Winter 2015 Music Preview

Like the past few winters, the marquee names are far and few in between and most are listed in the TBD section but here are the albums coming out in the next couple months that will probably at least be worth a spin on Spotify. Click on the album name to pre-order on Amazon and the artist name to be taken to their iTunes page.

Last Week
Uptown Special - Mark Ronson
Evermotion - Guster
Me EP - RaeLynn
Soundtrack of My Life - Donny Osmond

This Week
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World - The Decemberists
Tetsuo and Youth - Lupe Fiasco
American Beauty/American Psycho - Fall Out Boy
Fear and Saturday Night - Ryan Bingham
Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance - Belle and Sebastian
For the Taking - Elenowen

January 27
The Phosphorescent Blues - Punch Brothers
Wanted on Voyage - George Ezra
Then Came the Morning - The Lone Bellow
Interlude - Jamie Cullum
Forever Charlie - Charlie Wilson
Sco-Mule - Gov't Mule
Tony Lucca - Tony Lucca

February 3
Shadows In The Night - Bob Dylan
Afraid of Ghosts - Butch Walker
Further Deeper - The Church

February 10
The Last Five Years Soundtrack - Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan
Smoke and Mirrors - Imagine Dragons
Tomorrow Is My Turn - Rhiannon Giddens
Love Stuff - Elle King
True Romance - Estelle
Whatever, My Love - The Juliana Hatfield Three
A Quien Quiera Escuchar - Ricky Martin
Last Dragon -Sisqó

February 24
Archis - Archis
First Kiss - Kid Rock
Just Kids - Mat Kearney
Our Own House - MisterWives

March 3
Chasing Yesterday - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
another eternity - Purity Ring
Strangers to Ourselves - Modest Mouse
The Firewatcher's Daughter - Brandi Carlile
Aureate Gloom - of Montreal

March 10
Rebel Heart - Madonna

March 17
Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliott Smith - Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield

March 24
Toto XIV - Toto
Short Movie - Laura Marling

March 31
Kintsugi - Death Cab for Cutie
Southern Style - Darius Rucker
Carrie and Lowell - Sufjan Stevens
The Day Is My Enemy - The Prodigy

April 7
After it All - Delta Rae
New Glow - Matt and Kim
Froot - Marina and The Diamonds

TBD
No Pier Pressure - Brian Wilson
Radio Silence - James Blake
Bush - Snoop Dogg
Black Is the New Black - Everclear
Adele
Ashley Monroe
Kacey Musgraves
Kanye West
Metallica
TLC (donate to the Kickstarter now)
Van Halen

As always, let me end with the obligatory maybe this will be the quarter that Dr. Dre will finally drop Detox.

2014 Winter Music Preview

Today actually sees the first albums released in 2014 by artists you recognize. Though like many first quarters before it, there really is no marquee releases scheduled yet unless you are extremely excited for a Bruce Springsteen rarities album or been waiting for a Toni Braxton / Babyface joint album since he wrote Breathe Again for her (and I doubt anyone will be Beyonceing their album in the next three months). But before you fear that 2014 is going to be as bad as 2013 I term of music, there is a lengthy list of albums to get excited for in the TBA section but we will probably will not hear anything from them until Spring and maybe not until late summer. Click the album title to pre-order on Amazon and the artists name to be taken to their iTunes page.

January 14
High Hopes – Bruce Springsteen
Give The People What They Want – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Fading West - Switchfoot
Songs From The Movie - Mary Chapin Carpenter
The River & The Thread - Rosanne Cash
Projection Room – Sleepy Kitty
Crystal Method – The Crystal Method

January 21
Mind Over Matter – Young the Giant
Warpaint - Warpaint
Is there Anybody Out There? – A Great Big World
Revelation - Los Lonely Boys
The Wishing Forest – Hilary Capps

January 28
Croz – David Crosby
B-Sides - The Gaslight Anthem
Too True – Dum Dum Girls
Broken Hearts & Stolen Money - Gangstagrass

February 4
After the Disco – Broken Bells
Love, Marriage & Divorce – Toni Braxton & Babyface
I’m a Fire – David Nail

February 11
Acoustic at the Ryman – Band of Horses
Time Moves On – Maggie McClure
I Was Going To Be An Astronaut – Greg Laswell

February 18
Lions – William Fitzsimmons
Somewhere Else – Lydia Loveless
Full Frequency – Sean Paul

February 25
Helios – The Fray
St. Vincent – St. Vincent
Blank Project – Neneh Cherry

March 4
English Oceans – Drive-By Truckers
By Request – Charlotte Sometimes

March 11
Stereolithic - 311

March 18
Supermodel - Foster the People
TBD - Lindsey Pavao

March 25
Out Among The Stars – Johnny Cash (lost album from the early eighties)
Teeth Dreams – The Hold Steady

April 1
Himalayan – Band of Skulls
Roses and Revolutions – Roses & Revolutions

April 15
Wastland – Needtobreathe

April 22
Pop Psychology - Neon Trees

April 28
Food - Kelis

TBD
Morning Phase – Beck
Girl Power – Cee Lo Green
Nobody Smiling - Common
The Last Zulu – Q-Tip
A Better Tomorrow – Wu-Tang Clan
Tetsuo and Youth – Lupe Fiasco
E.L.E.2 (Extinction Level Event 2) – Busta Rhymes
9 – Eddie Murphy
Quack – Duck Sauce
Adele
The Black Keys
Brian Wilson
Clipse
Colbie Caillat
Coldplay
Damon Albarn
Dan Wilson
Death Cab for Cutie
Ed Sheeran
Foo Fighters
Frank Ocean
Fun.
Grimes
Jack White
John Mellencamp
Kanye West
Lily Allen
Miguel
Nas
Pharrell Williams
Roger Waters
Sleeper Agent
Shakira
Stevie Wonder
Taylor Swift
Tom Morello
U2

And let me end with the obligatory this may be the quarter when Dr. Dre finally drops Detox.