This week, the Foo Fighters return to the scene with their long-awaited seventh studio album Wasting Light, the first since 2007’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.
Butch Vig produced the album, which was recorded in frontman Dave Grohl’s garage. Vig last worked with Grohl 20 years ago, on Nirvana’s iconic album, Nevermind — back when Grohl played drums for the legendary 1990s grunge band.
The debut album Who You Are from English pop star Jessie J hits North American shelves today. Released in Europe in February, the album peaked at number two on the U.K. Albums Chart. Despite European success, the musician, co-writer of Miley Cyrus’s Party in the U.S.A., was a relative unknown in North America until last month’s performance on Saturday Night Live.
Prolific folk-rock legend Paul Simon returns with his twelfth studio album, So Beautiful or So What. Half of the popular ’60s duo Simon and Garfunkel, the artist has enjoyed a prolific solo career since their split in the 1970s.
A little further off the beaten path, experimental rock band TV on the Radio releases their fifth studio album, Nine Types of Light, a follow up to 2008’s critically-acclaimed Dear Science.
Other notable new releases include Paper Airplane by Alison Krauss and Union Station, Sing it Loud from k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang, Tomboy from solo artist Panda Bear, and Lollipop from the Meat Puppets.