The FYI calendar of new album releases scheduled for the first part of the year, plus a mention of big name artists we expect to hear from later in the year. Keep in mind that release dates are always subject to change. Happy listening!

 

February

10: Mother Mother - No Culture (Universal)

10: Leonard Cohen - Memories audiobook & radio recordings (Sony)

10: Mike Rocha - Finale (Independent)

10: Terra Lightfoot - Live in Concert  (Sonic Unyon/Sony Music Canada)

10: Alison Krauss - Windy City (Capitol)

10: Raffi – Best Of Raffi (Rounder)

10: Vic Chesnutt – Drunk (New West) –vinyl

10. David Bowie - Sound & Vision 40th anniversary pic disc (Warner)

10: The Shins - Heartworks (Aural Apothecary/Columbia)

10: Brett Young - Brett Young (Republic Nashville)

10: Carousel Kings -Charm City (Victory)

10: Tinariwen -- Elwan (Anti)

10: Darin & Brooke Aldridge - Faster and Farther (Mountain Home Music)

10: Haydn: Complete Piano Trios, 9-CD set (Universal)

10: Leonard Bernstein - The Composer 25-CD set (Deutsche Grammophon)

10: Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins (Yep Roc)

10: Mark Porkchop Holder -- Let It Slide (Alive Naturalsound Records)

10: The Sadies - Northern Passages (Dine Alone)

10: Teen Daze - Themes for Dying Earth (Flora)

10: Port Cities - Port Cities (Warner) 

10, Begonia - Lady In Mind  (Independent)

10: The Treble -  Modernaires  (Cadence Music).

14: Desiree Dawson - Wild Heart (Independent)

17: Bill & Joel Plaskett - Solidarity (Pheromone)

17: The Courtneys - The Courtneys II (Flying Nun)

17: Ryan Adams - Prisoner (Pax Am/Blue Note)

17: Various Artists - Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack (Universal)

17: Son Volt - Notes Of Blue  (Thirty Tigers) 

17: Pegi Young & The Survivors - Raw (Baltimore Thrush Records)

17: Chip Taylor - A Song I Can Live With (Train Wreck)

17: Robert Randolph and his Family Band - Got Soul ( Sony Music Masterworks)

17: The Matinee - Dancing on Your Grave (Light Organ)

17: Mozart’s Sister - Field of Love (Arbutus)

17: Sam Patch - Yeah You, And I (Dep Records)

17: Tim Darcy -Saturday Night (Jagjaguwar)

17: Age of Electric - Make a Pest a Pet vinyl reissue (We Are Busy Bodies)

17: Parallels - Metropolis (Marigold)

17: The Wild! - Wild at Heart (eOne)

17: The Discarded - The Discarded (Independent)

17: Arcade Fire – The Reflektor Tapes and Live At Earls Court (Eagle Rock) – digital video release

18: Steve Kirby's Oceanic Jazz Orchestra - All Over The Map (Independent)

24: The Luyas - Human Voicing

24: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana (ATO)

24: Children of Alice - s/t (WARP/Paper Bag)

24: Leif Vollebekk - Twin Solitude (Secret City)

24: BEYRIES - Landing (Independent) 

24: Mobina Galore - Feeling Disconnected (New Damage Records)

24: Brasstronaut - Brasstronaut (Tin Angel)

24: Lee Palmer - Bridge  (Independent)

24: Little Big Town - The Breaker (Capitol)

24: Jill Peacock - Jill Peacock (Do Right! Music)

24: Froth – Outside (Briefly) 

24: American Grim- Freakshow  (eOne Music)

24: Old 97's - Graveyard Whistling (ATO)

24: Adam Torres - I Came To Sing The Song  (Fat Possum)

24: Sun Kil Moon -Common As Light And Love Are Red Valleys Of Blood (Caldo Verde)

24: Wesley Stace - Wesley Stace’s John Wesley Harding (Yep Roc) 

24: Thundercat -- Drunk (Brainfeeder)

24: Harry Belafonte - When Colors Come Together... The Legacy of Harry Belafonte (Legacy Recordings) 

24: Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now (Sub Pop)

24: Los Campesinos! – Sick Scenes (Outside)

24: Peter Peter -  Noir Eden (Audiogram)

24: Pick a Piper -  Distance (Abandon Building)

24: The Franklin Electric -  Blue Ceilings (Indica)

24: Timid, the Brave -Firesale (Other Songs Music Co.) 

March

3. Ed Sheeran - ÷ (pronounced “divide”) (Asylum/Atlantic)

3: Jenn Grant - Paradise (Outside)

3: Danko Jones - Wild Cat (AFM/eOne)

3: Nelly Furtado -- The Ride (Sony)

3: B.A. Johnston  - Gremlins 3 (Wyatt Records)

3: Mad Ones -Regretless (Independent)

3: Guy Clark - The King of the Texas Troubadours (Dualtone)

3: The Real McKenzies - Two Devils Will Talk (Stomp)

3: Lydia Ainsworth - Darling of the Afterglow (Arbutus)

3: Chicano Batman - Freedom Is Free (ATO)

3: Five Alarm Funk - Sweat (Independent) 

3: The Muffs - Happy Birthday To Me reissue (Omnivore)

3: The Garden - U Want The Scoop? (Epitaph)

3: Judith Owen - Somebody's Child (Twanky)

3: Grandaddy – Last Place (30th Century)

3: The Knitts - Retreat (Knitting Factory)

3: Francois & The Atlas Mountains - Solide Mirage

3: Nadia Reid - Preservation  (Basin Rock) 

3: Heath Green and the Makeshifters - S/T (Alive Naturalsound)

3: Colin Hay - Fierce Mercy  (Compass Records) 

10: VIKINGS  - Animal Kingdom (Head In The Sand)

10: Jacques Greene  Feel Infinite (Arts & Crafts) 

10: Strongman - No Time Like Now (Sonic Unyon/Sony)

10:  DIM=SUM- s/t (Big White Cloud)

10. The Shins -- Heartworms (Sony)

10: Hater - You Tried ( PNKSLM) 

10: Elliott Smith – Either/Or: Expanded Edition (Kill Rock Stars)

10: Soundgarden -- Ultramega OK (Sub Pop) reissue

10: Porter Ray - Watercolor (Sub Pop)

10: Cindy Lee Berryhill -The Adventurist (Omnivore)

10: Ha Ha Tonka - Heart-Shaped Mountain (Bloodshot)

10: Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator (ATO Records)

10: Cameron Avery -- Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams (Anti)

10: Amelia Curran - Watershed (Six Shooter)

17: Madchild -- The Darkest Hour (Battle Axe Records)

24: Devon Sproule - The Gold String  (Tin Angel) 

24: The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer - Apocalipstick  (Tonic)

24: Jesus & Mary Chain -- Damage & Joy (Warner)

24: Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things  (Partisan Records)

24: Spiral Stairs - Doris and the Daggers  (Nine Mile) 

24: Coco Montoya - Hard Truth (Alligator)

24: Marc Almond - Hits And Pieces – The Best Of Marc Almond And Soft Cell (Universal)

24: James Blunt -The Afterlove (Atlantic)

31: Said The Whale - As Long As Your Eyes Are Wide (Hidden Pony)

31: The Doors - The Doors, 50th Anniversary 3-CD+LP (Warner)

31: Prozzak - Forever 1999

31: Jerry Leger - Nonsense and Heartache (Latent)

31: Tei Shi - Crawl Space (Arts & Crafts)

31: Julia Holter - In The Same Room  Domino/Outside) 

31: The Mavericks - Brand New Day (Mono Mundo)

31: Jake Xerxes Fussell - What In The Natural World (Paradise of Bachelors)

Tba  Blood and Glass - Punk Shadows (Simone Records)

 

April

7: Del Bel - III (Missed Connection Records)

7: The Wooden Sky - Swimming in Strange Waters (Nevado Music)

7: Alex Cuba - Lo Unico Constante

7: Timber Timbre –Sincerely, Future Pollution (Arts & Crafts)

7: Father John Misty - Pure Comedy (Sub Pop)

7: Cory Branan - Adios (Bloodshot)

7: Sean Rowe - New Lore (Anti-)

14: Sam Outlaw - Tenderheart (Six Shooter)

21: Ray Davies -- Americana (Legacy Recordings)

21: Overcoats -- Young (Arts & Crafts)

21: The Dears- End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story (Paper Bag Vintage) - vinyl reissue

21: Angaleena Presley - Wrangled

28: Wilsen - I Go Missing In My Sleep (Secret City)

28: Mew - Visuals (Play It Again Sam)

28: Mark Lanegan Band -Gargoyle  (Heavenly Recordings)

28: Willie Nelson - God's Problem Child (Legacy)

28:  Ab Dominal - Still Hungry (Independent)

28: The Dirty Nil - Minimum R&B  (Dine Alone/Fat Wreck Chords)

21: The Dears- End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story (Paper Bag Vintage) - vinyl reissue

 

May

5: Blondie - Pollinator (BMG)

5: Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog (Royal Mountain)

12: Art Bergmann - Remember Her Name  (PBV) - vinyl reissue

12: The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain (10th Anniversary Edition) (PBV) vinyl reissue

19: Nick Hakim - Green Twins (ATO)

 

TBA

Drake 

Arcade Fire

Avril Lavigne

Bruce Cockburn

Broken Social Scene

Mac DeMarco

Shania Twain

Walk Off The Earth

Coldplay

U2 -- Songs of Experience

Bruce Springsteen

Fleetwood Mac

Deep Purple

Katy Perry

Marilyn Manson

The Gorillaz

Spoon

St. Vincent

Nine Inch Nails

Iggy Azalea

Fergie