Unbelievable amount of New Arrivals today, many of them from the WMG family. Rather than doing an album-by-album play-by-play — which would take an epic amount of time — I’m gonna to do this mostly by genre and top-level artist, and let you guys fill in the blanks in the comments!
The Rock Picks:
Joy Division and [...]

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A smattering of interesting titles today that I’ll call out quickly here. Above that, tho, I wanted to announce that we’ve officially resuscitated the too-long-dormant 17 Dots Twitter account. Though it’s been sporadically operational for the last few months (thanks mostly to Alex), we’re going to try to be a little more [...]

Relatively light day on the new release front – just a few things I want to shout out, so please feel free to call out some other titles in the comments!

Man, Jayson wasn’t kidding about today being a big day. In amongst the marquee stuff that’s dropped in, I noticed a bunch (a slew even) of great and/or interesting records that I figured were worth running down here. Even still, I’m sure there’s stuff of note that I missed. Feel free to drop some science [...]

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In addition to the deluge of WMG and affiliated titles on the site yesterday, I wanted to call out a few indie releases well worth your time and credits!
Vijay Iyer Trio, Historicity: Unanimously chosen as one of the best jazz records of 2009 (but, sadly, arriving on the site too late to make [...]

So — quite a few new arrivals today, eh US members?
Over 10,000 albums, to be precise, a dizzying avalanche of stuff from the Warner Music Group. No matter your taste in music, there’s sure to be something here that appeals to you.
And it’s not just Warner titles that have arrived today — Epitaph and [...]

We may be heading into the time of year where the release schedule slows down, but there’s an insane amount of ‘hidden treasures’ hitting the site today, many of them compilations. I don’t wanna push our Hooray for Earth video interview too far down the page, so I hope you’ll join me after the jump [...]

Man, myth, badass — Fela Kuti was all of them and more. Even people who love him can’t deny some of his views were a bit, er, unconventional, but the power of the man’s music and the force and passion with which he stood up to a corrupt government — in the face of repeated [...]

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A crazy cross-section of titles today — the solo record from Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, neo-goth from Cold Cave, and the Jason Molina back catalog on sale. Let’s get to it!
Julian Casablancas, Phrazes for the Young: Ceci n’est pas un Julian! Solo record from main Stroke skews surprisingly synthy, but just as [...]

El Perro Del Mar, Love is Not Pop: The big news today is the new El Perro Del Mar. In celebration of this excellent new effort, the El Perro back catalog is, for a limited time, on sale in the US. Of the new record, we can’t say enough great things. Melissa Maerz conducted an [...]

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Another great haul of new arrivals today — I decided to break it out into “Known” and “Unknown.” And we’re off!
The Known:
Neon Indian, Psychic Chasms: The most recent recipient of Pitchfork’s coveted “Best New Music” designation, Neon Indian are weird and warbly and [...]

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Finally! An avalanche of new releases today, the first real bounty in what looks to be an extremely exciting autumn. I’m gonna do my best to cover all of them in this post, but I’ll undoubtedly miss a few, so please point out my oversights in the comments! I’m going to break [...]

Note: Not all of these records are UK or EU-only, but I wanted to at least showcase some of the bigger/more interesting/notable just-ins specific to overseas, beginning especially with this first record…
The xx, xx: I was waaaaaaaaaay off about this one. For some reason, I (wrongly) assumed The xx were an NME-pandering angular haircut/landfill indie [...]

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At long last — New Arrivals! With the issues with yesterday’s roll resolved, we have a modest batch of records to pore over and talk about today. Let’s skip the preamble and just go for it:
The Dodos, Time To Die – I never took much notice when The Dodos’ last album was blowing up [...]

Thanks for your kind welcome yesterday, folks. We’ve got a pretty astounding smorgasbord of new stuff this week. Diversity, for sure. There’s comfort food and challenging cuisine alike. Let’s have a taste, shall we?
Jay Reatard, Watch Me Fall – This one’s a big deal. Hard to believe it’s been three years since Jay Reatard’s last [...]

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As I mentioned last week, sorting through Freshly Ripped is starting to become more and more of a “help, I’m being drowned in gold!” sort of situation. So much music, so little time. Combing back through the last week’s worth of stuff, I found enough, big and small, to do another New Arrivals [...]

Wow, there are a ton of records today. Just sorting through Freshly Ripped, which is usually a 30-45 minute task, took TWO HOURS today. Which is awesome. Let’s take a look at the tip of the iceberg, shall we?
First up, of course, is the new Magnolia Electric Co. record, which comes after a three-year silence [...]

Well, it’s definitely summer. The new release schedule has slowed a bit, and even a glance out across the horizon doesn’t reveal much until September. I spent the bulk of yesterday afternoon spot-listening to promos in the hopes of finding a diamond in the rough — a quest I will continue today. In [...]

I’d like to start off this week’s new arrivals with a heartfelt congratulations to the Rural Alberta Advantage. Our former eMusic Selects band is straight up killing it, and today this has been officially recognized by the oracle of oracles, Pitchfork. Their Pitchfork review gives their Hometowns an 8.0, and Rebecca Raber declares “songs this [...]

So… any good new releases today?
Obviously, today is Sony day, which sees a slew of popular — and not-so-popular — titles hit the site. There is a kind of giddy rush that comes from seeing, say, Bitches Brew or the first Stone Roses record turn up, and I’m already figuring my personal Save for [...]