Welcome to our annual look at what we’ll spend our bandwith on in the year ahead. We did something like this last year, but the exercise was radically different this time; it’s amazing to look back and see how easy it was just to throw the list together off-the-cuff (just pick your favorite band and it seemed they had already announced an LP for ’07). Also, it’s pretty amazing to note how many of those LPs had already leaked before the new year. Are labels are getting a little smarter about plugging some of those leaks? Maybe, possibly, hopefully, hopefully not, etc.
Anyway, 2008′s shaping up to be a little different, and not just in terms of our collective OiNKlessness. As of now, the year doesn’t have nearly the same blockbuster appeal (no new Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Shins, Bloc Party, Spoon, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, et al to get everyone frothy — oh, but did you hear there is a new Radiohead album in stores on January 1st!). Still, there’s plenty of promise there if you look for it. We’ve already seen some bright spots, and haven’t got around to blogging about some others (the new Beach House and Pattern Is Movement are on heavy rotation) … and we wanted to make next year nice and easy on you. So after lots of research about the year ahead, we’ve learned a few things: there’s a new Animal Collective EP out this April, Menomena’s promising another full-length for ’08, and when you’re making a list as big as the one after the jump, your best friends go by the names Cut and Paste.
JANUARY
1/1
Radiohead – In Rainbows (ATO)
1/8
Girl Talk – TBA (Illegal Art)
Marah – Angels Of Destruction! (Yep Roc)
Kate Nash – Made Of Bricks (Fiction)
The Shondes – The Red Sea (self-released)
Sia – some people have real problems (Astralwerks)
Wisely – Wisely (Oglio)
1/15
Black Mountain – Into The Future (Jagjaguwar)
Matt Costa – Unfamiliar Faces
Mike Ladd – Nostalgialator (Def Jux)
Magnetic Fields – Distortion (Nonesuch)
Rings – Black Habit (Paw Tracks)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Cipher
Ringo Starr – Liverpool 8 (EMI)
Van Hunt – Popular (Capitol)
White, Blue, Yellow And Clouds – Introducing (I and Ear)
Zillionaire – The Street Lights Have Been Turned Down (New Granada)
1/22
Steve Aoki – Pillowface And His Airplane Chronicles (Thrive)
Aster – Some Things Seldom Heard Of
Baby Dee – Safe Inside The Day (Drag City)
Blood On The Wall – Liferz (The Social Registry)
Bodies Of Water – Ears Will Pop Eyes Will Bling (Secretly Canadian)
Cat Power – Jukebox (Matador)
Drive-By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (New West)
Evangelicals – The Evening Descends (Dead Oceans)
Fleshtones – Take A Good Look (Yep Roc)
Ghislain Porter – No Ground Under (Ninja Tune)
Hello, Blue Roses – The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty… (Locust Music)
Hey Willpower – P.D.A. (Tomlab)
Instruments Of Science And Technology – Music From The Films of R. Swift (Secretly Canadian)
The Jet Age – What Did You Do During The War, Daddy?
King Of Prussia – Save The Scene (Kindercore)
Love Is All – Mixed Up (Phonica)
Mahjongg – Kontpab (K)
Eric Matthews – The Imagination Stage (Empyrean)
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)
Jack Peñate – Matinee (XL)
Robert Pollard – Superman Was A Rocker (Happy Jack Rock)
Rafter – Sex Death Cassette (Asthmatic Kitty)
Savious – Into Abaddon (Kemado)
Steve Smith – This Town (G.A.S. Records)
Times New Viking – Rip It Off (Matador)
Whigs – Mission Control (ATO)
Whitsundays – The Whitsundays (Friendly Fire)
1/29
Bum Kon – Drunken Sex Sucks (Smooch)
Dirty On Purpose – Like Bees EP (North Street)
Ex – Building A Broken Moustrap (Touch & Go)
Future Of The Left – Curses (too pure)
The Helio Sequence – Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop)
Ida – Lovers Prayers (Polyvinyl)
Joe Jackson – Rain (Rykodisc)
Jeffrey Lewis – 12 Crass Songs (Rough Trade)
Louis XIV – Slick Dogs And Ponies (Atlantic)
The Mars Volta – The Bedlam In Goliath
Murder Mystery – are you ready for the heartache cause here it comes
Thao Nguyen – We Brave Bee Stings And All (Kill Rock Stars)
Radar Bros. – Auditorium (Merge)
Sons And Daughters – This Gift (Domino)
Two Ton Sloth – Two Ton Sloth (Token Recluse)
Quinn Walker – Lion Land / Laughter’s An Asshole (Voodoo-EROS)
Xiu Xiu – Women As Lovers (Kill Rock Stars)
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (XL)
Chris Walla – Field Manual (Barsuk)
FEBRUARY
2/5
Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling (Rough Trade)
Bob Mould – District Line (Anti)
Charlottefield – What Are Friends For (FatCat)
Jason Collett – Here’s To Being Here (Arts & Crafts)
Sheryl Crow – Detours (A&M)
Dead Meadow – Old Growth (Matador)
Devestations – Yes, U (Beggars Banquet)
Die! Die! Die! – Promises, Promises (SAF)
Foxy Brown – Brooklyn’s Don Diva (Koch)
Hot Chip – Made In The Dark (DFA/Astralwerks)
Jack Johnson – Sleep Through The Static (Brushfire/Universal)
Lenny Kravitz – It Is Time For A Love Revolution (Virgin/Capitol)
Lightspeed Champion – Falling Off The Lavender Bridge (Domino)
Shelby Lynne – Just A Little Lovin’ (Lost Highway)
Nada Surf – Lucky (Barsuk)
Psychic TV – Heaven Is Invisible (Sweet Nothing/Cargo)
Screaming Trees – Clairvoyance (Hall Of Records)
Kelley Stoltz – Circular Sounds (Sub Pop)
Yip Yip – Kinds Of The Same Kingdom (SAF)
2/12
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade/World’s Fair)
Cassie – Connecticut Fever (Bad Boy)
Danava – Unonou (Kemado)
Estelle – Shine (Atlantic/Homeschool)
Michael Jackson – Thriller – 25th Anniversary Edition (Epic)
Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III (Cash Money/Universal/Young Money)
Silje Nes – Ames Room (FatCat)
Sonic Sum – Films (Def Jux)
Steinski – TBD (Illegal Art)
2/19
American Music Club – The Golden Age (Merge)
Atlast Sound – Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Kranky)
The Big Sleep – Sleep Forever (Frenchkiss)
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
Camphor – TBA (Friendly Fire)
Crushed Stars – Gossamer Days
Cryptacize – Dig That Treasure (Asthmatic Kitty)
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
Flying – Faces Of The Night (Menlo Park)
Grand Archives – The Grand Archives (Sub Pop)
Great Northern – Sleepy EP (Eenie Meenie)
Headlights – Some Racing, Some Stopping (Polyvinyl)
Monade – Monstre Cosmic (too pure)
Morcheeba – Dive Deep (Ultra)
Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride (4AD)
No Kids – Come Into My House (tomlab)
Panther – 14kt God (Kill Rock Stars)
The Raveonettes – Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
Seven Mary Three – day&nightdriving (Icon)
Steve Reid Ensemble – Daxaar (Domino)
Throw Me The Statue – Moonbeams (Secretly Canadian)
2/26
Beach House – Devotion (Carpark)
Born Ruffians – Red, Yellow And Blue (Warp)
Del The Funky Homosapien – Eleventh Hour (Def Jux)
Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree (Mute)
Janet Jackson – Discipline (Island/Def Jam)
La Scala – The Harlequin EP (Highwheel Records)
Our Brother The Native – Make Amends, For We Are Merely Vessels (FatCat)
Also in February…
Los Campesinos! – Hold On Now Youngster… (Arts & Crafts)
Nas – Nigger (Def Jam/Columbia/The Jones Experience)
Mike Doughty – Golden Delicious
The Heavenly States – Delayer (The Rebel Group)
Two Dark Birds – Two Dark Birds (Vfib Recordings)
Pas/Cal – TBA (Le Grande Magistery)
Rocket From The Crypt – R.I.P. CD/DVD (Vagrant)
Sian Alice Group – 59.59 (The Social Registry)
MARCH
3/4
A Weather – Cove (Team Love)
Autechre – Quaristice (Warp)
Bing Ji Ling – June Degrees In December
The Black Crowes – Warpaint (Silver Arrow)
Cadence Weapon – Afterparty Babies (Anti-)
The Gutter Twins – Saturnalia (Sub Pop)
Ladyhawk – Shots (Jagjaguwar)
The Oaks – TBD (self-released)
The Ruby Suns – Se Lion (Sub Pop)
These United States – A Picture Of The Three Of us At The Gate To The Garden Of Eden (self-released)
What Made Milwaukee Famous – What Doesn’t Kill Us (Barsuk)
Jim White – Transnormal Skiperoo (Luka Bop)
White Hinterland – Phylactery Factory (Dead Oceans)
3/11
The B-52′s – Funplex (Astralwerks)
Bryan Adams – 11 (Universal)
Destroyer – Trouble In Dreams (Merge)
Dragged by Horses – TBA (Highwheel)
Excepter – Debt Dept. (Paw Tracks)
Kaki King – Dreaming Of Revenge (Sony)
The Kills – Midnight Boom (Domino)
Lach – The Calm Before (Fortified)
Panic! At The Disco – You Don’t Have To Worry… (Fueled By Ramen/Decaydance)
Presidents Of The United States Of America – These Are The Good Times People
WHY? – Alopecia (Anticon)
Science For Girls – Science For Girls (self-released)
Silver Mt. Zion – TBA (Constellation)
Ashlee Simpson – Bittersweet World (Geffen)
These New Puritans – Beat Pyramid (Domino)
Imaad Wasif with Two Part Best – Strange Hexes (self-released)
3/18
Be Your Own Pet – Get Awkward (Ecstatic Peace/Universal)
Sera Cahoone – Only As The Day Is Long (Sub Pop)
DeVotchKa – TBA (Anti-)
Daniel Lanois – Here Is What Is (Red Floor)
3/25
Counting Crows – Saturday Nights, Sunday Mornings (Geffen)
Also in March…
50 Cent – Before I Self Destruct (Aftermath)
Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid (Fiction)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
Moby – Last Night (Mute)
Ours – Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginary Enemy (American)
Dirtbombs – TBA (In The Red)
Speedo – TBA (Swami/Vagrant)
13 Ghosts – TBA (Skybucket)
Free Kitten (Kim Gordon side project) – TBA (Ecstatic Peace)
The Teenagers – (XL)
Helvetia – The Acrobats (The Static Cult Label)
The LK – Vs. The Snow (The Kora)
Filter – Anthems For The Damned (Warner Bros.)
APRIL
4/1
Frightened Rabbit – Midnight Organ Fight (FatCat)
Icy Demons – Miami Ice (Obey Your Brain)
Pomengranates – Everything Is Alive (Lujo)
Sun Kil Moon – April (Caldo Verde)
Supergrass – Diamond Hoo Ha Men
Sword – Gods Of The Earth (Kemado)
4/8
Animal Collective – Water Curses EP (Domino)
Billy Bragg – Mr. Love & Justice (Anti-)
The Breeders – Mountain Battles (4AD)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Anti-)
Colin Meloy – Skulls, Ship, Sheep (Kill Rock Stars)
Man Man – Rabbit Hats (Anti-)
New Bloods – The Secret Life (Kill Rock Stars)
4/29
The Roots – Rising Down (Def Jam)
Also In April…
Aloha – TBA (Polyvinyl)
Constantines – TBA (Arts & Crafts)
Doctors And Dealers – Confessions Of A Drunken Mind
The Kooks – Konk (Virgin)
The Lemonheads – TBA (Vagrant)
M83 – Saturdays = Youth (Mute)
Alanis Morissette – Flavors Of Entanglement (Maverick)
Jim Noir – TBA (Barsuk)
Portishead – TBA
R.E.M.
Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Pershing (Polyvinyl)
MAY
Death Cab For Cutie – TBA (Atlantic)
Ladytron – TBA (Nettwerk)
The M’s – TBA (Polyvinyl)
Shearwater – Rook (Matador)
JUNE
Dr. Dre – Detox (Aftermath/Interscope)
The Fray – TBA (Epic)
Joan of Arc – TBA (Polyvinyl)
Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s – Animal (Epic)
SEPTEMBER
Ace Of Base – TBA
31Knots – TBA (Polyvinyl)
OCTOBER
of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
CONFIRMED FOR 2008, DATES TBA
Alice In Chains
Alkaline Trio
Apes & Androids – Blood Moon
Apollo Sunshine – Mysteries Of The Old Soul
Awesome Color
Laura Barrett
Davd Bazan
Beyoncé
Blackout Beach
Boris – Smile
Bosque Brown
Brendan Canning
Coldplay
The Cure
Dan Deacon
Def Leppard – Songs From The Sparkle Lounge
Early Day Miners
Elk City
Explorers Club
Eve – Here I Am
Faunts
Fergie
Final Fantasy
Flight Of The Conchords
Foals
Franz Ferdinand
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. – Searching For The Hows And Whys
Gnarls Barkley
Green Day
Helmet
Impossible Shapes
The Instruments – Dark Smaland
Islands
Dominique Leone – Dominique Leone
Love As Laughter
Lucky Dragons
Madonna
Mariah Carey
Mates Of State
Matisyahu
John Mellencamp – The Company We Keep
Menomena
Metallica
Modest Mouse (b-sides collection)
My Bloody Valentine
My Chemical Romance
My Morning Jacket
Oasis
The Offspring
Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
Pattern Is Movement – All Together
PWRFL Power
The Raconteurs
Langhorne Slim
The Streets
Richard Swift
t.A.T.U. – Waste Management
Vetiver
Water Fai
Weezer
Windsor For The Derby
Wolf Parade
Stevie Wonder – The Gospel Inspired By Lula
FRESH FROM THE RUMOR MILL
AC/DC
The Avalanches
Blind Melon
Blur
Built To Spill
Isobel Campbell
Cloud Cult
The Dandy Warhols
Dirty Pretty Things
Pete Doherty solo LP
Doves
Eminem
¡Forward, Russia!
Handsome Furs
Islands
Scarlett Johansson – Scarlett Sings Tom Waits
No Doubt
Spiritualized
Wolf Parade
The Verve
And after all that, we’re sure we missed something. (Don’t say Chinese Democracy; we left that off the list out of respect to you, out of respect for us, and out of respect for the concept and integrity of the act of listmaking in general). We’re figuring you’ll tell us anyway, so we won’t even ask. Instead: let’s put this thread to some concerted, declarative use, and make it a call to “what we’re most psyched for in ’08.” And … go.
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I’m pretty sure I read on The Thermals site that they’ll be in the studio early ’08 so I assume the album will make it out next year.
It seems like we’re really overdue for a new state from Suf too.
New The Hold Steady, hells yeah!
There will be a new Saturna record in 2008 too.
LADYTRON!!!!!!!!
there will definitely be a new breeders album. the masters were sitting in the studio i recorded my record at last april.
Don’t forget the new Elbow album, The Seldom Seen Kid, is out in March. I think it will be a hot one…
Morrissey’s reps say he’s recording and will have one out in the fall.
I’m not gonna lie, it looks like it’ll be a boring year.
Hopefully I can just listen to Girl Talk for 12 months
second the call for tapes ‘n tapes. also i believe raconteurs is likely
doves are always quality. looking very forward to this.
PJ Harvey has mentioned a few times in interviews that her most recent collaboration with John Parish will be released in the fall of ’08. If it’s anything near the quality of Dance Hall at Louse Point, it will be fantastic.
you dropped the triple f’s:
FRANZ FERDINAND (ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG!!!11111!)
final fantasy
flight of the conchords!
XD
i believe that some time early in 2008 Daniel Johnston’s Lost and Found will finally be released in the US. It’s been out since 2006 in the UK, so really i guess it’s already been out.. you could certainly find it on any p2p network.. bat for lashes has begun recording a new album, so perhaps natasha will have a new one soon, grand ole party are coming out with their first album soon, something that should be a hit with the likes of karen o fans… are the black kids going to release a full length?… badly drawn boy mentioned releasing something at the end of 2007, so perhaps that will actually be extended into 2008 instead.. boy least likely to has almost finished recording, so that’s something to look forward to, the faint recorded starting in august…neko case is almost done with her new album.. i hope that if noah and the whale chose to really put out their album, that it would be soon and get a full release… black lips?.. i mean they’re prolific…. oh, those are a few that i would rumor or that i am at least hopeful for… oh, and yes, i’m pretty sure as well that there will be a new antony and the johnsons in “spring 2008″
plus all the new bands coming out right now are really going to swing in for 2008 like many bands did for 2007…
that’s the most i can think of for the current lack of releases….
Filter? The Offspring? Alice in Chains? The Lemonheads? Ace of Base? Counting Crows? Green Day? The Verve? Oasis? Weezer? SEVEN MARY THREE?
Is this fucking 1995?
With everything listed here in the post and comments, I find it highly amusing to read the comments that there’s nothing to look forward to, it’s gonna be a boring year, etc. What the hell do you want?? My 65-year-old father is more musically open-minded than some of the commenters…
Jandek will have some new jams out surely.
Gil Mantera’s Party Dream
“COLIN MELOY YOU GUYS
I’M FUCKING STOKED OUT OF ME FACE”
i second that so hard. you don’t even know.
Shwah?! New Girl Talk in approximately two (2) weeks?!?! Why did I not know about this??!!
Plus, I reckon i’m the only person here excited for the new Ace of Base…
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
February 2008 in Australia
I just can’t get excited about stuff coming out in October, but the Jicks, Portishead, Breeders, and wtf, the B-52s? Those should be entertaining albums…
boring?!?!?! there look like there are going to be some great albums out next year! can’t wait.
Smashing Pumpkins – American Gothic 1/2.
Also Albert Hammond jr just announced a new cd in winter/spring, The Long Blondes in April, The Black Keys, Lily Allen, The Streets, The Futureheads, Klaxons
Depeche Mode in Fall, Royksopp in Spring and maybe even U2
For Bono that message is both personal and political. He hopes to have a new U2 album out next year. “We have enough material for two albums but it has to be extraordinary. And I think we’ve got that.”
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article3212986.ece
i’m not sure that girl talk info is right – i sure as hell haven’t heard a peep about that…..
I’m probably most looking forward to the new Of Montreal. Partially because Hissing Fauna was great, but mostly because I love the title “Skeletal Lamping”.
where’s the tokyo police club?
I would have to say that the year looks pretty bleak for music, but I am looking forward to the new Death Cab and Of Montreal.
OOOOOH EXCITEMENT
“I would have to say that the year looks pretty bleak for music”
You’re killin me. Is this “cool detachment?”
If this is bleak, what would make it a good year to look forward to?
I don’t know, hope springs eternal for me; every band I’m looking forward to this year could release their opus, the zenith of their careers. Until they’re actually released, they’re potential life-changing events.
Can the moderator/blogger please add these?
The Music Tapes — For Clouds and Tornadoes (2008)
Elbow — The Seldom Seen Kid (March 2008)
Apollo Sunshine — Mysteries of the Old Soul (Summer)
Ours — Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy (March 2008)
Frequency Fall — Everything Now (early 2008)
The Dandy Warhols — no title (2008)
Three Mile Pilot — no title (2008)
Jason Falkner — I’m Okay, You’re Okay (early 2008)
Islands — no title (2008)
Spiritualized — no title (2008)
The Autumns — Fake Noise from a Box of Toys (early 2008)
Annuals I hope
Something I’ve been waiting for for a long time: Koushik’s debut on Stones Throw. I talked to Dan Snaith of Caribou a couple of weeks ago and he said it sounds “awesome” and should be released in the first half of 08, although I think nothing has been officially confirmed.
what about the new NAS in February?
1/22 – Dengue Fever – Venus on Earth
1/22? – Apes & Androids – Blood Moon
unknown/butpleaseGodmakeitsoon – Local H – 12 Angry Months
The Plastic Constellations “We Appreciate You” April 15th ’08
I really hope the rumor mill isn’t gonna fall through with that AVALANCHES ANNOUNCMENT!!! WHat’s it been, like 6 or 7 years since their last? SOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!
Any word on Lightning Bolt? Surely they can bang together an album on a weekend and have it kick ass.
last visible dog will release the futurians megacityrules record early 08 i do believe. mmmmm. swampy.
what about the liam finn album releasing in the states on 22 january? he’s friggin’ amazing.
FINALLY
“Scarlett Sings Tom Waits”
My album of the year… don’t even have to hear it. Freaking brilliant.
SHEARWATER YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS if it’s anything like PALO SANTO it’s going to be fucking awesome
also excited for colin meloy
BUT WHERE THE HELL IS THE TOKYO POLICE CLUB?!?!?UANFDADFASDFADGR
Silver Mt. Zion – TBA (Constellation)
Ashlee Simpson – Bittersweet World (Geffen)
hilarious juxtaposition there, guys
also, Xiu Xiu and THA CARTA III!!!
+1 to new nas
new heavy blinkers double album HEALTH in the spring!
No Raconteurs, shame on you.
Anyone heard anything about a new Teenage Fanclub record in ’08, maybe?
Erykah Badu should be getting her act together starting in February and two more throughout the year
The Acorn ‘Glory Hope Mountain’ comes out in March!
New Under Byen ‘Live’ EP called “Siamesisk” out in March as well!
http://www.paperbagrecords.com
I hope there will be new music from Tapes ‘N’ Tapes in 2008. I still really enjoy “The Loon” and am looking forward to hearing how their sound progresses. Anybody know anything about what they are doing?
the full-length from wild sweet orange is due out in the first half of the year, i think.
The following are recording and should have new shit out in the new year
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Anathallo
Sigur Ros
Ryan Adams
Sufjan Stevens
Anberlin
Metric
What an amazing list!!!
31 knots, Of Montreal, Spoon..
Our favorites on VIRV.TV – Indie music television.
Merry Xmas
what about Foals? thats supposed to come out on SubPop
Supplemental info on new releases can be found here.
supposedly massive attack have announced a summer 08 release for album 5 (which was supposed to have been out nearly a year ago).
http://gyozamonsta.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/ill-be-holding-my-breath/
and 4hero is releasing their morning child EP new years day…
anyone else hear something about the dears releasing another album in ’08….
and can’t wait for the new portishead, dammit.
probably no one cares, but new mindless self indulgence album in april!
Bonjour Brumaire in early/mid 2008. French Canadian band from the same producer as Malajube.
Even though you just covered them a week ago or so, Does anybody know if HIGH PLACES is putting out a full length? I really hope so! I almost want to straight email their myspace and find out! Are they even signed? If not, I can’t believe labels are sleeping on this band!
I don’t know if anyone else likes, knows, or updates this post BUT Cloud Cult is releasing a new album in April. They have not said what the name is
mute math shooting for sept 08. funny how this site manages to constantly overlook one of the best bands around today…especially in their best live act list. they are easily #1
DoNT 4get ThE NeW BrITTnEY SpEArS IN 2008 ThA Tb e ThE REal CoOl
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GOD BLESS THE MARRY CHRISTMAS
I caught an Ours show about 4 months ago.
They did some KILLER new stuff. Gonna be one of the best rock albums of the year. Ours. Remember it.
Ladytron’s new one is coming out in may!!!!!!!!!!Jucifer is coming soon!!!!!!!!
actually new Ladytron is coming in March.
Don’t forget people the “Shoegazer” documentary “Beautiful Noise” will be coming soon in 2008
Matt Costa is actually out on 1/22, not 1/15
Jack Johnson is out 2/5…
“I don’t know if anyone else likes, knows, or updates this post BUT Cloud Cult is releasing a new album in April. They have not said what the name is”
I care! That is great news, as I enjoyed the last two quite a bit. Nice!
“I caught an Ours show about 4 months ago.
They did some KILLER new stuff. Gonna be one of the best rock albums of the year. Ours. Remember it.”
Also great to hear, I’ve been looking forward to #3 for a while now, and it seems the time is almost at hand.
AVALANCHES. Period.
Black Francis’ new Mini-LP SVN FNGRS will be released “early” 2008. Having heard the three songs already floating about, it’s gonna be good.
The Epochs are releasing their first album in February, I believe.
Cajun Dance Party?
While, most of my favorites put out records in ’07, it still seems as though there’s plenty in store for ’08…
+ Immensely excited for Cloud Cult’s new one.
+ Travis is heading back to record in Feb, though no expected release date yet.
+ The Everyday Visuals mentioned at a show a new one in ’08, though no date.
+ Excited to hear Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s, MGMT, and Eno’s influence on Coldplay.
Needs more Pavement
Also, it’s nice to see Indianapolis band Margot get some recognition.
Check out Everthus the Deadbeats, another indy-based band. I’m not in the band, just think they’re primed for a breakthrough.
these artists/bands should have something worthwhile coming out in the new year: brendan canning (BSS), in this blackout (jerry joseph), kiss kiss, the icarus line, we versus the shark, giant drag…
foals- antidotes
sub pop, april-ish. it’s coming out in march in the UK.
“Wolf Parade’s a little iffy, since they still need to get in the studio.”
Actually, they finished recording sometime in the fall. It’s being mixed in January, and they want to have it out by May at the latest.
On a related note, to “Rumour Mill” you can add Handsome Furs. They’re hoping to do a quick recording in January, and then release it sometime during the year.
Wow, thanks for this…. it’s surprisingly hard to find an easy-to-navigate-yet-comprehensive list.
Good Day.
These are some Canadian bands to watch out for in 2008:
Slim Twig
http://www.myspace.com/slimtwig
Thunderheist
http://www.myspace.com/thunderheist
Woodhands
http://www.myspace.com/woodhands
Cadence Weapon
http://www.myspace.com/cadenceweapon
Laura Barrett
http://www.myspace.com/laurabarrett
The Acorn
http://www.myspace.com/theacorn
Watch out.
WOLFMOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!
Umm..
Hellllo? SHIRLEY MANSON
Why was this overlooked?!
- D.
What about the huge Ryan Adams box set???
Atmosphere- When Life Gives You Lemons, Paint that Shit Gold
April 22, 2008
Patrick Wolf plans on releasing an album next year as well.
http://www.nme.com/news/patrick-wolf/28745
New Royksopp is rumored for March… and its gonna be goooooooooood.
Cold War Kids say they’ll have another album out in the summer….
four tops are supposed to put something out in 08…with aretha franklin featured on a song
Is anyone else pumped about that Pomegranates record in April?
New Rancid album…
http://consequenceofsound.com/2007/12/29/new-rancid-album-in-2008/
If Girl Talk’s new one is really going to be out on Jan. 8, then that’s fucking awesome.
Fuck, 2008 is going to rule. The new MBV should be good. The Presets are releasing a new record as well next year.
Also:
Genghis Tron – Board Up This House (February 19 2008)
Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing (February 11 2008)
The Long Blondes – Couples (April 7 2008)
Sebastien Tellier – Sexuality (February 2008)
Chris Clark – Turning Dragon (January 29 2008)
Death Angel – Killing Season (February 26 2008)
Lyrics Born – Everywhere at Once (March 18 2008)
James Pants – Rhythm Trax Vol. 1
Guilty Simpson – Ode to the Ghetto
Jason Forrest/DJ Donna Summer – Panther Tracks
Lee “Scratch” Perry – Repentance
Brian Jonestown Massacre – My Bloody Underground (?)
Lightning Bolt have been working on a new record since September this year, Big Boi’s working on a new one, Geffen’s apparently doing an “Odelay” 2-CD reissue, Mike Patton said that he was working on a new Fantomas record, David Tibet (Current 93) is putting out two records in mid-to-late ’08 and the Ghostface/MF Doom collab is due out as well. I heard something about Khaela from the Blow working on a new one, but I’m not sure.
The Mae Shi – HLLLYH (Feb 11, 2008)
I want a new Boards of Canada album.
Jack Johnson is out February 5th.
Wye Oak (formerly Monarch) have mentioned they might have a second LP in 08.
Can’t wait for Cut Copy/Avalanches
Holly Cole: album title “Girl Talk” to be released on January 8th.
http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Talk-Holly-Cole/dp/B0000549IH
The Holly Cole album was released on January 8, 2007, not 2008. Also, the illegal art website seems to indicate a new girl talk album will be released between now and February.
they might be giants – here come the 123s, february 5th
adam green – sixes and sevens, march 18th
ben kweller – changing horses
albert hammond, jr.
New BYOP!
I cannot wait for the next twelve months man.
They’re not huge yet, but I’m expecting big things.
Out in March: The Dodos – Visiter (French Kiss)
They’re great live, too.
Black Kids’ debut album? Anyone? And TVOTR?
Mew’s third major label release is coming out really soon. It’s on their myspace’s blog that’s being mixed and it’s gonna be released in Europe in a couple of months. I hope it drops march/april! Frengers is just an amazing record, and the Kites might be some kinda difficult but it worths a lot.
Also there’s the first Still’s Art & Crafts release in March.
Cansei De Ser Sexy’s second is also expected for march by SubPop. I’m hopping it gets an official release in Brazil, cause they have no contract with any brazillian record labels.
After Bonde’s brak up, I think we’re gonna receive a solo and Diplo-produced Marina Vello. And a Gorky’s DJ-kicks album. Anyone interested?
Here in Brazil we’re also expecting the first solo albums of both Rodrigo Amarante (the second voice in Devendra’s “Rosa”) and Marcelo Camelo (http://www.myspace.com/marcelocamelo), leaders of recently splited and our most loved band Los Hermanos (htt.
Amarante (http://www.myspace.com/rodrigoamarante) is actually recording with Nick Valensi and Fabrizzio Moretti of the Strokes. After “Rosa”, “Diamond Eyes” (inclued on Acid Folk compilation by Devendra for Uncut) and “Evaporar” (on his myspace), I think he’s gonna drop really good stuff.
Camelo’s new song “Teo e a gaivota” is on his myspace. All acoustic, the song is pretty much alike some of his work on last Los Hermanos’ record, “4″. Some people says his album is already finished and it’s out very soon.
For lovers of brazillian music, there’s also Mombojó’s third and the debut of Macaco Bong (think Explosions In The Sky meets At The Drive In).
from Illegal Art: no Girl Talk album until the Spring at the earliest. it will be released digitally as soon as it is mastered… and physically shortly after that. we thought Gregg might have a new album by the end of ’07, but although he has more new material than he needs (from prepping live shows), there has been so little time with his schedule to do the meticulous editing needed for the final mixes ….
The Man Man record is going to be called “Rabbit Habits”. 100% sure on this.