Summer Music Preview: 37 Key Albums
While there's still no official word on whether the summer will bring long-in-the-works new albums from Arcade Fire, Beck, LCD Soundsystem, or Queens of the Stone Age, the coming months will definitely see new releases from Lorde, Broken Social Scene, Katy Perry, Big Boi, Lana Del Rey, Phoenix, Ride, and more.
Browse our collection of the summer's most notable new albums—as well as several noteworthy re-releases and compilations—below, where you can also listen to songs from each release.
It looks like U2 fans will have to wait a while longer for the long-rumored album Songs of Experience. Instead, they'll have to settle for a 30th anniversary reissue of The Joshua Tree, available in two- and four-disc sets. The latter adds a 1987 concert, a disc of remixes, and another disc of B-sides and outtakes. The band is, of course, in the midst of a tour that finds them performing the album in its entirety.