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June
- Jay-Z will release a new album next month
- Jackson and His Computer Band returns after a very long absence
- Adult Swim outline their 2013 Summer Singles program
- Omar Souleyman's debut album is on the way, and produced by Four Tet
May
- Stream The-Dream's new album now
- @kanyewest: June Eighteen
April
- Flying Lotus is making a jazz album
- XL have confirmed that the Jai Paul album is not the actual Jai Paul album
- Christopher Owens shares acoustic version of 'Lysandre' album
- Laurel Halo will release an EP on Hyperdub next month!
- "Jai Paul" just "uploaded" an "album" to Bandcamp
- You can now stream The Knife's 'Shaking The Habitual' in full!
March
- Download a new-old track from Hudson Mohawke
- Mount Kimbie's new album will arrive in May
- A new Daft Punk album 100% exists
February
- Kode9 announces his first release in two years
- You can stream Fiction's debut LP in full now
- Brian Eno, RZA and a deer feature on the new James Blake album
- You can stream Autre Ne Veut's new album now
- Frank Ocean nearly has a full album's worth of new material
- Paris Angels will release a compilation album in memory of Si Worrall
- Balam Acab shares free new five-track EP
- Posthumous J Dilla vocal album announced
- James Blake has made a new song, and will release an album full of them
- Autechre have released 'Exai' a month early
- Majical Cloudz signs to Matador Records
- Stream the first My Bloody Valentine album since 1991
January
- Listen to Amateur Best's debut album in full now
- Hear Oneohtrix Point Never's 'The Fall Into Time' in full
- D'Angelo's Album is very nearly done, seriously
- Actress' Werkdiscs label announces Moiré's debut EP
- Kindness, Joakim and Jam City are releasing a single together
- Justin Timberlake is recording new material
- David Bowie celebrates his 66th birthday with new music
December
- Dean Blunt reveals details of new album 'The Redeemer'
- Katy B just dropped a free 4-track EP
November
- Mogwai are set to release their long-awaited remix album Mogwai [Sub Pop]
- Julia Holter signs to Domino, announces Ekstasis re-issue
October
- Listen to an ominous taster of The Haxan Cloak's upcoming LP The Haxan Cloak [Tri Angle]
- Death Grips have released a new album for free online
September
- British Murder Boys unveil full details of new single
- Solange Knowles and Blood Orange have been making music together
- Ital is releasing another album!
August
- Sound art fans rejoice! Oneohtrix Point Never announce s split LP with Rene Hell
- Amazing label maps America's eccentric/forgotten local soul explosion
July
- No Age soundtrack short film
June
- How To Dress Well announces details of his second album
- Frank Ocean and Nas have both released new album details
- Darkstar have finished their new album Darkstar [Hyperdub]
- Oh God, Jessie Ware has announced details of her album!
- Ikonika announces new EP on Hum + Buzz
- Domino launch subscription service
- Clams Casino releases second volume of Instrumentals
- The xx announce new album, 'Coexist'
May
- Carl Craig has a new project!
- New albums from Antony & The Johnsons, The-Dream and Cooly G announced
- German techno label plans exquisitely packaged, very expensive compilation
- J Dilla's mother starts record label for her son's unreleased music
- Azealia Banks announces EP, video and song
- DJ Rashad announces new album
- Suzanne Ciani's first album reissued
April
- Joy O's 2011 YouTube hit Ellipsis due for release, finally
- DJ Shadow reveals 'Hidden Transmissions' release
- Miles Whittaker of Demdike Stare prepares second album 'Ascetic Ideals' under Suum Cuique alias
- Joel Ford of Ford & Lopatin unveils new Airbird EP
- Can release 3CD set of unreleased material
- The Very Best return with second album 'MTMTMK'
- Evian Christ releases limited edition 4-track 12'' vinyl
- Cat Power announces release of new album
- CFCF’s ‘Exercises’ EP will be the next Dummy release
- AlunaGeorge announce Tri Angle EP
- Nick Höppner mixes 'Panorama Bar 04'
- Andy Stott, JD Twitch and patten remix The Hundred In The Hands
- Kindness has a new single which is called 'House'
- Night Slugs stands tall with news of Jam City album and Girl Unit EP
- Disclosure announce new EP on Greco-Roman
- Kuedo announces new Planet Mu single
- Theo Parrish releases second volume of Sound Signature Sounds
- Lunice to release new EP, play a special London gig
- Talk Talk's 'Spirit of Eden' reissued
- Moodymann releases new EP for car brand, listen inside
- Juke star DJ Rashad starts new label Lit City
- Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland give away 33-track album
- Gatekeeper announce debut album 'Exo'
- Drexciya's second compilation on Clone Records
- Micachu announces second album and Kwes collaboration
- Lana Del Rey and A$AP Rocky collaborate
- Dirty Projectors have announced details of new album 'Swing Lo Magellan'
- Patti Smith is back with new album 'Banga'
March
- Nicolas Jaar has two albums on the way, a high opinion of his music
- Bullion is releasing a new 6-track EP
- Untold is back with Change In A Dynamic Environment EP
- Night Slugs launch new "strictly dancefloor" series
- Peaking Lights Announce New Album
- More releases announced for Record Store Day
- A$AP Rocky's LiveLove chopped and screwed
- Pantha Du Prince to release Krautrock-inspired new album
- Laurel Halo album – full details
- Nicolas Jaar designs new digital player / musical paperweight for his label
- Nicki Minaj releases details of the next album plus UK tour dates
- Odd Future's 'OF Tape Vol. 2' has leaked online
- Boards of Canada promise us a new album
- HEALTH soundtrack computer game
- Bob Dylan is working on a new album
- Lemonade are releasing a second album, finally
- Berghain launches new label blessed by Villalobos and Efdemin
February
- Azealia Banks' debut album is due in September
- New Squarepusher album coming soon
- Full details of Actress's 'R.I.P.'
- New album from Simian Mobile Disco
- Jacques Greene announces new signing Arclight to Vase
- Night Angles sign to Tender Age
- Main Attrakionz will feature on Jam City's next release
- Mount Kimbie's 'Crooks & Lovers' reissued on vinyl
- Missy Elliot and Timbaland albums due in June, Timbaland promises
- Lorca is going to release a 12" on Dummy
- Maya Jane Coles will mix the next DJ Kicks
- Moodymann hints that he'll be releasing new material soon
- Evian Christ exists, signs to Tri Angle, releases free mixtape
- British reggae label Fashion Records to relaunch
- Folk hero Alan Lomax's archive digitised
January
- Honest Jon's announce Shangaan Shake compilation
- New venture from Altered Zones folks seeks cash
- Brainmaths Vol 1 featuring James Blake, Zomby and more
- Levon Vincent helms next Fabric mix CD
- Kompakt stars Wolfgang Voigt and Jörg Burger release ambient debut as MOHN
- Jack White announces solo album, streams first single
- Ed Sheeran has the lowest-selling number 1 album for 17 years
- Garbage announce return
- Carlos Giffoni is releasing a 12" featuring Laurel Halo
- Open call for next run of 33 1/3 books
- Grouper & Tiny Vipers – Demona
- MIA to Release New Single
- Shem McCauley dies in Bangkok
- Cocteau Twins best-of released on vinyl
- Teeth and Desto launch new label Signal Life, release first single
- Jamie xx's Radiohead remix to get white label release
- Actress reveals details of new album 'R.I.P'
- Best Music Writing on KickStarter
- Shadowy London cartel LHF are behind the first totally incredible EP of 2012
- Addison Groove debut album announced
- Orbital work with Zola Jesus on new album
- Death Grips, Grouper, Flowdan and Gonjasufi – full guestlist of the next Bug album revealed
- AraabMUZIK to release a new mixtape
- Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras meet The Congos for FRKWYS Vol. 9
- Lil Wayne is writing a book about his time doing time
- Ariel Pink in "still batty" shock, as he makes a werewolf movie and two albums, one with a fairly offensive name with R Stevie Moore
- The Bug and Grouper collaborate on follow-up to London Zoo
- Diplo has written a coffee table book
- Bon Iver launches record label
- Stones Throw release even more minimal wave into the ether
- Beyonce has a baby girl
- 90s industrial band Black Rain's (incredible) soundtrack work compiled by Blackest Ever Black
- Chris and Cosey record album with Nik Void of Factory Floor
- Jacques Greene has his own record label
- Type to re-release long-lost dub techno classic 'Biokinetics'
- Grimes signs to 4AD
December
- Diplo to release new EP
- Hype Williams, Burial and DVA: Hyperdub outlines first quarter plans
- DJ Earl to release debut album in February 2012
- The Weeknd releases third free mixtape, 'Echoes Of Silence'
- Joy Orbison launches record label
- Tri Angle's Robin Carolan to release debut EP
- Jhene Aiko is going to be huge
- White Car announce debut album
- Gil Scott-Heron memoir due in January
- Florence and The Machine 'No Light, No Light' [Deluxe Edition]
- Earth announce new album
- Bobby Womack collaborates with Damon Albarn and Richard Russell
- Radiohead to release new single
- Pulp's first three albums re-released
- John Talabot announces debut album
- New Burial EP announced
- Illuminated manuscripts fan and superlative musician-composer Julia Holter announces second album
- Spiritualized return with seventh album
- Soul Jazz Strike a Pose
- Scion releases free Skream and Benga EP
- New Nite Jewel, Gang Clours and Charlotte Gainsbourg albums on the way
- Jonny Greenwood to score 'There Will Be Blood' follow-up which definitely is not about Scientology
- Animal Collective spill beans on new album
- Perfume Genius announces second album
- Trent Reznor reveals full details of brutal Girl With Dragon Tattoo soundtrack
November
- Autechre's ultra-rare debut EP finally rereleased
- Pinch mixes Fabriclive 61
- Synth pioneer Daphne Oram releases due out in 2012
- Air announce new album 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune'
- Nicki Minaj announces second album on Twitter
- Expensive Looks announces debut album, gives away track
- Bon Iver makes 10 films
- Full details of the Big Pink's new album, 'Future This'
- Main Attrakionz release physical of '808s And Dark Grapes' and remix Peaking Lights
- Grouper releases collaborative EP
- Rihanna samples The xx on new song
- Kwes signed to Warp, releases a new MP3
- Mark Fell preps album with silly title
- The Maccabees set to release third LP next year
- Lindstrom announces new album
- Blondes set to release Wine/Water 12"
- Honest Jon's to release collaboration album by Pinch and Shackleton
- Hear Drake's album title track, featuring Gil-Scott Heron, Jamie xx and Rihanna, and a new song with Rick Ross
- Juan Aktins's dusts off Metroplex, releases single, hints at Model 500 album
- Oh, wow! The xx are working on their next album
- Berlusconi delays album release
- Addison Groove preps new album, forthcoming on Modeselektor's 50 Weapons label
- Nicolas Jaar announces tour details and gives away free EP
October
- Bjork, DJ Spooky, Anti-Pop Consortium and Sonic Youth to remix Meredith Monk
- Actress readies new single on Honest Jon's
- Final Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid live collaboration released
- Thank God, Chromatics are back with new album and single
- Zomby preps new album 'Nothing'
- Regis preps vicious rhythmic electronics compilation called 'Vicious Rhythmic Electronics'
- Dinosaur L's '24→24 Music' LP will be reissued this month
- Tom Vek, Best Coast and Au Revoir Simone collaborate with Johnny Marr
- Grimes announces new record on Arbutus
- French electro compilation roundup: Kitsuné ready 12th installment & Brodinski to mix Fabriclive.60
- Everyone who is anyone loves the Manic Street Preachers
- Burial and Massive Attack make a gold 12"
- XL to release Portishead's 'Chase The Tear' on vinyl
- Rihanna announces new album details
September
- Hype Williams' Dean Blunt releases solo tape
- Extraordinary songwriter Zoo Kid comes back as King Krule
- Tim Hecker is releasing a spin-off album to 'Ravedeath, 1972'
- Space Dimension Controller is releasing a (wonderfully dorky) "prequel" record
- Drake shows off the saddest artwork of year
- R Kelly has a new album on its way, due out soon (it's literally called 'Black Panties')
- Rush Hour present 'Amsterdam All Stars', due out in November
- Odd Future's Domo Genesis releases free mixtape
- R&S announce details for their latest compilation
- Famous singer Rihanna is releasing another album this autumn
- The Golden Filter are releasing a short film
- Arthur Russell's 'Let's Go Swimming' is finally getting a proper release, and Walter Gibbons-directed video
- Britney Spears announces second remix album
- Bonnie Prince Billy has a new album out next month
- Can's ground-breaking album 'Tago Mago' is getting a re-release
- Björk and Dirty Projectors 'Mount Wittenberg Orca' to get physical release
- James Blake announces 'Enough Thunder' EP
- Korallreven to release debut album in November
August
- DRC Music to drop a charity album this October
- Legowelt gives away new album as a free download
- Wolfgang Voigt's Kafkatrax EPs, based on chopped recordings of Kafka, compiled
- Florence returns
- Tom Waits has an album coming out, hear a track now!
- Lil Wayne breaks face on skateboard, announces new album
- Biophilia gets tracklisting and album cover
- New Dummy Records release – Cadenza's The Darkest Hype
- Sigur Rós are releasing a live film and double live album called 'Inni'
- Oneohtrix Point Never announces new album
- David Lynch is going to release an inevitably weird debut album
- Warpaint on their "minimal" new album
- Daniel Blumberg from Yuck has a record label called Boiled Egg
- Justice announce new album for October
- Details of Radiohead's upcoming remix album leaked
- Plaid are releasing a new album called 'Scintilli'
- Spectrals announces debut album
- Deftones doing witch house
- Hear Thom Yorke's collaborations with Modeselektor
- Soma Records have uncovered a tape of an unreleased Daft Punk song
- The-Dream to release free album under own name at the end of this month
- Ben UFO is set to take on the next Rinse mix
- Joker announces debut album details
- Sleep ∞ Over has a new album coming out
July
- Perfect punk band Zounds and 60s Italian electronica reissued
- Active Child to finally release debut album in October
- Elite Gymnastics, a great band, signed to Acephale Records, a great label
- The 'Nevermind' reissues actually look really good
- Rustie to release debut album 'Glass Swords'
- Othello Woolf to release free debut album
- Feist announces new album for October release
- Radiohead reveal Illum Sphere and Shed will feature in fourth instalment of remixes
- Nine free tracks available to download from grime kid S-X
- Drake "hates singles", plans to release some anyway
- Aphex Twin and Autechre remixes of Saint Etienne reissued
- High Places set to release new full-length in the Autumn
- Bjork's 'Biophilia' is getting close
- Future Islands announce third album, which you should not ignore
- The Vaselines, EMA, Titus Andronicus and Amanda Palmer star on Nirvana covers album
- Diplo releases 'Mad Legit' DJ set through new platform 'Legitmix'
- John Maus "and the truth of pop" considered in new, bright pink monograph
- Not Not Fun and 100% Silk releases roundup
- Four Tet mixes Fabriclive 59
- John Cale to release solo EP
- Toro Y Moi has a new EP
- Walls unveil second album details
- Water Borders announce debut album 'Harbored Mantras'
- Luomo readies new album 'Plus'
- L-Vis 1990 unveils debut album details
- Gui Boratto to release his third album on Kompakt
- Radiohead remixed by Lone, Pearson Sound and Four Tet.
- Human Ear are here to save, or at least improve, your day, with help from Julia Holter, Nite Jewel, etc
- Fabric 59 will be mixed by Jamie Jones
- Grimes's debut album re-issued by No Pain In Pop
- Mogwai will never end
- Trim announces new EP
- Gucci Mane drops new mixtape from prison
- Hype Williams' album 'Untitled' is re-pressed
- Girls announce second album 'Father, Son, Holy Ghost'
- Steve Reich prepares new album
- Ashley Cole, Giggs and Jason Statham feature on out-today Wiley mixtape
- Stream Pure X's new album
- Workaholic Wiley announces second full-length album this year
- Radiohead drummer Philip Selway announces new solo EP
- Flying Lotus bares his soul in free mix
- Matthew Herbert announces meaty next album
- 'Watch the Throne' is available for pre-order
- Lil' B, Pictureplane and Xiu Xiu to feature on new Sole and The Skyrider record
- Stream The Horrors' new album
- Stream Brian Eno's new record
- You can go to bed with Washed Out
- Tyler and Unknown Mortal Orchestra repurpose R&B on two free mixes
June
- Lil B's 'I’m Gay (I'm Happy)' drops out of nowhere
- Clams Casino's Instrumentals mixtape will be released on vinyl by Type
- Hype Williams's Igna Copeland goes solo and readies 12"
- Listen to a track from Zola Jesus's new album
- James Franco's collaboration with DJ /Rupture and Kalup Linzy is actually incredible
- Laurel Halo, Oneohtrix Point Never, James Ferraro, Samuel Godin and minimal master David Borden form synth supergroup
- Spoek Mathambo signs to Sub Pop
- Someone in Belgium has the new Bjork song (and you can hear it)
- Kingdom has started a label, and he's signed Nguzunguzu
- New James Blake release on its way
- Underground Resistance finally repress their best music
- Brian Eno reveals two tracks and artwork for his next album
- The Flaming Lips' next album is a giant gummy skull you have to eat
- Preview Major Lazer's new album
- Real Estate sign to Domino
- The-Dream's fourth album will be out on his birthday
- RUNNERS will be Dummy's next release
- Jacques Greene and Caribou remix Radiohead
- Listen to Jamie xx's solo single here!
- 'Ancient Romans' will be Sun Araw's next album
- St Vincent returns with 'Strange Mercy'
- Zomby - Dedication [album stream]
- Hudson Mohawke returns!
May
- Goldie mixes Fabriclive 58
- Fair Ohs to release debut album this summer
- Hear the new Horrors single, Still Life, right now
- The Rapture return to DFA for their next album
- Battles' Ice Cream 12" in three flavours
- Merok to release Deptford Goth's debut EP
- Tri Angle's Lindsay Lohan tribute 'Let Me Shine For You' gets physical release
- Forest Swords returns with rarities EP 'Fjree Feather'
- New on Tri Angle, something that may well be Balam Acab
- Free music roundup – stream stuff from Kate Bush, James Blake, Blondes and Theo Parrish
- Stream Friendly Fires' new record here
- James Ferraro is releasing a record called 'Far Side Virtual'
April
- Mount Kimbie announce new EP and free download
- Odd Future sign to Sony, kind of
- Laurel Halo new EP and tour dates
- The Knife announce new album in progress
- Our label returns with a digital single from Lower, streamable inside
- Washed Out unveils debut album 'Within and Without'
- New Eno!
- Stream Matthewdavid's 'Outmind'
- Listen to Beyonce's new single, Girls (Who Run The World)
- New Tom Vek record surfaces
- Hear Radiohead's Record Store Day single, The Butcher / Supercollider
- Hear a track from John Talabot's forthcoming 12" on Young Turks featuring Glasser
- Download Prefuse 73 and Zola Jesus' mixtape
- Clams Casino EP on Tri Angle – cover and tracklisting
- Kompakt release benefit compilation for Japan
- Salem remix Interpol
- Pure X to release album, 'Pleasure', on Acephale
- Zomby signs to 4AD
- Hessle Audio to release 2xCD/3x12" label compilation on May 16th
