January 1, 2021
2021 will be a better year. It pretty much has to be, and here’s what to listen to while you wait to get your vaccine (but if you’re looking for me, you better check under the sea):
January
| 1st | |
| Another Sky | Music For Winter Vol. 1 EP |
| The Dirty Nil | Fuck Art |
| 8th | |
| Steve Earle & The Dukes | J.T. |
| Barry Gibb | Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Soundtrack |
| Hilang Child | Every Mover |
| Passenger | Songs For the Drunk and Broken Hearted |
| Viagra Boys | Welfare Jazz |
| 15th | |
| Azure Ray | Azure Ray (20th Anniversary Edition) |
| Buzzcocks | 1977-1980 7″ Singles (box set) |
| Cheekface | Emphatically No |
| Dale Crover | Rat-a-Tat-Tat! |
| Outlaw Boogie | The Circle EP |
| Pom Poko | Cheater |
| Oberon Rose | Holographic Blues |
| Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou | The Helm of Sorrow EP |
| Sleaford Mods | Spare Ribs |
| Why Don’t We | The Times and The Bad Ones |
| You Me At Six | SUCKAPUNCH |
| 22nd | |
| M. Caye Castagnetto | Leap Second |
| Kiwi Jr. | Cooler Returns |
| Moon Taxi | Silver Dream |
| Bob Mould | Distortion 1996-2007 (vinyl box set) |
| Pearl Charles | Magic Mirror |
| Rhye | Home |
| Still Corners | The Last Exit |
| Widowspeak | Honeychurch EP |
| YUNG | Ongoing Dispute |
| 29th | |
| Babehoven | Yellow has a pretty good reputation EP |
| Baio | Dead Hand Control |
| The Besnard Lakes | The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings |
| Black Pistol Fire | Look Alive |
| Ani DiFranco | Revolutionary Love |
| Chris Garneau | The Kind |
| Buzzy Lee | Spoiled |
| Lia Ices | Family Album |
| Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul | Macca to Mecca |
| Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul | Soulfire Live! (deluxe edition) |
| Lucero | When You Found Me |
| Colin Macleod | Hold Fast |
| The Notwist | Vertigo Days |
| Patriarchy | Reverse Circumcision |
| Robbie & Mona | EW |
| Langhorne Slim | Strawberry Mansion |
| Waxflight | Flowers |
| Weezer | OK Human |
| Wilson | Thank You, Goodnight. LIVE |
February
| 5th | |
| Guy Blakeslee | Postcards From the Edge |
| John Carpenter | Lost Themes III: Alive After Death |
| CYRRCA | CYRRCA |
| Field Works | Cedars |
| Foo Fighters | Medicine at Midnight |
| Danny Kroha | Detroit Blues |
| Femi Kuti and Made Kuti | Legacy+ |
| Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound |
| slowthai | TYRON |
| The Staves | Good Woman |
| Aaron Lee Tasjan | Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! |
| Tele Novella | Merlynn Belle |
| The Weather Station | Ignorance |
| Hayley Williams | FLOWERS for VASES |
| 12th | |
| Bodies of Water | Is This What It’s Like |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | New Fragility |
| Claud | Super Monster |
| CYRRCA | CYRRCA |
| Death by Unga Bunga | Heavy Male Insecurity |
| The Deathray Davies | Time Well Wasted |
| Django Django | Glowing In the Dark |
| K Michelle Dubois | The Fever Returns |
| Florida Georgia Line | Life Rolls On |
| Hotel on Mars | Grief Museum |
| Paul Leary | Born Stupid |
| Pale Waves | Who Am I? |
| The Pretty Reckless | Death By Rock And Roll |
| Gruff Rhys | Resist Phony Encores! (memoir) |
| Run River North | Creatures In Your Head |
| SHRINK | SHRINK EP |
| Sports | Get a Good Look Pt. 1 |
| Sun Kin | After the House |
| 19th | |
| Blessed | iii EP |
| Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | Hunter and The Dog Star |
| Corvair | Corvair |
| DECOUPLR | Digital Bonfire |
| David Gray | Skellig |
| The Hold Steady | Open Door Policy |
| John Paul Keith | Rhythm of the City |
| Kinlaw | The Tipping Scale |
| Anya Marina | Live and Alone in New York |
| Mogwai | As The Love Continues |
| Perfume Genius | Immediately Remixes |
| Indigo Sparke | Echo |
| Julia Stone | Sixty Summers |
| Valley Maker | When the Day Leaves |
| Wild Pink | A Billion Little Lights |
| Zappa soundtrack | |
| 26th | |
| Julien Baker | Little Oblivions |
| Balthazar | Sand |
| The Black Crowes | Shake Your Money Maker (30th anniversary edition) |
| Blanck Mass | In Ferneaux |
| Brijean | Feelings |
| Nick Cave & Warren Ellis | Carnage |
| Cloud Nothings | The Shadow I Remember |
| Duke Deuce | Duke Nukem |
| Alice Cooper | Detroit Stories |
| Josh Groban | Harmony (deluxe edition) |
| Joshua Henry | Guarantee |
| Charlie Hickey | Count the Stairs EP |
| David Huckfelt | Room Enough, Time Enough |
| Lost Horizons | In Quiet Moments |
| Nicole Marxen | Tether |
| Maxïmo Park | Nature Always Wins |
| Melvins | Working With God |
| Mensa Deathsquad | Cyclist |
| The National | Cherry Tree EP (reissue) |
| The National | The National (reissue) |
| The National | Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers (reissue) |
| Willie Nelson | Brighter Lighting |
| Nightshift | Zöe |
| NOFX | Single Album |
| Pinegrove | Amperland, NY |
| Lucy Spraggan | Choices |
March
| 5th | |
| Arab Strap | As Days Get Dark |
| A Day To Remember | You’re Welcome |
| DMA’s | Live at Brixton |
| Max Foreman | Underground |
| Fruit Bats | Endless Arcade |
| Gabrielle | Do It Again |
| Ron Gallo | PEACEMEAL |
| Jay Gonzalez | Back To the Hive |
| Har Mar Superstar | Roseville |
| Ian Sweet | Show Me How You Disappear |
| Kings of Leon | When You See Yourself |
| Leandrul | Psychosis of Dreams |
| POSTDATA | Twin Flames |
| Prism Bitch | Perla |
| Juliet Quick | Glass Years |
| rickoLus | Bones |
| 12th | |
| Baby Boys | Threesome |
| Doohickey Cubivle | Don’t Fix Anything |
| Eyehategod | A History of Nomadic Behavior |
| Forty Feet Tall | A Good Distraction |
| Gang of Four | 77-81 (limited edition box set) |
| HAERTS | Dream Nation |
| Nina Herzog | Together Away EP |
| Lake Street Dive | Obviously |
| Pino Palladino and Blake Mills | Notes With Attachments |
| The Roots | Do You Want More?!!!??! (deluxe edition) |
| Sunfields | Late Bloomers |
| Jenny Owen Youngs | Echo Mountain EP |
| Rob Zombie | The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy |
| 19th | |
| Amiture | The Beach |
| Michael Beach | Dream Violence |
| Bell Orchestre | House Music |
| Justin Bieber | Justice |
| Blanketman | National Trust |
| Ghost of Vroom | Ghost of Vroom 1 |
| Philip Kane | Book of Broken Things |
| Landlady | Landlady |
| Alice Phoebe Lou | Glow |
| Middle Kids | Today We’re the Greatest |
| Mint Julep | In a Deep & Dreamless Sleep |
| Palm Ghosts | Lifeboat Candidate |
| Phantom Waves | Wilds |
| Real Numbers | Brighter Than |
| Show Me the Body | Survive |
| Sting | Duets |
| Serj Tankian | Elasticity EP |
| UB40 | Singing Off (40th anniversary edition) |
| A.A. Williams | Songs From Isolation |
| 26th | |
| AJR | OK Orchestra |
| The Antlers | Green To Gold |
| The Black Angels | Live At Levitation |
| The Clean | Mister Pop (reissue) |
| The Clean | Unknown Country (reissue) |
| Death From Above 1979 | Is 4 Lovers |
| Departure Lounge | Transmeridian |
| Early Riser | Vocations |
| Elegiac | Elegiac |
| Evanescence | The Bitter Truth |
| Floatie | Voyage |
| Frankie & His Fingers | Univeral Hurt |
| Ben Howard | Collections From the Whiteout |
| The Jaded Hearts Club | Live at The 100 Club |
| Lost Girls | Menneskekollektivet |
| Colin Miller | Hook EP |
| NF | Clouds (The Mixtape) |
| Emily Rodgers | I Will Be Gone |
| serpentwithfeet | DEACON |
| ’68 | Give One Take One |
| Skeggs | Rehearsal |
| Joe Strummer | Assembly (best of) |
| Sara Watkins | Under the Pepper Tree |
| Xiu Xiu | OH NO |
(updated as more release dates are made known)
