05
Nov
2002
Retailers are wishing for a DVD Christmas this year, and record labels large and small are releasing tides of great titles. The Cult has just released Live Cult, a 17-track concert CD filmed at Los Angeles' Grand Olympic Auditorium.
Guitar hero Billy Duffy leads the storm, guaranteed to thrill fans reaching all the way back to their goth-punk roots. A lengthy behind-the-scenes montage is included as a bonus, following the band and rabid fans through a Tower Records autograph session and dates in small clubs like west Hollywood's Whiskey a Go Go. Punk rock legends The Vandals are reissuing their 1993 VHS video Sweatin' to the Oldies: The Vandals Live this Tuesday on the Kung Fu Records imprint. Standing as a crucial document of the old-school Orange County punk scene, the DVD includes an audio commentary track with the entire band. The two-DVD set features fun bonus material including a 1980s electronic-drum-set commercial featuring a young Josh Freese, international live tracks, and a four-piece orchestral production of "Oi To the World." On the heels of its recent batch of label-authorized live CDs, Phish is releasing the Live in Vegas DVD on the Elektra label this Tuesday. Also look for the band's first studio album in two years to be released December 10, entitled Round Room. MCA Records and the family-run Experience Hendrix label are offering their latest on multiple formats this Tuesday - CD, VHS, or DVD. Entitled Jimi Hendrix: Blue Wild Angel, this project collects his entire 140-minute historic set at the Isle of Wight. The DVD film is specially released in the "picture in picture" format, allowing multiple camera choices. Look for the DVD to contain bonus material such as handbills, posters, tickets, and handwritten lyrics.
Television Alert:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno welcomes Sixpence None the Richer on Thursday and Bonnie Raitt on Tuesday; The Late Show with David Letterman hosts Jay-Z on Thursday and Missy Elliott on Tuesday; Late Night with Conan O'Brien dishes up Spoon on this evening overnight, Blues Traveler on Friday overnight, and The Other Ones on Tuesday overnight; and The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn revs with Chevelle on Friday overnight.
New Releases Coming Tuesday, November 12:
... and like the winds, young grasshopper, are subject to change
5-Cent Deposit - We Have Your Daughter (Radical) loud and catchy punk
Boy Sets Fire - Live for Today (Equal Vision) limited-edition 10-inch vinyl and CD EP
Campfire Girls - Delongpre (Birdman/Mootron)
Phil Collins - Testify (Atlantic)
Crazytown - Darkhorse (Columbia) with new drummer Kyle Hollinger and new guitarist Craig "Squirrel" Tyler, and special guest Rivers Cuomo of Weezer
Die Another Day - original motion picture soundtrack (Warner Bros) featuring the title track by Madonna
Missy Elliott - Under Construction (Elektra)
Enya - Only Time (Reprise) four-CD box set
Bill Hicks - Flying Saucer Tour Volume 1 (Rykodisc) debut of this series of complete live concerts, this one documenting a gig in 1991 that he claimed was "the worst audience I've ever faced"
Rick James - Street Songs (Motown) expanded and re-mastered CD re-issue of this 1981 party-jam classic with original 12-inch mixes of "Super Freak" and "Give It to Me Baby"
Juliana Theory - Love (Epic) produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads
Kid Kilowatt - Guitar Method (Hydra Head)
King Crimson - Ladies of the Road (Discipline Global Mobile) two-CD collection of live material from 1971 and 1972
Kool G Rap - The Giancana Story (Rawkus/Koch) with guests Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Blackchild, and more
Liars - Fins to Make Us More Fish Like (Mute) EP
Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates (Suicide Squeeze)
Gilles Peterson - Desert Island Mix (Journey By DJ)
The Pretenders - Loose Screw (Artemis) all-new album
Saliva - Back into Your System (Island)
The Sights - Got What We Want (Fall of Rome)
Justin Timberlake - Justified (Jive) solo debut featuring guests Janet Jackson, Brian McKnight, Mario Winans, and Bubba Sparxxx
TLC - 3D (Arista) with producers Babyface, Dallas Austin, Timbaland, and Missy Elliott
Justin Trevino - The Scene of the Crying (Lone Star) new from the blind Austin, Texas, country singer-songwriter, with guests Wanda Jackson and Jimmy C. Newman
various artists - Bellydance Superstars (Mondo Melodia/Ark 21) 16 butt-shaking tracks
Television Alert:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno welcomes Sixpence None the Richer on Thursday and Bonnie Raitt on Tuesday; The Late Show with David Letterman hosts Jay-Z on Thursday and Missy Elliott on Tuesday; Late Night with Conan O'Brien dishes up Spoon on this evening overnight, Blues Traveler on Friday overnight, and The Other Ones on Tuesday overnight; and The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn revs with Chevelle on Friday overnight.
New Releases Coming Tuesday, November 12:
... and like the winds, young grasshopper, are subject to change
5-Cent Deposit - We Have Your Daughter (Radical) loud and catchy punk
Boy Sets Fire - Live for Today (Equal Vision) limited-edition 10-inch vinyl and CD EP
Campfire Girls - Delongpre (Birdman/Mootron)
Phil Collins - Testify (Atlantic)
Crazytown - Darkhorse (Columbia) with new drummer Kyle Hollinger and new guitarist Craig "Squirrel" Tyler, and special guest Rivers Cuomo of Weezer
Die Another Day - original motion picture soundtrack (Warner Bros) featuring the title track by Madonna
Missy Elliott - Under Construction (Elektra)
Enya - Only Time (Reprise) four-CD box set
Bill Hicks - Flying Saucer Tour Volume 1 (Rykodisc) debut of this series of complete live concerts, this one documenting a gig in 1991 that he claimed was "the worst audience I've ever faced"
Rick James - Street Songs (Motown) expanded and re-mastered CD re-issue of this 1981 party-jam classic with original 12-inch mixes of "Super Freak" and "Give It to Me Baby"
Juliana Theory - Love (Epic) produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads
Kid Kilowatt - Guitar Method (Hydra Head)
King Crimson - Ladies of the Road (Discipline Global Mobile) two-CD collection of live material from 1971 and 1972
Kool G Rap - The Giancana Story (Rawkus/Koch) with guests Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Blackchild, and more
Liars - Fins to Make Us More Fish Like (Mute) EP
Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates (Suicide Squeeze)
Gilles Peterson - Desert Island Mix (Journey By DJ)
The Pretenders - Loose Screw (Artemis) all-new album
Saliva - Back into Your System (Island)
The Sights - Got What We Want (Fall of Rome)
Justin Timberlake - Justified (Jive) solo debut featuring guests Janet Jackson, Brian McKnight, Mario Winans, and Bubba Sparxxx
TLC - 3D (Arista) with producers Babyface, Dallas Austin, Timbaland, and Missy Elliott
Justin Trevino - The Scene of the Crying (Lone Star) new from the blind Austin, Texas, country singer-songwriter, with guests Wanda Jackson and Jimmy C. Newman
various artists - Bellydance Superstars (Mondo Melodia/Ark 21) 16 butt-shaking tracks
