[Upcoming album release calendar for notable artists. MP3 samples are included where available. Release dates are based on US releases unless noted otherwise.]
| Date | Artist | Album | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/19/09 | Eels | End Times | |
| 1/19/09 | Cold War Kids | Behave Yourself [EP] | |
| 1/12/09 | Vampire Weekend | Contra | |
| 1/12/09 | Ringo Starr | Y Not | |
| 1/12/09 | OK GO | Of the Blue Colour of the Sky | |
| 1/05/09 | Flying Lotus | DJ Kicks | |
| 10/13/09 | Neon Indian | Psychic Chasms | |
| 9/22/09 | Castanets | Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts | |
| 9/22/09 | Girls | Album | |
| 9/22/09 | Islands | Vapours | |
| 9/22/09 | Or, the Whale | OTW | "Datura" |
| 9/22/09 | Sea Wolf | White Water, White Bloom | "Stanislaus" [Click through] |
| 9/22/09 | Twilight Sad | Forget the Night Ahead | |
| 9/22/09 | WHY? | Eskimo Snow | |
| 9/15/09 | Beastie Boys | Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 | |
| 9/15/09 | Grand Archives | Keep In Mind Frankenstein | "Silver Among the Gold" |
| 9/15/09 | Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions | Through The Devil Softly | "Blanchard" [Click through] |
| 9/15/09 | The Dodos | Time To Die | "Fables" |
| 9/09/09 | Anti-Pop Consortium | Fluorescent Black | |
| 9/08/09 | BLK JKS | After Robots | "Molalatladi" |
| 9/08/09 | HEALTH | Get Color | |
| 9/08/09 | Os Mutantes | Haih | |
| 9/08/09 | Vivian Girls | Everything Goes Wrong | |
| 9/08/09 | Yo La Tengo | Popular Songs | "Periodically Double or Triple" |
| 9/08/09 | Zero 7 | Yeah Ghost | |
| 9/01/09 | A.A. Bondy | When the Devil's Loose | "When the Devil's Loose" |
| 8/25/09 | Arctic Monkeys | Humbug | |
| 8/25/09 | David Bazan | Curse Your Branches | |
| 8/25/09 | Mew | No More Stories... | |
| 8/24/09 | Blitzen Trapper | Black River Killer | |
| 8/18/09 | Brendan Benson | My Old, Familiar Friend | "Feel Like Taking You Home" |
| 8/18/09 | Destroyer | Bay Of Pigs [Vinyl-Only EP] | |
| 8/18/09 | Jay Reatard | Watch Me Fall | "It Ain't Gonna Save Me" |
| 8/18/09 | Lil Wayne | Rebirth | |
| 8/18/09 | Mount Eerie | Wind's Poem | |
| 8/18/09 | Pissed Jeans | King of Jeans | "False Jesii Part 2" |
| 8/18/09 | The Cave Singers | Welcome Joy | "Beach House" |
| 8/11/09 | George Strait | Twang | |
| 8/11/09 | Patrick Wolf | The Bachelor | "The Sun is Often Out" [Daytrotter Session] |
| 8/11/09 | Raekwon | Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II | "Flying Daggers" [f. Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck] |
| 8/11/09 | The Roots | How I Got Over | |
| 8/04/09 | Fruit Bats | The Ruminant Band | "My Unusual Friend" |
| 8/04/09 | Japandroids | Post-Nothing | "Young Hearts Spark Fire" |
| 8/04/09 | Modest Mouse | No One First And You're Next [EP] | "Perpetual Motion Machine" |
| 8/04/09 | Yim Yames [Jim James] | Tribute To [EP] | "My Sweet Lord" |
| 8/04/09 | Throw Me The Statue | Creaturesque | "Ancestors" |
| 7/28/09 | Band of Skulls | Baby Darling Doll Face Honey | |
| 7/28/09 | YACHT | See Mystery Lights | |
| 7/21/09 | Bad Veins | Bad Veins | "Gold and Warm" |
| 7/21/09 | Fiery Furnaces | I'm Going Away | "The End is Near" |
| 7/21/09 | Magnolia Electric Co. | Josephine | "Josephine" |
| 7/21/09 | Portugal The Man | The Satanic Satanist | "People Say" |
| 7/21/09 | Jónsi & Alex | Riceboy Sleeps | "Boy 1904" |
| 7/21/09 | Sean Bones | Rings | |
| 7/21/09 | Spindrift | Spindrift | "The Legend of God's Gun" |
| 7/21/09 | The Skygreen Leopards | Gorgeous Johnny | "Dixie Cups in the Dead Grass" |
| 7/20/09 | Wilco | Wilco (The Album) | |
| 7/14/09 | The Most Serene Republic | Expanding Universe | "Heavens To Purgatory" [Click through] |
| 7/14/09 | Ty Segall | Lemons | "Song Title" |
| 7/07/09 | Son Volt | American Central Dust | |
| 7/07/09 | Cass McCombs | Catacombs | "Dreams Come True Girl" |
| 7/07/09 | Discovery | LP | "Osaka Loop Line" |
| 7/07/09 | Oneida | Rated O | "I Will Haunt You" |
| 7/07/09 | Son Volt | American Central Dust | "Down to the Wire" |
| 7/07/09 | Stellastarr* | Civilized | "Freak Out" [Click through] |
| 7/07/09 | The Minus 5 | Killingsworth | |
| 7/07/09 | The Rural Alberta Advantage | Hometowns | "Don't Haunt This Place" |
| 7/07/09 | Tiny Vipers | Life On Earth | "Dreamer" |
| 6/30/09 | Levon Helm | Electric Dirt | |
| 6/23/09 | Deer Tick | Born on Flag Day | "Easy" |
| 6/09/09 | Sonic Youth | The Eternal | "Sacred Trickster" |
| 6/02/09 | Neil Young | Archives, Volume 1 - 1963-1972 | |
| 5/26/09 | Grizzly Bear | Veckatimest | "Cheerleader" |
| 5/19/09 | Eminem | Relapse | |
| 5/19/09 | John Vanderslice | Romanian Names | "Fetal Horses" |
| 5/19/09 | Iron & Wine | Around the Well | |
| 5/19/09 | White Rabbits | It's Frightening | "Kid on My Shoulders" |
| 5/18/09 | Clues | Clues | "Perfect Fit" |
| 5/15/09 | Green Day | 21st Century Breakdown | |
| 5/12/09 | Art Brut | Art Brut vs. Satan | |
| 5/12/09 | Lewis & Clark | Light Time | "Petrified Forest" |
| 5/12/09 | Steve Earle | Townes | "To Live is to Fly" |
| 5/05/09 | Akron/Family | It's Frightening | "River" |
| 5/05/09 | Ben Harper & Relentlesss 7 | White Lies for Dark Times | |
| 5/05/09 | Conor Oberst | Outer South | "Nikorette" |
| 5/05/09 | Peaches | I Feel Cream | |
| 5/05/09 | St. Vincent | Actor | |
| 4/28/09 | Ben Lee | The Rebirth of Venus | |
| 4/28/09 | Bob Dylan | Together Through Life | |
| 4/21/09 | Booker T. Jones | Potato Hole | |
| 4/21/09 | Tortoise | Beacons of Ancestorship | |
| 4/14/09 | Bill Callahan | Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle | |
| 4/14/09 | Death Cab for Cutie | The Open Door [EP] | Album Stream |
| 4/14/09 | Handsome Family | Honey Moon | "When You Whispered" |
| 4/14/09 | Papercuts | You Can Have What You Want | "You Can Have What You Want" |
| 4/07/09 | Crystal Antlers | Tentacles | "Andrew" |
| 4/07/09 | Doves | Kingdom of Rust | "Winter Hill" |
| 4/07/09 | Metric | Fantasies | |
| 4/07/09 | Bob Mould | Life and Times | |
| 4/07/09 | Neil Young | Fork in the Road | |
| 4/07/09 | The Felice Brothers | Yonder is the Clock | "Run Chicken Run" |
| 4/07/09 | Richard Swift | Atlantic Ocean | "Lady Luck" |
| 3/31/09 | Great Lake Swimmers | Lost Channels | |
| 3/31/09 | Peter Bjorn & John | Living Thing | |
| 3/31/09 | Prince | LOtUSFLOW3R/MPLSoUND | |
| 3/24/09 | DOOM (MF Doom) | BORN LIKE THIS | |
| 3/24/09 | Dan Deacon | Bromst | "Baltihorse" |
| 3/24/09 | The Decemberists | Hazards of Love | |
| 3/24/09 | Harlem Shakes | Technicolor Health | |
| 3/24/09 | Michael Zapruder | Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope | "Ads for Feelings" |
| 3/24/09 | Swan Lake | Enemy Mine | "Spanish Gold, 2044" |
| 3/17/09 | An Horse | Rearrange Beds | |
| 3/17/09 | Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears | Tell 'Em What Your Name Is | "Bitch, I Love You" |
| 3/16/09 | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Beware | "There is Something I Have to Say" |
| 3/10/09 | Elvis Perkins in Dearland | Elvis Perkins in Dearland | "Shampoo" |
| 3/10/09 | Handsome Furs | Face Control | "I'm Confused" |
| 3/09/09 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | It's Blitz | |
| 3/03/09 | Neko Case | Middle Cyclone | |
| 3/03/09 | Wild Light | Adult Nights | |
| 3/03/09 | Bell X1 | Lights on the Runway | |
| 3/03/09 | U2 | No Line on the Horizon | |
| 2/17/09 | Various Artists | Dark Was the Night [Compilation] | The National - "So Far Around the Bend" |
| 2/17/09 | Alela Diane | To Be Still | |
| 2/17/09 | Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit | Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit | "Seven-Mile Island" |
| 2/17/09 | M. Ward | Hold Time | "Never Had Nobody Like You" |
| 2/17/09 | Vetiver | Tight Knit | "Everyday" |
| 2/17/09 | Asobi Seksu | Hush | |
| 2/16/09 | Beirut | March of the Zapotec/Holland [Double EP] | |
| 2/16/09 | Morrissey | Years of Refusal | |
| 2/10/09 | Dan Auerbach | Keep it Hid | |
| 2/10/09 | Lily Allen | It's Not Me, It's You | |
| 2/09/09 | Mos Def | The Ecstatic | |
| 2/03/09 | Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele | The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele | "Meet Me in the Garden" |
| 2/03/09 | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | "Young Adult Friction" |
| 2/03/09 | Wavves | Wavves | "No Hope Kids" |
| 1/27/09 | Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band | Working on a Dream | |
| 1/20/09 | A.C. Newman | Get Guilty | "There are Maybe 10 or 12" |
| 1/20/09 | Andrew Bird | Noble Beast | Album Stream |
| 1/20/09 | Bon Iver | Blood Bank [EP] | "Blood Bank" |
| 1/20/09 | Or, the Whale | Light Poles and Pines | "Isn't She Awful" |
| 1/20/09 | Antony & the Johnsons | The Crying Light | |
| 1/20/09 | John Frusciante | The Empyrean | |
| 1/20/09 | J. Tillman | Vacilando Territory Blues | |
| 1/12/09 | Animal Collective | Merriweather Post Pavilion | |
| 1/06/09 | Glasvegas | Glasvegas | |
| 1/06/09 | The Gourds | Haymaker! |
