Bradley’s Almanac

Future Faves? Upcoming 2010 album releases…

Posted on January 27, 2010 at 12:25 pm | No Comments

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 Hendersonself-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 Bellsself-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 Scenetitle 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 Pupilssophomore 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
  • Versusin 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 Islandself-titled full-length
           [June 7th on Odd Box Records/UK]
  • The Thermalstitle 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 GoldstonSoundtrack 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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    Mallrat
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    Greet Death
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    @ Sonia

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    "Radio Soul!" tour
    with Charlie Sexton
    @ MGM Music Hall

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    The Minus 5
    The Baseball Project
    @ the Crystal Ballroom

    Tuesday, September 23rd
    Viagra Boys
    @ Roadrunner

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    The Beaches
    Debbii Dawson
    @ Roadrunner

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    Cowboy Junkies
    @ the Shubert Theatre

    Thursday, September 25th
    Junior Varsity
    @ the Rockwell

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    Iggy Pop
    Sex Pistols
    The Molotovs
    @ Suffolk Downs

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    John Mulaney
    "Mister Whatever" tour
    @ the Wang Theatre

    Friday, September 26th
    The Front Bottoms
    Sincere Engineer
    @ Roadrunner

    Friday, September 26th
    Lorde
    Blood Orange
    The Japanese House
    @ TD Garden

    Friday, September 26th
    Stereolab
    The Memorials
    @ the Royale

    Saturday, September 27th
    Car Seat Headrest
    @ MGM Music Hall

    Saturday, September 27th
    Rolo Tomassi
    @ the Rockwell

    Saturday, September 27th
    X
    Los Lobos
    @ the Shubert Theatre

    Sunday, September 28th
    An Evening with author
    Samin Nosrat discussing
    her cookbook "Good Things"
    with Hrishikesh Hirway
    @ Emerson Colonial Theatre

    Sunday, September 28th
    The Tubs
    @ Deep Cuts

    Monday, September 29th
    Melvins
    Red Kross
    @ Fete in Providence

    Tuesday, September 30th
    Murray Hill
    @ City Winery

    Wednesday, October 1st
    Tropical F*ck Storm
    Mark Robinson
    @ Crystal Ballroom

    Wednesday, October 1st
    Bad Suns
    Yot Club
    @ the Royale

    Thursday, October 2nd
    Amy Millan (Stars/BSS)
    @ the Middle East

    Thursday, October 2nd
    DEVO
    The B-52s
    Lene Lovich Band
    @ the Xfinity Center

    Thursday, October 2nd
    Elbow
    @ Roadrunner

    Friday, October 3rd
    Home Is Where
    Forests
    @ the Sinclair

    Thursday, Friday, & Saturday
    October 2nd, 3rd, & 4th
    David Byrne
    @ the Wang

    Saturday & Sunday
    October 4th & 5th
    An Inconceivable Evening
    with Cary Elwes
    & a screening of
    The Princess Bride
    @ the Wilbur

    Monday, October 6th
    Swans
    Little Annie
    Paul Wallfisch
    @ the Paradise

    Monday, October 6th
    Yusuf/Cat Stevens
    "An Evening Of Tales,
    Tunes And Other Mysteries"
    Book Tour show
    @ the Wang Theatre

    Wednesday, October 8th
    Anamanaguchi
    Ovlov
    @ the Royale

    Wednesday, October 8th
    Queens of the Stone Age
    (acoustic show)
    @ the Wang

    Wednesday, October 8th
    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
    'Howl' 20th Anniversary Tour
    with Humanist
    @ House of Blues

    Wednesday, October 8th
    Water From Your Eyes
    Her New Knife
    Editrix
    @ the Sinclair

    Wednesday, October 8th
    The Murder Capital
    @ Sonia

    Thursday, October 9th
    Team Dresch
    Vitapup
    @ Crystal Ballroom

    Thursday, October 9th
    The Rapture
    @ House of Blues

    Thursday, October 9th
    Violent Femmes
    @ the Chevalier Theatre

    Friday, October 10th
    AFI
    TR/ST @ the House of Blues

    Friday, October 10th
    Jukebox the Ghost
    Boys Go To Jupiter
    @ the Royale

    Friday, October 10th
    Destroyer
    @ the Paradise

    Saturday, October 11th
    Pile
    Nnamdï
    @ the Sinclair

    Saturday, October 11th
    Kneecap
    @ the House of Blues

    Sunday, October 12th
    The Miki Berenyi Trio
    (that's Miki from Lush)
    Gina Birch
    The Unreasonables
    @ the Sinclair

    Monday, October 13th
    My Morning Jacket
    @ MGM Music Hall

    Tuesday, October 14th
    Grandaddy
    celebrating the 25th anniversary
    of "The Sophtware Slump"
    with Greg Freeman
    @ the Royale

    Wednesday, October 15th
    Modest Mouse
    Built to Spill
    @ MGM Music Hall

    Wednesday, October 15th
    Disclosure (Live)
    Fcukers
    Villager
    @ Roadrunner

    Thursday, October 16th
    Moving Targets
    Billy Batts & the Made Men
    Spiller
    @ Faces Brewing

    Friday, October 17th
    The Psychedelic Furs
    Gary Numan
    @ MGM Musis Hall

    Saturday, October 18th
    Patty Griffin &
    Rickie Lee Jones
    @ the Chevalier

    Sunday, October 19th
    Guerilla Toss
    @ Crystal Ballroom

    Sunday, October 19th
    Ruston Kelly
    Sam MacPherson
    @ the Sinclair

    Monday, October 20th
    Leisure
    @ the Royale

    Tuesday, October 21st
    Big Thief
    @ MGM Music Hall

    Tuesday, October 21st
    Everclear
    Local H
    Sponge
    @ Big Night Live

    Thursday, October 23rd
    Neko Case
    Des Demonas
    @ The Wilbur

    Thursday, October 23rd
    Belly
    "King" 30th Anniversary Tour!
    @ the Paradise

    Thursday & Friday
    October 23rd & 24th
    Ali McGuirk
    "Watertop" Release Shows
    @ the Lizard Lounge

    Friday, Saturday, & Sunday
    October 24th, 25th, & 26th
    Jonathan Richman
    with Tommy Larkins
    @ the Somerville Theatre

    Saturday, October 25th
    Rufus Wainwright
    @ City Winery

    Saturday, October 25th
    Ezra Furman
    The Golden Dregs
    @ the Sinclair

    Saturday, October 25th
    Minus The Bear
    @ the House of Blues

    Monday, October 27th
    Laufey
    Suki Waterhouse
    @ TD Garden

    Monday, October 27th
    Autechre
    Mark Broom
    @ Brighton Music Hall

    Wednesday, October 29th
    Herbie Hancock
    @ the Wang Theatre

    Wednesday, October 29th
    The Beta Band
    @ the Royale

    Thursday, October 30th
    Cage the Elephant
    Hey, Nothing
    Common People
    @ MGM Music Hall

    Friday, October 31st
    Fleshwater
    Chat Pile
    @ the Paradise

    Saturday, November 1st
    Andy Bell (of Erasure)
    @ the Wilbur

    Sunday, November 2nd
    Fruit Bats (solo)
    @ the Sinclair

    Wednesday, November 5th
    Boris
    "Pink" 20th Anniversary Tour
    with Uniform
    @ the Paradise

    Thursday, November 6th
    Colin Hay (Men at Work)
    @ the Chevalier Theatre

    Thursday & Friday
    November 6th & 7th
    The Lone Bellow
    @ the Sinclair

    Thursday, Friday, & Saturday
    November 6th, 7th, & 8th
    Buffalo Tom's 2nd annual
    "Please Come to Boston" fest
    with special live performances
    & guests each night
    @ the Somerville Armory

    Friday & Saturday
    November 7th & 8th
    Steve Martin & Martin Short
    three shows @ the Wang

    Saturday, November 8th
    Cracker
    with special guests
    @ Abbot Hall, Marblehead

    Saturday, November 8th
    The Mars Volta
    @ House of Blues

    Sunday, November 9th
    The Samples
    @ City Winery

    Tuesday & Wednesday
    November 11th & 12th
    Micky Dolenz (the Monkees)
    Songs & Stories
    @ City Winery

    Thursday, November 13th
    Janeane Garofalo
    @ the Somerville Armory

    Friday, November 14th
    Geese
    @ the Paradise

    Friday, November 14th
    Spiller
    The Long Wait
    @ the Middle East

    Saturday, November 15th
    Beach Fossils
    @ the Paradise

    Sunday, November 16th
    The Faint
    Hercules & Love Affair
    @ the Royale

    Wednesday, November 19th
    Author Joe Hill
    presenting 'King Sorrow'
    @ Brookline Booksmith

    Thursday, November 20th
    Weakened Friends
    @ the Sinclair

    Friday, November 21st
    Queensrÿche
    Accept
    @ Somerville Theatre

    Saturday, November 22nd
    Couch
    @ Roadrunner

    Monday, November 24th
    Bar Italia
    @ the Paradise

    Monday, November 24th
    Patti Smith
    Horses 50th Anniversary Tour
    @ the Orpheum

    Wednesday, November 26th
    The Lemonheads
    @ The Wilbur

    Saturday, November 29th
    Portugal. The Man
    @ Roadrunner

    Monday, December 1st
    (second show added)
    The Beths
    Phoebe Rings
    @ the Royale

    Saturday, December 13th
    A John Waters Christmas
    @ Berklee Performance Center

    Thursday, January 15th, 2026
    Cate Le Bon
    @ the Sinclair

    Monday, January 19th, 2026
    Shame
    @ Brighton Music Hall

    Wednesday, June 26th, 2026
    The Church
    The Singles Tour
    (rescheduled from 8/1/25)
    @ Somerville Theatre