August 28th
Abandoned Pools – Sublime Currency
Alanis Morissette – Havoc & Bright Lights
Amanda Brecker – Blossom
American Aquarium – Burn.Flicker.Die.
Amy Cook – Summer Skin
Aimee Wilson – Unto Us The Sun
Andrew Peterson – Light for the Lost Boy
Annie & The Beekeepers – My Bonneville
Armada – Paper Ghosts
Big Wreck – Albatross
Caroline Herring – Camilla
Christopher Smith – Earning Keep
Conner Youngblood – Sketches Pt. 2
Dan Deacon – America (UK)
Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
Elbow – Dead In the Boot (B-sides) (UK)
Foy Vance – Melrose (EP) (UK)
Grandfather Child – S/T
Harry Shearer – Can't Take A Hint
Ingram Hill – S/T
Jay James Picton- Play It By Heart (U.K.)
Jessie Ware – Devotion (U.K.)
Jon Samuel (Wintersleep)- First Transmission
Kendra Morris – Banshee
King Creosote – Ankle Shackles (EP) (U.K.)
King of Spain – All I Did Was Tell Them The Truth…
Luciana Souza – Duos III/The Book of Chet
Maia Sharp – Change the Ending
Matthew Dear – Beams
Minus The Bear – Infinity Overhead
Oh Mercy – Deep Heat (Aus)
Passenger – All The Little Lights
Poor Moon – S/T
Richard Hawley – Standing At the Sky's Edge (U.S.)
Rick Holmstrom – Cruel Sunrise
Robert Cray Band – Nothin' But Love
Royal Teeth – Act Naturally
Ruby Free – Introducing Ruby Free
Sean Rowe – The Salesman and the Shark
Shy Around Strangers – S/T EP
Swans – The Seer
The Dunwells – Blind Sighted Faith (CD)
The Flatlanders – The Odessa Tapes
Wild Nothing – Nocturne
September 4th
Animal Collective – Centipede Hz
Azure Ray – As Above So Below
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Rattle Them Bones
Bob Mould – Silver Age
California Wives – Art History
Cat Power – Sun
Cult of Youth – Love Will Prevail
Dave Stewart – Ringmaster General
David Wax Museum – Knock Knock Get Up
Deerhoof – Breakup Song
Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople) – When I'm President
Imagine Dragons – Night Vision
K's Choice – Echo Mountain
Mark Knopfler – Privateering
Matchbox 20 – North
Melissa Etheridge – 4th Street Feeling
Mount Eerie – Ocean Roar
My Darling Clementine – How Do You Plead?
Smash Mouth – Magic
Sondre Lerche – Bootlegs/Live
Stars – The North
Tanita Tikaram – Can't Go Back
The Milk – Tales From The Thames Delta (UK)
The Sheepdogs – S/T
The Vaccines – Come of Age
Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon
Two Gallants – The Bloom And The Blight
Wax Poetic – On A Ride
September 11th
Amanda Palmer & Grand Theft Orchestra – Theater Is Evil
Avett Brothers – The Carpenter
Bell Gardens – Full Sundown Assembly (UK)
Ben Arthur – If You Look For My Heart
Bob Dylan – Tempest
Brendan Hines – Small Mistakes
Calexico – Algiers
Chilly Gonzales – Solo Piano II
Chris Isaak – Beyond The Sun (Super Deluxe Version)
Chris Knight – Little Victories
Chris Robinson Brotherhood – The Magic Door
Clare Bowditch – The Winter I Chose Happiness (9/14 Aus)
Dave Matthews Band – Away From The World
David Byrne/St. Vincent – Love This Giant
Field Report – S/T
Get Well Soon – Scarlet Beast O' Seven Heads
Helio Sequence – Negotiations
Joanne Shaw Taylor – Almost Always Never
Kathy Mattea – Calling Me Home
Kelly McRae – Better Than The Blues (9/15)
Marco Benevento – TigerFace
Miggs – 15th and Hope
Neil Halstead – Palindrome Hunches
Nolwenn Leroy – Nolwenn
Patterson Hood (Drive By Truckers) – Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance
Pet Shop Boys – Elysium
Sea Wolf – Old World Romance
Snowblink – Inner Classics
Steve Forbert – Over With You
The Helio Sequence – Nogotiations
The Raveonettes – Observator
The Script – #3 (UK; US Oct. TBA)
The Time Jumpers – S/T
The XX – Co-Exist
Tina Dico – Where Do You Go to Disappear?
Toy – S/T
ZZ Top – La Futura
Comment: OK, the keeper in all this is the Pet Shop Boys, and, of course, Bob Dylan. But how about the new Amanda Palmer album, sure the single sucked but maybe she can maintain her million dollar baby. SOme other goodies palling round as well: ZZ TOP, Bob Mould, Cat Power, the xx. Apparently, except for a weak labour day tuesday, the season has begun!