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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Spring heats up in a big way with a packed week of new music releases from Kendrick Lamar, the Chainsmokers, the Black Keys, “This Is Us’” star Mandy Moore and more (all subject to change)...

Album of the Week: The Akron-born Black Keys is back, almost a year to the day after its covers set “Delta Kream.” “Dropout Boogie” (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch) features new material as well as collaborations with ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons, Reigning Sound’s Greg Cartwright and regular Kings of Leon cohort Angelo Petraglia. It also comes out the day before the 20th anniversary of the duo’s debut album, “The Big Come Up.”

Album Title of the Week: Chris Bathgate, “The Significance of Peaches” (Quite Scientific)

Did Ya Know?: A couple of new “supergroups” make their recording debut this week. “A Light For Attracting Attention” (XL) marks the debut of The Smile, a consortium of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood with Tom Skinner. Skills, meanwhile, puts together members of Night Ranger, Mr. Big, Electric Mob, Giant, Winery Dogs and more for “Different World” (Frontiers).

The Chainsmokers, “So Far So Good” (Disruptor/Columbia)

Craig David, “22″ (TSS/Moor/BMG)

Florence + the Machine, “Dance Fever” (Republic)

Steve Forbert, “Moving Through America” (Blue Rose)

Ghost Hounds, “You Broke Me” (Maple House)

Kendrick Lamar, “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)

Lyle Lovett, “12th of June” (Verve)

Mandy Moore, “In Real Life” (Verve Forecast)

Rolling Stones, “Live at the El Mocambo 1977″ (Interscope/UMe)

Tank and the Bangas, “Red Balloon” (Verve Forecast)

Afghan Whigs, “The Getaway;” AG Club, “Tru Religion;” A$AP Rocky, “D.M.B.;” AVAWAVES, “The Wave;” Baylie, “Telly Bag;” Blackwater Drowning, “Aberrant Leaves;” Matteo Bocelli, “Tempo;” The Bros. Landreth, “Come Morning;” Kane Brown, “Like I Love Country Music;” Doja Cat, “Vegas;” Stella Donnelly, “Lungs;” Flying Lotus, “They Call Me Magic (Main Title Theme);” DNCE, “Move;” Few Miles South, “Doggone;” Randy Houser, “Still That Cowboy;” Kygo, “Freeze;” Kendrick Lamar, “The Heart Part 5;” Maneskin, “Supermodel;” Method Man, “Come Get Some;” New Monarch, “The Fray;” OmenXIII, “Live Fast Die Slow” featuring Travis Barker; Maisie Peters, “Cate’s Brother;” Pollyanna, “Mars;” Niko Rubion, “Love Met Till U Hate Me;” Suzi Sabotage, “Persona Non Grata;” SiR, “Satisfaction;” Taylor Swift, “This Love( Taylor’s Version);” Brian Swindle, “You;” Toosii, “Keeper;” Westside Boogie, “Stuck;” Wrabel, “closure;” Nicky Youre, “Sunroof”

Eloise Alterman, “Sad Bird” (Big Yellow Dog Music)

Chris Bathgate, “The Significance of Peaches” (Quite Scientific)

The Big Deal, “First Bite” (Frontiers)

Black Star, “No Fear of Time” (Luminary)

Black Uhuru, “New Day” (LAW)

Graham Bonnet Band, “Day Out” (Frontiers)

The Bros. Landreth, “Come Morning” (Birthday Cake)

Cage Fight, “Cage Fight” (Candlelight)

Ethel Cain, “Preacher’s Daughter” (self-released)

Chicago Soul Jazz Collective and Dee Alexander, “On the Way to Be Free” (JMarq)

Jesse Mac Cormack, “Solo” (Secret City)

Matt Dorrien, “Blue Pastoral” (Mama Bird)

The DRWs, “Playing Games” (Boom.)

Ian Ellison, “Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda” (Unreel)

May Erlewine, “Tiny Beautiful Things” (Tone City Music)

Evergrey, “A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)” (Napalm)

Famyne, “The Ground Below” (Svart)

Findlay, “The Last of the 20th Century Girls” (Mogg Music)

Jessica Willis Fisher, “Brand New Day” (Bard Craft)

49 Winchester, “Fortune Favors the Bold” (New West)

Becky G, “Esquemas” (Kemosabe/RCA)

Gentle Heat, “Sheer” (Flesh & Bone)

Gentle Sinners, “These Actions Cannot Be Undone” (Rock Action)

Graham Bonnet Band, “Day Out in Nowhere” (Frontiers)

Hogtown Allstars, “Hog Wild” (Stony Plain)

The Immediate Family, “Live From Telefunken Soundstage” (Quatro Valley)

Yves Jarvis, “The Zug” (Anti-)

Joel Jerome, “Super Flower Blood Moon” (Dangerbird)

King Youngblood, “Big Thank” (Dice Lab/Beatroot)

Last Flight to Pluto, “Random Karma, Fate and Destiny” (White Knight)

Lucas Laufen, “Weathering” (Embassy of Music/AdP)

Leikeli47, “Shape Up” (Hardcover/RCA)

Liar Thief Bandit, “Diamonds” (The Sign)

Jani Liimatainen, “My Father’s Son” (Frontiers)

Mama’s Broke, “Narrow Line” (Free Dirt)

Delbert McClinton, “Outdated Emotion” (Hot Shot/Thirty Tigers)

Misery Index, “Complete Control” (Century Media)

Holly Montgomery, “Sorry For Nothing” (KZZ Music)

Kevin Morby, “This is a Photograph” (Dead Oceans)

Victor Mucho, “Moonlight in Visby” (Tone Tree Music)

Ivan Nahem, “Crawling Through Glass” (Arguably)

Obongjayar, “Some Nights I Dream of Doors” (September Recordings)

Post Animal, “Love Gibberish” (self-released)

Quelle Chris, “Deathfame” (Mello Music Group)

Dan Schnelle, “Shine Thru” (Outside In Music)

Dylan Sinclair, “No Longer in the Suburbs” (The Orchard)

Sonny Singh, “Chardi Kala” (self-released)

Sasha Alex Sloan, “I Blame the World” (RCA)

State Champs, “The New Age” (Pure Noise)

Luke Steele, “Listen to the Water” (EMI)

Tyler Tisdale, “If It’s All the Same to You” (Ride)

Nate Traveller, “Born Erased” (Boom.)

Tomorrow X Together, “minisode 2: Thursday’s Child” (BigHit Music)

TOPS, “Empty Seats” (Musique Tops)

Alaska Thunderstruck, “Drag: The Musical (The Studio Recording)” PEG/Killingsworth/Craft/Concord)

Various Artists, “DRAG: The Musical (The Studio Recording)” (PEG/Killingswroth/Craft/Concord Theatrical)

Various Artists, “Through the Wire, Volume 4″ (digital release)

Visions of Atlantis, “Pirates” (Napalm)

Vonica, “If You’re New Here Dance” (self-released)

Adam Weinberg, “Laugh, Cry, Grief, Hope” (self-released)

Trey Wellington, “Black Banjo” (Mountain Home Music Company)

Why Not, “Why Not” (self-released)

Wiki, “Half God” (Wikset Enterprise)

Amyl & the Sniffers, “Comfort to Me” (ATO/Rough Trade)

Maserati, “37:29:34″ and “The Language of Cities” (Temporary Residence)

The Muffs, “Really, Really Happy (Expanded Edition)” Omnivore)

Michael Nesmith, “And the Hits Just Keep On Comin’ (50th Anniversary Edition)” (71)

Bruce Springsteen, “Madison Square Garden, New York, May 16, 1988″ (nugs.net)

Neil Young, “Royce Hall, 1971,” “Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 1972″ and “Citizen Kane JR. Blues (Live at the Bottom Line” (Warner/NYA)

“Euphoria Season 2 (An HBO Original Series Soundtrack” (Interscope)

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