On the same day that America inaugurates Barack Obama as its new president, A.C. Newman will be releasing his new solo album, 'Get Guilty.' But Newman, leader of Canadian indie rockers the New Pornographers, isn't worried about sharing the glory with the President-elect .

"It's a nice coincidence," Newman tells Spinner about the January 20th release date. "It's nice to have a little footnote there."

For 'Get Guilty,' his second solo release, Newman enlisted some additional help from Mates of State as well as Superchunk's Jon Wurster. "I think this record is maybe a little more rock," Newman says. "I think I wasn't afraid to be a little bit more ragged."

As for his main gig, New Pornographers fans can expect more from them in the coming year. "I don't really think of my solo records as a separate career or anything," Newman says. "I think I'll probably concentrate on the New Pornographers."

Death Cab for Cutie want to take over the airwaves with its next album. Although frontman Ben Gibbard hasn't even begun writing the follow up to last year's 'Narrow Stairs,' the band's producer/guitarist Chris Walla hopes to make a bigger, bolder musical statement with Death Cab's next disc.

"I have no interest in doing anything that's mild and meek," Walla tells Alternative Press. "I want to make a radio record this next time out. There's no reason for us to keep doing what we're doing if we're making meeker, smaller records." He explains, "I don't particularly have any real connection to a lot of the mellower stuff that Ben writes. I really feel like he's getting his best stuff when he's being assertive and forward."

The transition to a major label in 2004 contributed to the band's shifting sounds, Walla says. "In a way, when we signed to Atlantic, 'Plans' was a sort of partial, half-hearted step into an attempt to make something that is more appealing on a broader scale." He adds, "I think that 'Narrow Stairs' was really sort of a reactionary move -- like very much the opposite of that. Maybe it's just a phase, but I'm really interested in making something that is appealing on a really broad level and something we can be really satisfied with. But I think that there's a way to bridge those two gaps."

Bruce Springsteen took to the Web via his own BruceSpringsteen.net to give the goods about his forthcoming album, 'Working on a Dream,' due Jan. 27. Starting off with "Dear Friends and Fans," Springsteen writes that a song called 'What Love Can Do,' which he pegs as a sort of "love in the time of Bush meditation," was the spark for the new album.

As Springsteen shares, "It was a great track but felt more like a first song of a new record rather than something that would fit on 'Magic.' So our producer Brendan O'Brien said, 'Hey, let's make another one right now!'" Longtime Springsteen fans know though that the wait between albums, while shrinking of late, still is at a minimum usually a good two to three years. And Springsteen says that occurred to him as well: "I thought, no, I haven't done that since my first two records came out in the same year. And usually I don't write that quickly."

He continues to say that with that seed planted, he wrote several more tracks for the album, including 'This Life,' 'My Lucky Day,' 'Good Eye' and 'Tomorrow Never Knows,' in an Atlanta hotel room in the span of a week.

An impressive A-list of indie darlings, including My Morning Jacket, Beirut, the Arcade Fire, Cat Power and Spoon form the track list for the latest Red Hot compilation album, 'Dark Was the Night,' due out in February. Produced by brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National, the compilation marks a noticeable departure from the mainstream focus of all the previous Red Hot discs.

It will include a number of unique collaborations between indie artists including Feist with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Animal Collective's Grizzly Bear (individually), as well as Dirty Projectors with David Byrne, the Books with Jose Gonzalez, Blonde Redhead with Devastations, and Conor Oberst with Gillian Welch.

U2 has confirmed its twelfth studio album will be released on March 3. As previously rumored, the title of their upcoming studio effort will indeed be 'No Line on the Horizon.'

The follow up to 2004's 'How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb' was initially expected in late 2008, but the band bumped the disc to finalize additional songs. "I'm always the one who underestimates how easy it is to simply 'put out the songs now,'" Bono said on the band's website earlier this year. "If it was just up to me they'd be out already!"

Produced by longtime collaborators Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite, the album's full tracklist isn't yet known, but titles 'Moment of Surrender' and 'Unknown Caller' are among the set. 'Horizon' was recorded in Dublin, New York and Morocco.

Although no tour plans have been confirmed, U2 has a touring and merchandise partnership with concert promoter Live Nation. On Thursday, Live Nation reported it bought back the band's stock stake for a guaranteed $25 million, after it had fallen to a value of just $6 million.

The Flaming Lips' current theatrical release, 'Christmas on Mars,' was often facetiously compared to 'Chinese Democracy' simply because it took the band forever to make it. But fans won't have to wait until Mars is colonized for the next Flaming Lips album.

According to frontman Wayne Coyne, the new Lips disc might even arrive by summer. "It's been a couple years since we did 'At War With the Mystics,'" Coyne told Spinner. "We're going to go to [longtime Lips producer] Dave Fridmann's place at the very beginning of March, and I think with the batch of things we already have, we might have a record out by June or July." That's exciting news, but it gets better.

If you've never heard of Paul McCartney's side project the Fireman -- or if you have and never connected the dots -- you're not to blame. The first two LPs, 1993's 'Strawberry Oceans Ship Forest' and 1998's 'Rushes,' created in partnership with producer and fellow bass player Youth, formerly of Killing Joke and currently working with the Orb, were more than credible takes on ambient electronic music. However, these works were released almost in secret and bearing nothing musically or nominally to identify them as emanating from the man best known for his "silly love songs."

For the upcoming third album carrying the Fireman brand, 'Electric Arguments,' Sir Paul has emerged from his experimental closet, as he and his collaborator are proudly owning up to the eclectic array of sounds and -- a Fireman first -- vocals found on 'Arguments.' McCartney and Youth talk to Spinner about the collaborative process, along the way vehemently defending the commercial prospects for the album.

The previous Fireman albums were released with very little fanfare. Are you worried that the larger profile for 'Electric Arguments' will confuse or alienate the average Paul McCartney fan?

PM: They always say that! "You think you're gonna alienate your fans?" It's a weird idea, isn't it ... putting out a record to alienate people.
Y: I think this is a fan's ultimate album. I mean, I'm a massive fan, and this is a fan's record, really.
PM: I'm not worried about alienating anyone. I think, you know, our fans are fans. They're pretty cool people.

Just hours after debuting a new song, titled 'Working on a Dream,' during Sunday Night Football, Bruce Springsteen announced the release of his 24th album of the same name, due January 27. Recorded with the E Street Band at Southern Tracks in Atlanta, GA, with additional recording in New York City, Los Angeles and New Jersey, the follow-up to 2007's 'Magic' marks Springsteen's fourth collaboration with producer Brendan O'Brien.

"Towards the end of recording 'Magic,' excited by the return to pop production sounds, I continued writing," Springsteen said. "When my friend producer Brendan O'Brien heard the new songs, he said, 'Let's keep going.' Over the course of the next year, that's just what we did, recording with the E Street Band during the breaks on last year's tour."

"I hope 'Working on a Dream' has caught the energy of the band fresh off the road from some of the most exciting shows we've ever done," he added. "All the songs were written quickly, we usually used one of our first few takes and we all had a blast making this one from beginning to end."

See the full track list after the jump.

January might offer hope for believers of more than just President Elect Barack Obama. Avid Obama supporter Bruce Springsteen will reportedly release a new album around the time of the inauguration. According to the fan site Backstreets, the artist has been working on the album since the fall.

The reports are fueled by the wealth of addiitonal material from Springsteen's 2007 release, 'Magic,' as well as sightings of the rocker in Atlanta, where he recorded 'Magic' and 'The Rising' with producer Brendan O'Brien. In addition, Springsteen debuted a new song, 'Workin' on a Dream,' in Cleveland at an Obama rally two days before the election.

Very little else is known about the album, including whether it will be another E Street Band effort or solo project, a la 2005's 'Devils and Dust.' Springsteen and the E Street Band are set to play the Super Bowl on February 1, which comes as good news for fans who worried about the future of the group after the passing of original E Street Band keyboardist Danny Federici earlier this year. On the last stop of the 'Magic' tour in Milwaukee this past August, Springsteen reassured the crowd, however, saying, "We're just getting started."

It's taken ten years and an unthinkable amount of studio time but perhaps the most highly-anticipated album of all time will finally hit shelves this fall: ladies and gentlemen, Guns N' Roses' long-fabled 'Chinese Democracy' will be released on Sunday, November 23rd. Before you pinch yourself, there is a catch of sorts: It will only be available through Best Buy. Hence the Sunday release date as opposed to the industry-standard Tuesday. Of course, we're just happy for a release date at all, at this point.

We'll see how going exclusively through Best Buy shakes out for Axl Rose and his hired Guns, but this move is certainly not GNR's first unconventional record release. Their previous two studio albums were both released on the same day in 1991 ('Use Your Illusion' Part I and II, respectively).

While you're at Best Buy, don't forget to pick up CD-R's. After all, your friends will want to hear this too. (We're kidding. Seriously.)