Upcoming Music Releases, April – June, 2009

As with prior lists, this will receive ongoing updates, so feel free to check back regularly, and please use the comments to let us know about anything that may have been missed.

April 7th
Antony & the Johnsons – Epilepsy Is Dancing
Arcade Fire – Mirroir Noir DVD
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
Beastie Boys – Check Your Head
Black Dice – Repo
Buraka Som Sistema – Black Diamond
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – Vs Children
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – First Born Is Dead (Reissue)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – From Her To Eternity (Reissue)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Kicking Against the Pricks (Reissue)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Your Funeral My Trial (Reissue)
Chain and the Gang – Down With Liberty… Up With Chains
Coathangers – Scramble
Comet Gain – Broken Record Prayers
Crystal Antlers – Tentacles
Doves – Kingdom of Rust
Eat Skull – Wild Inside
Felice Brothers – Yonder Is The Clock
HEALTH – Die Slow
The Hold Steady – Positive Rage box set
It Hugs Back – Inside Your Guitar
Joker’s Daughter – The Last Laugh
Juan MacLean – Future Will Come
Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
Jason Lytle – Yours Truly The Commuter single
Merge SCORE: the Covers
Micachu & the Shapes – Jewellery
MONO – Hymn to the Immortal Wind
MONO – One Step More And You Die/New York Soundtracks
Bob Mould – Life and Times
Pele – A Scuttled Bender In A Watery Closet
A Place To Bury Strangers – Missing You
Pontiak – Maker
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – A Stranger Here
Richard Swift – The Atlantic Ocean
Sunset Rubdown – Introducing Moonface
Superchunk – Leaves In The Gutter EP
Telekinesis – s/t
The Thermals – Now We Can See
Title Tracks – “Every Little Bit Hurts” b/w “Found Out” 7″
Mia Doi Todd – Morning Music
V/A – Loving Takes This Course: A Tribute to the Songs of Kath Bloom
The Veils – Sun Gangs
Neil Young – Fork In The Road
Young Widows/Bonnie Prince Billy – split
Dan Zimmerman – Cosmic Patriot

April 14th
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
The Boy Least Likely To – The Law of the Playground
Death Cab For Cutie – Open Door EP
Dntel – Early Works For Me If It Works For You
John Doe and the Sadies – Country Club
Mates of State – Re-arranged Remixes Vol. 1
Metric – Fantasies
Mt. Eerie – Live In Copenhagen 3xLP
MGMT – Time To Pretend EP
Nada Surf – The Proximity Effect vinyl reissue
Nada Surf – Let Go vinyl reissue
Nada Surf – The Weight Is a Gift vinyl reissue
Scout Niblett – It’s Time My Beloved
Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
Prefuse 73 – Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
Silversun Pickups – Swoon
Tiny Masters of Today – Skeletons
Wooden Shijps – Dos
Woods – Songs of Shame

April 18th
Record Store Day; (tons of exclusive releases)

April 21st
Art Brut – Art Brut Vs Satan
Björk – Voltaic
Brakes Brakes Brakes – Touchdown
Breeders – Fate to Fatal
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Joey Casio – Share The Cup
Chairlift – Does It Inspire You
Leonard Cohen – Live Songs
Leonard Cohen – New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Leonard Cohen – Songs From A Room
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate
Cloud Cult – No One Said It Would Be Easy
Cryptacize – Mythomania
Depeche Mode – Sounds of the Universe
Dirty Projectors – Stillness is the Move
Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream
Faust – So Far (reissue)
The High Strung – Ode to the Inverse of the Dude
The Horrors – Primary Colours
Jane’s Addiction – Cabinet of Curiousities box set
King Khan and the Shrines – What Is
Kingsbury Manx – Ascenseur Overt
Mission of Burma – Vs (reissue)
Mission of Burma – The Horrible Truth About Mission of Burma (reissue)
Mission of Burma – Signals, Calls, and Marches (reissue)
Okkervil River – Pop Lie
Pterodactyl – Worldwind
Polly Scattergood – s/t
Still Flyin’ – Never Gonna Touch The Ground
Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years

April 28th
The Crocodiles – Summer of Hate
Rivers Cuomo – Live At Fingerprints
Japandroids – Post-Nothing
My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything (reissue)
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (reissue)
Thee Oh-Sees – Help
Townes Van Zandt – Live at the Old Quarter (reissue)
Wilco – Ashes of American Flags DVD

May 5th
Akron/Family – Set Em Wild/Set Et Free
Bobby Beausoleil – Orkustra
British Sea Power – Man of Aran
Cracker – Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
Deastro – Moondagger
Deradoorian – Minde Raft
Julie Doiron/Calm Down It’s Monday – split
Double Dagger – More
Fischerspooner – Entertainment
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos b/w False Knight on the Road
The Horrors – Primary Colours
The Kills – Keep on Your Mean Side
Magik Markers – Balf Quarry
Mika Miko – We Be Xuxa
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band – Outer South
Tara Jane O’Neil – A Ways Away
Peaches – I Feel Cream
Alisdair Roberts – Spoils
Pink Mountaintops – Outside Love
Shout Out Out Out Out – Reintegration Time
St. Vincent – Actor
The Vaselines – Enter the Vaselines
Years – s/t

May 12th
Cause Co-Motion! – Because Because Because
Durutti Column – Love in the Time of Recession
Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top
Steve Earle – Townes
Jeremy Enigk – OK Bear
Mark Kozalek – Lost Verses Live
Little Girls – Thrills
Maxïmo Park – Quicken the Heart
Jim O’Rourke – I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1,2,3,4
Passion Pit – Manners
Phoenix – Kitsune Tabloid
Sebastien Tellier – Reworked by Strangelets
Mike Watt – Funland
Wooden Birds – Magnolia
Wooden Shijps – Contact

May 19th
Apostle of Hustle – Eats Darkness
Au Revior Simone – Still Light, Still Night
James Blackshaw – The Glass Bead Game
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication (reissue)
Blank Dogs – Under and Under
Clues – s/t
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
The Curious Mystery – Rotting Slowly
Desolation Wilderness – No Tomorrow b/w Pacific Palisades
Ear Pwr – Super Animal Brothers III
Faux Hoax – Your Friends Will Carry You Home
The Field – Yesterday and Today
A Hawk and A Hacksaw – Deliverance
Headlights – Remixes
Intelligence – Fake Surfers
Iron & Wine – Around The Well
Jookabox/Dosh – Unusual Animals #5
Liechtenstein – Survival Strategies In A Modern World
Jeffrey Lewis – ‘Em Are I
Jason Lytle – Yours Truly, The Commuter
Magnolia Electric Company – It’s Made Me Cry single
Mates of State – All Day
The Monahans – Low Pining
Polly Scattergood – Polly Scattergood
Tyvek – s/t
John Vanderslice – Romanian Names
WAND – Hard Knox
White Rabbits – It’s Frightening
Wilco – A.M., Being There, and Summerteeth vinyl reissues
Young Widows/Melt Banana – split
Hermas Zopoula – Espoir

May 26th
Bachelorette – My Electric Family
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Smoking Acid EP
City Center – City Center
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
The Paper Chase – Someday This Could All Be Yours, Part 1
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Sharon Van Etten – Because I Was In Love
Viva Voce – Rose City

June 2nd
Jeff Buckley – Grace Around The World
Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
Eels – Hombre Loco
Elvis Costello – Secret, Profane, & Sugarcane
Cass McCombs – Catacombs (UK — US release is July 7th)
Spinnerette – Spinnerette
Neil Young – Neil Young Archives Vol. 1, 1963-1972

June 9th
Cosmos – Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Joan of Arc – Flowers
Greg Kowalski – Tape Chants
Love Is All – Covers EP
Sonic Youth – The Eternal

June 16th
Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People – Lazers Do
Pixies – Minotaur
Rock Plaza Central – At the Moment of our Most Needing, or If Only They Could Turn Around, They Would Know They Weren’t Alone
Tiny Masters of Today – Skeletons

June 23rd
Amazing Baby – Rewild
Baby Teeth – Hustle Beach
The Bats – The Guilty Office
Deastro – Moondagger
Deer Tick – Born On Flag Day
Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
Ephryme – Shomer Salaam
Foreign Born – Person to Person
Future of the Left – Travels With Myself and Another
Patterson Hood – Murdering Oscar and Other Love Songs
Lemonheads – Varshons
Love Is All – Last Choice
Of Montreal – For Our Elegant Caste 7″
Owen/The Rutabaga – split
Royal City – s/t
Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship

Later:
David Bazan – Curse Your Branches
Bowerbirds – Upper Air
Circulatory System – Signal Morning
Cass McCombs – Catacombs
Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away
Chris Garneau – El Radio
Tiny Vipers – Life On Earth
Wye Oak – The Knot

- MBV