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If 2010 is any indication of what we can expect from bands this coming year then by all means get excited, because last year was the best batch of releases of the past decade. Everyone keeps saying how hot releasing singles is for today’s music market, but there’s something to be said for a well thought out album, and there are many heavy hitters releasing what they hope to be huge hits for their fans. The list of 2011′s album releases below will undoubtedly be lacking quite a few names, so please put up with us as it is updated. We took the liberty of ordering our list from our most anticipated to, well, least anticipated…. but does that really mean anything?
We will be updating this list with each new month. Below are the current updates for each respective month:
January 2011 Most Anticipated Albums (with release dates and more albums)
February 2011 Most Anticipated Albums (with release dates and more albums)
March is coming soon…..
1. Fleet Foxes – title TBA
2. M83 – title TBA
3. Explosions In The Sky – title TBA
4. Neon Indian – title TBA
5. Rival Schools – Pedals
6. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. (Sub Pop)
7. Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Bros.)
8. Firs – title TBA (Lujo Records)
9. Bon Iver – title TBA
10. Panda Bear – Tomboy
11. The Shins – title TBA
12. The Decemberists – The King Is Dead (Capitol Records)
13. Radiohead – title TBA (Internetz)
14. Cannons – title TBA
15. Beth Orton – title TBA
16. Cut Copy – Zonoscope (Modular Records)
17. La Sera – La Sera (Hardly Art)
18. Bluebrain – title TBA (Lujo Records)
19. My Morning Jacket – title TBA (ATO)
20. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (LL Recordings)
21. The Cave Singers – No Witch (Jagjaguwar)
22. Battles – title TBA
23. Fujiya & Miyagi – Ventriloquizzing (Yep Roc Records)
24. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong (Slumberland Records)
25. Telekinesis! – 12 Desperate Straight Lines (Merge Records)
26. MRENC – title TBA (Lujo Records)
27. Tape Deck Mountain – Secret Serf EP
28. The Streets – Computers And Blues
29. Shugo Tokumaru – Port Entropy (Polyvinyl Records)
30. The Mars Volta – title TBA
31. British Sea Power – Valhalla Dancehall (Rough Trade Records)
32. Akron/Family – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT (Dead Oceans)
33. Jessica Lea Mayfield – Tell Me (Nonesuch)
34. The Duke Spirit – title TBA
35. The Wrens – title TBA
36. DeVotchKa – 100 Lovers (ANTI-)
37. Wild Flag – title TBA
38. The New Raemon - Epés Reunidos
39. WRSTLRS - title TBA (Lujo Records)
40. Black Lips – title TBA
41. The Get Up Kids – There Are Rules (via Quality Hill Records)
42. John Vanderslice – White Wilderness (Dead Oceans)
43. The Go! Team – Rolling Blackouts (Memphis Industries)
44. Deerhoof – Deerhoof Vs. Evil (Polyvinyl)
45. Jens Lekman – title TBA
46. Five O’Clock Heroes – Different Times (April via Profound Lore)
47. Destroyer – Kaputt (Merge)
48. Peter, Bjorn And John – title TBA
49. The Kills – TBA
50. Aphex Twin – TBA
51. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Tao Of The Dead Part I: Tao Of the Dead (Richter Scale)
52. MEN – Talk About Body (IAMSOUND)
53. Matthew Friedberger – Solos (Thrill Jockey)
54. The Death Set – Michel Poiccard (Ninjatune)
55. Noah & The Whale – TBA (Mercury Records)
56. The Avalanches – TBA (Modular)
57. Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)
58. Deerhoof – Deerhoof Vs. Evil (Polyvinyl)
59. Face To Face Laugh Now…Laugh Later
60. The Twilight Singers – Dynamite Steps ( Subpop)
61. Toro Y Moi – Underneath The Pine (Car Park)
62. Danielson – Best of Gloucester County (Sounds Familyre)
63. The Cars – title TBA
64. BRAIDS – Native Speaker (Kanine Records)
65. Ducktails – Ductails III: Arcade Dynamics (Woodsist)
66. Islands – title TBA
67. The Rome (Danger Mouse & Daniele Lupi)
68. Patrick Wolf – title TBA (Hideout)
69. Rush – Clockwork Angels
70. The Strokes – title TBA
71. R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now (Warner Bros.)
72. Tennis – Cape Dory (Fat Possum)
73. The Lonely Island – title TBA
74. Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings (Carpark)
75. Esben & The Witch – Violet Cries (Matador)
76. White Lies – Ritual (Fiction)
77. Death House Chaplain – title TBA (Lujo Records)
78. The Dears – Degeneration Street
79. Ting Tings – Title TBA
80. Cobra Skulls – Bringing the War Home
81. Win Win – Win Win (Vice Records)
82. Beck – title TBA
83. The Luyas – Too Beautiful To Work (Dead Oceans)
84. Gruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo
85. MINKS – By The Hedge (Captured Tracks)
86. Liturgy – TBA (Thrill Jockey)
87. The Good, The Bad, & The Queen – title TBA
88. Santigold – title TBA
89. STRKFKR
90. Coldplay – title TBA
91. Crystal Stilts – title TBA
92. The Republic of Wolves – The Cartographer EP
93. Queens of the Stone Age – Queens of the Stone Age
94. Cage The Elephant – Thank You, Happy Birthday
95. Social Distortion – Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
96. Tahiti 80 – The Past, The Present & The Possible
97. Gang of Four – Content
98. The Boxer Rebellion – The Cold Still
99. CAMPFIRE OK – Strange Like We Are
100. Cake – Showroom Of Compassion (Upbeat)
11:56 AM
Very nice list!
7:41 PM
how is every site missing this
blink 182 album
1:28 AM
are you kidding dude? blink 182 is laaaame
This list is right on!
9:27 AM
Blink 182 is a load of prepubescent bollocks
9:41 PM
How is Coldplay on this list and Blink-182 isn’t? This is bull.
3:05 PM
I agree. How is every site missing the new Blink-182 Album? Sold out arenas don’t lie. This is a big release, indeed.
11:24 PM
you forgot fiona apple!!!!!
12:58 AM
Really? Fiona Apple has a new album coming out? I can’t wait for that. Thanks for the update!
7:19 AM
Blink 182 is the biggest pile of bullshit this side of Bullshit County.
9:18 AM
Haha, someone got tired of linking to the bands. Only 40? Why not the other 60, too?
12:30 PM
It just never got finished. Thanks for the reminder. Sad that we needed to be reminded.
10:24 PM
Where did you hear about new the good the bad and the queen. I follow albarn pretty closely and loved their first album but haven’t heard about them since. Are you maybe talking about the collaboration with Tony Allen and flea or did I miss it
4:44 PM
CAN’T FREAKIN’ WAIT FOR THE NEW STROKES‘ RECORD!!!!!!!!!!!!
and also White Lies’, Lykke Li’s, The Kills’, Coldplay’s, Radiohead’s, etc.!
5:15 PM
Don’t forget Starfucker and Arctic Monkeys!
Also the new Kills album is titled Blood Pressures.
3:36 AM
Those two should be way up on the list actually. Good call on those. There should be lots of great albums coming out this year.
1:31 PM
New Starfucker album?!
I had no idea, I’m so excited for that. The PB&J album should be good, too. The Fujiya and Miyagi album will be amazing, hopefully.
9:21 PM
1 Fiona Apple
2 Coldplay
3 Paul Melia
4 Fleet Foxes
5 The Streets
7:47 PM
Arctic Monkeys, Amy Ray, PJ Harvey
2:11 PM
Incubus as well.
2:52 PM
And where is Lady Gaga with her new album Born This Way??
11:15 AM
I love Patrick Wolf as well, but you’ve listed him twice.
Personally, I’m dying for ONE new Aphex release, of the six albums he’s supposedly working on.
9:51 AM
Nice list. Really waiting for Radiohead new stuff.
5:42 PM
Kaki King and Fiona, most def.
6:54 PM
Good list.
But you’re missing THE HEAD AND THE HEART, signed to sub pop last year in december – and they’re the real deal. Album Title (as yet TBD).
12:25 AM
Seriously where is blink at?
5:17 PM
1. LOW ANTHEM
2. BEN HARPER AND RELENTLESS 7
11:31 AM
Howz about getting an update that tells us when each album has been released, ’cause there’s quite a lot to remember here. For example, The King is Dead by The Decemberists is out.
1:45 PM
Great suggestion! We’ll put one together, and have it up next week. Thanks.
8:08 PM
Dang brotha, you did it up! We took the easy way out and did 11 in 2011 we can’t wait to hear. http://www.merchantsofrock.com/11-anticipated-albums-2011/ . We overlap quite a bit at least. Keep up the good work!
11:02 AM
Doesn’t death cab for cutie have a new album coming out?
6:08 PM
Alex Ebert – Alexander
6:40 PM
Radiohead – The King Of Limbs. Which may I add is brilliant.
Ahhh and Coldplay to release a new album soon? very exciting!
They should also add The Red Chili Pepper’s to the list as well. They aren’t indie but they’re wonderful so..
7:43 PM
What, no The Mountain Goats–All Eternals Deck?
Disappointed.
7:07 AM
Wow there are some really
4:45 PM
Blink 182
Taking Back Sunday
Patrick Stump
The Ready Set
Punk Music will be represented this year ^^
3:18 PM
Some hip hop please?
Dr. Dre – Detox
Bad Meets Evil – Hell: The Sequel
Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch the Throne
4:35 AM
Where is blink 182
8:58 AM
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