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PREDICTION: You will discover your musical genome.
Your newest obsession will be Pandora.com. This bound-to-be-copied offshoot of the Music Genome Project uses a series of mysterious algorithms to predict your musical taste and introduce you to new artists. According to the site, the Genome Project breaks down music to its core "melody, harmony, and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony." You simply name your favorite artist and Pandora sets up an online radio station that sounds remarkably tailor-made for you. It's freakin' magic.

PREDICTION: The Dixie Chicks and Pearl Jam will have career years.
Pearl Jam, by its own careful design (an unparalleled touring schedule and—count 'em—zero recent studio albums), is the biggest band in the world nobody's bought an album from in a dozen years. Now, after cutting ties with Epic Records and flirting with going wholly independent, the band's unveiling its first album for Clive Davis's J Records. Davis knows how to launch "event" records better than anyone in the business, and it's only going to help that the album really is the menacing return to form it's ... // 62% Remaining