Spring's Most Exciting Albums

Perhaps you don’t care about Justin Bieber’s upcoming second album, hot on the heels of his first, but you might be a bit more interested in the rest of Rolling Stone includes in its spring music preview. A sampling:

• Meth, Ghost, and Rae: Wu-Massacre, March 30. Ghostface Killah and fellow Wu-Tang Clan-ers Method Man and Raekwon provide “the closest thing to a Wu album since 2007.”
• Slash: Slash, April 6. Soloist gets help from Dave Grohl, Kid Rock, Iggy Pop, Ozzy Osbourne, Fergie.
  
• Hole: Nobody’s Daughter, April 27. Courtney Love takes time between Twitter rants to release her first LP in six years.

• Court Yard Hounds: Court Yard Hounds, May 4. Dixie Chicks Martie Maguire and Emily Robison return with an album Maguire says “isn't very country.”
• Stone Temple Pilots: Stone Temple Pilots, May 25. First album since 2001 “collides riff rock and Beatles psychedelia with gospel-rocker ‘Maver’ and the Seventies-style ‘Huckleberry Crumble.’”
  
• Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot: Son of Chico Dusty, May. This solo effort, his first album since OutKast’s Idlewild in 2006, is “heavy on trunk-rattling funk beats and wriggling, spacey synth lines reminiscent of ATLiens.”

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