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Here’s a preview of albums to come in 2021

For 24 years, my friends Jack and Sara Spring of The Tek Report have been issuing year-in-preview reports on upcoming alt-rock albums. Here’s what they’ve assembled for 2021.

January 2021

  • 1: The Dirty Nil, Fuck Art
  • 8: Passenger, Songs for the Drunk and Broken
  • 15: Accept, Too Mean to Die
  • 15: Beach Bunny, Blame Game
  • 15: You Me at Six, Suckapunch
  • 22: Kiwi Jr, Cooler Returns
  • 22: Moon Taxi, Silver Dreams
  • 29: Ani DiFranco, Revolutionary Love
  • 29: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, New Fragility

February 2021

  • 5: Foo Fighters, Medicine at Midnight
  • 12: Django Django, Glowing in the Dark
  • 12: The Pretty Reckless, Death by Rock and Roll
  • 19: Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, Hunter and Dog Star
  • 19: The Hold Stead, Open Door Policy
  • 19: Tash Sultana, Terra Firma
  • 19: Cloud Nothings, The Shadow I Remember
  • 26: Architects, For Those Who Wish to Exist

March 2021

  • 5: A Day to Remember, You’re Welcome
  • 12: HAERTS, Dream Nation
  • 19: Papa Roach, Greatest Hits Volume 2 – The Better Noise Years

April 2021

  • 2: Glasvegas, Godspeed
  • 9: The Fratellis, Half Drunk Under a Full Moon
  • 16: Greta Van Fleet, The Battle at Garden’s Gate
  • 30: Amy Shark, Cry Forever

May 2021

  • 7: Weezer, Van Weezer

Still to be scheduled for 2021:

  • 24kGoldn
  • Bleachers
  • Childish Gambino
  • FKA Twigs
  • Garbage
  • Ghost
  • Helloween
  • Kitty
  • Kid Cudi
  • Kimbra
  • Lana Del Rey
  • Lip Piip
  • Liz Phair
  • Lorde
  • Megadeth
  • Royal Blood
  • Scorpions
  • Senses Fail
  • Spoon

More to come, obviously.

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