We tend to follow the release calendar of the brilliant folks at No Depression closely. If there are errors on there you can probably count on them being wrong here as well. You should also see some additions by us for artists we feel fit our audience outside of other sources.

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Spring 2009

August 18

• BRENDAN BENSON, My Old, Familiar Friend (ATO)

August 11

• BOTTLE ROCKETS, Lean Forward (Bloodshot)

July 21

• MATTHEW SWEET AND SUSANNA HOFFS, Under The Covers Vol. 2 (Shout! Factory)
• WHEAT, White Ink, Black Ink (The Rebel Group)

July 14

• GINA VILLALOBOS, Days On Their Side (Face West)

July 7

• THE MINUS FIVE, Killingsworth (Yep Roc)
• SON VOLT, American Central Dust (Rounder Records)
• STELLASTARR, Civilized (Warner)
• THOSE DARLINS, Those Darlins (Thirty Tigers)
• CASS MCCOMBS, Catacombs (Domino)
• LOVELL SISTERS, Time To Grow (self)
• YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, I Think This Is (Yep Roc)

June 30

• LEVON HELM, Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records)
• WILCO, Wilco (the Album) (Nonesuch)
• AMY SPEACE, The Killer In Me (Wildflower)

June 23

• DEER TICK, Born On Flag Day (Partisan)
• PATTERSON HOOD, Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (Bloodshot)
• LEMONHEADS, Varshons (The End)
• JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO, Live In Toronto ‘69 (Shout!)
• CHARLIE ROBISON, Beautiful Day (Dualtone)
• PETE YORN, Back & Forth (Columbia)
• CHRISTINA COURTIN, self-titled (Nonesuch)
• LARRY JON WILSON, self-titled (Drag City)
• OTIS TAYLOR, Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs (Telarc/Concord)

June 16

• HA HA TONKA, Novel Sounds Of The Nouveau South (Bloodshot)
• AMONG THE OAK & ASH, self-titled (Verve Forecast)
• HOLLY WILLIAMS, Here With Me (Mercury Nashville)
• MAURA O’CONNELL, Naked With Friends (Sugar Hill)
• RHONDA VINCENT, Destination Life (Rounder)
• SARAH JAROSZ, Song Up In Her Head (Sugar Hill)
• SWEETBACK SISTERS, Chicken Ain’t Chicken (Signature Sounds)

June 9

• BRITISH SEA POWER, Man Of Aran (Rough Trade)
• RHETT MILLER, Rhett Miller (Shout Factory!)
• ROADSIDE GRAVES, My Son’s Home (Autumn Tone)
• TODD SNIDER, The Excitement Plan (Yep Roc)
• SONIC YOUTH, The Eternal (Matador)
• BROTHERS OF THE SOUTHLAND, self-titled (Zoho Roots)
• CHARLIE MARS, Like A Bird, Like A Plane (Thirty Tigers)
• COSMOS, Jar Of Jam Ton Of Bricks (Happy Jack Rock)
• JOHN ANDERSON, Bigger Hands (Country Crossing/Stroudavarious)
• LOW ANTHEM, Oh My God Charlie Darwin (Nonesuch)
• PETER HOLSAPPLE & CHRIS STAMEY, Here And Now (Bar/None)

June 2

• JEFF BUCKLEY, Grace - Around The World (Legacy)
• ELVIS COSTELLO, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Hear Music)
• MARSHALL CRENSHAW, Jaggedland (429 Records)
• EELS, Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire (Vagrant)
• DAVE MATTHEWS, Big Whiskey & the Groo Grux King (RMG / RCA)
• IGGY POP, Preliminaires (Astralwerks)
• ASTRID WILLIAMSON, Here Come The Vikings (One Little Indian)
• CATHERINE MACLELLAN, Water In The Ground (True North)
• HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH, The Holy Open Secret (Mad Dragon)
• MELISSA MCCLELLAND, Victoria Day (Six Shooter)
• RYAN BINGHAM, Road House Sun (Lost Highway)
• TANYA TUCKER, My Turn (Saguaro Road)

May 26

• CHRIS GAFFNEY TRIBUTE, The Man Of Somebody’s Dreams (Yep Roc)
• DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY WOMEN, self-titled (Yep Roc)
• DAVID BERKELEY, Strange Light (Thirty Tigers)
• DAVID SERBY, Hony Tonk And Vine (Harbor Grove)
• GRIZZLY BEAR, Veckatimest (Warp)
• JOHNNY WINTER, The Johnny Winter Anthology (Shout! Factory)
• MARY BRAGG, Sugar (self)
• RED HEART THE TICKER, Oh My! Mountains Below (Auger Down)
• SARAH SISKIND, Say It Louder (Red Direct/Thirty Tigers)
• SIR RICHARD BISHOP, The Freak Of Araby (Drag City)

May 19

• TORI AMOS, Abnormally Attracted to Sin (Universal Republic)
• ASHLEY CLEVELAND, God Don’t Never Change (Koch)
• CARBON LEAF, Nothing Rhymes With Woman (Vanguard)
• CEDAR HILL REFUGEES, Pale Imperfect Diamond (Effigy)
• COLIN LINDEN, From The Water (True North)
• DIANA JONES, Better Times Will Come (Proper American)
• IRON & WINE, Around The Well (Sub Pop)
• JASON LYTLE, Yours Truly, The Commuter (Anti-)
• MONAHANS, Dim the Aurora (Misra)
• RED STICK RAMBLERS, My Suitcase Is Always Packed (Sugar Hill)
• SCOTT H. BIRAM, Something’s Wrong/Lost Forever (Bloodshot)
• ZEE AVI, self-titled (Brushfire)

May 12

• BELLEVILLE OUTFIT, Time to Stand (Belleville)
• STEVE EARLE, Townes (New West)
• MEAT PUPPETS, Sewn Together (Megaforce)
• ROMAN CANDLE, Oh Tall Tree In The Ear (Carnival Recording Company)
• MICHELLE SHOCKED, Soul of my Soul (Megaforce)
• PASSION PIT, Manners (French Kiss)
• CASEY DRIESSEN, Oog (Red Shoe)
• CHUCK MEAD, Journeyman’s Wager (self)
• HANNE HUKKELBERG, Blood From A Stone (Nettwerk)
• OPERATION ALOHA, self-titled (self)
• WOODEN BIRDS, Magnolia (Barsuk)
• DEXATEENS, Singlewide (Skybucket/Cornelius Chapel)
• HILL COUNTRY REVUE, Make A Move (Razor & Tie)

May 5

• CRACKER, Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey (429)
• BEN HARPER AND THE RELENTLESS 7, White Lies for Dark Times (Virgin)
• NEW YORK DOLLS, Cause I Sez So (Atco)
• JACK OBLIVIAN AND THE TENNESSEE TEARJERKERS, Disco Outlaw (Sympathy For the Record Industry/Goner Records)
• THE ROLLING STONES, Goat’s Head Soup (Re-issue) (UME)
• THE ROLLING STONES, It’s Only Rock N’ Roll (Re-issue) (UME)
• THE ROLLING STONES, Sticky Fingers (Re-Issue) (UME)
• ST VINCENT, Actor (4AD)
• DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER, Lonely Street (Rounder)
• ZIGGY MARLEY, Family Time (Tuff Gong)
• ALASDAIR ROBERTS, Spoils (Drag City)

April 28

• A CAMP, Colonia (Nettwerk)
• BLACK CROWES, Warpaint Live (Eagle)
• SAMANTHA CRAIN AND THE MIDNIGHT SHIVERS, Songs in the Night (Ramseur Records)
• BOB DYLAN, Together Through Life (Columbia)
• TIM EASTON, Porcupine (New West)
• BEN FOLDS, Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella! (Epic)
• BEN LEE, The Rebirth of Venus (New West)
• PALEFACE, The Show is on the Road (Ramseur Records)
• DISCIPLINES, Smoking Kills (Second Motion)
• DEBRA COWAN, Fond Desire Farewell (Falling Mountain)
• SLAID CLEAVES, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away (Music Road)
• NEWFOUND ROAD, Same Old Place (Rounder)
• LOS STRAITJACKETS, The Further Adventures Of (Yep Roc)
• ZERA MARVEL, Birds And Bullets Fly (In Spades)
• KING WILKIE, The Wilkie Family Singers (Casa Nueva)

April 21

• WAYNE HANCOCK, Viper Melody (Bloodshot)
• BOOKER T. JONES (With the Drive-By Truckers and Neil Young), Potato Hole (Anti-)
• EILEN JEWELL, Sea Of Tears (Signature Sounds)
• THE GREENCARDS, Fascination (Sugar Hill)
• TIM BRANTLEY, Goldtop Heights (Blackledge)
• WUSSY, self-titled (Shake It)
• BOXMASTERS, Modbilly (Vanguard)
• BRIAN BLADE, Mama Rosa (Verve Forecast)
• WEBB WILDER, More Like Me (BlindPig)
• ROY ROGERS, Split Decision (Blind Pig)
• COMMANDER CODY, Dopers, Drunks, And Everyday Losers (BlindPig)
• JESSE WINCHESTER, Love Filling Station (Appleseed)
• ALLEN TOUSSAINT, The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
• CHRISTOPHER REES, Devil’s Bridge (Red Eye)
• KATIE HERZIG, Apple Tree (Marion-Lorraine)
• TINTED WINDOWS, Tinted Windows (S-Curve)

April 14

• JOHN DOE AND THE SADIES, Country Club (Yep Roc)
• EVERYDAY VISUALS, The Everyday Visuals (Self-Released)
• MIKE FARRIS & THE ROSELAND RHYTHM REVIEW, Shout! Live (INO)
• MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD, Radiolarians II (Indirecto/Megaforce)
• JILL SOBULE, The California Years (Pinko)
• MOONALICE, self-titled (self)
• PAPERCUTS, You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong)
• HANDSOME FAMILY, Honey Moon (Carrot Top)
• WILLIE NILE, House Of A Thousand Guitars (River House/GB)
• SCOTT MILLER, For Crying Out Loud (F.A.Y.)
• JAKE SHIMABUKURO, Live (Hitchhike)

April 7

• THE TRAGICALLY HIP, We Are The Same (Rounder Records)
• SARA WATKINS, Sara Watkins (Nonesuch)
• HALLOWEEN, ALASKA, Champagne Downtown (East Side Digital)
• BOB MOULD, Life And Times (Anti-)
• SINGLE FILE, Common Struggles (Reprise)
• RAY CHARLES, Genius: The Ultimate Collection (Concord)
• MARIA TAYLOR, LadyLuck (Nettwerk)
• VIENNA TENG, Inland Territory (Zoe/Rounder)
• RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT, A Stranger Here (Anti-)
• THERMALS, Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)
• RICHARD SHINDELL, Not Far Now (Signature Sounds)
• ALEXIS HARTE, Big Red Sun (self)
• CAROLINE WEEKS, Songs For Edna (Manimal)
• CHRIS VELAN, Solidago (NewSong)
• GREATER CALIFORNIA, All The Colors (Subtitled)
• MANDA MOSHER, Everything You Need (Red Parlor)
• CASSANDRA WILSON, Closer To You: The Pop Side (Blue Note/EMI)
• WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS The Sparrow And The Crow (Mercer Street)
• GLEN TILBROOK & THE FLUFFERS, Pandemonium Ensues (E1)
• NAKIA, Water To Wine (self)
• FELICE BROTHERS, Yonder Is The Clock (Team Love)
• OLD CALIFORNIO, Westering Again (self)
• NEIL YOUNG, Fork In The Road (Reprise)

March 31

• PETER BJORN AND JOHN, Living Thing (Almost Gold)
• THE FLATLANDERS, Hills and Valleys (New West)
• A BROKEN CONSORT, Box Of Birch (Tompkins Square)
• DIANA KRALL, Quiet Nights (Verve)
• GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS, Lost Channels (Nettwerk)
• GOMEZ, A New Tide (ATO)
• MARCUS ROBERTS, New Orleans Meets Harlem, Vol. 1 (J-Master)
• BOBBY OSBORNE, Bluegrass & Beyond (Rounder)
• MICHELLE MALONE, Debris (SBS)
• DAILEY & VINCENT, Brothers From Different Mothers (Rounder)
• BRUCE COCKBURN, Slice O Life: Live Solo (Rounder)
• VENICE IS SINKING, Azar (One Percent Press)
• PAUL WESLEY, When I Let Go (self)

March 24

• SARAH BORGES, The Stars are Out (Sugar Hill)
• DECEMBERISTS, Hazards of Love (Capitol)
• JJ CALE, Roll On (Rounder)
• PETER DOHERTY, Grace / Wastelands (Astralwerks)
• INDIGO GIRLS, Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (Welk)
• PEARL JAM, Ten (Reissue) (Legacy)
• PET SHOP BOYS, Yes (Astralwerks)
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm (Vanguard)
• IAN TYSON, Yellowhead To Yellowstone (Stony Plain)
• SUNNY & HER JOY BOYS, Introducing… (Stony Plain)
• JULIAN LAGE, Sounding Point (Emarcy)
• OBITS, I Blame You (Sub Pop)
• ALECIA NUGENT, Hillbilly Goddess (Rounder)
• SPECIAL CONSENSUS, Signs (Pinecastle)
• DAN HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS, Tangled Tales (Surfdog)
• ERIC LINDELL, Gulf Coast Highway (Alligator)
• STRANGE BOYS, …And Girls Club (In The Red)
• RED RED MEAT, Bunny Gets Paid (Sub Pop)
• JOSH FREESE, Since 1972 (self)

Winter 2009

March 17

• BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Beware (Drag City)
• BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS, Industry Giants (Superdrag Sound Labratories/Thirty Tigers)
• JOHN WESLEY HARDING, Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is (Lost Highway)
• NICK LOWE, Quiet Please: The New Best of Nick Lowe (Yep Roc)
• MGMT, Time To Pretend (Cantora/ Megaforce)
• SUPERDRAG, Industry Giants (Superdrag Sound Labratories/Thirty Tigers)
• WILLIE NELSON, Naked Willie (RCA/Legacy)
• TOO SLIM & THE TAILDRAGGERS, Free Your Mind (Underworld)
• KELLY JOE PHELPS, Western Bell (Black Hen)

March 10

• MARK O’CONNOR, Americana Symphony (OMAC)
• SOMETYMES WHY, Your Heart Is A Glorious Machine (Signature Sounds)
• MADELEINE PEYROUX, Bare Bones (Rounder)
• JOHN WESLEY HARDING, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead (Popover Corps)
• DM STITH, Heavy Ghost (Asthmatic Kitty)
• PETULA CLARK, Open Your Heart: The Love Song Collection (Collectors’ Choice)
• BODEANS, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, Collector’s Edition (Rhino)
• RONNIE MILSAP, Then Sings My Soul: 24 Favorite Hymns & Gospel Songs (EMG CMG)
• TOUBAB KREWE, Live At The Orange Peel (Upstream)
• OREN LAVIE, The Opposite Side Of The Sea (Quarter Past Wonderful)
• PRONTO, All Is Golden (Contraphonic)
• ROCCO DELUCA, Mercy (Ironworks)
• ROMI MAYES, Achin’ In Yer Bones (self)
• WILLIE HEATH NEAL, Out Of Highway (Chicken Ranch)
• ARI HEST, Twelve Mondays (self)
• HANDSOME FURS, Face Control (Sub Pop)
• DANNY SCHMIDT, Instead The Forest Rose To Sing (Red House)
• LUKA BLOOM, Eleven Songs (Bar/None)
• COURTNEY FAIRCHILD, 11 Chances (Stanley)

March 3

• NEKO CASE, Middle Cyclone (-Anti)
• JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Midnight at the Movies (Bloodshot)
• RAUL MALO, Lucky One (Fantasy)
• JULIE AND BUDDY MILLER, Written in Chalk (New West)
• U2, No Line on the Horizon (Island)
• JESSE HARRIS, Watching The Sky (Mercer Street)
• SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Communion (Yep Roc)
• CLARENCE BUCARO, ‘Til Spring (Twenty Twenty)
• ANGUS AND JULIA STONE, A Book Like This (Nettwerk)
• LAURA GIBSON, Beasts Of Seasons (Hush)
• CHRIS DARROW, self-titled/Under My Own Disguise (Everloving)
• MOLLY JENSON, Maybe Tomorrow (Nettwerk)
• BOSQUE BROWN, Baby (Burnt Toast)
• MARTY WILLSON-PIPER, Nightjar (Second Motion)
• BELL X1, Blue Lights On The Runway (Yep Roc)
• SETH WALKER, Leap Of Faith (Hyena)
• IAN MCLAGAN, Never Say Never (00:02:59)
• DANNY O’KEEFE, In Time (Bicameral)
• BELA FLECK, Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 – Africa Sessions (Rounder)

February 24

• RANDY WEEKS, Going My Way (Certifiable)
• NEIL YOUNG, Archives (Reprise)
• TOM RUSH, What I Know (Appleseed)
• ALTERNATE ROUTES, A Sucker’s Dream (Vanguard)
• OLD CEREMONY, Walk On Thin Air (Alyosha)
• SHEMEKIA COPELAND, Never Going Back (Telarc)
• JJ CALE, Roll On (Rounder)
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Singing Through The Hard Times: A Tribute To Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)
• VAN MORRISON, Astral Weeks: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (Listen To The Lion/EMI)

February 17

• ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE VENUS 3, Goodnight Oslo (Yep Roc)
• JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (Lightning Rod)
• GURF MORLIX, Last Exit to Happyland (Rootball)
• M. WARD, Hold Time (Merge)
• ELENI MANDELL, Artificial Fire (Zedtone)
• WILLIAM ELLIOT WHITMORE, Animals In The Dark (Anti-)
• BRIGITTE DEMEYER, Red River Flower (BDM)
• JEFFREY FOUCAULT, Shoot The Moon Right Between The Eyes (Signature Sounds)
• MICKEY CLARK, Winding Highways (Ear X-Tacy)
• VETIVER, Tight Knit (Sub Pop)
• JOHN LEE HOOKER, 50 Years: The John Lee Hooker Anthology (Shout! Factory)
• TOMMY KEENE, In The Late Bright (Second Motion)
• SAM ROBERTS, Love At The End Of The World (Rounder)
• STEVE KILBEY, Painkiller (Second Motion)
• WATSON TWINS, Live At Fingerprints EP (Vanguard)

February 10

• BEN LEE, The Rebirth of Venus (New West)
• GUY DAVIS, Sweetheart Like You (Red House)
• DAN AUERBACH, Keep It Hid (Nonesuch)
• JORMA KAUKONEN, River Of Time (Red House)
• DEX ROMWEBER DUO, Ruins Of Berlin (Bloodshot)
• MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS, Light Of X (Nettwerk)
• MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY, Buckaroo Blue Grass (Rural Rhythm)
• MEGAN MUNROE, One More Broken String (Diamond)
• VAN MORRISON, Astral Weeks: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (Listen To The Lion/EMI)

February 3

• BEN KWELLER, Changing Horses (ATO)
• DENT MAY, And His Magnificent Ukulele (Car Park)
• MORRISSEY, Southpaw Grammer (Rhino)
• THE YOUNG DUBLINERS, Saints and Sinners (429)
• MARYKATE O’NEIL, Underground (Nettwerk)
• ROBERT EARL KEEN TRIBUTE, Undone (Right Ave)
• LISA HANNIGAN, Sea Sew (ATO)
• NIGHTHAWKS, American Landscape (Powerhouse)
• RUTHIE FOSTER, The Truth According To Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn)
• PINE LEAF BOYS, Homage Au Passe (Lionsgate)
• HEARTLESS BASTARDS, The Mountain (Fat Possum)
• WILLIE NELSON & ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, Willie and the Wheel (Bismeaux)

January 27

• ANDY FRIEDMAN & THE OTHER FAILURES, Weary Things (Self)
• ASA, self-titled (Mercer Street)
• AUDIE BLAYLOCK, self-titled (Rural Rhythm)
• BOB WILLS & THE TEXAS PLAYBOYS, The Tiffany Transcriptions (Collectors’ Choice (10-CD set))
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Working on a Dream (Columbia)
• DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD, Echoes Of The Mountains (Rounder)
• DUNCAN SHEIK, Whisper House (SMG/Victor)
• ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER, You Don’t Have To Like Them Both (Red Beet)
• JAMES BROWN, Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968 (Shout!Factory)
• MARK OLSON AND GARY LOURIS, Ready for the Flood (New West)
• MICKEYS, Walk Along (Riverbeat/Select-O-Hit)
• PAT GREEN, What I’m For (SBMG)
• ODDS, Cheerleader (Second Motion)
• RAN BLAKE, Driftwoods (Tompkins Square)
• RHYTHM ANGELS, Girls Like Us (High Horse)
• SAFFIRE - THE UPPITY BLUES WOMEN, Havin’ The Last Word (Alligator)
• STRAND OF OAKS, Leave Ruin (La Societe Expeditionnaire)
• TRADITIONIST, Season To Season (Better Looking)
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Johnny Cash Remixed (Compadre)
• VOLCANO SUNS, All Night Lotus Party / The Bright Orange Years (Merge)

January 20

• ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
• ANDREW BIRD, Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
• CALEXICO, Live from Austin TX (New West)
• OTIS GIBBS, Grandpa Walked A Picketline (Wanamaker)
• A.C. NEWMAN, Get Guilty (Matador)
• BEN NICHOLS, The Last Pale Light In The West (Liberty And Lament)
• NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, Do It Like We Used To (NMA)
• WIDEAWAKE, Something That We Can’t Let Go (Artists Garage)

January 13

• BANG CAMARO, Bang Camaro II (8th Impression)
• BEE GEES, Odessa: Deluxe Edition (Rhino)
• DEREK TRUCKS BAND, Already Free (SMG/Victor)

January 6

• GLASVEGAS, Glasvegas (Sony)
• GOURDS, Haymaker (Yep Roc)
• BIG SHANTY, Sold Out… (King Mojo)

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