Nobody buys CDs anymore but that won't stop a ton of artists from unleashing their latest masterpieces between now and Christmas.
One of those artists won't be U2, however. They've pushed their latest back into 2009. Still, after checking Amazon, a recent New York Times, and wire-service stories, I've assembled a list of notable releases coming soon.
SEPT. 16
Buckcherry, "Black Butterfly"
Lindsey Buckingham, "Gift of Screws"
Ne-Yo, "Year of the Gentleman
SEPT. 23
Kings of Leon, "Only By the Night"
TV on the Radio, "Dear Science,"
Jenny Lewis, "Acid Tongue"
Pussycat Dolls, "Doll Domination"
Plain White T's, "Big Bad World"
Common, "Invincible Summer"
Cold War Kids, "Loyalty to Loyalty"
SEPT. 30
T.I., "Paper Trail"
James Taylor, "Covers"
Ani DiFranco, "Red Letter Year"
Jennifer Hudson, "Jennifer Hudson"
Robin Thicke, "Magic"
Ben Folds, "Way to Normal"
Pete Seeger, "At 89"
OCT. 7
Pretenders, "Break Up the Concrete"
Clash, "Clash Live at Shea Stadium"
Bob Dylan, "Tell Tale Signs"
Rise Against, "Appeal to Reason"
Oasis, "Dig Out Your Soul"

OCT. 14
Lucinda Williams, "Little Honey"
Cure, "Dream 13"
Ray LaMontagne, "Gossip in the Grain"
OCT. 20
AC/DC, "Black Ice" (only at Wal-Mart)
OCT. 21
Kenny Chesney, "Lucky Old Sun"
LaBelle, "Back to Now"
OCT. 28
John Legend, "Evolver"
Ludacris, "Theater of the Mind"
Pink, "So What"
Queen & Paul Rodgers, "The Cosmos Rocks"
Toby Keith, "That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy"
Boz Scaggs, "Speak Low"
NOV 4
Fall Out Boy, "Folie a Deux"
Brad Paisley, "Play"
Chris Cornell, "Scream"
NOV. 11
Neil Young, "Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972)"
Missy Elliott, "Block Party"
NOV. 18
Taylor Swift, "Fearless"
Beyonce, Title TBA
DEC. 16
Kanye West, "808's and Heartaches"

Elbow's "Seldom Scene Kid" won England's prestigious Mercury Prize on Tuesday, beating out CDs by Radiohead, Burial, Adele, British Sea Power, and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, among others.

Kennedy Center Honors for 2008 recipients include the Who, Barbra Streisand, George Jones, Twyla Tharp, and Morgan Freeman. Should be interesting when Streisand accepts at an event the President and First Lady always host. She's a vocal supporter of Barack Obama, and will perform at a snazzy fund-raiser for him soon.
The event airs on Dec. 7 on CBS, well after the election.