2013 Most Anticipated Music Releases

Nonesuch Records Signs Singer/Songwriter Devendra Banhart, Releases Label Debut, "Mala," in Spring 2013

Devendra Banhart, who has just been signed to Nonesuch Records, releases his label debut, Mala, in the spring of 2013. The singer/songwriter co-produced the record with his longtime bandmate, guitarist Noah Georgeson. Further details about the album and its release will be announced shortly, as will upcoming festival and tour dates.

Banhart’s most recent release, 2009’s What Will We Be, received critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone calling it “the best he’s ever made.” The Los Angeles Times said the record “found him making comfortable, laid-back folk that didn’t sound like a compromise—more like an artist growing into his own.”

Devendra Banhart was born in Houston, TX, and moved with his mother to her native Caracas, Venezuela, when his parents separated. The family relocated to Los Angeles during his teenage years; it was there that he learned to speak English, skateboard, and play music. Banhart first began to perform in public while attending the San Francisco Art Institute. He has since lived in Los Angeles, Paris, San Francisco, and New York City, where he currently resides.

Banhart first attracted international notice with his 2002 debut album, Oh Me Oh My … The Way the Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit—a collection of recordings he had made for himself. Pitchfork said in its review: “Banhart’s promising debut is the sign of someone destined for great, strange things.”

Of the follow-up, Rejoicing in the Hands, the Times of London said, “The last time such a prodigious talent came on the scene was when Jeff Buckley released his first album, perhaps a fine reference point for the ambition and ability at play here; but Banhart—less refined but more audaciously gifted—sings his own song, and seems blissfully oblivious to the idea that anyone might be listening. But, soon, many will be.” Subsequent albums include Niño Rojo, Cripple Crow, and Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon.

Banhart has collaborated with fellow musicians including Antony and the Johnsons, Beck, Vashti Bunyan, Os Mutantes, Swans, and Vetiver. He also has performed with both Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, and was part of a David Byrne–curated concert at Carnegie Hall.

An accomplished visual artist, Banhart’s distinctive, minutely inked, often enigmatic drawings have appeared in galleries all over the world, including the Art Basel Contemporary Art Fair in Miami; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels; and Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. He has created the cover art for most of his records, and in 2010 his artwork and packaging for What Will We Be was nominated for a Grammy.

http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/none...013-2012-12-03

Kavinsky - Outrun

New song "Protovision"

https://soundcloud.com/briceb/kavinsky-protovision

Benga - Chapter 2

Video for his knew song. "Open Your Eyes" sounds and looks like it is influenced by The Prodigy.

http://smarturl.it/OYEvideo

The Knife have announced that their long-awaited new album, Shaking the Habitual, is out April 8 internationally and April 9 in the U.S. on Rabid/Brille/Mute. Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer have also announced that they will tour Europe next year. Dates to be announced soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=j8YCdFlvpL0

I'm looking forward to Kylie Minogue's next official album, and also the new album from the Backstreet Boys.

British experimental electronic pioneers Autechre have announced a new studio album to follow 2010's Move of Ten and Oversteps. Exai, which holds more than two hours of music, will be out on March 5 in the U.S. and March 4 in the UK through Warp Records. That'll be available digitally, as a 2-disc CD package, and a 4-LP vinyl package.

The tracklist is below.

Exai:
01 FLeure
02 irlite (get 0)
03 prac-f
04 jatevee C
05 T ess xi
06 vekoS
07 Flep
08 tuinorizn
09 bladelores
10 1 1 is
11 nodezsh
12 runrepik
13 spl9
14 cloudline
15 deco Loc
16 recks on
17 YJY UX

For me it's Cher

The Jose Gonzalez-led trio Junip (Gonzalez, Elias Araya, and Tobias Winterkorn) have announced the follow-up to 2010's Fields. Their self-titled album will be released April 23 via Mute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_vGgvLHfc&feature=player_embedded

artpop 2013

Lady Gaga
Cant wait for her new stuff. To be honest, her last album wasnt as good as i expected...

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Although it’s been three years since the Swedish songstress’ last release, Sally Shapiro is back with a vengeance with her new album Somewhere Else. To promote this album, Shapiro is debuting her first single of the album, “What Can I Do”.

Somewhere Else will drop on February 26th, 2013

CD/digital tracklist:

01 Prescript
02 I Dream With an Angel Tonight
03 All My Life
04 This City’s Local Italo Disco DJ Has a Crush On Me
05 What Can I Do
06 If It Doesn’t Rain
07 Sundown
08 Starman (ft. Electric Youth)
09 Lives Together
10 Don’t Be Afraid (ft. Anoraak)
11 Architectured Love (ft. Le Prix)
12 Postscript

SALLY SHAPIRO 'What Can I Do'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hoGxKhvKl8g

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Lady Gaga
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Agreed. The only time I really listen to that album is when I work out. I never find myself playing it anywhere else like I do with The Fame & The Fame Monster.

I cannot wait for this album! Out on the 29th of this month.

Ellen Allien Announces New Album LISm For February 2013 Release

German musician, producer and founder of BPitch Control Ellen Allien has announced a new album titled LISm that will release in February 2013. The Berlin-born, prolific electronic artist latest output is a rework of the soundtrack Allien composed for a dance performance in 2011.

The original music created for the performance (called ”Drama per Musica”), was intended by Allien to be a musical journey reflective of her DJ sets. The resulting album revives and expands the original piece into something very personal and emotive.

LISm follows-up Ellen Allien’s 2010 album Dust and adds to a long list of career accomplishments. Since its inception, her label BPitch Control has been a staple of Berlin electronic music featuring work from artists such as Sascha Funke, Toktok, Kiki as well as Paul Kalkbrenner and Apparat. Allien also launched her own namesake fashion label in 2006.

Ellen Allien is currently performing shows in Mexico and the album is set to release February 22, 2013 on BPitch Control.

I'm waiting for two albums that have been delayed a bit. One is "Los Internacionales" by Angel & Khriz and the other way Jowell & Randy's Sobredoxis album... that's been delayed as they added more and more songs with other reggaeton artists on it.

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even though I've heard both of them via leaks, I can't wait to buy them when they come out in jan... getting anything in return on vinyl

Toro Y Moi - Anything in Return



A$AP Rocky - Long Live A$AP

Get Excited for These 23 Pop Culture Events in 2013

Azealia Banks drops her hotly anticipated debut album, Broke With Expensive Taste, originally scheduled to arrive in September 2012. Pushbacks are generally no bueno, but we're rooting for this one. The game needs her. In the meantime, we appreciate the fact that she keepsfeeding us morsels.

Broke With Expensive Taste is out February 12th.

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/...4#.UOSL0qkTthB

I love me some Sally Shapiro, but I'm kinda bored by the new single. Maybe i need to spin it a few more times. The video is cute though.

M.I.A.’s Matangi

The album title is a reference to her birth name, Mathangi, and a Hindu goddess of wisdom.

"It's due in April, which is the Tamil new year -- April 15th -- and I'm still working on it," she says.

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/...ssip-news.html

Arcade Fires coming out with a new album this year too!

Really hope Washed Out drops new music too

arent yeah yeah yeahs releasing a new record? i love them to death.

azealia banks: this is gonna rock.

lady gaga: im curious what shes gonna do.

Ladies & Gentlemen,

It is with great, great pleasure we bring you this announcement. 'EXILE' is coming. 11/3/2013. Our second studio album.

Today we present to you 'The Road'. It is available to download right now when you pre-order the album.

All of our love and thanks,

HURTS

http://www.informationhurts.com/us/splash/

Hurts - The Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KwLYJVWYA8

Lauryn Hill. Please come back.

Daft Punk???

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Britney Spears !!!!!!!

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The rep added that the album is still in its "early planning stages." Spears first confirmed new music last weekend in a Twitter Q&A with her fans where she wrote, "Working hard. Collaborating with some new inspiring producers. Really focused on my music right now."

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David Bowie returns with news of his first album in 10 years, and 30th such effort to date. The Next Day will be available March 12th via Columbia Records, and the lead single “Where Are We Now?” is streaming as a music video on his official website.

The Next Day Tracklist:

01. The Next Day
02. Dirty Boys
03. The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
04. Love Is Lost
05. Where Are We Now?
06. Valentine’s Day
07. If You Can See Me
08. I’d Rather Be High
09. Boss Of Me
10. Dancing Out In Space
11. How Does The Grass Grow
12. (You Will) Set The World On Fire
13. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die
14. Heat
Deluxe Tracks:
15. So She
16. I’ll Take You There
17. Plan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOyDTy9DtHQ

http://www.davidbowie.com/vision?videopremiere=true

Daft Punk + Lady Gaga.

I'm curious as to what Gaga's ARTPOP is all about. Hoping for some fun music from her!

Devendra Banhart has shared more details about his new album, Mala,

The album title, Mala, was inspired by Banhart's fiancée, Ana Kras, a Serbian artist. According to a press release, the word "mala" is an Eastern European term of endearment (like "sweetie pie"). The album was co-produced by Banhart and Noah Georgeson and recorded at Banhart's house in Los Angeles.

Mala:

01 Golden Girls
02 Daniel
03 Für Hildegard von Bingen
04 Never Seen Such Good Things
05 Mi Negrita
06 Your Fine Petting Duck
07 The Ballad of Keenan Milton
08 A Gain
09 Won't You Come Over?
10 Cristobal
11 Hatchet Wound
12 Mala
13 Won't You Come Home
14 Taurobolium

Devendra Banhart - Für Hildegard von Bingen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGUM1TrJgk

Foxygen release the album 'We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic' out January 22, 2013 on Jagjaguwar

We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic is a precocious and cocksure joyride across California psychedelia with a burning, bursting punk rock engine. In the same year as Scott McKenzie the singer of "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" leaves this mortal coil, Foxygen delivers unto us the dandy Glockenspiel-packing "San Francisco," which both circumvents and dissects McKenzie's tune and its many cousins of the era.

"I left my love in San Francisco/(That's okay, I was bored anyway)/I left my love in a field/(That's okay, I was born in LA)" goes the lovely call-and-response chorus, slamming together the archetypal flower children of the 60s and the archetypal ADHD vapidity of our recent generations. Another highlight, "Shuggie," manages to fit all the light bounce of the song's namesake and the climbing choruses of ELO into it's 3 minutes while still filling the tune with imagery of "rhinoceros-shaped earrings" and haunted parlors. Every nook and cranny of the record is loaded with their unflappable, brazen personalities. Foxygen takes "swagger," that as-of-late misused adjective, back once and for all. It's flipping pyramids old and new upside down -- from the miracle demo hand-off to their Richard Pryor-as-Jagger live shows to their singular idiosynchratic vision of rock n' roll.

1. In The Darkness
2. No Destruction
3. On Blue Mountain
4. San Francisco
5. Bowling Trophies
6. Shuggie
7. Oh Yeah
8. We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
9. Oh No

Foxygen - "Shuggie"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPmAO4xpQcE

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Nonesuch Records Signs Singer/Songwriter Devendra Banhart, Releases Label Debut, "Mala," in Spring 2013.

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Nonesuch Records eh? I (like most people, I'm guessing) first heard of Banhart because of the Young God Records/Michael Gira connection. This the case for you too? I love Swans/Angels of Light/Akron Family but haven't really got into Banhart's music. Any suggestions for a good starting point?

As for what I'm looking forward to, I'd say the new Nick Cave album. Actually, it's more curiosity - his work since 2007ish has been mediocre at best and I'm hoping he might pull something out of the bag.

I also can't wait for Katy Perry.

Swedish indie-pop act Shout Out Louds will release a full-length album Optica, on February 26 through Merge Records.

tracklist:

Optica:

01 Sugar
02 Illusions
03 Blue Ice
04 14th of July
05 Burn
06 Walking in Your Footsteps
07 Glasgow
08 Where You Come In
09 Hermila
10 Chasing the Sinking Sun
11 Circles
12 Destroy

Shout Out Louds - Blue Ice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dXpmbZDnRk&feature=player_embedded

Black Sabbath 13 on June 13th 2013:band:

Deerhunter, The Knife and of course M.I.A

Postal Service returns with a 10th anniversary reissue of their emotionally charged 2003 classic Give Up.

In addition to the original ten tracks, the deluxe edition (out April 9 in the U.S. and April 8 in the UK) will feature a 15-song disc of rarities, including two new songs ("Turn Around" and "A Tattered Line of String"), covers of Postal Service songs by the Shins and Iron & Wine, a handful of remixes from the likes of Matthew Dear and John Tejada, a previously unreleased live recording, and, crucially, a Phil Collins cover.

Disc 1 (Original Album):

01 The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
02 Such Great Heights
03 Sleeping In
04 Nothing Better
05 Recycled Air
06 Clark Gable
07 We Will Become Silhouettes
08 This Place Is a Prison
09 Brand New Colony
10 Natural Anthem

Disc 2 (New Tracks, Rarities, B-Sides, Remixes, Cover Versions, Etc.)

01 Turn Around
02 A Tattered Line of String
03 Be Still My Heart
04 There's Never Enough Time
05 Suddenly Everything Has Changed
06 Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) (Phil Collins cover)
07 Grow Old With Me
08 Such Great Heights (John Tejada Remix)
09 The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (DJ Downfall Persistent Beat Mix)
10 Be Still My Heart (Nobody Remix)
11 We Will Become Silhouettes (Matthew Dear Remix)
12 Nothing Better (Styrofoam Remix)
13 Recycled Air (Live on KEXP)
14 We Will Become Silhouettes (performed by the Shins)
15 Such Great Heights (Performed by Iron and Wine)

The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rKC7ElkTUQ

Pat Grimshaw:

Don't Cry For Me A-bor-i-gin-ee.

Akron/Family have announced a new album, Sub Verses is out April 30 in the U.S. (April 29 in the UK) via Dead Oceans.

Sub Verses:

01 No-Room
02 Way Up
03 Until the Morning
04 Sand Talk
05 Sometimes I
06 Holy Boredom
07 Sand Time
08 Whole World is Watching
09 When I Was Young
10 Samurai

Akron/Family - "No-Room"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBQfd_EKuK0&feature=player_embedded

The Flaming Lips are release a proper studio album on April 2, The Terror, through Bella Union and Warner Bros.


The Terror:

01 Look...The Sun Is Rising
02 Be Free, A Way
03 Try To Explain
04 You Lust
05 The Terror
06 You Are Alone
07 Butterfly, How Long It Takes To Die
08 Turning Violent
09 Always There...In Our Hearts

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The Knife have announced that their long-awaited new album, Shaking the Habitual, is out April 8 internationally and April 9 in the U.S. on Rabid/Brille/Mute. Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer have also announced that they will tour Europe next year. Dates to be announced soon.

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Their new album is 98 minutes long. It's a double CD and triple LP.

Shaking the Habitual:

01 A Tooth for an Eye 6:04
02 Full of Fire 9:17
03 A Cherry on Top 8:43
04 Without You My Life Would Be Boring 5:14
05 Wrap Your Arms Around Me 4:36
06 Crake 0:55
07 Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized 19:22
08 Raging Lung 9:58
09 Networking 6:42
10 Oryx 0:37
11 Stay Out Here 10:42
12 Fracking Fluid Injection 9:54
13 Ready to Lose 4:36

Yeah Yeah Yeahs will release their fourth studio album this spring. Titled Mosquito, is out on April 16 through Interscope. There's an actual mosquito on the cover, which was designed by filmmaker/animator Beomsik Shimbe Shim.

Like the last record, Mosquito was produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio and Nick Launay. One of the tracks was produced by James Murphy and features Dr. Octagon (aka Kool Keith).

Watch a trailer for the album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ce365czGC0&feature=player_embedded

I wasn't aware of a forthcoming Deerhunter release, if it's true than I'm pleased as punch.

Obviously Bowie is a HUGE deal. The new song is fantastic and I can't wait.

Also looking forward to:
The Knife
Junip
Atoms for Peace: not really digging what I've heard so far, but I can't wait to hear what else Thom, Nigel, and Flea are cooking up.
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My Bloody Valentine

I hear rumors of a new release from The National, which is always exciting. I know Mew has been recording as well, so hopefully they have something worth looking forward to.

Yes!! Britney!!!

Atoms for Peace release Amok on February 25 in the UK and February 26 in the U.S. via XL Recordings. It'll include the single they released last fall, "Default". Check out the album tracklist below.

Atoms for Peace features Thom Yorke, Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Beck/R.E.M. drummer Joey Waronker, and percussionist Mauro Refosco.

Amok:
01 Before Your Very Eyes
02 Default
03 Ingenue
04 Dropped
05 Unless
06 Stuck Together Pieces
07 Judge Jury and Executioner
08 Reverse Running
09 Amok

Atoms For Peace - Default

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxWBd840E9g&feature=player_embedded

Vampire Weekend Announce Modern Vampires of the City Album

Modern Vampires of the City is released in the U.S. on May 7 and May 6 in the UK via XL Recordings.

01 Obvious Bicycle
02 Unbelievers
03 Step
04 Diane Young
05 Don't Lie
06 Hannah Hunt
07 Everlasting Arms
08 Finger Back
09 Worship You
10 Ya Hey
11 Hudson
12 Young Lion

James Blake has announced the follow-up to his excellent self-titled LP. Overgrown will be out on April 8 through Republic.

James Blake - Retrograde

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RURsSZmHZSs

WOODKID - The Golden Age - March 18 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_817737&feature=iv&s rc_vid=vSkb0kDacjs&v=hEyN2CgGDA0