2011 Winter Music Preview

Winter has been dead for the music industry for a couple years and it managed to get worst this year with multiple albums have broke the dubious distinction of the worst sales for the number one album in the Soundscan era and we are just one month in. And looking ahead, that record is not very safe. But it may pick up soon with many high profile acts set to release albums later in the first quarter, but not many have not set a street date yet, just a vague “Spring” release date. Here are some albums that you may have to look forward to while watching the snow melt: Click on the album name to pre-order at Amazon, or the artist name to do so in iTunes.

February 1
Musica + Alma + Sexo – Ricky Martin
Go Down Under – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

February 8
Mondo Amore – Nicole Atkins
Tell Me – Jessica Lea Mayfield
The World Is Yours - Motörhead
The Sing Off: The Best of Season 2

Slaughterhouse EP - Slaughterhouse

Febuary 15
Go-Go Boots – Drive-By Truckers
People’s Key – Bright Eyes
What If – Mr. Big

February 22
21 – Adele

March 1
The Valley – Eisley
Blessed – Lucinda Williams
Wounded Rhymes – Lykke Li
Going Out in Style – Dropkick Murphys

March 8
Collapse into Now – R.E.M.
Lasers – Lupe Fiasco
Goodbye Lullaby – Avril Lavigne

March 15
Rome – Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppe
Scandalous – Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

March 22
Stone Rollin’ – Raphael Saadiq
Live on I-5 - Soundgarden

March 29
Gimme Some - Peter Bjorn and John
Doggumentary Music – Snoop Dogg

April
TBD – Foo Fighters
So Beautiful or So What – Paul Simon
Time of My Life – 3 Doors Down
Blood Pressures – The Kills

May 3
In Your Dreams – Stevie Nicks

Unknown Date
Watch the Throne – Kanye West & Jay-Z
Songs of Ascent – U2
Hot Sauce Committee parts 1 & 2 – Beastie Boys
Codes and Keys – Death Cab for Cutie
BlakRoc II – BlakRoc
TBD – Fiona Apple
TBD – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Fleet Foxes LP2 – Fleet Foxes
Black and White America – Lenny Kravitz
Euphoric Heartbreak – Glasvegas
TBD – Mary J. Blige
Lifestyle – Nelly Furtado
TBD – The Ting Tings

And what would be a music preview without the prerequisite maybe this is the quarter we get to hear Detox which is rumored to drop, when else, 4/20.