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Available April 17
ABSOLUTE MONARCHS 1 (Good to Die)
ALLO DARLIN' Europe (Slumberland)
BATTLES Dross Glop (remixes) (Rough Trade)
BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS: Marley (original soundtrack) (Island)
BRAID Movie Music 1 (Polyvinyl)
BUTTERFLY BOUCHER Butterfly Boucher (Situation Operation)
DAR WILLIAMS (w/ guest Shawn Colvin) In The Time Of Gods (Razor & Tie)
DRY THE RIVER Shallow Bed (RCA)
ERIC HUTCHINSON Moving Up Living Down (Warner Bros)
HORSE FEATHERS Cynic's New Year (Kill Rock Stars)
JACK JOHNSON AND FRIENDS (w/ Willie, Ben Harper, Dave Matthews, Jackson Browne, Ziggy Marley) Best of Kokua Festival (Brushfire)
JASON MRAZ Love Is A Four Letter Word (Atlantic)
JD McPHERSON Signs & Signifers (Rounder/CMG)
JON PORRAS (half of Barn Owl) Black Mesa (Thrill Jockey)
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Older Than My Old Man Now (2nd Story Sound)
LURRIE BELL The Devil Ain't Got No Music (Aria B.G)
LUSHLIFE Plateau Vision (Western Vinyl)
MAPS & ATLASES Beware And Be Grateful (FatCat)
MARVIN ETZIONI (duets w/ Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, John Doe, Richard Thompson, Buddy Miller & more) Marvin Country (NMR)
MICKEY HART Mysterium Tremendum (1st studio album in 5 years for Grateful Dead drummer w/ guest Dave Schools) (360)
MOONFACE (w/ Siinai) Heartbreaking Bravery (Jagjaguwar)
NANCI GRIFFITH Intersection (independent)
NEON TREES Picture Show (Island)
PETER KARP/SUE FOLEY Beyond the Crossroads (Blind Pig)
RADIATION CITY Cool Nightmare (EP) (Tender Loving Empire)
REBECCA PIDGEON Slingshot (Decca)
SID TOURÉ Koima (Thrill Jockey)
SPIRITUALIZED Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Fat Possum)
THE MYSTIX Mighty Tone (independent)
THE VERLAINES Untimely Meditations (Flying Nun)
TRAIN California 37 (live shows in SF & LA) (Columbia)
YANN TIERSEN Skyline (Anti-)

Available April 21 Record Store Day: Special Releases

Available April 24
BILLY BRAGG & WILCO Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (reissue of '98 and 2000 albums with 17 unreleased songs and making-of documentary) (Nonesuch)
BRAD United We Stand (Razor & Tie)
BRENDAN BENSON What Kind Of World (Readymade)
BROWNOUT Oozy (NatGeo)
CAROLE KING The Legendary Demos (Hear Music/CMG)
CLOCK OPERA Ways To Forget (Moshi Moshi/Island)
CRYSTAL FIGHTERS Star Of Love (Atlantic)
CURTIS STIGERS Let's Go Out Tonight (Concord Jazz/CMG)
DIAMOND RUGS (f/ members of Deer Tick, The Black Lips, Los Lobos, Dead Confederate) Diamond Rugs (Partisan)
ELECTRIC GUEST Mondo (exec produced by Danger Mouse) (Downtown)
EVE 6 Speak in Code (Fearless)
GREG LASWELL (w/ guest Sara Bareilles) Landline (Vanguard)
JACK WHITE Blunderbuss (Third Man/Columbia)
JOE PUG (w/ Craig Finn of The Hold Steady) The Great Despiser (Lightning Rod/Thirty Tigers/RED)
MEGAN REILLY The Well (Carrot Top)
RYAN ADAMS iTunes Session (Pax-Am/Capitol)
TODD SNIDER Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker (produced by Don Was) (Aimless)
SARAH JAFFE The Body Wins (Kirtland)
SOUTH SIDE CINDY State Of Mind (Sour Wine)
SUCKERS Candy Salad (Frenchkiss)
THERESA ANDERSSON Street Parade (Basin Street)
THE WACO BROTHERS w/ PAUL BURCH The Great Chicago Fire (Bloodshot)
VARIOUS ARTISTS (Carolina Chocolate Drops, Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller) Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us (Mercyland)
VARIOUS ARISTS Putumayo Presents: African Blues (Putamayo)
WALTER TROUT Blues For The Modern Days (Mascot Label Group)
WARREN HAYNES BAND Live at the Moody Theatre (Stax/CMG)
YUNA Yuna (FADER)

Available May 1
ANDERS OSBORNE Black Eye Galaxy (Alligator)
CALLAGHAN Life in Full Colour (produced by Shawn Mullins) (independent)
DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND Twenty Dozen (Savoy Jazz/SLG Music)
FATHER JOHN MISTY (ex-Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman) Fear Fun (Sub Pop)
GARRISON STARR Amateur (Radtown Music)
GEORGE HARRISON Early Takes Vol. 1 (early demos) (Ume)
GEORGE HARRISON Living In The Material World (Martin Scorsese documentary film soundtrack) (Hip-O/Ume)
GRAVENHURST The Ghost in Daylight (Warp)
K'NAAN Country, God or the Girl (A&M/Octone)
KWES Meantime (EP) (Warp)
LIGHT ASYLUM Light Asylum (Mexican Summer)
LOWER DENS Nootropics (Ribbon Music)
MATT SINGER The Build (Family)
METRIC Synthetica (MMI/Mom + Pop)
NICK WATERHOUSE Time's All Gone (Innovative Leisure)
NORAH JONES Little Broken Hearts (produced by Danger Mouse) (Blue Note/EMI)
PATRICK WATSON Adventures In My Own Back Yard (Domino)
PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT Homage (Jealous Butcher)
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS We Salute You (live and studio tracks) (Digital only EP)
REPTAR Body Faucet (Vagrant)
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Out Of The Game (Decca)
SANTIGOLD Master of My Make-Believe (Downtown/Atlantic)
SEA OF BEES Orangefarben (Team Love)

Available May 8
AARON FREEMAN (aka Gene Ween of Ween) Marvelous Clouds (Partisan)
ALO Sounds Like This (Brushfire)
CHICHA LIBRE Canibalismo (Barbès)
DAMON ALBARN Dr. Dee (Virgin)
FELA KUTI Live in Detroit 1986 (Knitting Factory)
GLEN FREY Afterhours (independent)
HEAVY BLANKET (J Mascis' band w/ Chuck Prophet) Heavy Blanket (Out Battery)
HERE WE GO MAGIC A Different Ship (produced by Nigel Godrich, Radiohead/Thom Yorke) (Secretly Canadian)
JOHN FULLBRIGHT From The Ground Up (Blue Dirt/Thirty Tigers/RED)
KEANE Strangeland (Cherry Tree/Interscope)
LUTHER DICKINSON Hambone's Meditation (acoustic instrumental) (Songs of the South)
M83 Reunion (EP) (Mute)
PAUL THORN (w/ Elvin Bishop, Delbert McClinton) What The Hell is Going On? (Perpetual Obscurity/Thirty Tigers)
SARA WATKINS (w/ Fiona Apple, Jackson Browne, Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith, Benmont Tench) Sun Midnight Sun (Nonesuch)
S. CAREY Hoyas (EP) (JagJaguwar)
SILVERSUN PICKUPS Neck of the Woods (Dangerbird)
SOUTH MEMPHIS STRING BAND Old Times There (Memphis International)
THE CRIBS In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull (Wichita)
THE DANDY WARHOLS This Machine (independent)
THE PARLOTONES Journey Through the Shadows (Sovereign)
THE WANDERING (f/ Luther Dickinson w/ Shannon McNally, Amy LaVere, Valerie June, and Sharde Thomas) Go On Now, You Can't Stay Here (Songs of the South)
THE WOOD BROTHERS Live Vol. 1 Sky High (Southern Ground)
TURING MACHINE What is the Meaning of What? (Temporary Residence)

Available May 15
ANDRE WILLIAMS & THE SADIES Night & Day (Yep Roc)
BEACH HOUSE Bloom (Sub Pop)
BEST COAST The Only Place (Mexican Summer)
CORNERSHOP Urban Turban (Ample Play)
GARBAGE Not Your Kind of People (band returns after six year break) (StunVolume)
LISA MARIE PRESLEY Storm and Grace (produced by T Bone Burnett) (Universal Republic)
MEIKO Between the Sheets (Fantasy/CMG)
RYAN MONTBLEAU BAND (w/ guests Ivan Neville, Anders Osborne) For Higher (independent)
RYAN SHAW Real Love (Dynotone)
SANTANA Shape Shifter (Carlos' 36th album, instrumental) (Starfaith/RED)
TENACIOUS D Rize of the Fenix (1st studio album in 6 years) (TBA)
THE SUGARMAN 3 What The World Needs Now (Daptone)
WILLIE NELSON Heroes (Sony Legacy)

Available May 22
ADMIRAL FALLOW Tree Burst In Snow (Nettwerk)
COLD SPECKS I Predict a Graceful Expulsion (Mute)
CORY BRANAN Mutt (Bloodshot)
EXITMUSIC Passage (Secretly Canadian)
GOSSIP A Joyful Noise (Columbia)
JOE BONAMASSA Driving Towards The Daylight (J&R Adventures)
JOEY RAMONE (w/ Steven Van Zandt, includes 15 new & unreleased songs) Ya Know? (BMG)
JOHN MAYER Born and Raised (w/ Crosby & Nash) (Columbia)
KIMBRA Vows (Warner Bros)
LEFTOVER SALMON Aquatic Hitchhiker (LoS)
RACHAEL SAGE Haunted By you (MPress)
ROBERT FRANCIS (w/ the Heartbreakers Mike Campbell) Strangers in the First Place (Vanguard)
SAINT ETIENNE Words And Music (1st new album since 2005) (Universal Republic)
SONNY LANDRETH Elemental Journey (Landfall)
SOULSAVERS (f/ Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan) The Light The Dead See (Mute)
PAUL McCARTNEY The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Ram (remastered reissue of classic 1970 album in deluxe edition box set) (Hear Music)
YOUNG MAN Vol. 1 (French Kiss)

Available May 29
DALA (aka Amanda Walther & Sheila Carabine) Best Day (Compass)
DONAVON FRANKENREITER Start Livin' (Liquid Tambourine)
EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROES Here (Vagrant)
GEMMA RAY Island Fire (Bronze Rat)
JULIA STONE By The Horns (Nettwerk)
KING TUFF King Tuff (Sub Pop)
MELODY GARDOT The Absence (Verve)
REGINA SPEKTOR What We Saw From The Cheap Seats (Sire/Warner Bros)
SIGUR ROS Valtari (Icelandic to english translation: "steamroller") (XL)
THE BEATLES Yellow Submarine (remastered DVD/Blu-ray reissue of classic album) (EMI)

Available June 5
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO (w/ Chuck Prophet) Big Station (Fantasy/CMG)
A SILENT FILM Sand & Snow (C05/EMI)
BEACH BOYS That's Why God Made the Radio (Capitol/EMI)
BRANDI CARLILE Bear (Columbia)
EMELI SANDÉ Our Version of Events (Capitol)
JOE WALSH Analog Man (1st solo album in 20 years) (Fantasy/CMG)
KELLI SCARR Dangling Teeth (Silence Breaks)
KELLY HOGAN I Like To Keep Myself In Pain (Anti-)
LENNY KRAVITZ Mama Said (Deluxe Edition of '92 album, remastered w/ new & bonus tracks) (Atlantic)
LIARS WIXIW (Mute)
LIL' ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS Jump (Alligator)
NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE Americana (Reprise)
PATTI SMITH Banga (first album of original material since '04) (Columbia)
PAUL SIMON Graceland (25th anniversary reissue set of classic 1986 album) (Warner Bros)
RODNEY CROWELL AND MARY KARR Kin (Vanguard)
SHAWN COLVIN All Fall Down (produced by Buddy Miller) (Nonesuch)
THE HIVES Lex Hives (Disques Hives)
THE MYNABIRDS Generals (Saddle Creek)
THE TEMPER TRAP The Temper Trap (Columbia)
THE WALKMEN (w/ Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold) Heaven (Fat Possum/Bella Union) 

Available June 12
BOBBY WOMACK The Bravest Man In The Universe (co-produced by Blur/Gorillaz's Damon Albarn) (XL)
BODEANS American Made (Free & Alive)
GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS The Lion The Beast The Beat (Hollywood)
HOT CHIP In Our Heads (Domino)
JAILL Traps (Sub Pop)
JUKEBOX THE GHOST Safe Travels (Yep Roc)
MORNING PARADE Morning Parade (Astralwerks/Capitol)
RHETT MILLER (w/ Rosanne Cash, Rachael Yamagata) The Dreamer (Maximum Sunshine/The Orchard)
SCOTT LUCAS & THE MARRIED MAN Blood Half Moon (The End)
THE BODEANS American Made (independent)
THE CONSTELLATIONS Do It For Free (429)
THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS Red Night (Warp)
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)
WINTERSLEEP Hello Hum (Roll Call/ILG)

Available June 19
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 HASARD (of The Swell Season) Rhythm & Repose (Anti-)
NELLY FURTADO The Spirit Indestructible (Interscope)
SMASHING PUMPKINS Oceania (Martha's Music/EMI)
THETALLEST MAN ON EARTH There's No Leaving Now (Dead Oceans)

Available June 26
BLUES TRAVELER Suzie, Crack the Whip (429) 
CASSANDRA WILSON Another Country (EOne)
JESCA HOOP The House That Jack Built (Bella Union)
JOE JACKSON Duke (tribute to Duke Ellington) (Razor & Tie)
MAROON 5 Overexposed (Big Machine)
MINDY SMITH Mindy Smith (Giant Leap/TVX)

Available July 3
JOHNNY HICKMAN (2nd solo album from Cracker co-founder) Tilting (Campstove)

Available July 10
DIRTY PROJECTORS Swing Lo Magellan (Domino)
HUSKY Forever So (Sub Pop)
ZAC BROWN BAND Uncaged (Atlantic/Southern Ground Artists)

Available July 17
NAS Life is Good (1st album in 4 years) (Def Jam)
SOUL ASYLUM Delayed Recation (Punk covers) (429)

Available July 24
PASSION PIT Gossamer (Columbia)

Available July 30
BLUR Blur (21 disc-3 DVD career-spanning box set) (Virgin)

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