Peter Bjorn and John Living Thing (Almost Gold/Startime Internat)

The Swedish trio returns with this darker, less bubbly album than their breakout Writer’s Block.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs It’s Blitz! (Interscope/DGC/Dress Up)

Never content to stay in one musical place for very long, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs take their restlessness to the limit on It’s Blitz! As if to prove one more time that they’re not just the architects of New York’s early-2000s rock renaissance, Karen O, Nick Zinner, and Brian Chase strip away the guitars and explosive dynamics of their early work even more thoroughly on these songs than they did on Show Your Bones. In their place are shiny keyboards, synthetic sounds galore, and a different kind of energy.

Keith Urban Defying Gravity (Capitol)

Urban’s mixes country, pop and rock & roll on his fifth studio release.

The Answer Everyday Demons [Bonus Track] (The End)

Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock

Chuck Berry You Never Can Tell: The Complete Chess Recordings 1960-1966 (Hip-O-Select)

Rock & Roll, Early R&B

Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels (Nettwerk)

Indie Rock, Folk-Pop

Ministry Adios…Putas Madres (13th Planet)

Industrial Metal, Alternative Metal, Industrial

Pansy Division That’s So Gay (Alternative Tentacles)

Punk Revival, Alternative Pop/Rock, Queercore

Muddy Waters Authorized Bootleg: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium - San Francisco Nov 04-06 1966 (Geffen/Chess)

Blues Revival, Electric Blues, Electric Chicago Blues