May 2012

May 28, 2012

• 2:54 – 2:54 [U.S. Release] [Fat Possum]
• Beck – “I Just Starting Hating Some People Today”/”Blue Randy” [7"] [Third Man]
• Jody Wisternoff – Trails We Blaze [Anjunadeep]
• Laurel Halo – Quarantine [Hyperdub]
• Public Image, Ltd. - This is PiL [PiL Official]
• Thomas Gold – Axtone Presents Thomas Gold [Axtone Records]
• Ultravox – Brilliant [UK Release] [EMI]
• Various Artists – Spirit of Talk Talk [Fierce Panda]

May 29, 2012:

• Airbird – Trust [EP] [Mexican Summer/Software]
• Azealia Banks – 1991 [EP] [Digital Release] [Interscope]
• Broken Water – Tempest [Hardly Art]
• Candence Weapon – Hope in Dirty City [Upper Class]
• Chuuwee – Wild Style [Amalgam Digital]
• The Dig – Midnight Flowers [Buffalo Jump Records]
• Doseone [of Themselves] – G is for Deep [Anticon]
• Duchess Says – Anthologie Des 3 Perchoirs [Vinyl Reissue] [Machette Records]
• Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Here [Community Music/Vagrant]
• Gemma Ray – Island Fire [Bronze Rat]
• Grass Widow – Internal Logic [HLR]
• Howse – Law Hollow [EP] [Tri Angle]
• I-Exit – Humanity [Self-Release]
• King Tuff – King Tuff [Sub Pop]
• Lemonade – Diver [True Panther Sounds]
• Marissa Nadler – The Sister [Box of Cedar Records]
• The Medullary Paralysis – You Need Leaders [Self-Release]
• Preeteen Zenith – Rubble Guts & BB Eye [Good Records Recordings]
• Rebecca Ferguson – Heaven [Syco/Columbia]
• Regina Spektor – What We Saw From the Cheap Seats [Sire/Warner Bros.]
• Scissor Sisters - Magic Hour [Casablanca Records]
• Sigur Rós - Valtari [XL]
• Sun Kil Moon – Among The Leaves [Caldo Verde Records]
• Tassels – Pressure Mount [Pour Le Corps]
• The Toxic Avenger – ANGST [Little Owl Recordings]
• Various Artists – The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore [Adeline]
• The Walkmen - Heaven [Fat Possum/Bella Union]

June

June 2, 2012:

• Beak> – >> [Digital Release]

June 4, 2012:

• Doldrums – Egypt [EP] [Souterrain Transmissions]
• Everything But the Girl - Baby the Stars Shine Bright [Reissue] [Edsel]
• Everything But the Girl – Eden [Reissue] [Edsel]
• Everything But the Girl - Idlewild [Reissue] [Edsel]
• Everything But the Girl - Love Not Money [Reissue] [Edsel]
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – San’en [EP] [Black Acre]
• Hortlax Cobra - Night Shift [Ingrid]

June 5, 2012:

• A Silent Film – Sand & Snow [Self-Release]
• Alejandro Escovedo – Big Station [Fantasy/Concord]
• Architects (UK) – Daybreaker [Century Media]
• Art vs. Science – Art vs. Science [U.S. Release] [Bossy]
• The Beach Boys – That’s Why God Made the Radio [Capitol/EMI]
• The Beatles - Yellow Submarine [Reissue] [Capitol/Apple]
• Big K.R.I.T. – Live From the Underground [Def Jam]
• Brandi Carlile – Bear Creek [Columbia]
• CocoRosie - ”We Are On Fire”/”Tearz For Animals” [7"] [Touch & Go]
• The Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Big Moon Ritual [Silver Arrow/Megaforce]
• Crocodiles – Endless Flowers [Frenchkiss]
• Curren$y – The Stoned Immaculate [Warner Bros.]
• Cypress Hill and Rusko - Cypress Hill x Rusko [Digital Release] [V2/Cooperative Music]
• d’Eon – LP [Hippos in Tanks]
• David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars [Reissue] [EMI]
• Dntel – Aimlessness [Pampa]
• Eric Copeland (of Black Dice) – Limbo [Underwater Peoples]
• Friends – Manifest! [Fat Possum]
• The Hives – Lex Hives [Disques Hives]
• Ian McGlynn – Now We’re Golden [Self-Release]
• Jherek Bischoff – Composed [Brassland]
• Joe Walsh – Analog Man [Fantasy/Concord]
• Julian Plenti (Paul Banks of Interpol) – Julian Plenti Lives… [EP] [Matador]
• Kelli Scarr – Dangling Teeth [Silence Breaks]
• Kelly Hogan – I Like to Keep Myself in Pain [ANTI-]
• Kool Keith – Love & Dager [TBA]
• Laurel Halo - Quarantine [Hyperdub]
• Lenny Kravitz – Mama Said [Reissue] [Virgin/EMI]
• Lettuce – Fly [Velour Music Group]
• Liars – WIXIW [Mute]
• Kool Keith – Love & Danger [Junkadelic/Fat Beats]
• Melvins Lite – Freak Puke [Ipecac Recordings]
• The Mynabirds – Generals [Saddle Creek]
• Mystery Jets – Radlands [U.S. Release] [TBD]
• Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Americana [Reprise]
• Oh No – Ohnomite [Five Day Weekend/Brick]
• Patti Smith – Banga [Columbia]
• Paul Simon – Graceland [25th Anniversary Edition] [Sony Legacy]
• Pomegranates - Heaven [Modern Outsider]
• PUJOL – United States of Being [Saddle Creek]
• River City Extension - Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger [XOXO/Anchor & Hope]
• Sheer Agony – “Sheer Agony” [7"] [Fixture Records]
• Shmu (of Zorch) – Discipline/Communication [Grant Theft Zamboni]
• Skyline Pigeons – House of Mysteries [Self-Release]
• The Temper Trap – The Temper Trap [Glassnote]
• Xavier Rudd – Spirit Bird [SideOneDummy]

June 11, 2012:

• Maximo Park – The National Health [Self-Release]
• Pariah – Rift [EP] [R&S]

June 12, 2012:

• Alice Cohen – Pink Keys [Olde English Spelling Bee]
• Atlas Genius – Through the Glass [Warner Bros.]
• Azealia Banks - 1991 [EP] [Physical Release] [Interscope]
• Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe [XL]
• BoDeans – American Made [Self-Release]
• Bouncing Souls – Comet [Rise/Chunksaah]
• Charli XCX – You’re the One [IAMSOUND]
• The dB’s – Falling Off the Sky [Bar None]
• Dent May – Do Things [Paw Tracks]
• Diplo – Express Yourself [EP] [Mad Decent]
• Emily Jane White – Ode to Sentience [Antenna Farm]
• Empires – Garage Hymns [History Records]
• Fallon Cush – April [Self-Release]
• FAWN – Coastlines [Quite Scientific Records]
• Future of the Left – The Plot Against Common Sense [Xtra Mile Recordings]
• George Kamel – The Great Coward [Self-Release]
• Grace Potter and the Nocturnals – The Lion The Beast The Beat [Hollywood Records]
• The Hairs – Old Flame Cassingle [Old Flame Records]
• Hammer No More the Fingers – Pink Worm [EP] [Self-Release]
• Hill and the Sky Heroes – 11:11 [Self-Release]
• The Hundred in the Hands – Red Night [Warp]
• The Inner Banks – Wild [Dag!]
• J. Dilla – Rebirth of Detroit [Yancey Media Group]
• Jaill – Traps [Sub Pop]
• Jimmy Fallon - Blow Your Pants Off [Warner Bros.]
• Jonathan Boulet – We Keep the Beat, Found the Sound, See the Need, Start the Heart [Modular]
• Jukebox the Ghost – Safe Travels [Yep Roc]
• Hot Chip – In Our Heads [Domino]
• Metric – Synthetica [MMI/Mom + Pop]
• Mike Scheidt [of YOB] – Stay Awake [Thrill Jockey]
• The New Monarchs - Stay Awake [Soup Bowl Records]
• Nouela – Chants [The Control Group]
• Onra – Deep in the Night [EP] [Fool's Gold]
• Pop ETC – Pop ETC [Rough Trade]
• Redgrave – National Act [EP] [Lovitt Records]
• The Rest – Seesaw [Auteur Recordings]
• Rome – Dedication [EP] [Digital Release] [Fueled By Ramen]
• Rush – Clockwork Angels [Roadrunner]
• SpaceGhostPurrp – Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp [4AD]
• Stepdad – Wildlife Pop [Black Bell Records]
• Superchunk – “This Summer” [7"] [Merge]
• The Tallest Man on Earth – There’s No Leaving Now [Dead Oceans]
• These United States – These United States [United Interests]
• Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Trouble [Casablanca Records]
• Usher – Looking For Myself [RCA]
• Variety Lights – Central Flow [Fire Records]
• Volcano! - Piñata [The Leaf Label]
• Waka Flocka Flame – Triple F Life: Friends, Fans, and Family [Warner Bros.]
• Wintersleep – Hello Hum [Roll Call/ILG]
• Wymond Miles (of The Fresh & Onlys) – Under the Pale Moon [Sacred Bones]

June 18, 2012:

• 2:54 – “Creeping” [Fiction Records]
• Moritz von Oswald Trio – Fetch [Honest Jon's Records]

June 19, 2012:

• Beat Connection – The Palace Garden [Moshi Moshi/Tender Age]
• Blues Control – Valley Tangents [Drag City]
• Can - The Lost Tapes [Box Set] [Mute]
• Del Tha Funky Homosapien & Parallel Thought – Attractive Sin [Parallel Thought LTD.]
• Delta Rae – Carry the Fire [Warner Bros.]
• Devin Townsend Project – By a Thread – Live in London [HeavyDevy/InsideOut]
• Dr. Michael White – Adventures in New Orleans Pt. 2 [Basin Street Records]
• Drug Cabin – Drug Cabin [EP] [401K Music]
• Efren – Write a New Song [Slo ProRecords]
• Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do [Epic]
• Glen Hansard – Rhythm and Repose [ANTI-]
• House Shows – Let It Go [Tres]
• The Intelligence – Everybody’s Got It Easy But Me [In The Red Records]
• Lostprophets – Weapons [Fearless Records]
• The Marble Vanity – The Marble Vanity [Slow Fizz Records]
• MC Yogi – Pilgrimage [Velour Music Group]
• Moby - Destroyed Remix [Physical Release] [Mute]
• Morning Parade – Morning Parade [Astralwerks]
• Neneh Cherry and The Thing - The Cherry Thing [Smalltown Supersound]
• No Joy – Negaverse [EP] [Mexican Summer]
• Peaking Lights – Lucifer [Mexican Summer]
• Silver Jews – Early Times [Drag City]
• The Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania [EMI/Caroline Distribution]
• Thrice – The Illusion of Safety [Vinyl reissue] [Hopeless Records]
• U.F.O – Celebrator: Rare Tracks [AFM]
• Walk the Moon – Walk the Moon [RCA]
• White Arrows – Dry Land is Not a Myth [Votiv Music]
• White Fang – Positive Feedback [Marriage Recs]
• YAWN – Happy Tears [EP] [FeelTrip Records]
• Zulu Winter – Language [Arts & Crafts]

June 26, 2012:

• A Place to Bury Strangers – Worship [Dead Oceans]
• Animal Collective – “Honeycomb”/”Gotham” [7"] [Domino]
• Arc in Round – Arc in Round [La Société Expéditionnaire]
• Beachwood Sparks – The Tarnished Gold [Sub Pop]
• Bonde do Rolê - Tropicalbacanal [Mad Decent]
• Casey Abrams – Casey Abrams [Concord Music Group]
• Chris Price – Homesick [PTB]
• Claire de Lune – New Lion [Self-Release]
• Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons – Old Believers [Readymade]
• The Daredevil Christopher Wright – The Nature of Things [File Under: Music]
• DIIV – Oshin [Captured Tracks]
• Dynasty Electric – Dynasty Electric [No Shame]
• Echo Lake – Wild Peace [Slumberland]
• Everest – Ownerless [ATO]
• Exray’s – Trust a Robot [Howells Transmitter]
• The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends [Warner Bros.]
• Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage [Roadrunner]
• The Henry Clay People – Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives [tbd Records]
• The Hollows – The Hollows [EP] [Self-Release]
• Icebreaker with BJ Cole – Apollo [Cantaloupe]
• Jessica Hoop – The House That Jack Built [Bella Union]
• Jezzy & the Belles – Compasses & Maps [Self-Release]
• Joe Jackson – The Duke [Razor & Tie]
• Maybach Music Group – Self Made Vol. 2 [Maybach Music Group]
• Milk Maid – Mostly No [FatCat]
• Mieka Pauley - The Science of Making Choices [Self-Release]
• Mindy Smith – Mindy Smith [Giant Leap/TVX]
• The Mountain Goats – Hound Chronicles [Reissue] [Shrimper]
• The Mountain Goats – Hot Garden Stomp [Reissue] [Shrimper]
• The Offspring – Days Go By [Columbia]
• Parallels – XII [Marigold Records]
• Porcelain Raft – “Drifting In and Out”/”Chain” [7"] [Secretly Canadian]
• Psychic Twin – “Gonna Get Her” [7"] [Lefse]
• Sonny and the Sunsets – Longtime Companion [Polyvinyl]
• Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse [In The Red]

July

July 3, 2012:

• 50 Cent – TBA [Interscope]
• Easter Island – Frightened [Self-Release]
• Foxes - Warrior [EP] [Neon Gold]
• Gold Motel – Gold Motel [Good As Gold/Thirty Tigers]
• Mike Patton and the Ictus Ensemble – Laborintus II [Ipeac Recordings]
• Modeselektor – Modeselektion Vol. 02 [Monkeytown]
• NGUZUNGUZU – Warm Pulse [EP] [Digital Release] [Hippos In Tanks]
• Sunglasses – Namesake/Swim [EP] [Lefse]

July 9, 2012:

• John Frusciante – Letur Lefr [EP] [Record Collection Music]

July 10, 2012:

• Aesop Rock – Skelethon [Rhymesayers]
• Clare and the Reasons – Kr-51 [Frog Stand]
• Communist Daughter – Lions & Lamb [Grain Belt Records]
• Debo Band – Debo Band [Next Ambiance/Sub Pop]
• Delicate Steve - Positive Force [Luaka Bop]
• Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan [Domino]
• Drug Church – Drug Church [EP] [No Sleep Records]
• Dusted (Brian Borcherdt of Holy Fuck) – Total Dust [Polyvinyl/Hand Drawn Dracula]
• The Early November – In Currents [Rise]
• Eleni Mandell – I Can See the Future [Yep Roc]
• The English Beat – The Complete Beat [Shout! Factory]
• The English Beat – Keep the Beat: The Very Beat of The English Beat [Shout! Factory]
• Erika Forster – Erika Forster [EP] [Cascine]
• Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Shame [EP] [Stones Throw]
• Holograms – Holograms [Captured Tracks]
• Husky – Forever So [U.S. Release] [Sub Pop]
• JJAMZ – Suicide Pact [Dangerbird]
• Limblifter – Limblifter [Reissue] [We Are Busy Bodies]
• Mission of Burma - Unsound [Fire]
• P.O.D. – Murdered Love [Razor & Tie]
• Serj Tankian – Harakiri [Reprise/Serjical Strike]
• Shout Out Out Out Out - Spanish Moss and Total Loss [Normals Welcome]
• Summer Camp – Always [EP] [Apricot Recording Company/ Moshi Moshi]
• Twin Shadow – Confess [4AD]
• Woody Guthrie – The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection [Smithsonian Folkways Recordings]
• Zac Brown Band – Uncaged [Atlantic/Southern Ground]

July 12, 2012:

• Beak> - >> [Physical Release]
• Right Away, Great Captain! (Andy Hull of Manchester Orchestra) – The Church of the Good Thief [Self-Release]

July 17, 2012:

• Alberta Cross – Songs of Patience [ATO]
• Andrew WK – I Get Wet [Reissue] [Century Media]
• Angus Stone – Broken Brights [Nettwerk]
• Baroness – Yellow & Green [Relapse]
• The Be Good Tanyas – A Collection (2000-2012) [Nettwerk]
• Citizen Cope – One Lovely Day [Rainwater Recordings/MRI/RED]
• Conveyor – Conveyor [Paper Garden Records]
• Cosmo Jarvis – Think Bigger [Frame/The End Records]
• Cypress Hill and Rusko - Cypress Hill x Rusko [Physcial Release] [V2/Cooperative Music]
• The Drowning Men – All of the Unknown [Borstal Beat Records]
• French Montana – Excuse My French [Maybach Music Group]
• Gatekeeper – Exo [Hippos in Tanks]
• Hot Panda – Go Outside [Mint Records]
• Icky Blossoms – Icky Blossoms [Saddle Creek]
• JEFF the Brotherhood – Hypnotic Nights [Warner Bros.]
• John Frusciante – Letur-Lefr [EP] [Record Collection Music]
• John Maus – A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material [Ribbon Music]
• Matisyahu – Spark Seeker [Fallen Sparks Records]
• Milo Greene – Milo Greene [Chop Shop/Atlantic]
• Missy Higgins – The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle [Eleven/Vagrant]
• múm – Early Birds [Moor Music]
• Nas – Life is Good [Def Jam]
• Old Crow Medicine Show – Carry Me Back [ATO]
• Shintaro Sakamoto – How to Live with a Phantom [Other Music Recording Co.]
• SODOM – 30 Years Sodomized – 1982-2012 [Steamhammer/SPV]
• SODOM - Official Bootleg – The Witchhunter Decade [Steamhammer/SPV]
• Soul Asylum – Delayed Reaction [429]
• Verse – Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace [Bridge Nine Records]
• The Very Best – MTMTMK [Moshi Moshi/Cooperative Music]

July 24, 2012:

• Anywhere – Anywhere [U.S. Release] [ATP Recordings]
• The Blakes – Art of Losses [Self-Release]
• Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Here’s My Plan [EP] [Drag City]
• Constants – Pasiflora [The Mylene Sheath]
• Eternal Summers – Correct Behavior [Kanine]
• Family Band – Grace & Lies [No Quarter]
• Fang Island – Major [Sargent House]
• Flatfoot – 56 [Paper + Plastick]
• Foals – Tapes [!K7]
• Foxygen – Take the Kids Off Broadway [Jagjaguwar]
• The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten [Mercury]
• Lawrence Arabia – The Sparrow [Bella Union US]
• Laetitia Sadier (of Stereolab) – Silencio [Drag City]
• Micachu & the Shapes – Never [Rough Trade]
• OM - Advaitic Songs [Drag City]
• Passion Pit – Gossamer [Columbia]
• Purity Ring – Shrines [4AD/Last Gang]
• Sugar – Copper Blue / Beaster [Reissue] [Merge]
• Sugar – File Under: Easy Listening [Merge]
• TNGHT – TNGHT [EP] [Warp/Lucky Me]
• Young Moon – Navigated Like the Swan [Western Vinyl]

July 31, 2012:

• Blur – 13 [Reissue] [EMI]
• Blur – Blur [Reissue] [EMI]
• Blur – Blur 21: The Box [EMI]
• Blur – Blur 21: The Vinyl Box [EMI]
• Blur – The Great Escape [Reissue] [EMI]
• Blur – Leisure [Reissue] [EMI]
• Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish [Reissue] [EMI]
• Blur – Parklife [Reissue] [EMI]
• Blur – Think Tank [Reissue] [EMI]
• Erik Gundel – A Home to Keep You [Mecca Lecca]
• Future Twin – “Resist” [7"] [Future Twin Inc.]
• Future Twin – Future Twin [Deluxe Edition] [Future Twin Inc.]
• Gojira – The Flesh Alive [Mascot Label Group]
• Ice Choir – Afar [Underwater Peoples]
• Junk Culture – Wild Quiet [Illegal Art]
• Ponderosa – Pool Party [New West Records]
• Rick Ross – God Forgives I Don’t [Maybach Music Group/Def Jam/Warner Bros.]
• Sergenti – Kenny Dennis [Anticon]
• thenewno2 – thefearofmissingout [H.O.T. Records Ltd.]
• Toadies - PLAY.ROCK.MUSIC. [Kirtland Records]

August

August 6, 2012:

• Cold Blank – The Agenda [Burn the Fire]

August 7, 2012:

• Antibalas – Antibalas [Daptone]
• Antony and the Johnsons – Cut the World [Secretly Canadian]
• Fergus & Geronimo – Funk Was the State of Affairs [Hardly Art]
• Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang – En Yay Sah [Luaka Bop]
• Lianne La Havas – Is Your Love Big Enough? [Nonesuch]
• Niki & the Dove - Instinct [U.S. Release] [Sub Pop]
• Red Kross – Researching the Blues [Merge]
• Stagnant Pools – Temporary Room [Polyvinyl]

August 14, 2012:

• The-Dream – Love IV MMXII [Radio Killa/Def Jam]
• Into This Moment – Blood [Century Media Records]
• Kreayshawn – Something ‘Bout Kreay [Columbia]
• MNDR – Feed Me Diamonds [Ultra]
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus [Reissue] [EMI]
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – DIG!!! LAZARUS, DIG!!! [Reissue] [EMI]
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Nocturama [Reissue] [EMI]
• NGUZUNGUZU – Warm Pulse [EP] [Physical Release] [Hippos In Tanks]
• So Many Wizards – Warm Nothing [Jaxart]
• Steve Vai – The Story of Light [Favored Nations Records]
• White Violet – Hiding, Mingling [Normaltown Records]

August 21, 2012:

• Bloc Party – Four [Frenchkiss]
• The Darkness – Hot Cakes [Wind-up]
• Dispatch – Circles Around the Sun [Bomber Records]
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – Last of a Dying Breed [Loud & Proud/Roadrunner]
• Onuinu – Mirror Gazer [Bladen County Records]
• Six Organs of Admittance – Ascent [Drag City]
• Teengirl Fantasy – Tracer [True Panther Sounds]
• Yeasayer – Fragrant World [Secretly Canadian]

August 27, 2012:

• Nathan Fake – Stream Days [Border Community]

August 28, 2012:

• Aerosmith – Music From Another Dimension [Columbia]
• Alanis Morissette – Havoc and Bright Lights [Collective Sounds]
• Dan Deacon – America [Domino]
• Matthew Dear – Beams [Ghostly International]
• Meek Mill – Dreams & Nightmares [Maybach Music Group]
• Poor Moon – Poor Moon [Sub Pop]
• Swans – The Seer [Young God]
• TEEN – In Limbo [Carpark Records]

September

September 4, 2012:

• Animal Collective – Centipede Hz [Domino]
• Blind Benny – No Honor [Self-Release]
• Dave Stewart - The Ringmaster General [Weapons of Mass Entertainment]
• Matchbox Twenty – North [Atlantic]
• T.I. – Trouble Man [Grand Hustle/Atlantic]

September 11, 2012:

• Cat Power – Sun [Matador]
• Turbo Fruits – Butter [Serpents and Snakes Records]

September 18, 2012:

• Peter Gabriel – So [Reissue]

September 25, 2012:

• Green Day - ¡Uno! [Reprise]
• John Frusciante – PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone [Record Collection Music]
• No Doubt – TBA [Interscope]

October

October 23, 2012:

• Various Artists – Philip Glass Remix Project [Orange Mountain Music]

November

November 13, 2012:

• Green Day - ¡Dos! [Reprise]

January 2013

January 15, 2012:

• Green Day – ¡Tré! [Reprise]