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November 22, 2008
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak streaming now, out Monday which is one day after Axl Rose releases his
Kanye West's new album 808s & HEARTBREAK is out in stores on Monday 11/24, but will be streaming at MySpace in its entirety as of midnight (pacific time) Friday night/Saturday morning. Monday is a weird release day.
In a move no doubt designed to get a jump on holiday sales (and facilitate maximum one-stop shopping), Island Def Jam announced that it has moved the release date for three of the label's biggest albums -- West's 808s & Heartbreak, Luda's Theater of the Mind and the Killers' Day & Age -- from a traditional Tuesday launch up to Monday, November 24. All three albums will be available both digitally and physically on that date.Chinese Democracy is also now streaming at MySpace.According to a spokesperson for the label, it's a "one time only" strategy, which will jump the industry-wide release schedule "in anticipation of big Thanksgiving-weekend holiday gift shopping."
It bears mentioning that Tuesday release dates have become more and more arbitrary in recent months: Metallica's Death Magnetic was released on Friday, September 12, AC/DC's Black Ice hit Wal-Mart shelves on Sunday, October 20, and Guns N' Roses' much-anticipated Chinese Democracy is slated for a Sunday, November 23, release at Best Buy. [MTV]
Meanwhile, people are already making end of year 'Best Of' lists.
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November 17, 2008
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
Anathallo's Canopy Glow is the standout music release this week, one that is sure to end up on many "best of 2008" album lists.
Other albums released this week that I have heard and can definitely recommend include Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band's The Mountain, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan's Sunday at Devil Dirt, Max Tundra's Parallax Error Beheads You, and Momus's Joemus.
Technically, it's not a reissue, but Belle and Sebastian's The BBC Sessions is an amazing set of recordings from one of my favorite bands.
Reissues this week include several discs by Dead Can Dance and three vinyl albums from Ida.
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November 10, 2008
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
Celebrate U.S. president-elect Barack Obama's election win with Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement. The disc features contributions by Bono, Stevie Wonder, Kanye West, and even Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Senator McCain can console himself this week with the Abba: The Albums, the 9-CD box set from his favorite band.
Two releases slipped up on me this week. Barbara Morgenstern releases her new album BM, tomorrow, and powerpop darlings the Pillbugs drop Everybody Wants a Way Out. Both are at the top of my shopping list.
Other releases that have been sent my way that I can strongly recommend include Au Revoir Simone's Reverse Migration (remixes), Danielson's retroospective Trying Hartz, Deer Tick's War Elephant, Denison Witmer's Carry The Weight, the Postmarks' By the Numbers, and Vetiver's More of the Past EP.
Five remastered New Order albums are out tomorrow (Brotherhood, Low-Life, Movement, Power Corruption & Lies,, Technique), complete with bonus discs filled with demos, b-sides and live tracks.
Other reissues include the Led Zeppelin Definitive Collection, which collects the band's albums in a mini-LP format on CDs. The 13-disc Genesis Box Set 3 (1970-1975) completes Rhino's set of reissues from the band.
This week's "actors who sing" releases include Kevin Costner & Modern West's Untold Truths and Billy Bob Thornton's Christmas album with the Boxmasters, Christmas Cheer.
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November 3, 2008
LB's Interesting CD Releases This Week ++ Why Obama?
Since July 23rd, Largehearted Boy has been running a feature on his own site where he asks musicians to answer the question, "Why Obama?". If you haven't already (or lately), check that out before continuing with his listing of this week's new music releases...
Ode to J. Smith, the latest album by Travis, sees its US release tomorrow.
Though there may be a shortage of marquee releases this week, there is no shortage of quality music. From the promos I have already sifted through, I can recommend Black Moth Super Rainbow's Drippers EP, Cale Parks' Sparklace, Dragonette's Galore, Eulogies' Tempted to Do Nothing, Grampall Jookabox's Rope Chain, Little Joy's self-titled debut (which features the Strokes' Fabrizio Moretti), The Music Lovers' Masculine Feminine, and Wilderness's (k)no(w)here.
If you were waiting for the vinyl, Ryan Adams' Cardinology, The Streets' Everything Is Borrowed, and Prototypes' Synthetique are all in stores tomorrow.
Merge Records has the week's two outstanding reissues. Both Magnetic Fields' Get Lost and Polvo's Celebrate The New Dark Age EP have been remastered and are available tomorrow on vinyl. Camera Obscura's Underachievers Please Try Harder is also finally available on vinyl.
Lou Reed's Coney Island Baby and Berlin are available as a two-for-one reissue at a bargain price, as is Bruce Springsteen's Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. & The Wild, The Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle.
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October 27, 2008
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals release Cardinology this week. I'm hoping this album is a grower, I found myself fast-forwarding through much of the album on the first couple of plays.
From my ever-growing promo pile I can recommend Arthur Russell's Love Is Overtaking Me (a collection of unreleased songs), Bloc Party's Intimacy, Crystal Stilts' Alight of Night, the Darling Downs' From One to Another, Deerhunter's Microcastle, Larkin Grimm's Parplar (my favorite release of the week), Marykate O'Neil's mkULTRA and Lovedrug's The Sucker Punch Show.
Hank Williams' The Unreleased Recordings is definitely on my shopping list, along with The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed.
Vinyl reissues abound this week, especially from classic acts like Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Roxy Music and Wings.
Fans of the writer Hunter S. Thompson will want to check out The Gonzo Tapes:The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a 5-CD box set of recordings by the author.
For your holiday mixtape needs, Garage Band Christmas - Volume 1 looks interesting.
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October 21, 2008
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping is out today in a dizzying array of formats (including t-shirts and totebags).
What the week lacks in star power it makes up in quality releases. From what has already crossed my path, I can recommend +/-'s Xs on Your Eyes, The Dears' Missiles, Herman Düne's Next Year in Zion, Parts & Labor's Receivers, Pit Er Pat's High Time , Sebastian Grainger's Sebastien Grainger and the Mountains, The Whispertown 2000's Swim, and especially White Hinterland's Luniculaire EP. (The Dears have 2 CMJ shows this week, and you can catch Sebastian for free at BV's Thursday day party at Pianos).
Cellist Erik Friedlander may have the most interesting album of the week. Indie rock fans might know Friedlander from his work on the past several Mountain Goats albums Broken Arm, features Friedlander's innovative bow-less playing (in the style of Oscar Pettiford). (fun fact: Erik Friedlander played a BV CMJ day party in 2007)
A couple of Swervedriver remastered discs are out this week, the imports Ejector Seat Reservation and Raise. The vinyl reissue of PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love is high on my shopping list (catch Swervedriver side project - hey, they're back together - Magnetic Morning at CMJ this year.).
Two classic rock box sets that might make great holiday presents are the 12-disc The Doors: Perception and the 13-disc Genesis: 1970-1975
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October 13, 2008
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
Lucinda Williams releases her album tomorrow, Little Honey, which finds the singer-songwriter surprisingly content.
Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power, and The Amorphous Strums' Dark Developments combines some of my favorite musicians in this release from Orange Twin.
The week's release list is filled with worthwhile music, from what I have already heard I can recommend The Courteeners' St. Jude, Frances' All the While, Hearts of Palm UK's For Life, Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs' Dirt Don't Hurt, Nick Jaina's A Narrow Way, and Windy & Carl's Songs for the Broken Hearted.
Holiday music continues to released in droves, this week in no exception. You can celebrate a Psychobilly Christmas, a Jazz & Blues Christmas (compiled by Putumayo), a Classic Rock Christmas, Christmas A Go-Go or even a metal Xmas and headbanging New Year. Not into compilations? Spend a classical holiday with Yo-Yo Ma's Songs of Joy & Peace or a more rocking time with The Fleshtones' Stocking Stuffer.
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October 6, 2008
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
DOWNLOAD: Deerhoof - Offend Maggie (MP3)
I have been streaming tracks for the last week from Bob Dylan's latest album in his "bootleg" series, Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8, and am looking forward to picking up a copy of the 2-disc release tomorrow. I only wish I could afford the $100+ deluxe edition, which comes with a bonus CD, along with a 150 page book with artwork of every 7" Dylan has ever released.
With Christmas (and the end of the year) approaching, the release weeks get deeper and deeper. The new Antony and the Johnsons EP, Another World, is a wonderful teaser for the band's new album. Other new music releases I can recommend include Castanets' City of Refuge, Deerhoof's Offend Maggie, Ezra Furman and the Harpoons' Inside The Human Body, Her Space Holiday's XOXO, Panda and The New Kid Revival, Jolie Holland's The Living and the Dead, Juana Molina's Un Dia, Kate Gaffney's The Coachman, Lambchop's OH (ohio), Land of Talk's Some Are Lakes, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Not Animal, Marnie Stern's This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That, Oasis' Dig Out Your Soul, Rachael Yamagata's Teeth Sinking Into Heart, and The Streets' Everything Is Borrowed. What a wonderful week to be an indie music fan...
As unique a Christmas album as will be released this year is Julian Koster's Singing Saw at Christmastime (and yes, the Music Tapes' founder does play a singing saw on the album). More traditional holiday albums this week come from George Strait, Mannheim Steamroller, and the rockabilly renditions of the Brian Setzer Orchestra's The Ultimate Christmas Collection.
Four Black Sabbath remastered albums head up the reissue list this week: Dehumanizer, Heaven & Hell, Live Evil, Mob Rules (all available on vinyl as well as CD).
Two Brian Eno/Robert Fripp collaborations are reissued this week, Evening Star, No Pussyfooting, along with MF Doom's MF Doom: Operation Doomsday.
What new releases have you excited? (Editor's note: Department of Eagles)....
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October 1, 2008
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
oops, I forgot to post this monday!...
The Jesus and Mary Chain 4-CD box set of b-sides and rarities, The Power of Negative Thinking, is my favorite new release this week.
From the releases I have already heard, I can also recommend Ani DiFranco's Red Letter Year, Dungen's 4, Gemma Hayes' Hollow of Morning, Madlib's WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip, and the Vivan Girls' self-titled album
Aside from the Jesus and Mary Chain release, box sets are plentiful this week, including Nina Simone's To Be Free, Philip Glass's Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective, and the Miles Davis 50th Anniversary Kind of Blue (2-CDS&DVD&LP) (reissue with bonus tracks).
Holiday albums are becoming more plentiful every week, this week's assortment includes Christmas releases by the Archies, Faith Hill, Melissa Etheridge, and the Flecktones' Jingle All the Way.
The most interesting reissue this week is the remastered U2 live album, Under a Blood Red Sky.
What new music releases can you recommend this week? Have I left anything worthwhile off the list?
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September 22, 2008
Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week
TV on the Radio releases one of the year's most anticipated albums tomorrow, Dear Science.
Other albums I can recommend include the second solo album by Rilo Kiley singer Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue; the All Girl Summer Fun Band's third album, Looking Into It, Blitzen Trapper's Furr; Brightblack Morning Light's Motion to Rejoin; Friendly Fires' self-titled debut full-length; Golden Smog's greatest hits compilation, Stay Golden, Smog: The Best of Golden Smog; Kat Ex & Jon Langford'sKatJonBand; and Mogwai's The Hawk is Howling (and that's just a small sample in a great music release week).
Four remastered Replacements albums are out this week with bonus tracks: All Shook Down, Don't Tell a Soul, Pleased to Meet Me, and Tim.
Also reissued this week are three Danielson Familie vinyl releases: Fetch the Compass Kids, Tell Another Joke at the Ol' Chopping Block, and Tri-Danielson!!! (Alpha | Omega)
What new music releases can you recommend this week? Have I left anything worthwhile off the list?
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