Sort of ask and ye shall kind of receive

As far as good musical news goes, it turns out that all five bands/artists mentioned in the previous post appear to have upcoming projects scheduled to be released during the next few months.

The Long Winters' album prospects I already knew about, but their Wikipedia entry confirms that the as-yet-untitled album is currently targeted for a "first quarter of 2006" release.

Guster's album, apparently entitled Ganging Up on the Sun, is described in their Wikipedia entry as set for an April release.

A podcast interview with Steve Burns that I recently heard suggested that his next album is in fact in the works, though it may not have the rumored title of Deep Sea Exploration. He did cite a label name (it sounded like it, anyway, but I couldn't make out the name), which suggests that it's more likely than not to happen at this point.

The Wikipedia entry for the Shins had the following to say (my dad passed this one along, which spurred me to check on the other bands): "The next album from The Shins, tentatively titled Sleeping Lessons, is planned to be released in July or August of 2006." Later, in the summary of the group's albums, the entry states that Sleeping Lessons' tentative release date is April. Either way, we'll see it this year.

Finally, the guy who posted in the last entry's comments was definitely not just blowing smoke, as Wikipedia has this to say on Snow Patrol's latest: "After finishing their opening act duties and extensive 2 year touring of Final Straw in late July, the band took a few weeks off and began writing and recording songs for a new album. The band completed recording the upcoming release, Eyes Open, in December 2005, and it is set to be released in April 2006."

If you didn't get around to checking in during the last post's run at the top, you can do it in this one... I'm still curious.