The Roots – How I Got Over CD (Def Jam)
To call it “long-awaited” or “eagerly anticipated” would be the understatement of the year — as hip-hop’s most daring pioneers The Roots release their 9th studio album. How I Got Over takes its name from Clara Ward’s gospel classic (made popular by Mahalia Jackson), is The Roots’ first new release since joining Late Night With Jimmy Fallon for a full time gig as the show’s house band. Vinyl due July 6.

Paul Thorn – Pimps And Preachers CD (Thirty One Tigers)
Paul Thorn is a renowned singersongwriter, folk artist, and former professional boxer. Now, Thorn reveals that he is also a short story author and adds his stories to his list of creative offerings in on Pimps And Preachers.

Laurie Anderson – Homeland CD+DVD (Nonesuch)
In Artforum, Anderson summarized the songs as “one-third politics, one-third pure music, and one-third strange dreams.” Packaged in a four color, 36-page hardbound book, with CD and DVD. DVD contains “Laurie’s Violin’ (7:22): Laurie plays and talks about the violin, and Homeland: The Story Of The Lark (41:27), an art documentary broken up into 16 chapters.

Danzig – Deth Red Saboth CD (Evilive)
Danzig’s first album of new material in six years.

The Derek Trucks Band – Roadsongs 2xCD (Sony Legacy)
Roadsongs is a document of the Derek Trucks Band at its collective musical peak, recorded live in Chicago during their 2009 Already Free Tour. Featuring extended live versions from their Grammy Award-winning album Already Free along with classic Derek Trucks Band originals, the set captures the band reaching new heights on-stage and beyond.

Eminem – Recovery CD (Aftermath)
On Recovery, his seventh major label studio album, Eminem has reached out to an exciting list of first-time collaborators, including DJ Khalil, Just Blaze, Jim Jonsin and Boi-1da, among others.

Health – Disco2 CD/2xLP (Lovepump United)
Disco2 morphs 2009’s Get Color into an electronic masterpiece. Remixes from CFCF, Javelin, Tobacco, Small Black, Gold Panda, Crystal Castles, Salem, Blondes, Pictureplane, Little Loud and Blindoldfreak. [Read more…] about New Releases for June 22, 2010…

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Mojo CD (Reprise)
Mojo showcases a wide variety of American music, from rock & roll to country and both electric and acoustic blues. It also has some sweet balladry for the slow dancers and even a whacked-out reggae number that is unlike anything that The Heartbreakers have done before. Vinyl and extra-special 5.1 audio Blu-Ray editions due June 29.

Gabor Szabo – Jazz Raga [Reissue] CD (Light In The Attic)
Digitally remastered edition of 1967 album from Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo. Jazz Raga brings together jazz, pop/rock, and his native European influence, along with hypnotic sitar, stoned bass vibrations, occasional psychedelic vocals, and the laidback, yet totally in the pocket, Latin/R&B infused backbeat of #1 session drummer, Bernard Purdie.

Drake – Thank Me Later CD (Cash Money)
Highly anticipated debut album from the rapper/singer/actor.

Steve Cropper & Felix Cavalie – Midnight Flyer CD (Stax)
Featuring Steve Cropper (guitarist for Booker T. & The MGs and one of the primary architects of the unmistakable Stax sound of the 1960s) and vocalist/keyboardist Felix Cavaliere (the voice of The Rascals and the pivotal figure in the blue-eyed soul movement of that same era).

Foals – Total Life Forever CD/2xLP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
Foals strip their sound back and turn themselves inside out searching for that invisible human thing. The result is an album as persuasive emotionally as Antidotes was physically. Whereas that album constantly reinforced its own presence by filling the air with yelping and polyrhythm, tracks on Total Life Forever such as the disarming opener “Blue Blood” are happier to leave gaps for the listener to explore in the mind’s ear and eye. [Read more…] about New Releases for June 15, 2010…