After being available for a couple of weeks digitally, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third album, It's Blitz! arrives on CD tomorrow.

This week's short music release list can be mostly attributed to last week's Winter Music Conference, but there are some albums I can recommend, including Adam Franklin's (Swervedriver) Spent Bullets, Gomez's A New Tide, Great Lake Swimmers' Lost Channels, Leonard Cohen's Live In London (also available on DVD), Pansy Division's That's So Gay, Peter Bjorn and John: Living Thing, and Wolves in the Throne Room's Black Cascade.

Four Bob Dylan remasters hit store shelves tomorrow in advance of the April 28th release of his latest studio album, Together Through Life: The Basement Tapes , BBefore the Flood, New Morning, and Dylan & the Dead.

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The War Child presents Heroes compilation is out tomorrow. The 16-track covers compilation benefits War Child International, a network of independent organizations that work to provide humanitarian aid to children affected by war. Help yourself to some good music, and help children affected by war in the process.

The tracklist is impressive:

After last week's deluge of quality music releases, this week's list is a bit thin. From what I have already heard, I can recommend Anavan's Cover Story, Black Lips' 200 Million Thousand, Clem Snide's Hungry Bird, and especially Laura Gibson's Beasts of Seasons (pictured).

A bevy of Ben Harper vinyl discs head up the week's reissues.

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Morrissey's Years of Refusal album is out tomorrow in an incredibly strong music release week.

Along with the Moz, the week's music release list is filled with other quality offerings from singer-songwriters. Benjy Ferree's Come Back to the Five & Dime, Bobby Dee Bobby Dee is one of the most pleasantly surprising albums of the year so far for me. I have been a huge fan of Ana Egge for years, and her new album, Road to My Love, is filled with her most personal and intimate songwriting yet. Alela Diane's To Be Still is simply one of my favorite albums of 2009. M. Ward's Hold Time is also in stores tomorrow.

Other albums I have heard and can recommend include Asobi Seksu's Hush, Bloodkin's Baby They Told Us We Would Rise Again, Eleni Mandell's Artificial Fire, Robyn Hitchcock's Goodnight Oslo, and Tommy Keene's In the Late Bright.

Among the week's reissues are four vinyl Murder City Devils discs from Sub Pop: Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts, In Name and Blood, Murder City Devils, and Thelema.

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Lily Allen's It's Not Me, It's You, her follow-up to her successful debut Alright, Still is out Tuesday, and the vinyl picture disc edition is at the top of my shopping list. Catch her for free Tuesday night at Bowery Ballroom in NYC.

Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys drops his solo debut, Keep It Hid Tuesday. Singer-songwriter Ben Lee will donate a percentage of the proceeds from his new album, The Rebirth of Venus, to the FINCA Village Banking program, which offers small loans to low-income female entrepreneurs around the world. In a rather slow week for releases, I can also recommend Charles Spearin's The Happiness Project, Golem's wonderfully playful Citizen Boris, Miranda Lee Richards' Light of X, and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline's Coward.

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The Heartless Bastards' The Mountain is one of my favorite albums of the young year, and the duo's most sonically adventurous to date.

Willie Nelson's album with Asleep at the Wheel backing him, Willie and the Wheel is out this week, as is Phosphorescent's Wilie Nelson covers album, Phosphorescent: To Willie.

Other discs I have heard and can recommend are Marykate O'Neil's Underground, Ben Kweller's Changing Horses, Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele's Good Feeling Music of Dent May, Howlies' Trippin' with Howlies, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's self-titled album, and The Von Bondies' Love Hate and Then There's You.

Among the week's reissues, the remastered My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno & David Byrne is finally available on vinyl. Secretly Canadian's reissues of History of Zero Boys and Vicious Boys by the Indianapolis punk band the Zero Boys are also worth checking out.

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The holiday week means hardly any new music releases. I'm passing on this week's bunch (and shopping in general this week) to spend time with friends and family.

Happy holidays.

Can you recommend any new releases this week?

The small list is below...

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KCRW's Sounds Eclectic: The Next One collects in-studio performances from the station's Morning Becomes Eclectic program, and offers a diverse range of artists (from Oliver Future to the Shins). Co-produced by Morning Becomes Eclectic host Nic Harcourt (one of the inspirations behind Largehearted Boy), the disc serves as a fundraiser for the station. I cannot recommend KCRW's Sounds Eclectic: The Next One enough, it is quality music that supports a great cause. The compilation's track list:

1. 'Falling Slowly' - The Swell Season
2. 'Heart it Races' - Architecture in Helsinki
3. 'Australia' - The Shins
4. 'Until You Leave' - Stoney
5. 'You're A Wolf' - Sea Wolf
6. 'Home' - Great Northern
7. 'I Summon You' - Spoon
8. 'Fruit Machine' - Ting Tings
9. 'What's a Girl to Do' - Bat for Lashes
10. 'Stranger Than the Stranger' - Oliver Future
11. 'Time Bomb' - Goldspot
12. 'Life is Still Beautiful' - The Orange Lights

I haven't heard Southside Johny & La Bamba's Big Band's, Grapefruit Moon: The Songs Of Tom Waits, but it looks like one of the year's most promising covers albums.

The highlight of the week's remasters are five Radiohead import limited edition vinyl reissues: Amnesiac, The Bends, Hail to the Thief, OK Computer, and Pablo Honey.

Dean & Britta's L'Avventura is also reissued this week with bonus tracks.

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This post usually goes up on Monday. Here it is a little late...

Luminous Groove is a 5-disc box set that collects remastered editions of Robyn Hitchcock's Fegmania!, Gotta Let This Hen Out!, and Element of Light albums (all with bonus tracks) along with a disc of previously unreleased studio material and one of unreleased live tracks.

Juliana Hatfield's memoir, When I Grow Up, may be out next month, but her latest album, How To Walk Away, is out this week.

The Fiery Furnaces release their double live album Fiery Furnaces: Remember this week as well.

The music releases this week may be short on star power, but they are incredibly deep. Other releases I have heard and can recommend include the Dandy Warhols' Earth To The Dandy Warhols, Jaguar Love's Take Me To The Sea, Jennifer O'Connor's Here With Me, Lykke Li's Youth Novels, Music Tapes' Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornadoes, Ra Ra Riot's The Rhumb Line, Stereolab's Chemical Chords, Todd Snider's Peace Queer, and Uh Huh Her's Common Reaction.

Aside from the Robyn Hitchcock reissues and box set, other reissues worth noting include a vinyl reissue of PJ Harvey's Rid of Me and a remastered edition of the Dears' No Cities Left.

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Covering a Russian folk-punk legend virtually unknown in the west is an odd choice for a sophomore album (especially when you choose to sing in Russian), but Alina Simone brings Yanka Dyagileva's music to life in Everyone Is Crying Out to Me Beware. In the most daring release of the year, Simone chooses not to mimic Dyagileva's style but to put her own stamp on these songs with her powerful voice and artful arrangements that frame the lyrics perfectly. Last night after I read that one of my personal heroes, Aleksander Solzenhitsyn, had passed away, it was these songs (along with fragments of his prose) that echoed in my head until sleep took hold. Her CD release show is August 8th at Union Hall in Brooklyn.

The Airborne Toxic Event's self-titled debut is out tomorrow, a strong effort from a band that took their name from Don DeLillo's novel, White Noise...

Other new releases I have heard and can strongly recommend this week include Clinic's Funf, Conor Oberst's self-titled album, The Faint's Fasciination, Ida's My Fair, My Dark EP, and Oxford Collapse's Bits.

The two Gang of Four remastered discs (Hard and Songs of the Free) are on my shopping list. Other reissues of note include Scott Walker: Til the Band Comes In, Verbena's Souls for Sale, and the Waterboys' remastered Room to Roam (complete with bonus disc).

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editor's note: No Age gets a 9.2. No Age is streaming @ Spinner

Elvis Costello's new album, Momofuku is at the top of my shopping list this week. Named after the inventor of the cup noodle, Momofuku Ando, the album is the strongest effort from one of my favorite singer-songwriters in years.

Even though the mainstream media is fawning over new albums by Clay Aiken and Neil Diamond (which is streaming at Spinner) this week, there are plenty of other worthwhile releases. From what I have already heard I can strongly recommend Animal Collective's Water Curses EP, The Long Blondes' Couples, Matmos' Supreme Balloon, The Morning Benders' Talking Through Tin Cans, Pattern Is Movement's All Together, and ((Sounder))'s Good Things Come and Go Like Bad Things.

Among notable reissues, Spoon is releasing its indie classic Girls Can Tell on vinyl, as are Simon Joyner with Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll and Man Man with Rabbit Habits.

What are you picking up this week? Are there any releases worth adding to the list?

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I had a bad, last blog-week, and I think the week before sucked too - primarly due to all the BS that came with making this website better on the tech side of things. It's still not perfect, but it's way better. A lot of the blog roll in the right-side column disappeared for a bit (some people noticed and said something - sorry!), but luckily that's back. And so is my brain.

One of the many things I missed while I was gone: the launch of of the 2007 Music Blog Zeitgeist. Hype Machine decided to do some tech work of their own (and they're really good at it). They masochistically decided to take over what heartonastick started. They threw in a little Largehearted Boy, used the power of Hype Machine, connected some databases, entered a lot of data, and magically, they made a "zeitgeist".

DOWNLOAD: White Rabbits - The Plot (MP3)

New music dominated my 2007, I listened to more new releases than any other year in my life. With new CDs arriving daily, I struggled at times to keep up with the deluge, but was rewarded in the end with a wealth of quality music.

Looking back, I was surprised how many artists on this list have appeared on my previous year-end lists, but this is my sixth favorite albums list at Largehearted Boy.