Sweet release

Out with the old tunes, in with the new: DARRYL STERDAN presents 18 of the most-anticipated albums of 2018 in chronological order, along with a list of other winter releases. But before you mark the calendar, remember the release dates are subject to change.

Fall Out Boy MANIA

FOB will release no music before its time — and it’s finally time for their seventh studio album, which was pushed back from the fall because they felt it was being rushed. (Jan. 19)

Migos Culture 2

Badder and Boujee-er? We’ll see if rap phenoms Quavo, Offset and Takeoff can keep the momentum flowing on this sequel to their 2017 commercial breakthrough. (January)

Franz Ferdinand Always Ascending

Nearly five years after Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, the Scottish indie-rockers return with a fifth album. You couldn’t have it much better than that, right? (Feb. 9)

Superchunk What a Time To Be Alive

No, the Chapel Hill, N.C., indie-rock icons aren’t covering Drake and Future’s 2015 mixtape. They’re plugging back in to tackle lighthearted topics like, as frontman Mac McCaughan puts it, “incipient authoritarianism.” (Feb. 16)

Cowboy Junkies TBA

Dim the lights and get comfy — Canada’s beloved alt-country siblings are about to release their first disc of original material since their Nomad Series wrapped in 2012. (February)

David Byrne American Utopia

Ain’t got no records to play? Take heart — according to one early online retail listing, the former Talking Head’s first solo studio album in more than a decade will finally arrive this spring.

(March 9)

Jimi Hendrix Both Sides of the Sky

The late guitar god’s umpteenth posthumous release unearths another 10 previously unreleased cuts, including collaborations with Stephen Stills and Johnny Winter. (March 9)

Judas Priest Firepower

Can the veteran metal gods still deliver the goods? Find out when lead shrieker Rob Halford and Co. unleash their 18th studio album in 44 years. (March)

Butthole Surfers TBA

There’s a time for drugs and a time to be sane . ... And if there ever was a time for these Austin, Texas, weirdos to reunite and release their first album in 15 years, it’s now. (summer)

Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods

The good news: JT’s new music is on the way next month. The bad news? His first non-soundtrack disc since 2015 is rumoured to be a country album. (Feb. 2)

Stone Temple Pilots TBA

Now fronted by ex-X Factor finalist Jeff Gutt — who slides right in on their recent single Meadow — the California crew return with their long-overdue seventh studio set. (TBA)

Lily Allen The Fourth Wall

Our Lil has apparently been working on her memoirs — and the followup to her 2014 album Sheezus. Based on first single Trigger Bang, it might be a fairly languid affair. (TBA)

Tool TBA

After 12 years, Maynard James Keenan and Co. are readying a disc that is “epic, majestic, symphonic, brutal, beautiful, tribal ... and very Tool” — according to Tom Morello. (TBA)

Vampire Weekend TBA

According to frontman Ezra Koenig, the beloved New York indie crew’s fourth full-length was inspired by everyone from Kanye West to Kacey Musgraves. Um, OK. (TBA)

Jack White Boarding House Reach

If eternal iconoclast White’s followup to 2014’s Lazaretto is half as eclectic and puzzling as his four-minute teaser video, we’re in for some serious freaka-deliciousness. (TBA)

Iggy Azalea Surviving the Summer

Well, fancy that: After years of drama, delays and difficulties, Aussie rapper Azalea finally seems ready to follow up her 2014 career-making debut, The New Classic. (TBA)

Carly Rae Jepsen Spread Love

Call her clumsy. It seems the Canadian popster unwittingly revealed the name of her next disc while tweeting about the single Cut to the Feeling last summer. (TBA)

Loretta Lynn Wouldn’t It Be Great

The country legend pushed back the release of her latest disc after suffering a stroke last year. It would be great if she were fully recovered by the time it debuts. (TBA)

OTHER RELEASES Jan. 5

Jon Brion | Lady Bird Soundtrack Lil Pump | Lil Pump

Summoning | With Doom We Come

Jan. 12

Bad Company | Live At Red Rocks Big Star | Live At Lafayette’s Music Room-Memphis, TN

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Wrong Creatures

Black Veil Brides | Vale

Camila Cabello | Camila

Petula Clark | Living For Today Anderson East | Encore

Tinsley Ellis | Winning Hand Meghan Patrick | Country Music Made Me Do It

Joe Satriani | What Happens Next Umphrey’s McGee | it’s not us

Jan. 19

Anvil | Pounding the Pavement Bahamas | Earthtones

Belle and Sebastian | How To Solve Our Human Problems (Part 2)

Black Label Society | Grimmest Hits Chick Corea + Steve Gadd Band | Chinese Butterfly

Tommy Emmanuel | Accomplice

One

First Aid Kit | Ruins

Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac (Deluxe Edition)

Inara George | Dearest Everybody John Gorka | True in Time

Go! Team | Semicircle

Glen Hansard | Between Two Shores Kimbra | Primal Heart

Meat Beat Manifesto | Impossible Star

Moon Taxi | Let the Record Play Mudhoney | LiE

Of Mice & Men | Defy

Joe Perry | Sweetzerland Manifesto Phillip Phillips | Collateral

Porches | The House

Charlie Puth | Voicenotes

They Might Be Giants | I Like Fun Tune-Yards | I can feel you creep into my private life

Walking Papers | WP2

Jan. 26

Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals | Choosing Mental Illness as a Virtue Calexico | The Thread That Keeps Us