A Calendar Of 2018 Album Releases...So Far

By Kerry Doole

21: Kensington Hillbillys - Belly Of The Beast (Indie)

22: Eagle Johnson & Clean Machine - Tennessee Beach (Indie)

29: Juicy J- Rubba Band Business

31: Lunar Lemur - How Do You Know...? (Trinket Trance)

January

5: Sykamore - Self + Medicine ( Road Angel Entertainment/WMC)

5: Rob Tardik - Synergy (Guitardik/Naxos)

12: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Wrong Creatures (Vagrant)

12: Leah Calvert - Satellite ( Vera Hellcat)

12: Meghan Patrick - Country Music Made Me Do It (Warner Music Canada)

12: Tinsley Ellis - Winning Hand (Alligator)

12: Joe Satriani - What Happens Next (Sony/Legacy Recordings)

12: Curtis Salgado and Alan Hager -  Rough Cut (Alligator)      

12: Dirty Sidewalks - Bring Down The House Lights  (Indie)

12: Panda Bear -A Day With The Homies (Domino)

12: Denny Doherty - Watcha Gonna Do - reissue (Real Gone Music)

12: Luke Sital-Singh -S/T (Dine Alone)

12: Anderson East - Encore (Warner)

12: Asking Alexandria - We Carry Us (Indie)

12: Heavy Bell - By Grand Central Station (Indie)

12: Avatar- Avatar Country  (Entertainment One )

 12: Ryan Tennis -  Two Days on the Fence (Indie)

12: Camila Cabello - Camila (SYCO/Epic Records)

12: Typhoon - Offerings ( Roll Call Records)

16: Terry Gomes - The Tropical Dream (Indie)

19: Glen Hansard - Between Two Shores  (Anti-)

19: Porches -The House (Domino)

19: Gord Bamford - Neon Smoke (Sony)

19: Black Label Society - Grimmest Hits  (eOne Music)

19: First Aid Kit - Ruins

19: Nir Blu - Monsters (Indie)

19: The Shins - The Worm's Heart

19: Johnny Dango - Dear Everybody, I Love You  (Indie)

19: Cadence Weapon- S/T (eOne Music)

19: Tommy Emmanuel - Accomplice One (Mascot Label Group)

19: Bahamas - Earthtones  (Brushfire/Republic/UMC)

19: ShitKid - Is It (PNKSLM Recordings)

19: Margaret Chavez - A Loupe  (Goliad Media Group)

19: Great Lake Swimmers -S/T (Paper Bag) reissue

19: Sterling Ball, John Ferraro & Jim Cox - The Mutual Admiration Society (Mascot Label Group)

19: Various Artists - Stax Singles Vol. 4 (UMC)

19: TuneYards - I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life (4AD)

19: Starcrawler - S/T(Rough Trade)

19: Gary Numan - Dance Deluxe 2 LP reissue (Beggars Arkive)

19: Belle & Sebastian - How To Solve Our Human Problems Part 2 (Matador)

19: The Go! Team - SemiCircle (Memphis Industries)

19: Van William- Countries (Fantasy Records)

19: Mudhoney - LiE (“Live in Europe”) (Sub Pop)

19: Lanco - Hallelujah Nights (Arista NV)

19: The Bird and The Bee-  Dearest Everybody (Indie)

19:  Shudder to Think - Ten Spot (Dischord) - vinyl

19: Grace Basement - Mississippi Nights (Indie)

26: Leaving Thomas- S/T  (MDM Recordings Inc./Universal Music Canada)

26: The Fugitives - The Promise of Strangers ( Borealis Records)

26: Calexico - The Thread That Keeps Us (Anti-)

26: Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Black Coffee (J&R Adventures)

26: Mary Gauthier -Rifles and Rosary Beads (In The Black/Thirty Tigers)

26: Ben Miller Band - Choke Cherry Tree (New West) 

26: Ampline - S/T (Sofaburn Records)

26: Collette Savard  - Collette Savard and the Savants  (Indie)

26: Holy -All These Worlds Are Yours (PNK SLM) 

26: Muazana- Epilogue (Zana Records / Orange Media)

26 Andy Cooper -The Layered Effect  (Rocafort Records) 

26: Easy - A Heartbeat From Eternity (A Turntable Friend Records)

26: Idan Raichel- Idan Raichel - Piano - Songs (Cumbancha)

26: Jesse Marchant - Illusion Of Love  (No Other) 

26:The Jim Cuddy Band - Constellation (Warner)

26: An Early Bird -  Warning Signs (Indie)

26: Jeffrey Gaines - Alright'(Omnivore)

26: Ben Miller Band- Choke Cherry Tree (Indie)

26: Humans -The Feels (Indie)

26: Blushing - Weak ( Austin Town Hall Records)

26: Nils Frahm - All Melody (Erased Tapes)

26: Jonathan Kawcuhuk - North (Paper Bag)

26: The Prefab Messiahs - Psychsploitation Today (Lolipop/Burger Records)

26:  Backtrack Blues Band - Make My Home in Florida (Harpo Records)

26: Corey Gulkin -  All The Things I’ll Forget (Indie)

26: Danielle Duval - Lose It (Indie)

26: Grand Analog -Survival (Indie)

27: Hegarty -  Selling Your Soul To Sanity (Indie)

February

2: Hillsburn - The Wilder Beyond (Indie)

2: Acadia - All Heart ( Innerstrength Records)

2: Raven and Red - We Rise Up (Line Crossing Records)

2: Hookworms- Microshift (Domino)

2: Emma Cook -Living Proof (Indie)

2: Caracol - A Paraitre (Indica)

2: Field Music  -Open Here (Memphis Industries)

2: DZ Deathrays- Bloody Lovely Out (Dine Alone)

2: The James Hunter Six - Whatever It Takes (Daptone)

2: John Oates - Arkansas (Thirty Tigers) 

2: Jesse Roper -Access To Infinity (Blue Heron Music)

2: Jann Arden - These Are The Days (Indie)

2: Bat Fangs - S/T (Don Giovanni)

2: Milk & Bone - Deception Bay (Bonsound)

2:  Ellen Doty  - Come Fall ( Alma/UMC)

2- Moaning S/T (Sub Pop)

9: Joan as Police Woman - Damned Devotion (Play It Again Sam)

9: Ezra Furman-  Transangelic Exodus (Bella Union)

9: Jimi Hendrix - Both Sides of the Sky (Legacy)

9: Beth Nielsen Chapman - Hearts Of Glass (Proper)

9: Toto - 40 Trips Around The Sun      

9: Ruby Boots - Don’t Talk About It (Bloodshot)

9: Shoshana Bean - Spectrum (Indie)

9: The Olympic Symphonium - Beauty In The Tension (Forward Music)

9: Niklas Paschburg - Oceanic (Indie)

9: Dashboard Confessional - Crooked Shadows (Dine Alone Records)

9: Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending  (Domino) 

9: Good Lovelies - Shapeshifters (Independent)

16: Michael W. Smith  - A Million Lights

16: The Choir - Artifact: The Unreleased Album (Omnivore Recordings)

16: Born Ruffians -Uncle, Duke & The Chief (Paper Bag)

16: Wild Beasts - Last Night All My Dreams Came True (Domino Documents)

16:  Sameer Gupta  - A Circle Has No Beginning (Indie)

16: Belle & Sebastian - How To Solve Our Human Problems Part 3 (Matador)

16: Belle & Sebastian - How To Solve Our Human Problems Compilation (Matador)

16: I'm With Her - See You Around (Indie)

16: Misty Boyce - Get Lost (Indie)

16: US Girls - In a Poem Unlimited (Royal Mountain / 4AD)

16: Ought - Room Inside The World (Royal Mountain)

16: Pop Evil - S/T ( Entertainment One)

23: Caleb Caudle -  Crushed Coins (Indie)

23: Jamie McLean Band-  One and Only (Indie)

23: Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (Columbia/Legacy Recordings)

23: The Koch Marshall Trio - Toby Arrives (The Players Club)

23: The Doors - Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 (Eagle Rock)

23:  Danielle Nicole - Cry No More (Concord)

23: Renata Zeiguer - Old Ghost (Indie)

23: Flying Horseman -Rooms / Ruins (Unday Records)

March

2: Sue Foley - The Ice Queen (Stony Plain)

2: Kae Sun - Whoever Comes Knocking  (Moonshine)

2: Jonathan Wilson - Rare Birds (Bella Luna)

2: Joan Baez - Whistle Down The Wind (Proper Records) 

2: Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt ( Arts & Crafts)

2: Pedigo's Magic Pilsner - S/T (Indie)

9: Liza Anne - Fine But Dying (Arts & Crafts)

9: Ensign Broderick - Feast Of Panthers (Six Shooter)

9: 6 String Drag - S/T (Indie)

16: Scotty McCreery - Seasons Change(Triple Tigers Records)

23: Foreign Films -The Record Collector (Indie)

23: Guided by Voices - Space Gun

30: Broken Records -What We Might Know (Indie)

Canadian releases are in red