Email: "Wash that 2009 out of your hair"
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Did you feel that? That’s 2010 slapping you in the face. It’s telling you that you have to get that 2009 out of your head. It’s over, OK? No more calling, no more drunk dialing, no more e-mails, no more anything. 2009 is done with you and you should be over 2009; she’s actually happier without you. Onward, dear friends! Into the future! Into the fray! 

With the albums coming out just in February and March alone it’s bound to be one hell of a year. Winter thinks he’s got you beat, but you know better. The 2010 crop is full of the familiar yet brilliant. It’s full of music to get you through the grey winter days. It’s full of artists you’ve been pining for years to make a new album. Who saw the David Byrne & Fatboy Slim collaboration? Well, all I can say is that even without hearing any of it, it’s going to be 200 percent better than Broken Bells (the guy from the Shins and DJ Danger Mouse).    

But I really don’t want to spoil any of this brand new year for you. This year has been the year everyone has been waiting two years for, right?

It’s an exciting time to be alive, even if the Democrats no longer have a supermajority and Conan no longer has the “Tonight Show.” It’ll be OK if all this music coming out this year is as good as it seems; don’t worry: Hope has died, Hope has been resurrected, and Hope will come again. You gotta give ‘em hope.

Here are some highlights:

February:

2 — Lil’ Wayne: “Rebirth”

2 — Album Leaf: “A Chorus of Storytellers”

9 — Hot Chip: “One Left Stand”

9 — Massive Attack: “Heligoland”

9 — Redman: “Reggie Noble 9 ?”

9 — Yeasayer: “Odd Blood”

15 — Peter Gabriel: “Scratch My Back”

16 — Watson Twins

16 — Adam Green: “Minor Love”

16 — The Game: “The R.E.D. Album”

16 — Wu Tang: “Return of The & Friends”

23 — Erykah Badu: “New Amerykah pt. II: Return Of The Ankh”

23 — David Byrne & Fatboy Slim: “Here Lies Love”

23 — Daniel Merriweather: “Love & War”

23 — Kidz in the Hall: “Land of Make Believe”

23 — The Shout Out Louds: “Work”

23 — The Streets: “Computers and Blues”

23 —Xiu Xiu: “Dear God I Hate Myself”

March:

2 — Rogue Wave: “Permalight”

9 — Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: “Beat the Devils Tattoo”

9 — Broken Bells: “Self-Titled”

9 — Frightened Rabbit: “The Winter of Mixed Drinks”

9— Liars: “Sisterworld”

9 — Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: “The Brutalist Bricks”

16 — Drive By Truckers: “The Big To Do”

16 — Nas and Damien Marley: “Distant Relatives”

16 — The White Stripes: “Under the Great Northern Light (live)”

23 — Jonsi Birgisson: “Go”

23 — Dillenger Escape Plan: “Option Paralysis”

23 — Goldfrapp: “Head First”

23 — She and Him: “Vol. II”

Special Look Forward:

April 27 — Deftones: “Title TK”

May 4 — New Pornographers: “Together”

At some point in 2010:

Andre 3000, Arcade Fire, Aphex Twin, Battles, Beastie Boys, Big Boi, Blakroc, Blitzen Trapper, Bone Thugs N’ Harmony, Busta Rhymes, Cake, Cee-Lo, Devo, Deer Tick, DOOM & Ghostface, Dead Weather, The Fall, Fleet Foxes, Hole, Interpol, Justice, Kraftwerk, LCD Soundsystem, Lupe Fiasco, Lyrics Born, MGMT, Minus the Bear, N.E.R.D, MIA, Joanna Newsom, Of Montreal, Outkast, R.E.M, The Roots, Stone Temple Pilots, Tupac, Any Winehouse, The Wrens, ZZ Top.

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Contact Ben at letters@graffitiwv.com

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