Without rock nyc sneering at one of Time Magazines Top websites of 2012, Pitchfork while posting their upcoming indie releases every season, what would we be? We would be like fiddlers on the roof. TRADITION TRADION… TRADITION—
JANUARY
01-07
Death Cab for Cutie: The Barsuk Years [limited edition deluxe vinyl box set] [Artist in Residence]
Dutch Uncles: Out of Touch in the Wild [Memphis Industries]
Ethernet: Opus 2 [Kranky]
J Dilla: Donuts [7" box set reissue] [Stones Throw]
Pere Ubu: Lady From Shanghai [Fire Records]
01-08
Broadcast: Berberian Sound Studio OST [Warp]
Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson: Stones [Rune Grammofon]
Various Artists: Girls – Volume 1: Music from the HBO Original Series [HBO/Fueled by Ramen]
Wooden Wand: Blood Oaths of the New Blues [Fire]
01-14
Everything Everything: Arc [RCA/Victor]
01-15
A$AP Rocky: Long.Live.A$AP [A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds/RCA]
Bell Gardens: Full Sundown Assembly [Southern Records]
California X: California X [Don Giovanni]
Christopher Owens: Lysandre [Fat Possum/Turnstile]
Free Energy: Lovesign [Free People]
Holopaw: Academy Songs, Volume 1 [Misra]
Pantha du Prince & the Bell Laboratory: Elements of Light [Rough Trade]
Parquet Courts: Light Up Gold [repress] [What's Your Rupture?]
Various Artists: West of Memphis: Voices for Justice OST [Legacy]
Villagers: {Awayland} [Domino]
Yo La Tengo: Fade [Matador]
01-21
Kwes: "Rollerblades" 7" [Warp]
01-22
Arbouretum: Coming Out of the Fog [Thrill Jockey]
Blue Hawaii: Untogether [Arbutus]
Brokeback: Brokeback and the Black Rock [Thrill Jockey]
Ex-Cops: True Hallucinations [Other Music]
FaltyDL: Hardcourage [Ninja Tune/Blueberry]
FIDLAR: FIDLAR [Mom & Pop]
Foxygen: We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic [Jagjaguwar]
Hilly Eye: Reasons to Live [Don Giovanni]
The Joy Formidable: Wolf's Law [Atlantic]
Kate Boy: Northern Lights EP [IAMSOUND]
Mountains: Centralia [Thrill Jockey]
New Order: Lost Sirens [collection] [Rhino/Warner]
Nightlands: Oak Island [Secretly Canadian]
Nosaj Thing: Home [Innovative Leisure]
Ra Ra Riot: Beta Love [Barsuk]
Toro Y Moi: Anything in Return [Carpark]
The Traditional Fools: The Traditional Fools [reissue] [In the Red]
Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin: Reverse Shark Attack [reissue] [In the Red]
Various Artists: Scattered Melodies: Korean Kayagum Sanjo [Sublime Frequencies]
Various Artists: The Crying Princess: 78 RPM Records From Burma [Sublime Frequencies]
Various Artists: Pop Yeh Yeh – Psychedelic Rock From Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970: Vol. 1 [Sublime Frequencies]
Widowspeak: Almanac [Captured Tracks]
Wimps: Repeat [End of Time]
01-28
Boduf Songs: Burnt Up on Re-Entry [Southern]
The History of Apple Pie: Out of View [Marshall Teller]
Mogwai: Les Revenants EP [Rock Action]
01-29
Amor de Dias: The House at Sea [Merge]
Bleeding Rainbow: Yeah Right [Kanine]
Buke and Gase: General Dome [Brassland]
Ducktails: The Flower Lane [Domino]
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours [reissue] [Rhino]
Indians: Somewhere Else [4AD]
Jeffrey Novak: "I Never Knew I Knew So Much" b/w "B-7" [Matador]
Local Natives: Hummingbird [Frenchkiss/Infectious]
Lost Animal: Ex Tropical [Hardly Art]
Motor City Drum Ensemble: Send a Prayer EP [MCDE/Rush Hour]
Pearl Necklace: Soft Opening [Smalltown Supersound]
Radar Bros.: Eight [Merge]
The Ruby Suns: Christopher [Sub Pop]
Sonny Smith: 100 Records Vol. 3 [Polyvinyl]
Spectral Park: Spectral Park [Mexican Summer]
Tegan and Sara: Heartthrob [Warner]
Tomahawk: Oddfellows [Ipecac]
Various Artists: Boss: Original Television Soundtrack [Lakeshore]
FEBRUARY
02-04
Grouper: Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill [reissue] [Kranky]
Grouper: The Man Who Died in His Boat [Kranky]
Rhosyn: Elbow of Capture [Blessing Force]
02-05
Amateur Best: No Thrills [Double Denim]
Cy Dune: Recognize [Family Tree]
Darkstar: News From Nowhere [Warp]
Eels: Wonderful, Glorious [E Works/Vagrant]
Frightened Rabbit: Pedestrian Verse [Atlantic/Canvasback]
Guards: In Guards We Trust [Black Bell]
Haunted Hearts: "Something That Feels Bad is Something That Feels Good" b/w "House of Lords" [Zoo Music]
Jim James: Regions of Light and Sound of God [ATO]
Matt Pond: The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand [BMG]
Night Beds: Country Sleep [Dead Oceans]
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down: We the Common [Ribbon Music]
Unknown Mortal Orchestra: II [Jagjaguwar]
02-11
K-X-P: 2 [Manimal/Melodic]
Various Artists: Who's That Man – A Tribute To Conny Plank [4-disc box set compilation] [Gronland]
02-12
Cappadonna: Eyrth, Wynd & Fyre [RBC]
Darwin Deez: Songs for Imaginary People [Lucky Number]
Foals: Holy Fire [Transgressive]
Jacco Gardner: Cabinet of Curiosities [Trouble in Mind]
The Lewis Connection: The Lewis Connection [reissue] [Numero]
Lisa Germano: no elephants [Badman]
The Little Ones: The Dawn Sang Along [Branches]
Matson: Shadows [Trouble in Mind]
MillionYoung: Variable [Old Flame]
Pissed Jeans: Honeys [Sub Pop]
Veronica Falls: Waiting for Something to Happen [Slumberland/Bella Union]
02-18
Lusine: The Waiting Room [Ghostly International]
Various Artists: Psych for Sore Eyes double 7" [Sonic Cathedral]
02-19
Beach Fossils: Clash the Truth [Captured Tracks]
Dan Friel: Total Folklore [Thrill Jockey]
Eat Skull: III [Woodsist]
Iceage: You’re Nothing [Matador/Escho]
Inc.: No World [4AD]
Jamie Lidell: Jamie Lidell [Warp]
Major Lazer: Free the Universe [Mad Decent/Downtown]
Mark Kozelek: Like Rats [Caldo Verde]
Mark Kozelek: Live at Phoenix Public House Melbourne [Caldo Verde]
Matmos: The Marriage of True Minds [Thrill Jockey]
Maxmillion Dunbar: House of Woo [RVNG]
Mitzi: Truly Alive [Future Classic]
My Gold Mask: Leave Me Midnight [self-released]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away [Bad Seed]
Parenthetial Girls: Privilege (Abridged) [Marriage/Slender Means Society]
Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside: Untamed Beast [Partisan]
STRFKR: Miracle Mile [Polyvinyl]
Superchunk: "I Hate History" b/w "Glue" (SS Decontrol Cover) [Matador]
Various Artists: Son of Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys [two-disc] [Anti-]
02-25
Mogwai: Les Revenants Soundtrack [Rock Action]
02-26
Atoms for Peace: Amok [XL]
Autre Ne Veut: Anxiety [Software]
Braid/Balance and Composure: Split EP [No Sleep]
Doldrums: Lesser Evil [Arbutus/Souterrain Transmissions]
Girls Names: The New Life [Tough Love/Slumberland]
Golden Grrrls: Golden Grrrls [Night School/Slumberland]
Grave Babies: Crusher [Hardly Art]
Johnny Marr: The Messenger [Sire/ADA]
Mister Lies: Mowgli [Lefse]
Mount Moriah: Miracle Temple [Merge]
Sally Shapiro: Somewhere Else [Paper Bag]
Shout Out Louds: Optica [Merge]
MARCH
03-04
Matthew Herbert: Herbert Complete [box set collection] [Accidental]
03-05
Autechre: Exai [Warp]
Cave Singers: Naomi [Jagjaguwar]
Helado Negro: Invisible Life [Asthmatic Kitty]
Ólöf Arnalds: Sudden Elevation [One Little Indian]
Rhye: Woman [Polydor/Loma Vista]
Still Corners: Strange Pleasures [Sub Pop]
Suuns: Images Du Futur [Secretly Canadian]
Young Dreams: Between Places [Modular]
03-12
The Mary Onettes: Hit the Waves [Labrador]
Mice Parade: Candela [Fat Cat]
Various Artists: Sound City – Real to Reel [Roswell]
03-19
Brandt Bauer Frick: Miami [!K7]
Low: The Invisible Way [Sub Pop]
Marnie Stern: The Chronicles of Marnia [Kill Rock Stars]
Purling Hiss: Water on Mars [Drag City]
Team Ghost: Rituals [Wsphere]
William Tyler: Impossible Truth [Merge]
03-26
Alex Calder: Time [Captured Tracks]
Cian Nugent: TBA 7" [Matador]
The Horrors: Higher [2xCD/4xLP/DVD box set] [XL]
Wax Idols: Discipline & Desire [Slumberland]
APRIL
04-09
The Knife: Shaking the Habitual [Mute]
04-23
Junip: Junip [Mute]
Lower Plenty/Dick Diver: TBA split single [Matador]
White Mystery: Telepathic [self-released]
MAY
05-07
Polly Scattergood: Arrows [Mute]
05-14
Sun Kil Moon and the Album Leaf: Perils From the Sea [Caldo Verde]
05-21
Bits of Shit: TBA 7" [Matador]
JUNE
06-11
Royal Headache: TBA 7" [Matador]
Future releases:
AlunaGeorge: TBA [Island]
AraabMuzik: TBA [TBA]
AraabMuzik: TBA [remix album] [Ultra]
Azealia Banks: Broke With Expensive Taste [Polydor/Interscope]
The Breeders: LSXX [deluxe anniversary reissue of Last Splash] [4AD]
Cloud Nothings: TBA [TBA]
Danny Brown: Old [Fool's Gold]
Depeche Mode: TBA [Columbia]
Devendra Banhart: Mala [Nonesuch]
Earl Sweatshirt: Doris [Tan Cressida/Sony]
Frank & Dank: 48 Hours [Yancey/Delicious Vinyl]
How to Destroy Angels: TBA [Columbia]
J Dilla: TBA 10" [Yancey/Delicious Vinyl]
The Julie Ruin: TBA [TBA]
Katy B: TBA [TBA]
M.I.A.: Matangi [Interscope]
My Bloody Valentine: TBA [TBA]
Phoenix: TBA [Glassnote]
Phosphorescent: Muchacho [Dead Oceans]
Portal: Vexovoid [Profound Lore]
Queens of the Stone Age: TBA [Interscope]
Rilo Kiley: TBA archival project [TBA]
Tyler the Creator: Wolf [Odd Future]
Vår: TBA [Sacred Bones]
Vondelpark: Seabed [R&S]
Various Artists: After Dark II [Italians Do It Better]
Various Artists: The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations [Irdial Discs]
Wavves: TBA [Mom + Pop]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: TBA [Interscope]