That's interesting, but I still don't get it. What stunts are Harpo doing that Joanna doesn't do? By the way, have you watched a Marx Bros. movie? If so, which one, and what d'ya think?

Sorry - I didn't explain that well. REALLY they just have different techniques. Joanna's is something like a cross between folk-y guitar picking and piano. I think she said in the interview that she's studied a whole lot of different techniques(I remember her mentioning Celtic and African). Harpo would be like a pianist in an orchestra (with one of those gigantic grand pianos). A lot of what he plays is huge, athletic sounding arpeggios (all one chord, the notes are just repeated gazillions of times over different octaves). Whereas Joanna puts more effort into tricky rhythms and harmonic progressions.

I have seen and loved three Marx Brothers movies so far. The first one was "At the Opera" (my favorite). Then "Animal Crackers" and "Duck Soup." And speaking of Harpo, has anyone heard the Jonathan Richman song "When Harpo played his Harp?" I stumbled on his '88 album and it's wonderful. Not rreally '06, but oh well.

I see Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy finally has a release date of November 21. As long as that album's been in the works, I'd be surprised if it's anything other than a huge disappointment. Still, I'm strangely interested in hearing it.

Anyone like The Long Blondes? I know next to nothing about them, except that I've heard their names, I now read that their debut album (Somebody Drive Me Home) is being released in early November, and -- most important -- they've released a killer single in advance of the album. It's called "You Could Have Both." I don't think it's long on melody, but it has energy and passion and attitude to burn.

I think the upcoming Lady Sovereign album might be pretty good. She sort of reminds me a female version of the Streets, and her single's doing quite well.

I know it's not in 2006, but does anybody have any idea when the new Radiohead album is coming out? I haven't heard anything about it in a long time. It's been long enough since their last one. I hope it'll come out in early 2007, but I'm doubtful.

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Anyone like The Long Blondes? I know next to nothing about them, except that I've heard their names,

2007 is going to be freakin awesome for music...I can't think of a year when as many big names were due for new releases.

This further supports my theory that ODD years are the best for music.

Yeah, I've got a list of about 21 albums I'm already looking forward to for next year.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
I know it's not in 2006, but does anybody have any idea when the new Radiohead album is coming out? I haven't heard anything about it in a long time. It's been long enough since their last one. I hope it'll come out in early 2007, but I'm doubtful.

Radiohead doesn't have any idea when the new Radiohead album is coming out. They're not anywhere near done recording, it seems.

Babyshambles- The Blinding EP.

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Yeah, I've got a list of about 21 albums I'm already looking forward to for next year.

What are these albums?

Here they be:

Shins – January 23 - (“Wincing the Night Away”)
Apples In Stereo – February 6 - “New Magnetic Wonder”
Explosions In the Sky (February)
Christ – February – (“Blue Shift Emissions”)
Dolorean (February)
Radiohead
Devin Davis – “Up the Outskirts”
National
Modest Mouse – (“We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank”)
Ween
Ted Leo
Winterpills
Shins
Travis Morrison
Postal Service
Spoon
Emma Pollock
Alasdair Roberts – “The Amber Gatherers”
Fridge
Andrew Bird
Damien Jurado
Magnolia Electric Co

I'm not certain about the Postal Service, but every other one is pretty sure to come out in 2007, most in early 2007.

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Here they be:
Spoon

Speaking of which, I wonder what ever became of that Britt Daniel solo album that was supposedly going to be released this fall.

Yeah, there were a lot of albums that were supposed to come out this fall that didn't (Travis Morrison, Emma Pollock, Shins, Christ, etc). I think it's like that every year.

I'll have to add Britt Daniels to my anticipated 2007 list.

Raving Lunatic - methinks you have the Shins twice on that list.

Also, I hear rumors that Wilco and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will have 2007 albums, so I'm looking forward to that.

However, my theory is that every three years there's an amazing year for music. The last such year was 2005, so 08 will be beyond amazing.

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Also, I hear rumors that Wilco and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will have 2007 albums, so I'm looking forward to that.

I don't know about Wilco, but CYHSY is a definite, with it's release set for January. As a huge fan of their first album, I'm probably most exited to see what those guys do next. Producer Dave Fridmann (Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips) seems like an odd fit for the band, but I have high hopes anyway.

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Chamberk:
Also, I hear rumors that Wilco and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will have 2007 albums, so I'm looking forward to that.

I haven't heard much about the Wilco cd, but I did see them live and they played a couple songs meant to be on it. One, I don't remember the name of it, was a pretty rocking song (for Wilco at least) the other was a very good song called, "Impossible Germany," which you could probably find somewhere on the internet.

You know, when you thikn about it, Boards of Canada are really due to put out something next year. They took forever between Geogaddi and Campfire Headphase, and I remember in the Pitchfork interview they said they just work on 100 different projects at a time.

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Modest Mouse – (“We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank”)

I thought this cd was coming out sometime later this year.

Yeah, me too, but apparently they changed it. Joji said something about it, and the Metacritic upcoming releases calendar just has "Early 2007" listed.