Been meaning to write something up like this. Am I missing anything? What do
you want to hear?
Also: While I might not totally love some of these bands (like Best Coast) or their recent output isn't great (Bloc Party, Weezer), I'm willing to give them another chance; even if they have squandered past chances (Weezer) or seem incapable of making a record that sounds like their best stuff (Weezer, as in Pinkerton, which, shit, is a Weezer black sheep already and will never be creepily repeated).
I'm also too lazy to track down the titles and release dates of 100% confirmed records, like Sleigh Bells' Reign of Terror, which has probably already leaked but my ears are currently too full.
Confirmed / In the studio
Bear In Heaven
Best Coast
Bloc Party (holding out hope it's at least a third as good
as Silent Alarm)
Dirty Projectors
Flying Lotus (he's playing his new LP at Coachella)
Japandroids
The Knife
Sleigh Bells
Titus Andronicus
Ty Segall (two LPs!)
The xx
Inevitable
Boris
Los Compesinos!
Weezer / Rivers Cuomo (which always has at least one
semi-good song)
The Thermals
Overdue
Aesop Rock
Annie
Burial
Dan Deacon
Deerhunter
Franz Ferdinand (and I'm apparently the only guy who still
likes them)
Fuck Buttons
Health (way overdue given their usual pace)
Lightning Bolt
Metric
Modest Mouse
No Age
Phoenix
A Place To Bury Strangers (an LP even though their recent EP
is good)
Tortoise
Why?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wishlist (e.g. not yet overdue or probably not going to
happen)
The Beach Boys (even though it will most likely be Eh)
Boards of Canada
Crystal Castles (I impossibly want a shoegaze album a la "Tell Me What To Swallow")
Daft Punk
Death From Above 1979 (not sure what it'd be, since their only LP is the best breakup album ever)
Fang Island
Four Tet
Free Energy
Frightened Rabbit
Hot Chip
Jay Reatard rarities
The Joggers
Justin Timberlake (who doesn't seem to care about making music ever again)
Liars
Marnie Stern
The National
Pavement
Portishead
Spoon
Thom Yorke - DJ-Kicks ('cause, shit, he's been on the decks at FlyLo's digs in LA many a time)
Cockteases (e.g. too many broken promises)
The Avalanches
The Microphones (and yes, I know PE is Mount Eerie, but he
released something as The Microphones recently-ish)
My Bloody Valentine / Kevin Shields
