Albums
to really, really look forward to
By
Brian Spiegel
On-line Forty-Niner
The
Beastie Boys, The Lyndsey Diaries, The
Cure and Green Day are all coming out
with new albums this summer. Here’s
the skinny on the new records.
Beastie Boys
“To The Five Boroughs”
June
Due
in the early summer, The Beastie Boys
new album, titled “To The 5 Boroughs,”
should bring fans of 1998’s “Hello
Nasty” more of the same, only this
time with more politics. Described as
“part love letter to New York, part
political commentary and part pop-cultural
smorgasbord,” Mike D, Ad Rock and
MCA should light up the Billboard charts.
For those of you who were lucky enough
to catch the groups headlining set at
last year’s Coachella Festival,
you have already heard a few of the new
songs.
The Lyndsay Diaries
TBA
Early
Summer
The
Lyndsay Diaries, AKA singer/guitarist
Scott Windsor, is subject to constant
media comparisons with former touring
partner Dashboard Confessional. A skilled
songwriter, Windsor crafts wonderfully
simple songs with deep lyrics and a lot
less whine.
After two solid albums, The Lyndsay Diaries
finally gets a shot at the big enchilada
with a new album, out sometime this summer.
The album is being produced by emo-mainstay
Ed Rose, who also helmed albums for bands
such as The Get Up Kids. This should be
a great record, and hopefully a breakout
one at that.
The Cure
TBA
Summer
I’ll
keep this short and sweet: The Cure’s
first new record in about 6 years, which
is due in July, is being helmed by hard-rock
producer extrodinaire Ross Robinson, who
also has produced classic albums by Glassjaw
and Slipknot. The band has described their
new stuff as the hardest stuff they’ve
ever done. This should be very, very interesting.
Green Day
TBA
Late
Summer/Fall
It’s
been four years since we’ve been
blessed with a new Green Day album. The
new stuff that the band’s been working
on has been described as “harder”
and a little more mature then the songs
heard on the acoustic-tinged “Warning.”
Working with Rob Cavallo (who they’ve
worked with on every album since “Dookie”),
the new stuff has been in the works for
the last few years. Green Day has always
found a way to reinvent themselves from
album to album: this one should be no
different.
Slipknot
May
25
“Vol.
3: (The Subliminal Verses)”
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Slipknot
is back on May 25 with the cryptically
titled “Vol. 3: (The Subliminal
Verses)..”The Rick Rubin-produced
disk should keep up the ferocity of 2001’s
epic and somewhat under-rated “Iowa,”
with tight musicianship and pure, raw
power. The albums been described as early-Metallica
with an industrial edge. With titles like
“The Blister Exists,” “Pulse
of The Maggots” and “Vermilion,”
don’t exactly expect a sunny albums
from these nine Iowa natives. But if you’re
in the mood for some bludgeoning beats,
grinding guitars and intricate sounds,
this might just be your ticket.
