Since there is absolutely nothing going on in the tech world today (really, we checked the internet), we figured some off-topic lightness might be a good idea for this Saturday night (it's night already in The Netherlands). The question we pose to you today has absolutely nothing to do with operating systems, computers, or technology: what albums are you most looking forward to in the coming one, two years? I blogged about my five most-awaited albums for 2008/2009, and this is my list (all albums are yet to be named): Fiona Apple's 4th album (I kind of really like Fiona Apple), the 7th studio album by The Cardigans, Garbage's successor to "Bleed Like Me", A Camp's coming second album, and Garbage front-woman Shirley Manson's first solo album. Post your favourites in the comments!
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I am looking forward for Madonna's "Hard Candy" album at the end of April, and of course for DRIST's upcoming, unnamed as of yet, album. I shot a few videos for the DRIST heavy rock band a few months ago (their "headquarters" are close to my house), have a look: http://www.youtube.com/DristTV (the two interviews, and rehearsal video are mine).
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With the Spitzer "scandal", I can't wait for Ashley Alexandra Dupre's next album 
http://amiestreet.com/artist/13321
http://www.myspace.com/ninavenetta
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/134273.asp?s...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_scandal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVettSNOSb8
She's the next big thing!
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I'm looking forward to my girlfriends band Elbow vs Knee to finally release their album 
Grab some mp3s at http://elbowvsknee.com/
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Actually I'm expecting some albums for some great bands once of those from the Netherlands..So here they're in not particular order
Pestilence (the one)...new album.
Cynic new album
Aghora New Album..
Spiral Architect....
There are some others but those are the greatest one, hope to be not disappointed.
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If Cynic actually gets around to finishing and releasing a new album, it will be one of the most anticipated album for me in my life, as well as one of the most anticipated in their genre EVER.
Personally, I'm awaiting a new release from The Decemberists and Colin Meloy.
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If the artist should be from the Netherlands, then I'll wait for Cardamar's next album. In the meantime you can listen to his excellent mixes: http://www.cardamar.com/mixes.html
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Spiral Architect will probably take forever. Prettymuch all members are involved in multiple other bands and music projects. I'll come one day though, and hopefully it will be as strong as A Sceptic's Universe.
btw. Spiral Architect isn't the only norwegian band playing tech-metal. A band you should check out if you like Spiral Architect is Twisted Into Form. It features Kaj Gornitzka(rythm guitars in Spiral Architect) and Leif Knashaug(also involved with SA at some point.)
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I'm waiting for a follow-up to Shiny Toy Guns' "We Are Pilots" which was an absolutely amazing album. It's some of the best music you'll hear if you are at all into electropop.
Edit: I almost forgot another one of my favorites: Emiliana Torrini. She has this eerie sound that just captures you when you hear her voice. I know she "just" released an album back in 2005, but I'm hoping she doesn't follow the release schedule of another old favorite of mine, Sarah McLachlan. Six years is a long time between albums, after all...
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Everyone has been flipping out over Strawberry Jam, but I dunno. I havn't really found anything they have put out (other then Sung Tongs of course) to be all that interesting.
IMO the best experamental I have heard in a long time was Panda Bear's person pitch. Sounds like where Brian Wilson would be now, if he had started with Smile. Or if you want to get really hardcore, Sateenkaarisuudelma by Es is downright transcendant.
Stars of the Lid is pretty great stuff, never heard them before, so thanks for that ;-)
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I have quite a few CD's from "Midnight Oil" - it's been often remarked that they have such vastly superior tunesmithing skills - "Blue Sky Mining" is my favorite. However the political agenda feeding their lyrics-machine has been less inspired - one might wish that tunesmithing skill led to political brilliance. In ancient times I think it was in Nock's "Mr Jefferson" that I read of Jefferson's characterization of Thomas Paine as 'mere spellbinding', a great orator but when you search for the underlying message the spell evaporates. Likewise endOfSuburbia.com sports a really great backtrack on how the USA 'invested all of its postwar wealth in a living arrangment that has No Future'. What's missing is 'a way forward'. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle founded the concept of (( "Crazy Eddie" CYCLE )) - this Google query today leads to a nice essay at everything2. So if Midnight Oil did a brainstorming session with Niven and Pournelle while channeling the Ghost of Garrett Hardin, something like that might spark an album I'd be interesed in !
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The Black Keys new album. I already have it but I want to own the official copy. Portishead's Third. And last but not least.......Chinese Democracy from Guns 'N Roses. I think it's due out on the same day as Duke Nukem Forever....and on that day, hell will freeze, pigs will fly and the world will implode.
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I'm waiting for Sparks' 21st album, due May 19th, called "Exotic Creatures of the Deep".
To those who never heard Sparks (especially if you live in the US), they sound a bit like Queen, a bit like Franz Ferdinand, and absolutely like nothing you've heard before. Their last album, "Hello Young Lovers" had a bit of rock, a bit of symphony, and a big, heaping helping of sarcasm. Standout tracks were the flop singles "Dick Around" and "Waterproof".
It's amazing that Ron and Russell Mael (both in their mid to late 50s and together for more than 35 years) can still put out such strong material...
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I do not keep track of what's going to be released but there's some stuff I can't wait for:
-Ihsahn - angL, after Adversary I expect a masterpiece. There hasn't been a single piece of music that man has not turned into gold.
-Opeth - Watershed, well, it's Opeth, it has to bee good.
-Satyricon - ?, after a gig in Poland (last week) I have grown to love them even more and Satyr announced new album is coming out in September. Their new black'n'roll direction is very fun to listen.
-Metallica - ?, I just hope it won't suck, it's supposed to be like good old thrashy Metallica
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I completely agree with you about Satyricon -- "Now, Diabolical" was a total riot. People who think that Frost and Satyr should keep re-recording "Dark Medieval Times" over and over again need to get a clue: good musicians must always evolve. Stagnation is the worst form of selling out.
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I must admit that while I really like Tool (I have Undertow and Aenema albums here) I am somewhat irritated with regards to their very little creative progress over the years. When I saw and heard their video/song "Parabola", which is per se a good song in my opinion, I wasn't sure it was a "new" song at all. ;-)
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Yeah, some of their songs seem to sound similar to others of theirs. But they also come up with new sounds for their new music as well. Check out Jambi and Vicarious on their 10,000 Days album. Also, for a completely different sound from a MJK project, check out A Perfect Circle.
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That's the beauty of music; there are amazing examples of musical art from the past, as well as great new music coming out every year. The classics are awesome, but why limit yourself to the past? I'm sure there were people living in the 50's who said "I'll stick with my Perry Como and Buddy Holly" but the music of the following decade, as you rightfully said, became classics as well. Each generation has its favorite musicians and styles, and every decade has something to offer to the future as well.
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I was going to agree, and say that I like classics too. But when I started to think about it, I think I do like many sorts of new creative music, to the point that one of my main hobbies is finding and listening to completely new music.
Also, a major reason that made some of those old classics mentioned above so great was that they were something completely new in their own times. In rock music artists like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Santana, Beatles in their later years too and others. That is always a good sign of creativity and true art.
The problem with many music artists is that it is easy to just follow certain musical cliches, take the safe route and do the same old stuff instead of trying something new, but then the whole thing may lose part of its taste, just like old coffee or tea.
Actually I tend to dislike all kinds of pop fashion, I mean music styles and bands that just follow some IMHO boring fashion cliches. Nothing wrong wth musical styles in themselves, but artists could still try to do something new instead of just copying themselves and others. No matter if it is blues, tango, electronic, heavy metal, jazz, film music, hymns, ethnic music, classical art music or what ever, as long as it is creative and offers me something new, I might be interested in it.
It would be hard for me to name any certain albums or artists here. Rather, I would like to find and listen to some completely new things.
Well, of course, only rather few top artists may actually have the high grade skills and gifts to create something very new that is also good and touching to others. I suppose that is why some old classics may still sound fresh unlike some new music.
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I agree with you in general, but the difference between now and then is that pop was really good. EVERYONE listened to led zep, the beatles, and floyd. Nowadays, pop is based more on image and music videos, and the only real artists in the whole process are the producers.
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Well, I'm a bit afraid that in all times there may have been bad commercial hit music, but - thank God - nobody may remember the poorer pop music from earlier decades anymore...
But you may be correct too. I often get a feeling (maybe I'm just old..?) that people may not remember or even want to remember most current top charts hit music after a few years (well, of course there may be some exceptions too).
Actually most new music I like to listen to may not even be pop or rock music these days. But as most other commentators here were just mentioning pop/rock albums and artists here, I didn't want to look like a snob and mention other kinds of music, like some world music, ethnic music or jazz...
Anyway, to emphasize what I think about pop music, I could say that to me rock and pop music are just sub genres of world music. I hope people could be more open-minded about music and would like to broaden their horizons more.
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..Led Zeppelin,The Beatles..Santana and others of that era have enormous "strength of material" and are genuine musicians rather then the canned formula synthetic facade that passes for talent/music now-a-days. It's worse yet with hiphop/rap with it's highly plagiarized formula scripts and electronic back beat fills. Anybody with a digital sampler and a beat box can defecate hiphop/rap.
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Personally, my favorite kind of music is the stuff from the 60s. But if you like that, there are plenty of guys doing similar sounds nowadays.
Check out Iron & Wine, Vetiver, Wolfmother (more 70s, but still awsome), Devendra Banhart, Arthur & Yu, Diane Cluck, or Olivia Tremor Control (to name a few).
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I am eagerly awaiting the release of the Long Blondes second album Couples, due out in April.
Someone To Drive You Home was the best album released in 2006/2007 (UK release was 06 and the North American release was 07) and I am still playing it incessantly.
They have been variously described as glam punk and art pop however they are simply the coolest band around as can be seen from this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNmDC8dVsHA
of them playing live at the Knitting Factory New York back in the summer of 2006.
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Here's my five for the next year.
Vampire Weekend had a killer debut album, hopefully they will put out something new soon.
Antoine DuFour just released Existance about a month ago, but I still havn't bought it so I guess it counts...
Pela was another band that had a killer debut album, can't wait to see where they go
Samamidon keeps getting better with every release, and he should be due for something new soon
Old Crow Medicine Show just came off of a massive year long tour, hopefully they will be heading back to the studio soon (or at least back to toronto)
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Well OLP is supposed to be in the middle of recording a new album. But it appears to be on hold as Raine is out touring for his solo project.
And waiting for the next full album from the guys in Greenwheel ( http://www.myspace.com/greenwheel ) / Go Van Gogh ( http://www.myspace.com/govangoghtheband ). They're the same guys in both bands in case my statement appears confusing...
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I enjoyed the preview of "Cold Beer and Cigarettes (acoustic)" which I found at Amazon under "Fewer Moving Parts". But like one of the posts above mentioned, yes it is Saturday night and I am bored, so I free-associated to "Black Coffee and Cigarettes", which brings up a joke with a "long tail", it is only funny about the 1st 3 times but if you have never heard it before, the Google Query (( Sartre Cookbook "American View" )) brings up the ( illustrated ! ) 103rd-anniversary-edition.
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If they ever get back together again (not likely), that's about the only thing I'd be excited for.
Considering that Page and Plant are still alive, I should say that they'd probably do pretty well, considering that they were the core of the group.
I'm not holding out too much hope though. 
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I saw robert plant a few years back. He's still touring, and doing alot of zeppelin material.
It wouldn't be the same without john paul jones and bonzo though. And I doubt they could really write kind of songs nowadays anyways. There just isnt room in this world anymore for Lord of the Rings, Dungeons and Dragons, and LOTS of acid
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next album from tool, chemical brothers and less famous but very fine German Irish-folk band called Across the Border (my local heroes)
And I'm still waiting for new rock heroes which will blow me away and redefine rock music, like it happened with Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Korn and System of a Down
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(or at least - not answering the question)
...but, between vast amount of music I _know_ I like (but haven't really get into yet), Last.fm recommendations and many "links/bands to check" I don't actually wait for any specific album...
There's just so much existing music I can't help but like that I haven't really get into yet... (same with literature/movies/games)
If they'll be good when they come, the better, but untill then...
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- Enslaved -- I'm a huge fan of their post-"Mardraum" material. I also wish they'd come to Chicago again.
- Shape of Despair -- gimme more depressive doomy goodness!
- Skepticism -- they _really_ need to release the follow-up to the amazing "Pharmakon".
- Satyricon -- see how far they will push Black Metal this time.
- Chemlab -- release a new CD and tour, tour, TOUR, goddammit!!!
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-Alice in Chains
-Battles
-Battlestar Galactica: Season IV. Soundtrack
-Bis
-BitterSweet
-Blind Mellon
-Coldplay
-David Bowie
-Fiona Apple
-Gorillaz
-Guster
-Jakalope
-Juno Reactor
-Massive Attack
-Muse
-NIN: Ghosts V.
-Poe
-Portishead: Third (incomplete leak copies don't count)
-Rage Against The Machine
-R.E.M.
-Sigur Rós
-Snake River Conspiracy
-The Verve
-Thomas Newmon
-Tori Amos
-Tool
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AIC and Blind Mellon? Ok, AIC, maybe with a new lead singer and all....but I'm pretty sure Blind Mellon is all but forgotten. Not that they were a bad band, but they had 2 hits and then that dude off'ed himself. I'd say you'll hear from GNR before you hear from them.
If Rage can get check their personal bull*@#$ at the door, and pretend to actually like each other for a few months, maybe we can get a decent album out of them. That putrid crap, Audioslave, notwithstanding.
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Blind Melon, forgotten? I would not be so sure, since their record company keeps releasing live and remixed material every few years or so, because of how well it sells. They had more than two hits, and most of their best known songs are from their third album which was finished after the singer OD.
AIC and Blind Melon (New songs are here: http://www.myspace.com/blindmelon ) are both working on new albums with a new lead singer.
Since Rage keeps doing more gigs together (just look at the large list at their website), one can only hope that they will start working on new music.
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Alright, I forgot to log in and f--king osnews ate my comment and bitched about anonymous posts when I hit submit. The back button took me back to an empty comment page.
I'm not typing all that shit (html formating plus what I wrote) out again. Why even have the comment box down there if it's turned off ? It'd be nice to know before it ate my post. Blah blah.
The past is has more music everyday.
http://www.last.fm/music/Talking+Heads/Once+In+A+Lifetime%3A+Th...
Talking Heads. Good songs include Psycho Killer, And She Was, Road To Nowhere, Once In A Lifetime, Burning Down The House.
Today I heard REM's new song, Supernatural Superserious, on the radio, and it sounded pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_We6ubpUHZs
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I have not bought an album since Incubus released the one that had "Pardon Me" on it, and i just pirate my music, although i CAN argue that since i DO own actual records of the music that i legitimately own, i have simply transferred the medium.
generally, 80's music is what i rock out to.
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An 'official' version of the recording of Dark Side of the moon that was recorded in June 1972 on the Stones Mobile Studio when they played at Brighton Dome.
There is a bootleg called 'Best of Tour 72' that I have on LP but I would like a decent CD version as I always preferred the early live performances of DSOTM to the later Stadium gigs.
On the new front, after seen Neil Young recently, some of his new stuff is really good.
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Well, nothing is going on last days, except OSNews ingoring REBOL as usual :-)
I wonder if anyone listens to bands like following:
Iron Maiden,
Anathema,
The Gathering,
Nightwish,
Within Temptation,
After Forever,
Amorphis,
som fav soundtracks:
Blade Runner,
Once,
Crash,
mostly all Zimmer/Gerrard stuff
I probably forgot about some others ....
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Shpongle should release a new album in August or something. I also expect new Bonkers-serie albums as they've usually been released twice a year, in May and November/December. Dunno if there're coming any other releases from performers I listen to, so I reserve the last two nominations for new musical experiences I might have this year.
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Is this artist coming out with something?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3WHpgaG_DnY
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Me too. Also, Hybrid are due to release a new (proper, as opposed to Re_mixed) album in the next 6-8 weeks, I believe.
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I don't really follow music releases...
I'd say 'the Mars Volta', but they just had one. Maybe Omar Rodriguez?
Cinemechanica rock.
Last Sparta one sucks.
Pixies or Frank Black would rock.
Charlotte Hatherley.
I don't really listen to new music. I usually get turned on to good bands by friends.
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Actually, now that the volta's contract with Universal is up, they will be releasing new material much more quickly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mars_Volta#Album_Five
Bring on album five!
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"The Argument" from Fugazi was great an excellent album, I can't wait for a successor, if they ever return from their hiatus that is . Meanwhile, the first two albums by The Evens were great.
Oh, and maybe some big-band Zappa material from the vault (Wazoo is great).
Other than that, I'll just see what comes out. There are often more surprises listening to new bands than the nth album who knows who.
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Poritshead - Third
Noone could fault the brilliance of "Dummy" and the quality of "Glory Box"
Checkout:
Portishead - Over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzananVefh0
Portishead - Strangers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvQ-3uVX63c
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I'm looking forward to whatever these come up with:
http://www.nightwish.com">*
http://www.soundclick.com/defarmer">*
http://www.thelemming.nl">*
Edit: Yawn, my html was "too advanced", next time I'll try Javascirpt or Php LOL :-)
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I mean why exactly five ? Probably because you could only think of five at that moment Thing is, I don't ever actively wait an album to be released, but I could compile a list of about 10 artists/bands whose new releases I'd buy at release day (Tori Amos, Depeche Mode, Imogen Heap, Incognito, John Scofield, and some others). Other than that, if I hear and like new stuff, then I buy it, no matter the band, with the exceptions of fashion-pop and amateur-hardrock [i.e. who want to look like great old rock bands, but fail miserably, there are a lot of those].
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Typing "Yui" into youtube, I found a pleasant, uplifting video labelled "Laugh Away", and at the 3:33 mark "I loved yesterday" is on a pad of paper, the only words I could understand since it is all Japanese. But cherry blossoms play a part in the video, which brings back memories of my only business trip to Japan many years ago - they were celebrating the cherry blossoms at that time. Also memories of driving by a golf-driving-range in Tokyo with about 3 decks of mats stacked on top of each other - I had never seen a multi-story driving range before. It is so crowded over there, yet an economic powerhouse - the Japanese culture really does More with Less.
At the top of the comments one said "why many YUI vids got deleted" so it may not be up there for long.
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I'd be happy with
- Any Mike Patton fronted project
- Any Melvins/Big Business joint or solo work
- Shellac
- Mogwai
- Buckethead
- and of course, Ween
It's a little schizo but damn if it doesn't make me happy. At least I can be pretty confident Patton, Buckethead and the Melvins won't keep my waiting long. Those dudes put something out every six months seems like.
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While maybe not the as great overall as, say, At Action Park, The End of Radio alone makes it worth the wait.
"Can you me now?"
Awesome...
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I just bought tickets for their May show in L.A.
I can't believe how much material these guys produce, both in DT form and with their collaborations and what not.
Rush is coming through on their second leg this summer too. Die hard fan.
And I like basically whatever these guys: http://www.morow.com are pumping out.
All that said, for some reason I've had Jefferson Starship's "Nuclear Furniture" on repeat for the past 2 weeks...
In the car, it's JACK-FM. I dumped KLOS when they dropped "Get the Led Out". Their stuff is "too classic" for me.
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You'd think that an "indie" OS site would list more indie music! You know, with the similarities of people doing what they do for the passion of it, not being churned out by the corporate machine, so forth.
Oh, just kidding. Sorta.
I'm looking forward to the next from Glös, the band made up of former members of Denali and Ambulette, more from Ani DiFranco, more from A Silver Mount Zion, though I am truly sad to learn that Godspeed You Black Emperor has gone from being on hiatus to truly breaking up.
Which brings up the perennial question from the indietits comic strip: is Godspeed You Black Emperor Tool for indie snobs, or is Tool Godspeed You Black Emperor for mainstreamers?
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I don't know if it counts as the album came out two days ago already, but Mike Oldfield's "Music of the Spheres" was one of the most anticipated albums for me. I received the CD from Amazon on friday and it still plays in my headphones all the time. If it doesn't count - well, the next from Mike. :-)
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1. Portishead new album three due April 14th
2. Massive Attack hopefully will release something this year
3. The Raconteurs plan to release a new album this year
4. Morcheeba - Dive Deep (I actually just found out it was released a few weeks back )
5. Tricky seems will release a new album - Knowle West Boy sometime april/may.
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Chinese Democracy makes Duke Nukem Forever look well managed. It's best just to download the demos and leave it at that.
As a one time huge Guns fan I mean this in the most heart felt way: You have to let it go...
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I'm waiting for the release of what may be the final Boston CD; certainly the final CD of original material featuring Brad Delp on vocals. Brad's been dead for over a year now, and wunderkind Tom Scholz is still mixing-remixing the material. I hope it'll be released this summer to coincide with their already announced upcoming tour.