Modern Times (Columbia). Review by James Mann.

Magpie (Fiction). Review by Sean Slone.

Reprieve (Righteous Babe). Review by Jen Cray.

Highway Companion (American). Review by Jen Cray.

If People In Planes don’t blow your mind then you’re not really listening! Jen Cray spoke with guitarist Peter Roberts about getting dropped from EMI and finding love in a foreign country.

Issues. Review by Kyrby Raine.

Little Star (Daemon Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Footprints (What It Is Records). Review by Kyrby Raine.

Beautiful Losers: Singles and Compilation Tracks 1994-1999 (Jagjaguwar). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Flowers From The Devil (Self-released). Review by Andrew Ellis.

Big Boss Man (Sony ATV Music). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Scot Sax is partly responsible for the new Faith Hill single, “Like We Never Loved At All” – but don’t hold that against him. Andrew Ellis discovers why the Pennsylvania native’s career in the music industry is going from strength to strength.

Out Past the Lights (Grace & Parkinsong). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Knuckle Down (Righteous Babe). Review by Jen Cray.

The Dirty South (New West Records). Review by Joe Frietze.

Notorious Lightning and Other Works (Merge). Review by Aaron Shaul.

We Shall All Be Healed (4AD Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

So maybe it doesn’t all fall on the same calendar. It all still merits a mention, or so James Mann thinks.

The Weight of Flight (WARM). Review by Stein Haukland.

These Chains (Funzalo Records). Review by Andrew Ellis.