Great Music On The Way

2010 is under way and music has some great releases on the way in the first part of the year. We bolded the albums we are looking foward to the most.

The most exciting part is that these bands who come out early in 2010 usually are the ones who head up the summer tours/festivals to perform their new work. Can not wait to see the Coachella lineup.

01-12

OK Go: Of the Blue Colour of the Sky [Capitol]
Omarion: Ollusion [Starworld Entertainment/EMI]
Ringo Starr: Y Not [Hip-O]
Vampire Weekend: Contra [XL]

01-18

Spoon: Transference [Anti-] [UK release]

01-19

Cold War Kids: Behave Yourself EP [Downtown]
Editors: In this Light and On This Evening [Fader] [U.S. release]
Eels: End Times [Vagrant]
RJD2: The Colossus [RJ's Electrical Connections]
Spoon: Transference [Merge] [U.S. release]
Surfer Blood: Astro Coast [Kanine]

01-25

The Shining: Blackjazz [Indie Recordings]
Yeti Lane: Yeti Lane [Sonic Cathedral]

01-26

Animal Collective: Campfire Songs [Paw Tracks] [reissue]
Beach House: Teen Dream [Sub Pop]
David Bowie: A Reality Tour [ISO/Columbia/Legacy]
Four Tet: There Is Love in You [Domino]
Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM [Because Music/Atlantic]
KRS-One: Playlist: The Very Best of KRS-One [Jive/Legacy]
Los Campesinos!: Romance Is Boring [Arts & Crafts]
The Magnetic Fields: Realism [Nonesuch]
Small Black / Washed Out: Split 7" [Lovepump United]
Three 6 Mafia: Laws of Power [Hypnotize Minds/Columbia]

02-02

Jamie Foxx: Body
The Soft Pack: The Soft Pack [Kemado]
Toro Y Moi: Causers of This [Carpark]

02-09

Best Coast: "Something in the Way" 7" [Post Present Medium]
Hot Chip: One Life Stand [Astralwerks]
Massive Attack: Heligoland [Virgin]
Phantogram: Eyelid Movies [Barsuk]
Sade: Soldier Of Love
Redman: Reggie Noble 9 1/2 [Def Jam]
Yeasayer: Odd Blood [Secretly Canadian]

02-15

Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back [Virgin]

02-16

Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore: Dear Companion [Sub Pop]
Freeway & Jake One: The Stimulus Package [Rhymesayers]
The Game: The R.E.D. Album [Interscope]

02-23

Airbourne: No Guts, No Glory [Roadrunner]
Daniel Merriweather: Love & War [J/Allido]
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim: Here Lies Love [Todomundo/Nonesuch]
Efterklang: Magic Chairs [4AD]
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah, Part II: Return of the Ankh [Universal Motown]
Free Energy: Stuck on Nothing [DFA/Astralwerks]
Groove Armada: Black Light [Cooking Vinyl]
Shout Out Louds: Work [Merge]
Wolf People: Tidings [Jagjaguwar]

Other February releases

Lil Wayne: Rebirth [Cash Money/Young Money Entertainment/Universal]
Various Artists: Mavis [!K7]

03-01

New Young Pony Club: The Optimist [The Numbers]

03-02

Rogue Wave: Permalight [Brushfire]
Usher: Raymond v. Raymond [Jive]
The Whigs: In the Dark [ATO]

03-09

Broken Bells: Broken Bells [Columbia]
jj: jj no 3 [Sincerely Yours/Secretly Canadian]
Liars: Sisterworld [Mute]
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: The Brutalist Bricks [Matador]

03-16

White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights CD/DVD [Third Man]

03-23

Goldfrapp: Head First [Mute]
She & Him: Volume Two [Merge]


Other releases expected in the first quarter of 2010

!!!: TBA [Warp]
The Drums: TBA [TBA]
Gorillaz: Plastic Beach [Virgin]
Here We Go Magic: TBA [Secretly Canadian]
Interpol: TBA [Capitol]
Javelin: TBA [Luaka Bop]
LCD Soundsystem: TBA [DFA]
MGMT: Congratulations [Columbia]

And of course Radiohead, The Strokes, Justice, The Shins and Arcade Fire are in the studio working on new material. We will keep you up to date on their release dates.