FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Dec. 17, 2020
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue, though at a slow trickle over the holiday season. Notables this week include Buju Banton, Matt Walker, Iggy and the Stooges, The Wrecks, and Paul McCartney. Canadian artists with new albums include Cancer Bats (pictured), Emma Rush, and Mike Boguski Trio.

By Kerry Doole
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue, though at a slow trickle over the holiday season. Notables this week include Buju Banton, Matt Walker, Iggy and the Stooges, The Wrecks, and Paul McCartney.
Canadian artists with new albums include Cancer Bats, Emma Rush, and Mike Boguski Trio.
December
15: Emma Rush - Wake the Sigh
16: Danny Goo - Feel For You (Atoned Music)
16: Matt Walker - The Infinity Line
16: Cancer Bats -You’ll Never Break Us: Separation Sessions Vol. 1 (Bandcamp)
18: The Star Prairie Project -Surreal
18: Andrew Adkins -The Echoist
18: Iggy and the Stooges -From KO to Chaos 8 Disc Box Set (Skydog)
18: No Year - So Long
18: Beyond the Black - W:O:A Acoustic Clash - The Lockdown Session (Napalm Records)
18: Buju Banton - 'Til Shiloh (UMC)
18: Mike Boguski Trio - Detour CD version
18: The Wrecks - Static (Big Noise)
18: Paul McCartney - McCartney 111 (UMC)
18: Stuck Out - Lie Through Your Teeth
18: Mike Posner - Operation: Wake Up.
18: Graber Gryass - Nectar Drops
18: Maggie Rogers - Notes from the Archive: Recordings 2011 – 2016 (Debay Sounds via Caroline and UMC)
18: Wombbath - Tales Of Madness (Transcending Obscurity Records)
21: Katie Kraw - Confinee 2020
21: Billy Newton-Davis -Have We Met?
25: Joe Bowden - ROOTS - Tales of the Urban Yoda
January
1: The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art (Dine Alone Records)
1: David Lowery - Leaving Key Member Clause
4: Steve Earle & The Dukes – J.T.
8: Magnum - Dance Of The Black Tattoo
8: Passenger - Songs for the Drunk and Broken
8: Modern Hut - Don't Want To Get Adjusted To This World ( Don Giovanni Records)
8: Scott McKay - Stupid Cupid
12: Ayelet Rose Gottlieb - 13 Lunar Meditations: Summoning the Witches (Bandcamp)
13: PETRIC - Flashbacks
15: Royal Wood - Live At Massey Hall
15: Buzzcocks - Singles 77-80 boxset (Domino)
15: The Future Violents - Heaven is A Place, This is A Place EP (UNFD)
15: Edenbridge - The Chronicles Of Eden part 2
15: Accept - Too Mean to Die
15: Dale Crover - Rat-A-Tat-Tat!
15: Beach Bunny - Blame Game
15: You Me at Six - Suckapunch
15: Dragony - Viribus Unitis (Napalm Records)
15: Matthew Sweet - Catspaw (Omnivore Recordings)
15: Sleaford Mods Spare Ribs ( Rough Trade)
15: Mary Timony - Mountains 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition (Matador)
15: KT Tunstall -Drastic Fantastic (Ultimate Edition) (UMC)
15: Kurt Vile - Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (Matador)
15: Dave Restivo - Arancina (Chronograph Records)
15: Why Don’t We - The Good Times and The Bad Ones (Atlantic Records)
15: Steve Strongman - Tired of Talkin’ reissue (Stony Plain Records)
15: John Diva & The Rockets Of Love -American Amadeus
15: Julien Manaud - Adaptation Vol. 2 ( Lisbon Lux Records)
22: Lonely The Brave - The Hope List
22: Phantom Elite - Titanium
22: Japan - Quiet Life- 3CD/1LP Boxed set
22: The Dead Daisies - Holy Ground
22: Wig Wam - Never Say Die
22: Palberta - Palberta5000 (Wharf Cat Records)
22: Moon Taxi - Silver Dream
22: Estère - Archetypes (Blue Riot Records)
22: Azmari -Samā'ī’ ( Sdban UItra)
22: Adam Klein - Little Tiger
22: Juana Everett - Move On
22: Ektomorf - Reborn (Napalm Records)
22: Speed Stick - Volume One (Don Giovanni Records)
22: Nervosa- Perpetual Chaos (Napalm Records)
22: Bicep - Isles ( Ninja Tune)
22: Jason Bieler and The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra - Songs For The Apocalypse (Frontiers Srl)
22: Kiwi Jr. - Cooler Returns (Kiwi Club/Sub Pop)
22: Real Numbers - Brighter Then (Slumberland)
22: James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra- The Wide, Wide River
22: Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Destiny Street Complete- expanded (Omnivore)
22: Rhye - Home (Last Gang Records)
27: Julie Neff - Over It (Independent)
29: Puma Blue - In Praise of Shadows (Blue Flowers)
29: Ani DiFranco - Revolutionary Love
29: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - New Fragility
29: Balthazar - Sand (Play It Again Sam)
29: The Wardens Sold Out At The Ironwood
29: Steven Wilson - The Future BitesT (Arts & Crafts)
29: St. Germain - Tourist - 20th Anniversary edition
29: Goat Girl - On All Fours (Rough Trade)
29: Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams (Transgressive Records)
29: Divide and Dissolve - Gas Lit (Invada Records)
29: Lucero - When You Found Me (Liberty and Lament/Thirty Tigers)
29: The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Flemish Eye)
February
2: Bet Smith - Downer (Pine Lake Records)
5: Nobody's Girl - S/T ( Lucky Hound Music)
5: Nancy Sinatra: Start Walkin’ 1965-1976. (Light In The Attic)
5: A.J. Croce - By Request (Compass Records)
5: CYRRCA - S/T
5: Frontside -Closer to Closure (Revival Recordings)
5: John Williams - John Williams In Vienna- fan edition (UMC)
5: Foo Fighters - Medicine at Midnight
5: Uncle Walt's Band- Recorded Live at Waterloo Ice House (Omnivore Recordings)
5: Rod Abernethy - Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore
5: Nick Schofield - Glass Gallery
5: Charles Ellsworth - Honeysuckle Summer
5: The Weather Station - Ignorance (Next Door Records)
5: Demon Hunter - Songs of Death and Resurrection
5: Black Country, New Road - For the first time (Ninja Tune)
5: Sarah Mary Chadwick -Me And Ennui Are Friends Baby ( Ba Da Bing)
12: The Deathray Davies - Time Well Wasted (We Know Better Records)
12: Django Django- Glowing in the Dark
12: The Pretty Reckless - Death by Rock and Roll
12: Drones - Our Hell Is Right Here (Thousand Islands Records)
12: Early Times and the High Rollers - The Corner (VizzTone)
12: God Is An Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10 (Napalm Records)
12: Dead Poet Society - The Exclamation Album
12: Arc of Life - S/T (Frontiers Music Srl)
12: Bailter Space -Wammo (Remastered) (Matador)
12: Bodies of Water - Is This What It's Like (Thousand Tongues)
12: Robert Berry and 3.2 -Third Impression (Frontiers Music srl)
12: Florida Georgia Line - Life Rolls On (BMLG Records)
12: The Band - Stage Fright - 50th anniversary edition - Capitol/UMe
12: Durbin - The Beast Awakens (Frontiers Music Srl)
12: Sirenia - Riddles, Ruins & Revelations (Napalm Records)
14: Little Hurt -Better Drugs
14: Boniface - S/T (Transgressive)
19: Wild Pink - A Billion Little Lights (Royal Mountain Records)
19: Austin Meade - Black Sheep (Snakefarm Records )
19: Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians - Hunter and Dog Star
19: The Hold Steady - Open Door Policy
19: Valley Maker - When The Day Leaves (Frenchkiss Records)
19: Tash Sultana- Terra Firma
19: Cloud Nothings- The Shadow I Remember
19: SG Lewis - times (Republic Records)
19: Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs - Real One Out (Dine Alone)
19: Cameron Graves- Seven (Artistry Music)
19: Blessed - iii. (Flemish Eye)
26: Roosevelt - Polydans (City Slang / Greco-Roman)
26: Leahy - Good Water
26: Altin Gün - Yol (ATO Records)
26: Gerd Janson - Polydans (City Slang)
26: Bob Dylan - 1970 (50th Anniversary Collection) (Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings)
26: Rick Holmstrom - See That Light
26: TiKA - Anywhere But Here (Next Door Records)
26: Pinegrove - Amperland NY (2LP) (Rough Trade)
26: Maxïmo Park - Nature Always Wins (Prolifica Inc)
26: Edwin Raphael- Staring At Ceilings (Bandcamp)
26: Julien Baker - Little Oblivions (Matador)
26: The National -Cherry Tree EP (Remastered) (4AD)
26: The National - The National (Remastered) (4AD)
26: The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (Remastered) (4AD)
26: Moonspell - Hermitage ( Napalm Records)
26: EINHERJER - North Star
26: A Winged Victory for the Sulle- Invisible Cities (Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing)
26: Nirvana - Songlife 1967-72- 6 LP vinyl Deluxe Box (Madfish Music)
March
5: Rutger Hoedemaekers - The Age Of Oddities (130701)
5: Bernice Eau de Bonjourno (Telephone Explosion)
5: A Day to Remember - You’re Welcome
5: Tokyo Police Club- Champ - 10th anniversary edition (Mom + Pop/ Dine Alone)
5: POSTDATA - Twin Flames
12: Doohickey Cubicle - Don't Fix Anything
12: Saga -Symmetry (earMUSIC.)
12: Gizmachi -Omega Kaleid (CEN/The Orchard)
12: HAERTS - Dream Nation
19: Papa Roach - Greatest Hits Volume 2 – The Better Noise Years
26: As Everything Unfolds - Within Each Lies The Other (Long Branch Records)
26: Space Cadet - Lion on A Leash (Wiretap Records)
26: Architects - For Those Who Wish to Exist
April
2: Glasvegas- Godspeed
9: The Fratellis - Half Drunk Under a Full Moon
16: Sleeps Society - S/T (Spinefarm Records)
16: Holding Absence - The Greatest Mistake Of My Life ( Sharptone Records)
16: Greta Van Fleet - The Battle At Garden's Gate
30: Amy Shark - Cry Forever
Canadian artists marked in red