Many blockbuster acts will return. No. 1 bands like Radiohead and Coldplay will be working on new albums. Norman Mailer's new novel is a portrait of Hitler as a young boy, while Michael Chabon's alternate-history thriller is set amongst Yiddish-speaking Alaskans.
Some of the 2007's most anticipated albums come from established names. Coldplay is headed on a Latin American tour early this year to road test new material. The new album, which still has no title, could be ready in 2007 or early 2008, according to a spokeswoman.
Critical favorites such as Wilco, the Shins and Arcade Fire all have albums currently slated for the early part of the year, too. Live recordings of Wilco's new material have recently hit the Internet. Meanwhile, Axl Rose — the frontman of the power-ballad group Guns N' Roses — is trying to make a comeback with an album that has been delayed so many times that its title, "Chinese Democracy," sounds like a winking reference to another long-awaited-for development that's unlikely to arrive in the near future. But the album now has a release date: March 6, 2007.
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