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What To Look For : Spring 2009

As the 2009 blossoms, step outside and enjoy yourself - and pick up some of these releases while you're at it:

 

April

7th
Arcade Fire
Mirroir Noir (DVD)
Bat For Lashes
Two Suns
Black Dice
Repo
The Blue Van
Man Up (digital)
Crystal Antlers
Tentacles
Del the Funky Homosapien
Funkman
Doves
Kingdom of Rust
Eulogies
Here, Anonymous
The Felice Brothers
Yonder Is the Clock
The Greycoats
Setting Fire To the Great Unknown
The Hold Steady
Positive Rage
Illinois
The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe, Chapter 6
Junior Boys
Begone Dull Care
Lady Sovereign
Jigsaw
Loving Takes This Course: A Tribute to the Songs of Kath Bloom (compilation)
The Juan MacLean
The Future Will Come
Dan Mangan
Roboteering EP
Misc.
Happiness Is Easy
Bob Mould
Life and Times
Paper Moon
Only During Thunderstorms
So Many Dynamos
The Loud Wars
Superchunk
Leaves in the Gutter
Telekinesis
Telekinesis!
Vienna Teng
Vienna Teng
The Thermals
Now We Can See
Sara Watkins
Sara Watkins
Neil Young
Fork In the Road
Youth Group
The Night Is Ours

14th
Beck
One Foot In the Grave (deluxe reissue)
The Boy Least Likely To
The Laws of the Playground
Circus Devils
Gringo
The Datsuns Headstunts
Death Cab For Cutie The Open Door EP
Mike Evin
Good Watermelon
Fastball
Little White Lies
Grand Duchy
Petits Fours
The Kills
Black Balloon EP
Life and Times
Tragic Boogie
Little Boots
Arecibo EP (re-release)
Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Radiolarians II
Metric
Fantasies
Papercuts You Can Have What You Want
Pomegranates Everybody, Come Outside!
Screaming Females
Power Move
Silversun Pickups Swoon
Jill Sobule
California Years
Super Furry Animals Dark Days/Light Years
Telepathe
Dance Mother
The Twang
Love It When I Feel Like This (expanded)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's Blitz!

21st
Barzin
Notes to an Absent Lover
brakesbrakesbrakes Touchdown
Camera Obscura
My Maudlin Career
Cloud Cult
No One Said It Would Be Easy (DVD)
Depeche Mode Sounds of the Universe
Empire of the Sun
Walking On a Dream
The Horrors
Primary Colours
Jane's Addiction A Cabinet of Curiosities (b-sides)
Booker T. Jones Potato Hole
King Khan & The Shrines
What Is?!
Manchester Orchestra
Mean Everything To Nothing
Kingsbury Manx
Ascenseur Ouvert!
The Milk and Honey Band
Dog Eared Moonlight
Moderat
Moderat
The Morning After Girls
The General Public EP
Leonard Mynx
Vesper
Pet Shop Boys Yes
The Rest
Everyone All At Once
XTC as The Dukes of Stratosphear
Psonic Psunspot
XTC as The Dukes of Stratosphear 25 O'Clock
Weinland
Breaks In the Sun

28th
Cool Devices
Cool Devices EP
Bob Dylan
Together Through Life
Great Northern
Remind Me Where the Light Is
I Monster
A Dense Swarm of Ancient Stars
Immaculate Machine
High on Jackson Hill
Ben Lee The Rebirth Of Venus
Nadja
When I See the Sun Always Shines On TV
NOFX
Coaster
Paper Route
Absence
Thee Oh Sees
Help
The Weather Station
The Line
Wilco
Ashes of American Flags (DVD)
Young Love
One of Us


May

5th
Akron/Family Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
And the Moneynotes
On the Town, On the Vine EP
Causes 2 (compilation)
 
The Dangerous Summer
Reach For the Sun
Elephant Stone
The Seven Seas
Naomi Greenwald
Naomi Greenwald
The Horrors
Primary Colors
Ed Harcourt
Russian Roulette EP
New York Dolls Cause I Sez So
Conor Oberst Outer South
Peaches I Feel Cream
Spiral Beach
Ball
St. Vincent Actor
The Vaselines
Enter The Vaselines
The Western States
Bye and Bye
Years
Years

12th
Art Brut Art Brut vs. Satan
Better Than Ezra Paper Empire
Bloc Party
Intimacy Remixed (remix)
Graham Coxon
The Spinning Top
caUSE co-MOTION!
Because Because Because EP
Crisis In Hollywood
Safe and Sound
The Crystal Method
Divided By Night
Steve Earle
Townes
Fischerspooner
Entertainment
Goes Cube
Another Day Has Passed
Hill Country Revue
Make a Move
Mark Kozelek
Lost Verses Live (live)
Maxïmo Park
Quicken the Heart
Meat Puppets
Sewn Together
Utada
This Is the One

19th
Tori Amos
Abnormally Attracted To Sin
Apostle of Hustle
Eats Darkness
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
Fruit
Au Revoir Simone
Still Night, Still Light
Clues
Clues
Jarvis Cocker
Further Complications
The Field
Yesterday & Today
Green Day
21st Century Breakdown
Headless Heroes
Headless Heroes
IAMX
Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
Iron & Wine Around The Well
Jason Lytle Yours Truly, The Commuter
Bonfire Madigan
Lady Saves EP
The Nerd Parade
Span of a Life
Pale Air Singers
Pale Air Singers
Passion Pit Manners
Andy Shauf
Darker Days
John Vanderslice
Romanian Names
White Rabbits
It's Frightening

26th
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Eating Us
Grizzly Bear Veckatimest
Hayden
The Place Where We Lived
Hull
Sole Lord
Magic Wands
Magic, Love & Dreams EP
Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Sharon Van Etten
Because I Was In Love

(updated as more release dates are made known)


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