I always seem to get excited at the start of a new year, looking forward to the forth coming music releases.  so to start the year, I thought I’d start with a few items of news ….

• Sting to reform with Andy Summers & Stewart Copeland for a Police 30th Anniversary tour
• U2 thinking about change of direction, and possibly going acoustic with an 07 release
• New release from Norah Jones next month
• New Stooges album in March!
• Kaiser Chiefs release album in Feburary (more here)
• Keane to cover the Cult (more here)
• Aqualung release a new album in March (more details here)
• New Air album
• New Tom McRae album
• Bryan Ferry finally delivers a new album in March!
• Another offering from Joss Stone.
• Speculation for releases from Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Cat Power and Ryan Adams

On a sad note we have to farewell to James Brown and Ahmet Ertegun.