My Bloody Valentine

Its as if Christmas has come early around here - I just learned, as better fans have probably known for months - that My Bloody Valentine is talking about releasing the follow up to their last album Loveless again.

Sure it's one of those, I'll believe it when it's in my grubby little hands thing. I'm allowed to be a bit skeptical since the follow up to their last album Loveless, in 1991. If it really does come out. It's been the joke around many circles. A funny little joke similar to waiting for a famous religious figure to return, or for OJ to find the 'real killer' or when the Cubs say, 'this is the year.'

Any news of My Bloody Valentine gives me hope that they'll really do it. If anything, it brings them back to the forefront and reminds music fans of their existence and sound. Lately, the news was that they were going to release their wares ala Radiohead's experiment. (follow the link to their album In Rainbows) This would be swell - however the newest update on that, via WIRED magazine, is that this might not be the case at all. (article here)

Either way, with Jesus and Mary Chain reuniting - Radiohead smashing the broken and tired music industry business model - and now the mythological MBV third album to appear, I might start to think that it MIGHT spur some new, good music out there! Or perhaps move some lesser known indie rock gods to the surface. At the very least, these three seemingly separate events in a vacuum alone might not have changed anything - see the Bauhaus reunion - however, together, they might change the tone of the type of things that artists are doing in the studio, and re-create the tempo of what was going on in music in the early 90's? One could hope, anyway.