Week two of May brings some much-anticipated releases. Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.

American Fangs, American Fangs (In De Goot Recordings/Sony/RED)

Anamanaguchi, Endless Fantasy (dream.hax)
The self-styled hacker boyband (chiptune) producers make loud music with a retro (1985-era) NES game system and are currently raising funds to deliver a multi-media experience with the physical copy of the album. This is the official digital release date for all donors; read more about that here.

Bibio, Silver Wilkinson (Warp)

Big Eyes, Almost Famous (Grave Mistake Records)

The Blank Tapes, Vacation (Antenna Farm)

The Boxer Rebellion, Promises (Absentee Recordings)
London's indie rock quartet present an uplifting and cinematic follow-up to 2011's critically-acclaimed The Cold Still, their fourth overall. Video for new single "Diamonds" was shot by British directorial duo Justin and James Lockey (aka Hand.Held.Cine.Club), and finds lead singer Nathan Nicholson in a dead-end job and escaping via free-fall air fantasies. Apparently, the film team built an office space inside an empty building, worked with free-base skydivers in sub-zero temperatures and dove into ice cold waters to capture the footage. Watch after the jump, along with the rest of this week's new releases...

May gets off to a rousing start with a host of new music! Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.

Austin Lounge Lizards, Home and Deranged (Blue Corn Music)

AM & Shawn Lee, La Musique Numérique (Park the Van)
The sophomore LP from the twosome is described as "a sun-filled, space-funk masterwork that blends early digital technology with decade-blurring songwriting, transporting listeners deeper into the sonic crates from which the music was born ... Taking fans in and out of faded memories of disco, funk, soul and reggae but never colonizing one style." Check out their spacey rendition of Joe Jackson's 1982 hit "Steppin' Out" off the album after the jump and check out the rest of this week's new releases ...

April ends with a giant blast of releases. Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.

Adventure, Weird Work (Carpark)

The Airborne Toxic Event, Such Hot Blood (Island)

Akron/Family, Sub Verses (Dead Oceans)
The experimental folk music outfit just keeps getting more out there with each album. Need to spin this a few more times, but as far as I can tell, Sub Verses continues in Akroon's 'WTF?' direction of screaming prog rock marked by drawn-out instrumentals, heady lyrics and tribal-flavored experimentalism along with the usual all-to-brief melodic interludes. Listen to the extended cut, "No-Room" after the jump along with the rest of this week's new releases...

April continues a big seven days of music, with a big Record Store Day weekend followed by some more new music out this Tuesday. Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.

The Appleseed Cast, Illumination Ritual (Graveface)

Brass Bed, The Secret Will Keep You (Crossbill Records/Off The Air Recordings)

Michael Bublé, To Be Loved (Warner Bros/Reprise)

Celestial Shore, 10x (Local Singles)
Brooklyn-based math rock/psych pop three-piece Celestial Shore present their full-length debut, mixed by Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), issued on Brad Oberhofer's newly-launched label, and featuring vocals by Lorely Rodriguez (Empress Of). First single "Valerie" finds pretty vocal melodies drifting over warped-watery, wobbling-lurchin instrumentals with spazzed-out time signatures and things-falling-apart breakdowns. Listen after the jump, and check out the rest of this week's new releases...

Another big wave of new music in April, first releases out on April 16, then the big indie store celebration with Record Store Day on April 20. But first, today’s releases; stay tuned for details about noteworthy RSD releases at cltampa.com/music... Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.

Art Brut, Top of the Pops (The End Reords)
The quirky Berlin-based English/German indie rock band presents a double album compilation. (FYI, Art Brut has decided henceforth to classify itself as a 'classic rock band.') Here's how they describe it: "CD1 contains the best and most popular songs from our career in chronological order. So you can see clearly that we have followed the CLASSIC ROCK blueprint exactly - Album One, Excited; Album Two, Confused; Album Three, Angry; Album Four, Experimental. Plus, two brand new tracks. They’re about enjoying natural disasters and making pop music. Optimistic rebirth. This is textbook CLASSIC ROCK BAND stuff ... CD2 contains rare songs that Freddy Feedback rescued from our vaults including live songs, covers we finally got round to asking for permission to release, hard to acquire b-sides and unreleased demos from our recording sessions for ‘Its A Bit Complicated’ that took place with Pulp's Russel Senior (who is not mad, I promise)."

Born Ruffians, Birthmarks (Yep Roc)

Stephen Brodsky, Hit or Mystery (Little Black Cloud Records)

Charli XCX, True Romance (IAMSOUND)

Coma, In Technicolor (Kompakt)

Damon & Naomi, The Wondrous World of Damon & Naomi: Bootleg Edition (20/20/20)

Dead Can Dance, In Concert (PIAS Recordings)

Disappears, Kone EP (Kranky)

Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses), The Low Highway (New West)

Electric iLL, Twisted Light EP (Amore!Phonics)
The debut recording from Viva Voce's Kevin Robinson aka Kaylee Rob, with Ragen Fykes to create an 'Illumination of Electric'-themed music, which mixes hip-swinging electro funk and twangy rock n' roll with acid-sci fi electronics and vocals effected to robotic proportions, or rising in simple boy-girl harmony. Listen to "" below.

Eyeconoclast, Drones of the Awakening (Prosthetic Records)

Farewell 2 Fear, New Blood (Silent Majority Group)

The Flaming Lips, The Terror (Warner Bros.)
Finally, a follow-up to Embryonic that doesn't call on a large cast of guests nor cover an album in its entirety. The psych-experimental behemoth's first album of new material since 2009 and their 13th overall was produced by long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann and is described as a "bleak, disturbing record" by frontman Wayne Coyne. It is. Not sure if I like it yet; the dreariness isn't too pleasant. Check out a medley for the album after the jump and judge for yourself... then see what else is out this week.

The second wave of new music in April. Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.

The 4onthefloor, Spirit of Minneapolis (self-release)
Howling Southern bluesy rock n' roll with gritty lead vocals, direct from Minneapolis. Listen below...

The Braces, Two Years (Paper + Plastick)

Breakbot, By Your Side (Ed Banger/Because/Sire)
The French DJ and multi-instrumentalist finally offers a physical release of the album that hit shelves in December.

Broadheds, Broadheds (Dangerbird)

Clementine & The Galaxy, Clementine & The Galaxy EP (self-release)
There is something highly appealing about the space-pop mix of meaty beats, island-y guitars, girlish cooing vocals and video game sounds in "Robot"; video after the jump along with the rest of this week's new releases .

April kicks off with a hunge amount of new music. Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.

Alex Metric, Ammunition Pt. 3 EP (Owsla)

Alkaline Trio, My Shame Is True (Epitaph)

Andrew Leahey & The Homestead, Summer Sleeves EP (Self-Release)

Ólafur Arnalds, For Now I Am Winter (Mercury Classics)

Authority Zero, The Tipping Point (Hardline Entertainment)
Album number five from the Mesa, Arizona punk-ska rock outfit, and first sans bassist Jeremy Wood; Mike Spero has been tapped to take his place on the road for the time being. Check out the video preview below.

The Besnard Lakes, Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO (Outside/Jagjaguwar)

The Black Angels, Indigo Meadow (Blue Horizon)

Bleached, Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)

Bombino, Nomad (Nonesuch)

Bonobo, The North Borders (Ninja Tune)
The UK DJ, producer and instrumentalist presents his thematic fifth full-length and follow-up to 2010's Black Sands. Video for "Cirrus" after the jump along with the rest of this week's new entries.

The final wave of releases in March. Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.

The Black Lillies, Runaway Freeway Blues (self-release)

Crystal Bowersox, All That For This (Shanachie Entertainment)

Alex Calder, Time (Captured Tracks)

CHVRCHES, Recover EP (Glassnote)

Jace Clayton, The Julius Eastman Memory Depot (New Amsterdam)
The artist usually known as DJ Rupture issues his first album under his own dang name.

Crime & The City Solution, American Twilight (Mute)

The Cyclist, Bones In Motion (Stones Throw/Leaving Records)

Dengue Fever, In the Key Lines (Tuk Tuk)

Depeche Mode, Delta Machine (Columbia)

Diamond Version, EP4 12" (Mute)

James Ferraro, Cold Mixtape (Self-Release)

The Horrors, Higher Box Set (XL Recordings)

Hot As Sun, Night Time Sound Desire (Last Gang Records)

Isbells, Stoalin' (Roll Call Records)
The Belgian darlings present their debut of introspective and wistful folk rock in the U.S.

Kvelertak, Meir (Roadrunner)

Lapalux, Nostalchic (Brainfeeder)

Lil Wayne, I Am Not a Human Being II (Young Money/Cash Money/Universal)
The highly anticipated 10th studio album from the New Oreans rapper. Rolling Stone wrote, "This is exactly the record you'd expect to hear from Weezy in 2013: a solid album by a brilliant MC who's half-interested."

LOGO, Cardiocleptomania (Kitsune)

Julian Lynch, Lines (Underwater Peoples)

The Milk Carton Kids, The Ash & Clay (Anti-)
The LA-based Americana/folk revival duo with sweet two-part harmonies by Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan present a new album. Check out the "Honey Honey" video after the jump along with the rest of this week's releases...

Third wave March. Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.

Duane Allman, Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective (Rounder)

Alpha Rev, Bloom (Kirtland)

And So I Watch You From Afar, All Hail Bright Futures (Sargent House)

Anthrax, Anthems EP (Megaforce)

Billy Bragg, Tooth & Nail (Cooking Vinyl)

The Black Crowes, Wiser For the Time (Silver Arrow/Megaforce)
A vinyl and digital release featuring 26 songs — 15 acoustic and 11 electric — from the band’s five-night, sold-out New York City performances in the fall of 2010. The band returns to the road this spring and stops at Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg on Tues., April 30, with Chris and Rich Robinson, Steve Gorman, Sven Pipien and Adam MacDougall joined by "our good friend Jackie Greene" on guitar and vocals. Listen to "Under a Mountain" below.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Specter at the Feast (Abstract Dragon/Vagrant)
The grinding, guitar-roaring garage-blues-psych rock band BRMC mourns late mentor and producer Michael Been (and in bassist Robert Levon Been, a father) on their hugely anticipated seventh studio full-length, its recording following his untimely death in 2010. Rolling Stone has already deemed it superb and noted, "it captures the group not only at their fiery best ('Rival,' 'Teenage Disease'), but also at their most emotionally open on the sweet 'Lullaby' and the gorgeous 'Returning.'" Check out "Let the Day Begin" after the jump, along with the rest of this week's new releases...

A smaller set of releases for week two of March. I've included info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but should know), with audio & video for your listening and viewing pleasure. Click here to check out releases that dropped over the past few months.

Devendra Banhart, Mala (Nonesuch)
More freaky folk music from the leader of the genre.

Biffy Clyro, Opposites (Warner Bros.)

Bon Jovi, What About Now (Island)

David Bowie, The Next Day (Columbia)
Bowie fans have been on a nonstop buzz ever since the iconic art rocker announced he'd be releasing an album of new material, finally, after 10 years with nothing new. (His last album was 2003's Reality... The actual release date was March 8, because he's motherfucking David Bowie and he can do what he wants.) This is his 24th studio album. Video for first single "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" after the jump, along with the rest of this week's new releases, with lots of audio & video included...