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Available In Stores/Online March 25 - Your Purchases from Amazon.com, that start here, support WXPN public radio!
COUNTING CROWS Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings (Geffen)
ELF POWER In a Cave (Rykodisc)
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE The Good Life (Bloodshot Records)
ORCHESTRA BAOBOB Made In Dakar (Nonesuch)
STUART DAVIS Something Simple (Majeski Media)
THE B-52's Funplex (first new album in 16 years) (Astralwerks)
THE RACONTEURS (Jack White, Brendan Benson) Consolers of the Lonely (Third Man/XL/WB)
THE WAYBACKS Loaded (Compass Records)
TIM O'BRIEN Chameleon (Proper American/Howdy Skies Records)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Easy Like Sunday Morning (Winterpills, Peter Bradley Adams, Eleni Mandell, and more) (Circle Back Music)

Available In Stores/Online April 1
JACKIE GREENE Giving Up The Ghost (produced by Los Lobos' Steve Berlin) (429 Records)
JOE SATRIANI Professor Satchifunkilus and the Musterion of Rock (Epic)
LOS CAMPESINOS Hold On Now, Youngster (produced by Broken Social Scene's David Newfeld) (Arts & Crafts)
MOBY Last Night (Mute Records)
PADDY CASEY Addicted To Company (Victor/Red)
R.E.M. Accelerate (Warner Bros)
ROLLING STONES Martin Scorsese: Shine A Light (OST) (Intersope)
SANDRINE Dark Fades Into The Light (Nettwerk)
THE APPLES IN STEREO Electronic Projects for Musicians (compilation) (Yep Roc)
THE BLACK KEYS Attack & Release (Nonesuch)
THE PROCLAIMERS Life With You (Decca)
THE SOUTH AUSTIN JUG BAND Strange Invitation (independent)
THE WOOD BROTHERS Loaded (Blue Note Records)
VAN MORRISON Keep It Simple (Lost Highway)
VARIOUS ARTISTS In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2 (Shout! Factory)
VICTOR WOOTEN Palmystery (Heads Up International)

Available In Stores/Online April 8
CLINIC Do It! (Domino)
COLIN MELOY (Decemberists leader) Colin Meloy Sings Live! (Kill Rock Stars)
ERIC AVERY Help Wanted (Dangerbird Records)
HAYES CARLL Trouble In Mind (Lost Highway)
JOY ASKEW The Pirate of Eel Pie (Red Parlor/Ryko)
GNARLS BARKLEY The Odd Couple (Downtown/Atlantic)
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Anti-)
PETER MORÉN The Last Tycoon (Quarterstick Records)
STEVE WINWOOD Nine Lives (Columbia)
TAPES 'N TAPES (TBA) (XL Recordings)
THE BREEDERS Walk It Off (first album in six years) (4AD)
THE DUKE SPIRIT Neptune (Shangri-La)
THE LONG BLONDES Couples (Rough Trade)
WAS (NOT WAS) Boo! (Ryko)

Available In Stores/Online April 15
GRIFFIN HOUSE Flying Upside Down (Nettwerk)
JAMES McMURTRY Just Us Kids (Lightning Rod)
SUPERGRASS Diamond Hoo Ha (Astralwerks)
THE KOOKS Konk (Astralwerks)
THE LITTLE ONES Morning Tide (Astralwerks) 
THE WEEPIES Hideaway (Nettwerk)
THRICE The Alchemy Index Vol 3 & 4 (Vagrant)

Available In Stores/Online April 22
ANNA TERNHEIM Halfway To Five Points (Decca)
BILLY BRAGG Mr. Love & Justice (Anti-)
JEFF HEALEY Mess Of Blues (Ruf Records)
KRIS DELMHORST Shotgun Singer (Signature Sounds)
WEEZER Tout Ensemble (Geffen)

Available In Stores/Online April 29
CONSTANTINES Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts)
PORTISHEAD Third (Mercury/Island)

Available In Stores/Online May 6
JEB LOY NICHOLS Days Are Mighty (Compass Records)

Available In Stores/Online May 13
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)

Available In Stores/Online May 20
DANIELIA COTTON Rare Child (Adrenaline Records/ADA)
JASON MRAZ We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. (Atlantic)

Available In Stores/Online June 3
CAROLINA LIAR Coming To Terms (Atlantic)
ED HARCOURT The Beautiful Lie (Dovecote Records)

Available In Stores/Online June 10
JAKOB DYLAN Seeing Things (Columbia Records/Starbucks Ent)
MY MORNING JACKET Evil Urges (ATO)

Available In Stores/Online June 17
COLDPLAY Viva la Vida (Capitol)

Available In Stores/Online June 24
THE WATSON TWINS Fire Songs (Vanguard)


Available In Stores/Online February 12
BRITISH SEA POWER Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)
DENGUE FEVER Venus On Earth (M80 Music)
HEIDI TALBOT In Love and Light (Compass Records)
KATE MAKI On High (OWOM)
MACEO PARKER Roots & Grooves (Heads Up)
PATTY HURST SHIFTER Coma La Grava (EP) (Patty Hurst Shifter)
SUPREME BEINGS OF LEISURE 11i (Ryko)
THE HEAVY CIRCLES The Heavy Circles (Edie Brickell project) (Dynamite Child)
THE PUPPINI SISTERS The Rise & Fall Of Ruby Woo (Verve)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Droppin' Science: Greatest Samples From The Blue Note Lab (Blue Note)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Songs for a Broken Heart (Ani DiFranco, Gary Jules, David Mead, Tracy Bonham, David Poe) (Circle Back Music)
WIDESPREAD PANIC Free At Last (Widespread Panic.com)

Available In Stores/Online February 19
ALLISON MOORER Mockingbird (New Line)
AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB The Golden Age (Merge)
BOB FRANK Red Neck, Blue Collar (Memphis International Records)
GARY LOURIS (of The Jayhawks/Golden Smog) (produced by Chris Robinson) Vagabonds (Ryko)
GRAND ARCHIVES The Grand Archives (Sub Pop)
JIM LAUDERDALE Honey Songs (Yep Roc)
KULA SHAKER Strangefolk (Cooking Vinyl)
MIKE DOUGHTY Golden Delicious (ATO)
MONADE Monstre Cosmic (Too Pure)
NICK LOWE Jesus of Cool (re-issue) (Yep Roc)
RAY DAVIES Working Man's Cafe (New West/Ammal)
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS Heretic Pride (4AD)
THE RAVEONETTES Lust Lust Lust (Vice Records)
THROW ME THE STATUE Moonbeams (Secretly Canadian)
TOM PAXTON Comedians & Angels (Appleseed)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumayo Presents Euro Groove (Putumayo)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Spirits In The Material World: A Reggae Tribute To The Police (Shanachie)

Available In Stores/Online February 26
COWBOY JUNKIES Trinity Revisited (live DVD w/ Ryan Adams, Natalie Merchant, Vic Chestnutt) (Latent/Zoe/Rounder)
ERYKAH BADU The Kabah (Universal)
GOLDFRAPP Seventh Tree (Mute)
LIZZ WRIGHT The Orchard (Verve Forecast)
LUDO You're Awful, I Love You (Island)
PUNCH BROTHERS Punch (w/ Nickel Creek's Chris Thile) (Nonesuch)
RICHARD JULIAN Sunday Morning in Saturday's Shoes (Manhattan)
SAM PHILLIPS Don't Do Anything (Nonesuch)
SARA MELSON Dirty Mind (Nettwerk)
TIFT MERRITT Another Country (Fantasy)
TOMMY GUERRERO Return Of The Bastard (Galaxia Records)
TOUMANI DIABATE The Mande Variations (Nonesuch)

Available In Stores/Online March 4
BAUHAUS Going Away White (first studio album since '83) (Bauhaus Music/Red Eye)
DON CAVALLI Cryland (Everloving Records)
JACKSON BROWNE Solo Acoustic Vol. 2 (Inside Recordings)
CARLENE CARTER Stronger (Yep Roc)
CHATHAM COUNTY LINE IV (Yep Roc)
HOWLIN' RAIN Magnificent Fiend (Birdman/American)
JIM WHITE Transnormal Skiperoo (Luaka Bop)
KATHLEEN EDWARDS Asking For Flowers (Zoe/Rounder)
MARK PICKEREL AND HIS PRAYING HANDS Cody's Dream (Bloodshot)
MEG HUTCHINSON Come Up Full (Red House Records)
STEPHEN MALKMUS & JICKS Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
THE BLACK CROWES Warpaint (Silver Arrow/Megaforce/Red)
THE BODEANS Still (produced by T-Bone Burnett) (He & He LP/Koch)
THE GUTTER TWINS Saturnalia (Afghan Wig Greg Dulli and Screaming Tree Mark Lanegan) (Sub Pop)
THE WAIFS Sundirtwater (Compass Records)
WACO BROTHERS Waco Express: Live and Kickin' at Schuba's (Bloodshot)
WEINLAND La Lamentor (Badman)
WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS What Doesn't Kill Us (Barsuk Records)

Available In Stores/Online March 11
DAVE GAHAN Hourglass - remixes (Mute/Virgin)
CASSETTES WON'T LISTEN Small-time Machine (independent)
ERIC BIBB Get Onboard (Telarc)
JOE ELY/JOEL GUZMAN Live Cactus! (Rack'em Records)
JAYMAY Autumn Fallin' (Blue Note Records)
KAKI KING Dreaming of Revenge (Velour)
MIKE PATTON A Perfect Place (OST) (Ipecac Recordings)
NINE INCH NAILS Ghosts I-IV (The Null Corporation)
SHAWN MULLINS Honeydew (Vanguard)
SNOOP DOGG Ego Trippin' (Doggystyle/Geffen)
TRISTAN PRETTYMAN Hello (Virgin)
VAN MORRISON Keep It Simple (Lost Highway)

Available In Stores/Online March 18
ADAM GREEN Sixes & Sevens (Rough Trade)
BE YOUR OWN PET Get Awkward (Ecstatic Peace/Universal)
DANIEL LANOIS Here Is What Is (RedFloorRecords.com)
DESTROYER Trouble in Dreams (Dan Bejar from the New Pornographers) (Merge)
DEVOTCHKA A Mad and Faithfull Telling (Anti-/Epitaph)
ROBIN DANAR Altered States (w/ Pete Yorn & Kinky, Rachael Yamagata, Inara George) (Shanachie)
RUSTIC OVERTONES Light at the End (Velour/Music Allies)
SERA CAHOONE Only as the Day is Long (Sub Pop)
SHE & HIM Volume One (Zooey Deschanel & M. Ward) (Merge Records)
THE A.K.A.s Everybody Make Some Noise! (Metropolis Records)
THE KILLS Midnight Boom (Domino)
THE TEENAGERS Starlett Johannson (XL Recordings)
THESE NEW PURITANS Beat Pyramid (Domino)
VARIOUS ARTISTS w/ Les Claypool National Lampoon Presents Electric Apricot: Quest For Festeroo (Hip-O/Universal)
VARIOUS ARTISTS 21 (w/ LCD Soundsystem, Peter Bjorn & John) OST (Columbia)
VARIOUS ARTISTS UMALALI:The Garifuna Women's Project (Cumancha/Stone Tree Records)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumayo Presents: African Party (Putumayo)
VIRGINIA COALITION Home This Year (Bluhammock Music)

Already Available In Stores/Online
A FINE FRENZY One Cell In The Sea (Virgin)
AIR TRAFFIC Fractured Life (Astralwerks)
ALICIA KEYS As I Am (J Records)
AMANDA SHAW Pretty Runs Out (Rounder)
AMY WINEHOUSE Frank (2003 release) (Universal Republic)
BASIA BULAT Oh My Darling (Rough Trade)
BELLx1 Flock (Yep Roc)
BEN HARPER & THE INNOCENT CRIMINALS Lifeline (Virgin)
BOB MOULD District Line (Anti-)
BRITISH SEA POWER Krankenhaus? (Rough Trade)
CARBON/SILICON The Last Post (Mick Jones & Tony James) (Caroline)
CAROLYN WONDERLAND Miss Understood (Bismeaux Productions)
CAT POWER Jukebox (Matador)
CHRIS STILLS Chris Stills (JKC Records)
CHRIS WALLA (Death Cab For Cutie) Field Manual (Barsuk)
CHUCK PROPHET Soap & Water (Yep Roc)
COMMON This is Me Then: The Best of Common (Red Ink)
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Live at Piedmont Park (RCA)
DAVID BOWIE David Bowie (Box Set) (Legacy)
DEAD MEADOW Old Growth (Matador)
DEVASTATIONS Yes, U (Beggars Banquet)
DOLLY PARTON Backwoods Barbie (Dolly Records)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
ELTON JOHN Elton 60-Live At Madison Square Garden (DVD) (Island)
ERIC LINDELL Low on Cash, Rich in Love (Alligator)
EVANGELICALS The Evening Descends (Dead Oceans)
EVANGELINE We're Alright Down Here (Independent)
HOT CHIP Made in the Dark (Astralwerks)
JACK JOHNSON Sleeping Through The Static (Brushfire/Universal)
JACK PENATE Matinee (XL Recordings)
JASON COLLETT Here's To Being Here (Arts & Crafts)
JASON RINGENBERG Best Tracks And Side Tracks (Yep Roc)
JOE JACKSON Rain (Rykodisc)
JUSTINE CURRIE (of Del Amitri) What Is Love For (Rykodisc)
KATE WALSH Tim's House (Verve Forecast)
KD LANG Watershed (Nonesuch)
KELLER WILLIAMS (w/ The String Cheese Incident) 12 (SCI Fidelity)
KELLEY STOLTZ Circular Sounds (Sub Pop)
KT TUNSTALL Drastic Fantastic (Relentless/Virgin)
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu (Heads Up)
LENNY KRAVITZ It Is Time For A Love Revolution (Virgin)
LIAM FINN I'll Be Lightning (son of Neil Finn) (Yep Roc)
LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION Falling Off The Lavender Bridge (Domino)
MANDO SAENZ Bucket (Carnival)
MARAH Angels of Destruction (Yep Roc)
MARC COHN Join The Parade (Decca)
MATT COSTA Unfamiliar Faces (Brushfire)
MINDY SMITH My Holiday (Vanguard)
MOE Sticks and Stones (Fatboy Records)
NADA SURF Lucky (Barsuk)
NEIL YOUNG Chrome Dreams II (Reprise)
NICK DRAKE Fruit Tree (box set) (Fontana/Island)
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS Hernando (Sounds of the South/Red Light)
ONE REPUBLIC Dreaming Out Loud (Interscope)
OTIS TAYLOR Recapturing the Banjo (Telarc)
PAUL WELLER Wild Wood (1993 reissue) (Yep Roc)
PAT METHENEY TRIO Day Trip (Nonesuch)
PATTY LARKIN Watch the Sky (Vanguard)
PINK FLOYD Oh By the way (studio CD box set) (Capitol/EMI)
RADAR BROS. Auditorium (Merge)
RADIOHEAD Limited Edition Box Set (Palophone)
RAY BONNEVILLE Goin' By Feel (Red House)
REVEREND ORGANDRUM Hi-Fi Stereo (Yep Roc)
RINGO STARR Liverpool 8 (Capitol/EMI)
ROOMFUL OF BLUES Raisin' A Ruckus (Alligator)
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall (Geffen)
SAM PHILLIPS Don't Do Anything (Nonesuch)
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE Sea from Shore (Thrill Jockey)
SEAWOLF Leaves in the River (Dangerbird)
SHELBY LYNNE Just A Little Lovin' (Lost Highway)
SHERYL CROW Detours (A&M)
SIA Some People Have Real Problems (Monkey Puzzle/Hear Music)
SIGUR RÓS Heima (live DVD) (XL/Beggars)
SONS & DAUGHTERS This Gift (Domino)
SOUL SAVERS (w/ Mark Lanegan) It's Not How Far You Fall... (Red Ink/Columbia)
STEVE POLTZ Traveling (live) (98 Pounder/Thirty Tigers)
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Hey Venus (Rough Trade)
THAO NGUYEN We Brave Bee Stings And All (Kill Rock Stars)
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Down in New Orleans (Time Life)
THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA Wolfgang's Big Night Out (Surf Dog)
THE DIMES The Silent Generation (independent)
THE HELIO SEQUENCE Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop)
THE KENNEDYS Dreaming Better Dreams (Appleseed Recordings)
THE KOOKS Inside In/Inside Out (Astralwerks)
THE LIBERTINES Best of: A Time For Heroes (Rough Trade)
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS Distortion (Nonesuch)
THE MARS VOLTA The Bedlam in Goliath (Universal)
THE NATIONAL Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
THE THRILLS Teenager (Virgin)
THE WHIGS Mission Control (ATO)
TWO LOONS FOR TEA Nine Lucid Dreams (Sarathan/Fontana)
TYLER RAMSEY A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea (Music Allies/Echo Mountain)
VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend (XL Recordings)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumayo Kids Presents Hawaiian Playground (Putumayo)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumayo Presents Latin Reggae (Putumayo)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Juno (OST) (Rhino Records)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumayo Presents: Tango Around the World (Putumayo)
WEBB WILDER Born To Be Wilder (Blind Pig)
WEEN La Cucaracha (first studio album in four years) (Rounder)
WIDESPREAD PANIC Free Somehow (Widespread Panic.com)
WILLIE NELSON Moment of Forever (Lost Highway)
WYCLEF JEAN The Carnival II: Memoirs of an Immigrant (guests include Paul Simon, Norah Jones
YOAV Charmed & Strange (Verve Forecast)
ZUCCHERO All The Best (Verve Forecast)



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