There's a lot of stuff, FT:

In the 1st Quarter:
Bright Eyes - 2 New Albums - Late January
Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart - Late January
Chemical Brothers - Push The Button - Late January
Athlete - Tourist - Jan
Doves - Some Cities - Late February
Beck - TBA - Late February
Coldplay - TBA - March
Aimee Mann - TBA - March
Decemberists - Picaresque - March
Ivy - March
Al Green - March
New Order - March
Moby - March
QOTSA - March
Los Super 7 - III - March
Thievery Corporation - March

The Duke Spirit will release their full-length. So excited.

The new Low is wicked, as is the new Sam Prekop.

Low sound so heavy... there are even--gasp--hand claps and what sounds like fuzz bass. Awww yeah.

Oh, Ishy... where's that darn Roots Manuva, buddy? (Happy late holidays too)

Nada Surf in June, I think.

Hi Alex!
Who are the Duke Spirit?
I can't say about the Roots Manuva yet.
I like the new Low, too, a lot, because they're my favourite, though it's not my favourite. (I've been preferring some of the tracks on their box set, lately.) They performed "On the Edge Of" in my dream last week, and I melted. "Cue the Strings" and "When I Go Deaf" stand out for me, too.

Hope all's well.

Those boys're exhaustive.

Some good things to anticipate in this thread.

I'm also looking forward to the return of Kate Bush and the new Flaming Lips CD.

Stuff that interests me (w/ UK dates)

...Trail Of Dead (1/24)
Low (1/24)
Ani DiFranco (1/31)
M83 (1/31)
Black Eyed Peas (1/31)
Nick Olivieri (2/7)
Beck (2/14?)
Doves (2/14)
Ivy (2/28)
Solomon Burke (2/28)
Aimee Mann (3/7)
Idlewild (3/7)
System of A Down (3/14)
Daft Punk (3/21)
Queens Of The Stone Age (3/21)
Mars Volta (3/21)
Coldplay (3/28?)
Gorillaz (4/25?)
Kanye West (5/2)

not to mention:
Ani DiFranco again
BETH ORTON!!!!
Bloc Party
Deftones
Franz Ferdinand
Fugazi
Outkast
Q-Tip
Radiohead
Sigur Ros

Please note that Amon Tobin's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is dropping on January 25, and it's heavy.

Also, TTC's stunning Batards Sensibles is out February 8.

And, Airborn Audio's Good Fortune is out February 22. (Ex-Antipop Consortium)

In a magazine I read in a shop without buying, Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand) said "If the new album isn't out before April, I'll be really pissed off".

I don't think Roots Manuva has been mentioned yet. I'm certainly looking forward to that one. In all good record shops soon.

Looking very forward to the Doves, Ed Harcourt and Mercury Rev releases.

I read in Harp that the Mercury Rev was going to be available on iTunes Jan. 28th.

Also, Riviera releases their full length sometime in February, called At the end of the American Century. GLoNo records has a nice distrib deal with Carrot Top for it. And they're going to have ads placed in No Depression, Harp and Magnet upon release of the album.

Hood - Outside Closer

Roots Manuva. RIYL?

Dinosaur Jr. Reissues - March 22.

Isn't Emiliana Torrini coming out with a new album this year??

Stoked on Beck and Andrew Bird

For serious? An acquaintance of mine who happens to be a huge Dischord follower, and somewhat Fugazi fan, indicated to me that the band did, in fact, break-up.

Is this album for '05 to be a retrospective/odds n' ends piece, then?

Yo quiero The Notwist (Metacritic lists 2005, does not specify month). I can't think of a band I am looking forward to more... maybe Broken Social Scene, but I have sense that The Notwist could surprise me, and BSS just more of the same which, if like Sigur Ros, will make me like the last one less...make sense?

Sharp, bold, dubby British hip-hop. I don't listen to much of that camp, nor hip-hop as a whole admittedly, but can say with confidence that Roots Manuva bests all else. "Dub Come Save Me" is my favourite, especially, with "Run Come Save Me", on which it is based, following. Awfully Deep does not yet have an American release but is coming out soon elsewhere on Big Dada.

No(!).

I'm with you on the 'looking forward to it', though.

Clem Snide - End of Love

I don't know when it's out though.