I forgot all about Smashing Pumpkins' new one. That one surprised me with how good it is.
By the way, if you click the album covers in my first post there are links to my favorite songs from those albums if you're at all interested in listening.
That's a shame. Not even Dinosaur Jr? I have a list of my top 30 from this year somewhere on my computer. Here are some links to stuff you and others might like:
Ty Segall is cool and makes awesome garage rock type music.
Japandroids is like fuzzy rock music. Kindof anthemy 80s post-punk stuff.
Cloud Nothings have a similar anthemy 80s post-punk sound so if you like Japandroids you'd probably like Cloud Nothings.
Kishi Bashi has a good song that is in some commercial, i'd be surprised if you weren't familiar. You should recognize it starting around 50 seconds:
but if you like indie rock bands with like a 70ish bluesy sound to them, you should definitely listen to Dr. Dog cause they rule and I think you have a good chance of digging them:
there was also a few real good hip hop releases, some of which were released as free mixtapes if you want links.
I have too much time on my hands.