Albums added since last update: 8146.
I really need to work at doing these updates more often; 543 pages of album listings is a killer even without Harry Potter Week (this has been sitting around awhile while certain other posts took priority). Also worth noting is that the rollover date for your subscription is not the same day each month, and that the reset happens on Pacific time at the beginning of the day shown, not at the end.
Finally, someone I know has also signed up for eMusic, the independent alternative to the iTunes Store and others which focus primarily on the “Big Four” major labels. Since I already obsessively review the New On eMusic listings for notable releases, I started collating recommendations as well, which in turn reactivated the mostly-dormant music critic in my head. Might as well share those efforts, which far from full reviews (eMusic taps into AllMusicGuide for that), are aimed at just giving a sense of why out of the thousands of albums that are added each month these few are worth considering. Enjoy!
