potato)
D-W/L-SS (features Steve Shelley)/JBe – 7-inch split (Sixgunlover)
Disco Ensemble – The Island of Disco Ensemble (Fullsteam)
Elk City – House of Tongues (Friendly Fire)
• Bad Penny download: “Nine O’Clock in France (Single Version)”
• Bad Penny download: “Nine O’Clock in France (Pocket vs Ray Ketchem Remix)”
• Bad Penny download: “Jerks on Ice”
Funki Porcini – On (Ninja Tune)
Future Rock – Live in Wicker Park (features concert material, including unreleased songs and remixes of songs by Black Moth Super Rainbow and Death From Above 1979; Harmonized)
The Futureheads – The Chaos (Dovecote)
Gold Motel – Summer House (available digitally; physical version drops November 16; self-released)
Good Old War – Good Old War (Sargent House)
• performing live on UStream.tv every night leading up to album release
Hooray for Earth – Momo EP (vinyl is clear and limited; Dovecote)
How to Destroy Angels (Trent Reznor project) – How to Destroy Angels (digital version; physical release drops July 6; Null)
Infesticons – Bedford Park (features Saul Williams, Creature, more; Ninja Tune)
♥♥♥ Lamb of God – Hourglass (classic tracks; available in multiple configurations, with one or more discs, on multiple platforms; enhanced editions include rare and unreleased material; Epic)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
♥♥♥ Melvins – The Bride Screamed Murder (Ipecac)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Sergio Mendes – Bom Tempo (Concord) and Bom Tempo Brasil (features Mendes classics remixed by Paul Oakenfold, more; Concord)
Outrageous Cherry – Seemingly Solid Reality (red vinyl is limited; Alive)
• Bad Penny download: “Fell”
• Bad Penny download: “Un-American Girls”
Peggy Sue – Fossils and Other Phantoms (Yep Roc)
• Bad Penny download: “Watchman”
Quitzow – Juice Water (Young Love)
• Bad Penny download: “The Cut”
School of Seven Bells – “Windstorm” single (features remix by A Place to Bury Strangers; digital only; Vagrant/ Ghostly International)
Sea of Bees – Songs for the Ravens (Crossbill)
• Bad Penny download: “Marmalade”
Setting Sun – Fantasurreal (Young Love)
• Bad Penny download: “Driving”
• Bad Penny download: “Make You Feel”
Shlohmo – Shlomoshun Deluxe (vinyl only; Friends of Friends)
Sleepy Sun – Fever (digital version previously available; ATP/R)
• Bad Penny download: “Open Eyes”
Sleigh Bells – Treats (physical version; digital version previously available on iTunes; Mom + Pop/ NEET)
Trees on Fire – Organica (Drake)
Roland White – I Wasn’t Born to Rock ‘N Roll (reissue of rare 1976 album; remastered from original tapes; on CD for the first time; Tompkins Square)
Wintersleep – New Inheritors (Tom Kotter)
Woodsman – Mystery Tape EP (Lefse)
Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby – Two-Way Family Favourites (Southern Domestic)
Various artists – Warped Tour Compilation 2010 (features Every Time I Die, the Casualties, more; two CDs; SideOneDummy)
MAY 31
The Operation – “Come Clean” single (U.K. release; Iota)
Triumfall – Antithesis of All Flesh (Forces of Satan)
Ellen Allien – Dust (BPitch Control)
Anti-Flag – “The Second Coming of Nothing” (7-inch; Paper + Plastick)
Beach Fossils – Beach Fossils (Captured Tracks)
♥♥♥ Black Tusk – Taste the Sin (Relapse)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Camera Obscura – “The Nights Are Cold” single (7-inch; 4AD)
Caw! Caw! – Bummer Palace (Trust Tapes)
• Bad Penny download: “Sons of Sons of Saviors”
The Chapin Sisters – Oh, Hear the Wind Blow EP (Lake Bottom)
• Bad Penny download: “Digging a Hole”
Clutch – Live at the 9:30 (iTunes only; Weathermaker)
Cocosuma – The Jar EP (remixes; 3rd Side)
♥♥♥ David Cross – Bigger and Blackerer (also available as a DVD with some alternate material; Sub Pop)
• Bad Penny review: “David Cross’ ‘I Drink For A Reason’: Loaded With Laughs – And Typos”
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (second self-titled release; previously available digitally; Fiction)
Corey Dargel – Someone Will Take Care of Me (New Amsterdam)
• free download: “Fingers”
• free EP: Every Day Is the Same Day
The Devil’s Blood – The Time of No Time Evermore (Ván)
Dew-Scented – Invocation (Prosthetic)
• Terrorizer album stream
Diabulus in Musica – Secrets (Metal Blade)
D.I.S. – Critical Failure (Deep Six)
Karen Elson – The Ghost Who Walks (produced by Jack White; Third Man/ XL)
Far – At Night We Live (Vagrant)
Griftegård – Solemn.Sacred.Severe (Ván)
Grovesnor (Hot Chip drummer Rob Smoughton) – Soft Return (Lo)
• Bad Penny download: “dEbruit Remix”
Holy Grail – Improper Burial (7-inch reissue; limited to 500 copies on white vinyl; Prosthetic)
Jeremy Jay – Splash (K)
• The Tripwire download: “Splash”
Junip (features José González) – Rope & Summit EP (digital release; vinyl release due in June exclusively to indie retailers; Mute)
• free EP download
Junk Science – A Miraculous Kind of Machine (Modern Shark)
• free download of Junk Science and Cool Calm Pete’s “Millins” on Modern Shark Sampler Tape Number One
Damien Jurado – Saint Bartlett (produced by Richard Swift; Secretly Canadian)
• Bad Penny download: “Arkansas”
• Bad Penny download: “Cloudy Shoes”
Katrina and the Waves – Walking on Sunshine (25th anniversary reissue; Tummy Touch)
Adam Kesher – Challenging Nature (produced by Chromeo’s Dave One; Disque Primeur)
Kings Destroy – Kings Destroy EP (Noiseville)
Legend – Valediction (Rise)
Liars – “The Overachievers” single (with remix by Devendra Banhart & the Grogs and more; Mute)
Lightning Swords of Death – The Extra-Dimensional Wound (Metal Blade)
Tom Mansi and the Ice Breakers – “You Got Yourself” single (U.K. release; Metric Acorn)
The Mantles – Pink Information (vinyl version; digital edition already out; Kemado)
Matt Marks – The Little Death: Vol. 1 (New Amsterdam)
Master – The Human Machine (Pulverised)
Medications – Completely Removed (Dischord)
Midnight Juggernauts – The Crystal Axis (digital and vinyl international versions only; international CD drops August 31; vinyl is limited to 1,000 gatefold copies and has one bonus track; North American version due December 12; Siberia/Inertia)
• Bad Penny download: “Lara Vs. the Savage Pack (Kisses Remix)”
Neverever – Angelic Swells (Slumberland)
• Bad Penny download: “Young and Dumb”
Peter Wolf Crier – Inter-Be (Jagjaguwar)
• Bad Penny download: “Crutch & Cane”
Piebald – Piebald: First Ten Years – Volume 2 (two CDs; Rise)
John Prine – In Person & on Stage (live album featuring appearances by Emmylou Harris, Josh Ritter, more; Oh Boy)
• Bad Penny download: “Long Monday (Live)”
Ramases – Space Hymns (vinyl version, limited to 2,000 copies; Kemado)
Rosetta – A Determinism of Morality (Translation Loss)
The Ruins of Beverast – Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite (Ván)
The Samps (ex-Haunted Graffiti’s Cole MGN) – The Samps (12-inch version; limited to 1,000 copies; already out digitally; Kemado)
Peg Simone – Secrets From the Storm (Table of the Elements/ Radium)
• Tiny Mixtapes download: “Oh Holy Night”
Smashing Pumpkins – Teargarden by Kaleidyscope Vol. 1: Songs for a Sailor EP (limited edition; contains a CD and a 7-inch in a silk-screen wooden box; Martha’s Music/ Rocket Science Ventures)
DM Stith – Heavy Ghost Appendices (two CDs; includes remixes, and covers of songs by David Byrne, Randy Newman, more; Asthmatic Kitty)
Tender Trap – “Do You Want a Boyfriend?” 7-inch (limited edition; Slumberland)
Tobacco – Maniac Meat (Anticon)
Transient Songs – Cave Syndrome (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Sin Through the Summer”
Triosphere – The Road Less Traveled (AFM)
Truth & Salvage Co. – Truth & Salvage Co. (Silver Arrow/Megaforce )
Walking Sleep – Measures (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Final Chapter”
• Bad Penny download: “In a Dream”
What Cheer? Brigade – We Blow You Suck (Anchor Brain)
• Bad Penny download: “Saiyan Re Saiyan”
Wild Nothing – Gemini (Captured Tracks)
• Pitchfork download: “Golden Haze”
• Bad Penny download: “Chinatown”
Hank Williams III – Rebel Within (Sidewalk)
The Young – Voyagers of Legend (limited-edition vinyl release; already out digitally; Kemado)
Various artists – Be Yourself: A Tribute to Graham Nash’s Songs for Beginners (Grassroots)
MAY 22
The Postman Syndrome – God Relieve Our Grief: A Mausoleum of Stillborn Demos (unreleased songs recorded from 2003-’05; East of the Wall)
MAY 21
Sabaton – Coat of Arms (Nuclear Blast)
MAY 20
D.I.S. – Critical Failure (Deep Six/ Power It Up)
Audio Bullys – Higher Than the Eiffel (Cooking Vinyl)
Aun/Habsyll – split LP (Public Guilt)
AM Taxi – We Don’t Stand a Chance (available exclusively on iTunes; available wide on June 8; Virgin)
Aluk Todolo – Finsternis (Public Guilt)
Mark Bacino – Queens English (DreamCrush/ Redeye)
• Bad Penny feature: “Cover Me: Mark Bacino’s Queens English”
Bad Religion – 30 Years Live (Epitaph)
• free album download (e-mail address required)
Band of Horses – Infinite Arms (deluxe edition includes digital and CD versions, 180-gram vinyl LP, DVD featuring videos for every album track synched to a 5.1 surround-sound mix, and coffee-table book with photos; Brown/ Fat Possum/ Columbia)
Batusis (features members of New York Dolls, Dead Boys and Blackhearts) – Batusis (LP; Smog Veil)
Berry – Blue Sky, Raging Sun (Joyful Noise)
• Bad Penny download: “Circles and Squares”
• Bad Penny download: “Out”
Harper Blynn – Loneliest Generation (Baby Jackal)
Butcher Boys (features Cheetah Chrome of Dead Boys/ Batusis) – “I’ll Tell Me Ma” (7-inch single; Smog Veil)
Cave – Pure Moods EP (12-inch; Drag City)
• Pitchfork download: “My Chariot”
Club 8 – The People’s Record (Labrador)
The Depreciation Guild – Spirit Youth (Kanine)
• The Music Slut download: “Crucify You”
• Stereogum download: Oh No Ono’s “Internet Warrior (The Depreciation Guild Remix)”
Dimitri From Paris – Get Down With the Philly Sound (two CDs consisting of dance classics and remixes; vinyl versions come with exclusive remixes; BBE)
Jeff Eubank – A Street Called Straight (Drag City)
Exodus – Exhibit B: The Human Condition (Nuclear Blast America)
Stephanie Finch and the Company Men (features Chuck Prophet and Kelley Stolz) – Cry Tomorrow (Bellsound)
Tim Fite – Under the Table Tennis (Anti-)
• free album download
Friendo (features Women’s Michael Wallace) – Cold Toads (special-edition cassette already available; St. Ives)
• The Tripwire download: “Oversees
Pete Francis – The Movie We Are In (Scrapper)
• Bad Penny download: “Glue”
Harvey Milk – A Small Turn of Human Kindness (Hydra Head)
Daniel Higgs – Say God (gospel songs and poems; recoded with Dave Sitek; Thrill Jockey)
Holy Ghost! – Static on the Wire EP (DFA)
• Bad Penny download: “Say My Name”
John Hughes – Reset the Warehouse (1320)
The Hundred in the Hands – This Desert EP (Warp)
Sarah Jaffe – Suburban Nature (Kirkland)
The Jayhawks – The Jayhawks (a.k.a. The Bunkhouse Album (on CD for the first time; Lost Highway)
Jews and Catholics – Who Are? We Think We Are! (produced by Mitch Easter; 307 Knox)
• Bad Penny download: “Fevers”
• Bad Penny download: “Up for Days”
Steve Kilbey – monsters n mirages (limited-edition eight-CD box set; Second Motion)
Kleenex/Liliput – Liliput (reissue; four LPs; Kill Rock Stars)
LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin)
Marching Band – Pop Cycle (U & L)
• Fuse download: “Another Day”
Scott Morgan – Scott Morgan (vinyl edition is limited; Alive Naturalsound)
Nas and Damian “JR. Gong” Marley – Distant Relatives (IDJ/ Universal Republic
Pearly Gate Music – Pearly Gate Music (Barsuk)
• Bad Penny download: “I Was a River (Live)” (live version)
• Daytrotter Session
The Poison Control Center – Sad Sour Future (Afternoon)
• My Old Kentucky Blog download: “Being Gone”
Pontiak – Living (Thrill Jockey)
Elisa Randazzo – Bruises and Butterflies (Drag City)
Rangda (features Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny) – False Flag (Drag City)
Gemma Ray – It’s a Shame About Gemma Ray (covers album of songs by Sonic Youth, Gun Club, more; Bronzerat)
Otis Redding – Live on the Sunset Strip (two-CDs; 1966 concerts; Stax/Concord)
The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street (reissue with 10 unreleased tracks; Universal)
Savoir Adore – “Bodies” single (Cantora)
Silent Civilian – Ghost Stories (Mediaskare)
Sleepy Sun – Fever (digital only; available in other formats on June 1; ATP/R)
• Stereogum download: “Open Eyes”
Sodom – Agent Orange (digipak comes with bonus CD; LP has three bonus live songs; SPV/Steamhammer)
Solex vs. Cristina Martinez + Jon Spencer – Amsterdam Throwdown, King Street Showdown! (Bronze Rat)
The Syllable Section – Linear Views (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Direction and Go”
• Bad Penny download: “I’m Alright Where I Stand”
Toy Soldiers – Whisper Down the Lane (Mad Dragon)
• Bad Penny download: “Hard Times”
Trash Talk – Eyes & Nines (features members of the Bronx and Circle Jerks; digital only; physical version out June 8; Trash Talk Collective)
Visqueen – A Message to Garcia (Local 638)
Gordon Voidwell – Ivy League Circus (Cantora)
• Bad Penny download: “Ivy League Circus”
• Ralph Lauren Rugby download: “Ivy League Circus (Boy Crisis Remix)”
Woven Bones – In and Out and Back Again (HoZac)
• Pitchfork download: “Your Way With My Life”
• The Fader album stream
Various artists – Friday Night Lights – Original Television Soundtrack – Vol. 2 (features Sufjan Stevens, White Rabbits, more; digital version already available; Scion)
Various artists – “MacGruber” sountrack (features the Black Keys, the Hives, Toto, more; Relativity)
Various artists – Sing Me to Sleep (features Sigur Rós, Stars, Telekinesis and more performing children’s songs; all proceeds go to The Valerie Fund; American Laundromat)
MAY 17
Bullit – Get With It EP (self-released)
Jeff Eubank – A Street Called Straight (reissue mastered from original tapes; Drag City/Yoga)
Japandroids/ Best Coast – “Perfect Pairs – Digital 45” (digital split release; Rock Steady)
• free single download (e-mail address required)
Katrina and the Waves – Katrina and the Waves 2 (digital reissue; Tummy Touch)
Thieves Like Us – Forget Me Not Remix EP (Shelflife)
• free ep download
• Bad Penny download: “Forget Me Not”
MAY 14
The King Left – Perfect Without People (available as a pay-what-you-want download and limited-edition vinyl; self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “The Way to Canaan”
MAY 12
Scott Beowulf – Love Warrior EP (self-released)
• free EP download
30db (features members of North Mississippi All Stars, Yonder Mountain String Band, more) – One Man Show (Sci Fidelity)
♥♥♥ As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise (produced by Killswitch Engage’s Adam Dutkiewicz; Metal Blade)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Marco Benevento – Between Needles & Nightfall (Royal Potato Family)
Harper Blynn – Loneliest Generation (Baby Jackal/ RED)
Brain Drill – Quantum Catastrophe (Metal Blade)
Caddywhompus – Remainder (Community)
• Bad Penny download: “Let the Water Hit the Floor”
The Chemical Brothers – “Swoon” single (digital only; Astralwerks)
Clutch – “Live at the 9:30” (double DVD; audio version available May 25 on iTunes; Weathermaker)
CocoRosie – Grey Oceans (Subpop)
The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards (Third Man/ Warner)
Death – Human; Individual Thought Patterns; Leprosy; Scream Bloody Gore; The Sound of Perseverance; and Spiritual Healing (available on iTunes only; Relapse/ Perseverance Holdings Ltd.)
The Delta Mirror – Machines That Listen (Lefse)
• My Old Kentucky Blog download: “A Song About the End”
Devo – New Traditionalists (expanded reissues; Warner Bros.)
Dimentia 13 – Mirror Mind (digital only; Smog Veil)
Effi Briest – Rhizomes (Sacred Bones)
• Stereogum download: “Rhizomes”
• Impose Magazine download: “Cousins”
Stephen Egerton (Descendents/All guitarist) – The Seven Degrees of Stephen Egerton (features members of Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, more; Paper + Plastick)
Everest – On Approach (Warner Bros./ Vapor)
Foals – Total Life Forever (digital versions; CD and LP editions drop June 15; Sub Pop)
Sage Francis – Li(f)e (features songs written by Chris Walla, Mark Linkous, more; Anti-)
Gayngs – Relayted (Jagjaguwar)
Adam – Musik for a Play (Contraphonic)
Harvestman – Trinity (limited edition; features material used for soundtrack to horror film “H2Odio”; Neurot)
Harvestman/Minsk/U.S. Christmas – Hawkwind Triad (Hawkwind covers; Neurot)
Holy Fuck – Latin (Young Turks/ XL)
• Bad Penny download: “Latin America”
• Fader download: “Stay Lit (Bishop Morocco Remix)”
Hosannas – Then & Now & Then (reissue of self-released album; Hush)
Household Names – Stories, No Names (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Definitely”
• Bad Penny download: “Driving to LA”
♥♥♥ Howl – Full of Hell (Relapse)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
I Am Abomination – To Our Forefathers (Good Fight)
Indian Jewelry – Totaled (We Are Free)
Isles & Glaciers – The Hearts of Lonely People (white 12-inch limited to 1,000 copies; Rise)
Japandroids – No Singles (Polyvinyl)
Judas Priest – British Steel: 30th Anniversary Edition (remastered reissue with two bonus tracks and bonus DVD featuring 2009 concert and documentary; Columbia/Legacy)
Karma to Burn – Appalachian Incantation (produced by Scott Reeder; features guest appearances by John Garcia and Year Long Disaster frontman Dave Davies; limited version comes with bonus disc featuring song with Garcia appearance; Napalm)
Keane – Night Train (Cherrytree/Interscope)
Kris Kristofferson – Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72 (includes unreleased material, testimonials from Dennis Hopper and Merle Haggard, more; Light in the Attic)
Fela Kuti – Alagbon Close/Why Black Man Dey Suffer; Everything Scatter/Noise for Vendor Mouth; Expensive Shit/He Miss Road; Ikoyi Blindness/Kalakuta Show; J.J.D. (Johnny Just Drop)/Unnecessary Begging; Monkey Banana/Excuse O); Yellow Fever/Na Poi (reissues; Knitting Factory)
Landmine Marathon – Wounded (digital-only reissue; Prosthetic)
Jeffrey Luck Lucas – The Lion’s Jaw (Growler)
Madder Mortem – Where Dream and Day Collide EP (Peaceville)
Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts (Sub Pop)
• Pitchfork download: “Years Not Long”
• Stereogum download: “Franklin”
Misery Index – Heirs to Thievery (Relapse)
The Morning Pages – Rising Rain (Zealous)
• Bad Penny download: “My Name Is Lion”
The National – High Violet (limited deluxe edition available at select indie stores; some stores carry one copy with “Violet Ticket” redeemable for $50 store credit; U.S. vinyl comes with album-download voucher; 4AD)
Oceana – Clean Head EP (Hot Topic exclusive; Rise)
Phosphorescent – Here’s to Taking It Easy (Dead Oceans)
Pollyn – Gave This Little Out of Place EP (self-released)
Portal – “Lurker at the Threshold” 7-inch (limited to 500 copies; Chrome Leaf)
River City Extension – The Unmistakable Man (XOXO)
Sam Quinn – The Fake That Sunnk 1000 Ships (Ramseur)
Skyforger – Kurbads (Metal Blade)
Sleigh Bells – Treats (iTunes exclusive; physical version drops June 1; Mom + Pop/ NEET)
Solution.45 – For Aeons Past (features guest vocals by Dark Tranquillity’s Mikael Stanne; AFM)
Sweethead (features Queens of the Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen) – Sweethead (The End)
Tender Forever – No Snare (K)
Testament – Live at the Filmore (digital-only reissue of out-of-print 1995 album; Prosthetic)
Thee Oh Sees – Warm Slime (In the Red)
• Bad Penny concert review: “FYF Fest 2010: Sleep Are Reawakened, Growlers Are Scary-Good, Titus Andronicus Prove Weak
This Moment In Black History/ Sun God – split 7-inch (Smog Veil)
UNKLE – Where Did the Night Fall (Surrender All)
• download: “Natural Selection” (e-mail address required)
Warm Ghost – Claws Overhead EP (Geographic North)
• Bad Penny download: “Open the Wormhole in Your Heart”
Wax Fang – La La Land (reissue; available on vinyl for the first time; Absolutely Kosher)
We Have Band – WHB (Naive)
• Bad Penny download: “Honey Trap”
Woods – At Echo Lake (also available on cassette; Woodsist)
Zs – New Slaves (The Social Registry)
MAY 10
Katrina and the Waves – Katrina and the Waves (digital reissue; Tummy Touch)
Wax Fang – La La Land (reissue; available as a download, on CD and on vinyl for the first time; Absolutely Kosher)
MAY 6
Kim Salmon & the Surrealists – Grand Unifying Theory (Low Transit Industries)
MAY 5
Typhoon – Hunger + Thirst (Tender Loving Empire)
Ape Machine – This House Has Been Condemned (Ape Machine)
• Bad Penny download: “All Times”
The Austerity Program – Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn (Hydra Head)
Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina – The Angel’s Message to Me (Damnably)
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record (features Leslie Feist, Amy Millan, Emily Haines, Doug McCombs, Sam Prekop, Spiral Stairs, more; co-produced by BSS and Tortoise’s John McEntire; Arts & Crafts)
Doug Burr – O Ye Devastator (Spune/ Velvet Blue)
• Bad Penny download: “A Black Wave Is Comin’ ”
• Bad Penny download: “Red, Red”
Cast Spells – Bright Works and Baton (vinyl reissue, limited to 500 copies; one bonus track; Dovecote)
Deftones – Diamond Eyes (Warner Bros.)
The Fall – Your Future Our Clutter (Domino)
William Fitzsimmons – Derivatives (features reimagined songs from The Sparrow and the Crow; digital only; physical version drops June 8; Mercer Street)
Free Energy – Stuck on Nothing (digital version dropped March 6; produced by DFA’s James Murphy; Astralwerks/DFA)
• Bad Penny download: “Hope Child”
Future Islands – In Evening Air (Thrill Jockey)
Gift Horse – Mountain of Youth (self-released)
I Am the Dot – Minimal Love EP (Brother Bear)
J Minus – Devil Music (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Congratulations, You Suck”
The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning EP (Black Bell)
Kivimetsän Druidi – Betrayal, Justice, Revenge (Century Media)
Greg Laswell – Take a Bow (features new version of “Off I Go”; Vanguard)
Lazer Crystal – MCMLXXX (Thrill Jockey)
Cate Le Bon – Me Oh My (physical release only; The Control Group)
• Bad Penny download: “Shoeing the Bones”
The Mantles – Pink Information (digital version only; vinyl drops May 22; Kemado)
Jeremy Messersmith – The Reluctant Graveyard (self-released)
Minus the Bear – Omni (Dangerbird)
• download: “My Time” (e-mail address required)
The Most Serene Republic – Fantasick Impossibliss EP (digital only; Home of the Rebels/ Arts & Crafts)
The New Pornographers – Together (features full eight-person lineup, plus appearances by members of Okkervil River, Beirut, St. Vincent and more; Matador)
New Young Pony Club – The Optimist (physical version; previously available digitally; Pias)
Our Last Night – We Will All Evolve (Epitaph)
Lisa Papineau (Air and M83 collaborator) – Red Trees (includes guest vocals from Mark Eitzel; Sargent House)
Mike Patton – Mondo Cane (Ipecac)
Poirier – Running High (two CDs compiling three EPs, remixes, more; Ninja Tune)
Portal – Lurker at the Threshold (EP, Chrome Leaf)
Nathaniel Rateliff – In Memory of Loss (physical version; previously available digitally; Rounder)
Luke Roberts – Big Bells and Dime Songs (Ecstatic Peace)
The Samps (ex-Haunted Graffiti’s Cole MGN) – The Samps (digital version; limited-edition 12-inch drops May 25; Kemado)
Walter Schreifels (of Quicksand, Rival Schools, etc.) – An Open Letter to the Scene (Academy Fight Song)
The Shondes – My Dear One (Fanatic)
• Bad Penny download: “My Dear One”
Snowglobe – Little More Loved In (Makeshift)
• Bad Penny download: “Love”
• Bad Penny download: “Teenage Queen”
Soulfly – Omen (features Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato and Prong’s Tommy Victor; Roadrunner)
Stereo Total – Baby Ouh! (Kill Rock Stars)
• free download: “Baby Ouh!”
Telepathic Liberation Army – Phase One (DSBR)
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! – I Love You. I Love You. I Love You and I’m in Love With You. Have an Awesome Day! Have the Best Day of Your Life! (Luaka Bop)
• Bad Penny download: “Ride/Friendship”
Typhoon – Hunger and Thirst (Tender Loving Empire)
VHS or Beta – All Summer in a Day EP (wide digital release; previously available only at Beatport.com; Chromosome)
Wake Up Lucid – Look Alive People (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Black Hair Woman”
Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation (Yep Roc)
The Whitsundays – Saul (Friendly Fire)
Various artists – Friday Night Lights – Original Television Soundtrack – Vol. 2 (features Sufjan Stevens, White Rabbits, more; digital only; physical version drops May 18; Scion)
Various artists – “Suburbia” (collector’s edition; Shout! Factory)
Various artists – “Rock ‘N’ Roll High School” (30th anniversary special edition; Shout! Factory)
MAY 3
Best Coast – “Far Away”/ “Everyone’s Gone” (7-inch limited to 500 copies; available at select lifestyle retail outlets; Eskuché)
• Stereogum download: “Far Away”
• Bad Penny concert review: “FYF Fest 2010: Sleep Are Reawakened, Growlers Are Scary-Good, Titus Andronicus Prove Weak
Goatsnake – Flower of Disease (on vinyl and CD; previously out of print; Southern Lord)
The Waves – Shock Horror (digital reissue; Tummy Touch)
APRIL 30
Rhapsody of Fire – The Frozen Tears of Angels (Nuclear Blast)
• free download: “Sea of Fate” (e-mail address required)
APRIL 29
Cap’n Jazz – Don’t Mind Control Live Album (includes performances of songs by Cap’n Jazz and affiliated projects Euphone, Owen, etc.; Polyvinyl)
• free album download
Avi Buffalo's Avi Buffalo
1349 – Demonior (special edition available as a digipak or limited-edition picture 12-inch; Prosthetic)
The Abominable Iron Sloth – The Id Will Overcome (Black Market Activities)
Alcoholic Faith Mission – Let This Be the Last Night We Care (Paper Garden)
Arma Gathas – Dead to This World (Metal Blade)
The Art of Shooting – Traveling Show (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “The Birdcage”
At the Soundawn – Shifting (Lifeforce)
Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo (Sub Pop)
Balkan Beat Box – Blue Eyed Black Boy (Nat Geo)
• Bad Penny download: “War Again (RJD2 Remix)”
Johnny Bertram & the Golden Bicycles – Days That Passed (Esperanza Plantation)
• Bad Penny download: “At the Wake”
• Bad Penny download: “Private Land”
The Boy Least Likely To – A Fairytale Ending EP (+1)
Boys Noize – Transmission EP (features remixes by Tiga, Mr. Oizo, more; digital only; Last Gang)
• free download: Tiga’s “Transmission Remix”
The Burning Hotels – Novels (Miss Press)
• Bad Penny download: “To Whom It May Concern”
Ceremony – Rocket Fire (Killer Pimp)
Cleric – Regressions (Web of Mimicry)
• Chronic Youth MP3: “A Rush of Blood”
Discover America (formerly of Telekinesis) – Future Paths (Lujo)
Frog Eyes – Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph (Dead Oceans)
• Bad Penny download: “A Flower in a Glove”
Hannah Georgas – This Is Good (Hidden Pony)
Gogol Bordello – Trans-Continental Hustle (American)
Hole – Nobody’s Daughter (first new album in 12 years; Mercury)
♥♥♥ Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power: Legacy Edition (two CDs; second disc has unreleased 1973 concert; Columbia/Legacy)
• Bad Penny interview: “Iggy Pop: ‘I Didn’t Want To Sell Out’ The Stooges”
• Bad Penny interview transcript: “Iggy Pop, Transcript, 7.18.03: ‘I Was Shooting Dope At The RIAA Awards When It Wasn’t Chic’ ”
The Incredible Staggers – Zombies of Love (vinyl version comes with poster; Soundflat)
Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound – Damnant Quod Non Intelligunt (Ah Ritualism)
Kisses – “Bermuda” single (Surrounded by Sound)
The Lights – Failed Graves (includes a cover of Black Flag’s “Nervous Breakdown”; Wäntage)
Linfinity – Martian’s Bloom (American Myth)
Daniele Lioneye – Vol. II (The End)
The Lodger – Have a Little Faith in People (Slumberland)
Juan MacLean – DJ-Kicks (!K7)
• free download: “Feel So Good” (e-mail address required)
Magic Bullets – “Lying Around” 7-inch (limited edition; Mon Amie)
Jesse Malin and the St. Marks Social – Love It to Life (SideOneDummy)
Mantric – The Descent (Prosthetic)
Mono – Holy Ground: NYC Live (recorded by Matt Bayles; Temporary Residence Ltd..)
The Montesas – Wrong Side of Town (Soundflat; Wild releasing CD version)
Mouth of the Architect – The Violence Beneath (Translation Loss)
Mushroom – Naked, Stoned, & Stabbed (4 Zero/ Royal Potato Family)
My Education – Sunrise (score to 1927 silent film “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans”; Strange Attractors Audio House)
The Mynabirds (Laura Burhenn, formerly of Georgie James) – What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood (features members of Bright Eyes, Azure Ray, These United States, more; Saddle Creek)
• Bad Penny download: “Let the Record Go”
• Bad Penny download: “Numbers Don’t Lie”
People of the North – Deep Tissue (Jagjaguwar)
Piebald – Piebald: First Ten Years – Volume 1 (two CDs; Rise)
Brian Posehn – Fart and Wiener Jokes (includes two songs – “More Metal Than You” and a cover of Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler” – performed with members of Lamb of God, Anthrax, Hatebreed, more; Relapse)
Nathaniel Rateliff – In Memory of Loss (digital only; physical version available May 4; Rounder)
Small Black – Small Black EP (remixed, remastered and expanded reissue; Jagjaguwar)
• Bad Penny download: “Despicable Dogs”
Sonoi – Sonoi (Low Transit Industries)
Soundpool – Mirrors in Your Eyes (Killer Pimp)
Southerly – Champion of the Noisy Negativists EP (available digitally and on vinyl; Self Group)
Regina Spektor – “No Surprises” (Radiohead cover; all proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders; iTunes exclusive; Sire/ Warner Bros.)
Sugar & Gold – Get Wet! (Antenna Farm)
Twilight – Monument to Time End (Southern Lord)
The Wave Pictures – If You Leave It Alone and Instant Coffee Baby (double CD; Moshi Moshi)
Wounded Lion – Wounded Lion (In the Red)
• Stereogum download: “Creatures in the Cave”
Wuthering Heights – Salt (Sensory)
The Stooges – The Stooges (collector’s edition; two CDs and a 7-inch; includes unreleased studio song “Asthma Attack”; Rhino Handmade)
• Bad Penny interview: “Iggy Pop: ‘I Didn’t Want To Sell Out’ The Stooges”
• Bad Penny interview transcript: “Iggy Pop, Transcript, 7.18.03: ‘I Was Shooting Dope At The RIAA Awards When It Wasn’t Chic’ ”
The Titty Twisters Orchestra – Gorf, Pow, Bang, Tump (vinyl comes with bonus track; Soundflat)
Warbeast – Krush the Enemy (Housecore)
Emily Jane White – Victorian America (Milan)
White Fence – White Fence (Woodsist)
• The Fader download: “The Love Between”
The Young Friends – Hella (Moodgadget)
APRIL 26
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (second self-titled release; digital only; physical versions drop May 25; Fiction)
Kimberly Rew – The Bible of Bop (reissue; Tummy Touch)
Frankie and the Heartstrings – “Tender”/ “Want You Back” single (Popsex)
Volcanoes – Sugar and Snarls EP (Indecan)
Year of No Light – Ausserwelt (Conspiracy; LP released by Music Fear Satan)
APRIL 25
Puerto Rico Flowers – “2” single (7-inch; Fan Death)
APRIL 23
Overmaster – Madness of War (Cruz del Sur)
The Sights – Most of What Follows Is True (produced by Jim Diamond; Scratchie)
Tarot – Gravity of Light (live album; U.K. release; Nuclear Blast)
APRIL 21
The Radio Department – Clinging to a Scheme (Labrador)
• Bad Penny download: “Heaven’s on Fire”
Against Me! – I Was a Teenage Anarchist (digital EP; Sire)
Sam Amidon – I See the Sign (Bedroom Community)
The Apples in Stereo – Travellers in Space and Time (first Apples studio album with new drummer John Dufilho; Yep Roc/ Simian/ Elephant 6)
Baby Dee – Songs for Anne Marie (Drag City)
Blunt Mechanic – World Record (Barsuk)
• Bad Penny download: “Our First Brains”
Cloud Cult – Running With the Wolves EP (digital version; includes cover of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man”; Rebel Group)
Coma Cinema – Stoned Alone (Arcade Sound Ltd.)
Cornershop – Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast (Ample Play)
Cuff the Duke – Way Down Here (Ernest Jenning)
Brent DeBoer (Dandy Warhols drummer) – The Farmer (Headness)
• Bad Penny download: “You Win”
Destroyer – City of Daughters; Streethawk: A Seduction and Thief (CD remastered reissues; Streethawk also on vinyl; Merge)
Bill Dolan/JBe – split 7-inch (limited to 500 copies; Sixgunlover)
Doves – The Places Between: The Best of Doves (deluxe package includes two CDs and a DVD with every Doves video; multiple digital packages available; Astralwerks)
The Endtables – The Endtables (archival release featuring previously unreleased material; Drag City)
Roky Erickson – True Love Cast Out All Evil (with Okkervil River; Anti-)
Faraquet – The View From This Tower (reissue; Dischord)
Gotan Project – Tango 3.0 (features guest appearance by Dr. John; XL)
Merle Haggard – I Am What I Am (Vanguard)
Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders – Red Light Fever (Shanabelle/RCA)
Hey Rosetta! – Red Songs EP (digital only; Sonic)
Horse Feathers – Thistled Spring (Kill Rock Stars)
Hot Chip – “I Feel Better” single (digital only; Astralwerks)
Hot Tuna – Live at the New Orleans House, Berkeley, CA September 1969 (Collectors’ Choice Music Live)
Inlets – Inter Arbiter (features members of Dirty Projectors, Osso; Twosyllable)
• Stereogum download: “Spotsylvania”
• Stereogum download: “Bright Orange Air”
Javelin – No Más (Luaka Bop)
• Bad Penny download: “Off My Mind”
Kayo Dot – Coyote (Hydra Head)
• Village Voice download: “Whisper Ineffable”
Kings Go Forth – The Outsiders Are Back (Luaka Bop)
• Bad Penny download: “One Day”
The Kissaway Trail – Sleep Mountain (includes a cover of Neil Young’s “Philadelphia”; Bella Union)
Kuan – On/Standby (two EPs; self-released)
La Strada – New Home (Ernest Jenning)
Levi/Werstler (Dååth guitarists) – Avalanche of Worms (Magna Carta)
The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs (limited-edition 10-inch vinyl reissue; comes with download coupon; Merge)
• Bad Penny download: “The Book of Love”
Medications – Completely Removed (previously available digitally and in Europe; Dischord)
Midas Fall – Eleven. Return and Revert (Monotreme)
Monotonix – “Never Died Before/ Lazy Boy” (available digitally or as a limited-edition 7-inch; Drag City)
Nedry – Condors (Monotreme)
• Bad Penny download: “A42 (Edit)”
Night Driving in Small Towns – Serial Killer (Lower 40)
• Bad Penny download: “Barstool”
• Bad Penny download: “Come & Tell Me”
Ninjasonik – Art School Girls (features Vivian Girls, Matt and Kim, more; Green Owl/ Chief)
Order of Ennead – An Examination of Being (Earache)
Ozomatli – Fire Away (Mercer/Downtown)
Passe Montagne – Oh My Satan (Sick Room/ Africantape)
Plants and Animals – La La Land (Secret City)
• download: “Tom Cruz”
Prizzy Prizzy Please – Chroma Cannon (available as LP, CD, digital or limited-edition cassette; Joyful Noise)
• Bad Penny download: “Large Hadron Collider”
• Bad Penny download: “Lost”
The Radio Dept – Clinging to a Scheme (Labrador/Caroline)
Lou Rhodes – One Good Thing (Motion Audio)
Rikets – All American Death Cult (Burnhill Union)
Shigeto – Semi Circle EP (digital only; Ghostly International/ Moodgadget)
Sick of It All – Based on a True Story (Century Media)
Stars – The Five Ghosts (Vagrant)
Still Flyin’ – “Runaway Train II” single (7-inch; Ernest Jenning)
Streetlab – Auto Spkr (Del Ctrl)
Stripmall Architecture – Feathersongs for Factory Girls (self-released)
Suicide Silence – “Disengage” single (Century Media)
Sunbears/MRENC (Dark Romantics frontman Eric Collins) – split 7-inch (limited to 500 hand-numbered copies)
Sweet Apple (features members of Dinosaur Jr., Cobra Verde and Witch) – Love and Desperation (Tee Pee)
Take – Only Mountain (Alpha Pup)
Trans Am – Thing (available as CD or vinyl with download coupon; Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Apparent Horizon”
Twin Stumps – Seedbed (Fan Death)
VHS or Beta – All Summer in a Day EP (available at Beatport.com; available at other online outlets May 4; Chromosome)
Rufus Wainwright – All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (Decca)
Wye Oak – My Neighbor/ My Creator EP (digital only; CD drops June 8; Merge)
The Young – Voyagers of Legend (digital version; limited-edition vinyl drops May 25; Kemado)
Various artists – Honest Strings: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jack Rose (digital-only release that runs almost 400 minutes long; features Bardo Pond, Six Organs of Admittance, more; all proceeds go to Rose’ estate; Thrill Jockey)
APRIL 19
AC/DC – “Iron Man 2” soundtrack (features 15 of the band’s hit songs; deluxe version comes with DVD; LP packages also available; Columbia)
Conchitas – “Butterflies” single (Delicious)
Jahcoozi – Barefoot Wanderer (Bpitch Control)
O.Children – “Ruins” single (Deadly People)
Sparrow and the Workshop – Crystals Fall (Distiller)
• free download: “I Will Break You” (e-mail address required)
Mastodon's Blood Mountain
Against Me! – “I Was A Teenage Anarchist” 7-inch (Warner Bros.)
The Album Leaf – “There Is a Wind” 12-inch (features two new songs and two outtakes; Sub Pop)
Beach House – “Zebra” 12-inch (features two new songs and two outtakes; Sub Pop)
Black Keys – “Tighten Up” 12-inch (Warner Bros.)
Built to Spill – “Water Sleepers” 7-inch (Warner Bros.)
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone (limited-edition clear vinyl reissue; Anti-)
CocoRosie – “Lemonade” 7-inch (limited edition; Sub Pop)
The Cribs/ The Thermals – “So Hot Now”/ “Separate” (7-inch limited to 2,000 copies; Kill Rock Stars)
Deerhoof – Apple O’ and Green Cosmos 12-inch EP (Kill Rock Stars)
Deftones – “Rocket Skates” 12-inch (Warner Bros.)
Devo – Duty Now for the Future (exclusive vinyl reissue; Warner Bros.) and “Fresh” 12-inch (Warner Bros.)
Dum Dum Girls/Male Bonding – split 7-inch (Sub Pop)
Everest – “Let Go” (7-inch; Warner Bros.)
The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches – The Dark Side of the Moon (exclusive vinyl release; Warner Bros.)
Happy Birthday – untitled 7-inch (features two exclusive songs; Sub Pop)
Juicehead – “Rotting From the Inside”/ “Death of Democracy” 7-inch (limited to 500 copies; comes with download card for both songs; Misfit)
Fela Kuti – The ’69 Live Sessions 10-inch EP (limited edition; Knitting Factory)
John Lennon – John Lennon Singles Bag (includes three 7-inches and ephemera; Capitol/EMI)
Let’s Wrestle/The Love Language – “I’m So Lazy”/ “Brittany’s Back (Demo Version)” split 7-inch (Merge)
Mastodon – Blood Mountain (exclusive vinyl release; Reprise)
• Bad Penny feature: “Best Albums Of 2006”
Moby Grape – “Rounder”/”Sitting by the Window” 7-inch (Sundazed)
Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antarctica (vinyl remastered reissue; previously out of print; contains download card; Epic/Legacy)
Muse – “Exogenesis Symphony (Parts 1-3)” (12-inch; Warner Bros.)
Yoko Ono – Give Me Something (album of remixes by Sparks, Junior Boys, more; Mind Train/ Twisted)
Pavement – Quarantine the Past: Best of Pavement 12-inch (1,000 copies available; Matador)
• Bad Penny interview: “Stephen Malkmus on Pavement Breakup, Reunion – and MC Hammer”
Queens of the Stone Age – Feel Good Hit of the Summer EP (10-inch picture disc; on vinyl for the first time; previously unreleased in U.S.; Interscope)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Solar Gambling (vinyl reissue; Rodriguez-Lopez Productions)
Sex Pistols – The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle (180-gram double-LP; Virgin/EMI)
Sonic Youth – Confusion Is Sex and EVOL (exclusive vinyl release; Original Recordings Group)
Soundgarden – “Hunted Down” 7-inch (orange reissue; Sub Pop)
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – Global a Go-Go and Streetcore (vinyl reissues; Anti-)
Superchunk – “Misfits and Mistakes”/ “Misfits and Mistakes (Meatwad Version)” 7-inch (Merge)
Tegan and Sara: “Alligator” 7-inch (features three B-sides; AOL sessions; Warner Bros.)
Telekinesis – “Dirty Thing” 7-inch (Merge)
Them Crooked Vultures – “Mind Eraser, No Chaser”/ “Hwy 1” 10-inch (features live material, interview, more; individually numbered; Interscope)
The Velvet Underground – Live 1969, Vol. 1 & 2 (exclusive vinyl release; Original Recordings Group)
Tom Waits – Mule Variations (11th anniversary edition on 180-gram vinyl with limited-run Jim Jarmusch photo print; Anti-)
Wilco – Kicking Television (exclusive vinyl release; Nonesuch)
Various artists – ATP/R Sampler 2010 (features Built to Spill, Sleepy Sun, more; limited to 1,000 copies; comes with download card that unlocks additional tracks; ATP/R)
Various artists – Last Gang Records sampler (features songs by Boys Noize, Ten Kens, more; Last Gang)
Various artists – SP20: Casual Nostalgia Fest (only available on CD; all proceeds go to Clinton Bush Haiti Fund; Sub Pop)
Various artists – “I Need That Record! The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store” (features Thurston Moore, Ian MacKaye, Noam Chomksy, more; available at indie stores until July 27; MVD Visual)
Various artists – “We Fun: Atlanta GA Inside/Out” (features Mastodon, Deerhunter, more; available at indie stores for 90 days; MVD Visual)
APRIL 16
Cathedral – The Guessing Game (vinyl reissue; Nuclear Blast)
Son of Aurelius' The Farthest Reaches
1349 – Demonoir (Prosthetic)
Tony Allen – Secret Agent (World Circuit/ Nonesuch)
Bison b.c. – Dark Ages (Metal Blade)
The Bitters – East General (vinyl limited to 1,000 copies; Kemado)
Blasfemea – Galaxia Tropicalia (La Lisbonera)
• Bad Penny download: “Maria”
Bleeding Through – Bleeding Through (Rise)
Sean Bones – Rumba Beat (digital only; Frenchkiss)
• Bad Penny download: “Rhumba Beat”
• RCRD LBL download: “Let’s Do Something Else”
Braid – The Age of Octeen; Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five; Movie Music Vol. 1 and Movie Music Vol. 2 (15th-anniversary deluxe-vinyl reissues; Polyvinyl)
Cancer Bats – Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones (Distort)
The Candle Thieves – Sunshine and Other Misfortunes (Mercer Street/ Downtown)
The Candles (singer/songwriter Josh Lattanzi) – Between the Sounds (The End)
Child Abuse – Cut and Run (Lovepump United)
• Village Voice download: “Bebe”
Chin-Chin – Sound of the Westway (remastered reissue; Slumberland/Mississippi)
Olney Clark – Olney Clark (Friendly Police UK)
Nels Cline Singers – Initiate (features members of Deerhoof, Cibo Matto, more; comes with bonus live CD; Cryptogramopone)
Coheed and Cambria – Year of the Black Rainbow (deluxe edition comes with novel co-written by Claudio Sanchez; Columbia)
Criminal Element – Crime and Punishment Pt. 1 (Relapse)
Dead Country – Dead Country EP (Storefront)
Dosh – Tommy (with a guest appearance from Andrew Bird; Anticon)
Earl Greyhound – Suspicious Package (Hawk Race)
• Bad Penny download: “Ghost and the Witness”
The Izzys – Keep Your Powder Dry (Fat Man) JBM – Not Even in July (Partisan)
Kaki King – Junior (Rounder)
Lair of the Minotaur – Evil Power (available as a CD or download; The Grind-House)
Little Women – Throat (AUM Fidelity)
• Impose Magazine download: “Throat I”
Mantler – Monody (Tomlab)
Mathemagic – Mathemagic EP (Paper Bag Digital)
The Jamie McLean Band (Dirty Dozen Brass Band guitarist) – Completely (self-released)
• download: “Cupid’s Greatest Thief” (available on JamieMcLean.com on 2.14)
Miike Snow – Miike Snow (digital deluxe edition with two new songs, three remixes and new cover art; iTunes exclusive; Downtown)
The Nels Cline Singers – Initiate (features members of Deerhoof and Cibo Matto; comes with bonus disc of live material; Cryptogramopone)
♥♥♥ The Ocean – Heliocentric (Metal Blade)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Ov Hell (features members of Dimmu Borgir and Gorgoroth) – The Underworld Regime (available as a CD or limited-edition 12-inch picture disc; bundles with T-shirts also available; Prosthetic/Indie)
Passion Pit – Manners (deluxe edition; Frenchkiss/Columbia)
Chris Pureka – How I Learned to See in the Dark (Sad Rabbit Music/ ADA)
Rafter – Animal Feelings (Asthmatic Kitty)
• Bad Penny download: “Paper”
Rooms – Rooms (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Caroline”
• Bad Penny download: “Forming Shapes”
Senryu – Inkling (El Deth)
• Bad Penny download: “Inklings”
Shapiro – Shapiro (Dweeb)
Sightings – City of Straw (Brah/Jagjaguwar)
• Bad Penny download: “Tar and Pine”
Son of Aurelius – The Farthest Reaches (Good Fight)
Mark Sultan – $ (Last Gang)
The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)
• Bad Penny download: “King of Spain”
Trampled by Turtles – Palomino (Thirty Tigers)
Vampires Everywhere! – Lost in the Shadows EP (available exclusively at Hot Topic; Century Media)
Woe of Tyrants – Threnody (Metal Blade)
Woodpigeon – Spirehouse EP (digital only; includes three unreleased songs and a remix; Boompa)
Various artists – Laya Project (DVD and album; EarthSync)
Various artists – “No One Knows About Persian Cats” soundtrack (features artists from Tehran’s indie-music scene; Milan)
APRIL 12
The Infesticons – Bedford Park (Big Dada)
• Bad Penny download: “Kick Anthem”
LoveLikeFire – Tear Ourselves Away (physical version; already available digitally; Heist or Hit)
Barren Earth (features former members of Amorphis, current members of Swallow the Sun and Kreator) – Curse of the Red River (Peaceville)
Hannis Brown – Oh Ah Ee (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Oh Ah Ee”
John Butler Trio – April Uprising (ATO)
Castrovalva – We Are a Unit (Brew)
James Chance & the Contortions – Incorrigible (12-inch; includes remixes; Rong)
Christy & Emily – No Rest (Klangbad)
Judson Claiborne (ex-Low Skies frontman) – Time and Temperature (La Société Expéditionnaire)
• Bad Penny download: “Song for Dreaming”
Codeine Velvet Club (features the Fratellis’ Jon Lawler) – Codeine Velvet Club (physical release; digital version dropped March 16; Dangerbird)
Color of Clouds – Satellite of Love (digital only; self-released)
Darkthrone – Circle the Wagons (Peaceville)
• Bad Penny game: Extreme-Metal Word Search
• Bad Penny interview: “An Extremely Long Conversation About Extreme Metal With Albert Mudrain”
Dimentia 13 – Dimentia 13 (digital only; Smog Veil)
Dirty Sweet – American Spiritual (Acetate)
Doves – “Andalucía” (digital only; includes unreleased acoustic version of “Jetstream”; Astralwerks)
Dr. Dog – Shame (produced by Rob Schnapf; Anti-)
Dunes – Dunes (vinyl version, limited to 500 copies; Kemado)
The Gary – Logan (Cedar Fever)
• Bad Penny download: “(Eyes in the) Tap Room”
GBH – Perfume and Piss (Hellcat)
Growing – Pumps (Vice)
• Bad Penny download: “Hormone”
Hacienda – Big Red & Barbacoa (Alive)
♥♥♥ Harlem – Hippies (Matador)
• Bad Penny download: “Friendly Ghost”
Head of Skulls! (features former members of Atombombpocketknife and Milemarker) – You Became Your Mind (available digitally and on 180-gram vinyl; Past/Futures)
High Places – High Places Vs. Mankind (Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Can’t Feel Nothing (Remix)”
Hypernova – Through the Chaos (Narnack)
Jónsi (Sigur Rós frontman) – Go (XL)
Karma to Burn – Almost Heathen and Wild Wonderful Purgatory (vinyl reissues; each comes with 10-inch of bonus material including demos and newly recorded versions of album songs; Tee Pee)
Kayo Dot (with former member Terran Olson back in the fold) – Coyote (Hydra Head)
• Time Out New York song stream: “Whisper Ineffable”
Lali Puna (featuring members of the Notwist, Yellow Magic Orchestra, more;) – Our Inventions (Morr)
• Bad Penny download: “Remember”
Rob Laufer – Excruciating Bliss (Eye)
The Library Is on Fire – Magic Windows, Magic Nights (physical release; already available digitally; Fill in the Blank)
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can (produced by Ethan Johns; Astralwerks)
Mi Ami – Steal Your Face (Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Cut Men” (non-album track)
Monster Movie – Everyone Is a Ghost (Graveface)
Murder by Death – Good Morning, Magpie (self-produced; Vagrant)
New Young Pony Club – The Optimist (digital only; physical version drops May 4; Pias)
John Parish – “She, a Chinese” soundtrack (also features songs by Feist, Mumma, more; U.K. release only; digital version dropped in mid-March; Dreamboat)
• Bad Penny download: “Li Mei & Rachid”
• Bad Penny download: “November”
Red Sparowes – The Fear Is Excruciating, but Therein Lies the Answer (Sargent House)
Rocket From the Tombs – “I Sell Soul/ Romeo & Juliet” (7-inch single; Smog Veil)
Stanley Ross – MN-EP (features Camera Obscura’s Tim Cronin)
Sardonis – Sardonis (MeteorCity)
Sally Seltmann (formerly New Buffalo) – Heart That’s Pounding (features guest vocals from Jens Lekman, and members of the Avalanches and Architecture in Helsinki; Arts & Crafts)
• download: “Harmony to My Heartbeat” (e-mail address required)
Martin Sexton – Sugarcoating (KTR)
The Sight Below – It All Falls Apart (Ghostly International)
Shark Speed – Education EP (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Killing Kind”
Elliott Smith – From a Basement on the Hill and Roman Candle (remastered reissues; Roman Candle on vinyl for the first time; Kill Rock Stars)
Jessibel Suthiwong (ex-Fannypack) – Brooklyn-4-Life (Casa Chica)
True Womanhood – Basement Membranes (Environmental Aesthetics)
Tunng – … And Then We Saw Land (Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Don’t Look Down or Back”
• Stereogum download: “Hustle (Bloc Party Remix)”
Under Byen – Alt Er Tabt (Paper Bag)
Jason Urick – “Fussing & Fighting” single (12-inch; Thrill Jockey)
TK Webb – TK Webb (vinyl version, limited to 1,000 copies; Kemado)
APRIL 5
Eskamon (Amon Tobin and Eskmo) – Fine Objects (Ancestor Media)
The Infesticons – “Kick Anthem” single (Big Dada)
• download: “Kick Anthem” (e-mail address required)
APRIL 3
Avantasia – The Wicked Symphony/ Angel of Babylon (features Ripper Owens, Eric Singer, more; U.K. release; Nuclear Blast)
Callejon – Videodrom (U.K. release; Nuclear Blast)
Moby Grape – Live by Moby Grape (unreleased recordings from 1966-’69; available as a CD and double-LP; Sundazed)
Philadelphia Grand Jury – “The Good News” (Too Pure)
• “Doppelgängers: Berkfinger (Of Philadelphia Grand Jury) And Rob Bell”
• Bad Penny download: “The Good News”
• Bad Penny download: “Going to the Casino (Tomorrow Night)”
APRIL 1
The Library on Fire – Magic Windows, Magic Nights (Fill in the Blank)
Annuals – Sweet Sister EP (Banter)
♥♥♥ Black Breath – Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Black Francis – NonStopErotik (includes cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers’ “Wheels”; Cooking Vinyl)
Black Tambourine – Black Tambourine (anthology; Slumberland)
• Bad Penny download: “For Ex-Lovers Only”
Patrick Bower & the World Without Magic – The Dark Lord (of Love) (Funfact)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey; The Good Son and Henry’s Dream (double-disc collector’s-edition reissues; include 5.1 mixes; Mute)
• Bad Penny interview: “Nick Cave: Saint Nicholas And The Nocturnal Muse”
The Cinematic Orchestra – Late Night Tales (mix album featuring songs by Nick Drake, Thom Yorke, Björk, more; Azuli)
Culted – Of Death and Ritual (Relapse)
Dearly Beloved – Make It Bleed (Zoë/Rounder)
• Bad Penny download: “Move On”
Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be (Sub Pop)
• Bad Penny download: “Jail La La”
Evelyn Evelyn – Evelyn Evelyn (includes a ukulele cover of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart”; Eleven)
• Bad Penny download: “Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn”
Extra Life – Made Flesh (Loaf)
• Bad Penny download: “The Ladder (Radio Edit)”
Floor – Below & Beyond discography: Riddim of Silence; Pillars of Irem; Fuck You. For Now.; Dove; Saturnine and Tears; Somewhere In Miami/ 305 Alive; Floor and Outtakes and It’s Not the Same (reissues; in-store CD editions; previously available as deluxe vinyl editions, mail-order CDs or digital downloads; Robotic Empire)
Free the Robots – Ctrl Alt Delete (Alpha Pup)
Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs – Medicine County (includes original songs and traditional tracks like “Blood on the Saddle” and “Jack O’Diamonds”; Transdreamer)
Helloween – Unarmed – Best of 25th Anniversary (classic songs rearranged with new melodies; The End)
Jawbreaker – Unfun (reissue; CD and download versions come with Whack & Blite EP, more bonuses; vinyl version also available; Blackball)
Keatch – Popular Music (Dim Mak)
Doug Keith (formerly of the Gods Hate Kansas) – The Lucky Ones (The Village Label)
• Bad Penny download: “The Lucky Ones”
The Living Sisters (features the Bird and the Bees’ Inara George and Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark) – Love to Live (Vanguard)
Psychedelic Horseshit – Acid Tape (Fan Death)
Raven – Walk Through Fire (includes two bonus live songs; Metal Blade)
Rotten Sound – Napalm (CD/DVD package with three original songs, three covers and a full concert; Relapse)
Slow Club – Yeah, So (with bonus CD of B-sides and live recordings; album previously available in the U.K.; Moshi Moshi)
Standard Fare – The Noyelle Beat (Bar/None)
• Bad Penny download: “Fifteen”
Tegan and Sara – Alligator (with Passion Pit, Dave Sitek, Four Tet, more; features remixes of recent album of the same name; digital only; Sire/Vapor)
Turin Brakes – Outbursts (Cooking Vinyl)
• download: “Apocolips” (e-mail address required)
Young Sinclairs – Songs of the Young Sinclairs (Kindercore)
• Bad Penny download: “Tribe”
MARCH 29
Barren Earth – Curse of the Red River (Peaceville)
Jen Olive – Warm Robot (Ape House)
Tonstartssbandht – Midnite Cobras EP (available digitally and on vinyl; Psychic Handshake)
• RCRD LBL download: “Midnite Cobras”
MARCH 25
Atreyu – “Lonely” single (Hollywood)
Expo – She Sells Seashells (self-released)
• Bad Penny feature: Bad Penny Exclusive: An Expo Download – And John Lane’s Brushes With Greatness
Haken – Aquarius (Sensory)
Nada Surf – If I Had a Hi-Fi (covers album featuring songs by Depeche Mode, the Moody Blues, the Soft Pack, Kate Bush, the Go-Betweens, Arthur Russell and more; available at Nada Surf concerts; self-released)
MARCH 24
The Bloody Beetroots – Domino EP (iTunes exclusive; Dim Mak)
An Horse – Beds Rearranged EP (remixes; Mom+Pop)
Arctic Monkeys – “My Propeller” single (available as 7-inch, 10-inch or download; Domino)
Mose Allison – The Way of the World (produced by Joe Henry; Anti-)
Bettie Serveert – Pharmacy of Love (Second Motion)
• Bad Penny download: “Deny All”
• Bad Penny download: “Semaphore (Acoustic)”
The Bird and the Bee – Guiltless Pleasures Vol. I: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates (Blue Note)
Birdsong at Morning – Vigil (third installment in four-part series; Blue Gentian)
Brasstronaut – Mt. Chimaera (Unfamiliar)
Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova – One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (updated version with new songs; Saddle Creek)
Dan Deacon – Bromst (each CD and LP comes with a fold-up cardboard tent; Carpark)
Dead Meadow – The Three Kings (with DVD; Xemu)
• Bad Penny interview: “Dead Meadow: Tweaked ‘Kings’”
Daedelus – Righteous Fists of Harmony EP (Brainfeeder)
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis (limited-edition download cards with three unreleased remixes for sale at DEP shows; various preorder packages available at OptionParalysis.net; Party Smasher Inc./ Season of Mist)
The Deadly Syndrome – Nolens Volens (digital; self-released)
• download: “Wingwalker” (e-mail address required)
Double Dagger – Masks (EP; Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Pillow Talk”
• Bad Penny interview (in which the band revealed that the EP was on the way)
Drink Up Buttercup – Born and Thrown on a Hook (Yep Roc)
• Bad Penny download: “Doggy Head”
The Frontier Brothers – You Should Start a Band (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “You Should Start a Band”
Goldfrapp – Head First (Mute)
Kleenex/Liliput – Live Recordings, TV-Clips & Roadmovies (live CD featuring Kleenex in Biel in 1979 and Liliput in Zurich in 1983; comes with DVD featuring “Roadmovie” documentary and TV performances; Kill Rock Stars)
Mux Mool – Skulltaste (Ghostly International)
• EP download: Viking Funeral
• Bad Penny download: “Lady Linda”
Nebula/ Quest for Fire – split 7-inch (features new songs by both bands; limited to 1,000 copies; Tee Pee)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “The Perfect Rapture”
Neon Trees – Habits (Mercury)
Quadron – Quadron (Plug Research)
Radar Brothers (new lineup features bassist Be Hussey and drummer Stevie Treichel) – The Illustrated Garden (Merge)
• Bad Penny download: “Horses Warriors”
Roadside Graves – You Won’t Be Happy With Me EP (Autumn Tone)
• Bad Penny download: “Liv Tyler”
• Bad Penny download: “Everything”
• Bad Penny download: “Everything (Ari Why Remix)”
Serena-Maneesh – S-M 2: Abyss in B Minor (4AD)
She & Him – Volume Two (includes covers of NRBQ’s “Ridin’ in My Car” and Skeeter Davis’ “Gonna Get Along Without You”; Merge)
Six Gallery – Breakthroughs in Modern Art (Superball Music)
• Pure Volume song stream: “Built to Last”
Tahiti Boy + the Palmtree Family – Good Children Go to Heaven (Third Side)
• Stereogum download: “That Song” (featuring Tunde Adebimpe)
Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones (Century Media)
The Unthanks – Here’s the Tender Coming (Rough Trade)
• Bad Penny download: “Lucky Gilchrist”
Andrew W.K. – Close Calls With Brick Walls (previously available in Japan and Korea; features bonus disc of rare and unreleased material called Mother of Mankind; Steev Mike)
Woodhands – Remorsecapade (Paper Bag)
• Bad Penny download: “Pockets”
Yukon Blonde – Yukon Blonde (Bumstead Productions Ltd.)
• Bad Penny download: “Rather Be With You”
• Bad Penny download: “Blood Cops”
• Bad Penny download: “Wind Blows”
Various artists – “Hot Tub Time Machine” soundtrack (features songs by the Replacements, David Bowie, more; Rhino)
MARCH 22
808 State – 808:90; ex:el; Gorgeous; and Don Solaris (deluxe remastered reissues; each comes with bonus disc of unreleased and rare songs; Salvo)
Damien* – Crippled Cute (U.K. release; Suiteside)
• free downloads: “Unaware Unaware” and “Always Wear a Pretty Shirt”
Trident – World Destruction (Regain)
MARCH 19
Unleashed – As Yggdrasil Trembles (white-vinyl release limited to 250 numbered copies; Nuclear Blast)
MARCH 18
All Leather (the Locust’s Justin Pearson, Some Girls’ Nathan Joyner and Maniqui Lazer’s Jung Sing) – When I Grown Up I Wanna F*** Like a Girl (Dim Mak)
All Shall Perish – Awaken the Dreamers (vinyl reissue limited to 900 copies; Pure Noise)
Amp Live – Murder at the Discotech (Child’s Play)
Archeology – Memorial (Balcony)
• Bad Penny download: “Altar Song”
• Bad Penny download: “By the By”
Armored Saint – La Raza (Metal Blade)
Caspian – You Are the Conductor and The Four Trees (reissues; The Mylene Sheath)
Codeine Velvet Club (features the Fratellis’ Jon Lawler) – Codeine Velvet Club (digital version; physical release drops April 6; Dangerbird)
The Delta Mirror – Machines That Listen (Lefse)
• Bad Penny download: “He Was Worse Than the Needle He Gave You”
Dropkick Murphys – Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA (with DVD; also available as digipak with HD DVD and as double-gatefold vinyl with CD; last track features the Mighty Mighty Bosstones; Born & Bred)
The Dustbowl Revival – You Can’t Go Back to the Garden of Eden (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Dan’s Jam”
• Bad Penny download: “Falling Down”
Fates Warning – Parallels (deluxe reissue; comes with bonus DVD featuring 1992 concert; Metal Blade)
Fireball Ministry – Fireball Ministry (Restricted Release)
Follow the Train – Mercury (Removador Recordings and Solutions)
Freelance Whales – Weathervanes (Frenchkiss/ Mom & Pop)
Gamma Ray – To the Metal! (U.S. debut; EarMusic)
Happy Birthday – Happy Birthday (Sub Pop)
• Bad Penny download: “Subliminal Message”
• Bad Penny download: “Girls FM”
Kaipa – In the Wake of Evolution (Inside Out)
Landmine Marathon – Sovereign Descent (Prosthetic)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “Exist”
Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band guitarist) and Dean Bowman – Chase the Devil (Knitting Factory)
Tom McRae – The Alphabet of Hurricanes (Cooking Vinyl)
• download: “Out of the Walls” (e-mail address required)
Kate Miller-Heidke – Curiouser (SIN/ Sony Australia)
Mumiy Troll – Polar Bear EP (digital only; The Village Label)
One for the Team – Ghosts (Afternoon)
Sayyadina – The Great Northern Revisited (Relapse)
The Unwinding Hours (ex-Aereogramme’s Craig B and Iain Cook) – The Unwinding Hours (Chemikal Underground)
• Bad Penny album review
John Parish – “She, a Chinese” soundtrack (also features songs by Feist, Mumma, more; U.K. release only; available in other formats on April 6; Dreamboat)
• Bad Penny download: “Li Mei & Rachid”
• Bad Penny download: “November”
Von Haze – Von Haze (self-released)
Wakey!Wakey! – Almost Everything I Wish I’d Said the Last Time I Saw You … (Family/ Timber Street)
The White Stripes – Under Great White Northern Lights (limited-edition box set with live DVD and CD, exclusive 7-inch, hardcover book, silkscreen print; Third Man)
MARCH 15
Burnt Island – Music and Maths EP (Chaffinch)
Katatonia – The Longest Year EP (includes one unreleased track; Peaceville)
Pirate Love/ Little Girls – split 7-inch (Best of Both)
MARCH 13
Eternal Summers – Eternal Summers (available digitally and as a limited-edition 10-inch; Chimney Sweep)
Zola Jesus' Stridulum
1986 – Everybody Is Whatever I Think They Are (features Jesus Lizard guitarist Duane Denison and ex-Swervedriver frontman Adam; self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Black Spring”
• Bad Penny download: “Undertow”
Abscess – Dawn of Inhumanity (Peaceville)
Acrassicauda – Only the Dead See the End of the War (EP; Vice)
• download: “Garden Of Stones”
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night (Jagjaguwar)
• Bad Penny download: “Albatross”
Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions (produced by Garth Richardson and mixed by Andy Wallace; iTunes exclusive; Warner Bros.)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (featuring new drummer Leah Shapiro) – Beat the Devil’s Tattoo (Abstract Dragon/ Vagrant)
The Blacks – In Sickness and Health EP (digital only; Bloodshot)
The Breathing Process – Odyssey: (Un)Dead (Candlelight)
Broken Bells (The Shins’ James Mercer and Danger Mouse) – Broken Bells (Columbia)
Alan Charing – Stitch (In Music We Trust)
Jason Collett – Rat a Tat Tat and To Wit to Woo (Arts & Crafts)
• download: “Little Tiger” (e-mail address required)
• download: “Love Is a Dirty Word” (e-mail address required)
Dark Tranquillity – We Are the Void (Century Media)
Daughters – Daughters (Hydra Head)
Emanuel and the Fear – Listen (Paper Garden)
• Bad Penny download: “Dear Friend”
Empires – Bang (EP; HistoryRecordings.com)
• free download: “Damn Things Over”
Epstein (features Roberto Carlos Lange of Savath & Savalas and Prefuse 73) – When Man Gets Full He Falls Asleep (Asthmatic Kitty)
• Bad Penny download: “A Lost Animal (Featuring School of Seven Bells)”
Finntroll – Nifelvind (Century Media)
Fraction – Moon Blood (vinyl version, limited to 1,000 copies; Kemado)
Free Energy – Stuck on Nothing (digital version only; other editions available May 4; produced by DFA’s James Murphy; Astralwerks/DFA)
• Bad Penny download: “Hope Child”
Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks (Fat Cat)
Gama Bomb – Tales From the Grave in Space (available as a vinyl limited to 1,000 copies or limited-edition CD with bonus Half Cut EP; Earache)
Goldfrapp – “Rocket” single (includes remixes from Richard X, Tiësto, more; Mute)
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach (Parlophone/Virgin)
Andrew Graham (formerly of RTFO Bandwagon) & Swarming Bunch – Andrew Graham’s Good Word (vinyl version, limited to 500 copies; Kemado)
Jimi Hendrix – Valleys of Neptune (features 12 previously unreleased tracks; Experience Hendrix LLC/ Legacy Recordings )
j.j. – nº 3 (Secretly Canadian)
• Bad Penny download: “Let Go”
Jookabox/ Kid Primitive Family – split cassette (limited to 100 copies; Joyful Noise)
Kartick & Gotam – Business Class Refugees (EarthSync)
The Knife (with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock – Tomorrow, in a Year (opera about Charles Darwin; two CDs; digital version dropped February 2; Mute)
Miles Kurosky (ex-Beulah singer) – The Desert of Shallow Effects (features other ex-Beulah members; Majordomo/ Shout! Factory)
Lawrence Arabia – Chant Darling (Bella Union/ Yep Roc)
Lay Low – Farewell Good Night’s Sleep (Loo)
Lemonade – Pure Moods (EP; True Panther Sounds)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)
• Bad Penny download: “Even Heroes Have to Die”
Liars – Sisterworld (special edition features remixed by Thom Yorke, Melvins, Blonde Redhead, Bradford Cox, Alan Vega, more; Mute)
• download: “Sisterworld” (e-mail address required)
Librarians – Present Passed (Postfact)
Longital – Gloria (Slnko)
Mighty Tiger – Western Theater (digital only; “33 1/3” 7-inch, out same day, comes with album digital download card; Paper Garden)
• Bad Penny download: “33 1/3”
The Morning Benders – Big Echo (co-produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor; Rough Trade)
Janka Nabay – Bubu King (True Panther Sounds)
• Bad Penny download: “Eh Congo”
Pearly Gate Music – “Big Escape” (limited-edition 7-inch single; Barsuk)
• Bad Penny download: “I Was a River (Live)” (live version)
• Daytrotter Session
Pretty Good Dance Moves – PGDM (EP; Township)
• Bad Penny download: “Leave Me Alone (ft. Bjorn Yttling & Angelina Lucero)” (featuring Bjorn Yttling and Angelina Lucero)
Rifoki (Steve Aoki and Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo) – Rifoki (Dim Mak)
• Bad Penny download: “Sperm Donor”
Seabear – We Built a Fire (Morr)
• Bad Penny download: “I’ll Build You a Fire (FM Belfast Remix)”
• Bad Penny download: “Lion Face Boy (Single Version)”
• album stream
Sectioned – Purulent Reality (Paragon)
The Splinters – Kick (Double Negative)
• Bad Penny download: “Mysterious”
• Bad Penny download: “Splintered Bridges”
Serj Tankian – Elect the Dead Symphony (available as a CD, CD/DVD digipak or vinyl; performance with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra held in March 2009 at the Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand; Serjical Strike/ Reprise)
Tanlines – Settings (EP; True Panther Sounds)
Thunder Power – Hearts Intersect (Slumber Party)
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor (XL)
• Bad Penny concert review: “FYF Fest 2010: Sleep Are Reawakened, Growlers Are Scary-Good, Titus Andronicus Prove Weak”
Woodpigeon – Die Stadt Muzikanten (previously available overseas; Boompa)
Year Long Disaster – Black Magic: All Mysteries Revealed (produced by Nick Raskulinecz; Volcom)
Zola Jesus – Stridulum (EP; Sacred Bones)
• Pitchfork download: “Night”
Various artists – Ceremony – A New Order Tribute (features Peter Hook, Detachments, Rabbit in the Moon, more; dedicated to Factory Records founder Tony Wilson; two CDs; portion of proceeds goes to the Salford Foundation Trust’s Tony Wilson Awards; 24 Hour Service Station/ MVD Audio)
Various artists – “The Heart Is a Drum Machine” DVD (features Wayne Coyne, Maynard James Keenan, Britt Daniel, more; Lightyear Entertainment)
MARCH 8
Darkthrone – Circle the Wagons (vinyl version; includes download card; regular and special-edition CD versions drop April 6; Peaceville)
Friendly Fires/Holy Ghost! – Friendly Fires vs. Holy Ghost! (DFA)
MARCH 6
Mexicans With Guns – “Me Gusto” 12-inch (Innovative Leisure/ FoF)
• The Fader download: “Me Gusto (Featuring Chico Mann)”
• Fact Magazine download: “Me Gusto (Toy Selectah Remix)”
MARCH 5
Immolation – Majesty and Decay (Nuclear Blast)
MARCH 3
The Capshuns – Time to Say (available at band’s show at Spaceland in Los Angeles; features She Wants Revenge’s Thomas Froggatt; self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Time to Say”
Robert Pollard – We All Got Out of the Army (Guided by Voices Inc.)
Skeletonwitch – Worship the Witch EP (on vinyl for the first time; Prosthetic)
The 1959 Hat Co./Thunder Power – Hearts Intersect (split EP; co-produced by the Faint’s Joel Petersen; Slumber Party)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Nitetime Rainbows (EP; Mis Ojos Discos)
A Weather – Everyday Balloons (Team Love)
AmpLive – Murder at the Diskotek (Child’s Play)
Anima – Enter the Killzone (Metal Blade)
Athlete – Black Swan (standard edition; produced by Tom Rothrock; Original Signal)
Benjy Davis Project – Lost Souls Like Us (Rock Ridge)
The Bled – Heat Fetish (Rise)
Boy Eats Drum Machine – Hoop + Wire (Tender Loving Empire)
• Bad Penny download: “ Hoop + Wire”
Bridges & Blinking Lights – Heroes, Guns & Snakes (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Undercover”
Cancer Bats – Sabotage (digital EP; includes Beastie Boys cover; Distort)
Clogs (features Bryce Dessner of the National) – The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton (features guest appearances by Sufjan Stevens, additional members of the National, etc.; Brassland)
• Bad Penny download: “On the Edge”
B. Dolan – Fallen House, Sunken City (features P.O.S. and Cadence Weapon; produced by Alias; Strange Famous)
Flogging Molly – “Live at the Greek Theatre” (recorded September 12, 2009, in Los Angeles; DVD with two CDs; SideOneDummy)
The Fresh & Onlys – August in My Mind EP (Captured Tracks)
Grieves – 88 Keys and Counting (reissue; Rhymesayers)
Groove Armada – Black Light (features Bryan Ferry, more; OM)
Hypernova – “Fairy Tales” single (Narnack)
The Library Is on Fire – Magic Windows, Magic Nights (digital only; physical release drops April 6; Fill in the Blank)
Marrow – Sunshine Enema (Marrowcell)
Peasant – Shady Retreat (Paper Garden)
Picastro – Become Secret (Monotreme)
Emma Pollock – The Law of Large Numbers (recorded with husband and fellow former member of the Delgados, Paul Savage; also features Adem; Chemikal Underground)
The Postelles – White Night EP (Astralwerks/Capitol) and “Sleep on the Dancefloor” (remix by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor; available on iTunes; Astralwerks/Capitol)
The Ruby Suns – Fight Softly (Sub Pop)
• Bad Penny download: “Cranberry”
Sarah Silverman – Songs From “The Sarah Silverman Program” (Comedy Central)
Sharam Jey – In My Blood (features Princess Superstar and more; King Kong)
These New Puritans – Hidden (Domino)
• Bad Penny download: “Orion”
Totally Bone (frontman for Dust From 1000 Years) – Marble Memo (Moon Jaw)
Twin Tigers – Grey Waves (digital version dropped earlier this year; Old Flame)
• download: free Automatic EP (e-mail address required)
• Citizen Dick download: “Passive Idol”
The Whigs – In the Dark (ATO)
• download: “Hundred/Million” and “In the Dark” (e-mail address required)
Josiah Wolf (Why? multi-instrumentalist) – Jet Lag (Anticon)
• Pitchfork download: “The Trailer and the Truck”
Various artists – God of War: Blood & Metal (digital EP with five exclusive unreleased songs by Opeth, Trivium, more; voucher for download comes with purchase of “God of War III: Ultimate Edition” video game; Roadrunner)
MARCH 1
Cancer Bats – Sabotage (digital EP; title track is Beastie Boys cover; Black Market Activities)
LoveLikeFire – Tear Ourselves Away (digital only; physical version drops April 12; Heist or Hit)
Mat Riviere – Follow Your Heart (Brainlove)
These Monsters – Call Me Dragon (U.K. only; Brew/Function)
• download: “Call Me Dragon”
FEBRUARY 28
Epstein – Epstein – Completed Mythologies (Back Catalog) (digital reissues; Asthmatic Kitty)
FEBRUARY 26
Hands – “Hold” single (Headphonica)
FEBRUARY 24
Deadbird/Burned Up Bled Dry – split 7-inch (At a Loss)
Økapi – Love Him (Illegal Art)
Alkaline Trio – This Addiction (available as an LP, a CD or a CD/DVD that includes six bonus songs and concert material; Epitaph/ Heart & Skull)
• stream: “This Addiction” (Twitter or Facebook referral required)
Balmorhea – Constellations (Western Vinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Night Squall”
• Bad Penny download: “Bowsprit”
Andrew Belle – The Ladder (self-released)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre (featuring ex-Spacemen 3’s Will Carruthers on bass) – Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? (a recordings LTD)
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim – Here Lies Love (with DVD, book; Todomodo/Nonesuch)
Felix Cartal – Popular Music (Dim Mak)
• Bad Penny download: “Popular Music”
Johnny Cash – American VI: Ain’t No Grave (final chapter in series; features covers of songs by Sheryl Crow, Kris Kristofferson, more; unreleased original song also included; produced by Rick Rubin; American/ Lost Highway)
Cloud Nothings – Turning On (vinyl reissue with one bonus track; Speakertree)
Create Avoid – Heart Remains (Pure Noise Entertainment)
Hayaino Daisuki – The Invincible Gate Mind of The Internal Fire Hell, or Did You Mean Hawaii Daisuki? (Hydra Head)
Dragonforce – Sonic Firestorm and Valley of the Damned (reissues; each comes with bonus tracks and a DVD; Spinefarm)
Dust From 1000 Years – Marble Memo (Moon Jaw)
Efterklang – Magic Chairs (4AD)
• Bad Penny download: “Modern Drift”
Eluvium – Similes (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
• Bad Penny download: “The Motion Makes Me Last”
Fan Death – A Coin for the Well (EP; Last Gang)
Fang Island – Fang Island (Sargent House)
• Bad Penny download: “Daisy”
• Bad Penny download: “Life Coach”
Martin Hagfors – Men and Flies (available as CD and gatefold vinyl; available on CD Baby)
♥♥♥ High on Fire – Snakes for the Divine (E1 Metal)
• Stereogum song stream: “Frost Hammer”
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Holy Fiction (features former members of Pilot Drift) – Hours From It (Nile)
Doug Keith – The Lucky Ones (The Village Label)
Elaine Lachica – I Think I Can See the Ocean (Stunning Models on Display)
• Bad Penny download: “Rapture”
• Bad Penny download: “Behind My Mind”
• Bad Penny download: “Bewilder”
Let’s Wrestle – In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s (Merge)
• Bad Penny download: “We Are the Men You’ll Grow to Love Soon”
Lobisomem – Brightest Solids (EP; Tall Corn)
• Bad Penny download: “Plasma Is For Lovers”
Man/Miracle – The Shape of Things (Third Culture)
• Bad Penny download: “Hot Sprawl”
• RCRD LBL download: “Other People”
Holly Miranda – The Magician’s Private Library (features members of TV on the Radio and Antibalas; XL)
• Bad Penny download: “Waves”
• Bad Penny download: “Forest Green Oh Forest Green”
The Morning Benders – “Promises” (7-inch version of song previously available on iTunes; comes with unreleased B-side “Oh Annie”; song will be made available on TheMorningBenders.com for a limited time; True Panther Sounds)
Mutiny Within – Mutiny Within (Roadrunner)
N.A.M.B. – B.M.A.N. (deluxe package with 96-page booklet; Monotreme)
• Bad Penny download: “L.O.N.”
The New Loud – Can’t Stop Not Knowing (EP; includes cover of Radiohead’s “2 + 2 = 5”; mixed by ex-Drive Like Jehu’s Mark Trombino; self-released)
John Parish – “She, a Chinese” soundtrack (also features songs by Feist, Mumma, more; U.K. release only; digital version drops March 16; available in U.S. in other formats on April 6; Dreamboat)
• Bad Penny download: “Li Mei & Rachid”
• Bad Penny download: “November”
Parenthetical Girls – Privilege: Pt. 1 – On Death & Endearments (vinyl and digital release; Slender Means Society)
• Bad Penny download: “Evelyn McHale”
Past Lives – Tapestry of Webs (Suicide Squeeze)
• Stereogum download: “Deep in the Valley” (featuring Hannah Blilie of the Gossip)
Pelican – What We All Come to Need (deluxe-vinyl gatefold version; features three bonus songs not featured on CD version; Southern Lord)
Quasi – American Gong (mixed by Steve Fisk, Tucker Martine and Dave Fridmann; Kill Rock Stars)
• Bad Penny interview: “Quasi’s Sam Coomes In ’01: ‘There Isn’t Any Point In Us Rushing’ Albums”
• Bad Penny interview transcript: “Quasi’s Sam Coomes In ’01: ‘There Isn’t Any Point In Us Rushing’ Albums”
• Bad Penny download: “Repulsion”
Rage Against the Machine – “Revolution in the Head: Rage Against the Machine and the Art of Protest” (MVD Visual/ Sexy Intellectual)
Jack Rose – Luck in the Valley (Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Woodpiles on the Side of the Road”
Sambassadeur – European (Labrador)
• Bad Penny download: “Stranded”
Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago (Matador)
Shout Out Louds – Work (produced by Phil Ek; Merge)
• Bad Penny download: “Walls (Fontan Rework)”
• Bad Penny download: “Walls”
April Smith and the Great Picture Show – Songs for a Sinking Ship (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Colors”
The Strange Boys – Be Brave (In the Red)
Suffokate – No Mercy, No Forgiveness (Mediaskare)
The Superions (features Fred Schneider of the B-52’s) – The Superions (EP; 12-inch and CD versions; already available on iTunes; Happy Happy Birthday to Me)
• Bad Penny interview with Fred Schneider
• Bad Penny download: “Totally Nude Island (The Lolligags Remix)”
Rob Swift – The Architect (Ipecac)
• Bad Penny download: “Rabia – 2nd Movement”
Testament – The Formation of Damnation (reissue with bonus CD featuring live audio and video material; Nuclear Blast)
These Are Powers – World Class Peoples/ Candyman (EP featuring three new songs and two remixes; RVNG)
Title Tracks – It Was Easy (includes covers of Bruce Springsteen’s “Tougher Than the Rest,” the Byrds’ “She Don’t Care About Time”; physical version; already available digitally; Ernest Jenning)
Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté – Ali and Toumani (World Circuit/ Nonesuch)
Veil Veil Vanish – Change in the Neon Light (Metropolis)
Rocky Votolato – True Devotion (Barsuk)
Xasthur – 2005 Demo (two songs, totaling 16 minutes; Hydra Head)
Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Hate Myself (features members of Deerhoof; deluxe versions available on XiuXiu.org; Kill Rock Stars)
• Bad Penny download: “Gray Death”
• Bad Penny download: “Dear God, I Hate Myself”
Was (Not Was) – Pick of the Litter (1980-2010) (retrospective compilation with Iggy Pop, Wayne Kramer, more; Micro Werks)
White Hills – White Hills (available as a CD or LP; Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “Dead”
White Wizzard – Over the Top (Earache)
• Bad Penny album review
Wolf People – Tidings (Jagjaguwar)
• Bad Penny download: “October Fires”
Zeus – Say Us (Arts & Crafts)
Various artists – “Blank Generation” (1980 musical film featuring Richard Hell)
Various artists – Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox (limited-edition two-CD version; already available online here; features Yo La Tengo, the Mountain Goats, Lou Barlow, Jay Reatard, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, more; Merge)
FEBRUARY 22
At the Gates – “The Flames of the End” (three-DVD digipak with live performances and documentary; U.K. release; Earache)
• trailer
Bygones (Zach Hill and Tera Melos’ Nick Reinhart) – Spiritual Bankruptcy EP (Sargent House)
Damien – “Unaware Unaware” single (U.K. release; Suiteside)
• free download
Eprom/Eskmo – “Hendt”/ “Lands and Bones” (12-inch; Warp)
Valgeir Sigurðsson – “Dreamland” soundtrack (Bedroom Community)
Yes Giantess – “The Ruins” single (Neon Gold)
FEBRUARY 20
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – “Wet Cement” (7-inch version, limited to 750 copies; Kemado)
FEBRUARY 19
Southerly – Negativist (EP; dedicated to the memory of Jeff Hanson; Self Group)
The Acacia Strain – “The Most Known Unknown” (two DVDs featuring live material and a documentary; Prosthetic)
♥♥♥ Aeternam – Disciples of the Unseen (Metal Blade)
• Bad Penny album review
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
The Attack – Of Nostalgia and Rebellion (self-released)
Seth Augustus – To the Pouring Rain (Porto Franco)
• Bad Penny download: “Tiny Little Head”
• Bad Penny download: “Trickeries of the Great Emptiness”
♥♥♥ Barn Burner – Bangers (Metal Blade)
• Bad Penny album review
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Bear Hands – “What a Drag” single (Cantora)
• download: “What a Drag” (e-mail address required)
Dum Dum Girls – “Jail La La” (7-inch; Sub Pop)
• Bad Penny download: “Jail La La”
Everybody Was in the French Resistance … Now – Fixin’ the Charts, Volume One (Art Brut’s Eddie Argos and the Blood Arm’s Dyan Valdes; Cooking Vinyl)
Jason Falkner – I’m OK, You’re OK (Cobraside)
Field Music – Field Music (Measure) (double album; Memphis Industries/ Revolver)
• Bad Penny download: “Measure”
• Stereogum download: “Each Time Is a New Time”
The Forecast – The Forecast (Eyeball)
The Franks – DUH (EP; self-released)
• songs to be made available for free download on DieFranksDie.com on day of release
Giant Drag – Swan Song EP (Roar Scratch)
The Go Find – Everybody Knows It’s Gonna Happen, Only Not Tonight (Morr)
Juliana Hatfield – Peace and Love (Ye Olde Records)
Heathen – The Evolution of Chaos (Mascot)
Heavenly – Carpe Diem (AFM)
The Hush Now – Constellations (self-released)
In Mourning – Monolith (recorded with Scar Symmetry’s Jonas Kjellgren; Pulverised)
Javelin – Number Two (available digitally at FINA-Music.com and as a hand-screened 12-inch limited to 500 copies; make-your-own-album jacket info available here; Thrill Jockey)
Fela Kuti – The ’69 L.A. Sessions; Live With Ginger Baker; London Scene/Shakara; Roforofo Fight/+2 Singles; Open & Close/Afrodisiac; and Gentleman/Confusion (CD reissues; Knitting Factory)
Liars – “Scissor” (digital single; Mute)
Lightspeed Champion – Life Is Sweet! Nice to Meet You (Domino)
Local Natives – Gorilla Manor (Frenchkiss)
• Bad Penny download: “Careful”
• Pitchfork download: “Sun Hands (Here We Go Magic Remix)”
Scott Lucas & the Married Men – George Lassos the Moon (limited-edition vinyl version also available; G&P)
Mako Sica – Horizon (vinyl; limited to 250 copies; La Société Expéditionnaire)
• Bad Penny download: “I’Itoi”
Charlie Alex March – Home/Hidden (features members of Stereolab, High Llamas; Lo)
Moon Duo – Escape (Woodsist)
Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (Glassnote)
Obscura (featuring members of Alabama Thunderpussy and Facedowninshit) – Retribution (Relapse)
Rykarda Parasol – For Blood and Wine (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “A Drinking Song”
Joe Pug – Messenger (Lightning Rod)
The Ravenna Colt – Slight Spell (Removador Recordings and Solutions)
Red Pens – Reasons (Grain Belt)
Dan Reeder – This New Century (Oh Boy)
The Seven Fields of Aphelion (Black Moth Super Rainbow member) – Periphery (Graveface)
Tony Sly (of No Use for a Name) – 12 Song Program (with guest appearances from Karina Denike of Dance Hall Crashers, Joey Cape of Lagwagon and more; Fat Wreck Chords)
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore – Dear Companion (portion of proceeds benefit Appalachian Voices; Sub Pop)
• Bad Penny download: “Something, Somewhere, Sometime”
The Souljazz Orchestra – Rising Sun (Strut)
• Bad Penny download: “Mamaya”
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Kollaps Tradixionales (Constellation)
Tindersticks – Falling Down a Mountain (Constellation)
Truman Peyote/Many Mansions – Peaced Together (split 12-inch; Whitehaus Family)
• Pitchfork download: Truman Peyote’s “Sidewalk Sludging (Airbud)”
Jason Urick – Husbands (CD release limited to 500 copies; comes with poster; previously available on vinyl; Thrill Jockey)
• Bad Penny download: “The Eternal Return”
Vivian Girls – “My Love Will Follow Me” single (available as an iTunes digital exclusive or 7-inch; Wild World)
Jacobi Wichita – Lambsie.Divey EP (Eyeball)
Wu-Tang Clan – The Return of the Wu & Friends (compilation featuring unreleased songs, classic cuts and rarities; Gold Dust)
Various artists – Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall and the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program (Preservation Hall/ Sony RED/ MRI)
FEBRUARY 15
Son Lux – Weapons EP (Anticon)
FEBRUARY 13
Once a Pawn – Mission Accomplished (Queer Control)
• Bad Penny download: “Waiting”
• Bad Penny interview: “Inside The Label: Queer Control Records”
FEBRUARY 11
Scanners – Submarine (Dim Mak)
• The Fader download: “We Never Close Our Eyes”
FEBRUARY 10
Black Cobra – Chronomega (vinyl; limited to 1,500 copies; features rare cover of Buzzov*en’s “Behaved”; Southern Lord)
Gigi – Maintenant (features Mirah, Karl Blau, Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett, more; Tomlab)
• Bad Penny download: “Strolling Past the Old Graveyard (Featuring Karl Blau)”
• Pitchfork download: “No, My Heart Will Go On”
Lullabye Arkestra – Heart Like a Wheel EP (Vice)
A Broken Consort – Crow Autumn (vinyl version limited to 500 copies; Tompkins Square)
AM – Future Sons & Daughters (Filter U.S. Recordings)
Arsis – Starve for the Devil (produced by Zeuss; two bonus tracks, including cover of King Diamond’s “The Lake,” featured on Nuclear Blast mail-order version [1,000 copies] and vinyl [500 copies]; Nuclear Blast)
The Besnard Lakes – “Albatross” (vinyl 12-inch; Jagjaguwar)
• Bad Penny download: “Albatross”
Blessure Grave – Judged by Twelve, Carried by Six (Alien8)
• Bad Penny download: “The Cycle”
Kath Bloom – Thin Thin Line (Caldo Verde)
V V Brown – Travelling Like the Light (already available in U.K.; EMI)
Buzzcocks – A Different Kind of Tension; Another Music in a Different Kitchen; and Love Bites (special-edition reissues; include previously unreleased tracks; Mute)
Johnny Cash – “Ain’t No Grave” single (American/ Lost Highway)
Dark Fortress – Ylem (Century Media)
Daughters – “The First Supper” (digital single; Hydra Head)
Fear Factory (with Dino Cazares back in the fold) – Mechanize (Candlelight)
Galactic – Ya-Ka-May (Anti-)
Giggs – “Don’t Go There” (featuring B.o.B.) single (XL)
Glimr – Faith of Our Fathers (10GEV)
• Bad Penny download: “Sunburned at Midnight”
The Goat – The Goat Speaks (Werewolf Heart)
Ernest Gonzales – Been Meaning to Tell You (with mixes by Daedelus, CYNE, more; comes with book; FoF Music; 180g white vinyl released by Tall Corn Music)
• Bad Penny download: “Dancing in the Snow”
Hot Chip – One Life Stand (Astralwerks)
Hunx and His Punx – Gay Singles (five previously released songs and on bonus track; True Panther Sounds)
Icarus Witch – Draw Down the Moon (Cleopatra/Koch)
Killing Time – Three Steps Back (Dead City)
Massive Attack – Heligoland (marks return of Horace Andy; features guest vocals from Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, more; Virgin)
♥♥♥ Meshuggah – “Alive” (DVD and CD; features live and behind-the-scenes material from band’s 2008 obZen tour; preorder packages come with tee, poster; Nuclear Blast)
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Mimicking Birds – Mimicking Birds (co-produced by Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock; Glacial Pace)
Georgia Anne Muldrow – King’s Ballad (Ubiquity)
♥♥♥ Orphaned Land – The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR (Century Media)
• Bad Penny interview: “Faith in Metal: Orphaned Land Push for Peace in the Middle East”
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Pantha Du Prince – Black Noise (features members of Animal Collective and !!!; Rough Trade)
Phantogram – Eyelid Movies (Barsuk)
Pretenders – Pretenders: Live in London (from ’09 tour; with bonus DVD; also available as a standalone Blu-ray; E1)
Schooner – Duck Kee Sessions (EP; all proceeds go to brain cancer research; Cytunes.org)
• Bad Penny download: “Feel Better”
Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here (XL)
Screaming Females – Singles (six rare songs; Don Giovanni)
• Bad Penny download: “I Do”
• Bad Penny concert review: “FYF Fest 2010: Sleep Are Reawakened, Growlers Are Scary-Good, Titus Andronicus Prove Weak
Shellshag – Rumors in Disguise (Don Giovanni)
• Bad Penny download: “1984”
• Bad Penny download: “Resiliant Bastard”
Smile Smile – Truth on Tape (Kirtland)
• Bad Penny download: “Beg You To Stay”
Theodore – Hold You Like a Lover (Moon Jaw)
The Thermals – “Canada” single (Kill Rock Stars)
This Moment in Black History – Public Square (LP; Smog Veil)
This Moment in Black History and Sun God – split LP (Smog Veil)
Title Tracks – It Was Easy (includes covers of Bruce Springsteen’s “Tougher Than the Rest,” the Byrds’ “She Don’t Care About Time”; digital version; physical version drops February 23; Ernest Jenning)
Viva L’American Death Ray Music – Behold a Pale Horse (vinyl version, limited to 500 copies; Kemado)
The ♥♥♥ Watson Twins – Talking to You, Talking to Me (features members of My Morning Jacket and Everest; Vanguard)
• Bad Penny album review
Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Hate Myself (features members of Deerhoof; iTunes version, which comes with two bonus songs; other versions available February 23; Kill Rock Stars)
• Bad Penny download: “Gray Death”
• Bad Penny download: “Dear God, I Hate Myself”
You Say Party! We Say Die! – XXXX (Paper Bag)
• Bad Penny download: “Laura Palmer’s Prom (Los Campesinos! Remix)”
• Bad Penny download: “Dark Days”
FEBRUARY 8
Johnny Foreigner – “Every Cloakroom Ever” (single available in digital or vinyl form; LP limited to 300 copies; Best Before/ Pony Up)
FEBRUARY 3
Various artists – Make the Load Lighter: Indie Rock for Haiti (digital-only; all proceeds go to volunteer organization Voice of Haiti; Dromedary)
Aderlating/Nekrasov – Aderlating/Nekrasov (split LP limited to 300 copies; Chrome Leaf)
The Album Leaf – A Chorus of Storytellers (available on CD and LP; mixed by Sigur Rós’ Birgir Jón Birgisson; Sub Pop)
• Bad Penny album review
• Bad Penny download: “Falling From the Sun”
James Apollo – How Hard a Heart of Gold Can Be (EP; No Alternative)
Bob Blank – The Blank Generation: Blank Tapes NYC 1975-1985 (includes an unreleased mix; Strut)
Bleed Electric – “The Last Night of 1989″/”XII Special Weapons and Tactics” single (Altsounds.com)
Bluebrain – Soft Power (Lujo)
• Bad Penny download: “Ten by Ten”
Charred Walls of the Damned (Ripper Owens, producer Jason Suecof, and ex-Death/Iced Earth bassist Steve Digiorgio and drummer Richard Christy ) – Charred Walls of the Damned (digipak; comes with making-of bonus DVD; limited signed copies available with pre-order; Metal Blade)
• album stream appearing on NoiseCreep.com from 1.25-2.1
Cougarettes – Milk Fangs EP (Machette)
Creature With the Atom Brain – Transylvania (features Mark Lanegan; The End)
• Bad Penny download: “I Rise the Moon”
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele – The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (Paw Tracks)
• Bad Penny download: “Meet Me in the Garden”
Droids Attack – Must Destroy (Crustacean)
Fishbone – “Live in Bordeaux” (April 2008 concert; available as a DVD or CD; orders made on Fishbone.net come with limited-edition skateboard deck, 12-inch picture disc of release, T-shirt, digital download; self-released)
Footstone – Lippy (digital-only reissue; Dromedary)
Haemorrhage – Apology for Pathology and Grume (reissues; Relapse)
The Heligoats (Chris Otepka of Troubled Hubble) – Goodness Gracious (Greyday)
• Bad Penny download: “Heat Vents”
• Bad Penny download: “Fish Sticks”
King of Prussia – The Time of Great Forgetting (digital only; Kindercore)
• Bad Penny download: “Waitin’ for Something”
The Knife (with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock) – Tomorrow, in a Year (opera about Charles Darwin; digital version only; CD hits stores March 9; Mute)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba – I Speak Fula (CD release; digital version dropped in December; Sub Pop/ Next Ambiance)
Light This City – The Hero Cycle (reissue; Prosthetic)
Miracle Condition (features members of US Maple) – Miracle Condition (Tizona)
• album stream
Motor – Hyper Machine (Dim Mak)
• Bad Penny download: “Kick It”
Julia Nunes – I Think You Know (Rude Butter)
• Bad Penny download: “I Think You Know”
Oy – First Box, Then Walk (Creaked)
• Bad Penny download: “Snake”
• Bad Penny download: “Snake (Sutekh ‘Acid in My Bed’ Mix)”
Pierced Arrows – Descending Shadows (Vice)
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “Let It Rain”
♥♥♥ Priestess – Prior to the Fire (previously available in Canada; Tee Pee)
• Stereogum download: “Trapped in Space & Time”
• Brooklyn Vegan download: “Raccoon Eyes”
• Spin.com download: “Ladykiller”
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
Salvador Santana (son of Carlos Santana) – Keyboard City (features collaborations with GZA, Money Mark and Del the Funky Homosapien; Quannum/ Various Music)
Shout Out Louds – “Fall Hard” (digital single; Merge)
Slobs – “Slobs” (7-inch; Machette)
The Soft Pack – The Soft Pack (Kemado)
The Soundtrack of Our Lives – The Immaculate Convergence (digital EP; Yep Roc)
These New Puritans – Hidden (Domino)
Through the Eyes of the Dead – Skepsis (Century Media)
Toro y Moi – Causers of This (Carpark)
• Bad Penny download: “Blessa”
Various artists – “Crazy Heart” soundtrack (deluxe edition; with new songs from Jeff Bridges and classic cuts from the Louvin Brothers, Waylon Jennings and more; co-produced by T Bone Burnett; New West)
Various artists – Next Stop … Soweto: Township Sounds From The Golden Age of Mbaqanga (Strut)
JANUARY 29
Dark Age – Acedia (AFM)
Mob Rules – Radical Peace (AFM)
Nostradameus – Illusion’s Parade (AFM)
While Heaven Wept – Sorrow of the Angels and Of Empires Forlorn (reissues of out-of-print CDs; limited to 1,000 numbered copies; Cruz Del Sur)
JANUARY 27
I’m From Barcelona – 27 Songs from Barcelona (one song per day available for free starting today at I’mFromBarcelona.com; album, inspired by Kiss’ simultaneous solo album releases in 1978, features one solo song from every member of the band; also available as triple vinyl; Mute)
Absu – Absu (deluxe edition with bonus live DVD; Candlelight)
AFCGT (A Frames and Climax Golden Twins) – AFCGT (Sub Pop)
• Bad Penny download: “Two Legged Dog”
Animal Collective – Campfire Songs (reissue; Paw Tracks)
Armageddon (featuring Arch Enemy guitarist Chris Amott) – Embrace the Mystery and Three (two-CD
reissue sets with bonus material; original releases previously available in Japan only; Century Media)
Kevin Barker (of Vetiver) – You and Me (features Joanna Newsom, Wilco’s Pat Sansone and more; Gnomonsong)
• Bad Penny album review
• Bad Penny download: “You & Me”
Beach House – Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
• Bad Penny album review
• Bad Penny download: “Norway”
Thavius Beck – Dialogue (Mush)
The Black Belles – “What Can I Do”/”Lies” single (Third Man)
David Bowie – A Reality Tour (2003 concert recordings; two CDs; ISO/Columbia/Legacy)
• Bad Penny interview: “David Bowie Faces Reality”
• Bad Penny interview transcript: “David Bowie Transcript, 7.9.03: ‘I Am The Man Who Found Velvet Underground!’ ”
Boy Genius – Staggering (self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Ramona Saves the Day”
• Bad Penny download: “Blame Love”
• Bad Penny download: “Old New England”
Basia Bulat – Heart of My Own (Rough Trade)
• Bad Penny download: “Gold Rush”
♥♥♥ Cars and Trains – The Roots, the Remix (Fake Four Inc.)
• Bad Penny download: “Some Lonesome Street Corner (USF Remix)”
• FensePost download: “Intimidated by Silence”
Cave In – Planets of Old (CD EP and DVD; 12-inch came out last year; Hydra Head)
• Bad Penny interview: “Cave In: ‘The Longer We’re Around, The More People Don’t Like Us’ ”
• Bad Penny album review
• album stream
• Boston Phoenix DVD clip: “Juggernaut”
Ceremony – “Someday” (7-inch single limited to 500 copies; Killer Pimp)
Citay – Dream Get Together (produced by the Fucking Champs’ Tim Green; Dead Oceans)
• Bad Penny download: “Mirror Kisses”
• Bad Penny download: “Careful With That Hat”
City Light – Burned Out Bright (self-released)
Clogs (features Bryce Dessner of the National) – Veil Waltz (EP; digital only; Brassland)
• Bad Penny download: “Three-Two”
Dream Evil – In the Night (Century Media)
GDP – Realistic Expectations (Division East/ Say-10)
• Punk News album stream
• Fuse download: “Butter Scripts”
Gigi – Maintenant (Tomlab)
• Bad Penny download: “The Old Graveyard (Featuring Karl Blau)”
Gorillaz featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack – “Stylo” (digital single; Parlophone)
Eat Skull – “Jerusalem Mall” single (Woodsist)
• Pitchfork download: “Don’t Leave Me on the Speaker”
Evacuate Chicago (features former members of Psychostick) – Veracity (Rock Ridge)
Joe Firstman – El Porto (Rock Ridge)
Elizabeth Fraser – Moses (12-inch EP; already available on iTunes; previously available overseas; all proceeds go to the family of Echo and the Bunnymen’s Jake Drake-Brockman, who passed away tragically in September; Rough Trade)
Fredrik – Trilogi (The Kora)
Free Energy – Stuck on Nothing (Astralwerks/DFA)
♥♥♥ Fucked Up – Couple Tracks (compilation of singles from 2002-2009; Matador)
GDP – Realistic Expectations (Division East)
Harvey Milk – Harvey Milk (Hydra Head)
• album stream
Home – Home XVII (Brah)
The Hours – Ali in the Jungle (digital EP; available on iTunes; Hickory)
Ihsahn (ex-Emperor vocalist) – After (Candlelight)
Wanda Jackson – “You Know I’m No Good”/”Shakin’ All Over” (covers of songs by Amy Winehouse, and Johnny Kidd and the Pirates; single; produced by Jack White; Third Man)
The Little Death – The Little Death (brick-and-mortar version; currently available on TheLittleDeath.com; self-released)
Loney Dear – Dear John (Polyvinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Airport Surroundings”
Los Campesinos! – Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts)
Robert A.A. Lowe & Rose Lazar – Eclipses (extended version of 2008’s Gyromancy; limited-edition double LP; comes with poster; Thrill Jockey)
Magic Man – Real Life Color (Arcade Sound Ltd)
• free album download
Manimal – The Darkest Room (AFM)
Mnemic – Sons of the System (includes remix not features on European release; iTunes has bonus track; Nuclear Blast)
Mondo Drag – New Rituals (available as a CD, digital or vinyl limited to 500 copies; Alive Naturalsound)
• Amazon (free) download: “Light as a Feather”
My Brightest Diamond – Shark Remixes (double-CD limited to 1,500 numbered and signed copies; Asthmatic Kitty)
Native – Wrestling Moves (Sargent House)
• album stream
Scout Niblett – The Calcination of Scout Niblett (Drag City)
• Bad Penny download: “The Calcination of Scout Niblett”
Nocando – Jimmy the Lock (Alpha Pup)
• Bad Penny download: “Hurry Up and Wait”
♥♥♥ Oh No Ono – Eggs (Friendly Fire)
• Bad Penny album review
• Bad Penny download: “Helplessly Young”
Oy – “Snake” (single with four remixes; Creaked)
• Bad Penny download: “Snake (Sutekh ‘Acid in My Bed’ Mix)”
Patrick & Eugene – Altogether Now (Birds Bees Flowers Trees) (Tummy Touch Music Group)
• Bad Penny album review
• YouTube clip: “The Birds and the Bees” music video
• YouTube clip: “Don’t Stop” music video
• YouTube clip: “Bet You Look Good” music video
Pit Er Pat – The Flexible Entertainer (Thrill Jockey)
Retribution Gospel Choir – 2 (Sub Pop)
• Bad Penny download: “Hide It Away”
Lucy Schwartz – Help Me! Help Me! (EP; co-produced by Mitchell Froom; self-released)
The Silent League – … But You’ve Always Been the Caretaker (comes with bonus disc that features remixes, a cover of Alicia Keys’ “No One” and more; Something in Construction)
• Pitchfork download: “Yours Truly, 2095”
Slow Six – Tomorrow Becomes You (Western Vinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “The Night You Left New York”
Soundpool – “But It’s So” (7-inch single; Killer Pimp)
• Bad Penny download: “But It’s So”
Taking Dawn – Time to Burn (Roadrunner)
J. Tillman – “Wild Honey Never Stolen” (limited-edition 7-inch; Western Vinyl)
• Relix stream: “Wild Honey Never Stolen”
• Relix live session
VoicesVoices – Origins (Manimal Vinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Flulyk Visions (Radio Edit)”
• Fader download: “Origins”
Various artists – Joan of Arc Presents: Don’t Mind Control (limited-edition compilation featuring 18 songs by JoA collaborators including Owen, Euphone and Cale Parks; Polyvinyl)
• Bad Penny download: “Friend in Common“
JANUARY 25
Aspera – Ripples (InsideOutMusic)
Broken Links – Resisting Movement and the Almost Advisory (EP; self-released)
Cult of Luna – Cult of Luna and The Beyond (limited-edition double-gatefold vinyl; Earache)
Jaga Jazzist – One Armed Bandit (Ninja Tune)
• Bad Penny download: “One Armed Bandit” (e-mail address required)
♥♥♥ Shining – Blackjazz (Indie Recordings/ The End)
• Bad Penny album review
• Bad Penny download: “Fisheye (Edit)”
• Bad Penny feature: best metal albums of 2010
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club – “Bored in Belgium” single (available as a download or 7-inch; This Is Fake DIY)
• song stream: “Bored in Belgium”
Bigbang – Edendale (already available outside U.S.; Oglio)
Cold War Kids – Behave Yourself (EP; Downtown)
Convulse – World Without God (reissue; Relapse)
Adrian Crowley – Season of the Sparks (Chemikal Underground)
Devolved – Calculated (Unique Leader)
♥♥♥ Dinowalrus – % (Kanine)
• Bad Penny download: “Electric Car, Gas Guitar”
• Bad Penny download: “Bead”
• Bad Penny download: “Nuke Duke ‘Em (Mae Shi Remix)”
• Bad Penny download: “Nuke Duke ‘Em”
Editors – In This Light and on This Evening (Fader)
Eels – End Times (Vagrant)
El May – El May (500 hand-screened copies available at ElMayForever.com; self-released)
• Bad Penny download: “Don’t You” (featuring Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws and the Blow’s Khaela Maricich)
The Gilded Palace of Sin – You Break Our Hearts, We’ll Tear Yours Out (Central Control)
• Bad Penny album review
• Bad Penny download: “Nautilus (Drumxxxt Remix)”
• Bad Penny download: “Rosa Salvaje (edit)”
• YouTube clip: “Rosa Salvaje” music video
• YouTube clip: “Rose Salvaje” live
• YouTube clip: “Bones of the Saints” live
• YouTube clip: “Mean Old Jack” live
Gobotron (Manchester Orchestra guitarist Robert McDowell) – On Your Mark, Get Set … (digital release; Favorite Gentlemen)
• Bad Penny download: “Never Turn Around”
Zoey Van Goey – The Cage Was Unlocked All Along (Chemikal Underground)
Good Shoes – No Hope, No Future (digital version comes out January 26; Brille)
• download: “Under Control” (e-mail address required)
Johnny Action Figure – Good Eye (self-released)
Dawn Landes – Sweet Heart Rodeo (Cooking Vinyl)
• Stereogum download: “Young Girl”
Lindstrøm with Christabelle – Real Life Is No Cool (Smalltown Supersound)
Major Stars – Return to Form (Drag City)
MillionYoung – Be So True (EP; Arcade Sound Ltd)
• download: Sunndreamm EP (e-mail address required)
My Own Grave – Unleash (reissue; comes with Progression Through Deterioration demo from 2004, and covers of Slayer’s “War Ensemble” and Krabathor’s “Orthodox”; Pulverised)
Puerto Rico Flowers – 4 (12-inch EP; Fan Death)
• Bad Penny download: “Let’s Make Friends”
The Red Krayola with Art & Language – Five American Portraits (Drag City)
RJD2 – The Colossus (RJ’s Electrical Connections)
• Bad Penny download: “Games You Can Win (featuring Kenna)”
Ruby Isle – Night Shot: The Remixes (Kindercore)
Six Feet Under – Graveyard Classics 3 (Metal Blade)
Sons of Azrael – Scouting the Boneyard (Metal Blade)
Spoon – Transference (Merge)
Cortney Tidwell – Boys (Removador Recordings and Solutions)
Valkyrja – Contamination (Metal Blade)
Virulence – If This Isn’t a Dream … 1985-1989 (remastered-CD anthology also featuring demos, live recordings, more; Southern Lord)
Vulture Whale – Bamboo You (EP; physical release; Skybucket)
• download: digital version of album (e-mail address required)
Various artists – Keb Darge & Paul Weller Present: Lost & Found Real R’N’B & Soul (BBE)
Various artists – “Crazy Heart” soundtrack (with new songs from Jeff Bridges and classic cuts from the Louvin Brothers, Waylon Jennings and more; co-produced by T Bone Burnett; deluxe edition due February 2; New West)
JANUARY 15
Mnemic – Sons of the System (Nuclear Blast)
• album stream (expires 1.15)
• Rage – “Into the Light”/”Purified” single (Nuclear Blast)
Abigail Williams – In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns (deluxe edition with five bonus tracks; Candlelight)
Active Child – “She Was a Vision” (7-inch single; U.K. only; Transparent)
• Bad Penny download: “She Was a Vision”
Olöf Arnalds – Við og Við (One Little Indian)
• “Dig for Fire” TV documentary, featured on enhanced-CD version of album
• video of Arnalds covering “That Lucky Old Sun,” popularized by Johnny Cash
At Vance (features members of Thunderstone and Axxis) – Ride the Sky (includes a cover of Free’s “Wishing Well”; AFM)
Athlete – Black Swan (deluxe edition, featuring bonus CD, documentary and downloads; only available at Athlete-US.com; proper release arrives 3.2; produced by Tom Rothrock; Original Signal Recordings)
Blockhead – The Music Scene (Ninja Tune)
• Fader download: “Which One of You Jerks Drank My Arnold Palmer”
Jason Boesel (Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley drummer) – Hustler’s Son (features members of Band of Horses, the Heartbreakers and Mystic Valley Band; Team Love)
• AOL album stream (expires 1.17.10)
• Bad Penny download: “French Kissing”
• Bad Penny download: “Hand of God”
• Daytrotter Session (includes three unreleased and unplugged versions of Hustler’s Son songs)
Billy Bragg – Life’s a Riot with Spy vs. Spy; Brewing Up With Billy Bragg; Talking With the Taxman About Poetry; Workers Playtime; Don’t Try This at Home; William Bloke; England, Half English; Reaching to the Converted; The Internationale/Live & Dubious EP; and Must I Paint You a Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg (digital reissues; bonus tracks and B-sides included; Yep Roc)
Brainstorm – Memorial Roots (AFM)
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – “The Road” soundtrack (CD; digital version dropped in November; Mute)
• Bad Penny interview: “Nick Cave: Saint Nicholas And The Nocturnal Muse”
Claustrofobia – I See Red (Candlelight)
Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Live at Hollywood High (reissue with 11 previously unreleased songs; Hip-O/UMe)
Exodus – “Shovel Headed Tour Machine: Live at Wacken & Other Assorted Atrocities” (two DVDs, one CD; Nuclear Blast)
• trailer
• live-in-studio stream
T-Model Ford – The Ladies Man (digital version and CD; also available as an orange vinyl limited to 500 copies; Alive Naturalsound)
Glass Rock – Tall Firs Meet Soft Location LP (includes download card; Ecstatic Peace)
Ingested – Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering (Candlelight)
Norah Jones – Chasing Pirates Remix EP (features Mike D, Adrock, Santigold, Beck and more; digital and vinyl only; Blue Note)
Miles Kurosky (ex-Beulah singer) – The Desert of Shallow Effects (EP; available exclusively on iTunes; Majordomo/ Shout! Factory)
The Lost Fingers – Lost in the 80s (covers album featuring “Billie Jean,” “Tainted Love” and more; Tandem/Distribution Select)
The Morning Benders – “Promises” (iTunes single; available as 7-inch on February 23; Rough Trade)
OK Go – Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (produced by David Fridmann; Capitol)
Paradox (with new guitarist Gus Drax of Biomechanical) – Riot Squad (AFM)
Rauelsson – La Siembra, la Espera y la Cosecha (180g vinyl; Hush)
• Bad Penny download: “Debutantes”
• Bad Penny download: “El Río de los Nudos”
• free Debutantes EP here (suggested donation)
Charles Rumback and Charles Gorzcynski – A Square White Lie (482)
The Rural Alberta Advantage – “Drain the Blood” (7-inch vinyl and digital single; Saddle Creek)
The Scruffs – Conquest (Scruffsville)
• Bad Penny download: “Conquer Me”
• Bad Penny download: “Treasure Girls”
Seven Saturdays (formerly Firs) – Seven Saturdays (EP; self-released)
• Stereogum download: “Secret Things”
Shlohmo – Shlomoshun Deluxe (FoF Music)
• Bad Penny download: “7am”
• SoundCloud download: “Hot Boxing the Cockpit”
Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL)
• Bad Penny album review
Neil Young – Dreamin’ Man (live version of Harvest Moon; vinyl version only; already available in other formats; Reprise)
JANUARY 10
Various artists – Dengue Fever Presents Electric Cambodia (available on CD and vinyl; proceeds go to Cambodian Living Arts; Minky)
Baroness' Blue Record
♥♥♥ Baroness – Blue Record (deluxe gatefold three-LP and ultimate gatefold three-LP reissue; Relapse)
Buzzov*en – Violence From the Vault (digipak reissue; Relapse)
Ben Davis – Charge It Up! (Lovitt)
Memoryhouse – To the Lighthouse (EP; available for free download here; Arcade Sound Ltd.)
The Octagon – Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever (Serious Business)
Toxic Holocaust – Evil Never Dies and Hell on Earth (reissues; Relapse)
DECEMBER 29, 2009
The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches – The Dark Side of the Moon (Warner Bros.)
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Cheers,
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