Does anyone know of another online database of new releases besides allmusic.com? Whenever I go to that site, it's always really slow and now it's got annoying pop-up links, anti-spyware crap, etc...

Any ideas?

The strength of allmusic.com is their musician search function in their vast archive. It's the best way on the web to find out on what recent releases for example your favourite studio guitarist plays on.
But for a mere list of announced or rumored new releases, I tend to visit pauseandplay.com's cd-front page.
Besides that, I recommend AdBlock for Firefox ;-)

And yes, allmusic.com is slow sometimes. I remember times when all I got from their server was a one-liner saying "We have too many users right now". They seems to have upped their bandwidth since then, but obviously, they're slowing again. Probably, it's for the same reason.

I hope this helps.

If you're looking for reggae related stuff this site might offer some help: [www.roots-archives.com]

This is excellent, thanks for the replies. Looks like the pauseandplay site works for me. Believe it or not, somehow the Firefox block failed me yesterday when I was on allmusic.com.