The big surprise this week is that Fastball is still a band. I remember jamming out to “The Way” when I was fourteen and didn’t know any better.

Also, that Pomegranates album we let you preview a while back is out and, from what I remember, it is pretty dang good.

A few of these releases are just in time for Coachella, but we’ll talk more about that later.

:: Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Agorapocalypse (Relapse)

:: Amen Dunes, Dia (Locust)

:: As I Lay Dying, This Is Who We Are DVD (Metal Blade)

:: Big Business, Mind the Drift (Redeye Label)

:: Bill Callahan, Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (Drag City)

:: The Boy Least Likely To, The Law of the Playground (+1)

:: Broadcast The Nightmare, Twenty Twelve (Sumerian)

:: Brutal Truth, Evolution Through Revolution (Relapse)

:: Circus Devils, Gringo (Happy Jack Rock)

:: Crippled Black Phoenix, 200 Tons of Bad Luck (Cargo)

:: The Datsuns, Headstunts (Cooking Vinyl)

:: Death Cab for Cutie, The Open Door EP (Atlantic)

:: The Death Set, Rad Warehouses Bad Neighborhoods (Counter)

:: Dengue Fever, Sleepwalking Through The Mekong CD/DVD (M80 Music)

:: Dntel, Early Works For Me If It Works For You (Phthalo)

:: Easy Star All-Stars, Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band (Easy Star)

:: Eat Skull, Wild & Inside (Siltbreeze)

:: FACT, FACT (Vagrant)

:: Farewell To Freeway, Only Time Will Tell (Victory)

:: Fastball, Little White Lies (Red Distribution)

:: Fire on Fire, The Orchard (Young God)

:: Graf Orlock, Destination Time Today (Level Plane)

:: Grand Duchy, Petits Fours (Cooking Vinyl)

:: The Handsome Family, Honey Moon (Carrot Top)

:: Harvestman, In a Dark Tongue (Neurot)

:: I See Stars, 3D (Sumerian)

:: Ida Maria, Fortress Round My Heart (Mercury/Fontana)

:: In Flagranti, Brash & Vulgar (Codek)

:: Jake Shimabukuro, Live (Hitchhike)

:: Jeniferever, Spring Tides (Monotreme)

:: Jill Sobule, California Years (Red Distribution)

:: John Doe and the Sadies, Country Club (Yep Roc)

:: Josh Freese, Since 1972 (self-released)

:: Juan Maclean, The Future Will Come (DFA)

:: Kevin Blechdom, Gentlemania (Sonig)

:: The Life and Times, Tragic Boogie (Arena Rock)

:: Life on Earth!, A Space Water Loop (Subliminal Sounds)

:: Medeski Martin & Wood, Radiolarians II (Indirecto)

:: Metric, Fantasies (Metric Music International)

:: Mia Doi Todd, Morning Music (City Zen)

:: Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics, Inspiration Information, Vol. 3 (Strut)

:: Papercuts, You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong)

:: Pomegranates, Everybody, Come Outside! (Lujo)

:: Prefuse 73, Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (Warp)

:: Radio Moscow, Brain Cycles (Alive)

:: Risto, Sähköhäiriöön (Fonal)

:: Silversun Pickups, Swoon (Dangerbird)

:: Sun City Girls, Napoleon & Josephine (Abduction)

:: Super Furry Animals, Dark Days/Light Years (Rough Trade)

:: Telepathe, Dance Mother (IAMSOUND)

:: Thick As Blood, Embrace (Eulogy)

:: Trigger the Bloodshed, The Great Depression (Metal Blade)

:: The Twang, Love It When It Feels Like This (Arena Rock)

:: Venetian Snares, Filth (Planet Mu)

:: Willie Nile, House of a Thousand Guitars (Red Distribution)

:: Wooden Shjips, Dos (Holy Mountain)

:: Woods, Songs of Shame (Shrimper)

:: Yonlu, A Society in Which No Tear Is Shed Is Inconceivably Mediocre (Luaka Bop)

Did I miss anything important? Post it in the comments.

3 Responses to “New Releases: Pomegranates, Death Cab for Cutie, Josh Freese”

1. 

   On 04/14/09 10:13 AM, Kyle said:

   who the fuck are any of these bands??

3. 

   On 04/14/09 11:18 AM, Jay DiNitto said:

   I will listen to the new Brutal Truth for history’s sake then promptly delete it.

5. 

   On 04/14/09 1:07 PM, ryan. said:

   Bill Callahan!!

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