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[new music roundup] 2.19.13

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A few of my favorite new releases this week (a ton of new music this wee), including the latest from Beach Fossils, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and STRFKR.  As always, be sure to visit Largehearted Boy for more new music.

What are your favorite new releases this week?

 

Atlas Genius//When It Was Now

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Beach Fossils//Clash the Truth

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Lady Lamb the Beekeeper//Ripely Pine

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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds//Push the Sky Away

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Parenthetical Girls//Privilege

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Psychic Ills//One Track Mind

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Sin Fang//Flowers

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STRFKR//Miracle Mile

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A few more worth a listen:
Darwin Deez//Songs for Imaginative People
Iceage//You’re Nothing
Inc.//No World
Jamie Lidell//Jamie Lidell
Mark Kozelek//Like Rats
Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside//Untamed Beast
Samantha Crain//Kid Face

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(1) Day of Anticipation: 2013

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With 2012 officially a thing of the past, it’s time to look ahead and take a look at what 2013 has in store for us.  There’re a handful of new releases i’m really looking forward to, including confirmed releases from Blue Hawaii, Christopher Owens, Ex Cops, The Knife, Phosphorescent, Rhye, Summer Aviation, and Youth Lagoon.

Along with the confirmed releases, there are quite a few expected and rumored new releases that have music fans anxiously awaiting release dates.  Some of the expected releases i’m most excited about in the coming year include AlunaGeorge, Desert Stars, Earl Sweatshirt, HAERTS, James Blake, MGMT, Phantogram, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.  And lastly, the rumored releases i’m most hopeful for include Andre 3000, Arcade Fire, Cults, My Bloody Valentine (probably my most anticipated release), MGMT, and Sleigh Bells.

Below you’ll find (a very small) list of the new releases we have to look forward this year (i’ll be updating it throughout the year as release dates are announced).  And before you leave, what new releases are you most excited about this year?  Please leave a comment and let me know.

JANUARY
Dutch Uncles//Out of Touch in the Wild [1.7.13 via Memphis Industries]
A$AP Rocky//Long.Live.A$AP [1.15.13 via A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds Music/RCA]
Christopher Owens//Lysandre [1.15.13 via Fat Possum/Turnstile]
Villagers//{Awayland} [1.15.13 via Domino]
Yo La Tengo//Fade [1.15.13 via Matador]
Blue Hawaii//Untogether [1.22.13 via Arbutus]
Ex Cops//True Hallucinations [1.22.13 via Other Music]
FaltyDL//Hardcourage [1.22.13 via Ninja Tune/Blueberry]
FIDLAR//FIDLAR [1.22.13 via Mom + Pop]
Foxygen//We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic [1.22.13 via Jagjaguwar]
The Joy Formidable//Wolf’s Law [1.22.13 via Atlantic]
Kate Boy//Northern Lights EP [1.22.13 via IAMSOUND]
Nightlands//Oak Island [1.22.13 via Secretly Canadian]
Ra Ra Riot//Beta Love [1.22.13 via Barsuk]
Toro Y Moi//Anything in Return [1.22.13 via Carpark]
Widowspeak//Almanac [1.22.13 via Captured Tracks]
Mogwai//Les Revenants EP [1.28.13 via Rock Action]
Buke and Gase//General Dome [1.29.13 via Brassland]
Ducktails//The Flower Lane [1.29.13 via Domino]
Local Natives//Hummingbird [1.29.13 via Frenchkiss/Infectious]
The Ruby Suns//Christopher [1.29.13 via Sub Pop]
Tegan and Sara//Heartthrob [1.29.13 via Warner]

FEBRUARY
Eels//Wonderful, Glorious [2.5.13 via E Works/Vagrant]
Frightened Rabbit//Pedestrian Verse [2.5.13 via Atlantic/Canvasback]
Jim James//Regions of Light and Sound of God [2.5.13 via ATO]
Night Beds//Country Sleep [2.5.13 via Dead Oceans]
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down//We the Common [2.5.13 via Ribbon Music]
Unknown Mortal Orchestra//II [2.5.13 via Jagjaguwar]
Azealia Banks//Broke With Expensive Taste [2.12.13 via Polydor/Interscope]
Foals//Holy Fire [2.13.13 via Transgressive]
Lisa Germano//no elephants [2.13.13 via Badman]
The Little Ones//The Dawn Sang Along [2.13.13 via Branches]
Pissed Jeans//Honeys [2.13.13 via Sub Pop]
Beach Fossils //Clash The Truth [2.19.13 via Captured Tracks]
Major Lazer//Free The Universe [2.19.13 via Mad Decent/Downtown]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds//Push the Sky Away [2.19.13 via Bad Seed]
Parenthetial Girls//Privilege (Abridged) [2.19.13 via Marriage/Slender Means Society]
STRFKR//Miracle Mile [2.19.13 via Polyvinyl]
Mogwai//Les Revenants Soundtrack [2.25.13 via Rock Action]
Atoms for Peace//Amok [2.26.13 via XL]
Johnny Marr//The Messenger [2.26.13 via Sire/ADA]
Mount Moriah//Miracle Temple [2.26.13 via Merge]
Shout Out Louds//Optica [2.26.13 via Merge]
Summer Aviation//TBA EP [February 2013]
Talib Kweli//Prisoner Of Conscious [February 2013 via Javotti/EMI/Capitol]
Wale//I Ain’t Perfect [February 2013 via MMG/Atlantic]

MARCH
Josh Ritter//The Beast In Its Tracks [3.5.13 via Pytheas]
Ólöf Arnalds//Sudden Elevation [3.5.13 via One Little Indian]
Rhye//Women [3.5.13 via Loma Vista]
Still Corners//Strange Pleasures [3.5.13 via Sub Pop]
Youth Lagoon//Wondrous Bughouse [3.5.13 via Fat Possum]
Low//The Invisible Way [3.19.13 via Sub Pop]
Phosphorescent//Muchacho [3.19.13 via Dead Oceans]
Wavves//TBA [3.26.13 via Mom + Pop]
Depeche Mode//TBA [March 2013 via Columbia]
Kid Cudi//Indicud [March 2013 via G.O.O.D. Music/Universal Republic]

APRIL
The Knife//Shaking the Habitual [4.9.13 via Mute]
VHÖL//VHÖL [4.16.13 via Profound Love]
2 Chainz//TBA [April 2013 via Def Jam]

MAY
Sun Kil Moon and the Album Leaf//Perils From the Sea [5.14.13 via Caldo Verde]

JUNE
Royal Headache//TBA 7″ [6.11.13 via Matador]

TBA (Expected Releases)
AlunaGeorge//TBA [via Island]
Cloud Nothings//TBA
Danny Brown//Old [TBA via Fool’s Gold]
Desert Stars//TBA
Devendra Banhart//Mala [via Nonesuch]
Drop Electric//TBA
Earl Sweatshirt//Doris [TBA via Tan Cressida/Columbia/Odd Future]
G.O.O.D. Music//Cruel Winter [TBA via G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam]
HAERTS//TBA
HAIM//TBA
James Blake//TBA
Meek Mill//Dreamchasers 3 [TBA via MMG/Atlantic]
Phantogram//TBA
Phoenix//TBA [via Glassnote]
Schoolboy Q//Oxymoron [TBA via TDE, Interscope]
Theophilus London//TBA [Summer 2013]
Tyler, The Creator//Wolf  [TBA via Odd Future]
Vampire Weekend//TBA
Yeah Yeah Yeahs//TBA [via Interscope]

TBA (Rumored Releases)
Andre 3000//TBA [TBA via LaFace]
Arcade Fire//TBA
Cults//TBA
EMA//TBA
MGMT//MGMT [TBA via Colombia]
My Bloody Valentine//TBA
Ratatat//TBA
Rilo Kiley//TBA
Sleigh Bells//TBA

 

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Favorites Albums of 2011 (So Far)

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2011 is more than half-way through and in a mere seven months, a boat-load of fantastic new music has hit the airwaves (we’ve also survived yet another prophesied apocalypse…not too shabby plant earth).

Anyways, I did this last Summer and it was fun to look back and see what albums held up when “Best of” season was full effect.  So without further ado, I’m pleased to present my favorite albums of 2011 (so far) and be sure to check back in on December 15th to see if any of these picks make my Top 10.

(in alphabetical order)

Acid House Kings – Music Sounds Better With You

♫ Are We Lovers or Are We Friends ♫


Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi

♫ Blackout ♫


The Antlers – Burst Apart

♫ No Widows ♫


Braids – Native Speaker

♫ Lemonade ♫


Childish Gambino – EP

♫ Freaks and Geeks ♫


Clock Opera – Belongings 7”

♫ Belongings ♫


Cults – Cults

♫ You Know What I Mean ♫


Cut Copy – Zonoscope

♫ Need You Now ♫


Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – It’s A Corporate World

♫ Morning Thought ♫


Diego Garcia – Laura

♫ You Were Never There ♫


The Go! Team – Proof of Youth

♫ T.O.R.N.A.D.O. ♫


Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes

♫ Sadness is a Blessing ♫


NewVillager – NewVillager

♫ Rich Doors ♫


Panda Bear – Tomboy

♫ Last Night At The Jetty ♫


The Postelles – The Postelles

♫ White Night ♫


Radiohead – The King of Limbs

♫ Codex ♫


Starfucker – Reptilians

♫ Bury Us Alive ♫

Telekinesis – 12 Desperate Straight Lines

♫ Car Crash ♫


Tennis – Cape Dory

♫ Marathon ♫


Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchersta

♫ How Can You Luv Me ♫


The Vaccines – What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?

♫ Post Break-Up Sex ♫


The White Panda – Pandamonium

♫ I Want Brooklyn Back ♫

Woods – Sun and Shade

♫ Pushing Onlys ♫


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[on the road] Starfucker

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I can’t quite remember which music blog introduced me to Starfucker, an indie-electronic band based in Portland, OR, but they’ve been a favorite of mine ever since.  Lucky for me (and the rest of the band’s fans), Starfucker is heading out on a big US tour, in support of their latest album Reptilians, which is set to be released on  beginning in March.  Along the way, they’ll be joined by Unknown Mortal Orchestra, BRAHMS, We All Have Hooks For Hands, and Casiokids!

Starfucker – Pop Song

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Ffunny Ffrends

Casiokids – Finn Bikkjen!

03/08: San Francisco, CA – Independent (w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra)
03/09: San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop (w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra)
03/11: W. Hollywood, CA – The Troubadour (w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra)
03/12: Costa Mesa, CA – Detroit Bar (w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra, BRAHMS)
03/13: Phoenix, AZ – The Trunk Space (w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra)
03/14: Santa Fe, NM – VFW (w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra)
03/15: 19: Austin, TX – SXSW
03/20: Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s Downstairs (w/ Casiokids)
03/22: Birmingham, AL – Bottletree Cafe (w/ Casiokids)
03/23: Atlanta, GA – The Drunken Unicorn (w/ Casiokids)
03/25: Tampa, FL – Crowbar (w/ Casiokids)
03/26: Orlando, FL – Backbooth (w/ Casiokids)
03/27: Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbits (w/ Casiokids)
03/29: Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 (w/ Casiokids)
03/30: Washington DC – Rock and Roll Hotel (w/ Casiokids)
03/31: Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s (w/ Casiokids)
04/01: Plains, PA – River Street Jazz Cafe (w/ Casiokids)
04/02: New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom (w/ Casiokids)
04/05: Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
04/06: Portland, ME – Space Gallery
04/07: Ithaca, NY – Delilah’s at Ithaca College
04/08: S. Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
04/09: Rochester, NY – The Bug Jar
04/10: Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop
04/11: Columbus, OH – Skully’s
04/12: Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
04/14: Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club
04/15: Sioux Falls, SD – Orpheum (w/ We All Have Hooks For Hands)
04/16: Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
04/17: Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
04/19: Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court Early Show
04/19: Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge Late Show
04/21: Boise, ID – Neurolux
04/22: Vancouver, British Columbia – The Biltmore Cabaret
04/23: Seattle, WA – The Vera Project
04/26: Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
04/28: Portland, OR – Holocene
04/29: Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
04/30: Portland, OR – MS Studios