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January 19th, 2010 by John

2010 has begun, and there are several bands of note- to me, anyway- that are working on new albums. So for 2010, I’m stoked for:

  • Alkaline Trio – This Addiction
    • The band has released the first single from the new album, the title track, to the Internets for our listening pleasure. I’d already heard it at Riot Fest, but it’s nice to have the studio version, especially since it’s so good. This has me even more stoked for this album. Out on Epitaph/Heart & Skull.
  • Bad Religion
  • Social Distortion
  • The Smoking Popes – It’s Been a Long Day
  • The Menzingers
  • The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
  • The Riot Before
  • everything Death to False Hope Records is releasing

So what else? What’s coming this year that you all are excited for?

New Releases → Most Anticipated Records of 2009

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January 2nd, 2009 by John

Welcome to 2009! Here we are, in a new year, and of course, there are some new records on the horizon. Here are some releases that I’ll be looking forward to in the upcoming year:

  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have said they’re working on a new album, the first album of all-new material since 2002′s A Jackknife To a Swan. It’s been preceeded by a 7″ single featuring them covering “The Impossible Dream” b/w a new song “Next to Nothing”
  • British synthpop duo the Pet Shop Boys have said that their follow-up to 2005′s Fundamental will be coming out this March.
  • Reel Big Fish are dropping an album of covers in January, before releasing their new album in the second half of ’09
  • Morrissey‘s Year of Refusal drops on us in February
  • Streetlight Manifesto claim that the first album (an SM release) in the “99 Songs of Revolution” project will come out this year. Sure, Tomas.
  • Banner Pilot are hard at work on a new album; according to their Twitter, they have 12 songs recorded so far
  • Mitch Clem’s punk project the Tigermilks have a 7″ coming up in the near-ish future, consisting of covers of Belle & Sebastian songs done in a pop-punk style. Having heard their take on “Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying,” I’m very excited
  • Local (Boston) ska-punkers the Have Nots are releasing theit debut record, Serf City USA, soon
  • Texas-based Girl in a Coma are releasing their sophomore effort
  • Ben Weasel of Screeching Weasel fame is throwing down a live album, called The Brain that Wouldn’t Die
  • Speaking of Ben, he’s getting back together with Danny Vapid for a new album from the Riverdales
  • Bomb the Music Industry! are releasing a new album, for free as usual
  • Long-lived New Hampshire pop-punks The Queers are working on a new album, along with a couple of split 7″ records
  • The Pilfers have said they’re working on songs for a new album, due this year
  • O Pioneers!!! have a full-length, entitled Neon Creeps, coming out on Asian Man Records

That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Got anything coming out in 2009 that you’re stoked for? Let me know!