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friday, saturday, & sunday

february 3rd, 4th, & 5th

ladyfest boston!

more great bands than should

be legally allowed for one event

all weekend @ cambridge ymca


friday, february 3rd

jack's mannequin

jukebox the ghost

allen stone

@ the house of blues


saturday, february 4th

the sheila divine

@ the paradise


wednesday, february 8th

dum dum girls

widowspeak

@ the paradise


thursday, february 9th

tea leaf green

ha ha tonka

@ the paradise


sunday, february 12th

happy jawbone family band

bozmo

zebu!

trabants

@ great scott


wednesday, february 15th

yellowbirds

quilt

@ great scott


thursday, february 16th

slowdim

you won't (cd release!)

friendly people

the suitcase junket

@ tt the bears


friday, february 17th

o'brother

junius

@ brighton music hall


saturday, february 18th

cuffs

woollen kits

headband

@ the plough & stars


saturday, february 18th

the wandas

aloud

when particles collide

the bynars

@ radio, somerville


wednesday, february 22nd

the del fuegos (reunited)

@ the paradise


thursday, february 23rd

heartless bastards

@ the middle east downstairs


thursday, february 23rd

sharon van etten

shearwater

@ the paradise


sunday, february 26th

the twilight sad

micah p. hinson

forest fire

@ brighton music hall


thursday, march 1st

travels

eratok

the broken river prophet

l.r.a.d.

@ o'brien's


thursday, march 1st

jennifer o'connor

thalia zedek

choo choo la rouge

cotton candy

@ church of boston


friday, march 2nd

tennis

hospitality

@ brighton music hall


monday, march 5th

fanfarlo

young man

@ the paradise


tuesday, march 6th

kaiser chiefs

@ house of blues


thursday, march 8th

atlas sound

white rainbow

carnivores

@ the paradise


friday, march 9th

anti-flag

the flatliners

have nots

@ brighton music hall


friday, march 16th

obits

fists

plus guests

@ tt the bears


friday, march 16th

new multitudes

(woody guthrie tribute)

with will johnson (centro-matic),

jay farrar (son volt),

anders parker (varnaline),

& yim yames (my morning jacket)

bobby bare jr.

@ the paradise


monday, march 19th

music 2.0: tools + tech for

musicians, marketers, & managers

6-9pm @ microsoft n.e.r.d. center


tuesday, march 20th

the postelles

fort lean

@ great scott


friday, march 23rd

the wedding present

(performing 'seamonsters' & new songs!)

jet age

pinky piglet

@ brighton music hall


friday, march 23rd

ben kweller

sleeper agent

the dig

@ the paradise


saturday, march 24th

martin sexton

@ the house of blues


saturday, march 24th

bowerbirds

@ the paradise


monday, march 26th

chairlift

nite jewel

@ brighton music hall


monday, march 26th

bruce springsteen

& the e street band

@ td garden


tuesday, march 27th

delta spirit

waters

@ the paradise


tuesday, march 27th

kasabian

@ house of blues


thursday, march 29th

swervedriver

@ brighton music hall


friday, march 30th

young adults

soccer mom

autochrome

night fruit

@ tt the bears


friday, march 30th

the joy formidable

a place to bury strangers

exitmusic

@ the paradise


saturday, march 31st

wild flag

the labor pool

@ the paradise


sunday, april 1st

of montreal

loney dear

kishi bashi

@ the paradise


monday, april 2nd

cursive

cymbals eat guitars

@ the middle east downstairs


friday, april 6th

nada surf

an horse

@ the paradise


friday & saturday

april 6th & 7th

the magnetic fields

devotchka (acoustic)

@ the berklee performance center


monday, april 9th

the ting tings

mndr

@ the paradise


wednesday, april 11th

dinosaur feathers

grandchildren

onslo

@ church of boston


wednesday, april 11th

the horrors

small black

@ brighton music hall


thursday, april 12th

snow patrol

ed sheeran

@ the orpheum


thursday, april 12th

white denim

hundred visions

@ the paradise


saturday, april 14th

white rabbits

gull

@ the paradise


tuesday, april 17th

lambchop

@ the paradise


wednesday, april 18th

amy ray

kaia wilson (team dresch)

@ brighton music hall


saturday, april 21st

death cab for cutie

backed by the

magik*magik orchestra

with openers low

@ the wang theatre


sunday, april 22nd

portugal. the man

the lonely forest

@ the house of blues


monday, april 23rd

rodrigo y gabriela

@ the orpheum


tuesday, april 24th

we were promised jetpacks

breton

@ the paradise


friday & saturday

april 27th & april 28th

archers of loaf

@ the middle east downstairs


saturday, april 28th

wu lyf

@ brighton music hall


thursday, may 3rd

bear in heaven

@ brighton music hall


friday, may 4th

school of seven bells

@ brighton music hall


sunday, may 6th

andrew bird

patrick watson

@ the house of blues


monday, may 7th

feist

@ the house of blues


tuesday, may 8th

m. ward

lee ranaldo band

@ the house of blues


wednesday, may 9th

the dear hunter

performing 'the color spectrum'

in its entirety

@ the somerville theatre


wednesday, may 9th

m83

i break horses

@ the house of blues


wednesday, may 9th

spiritualized

@ the paradise


saturday, may 12th

the feelies

@ the paradise


friday, june 15th

foster the people

tokyo police club

@ boa pavilion


friday & saturday

june 15th & 16th

the figgs!

25th anniversary shows

@ church of boston


saturday, june 16th

mogwai

@ house of blues


tuesday, august 28th

beirut

@ house of blues


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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Future Faves? Upcoming 2010 album releases...

As far as my ears are concerned, yesterday was the first major multi-album new music release day of 2010, so it's past time for my annual list of what I'm looking forward to in the months ahead. I've included albums with solid dates, some with ballpark estimates, a few that are mere whispers on the wind. Oh, and a couple of pure fantasies. A boy can dream, can't he?

Keep in mind, this is not even close to a comprehensive rundown of what's supposed to be coming out - just the stuff I have high hopes for. If it's not on here, I'm either apathetic at best or totally unaware. That said, go ahead and let me know what you're looking forward to this year, and any guesses you have at surprises that might show up down the road...

(note: Labels and release dates are U.S.-centric. And when available, label name links will send you to pre-order info for each album. So, y'know, go ahead and do that. I've also made all the MP3s linked here available in one handy .zip file, linked at the bottom.)

JANUARY 2010

  • Major Stars - "Return To Form" [Jan. 26th on Drag City]
                [MP3] "The Space You Know"
  • The Magnetic Fields - "Realism" [Jan. 26th on Nonesuch]
                [Stream] the entire album at Drowned In Sound
  • Retribution Gospel Choir - "2" [Jan. 26th on Sub Pop]
                [MP3] "Hide It Away"
                [Stream] the entire album
  • Boy Genius - "Staggering" [Jan. 26th on Greenpop Recordings]
                [MP3] "Blame Love"
  • Beach House -"Teen Dream" [Jan. 26th on Sub Pop]
                [MP3] "Norway"
  • Los Campesinos! - "Romance Is Boring" [Jan. 26th on Arts & Crafts]
                [MP3] "Romance Is Boring"

    FEBRUARY 2010

  • Midlake - "The Courage of Others" [Feb. 2nd on Bella Union]
                [MP3] "Rulers, Ruling All Things"
                [Stream] The album at NPR
                [Watch] album teaser trailer
  • The Album Leaf - "A Chorus of Storytellers" [Feb. 2nd on Sub Pop]
                [MP3] "Falling From The Sun"
  • Theodore - "Hold You Like A Lover"
           [Feb. 9th on Moon Jaw Records]
  • Chris Page (The Stand GT/Camp Radio) - "A Date With A Smoke Machine"
             [Feb. 16th on Kelp Records]
                [MP3] "Two Twenty Twos"
  • Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson - self-titled second album
           [Feb. 23rd on How is Annie Records/Norway]
                [MP3] "To Sit Down Or To Follow, So I Follow"
  • Robert Pollard - "We All Got Out of the Army" [Feb. 23rd on GVB Inc]
  • Field Music - "Measure" [Feb. 16th on Memphis Industries]
                [MP3] "Measure"
  • Quasi - "American Gong" [Feb. 23rd on Kill Rock Stars]
                [MP3] "Repulsion"
  • Eluvium - "Similes" [February 23rd on Temporary Residence]
                [MP3] "The Motion Makes Me Laugh"
  • Shearwater - "The Golden Archipelago" [Feb. 23rd on Matador]
                [MP3] "Black Eyes"
  • Various Artists - "Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox" (physical release) [Feb. 23rd on Merge]
                [Stream] the album at Merge

    MARCH 2010

  • Frightened Rabbit - "The Winter of Mixed Drinks"
           [March 1st on Fat Cat Records]
                [Video] "Nothing Like You"
  • Rogue Wave - "Permalight" [March 2nd on Brushfire]
                [MP3] "Good Morning"
  • Arletta - "Dandelion Bingo Parlour"
           [download code available at 3/6 Great Scott show / possibly vinyl later]
                [MP3] "You Ruined My Election
  • Sennen - "Age Of Denial" [March 8th on Hungry Audio]
                [Video] For title track "Age Of Denial"
                [Stream] New songs on MySpace
  • Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "The Brutalist Bricks" [March 9th on Matador]
                [MP3] "Even Heroes Have To Die"
  • Broken Bells - self-titled debut
           [March 9th on Columbia/Sony]
                [Video] "The High Road
  • The Morning Benders - "Big Echo" [March 9th on Rough Trade/Beggars]
                [MP3] "Promises"
  • Standard Fare - "The Noyelle Beat"
           [March 16th on Bar/None]
                [MP3] "Fifteen
                [Download] a free Christmas song @ SPC
  • Love Is All - "Two Thousand And Ten Injuries" [March 16th on Polyvinyl]
                [MP3] "Kungen"
  • Bettie Serveert - "Pharmacy of Love" [March 23rd on Second Motion]
                [Video] "Deny All"
  • Jonsi Birgisson (of Sigur Ros) - "Go" [March 23rd on XL Recordings]
                [Stream ] "Boy Lilikoi" on his site
  • Radar Bros. - "The Illustrated Garden" [March 23rd on Merge]
                [MP3] "Horse Warriors"
  • Serena Maneesh - "S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor" [March 23rd on 4AD]
                [MP3] "Ayisa Abyss"
  • Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - "Propellor Time" [March 23rd on Sartorial Records]
                The V3 are Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, & Bill Reiflin, and album guests include
                Johnny Marr, Nick Lowe, Egyptian/Soft Boy Morris Windsor & John Paul Jones
  • Let's Wrestle - "In the Court of the Wrestling Let's" [March 23rd on Merge]
                [MP3] "We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love Soon"
                [Video] "We Are the Men You'll Grow to Love Soon"
  • Nada Surf - "if i had a hi-fi" (covers album)
           [Available on March 25th at shows]
                [Stream] "Enjoy The Silence" (Depeche Mode/home demo)
  • Black Francis - "NonStopErotik"
           [March 30th on Cooking Vinyl]
  • Teenage Fanclub - "Shadows" (their 9th full-length)
           [In March? on their own PeMa label]
                [Watch] "When I Still Have Thee" (new song, live acoustic)
                [Watch] live videos of three other new ones

    APRIL 2010

  • Elliott Smith - "Roman Candle" and "From a Basement on a Hill"
             (vinyl resissues/remastered) [April 6th on Kill Rock Stars]
  • Red Sparowes - "The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer"
             [April 6th on Sargent House]
                [Video] album teaser
  • The Tallest Man on Earth - "The Wild Hunt" [April 13th on Dead Oceans]
                [MP3] "King of Spain"
  • The Break [ex-Midnight Oil/Violent Femmes] - "Church of the Open Sky"
             [April 16 on Bombora/MGM]
                [Stream] "Cylinders" on their site
  • Caribou - "Swim" [April 20th on Merge]
                [Download] New song "Odessa" in exchange for your email addy
  • The Radio Dept. - "Clinging To A Scheme" [April 21st on Labrador]
                [MP3] "Heaven's On Fire"
  • Walter Schreifels - "An Open Letter To The Scene" [April on Big Scary Monsters]

    MAY 2010

  • The New Pornographers - "Together" [May 4th on Matador]
  • Broken Social Scene - title tba
           [May 4th on Arts & Crafts, I assume]
  • Paul Weller - "Wake Up the Nation" [May 4th on Yep Roc]
  • Kevin Dunn - "No Great Lost: Songs, 1979-1985"
           [May 18th on Casa Nuevo]
                [Download] free MP3 with email addy and code 'paris'
  • The National - title tba [May on 4AD]

    Elsewhen in twenty-ten...

  • Travels - "Robber On The Run"
           [June on Own Records]
  • Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam - "Life Stream" [March/April]
                [MP3] Download a demo
  • Soundpool - "Mirror In Your Eyes" CD/LP
           ["Early 2010" on Killer Pimp / 7" available now]
                [MP3] "But It's So
  • Ceremony - "Rocket Fire" CD/LP
           ["Early 2010" on Killer Pimp / 7" available now]
                [MP3] "Someday
  • Snowden - new EP (before SxSW) / new album ("soon to arrive")
  • Tiny Pupils - sophomore album in early 2010
  • Kristin Hersh - "Crooked" [CASH music / Early 2010]
                [Stream] full album with a Strange Angels membership
                [MP3s] Download demos at CASH Music
  • Mogwai - "Special Moves" live CD/DVD (includes live film "Burning")
           [Spring on Rock Action Records]
                [Watch] "Burning" teaser trailer
                [Download] "2 Wrongs Make 1 Right" live MP3 w/email address
  • Versus - in the studio
                [Stream] rough mix of new song "Neither Nor" on Myspace
  • Boston Spaceships - [EP in April/Album in June]
  • Bottomless Pit - "Blood Under The Bridge" ("...expect a summer release.")
  • WALLcreeper - Boston-based band's debut album (mems. of Karate/Blanketeer)
  • Soft Power (Mary Timony's new band) - in the studio last Fall
  • One Happy Island - self-titled full-length
           [June 7th on Odd Box Records/UK]
  • The Thermals - title tba [Sept. 7th on KRS, I assume]
  • Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody - "I Could Sleep For A Thousand Years"
  • Crowded House
  • Ghost Wars (Arlie Carstens from Juno) - recording underway
  • Buffalo Tom
  • School of Seven Bells - "Disconnect From Desire" [Spring on Vagrant]
  • British Sea Power - "...recording is 95% finished"
  • Tokyo Police Club [early 2010 on Mom+Pop]
  • Clean Equations - debut full-length
  • The Twilight Singers - "...upcoming album and tour"
  • Tara Jane O'Neil & Lori Goldston - Soundtrack selections from the films
             "Bass Ackwards" and "Great Speeches From A Dying World"

  • The Joy Formidable - first full-lengther
                [Download] new song "Greyhounds in the Slips" in exchange for your email addy

    Optimistically on the way...

  • Arcade Fire
  • Autolux - "Transit Transit"
  • The Cure's supposedly darker companion to "4:13 Dream" is "... slowly taking shape"
  • Explosions in the Sky [working on new songs]
  • Interpol
  • The Long Winters
  • Now Now Every Children
  • Rival Schools
  • You Can Be A Wesley

    And in my dreams...

  • The long-awaited new Idaho album? ("...shooting for late spring")
  • Some new Arcwelder songs? (if only)
  • Harriet Wheeler's voice on something... anything
                (hey, we got Liz Fraser's return recently, so why not?)

    [DOWNLOAD]: A 135MB .zip file of all the MP3s linked above.

    Ok, so sound off in the comments with what I missed, what you care about, and what you're hoping for in 2010...



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