Ah, a new year. Always a breathe of fresh air, in my honest opinion. You get a brand new start and establish a "New Years Resolution" and all that good mumbo jumbo. My favorite part of a new year is a fresh start to the music year and the anticipation of great record releases. I started my blog around March of last year (I really can't remember), so I never got around to doing one of these, but here it is. Here's a fairly short list of records I'm looking forward to this 2011 year. All of these are North American releases.
January 11
Wire - Red Barked Tree [Pink Flag]
January 18
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead [Capitol]
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde [Fat Possum]
White Lies - Ritual [Geffen]
January 25
Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings [Carpark]
Deerhoof - Deerhoof Vs. Evil [Polyvinyl]
Gang of Four - Content [Yep Roc]
Iron & Wine - We Kiss Each Other Clean [Warner Bros./4AD]
Talib Kweli - Gutter Rainbow [Talibra]
February 1
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts [Memphis Industrials]
February 8
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Death - Tao of the Dead [Richter Scale Recordings]
James Blake - James Blake [Atlas/A&M]
February 15
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will [Sub Pop]
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake [Vagrant]
Yuck - Yuck [Fat Possum]
February 22
Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine [Carpark]
March 8
R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now [Warner Bros.]
Some time in March
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Belong [Slumberland]
April 5
Surfer Blood - I'm Not Ready EP [Kanine]
Sometime in 2011
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 1 & 2 [Capitol]
Coldplay - TBA [Capitol]
Dr. Dre - Detox [Interscope]
Fleet Foxes - TBA [Sub Pop]
Foo Fighters - TBA [RCA]
Radiohead - TBA [?]
The Strokes - TBA [RCA]
U2 - Songs of Ascent [Mercury/Island/Interscope]
Wilco - TBA [Nonesuch]
So there ya have it, make sure you go out and support your favorite artists and buy there records through a store, weather it be iTunes, Walmart, your local record shop, etc.
Good listening!
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