[Future Faves?] More Upcoming 2012 Album Releases
Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:08 am | No Comments
As promised, the sequel to my February album preview, a late-summer rundown of some just-released, scheduled, and rumored full-length albums I’m looking forward to in the 2nd half of 2012. I’ve included as much legally-shared audio as I could find, as well as purchase/pre-order links when available (click label names for those). This took a ridiculously long time to pull together, so hopefully you’ll find something new to love. I’ll try to keep this list updated as more albums get announced…
If anything’s missing, you’ll have to guess if it’s intentional or accidental. Hit the comments to either clue me in or convince me why I should care…
- Mission of Burma – “Unsound” (7/9 on Fire Records)
- Frank Lenz – “Vacation” (7/10 on Velvet Blue Music)
- The Karl Hendricks Trio – “The Adult Section” (7/17 on Comedy Minus One)
- The Mommyheads – “Vulnerable Boy” (7/17 on Dromedary Records)
- Sugar – “Copper Blue / Beaster” [Deluxe Reissue/Remaster] (7/24 on Merge)
[Stream] The album at Merge
- Sugar – “File Under: Easy Listening” [Deluxe Remaster/Reissue] (7/24 on Merge)
[Stream] The album at Merge
- Various Artists – “Five: A WeePOP! Covers Compilation” (7/28 on WeePOP!)
[Stream] The album at Last.fm
- Shelterbelt – debut album (8/2 – self-released via Bandcamp)
Boston band featuring members of Fuzzy, Consonant, Mittens, Frank Smith, & Muy Cansado
- The James Rocket – “Launch” (8/6 self-released)
- Archers of Loaf – “All the Nations Airports” [Deluxe Remaster/Reissue] (8/7 on Merge)
[Stream] Full release at Merge
- Archers of Loaf – “White Trash Heroes” [Deluxe Remaster/Reissue] (8/7 on Merge)
[Stream] Full release at Merge
- Redd Kross – “Researching The Blues” (8/7 on Merge)
[MP3] Redd Kross – “Researching The Blues”
[Stream] Full release at Merge
- Dead Can Dance – “Anastasis” (8/13 on Pias America
)
[Stream] Full release at their website
- Lorelei – “Enterprising Sidewalks” (8/16 on Slumberland)
- The Neats – “Crash At Crush” & “Blues End Blue” (Digital Reissues w/bonus tracks – self-released on 8/15)
[Stream] Live bonus track “Cry, Cry, Cry” at Soundcloud
The rest of August…
- Bailterspace – “Strobosphere” (8/21 on Fire Records)
- Bloc Party – “Four” (8/21 on Frenchkiss)
[Stream] Full album at their site
- Young Fresh Fellows – “Tiempo De Lujo” (8/21 on Yep Roc)
- Yeasayer – “Fragrant World” (8/21 on Secretly Canadian)
[Stream] Full album at NPR Music
- Divine Fits – “A Thing Called Divine Fits” (8/28 on Merge)
[Stream] Full release at NPR
- Minus The Bear – “Infinity Overhead” (8/28 on Dangerbird Records)
[Video] Album teaser
[Stream] Minus the Bear – “Steel And Blood”
- Poor Moon – “Poor Moon” (8/28 on Sub Pop)
- Wild Nothing – “Nocturne” (8/28 on Captured Tracks)
September…
- Cat Power – “Sun” (9/4 on Matador)
[MP3] Cat Power – “Ruin”
- Deerhoof – “Breakup Song” (9/4 on Polyvinyl)
- Jens Lekman – “I Know What Love Isn’t” (9/4 on Secretly Canadian)
- Mono – “For My Parents” (9/4 on Temporary Residence LTD)
- Bob Mould – “Silver Age” (9/4 on Merge)
- The Music Tapes – “Mary’s Voice” (9/4 on Merge)
- Stars – “The North” (9/4 on Soft Revolution)
- Golden Fable – “Star Map” (9/10 via Bandcamp)
- Calexico – “Algiers” (9/11 on Anti)
- Gallon Drunk – “The Road Gets Darker From Here” (9/11 in U.S. on Clouds Hill)
- Neil Halstead – “Palindrome Hunches” (9/11 on Brushfire Records)
[Stream] Track “Digging Shelters” at Line of Best Fit
- The Helio Sequence – “Negotiations” (9/11 on Sub Pop)
- Will Johnson (Centro-matic) – “Scorpion” (9/11 via Undertow)
- Sea Wolf – “Old World Romance” (9/11 on Dangerbird)
- Thee Oh Sees – “Putrifiers II” (9/11 on In the Red Records)
- The XX – “Coexist” (9/11 on Young Turks)
[Stream] Tracks “Angels” & “Chains” at their website
- Band of Horses – “Mirage Rock” (9/18 on Brown/Columbia)
[Stream] Track “Knock Knock” on YouTube
- Dinosaur Jr. – “I Bet on Sky” (US on 9/18 via Jagjaguwar)
- Grizzly Bear – “Shields” (9/18 on Warp Records)
[Stream] Track “Sleeping Ute” on YouTube
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – “Meat & Bone” (9/18 on Boombox/Mom+Pop)
- Aimee Mann – “Charmer” (9/18 on SuperEgo Records)
[Stream] The title track at her website
- The Sea and Cake – “Runner” (9/18 on Thrill Jockey)
[MP3] The Sea & Cake – “Harps”
- The Corin Tucker Band – “Kill My Blues” (9/18 on Kill Rock Stars)
- Sera Cahoone – “Deer Creek Canyon” (9/25 on Sub Pop)
[MP3] Sera Cahoone – “Naked”
- Caspian – “Waking Season” (9/25 on Triple Crown / 9/21 on Make My Day)
- John Frusciante – “PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone” (9/25 – self-released)
[Download] Track “Walls and Doors” via Topspin
- Big Dipper – “Crashes on a Platinum Planet” (September on Almost Ready Records)
- The Soft Pack – “Strapped” (9/25 on Mexican Summer)
[Stream] Track “Saratoga” on YouTube
- Tender Trap – “10 Songs About Girls” (September on Slumberland / Fortuna Pop)
October…
- Chris Brokaw – “Gambler’s Ecstasy” (10/2 on 12XU)
- Mark Eitzel – “Don’t Be a Stranger” (10/2 on Merge Records)
- The Mountain Goats – “Transcendental Youth” (10/2 on Merge)
- Taken By Trees – “Other Worlds” (10/2 on Secretly Canadian)
- Ultraísta – “Ultraísta” (10/2 on Temporary Residence)
- A.C. Newman (The New Pornographers) – “Shut Down The Streets” (10/9 on Matador)
- Daphni (Dan from Caribou) – “Jiaolong” (10/9 on Merge)
[Video] Daphni – “Ye Ye”
- Freelance Whales – “Diluvia” (10/9 on Frenchkiss/Mom+Pop)
[Download] The track “Locked Out” at their website
- Letting Up Despite Great Faults – “Untogether” (10/9 – self-released via Bandcamp)
- Earlimart – “System Preferences” (10/16 on The Ship – 9/18 digitally)
- Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) – “Former Lives” (10/16 on Barsuk)
- Mean Creek – “Youth Companion” (10/16 on Old Flame Records)
- Pinback – “Information Retrieved” (10/16 on Temporary Residence)
- Paul Banks – “Banks” (10/23 on Matador)
[MP3] Paul Banks – “The Base”
- Pedro The Lion – Vinyl Discography Remasters/Reissues (10/30 via Undertow)
- Titus Andronicus – “Local Business” (10/23 on XL)
[Preview] Tracks on their Tumblr
- The Soft Moon – “Zeros” (10/30 on Captured Tracks)
On the way, but with no date set…
- Peter Buck (R.E.M.) – solo album (“forthcoming”)
- Dylan In The Movies – “Sweet Rebel Thee” (Hopefully soon on Deevius Records)
- Human Hearts (Franklin Bruno) – “Another”
(CD/download in Sept/Oct on Shrimper – Vinyl thanks to Kickstarter) - Bill Janovitz – “Long Island Of The Mind” (self-released / fan-funded)
- The Joy Formidable – “Wolf’s Law” (early 2013?)
[MP3] The Joy Formidable – “Wolf’s Law” (new non-album track)
- Pilot To Gunner – “Guilty Guilty” (Coming on Arctic Rodeo)
- Tara Jane ONeil – her next solo album (self-released / fan-funded, goal met! / ready-when-it’s-ready)
- Snowden – “No One In Control” (Fall on Serpents & Snakes Records)
Works in progress, no announcement yet…
- Apex Manor
- Bottomless Pit – “new recordings are happening“
- Built To Spill
- Neko Case
- Frightened Rabbit – new LP (early 2013)
- Ted Leo
- The New Year
- Nightmare Air – debut LP
- Overseas (David Bazan, Will Johnson, Bubba & Matt Kadane)
- Pernice Bros. – “…there’s still that Pernice Brothers record that’s in the can, but the can is packed in a box somewhere…“
- Scud Mountain Boys – “There will be a record. I don’t know when.“
- Secretary (ex-Summer At Shatter Creek)
- Throwing Muses – “Purgatory/Paradise” (double CD in early 2013)
- Wheat – “Can’t Stop The Addiction
And finally, the albums that have helped me get through the first half of 2012…
- Allo Darlin’ – “Europe”
- Arc In Round – self-titled debut LP
- Beachwood Sparks – “The Tarnished Gold”
- DIIV – “Oshin”
- Rebecca Gates & the Consortium – “The Float”
- Hallelujah The Hills – “No One Knows What Happens Next”
- Kaia Wilson – “Two Adult Women In Love”
- The Karl Hendricks Trio – “The Adult Section”
- Now Now – “Threads”
- Sharon Van Etten – “Tramp”
- Various – “In Pleasant Company: A Mixtape For Jason” (Jason Noble benefit)
- You’re Jovian – “Stereochronic”
How about you? Your faves so far this year? And what are you most looking forward to?
[Last Tuesday’s Playlist] Boston Accents Farewell Party – Night 2 – DJ Sets
Posted on August 1, 2012 at 6:20 pm | No Comments
One week ago we were given a communal chance to bid farewell to a Sunday-night radio staple: The Boston Accents local music program that ended when WFNX was officially swallowed by the ACME Clear Channel mega-corp. While the station itself threw its own one-night goodbye show at the Paradise a month back, Boston Accents host Michael Marotta upped the ante by inviting a dozen of his favorite local bands to play over three nights at Allston’s Great Scott. Two of the shows sold way out, and the first one came pretty close, which is no small feat on summer weeknights. It was a bittersweet celebration that was, of course, way more on the sweet side than the bitter.
I was honored to play a small part in the partying, along with my DJ partner Jay “Clicky Clicky” Brietling, as we soundtracked the before-between-and-after-band moments of the second show with our own personal song selections. Naturally, we kept things local: Our favorite tracks from Boston-area bands past and present to honor the mission of Boston Accents. I kicked things off after the soundchecks, just before 9 o’clock, playing a set that lead into the Dirty Virgins opening slot, along with another short set before Soccer Mom took the stage. Jay took over from there, surrounding Mellow Bravo and Mean Creek, and you can check out his tracklists over at his place. His sets leaned just a little more old-school, while I mostly stuck to the last decade-or-so, though we both had some outliers (I’ll take any opportunity to play Swirlies “Sunn” in public). Some of you may notice a quintet of songs in my set that follow a bit of a theme, so bonus points if you get that…
Soccer Mom on stage. I heart them.
Set 1
Pants Yell! – “Not Wrong”
Wheat – “Don’t I Hold You”
Travels – “Smile”
You Can Be A Wesley – “Creatures”
Lockgroove – “Engine Drone”
Charlene – “Ripoff”
The Broken River Prophet – “December Wolves”
Sharp Darts USA – “Turn It On Again”
Ghost Box Orchestra – “Oh, the Moon Hangs Low”
Young Adults – “Impression”
Set 2
Swirlies – “Sunn”
Pixies – “Alec Eiffel”
Girlfriends (now known as Bent Shapes) – “Big Machines”
The Dirty Dishes – “Blur”
Mean Creek finishes up night 2