2010 is approaching soon. Twelve new months full of brand new music, from old veterans, young bands and complete upcomers. Just to go up-to-date on what’s happening with the artists that pleasure Flint’s tastebuds, it’s time to give a little checkaround to 2010’s possible offers by artists I’m intrigued about. Rumours, confirmed news, it’s all here.

Not keen on the artists I display? Give a sly prod at the other writers, maybe they’ll reveal their musical stalking results as well?

After the cut, a big list of various names.

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One of the seminal bands of the 00’s they may be, but a b-sides band Arcade Fire aren’t. During their short career so far they’ve released two overwhelmingly brilliant albums that both deserve to be hailed as true classics of the current decade – and others – and that may partially be because they focus all their energy and inspiration on the songs that actually end up on the said albums. Despite releasing several singles you can count their b-sides with one hand’s fingers and some of those are even songs performed by other artists (not covers by AF, genuinely different artists sharing the space). Same thing goes for more non-canonical releases: there’s almost no non-album non-single rarities lingering around.

That’s not stopping us from going through some most of them because there are some fine songs there.

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