New Musical Goodness… 

Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin – “Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy” (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) (Yep Roc)

Camper Van Beethoven – “El Camino Real” (Hear here; MP3)(429)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Only Run”(guests: Matt Berninger of The National, Kid Koala; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) (CYHSY, Inc)

Diamond Version – “CI” (first single: “Were You There,” feat. Neil Tennant; Hear here; MP3) (Mute)

Echo and the Bunnymen – “Meteorites” (producer: Youth; Hear here; Read here) (429)

Lee Fields and the Expressions – “Emma Jean” (first single: a cover of JJ Cale’s “Magnolia”; Hear here;Read here; Vinyl; MP3) (Truth & Soul / Redeye)

Joe Henry – “Invisible Hour” (Hear/read here) (Work Song)

James – “La Petite Mort” (their first full-length album in six years; producer: Max Dingel; first single: “Moving On”; Hear here; See here) (U.K. – BMG Rights Management / Cooking Vinyl, June 2)

LP – “Forever For Now” (producer: Rob Cavallo; first single: “Night Like This”; Hear here; MP3) (Warner)

Lydia Lunch – “A Fistful of Desert Blues” (Hear here; Vinyl) (Rustblade)

Matisyahu – “Akeda” (first single: “Watch the Walls Melt Down”; Hear here; See here; MP3) (Akeda / Elm City)

Bob Mould – “Beauty & Rain” (Hear here; Vinyl) (Merge)

Pete Molinari (U.K. singer-songwriter) – “Theosophy” (producers: Boe Weaver, Andrew Weatherall, Tchad Blake, Liam Watson; guests: Dan Auerbach, Primal Scream’s Barrie Cadogan; first single: “Hang My Head In Shame”; Hear here; MP3) (Clarksville / INgrooves)

Peter Murphy – “Lion” (his 10th solo album; producer: Youth; first single: “Hang Up”; Hear here; See here;MP3) (Nettwerk)

Meshell Ndegeocello – “Comet, Come to Me” (guests: Doyle Bramhall, Shara Worden; first single: “Conviction”; Hear here; Vinyl; MP3) (Naïve)

The Orwells (rock band from Elmhurst, Ill.) – “Disgraceland” (Hear here; MP3) (Canvasback / Atlantic)

Rich Robinson (of The Black Crowes) – “The Ceaseless Sight” (Hear here; Read here; Vinyl; MP3) (The End)