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allegedly upcoming releases

Britney Spears Is Ready To Give Us More Music

Now that she's sort of returned to the arena-tour world, Britney Spears is back in the studio and working on the follow-up album to last year's album Blackout, according to her no-doubt-thrilled label Jive Records. "Britney Spears is spending her summer in the recording studio, working with a team of top-notch producers and songwriters. We're very excited about what she's accomplished so far," says the statement, which is co-signed by Spears manager Larry Rudolph. I really liked Blackout's "dancefloor of the millennial apocalypse" feel, I'm cautiously optimistic about this album, although I know fully well that a few ill-timed run-ins with paparazzi could scotch the whole project. But no matter! Entertainment Weekly got on the horn with Sean Garrett, who's one of the producers attached to the record, and he burbled some similarly enthusiastic words, promising that he's going to "come up with something crazy" for Spears. Which is something to look forward to, given that he's helped pen a few of the past few years' more delicious pop treats. A few are are after the jump. More »

11:00 AM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
427 views, 11 comments

Latest by Chris Molanphy: @Maura Johnston: I'm with you on those two (meh on "Buttons," yay! on "Lose My Breath"), but I gotta say I always saw Brown's "Run It!" as son-of-"Yeah!" (complete with exclamation point). I'm only now warming to Brown because that more »

upcoming releases

Portishead Not Wasting Any Time


Not only is Portishead planning on releasing an album to follow up this year's still-incredible Third, the band has already started working on it! Well, sort of—they've been writing songs that might not make the final cut for the album, but still, they're gunning to put out the album sometime before 10 years from now, which is a start. It almost makes up for the fact that their Third-supporting tour was so brief: "We are thinking a new album," Adrian Utley told the BBC. "That's partly why we're not touring enormously, because in 1998 we toured for a year and a bit and it just crashed us. None of us wanted to see each other for a while after that." Ah, growth. [BBC - 6Music]

9:30 AM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Maura Johnston
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coming (too) soon

Red Hot Chili Peppers Not Giving World Enough Time To Recover From "Stadium Arcadium"

From the "WTF?" file, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who had previously said they were on a somewhat permanent hiatus, are thinking of having French electro duo Justice produce their next album. Although the news would mark a significant change for an act that had Rick Rubin behind the boards for each of its albums since Mother's Milk, it would also be a presumed stretch for Justice, who have not produced an album other than its own. The news seems unlikely to be true, but if members of either act happen to read this, would it be possible to tie the record up for a decade or so with "creative difficulties"? Is that too much to ask? Or is this just the run-up to Coachella pre-booking RHCP as permanent headliners forever? [The Sun]

1:30 PM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Dan Gibson
351 views, 8 comments

Latest by Chris N.: And 'Celebrity Skin'! Apparently he was such a perfectionist that Patty Schemel quit Hole. more »

American Idol patriot/panderer Kristy Lee Cook has signed with 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville, and her first single will drop Aug. 11. It's called "15 Minutes Of Shame," which makes me wonder if it's going to be about the fact that she had to sing "Amazing Grace" some five or six times in order to just stay alive in this year's competition. [Lifeline Live via MJ's Big Blog]

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The My Bloody Valentine Reissues: Surprise, They're Delayed Waiting for the My Bloody Valentine reissues? Well, you'll have to wait a little longer: "The two albums were due to be re-released by Sony this week, but there has been a last-minute hold-up while [Kevin] Shields, true to form, labours over his liner notes." So, uh, those preorders will come through sometime around 2013, then? [Telegraph via The Daily Swarm]

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July 15: The original release date of the new album from Brooklyn bar-rock outfit the Hold Steady, Stay Positive, May 22: The album leaks, causing much message-board posturing/consternation. June 17: The new digital release date for Stay Positive. June 12: A blogger idly wonders why the label waited that long for the digital release, given that four weeks is an eternity in Internet-music time. [Pitchfork]

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you can hear his shirt coming off during the third track

Girl Talk Gives Bloggers Something To Do This Summer


I suppose the new Girl Talk disc could be considered "highly anticipated" since Night Ripper was a hit inside our creepy Internet circles, at least to the extent that Greg Gillis could quit his job to seemingly play the same "not a DJ" set at every festival, parking lot and bar mitzvah over the course of the last two years. Somehow, the new album will focus more on easily recognizable pop samples, which seems difficult to comprehend, but I guess we'll find out in a week or so—according to Billboard, the new album will be available on the Illegal Art Web site using the "pay-what-you-want" model, which contrasts with Gillis' own "pay nothing" approach to clearing the countless samples that appear on the album itself. [Billboard]

2:30 PM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Dan Gibson
226 views, 1 comment

Latest by DavidWatts: that was really really really awesome. more »

will spider bite?

Alice Cooper's New Concept Album To Feature "(In Touch With) Your Feminine Side," Ozzy On Harmonica

Looks like Judas Priest will have some competition for "Most Awesome Concept Album By A Metal Act That Really Has No Place Recording A Concept Album in 2008." Alice Cooper's Here Comes A Spider, out on July 29, will describe the life of a serial killer named Spider, who is killing people and taking their limbs in order to create a spider. Says Cooper, "Every song is sort of a letter to the police. They think they're investigating it from the outside, but he's actually woven them into the whole thing." Also woven into the whole thing are frequent Alice Cooper album guest stars Slash and Ozzy Osbourne, who will play a harmonica part on a song the two co-wrote. More »

2:30 PM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,020 views, 1 comment

Latest by n/a: This album seems like it is going to be very old school Alice. I am a huge Alice fan. Ozzy has slipped a lot in recent years but he is a legend as well. Alice is still a more »

Your Pretty Ricky Update What's up with the lewd singing group who kept the Shins from the album chart's top spot last year and inspired young men to put the "sex" in "sectional?" Well, their new album, '80s Babies, comes out this August; they've found a new member to replace the departed Pleasure, and he is named (I swear) 4Play; and, well, I'll just let this quote from Slick 'Em say the rest: "This time around Pretty Ricky growed up because of where we been... we done traveled the world, we done been to places we never thought we woulda been, Mars and back. We done even went to Pluto." [SOHH]

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do-overs

Courtney Love: Weekend Blog Warrior

Courtney Love has denied recent reports that she's scrapped work on her current album and is starting over via her MySpace blog, saying that "oit will be turned in by mid july at latest, okay?" and that she's now working with her former Faith No More bandmate Roddy Bottum on new material. And she loves Linda Perry! And she's just waiting for the recession to really hit because her material will work even better as the world plunges even further into doom, gloom, and high gas prices than it already is. More »

1:00 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Maura Johnston
492 views, 7 comments

Latest by Silverfuture: She's no Chuck Mosely. more »

Holy crap, is that really a song from the eternally delayed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2? It is! (And it's very NSFW, which is why I waited until now to post it.) [Nah Right]

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not-upcoming releases

Nicole Scherzinger's Solo Album Officially Dead (For Now)

From MTV's piece on the upcoming MTV Movie Awards, which will also feature uncool major-label chumps Coldplay: "The Pussycat Dolls... will also hit the stage during the irreverent awards show, broadcast live this year on Sunday, June 1. The girls will grab the mic from host Mike Myers to perform 'When I Grow Up' from their upcoming second album." I'd probably hold off from using words as, um, concrete as "upcoming" when it comes to talking about album releases featuring La Scherz—at least until someone actually pays money for a copy of Her Name Is Nicole. She seems to be a little, shall we say, jinxed in that department. (Maybe Tori Alamaze put a hex on her?) [MTV]

2:45 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Maura Johnston
491 views, 4 comments

Latest by n/a: Perhaps Iovine will realize that the original balance of power in the music video era was correct: talentless but photogenic women posed with power tools or drove shiny red antique cars in clips -- they weren't given recording contracts and more »

Weezer's upcoming album has had its release date being pushed up from June 24 to June 3, a rescheduling that their Geffen mouthpiece is attributing to "popular demand" but that anyone who's heard the songs of theirs that have leaked already is probably attributing to "making sure bad buzz doesn't completely take over the record's pre-release cycle." [geffen.com]

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Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields will release a double-CD recording of The Coral Sea. The discs will draw from performances in 2005 and 2006, at which Smith recited a poem about the death of her friend photographer Robert Mapplethorpe while Shields made what was presumably an ungodly amount of noise behind her with guitars and effect pedals.

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upcoming releases

Ne-Yo To Ape Billy Joel, Sing The Word "Calamari" On New Album

Ne-Yo's planning something a little different for Year Of The Gentlman, his third album in as many years. "There's some stuff on there that sounds like something the Beatles might've done. There's some stuff on there that sounds like something Billy Joel might've done. I can't do just straight urban music no more, because to be completely honest with you, I'm a little bored with it. I'm just moving with what music excites me now." While "What Would Billy Joel Do?" isn't a game I'd recommend to anyone, Ne-Yo's earned some faith after making my favorite single of 2007 and one of the best albums of 2006. Judging from the oft-quoted "I won't attend your pity party/I'd rather go have calamari," from "So You Can Cry," maybe he's just into "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant." More »

10:30 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Anthony Miccio
307 views, 4 comments

Latest by encyclopediablack: Ne-Yo doing stuff The Beatles would have done...yeah, I buy it. more »

upcoming releases

Judas Priest Forget What Year It Is, Drop Double Album About Nostradamus

Are you ready for some concept metal?! Judas Priest will unleash Nostradamus, a double-frikkin-CD concept piece concerning the life of the 16th-century prophet in June. The project has been in the cards for ages, with Halford on record as hoping it would be released in January 2007. "His life is well-documented, so for us it was all about taking the significant episodes he went through, and then with the right emotion, create music and lyrics that would convey them." I worry that Iron Maiden is going to sue them for steez infringement, but I think it's great that they're finding a way to make their new album seem like an event without using words like "cross-promotion." Could be another Music From "The Elder"! More »

5:10 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Anthony Miccio
794 views, 6 comments

Latest by AcidReign:     I'm interested, as well. It would be my first Priest purchase since they went all Cars-ey with "Turbo." Worst career decision of the 1980s... more »

upcoming releases

Fate Of EMI May Rest With Coldplay's Viva La Vida. Bye-Bye, EMI!

Record labels think of a "career act" as a reliable chart-topper with a rich catalog. Meanwhile, bands define themselves as "career acts" by spending six months in South American churches recording songs with Brian Eno that are named after Frida Kahlo paintings. This darling schism may not bode well for the folks at EMI records, who are praying that Coldplay's upcoming album will sell at least as much as 2005's X&Y. Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends doesn't really ring like The Joshua Tree, and phrases like "indulging experimentation" probably aren't what the label wants to hear either. More »

12:15 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,510 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: Coldplay or not, EMI survives. Just watch. more »

more heartwarming news

Whitesnake Answers World's Request For New Album

"The world is such a mess, what's needed is a new Whitesnake album!" David Coverdale told it like it is at the Cutting Room, creating a novel context for Good To Be Bad, which comes out April 22. The album features three songs with the word "love" in the title, two with the word "need," two that reference a period of time, one about the blowing wind, and one about the summer rain. Sez Coverdale: "The responses I've been getting are that the album is a heady cocktail that embraces the whole history of Whitesnake within one album. Which was not planned, but fortunately, I'll drink two of those cocktails!" What are you, Rod Stewart now?
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10:30 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Anthony Miccio
657 views, 4 comments

Latest by n/a: Where's Tawny Kitaen when you need her? more »