Stephen Malkmus / photo by David Greenwald
Welcome to The Rawking Refuses To Stop!‘s 2008 album/CD/EP/awesome music release calendar, where we keep track of the year’s most interesting upcoming releases – when available, with MP3s. Note: As you probably know, album release dates are in a constant state of flux (hello, Chinese Democracy). We stay on top of things as best we can but check the label sites for up-to-date information.
January 29
Radar Bros. – Auditorium (Merge)
Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie) – Field Manual (Barsuk)
> “Sing Again”: mp3
Ida – Lovers Prayers (Polyvinyl)
> “Lovers Prayer”: mp3 mp3
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (XL)
Xiu Xiu – Women As Lovers (Kill Rock Stars)
Thao Nguyen – We Brave Bee Stings and All (Kill Rock Stars)
> “Beat (Health, Life and Fire)”: mp3
> “Bag of Hammers”: mp3
February 5
Nada Surf – Lucky (Barsuk)
> “See These Bones”: mp3
Hot Chip – Made in the Dark (DFA/Astralwerks)
February 12
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)
February 19
Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride (4AD)
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
American Music Club – The Golden Age (Merge)
> “All the Lost Souls Welcome You to San Francisco”: mp3
Headlights – Some Racing, Some Stopping (Polyvinyl)
> “Cherry Tulips”: mp3
Crushed Stars – Gossamer Days (Simulcra)
> “Spies”: mp3
Kurt Cobain: About a Son OST
February 26
Beach House – Devotion (Carpark)
Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree (Mute)
Del The Funky Homosapien – 11th Hour (Def Jux)
Sunny Day Sets Fire – Stranger / Remix EP (IAMSOUND)
> “Stranger”: mp3
Pete Rock – NY’s Finest (Survivor)
March 4
Autechre – Quaristice (Warp)
White Hinterland – Phylactery Factory (Dead Oceans)
> “Dreaming of the Plum Trees”: mp3
Valet – Naked Acid (Kranky)
Black Forest/Black Sea – Portmanteau (Secret Eye)
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
> “Baltimore”: mp3
> “Cold Son”: mp3
Mia Doi Todd – Gea (Zen City)
Cadence Weapon – Afterparty Babies (Anti-)
What Made Milwaukee Famous – What Doesn’t Kill Us (Barsuk)
> “Resistance St.”: mp3
Whiskeytown – Stranger’s Almanac reissue (Geffen)
Howlin Rain – Magnificent Fiend (American Recordings)
March 10 (U.K.)
Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules and Love Affair (DFA/EMI)
March 11
Why? – Alopecia (Anticon)
> “The Hollows”: mp3
March 18
Destroyer – Trouble in Dreams (Merge)
> “Foam Hands”: mp3
Daniel Lanois – Here Is What Is (Red Floor)
Mission of Burma – Ace of Hearts catalog reissues (Matador)
Teenagers – Reality Check (XL)
Adam Green (The Moldy Peaches) – Sixes and Sevens (Rough Trade)
DeVotchKa – A Mad And Faithful Telling (Anti-)
She & Him (M. Ward, Zoey Deschanel) – Volume 1 (Merge)
The Dodos – Visiter (Frenchkiss)
Sera Cahoone – Only As The Day Is Long (Sub Pop)
Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing (ATP)
Retribution Gospel Choir (members of Low) – Retribution Gospel Choir (Caldo Verde)
We Are Scientists – Brain Thrust Mastery (Virgin)
March 24
Guillemots – Red (Polydor – UK release)
March 25
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band – 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (Constellation)
Morrissey’s Greatest Hits (Decca)
Under Byen – Siamesisk (Paper Bag)
De Navo Dahl – Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound (Roadrunner)
April 1
Sun Kil Moon – April (Caldo Verde)
The Black Keys – Attack & Release (Nonesuch)
Moby – Last Night (Mute)
Willie Nelson – One Hell of a Ride box set (Legacy)
R.E.M. – Accelerate (Warner Bros.)
Yelle – POP-UP (Caroline)
Annuals – Wet Zoo (Red Ink)
Muse – C.R.A.A.P. (Warner Bros.)
April 8
Man Man – Rabbit Habits (Anti-)
Colin Meloy – Colin Meloy Sings Live (Kill Rock Stars)
> “We Both Go Down Together (live)”: mp3
Breeders – Mountain Battles (4AD)
Animal Collective – Water Curses (Domino)
Neva Dinova – You May Already Be Dreaming (Saddle Creek)
Tapes ‘N Mediocrity – Walk It Off (XL)
> “Hang Them All”: mp3
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Pershing (Polyvinyl)
> “Think I Wanna Die”: mp3
Clinic – Do It (Domino)
Foals – Antidotes (Sub Pop)
Peter Moren (of Peter Bjorn and John) – The Last Tycoon (Quarterstick)
The Long Blondes – Couples (Rough Trade)
Spoon – Don’t You Evah single (Merge)
The Explorer’s Club – Do You Love Me 7″ (Dead Oceans)
The Microphones – The Glow Pt. 2 (reissue – K Records)
Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple (Downtown/Atlantic) **out now
Duke Spirit – Neptune (Artist First)
April 15
M83 – Saturday = Youth (Mute)
Little Ones – Morning Tide (Astralwerks)
Plastic Constellations - We Appreciate You (Frenchkiss)
Supergrass – Diamond Hoo Ha (Astralwerks)
Roommate – We Were Enchanted (Plug Research)
Brian Jonestown Massacre – My Bloody Underground (A Recordings)
April 22
Flight of the Conchords – Flight of the Conchords (Sub Pop)
> “Ladies of the World”: mp3
Replacements deluxe reissues, round one (Rhino)
Tokyo Police Club – Elephant Shell (Saddle Creek)
> “In a Cave”: mp3
Love – Forever Changes reissue (Rhino)
Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid (Fiction/Geffen)
Billy Bragg – Mr. Love & Justice (Anti-)
April 28
Tindersticks – The Hungry Saw (Beggars Banquet)
April 29
Dizzee Rascal – Maths + English (Def Jux – U.S. release)
Jamie Lidell – Jim (Warp)
Willie Nelson – #1s (Legacy)
Constantines – Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts)
Boris – Smile (Southern Lord)
Hayden – In Field & Town (Fat Possum)
Carly Simon – This Kind of Love (Hear Music)
Bun B – Il Trill (Rap-A-Lot/Asylum)
Sarah McLachlan – Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff, Vol. 2 (Arista)
Lil Mama – VYP – Voice of the Young People (Jive)
The Supremes – Let The Music Play: Supremes Rarities 1960-1969 (Motown/Hip-O Select.com)
Santogold – Santogold
Robert Forster (ex-Go-Betweens) – The Evangelist (Yep Roc)
Awesome Color – Electric Aborigines (Ecstatic Peace)
> “Eyes of Light”: mp3
May TBA
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Lie Down in the Light (Drag City)
May 5 (UK)
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Sunday At Devil Dirt (V2/Cooperative)
May 6
No Age – Nouns (Sub Pop)
> “Eraser”: mp3
The Last Shadow Puppets (Arctic Monkeys) – The Age of the Understatement (Domino)
Pattern is Movement – All Together (Hometapes)
Meho Plaza – Meho Plaza (Better Looking)
May 13
Flying Lotus – TBD (Warp)
Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
The Old 97′s – Blame It On Gravity (New West)
Instruments – Dark Småland (Orange Twin)
Quiet Village – Silent Movie (!K7)
May 19
Spiritualized – Songs In A&E (Universal/Spaceman – UK release)
May 20
Islands – Arm’s Way (-Anti)
The Explorer’s Club – Freedom Wind (Dead Oceans)
> “Do You Love Me?”: mp3
Wedding Present – El Rey (Manifesto)
Scarlett Johansson – Anywhere I Lay My Head (Tom Waits covers)
French Kicks – Swimming (Vagrant)
> “Abandon”: mp3
May 27
Broken Social Scene Presents…Brendan Canning (Arts & Crafts)
Mt. Eerie – Black Wooden Ceiling Opening EP (P.W. Elverum and Suns)
Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia (reissue – Astralwerks)
Al Green – Lay It Down (Blue Note)
June 3
Weezer – Weezer/The Red Album (Interscope)
Ladytron – Velocifero (Nettwerk)
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
> “White Winter Hymnal”: mp3
Spiritualized – Songs In A&E (U.S. release – Fontana International/Spaceman)
Shearwater – Rook (Matador)
> “Rooks”: mp3
Aimee Mann – @#%&! Smilers (Superego)
Adem – Takes (Domino)
Sebadoh – Bubble and Scrape (Domino)
Radiohead – The Best of (EMI)
Essie Jain – The Inbetween (Ba Da Bing)
June 10
My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges (ATO)
Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
The Beach Boys – U.S. Singles Collection – The Capitol Years (1962-1965) (Capitol/EMI)
June 17
My Brightest Diamond – A Thousand Shark’s Teeth (Asthmatic Kitty)
> “Inside a Boy”: mp3
Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (Capitol)
Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)
> “Call It A Ritual”: mp3
The Notwist – The Devil, You + Me (Domino)
> “Good Lies”: mp3
June 24
The Watson Twins – Fire Songs (Vanguard)
Au – Verbs (Aagoo)
Paul Weller – 22 Dreams (Yep Roc)
Hercules & Love Affair – Hercules & Love Affair (Mute)
July 1
Earlimart – Hymn & Her (Majordomo)
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson (Say Hey)
The Chap – Mega Breakfast (Ghostly International)
July 8
Ron Sexsmith – Exit Strategy of the Soul (Yep Roc)
Burial – DJ Kicks (!K7)
David Bowie – Live Santa Monica ’72 Reissue (Virgin/EMI)
Abe Vigoda – Skeleton (PPM)
July 11
Patti Smith and Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine) – The Coral Sea (PASK)
July 15
The Hold Steady – Stay Positive (Vagrant)
July 22
Dr. Dog – Fate (Park The Van)
CSS – Donkey (Sub Pop)
Pas/Cal – Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura
Lacktherof – Your Anchor (Barsuk)
Mogwai – Batcat EP (Matador)
Julie Doiron – Loneliest in the Morning (Jagjaguwar)
August 5
Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) – Conor Oberst (Merge)
The Faint – Fascination (Blank.wav)
Oneida – Preteen Weaponry (Jagjaguwar)
David Vandervelde – Waiting for the Sunshine (Secretly Canadian)
Ida – My Fair, My Dark EP (Polyvinyl)
Oxford Collapse – Bits (Sub Pop)
August 19
Stereolab – Chemical Chords (4AD)
Human Highway (Jim Guthrie and Nick Thorburn of Islands) – Moody Motorcycle (Secret City)
The Walkmen – You & Me (Gigantic)
The Stills – Oceans Will Rise (Arts & Crafts)
Lykke Li – Overrated Songwriter Nonsense No One Would Like If She Wasn’t Photogenic (LL Records)
August 26
Zach Hill (Hella) – Astrological Straights (Ipecac)
Matthew Sweet – Sunshine Lies (Shout! Factory)
September 9
Okkervil River – The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
Shaky Hands – Lunglight (Kill Rock Stars)
Bound Stems – The Family Afloat (Flameshovel)
Chad VanGaalen – Soft Airplane (Sub Pop)
The Broken West – Now or Heaven (Merge)
Calexico – Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
The New Year – The New Year (Touch and Go)
September 16
Fujiya & Miyagi – Lightbulbs (Deaf Dumb and Blind)
September 23
The Week That Was – The Week That Was (Memphis Industries)
Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling (Matador)
Max Richter – 24 Postcards in Full Color (Fat Cat)
TV on the Radio – Dear Science, (Interscope)
September 30
Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls (In The Red)
Mercury Rev – Snowflake Midnight (Yep Roc)
Dungen – 4 (Kemado)
Dressy Bessy – Holler and Stomp (Transdreamer)
October 7
Hauschka – Ferndorf (Fat Cat)
Deerhoof – Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars)
Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s – Animal/Not Animal (Epic)
Lambchop – OH (ohio) (Merge)
Jay Reatard – Matador Singles ’08 (Matador)
Mt. Eerie – Lost Wisdom (PW Elverum and Sun — out now via his website)
Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
October 14
Indian Jewelry – Free Gold (vinyl – Lovempump Unlimited)
Secret Machines – Secret Machines (TSM Recordings)
Minus Five – Indies Only (Yep Roc)
October 21
The Dears – Missles (Dangerbird)
Sea and Cake – Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)
Parts & Labor – Receivers (Jagjaguwar)
White Hinterland – Luniculaire EP (Dead Oceans)
+/- (Plus/Minus) – Xs On Your Eyes (Absolutely Kosher)
October 28
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – Cardinology (Lost HIghway)
Matthew Herbert – When There’s Me And There’s You (!K7)
Fight Bite – Emerald Eyes (self-released)
Deerhunter – Microcastle (Kranky)
Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night (Slumberland)
November 4
Megapuss (Devendra Banhart) – Surfing
Little Joy (dude from Strokes) – Little Joy
James Yorkston – When the Haar Rolls In
Johann Johannsson – Fordlandia
Frida Hyvonen – Silence is Wild (Secretly Canadian)
Cale Parks (Aloha) – Sparkface (Polyvinyl)
November 11
Denison Witmer – Carry The Weight (The Militia Group)
Au Revoir Simone – Migration (remixes – Our Secret Record Company)
The Smiths – The Sound of the Smiths (Rhino)
Love Is All – A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (What’s Your Rupture?)
November 18
Pavement – Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition (Matador)
Max Tundra – Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino)
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Sunday at Devil Dirt (V2)
Belle & Sebastian – The BBC Sessions (Matador)
November 25
Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak
The Killers – Day and Age (Island)
The (International) Noise Conspiracy – Cross Of My Calling (Vagrant)
Kid Sister – Dream Date (Downtown)
December 2
Blackout Bleach – Skin of Evil (Soft Abuse)
The Decemberists – Always The Bridesmaid Vol. 3 (Jealous Butcher)
December 9
Cat Power – Dark End of the Street EP
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Check back soon for more dates and MP3s and click below to read about more 2008 releases.
Arthur and Yu – In Camera (
Rocky Votolato – The Brag & Cuss (
Minus Story – My Ion Truss (
Savath & Savalas – Golden Pollen (
Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger (
Raising The Fawn – Sleight of Hand (
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (
St. Vincent – Marry Me (
John Vanderslice – Emerald City (
Okkervil River – The Stage Names (
Architecture in Helsinki – Places Like This (
Nina Nastasia & Jim White – You Follow Me (
Black Before Red – Belgrave to Kings Circle (I Eat Records)
New Pornographers – Challengers (
Art in Manila (Orenda Fink) – Set the Woods on Fire (
Stars – In Our Bedroom After The War (
Saturday Looks Good To Me – Fill Up the Room (
