Mavis Staples
Album: Livin' on a High Note
Release Date: February 19th
Legendary singer Mavis Staples will release a new album in February, following up a pair of Jeff Tweedy-produced Americana albums, 2010's You Are Not Alone and 2013's One True Vine. Staples has remained relatively quiet about her upcoming album but the LP will feature the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer singing songs written exclusively for her by artists like Justin Vernon, Nick Cave, John Batiste, Aloe Blacc, Ben Harper, Neko Case and more. Also in February: the HBO premiere of the documentary film Mavis! which takes a look at her life.
Album: TBA
Release Date: February 19th
Legendary singer Mavis Staples will release a new album in February, following up a pair of Jeff Tweedy-produced Americana albums, 2010's You Are Not Alone and 2013's One True Vine. Staples has remained relatively quiet about her upcoming album but the LP will feature the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer singing songs written exclusively for her by artists like Justin Vernon, Nick Cave, John Batiste, Aloe Blacc, Ben Harper, Neko Case and more. Also in February: the HBO premiere of the documentary film Mavis! which takes a look at her life.
PJ Harvey
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Last winter, PJ Harvey set up shop at London's Somerset House for "Recording in Progress," a four-week art installation during which she and collaborators set about writing and recording her ninth studio album while viewers watched through one-way glass. "I hope people will see the attention and the labor and the care that goes into making a recording," she said in a statement. "I hope people will see the interactions between everyone involved." In October, the shape-shifting British singer debuted 10 new songs at London's Royal Festival Hall. (Longtime collaborator John Parish and former Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds member James Johnston sat in.) A teaser posted online in December would indicate that at least some of the album, which does not yet have a title or release date, will be much more sonically abrasive than the 2007's gauzy White Chalk and 2011's Let England Shake
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The Strokes
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Julian Casablancas spent almost as much time in 2015 promising new material from the Strokes as he did hyping his new music with the Voidz. "It's the first time we've been exclusively writing since [2013's] Comedown Machine," the Strokes vocalist told Noisey last April. "We're planning on recording stuff. I still think we could do cool things and I'll do that." In September, during a Strokes show at the Landmark Festival in D.C., Casablancas reportedly announced from the stage that the band planned to return to the studio.
Release Date: TBA
Julian Casablancas spent almost as much time in 2015 promising new material from the Strokes as he did hyping his new music with the Voidz. "It's the first time we've been exclusively writing since [2013's] Comedown Machine," the Strokes vocalist told Noisey last April. "We're planning on recording stuff. I still think we could do cool things and I'll do that." In September, during a Strokes show at the Landmark Festival in D.C., Casablancas reportedly announced from the stage that the band planned to return to the studio.
Vampire Weekend
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
"In some ways [our first three albums were] like kind of one massive period of obsessing, making music, touring, all those things," Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig told the No Effects Podcast last May. "I think now for the first time in a long time I kinda feel like, a little bit more relaxed. Like, 'Yeah, we'll definitely make a fourth album.'" Details are still scant, but the indie rock foursome's leader revealed that he wants their fourth album to "feel like a new era." He also said that discarded songs from the Modern Vampires sessions are among the tracks being considered for the as-yet-untitled project.
Deftones
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Almost 30 years into their careers and following near breakups and the death of original bassist Chi Cheng, alt-metal heroes the Deftones are in the midst of a creative renaissance. Their last two albums, 2010's Diamond Eyes and 2012's Koi No Yokan, rank among their finest hours, and the band shows no signs of letting up when it comes to pushing the boundaries of its already expansive sound. In May, singer Chino Moreno described the group's forthcoming eighth album to NME as "out of the box" and full of "keyboards and a lot of cool, spacey low frequencies." He also added that Morrissey was serving as a key influence on the songs. "I've been on this crazy Morrissey tip recently – totally obsessing over his solo records – so I brought a lot of that to the table," he said. "On those early solo records, he uses this awesome, Elvis-y delay on his vocal that I've been ripping off a ton." As of November, the album – which reportedly includes a cameo from Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell – was being mixed, with a spring release expected.
Santigold
Album: 99¢
Release Date: February 26th
We already got a taste of one of 2016's first big releases, Santigold's 99¢, from the album's first single, "Can't Get Enough of Myself," a giddy tune driven by a unique and uncharacterizable global pop beat. "The record cover is a picture of me basically in a bag, shrink-wrapped, with a bunch of items, random clutter from my life … and there's a 99-cent sticker on it," Santigold said of the album title. "Everything is a product at this point, including people and relationships, and everything's about marketing products. So, I'm a product. And also, everything is undervalued, so I thought 99 cents is a good price for me and my life and all my hard work."
Run the Jewels
Album: RTJ3
Release Date: TBA
The dynamic duo of Killer Mike and El-P spent 2015 in victory lap mode, hitting festivals from coast to coast, and releasing Meow the Jewels, a novelty record for charity in which their acclaimed 2014 album Run the Jewels 2 was drenched in cat noises. Of course for the politically charged team, a "victory lap" also entails interviewing presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and recording a record for the Rumble Kings soundtrack. Not much is known about the group's forthcoming album, though, as El-P suggested in his Colbert performance last September, it may take a while: "We'll get to it once we finish up with all this other shit," El-P added. "So, it should take til 2029."
Animal Collective
Album: Painting With
Release Date: February 19th
The day before Thanksgiving, those traveling through the BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore may have been lucky enough to get the first taste of Animal Collective's upcoming album, Painting With, which was debuted via the airport's PA system. According to Avey Tare's cousin, Matt Baetz, the album was "heard best in the bathrooms, some observation areas, pre-security and the big lounge after security." In a recent interview in Rolling Stone, the band promised to cut down on their signature reverb and embrace a much poppier sound, much more like 2007's Strawberry Jam – or, the Beatles at their druggiest peak. Lead single "FloridaDa" retains all the bubbly idiosyncrasy of the avant-pop trio. Due Feburary 19th, the album features cameos by The Velvet Underground's John Cale and saxophonist Colin Stetson, as well as some "metal rods from the Poltergeist soundtrack."
Smashing Pumpkins
Release Date: TBA
After spending 2015 touring with Marilyn Manson, which Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan insisted was not a nostalgia tour, the alt-rocker promised a "very exciting" and "very futuristic" record – and called statements that this might be the end of the band's catalog "clickbait." "I've basically said the Smashing Pumpkins dies when I die," he told Rolling Stone. His newest album, originally titled Day For Night, is a follow-up to 2012's Oceania and 2014's Monuments to an Elegy, all a part of the 44-track Teargarden by Kaleidyscope song cycle. The title was changed because, as Corgan wrote, "in order to rewrite everything, or write anew, I had to think that maybe my initial conception of what DAY FOR NIGHT would stand for (which was some kind of end) was misguided. So let’s say this'll be more of a farewell to MONUMENTS funerary."
Source : http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/45-most-anticipated-albums-of-2016-20160106/smashing-pumpkins-20160105
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