2012 Album Release Calendar

Welcome to 2012. This is your Rawkblog album/CD/EP/tape/7”/Bandcamp release calendar. As always, listings are chosen based on potential quality or curiosity level and are by no means meant to be exhaustive. (In other words: These are just releases I’m personally interested in hearing.) These listings will be updated weekly, so check back.

It’s become next to impossible to keep track of every band’s no-schedule digital releases, which means a lot of good records are slipping through the tracks. Bands, if you want to be here, please email me or comment on the post.

January 1:
Guided by Voices – Let’s Go Eat the Factory (GBV Inc.)

January 2:
Seasons – Autumn EP (Overhead)

January 17:
Seeker Lover Keeper – s/t (Spunk Records)
Paul Brill – Breezy (Scarlet Shame Records)
Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur (Maple Music/Rounder)
Matthew Dear – Headcage EP (Ghostly)
Herman Dune – Tell Me Something I Don’t Know EP (Strange Moosic)

January 24:
Nada Surf – The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy (Barsuk)
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar (Wichita)
Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend (Secretly Canadian)
Cardinal – Hymns (Fire Records)
Craig Finn (The Hold Steady) – Clear Heart Full Eyes (Vagrant)
Neal Morgan – In The Yard (self-released)
“Father’s Day”: mp3
Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory (Carpark)
John K. Samson (The Weakerthans) – Provincial (Anti-)
Big Deal - Lights Out (Mute)

January 31:
Hospitality – s/t (Merge)
Imperial Teen – Feel the Sound (Merge)
Grimes – Visions (Arbutus)
Prinzhorn Dance School - Clay Class (DFA)
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas (Columbia)
Lana Del Rey – Born To Die (Interscope)
Grimes – Visions (4AD)

February 5:
Curren$y – Here EP (digital)

February 7:
of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks (Polyvinyl)
Wintered Debts by of Montreal
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp (Jagjaguwar) (prod. Aaron Dessner/The National)
“Serpents”: mp3
Air – Le Voyage Dans La Lune (Astralwerks)
The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know (FatCat)
Lindstrom – Six Cups of Rebel (Smalltown Supersound – Feb. 6)
Dr. Dog – Be The Void (Anti-)
Capybara – Dave Drusky (The Record Machine)
“Late Night Bikes”: mp3
Mount Eerie – “Distorted Cymbals” 7″ (K)
We Are the Works in Progress Japan benefit album (Deerhunter, Blonde Redhead) (Asa Wa Kuru)

February 14:
The Cranberries – Roses
Tennis – Young and Old (Fat Possum)
Shearwater – Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
The Rosie Taylor Project – Twin Beds (Odd Box)
Islands – A Sleep & A Forgetting (Anti-)
Field Music – Plumb (Memphis Industries)
Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday (Roman Reloaded) (Universal)
The Soft Hills – The Bird is Coming Down to Earth (Tapete)
Rickolus – Coyote & Mule (Circle Into Square)

February 21:
Damien Jurado – Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Lambchop - Mr. M (Merge)
Archers of Loaf – Vee Vee reissue (Merge)
Tindersticks – The Something Rain (Constellation)
Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It (Matador)
Mind Spiders – Meltdown (Dirtnap)
Cursive – I Am Gemini (Saddle Creek)
Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror (Mom + Pop)
Dirty Three – Toward the Low Sun (Drag City)
Wild Nothing – Nowhere single (ft. Andrea Estella) (Captured Tracks)
Frankie Rose – Interstellar

February 28:
School of Seven Bells – Ghostory (Vagrant)
Plants and Animals – The End of That (Secret City)
Mind Spiders – Meltdown (Dirtnap)
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Generators (Editions Mego)
Ava Luna – Ice Level
Memoryhouse – The Slideshow Effect (Sub Pop)

March TBA:
Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Fat Possum)
Michael Kiwanuka

March 6:
Bowerbirds – The Clearing (Dead Oceans)
Lissy Trullie – s/t (Downtown)
The Magnetic Fields – Love at the Bottom of the Sea (Merge)
Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
Nite Jewel - One Second Of Love (Secretly Canadian)
Allo Darlin’ – Capricornia single (Slumberland)
Pale Seas – “Something or Nothing” single (Fear & Records – out 3/5)
The Men – Ain’t Ain’t Ain’t

March 19:
Mirrorring (Grouper, Tiny Vipers) – Foreign Body (Kranky)
Ben Browning (Cut Copy) – Lover Motion EP (Cutters)

March 20:
The-Dream – The Love IV (Diary of a Mad Man)
The Shins – Port of Morrow (Columbia)
Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear) – Silent Hour/Golden Mile

March 24:
La Sera – Sees the Light (Hardly Art)
“Please Be My Third Eye”: mp3

April TBA:
Evans the Death – s/t (Slumberland)

April 3:
Allo Darlin’ – Europe (Slumberland)
Bear in Heaven – I Love You, It’s Cool
Screaming Females – Ugly (Don Giovanni)
Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action at a Distance (Kranky – April 2)

April 10:
M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion (Merge)
Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls (ATO)

April 17:
Medicine – Shot Forth Self Living, The Buried Life reissues (Captured Tracks)
Moonface (Spencer Krug) – With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery (Jagjaguwar)
Horse Feathers – Cynic’s New Year (Kill Rock Stars)

April 24:
Electric Guest – Mondo (prod. Danger Mouse)
Jack White – Blunderbuss (Third Man/Columbia)
Toro Y Moi – June 2009 (Carpark)

May TBA:
Tyler, The Creator – Wolf

May 1:
Father John Misty - Fear Fun (Sub Pop)
Ane Brun – It All Starts With One

May 8:
Here We Go Magic – A Different Ship (Secretly Canadian)

May 9:
Codeine – Barely Real EP, Frigid Stars, The White Birch reissues (Numero Group)

May 15:
Garbage – Not Your Kind of People (Stunvolume)

May 29:
Marissa Nadler – The Sister (Box of Cedar Records)

June TBA:
Missy Elliott – Block Party
Timbaland

2012 TBA/Probable:
Best Coast
Metric
Mount Eerie
Air France
Cat Power
Dirty Projectors – Spring 2012
Jens Lekman
Gentleman Jesse and His Men
High Highs
The Walkmen – Summer 2012
The Avalanches
Beach Fossils
Projectionists – EP
Paramore
Regina Spektor
Rufus Wainwright
David Vandervelde – Big Lies
Fiona Apple
Ned Collette
Ravens & Chimes - Holiday Life
G.O.O.D. Music (Kanye West)
Grizzly Bear
Mazzy Star
Janelle Monae (two albums!)
Chelsea Wolfe
Morrissey
The xx
LA Font
Ke$ha
The Beach Boys
Keaton Henson – Dear…

2012 Rumor Mill/Possible:
St. Vincent + David Byrne collab
Animal Collective
Psychic Twin
Atoms For Peace
John Cale
Rose Elinor Dougall
Tokyo Police Club
Jim Guthrie
The World Record
The Long Winters
Division Day
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Dr. Dre – Detox
Jonathan Coulton
VEGA
Beth Orton
Casimer Pascal (ex-Pas/Cal) – solo debut
The Thrills/Conor Deasy release
Jon Brion sophomore album
The Wrens
Evangelicals
DOOMSTARKS (Ghostface and MF Doom)
Lucy Rose
Spoon — Dudes are due, right?
Cuff the Duke (playing SXSW)