Chance the Rapper
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Will 2016 be the year the critically acclaimed MC finally puts his name on a commercially available debut? "That's a good question," Chance said when Rolling Stone asked him last July if such a release was forthcoming. "Let's say I don't know." Chance kept busy in 2015, working with the jazz-rap collective Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment on their wide-ranging and highly regarded release Surf. Chance also premiered two new tracks during high-profile TV slots: He introduced "Angels" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and performed "Somewhere in Paradise" on Saturday Night Live. It's not clear yet whether those cuts are part of a larger project to surface this year. As Chance says: "I can do whatever I want. I don't have to do a fucking thing!"
My Morning Jacket
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
My Morning Jacket just released their seventh album The Waterfall last May, but they're already looking forward to the eighth. At the time of The Waterfall's release, the band revealed that they had produced over 24 songs, and that they would release the remaining material in 2016 – though their latest tour has made finalizing the next LP a bit difficult. "It's this pile that I'm always mixing up, if I have a week or two off, I'm at home playing with the pile, or working on a solo record, or working on Jacket stuff or trying other stuff," MMJ's Jim James told Rolling Stone. "We'll definitely record more to make another record. There's some things that we did for the last record that will end up getting used, I think, that I really like a lot. There's only half the story there for the next record.
M.I.A
Album: Matahdatah
Release Date: TBA
We heard several new tracks from brilliant global-punk-dance provocateur M.I.A. in 2015, at least a few of which seem likely to resurface on her fifth studio album, due sometime this year. In July, she dropped a long-form video called "Matahdatah Scroll 01 Broader Than a Border" that included the new song, "Swords." Then in November, the video for "Borders," which M.I.A. dedicated to her uncle, a Tamil migrant, directly addressed the global refugee crisis. "The concept for this LP is 'broader than a border' and Matahdatah is the journal of Matangi." M.I.A. said in a statement, referring to her 2013 album. "Sometimes I move vertical and sometimes I move horizontal."
Gwen Stefani
Album
: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Beyond the glare of tabloid cameras and The Voice, tireless businesswoman and artist Gwen Stefani has, in fact, had some time to make some actual music. Stefani reportedly started work on her third solo studio album, the follow-up to 2006's The Sweet Escape, in 2014, but scrapped most of it. Instead, we got the first single, the nakedly personal ode to ex-husband Gavin Rossdale, "I Used to Love You." Stefani told Beats 1's Zane Lowe that the song arose as part of an unusually prolific, post-writer's-block period. "I think I have enough for probably two albums," she told him. "I have to write a few more songs, because I feel like, might as well keep going while it's there." It's not all torch songs and ballads, though, she told him. A new single, a "really happy song," is likely due out next — it's called "Misery." Go figure.
Missy Elliott
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Missy Elliott bounded back into the pop spotlight in 2015, appearing with Katy Perry at the Super Bowl Halftime Show, guesting on a track on Janet Jackson's new album and, most excitingly, collaborating with Pharrell on her gangbusters new single, "WTF (Where They From)." Elliott claims nerves kept her on the sidelines. "I felt like, 'How do I fit in?'" she told i-D in November. "I'm battling. But then I never fit in! The whole time, I've never fit in!" As for a new album, longtime collaborator Timbaland has been saying it's ready to go for more than a year. "It's on her," Tim said back in 2014. "She got the first single, it's just a matter of when she wants to do it. We got the hollow-tip bullet in the gun. We have the game-changer right there."
Soundgarden
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Soundgarden always vowed that if they'd ever reunite after their 1997 breakup, it would be to resume the band's creative path and not just play the hits. The band stayed true to that promise with 2012's thorny, hard-rocking King Animal. And though they've taken a break from playing live in the last few months as frontman Chris Cornell toured for his solo album Higher Truth, it appears that the band's 7th full-length is somewhere on the horizon. "We're already working on material for a new album," Cornell told Rolling Stone in August.
The Band Perry
Album: Heart + Beat
Release Date: Early 2016
The Band Perry's self-titled 2010 debut and 2013 follow-up Pioneer spun off a series of rootsy hits that topped the country charts. But the band appears to be putting aside the mandolins and eying a Taylor Swift-like turn towards pop crossover with their third album Heart + Beat. The sunny lead single "Live Forever" was produced by Lady Gaga collaborator RedOne and faced a chilly reception from country radio. The band has even been in the studio with Pharrell Williams. "We're trying to have a little more romance about this new album," newlywed Kimberly Perry told Rolling Stone last March.
Charlie Puth
Album: Nine Track Mind
Release Date: January 29th
Singer Charlie Puth came out of nowhere in 2015 with one of the biggest singles of the year, singing the chorus to Wiz Khalifa's Paul Walker tribute "See You Again." The track hit a billion views on YouTube in less than a year, spent 12 weeks at Number One and is currently up for three Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe. Puth will launch his 2016 with his solo debut, Nine Track Mind, which will include guest appearances from Meghan Trainor ("Marvin Gaye") and Selena Gomez ("We Don't Talk Anymore"). "[Listeners] should expect a soulful vibe," Puth recently promised in an interview with Vulture.
Loretta Lynn
Album: Full Circle
Release Date: March 4th
Full Circle is the 83-year-old country legend's first album since 2003, when Jack White produced the gorgeous Van Lear Rose. This time around, Lynn recorded at Johnny Cash's Cash Cabin Studio in Tennessee with John Carter Cash and her daughter Patsy Lynn Russell co-producing. "I recorded 93 songs, and I'm going to record some more, too," Lynn told Billboard in December. The 13 tracks selected for Full Circle include new takes on Lynn's hit "Fist City" and the first song she ever wrote, "Whispering Sea," as well as duets with Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson. "When this album comes out, I want to work it just like I've done always," Lynn said. "And I can't wait."
The 1975
Album: I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
Release Date: February 26th
Judging by advance singles "Love Me" and "Ugh!" Manchester rockers the 1975 have mined funky Eighties hitmakers like Peter Gabriel, Terence Trent D'Arby and Prince for their second studio album. "[The Eighties were] a time where technology came into play vastly," the band told iHeartRadio. "It was a forward-thinking time, and trying to capture the ethos of that time without being over-referential, in like a pastiche, is something that we wanted to do." The album will be supported by a North American tour that begins April 18th in Los Angeles.
Source : http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/45-most-anticipated-albums-of-2016-20160106/the-1975-20160105
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