Is alicia keys coming out this year ??

i heard mandy was going to return! i guess it was just a rumor

Mandy is comin' this year, it just hasn't been confirmed any certain time

ok

Coldplay speak about New Album !

COLDPLAY have quashed speculation they are on the brink of splitting by revealing details of a new "edgier" album.

The band - who warned at the Brit Awards earlier this month (15FEB06) "People are fed up with us and so are we" - will signal their commitment to the group by setting up their own recording studio in London.

The move was inspired by German collaborators on their latest X+Y album, KRAFTWERK, who have their own studio to keep outsiders away and distractions to a minimum.

Drummer WILL CHAMPION says, "We're trying to find somewhere where we can set up and work.

"In all these years we haven't got a HQ, our own studio or anything like that. We want somewhere where we can sort of hole up and see what happens."

And bassist GUY BERRYMAN hopes the intense recording experience will provide the perfect opportunity to take Coldplay's music to a different level.

He says, "I don't want to generalise it and say 'We're going to become electronic' because I don't think we are going to become truly electronic.

"I think there's going to be elements of lots of things. It's hard to say, all the ideas are just spinning around inside my head and I've got a lot of new toys to play with.

"I always like our next record to be a bit harder sounding. Not rock harder just edgier. We'll always have melody."

If I hear one more band talk about how "hard" or "heavy" their next album is going to be...

hey in summer Hilary will be coming out with a new album and you forgot the veronicas in feb!

Pearl Jam set a release date for new album!


NEW YORK (Billboard) - Pearl Jam will release its first album in three-and-a-half-years on May 2, the rock group's new J Records label said Wednesday.

The self-titled effort, the band's eighth studio album since 1991, will be preceded by the single "World Wide Suicide," which will be delivered March 8 to U.S. rock radio outlets. Beginning at 6 a.m. ET that day, the Eddie Vedder-penned track will be available for free download for two days from the band's Web site (http://www.pearljam.com). It will arrive March 14 at leading digital retailers.

"Pearl Jam," the track list for which is still being finalized, was produced by the band with Adam Kasper, the same combination that worked on Pearl Jam's 2002 Epic Records swan song "Riot Act." The gap between the two albums is the widest in Pearl Jam's career.

"It's been a difficult record and it's like sometimes the harder something is, then the more valuable it becomes," vocalist Vedder said in a Brazilian radio interview last November.

"It's easily the best stuff we've done but also some of the hardest stuff. It's very aggressive, because again, it's kind of a product of what it's like to be an American these days. It's pretty aggressive, especially when you turn it loud."

Pearl Jam will tour extensively this year, but dates have yet to be announced. Since its 2003 "Riot Act" tour, the group has grossed nearly $36 million from 68 shows reported to Billboard Boxscore, 23 of them sellouts.

Reuters/Billboard

'3121,' Prince's new album, runs musical gamut


Prince's new Universal album, "3121," will be released March 21, but seven of its 12 tracks have yet to be given official titles. Regardless, the full disc was previewed Wednesday in New York for reporters, who were told that Prince had declined to explain the meaning of the album's title and that the release date had been chosen simply to coincide with it.

That same night, Prince was here in Philly with protege Tamar for a sold-out, late-night show at the Electric Factory.

Never one to back away from unusual promotions, Prince is including a limited number of "Purple Tickets" with the physical CDs, granting lucky fans access to a private performance at his Minneapolis compound, Paisley Park. Listeners who buy the "Black Sweat" single via Apple's iTunes Music Store also will be entered to win entrance.

"3121," which features guest appearances from Tamar, as well as saxophonist Maceo Parker, preserves the artist's hybrid style, savvy instrumentation and flair for up-tempo jams. Beyond "Black Sweat" (the top debut this week on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 60) and earlier single "Te Amo Corazon," the only other selections with confirmed names are the title cut, the Tamar duet "Beautiful, Loved & Blessed" and "Fury," which was performed last month on "Saturday Night Live."

Many of the remaining tracks are vintage Prince, with the expected splashes of rock, R&B and jazz.

Albums to be released on Summer 2006
The Donnas

Albums to be released on Fall 2006
The Donnas

LOL!

Oh, and PEARL JAM!

Well, at least Pearl Jam don't suck as much ass as Coldplay.
The whole "heavy and angry = good" idea is wrong in every way. It's like, don't be scared about people calling you ******* 'cause your music isn't borderline death-metal. Be yourself, and it's really sad that such an influential band like Pearl Jam has to reduce itself to "OMG WE ARE SOOO AGGRESSIVE! LOLZ!"

Oh well. Let the music speak for itself...most modern rock bands are all talk anyway.

After thinking about it here's what Im getting:

Definately Getting: Linkin Park
99% sure about getting: The Game
I think I might get: T.I. and Good Charlotte

Well, Coldplay don't suck that much either, I actually enjoy their alternative music . But I totally agree with you on the hard&angry point.

My Chemical Romance working on New album!

One year ago, when Green Day announced that they would be taking up-and-comers My Chemical Romance on the road for the spring leg of their American Idiot tour, it was seen as a kind of passing of the pop-punk torch.

And in the weeksleading up to the tour, MCR frontman Gerard Way spoke at length about the opportunity provided to them by the guys in Green Day, calling it "the biggest thing to ever happen to this band" and admitting that Billie Joe Armstrong influenced him to pick up a guitar as a teenager (see "My Chemical Romance: They're Okay [Promise]").

Fast-forward to today, and My Chem are breakout stars with a platinum-plus album and a string of hits under their studded belts. And as they begin work on the follow-up to their 2004 smash, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, it looks like they're taking inspiration from Green Day once again.

On Monday (March 13), MCR's management confirmed to MTV News that the band has begun work on a brand-new album with producer Rob Cavallo, the man who has helmed each and every Green Day album since their 1994 breakthrough, Dookie (he's also worked with the Goo Goo Dolls and Michelle Branch). Basic writing and demoing sessions got underway last week at the Paramour, a 70-year-old hilltop mansion overlooking Los Angeles' trendy Silverlake neighborhood.

"We're working on stuff, just getting it together and making demos. And from what we've got so far, I think the record is going to be awesome," Cavallo said in a brief phone interview. "The songs are wicked. There's some really dark stuff, and some touches of Queen and the Doors. And there's some really experimental parts that sound a bit like System of a Down. But all of that is mixed with a big shot of My Chemical Romance."

Cavallo said that the plan is to work on the new material until April 10, when he and the band will hit an undisclosed Burbank studio. He added that while it's still very early in the process, the record is already veering into the category of a concept album (something Way hinted at back in February of last year; see "My Chemical Romance Cover 'Under Pressure,' Plan 'Big Rock' LP"), and it already has a tentative title: The Rise and Fall of My Chemical Romance.

"There's a lot more to be said, but it's too early to say it," Cavallo laughed. "I just wanted to give fans a taste of what's to come."

Cavallo went on to add that while there's no completion date set for the new album, he'd like to have it in stores sometime this year. It's not known if My Chem will be giving fans a listen to the new material at Thursday's Shirts for a Cure benefit concert (their only confirmed Stateside gig so far this year), taking place during the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. They'll be joined at the show by reformed emo-punkers Lifetime, Head Automatica and a host of others.


Source:MTV