Chinese Democracy. No. Really. It's Coming.

As a public service to those who weren't born yet when the last album was released, here's a quick bio.

Chinese Democracy finally has a release date of November 23, 2008. Head to your local Best Buy, because that's the only place you're going to be able to get it. Gotta love those excluse release contracts.

This is the first collection of new material from the band since 1991, and the first album since 1993.

The band's press release is here.

A link-filled blog post is here.

I had a different wife, a different address, no cell phone, and a different car when the songs from the Use Your Illusion I and II albums were on the charts.

I gotta tell ya. After all this time, it's hard to get excited about the new album.