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Kinks Working on New Album

The Kinks have started working on a new album ... but it might not be good enough to see the light of day.

Front man Ray Davies told BBC News that he and his act have reconvened in the studio to test the waters for a new record. Davies said the writing process is going to be more collaborative than his top-down dominance of the band in the past, and that if the band deems the songs to be subpar, won't release the new material.

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Mighty Mighty Bosstones Working on New Album

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have been mighty, mighty busy working on a new album.

The third-wave ska act started writing and recording new songs for an upcoming new album, the band announced on its web page. Two cuts from the record, "Impossible Dream" and "Next to Nothing" will be released as a limited-edition 7-inch next month through the band's own Big Rig Records label.

No title or release date has been revealed for the album, which will follow up 2002's A Jackknife to a Swan (review) (Side One Dummy) and this year's rarities collection, Medium Rare (review) (Big Rig).

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New Springsteen Album May Come As Soon as January

Bruce Springsteen has been very busy traveling around the country playing shows in support of Barack Obama. His song, The Rising, was even the first one played over the loudspeakers at last night's historic victory celebration in Chicago's Grant Park.

Two night's before, Springsteen played the final rally in Cleveland and one of the songs he played was Workin' on a Dream, a duet with wife Patti Scialfa. According to the Springsteen site Backstreets.com "The song has been recorded for the follow-up to Magic, which Springsteen has been working on this fall, an album expected to see release around the time of the Presidential Inauguration in January 2009."

Nothing else is really known about the pending release other than there was quite a few extra tracks recorded dring the Magic sessions and that they may make up the bulk of the album.