2009 Second Quarter Music Preview

Once past piss-your-co-worker off-with-some-half-hearted-prank-day, aka April Fools, and those showers that supposedly bring May flowers, the month of April does have some redeeming qualities, like the fact it marks the start of the music industry’s second quarter. And with a new quarter comes new releases, and a bounty of them. So many in fact, that the job of even remembering what will be hitting the “new music section” in the coming weeks and months is a pretty daunting task. Fortunately, Consequence of Sound once again has your back. Below, you’ll find an extensive and up-to-date listing of all this quarter’s new music, spanning all genres, styles, and tastes.

Bookmark this page and check back often, as we’ll continue to update this throughout the quarter. And if you’ve seen anything we’ve missed, drop us a comment and let us know.

April 7, 2009:

• The Alchemist – Chemical Warfare
• Alligators – Piggy & Cups
• The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound – When Sweet Sleep Returned
• Bad Boy Bill – Falling Anthem Remixes: Part 1
• Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
• Black Dice – Repo
• Bob Mould – Life and Times
• Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Vs. Children
• Carolina Weeks – Songs For Edna
• Claudia Acuña – En Este Momento
• The Coathangers – Scramble
• Crystal Antlers – Tentacles
• Del Tha Funky Homosapien – Funkman
• Doves – Kingdom of Rust
• The Felice Brothers – Yonder Is the Clock
• It Hugs Back – Inside Your Guitar
• Halloween, Alaska – Champagne Downtown
• The Hold Steady – A Positive Rage
• Jadakiss – The Last Kiss
• Joker’s Daughter – The Last Laugh
• The Junior Boys -  Begone Dull Care
• Lady Sovereign – Jigsaw
• Micachu & The Shapes – Jewellery
• My Favorite Highways – How to Call a Bluff
• Neil Young – Fork in the Road
• Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – A Stranger Here
• Ray Charles – Genius: The Ultimate Collection
• The Rentals – Songs About Time EP
• Sara Watkins – Sara Watkins
• Sharam – Get Wild
• Superchunk – Leaves in the Gutter
• Telekinesis – Telekinesis!
• The Thermals – Now We Can See
• Thieves Like Us – Play Music
• The Tragically Hip – We Are the Same
• Various Artists – SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers
• The Veils – Sun Gangs

April 14, 2009:

• A-Trak – Infinity +1
• Angel Taylor – Love Travels
• Awesome New Republic – Rational Geographic Volume 1
• Beck – One Foot in the Grave [Reissue]
• Big Business – Mind the Drift
• Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
• Boy in Static – Candy Cigarette
• Circus Devils – Gringo
• FACT – FACT
• Fastball – Little White Lies
• The George-Edwards Group – 38:38
• The Handsome Family – Honey Moon
• Ida Maria – Fortress Round My Heart
• Jill Sobule – California Years
• Linda Draper – Bridge and Tunnel
• Matthew Barber – Ghost Notes
• Metric – Fantasies
• Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
• Pomegranates – Everybody, Come Outside!
• Radio Moscow – Brain Cycles
• Robert Gomez -  Pine Sticks & Phosphorus
• Saint Bernadette – Word To The Lourdes EP
• Silversun Pickups – Swoon
• Soulive – Up Here
• Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years
• TV on the Radio – Read Silence EP

April 21, 2009:

• Allen Toussaint – The Bright Mississippi
• Asher Roth – Asleep in the Bread Aisle
• Booker T. Jones – Potato Hole
• The Breeders – Fate to Fatal EP
• Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
• Chairlift – Does You Inspire You
• Chester French – Love the Future
• Chrisette Michele – Epiphany
• Cryptacize – Mythomania
• Dan Zimmerman – Cosmic Patriot
• Depeche Mode – Sounds of the Universe
• Eddi Reader – Love Is The Way
• Empire of the Sun – Walking On A Dream
• Funeral Party – Bootleg EP
• Great Bloomers – Speak Of Trouble
• The Handsome Family – Honey Moon
• Immaculate Machine – High on Jackson Hill
• The Killers – The Spaceman EP
• The Lodge – Take That Devil
• Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything to Nothing
• Matisyahu – Light
• Meg & Dia – Here, Here and Here
• The Milk and Honey Band – Dog Eared Moonlight
• Morning After Girls – The General Republic EP
• Mr. Lif – I Heard It Today
• Pet Shop Boys – Yes
• Sinéad O’Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got [Reissue]
• Tinted Windows – Tinted Windows
• The Urgency – The Urgency
• Wayne Hancock – Viper of Melody

April 28, 2009:

• A Camp – Colonia
• Ape School – Ape School
• Barbra Streisand – Streisand The Concerts
• Ben Folds – Ben Folds Presents: University a Capella!
• Ben Lee – The Rebirth of Venus
• Bob Dylan – Together Though Life
• Cheval Sombre – Cheval Sombre
• Endless Hallway – Autonomy Games
• Great Northern – Remind Me Where The Light Is
• Heaven and Hell – The Devil You Know
• Immaculate Machine – High on Jackson Hill
• Jane’s Addiction – A Cabinet of Curiosities [Box Set]
• Kid606 – Shout at the Döner
• Mike Hale – Lives Like Mine
• NOFX – Coaster
• Paleface – The Show is on the Road
• Pilot Speed – Wooden Bones
• Polly Scattergood – Please Don’t Touch
• Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers – Songs in the Night
• The Weather Station – The Line
• Xu Xu Fang – Seven Days Now EP
  

May 5, 2009

• A.M. Architect – The Road To The Sun
• Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
• Angel Deradoorian – Mind Raft
• Ben Harper & The Relentless 7 – White Lies for Dark Times
• Chrisette Michele – I Am
• Conor Oberst – Outer South
• Diamond Watch Wrists – Ice Capped at Both Ends
• Double Dagger -  More
• El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Cryptomnesia
• Fischerspooner – Entertainment
• Frank Sinatra – Live At The Meadowlands Arena
• Frank Sinatra – My Way (40th Anniversary Edition)
• Gallows – Grey Britain
• The Horrors – Primary Colours
• Incubus – Monuments & Melodies
• Isis – Wavering Radiant
• The Kills -  Keep on Your Mean Side [Reissue]
• Larry Tee – Club Badd
• Magik Markers – Balf Quarry
• Meanderthals – Desire Lines
• Mika Miko – We Be Xuxa
• My Favorite Highway – How To Call A Bluff
• New York Dolls – Cause I Sez So
• Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms
• Peaches – I Feel Cream
• Rodriguez – Coming From Reality
• The Rolling Stones – Black and Blue [Reissue]
• The Rolling Stones – Goat Head’s Soup [Reissue]
• The Rolling Stones – It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll [Reissue]
• The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers [Reissue]
• Slumberland – Slumberland
• St. Vincent – Actor
• Tara Jane O’Neil – A Ways Away
• Various Artists – Causes 2
• The Vaselines – Enter the Vaselines [Box Set]
• Wooden Arms – Man Like You
• Years – Years
• Yusuf Islam – Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night)
• Ziggy Marley – Family Time

May 12, 2009

• Art Brut – Art Brut vs. Satan
• Bad Boy Bill – Falling Anthem Remixes: Part 2
  
• Bloc Party – Intimacy Remixed
• Bricolage – Bricolage
• Casper & the Cookies – Modern Silence
• The Crystal Method – Divided By Night
• The Datsuns – Head Stunts
• The Faraway Places – Out of the Rain, the Thunder & the Lightning
• Hanne Hukkelberg – Blood From a Stone
• Jay Rock – Follow Me Home
• Mark Kozelek – Lost Verses Live
• Maximo Park – Quicken the Heart
• Meat Puppets – Sewn Together
• Mike Watt – Funland
• Operation Aloha – Operation Aloha
• Roman Candle – Oh Tall Tree In The Ear
• Steve Earle – Townes
• Trey Anastasio – Time Turns Elastic
• Various Artists – Brand Neu!
• Vieux Farka Touré – Fondo

May 15, 2009

• Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown

May 19, 2009

• Andy Shauf – Darker Days
• Au Revoir Simone – Still Night, Still Light
• The Beach Boys – Summer Love Songs
• CKY – Carver City
• Dredg – The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
• Ear Pwr – Super Animal Brothers III
• Eminem – Relapse
• The Field – Yesterday & Today
• Flipper – Love
• Headless Heroes – The Silence of Love
• Iron & Wine – Around the Well
• Jason Ltye – Yours Truly, The Commuter
• Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
• John Vanderslice – Romanian Names
• Karate High School – Invaders
• Letoya Luckett – Lady Love
• Matt Kearny – City of Black & White
• mewithoutYou – it’s all crazy! it’s all false! it’s all a dream! it’s alright
• Miss Kittin & the Hacker – Two
• Redman & Method Man – Blackout 2
• Ruben Studdard – Love Is
• Tori Amos – Abnormally Attracted To Sin
• What’s Up – Content Imagination
• White Rabbits – It’s Frightening

May 26, 2009

• Aaron Barnhart – Missing Pieces
• Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us
• Dark Castle – Spirited Migration
• Del Marquis & Embryoroom – Litter To Society
• Emily Wells – Dirty
• The Field – Yesterday & Today
• Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
• Hecuba – Paradise
• James Blackshaw – The Glass Bead Game
• The Lava Children – The Lava Children
• Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas – II
• Luaka Pop – Twenty First Century, Twenty First Year
• Magic Wands – Magic Love & Dreams EP
• Mandy Moore – Amanda Leigh
• Marilyn Manson – The High End Of Low
• Passion Pit – Manners
• Paul and The Patients – To The Lions EP
• Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
• Rock Plaza Central – …at the Moment of our Most Needing
• Sarah Siskind – Say It Louder
• Scratch – Loss 4 Wordz
• Sir Richard Bishop – The Freak of Araby
• Sleepy Sun – Embrace

June 2, 2009

• 311 – Uplifter
• Allison Geddie – You Don’t See
• Drop Dead Gorgeous – The Hot N’ Heavy
• Crosby, Stills & Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash Demos,
• Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King
• Eels – Hombre Lobo
• Elvis Costello – Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
• Girl in a Coma – Trio B.C.
• Iggy Pop – Préliminaires
• Ivan Ives – Newspeak
• J Dilla – Jay $tay Paid
• Jeff Buckley – Grace Around the World
• Liechtenstein – Survival Strategies In A Modern World
• Neil Young – Neil Young Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 [Box Set]
• Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up
• Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor
  
• Rancid – Let The Dominoes Fall
• Slough Feg – Ape Uprising
• The Sounds – Crossing the Rubicon
• Spinerette – Spinerette
• UFO – The Visitor

June 9, 2009

• The Aggrolites – IV
• Ancient Astronauts – We Are To Answer
• Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D.
• Busdriver – Jhelli Beam
• Cosmos -  Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks
• The Dead Weather – Horsehound
• Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
• Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
• Elizabeth & the Catapult – Taller Children
• Hermit Thrushes – Slight Fountain
• The Horse’s Ha – Of the Cathmawr Yards
• Kasbian – The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum
• Little Boots – Hands
• The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
• Mannequin Men – Lose Your Illusion, Too
• Mos Def – The Ecstatic
• North Lincoln – Midwestern Blood
• Nosaj Thing – Drift
• Placebo – Battle For The Sun
• Portland Cello Project – The Thao and Justin Power Sessions
• The Rolling Stones – Emotional Rescue [Reissue]
• The Rolling Stones – Some Girls [Reissue]
• The Rolling Stones – Tattoo You [Reissue]
• The Rolling Stones – Undercover [Reissue]
• Rubies – Explode From the Center
• So Many Dynamos – The Loud Wars
• Sonic Youth – The Eternal

June 16, 2009

• Amanda Blank – I Love You
• Big Star – #1 Record [Reissue]
• Big Star – Radio City [Reissue]
• Ha Ha Tonka – Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
• The Honey Brothers – Demonstration EP
• Incubus – Moments And Melodies
• The Legends – Over and Over
• Lil Wayne – Rebirth
• Loop 2.4.3 – Zodiac Dust
• Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do
• The Sippy Cups – The Time Machine
• Still Life Still – Pastel EP
• Tiny Masters of Today – Skeletons
• Various Artists – Johnny Cash Remixed

June 23, 2009

• Alexisonfire – Old Crows/Young Cardinals
• The Bats – The Guilty Office
• Björk – Voltaic
• Brian Olive – Brian Olive
• Busdriver – Jhelli Beam
• Bygones – By-
• Deastro – Moondagger
• Deer Tick – Born on Flag Day
• Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
• Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings
• Foreign Born – Person To Person
• Future of the Left – Travels With Myself and Another
• Gossip – Music for Men
• Hotspur – You Should Know Better By Now
• Jets Overhead – No Nations
• LANDy – Eros and Omissions
• The Lemonheads – Varshons
• Letoya – Lady Love
• The Mars Volta – Octahedron
• Patterson Hood – Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs)
• Pete Yorn – Back and Forth
• R.E.M. – Reckoning [Reissue]
• Regina Spektor – Far
• Royal City – Royal City
• Serengeti & Polyphonic – Terradactyl
• Street Sweeper Social Club – Street Sweeper Social Club
• Stuart Murdoch – God Help the Girl
• Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
• Third Eye Blind  – Ursa Major
• Tom Brosseau – Posthumous Success
• Tortoise – It’s All Around You
• We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls
• Ziggy Marley – B is for Bob

June 30, 2009

• All Smiles – Oh For Getting and Not Letting Go
• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony – Uni-5
• The Builders and the Butchers – Salvation is a Deep Dark Well
• Cage – Depart from Me
• Delain – April Rain
• Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
• Moby – Wait for Me
• Rob Thomas – Cradlesong
• Shadow Dancer – Golden Traxe
• Stillhouse Hollow – Dakota
• Wilco – Wilco (The Album)

June

• Damian Marley and Nas – TBA
• The Flaming Lips – TBA
• The Used – Artwork

Also in Second Quarter:

• Built To Spill – TBA
• Crash Test Dummies – Toys
• Deftones – Eros
• Dr. Dre – Detox
• Flight of the Conchords – TBA
• Gorillaz – TBA
• Rakim – The Seventh Seal