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08 5th, 2009| 
After the busy Christmas shopping season there is still a lot of new movies and music coming out in early 2010. Even some of the big name artists are saving their releases for after Christmas so they don’t have to compete with some of the tough competition. Others like the independent record labels could care less about holiday season and choose to promote their records slowly and put the finishing touches on in time for an after-holiday release. Here are a few anticipated albums coming out in early 2010.
Vampire Weekend – Contra
This contentious and dapper indie-rock band from New York turned heads and set the blogs burning with their indie punk style mixed with African rhymths and upper class lyrical stylings. The hype is building for their sophomore record coming out in January and these guys are hotter than hid lights right now. The second record after the huge success of a debut is often the proving ground for artists so it will be interesting to see how “Contra” turns out.
Hot Chip – One Left Stand
Hot Chip is one of the few truly interesting and, in my opinion, important indie rock bands working today. Where other bands are boring and refuse to admit they are influenced by pop and R&B, Hot Chip embrace their love of top 40 music and inject their own catchy electro styling into it. In a perfect world these guys would be all over the radio and playing huge stadiums but I have a feeling they are perfectly happy where they are at.
Jamie Foxx – Body
Although this is scheduled for a Febuary 2nd release date very little is known about the follow-up to Foxx’s successful “Intuition” record which spawned the enormous radio and club hit “Blame It’ featuring T-Pain. Foxx has recently come out in favor of the new fun, club-oriented direction R&B and rap is getting back into, away from the violence and gun-talk so his new record is sure to have more fun club bangers on it.
