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02/01/2007: "Rock and Roll Heaven?"

It's not easy being a rocker in a hip-hop world. Sure, there's the occasional indie-rock breakout like the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus or Panic! At The Disco and guilty pleasures like Jonesy's Jukebox, but for the most part I'm stuck with the groups of my younger days.

Fortunately, there's some promising news on the classic rock front. First was the announcement that the Police, who've only played together once since their 1983 breakup, will be opening the Grammy Awards ceremony in a couple of weeks. Now, we get word that the Eagles, whose last studio album "The Long Run" was released in 1979 (!), is close to releasing a new disc. Said to be titled "Long Road to Eden", the secret was spilled by Eagles frontman Don Henley during a recent concert.

"It's coming out in 60 to 90 days, if we don't kill each other first," Henley was quoted as telling his audience on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

It's hard to imagine any group being able to release a relevent new album after nearly thirty years (although Steely Dan pulled off pretty much the same thing a few years back), but if anyone is gonna do it, you have to figure the Eagles can. Several new songs have been released in the last few months, and their 2003 9-11 ode "Hole In The World" was a hit.

Should be an interesting summer ...