R&B man Robin Thicke returns to library shelves with Sex Therapy: The Session. It was released a few months before Tiger Woods was in therapy, which makes him either cutting-edge or prescient. It’s more of what we’ve come to expect from Thicke, syrupy sweet ballads mixed with more “banger-y” numbers.

Former Girl Aloud Cheryl Cole has an album out called 3 Words. The title is a reference to her marriage break-up with English footballer, Ashley Cole (trust me, I read her wikipedia page and carefully deduced it so). Will.I.Am appears on four tracks, so it’s a welcome bonus for fans of holographic political pundits.

Local indie-rappers Bandicoot have an ep on the shelves entitled Jurassic Warfare. On the back cover is a picture of a Triceratops shooting lasers out of its horns. Lasers out of its horns. I realise that doesn’t have anything to do with the music therein, which is a lot of rockin’ good fun, but dinosaurs and lasers should be enough, right?

Candian heart-throb Justin Bieber’s My World makes a long overdue appearance on the catalogue this week. From uploading his bedroom performances of Usher’s songs to youtube, to working with Usher and having his face adorn the bedroom walls across the tween demographic, it’s been a meteoric rise to fame for the youngster. Coming soon, My World 2.0?

Jared Leto’s 30 Seconds To Mars released the Tiger-covered This Is War last year to much fawning over sculpted cheekbones and immaculate fringes. They’ve stepped sideways from the screamo of works previous and adopted The Edge’s guitar sound, whilst never losing sight of their grand, stadium-packing vision. Try if you enjoy Muse, The Killers and My Chemical Romance.

One of my favourites, Connan Mockasin, dropped his solo debut, Please Turn Me Into The Snat a few weeks ago. Just trust me when I say it’s well worth a listen and is surely one of the best New Zealand albums of the year. Previous ep Uuu It’s Teasy is excellent also.

Fans of YA music should watch this space in the coming weeks, a large shopping bag was filled with CDs recently…