Music 2007

A new story at Reuters finds Bono saying what he always does about the next U2 album. In other words, a bunch of words that signify very little. More rock, less rock. Something new. Moving on. Taking it to another level. Whatever. I’ll wait with breathless anticipation whatever the case.

Here are a few more I’m ancitipating:

Joe Henry
Over the Rhine: The Trumpet Child (?), Live from Nowhere Vol 2.
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
Peter Gabriel: i/o
Sam Phillips: Don’t Do Anything
Portishead
Wilco
David Bowie
Sinead O’Connor: Theology
Radiohead
Patti Griffin
The Cure
Feist
The Innocence Mission – We Walked in Song
Gnarls Barkley
PJ Harvey
REM
Suzanne Vega
Gillian Welch
Lucinda Williams – West

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  1. Josh Says:
    December 30th, 2006 at 3:46 am

    Even with a new U2 album on the way (possibly), Joe Henry is absolutely at the top of my list. Over the Rhine is not too far behind… and you and I both know that their new material is dynamite.

    Did you know that Suzanne Vega’s album is on Blue Note? I didn’t until I got an update newsletter from them yesterday.

  2. jasdye Says:
    December 30th, 2006 at 2:33 pm

    too bad too many of those acts have passed their prime. but you never know, byrne or bowie may yet ’surprise’ us (i’m hoping that dylan and simon convinced some of the other old timers to step-up their game).

    otr’s old stuff is dynamite. heck, that christmas album is one of my favorite for the year.

  3. Julio Says:
    December 30th, 2006 at 2:33 pm

    New Peter Gabriel Album?! In less than 10 years? Awesome! I hadn’t heard about this.

    If he stays on schedule, that means I have a new U2 and a new Peter Gabriel album all in the same year. Here’s to 2007!

  4. Joel K. Says:
    January 1st, 2007 at 6:30 am

    I don’t think it can be overstated: OTR are doing some fantastic things.

    Their Snow Angels is fun (I thought “Trumpet Child” might be included on it) …but the new songs they tried out on us in Santa Fe were, well, fantastic.

    Thanks for the occasional musical updates, Jeffrey.

  5. Sheila West Says:
    April 13th, 2007 at 12:21 am

    Maybe this sounds silly, but I kept looking to see if the article would describe what the man was wearing. Black clerical perhaps instead of the long robe thing? The emphasis of the article was Fr. Holleran’s subtle degrees of semi-alienation from contemporary society (a bit of a stranger in a strange land), and so I feel that failing to describe what he was wearing detracted from that aspect of the article.

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