19
Oct
2004
• Led Zeppelin fanatics get a big screen treat this coming Monday evening at 35 Regal Cinemas across the country, as the theatre chain will dim the lights for a special showing of No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded one day before its DVD release. The Warner Strategic Marketing issue, also available on CD, first premiered on MTV in 1994.
• Call it creepy in an antiseptic, mass-marketed, suburban-hell sort of way, but Sony Music's Legacy imprint is pressing exclusive vinyl for the mallrats who haunt the goth superstore Hot Topic. Talk about pearls before swine: First up is a special repressing of The Clash's epic London Calling.
• In other vinyl-only news, this Tuesday Elektra and Rhino Records team up for a limited-edition (5,000 copies) audiophile release of Metallica's first four studio albums and two EPs, simply entitled Vinyl Box. Pressed on 180-gram slabs of luxurious "licorice pizza," the LPs will sport newly designed gatefold jackets and retail for about a hundred bucks.
• The first volume in Simon & Schuster's just released memoirs by Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One, is also available in the audio-book format. Who's the voice reading Dylan's first-person narratives on four cassettes or five CDs? None other than actor Sean Penn.
Television Alert:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno welcomes Elvis Costello tonight and Simple Plan on Thursday; The Late Show with David Letterman hosts Bjork on Thursday and college boy Tommy Lee on Friday; The Late Late Show sports Duran Duran on Thursday overnight; Last Call with Carson Daly features the Blind Boys of Alabama with Ben Harper on Friday overnight; Jimmy Kimmel Live boasts Bowling for Soup this evening overnight, Elvis Costello on Thursday overnight, Jimmy Eat World on Friday overnight, and Interpol on Tuesday overnight; and Saturday Night Live's musical guest this weekend is Ashlee Simpson.
New Releases Coming Tuesday, October 26:
... and like the winds, young grasshopper, are subject to change
Allister - Dead Ends & Girlfriends and Last Stop Suburbia (Drive-Thru) re-issues from 1999 and 2002
American Head Charge - The Feeding (DRT/Nitrus)
American Minor - The Buffalo Creek (Zomba/Jive) four-track CD EP
Michael Bloomfield - If You Love the Blues, Play 'em As You Please (Kicking Mule) CD reissue from 1976
Blues Explosion - Damage (Sanctuary) special vinyl version
J. Boogie's Dubtronic Science - Live! In the Mix (Om Records) mixing beats with sitar, flute, and saxophone
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Mute) new two-CD set featuring organist James Johnston of Gallon Drunk
Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather (Columbia) still sexy at 70, this new album features a cover of Pee Wee King's "Tennessee Waltz"
Dead Science - Bird Bones in the Bughouse (Absolutely Kosher) featuring a must-hear cover of Terrence Trent D'Arby's "Sigh Your Name"
Death in Vegas - Satan's Circus (Drone Records) debut of the group's artist-owned label, available in a three-LP gatefold set, CD, or limited-edition CD with a bonus live DVD
Depeche Mode - Remixes 81-04 (Reprise) with remixes from Goldfrapp and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park
Discharge - Society's Victims (Castle/Sanctuary) three-CD best-of collection with new tracks
Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself (V2) enhanced CD
The Donnas - Gold Medal (Atlantic) new release featuring DualDisc technology
The Futureheads - Invade America (Sire/Startime) on tour with Franz Ferdinand
Gaelle - Transient (Naked Music) debut from this Wamdue Project vocalist
Grateful Dead - Beyond Description: 1973-1989 (Rhino) 12-CD box set featuring 60 previously unreleased tracks from its 161-track list
Grateful Dead - So Many Roads 1965-1995 (Warner Bros) five-CD box set
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Our Kind of Soul (U-Watch) collection of classic soul songs by The Spinners, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, and more
Happy the Man - The Muse Awakens (Inside Out) all new
I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In the House - Menace (In Music We Trust) with guests the Hell's Belles
Isidore - Isidore (Brash Music) new from Steve Kilbey of The Church and Jeffrey Cain of Remy Zero
Jackie-O - Poe Little Rich Girl (TVT) with guests Betty Wright, Trick Daddy, and Ying Yang Twins
Jobraith - Lonely Planet Boy (Attack) lost tracks from this 1970s glam sensation, lovingly collected by Morrissey
King Crimson - The 21st Century Guide: Volume One (Discipline Global) four-CD box set focusing on the years 1969 to 1974
Luna - Rendezvous (Jetset) their seventh and swan-song studio album, featuring a song inspired by Edward Lear's poem "The Owl & the Pussycat"
Michael McDonald - Motown 2 (Motown) covers collection featuring classics including "Mercy Mercy Me" and "Second That Emotion"
Medications - Medications (Dischord) five-track CD featuring former members of Faraquet and Smart Went Crazy
David Morales - 2 Worlds Collide (Def Mix) new studio album featuring vocalist Lea-Lorien on four tracks
Negativland - Helter Stupid (Seeland) CD re-issue of this prank project from 1989
The Nels Cline Singers - The Giant Pin (Crypto Gramophone) instrumental side project from the Wilco guitarist
Steve Nieve - Windows: Music for Musician(s) & Open Windows (Valley) new album of meditative music from The Attractions' keyboardist
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador) expanded two-CD re-issue commemorating the album's 10th anniversary
Popol Vuh - In the Garden of Pharao (SPV) CD re-issue from 1972 with 20 extra minutes of Moog madness
Powerman 5000 - The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (Megatronic) collection of 20 rarities and B sides, including the group's cover of Bjork's "Army of Me"
The Randies - At the Friendship Motor Inn (Elicit/Majestic) harmonic pop punk touring soon with The Muffs
The Routineers - The Routineers (Sammich/Dischord) formerly known as Deep Six; this new album was recorded with Ian MacKaye
Saint Etienne - The Trip Created by Saint Etienne (Family) eclectic two-CD collection of songs that have influenced the band and found their way into its record bag, from Serge Gainsbourg's "Cannabis" to Dusty Springfield's "I Start Counting"
Scum of the Earth - Blah ... Blah ... Blah ... Love Songs for the New Millennium (Eclipse) new interactive CD from Rob Zombie guitarist Riggs and Powerman 5000 guitarist Mike Tempesta
Simple Plan - Still Not Getting Any ... (Lava) on tour starting next week with Mae and Plain White T's
These Enzymes - Henry (Doghouse) five-track CD EP of brutal metalcore featuring members of The All-American Rejects
Ulysses - 010 (Eenie Meenie) new side project from Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo
UNKLE - Never, Never Land (Global Underground) with guests Brian Eno, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Ian Brown of Stone Roses, and 3D of Massive Attack
various artists - How Soon Is Now? (Rykodisc) an emo and punk tribute to The Smiths featuring contributions from Million Dead, The Beautiful Mistake, Your Code Name Is: Milo, and more
various artists - MTV2 Presents: The Shortlist 2004 (Razor & Tie) nominated tracks from Franz Ferdinand, Jem, Loretta Lynn, The Killers, and more
various artists - This Is Indie Rock: The Best Bands You've Never Heard (Deep Elm) global label showcase of artists and bands stretching from Ireland to Israel to Normal, Illinois
Voltaire - Then & Again (Projekt)
• Call it creepy in an antiseptic, mass-marketed, suburban-hell sort of way, but Sony Music's Legacy imprint is pressing exclusive vinyl for the mallrats who haunt the goth superstore Hot Topic. Talk about pearls before swine: First up is a special repressing of The Clash's epic London Calling.
• In other vinyl-only news, this Tuesday Elektra and Rhino Records team up for a limited-edition (5,000 copies) audiophile release of Metallica's first four studio albums and two EPs, simply entitled Vinyl Box. Pressed on 180-gram slabs of luxurious "licorice pizza," the LPs will sport newly designed gatefold jackets and retail for about a hundred bucks.
• The first volume in Simon & Schuster's just released memoirs by Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One, is also available in the audio-book format. Who's the voice reading Dylan's first-person narratives on four cassettes or five CDs? None other than actor Sean Penn.
Television Alert:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno welcomes Elvis Costello tonight and Simple Plan on Thursday; The Late Show with David Letterman hosts Bjork on Thursday and college boy Tommy Lee on Friday; The Late Late Show sports Duran Duran on Thursday overnight; Last Call with Carson Daly features the Blind Boys of Alabama with Ben Harper on Friday overnight; Jimmy Kimmel Live boasts Bowling for Soup this evening overnight, Elvis Costello on Thursday overnight, Jimmy Eat World on Friday overnight, and Interpol on Tuesday overnight; and Saturday Night Live's musical guest this weekend is Ashlee Simpson.
New Releases Coming Tuesday, October 26:
... and like the winds, young grasshopper, are subject to change
Allister - Dead Ends & Girlfriends and Last Stop Suburbia (Drive-Thru) re-issues from 1999 and 2002
American Head Charge - The Feeding (DRT/Nitrus)
American Minor - The Buffalo Creek (Zomba/Jive) four-track CD EP
Michael Bloomfield - If You Love the Blues, Play 'em As You Please (Kicking Mule) CD reissue from 1976
Blues Explosion - Damage (Sanctuary) special vinyl version
J. Boogie's Dubtronic Science - Live! In the Mix (Om Records) mixing beats with sitar, flute, and saxophone
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (Mute) new two-CD set featuring organist James Johnston of Gallon Drunk
Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather (Columbia) still sexy at 70, this new album features a cover of Pee Wee King's "Tennessee Waltz"
Dead Science - Bird Bones in the Bughouse (Absolutely Kosher) featuring a must-hear cover of Terrence Trent D'Arby's "Sigh Your Name"
Death in Vegas - Satan's Circus (Drone Records) debut of the group's artist-owned label, available in a three-LP gatefold set, CD, or limited-edition CD with a bonus live DVD
Depeche Mode - Remixes 81-04 (Reprise) with remixes from Goldfrapp and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park
Discharge - Society's Victims (Castle/Sanctuary) three-CD best-of collection with new tracks
Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself (V2) enhanced CD
The Donnas - Gold Medal (Atlantic) new release featuring DualDisc technology
The Futureheads - Invade America (Sire/Startime) on tour with Franz Ferdinand
Gaelle - Transient (Naked Music) debut from this Wamdue Project vocalist
Grateful Dead - Beyond Description: 1973-1989 (Rhino) 12-CD box set featuring 60 previously unreleased tracks from its 161-track list
Grateful Dead - So Many Roads 1965-1995 (Warner Bros) five-CD box set
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Our Kind of Soul (U-Watch) collection of classic soul songs by The Spinners, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, and more
Happy the Man - The Muse Awakens (Inside Out) all new
I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In the House - Menace (In Music We Trust) with guests the Hell's Belles
Isidore - Isidore (Brash Music) new from Steve Kilbey of The Church and Jeffrey Cain of Remy Zero
Jackie-O - Poe Little Rich Girl (TVT) with guests Betty Wright, Trick Daddy, and Ying Yang Twins
Jobraith - Lonely Planet Boy (Attack) lost tracks from this 1970s glam sensation, lovingly collected by Morrissey
King Crimson - The 21st Century Guide: Volume One (Discipline Global) four-CD box set focusing on the years 1969 to 1974
Luna - Rendezvous (Jetset) their seventh and swan-song studio album, featuring a song inspired by Edward Lear's poem "The Owl & the Pussycat"
Michael McDonald - Motown 2 (Motown) covers collection featuring classics including "Mercy Mercy Me" and "Second That Emotion"
Medications - Medications (Dischord) five-track CD featuring former members of Faraquet and Smart Went Crazy
David Morales - 2 Worlds Collide (Def Mix) new studio album featuring vocalist Lea-Lorien on four tracks
Negativland - Helter Stupid (Seeland) CD re-issue of this prank project from 1989
The Nels Cline Singers - The Giant Pin (Crypto Gramophone) instrumental side project from the Wilco guitarist
Steve Nieve - Windows: Music for Musician(s) & Open Windows (Valley) new album of meditative music from The Attractions' keyboardist
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador) expanded two-CD re-issue commemorating the album's 10th anniversary
Popol Vuh - In the Garden of Pharao (SPV) CD re-issue from 1972 with 20 extra minutes of Moog madness
Powerman 5000 - The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (Megatronic) collection of 20 rarities and B sides, including the group's cover of Bjork's "Army of Me"
The Randies - At the Friendship Motor Inn (Elicit/Majestic) harmonic pop punk touring soon with The Muffs
The Routineers - The Routineers (Sammich/Dischord) formerly known as Deep Six; this new album was recorded with Ian MacKaye
Saint Etienne - The Trip Created by Saint Etienne (Family) eclectic two-CD collection of songs that have influenced the band and found their way into its record bag, from Serge Gainsbourg's "Cannabis" to Dusty Springfield's "I Start Counting"
Scum of the Earth - Blah ... Blah ... Blah ... Love Songs for the New Millennium (Eclipse) new interactive CD from Rob Zombie guitarist Riggs and Powerman 5000 guitarist Mike Tempesta
Simple Plan - Still Not Getting Any ... (Lava) on tour starting next week with Mae and Plain White T's
These Enzymes - Henry (Doghouse) five-track CD EP of brutal metalcore featuring members of The All-American Rejects
Ulysses - 010 (Eenie Meenie) new side project from Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo
UNKLE - Never, Never Land (Global Underground) with guests Brian Eno, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Ian Brown of Stone Roses, and 3D of Massive Attack
various artists - How Soon Is Now? (Rykodisc) an emo and punk tribute to The Smiths featuring contributions from Million Dead, The Beautiful Mistake, Your Code Name Is: Milo, and more
various artists - MTV2 Presents: The Shortlist 2004 (Razor & Tie) nominated tracks from Franz Ferdinand, Jem, Loretta Lynn, The Killers, and more
various artists - This Is Indie Rock: The Best Bands You've Never Heard (Deep Elm) global label showcase of artists and bands stretching from Ireland to Israel to Normal, Illinois
Voltaire - Then & Again (Projekt)
