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This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it is a chronological one.
| 27 January Tuesday |
| Richie
Booker | Shine The Light | | Ciara |
Fantasy Ride |
| Cotton Jones | Paranoid Cocoon | | Dalek |
Gutter Tactics |
| Franz
Ferdinand | Tonight: Franz Ferdinand | | Hoobastank | For(n)ever | | Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes |
Eye-Legacy |
| Loney
Dear | Dear John |
| Duncan
Sheik | Whisper House | | Bruce Springsteen and the
E Street Band | Working on a Dream |
| 3 February Tuesday |
| Bad Plus |
For All I Care |
| Bow Wow |
New Jack City, Part 2 |
| Melinda
Doolittle | Coming Back to You | | Fol Chen |
Part 1: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made | | The Fray |
The Fray |
| Lisa Hannigan | Sea Sew | | Wynonna Judd | Sing-Chaper 1 | | Dent
May & His Magnificent Ukulele | The
Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele | | organicArma | Discordia | | Two Tongues |
Two Tongues |
| Von
Bondies | Love, Hate, and Then There's You | | Young Dubliners | Saints And Sinners |
| 9 February Monday |
| Lily
Allen | It's Not Me, It's You | | Courtney Love |
Nobody's Daughter Digital
release 1 Jan
| | Mos
Def |
The Ecstatic |
| 10 February Tuesday |
| Lily Allen |
It's Not Me, It's You |
| Dan
Auerbach Black Keys singer |
Keep It Hid |
| Busta
Rhymes | B.O.M.B. (Back On My Bullshit) | | Dex Romweber Duo |
Ruins of Berlin |
| Missy
Elliott | Block Party | | Warren G |
The G-Files |
| India.Arie |
Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics | | Ben Lee |
The Rebirth of Venus |
| Miranda
Lee Richards | Light of X | | Red | Innocence & Instinct | | Barbara Trentalange | Awakening, Level One. | | Trouble Andrew | Trouble Andrew | | The Vox Jaguars | The Vox Jaguars [EP] |
| 16 February Monday |
| Jacob Faurholt | Are You In The Mood For Love? | | Morrissey |
Years of Refusal |
| 17 February Tuesday |
| ... And You Will
Know Us by the Trail of Dead | The
Century of Self |
| The
Appleseed Cast | Sagarmatha | | Architecture in Helsinki | That Beep | | Fol Chen | Part 1: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made | | Sutton Foster | Wish | | Halfway Thomas | Beautifully Strange | | Robyn
Hitchcock | Goodnight Oslo | | Tommy Keene |
In The Late Bright |
| Living Things | Habeas Corpus | | Morrissey | Years of Refusal | | Plushgun |
Pins And Panzers |
| Thursday | Common Existence | | M. Ward | Hold Time | | William Elliott Whitmore | Animals In The Dark | | 23 February Monday | | Metaphors |
London! Paris! New York! Rome! |
| 24 February Tuesday |
| The Bran Flakes | I Have Hands | | JJ Cale | Roll On | | Green River Ordinance | Out Of My Hands | | Hatebreed |
For The Lions |
| Kinky | Barracuda | | K'Naan | Troubador | | Lamb of God | Wrath | | Nosound | Lightdark | | Jake Owen | Easy Does It | | Tom Rush | What I Know | | Steve Wilson | Insurgentes | | 3 March Tuesday |
| Bell X1 | Lights On The Runway | | Justin Townes Earle |
Midnight At The Movies |
| Neko
Case | Middle Cyclone | | Jesse Harris | Watching The Sky | | The Prodigy | Invaders Must Die | | Revolting Cocks (RevCo) | Sex-O Olympic-O | | Soundtrack Of Our Lives | Communion | | U2 | No Line On The Horizon | | The Whip | X Marks Destination | | 9 March Monday | | Pete Doherty | [Title TBA] |
| 10 March Tuesday |
| Ballas Hough Band | BHB | | Burn Halo | Burn Halo | | Chris
Cornell | Scream | | Handsome
Furs | Face Control | | Taylor
Hicks | The Distance | | Julien-K | Death To Analog
| | New Found Glory | Not Without A Fight | | Madeleine Peyroux |
Bare Bones |
| Roxy Epoxy And The Rebound | Band-Aids For Bullet Holes | | 17 March Tuesday |
| Kelly Clarkson |
All I Ever Wanted |
| MSTRKRFT | Fist Of God | | Lionel Richie | Just Go | | 23 March Monday | | Pet Shop Boys | Yes |
| 24 March Tuesday |
| Busta Rhymes | Back On My B.S. | | Dan Deacon |
Bromst |
| The
Decemberists | Hazards Of Love | | Dan Hicks And The Hot Licks |
Tangled Tales |
| Papa Roach | Metamorphosis | | Royksoop | Junior | | Telling
On Trixie | Ugly, Broke & Sober | | These
Green Eyes | Relapse To Recovery |
| 31 March Tuesday |
| Diana
Krall | Quiet Nights | | Marie Osmond |
Seasons |
| Peter Bjorn & John | Living Thing | | 7 April Tuesday |
| The Blue Van | Man Up | | Flo Rida | R.O.O.T.S. (Routes Of Overcoming the Struggle) | | Bob Mould | [Title TBA] | | Rascal Flatts | Unstoppable | | Sara Watkins |
Sara Watkins |
| So Many
Dynamos | The Loud Wars |
| 9 April Thursday |
| Lady
Sovereign | Jigsaw |
| 14 April Tuesday |
| Dave Matthews Band |
[Title TBA] |
| Papercuts | You Can Have What You Want | | 21 April Tuesday | | Depeche Mode |
Sounds of the Universe |
| Booker T. Jones | Potato Hole | | Tortoise | [Title TBA] | | 30 June Tuesday |
| Bone Thugs N Harmony |
Uni5 |
| Anticipated Future Releases |
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| Note: If an artist appears multiple times,
that means multiple albums by that artist are forthcoming. |
| (+44) |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| 50 Cent |
Before I Self Destruct | 2009 |
| Aerosmith |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Christina
Aguilera | [Title TBA] | Summer 2009 |
| Aly & AJ | [Title
TBA] | 2009 |
| Ambulance LTD |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Tori
Amos | [Title TBA] | Spring/Summer 2009 | | Annie | Don't Stop | 2009 | | Marc Anthony |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Melissa
Auf der Maur | Out of Our Minds |
2009 | | The Avalanches |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Basement
Jaxx | [Title TBA] | 2009 | | David Bazan |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| B.G. |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Big
Kuntry | My Turn To Eat | 2009 | | Black Eyed Peas |
The E.N.D. | March
2009 | | Blikk Fang |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Blur |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Boston |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Michelle
Branch | Everything Comes and Goes |
2009 | | Breaking Benjamin |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Broken
Spindles | [Title TBA] | 2009 | | Joe
Budden | Padded Rooms | 2009 | | Built
To Spill | [Title TBA] | Spring 2009 | | Cassie |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| JC
Chasez | [Title TBA] | 2009 | | Crowded House | [Title TBA] | 2009 | | The
Concretes | [Title TBA] | 2009 | | D'Angelo
| [Title TBA] | 2009 | | The
Divine Comedy | [Title TBA] | 2009 | | Pete
Doherty | [Title TBA] | 2009 | | Dr.
Dre | Detox | 2009 | | Doves |
[Title TBA] | April
2009 | | Eminem |
Relapse | Spring
2009 | | Ace Enders |
[Title TBA] | Mar
2009 | | Eve |
Here I Am | 2009 |
| Extreme |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Neil Finn & Friends | [Title TBA] | 2009 | | Freebass [new Peter Hook band] |
[Title TBA] | Mar
2009 | | Ace Frehley |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| From The Jam |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Fugees |
[Title TBA] | ??
2009 [delayed] |
| Peter Gabriel |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Noel Gallagher |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Gang Of Four |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Garbage |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Teddy Geiger |
The March | 2009 |
| Lisa Germano |
Magic Neighbor | Mid-2009 |
| Ginuwine |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Goo Goo Dolls |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| The Gossip |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Happy Mondays |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Keri Hilson |
In a Perfect World | 2009 |
| Whitney
Houston | [Title TBA] | Spring 2009 | | Hypernova
| Through the Chaos | Spring 2009 |
| Indigo Girls | [Title
TBA] | Feb 2009 |
| Michael Jackson |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Jay-Z | The
Blueprint 3 | TBA |
| Junior Boys |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Kid Sister |
Dream Date | 2009 | | Aaron Lewis
[of Staind] | [Title
TBA] | 2009 |
| The Like | [Title
TBA] | 2009 |
| Lil Jon | Crunk
Rock | ?? 2009 |
| Love Grenades | [Title
TBA] | Summer 2009 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd |
[Title TBA] | Early
2009 | | Shirley Manson |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Massive Attack |
[Title TBA] | Spring
2009 | | Mastodon |
Crack the Skye | Mar
2009 |
| Matchbox Twenty |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Matisyahu |
Light | 2009 |
| Metric |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| MF Doom & Ghostface
| Swift & Changeable |
2009 ?? |
| Mongrel | [Title TBA] |
Summer 2009 |
| Muse | [Title TBA] |
2009-10 |
| Naughty By Nature | Anthem
Inc. | 2009 |
| New Pornographers | [Title
TBA] | 2009 |
| Nina Sky | The
Musical | 2009 |
| No Doubt | [Title
TBA] | 2010 |
| OK Go | [Title
TBA] | 2009 |
| Pearl Jam | [Title
TBA] | 2009 |
| Placebo | [Title
TBA] | June 2009 |
| Prince | Lotus Flower | 2009 | | Prince | MPLSOUND | 2009 | | The Rakes |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Rakim |
The Seventh Seal | Spring
2009 | | Rancid |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| John Rich |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Roxy Music [original lineup including Brian Eno]
| [Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Nate Ruess of the Format | [Title
TBA] | 2009 |
| Rusted Root | [Title
TBA] | 2009 |
| Stephan Said | Songs
From Below | Feb 2009 |
| Joe Satriani |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Say Anything | Say Anything | Summer 2009 | | Seaweed |
Small Engine Repair | ??
2009 |
| Shakira | [Title TBA] | 2009 | | Simple Minds |
[Title TBA] | Winter
2009 | | Sixpence
None The Richer | [Title TBA] | 2009 | | Sonic Youth | [Title TBA] | Summer 2009 | | Stars |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Starsailor |
All the Plans | Mar
2009 |
| Stellastarr* |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Stone Temple Pilots |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Switchfoot |
[Title TBA] | Spring
2009 | | Third Eye
Blind | Ursa Major | 2009 | | Rob
Thomas | [Title TBA] | 2009 | | Trans Siberian Orchestra |
The Night Castle | Summer
2009 |
| Ralph Tresvant |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Velvet Revolver |
[Title
TBA] | 2009 |
| Gillian Welch | [Title
TBA] | 2009 |
| Wilco | [Title
TBA] | Spring 2009 |
| Amy Winehouse |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Patrick Wolf |
Battles | 2009 |
| The Wrens |
[Title TBA] | Fall
2009 | | Yusuf Islam (formally known as Cat Stevens) | [Title TBA] | Spring 2009 | | ZZ Top |
[Title TBA] | 2009 |
| Lisa Hannigan |
