If this is your first time reading my new column: Welcome! Come in, take a look around, I hope you can dig what this week has to offer. To those previous readers: did I mention I got my own column? Since mid-last week my weekly new releases report has been settling into its new home: my Shiny New Discs column. Alright, enough about me, on to what you're here for: my selections from today's new releases. We've got a lot this week, so I'll tackle the monster alphabetically. From the top...

The Broken West's latest Now or Heaven is out on Merge.

Calexico's sixth album, Carried to Dust.

f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13 is Colourmusic's debut full-length album. Take a listen: "Put In A Little Gas" mp3

British lads Fujiya & Miyagi follow up the stateside explosion of 2006's Transparent Things with Lightbulbs.

Ten years later, original Smash Mouth guitarist Greg Camp releases his solo debut Defektor. Curious? Take a listen: "Cat's Game" mp3

Alphabutt by Kimya Dawson (she's 1/2 of the Moldy Peaches).

Ministry of Sound resident Mark Knight releases the latest in the Toolroom Knights series: "A journey through the World's finest house music."

The late, great comedian Mitch Hedberg has a posthumous record out: Do You Believe In Gosh?. It was recorded two months before his death in March 2005.

Captain Love by Mock Orange. Want a taste? Mp3s: "Song In D", "World of Machines"

Okkervil River are back with their fifth Jagjaguwar LP, The Stand Ins.

Beyond the Horizon by People In Planes. Watch "Mayday (M'aidez)" live: Windows Media or Apple Quicktime. Stream the album at PureVolume.

Pontiak's second full-length, Sun on Sun.

Portastatic releases a 2-disc rarity collection of tracks recorded from 1990-2007 title Some Small History.

The Raveonettes release the first of four digital EPs—this one's a remix disc.

Involver 2 by Sasha. The standard edition has Sasha's unique electronic re-workings of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, folkie Ray LaMontagne, and electronic artists Apparat and Ladytron. The limited edition comes with another disc of exclusive remixes.

Stereophonics first release in America since 2005, Pull the Pin.

All or Nothing by the Subways.