By Stephanie DiBartolo, the Sputnik’s watchdog of the local, national and ever changing music scene. On this week’s agenda:
Albums to anticipate
- Joy Formidable– Wolf’s Law out on January 21
- Paramore– Paramore out on April 9
- Hollerado– White Paint out on February 12
- Atoms for Peace– Amok out on February 25
- Johnny Marr– The Messenger out on February 25
Albums not to be forgotten
- Jack White– Blunderbuss
- The Gaslight Anthem– Handwritten
- The Killers– Battle Born
- Mumford and Sons– Babel
- Metric– Synthetica
- Best Coast– The Only Place
- The Lumineers– Lumineers
- Ellie Goulding– Halcyon
- Japandroids– Celebration Rock
- Santigold– Master of My Make Believe