August 2
Arcade Fire: The Suburbs (Deluxe Edition) (Merge)
Archers of Loaf: Icky Mettle (reissue) (Merge)
Aristillus: Devoured Trees & Crystal Skies (Fysisk Format)
Azari & Ill: Azari & Ill (Loose Lips)
Beruit: The Rip Tide (digital release) (Pompeii Records)
Boston Spaceships: Let It Beard (Guided by Voices, Inc.)
Charles Bradley: No Time For Dreaming: The Instrumentals (Daptone)
Battlecross: Pursuit of Honor
Brainoil: Death of This Dry Season (Buck Spin)
Richard Buckner: Our Blood (Merge)
Buffalo Killers: 3 (Alive)
Louise Burns: Mellow Drama (Light Organ)
Bury Your Dead: Mosh N’ Roll (Mediaskare Records)
Caina: Hands That Pluck (Profound Lore)
The Calm Blue Sea: The Calm Blue Sea (Modern Outsider Records)
Capitol Six: Captain Rehab (Light Organ)
Cassandra Syndrome: Satire X
Chaperone: Raised by Wolves (Grape Juice)
Collections of Colonies of Bees: GIVING (Hometapes)
John Wesley Coleman III/Timmy’s Organism: Split Single (Goner)
D.O.K.: West Coast (Hyperdub)
The Decemberists: iTunes Session (digital release) (iTunes)
The Devastated: The Devil’s Messenger
Dir En Gre: Dum Spiro Spero (The End Records)
Diva: The Glitter End (Critical Heights)
DJ Raff: Latino & Proud (NAcional)
Dog Day: Deformer (Fundog Records)
Drive By Truckers: Ugly Buildings, Whores, and Politicians: Greatest Hits 1998-2009 (New West)
The Duke & The King: The Duke & The King (Anti-)
Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Walking In Unison 12″ (Captcha Records)
The Ettes: Wicked Will (Varese Sarabande)
Fountains of Wayne: Sky Full of Holes (Yep Roc)
Fruit Bats: Tripper (Sub Pop)
Guster: On the Ocean EP (Universal Republic)
Grinderman: “Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man” (Anti-)
Harvest: Years of Defiance, Years of Disgust
High Wolf: Atlas Nation (Holy Mountain)
Justin Hines: Days To Recall (Decca)
Hope I Die Virgin: I Forever No Way (Fysisk Format)
Hot Water Music: “The Fire, The Steel, The Tread” / “Adds Up To Nothing” (digital release) (Chunksaah/No Idea)
Hudson Mohawke: Satin Panthers EP (Warp)
The Konsortium: The Konsortium
Last Winter: The Heart and The Broken Compass
Le Butcherettes: Sin Sin Sin (Rodriguez-Lopez)
Letting Up Despite Great Faults: Paper Crush (Old Flame Records)
Love of Everything: Sooner I Wish (Polyvinyl)
Machinedrums: Room(s) (Planet Mu)
Malefice: Awaken the Tides
Mariachi el Bronx: Mariachi el Bronx (II) (ATO Records)
Mode Moderne: Real Goths (Light Organ)
Moonface: Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped (Jagjaguwar)
Musikanto: Sky of Dresses (Grape Juice)
NOFX: 7″ (Fat Wreck Chords)
Nothing People: Smells Like Metal (Captcha Records)
Offshore: Pace (Big Dada)
Okkervil River: “Your Past Life As A Blast” 7″ (Jagjaguwar)
Ossie: Set the Tone (Hyperdub)
Pg. 99: Singles (Robotic Empire)
Powerwolf: Blood of the Saints (Metal Blade)
Reptar: Oblange Fizz Y’all EP (Vagrant)
Sabaton: World War Live: Battle of the Baltic Sea
Saidah Baba Tailbah: (S)Cream
Mathieu Santos: Massachusettes 2010 (Barsuk)
Ximena Sarinana: Ximena Sarinana (Warner Bros.)
Screaming Trees: Last Words: The Final Recordings (IODA/Burnside Distribution)
Soft Swells: Every Little Thing (Modern Outsider)
Somi: Live at Jazz Standard (Sana House)
Sovereign Strength: The Prophecy
Sun Wizard: Positively 4th Avenue (Light Organ)
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter: Marble Son (Station Grey)
This Love: At War (self release)
Thou: The Archer and The Owle (Robotic Empire)
Tig Notaro: Good One (Secretly Canadian)
Unkind: Harhakuva
Caetano Veloso: Caetano Veloso: Brazilian Songs with Guitar (Nonesuch)
Viva Brother: Famous First Words (A&M)
Jim Ward: Quiet In The Valley, On the Shores the End Begins (Tembloroso)
Warm Brains: Old Volcanoes (Marshall Teller)
Wax Museums: Zoo Full Of Ramones (Tic Tac Totally)
August 9
Against Me!: White Crosses (Total Treble)
Afrobeta: Under The Streets (DoIt Music Group)
The Birthday Massacre: Imaginary Monsters EP (Metropolis Records)
Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath; Sabotage; Vol. 4 (reissues) (Rhino)
Bream Boat: Widow (Amdiscs)
John Cale: Extra Playful EP (Double Six)
Georges Delerue: Music from the Films of Francois Truffaut (Nonesuch)
Dom: Family of Love EP(Astralwerks)
Fleshgod Apocalypse: Agony (Nuclear Blast)
Bill Frisell: Blues Dream (Nonesuch)
Goreaphobia: Apocalyptic Necromancy
Grimes: Geidi Primes (reissue) (No Pain In Pop)
The Horrors: Skying (XL)
Michael Ian Black: Very Famous (Comedy Central)
Inc.: 3 EP (4AD)
Indestructable Noise Command: Heaven Sent, Hellbound
Into It. Over It.: Twelve Towns (Topshelf Records)
The Irrepressibles: Mirror (Major Record Label)
Jay Z/Kanye West: Watch the Throne (Def Jam)
Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose (vinyl reissue) (Third Man)
ME & LP: Chez Raymond EP (digital release) (Sargent House)
Carmel Mikol: Creature (Canada by Sound of Pop/Fontana North)
Armand Margjeka: Margo Margo (self release)
Mercies: Thousand Days (self release)
Nick 13: Nick 13 (Gold Vinyl) (Sugar Hill)
The New Mastersounds: Breaks From The Border (Tallest Man)
Pepper Rabbit: Red Velvet Snow Ball (Kanine Records)
Prophets & Kings: Prophets & Kings (self release)
Pulp: Freaks; It; Separations (reissues) (Fire)
Pursesnatchers: A Pattern Language
Saint Bernadette: The Nevers (self release)
Sainthood Reps: Moniculture (Tooth & Nail)
Scattered Trees: Sympathy (Roll Call/EMI)
Skalmold: Baldur (Napalm)
Sleeping Bag: Sleeping Bag (Joyful Noise Recordings)
The Spudmonsters: Stand Up For What You Believe (self release)
Svartsot: Maledictus Eris (Napalm)
Teen Daze: A Silent Planet (Waaga Records)
Trivium: In Waves (Roadrunner)
Widowspeak: Widowspeak (Captured Tracks)
August 16
A Lull: Confetti Reprise EP (Mush)
Kyle Andrews: Robot Learn Love (Elephant Lady Records)
Aliases: Safer Than Reality
All Pigs Must Die: God Is War
Amen Dunes: Through Donkey Jaw (Sacred Bones)
Assassin: Chronicls of Resistance (SPV)
The Bandana Splits: The Bandana Splits (Tummy Touch Records)
Battles: My Machines 12″ (Warp)
Botany: Feeling Today (Western Vinyl)
The Bottlerockets: Not So Loud (Bloodshot)
Braid: Closer to Closed (Polyvinyl)
Case Studies: The World Is Just A Shape To Fill The Night (Sacred Bones)
Chairlift: Amanaemonesia (Terrible)
Chimaira: The Age of Hell
Guy Clark: Songs and Stories (Dualtone)
Ornette Coleman: Something Else!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman (Original Jazz Classics)
Cut Off Your Hands: Hollow (Frenchkiss)
Desalmado: Hereditas
Design The Skyline: Nevaeh
Eyes Set to Kill: The Best of ESTK
Fool’s Gold: Leave No Trace (Iamsound)
Gold Leaves: The Ornament (Hardly Art)
Grave Babies: “Pleasures” 7″ (Hardly Art)
The Great Book of John: The Great Book of John (Communicating Vessels)
Hard Skin: Hard Nuts and Hard Cunts (Broken Rekkids)
Her Space Holiday: Her Space Holiday (No More Good Ideas)
Hercules & Love Affair: Blue Songs (Moshi Moshi)
Hotel Lights: Girl Graffiti (Bar/None)
Human League: Credo (digital release) (MB3 Records)
The Jim Jones Revue: Burning Your House Down (Punk Rock Blues Records)
Abdul Karim Kahn: Abdul Karim Kahn (Mississippi)
Tim Kasher: Bigamy: More Songs From the Monogamy Sessions EP (Saddle Creek)
Mark Kozelek: Mark Kozelek: On Tour (DVD) (Caldo Verde)
Limes: Tarantula (Goner)
Lotus Plaza/Odonis Odonis: Split 12″ (Palmist)
Fred McDowell: Alan Lomax Recordings (Iamsound)
Mister Heavenly: Out of Love (Sub Pop)
MOAB: Ab Ovo
Hadrami Ould Medeh: Kamlat (Mississippi)
Psychic Babble: My Brother’s Ears/My Sister’s Eyes (Yenta Records)
Rail Band: Orchestre Rail-Band (Mississippi)
Razika: Program 91 (Smalltown Supersound)
Revocation: Chaos Of Forms
Scream: Complete Control Sessions (Side One Dummy)
Soft Machine: Soft Machine at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club (Vinyl Lovers)
Sleeper Agent: Celabrasion (Mom+Pop Music)
Sun Dress: Sundress EP (self release)
Tame Impala: Insterspeaker (Modular)
Maria Taylor: Overlook (Saddle Creek)
Luke Temple: Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care (Western Vinyl)
Today Is The Day: Pain Is A Warning (Black Metal Archives)
Totimoshi: Avenger
Tropics: Mouves (Planet Mu)
Vader: Welcome to the Morbid Reich
The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian)
White Arms of Athena: Astrodrama
Wooden Shjips: West (Thrill Jockey)
Yellow Ostrich: The Mistress (Barsuk)
YOB: Atma
Michael Yonkers: Microminature Love (Sub Pop)
Your Chance to Die: Suscitatio Somnus
Zounds: Singles & EP’s 1980-1984; The Curse of Zounds! (Broken Rekkids)
August 23
400 Blows: Sickness & Health (Original Recordings Group)
Active Child: You Are All I See (Vagrant)
Austra: Sparkle Remix Collection (Domino)
Balcam Acab: Wander/Wonder (Tri Angle)
Black Tide: Post Mortem (DGC)
Wyatt Cenac: Comedy Person (Comedy Central)
Curtains for You: After Nights Without Sleep (Spark & Shine)
Epysode: Obsessions
Flash Bang Grenada: 10 Haters (Hellfyre/Grimm Image)
Ganglians: Still Living (Lefse)
Ghost Birgade: Until Fear No Longer Defines Us (Season of Mist)
ICS Vortex: Storm Seeker (Century Media)
Lanie Lane: “Ain’t Hungry”/”My Man” 7″ (Third Man)
Krum Bums: Cut The Noose
Magic Trick: The Glad Birth of Love (Empty Cellar)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks: Mirror Traffic (Matador)
Stephin Merritt: Obscurities (Merge)
Minushuman: Bloodthrone (Season of Mist)
Nazca Lines: Hyperventilation (Stressed Sumo)
PG Six: Starry Mind (Drag City)
Sea of Bees: Gnomes EP (Crossbill Records)
Sic Alps: “Breadhead” 7″ (Drag City)
Patti Smith: Outside Society (Legacy)
Sun Araw: Ancient Romans (Sun Ark/Drag City)
We Are Augustines: Rise Ye Sunken Ships (Turnout)
White Denim: Live at Third Man (Third Man)
Chelsea Wolfe: Apokalypsis (Pendu Sound)
WU LYF: Go Tell Fire To The Mountain (physical release) (self release)
August 30
10 Ft. Ganja Plant: Shake Up The Place (ROIR)
Alias: Fever Dream (Anticon)
AM & Shawn Lee: Celestial Electirc (ESL)
B: Jesus (New World Color)
Big Troubles: “Sad Girls” b/w “Phantom” 7″ (Slumberland)
Black Lips: 200 Million Thousand; Good Bad Not Evil (reissue); Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo (reissue) (In the Red)
Blood Orange: Coastal Grooves (Domino)
Brian Jonestown Massacre: The Singles Collection 1992-2011 (a Records)
Gene Clark: Two Sides To Every Story (High Moon)
Cloud Control: Bliss Release (Infectious Music)
Cymbals Eat Guitars: Lenses Alien (Memphis Industries)
Diamond Plate: Generation Why?
Digitaldubs: #1 (ROIR)
Dirty Beaches: Badlands (Zoo)
DJ Drama: Gangsta Grillz 3 (Aphiliates)
Future Shuttle: Water’s Edge (Holy Mountain)
GA’AN: II (Captcha Records)
Mimi Goese & Ben Neill: Songs for Persephone (Ramseur Records)
Hackneyed: Carnival Cadavre (Lifeforce)
Juliana Hatfield: Speeches Delivered to Animals and Plants (Olde Records)
Hella: Tripper (Sargent House)
Alberta Hunter: Downhearted Blues (Rock Beat)
The Icarus Line: Wildlife (Cobraside Distribution)
In Cold Blood: A Flawless Escape
Jacuzzi Boys: Glazin’ (Hardly Art)
Male Bonding: Endless Now (Sub Pop)
The Nightwatchman: World Wide Rebel Songs (New West)
The Nocturnes: Aokigahara (Errant Child Records)
Jim O’Rourke: Old New No. 6 (Editions Mego)
Pro Pain: 20 Years of Hardcore
Pumice: Pebbles (vinyl) (Soft Abuse)
Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus: Barlande (Infine Records)
Shadowside: Inner Monster Out
Shonen Knife: Osaka Ramones (Good Charamel Records)
Swiftumz: Don’t Trip (Holy Mountain)
Tasseomancy: Ulalume (Out of this Spark)
Thundercat: The Golden Age of Apocalypse (Brainfeeder)
Tinariwen: Tassili (Anti-)
Total Babes: Swimming Through Sunlight (Old Flame Records)
Ume: Phantoms (Modern Outsider)
Vaz: Chartruese Bull (Sleeping Giants Clossolalia)
Devon Williams: Euphoria (Slumberland)
Wise Blood: These Wings EP (digital release) (Dovecote Records)
The World We Knew: Death Dealer
YACHT: Shangri-La (DFA)
YAWN: Open Season (FeelTrip/Englophile)