January 1, 2012
If the Mayans are right (and really, when haven’t they been?…), this’ll be your last winter ever, so here’s what to put in your ear ’til doomsday:
January
| 3rd | |
| Guided By Voices | Let’s Go Eat the Factory |
| Secret Colours | EP3 |
| Jonathan Segel | All Attractions |
| Jonathan Segel | Apricot Jams |
| 10th | |
| The Babies | Cry Along With The Babies EP |
| Andre Costello | Costello and the Cool Minors |
| Enter Shikari | A Flash Flood of Colour |
| Fauna | Manshinesz |
| Galapaghost | Runnin’ |
| Laura Gibson | La Grande |
| Golden Calves | Money Band LP + Century Band 12″ |
| Nirvana | Live at The Paramount |
| The Sanctuaries | Annette |
| Snow Patrol | Fallen Empires |
| Winfred E. Eye | Today Was Another Day |
| 17th | |
| Attack Attack! | This Means War |
| The Big Pink | Future This |
| Black Taxi | We Don’t Know Any Better |
| Bombay Bicycle Club | A Different Kind of Fix |
| Matthew Dear | Headcage EP |
| Dare Dukes | Thugs and China Dolls |
| Ani Di Franco | Which Side Are You On? |
| Heems | Nehru Jackets (mixtape) |
| Herman Dune | Tell Me Something I Don’t Know EP |
| Joyce the Librarian | The Weight of the Line EP |
| Cate Le Bon | CYRK |
| Magnetic Island | Magnetic Island |
| Minny Pops | Standstill to Motion (live CD/DVD) |
| Anthony Raneri | New Cathedrals EP |
| Secrets | The Ascent |
| Seeker Lover Keeper | Seeker Lover Keeper |
| 24th | |
| Biohazard | Reborn In Defiance |
| Chairlift | Something |
| Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring Amnesty International | |
| Cloud Nothings | Attack On Memory |
| Lana Del Rey | Born To Die |
| Jad Fair + Hifiklub + kptmichigan | Bird House |
| Craig Finn | Clear Heart Full Eyes |
| First Aid Kit | The Lion’s Roar |
| God Is An Astronaut | Age of the Fifth Sun (reissue) |
| God Is An Astronaut | All Is Violent, All Is Bright (reissue) |
| God Is An Astronaut | The End of the Beginning (reissue) |
| God Is An Astronaut | Far From Refuge (reissue) |
| God Is An Astronaut | God Is An Astronaut (reissue) |
| God Is An Astronaut | A Moment of Stillness (reissue) |
| Judas Priest | The Complete Albums Collection (box set) |
| .moe | What Happened to the LA LAs |
| Motörhead | The World Is Ours, Vol. 1: Everywhere Further Than Everyplace Else (DVD) |
| Nada Surf | The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy |
| Porcelain Raft | Strange Weekend |
| Matt Pryor | May Day |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela | Area 52 |
| The Scorpions | Comeblack |
| The Scorpions | Get Your Sting and Blackout (live DVD) |
| Martin Sexton | Fall Like Rain |
| Standard Fare | Out of Sight, Out of Town |
| Woodpigeon | For Paolo EP |
| Grace Woodroofe | Always Want |
| Yuksek | Living On the Edge of Time |
| 31st | |
| All the Saints | Intro to Fractions |
| The Asteroids Galaxy Tour | Out of Frequency |
| The Big Sleep | Nature Experiments |
| Black Bananas | Rad Times Xpress IV |
| Bleeding Through | The Great Fire |
| Carsie Blanton | Idiot Heart |
| Chronicle soundtrack | |
| Leonard Cohen | Old Ideas |
| Crushed Stars | In the Bright Rain |
| Damon & Naomi with Ghost | Damon & Naomi with Ghost |
| Deer Tick | Tim EP (digital) |
| Chris Devotion & The Expectations | Amalgamation & Capital |
| The Doozer | Keep It Together |
| Mike Doughty | The Question Jar Show (live) |
| Errors | Have Some Faith In Magic |
| Dan Falconberry | Though I Didn’t Call It Came |
| Leonard Friend | Lynyrd Frynd EP |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg | Stage Whisper |
| Golden Calves | Collection: Money Band LP + Century Band 12″ |
| Gotye | Making Mirrors |
| Alyssa Graham | Lock, Stock & Soul |
| Grimes | Visions |
| PJ Harvey | Let England Shake – 12 Short Films by Seamus Murphy (DVD) |
| Hit the Lights | Invicta |
| Hospitality | Hospitality |
| Imperial Teen | Feel the Sound |
| The Lonely Forest | Arrows |
| The New Multitudes – A Tribute to Woody Guthrie | |
| My Ticket Home | To Create a Cure |
| One Model Nation | Total Works (1969 – 1977) |
| The Phenomenal Handclap Band | Form & Control |
| Poison Idea | Darby Crash Rides Again: The Early Years (reissue) |
| Prinzhorn Dance School | Stay Class |
| Radiohead | The King of Limbs – From the Basement (extras) |
| Fionn Regan | 100 Acres of Sycamore |
| Shigeto | Lineage |
| Underworld | A Collection (collection) |
| Underworld | 1992 – 2012 Anthology (collection) |
February
| 7th | |
| Air | Le Voyage Dans La Lune |
| Bahamas | Barchords |
| Josh Benash | The Dismal; The Beautiful |
| Big Sir | Before Gardens After Gardens |
| Command V | Lost On Me |
| Die Antwoord | TEN$ION |
| Dr. Dog | Be the Void |
| Drunken Prayer | Into the Missionfield |
| The Fray | Scars & Stories |
| Goldfrapp | The Singles |
| Liz Green | O Devotion! |
| Francis Harris | Leland |
| Ben Kweller | Go Fly a Kite |
| Mark Lanegan Band | Blues Funeral |
| Lindstrøm | Six Cups of Rebel |
| Paul McCartney | Kisses On the Bottom |
| Steve Moore/Majeure | Brainstorm |
| of Montreal | Paralytic Stalks |
| Pharmacy | Dig Your Grave |
| A Place To Bury Strangers | Onwards To the Wall EP |
| Pretty Good Dance Moves | LIMO |
| The Twilight Sad | No One Will Ever Know |
| Sharon Van Etten | Tramp |
| Swans | We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Hand (live) |
| Van Halen | Tattoo |
| We Are the Works In Progress (compilation) | |
| Wire | The Black Session Paris 10 May 2011 (live) |
| 14th | |
| Barry Adamson | I Will Set You Free |
| Amoral | Beneath |
| Band of Skulls | Sweet Sour |
| BBU | bell hooks |
| Bell Histoire | I Can Tell EP |
| Breag Naota | Breag Naofa EP |
| Busdriver | Beaus$Eros |
| Earth | Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II |
| Field Music | Plumb |
| Heartless Bastards | Arrow |
| Isidore | Life Somewhere Else |
| Islands | A Sleep & A Forgetting |
| Kitsuné Parisien II (compilation) | |
| Lucky Dragons | Exister |
| Poliça | Give You the Ghost |
| Rickolus | Coyote and Mule |
| Shearwater | Animal Joy |
| Shearwater | Winged Life (vinyl reissue) |
| Sick Friend | The Draft Dodger |
| Tennis | Yound and Old |
| Unicycle Loves You | Failure |
| Young Magic | Melt |
| 21st | |
| Archers of Loaf | Vee Vee (remastered) |
| Avan Lava | Flex Fantasy EP |
| Cursive | I Am Gemini |
| David’s Lyre | Pictures of You |
| Dirty Ghosts | Metal Moon |
| Dot Hacker | Dot Hacker EP |
| Farewell Republic | Burn the Boats |
| Kevin Kinney & Anton Fier | A Good Country Mile |
| Jonquil | Point of Go |
| Damien Jurado | Maraqopa |
| Lake Forest | Silver Skies |
| Lambchop | Mr. M |
| Terry Malts | Killing Time |
| The Menzingers | On the Impossible Past |
| Niagara | Niagara EP |
| Princeton | Remembrance of Things to Come |
| Frankie Rose | Interstellar |
| Royal Canoe | Extended Play EP |
| Sleigh Bells | Reign of Terror |
| Christopher Paul Stelling | Songs of Praise & Scorn |
| Water Tower Bucket Boys | Where the Crow Don’t Fly |
| 28th | |
| Ava Luna | Ice Level |
| Bang On a Can All-Stars | Big Beautiful Dark and Scary |
| Cuff the Duke | Morning Comes |
| Dark New Day | New Tradition |
| Dirty Three | Toward the Low Sun |
| Fanfarlo | Rooms Filled With Light |
| First Person Shootr | Mobility for Gods EP |
| Gabriel & The Hounds | Kiss Full of Teeth |
| Helado Negro | Island Universe Story One |
| Humaana | Comfort |
| Hunx & His Punx | Hairdresser Blues |
| Jones Street Station | The Understanding EP |
| Sophia Knapp | Into the Waves |
| Little Barrie | King of the Waves |
| Lyle Lovett | Rescue |
| Memoryhouse | The Slideshow Effect |
| Moonlight Bride | Twin Lakes EP |
| Plants and Animals | The End of That |
| Rotary Club | Second Year In Swine |
| School of Seven Bells | Ghostory |
| Soft Swells | Soft Swells |
| Sourpatch | Stagger & Fade |
| We Have Band | Ternion |
| Alex Winston | King Con |
| Xray Eyeballs | Splendor Squalor |
| Y La Bamba | Court the Storm |
March
| 6th | |
| Antlered Man | Giftes 1 & 2 |
| backwords | By the Neck |
| Andrew Bird | Break It Yourself |
| Black Music | Black Music EP |
| Bowerbirds | The Clearing |
| Brass Tax | Brass Tax Band |
| Larry O. Dean | Throw the Lions To the Christians |
| The Demolition String Band | Gracious Days |
| Dinowalrus | Best Behavoir |
| DZ Deathrays | No Sleep EP |
| Elika | Always the Light |
| Tim Foljahn | Songs For an Age of Extinction |
| Kaiser Chiefs | Start the Revolution Without Me |
| Magnetic Fields | Love at the Bottom of the Sea |
| Scott Matthew | Gallantry’s Favorite Son |
| The Men | Open Your Heart |
| Miniature Tigers | Mia Pharoah |
| Morning Parade | Morning Parade |
| Mux Mool | Planet High School |
| Nardwuar | Busy Doing Nothing |
| The New Cassettes | Winterhead |
| Jennifer O’Connor | I Want What You Want |
| Sinéad O’Connor | How About I Be Me (And You Be You?) |
| Octoberman | Waiting In the Well |
| Rambos | Rock and Roll Monsters |
| Eliza Rickman | O, You Sinners |
| Right the Stars | Hello Yes OK |
| Royal Baths | Better Luck Next Life |
| Secret Music | Secret Music |
| Steve Shiffman & The Land of No | Everlasting Sun EP |
| Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | Wrecking Ball |
| Swound! | Into the Sea |
| Lissy Trullie | Lissy Trullie |
| White Rabbits | Milk Famous |
| Jack Wilson | Jack Wilson |
| Denison Witmer | The Ones Who Wait |
| Xiu Xiu | Always |
| Yellow Ostrich | Strange Land |
| 13th | |
| Brass Bed with Allison Bohl | On Nilsson EP |
| Chains of Love | Strange Days |
| The Decemberists | We All Raise Our Voices To the Air (live songs 4/11 – 8/11) |
| Delta Spirit | Delta Spirit |
| Drowner | Drowner |
| Lee Fields | Magic Fountain EP |
| Freshkills | Raise Up the Sheets |
| Grinderman | Grinderman 2 RMX |
| Lucero | Women & Work |
| Anya Marina | Felony Flats |
| The Melvins | The Bulls & The Bees |
| Nedry | In a Dim Light |
| Say Anything | Anarchy, My Dear |
| Solander | Passing Mt. Satu |
| The Ting Tings | Sounds From Nowheresville |
| Tribes | Baby |
| Twin Atlantic | Free |
| 20th | |
| Choir of Young Believers | Rhine Gold |
| I Call Fives | Someone That’s Not You EP |
| Ladyhawke | Anxiety |
| Malcontent | Embarassment of Riches |
| Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s | Rot Gut, Domestic |
| Conor Mason | Standstill |
| Odd Future | Odd Future Tape Vol. 2 |
| Ed Schrader’s Music Beat | Jazz Mind |
| The Shins | Port of Morrow |
| Spiritualized | Sweet Heart Sweet Light |
| Yukon Blonde | Tiger Talk |
| 27th | |
| Blood Red Shoes | In Time To Voices |
| Brothertiger | Golden Years |
| Cowboy Junkies | The Wilderness |
| Elephant & Castle | Transitions |
| Janus | Nox Aeris |
| La Sera | See the Light |
| The Mars Volta | Noctourniquet |
| Miike Snow | Happy To You |
| Debbie Miller | Measures & Waits |
| Georgia Anne Muldrow | Seeds |
| Oberhofer | Time Capsules II |
| Races | Year of the Witch |
| Rusko | Songs |
| Paul Weller | Sonic Kicks |
| Zeus | Busting Visions |
| Matt Zundel | Amazonico Gravitante |
(updated as more release dates are made known)
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