Here's a thread for the year 2009 in music.
Feel free to discuss new releases, upcoming bands, etc.
This is a partial list of new releases for the next few months, they're mostly US physical release
JANUARY
01-06:
Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion [Domino] [vinyl release]
Beausoleil: Alligator Purse [Yep Roc]
Destroy Destroy Destroy: Battle Sluts [Metal Blade]
The Ecclesia: Birdsong Over the Interior Castle [Arena Rock]
Glasvegas: Glasvegas [Columbia] [U.S. release, out now in the UK]
The Gourds: Haymaker! [Yep Roc]
High on Fire: Live From the Relapse Contamination Festival [Relapse]
Jessie Kilguss: Nocturnal Drifter [self-released]
King Khan & BBQ Show: "Animal Party" 7" [Fat Possum]
Pumajaw: Curiosity Box [Fire] [U.S. release, out now in UK]
Soporus: 24,110 [Burnt Toast Vinyl]
Various Artists: Desolation House [Relapse]
West Indian Girl: 4th on the Floor - West Indian Girl Remixes Vol. 2 [Smash Hit Music Co.]
Woe of Tyrants: Kingdom of Might [Metal Blade]
01-12:
Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion [Domino] [UK/Europe release]
Colossal Yes: Charlemagne's Big Thaw [Ba Da Bing!]
El Goodo: Coyote [Grease]
Gris Gris: Live at the Creamery [Birdman]
MV & EE With the Golden Road: Drone Trailer [DiCristina]
The Silt: Cat's Peak [Fire] [UK release]
Various Artists: Motown 50 [UMTV] [UK release]
01-13:
Arthur Lee: Arthur Lee [Friday Music] [reissue]
Blue Giant: Target Heart EP [Jealous Butcher] [CD release, out now digitally]
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band : Greatest Hits [Columbia] [Wal-Mart exclusive]
City and Colour: Sometimes [Vagrant] [U.S. physical release, out now digitally in U.S. and physically in Canada]
Fires of Rome: You Kingdom You [The:Hours]
Franz Nicolay: Major General [Fistolo Records]
Friendly Foes: Born Radical [Gangplank] [CD release, out now digitally]
Late of the Pier: Fantasy Black Channel [Astralwerks] [U.S. release, out now in the UK]
Love: Love Live: Whisky A-Go-Go 1978 [Friday Music] [reissue]
Lymbyc System: Carved by Glaciers [Magic Bullet] [CD release]
My Dear Disco: Dancethink [Dancethink]
Peter Bernstein Trio: Monk [Xanadu] [digital release, out now on eMusic]
Quatre Tete: Art of the State [Sickroom] [CD release, out now digitally]
Ruby Jean & The Thoughtful Bees: Ruby Jean & The Thoughtful Bees [Youth Club]
Superchunk: The Clambakes Vol. 4 -- Sur la Bouche -- Live in Montreal 1993 [Merge] [digital release]
This Will Destroy You & Lymbyc System: Field Studies [Magic Bullet] [CD release]
Various Artists: NOW That's What I Call Motown [Universal/Sony/EMI] [U.S. release]
01-19:
A Camp: "Stronger Than Jesus" single [PIAS/Universal Sweden] [European release]
Squarepusher: Numbers Lucent EP [Warp] [UK release]
TV on the Radio: "Dancing Choose" 12" [4AD] [UK release]
The Yellow Moon Band: Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World [Static Caravan] [UK release]
01-20:
16: Bridges to Burn [Relapse]
The 1900s: Medium High mini-album [Parasol]
A.C. Newman: Get Guilty [Matador]
Andrew Bird: Noble Beast [Fat Possum]
Angelo Spencer: "My Music Is My Sweat" 7" [K Records]
Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion [Domino] [CD release]
Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light [Secretly Canadian]
Anya Marina: Slow and Steady Seduction, Phase II [Chop Shop]
Atmosphere: God Loves Ugly [Rhymesayers [CD/DVD reissue]
Bat For Lashes: Fur and Gold [Manimal Vinyl] [deluxe vinyl release]
Ben Nichols: The Last Pale Light in the West [The Rebel Group]
The Beyman Bros: Memories of Summer as a Child [Dharma Moon]
Blackout Beach: Skin of Evil [Soft Abuse]
Bon Iver: Blood Bank EP [Jagjaguwar]
Calexico: Live From Austin, TX [New West] [DVD]
Capracara: "King of the Witches" single [DFA]
Cattle Decapitation: The Harvest Floor [Metal Blade]
Clue to Kalo: Lily Perdida [Mush]
Combichrist: Today We Are All Demons [Metropolis]
Cut Off Your Hands: You and I [Frenchkiss]
David Bazan: "American Flags" 7" [Barsuk]
Diplo and Blaqstarr: Get Off / Serato Vinyl [Mad Decent] [vinyl release]
DJ Signify: Of Cities [Bully]
Fake Problems "The Dream Team" 7" [Side One Dummy]
Fiction Family: Fiction Family [ATO]
G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies: The Best of G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies [MVD] [DVD]
Gutbucket: A Modest Proposal [Cuneiform]
The Hollies: Beat Beat Beat [MVD] [DVD]
The Hunches: Exit Dreams [In the Red]
Ice-T: Live in Montreux 1995 [MVD] [DVD]
J. Tillman: Vacilando Territory Blues [Western Vinyl]
Jackie O Motherfucker: The Blood of Life [Fire]
Jeremy Jay: "Love Everlasting" 12" [K]
Jim O'Rourke & Loren Connors: Two Nice Catholic Boys [Family Vineyard]
John Frusciante: The Empyrean [Adrenaline Music]
Kill Your Idols: Something Started Here 1995-2007 [Get Outta Town] [7" box set]
The Kinks: Beat Beat Beat [MVD] [DVD]
Mariah Carey: The Ballads [Columbia/Legacy]
Matt and Kim: Grand [FADER]
The Meatmen: Rock 'n' Roll Juggernaut [Meat King] [reissue]
The Modern Skirts: All of Us in Our Night [Modern Skirts Recordings]
Music Go Music: "Warm in the Shadows" 12" [Secretly Canadian]
The Music Lovers: Masculine, Feminine [Le Grand Magistery]
New Model Army: Fuck Texas, Sing for Us - Live [Attack Attack]
Or, The Whale: Light Poles and Pines [Seany]
Pigface: Glitch and Son of a Glitch [MVD] [DVD]
Psychic Ills: Mirror Eye [The Social Registry]
Public Enemy: Revolverlution Tour 2003 [MVD] [DVD]
Rachel Shearer: Fakerie DVD [Family Vineyard]
Raymond Scott: 100th Anniversary Doll and CD set [Press Pop]
Robert Pollard: The Crawling Distance [Guided by Voices Inc.]
Roger O'Donnell: Songs From the Silver Box [Great Society]
Rose Funeral: The Resting Sonata [Metal Blade]
Royal Trux: Royal Trux [Drag City] [vinyl reissue]
Royal Trux: Twin Infinitives [Drag City] [vinyl reissue]
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder: Living for Death, Destroying the Rest [Relapse]
Small Faces: Beat Beat Beat [MVD] [DVD]
The Spencer Davis Group: Beat Beat Beat [MVD] [DVD]
Squarepusher: Numbers Lucent EP [Warp] [U.S. release]
Stephen O'Malley: Keep an Eye Out! [table of the Elements] [vinyl release]
Swervedriver: Mezcal Head [Second Motion/Hi-Speed Soul] [reissue]
Swervedriver: Raise [Second Motion/Hi-Speed Soul] [reissue]
Telefon Tel Aviv: Immolate Yourself [BPitch Control]
The Telescopes: Untitled Second [Bomp] [reissue]
Tesco Vee's Hate Police: Gonzo-Hate-Vibe [Meat King] [reissue]
The Yardbirds: Beat Beat Beat [MVD] [DVD]
Thom Yorke: The Eraser Rmxs [XL] [Japanese release]
Titus Andronicus: The Airing of Grievances [XL] [reissue]
Various Artists: This Comp Kills Fascists [Relapse] [7" box set]
Welcome Wagon: Welcome to the Welcome Wagon [Asthmatic Kitty]
The Who: The Kids Are Alright [UMe] [DVD]
Will Sheff / Charles Bissell: Will Sheff Covers Charles Bissell, Charles Bissell Covers Will Sheff 7" [Jagjaguwar]
01-26:
Bloc Party: "One Month Off" single [Wichita] [UK release]
Bricolage: Bricolage [Creeping Bent] [UK release]
Cheer-Accident: Fear Draws Misfortune [Cuneiform]
Hudson Mohawke: Polyfolk Dance EP [Warp] [UK release]
Franz Ferdinand: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand [Domino] [UK release]
Future Loop Foundation: "The Sea and the Sky" single [Just Music] [UK release]
Future of the Left: Last Night I Saved Her From Vampires [4AD] [UK release, live album]
Lars Horntveth: Kaleidoscopic [Smalltown Supersound] [Scandinavian release]
Lily Allen: "The Fear" single [Regal] [UK physical release, out now digitally]
01-27:
American Football: American Football EP [Polyvinyl] [vinyl reissue]
Anahita: Matricaria [Important]
Asa: Asa [Mercer Street/Downtown]
The Bird and the Bee: Ray Guns Are Not the Future [Blue Note]
Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun [Capitol] [DVD]
Brotzmann/Nilssen-Love: Sweetsweat [Smalltown Superjazz]
Bruce Springsteen: Working on a Dream [Columbia]
Circlesquare: Songs About Dancing and Drugs [!K7]
Cotton Jones: Paranoid Cocoon [Suicide Squeeze]
Dalek: Gutter Tactics [Ipecac]
Dan Deacon/Adventure: Split 12" [Carpark]
Duncan Sheik: Whisper House [Victor]
Eliot Lipp: Peace Love Weed 3D [Old Tacoma]
Ethan Rose: Oaks [Holocene Music]
Franz Ferdinand: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand [Domino/Epic] [U.S. release]
Futurecop!: The Unicorn & The Lost City of Alvograth EP [IHEARTCOMIX/Southern Fried] [CD release, out now digitally]
Gary Louris & Mark Olson: Ready for the Flood [New West]
Goblin Cock: Come With Me If You Want to Live [Robcore Records]
Golden Boots: Winter of our Discotheque [Park the Van]
The Guggenheim Grotto: Happy the Man [United for Opportunity]
Hot Chip With Robert Wyatt and Geese EP [Astralwerks] [CD release, out now digitally]
Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash Remixed [Compadre]
Kenneth Pattengale: Storied Places [Milan]
Kylie Minogue: Boombox: The Remix Album [Parlophone]
Lars Horntveth: Kaleidoscopic [Smalltown Supersound] [U.S. release]
LeATHERMOUTH: XO [Epitaph]
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: Eye Legacy [Mass Appeal/Koch]
Lithops: Ye Viols! [Thrill Jockey]
Loney Dear: Dear John [Polyvinyl]
Magnetic Morning: A.M. [Friend or Faux] [physical release, out now digitally]
Mi Ami: Echonoecho 12" [Quarterstick]
Nickel Eye: The Time of the Assassins [Rykodisc]
Of Montreal : An Eluardian Instance EP [Polyvinyl]
Of Montreal : Jon Brion Remix EP [Polyvinyl]
Omar Rodriquez-Lopez: Old Money [Stones Throw] [physical release, out now digitally]
The One Up Downstairs: The One Up Downstairs 7 " [Polyvinyl]
Owen: (the ep) [Polyvinyl]
Ran Blake: Driftwoods [Tompkins Square]
RZA: Afro Samurai: The Resurrection [Wu Music Group]
Six Organs of Admittance: RTZ [Drag City]
Strand of Oaks: Leave Ruin [La Societe Expeditionnaire]
The Sway Machinery: Hidden Melodies Revealed [JDub]
Various Artists: Just Like Heaven: A Tribute to the Cure [American Laundromat]
Volcano Suns: All Night Lotus Party [Merge] [reissue]
Volcano Suns: The Bright Orange Years [Merge] [reissue]
January:
Ben Kweller: "Sawdust Man" 7" [Bloodshot]
Black Moth Super Rainbow: "Don't You Want to Be in a Cult" b/w "Feel the Drip" [Mexican Summer] [picture disc]
Golden Triangle: Golden Triangle [Mexican Summer] [vinyl release]
Various Artists: Live From Bonnaroo 2008 [Superfly Entertainment/A.C. Entertainment] [DVD]
Wino: Punctuated Equilibrium [Southern Lord]
FEBRUARY
02-02:
A Camp: Colonia [PIAS/Universal Sweden] [European release]
Andrew Bird: Noble Beast [Bella Union/Cooperative] [European release]
Hauschka: Snowflakes and Car Wrecks EP [Fat Cat] [North American release]
Keith: Vice and Virtue [Lucky Number] [UK release]
Pumajaw: Back catalog digital reissues [Fire] [UK release]
Pumajaw: "Buds" single [Fire] [UK release]
Ryan Driver: Feeler of Pure Joy [Fire] [UK release]
Various Artists: Rough Trade Shops - Counter Culture 08 [Rough Trade]
02-03:
A Day to Remember: Homesick [Victory]
Alexandra Hope: Invisible Sunday [Manimal Vinyl]
Benjy Ferree: Come Back to the Five and Dime, Bobby Dee Bobby Dee [Domino]
Ben Kweller: Changing Horses [ATO]
Bibio: Vignetting the Compost [Mush]
Bodychoke: Cold River Songs [Relapse]
The Brighton Port Authority: I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat [Southern Fried]
Cannibal Corpse: Evisceration Plague [Metal Blade]
Deleted Waveform Gatherings: Baby Warfare [Rainbow Quartz]
Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele: The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele [Paw Tracks]
Eluvium: Life Through Bombardment [Temporary Residence] [7xLP box set]
Handsome Furs: Face Control [Sub Pop]
Heartless Bastards: The Mountain [Fat Possum]
Iran: Dissolver [Narnack]
Jim White: A Little Cross to Bear EP [Luaka Bop]
Kinky: Barracuda [Kin Kon/Nettwerk]
Ladyfinger (ne): Dusk [Saddle Creek]
Lisa Hannigan: Sea Sew [ATO]
Maserati/Zombi: Split LP [Temporary Residence] [vinyl release]
Mike Bones: A Fool for Everyone [The Social Registry]
Nous Non Plus: Menagerie [Aeronaut]
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart [Slumberland]
Phosphorescent: To Willie [Dead Oceans]
P.O.S.: Never Better [Rhymesayers]
RH+: Quintana Roo [Nacional]
Roger Joseph Manning Jr.: Catnip Dynamite [Oglio]
Sabertooth: Old Days & The Island [Arena Rock]
The Silt: Cat's Peak [Fire] [UK release]
Sole & The Skyrider Band: Remix Album [Black Canyon]
Two Tongues: Two Tongues [Vagrant]
The Von Bondies: Love, Hate and Then There's You [Majordomo]
Vulture Whale: Vulture Whale [Skybucket]
Wavves: Wavvves [De Stijl]
Woolfy: "Oh Missy" single [Rong/DFA]
Yeasayer: All Hour Cymbals [We Are Free] [vinyl release, out on CD now]
Zero Boys: History Of [Secretly Canadian] [reissue]
Zero Boys: Vicious Circle [Secretly Canadian] [reissue]
Zombi: Spirit Animal [Relapse]
02-09:
Hot Panda: Volcano...Bloody Volcano! [Mint] [UK release]
Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You [Regal] [UK release]
Max Tundra: "Which Song" single [Domino] [UK release]
Morrissey: "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris" single [Decca/Polydor] [UK release]
The Uglysuit: "Chicago" single [Touch & Go] [UK release]
Various Production: The Invisible Lodger [Fire] [UK release]
02-10:
The Alternate Routes: A Sucker's Dream [Vanguard]
An Horse: Rearrange Beds [Mom & Pop]
Behemoth: Grom [MVD] [reissue]
Ben Lee: The Rebirth of Venus [New West]
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone: Advance Base Battery Life [Tomlab]
Dan Auerbach: Keep It Hid [Nonesuch]
Deborah Anderson: Silence [Somis Sound / My Dog Osaka]
Dex Romweber Duo: Ruins of Berlin [Bloodshot]
Golem: Citizen Boris [JDub]
Hot Panda: Volcano...Bloody Volcano! [Mint] [North American release]
Iggy Pop: Lust for Life [MVD] [DVD]
India.Arie: Testimony: Vol 2., Love & Politics [Universal Republic]
Kate Bush: Hounds of Love: A Classic Album Under Review [MVD] [DVD]
Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You [Capitol] [U.S. release]
The Lonely Island: INCREDIBAD [Universal Republic]
Madlib: Beat Konducta Vol. 5-6 [Stones Throw] [CD release, out now on vinyl]
Malajube: Labyrinthes [Dare to Care]
Miranda Lee Richards: Light of X [Nettwerk]
Serena Ryder: Is It OK [Atlantic] [U.S. release, out now in Canada]
The Sleepover Disaster: Hover [Devil in the Woods]
Trentalange: Awakening, Level One [Coco Tauro Records]
Trouble Andrew: Trouble Andrew [Virgin] [reissue]
02-14:
Charles Spearin: The Happiness Project [Arts&Crafts]
Mr. Russia: Teething [Lens]
02-16:
Aidan Moffat and the Best Ofs: How to Get to Heaven From Scotland [Chemikal Underground] [UK release]
Beirut/Realpeople: March of the Zapotec/Holland [Pompeii/ Ba Da Bing] [European release]
Hauschka: Snowflakes and Car Wrecks EP [Fat Cat] [International release]
Morrissey: Years of Refusal [Decca/Polydor] [UK release]
N.A.S.A.: The Spirit of Apollo [Epitaph] [UK release]
Oberam Knocks: 16th Smallest [Aperture] [UK release]
Soap&Skin: "Spiracle" single [PIAS] [UK release]
The Uglysuit: The Uglysuit [Touch & Go] [UK release, out now in U.S.]
Various Production & Georgia's Horse: "As It Stops Raining" remix single [Fire] [UK release]
02-17:
Abe Vigoda: Reviver EP [PPM]
Alela Diane: To Be Still [Rough Trade]
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead: The Century of Self [Richter Scale]
The Appleseed Cast: Sagarmatha [The Militia Group]
Architecture in Helsinki: "That Beep" single [Polyvinyl]
Arise and Ruin: Night Storms Hail Fire [Victory]
Asobi Seksu: Hush [Polyvinyl]
The Autumn Offering: TBA [Victory]
Beirut/Realpeople: March of the Zapotec/Holland [Pompeii/ Ba Da Bing] [U.S. release]
Boston Spaceships: The Planets Are Blasted [Guided by Voices Inc.]
Broken Spindles: Kiss/Kick [blank.wav]
Canadian Invasion: Three Cheers for the Invisible Hand [transit of Venus]
Corpus Christi: TBA [Victory]
D. Rider: Mother of Curses [Tizona]
Dean & Britta: 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests [Plexifilm] [DVD]
Death: ...For the Whole World to See [Drag City]
The Drones: Havilah [ATP] [U.S. release, out now in Australia]
Eleni Mandell: Artificial Fire [Zedtone]
Fake Problems: It's Great To Be Alive [Side One Dummy]
Faunts: Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. [Friendly Fire]
Fidel Nadal: Crucial Cuts [Nacional]
Filastine: Dirty Bomb [Soot]
Final: Reading All the Right Signals Wrong [No Quarter]
Fol Chen: Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made [Asthmatic Kitty]
Gun Outfit: Dim Light [PPM]
Henry's Funeral Shoe: Everything's for Sale [Alive]
Here We Go Magic: Here We Go Magic [Western Vinyl]
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit [lightning Rod Records]
Lionel Richie: Just Go [Island]
Living Things: Habeas Corpus [Jive]
Loren Connors: The Curse of Midnight Mary [Family Vineyard]
Maia Hirasawa: Though, I'm Just Me [Thrive]
M. Ward: Hold Time [Merge]
Mi Ami: Watersports [Quarterstick]
Morrissey: Years of Refusal [Attack/Lost Highway] [U.S. release]
Mountains: Choral [Thrill Jockey]
The Murder City Devils: Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts [Sub Pop] [vinyl reissue]
The Murder City Devils: In Name and Blood [Sub Pop] [vinyl reissue]
The Murder City Devils: The Murder City Devils [Sub Pop] [vinyl reissue]
The Murder City Devils: Thelema [Sub Pop] [vinyl reissue]
N.A.S.A.: The Spirit of Apollo [Anti-] [U.S. release]
Obscura: Cosmogenesis [Relapse]
Odawas: The Blue Depths [Jagjaguwar]
Plushgun: Pins and Panzers [Tommy Boy]
Psapp: The Camel's Back [Domino] [U.S. release, out now internationally]
Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3: Goodnight Oslo [Yep Roc]
Sholi: Sholi [Quarterstick]
Sleeper: Behind Every Mask [Mush]
The Sleeping: TBA [Victory]
Southeast Engine: From the Forest to the Sea [Misra]
Telepathe: Dance Mother [IAMSOUND]
These Are Powers: All Aboard Future [Dead Oceans]
Thrice: The Alchemy Indexes I-IV [Vagrant] [vinyl box set]
Throw Me the Statue: Purpleface EP [Secretly Canadian]
Thursday: Common Existence [Epitaph]
Tombs: Winter Hours [Relapse]
Various Artists: Dark Was the Night [4AD]
Various Artists: Guilt by Association Vol. 2 [Engine Room Recordings] [CD release, out now digitally]
Vetiver: Tight Knit [Sub Pop]
The Vibrarians: "Red Light" 7" [K]
Weird Owl: Ever the Silver Cord Be Loosed [Tee Pee]
William Elliott Whitmore: Animals in the Dark [Anti-]
Within the Ruins: TBA [Victory]
02-23:
First Aid Kit: Drunken Trees EP [Wichita Recordings] [UK release]
Grandmaster Flash: The Bridge: Concept of a Culture [Adrenaline City Entertainment/Strut] [European release]
Pan American: White Bird Release [Kranky]
Rex the Dog: "Bubblicious" single [Hundehaus/Cooperative Music] [European release]
Robert Wyatt: Back catalogue box set [Domino] [UK release]
02-24:
Black Lips: 200 Million Thousand [Vice]
Cazals: What of Our Future [The:Hours]
Fountains of Wayne: No Better Place - Live in Chicago [Shout! Factory] [DVD]
Joe Budden: Padded Room [Amalgam Digital]
Lamb of God: Wrath [Epic]
Lorrie Matheson: In Vein [Saved by Radio]
MC Lars: This Gigantic Robot Kills [Crappy]
Pearl Jam: Ten [Legacy Recordings] [reissue]
Xiu Xiu: You Can't Hear Me [MVD] [DVD] UPDATE: This is not an official release
February:
Various Artists: War Child: Heroes [Astralwerks/Parlophone]
