My Picks from Stereogum’s 50 Most Anticipated Albums Of 2011

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Ok, I know Cake isn't even on the top 50 list, but I'm really excited because they haven't released a new album in 7 years!  

Here are the other bands off Stereogum's list that excite me:  

• 02 Fiona Apple – TBA

• 09 Cut Copy – Zonoscope (2/08 via Modular)

• 10 Death Cab For Cutie – TBA (via Atlantic)

• 13 Dr. Dre – Detox (February via Aftermath/Interscope)

• 15 Foo Fighters – TBA

• 18 Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean (1/25 via Warner Bros.)

• 21 Lady Gaga – Born This Way (Interscope) - I've been a fan ever since I heard Bad Romance at a gay birthday party (really, all the guys were gay and knew all the lyrics to her song.  To this day, I have never seen so many well-dressed, attractive men all in one room) and on Glee.

• 22 Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (3/1 via LL Recordings)

• 35 Radiohead – TBA (via Teh Internetz)

• 37 The Rome (Danger Mouse & Daniele Lupi) – The Rome

• 38 Santigold – TBA - great first album.  Can't wait to hear more from her

• 39 The Shins – TBA

• 43 The Strokes – TBA - I'm hoping they incorporate some of Julian Casablancas' sound

• 48 Kanye West & Jay-Z – Watch The Throne (via Def Jam)

HONORABLE MENTIONS & SPECULATIONS:

• Akron/Family – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT (2/8 via Dead Oceans)
• Beck – TBA
• Cake – Showroom Of Compassion (1/11 via Upbeat)
• The Get Up Kids – There Are Rules (via Quality Hill Records)
• Gorillaz – TBA
• Jane’s Addiction – TBA