After a bitter winter, Spring has come – and here’s what to listen to as the mercury rises:
April
1st
The Bamboos
Fever In the Road
Band of Skulls
Himalayan
Bul Bul
Hirn Fein Hacken
Cex
Shamaneater
Chiodos
Devil
Cloud Nothings
Here and Nowhere Else
Dan Croll
Sweet Disarray
Mac DeMarco
Salad Days
Toby Goodshank
Piper Laurie
Hurray For the Riff Raff
Small Town Heroes
Jamaica
Ventura
Kaiser Chiefs
Education, Education & War
Mica Levi
Under the Skin (soundtrack)
Manchester Orchestra
Cope
Nickel Creek
A Dotted Line
ONE
Worlds Collide
Pattern Is Movement
Pattern Is Movement
Rafter
It’s Reggae
Gil Scott-Heron
Nothing New
Social 66
Social 66
Solwave
The End of the Beginning
Split Single
Fragmented World
Thievery Corporation
Saudade
Timber Timbre
Hot Dreams
The Used
Imaginary Enemy
Vondel Park
Seabed Remixed
8th
Christopher Bissonnette
Essays In Idleness
Black Label Society
Catacombs of the Black Vatican
Boozoo Bajou
4
EMA
The Future’s Void
The Faint
Doom Abuse
Liam Finn
The Nihilist
Josephine Foster
I’m a Dreamer
John Frusciante
Enclosure
Full Ugly
Spent the Afternoon
Doug Gillard
Parade On
Gotthard
Bang
Incan Abraham
Tolerance
Mean Creek
Local Losers
Nømads
Free My Animal
OFF!
Wasted Years
Patton Oswalt
Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time
Ratking
So It Goes
School of Language
Old Fears
Shy Hunters
O, That I Had Wings
SoftSpot
MASS
SOHN
Tremors
SZA
Z
Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks
Enter the Slasher House
Tweens
Tweens
15th
Afghan Whigs
Do the Beast
Amps For Christ
Canyon Cars and Crows
Banner Pilot
Souvenir
Bobby Bare, Jr.
Undefeated
The Both
The Both
Billy Bragg
Live at the Union Chapel (CD/DVD)
Chet Faker
Built On Glass
Nels Cline
Macroscope
The Crookes
Soapbox
Feel Never Real
Rock Rebel Gold
Horse Thief
Fear In Bliss
Japanther
Instant Money Magic
Kyng
Burn the Serum
Megafauna
Maximalist
Ingrid Michaelson
Lights Out
NEEDTOBREATHE
Rivers In the Wasteland
Odonis Odonis
Hard Boiled Soft Boiled
Omni Palone
Omni Palone
Sevendust
Time Travelers & Bonfires
Shonen Knife
Overdrive
Stoneburner
Life Drawing
Swedish House Mafia
Leave the World Behind (live)
Woods
With Light and With Love
Wyrd Visions
Half-Eaten Guitar
22nd
Augustana
Life Imitating Life
Iggy Azalea
The New Classic
Sebastian Bach
Give Em’ Hell
Sharon Corr
The Same Sun
Death
Death III
Eels
The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
Fear of Men
Loom
Kelis
Food
Margot & The Nuclear So-and-So’s
Sling Shot To Heaven
Medeski Martin & Wood + Nels Cline
The Woodstock Sessions
The Menzingers
Rented World
Modern Rivals
Cemetery Dares
Neon Trees
Pop Psychology
Asher Roth
RetroHash
Paradise
Soldiers of the Modern Age
Ed Schraeder’s Music Beat
Party Jail
The Shackeltons
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TEEN
The Way and The Color
Thee Oh Sees
Drop
The Whigs
Modern Creations
29th
Damon Albarn
Everyday Robots
Elephant
Sky Swimming
Ex-Cult
Midnight Passenger
Ghost of the Sabertooth Tiger
Midnight Sun
Howlin Rain
Live Rain
Ray LaMontagne
Supernova
Miss May I
Rise of the Lion
Old 97s
Most Messed Up
Pigeon John
Encino Man
Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed
Nights Like This
Pixies
Indie Cindy
Chris Robinson
Phosphorescent Harvest
Rodrigo y Gabriela
9 Dead Alive
Romantic Rebel
Romantic Rebel
Saxon
St. George’s Day: Live in Manchester
Secret Colours
Positive Distractions (Parts I & II)
Strange Talk
Cast Away
William Tyler
Lost Colony
Chad VanGaalen
Shrink Dust
Wye Oak
Shriek
May
6th
Lily Allen
Sheezus
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Christmas Island
Atmosphere
Southersiders
Barrows
Red Giant
Black Stone Cherry
Magic Mountain
Chris Brown
X
Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté
Toumani & Sidiki
DZ Deathrays
Black Rat
Eno • Hyde
Someday World
Equals
Tracts
Fujiya & Miyagi
Artificial Sweeteners
Ben Harper
Childhood Home
The Horrors
Luminous
Hamilton Leithauser
Black Hours
Lil Wayne
Tha Carter V
Lykke Li
I Never Learn
Sarah McLachlan
Shine One
Natalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant
Morning Parade
Pure Adulterated Joy
Nikki Lane
All or Nothin’
Papercuts
Life Among the Savages
PAWS
Youth Culture Forever
Gruff Rhys
American Interior
The Rich Hands
Out of My Head
Seahawks
Paradise Freaks
A Tribe Called Red
Nation II Nation
tUnE-yArDs
Nikki Nack
Wooden Wand
Famer’s Corner
13th
Tori Amos
Unrepentant Geraldines
The Black Keys
Turn Blue
The Clientele
Suburban Light (reissue)
Jesse Denaro
Dear, Love
Vince Guaraldi
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (enhanced reissue)
Guided by Voices
Cool Planet
Hunterchild
Hunterchild
Ice Cub
Everything’s Corrupt
Michael Jackson
Xscape
Kishi Bashi
Lighght
La Sera
Hour of the Dawn
Little Dragon
Nabuma Rubberband
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes
Are We Not Me We Are Diva
Mimicking Birds
EONS
Mirah
Changing Light
Mushroomhead
The Righteous & The Butterfly
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Days of Abandon
Owen Pallett
In Conflict
Dolly Parton
Blue Smoke
Sean Nicholas Savage
Bermuda Waterfall
Swans
To Be Kind
Tobacco
Ultima II Massage
The Trouble With Templeton
Rookie
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
Uzu
20th
Haley Bonar
Last War
Coldplay
Ghost Stories
The Everymen
Givin’ Up On Free Jazz
LCD Soundsystem
The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden (CD/DVD)
Bo Ningen
III
Conor Oberst
Upside Down Mountain
Yann Tiersen
Infinity
Bryan Webb
Free Will
27th
Craig Wedren, Jefferson Friedman & ACME
On In Love
Challenger
Back To Bellevue
Hammel On Trial
Happiest Man In the World
Hercules and Love Affair
The Feast of the Broken Heart
Honeyblood
Honeyblood
Seun Kuti
A Long Way To the Beginning
Little Barrie
Shadow
Miniature Tigers
Cruel Runnings
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No Guts, No Glory
1,2,3
Big Weather
Roll the Tanks
Broke Til Midnight
Rush Midnight
Rush Midnight
Sam Smith
In the Lonely Hour
Sharon Van Etten
Are We There
(updated as more release dates are made known)