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Monday, January 01, 2007
2009 releases

January
6 - In Fear and Faith - Your World on Fire
12 - Auburn - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
13 - Cocount Records - Davy
13 - Peachcake - What Year Will You Have the World?
19 - Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP
20 - A.C. Newman - Get Guilty
20 - Bomb The Music Industry! – Scrambles
20 - Ben Nichols - The Last Pale Light in the West
20 - Fiction Family - s/t
20 - Reel Big Fish - Fame, Fortune and Fornication
20 - Let Me Run - Meet Me At The Bottom
20 - Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
20 - Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
20 - Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
27 - Leathermouth - XO
27 - Of Montreal - Jon Brion Remix EP
27 - Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream
27 - Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
27 - Demon Hunter - Live In Nashville
27 - Arsonists Get All The Girls - Hits From The Bow
27 - The Marked Men - Ghosts
27 - Hoobastank - Fornever
30 - V/A - Sweetheart (Starbucks compilation)

February
3 - U2 - No Line On The Horizon
3 - P.O.S. - Never Better
3 - VersaEmerge - EP TBA
3 - Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
3 - The Loved Ones - Distractions EP
3 - Ben Kweller - Changing Horses
3 - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Lonely Road
7 - The Groucho Marxists - Manifesto
10 - New Found Glory - Tell All Your Friends 7" EP
10 - Dan Auerbach (Black Keys) - Keep It Hid
10 - Red - Innocence & Instinct
10 - Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
10 - Hot Panda - Volcano...Bloody Volcano
10 - The Break Mission - The Prospect EP
13 - Two Tongues - Two Tongues
17 - A Day to Remember - Homesick
17 - V/A - Take Action Vol 8
17 - V/A - Punk Goes Pop Volume 2
17 - The Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha
17 - Fake Problems - It's Great to Be Alive
17 - Strung Out - Prototypes and Painkillers
17 - Thursday - Common Existence
17 - Plushgun - Pinz & Panzers
17 - And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - The Century Of Self
24 - MC Lars - The Gigantic Robot Kills
24 - Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
24 - Green River Ordinance - Out Of My Hands
24 - And Then There Were None - Who Speaks For Planet Earth?
24 - God Forbid - Earthsblood

March
3 - Wild Lights - Adult Nights
3 - Making April - The Egg Hunt
3 - Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
3 - Mansions - New Best Friends
3 - Fountains of Wayne - No Better Place Live in Chicago DVD
10 - V/A - Covered: A Revolution In Sound
10 - Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
10 - Austin Lucas - Somebody Loves You
10 - The Wonder Years/All Or Nothing split 7" "Distances
10 - Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
10 - The Soft Pack - The Muslims EP
10 - New Found Glory - Not Without a Fight
10 - MxPx - On The Cover II
10 - Anarbor - Free Your Mind EP
10 - Razorlight - Slipway Fires
10 - Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
10 - V/A - Punk Goes Pop Vol. 2
10 - The Riverboat Gamblers – Underneath The Owl
17 - Coheed and Cambria - Neverender, Children Of The Fence CD/DVD
17 - An Horse - Rearrange Beds
17 - Reigns - The House On The Causeway
17 - NOFX - Backstage Passport DVD
17 - Austin Lucas - Somebody Loves You
24 - 16 Frames - Where It Ends
24 - Vanna - A New Hope
24 - Pete Doherty - Grace/Wasteland
24 - Papa Roach - Metaphorphosis
24 - The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
24 - Those Green Eyes - Relapse To Recovery
31 - Silverstein - A Shipwreck In The Sand

April
6 - Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
7 - V/A - Atticus IV
7 - Other Lives - st
7 - The Hold Steady - A Positive Rage live CD/DVD
7 - Single File - Common Struggles
7 - Jimmy Eat World - Clarity Live
7 - Eulogies - Here, Anonymous
7 - The Doves - Kingdom of Rust
7 - The Bigger Lights - Fiction Fever
7 - FM Static - Dear Diary
7 - Holiday Parade - Tickets Passports
7 - The Rentals - Songs About Time
14 - One For The Team - Build A Garden
14 - Metric - Fantasies
14 - Silversun Pickups - Swoon
14 - FACT - st
14 - Suckers - st
14 - My Chemical Romance - ¡VENGANZA!
14 - As I Lay Dying - This Is Who We Are DVD
14 - Screaming Females - Power Move
14 - Pomegranades - Everybody, Come Outside!
18 - My Morning Jacket - Celebración De La Ciudad Natal
21 - The Veer Union - Against The Grain
21 - Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life
21 - Inkwell - Rivers of Blood and Sadness, or Maybe Happy
21 - Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
21 - Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan
21 - Tinted Windows - st
21 - King Khan & The Shrines - What Is?!
21 - As Cities Burn - Hell Or High Water
21 - Chairlift - Does You Inspire You [reissue on major label]
21 - Meg And Dia - Here, Here, and Here
24 - Madina Lake - Atticus to Eden
28 - Pilot Speed - Wooden Bones
28 - Young Love - One Of Us
28 - Endless Hallway - Autonomy Games
28 - NOFX - Coaster
28 - Paper Route - Absence
28 - Ben Folds - Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella

May
3 - The Kensingtons - Suck It Up
5 - The Coast - Expatriate
5 - Gallows - Grey Britain
5 - Earth Crisis - To The Death
5 - ZAO - Awake?
5 - Sparks The Rescue - Eyes To The Sun
5 - The Chariot - Wars and Rumors of Wars
5 - The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun
5 - My Favourite Highway - How To Call A Bluff
5 - Waxploitation - Causes 2 compilation
12 - Goes Cube - Another Day Has Passed
12 - Moving Mountains - Foreword
12 - Operation Aloha (Maroon5, Gomez, Phantom Planet project) - st
12 - Jeremy Enigk - OK Bear
12 - The Black Dahlia Murder - Majesty
12 - Better Than Ezra - Paper Empire
12 - Unholy - New Life Behind Closed Eyes
12 - Yesterday's Ring - Diamonds In The Ditch
15 - Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
15 - Water & Bodies - s/t EP
19 - Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin
19 - The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes
19 - Karate High School - Invaders
19 - Hedley - Never Too Late
19 - mewithoutYOU - it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright
26 - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
26 - War Tapes - The Continental Divide
26 - Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low
26 - Jenny Owen Youngs - Transmitter Failure
26 - In The Hollows - st
27 - Pour Habit - Suitcide
30 - Hit the Switch - Observing Infinities

June
2 - Taking Back Sunday - New Again
2 - Emery - ...In Shallow Seas We Sail
2 - The Sounds - Crossing The Rubicon
2 - Spinnerette - A Prescription for Mankind
2 - Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
2 - Eels - Hombre Lobo
2 - Anderson - It Runs In The Family
2 - Iwrestledabearonce - It's All Happening
2 - Drop Dead Gorgeous - The Hot 'n Heavy
9 - Chase Pagan - Bells & Whistles
9 - Rhett Miller - st
9 - Coalesce - OX
9 - A Skylit Drive - Adelphia
9 - North Lincoln - Midwestern Blood
9 - Dance Gavin Dance - Happiness
9 - Anti-Flag - The People Or The Gun
9 - The Dead Weather - Horehound
9 - The Aggrolites - IV
9 - Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
9 - Quest For Fire - st
9 - Kasabian - The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum
9 - Kate Earl - Kate Earl EP
16 - Paint It Black - Amnesia
16 - The Cab - What Happens in Vegas
16 - Enter Shikari - Common Dreads
16 - Poison the Well - The Tropic Rot
16 - Incubus - Monuments and Melodies
16 - Bedouin Soundclash - Where Have The Songs Played Gone To?
16 - The Honey Brothers - Demonstration EP
23 - The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death
23 - Dinosaur Jr - Farm
23 - Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself and Another
23 - The Enemy - Music For The People
23 - David Moore - My Lover, My Stranger
23 - Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God
23 - Alexisonfire - Old Crows/Young Cardinals
23 - Pete Yorn - Back and Fourth
23 - Modest Mouse - Autumn Beds 7"
23 - Title Fight - The Last Thing You Forget
23 - Gossip - Music For Men
23 - Hotspur - You Should Know Better By Now
23 - Radical Sons - Throwing Knives
23 - The Higher - It's Only Natural
23 - The Mars Volta - Octahedron
23 - Goodnight Sunrise - Stop, Drop and Roll
30 - Dear Landlord - Dream Homes
30 - Killswitch Engage - st
30 - All Smiles - Oh, For The Getting And Not Letting Go
30 - Merykid - Boy And The Bird

July
7 - All Time Low - Nothing Personal
7 - Eye Alaska - Genesis Underground
7 - Job For A Cowboy - Ruination
7 - Billy Boy on Poison - Drama Junkie Queen
7 - Against Me! - The Original Cowboy
7 - The Donnas - The Donnas Greatest Hits, Vol. 16
7 - The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
9 - Now, Now Every Children - Cars
14 - Riverdales - Invasion U.S.A
14 - The Silent Years - Let Go EP
14 - The Scene Aesthetic - A Type And A Shadow
14 - Project 86 - Picket Fence Cartel
14 - Daughtry - Leave This Town
14 - Billy Talent - Billy Talent III
14 - Adelitas Way - st
14 - Cobra Skulls - American Rubicon
14 - Sick Puppies - Tri-Polar
21 - Trevor Giuliani - Subcontrario (In Stereo)
21 - Four Year Strong - Explains it All
21 - Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
21 - American Steel - Dear Friends And Gentle Hearts
21 - Nightmare Of You - Infomaniac
21 - The Word Alive - Empire
21 - Chuck Ragan / Brian Fallon - Gospel Songs
21 - Our Lady Peace - Burn Burn
21 - You Me at Six - Take Off Your Colours
21 - Broadway Calls - Be All That You Can't Be 7"
21 - Reel Big Fish - Reel Big Fish! Live in Concert!
21 - Set Your Goals - This Will Be the Death of Us
21 - The Working Title - Bone Island
21 - The Steps - Take It All In EP
28 - Rx Bandits - Mandala
28 - The Swellers - Welcome Back Riders 7"
28 - Blacklist - Midnight of the Century

August
4 - Iron Age - The Sleeping Eye
4 - Nightmare of You - Infomaniac
4 - Echo Screen - Goodbye Old Life
4 - Seasick Steve - Dog House Music
4 - Yim Yames - Tribute To EP
4 - Suicide City - Frenzy
7 - Behemoth - Evangelion
11 - Cobra Starship - Hot Mess
11 - Pacific Theater - Animals At Night
18 - Mute Math - Armistice
18 - Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
18 - As Tall as Lions - You Can't Take it With You
18 - Third Eye Blind - Ursa Major
18 - Broadway Calls - Good Views, Bad News
18 - Nathen Maxwell - White Rabbit
18 - Brendan Benson - My Old, Familiar Friend
24 - Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
25 - fun. - Aim And Ignite
25 - Leeland – Love is on the Move
25 - The Casualties - We Are All We Have
25 - Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next
25 - Mew - No More Stories...
25 - Shayna and the Bulldog - States
25 - Jet - Shaka Rock

September
1 - Chuck Ragan - Gold Country
1 - The Used - Artwork
1 - The Color Morale - We All Have Demons
2 - The Sweet Serenades - Balcony Cigarettes
7 - Frank Turner - Poetry Of The Deed
7 - The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
8 - The Idle Hands - The Hearts We Broke On The Way To The Show
8 - Flying Machines - st
8 - Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg
8 - A Fine Frenzy - A Bomb In A Birdcage
8 - Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
8 - Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost
8 - Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11
9 - Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio
22 - Monsters of Folk - st
22 - Almighty Defenders - st
29 - Paramore - Brand New Eyes
29 - Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
29 - Evergreen Terrace - Almost Home
29 - Corey Chisel & The Wandering Sons - Death Won't Send A Letter

October
6 - Air - Love 2
TBA - Thrice - Beggars
TBA - Strike Anywhere - Iron Front

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