The FYI calendar of new album releases scheduled for the next few months, 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!

March

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

24:  I M U R  - Little Death (Independent)

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

24: Sammy Duke - Glass Demons  (Independent)

24: Betty Moon - CHROME (Independent)

24: Calcedon - Echo In (Independent)

24: Jesse Waldman - Mansion Full of Ghosts (Independent)

24: Ghostkeeper- Sheer Blouse Buffalo Knocks (Independent)

24: Finn - Godsend (Independent)

24: The Bug Vs Earth - Concrete Desert (Independent)

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

24: Quinn Sullivan - Midnight Highway (Provogue/Mascot Label Group)

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

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

24: Run River North - Superstition (10" Vinyl EP) (Nettwerk)

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)

24: Real Estate- In Mind (Domino)

24: Paul McCartney - Flowers In The Dirt reissue (Capitol)

24: David Douglas - Spectators Of The Universe (AtomNation)

24: Raekwon -The Wild (Ice H20 Records/Empire)

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 (Left Hook)

31: Julien Sagot - Bleu Jane (Simone Records)

31: Jerry Leger - Nonsense and Heartache (Latent)

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

31: Lydia Ainsworth - Darling Of The Afterglow (Arbutus)

31: Doc Walker -- Weathervane (Open Road/Universal)

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)

31: Tale Of Us - Endless (Universal)

31: Stone Foundation - Street Rituals  (100% Record)

31: Jackie Evancho - Two Hearts (Portrait/Sony Music Masterworks)

31: Eric Bibb - Migration Blues (Stony Plain)

31: Hauschka- What If’ (City Slang)

31: John Lee Hooker - Whiskey and Wimmen: John Lee Hooker's Finest (Vee Jay/Universal)

31: Bob Dylan - Triplicate (Columbia) 

 

April

 

4: Avery Raquel- Without a Little Rain (Independent)

7: Del Bel - III (Missed Connection Records)

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

7: Alex Cuba - Lo Unico Constante

7: Lou Canon  - Suspicious (Paper Bag)

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

7: The Flatliners - Inviting Light (Dine Alone)

7: Sarah Slean - Metaphysics  (Cadence Music/Fontana North)

7: Leeroy Stagger - Love Versus (True North)

7: Lynne Hanson- Uneven Ground (Independent)

7: The New Pornographers - Whiteout Conditions (Dine Alone)

7: Phil Odgers- Roll to the Left (Vinyl Star Records)

7: Damned Pilots - Overgalaxy (Sliptrick Records)

7: The Dahmers - In The Dead Of Night (Lovely Records)

7: Danger Mouse - Resistance Radio: The Man in the High Castle  (30th Century/Columbia)

7: Sean Rowe - New Lore  (Anti-)

7: Baby Copperhead - The Serpent and the Snake (Tin Angel) 

7- The Whiskey Gentry - Dead Ringer (independent) 

7: Joshua James - My Spirit Sister - (Independent)

7: Nathaniel Braddock - Quadrille & Collapse (Independent)

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

7: Cory Branan - Adios (Bloodshot)

7: Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good At This (French Kiss)

14: Barenaked Ladies And The Persuasions - Ladies And Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies and The Persuasions  

14: Low Roar - Once In A Long, Long While (Nevado)

14: Barry Adamson - Love Sick Dick (Independent)

19: The Como Mamas- Move Upstairs (Daptone)

21: Ray Davies -- Americana (Legacy Recordings)

21: Brad Paisley - Love and War 

21: Junkyard -High Water (Acetate Records)

21: Overcoats -- Young (Arts & Crafts)

21: Matt and Sam's Brother -My Brain Hurts A Lot (Light Organ Records)

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

21: Fred Penner - Hear the Music (Linus)

21: Woods - City Sun Eater in the River of Light Woodsist)

21: Ron Sexsmith - The Last Rider (Warner)

21: Joe Goddard-  Electric Lines  (Greco-Roman/Domino)

21: Angaleena Presley - Wrangled

21: The Hooten Hallers - The Hooten Hallers (Big Muddy Records) 

21: Incubus - 8 (Island/Universal Music Canada)

28: Mew - Visuals (Play It Again Sam)

28: Lea Michele - Places (Columbia)

28: Mark Lanegan Band -Gargoyle  (Heavenly Recordings)

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

28: Brent Cowles - Cold Times EP (Dine Alone)

28: BNQT- Volume 1 (Last Gang/DualTone)

28: Sarah Shook & the Disarmers - Sidelong (Bloodshot)

28: Greg Macpherson - The Big Other (Disintegration Records)

28: Kayla Howran - Spare Parts (Independent)

28: Feist - Pleasure (Arts & Crafts)

28:  DJ Format & AbDominal - Still Hungry (Kartel)

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

28: Fast Romantics - American Love (Light Organ)

28: NEFE - Mama (Universal)

28: Sylvan Esso - What Now (Loma Vista)

28: Radiator King - A Hollow Triumph After All (Independent)

28: Vök - Figure (Nettwerk)

TBA-  River Town Saints (Open Road Recordings/Universal)

May

1: Monica Chapman - Small World (Independent)

5: Blondie - Pollinator (BMG)

5: Leftfield - Leftism 22

5: The Afghan Whigs - In Spades (Sub Pop)

5: Christopher Paul Stelling - Itinerant Arias (Anti-)

5:  Angel Snow - Magnetic (Nettwerk) 

5: Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda - World Spirituality Classics Vol. 1 (Luaka Bop)

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

5: Ian William Craig - Slow Vessels (Independent)

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

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

12: Whitehorse - Panther In The Dollhouse (Six Shooter)

12: Eleanor McCain - True North: The Canadian Songbook  (Retriever Records)

12: Current Swell - When to Talk and When to Listen (Nettwerk)

12: The Road Hammers TBA (Open Road Recordings/Universal)

12: Scott Helman - Hotel de Ville (Warner)

12: Zeynep Ozbilen-  Zest (Really Records)

12- Seether - Poison The Parish (Concord)

12: L.A. Takedown - 11 (Ribbon Music)

12: Dion DiMucci - Kickin' Child: The Lost Album 1965  (Norton Records)

12: Todd Rundgren - White Knight  (Cleopatra)

19: Nick Hakim - Green Twins (ATO)

19: Alex G - Rocket (Domino)

19: Land Of Talk -Life After Youth (Dine Alone/Saddle Creek)

19: She-Devils - She-Devils (Arbutus)

19: Jade Jackson - Gilded (Anti-)

26: Mt. Wolf - Aetherlight (CRC Music)

26: Fake Shark-  Faux Real  (Light Organ)

26: Minotaurs - Aum (Independent)

 

June

2: Marika Hackman - I’m Not Your Man (Sub Pop) 

2: Benjamin Booker - Witness (ATO)

2: TOPS - Sugar At the Gate  (Arbutus)

9: Nickelback - Feed the Machine (RCA)

9: Kim Doolittle - Into The Blue  (Independent)

9: Walrus - Family Hangover (Madic Records)

16: Lunch At Allen's - If It Feels Right (Linus)

16: Alison Moyet- Other (Cooking Vinyl)

16: Ride -Weather Diaries (Wichita Recordings)

16: Lorde - Melodrama 

30: Lily Frost - Rebound Bitch (Aporia)

 

TBA

Headstones

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 

Lee Harvey Osmond

Skydiggers

 

** Canadian artists in bold.