U2
Album: Songs of Experience
Release Date: TBA
The 14th album from U2 has been talked about ever since the release of Songs of Innocence, Rolling Stone's best album of 2014. "Early on it became obvious that we were working on two separate albums," the Edge told Rolling Stone. "The majority of the unfinished songs are worthy of becoming part of Songs of Experience and some are already as good or better than anything on Songs of Innocence." U2's plans have a way of getting derailed — just ask Bono's surgeons — but the singer has been playing intimate previews of tracks from his phone, offering commentary such as "this has got a really crunchy beat" and "on this one we were going for a broken cassette recorder type of sound." The band has accumulated at least 18 tracks, which they plan to whittle down to a dozen for a 2016 release.
Kanye West
Album: Swish
Release Date: TBA
What will Kanye West's seventh album sound like? There's really no telling. Over the last year, Kanye has released a solo record ("All Day"), a collaboration with Paul McCartney ("Only One"), a collaboration with Paul McCartney and Rihanna ("FourFiveSeconds"), a song with Vic Mensa ("U Mad"), a song with Vic Mensa and Sia ("Wolves"), a "Jumpman" cover ("FACTS") and a remix of a classic Larry Heard house record alongside Ty Dolla $ign and Post Malone ("Fade"). And, according to Pusha T in an interview with Rolling Stone this past December, none of these records are making the oft-delayed Swish. Supposedly, music took a back seat to Kanye's fashion escapades this year, but Pusha also promises, even though he wasn't involved in its creation: "Everything I've heard is phenomenal."
Metallica
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
It's been nearly eight years since Metallica won back fans and critics with return-to-thrash-form Death Magnetic (and five since they almost alienated them with their controversial Lou Reed collaboration Lulu). So it's no surprise that they're taking their time to perfect what will be their long-in-the-works 10th LP. They're staying tight-lipped about its progress – in April 2014, Lars Ulrich estimated they were in the "fourth inning" of the process, though Kirk Hammett guessed they were "30 percent" done a year later. Regardless, they want you to know they're working. Last March, Ulrich said the group was working with 20 songs on the heels of their 2014 tour single "Lords of Summer." They've also teased new material with video of James Hetfield playing a crushing new riff on guitar and of thrash-y song snippet on a computer. The band has only one tour date on the books so far, so they'll have plenty of time to release more snippets this year.
Red Hot Chili Pepper
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
The absurdly durable alt-funk quartet are preparing for their eleventh album and first since 2011's I'm With You. Singer Anthony Kiedis told Rolling Stone this October that the group has written several songs over the past year, although the prevalence of modern-day recording devices has kept them from playing any in their live sets. Kiedis also stated that RHCP was collaborating with producer Danger Mouse for the LP: "He's very good about coming up with super-modern ideas, but he'll also touch on the acoustic guitar in the control room and strip the song down to its acoustic essentials, which is a beautiful place to be."
Drake
Album: Views From the 6
Release Date: TBA
Drake remains hip-hop's foremost rap artist – critically acclaimed, a populist superstar, reshaping the genre simply when cosigning a trend. Even the revelation that Drake relied upon ghostwriters for recent hits hasn't noticeably slowed his momentum. Drake appeared on two full-length – ahem – "mixtapes" in 2015, What A Time to Be Alive with Future and If You're Reading This It's Too Late. But Views From the 6, Drake has emphasized in interviews, is to be more substantial, a deliberate statement. He told Rolling Stone that part of his return to Serious Business means working mainly with his longtime producer Noah "40" Shebib: "I just wanted to be able to come back to that and have it be important."
Rihanna
Album: Anti
Release Date: Still TBA, but tour starts February 26th
Rihanna came out guns blazing in January 2015, mentioning that her long-awaited follow-up to 2012's Unapologetic was on the way, executive produced by none other than Kanye West. But after a few singles, including the acoustic "FourFiveSeconds" with West and Paul McCartney, and the R&B radio hit "Bitch Better Have My Money," the campaign seemed to go quiet. The title and cover of Rihanna's 8th album was finally unveiled in November, and her Samsung app ANTIdiaRy has been teasing fans with cryptic hints — but 2016 has so far began with no new single or release date. "To me it's never done until it's done," Rihanna said of the album in September. As recently as November she canceled a performance at the Victoria Secret Fashion Show to put in some more work into it.
Lady Gaga
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
She's spent the last year touring classic pop songs with Tony Bennett and starring as the Countess on American Horror Story: Hotel, but Lady Gaga has also been working on her follow-up to 2013's Artpop. "I want the fans to be surprised," Gaga told Yahoo in late December. "But I will just tell you that it's a wonderful, soul-searching experience. … This record is like – my old self as a cadaver. And I'm just, I'm operating on my old self." Among the forensic investigation: Possibly returning to the studio with RedOne, if a studio selfie with the "Poker Face"/"Bad Romance" producer is any indication. "We took a little break from each other and now it feels like we are in a good place, both of us. She did her thing, I did my thing, and it feels like we're back on track together," RedOne said to The National
Frank Ocean
Album: Boys Don't Cry
Release Date: TBA
The follow-up to Frank Ocean's 2012 Grammy-winning R&B smash Channel Orange even has Adele impatient. "I'm just fucking waiting for Frank fucking Ocean to come out with his album," she told Rolling Stone this year. "It's taking so fucking long." In the works since early 2013, the concept album reportedly features collaborations with Hit-Boy, Tyler the Creator, Rodney Jerkins, Pharrell and Danger Mouse. Last year, Ocean announced, "I got two versions. I got twoooo versions. #ISSUE1 #ALBUM3 #JULY2015 #BOYSDONTCRY," and posted a photo with a stack of Boys Don't Cry magazines. July came and went, and Adele got nothing.
Tool
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Tool is free! It's been practically a decade since the release of the hard-art-rock titans' last studio album, 10,000 Days. Though they hit the road nationally a few times in those 10 ensuing years, as it turned out, they spent a good chunk of the time wrapped up in a lawsuit with an insurance company. With the lawsuit settled and the ensuing creativity-drain gone, Maynard James Keenan and company are back at it. This month, they'll hit the road with Primus, and guitarist Adam Jones told Rolling Stone last year that they've made major progress on a new album, due out this year. "Things are really flowing and going really well, and I'm just blown away at the stuff that's coming together," he said. "I'm excited and can't wait for it to be done."
Radiohead
Album: TBA
Release Date: TBA
Radiohead fans were given an unexpected Christmas gift with the surprise release of the band's unreleased Bond theme, "Spectre," the band's first taste of new music in four years. While the band has not confirmed a new album's title or release date, drummer Phil Selway told Drowned in Sound last January that the band began working on new material in September of 2014. Johnny Greenwood later confirmed that the band had "done a couple months of recording" that "have gone really well," noting that they've changed their method of making a new album again. In early December, Thom Yorke debuted a new song called "Silent Spring" at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris.
Source : http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/45-most-anticipated-albums-of-2016-20160106/red-hot-chili-peppers-20160105
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