Spring Break
The next big thing for another big music year
Listen Up!
Brian Washburn
Issue date: 1/14/08 Section: Life & Style
A brand new year has arrived. A brand new year of musical blow-ups, busts and breakdowns. A brand new musical year to surpass the wild one that saw bands like Paramore, Gym Class Heroes, Plain White T's and Chiodos rise in music sales; Radiohead released an album and allows its fans to determine the price; and a free Ozzfest. But, of course, 2007 wouldn't have been complete without the self-destruction of a once- praised pop princess. However, I am not here to talk about the lives of musicians - just simply the music.
This year will see the release of several CDs, from both breakthrough and already established artists, that will take radio and our iPods by storm.
Las Vegas pop rockers Panic At The Disco (who recently deleted the obnoxious ! from their band name) will release their sophomore album, "Pretty. Odd." March 25. Panic will attempt to avoid the lurking sophomore slump after a stellar debut that was sought out by millions and played enough over both the radio and MTV to make our ears bleed. Although they can be pretentious, over-the-top and a bit much at times to hear - and not to mention watch - Panic will most likely avoid their slump. I am going to go ahead and give that award to The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, whose debut album didn't deserve much attention in the first place.
However, music releases in 2008 will not only be centered on circus-laden scene boys. Along with Panic At The Disco, the Counting Crows, Jack's Mannequin, Jack Johnson, The Mars Volta and Lenny Kravitz will all release heavily anticipated CDs within the first few months of 2008. Other bands and musicians releasing CDs from the summer includes Underoath, Death Cab For Cutie, The All-American Rejects, Franz Ferdinand, Gym Class Heroes and Ok Go. And for the fifth year in a row, the newly reformed Guns N' Roses (a.k.a. the Axl Rose catastrophe) is slated to release their heavily anticipated and heavily delayed "Chinese Democracy," but I seriously doubt that will happen.
This year will see the release of several CDs, from both breakthrough and already established artists, that will take radio and our iPods by storm.
Las Vegas pop rockers Panic At The Disco (who recently deleted the obnoxious ! from their band name) will release their sophomore album, "Pretty. Odd." March 25. Panic will attempt to avoid the lurking sophomore slump after a stellar debut that was sought out by millions and played enough over both the radio and MTV to make our ears bleed. Although they can be pretentious, over-the-top and a bit much at times to hear - and not to mention watch - Panic will most likely avoid their slump. I am going to go ahead and give that award to The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, whose debut album didn't deserve much attention in the first place.
However, music releases in 2008 will not only be centered on circus-laden scene boys. Along with Panic At The Disco, the Counting Crows, Jack's Mannequin, Jack Johnson, The Mars Volta and Lenny Kravitz will all release heavily anticipated CDs within the first few months of 2008. Other bands and musicians releasing CDs from the summer includes Underoath, Death Cab For Cutie, The All-American Rejects, Franz Ferdinand, Gym Class Heroes and Ok Go. And for the fifth year in a row, the newly reformed Guns N' Roses (a.k.a. the Axl Rose catastrophe) is slated to release their heavily anticipated and heavily delayed "Chinese Democracy," but I seriously doubt that will happen.
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katie
posted 1/14/08 @ 10:07 PM CST
DO NOT CALL THE ! OBNOXIOUS...as a real Panic fan i still love ! and im pretty sure almost all the longtime fans can back me up on that one...Panic's music didn't make my ears bleed nd they are fun to watch live and on tv. (Continued…)
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