What To Look For : Summer 2008 Print
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Written by QRO
Friday, 30 May 2008

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

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)

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

26th
Jonatha Brooke
The Works
Obi Best
Capades
Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Repentance
The Silent Years
The Globe
The Verve
Forth

(updated as more release dates are made known)


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