After five long years, Brian Eno finally releases his first solo album since Another Day on Earth and continues to take a more ambient musical approach, collaborating with Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins.

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour joins the electronic duo on this album that includes two 20-minute-plus tracks.

The third album for the dance quartet was inspired from a night at a Berlin club and was produced with Stuart Price.

Recorded in world-renowned Sweet Tea studios, the experimental musical project started by San Diego-based Nathan Williams leaves laptop production and fuses fuzzy garage-rock with psychedelic pop for the new album.

The long-awaited fourth album by model, actress, and R&B superstar Ciara features Ludacris and Usher, balancing back and forth between club beats and slow ballads.

This is the Norwegian singer-songwriter's second album.

The North Carolina bluegrass quartet releases its follow-up to the band's 2008 album IV.

Broken Social Scene's Jason Collett releases his fifth solo album produced by Zues band members Carlin Nicholson and Michael O'Brien.

The former Test Icicles frontman Devonte Hynes of Lightspeed Champion returns with the follow-up to 2008's Falling Off The Lavender Bridge. Produced by Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley), Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You is a collection of songs influenced by classical music and musical theatre.

Rhymefest, the Chicago rapper who co-wrote Kanye West's hit "Jesus Walks," releases his second studio album featuring guest appearances by Little Brother, Saigon, Glenn Lewis, and Darien Brockington.

The second full-length album for the Canadian trio led by Elizabeth Powell was written while she was recovering from a hemorrhagic vocal polyp.

The debut solo album for the ex-Razorlight drummer Andy Burrows was produced by Eliot James.

This is producer Darren Cunningham's second album under the name Actress.

This is the debut album for The Shins James Mercer and producer Brian Burton (aka as Danger Mouse).

This is the debut album for the band led by Portland's Kevin and Anita Robinson. The Swords' Evan Railton, The Decemberists' Chris Funk, and The Golden Bears' Seth Lorinczi round out the quintet.

The Grammy award-winning electronic dance duo--and their masked identities portraying them as man-machines--make a logical pairing to score the soundtrack of the innovative science fiction film.

The Austin group added four members since its 2008 album for the band's fourth album.

The singer-songwriter releases his latest album of roots rock recorded at his home studio.

The fifth album for the alternative rock band was produced by Brendan O'Brien.

Originally called Peggy Sue And The Pirates, the British trio shortened its name to just Peggy Sue for its debut full-length release.

This is the second album for the artist who is also working on a Ph.D. on ethnomusicology.

The German electronic trio is now just a solo project of remaining member Markus Popp.

The concept album produced by Atticus Rose and Joe Barresi is the prequel to the prog rock band's Amory Wars narrative, written by singer Claudio Sanchez.

The indie band formed in Portland, Oregon, releases its first album with new official member, bassist Joanna Bolme.

The British alternative rock band's its eleventh album was produced by Martin Glover.

This is the latest full-length release for the Mike Sniper project.

Chaz Bundick is the one-man project behind Toro Y Moi. He mixes the best musical elements from across the globe, including electronic, psychedelic-rock, and R&B on his first full length record.

This is the debut album for the Philadelphia duo of Jon Barthmus, formally of the A-Sides, and Patrick Marsciell.

The Canadian four-piece returns with another album of catchy post-punk tunes, complete with the high energy and quirkiness Tokyo Police Club has cultivated throughout the years.

The heavy metal legends return with their 15th studio release, still reinventing rock 35 years into their careers.

The latest release for Mark Oliver Everett is what he calls his "divorce album."

After catching the ear of Sub Pop with its self-released album There's No Sky (Oh My My), the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, quartet recorded its major label debut with Justin Perkins.

Inara George and Greg Kurstin cover eight Hall & Oates classic songs, including one original song influenced by the duo.

The British trio from Manchester releases their debut album of dance rock.

The latest from Red Krayola and Art & Language features five tracks about the following people: Wile E. Coyote, President George W. Bush, President Jimmy Carter, John Wayne, and artist Ad Reinhardt.

Supergrass' Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey team up to form The Hot Rats and release a debut album of covers produced by Nigel Godrich.

The latest album for The New Pornographers features guest appearances by Beirut's Zach Condon, Annie Clark, Okkervil River's Will Sheff, and some members of The Dap-Kings.

Until jj signed with Secretly Canadian to release its second full-length album, the identity of the Swedish duo was unknown to the industry at large.

The third album for the New Zealand-based indie band led by Ryan McPhun is its first on the Sub Pop label.

After writing a novel and a soundtrack for it, Joe Pernice returns to the Pernice Brothers to record the band's first album in four years.

Adams' fifth album with The Cardinals was recorded during the 2007 Easy Tiger sessions and is now being released as this double album. The two-disc effort is full of guitar-driven hard rock, as well as more downbeat, melodious tracks.

The latest album by California noise rock band Thee Oh Sees led by John Dwyer was recorded in Sacramento and features a 14-minute song.

With its seventh studio album, the British dance duo continues to break down conventionality in electronic music, employing acid synths, break-beat rhythms, and genre-bending production that made it pioneers of the dance-music revolution.

The 10th studio album from the British post-rock band sticks to the formula that contributes to its longevity--synth-laden instrumentation and experimental dream-pop over delicate female vocals, containing tracks from previous sessions.

Maps & Atlases’ second EP, You and Me and the Mountain, found the band moving in a lighter direction than the mathematical frenzy of their first EP Trees, Swallows, Houses. Their first full-length sees them fully morphed into a sophisticated indie pop group. Perch Patchwork is a bold debut, filled with bombastic arrangements, twisting modal progressions, and percussive layers. The skill set is high, but it’s far less showy. Guitarists will still be enthralled by Dave Davidson's and Erin Elders' fingertapping, but acoustics take precedent, and moderately slow tempos maintain the album's balladic feel. If Trees, Swallows, Houses felt like a cousin to Don Cab or Hella, their first Barsuk outing has adapted the organic spirit of their Northwestern labelmates (particularly that of Menomena, the Long Winters, and John Vanderslice.) Of course, with Maps & Atlases' virtuosic chops and syncopated leanings, they kind of resemble BLK JKS or Minus the Bear, albeit with a Jethro Tull influence. Trendy South African rhythms and austere strings spin a web around Davidson’s poetic lyrics, and in this intricate, introspective setting, their talent becomes very clear. ~ Jason Lymangrover

The rock-and-roll legend's latest release is his second album of duets with such artists as Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, Merle Haggard, John Fogerty, Kid Rock, Kris Kristofferson, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Keith Richards, and Slash.

Chicago's hard rock arena-headliners return with another album of heavy metal hits that recall early Metallica and Iron Maiden while maintaining their trademark dark sound.

The second album for the rock quintet from Brooklyn, New York was produced and recorded by the band in just over four months.

The Canadian indie rock band's first album on Soft Revolution was produced by Tom McFall.

Described as cinematic chamber pop, this Indianapolis band's third album features heavier electric guitar rock with a mix of unique multiple instrumentation.

The Jack White-led rock band releases its follow-up to its 2009 debut, "Horehound."

The Grammy-winning California rock band led by Scott Weiland returns with its first album in nearly a decade.

The follow-up to the German artist's 2008 album Ferndorf was recorded with San Francisco's Magik*Magik Orchestra.

This is the debut album for the Swedish teenage sisters.

Heavily influenced by the likes of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Adam Green (the alternative-folk singer/songwriter better known for his stint with the lo-fi indie group Moldy Peaches) returns with his sixth studio album.

With Stereolab on hiatus, Laetitia Sadier returns to release her first solo album.

The solo debut from Bloc Party singer/guitarist pushes boundaries with a blend of raw rock and energetic electro-pop.

The second album produced by Mike Crossey for Brighton's Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell was recorded on analogue tape but still retains its punk influences.

The second album for the Canadian indie rock band was recorded in Montreal and Paris, France.

Frank Black of The Pixies releases his latest solo album coproduced with Eric Drew Feldman.

The San Francisco-based singer-songwriter releases his eighth album.

The Austin rock band that gained mainstream exposure on the UNKLE song With You in My Head featured in the film "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," releases its third album on new label Blue Horizon.

The DJ-turned-producer, who has worked with everyone from Lily Allen to Amy Winehouse, returns with his third studio album under his new moniker, with impressive dance-floor, disco-pop jams.

This collection from Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear) and Fred Nicolaus contains B-sides and songs from the never released 2006 second album "The January Sessions."

The debut album for the Montreal experimental rock quartet was produced with Jace Lasek of The Besnard Lakes.

My Chemical Romance's latest release -- four years after the last album -- reveals a slightly different sound and style for the band while keeping its recognizable emo meets rock-and-roll spirit.

Produced and recorded by the band along with the helping hand of producer Matt Allison, the Chicago punk-rock natives' seventh studio album, This Addiction, is the band's first release on their label Heart & Skull and their first with Epitaph Records.

The electronica duo from Brooklyn, New York, releases its fourth full-length album.

The second full-length for the Austin trio features 16 tracks and is their first for Matador Records.

The American Idol songstress returns with her highly anticipated third album featuring--for the first time as a bonus track--Fantasia's signature song from her acting role in The Color Purple.

This is the final section of the Eels' concept album trilogy, which began with last year's Hombre Lobo and End Times.

Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tom Fec releases a second solo album as Tobacco, which features Beck as a guest vocalist on two tracks.

Songwriter Ryan Bingham has grown tremendously on this third full-length. Barely 30 years old, his previous work showed promise but carried the excess expected of a novice. Bingham won both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for "The Weary Kind," the theme song from the film Crazy Heart. The song was produced by T-Bone Burnett, creating a partnership extended on Junky Star. Bingham and his Dead Horses--drummer Matthew Smith, bassist Elijah Ford, and guitarist Corby Schaub, prove the song was no fluke. The sound is pure Americana; these 12 lyrically sophisticated yet direct songs, reflect a host of tense, lost, desperate, individuals dreaming the same dark dream, one that suggests that we are all growing tenser with the times. Bingham has trimmed his songwriting to the bone, while learing to use metaphor and metonomy like a veteran. A former rodeo rider, he wears his influences proudly: Guthrie, Dylan, Van Zandt, Ely, Earle, Clark, and Hubbard. He begins with a sandblasted vision of America in "the Poet." Amid acoustic guitars, a lonesome harmonica ,restrained electric and bass drum, Bingham's whiskey-smoked vocal offers a lyric theme the entire album turns on: "As I keep walking, people keep talking/About things they've never seen or done/Homeless sleep in the park, lovers kiss in the dark/Me, I keep moving on through time." Time is suspended as Bingham's protagonists tell stories from the road (some of them bone-chilling), from America's past and present, physically and psychologically. Rootlessness as peace of mind is portrayed via country rock in "The Wandering," but the feeling in "Strange Feeling In The Air," the title track, a deeply moving acoustic murder ballad (they are strewn throughout the album), and the angry uptempo "Depression," reflect a contradiction: constant movement is the key to survival, not necessarily peace. "Hallelujah" is another murder ballad with a disturbing twist. "Lay My Head On The Rail," is pure folk poetry illustrated by a lone acoustic guitar. The blues in "Hard Worn Trail," are rooted in poverty worry, strained, broken relationships resulting in the search for comfort. It doesn't come anywehre on Junky Star. "All Choked Up Again," set to Waylon Jennings' brand of outlaw country closes it out by mining the existential darkness deeper. Bingham is unflinching, but his songs hold out for a glimmer of something else. The only real consolation Junky Star offers is that no one need feel alone in her or his desperation-this is a true accomplishment. Bingham has delivered a set of songs that mirrors our uncertain times in a musical language that doesn't unduly distort or romanticise them. ~ Thom Jurek

The electro-rock group from Quebec, with the help of producers Radwan Moumneh and Hadji Bakara, releases its fourth album.

The third album for the rock band led by Ben Bridwell is its first on Columbia and for new members Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds who joined after the release of 2007's Cease to Begin.

The Midwestern country-folk singer's full-length debut mixes twangy music from her hometown heartland with rock and pop into a catchy combination.

Released in conjunction with the band's 2010 farewell tour, this double-disc acoustic album features new recordings of the Black Crowes' classic hits, as well as revised versions of rarities and deep cuts.

Recorded in Seattle but remixed in Iceland by Jón Birgisson of Sigur Rós, A Chorus of Storytellers is the fifth album led by multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle of the Album Leaf.