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What To Look For : Spring 2008 |
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Features
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Written by QRO
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
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As the weather heats up this year, so do the releases. 2008 has already had some nice surprises, and looks set to deliver more and more:
March
| 4th | Bauhaus
| Going Away White
| The Black Crowes
| Warpaint
| Born Ruffians
| Red Yellow & Blue
| Cadence Weapon
| Afterparty Babies
| The Felice Brothers
| The Felice Brothers
| Flogging Molly
| Float
| Gutter Twins
| Saturnalia
| Ladyhawk
| Shots
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
| Real Emotional Trash
| Murder By Death
| Red of Tooth and Claw
| Nine Inch Nails
| Ghosts I-IV (download)
| The OaKs
| Songs For Waiting
| Quiet Life
| Act Natural
| Colin Stetson
| New History Warfare, Volume 1
| Teargas & Plateglass
| Black Triage
| These United States
| A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden
| War On Drugs
| Barrel of Batteries EP
| Jim White
| Transnormal Skiperoo
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| 11th | The Diggs
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| | Jaymay | Autumn Faillin' | Justice Of The Unicorns
| Angles with Uzis
| Kid Dakota
| A Winner's Shadow
| Midnight Movies
| Night EP (download)
| Our Brother, the Native
| Make Amends, For We Are Merely Vessels | Photographic
| Pictures of a Changing World
| The Presidents of the United States of America
| These Are Good Times People
| Ann Vriend
| When We Were Spies
| Dean Wareham
| Black Postcards : A Rock & Roll Romance (book)
| Young Knives
| Superabundance
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| 18th | 13ghosts
| The Strangest Colored Lights
| Joseph Arthur
| Could We Survive EP
| | Be Your Own Pet | Get Awkward | Big Dipper
| Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology
| Crystal Castles
| Crystal Castles
| Destroyer
| Trouble In Dreams
| DeVotchKa
| A Mad and Faithful Telling
| Fuck Buttons
| Street Horrrsing
| The Kills
| Midnight Boom
| Mission of Burma
| The Horrible Truth About Burma (re-released) | | Mission of Burma | Signals, Calls & Marches (re-release)
| | Mission of Burma | Vs.(re-release) | She & Him
| Volume 1
| Imaad Wasif with Two Part Beast
| Strange Hexes
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| 25th | The B-52's
| Funplex
| Borko
| Celebrating Life
| The Counting Crows
| Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
| Justin Townes Earle
| The Good Life
| The Lemonheads
| It's A Shame About Ray Collector's Edition (re-release)
| Elf Power
| In A Cave
| Excepter
| Debt Dept.
| Plants And Animals
| Parc Avenue
| The Raconteurs
| Consolers of the Lonely
| Triclops!
| Out of Africa | Under Byen & Danish Radio Sinfonietta
| Siamesisk EP
| Astrid Williamson
| Boy For You
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April | 1st | Annuals
| Wet Zoo EP
| The Apples in Stereo
| Electronic Projects for Musicians
| The Black Keys
| Attack & Release
| Colour Revolt
| Plunder, Beg, and Curse
| Hilotrons
| Happymatic
| Los Campesinos!
| Hold On Now, Youngster...
| Moby
| Last Night
| Muse
| Haarp (live CD/DVD)
| R.E.M.
| Accelerate
| Sun Kil Moon
| April
| The Sword
| Gods Of The Earth | Unwed Sailor
| Little Wars
| Yelle
| Pop-Up
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8th
| Eric Avery
| Help Wanted
| Boredoms
| Super Roots 9
| The Breeders
| Mountain Battles
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
| Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
| | Clinic | Do It!
| Cloud Cult
| Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) | Cut Copy
| In Ghost Colours
| Dead Child
| Attack
| Drive By
| A Delicate Situation
| The Duke Spirit
| Neptune
| Ecstatic Sunshine
| Way
| Finest Dearest
| Finest Dearest
| Fleet Foxes
| Sun Giant EP
| Gnarls Barkley
| The Odd Couple
| The Heavy
| Great Vengeance & Furious Fire
| Dawn Kinnard
| The Courtesy Fall
| The Little Ones
| Terry Tales & Fallen Gates EP
| The Long Blondes
| Couples
| Man Man
| Rabbit Habits
| Colin Meloy
| Colin Meloy Sings Live!
| Peter Moren
| The Last Tycoon
| Jonathan Richman
| Because Her Beauty Is Raw and Wild
| Bess Rogers
| Decisions Based On Information
| Ruby Suns
| Sea Lion
| Shout Out Louds
| Impossible EP
| Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
| Pershing
| Spoon
| Don't You Evah EP
| Tapes 'n Tapes
| Walk It Off
| Wye Oak
| If Children
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| 15th | Adele
| 19
| Air
| Moon Safari Limited Edition (re-release)
| An Horse
| Not Really Scared EP
| Joseph Arthur
| Crazy Rain EP
| The Autumns
| Fake Noise from a Box of Toys
| The Brian Jonestown Massacre
| My Bloody Underground
| Constantines
| Kensington Heights
| Black Francis
| Svn Fngrs
| Does It Offend You, Yeah?
| You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
| Ghost Bees
| Tasseomancy
| Gossip
| Live In Liverpool
| The Jealous Girlfriends
| The Jealous Girlfriends
| The Kooks
| KONK | | M83 | Saturdays = Youth | Old Man Luedecke
| Proof Of Love
| Phantom Planet
| Raise the Dead
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22nd
| Barry Adamson
| Back to the Cat
| Billy Bragg | Mr. Love & Justice
| Bridges and Powerlines
| Ghost Types
| El Perro Del Mar
| From The Valley To The Stars
| Elbow
| The Seldom Seen Kid
| Flight Of The Conchords
| Flight Of The Conchords
| Hello Tokyo
| Sell The Stars
| Jukebox The Ghost
| Let Live and Let Ghosts
| Kensington Prairie
| Captured in Still Life
| The Replacements
| Hootenanny Deluxe Edition (re-release)
| The Replacements | Let It Be Deluxe Edition (re-release) | The Replacements | Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash Deluxe Edition (re-release) | The Replacements | Stink (Kids Don't Follow Plus Seven) Deluxe Edition (re-release) | Anna Ternheim
| Halfway to Fivepoints
| Tokyo Police Club
| Elephant Shell
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| 29th | 65daysofstatic
| The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties EP
| Awesome Color
| Electric Aborigines
| Bobby & Blumm
| Everybody Loves...
| Boris
| Smile
| Chin Chin
| Chin Chin
| The Great Outdoors
| Spring EP
| Hayden
| In Field & Town
| Heloise & The Savoir Faire
| Trash, Rats & Microphones
| Jamie Lidell
| Jim | Portishead
| Third | The Roots
| Rising Down | Langhorne Slim
| Langhorne Slim
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May 6th
| Animal Collective
| Water Curses EP
| Elvis Costello
| Momofuku
| Extra Life
| Secular Works
| Four Tet
| Ringer EP
| Kail
| True Hollywood Squares
| Lucky Dragons
| Dream Island Laughing Language
| Lykke Li
| Little Bit EP
| Matmos
| Supreme Balloon
| Meho Plaza
| Meho Plaza
| The Morning Benders
| Talking Through Tin Cans
| mr. Gnome
| Deliver This Creature | Nine Inch Nails
| The Slip
| No Age
| Nouns
| The Priddle Concern
| The Priddle Concern
| Second Dan
| Bringing Down Goliath
| Setting Sun
| To The Next Place
| Shy Child
| Noise Won't Stop
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| 13th | The Botticellis
| Old Home Movies
| Cinderpop
| A Lesson In Science
| Death Cab for Cutie
| Narrow Stairs
| Dosh
| Wolves and Wishes
| Jakob Dylan
| Seeing Things
| Ghost of the Russian Empire
| The Mammoth | Kassin+2
| Futurismo
| Old 97's
| Blame It On Gravity
| Pomegranates
| Everything Is Alive
| The Presets
| Apocalypto
| Quitzow
| Art College
| We Are Scientists
| Brain Thrust Mastery
| When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
| Not Noiice
| Young & Sexy
| The Arc |
| 20th | Eric Chenaux
| Sloppy Ground
| Christa Couture
| The Wedding Singer and the Undertaker
| Dresden Dolls
| No, Virginia
| French Kicks
| Swimming | Indian Jewelry
| Free Gold!
| | Islands | Arm's Way
| Joan of Arc
| Boo Human
| Mates of State
| Re-Arrange Us
| The National
| A Skin, A Night (DVD)
| The National
| The Virginia EP
| Donna Summer
| Crayons
| Ting Tings
| We Started Nothing
| U2
| Boy (re-release)
| | U2 | October (re-release) | | U2 | War (re-release) |
| 27th | Ellen Allien
| Sool
| Butcher the Bar
| Sleep At Your Own Speed
| The Delta Fiasco
| Dreameater EP
| The Futureheads
| This Is Not The World
| Health
| HEALTH//DISCO | The Hood Internet
| The Hood Internet vs. Chicago
| Junior Pantherz
| Rejoice, Remain
| Midnight Juggernauts
| Dystopia
| Julie Ocean
| Long Gone and Nearly There
| James Pants
| Welcome
| David Ramos
| This Up Here
| Steinski
| What Does It All Mean?: 1983-2006 Retrospective | Walter Meego
| Voyager
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(updated as more release dates are made known)
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