Top Album Releases: June 2009

TOP ALBUM RELEASES: JUNE 2009

NICK’S TOP

1. The Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
2. Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer
3. Street Sweeper Social Club: Street Sweeper Social Club
4. Deerhunter: Rainwater Cassette Exchange

CORY’S TOP

1. God Help the Girl – God Help the Girl
2. Little Boots: Hands
3. Deer Tick – Born on the Fourth of July
4. Cocorosie – Coconuts, Plenty of Junk Food
5. Major Lazer: Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do

HANK’S TOP

1. The Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
2. Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer
3. Mos Def: The Ecstatic
4. Wilco: Wilco (The Album)
5. Sonic Youth: The Eternal
6. Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship

SCOTT’S TOP

1. The Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
2. Mos Def: The Ecstatic
3. Here We Go Magic: Here We Go Magic (vinyl)
4. Deastro: Moondagger
5. Mount Eerie: Dawn

CHRIS’ TOP

1. The Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
2. Deerhunter: Rainwater Cassette Exchange
3. Mos Def: The Ecstatic
4. Beck: One Foot in the Grave (vinyl reissue)

For a comprehensive list of June album releases, see below…

From Largehearted Boy:

June 2, 2009

311: Uplifter
Acid Mothers Temple: Are We Experimental
Alice Cooper: School’s Out (remastered vinyl)
Amadou & Mariam: Welcome To Mali (2-LP vinyl with CD)
Antenna Shoes: Generous Gambler
B.B. King: Live at Montreux 1993 (dvd)
Baaba Maal: Television
Beck: One Foot in the Grave (2-LP remastered vinyl)
Blind Pilot: 3 Rounds and a Sound
Boris Skalsky: First Songs EP
Brasstronaut: Old World Lies EP
Bruce Springsteen: Greatest Hits
Captain Beefheart: Jukebox
Cass McCombs: Catacombs
Catherine MacLellan: Water in the Ground
Cocteau Twins: Garlands (remastered vinyl)
Crosby Stills & Nash: Demos
Dave Matthews Band: Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (2-CD & DVD box set) (2-LP vinyl)
Deastro: Moondagger
Diane Birch: Bible Belt
The Doors: The Soft Parade (remastered)
EELS: Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire
Elvis Costello: Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Emery: … In Shallow Seas We Sail
Faces: A Nod Is as Good as a Wink…to a Blind Horse (vinyl reissue)
Franz Ferdinand: Blood (vinyl)
Girl in a Coma: Trio B.C. (vinyl)
Gorillaz: Bananaz (dvd)
Great White: Great Zeppelin: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin (vinyl reissue)
Hoots and Hellmouth: The Holy Open Secret
Iggy Pop: Preliminaires
J-Dilla: Jay $tay Paid
Jeff Buckley: Grace – Around the World (CD & DVD) (CD & 2-DVDs)
The Killers: Thin White Dukes (dvd)
Last Days of the Fillmore (dvd)
Lydia Lunch: Queen of Siam
Marshall Crenshaw: Jaggedland
Miles Davis: Milestones (vinyl reissue)
Neil Young: Neil Young Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 (8-CD box set) (10-disc DVD box set) (10-disc Blu-ray box set)
New Riders Of The Purple Sage: Where I Come From
New York Dolls: ‘Cause I Sez So (vinyl)
Noisettes: Noisettes
Oasis: And It’s a Good Night from Him (dvd)
Paolo Nutini: Sunny Side Up
Patrick Watson: Wooden Arms (vinyl)
Patrick Wolf: The Bachelor
Patti Smith: Classic Interviews
Pet Shop Boys: Did You See Me Coming? Pt.1
Pet Shop Boys: Did You See Me Coming? Pt.2
Pink Floyd: A Momentary Lapse of Reason (reissue)
Pink Martini: Discover the World: Live in Concert (dvd)
Prefuse 73: Forest of Oversensitivity
Rancid: Let the Dominoes Fall (3-disc box set)
Ray Charles: Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Vol. 1 & 2 (remastered)
Rodney Crowell: The Rodney Crowell Collection (reissue)
Ryan Bingham: Roadhouse Sun
Scott Matthew: Scott Matthew (vinyl)
Simple Minds: Graffiti Soul
So Many Dynamos: Loud Wars
The Sounds: Crossing the Rubicon (vinyl)
Steven Wright: I Have a Pony (CD & DVD)
Taking Back Sunday: New Again (CD & DVD)
Thea Gilmore: Recorded Delivery
Umphrey’s McGee: Soundstage Presents (dvd)
Various Artists: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More: Woodstock (remastered)
Various Artists: Theme Time Radio Hour: With Your Host Bob Dylan
Various Artists: Woodstock Two (remastered)
The Who: The Who Sell Out (Deluxe Edition) (remastered with bonus tracks)
Willy Porter: How to Rob a Bank
Zeus: Sounds Like Zeus

June 9, 2009

Aerogramme: Aerogramme (8-LP vinyl box set)
The Aggrolites: IV
Ancient Astronauts: We Are to Answer
Anti-Flag: People Or the Gun (vinyl)
Aventura: The Last
Black Eyed Peas: THE E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies)
Black Meteoric Star: Black Meteoric Star
Blank Dogs: Under and Under (vinyl)
British Sea Power: Man of Aran
Britney Spears: If U Seek Amy
Busdriver: Jhelli Beam
Cake: Motorcade of Generosity (reissue) (vinyl)
Charlie Mars: Like a Bird, Like a Plane
Chester French: Love The Future
The Clarks: Restless Days
The Cosmos: Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks
The Cubists: Mental Advantage
Deerhunter: Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
The Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca (vinyl)
Dolly Varden: Dumbest Magnets (vinyl reissue)
Dredg: The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion (vinyl)
Elizabeth & the Catapult: Taller Children
Elusive Parallelograms: And Everything Changes
The Faint: Mirrir Error (vinyl)
Faith No More: The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection
The Field: Yesterday and Today (vinyl)
Frank Black: Show Me Your Tears (vinyl reissue)
Guided by Voices: Alien Lanes (vinyl reissue)
Headdress: Lunes
Here We Go Magic: Here We Go Magic (vinyl)
Holly Golightly: Down Gina’s at 3 (vinyl reissue)
Holly Golightly: Painted On (vinyl reissue)
Holly Golightly: Up the Empire (vinyl reissue)
The Horse’s Ha: Of the Cathmawr Yards
Iggy Pop: Preliminaires (3-CD import box set)
Iggy Pop & James Williamson: Kill City (vinyl reissue)
Illinois: The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (dvd)
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (2-LP vinyl picture disc edition)
Joan Of Arc: Flowers (vinyl)
Jon Hopkins: Insides (vinyl)
Kasabian: West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl: Two
Lady Gaga: LoveGame – Remixes (vinyl)
Liechtenstein: Survival Strategies in a Modern World (vinyl)
Little Boots: Hands
Little Boots: Illuminations EP
The Lonely H: Concrete Class
Los Amigos Invisibles: Commercial
The Low Anthem: Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
The Mercy Seat: The Mercy Seat (reissue)
Mike Snow: Mike Snow(vinyl)
Morrissey: Maladjusted (remastered with bonus tracks)
Mos Def: The Ecstatic (vinyl)
Nanci Griffith: The Loving Kind
Paul Weller: Just a Dream – 22 Dreams Live (CD & DVD)
Pelican: Ephemeral EP (vinyl)
Peter Hammill: Thin Air
Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey: Here And Now
Placebo: Battle for the Sun
Placebo: Placebo Box Set (8-CD & 2-DVD import box set)
Portland Cello Project: The Thao & Justin Power Sessions
Primal Fear: 16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead)
Public Image Limited: The Flowers of Romance (vinyl reissue)
Public Image Limited: Second Edition (vinyl reissue)
Quest for Fire: Quest for Fire (vinyl)
Reed KD: In Case the Comet Comes
Regina Spektor: Laughing With EP
Rhett Miller: Rhett Miller
The Rolling Stones: Emotional Rescue (remastered)
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (remastered)
The Rolling Stones: Tattoo You (remastered)
Rolling Stones: Undercover (remastered)
Ron Sexsmith: Cobblestone Runway (vinyl reissue)
Rubies: Explode From the Center
Slim Twig: Contempt!
So Many Dynamos: Loud Wars
Sonic Youth: The Eternal (2-LP vinyl)
Sonseed: Jesus Is a Friend of Mine
Stardeath & White Dwarfs: The Birth
Tartufi: Nests Of Waves and Wire
Todd Snider: The Excitement Plan
U2: Magnificent
The Undertones: Hypnotised (reissue)
Various Artists: 2009 Warped Tour Compilation
Various Artists: Voices from Mother Africa
Various Artists: Weeds: Music from the Series,Vol. 4
White Hills: Heads on Fire (vinyl reissue)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Zero: Remixes (vinyl)
ZO2: Casino Logic

June 16, 2009

Among the Oak & Ash: Among the Oak & Ash (vinyl)
Amorphis: Skyforger
The Beach Boys: Sunflower (vinyl reissue)
The Beach Boys: Surf’s Up (vinyl reissue)
Bear McCreary: Caprica (soundtrack)
Big Star: #1 Record/Radio City (remastered)
Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) (vinyl)
The Builders and the Butchers: Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well
Carolina Liar: Show Me What I’m Looking for
Clock Hands Strangle: Distaccati
Coldplay: Limited Edition Tour Pack
Depeche Mode: The Dark Progression Unauthorized (dvd)
Depeche Mode: Peace
Devin Townsend: Ki
Flo & Eddie: New York Times
George Harrison: Let It Roll: The Songs of George Harrison
Gossip: Heavy Cross
Green Day: Nimrod (vinyl reissue)
Ha Ha Tonka: Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
Hank Williams Jr.: 127 Rose Avenue
Holly Williams: Here With Me
Incubus: Monuments & Melodies (vinyl)
Jill Scott: The No. 1 Lady Remixed
John Lennon: Live Peace In Toronto (vinyl reissue)
Kim Lenz: It’s All True!
Lee “Scratch” Perry: Return from Planet Dub
The Legends: Over and Over
Major Lazer: Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do
The Mary Onettes: Dare
Masada: Stolas: The Book of Angels, Vol. 12
Megadeth: So Far, So Good, So What (vinyl reissue)
Merle Haggard: Mama Tried (vinyl reissue)
Metric: Fantasies (vinyl)
Miss Kittin: First Album (reissue)
Nickodemus: Sun People
Patterson Hood: Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) (vinyl)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mother’s Milk (vinyl reissue)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Uplift Mofo Party Plan (vinyl reissue)
Red House Painters: Songs for a Blue Guitar (vinyl reissue)
Rock Plaza Central: At the Moment of Our Most Needing
Roxy Music: Country Life (vinyl reissue)
Roxy Music: Stranded (vinyl reissue)
Rolling Stones: The Biggest Bang [Blu-ray] (dvd)
Sarah Jarosz: Song Up in Her Head
Sex Pistols: Sex, Anarchy & Rock N’ Roll Swindle (vinyl reissue)
The Specials: The Specials (vinyl reissue)
Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead
Spinnerette: Spinnerette
Stone Breath: Silver Skein Unwound
Street Sweeper Social Club: Street Sweeper Social Club
Taking Back Sunday: New Again (vinyl)
Those Darlins: Those Darlins (vinyl)
Tiny Masters of Today: Skeletons
The Waifs: Live from the Union of Soul
The Wallflowers: Collected: 1996-2005

June 23, 2009

Acid Mothers Temple: Dark Side of the Black Moon: What Planet Are We On? (vinyl)
The Aggrolites: IV (vinyl)
Al Green: Greatest Hits (vinyl reissue)
Al Green: I’m Still in Love with You (vinyl reissue)
Al Green: Let’s Stay Together (vinyl reissue)
The Albertans: Legends of Sam Marco
Alexisonfire: Old Crows/Young Cardinals
Amazing Baby: Rewild
Astra: The Weirding
Au Revoir Simone: Still Night, Still Light (vinyl)
Bats: The Guilty Office
Bert Jansch: L.A. Turnaround (remastered with bonus tracks)
Bert Jansch: A Rare Conundrum (remastered with bonus tracks)
Bert Jansch: Santa Barbara Honeymoon (remastered with bonus tracks)
Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue (vinyl)
Birds of Avalon: Uncanny Valley
Black Meteoric Star: Dominatron/Anthem (vinyl)
Blind Pilot: 3 Rounds and a Sound (reissue)
Blue Cheer: Rocks Europe (dvd)
Bob Marley: B Is For Bob
Brian Olive: Brian Olive (vinyl)
Busdriver: Jhelli Beam (vinyl)
Cheap Trick: The Latest
The Church: Untitled #23 (vinyl)
The Cliks: Dirty King
Creedence Clearwater Revival: 40th Anniversary Edition Box Set (7-CD box set)
Darkest Hour: Eternal Return
The Dear Hunter: Act III: Life And Death
Death Cab for Cutie: Something About Airplanes (remastered vinyl)
Deer Tick: Born On Flag Day (vinyl)
Deerhunter: Rainwater Cassette Exchange (vinyl)
Dinosaur Jr.: Farm (deluxe edition) (vinyl)
Donny Hue and the Colors: A Letter to New Virginia
Dream Theater: Black Clouds & Silver Linings (3-CD edition) (2-LP vinyl)
Eprhyme: Shomer Salaam b/w My Mouth Is A House Of Prayer (vinyl)
Eugene McGuinness: Eugene McGuinness
Florence & the Machine: Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
Foreign Born: Person To Person (vinyl)
Future of the Left: Travels With Myself And Another (vinyl)
George Jones: A Good Year For The Roses – The Complete Musicor Recordings 1965-1971 Part 2 (4-CD box set)
God Help The Girl: God Help The Girl (vinyl)
Gossip: Music for Men
Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown (vinyl)
A Hawk and a Hacksaw: Delivrance (vinyl)
Hermit Thrushes: Slight Fountain
The Higher: It’s Only Natural
Jay Brannan: In Living Cover
Jedi Mind Tricks: Greatest Features
Jets Overhead: No Nations
John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band: Live in Toronto ’69 (dvd)
John Mellencamp: Life Death Live & Freedom (2-CD & DVD edition)
Judy Garland: Live at the Palladium (reissue)
Kendel Carson: Alright Dynamite
La Roux: Bulletproof
Landy: Eros and Omissions
Larry Jon Wilson: Larry Jon Wilson (vinyl)
Laura Nyro: Mother’s Spiritual (reissue)
Leon Russell: Best Of Hank Wilson
Lemonheads: Varshons
Lissy Trullie: Self-Taught Learner
Loop: A Gilded Eternity (remastered)
Loop: The World in Your Eyes (remastered)
Lord Cut-Glass: Lord Cut-Glass
Love Is All: Last Choice EP
The Mars Volta: Octahedron
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster: 3
Merzbow: 13 Japanese Birds, Vol. 6
Miles Davis Quintet: Cookin’ (reissue)
Miles Davis Quintet: Relaxin’ (reissue)
Mount Eerie: Dawn
Neko Case: Middle Cyclone (vinyl)
Neil Young: Rock At The Beach – Live 1989 (dvd)
Nurse with Wound: Spiral Insana (reissue)
Nurse with Wound: Alice the Goon (reissue with bonus track)
of Montreal: For Our Elegante Caste (vinyl)
Patterson Hood: Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs)
Pavement: Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. (remastered 4-LP vinyl box set)
Pete Yorn: Back and Fourth
Phenomenal Handclap Band: Phenomenal Handclap Band
Regina Spektor: Far (CD & DVD)
R.E.M.: Murmur (remastered vinyl)
R.E.M.: Reckoning (remastered with bonus disc) (vinyl)
Royal City: Royal City (vinyl)
Shawn Colvin: Live
Sons of Bill: One Town Away
Spinnerette: Spinnerette (vinyl)
Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer (vinyl)
Therefore I Am: The Sound of Human Lives
Tift Merritt: Buckingham Solo
Tom Brosseau: Posthumous Success
Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones (vinyl reissue)
Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship (vinyl)
Various Artists: Away We Go (soundtrack)
Various Artists: The Hangover: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists: I Love You, Beth Cooper (soundtrack)
Various Artists: My Sister’s Keeper: Music From The Motion Picture
Various Artists: Summer’s Kiss: A Tribute to the Afghan Whigs
Various Artists: Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen -The Album (soundtrack)
Venetian Snares: Horsey Noises EP (vinyl)
Voivod: Infini
Wolves in the Throne Room: Black Cascade (vinyl)
Wooden Shjips: Contact EP (vinyl)
Ya Ho Wha 13: Magnificence in the Memory (vinyl)
Young Widows / Pelican: Young Widows Split Series Vol. 3 (vinyl)

June 30, 2009

The Allman Brothers Band: Playlist: The Best of Allman Brothers
And Also the Trees: When the Rains Come
Animal Collective: Summertime Clothes (vinyl)
Billy Talent: Rusted from the Rain
Bjork: Voltaic (2-CD & 2-DVD edition) (CD & DVD edition)
The Black Crowes: Warpaint Live (dvd)
Buddy Guy: Playlist: The Very Best of Buddy Guy
Depeche Mode: Peace
Heart: Private Audition/Passionworks (reissue)
Indigo Girls: Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (vinyl)
Janis Joplin: Janis Joplin: The Woodstock Experience
Jefferson Airplane: Flight Box (3-CD box set)
Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experience
Jimmie Rodgers: Blue Yodel: The Very Best of Jimmie Rodgers (vinyl)
Jonathan Coulton: Best. Concert. Ever.
Johnny Winter: Johnny Winter: The Woodstock Experience
Juan Maclean: The Future Will Come (vinyl)
Killswitch Engage: Killswitch Engage
Leslie Mendelson: Swan Feathers
Levon Helm: Electric Dirt (vinyl)
Lila Downs: The Very Best Of
Lillian Axe: Sad Day on Planet Earth
Los Lonely Boys: Playlist: The Very Best of Los Lonely Boys
Matt Duke: Acoustic Kingdom Underground EP
Meese: Broadcast
The Michael Schenker Group: Walk the Stage: The Official Bootleg Box Set
Moby: Wait For Me (vinyl)
Moxy Fruvous: Wood (reissue)
Pete Yorn: Back & Fourth (vinyl)
Rob Thomas: Cradlesong
Rob Thomas: Something To Be Tour – Live At Red Rocks (dvd)
Robin Guthrie: Angel Falls
Rod Stewart: Atlantic Crossing (reissue with bonus disc)
Rod Stewart: A Night on the Town (reissue with bonus disc)
Santana: Santana: The Woodstock Experience
Shad: Old Prince
Sly & The Family Stone: Playlist: The Very Best of Sly & the Family Stone
Sly & The Family Stone: Sly & The Family Stone: The Woodstock Experience
Spoon: Spoon
Tanya Tucker: My Turn
Television Personalities: And Don’t the Kids Just Love It (vinyl reissue)
Television Personalities: Mummy Your Not Watching Me (vinyl reissue)
This Is Jim Jones (dvd)
UFO: Official Bootleg Box Set, 1975-1982 (6-CD box set)
Various Artists: Sick Music
Various Artists: The Woodstock Experience (Limited Edition Box Set)
Various Artists: World Is Shaking: Cubanismo from the Congo 1954-55
The Vibrators: Garage Punk (vinyl)
Wilco: Wilco (The Album) (2-LP vinyl with CD)
Wu-Tang Clan: Chamber Music
Wu-Tang Clan: Playlist: The Very Best of Wu-Tang Clan