Eight-time Grammy Award nominees Death Cab for Cutie release their ninth studio album, which includes the single Gold Rush. It sees new members Dave Pepper and Zac Rae make their recorded debut with the group.

Three years after the release of Pretty. Odd., Las Vegas pop-rock group Panic at the Disco returns with their third studio album. The album features the single The Ballad of Mona Lisa. Panic saw a major shift in their lineup, from four in the group to two: singer/multi-instrumentalist Brendon Urie and drummer Spencer Smith.

A deeply imaginative and complex conceptual storyline that ponders the nature of time. Threading together the myth of a man sentenced to death in a majestically malevolent desert, the band conjures the grains of a musical and lyrical odyssey slipping quickly through a cosmic hourglass.