April 8, 2014
After a bitter winter, Spring has come – and here’s what to listen to as the mercury rises:
April
| 1st | |
| The Bamboos | Fever In the Road |
| Band of Skulls | Himalayan |
| Bul Bul | Hirn Fein Hacken |
| Cex | Shamaneater |
| Chiodos | Devil |
| Cloud Nothings | Here and Nowhere Else |
| Dan Croll | Sweet Disarray |
| Mac DeMarco | Salad Days |
| Toby Goodshank | Piper Laurie |
| Hurray For the Riff Raff | Small Town Heroes |
| Jamaica | Ventura |
| Kaiser Chiefs | Education, Education, Education & War |
| Mica Levi | Under the Skin (soundtrack) |
| Manchester Orchestra | Cope |
| Nickel Creek | A Dotted Line |
| ONE | Worlds Collide |
| Pattern Is Movement | Pattern Is Movement |
| Rafter | It’s Reggae |
| Gil Scott-Heron | Nothing New |
| Social 66 | Social 66 |
| Solwave | The End of the Beginning |
| Split Single | Fragmented World |
| Thievery Corporation | Saudade |
| Timber Timbre | Hot Dreams |
| The Used | Imaginary Enemy |
| Vondel Park | Seabed Remixed |
| 8th | |
| Christopher Bissonnette | Essays In Idleness |
| Black Label Society | Catacombs of the Black Vatican |
| Boozoo Bajou | 4 |
| EMA | The Future’s Void |
| The Faint | Doom Abuse |
| Liam Finn | The Nihilist |
| Josephine Foster | I’m a Dreamer |
| John Frusciante | Enclosure |
| Full Ugly | Spent the Afternoon |
| Doug Gillard | Parade On |
| Gotthard | Bang |
| Incan Abraham | Tolerance |
| Little Racer | Modern Accent |
| Mean Creek | Local Losers |
| Nømads | Free My Animal |
| OFF! | Wasted Years |
| Patton Oswalt | Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time |
| Ratking | So It Goes |
| School of Language | Old Fears |
| Shy Hunters | O, That I Had Wings |
| SoftSpot | MASS |
| SOHN | Tremors |
| SZA | Z |
| Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks | Enter the Slasher House |
| Tweens | Tweens |
| 15th | |
| Afghan Whigs | Do the Beast |
| Amps For Christ | Canyon Cars and Crows |
| Banner Pilot | Souvenir |
| Bobby Bare, Jr. | Undefeated |
| The Both | The Both |
| Billy Bragg | Live at the Union Chapel (CD/DVD) |
| Chet Faker | Built On Glass |
| Nels Cline | Macroscope |
| The Crookes | Soapbox |
| Feel Never Real | Rock Rebel Gold |
| Horse Thief | Fear In Bliss |
| I, a Man | Gravity Wins Again |
| Japanther | Instant Money Magic |
| Kyng | Burn the Serum |
| Megafauna | Maximalist |
| Ingrid Michaelson | Lights Out |
| NEEDTOBREATHE | Rivers In the Wasteland |
| Odonis Odonis | Hard Boiled Soft Boiled |
| Omni Palone | Omni Palone |
| Sevendust | Time Travelers & Bonfires |
| Shonen Knife | Overdrive |
| Stoneburner | Life Drawing |
| Swedish House Mafia | Leave the World Behind (live) |
| Woods | With Light and With Love |
| Wyrd Visions | Half-Eaten Guitar |
| 22nd | |
| Augustana | Life Imitating Life |
| Iggy Azalea | The New Classic |
| Sebastian Bach | Give Em’ Hell |
| Sharon Corr | The Same Sun |
| Death | Death III |
| Eels | The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett |
| Fear of Men | Loom |
| Kelis | Food |
| Margot & The Nuclear So-and-So’s | Sling Shot To Heaven |
| Medeski Martin & Wood + Nels Cline | The Woodstock Sessions |
| The Menzingers | Rented World |
| Ministry of Wolves | Music From Republik Der Wölfe |
| Modern Rivals | Cemetery Dares |
| Neon Trees | Pop Psychology |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | Days of Abandon |
| Paradise | Soldiers of the Modern Age |
| Asher Roth | RetroHash |
| Ed Schraeder’s Music Beat | Party Jail |
| The Shackeltons | Records |
| sleepmakeswaves | in today already walks tomorrow |
| TEEN | The Way and The Color |
| Thee Oh Sees | Drop |
| The Whigs | Modern Creations |
| 29th | |
| Damon Albarn | Everyday Robots |
| DeathDestruction | II |
| Elephant | Sky Swimming |
| Ex-Cult | Midnight Passenger |
| Ghost of the Sabertooth Tiger | Midnight Sun |
| Hot Victory | Hot Victory |
| Howlin Rain | Live Rain |
| Ray LaMontagne | Supernova |
| Miss May I | Rise of the Lion |
| Monuments | Brigadune |
| Old 97s | Most Messed Up |
| Pigeon John | Encino Man |
| Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed | Nights Like This |
| Pixies | Indie Cindy |
| Chris Robinson | Phosphorescent Harvest |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela | 9 Dead Alive |
| Romantic Rebel | Romantic Rebel |
| Savoir Adore | Our Nature: The Remixes |
| Saxon | St. George’s Day: Live in Manchester |
| Secret Colours | Positive Distractions (Parts I & II) |
| Shadow Monster | Residual Ghost |
| Strange Talk | Cast Away |
| Survival Knife | Loose Power |
| William Tyler | Lost Colony |
| Chad VanGaalen | Shrink Dust |
| Wye Oak | Shriek |
May
| 6th | |
| Lily Allen | Sheezus |
| Rodrigo Amarante | Cavalo |
| Andrew Jackson Jihad | Christmas Island |
| Atmosphere | Southersiders |
| Barrows | Red Giant |
| Black Stone Cherry | Magic Mountain |
| Chris Brown | X |
| Current Swell | Ulysses |
| Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté | Toumani & Sidiki |
| DZ Deathrays | Black Rat |
| Eno • Hyde | Someday World |
| Equals | Tracts |
| Fujiya & Miyagi | Artificial Sweeteners |
| Gold & Youth | Beyond Wilderness |
| Ben Harper | Childhood Home |
| The Horrors | Luminous |
| Kite Party | Come On Wandering |
| Hamilton Leithauser | Black Hours |
| Lil Wayne | Tha Carter V |
| Lykke Li | I Never Learn |
| Sarah McLachlan | Shine One |
| Natalie Merchant | Natalie Merchant |
| MONEY | The Shadow of Heaven |
| Morning Parade | Pure Adulterated Joy |
| Nikki Lane | All or Nothin’ |
| Papercuts | Life Among the Savages |
| PAWS | Youth Culture Forever |
| Gruff Rhys | American Interior |
| The Rich Hands | Out of My Head |
| Seahawks | Paradise Freaks |
| Mike Sempert | Mid Dream |
| Stand Up and Say No | Assuming Loyal |
| A Tribe Called Red | Nation II Nation |
| tUnE-yArDs | Nikki Nack |
| USA Out of Vietnam | Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes |
| Wooden Wand | Famer’s Corner |
| 13th | |
| Tori Amos | Unrepentant Geraldines |
| Animic | Hannibal |
| Tim Barry | Raising Hell & Living Cheap – Live In Richmond |
| The Black Keys | Turn Blue |
| BOYTOY | BOYTOY EP |
| The Clientele | Suburban Light (reissue) |
| Jesse Denaro | Dear, Love |
| Vince Guaraldi | A Boy Named Charlie Brown (enhanced reissue) |
| Guided by Voices | Cool Planet |
| Hunterchild | Hunterchild |
| Ice Cub | Everything’s Corrupt |
| Michael Jackson | Xscape |
| Kishi Bashi | Lighght |
| La Sera | Hour of the Dawn |
| Little Dragon | Nabuma Rubberband |
| Mad Caddies | Dirty Rice |
| Me First & The Gimme Gimmes | Are We Not Men? We Are Diva! |
| Midnight Face | The Fire Is Gone |
| Mimicking Birds | EONS |
| Mirah | Changing Light |
| Motion City Soundtrack | I Am the Movie: The Movie (documentary) |
| Mushroomhead | The Righteous & The Butterfly |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | Days of Abandon |
| Owen Pallett | In Conflict |
| Dolly Parton | Blue Smoke |
| Sean Nicholas Savage | Bermuda Waterfall |
| Sylvan Esso | Sylvan Esso |
| Swans | To Be Kind |
| Thunderegg | C’mon Thunder |
| Tobacco | Ultima II Massage |
| Torch Runner | Committed To the Ground |
| The Trouble With Templeton | Rookie |
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan | Uzu |
| 20th | |
| American Football | American Football (deluxe edition) |
| Haley Bonar | Last War |
| The Burning of Rome | Year of the Ox |
| Melaena Cadiz | Deep Below Heaven |
| Coldplay | Ghost Stories |
| Chris Cresswell | One Week |
| The Everymen | Givin’ Up On Free Jazz |
| LCD Soundsystem | The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden (CD/DVD) |
| Tyson Meade | Tomorrow In Progress> |
| Bo Ningen | III |
| Conor Oberst | Upside Down Mountain |
| Orange Is the New Black | |
| Resistor | First World Problems |
| The Roots | And Then They Shoot Your Cousin |
| Ed Schrader’s Music Beat | Party Jail |
| Maika Spigel | Gliding EP |
| Yann Tiersen | Infinity |
| Tweak Bird | Any Ol’ Way |
| Bryan Webb | Free Will |
| 27th | |
| Craig Wedren, Jefferson Friedman & ACME | On In Love |
| Beaty Heart | Mixed Blessings |
| Beebs & Her Money Makers | Würst Album Ever |
| Challenger | Back To Bellevue |
| Gentle Friendly | KAUA’I O’O A’A |
| Hammel On Trial | Happiest Man In the World |
| Hercules and Love Affair | The Feast of the Broken Heart |
| Honeyblood | Honeyblood |
| Seun Kuti | A Long Way To the Beginning |
| Little Barrie | Shadow |
| Nils Lofgren | Face the Music (box set) |
| Masked Intruder | M.I. |
| Miniature Tigers | Cruel Runnings |
| moe. | No Guts, No Glory |
| Nightfell | The Living Ever Mourn |
| OBN III’s | Third Time To Harm |
| 1,2,3 | Big Weather |
| Powerman 5000 | Builds of the Future |
| Primavera Sound 2014 | |
| The Ready Set | The Bad & The Better |
| RetConStruct | Denizens of the Depths |
| Roll the Tanks | Broke Til Midnight |
| Rush Midnight | Rush Midnight |
| Sakara | Forgetting What Was |
| Chris Schlarb | Making the Saint |
| 7Seconds | Leave a Light On |
| Silverbird | Surface Life EP |
| Sam Smith | In the Lonely Hour |
| Until We Are Ghosts | Bitterseed |
| Sharon Van Etten | Are We There |
| The Wonder Revolution | WOW |
| Neil Young | A Letter Home (deluxe box set) |
(updated as more release dates are made known)
