[The Darkest Canuck]

top ten of 2010 so far (not in any order):

Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Cypress Hill - Rise Up
Postdata - Postdata
Jimi Hendrix - Valleys Of Neptune
Jack Rose - Luck In The Valley
Method Man, Raekwon, & Ghostface - Wu Massacre
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
Cancer Bats - Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones
Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave
Smashing Pumpkins - Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Vol. 1: Songs For A Sailor

[direwolf74]

Anybody heard Sarah Harmer's new single "Captive" yet? It's a great little song, not to mention insanely catchy. It's currently streaming on her website:

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[The Heron Outside]

You can hear the new Hold Steady and Broken Social Scene records in their entirety over at NPR right now.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=126023882

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=125236515

[mikeysaint]

1.) http://www.porcupinetree.com/anesthetize.cfm


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[mojo_mattv]

Anybody heard Sarah Harmer's new single "Captive" yet? It's a great little song, not to mention insanely catchy. It's currently streaming on her website:

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About time. Been a long time since she's done much. Complete turn around from the earthy I'm A Mountain. Does anyone else here any Metric in that?

[direwolf74]

Anybody heard Sarah Harmer's new single "Captive" yet? It's a great little song, not to mention insanely catchy. It's currently streaming on her website:

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About time. Been a long time since she's done much. Complete turn around from the earthy I'm A Mountain. Does anyone else here any Metric in that?

Now that you mention it, there's definitely a little bit of Metric/Emily Haines in there. Good call.

[fingernailsonhull]

Gord Downie - The Grand Bounce

[aaronck]

another U2 already? wow.

I've read that this album will be made up of leftover tracks form the No Line on the Horizon sessions (kinda like Amnesiac by Radiohead). Bono mentioned in an interview last year that they wrote and recorded around 25 songs and that they could've released a double album. But instead they pared it down to 11 for NLOTH. Aside from the atrocious "Get On Your Boots", I really enjoyed their last album and I'm curious to hear what these other songs sound like.

Zooropa was a bunch of leftover tracks from Achtung Baby, wasn't it.

[catechism]

Zooropa was a bunch of leftover tracks from Achtung Baby, wasn't it.

Not really. The two albums are linked in many ways, but that isn't one of them. Zooropa was written while touring Achtung (the Zoo TV tour) and recorded between the 3rd and 4th legs. It was inspired by the tour and Actung itself and is a continuation of sorts, but not leftovers.

[EPenguin10]

Widespread Panic - Dirty Side Down (May 25th, 2010)

[EPenguin10]

You can hear the new Hold Steady and Broken Social Scene records in their entirety over at NPR right now.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=126023882

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=125236515

The New Pornographers - Together:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...f=98679384

[Tthip]

The National - TBD

The New York Times website is streaming this album until Tuesday morning: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://nyti.ms/asXAbF">http://nyti.ms/asXAbF</a><!-- m -->

[EPenguin10]

These are already out but are worthy of a mention:
Freelance Whales - Weathervanes
Indio Saravanja – Songster
The Cowboy Junkies - Renmin Park CD (The Nomad Series, Volume 1)

Four more which I'm looking forward to during the year:
Justin Rutledge - The Early Widows (May 4th, 2010)
Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart (second half of 2010)
J.Tillman – Singing Ax
Ron Sexsmith – tba (second half of 2010)

[HandsInTheRiver41]

The National - TBD

The New York Times website is streaming this album until Tuesday morning: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://nyti.ms/asXAbF">http://nyti.ms/asXAbF</a><!-- m -->

Yup, this could be my favourite album of the year so far!

[EPenguin10]

great news (from Exclaim!):

The latest New Pornographers record, Together, isn't out until Tuesday, but band's de facto front-man Carl Newman is already thinking ahead to its follow-up. But if you’re looking for some reissues of some of his out-of-print earlier work, you might not want to hold your breath.