Welcome to Rawkblog’s yearly album release calendar. All dates, titles and so on are subject to change: this page is updated semi-weekly and will strive to be as accurate as possible. If it’s not, let me know. Albums released on Bandcamp and so on during odd dates will be placed under “Misc/Digital Releases” so we can remember they came out this year. Release dates seem more up-in-the-air than ever these days, so albums will join this list when the day looks locked down. Thanks to Consequence of Sound, Insound, Pitchfork and others for originally supplying many of these dates.
As always, this is a list of albums I’m personally interested in hearing, not an exhaustive record. Let me help you keep up: join Rawkblog’s Playlist Club and I’ll share my favorite album of the week direct to your inbox every Tuesday.
Misc./Digital Releases
(To come)
January 8
FIDLAR – FIDLAR (Mom + Pop)
Solange – True (Terrible Records)
Paint Branch – I Wanna Live (Bandcamp)
January 15
A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP (RCA)
Christopher Owens (ex-Girls) – Lysandre (Fat Possum)
Holopaw – Academy Songs, Volume 1 (Misra)
Yo La Tengo – Fade (Matador)
January 22
Foxygen – We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (Jagjaguwar)
Toro Y Moi – Anything In Return (Carpark)
Ra Ra Riot – Beta Love (Barsuk)
Blue Hawaii – Untogether (Arbutus)
January 29
Local Natives – Hummingbird (Frenchkiss)
Mice Parade – Candela (Fat Cat)
February 5
Jim James (My Morning Jacket) – Regions of Light and Sound of God (ATO)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II (Jagjaguwar)
Little Wings – Last (Rad!)
Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse (Warner/Canvasback)
Eels – Wonderful, Glorious (E Works)
Hayden – Us Alone (Arts & Crafts)
Ron Sexsmith – Forever Endeavor
Night Beds – Country Sleep (Dead Oceans)
February 8
Darlings – Perfect Trip (vinyl release/Bandcamp)
February 12
Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste (Universal)
Foals – Holy Fire (Warner)
Millionyoung – Variable (Old Flame Records)
Fear of Men – Early Fragments (Kanine)
February 15
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – We The Common (Ribbon Music)
February 18
Atoms For Peace – Amok (XL)
February 19
Iceage – You’re Nothing (Matador)
Jamie Lidell – Jamie Lidell (Warp)
Beach Fossils – Clash the Truth (Captured Tracks)
Mark Kozelek – Like Rats (Caldo Verde)
Pam Shaffer – It Is Happening Again
February 26
Sally Shapiro – Somewhere Else (Paper Bag)
Mount Moriah – Miracle Temple (Merge)
Mister Lies – Mowgli (Lefse)
Reason To Believe – The Songs Of Tim Hardin (Full Time Hobby)
March 5
Cave Singers – Naomi (Jagjaguwar)
Still Corners – Strange Pleasures (Sub Pop)
The ACBs – Little Leaves (High Dive Records)
March 12
Sound City – Real to Reel (Dave Grohl film soundtrack) (Roswell Recordings)
Chalk and Numbers – Parade EP
March 19
William Tyler – Impossible Truth (Merge)
Phosphorescent – Muchacho (Dead Oceans)
Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience (RCA)
Low – The Invisible Way (Sub Pop)
March 26
The Strokes – Comedown Machine (RCA)
Wavves – Afraid of Heights (Mom + Pop)
Matty Fasano – The Barn (GODMODE)
April 2
Mudhoney – Vanishing Point (Sub Pop)
Telekinesis – Dormarion (Merge)
Barren Girls – Hell Hymns EP (Merge)
Flaming Lips – The Terror (Warner)
Rilo Kiley – Rkives (Little Record Company)
April 9
British Sea Power – Machineries of Joy (Rough Trade)
Kurt Vile – Walkin’ On a Pretty Daze (Matador)
Paramore – Paramore (Fueled by Ramen)
April 13
The Knife – Shaking the Habitual (Mute)
April 16
Iron & Wine – Ghost on Ghost (Nonesuch)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito (Interscope)
April 23
Phoenix – Bankrupt! (Glassnote)
April 30
Hands – Synesthesia (Kill Rock Stars)
Ola Podrida – Ghosts Go Blind (Western Vinyl)
Sun Kil Moon & The Album Leaf – Perils From the Sea (Caldo Verde)
May 7
Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City (XL)
May 14
Eluvium – Nightmare Ending (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
June 4
Big Deal – June Gloom (Mute)
