New Music Releases -- May 2010

New releases in May cover James Taylor & Carole King, Charice, The National and LCD Soundsystem, among others. Highlights include Stone Temple Pilots' self-titled album -- a first in nine years -- and its single 'Between the Lines,' as well as Deftones' riff-driven, sixth studio album 'Diamond Eyes.' Supergoup the Dead Weather will release their sophomore effort 'Sea of Cowards' on May 11 and Court Yard Hounds (Dixie Chicks sisters, Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, sans Natalie Maines) will drop their highly-anticipated debut album. Check out the entire list of new music releases for May 2010 after the jump.

May 4

8Ball & MJG, 'Ten Towes Down'

Against Me!, 'White Crosses'

Asia, 'Omega'

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, 'Uni5: The World's Enemy'

MercyMe, 'The Generous Mr. Lovewell'

Michael Bolton, 'One World One Love'

Graham Bonnet, 'No Bad Habits'

Booka Shade, 'More!'

Toni Braxton, 'Pulse'

Broken Social Scene, 'Forgiveness Rock Record'

Court Yard Hounds, 'Court Yard Hounds'

Justin Currie, 'The Great War'

Deftones, 'Diamond Eyes'

The Fall, 'Future Our Clutter'

The Flaming Lips, 'The Flaming Lips And Stardeath And White Dwarfs With Henry Rollins And Peaches Doing Dark Side of the Moon'

Flying Lotus, 'Cosmogramma'

Free Energy, 'Stuck on Nothing'

Godsmack, 'The Oracle'

Hold Steady, 'Heaven Is Whenever'

Jackel, 'When Moonshine and Dynamite Collide'

Joy Formidable, 'A Balloon Called Moaning'

Kidz Bop Kids, 'Kidz Bop Dance Party!'

Kings of Modesty, 'Hell or Highwater'

Greg Laswell, 'Take a Bow'

Rene Lopez, 'People Are Just People'

Jeremy Messersmith, 'The Reluctant Graveyard'

Minus the Bear, 'Omni'

New Pornographers, 'Together'

Nonpoint, 'Miracle'

Mike Patton, 'Mondo Cane'

Nathaniel Rateliff, 'In Memory of Loss'

Josh Ritter, 'Runs the World'

Rachael Sage, 'Delancey St.'

The Shondes, 'My Dear One'

James Taylor & Carole King, 'Live at the Troubadour'

The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!, 'I Love You. I Love You. I Love You and I'm In Love With You. Have an Awesome Day! Have the Best Day of Your life!'

Tonic, 'Tonic'

Trina, 'Amazin'

Paul Weller, 'Wake Up the Nation'

Chely Wright, 'Lifted Off the Ground'

Nikki Yankofsky, 'Nikki'

Zac Brown Band, 'Pass the Jar'

May 11

4Troops, '4Troops'

As I Lay Dying, 'The Powerless Rise'

Marco Benevento, 'Between the Needles and Nightfall'

Carine Bonnefoy, 'Tribal'

The Capitol Steps, 'Liberal Shop of Horrors'

Charice, 'Charice'

Elizabeth Cook, 'Welder'

Crash Test Dummies, 'Oooh La La!'

The Dead Weather, 'Sea of Cowards'

Everest, 'On Approach'

The Expendables, 'Prove It'

The Frail, 'Firefly'

Sage Francis, 'Li(F)E'

Hoodoo Gurus, 'Purity of Essence'

Am Abomination, 'To Our Forefathers'

John5, 'The Art of Malice'

Kaskade, 'Dynasty'

Keane, 'Night Train'

Jennifer Knapp, 'Letting Go'

Jim Lauderdale,' Patchwork River'

Marching Band, 'Pop Cycle'

Meat Loaf, 'Hang Cool Teddy Bear'

Miss Tila, 'Welcome to the Darkside'

The Morning Pages,'Rising Rain'

Rob Morsberger, 'The Chronicle of a Literal Man'

The National, 'High Violet'

Phosphorescent, 'Here's To Taking It Easy'

Sam Quinn, 'The Fake That Sunk 1,000 Ships'

Otis Taylor, 'Clovis People, Vol. 3'

30db, 'One Man Show'

Various artists, 'American Idol: Season 9'

We Are the Fallen, 'Tear the World Down'

We Have Band, 'WHB'

UNKLE, 'Where Did the Night Fall'

May 18

Mindi Abair, 'Mindi Abair in Hi-Fi Stereo'

Alex Band (of The Calling), 'We've All Been There'

Annihilator, 'Annihilator'

Band of Horses, 'Infinite Arms'

Bo Bice, '3'

The Black Keys, 'Brothers'

Regina Carter, 'Reverse Thread'

Club 8,'The People's Record'

Susan Cowsill, 'Lighthouse'

Danko Jones, 'Below the Belt'

The Depreciation Guild, 'Spirit Youth'

The-Dream, 'Love King'

Pete Francis, 'The Movie We Are In'

Mary Gauthier, 'The Foundling'

Guilty Simpson, 'OJ Simpson'

Sarah Jaffe, 'Suburban Nature'

LCD Soundsystem, 'This Is Happening'

Jamie Lidell, 'Compass'

Audra Mae, 'The Happiest Lamb'

Damian Marley and Nas, 'Distant Relatives'

Anne McCue, 'Broken Promise Land'

Sergio Mendes, 'Bom Tempo'

Miggs, 'Wide Awake'

Janelle Monae, 'The ArchAndroid'

John Nemeth, 'Name the Day!'

Debi Nova, 'Luna Nueva'

Papa Roach, 'To Be Loved' [Live Album]

Petree, 'Weakness Makes You Beautiful'

The Sadies, 'Darker Circles'

Solex vs Cristina Martinez & Jon Spencer, 'Amsterdam Throwdown, King Street Showdown'

Tracey Thorn (Everything But the Girl), 'Love and Its Opposite'

Various artists, 'MacGruber' (Soundtrack)

Suzanne Vega, 'Close-Up Vol. 1, Love Songs'

Gordon Voidwell, 'Ivy League Circus'

Lenny White (Return to Forever drummer), 'Anomaly'

Woven Bones, 'In and Out and Back Again'

Y&T, 'Facemelter'

May 25

Authority Zero, 'Stories of Survival'

Andy Bell, 'Non-Stop'

Beth Nielsen Chapman, 'Back to Love'

Black Sunshine, 'Black Sunshine'

Crystal Castles, 'Crystal Castles'

Far, 'At Night We Live'

Framing Hanley, 'A Promise to Burn'

The Glitch Mob, 'Drink the Sea'

Hank III, 'Rebel Within'

Sara Jackson-Holman, 'When You Dream'

Leela James, 'My Soul'

Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden, 'Jasmine'

Bettye Lavette, 'Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook'

Loudness, 'King of Pain'

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, 'The Wages'

Darrell Scott, 'A Crooked Road'

Smashing Pumpkins, 'Teargarden by Kaleidyscope - Vol. 1: Songs For a Sailor'

Jimmy Somerville, 'Suddenly Last Summer'

Soulfly, 'Omen'

Stone Temple Pilots, 'Stone Temple Pilots'

Tobacco, "Maniac Meat'

Tomorrows Bad Seeds, 'Sacred For Sale'

Various artists, 'Be Yourself: A Tribute to Graham Nash's 'Songs For Beginners''

Various artists, 'Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time' [Soundtrack]

Various artists, 'Sex and the City 2' [Soundtrack]

Various artists, 'True Blood, Volume 2' [Soundtrack]

Widespread Panic, 'Dirty Side Down,

Keller Williams, 'Thief'

Robin Zander, 'Countryside Blvd'