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What To Look For : Summer 2008 |
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Features
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Written by QRO
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
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School's out and the summer music season is underway - here's some stuff you should be sure to check out:
June
| 3rd | Bitter:Sweet
| Drama
| e.s.l.
| eye contact
| Fleet Foxes
| Fleet Foxes
| From Bubblegum To the Sky
| A Soft Kill
| The Getaway Team
| Haven't You Heard
| Gonzalez
| Soft Power
| Ed Harcourt
| The Beautiful Lie
| Adem Ilhan
| Takes
| Ladytron
| Velocifero
| Aimee Mann
| @#%&! Smilers
| Mixel Pixel
| Let's Be Friends
| Radiohead
| Radiohead: The Best Of
| Shearwater
| Rook
| Spiritualized
| Songs in A & E
| Stars Like Fleas
| The Ken Burns Effect
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| 10th | Arms
| Kids Aflame
| Joseph Arthur
| Vagabond Skies EP
| The Awkward Stage
| Slimming Mirrors, Flattering Lights
| Bella Union
| Going to Where the Tea Trees Are
| Electric President
| Sleep Well
| Jihae
| Afterthought (digital)
| Joan as Policewoman
| To Survive | Kerli
| Love Is Dead
| Modey Lemon
| Season of Sweets
| My Morning Jacket
| Evil Urges
| The Orchid Highway
| The Orchid Highway
| Peter von Poehl
| Going To Where The Tea Trees Are
| Robert Pollard
| Robert Pollard Is Off To Business | Supergrass
| Diamond Hoo Ha
| Twilight Sad
| Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards, It Did (digital)
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| 17th | Noa Babayof
| A Window To A Wall
| The Briggs
| Come All You Madmen
| Coldplay
| Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
| Computer vs. Banjo
| Computer vs. Banjo
| Grupo Fantasma
| Sonidos Gold
| Benji Hughes
| A Little Extreme EP
| Judas Priest
| Nostradamus
| My Brightest Diamond
| A Thousand's Sharks Teeth
| The Notwist
| The Devil, You + Me
| Ndidi Onukwulu
| The Contradictor
| Silver Jews
| Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
| Teddy Thompson
| A Piece of What You Need
| Tilly & The Wall
| O
| Wolf Parade
| At Mount Zoomer
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| 24th | At the Spine
| Vita
| Au
| Verbs
| Babyshambles
| Oh What A Lovely Tour
| Jesse Baylin
| Firesight
| Breakfast in Suburbia
| The Telepathic Butterflies
| Ayla Brook
| After the Morning After
| Jon Foreman
| Spring + Summer
| The Interiors
| The Interiors
| Amos Lee
| Last Days At The Lodge
| Mötley Crüe
| Saints of Los Angeles | /Passenger.
| Night Vision Binoculars EP
| Ulrich Schnauss
| Stars EP (digital)
| Sigur Ros
| Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust | This Car Up
| Smile When You're Alone
| Weezer
| Weezer
| Paul Weller
| 22 Dreams
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July | 1st | Alkaline Trio
| Agony and Irony
| Earlimart
| Hymn and Her
| Golden Animals
| Free Your Mind and Win a Pony
| Seth Lakeman
| Poor Man's Heaven
| The Mood
| Synaesthesia
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8th
| Joseph Arthur
| Foreign Girls EP
| Beck
| Modern Guilt
| The Black Ghosts
| The Black Ghosts
| Danger Radio
| Used and Abused | Eddy Grant
| The Very Best of Eddy Grant - Road to Reparation
| Hamell On Trial
| Rant & Roll
| Albert Hammond, Jr.
| ¿Còmo Te Llama?
| Hit the Lights
| Skip School, Start Fights
| Matt Keating
| Quixotic
| Lovely Sparrows
| Bury the Cynics
| The Melvins
| Nude With Boots
| Paper Route
| Are We All Forgotten EP
| Ratatat
| LP3
| Sebadoh
| Bubble & Scrape Deluxe Edition (re-issue)
| Ron Sexsmith
| Exit Strategy of the Soul
| Son Ambulance
| Someone Ele's Déjà Vu
| UNKLE
| End Titles: Stories for Film
| Sunny Day Sets Fire
| Summer Palace | Vancougar
| Canadian Tuxedo
| Wire
| Object 47
| Women
| Women
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| 15th | Ghostkeeper
| Children of the Great Northern Muskeg
| The Hold Steady
| Stay Positive
| Negativland
| Thigmotactic
| Cory Woodward
| Princess of the Skies |
22nd
| Bears
| Simple Machinery
| Black Kids
| Partie Traumatic
| Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning
| Something For All Of Us...
| CSS
| Donkey
| Timmy Curran
| Word of Mouth
| The Curse of Company
| Leo Magnets Joins a Gang
| Dr. Dog
| Fate
| Fucked Up
| Year Of The Pig
| Benji Hughes
| A Love Extreme | Lackthereof
| Your Anchor | Lost Boys: The Tribe Soundtrack
| | Mardeen
| Read Less Minds
| Nine Inch Nails
| The Slip
| Pacific!
| Reveries
| Sunfold
| Toy Tugboats
| Takka Takka
| Migration
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| 29th | The Bug
| London Zoo
| Adam Franklin/Handsome Furs
| Shine A Light 7"
| Arthur Lee and Love
| Love Story (DVD)
| Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story
| Inlandish | Tagaq
| Auk/Blood
| James Jackson Toth
| Waiting in Vain
| Wild Sweet Orange
| We Have Cause To Be Uneasy
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August
5th
| Closure in Moscow
| The Penance & The Patience EP
| Faint
| Fascination
| Ida
| My Fair, My Dark
| The Interiors
| The Interiors
| Nat Kendall
| Songbird Sing
| Conor Oberst
| Conor Oberst
| Oxford Collapse
| Bits
| /Passenger.
| Wicked Man's Rest
| Ulrich Schnauss | Stars EP | Alina Simone
| Everyone is Crying Out to Me, Beware
| Telepathique
| Last Time On Earth
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12th
| Zach Hill
| Astrological Straits
| The New Up
| Broken Machine
| The Pack A.D.
| Funeral Mixtape
| Son Of Dave
| 03
| Tittsworth
| Twelve Steps
| The Upsidedown
| Human Destination (digital)
| U.S. Royalty
| EP
| Willoughby
| I Know What You're Up To
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| 19th | Apse
| Spirit
| Brothers and Sisters
| Fortunately
| Caesars
| Strawberry Weed
| The Coast
| Expatriate
| Salme Dahlstrom
| The Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade
| Dandy Warhols
| Earth to the Dandy Warhols
| Death Vessel
| Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us
| elodie
| Stubborn | Fiery Furnaces
| Remember
| Jeff Hanson
| Madam Owl
| Juliana Hatfield
| How to Walk Away
| Jaguar Love
| Take Me To The Sea
| Jupiter One
| Jupiter One
| Cameron Latimer
| Fallen Apart | MakeUpBreakUp
| We Prefer Not To EP
| Laura Marlin
| Alas I Cannor Swim
| Jennifer O'Connor
| Here With Me
| Ra Ra Riot
| The Rhumb Line
| Kristoffer Ragnstam
| Wrong Side of the Room | Saved By Saskatoon
| | Stereolab
| Chemical Chords
| The Stills
| Oceans Will Rise
| System and Station
| A Nation of Actors
| The Uglysuit
| The Uglysuit | The Walkmen
| You & Me
| What Laura Says
| Thinks and Feels
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26th
| Jonatha Brooke
| The Works | Obi Best
| Capades
| Lee 'Scratch' Perry
| Repentance | The Silent Years
| The Globe
| The Verve
| Forth
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(updated as more release dates are made known) |
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