January 12, 2016
What to listen to this winter:
January
| 8th | |
| David Bowie |
Blackstar |
| Grizfolk | Waking Up the Giants |
| Ron Pope & The Nighthawks | Ron Pope & The Nighthawks |
| Villagers | Where Have You Been All My Life? |
| 15th | |
| Coldair | The Provider |
| Edgarville |
Fingerprints & Handwriting |
| El Caco | 7 |
| Javier Escovedo | Kicked Out of Eden |
| Future |
Purple Reign |
| Krisp | Sonic Monarch |
| Dylan LeBlanc | Cautionary Tale |
| Mystery Jets | Curve of the Earth |
| Old Man Canyon | Delirium |
| Panic! At the Disco | Death of a Bachelor |
| Swaying Wires | I Left a House Burning |
| 22nd | |
| Nathaniel Bellows | The Old Illusions |
| The Besnard Lakes | A Coliseum Complex Museum |
| Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy |
Pond Scum |
| By the Gods | Get On Feelings |
| The Cactus Blossoms | You’re Dreaming |
| John Cale | M:FANS |
| Chairlift | Moth |
| Eleanor Friedberger | New View |
| Hearts Hearts | Young |
| The I Don’t Cares | Wild Stab |
| Conrad Keely | Original Machines |
| Megadeth | Dystopia |
| NZCA Lines | Infinite Summer |
| Pil & Blue | Forget the Past, Let’s Worry About the Future |
| Pillar Point | Marble Mouth |
| Promise & The Monster | Feed the Fire |
| Santigold | 99¢ |
| Sauropod | Dancing At the Storm |
| Savages | Adore Life |
| Ty Segall | Emotional Mugger |
| Shearwater | Jet Plane and Oxbow |
| Suede | Night Thoughts |
| Swahili Blonde | And Only the Melody Was Real |
| Tortoise | The Catastrophist |
| 29th | |
| The Black Queen |
The Black Queen |
| Bloc Party | Hymns |
| Florist | The Birds Outside Sang |
| Harriet | American Appetite |
| Walter Martin | Arts & Leisure |
| MONEY | Suicide Songs |
| Nevermen |
Nevermen |
| Night Beats | Who Stole My Generation |
| Cian Nugent | Night Fiction |
| Pop Etc. | Souvenir |
| Sia | This Is Acting |
| Stranded Horse | Luxe |
| Tuff Love | Resort |
| Wet | Don’t You |
| Saul Williams | MartyrLoserKing |
| Za! | Loloismo |
February
| 5th | |
| shirlette ammons | Language Barrier |
| Beacon | Escapements |
| Ane Brun | When I’m Free |
| Jason Collett | Song and Dance Man |
| The Cult | Hidden City |
| DIIV | Is the Is Are |
| Field Music | The Noisy Days Are Over |
| Josephine Foster | No More Lamps In the Morning |
| Hey Marseilles |
Hey Marseilles |
| High Highs | Cascades |
| Elton John | Wonderful Crazy Night |
| Junior Boys | Big Black Coat |
| Matt Kivel | Janus |
| Mass Gothic | Mass Gothic |
| MODOC | Automatic + Voluntary |
| Nap Eyes |
Thought Rock Fish Scale |
| Nothing But Thieves | Nothing But Thieves |
| Porches | Pool |
| Eric Prydz |
Opus |
| Chuck Ragan |
The Flame In the Flood |
| Chris Storrow | The Ocean’s Door |
| The World Be Free | The Anti-Circle |
| 12th | |
| Beat Awfuls |
Nothing Happens |
| Gladiola | This Year’s Storm |
| Jimkata | In Motion |
| Lady Low |
And They Say Romance Is Dead |
| Lissie | My Wild West |
| Mint Julep | Broken Devotion |
| Radiation City | Synesthetica |
| School of Seven Bells | SVIIB |
| James Supercave |
Better Strange |
| Takénobu | Reversal |
| Frank Turner |
Ten For Ten |
| Kanye West | The Life of Pablo |
| You Say Party | You Say Party |
| 19th | |
| Animal Collective | Painting With |
| Blowfly |
77 Rusty Trombones |
| The Cave Singers | Banshee |
| Choir of Young Believers | Grasque |
| Deep Sea Diver | Secrets |
| External Menace |
The Process of Elimination |
| The Fall |
Wise Ol’ Man |
| Jack Garratt |
Phase |
| Golden Daze |
Golden Daze |
| Skylar Gudasz |
Oleander |
| Shannon Hayden | You See the World |
| Jesu/Sun Kil Moon | Jesu/Sun Kil Moon |
| King Prawn |
Got the Thirst |
| Lake Street Dive | Side Pony |
| Living Hour |
Living Hour |
| LNZNDRF | LNZNDRF |
| Matmos | Ultimate Care II |
| Ono | Yes, I’m a Witch Too |
| Ra Ra Riot | Need Your Light |
| Reaches | I Am Alive and Well |
| The Rubens | Hoops |
| The Ruts |
Babylons Burning |
| Shred Kelly | Sing To the Night |
| Simple Plan | Taking One For the Team |
| Mavis Staples | Livin’ On a High Note |
| Doug Tuttle |
It Calls On Me |
| Vandaveer | The Wild Mercury |
| Wild Nothing | Life of Pause |
| Wolfmother | Victorious |
| 26th | |
| Alpenglow |
Callisto |
| Anthrax | For All Kings |
| Anvil | Anvil Is Anvil |
| Wyatt Cenac |
Furry Dumb Fighter |
| Crater |
Talk to Me so I Can Fall Asleep |
| Cult of the Lost Cause |
Contritions |
| DMA’s | Hills End |
| Everything Everything |
Get To Heaven |
| Andy Ferro |
Muirhead |
| Peter Frampton | Acoustic Classics |
| Holy Esque |
At Hope’s Ravine |
| Jagged Leaves |
Nightmare Afternoon |
| Mellyr Jones |
2013 |
| Glenn Kotche & So Percussion | Drumkit Quartets |
| Mothers |
When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tire |
| Sarah Neufeld | The Ridge |
| The 1975 | I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It |
| Bonnie Raitt | Dig In Deep |
| Risley | Risley |
| Soulwax |
Belgica (soundtrack) |
| Waco Brothers |
Going Down In History |
| Yuck | Stranger Things |
March
| 4th | |
| Adult Books |
Running From Blows |
| Bambara | Swarm |
| Big Ups | Before a Million Universes |
| Black Peaches |
Get Down You Dirty Rascals |
| Melaena Cadiz |
Sunfair |
| Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place | You’re Doomed. Be Nice |
| Cub Sport | This Is Our Vice |
| Glitterbust |
Glitterbust |
| Journalism |
Faces |
| La Sera | Music For Listening To Music To |
| Kendrick Lamar |
untitled unmastered |
| Greg Laswell |
Everyone Thinks I Dodged a Bullet |
| Lionlimb |
Shoo |
| Nada Surf | You Know Who You Are |
| Jennifer O’Connor | Surface Noise |
| Palehound |
Dry Foo |
| Poliça | United Crushers |
| Robert Pollard | Of Course You Are |
| Prince Rama | Xtreme Now |
| Relick |
Twin House EP |
| Jeff Riddle & Buena Vista Social Club |
Destroy |
| The Rubens |
Hoops |
| Sons of an Illustrious Father |
Revol |
| Sound of Ceres |
Nostalgia for Infinity |
| The Struts |
Everybody Wants |
| Carter Tanton |
Jettison the Valley |
| Thao & The Get Down Stay Down | A Man Alive |
| Luke Top |
Suspect Highs |
| Violent Femmes | We Can Do Anything |
| M. Ward |
More Rain |
| Wintersleep | The Great Detachment |
| 11th | |
| Bent Shapes |
Wolves of Want |
| Brookside Mall |
Young Champion EP |
| Jeff Buckley | You and I |
| The Cars |
The Elektra Years 1978-1987 |
| Emmy the Great |
Second Love |
| Brian Fallon | Painkillers |
| Flatbush Zombies | 3001: A Lace Odyssey |
| Jeremy Gara | Limn |
| Glint |
Inverter |
| Holy Wave |
Freaks of Nuture |
| Hospital Ships |
The Past Is Not a Flood |
| Holy Wave |
Freaks of Nature |
| The KVB | Of Desire |
| The Hanging Stars |
Over the Silvery Lake |
| Into It. Over It. | Standards |
| Is Tropical |
Black Anything |
| Gavin James |
Bitter Pill |
| Little Green Cars | Ephemera |
| Lucius | Good Grief |
| Penny & Sparoow |
Let a Lover Drown You |
| Slingshot Dakota | Break |
| 3 Doors Down | Us and the Night |
| Up the Chain |
Prison Break |
| Jon Patrick Walker |
People Going Somewhere |
| Pete Yorn |
Arranging Time |
| 18th | |
| Baauer |
As |
| Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy |
Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties |
| Daddy | Let Me Get What I Want |
| Dog Chocolate |
Snack Fans |
| The Falcon |
Gathering Up the Chaps |
| Trevor Green |
Voice of the Wind |
| James |
Girl At the End of the World |
| Meilyr Jones |
2013 |
| Damien Jurado | Visions of Us On the Land |
| Lust For Youth |
Compassion |
| Cullen Omori | New Misery |
| Grant-Lee Phillips | The Narrows |
| Pere Ubu | Architecture of Language 1979-1982 (box set) |
| Iggy Pop & Josh Homme |
Post Pop Depression |
| Primal Scream | Chaosmosis |
| Rosu Lup |
Is Anything Real |
| Say No! To Architecture |
SNITA |
| Save Us From the Archon |
L’Eclisse |
| Soul Asylum |
Change of Fortune |
| Tiger + Man |
Tiger + Man |
| Underworld |
Barbara, Barbara, we face a shining future |
| Sean Watkins |
What To Fear |
| Words Like Daggers |
Perfect Weather |
| 25th | |
| Bayonne |
Primitives |
| Lincoln Durham |
Revelations of a Mind Unravelling |
| Gramatik |
Epigram |
| The Joy Formidable |
Hitch |
| Kiran Leonard |
Grapefruit |
| Lontalius |
I’ll Forget 17 |
| Mark Mallman |
The End Is Not the End |
| K. Michelle |
The End Is Not the End |
| Bob Mould | Patch the Sky |
| Radical Face | The Family Tree: The Leaves |
| RJD2 | Dame Fortune |
| Spacin’ |
Total Freedom |
| The Thermals | We Disappear |
| Wanderwild |
Fleeting |
| White Denim | Stiff |
| Scott Yoder |
Looking Back In Blue |
| ZAYN |
Mind of Mine |
(updated as more release dates are made known)
