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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!

I'm looking forward to my girlfriends band Elbow vs Knee to finally release their album Grab some mp3s at http://elbowvsknee.com/

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.

I agree with both of you.

Yet the album I would really sell my soul for is the next album of Death (with the "Human" or the "Individual thought pattern" line up)...

Guess I'll have to wait till I'm damned in Hell for that...sigh...

I saw Death in concert after the Symbolic album, and actually got to meet Chuck and Gene. Let me tell you: Gene is f'ing HUGE and yet, when he plays, he makes it look so simple and effortless. And Chuck was in awesome form.

Such a loss.

I saw Cynic(reunion) last summer actually. Good concert.

They even played one of their new songs. Sounding good, although less heavy and more more... fusion/jazz/i-don't-know-what-ish.

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

Well, speaking of The Netherlands, it sure would be great if Lemur Voice would get back together and do something new, but very little hope of that.

Florida's legendary CYNIC putting up a new album on planet earth, who'd have thought????!!!! Thanks for the info!!!!!!
Aeon Spoke is a great band btw

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.)

I saw Torrini on that 2005 tour. She was fantastic - in a small club, she sang and told stories for an hour and a half. She's very funny (and very beautiful in real life) - it was a great time.

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 ;-)

Since music ended for me with the end of the eightees, the only thing I am really looking forward in showbiz is the Star Trek XI movie and - hopefully - next TV show based on it. :-)

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.

Yeah, I'm not holding my breath for any new Metallica. Every new Metallica album is supposed to sound like "old Metallica".

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. ;-)

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.

I think that Maynard's work with Perfect Circle is slowly bleeding into Tool's sound. It's not a bad thing at all but it's something i've noticed.

Perhaps not so surprising, since Maynard is unquestionably the driving force behind both groups.

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.

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.

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.

..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.

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).

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.

You might get a world tour late this year/early next.

I heard that Plant rejected an offer of $200mil to do a tour, so it isn't looking too good...

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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Their solo music projects are often quite good. Especially Plant has made many fine solo albums.

As to Led Zeppelin, I'd like to see a complete and well produced DVD or CD of their Earl's Court live concerts.

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If Zeppelin started releasing their concerts and such on DVDs, that would seriously be awesome.

Hearing all of Plant's on stage banter would be interesting....

Hands up for Metallica!

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.

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.