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Most anticipated albums of 2024 (confirmed, rumoured, anticipated, etc). What are you looking forward to? What band/artist are you expecting a new record from in 2024? 

 

Grandaddy (confirmed)

Sloan - Smeared deluxe reissue boxset

Redd Kross

McLusky

Les Savy Fav

Stephen Malkmus solo?

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks?

Car Colors (Charles Bissell from the Wrens)

Bob Mould

Change of Heart

Camera Obscura (confirmed)

Gruff Rhys (confirmed)

J. Mascis (confirmed)

Real Estate (confirmed)

The Jesus And Mary Chain (confirmed)

Laetitia Sadier from Stereolab (confirmed)

Fu Manchu

Archers of Loaf

Sebadoh?

The Walkmen???

Constantines?

Sea Power?

Parquet Courts?

Superchunk?

Kiwi Jr.?

Salad Boys?

Wolf Parade?

Metz?

Mike Kroll?

Breeders?

Telekinesis?

The 3 albums that Guided By Voices will release

2023 albums that I enjoyed

The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore

The Men - New York City

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

Civic - Taken By Force

Mudhoney - Plastic Eternity

Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert

W.I.T.C.H. - Zango

Martin Frawley - The Wannabe

Hayden - Are We Good

Osees - Intercepted Message

Slowdive - Everything Is Alive

Woods - Perennial

Flat Worms - Witness Marks

The Mountain Goats - Jenny From Thebes

Bry Webb - Run With Me

A. Savage - Several Songs About Fire

Say Hi - Elocution Prattle

All 3 Guided by Voices Albums

I still need to check out the 3 albums released by Damien Jurado...I'm sure I'll like them.

 

 

 

What confirmed albums are you looking forward to during the upcoming year ? Are there any bands/artists that you think will be putting out a new album in 2023 that you are looking forward to? Or that are due to release new music? Any rumours? etc...

My list so far:

Yo La Tengo

The Men

Guided By Voices (over under for number of albums this year is 2.5)

Andy Shauf

Wilco (the physical version of Cruel Country)
Change of Heart (all hail Sir Ian Blurton)

Mudhoney

Martin Frawley (ex-Twerps)

Steve Mason (ex-Beta Band)

New Pornographers

 

and the rest are not confirmed (and some are just wishful thinking).

Mclusky

Stephen Malkmus

Constantines (???)

Wilco (a new album?)

Jeff Tweedy solo?

The Walkmen (???)

(solo, w/ the Jicks, pavement?)

Parquet Courts

Damien Jurado

Mike Kroll

Teenage Fanclub

Lightships (or whatever name Gerard Love names his new project)

Jason Lytle (solo or Grandaddy)

Metz

Dinosaur Jr (or J. Mascis solo album)

Sebadoh (or a Lou Barlow solo album)...there's a new Folk Implosion album coming out soon. So, might have to wait longer

Jason Loewenstein

Osees/Thee Oh Sees

Bob Mould

Salad Boys (or a Joe Sampson solo record)

Wooden Shjips

Flat Worms

Fu Manchu

Wolf Parade

Redd Kross

Breeders

Telekinesis

Earlimart

Supergrass???  a Gaz Coombes solo album is coming out soon.

The Sea and Cake

The Evens

Mac Demarco

Sleaford Mods

The Wedding Present

Rob Crow (Pinback or Plosivs or another new project)

Broken Social Scene

Hayden

Mac McCaughan (solo)

Superdrag

Ride

The Cure

My Bloody Valentine

Wet Leg

The National

Mac Demarco

Say Hi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In no particular order:

 

Sloan - Steady

Alvvays - Blue Rev

Built to Spill - When The Wind Forgets Your Name

Kiwi Jr. - Chopper

Spiritualized - Everything Was Beuatiful

Plosivs - Plosivs

Pixies - Doggerel

The Sadies - Colder Streams

Weird Nightmare - Weird Nightmare

Cheekface - Too Much To Ask

Spiral Stairs - Medley Attack

Spoon - Lucifer On The Sofa

Archers of Loaf - Reasons In Decline

Sea Power - Everything Was Forever

Mush - Down Tools

Black County, New Road - Ants From Up There

Elf Power - Artificial Countrysides

The Chats - Get Fucked

Osees - A Foul Form

Kevin Morby - This Is a Photograph

The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field

 

Honourable mentions: Damien Jurado, Wet Leg, Belle and Sebastian, The Mountain Goats, Superchunk, GBV (both of them), Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever.

 

6 hours ago, TCP said:

Records confirmed to come in 2022:

Big Thief

Sloan

Wilco

Pinegrove

Kurt Vile

Jack White x2

Mitski

 

 

Bands/artists who are due for new records:

Alvvays

Iron & Wine

Orville Peck

Father John Misty

Mac Demarco

 

 

 

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I think they said their new record is coming out in the fall. 

I think you're right. They've also teased more box set reissues.  I hope they do one for Smeared.

Kiwi Jr. - Cooler Returns

Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life

Aeon Station - Observatory

Tuns -Duly Noted

Damien Jurado - The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania

Guided by Voices - It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It is Them!

Andy Shauf - Wilds

Sloan - This One's an Original

Steve Gunn - Other You

Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods

Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep it Into Space

Mac McCaughan - The Sound of Yourself

 

 

Some of mine are legit and others are a pipedream

 

Built To Spill

Superchunk

Sea Power

Spiritualized

Spoon

Sloan (new album and/or Smeared box re-issue)

Wilco

PLOSIVS

Pavement (Terror Twilight deluxe re-issue)

a Stephen Malkmus record

Spriral Stairs

The 3 albums that Guided by Voices will release

Supergrass

Grandaddy/Jason Lytle

Yo La Tengo

Archers of Loaf

New Pornographers

Mike Kroll

Future Now

The Wrens

Sadies

Constantines

Metz

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

 

58 minutes ago, TCP said:

58 minutes ago, TCP said:

 

Do we think Andy Shauf is going to have a new album already??? Please tell me you've heard rumours!

No rumours. Just speculation. He has a home recording space set up. So, I figure that he would've been working on new material since he was unable to tour.

 

 

What new albums are you looking forward to in 2021? Confirmed, anticipated, wishful thinking, etc.

I'm personally looking forward to, hoping for or anticipating new albums from:

Grandaddy

Jason Lytle

Kiwi Jr.

Teenage Fanclub

Superchunk

Archers of Loaf

Sloan

Yo La Tengo

Dinosaur Jr.

Lou Barlow

Sebadoh

Arab Strap

Mogwai

Guided By Voices (how many in 2021?)

Notwist

Sleaford Mods

British Sea Power

Parquet Courts

Spoon

Mike Krol

The War on Drugs

Stephen Malkmus

Spiral Stairs

Thee Oh Sees

Courtney Barnett

Andy Shauf

Constantines

New Pornographers

Supergrass or Gaz Coombes

Mudhoney

Wilco

Jeff Tweedy

and will 2021 the year that the Wrens finally release a new album?

 

The albums that I enjoyed at some point during 2020 are:

 

Coriky Coriky

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead  X: The Godless Void and Other Stories

Andy Shauf Neon Skyline

Bob Mould Blue Hearts

Bill Callahan Gold Record

Say Hi Diamonds and Donuts

Flat Worms Antarctica

Hamilton Leithauser The Loves of Your Life

Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today

Built to Spill Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston

Guided By Voices Surrender Your Poppy Field and Mirrored Aztec and Styles We Paid For

Doves The Universal Want

Daniel Romano's Outfit How Ill Thy World is Ordered

Idles Ultra Mono

Metz Atlas Vending

Kevin Morby Sundowner

Jeff Tweedy Love Is The King

The Mountain Goats Getting Into Knives

BOAT Tread Lightly

Damien Jurado What's New, Tomboy?

Wolf Parade Thin Mind

Stephen Malkmus Traditional Techniques

Waxahatchee Saint Cloud

Joel Plaskett 44

Salad Boys

Parquet Courts

Mike Krol

Flat Worms

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Yeah do you have any dirt on the Walkman?? By far I think they were my favorite band to emerge after 2000. Would be super psyched if they did anything!!! Also, always up for more parquet courts!

No dirt.  Just wishful thinking.  A Hamilton Leithauser record and/or some more solo releases from other members would suffice.

what's your over/under on guided by voices releases for 2020?

2.5

Most anticipated albums of 2020 (lots of wishful thinking)

 

Holy Fuck (Jan 17)

...And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead (Jan 17)

Andy Shauf (Jan 24)

Wolf Parade (Jan 24)

Say Hi (Feb 7)

British Sea Power

Teenage Fanclub (they're currently in the studio)

Dinosaur Jr. (currently working on new album)

Constantines???

The Wrens (is this the year they release the new record?)

Grandaddy

Joel Plaskett

Superchunk???

Yo La Tengo (read somewhere they've been recording at the Loft)

Pavement???

Supergrass???

Doves???

Hayden???

War on Drugs???

Walkmen???

Parquet Courts???

Guided By Voices (there is a new album on the horizon.  The question at this point is how many more will there be?)

Agreed. We used to stay at a motel on Route 7, just north of Williamstown, just before the Vermont line. The $ just did not justify it by 2015, so in 2017 we rented a house near Pittsfield, 22 miles away. No regrets - doing it again in June.

Same except just over the state line in Vermont. And I'm doing the same this year.  I'm staying at the Ladd Brook.  It's not the best but the price is reasonable compared to others in the area. I booked through booking.com 

Yikes. I was afraid of that. I might have to wait and plan ahead for 2021. Thanks for the advice.

I'm staying at the Ladd Brook.  It's not the best but the price is reasonable compared to others in the area. I booked through booking.com The Villager Motel appears to be similar.  It's just north of Williamstown too...but on the Mass side of the state line.

I'm strongly considering taking the plunge for my first Solid Sound. Are there still places to stay that don't cost a fortune (other than camping)?

Good luck...worst part about Solid Sound is the cost of accommodations in the area during the festival (if you can find a room).  It's ridiculous how much the flea bag motels charge per night. Especially for a Canadian at a time when the dollar is so weak vs the US dollar.   I guess camping is a good option if you want to save money and don't mind  not having a shower for a few days.  Having said that, the actual festival is fantastic.

Didn't Scott play with Jeff during his solo set in 2010? Family Gardener maybe? Would love for a Jeff/Scott Dear Employer.

And there's the Minus 5 "Down with Wilco" album released in 2003 which was basically a collaboration between McCaughey and Wilco with contributions from Peter Buck and Ken Stringfellow (of the Posies), and others.

Here are some of my early predictions:  Rolling Blackouts C.F., Unknown Mortal Orchestra, J. Mascis or Dinosaur Jr. or Sebadoh, Sleater-Kinney, Courtney Barnett, the Breeders, Ohmme, The Sea and Cake, The Essex Green, Snail Mail.  And I predict we'll see some returning acts from past lineups such as Yo La Tengo, Mac Demarco, Parquet Courts and Low. 

 

My dream (and kind of realistic lineup) would be

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks

The Breeders

Dinosaur Jr.

Yo La Tengo

Sleater-Kinney

Courtney Barnett

Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billie

Bob Mould

Deerhunter

Rolling Blackouts C.F.

The Men

Kikagaku Moyo

I get you. I feel the same way. Rock will come around again, I think, I hope. But sometimes I think Neil Young was wrong.

It's all cyclical.  You just gotta look a little harder for the good rock music nowadays.  It's still out there.  Speaking of music festivals, Merge 30 down in North Carolina at the end of July should be stacked with lots of great rock bands.  I went to Merge 25 and it was absolutely awesome!  Such a great great lineup and an even better vibe (much like past Solid Sound festivals)

This is why people call Wilco "dad rock".

ROCK being the operative word. I know I'm getting old, but I still like a lot of newer and younger bands. They're just not playing at Coachella...and hopefully some of them are playing at Solid Sound

Any rumors of other acts appearing at SS 2019 yet?

I'm just hoping it's the opposite of the Coachella lineup

• Ultimate Painting - Up!

 

how did you get your hands on this album?

I'm always jealous of people who live in Chicago, NYC, LA, Seattle and Toronto because every band that tours around North America always plays in these cities.  Anyway, slim pickings for me this year. Is it because Ottawa is not really that good for shows anymore or is it because I am getting older and I'm a bit out of the loop and don't go to as many shows? A little of both I suppose. Also, big summer festivals have kind of ruined ruined it.  I can tell you right now, if Stephen Malkmus, Parquet Courts, Thee Oh Sees, GBV, J Mascis, Yo La Tengo, the Breeders and a few other bands that toured this year ever came to Ottawa, I would go. But I regress, here's is my very short list

 

Jeff Tweedy solo and Algonquin Theatre in Ottawa

Sloan at Empty Bottle in Chicago

There is also an episode on Kreativ  Kontrol ep#450 podcast (available on Itunes etc) wich is based on this questionare.

Makes sense. Vish writes for Exclaim! and KK is his podcast. 

KK has it's own website (for those who don't wanna go through ITunes)  http://vishkhanna.com/kreative-kontrol/

Every month, Canadian music publication Exclaim! does a questionnaire with a musician. This month it's with Jeff Tweedy and they've added some bonus/follow up questions to the usual questions (they're the same questions every month).  Check it out here:

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/jeff_tweedy-the_exclaim_questionnaire

Speaking of dreaming...

how about a new one from The Wrens?

And then a Wrens/Loose Fur tour