2010: A Year Already Shaping Up: Part 1
As is the case at the end of every year, writers try to comment on the year in review, and more importantly predict the year to come. We have already reviewed quite a few albums this year (with at least two more to come before the 31st). This is the first of three stabs at talking about the year to come in music. In this edition, we talk about Courtney Love, My Chemical Romance, Deftones, and more! And in the later editions, we will discuss Arcade Fire, Coheed & Cambria, Limp Bizkit (yea, THEM!), Music Discovery band Frightened Rabbits, and so many more!
Courtney Love – Nobody’s Daughter – January 1st
Originally set for a February 2007 release, Nobody’s Daughter is to be the follow-up to the surprisingly good America’s Sweetheart from Courtney Love. The album has taken on a number of band members and producers in various stages, making the album’s creation almost as complicated as Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy. Love first wanted to release the album under her first band’s name, Hole. Co-founding member Eric Erlandson has put a stop to that, however. According to a post Love put on her Facebook account, the album is slated for the first day of 2010, but with its numerous release dates come and gone, we’re not holding our breath.
Interpol – TBA – TBA
Critically acclaimed Interpol released their debut album Turn on the Bright Lights in 2002 with the hit single “Obstacle #1.” Since then, Antics and Our Love to Admire were released in 2004 and 2007 respectively, solidifying their commercial success and laying the foundation for bands such as The Bravery and The Killers. There is very little information out about Interpol’s 2010 release, with the exception of mere rumor and speculation. However, since its been more than two years since the band have released a new album 2010 seems to be the year to hear something new from them.
My Chemical Romance – TBA – Late Spring
It has been three and a half years since The Black Parade hit shelves and internet retailers. The Black Parade didn’t get quite the response that My Chemical Romance had hoped for from fans, however it did earn itself critical acclaim, with it’s Queen-heavy inspired guitar riffs and choral refrains, or an album’s worth of lyrics that run from start to finish through a man’s bout with cancer. The band toured behind the album for years, at times, only playing The Black Parade from start to finish. Now they’re back in the studio with Brendan O’Brien, recording songs for what is rumored to be a late spring release. Lead singer, Gerard Way, has promised that the thus-far-untitled album lyrically brings “some of that wonderful fiction of the first album” over a more “stripped down” rock album.
Alkaline Trio – This Addiction – February 23rd
We were supposed to get a Matt Skiba solo album this coming February. Instead, that album was pushed back in anticipation of Alkaline Trio’s seventh studio album, the follow-up to Agony & Irony. The trio from Chicago could essentially record an album of whistling in a punk format and it’d be the best thing since sliced bread. Why they aren’t bigger than Green Day we’ll never know, but as they continue to release solid album after solid album, our love grows for them, stronger each time. Despite the fact that their last couple of albums have been less than their earlier work, its always superior to the noise that gets more love on the radio. And we’re still looking forward to that Skiba solo album, if it ever sees the light of day.
Cold – Epic – January
November 17, 2006, vocalist Scooter Ward posted on the band’s MySpace page that they were going to break-up. The band had suffered numerous line-up changes and only lukewarm commercial success with their four studio releases and four EPs. 2009 saw a reunion tour and a comeback album has been slated for an early 2010 release (closer to January). Despite their limited success, Cold is a guilty pleasure with their singles, “Happens All of the Time,” “Gone Away,” and of course their big hit, “Stupid Girl.” There hasn’t been a new album in almost five years, as A Different Kind of Pain was released in 2005, and we’re pretty excited to see what horrible things have happened for Scooter to cry about this time around.
Vampire Weekend – Contra – January 12th
For an album that was announced back in September, very little is known about Vampire Weekend’s sophomore album. You can see the album cover to the left, and there’s a track listing that includes “Horchata,” the first song on the album, that’s been available as a free download on their website, HERE, since October 5th. There was also a video for the album’s first single, “Cousins,” which we included in our November 30th Music Video Monday (HERE). Aside from all of that however, there isn’t a whole lot we know yet. What we do know, though is, if Contra is even half as good as their 2008 self-titled debut, Contra will be huge.
Motion City Soundtrack – My Dinosaur Life – January 19th
Produced by Blink-182’s bassist, Mark Hoppus, as was the case for the band’s second album, Commit this to Memory, Motion City Soundtrack will be releasing their fourth studio album, My Dinosaur Life, on January 19th. There is already a pre-order in place with all kinds of wonderful extras, you can check that out HERE. “Disappear” was the first single from the album, you can see the video for that HERE. The album is being described as still having the catchy sound of a Motor City Soundtrack album, but with a harder, more experimental edge that should push the band up and over the foundation they’ve already set for themselves.
Jimmy Eat World – TBA – TBA
The as-yet-untitled album with no clear release date, although no real progress in recording has begun so we figure it’ll be late next year, will be Jimmy Eat World’s seventh studio album. It will will be the follow-up to Chase This Light, the band’s most successful album to date. Jimmy Eat World just finished touring and celebrating the ten year anniversary of their debut, Clarity, and have announced that they will be climbing back into the studio with their old producer, Mark Trombino.
Blaqk Audio – Bright Black Heaven – TBA
Bright Black Heaven is the second album from side-projecters Davey Havok and Jade Puget of seminal punk act AFI. Following AFI’s most recent Crash Love, a more rock oriented album than the previous and disappointing Decemberunderground, it will be interesting to see which direction Bright Black Heaven takes everyone involved as the follow-up to Cex Cells. Since finishing the tracking for Bright Black Heaven Jade Puget has been quoted as saying there are another 70 songs that are done.
Deftones – TBA & Eros – February
Since bassist Chi Cheng was in a serious motor vehicle crash, recording and post-production on Eros has ceased. The album’s completion and release has been pushed off indefinitely, as it had been slated, actually for 2009. Vocalist Chino Moreno described it as a weird, atmospheric, and unorthodox album, but that it wasn’t where the band was artistically, and they want to release “an amazing product.” The as-yet-untitled album being recorded in Eros’s stead is slated for a February 2010 release with Sergia Vega, formally of the band Quicksand, will be filling in for Cheng in his absence.
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