Yikes! Welcome to the second quarter of 2010. Months and days, they do fly by. Thanks to all that wished me a happy birthday leading up to my 53rd birthday. But here we are...April of 2010.

Last week, I posed a question of Perfect Current Albums, those within the last five years. We didn't get much for responses but we did get some. Here they are for your investigation:

• The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage
• Joss Stone - Colour Me Free!
• Kraak & Smaak - Plastic People
• Coldplay - Viva La Vida (4)
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• The Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again
• BT - These Hopeful Machines
• Alison Krauss/Robert Plant - Raising Sand (4)
• Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (2)
• Mark Knopfler - Kill To Get Crimson
• Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - This Is Somewhere
• Porcupine Tree - The Incident (2)
• Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg (4)
• Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
• Shirley Bassey - The Performance
• Evanescence - Fallen
• Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot
• Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
• AC/DC - Black Ice
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gods and Guns
• Bon Jovi - The Circle
• The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving
• Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers - No More Beautiful World
• She & Him - Volume One
• Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
• Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
• Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilions
• Regina Spektor - Far
• Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation In the Backyard
• Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
• My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
• Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
• Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
• Muse - The Resistance
• Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
• Brian Wilson - Smile
• Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
• Heartless Bastards - All This Time
• Heartless Bastards - Stairs and Elevators
• Mindy Smith - One Minute More
• Plain White T's - Big Bad World
• Asia - Phoenix
• Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
• The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
• Shakira - Oral Fixation Vol 2
• The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang
• Chicago - Stone of Sisyphus

We'll be back on Wednesday! We have a review of the magnificent British Invasion 5DVD Box coming. I just wanted to let you know that it's pretty awesome.

I want to alert TAP readers to the fact that I have finally put together a FaceBook fan page that you can access and join by clicking on the badge below.  What this offers is the exact same thing as my Twitter feeds provide and that is first buzz on upcoming releases and free offered downloads, many announcements  that beat our main post, sometimes by days.  We also provide a Google BUZZ page that expands on most of the Twitter/FB feeds. On Buzz, you can even hear the music stream if a stream is offered.  There are still things that I'm working on in the FB page, like calender notes as well as links to great sites like The Second Disc.  I invite you to join us at our FB page and bookmark it.  Visit it daily and you'll be rewarded with much news and info.  Of course, you'll still want to come to the main MusicTAP page for our noisy commentaries.  Remember, with our Twitter feeds, you can elect to receive the news bursts as text on your mobile phone keeping you effortlessly up to date with stuff.  Lots of choices.  Find one, or two, that fits.

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Atlantic Records will reissue four John Coltrane titles on vinyl LP, all scheduled for June 15. The titles are: Coltrane Jazz (1961), My Favorite Things (1961), Coltrane Plays The Blues (1962), and Coltrane's Sound (LP).

RoadRunner Records will release Omen by Soulfly in both a standard CD issue and a Special Edition CD/DVD issue on May 25 (CD/CD&DVD).

The next Dire Straits LP reissue will be Love Over Gold on 180g weight vinyl. It is scheduled for May 25 (LP).

Warner Brothers Records will release Sea of Cowards from The Dead Weather on May 11. The album will sport 11 tracks and should be really rollickin' (CD).

Curb Records will release new Hank Williams III music with the issue of his upcoming Rebel Within. This album will be released on standard issue CD as well as LP, which will contain the CD as a bonus. This is planned for May 25 (CD/LP).

Warner Brothers will reissue a Metallica title (Load) on vinyl LP in two styles. The first will be a 2LP reissue while the other will be a 4LP, 180g Deluxe Edition that will be available in 45RPM speed. These are arriving on May 18 (LP).

Interscope will release 360° At The Rose Bowl featuring U2 in both Blu-ray (BD), and DVD, scheduled for June 3 (DVD/BD).

Valory Records has an as yet unnamed Jewel album planned for June 8 (CD).

Savoy Records will release Til the Light Comes by Jackie Green, planned for June 1 (CD).

Concord Records will release a collection for Ozomatli called Ultimate Ozomatli on June 22 (CD).

Varese Sarabande plans the release of Many Mamas, Many Papas by John Phillips on CD and planned for June 15 (CD).

Interscope will release Q, Soul Bossa Nostra from Quincy Jones on May 25 (CD).

Geffen Records has an as-yet-unnamed album coming from Orianthi on June 1.