This week's new releases

Each title listed below will go on sale beginning Tuesday, April 10 unless otherwise indicated. Click on any LISTEN link to listen to a free, streaming version of the entire album (typically, available only during the week of release); streaming links go to AOL Music unless otherwise indicated. The week's most noteworthy releases are starred.

Accept Stalingrad

Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls LISTEN

Amadou & Mariam Folila

Santigold, TV on the Radio, and Nick Zinner guest

Ancestors In Dreams & Time

Bassnectar Vava Voom LISTEN (Rolling Stone)

Black Dice Mr. Impossible LISTEN (3voor12)

Cavo Thick As Thieves LISTEN

Choir of Young Believers Rhine Gold

CD release

Counting Crows Underwater Sunshine (or what we did on our summer vacation) LISTEN

Covers album

Cupp Cave Retina Waves

UK only (9 April)

Dead Sara Dead Sara LISTEN

Demon Hunter True Defiance

Dinosaur Feathers Whistle Tips LISTEN (Spin)

John Doe & Exene Cervenka Singing and Playing

Kat Edmonson Way Down Low

Eight & A Half Eight & A Half LISTEN (Paste)

New band consisting of Justin Peroff of Broken Social Scene and Dave Hamelin and Liam O'Neil of The Stills

Eternal Summers The Dawn of Eternal Summers

Fastway Eat Dog Eat

Simone Felice Simone Felice

Solo debut for former member of the Felice Brothers and The Duke & The King

Florence + The Machine MTV Unplugged LISTEN (3voor12)

A deluxe edition adds a DVD of the performance

Philip Glass Symphony No.9

Grand Duchy Let the People Speak

Nanci Griffith Intersection

Halestorm Strange Case Of

Mickey Hart Band Mysterium Tremendum

Iron Maiden En Vivo! 2xCD

2011 concert performance in Chile

Job for a Cowboy Demonocracy

Joseph LoDuca Spartacus: Vengeance OST

Jeff Loomis Plains of Oblivion LISTEN

Kraftwerk The Catalogue 8xCD

Limited edition (of 2,000) box set containing remastered versions of every Kraftwerk album; available exclusively at MOMA in New York or through MOMA's online store.

Lords of Acid Deep Chills

First album in 12 years

The Mastersons Birds Fly South

Alan Menken Mirror Mirror OST

Monica New Life LISTEN

Municipal Waste Fatal Feast

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Wasted

oOoOO Our Loving is Hurting Us EP

Pelican Ataraxia / Taraxis EP LISTEN

Prince Royce Phase II

Bonnie Raitt Slipstream

Her first album in seven years includes covers of songs written by Gerry Rafferty, Bob Dylan, and more

Todd Rundgren's Utopia Live At Hammersmith Odeon '75

First commercial release of widely bootlegged concert (the band's first UK performance)

Curtis Salgado Soul Shot

Scars on 45 Scars on 45 LISTEN (Billboard)

Sleepy Sun Spine Hits LISTEN (3voor12)

Steep Canyon Rangers Nobody Knows You

Taproot The Episodes

Trampled by Turtles Stars and Satellites LISTEN (Paste)

Trembling Bells and Bonnie "Prince" Billy The Marble Downs

Collaboration between Glasgow-based folk outfit and Will Oldham

Lissy Trullie Lissy Trullie LISTEN

Various Damsels in Distress OST

Various Think Like a Man OST LISTEN

M. Ward
A Wasteland Companion LISTEN

The singer-songwriter's seventh studio album is his first solo release in three years, following after a pair of albums with Zooey Deschanel (as She & Him) as well as a release with his other group, Monsters of Folk. Deschanel does guest on the new album, as does Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), and Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes).

Emily Wells Mama LISTEN

Alex Winston King Con

World Party Arkeology 5xCD

Box set includes 70 previously unreleased tracks, including new songs, live recordings, alternate versions, covers, and more, plus a book

Wumpscut Women and Satan First

Elliott Yamin Let's Get to What's Real LISTEN

Zambri House of Baasa LISTEN

More streaming and downloadable new music

Artifacts

TRACK "Easter" (first single in 15 years) streaming at Prefix.

Ane Brun

TRACK "Neighborhood #1 {Tunnels)" (Arcade Fire cover) downloadable from Rolling Stone.

CFCF

TRACK "Exercise #5 (September)," from the forthcoming EP Exercises, downloadable from Spin.
ALBUM Exercises EP streaming this week at Hype Machine.

Curren$y

TRACK "What It Look Like" (featuring Wale) streaming at Soundcloud.

Daedelus

TRACK "Curtains Don't Talk" downloadable from Mixmag.

Dive

TRACK "How Long Have You Known?" downloadable from Pitchfork.

Doseone

TRACK "Last Life" downloadable from Stereogum.

Alejandro Escovedo

TRACK "Man of the World" streaming at Rolling Stone.

Father John Misty

TRACK "Nancy From Now On" downloadable from Stereogum.

Field Music

TRACK "Rent" (Pet Shop Boys cover) streaming at Soundcloud.

Aaron Freeman [aka Gene Ween]

TRACK "Love's Been Good To Me" streaming at Stereogum.

The Fresh & Onlys

TRACK "Do What I Came To Do" downloadable from Pitchfork.

The Game

ALBUM California Republic downloadable as a free mixtape.

Horse Feathers

ALBUM Cynic's New Year (out next week) streaming now at NPR.

Jaill

TRACK "Waste a Lot of Things" downloadable from Sub Pop.

Japandroids

TRACK "Jack the Ripper" (Nick Cave cover) streaming at Stereogum.

jj

TRACK "Beautiful Life," from the forthcoming EP jj n° 4 (out May 8), streaming at Pitchfork.

Tom Jones

TRACK "Evil," featuring Jack White on guitar, downloadable from KCRW.

Lambchop

TRACK "Gone Tomorrow" streaming at KCRW.

Willie Nelson

TRACK "Just Breathe" (Pearl Jam cover) streaming at Rolling Stone.

Ramona Falls

TRACK "Sqworm" downloadable from Spin.

The Raveonettes

TRACK "Into the Night," from the forthcoming EP of the same name, downloadable at Filter.

Scissor Sisters

TRACK "Only the Horses" streaming at YouTube (audio/lyrics).

Spaceghostpurrp

TRACK "Lustful 97" downloadable from Stereogum.

Spiritualized

ALBUM Sweet Heart, Sweet Light (out next week) streaming this week at NPR.

T.I.

TRACK "Love This Life" streaming at YouTube (audio only).

Various

ALBUM Stash Rituals, a sampler of artists on the labels Software and Mexican Summer, streaming at Prefix.

Kanye West

TRACK "Theraflu" (feat. DJ Khaled) streaming at Stereogum.
TRACK "Mercy" (feat. Big Sean, Pusha T, and 2 Chainz) streaming at Stereogum.

Wooden Wand

TRACK "Wither Away" downloadable from Spin.

xxxy

TRACK "I Know This (Can't Be Love)" streaming at Stereogum.

On TV this week (new episodes only)

• Monday: Jessie Baylin (Carson Daly), Josh Baze (Kimmel), Pulp (Fallon), Esperanza Spalding (Leno), Tennis (Letterman)
• Tuesday: Dr. Dog (Carson Daly), Shooter Jennings (Letterman), Slash feat. Myles Kennedy (Kimmel), Epic Turner Featuring Lupe Fiasco & Tinie Tempah (Leno), M. Ward (Conan), White Rabbits (Fallon)
• Wednesday: The Civil Wars (Kimmel), Foster the People (Carson Daly), Kaiser Chiefs (Letterman), Craig Morgan (Conan), Neon Trees (Leno), The Ting Tings (Fallon)
• Thursday: Akon (VH1's Behind the Music, 9p), Alabama Shakes (Letterman), Arctic Monkeys (Conan), Feist (Leno), Lee Fields & The Expressions (Carson Daly), The Shins (Kimmel), Esperanza Spalding (The Daily Show)
• Friday: The Fray (Fallon), Bonnie Raitt (Letterman), Far East Movement (Leno)
• Saturday: Gotye (Saturday Night Live)

Recent artist and industry news

• A film based on Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks is in development. - Variety
• Jim Marshall, inventor of the amplifiers that have become ubiquitous in rock music over the last 50 years (and which sometimes go to 11), died last week at the age of 88. Pop & Hiss has a quick tribute to the Marshall stack.
• Is Damon Albarn done making new music with Blur and Gorillaz? That's what he suggests in a recent interview with The Guardian.
• Rocker Neil Young has been developing new digital audio formats as a higher-quality alternative to MP3s. - Rolling Stone

The latest music videos

Jack White, "Sixteen Saltines":

Drake feat. Lil Wayne, "HYFR":

Drake feat. Rihanna, "Take Care":

Nicki Minaj feat. 2 Chainz, "Beez in the Trap":

Rufus Wainwright, "Out Of The Game" [starring Helena Bonham Carter]:

Norah Jones, "Happy Pills":

Garbage, "Blood for Poppies":

Gossip, "Perfect World":

Zammuto, "The Shape of Things to Come":

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., "We Almost Lost Detroit":

Porcelain Raft, "Drifting In and Out":

Willis Earl Beal, "Monotony":

Clark, "Black Stone":

Van She, "Idea of Happiness":

Feist, "Bittersweet Melodies":

In the studio / coming soon

• Fiona Apple's long-in-the-works 4th album finally has a firm release date: June 19. - Pitchfork
• Is Kevin Shields working on new My Bloody Valentine material? Yes, but there's no word on when or if it will be ready for release (though finishing it "quickly" is not out of the question). - Pitchfork
• Former Frames frontman and Swell Season member Glen Hansard will release his first solo album, Rhythm and Repose, on June 19. - Pop & Hiss
• Purity Ring will release their debut album July 24th on 4AD. - Pitchfork
• Trouble is the name of the debut LP from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and it arrives June 11th in the UK. - NME
• Shed's third album, The Killer, is out July 27 on label 50 Weapons. - Resident Advisor
• Anticon artist and cLOUDDEAD/Themselves member Doseone has a solo album, G Is For Deep, due May 29. - Stereogum
• Curren$y returns with The Stoned Immaculate on June 5. - Pitchfork
• Killer Mike and Big Boi may be recording an album together. - BPM
• Also working on a collaboration of their own are Beanie Sigel and Scarface. - BPM
• Chuck D discusses Public Enemy's two upcoming albums with Rolling Stone.
• Om has a new album called Advaitic Songs landing on July 24. - Pitchfork
• Billboard has a look at upcoming projects from Melissa Etheridge, which will include an album to be recorded over the next two months and released by the end of the year, as well as a rock musical that she is co-writing with Linda Wallem (Nurse Jackie).

Visit Metacritic's Album Release Calendar for a full listing of upcoming release dates, updated daily.

Tours and festivals

• This preliminary lineup for this year's Electric Daisy Carnival has been announced; scheduled to perform at the Las Vegas event (June 8-10) are David Guetta, Tiesto, Avicii, Benny Benassi, Afrojack, and more. - Billboard
• New additions to the Pitchfork Music Festival include Beach House, Wild Flag, and Atlas Sound.
• Fiona Apple will be performing at theaters across the U.S. this summer; Spin has the details.
• Dirty Projectors will hit the road this summer in support of their upcoming album. - Pitchfork
• Bon Iver have added US dates in June; get them at Pitchfork.
• Pitchfork also has upcoming dates for Death Grips.
• Find North American dates for The Cult at Pollstar.
• Pollstar also has summer dates for Eisley.
• Find additional spring dates for Real Estate at Pitchfork.
• If you want to see Meat Loaf, you can do that too, starting in June. - Pollstar
• Remaining members of The Jacksons are reuniting for a tour this summer. - Pollstar
• Find spring dates for Alejandro Escovedo at Pollstar.
• Eddie Vedder has postponed his upcoming solo shows due to a recent back injury. Rolling Stone has the rescheduled dates, which are in late 2012.