After a three week hiatus and lots of inductions to the Chart Show Hall of Fame to round out the year, we're blessed with a bumper batch of new entries.

Spoon, alt-J and Ryan Adams—regular denizens of the Chart in 2014—return with new songs and four of the other eight Chart debuts (Doomtree, Belle and Sebastian, Brandi Carlile, Modest Mouse) are off albums yet to be released!

Submit your Chart Show ballot this week for a chance to win tickets to The Current's 10th Anniversary concert and live broadcast feat. Cold War Kids, Dead Man Winter, Hippo Campus and Allan Kingdom at First Avenue on Friday, Jan. 23!

Doomtree's new record drops Tuesday, Jan. 27 and they start their tour shortly thereafter — Feb. 4 in Columbia, MO. There's still time to pre-order All Hands on their website. Doomtree spoke about making the album in a fan's partially finished cabin in the woods when they stopped by Minnesota Public Radio for a live performance last month!

Brandi Carlile also stopped by for an in-studio session before she played two sold out shows at the Varsity Theater to end 2014. She was sporting a jaunty new hat with the twins in tow! Her sixth album The Firewatcher's Daughter releases March 3 on ATO Records.

Belle and Sebastian are brand new at #12. Their new record Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance is out Jan. 20. They have cunningly booked the first shows of their world tour in Australia, Korea and Japan through February and will only briefly visit Canada and upper Midwest. The closest shows to the Twin Cities are in Chicago, IL on April 3 and Madison, WI on April 4.

Modest Mouse kindly granted The Current to give their new song "Lampshades on Fire" an online world premiere a few weeks back, and even more kindly sent vinyl test pressing of the single to several lucky fans. Program Director Jim McGuinn got one, too, and passed it on to Leah Garaas of our web team who puts the Chart Show feature together every week as she is a hooj Modest Mouse fan! Their new album releases March 3 via Epic Records.

The New Basement Tapes is a project put together by T Bone Burnett. He rallied up a supergroup of contemporary talent including Marcus Mumford, Jim James, Elvis Costello, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes and Rhiannon Giddens to write music to the lyrics that Bob Dylan never used from his Basement Tapes period in the late '60s. The supergroup may never play a live show but they have made some videos for Showtime.

Hippo Campus are a young band from the Twin Cities who will be joining us for night one of The Current's 10th Anniversary shows at First Avenue! As Chris Riemenschneider of the Star Tribune pointed out in his round up of the year, they were one of the four acts that were voted in the top 5 of City Pages' Picked To Click that were under the age of 21!

What a great start to the new year with so much new music on the Chart including a few interesting debuts, too. Happy New Year, everyone!