2013 Albums To Look Forward To

A new year means new music! Here's a quick list of some albums on the 2013 horizon.

In 2011 The Joy Formidable debuted with their indie-pop/rock album The Big Roar and this year on January 22nd, the Welsh alternative indie-rock band will release their second full length album, Wolf's Law!








Heartthrob Tegan and Sara's first album since 2009, is slated to be released January 29th!  You can  pre-order the new Tegan and Sara and take a peak the complete Heartthrob track-list:


1) Closer
2) Goodbye Good Bye
3) I Was A Fool
4) I'm Not Your Hero
5) Drove Me Wild
6) How Come You Don't Want Me
7) I Couldn't Be Your Friend
8) Love They Say
9) Now I'm All Messed Up
10) Shock To Your System
+ 2 Bonus tracks

Some other January releases:
- Bad Religion January 21st
- Ra Ra Riot January 21st



Electronic music legend Fatboy Slim releases his latest album/DVD: Big Beach Bootique 5, February 19th, featuring a full mix and live footage from Fatboy Slim's performance at Brighton's Big Beach Bootique festival last Summer. 

Some other February releases:
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra February 5th
- Bullet For My Valentine February 12th

March
- David Bowie March 12th
- Smashing Pumpkins

The influential Swedish brother and sister duo The Knife have announced a new album Shaking The Habitual, to be released on April 9th, 2013! Shaking The Habitual will be their first album in seven years, since Silent Shout in 2006!

M.I.A claims that the release of her new album Matangi slated for release in December 2012 was shelved  by her US record label for being "too positive". M.I.A describes her next album, now slated for an April 15th release, as sounding like Paul Simon 'on acid' stating, "It's not 'I want to be trendy'. I just want to make music that makes sense."

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced that Mosquito, their follow-up to their 2009 record It's Blitz! will be released this spring! TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek and Nick Launay  helped to produce the seemingly diverse new album  while LCD Sound System's James Murphy took the helm for one tune on Mosquito due out April 16th!


                                              

               "I think this record has more moodier and tripped-out songs than you've ever heard from us." - Karen O



Phoenix has been hard at work on the album since 2011 which is believed to hopefully be released sometime in April 2013.  Though the name of the next Phoenix album is still unclear TPC has been rumored as the title after some artwork on their website surfaced.







Rumored 2013 Releases
- The Black Keys
- Lady Gaga
- The Strokes
- The Airborne Toxic Event
- The Vines
- The Kills
- Daft Punk
- Sleigh Bells
- Justin Timberlake