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