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Mudhoney “Superfuzz Bigmuff” [Deluxe Edition] (Sub Pop)

If Mudhoney’s Superfuzz Bigmuff wasn’t the first shot fired in the battle to bring “The Seattle Sound” to the four corners of the world, it was the first one that well and truly hit the target. Sub Pop celebrates the twentieth birthday of Mudhoney’s debut 12″ with a “Deluxe Edition” that expands the EP’s lineup from six to thirty-two songs. Also out today is their new LP, “The Lucky Ones.”

Foxboro Hot Tubs “Stop Drop and Roll!!!” (Reprise)

Faced with the prospect of following up American Idiot Green Day decided to skirt the question and masquerade as a garage rock outfit called Foxboro Hot Tubs. Their debut album Stop, Drop and Roll!!! looks like a ’60s rock & roll LP, from it’s kitschy cover to its deliberate rewrites of the Kinks, the Yardbirds and Who classics. By reveling in revivalism, Green Day sound recharged — they haven’ been this much fun in years.

Scarlett Johansson “Anywhere I Lay My Head” (Rhino)

Just the mere description of Scarlett Johansson singing an album of Tom Waits songs seems odd enough but the resulting album Anywhere I Lay My Head is even stranger than it sounds. Teaming with TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, Scarlett picks latter-day Waits tunes and then gives them a hazy dream-pop makeover. The sound is unmistakably Sitek’s and her voice is striking and distinctive, making for intriguing music even if the two sides don’t quite mesh.

The Wedding Present “El Rey” (Manifesto)

The Wedding Present and Steve Albini worked together in 1991 to create the group’s most powerful and emotionally harrowing album, Seamonsters. The stakes aren’t as high on El Rey but the combination works well again as the album sounds great and the band’s trademark brutal honesty, hard-won wisdom, and first-rate songcraft is fully intact.

Danielia Cotton “Rare Child” (ADA/Adrenaline)

A gritty, bluesy collection of rock songs reflecting her roots in the small rural town of Hopewell, NJ.. “Blaring, guitar-charged, Southern-rooted rock that links her to Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Black Crowes, Janis Joplin, Aerosmith and the rockier side of Bonnie Raitt. She’s a belter who can hold back or work her way up to a gospelly blues-rock shout, and in the songs she writes with her band’s brawny guitar riffs, she grapples with the road, salvation, holding on and letting go.” - New York Times

Bobby Bare “Singin’ in the Kitchen” (RCA)

Country-Folk, Progressive Country

The Dresden Dolls “No, Virginia…” (Roadrunner)

Cabaret, Alternative Pop/Rock, Punk Revival

Felix da Housecat “Global Underground: Milan” (Global Underground)

Post-Disco, Club/Dance, Techno, House

Joan of Arc “Boo! Human” (Polyvinyl)

Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Post-Rock/Experimental, Math Rock

Mates of State “Re-Arrange Us” (Barsuk)

Indie Pop, Indie Rock

Esperanza Spalding “Esperanza” (Heads Up)

Afro-Cuban Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Jazz-Pop, Post-Bop, Latin Jazz

Bonnie Prince Billy “Lie Down In the Light” (Drag City)

Guitar rock laced with harmonies.

The Ting Tings “We Started Nothing” (Red Ink/Columbia)

Garage-pop with snappy choruses set against angular guitar work.