Santana releases Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time, a covers album and his first studio effort since 2005. The album was produced by Clive Davis and features an impressive slew of guests, including Nas, Rob Thomas, Scott Weiland, Chris Cornell, India.Arie, Chris Daughtry, Ray Manzarek, Jonny Lang, Pat Monahan and Gavin Rossdale. Among the 12 classics covered are Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love, The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps, AC/DC’s Back in Black and Def Leppard’s Photograph...

The L.A. boys in Maroon 5 offer up their third album to date, which is entitled Hands All Over and was produced by Robert “Mutt” Lange. The first single is Misery...

John Legend & The Roots release Wake Up!, which features a cover of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes’ Wake Up Everybody...

Available Light is a five-song EP from James McCartney, the only son of Paul and Linda McCartney, and includes a cover of Neil Young’s Old Man and production by none other than Papa Paul...