Paul McCartney Live CD/DVD Set Due Out Nov. 17th

What, you thought the Beatles onslaught would end after September 9? Not even close.

In August 1965, the Beatles played a massive concert at New York's Shea Stadium that marked one of the defining moments of their career. Well, Shea Stadium doesn't exist anymore. But in its place, we've got the brand new Citi Field. This past July, Paul McCartney, the Cute Beatle, played three shows at the Mets' new home. Soon, McCartney will release a box set live album/DVD of recordings of those shows.

Good Evening New York City is due November 17 in the U.S. from Hear Music/Concord Music Group. (In the UK, it'll be out November 23 on Mercury.) It's McCartney's second release on Hear Music, Starbucks' record label, following 2007's Memory Almost Full.

You'll be able to buy the album three ways: as a double-CD/DVD package, a deluxe two-CD/two-DVD package, or on vinyl. The bonus DVD in that deluxe package will include video of McCartney's July 15 performance at another Beatles landmark: on top of the marquee at the Ed Sullivan Theater in midtown Manhattan, including songs that didn't air when "Late Night With David Letterman" broadcast the performance.

The album includes McCartney's versions of a whole mess of classic Beatles songs, including "I'm Down", a revival from that 1965 Shea Stadium show. Other Beatles songs on the tracklist include "Drive My Car", "Got to Get You Into My Life", "The Long and Winding Road", "Blackbird", "Eleanor Rigby", "Back in the USSR", "Paperback Writer", "Let It Be", "Helter Skelter", and the obvious stadium singalong jam "Hey Jude". There will also be tributes to fallen Beatles George Harrison (a ukulele-driven version of "Something") and John Lennon (a medley of "A Day in the Life" and "Give Peace a Chance"), as well as songs from Wings ("Band on the Run", "My Love", "Let Me Roll It") and solo McCartney ("Live and Let Die", "Here Today", recent joints "Flaming Pie" and "Dance Tonight"), and a couple of tracks from the album McCartney released as the Fireman last year. All told, the package will include 33 songs and last nearly three hours. (courtesy of Pitchfork.com)

Blakroc Album Out Nov. 27th!

Blakroc is a collaboration between The Black Keys and a host of MCs like Mos Def, Raekwon, RZA, Jim Jones, Pharoae Monch, etc.

More details: www.blakroc.com

Rolling Stones "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out: 40th Anniversary" Details

There will be two deluxe editions released on Nov. 3rd. The first, the deluxe edition, is pictured below and includes 3 CDs, 1 DVD and a Collectors Book ($59.98 list):



The GET YER YA-YA'S OUT: THE ROLLING STONES IN CONCERT 40TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE BOX SET contains 3 CDs, 1 DVD, a 56-page Collectors Book and a postcard replica of the original Rolling Stones 1969 tour poster by David Byrd. The first CD is a remastered version of the original Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out release. The second CD contains 5 unreleased tracks by The Rolling Stones from the original Madison Square Garden concert. The third CD contains 12 never before released tracks by opening acts B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner. The DVD features performances by The Rolling Stones from the 2 night concert at Madison Square Garden, backstage footage, scenes of Keith Richards in the studio and footage of the Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out album cover shoot, all shot by Albert and David Maysles. The 56-page Collectors Book includes photos and an essay by the acclaimed photographer Ethan Russell, an original article by Lester Bangs from Rolling Stone magazine and remembrances from concert-goers. Each box will also have an insert with a code to download "I'm Free (Live)" for Guitar Hero.

The second, the super deluxe edition, is pictured below and includes everything previously mentioned along with 3 LPs ($99.98 list):



GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! THE ROLLING STONES IN CONCERT 40TH ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE BOX SET features three 180 gram audiophile quality vinyl LPs (one side of which features an etched replica of the album's key art, with signatures from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor), 3 CDs that mirror the exact content on the LPs, 1 DVD, a 12 X 12/56-page Collector's Book and a 12 X 12 replica of the original 1969 tour book and poster by Grammy Award© winning artist David Byrd, whose works include the commemorative poster from the original Woodstock Festival and the historic Fillmore East posters from 1968 to 1971.

The first LP is a newly remastered version of the original GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! release. The second LP features 5 unreleased tracks by The Rolling Stones culled from the November 27 & 28, 1969 Madison Square Garden concert master tapes. The third LP features 12 never before released tracks by opening acts B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner. The DVD features performances by the Rolling Stones from their 2 night concert at Madison Square Garden, backstage footage, scenes of Keith Richards in the studio and footage of the GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! album cover shoot, all shot by Albert and David Maysles. The 56-page Collector's Book includes photos and an essay by acclaimed photographer Ethan Russell, an original article by Lester Bangs from Rolling Stone magazine and remembrances from concert-goers. A limited number of the Super Deluxe Box Sets will also contain an insert with a code to download "I'm Free (Live)" for Guitar Hero 5.

Slayer "World Painted Blood" Album details.

From Slayer.net:

World Painted Blood will initially ship with four special collector's edition CD covers. Each of the four covers will display one-fourth of a continental map illustrated with human skulls and bones; when placed together, the four images form a complete and grisly map of the world.

All four of the initial CD packages will include a special blood-red, see-through top panel with the map displayed beneath it.

The World Painted Blood Deluxe Edition will have its own special layout of the map cover art and will be in a double-digipak housed in a blood-red, see-through plastic sleeve. The Deluxe Edition will include the World Painted Blood CD, the "Playing With Dolls" DVD, a 20-minute animated graphic novel featuring music from the album (including part of a new non-album song), and an expanded booklet.

LP version will also be available. All formats are due out Nov. 3rd.

Cool New Box Set! "Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968"

WHERE THE ACTION IS! 4 CD Box in super cool coffee table book packaging compiles 101 tracks that mix many of the city's brightest stars like The Byrds, Love, The Doors, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, Captain Beefheart, The Mamas & The Papas, Lowell George, Iron Butterfly, with talented artists whose stellar songcraft sadly flew under the radar The Seeds, The Electric Prunes, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Everpresent Fullness, The Bobby Fuller Four.

Under the Radar: Choir of Young Believers

New album, "This is For the White in Your Eyes" out now.

New Volcano Choir & Twilight Sad Albums Out Now!

Both albums out now on CD & LP. Pitchfork gave the Volcano Choir an 8.3 "Best New Music" rating and Twilight Sad a solid 7.3 rating.

"Yo Gabba Gabba!" Compilation Due Out October 20th Features The Shins, Biz Markie, The Rootes, etc.

Courtesy of Pitchfork:

The kids' music landscape is pretty bleak for the most part, filled with obnoxiously cute dinky folk music and tinkly Casio lullabies and the Wiggles. So the folks behind the Nickelodeon show "Yo Gabba Gabba!" are doing god's work when they bring deliriously technicolor art-school fantasias like this and this into our living rooms.

As a bonus, the show regularly features appearances from musicians who generally don't have anything to do with the whole rugrat circuit, including the Shins, of Montreal, the Roots, Chromeo, Mark Kozelek, Biz Markie, and I'm From Barcelona. All those folks will soon turn up on the compilation Yo Gabba Gabba! Music Is Awesome!, due October 20 from Filter. Check below for that tracklist. There will also be an iTunes deluxe edition with bonus songs.

This fall, "Yo Gabba Gabba!" will go on tour, staging some sort of show in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Hopefully someone will make a video like this out of it in 20 years or so.

Yo Gabba Gabba! Music Is Awesome!:

01 Yo Gabba Gabba! Theme
02 Party in My Tummy
03 The Shins: "It's Okay, Try Again"
04 I Like to Dance
05 Money Mark: "Robo Dancing"
06 Get the Sillies Out
07 Biz Markie: "Biz's Beat of the Day #1"
08 Chromeo: "Nice 'N' Clean"
09 Try It, You'll Like It
10 The Roots: "Lovely, Love My Family"
11 Don't Be Afraid
12 I'm From Barcelona: "Just Because It's Different Doesn't Mean Scary"
13 Bubbles
14 Of Montreal: "Brush Brush Brush"
15 Nice & Easy
16 The Little Ones: "Hey, Won't Somebody Come and Play"
17 Weird Science: "Go Crazy Remix"
18 Yo Dazzlers: "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
19 Mark Kozelek: "Bedtime Lullaby"
20 Goodbye Song
21 Yo Gabba Gabba! Closing Theme

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"Where The Wild Things Are" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Original Songs By Karen O And The Kids

Due out Sept. 29th through Interscope on CD & LP.

Inside Karen O is a Wild Thing - as singer for the Grammy-nominated Yeah Yeah Yeahs, her wild thing is in your face, vulnerable, obnoxious, tender, exciting... a self-proclaimed "spazoid." To Oscar-nominated Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze, however, Karen O and her music possess something of a child-like innocence, a guileless charm that put her exactly on the right emotional wavelength to sonically capture the film, be it a tender moment or a wild rumpus.

To compose the music, O enlisted friends and fellow musicians she believed had a musical intuition that would bolster her intent to marry sound to vision. Dubbed Karen O and the Kids, these include Tristan Bechet (Services), Tom Biller (co-producer with Karen O and member of Afternoons), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Oscar Michel (Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion, Alaska), Nick Zinner, (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and an untrained children's choir.

NY Times Review of Beatles Remasters

Arts / Music
Long and Winding Road, Newly Repaved
By ALLAN KOZINN
Published: September 6, 2009
For those of us for whom the music is paramount — the newly remastered CDs of the Beatles’ original albums and singles, not the Rock Band video game, are really the main event.

Full article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/arts/music/06alla.html

Thom Yorke New 12 Inch Single Due Out Sept. 21st.

Thom Yorke formally announced his upcoming “Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses”/”The Hollow Earth” 12′’ single today on Radiohead’s Dead Air Space Website. As Rolling Stone previously reported, rumors of the single first emerged when the Canadian record plant in charge of its printing leaked word of its existence. The two songs “are loosely under the Thom Yorke name this time, although these days it’s all getting kind of blurry,” Yorke writes. The 12′’ will be released September 21st.

As Rolling Stone previous wrote and Yorke confirmed today, “Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses” is an older Radiohead track — circa 2001, Yorke writes — that was originally the parenthetical title for “Reckoner,” a song that eventually emerged in a much different form as the centerpiece of In Rainbows. This “Apart By Horses” is a “radical rework” of that original track, Yorke writes, and will also feature Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. As for the b-side, “‘The Hollow Earth’ is a bass menace that was born out of The Eraser period but needed a little more time,” Yorke says. Both tracks were produced by Radiohead’s unofficial sixth member, Nigel Godrich.

Noticeably absent from Yorke’s blurb on Dead Air Space is any mention of whether the song is his contribution to the upcoming soundtrack for the Twilight sequel New Moon, but given the timing of the release — the song will be available on conventional digital music services on October 6th, two weeks before New Moon’s release — “Apart By Horses” still seems to be the frontrunner in terms of Yorke’s contribution. The 12′’ single, which will come with a free download of the tracks, is available now as a pre-order at Radiohead’s w.a.s.t.e. store. Otherwise, Yorke writes you can pick up a copy of the vinyl at your local record store, “if you are lucky enough to have one near you.”

This is Mr. Yorke's statement about the release:

Dear Sir or Madam

This is to inform you of the release of two more bits of work shortly.
They are loosely under the Thom Yorke name this time, although these days its all getting kind of blurry.
FeelingPulledApartbyHorses is written & played by Jonny and I and is a radical rework of an old tune thats been kicking around without a home since 2001? i think.
The Hollow Earth is a bass menace that was born out of the Eraser period but needed a little more time.
Both were produced by Nigel Godrich as ever. And mastered by Bob Ludwig.
They are being put out on 12” with sliced sleeve by Stanley and Tchock.
My sources tell me this will be available from the 21st of September if you’re interested.. On sale in the w.a.s.t.e part of our website (with a gratis download.)
Or you can go buy it in a good record shop if you are lucky enough to have one near you.
Then later on there will be like a normal download thing i think around the 6th of Oct through the usual channels.

And so it goes. all the best
Thom

Beatles Box Sets in HIGH Demand but LOW Availability.

Looks like even the Beatles official store is having trouble filling orders on both the Stereo and Mono versions of the box sets. Courtesy of beatlesnews.com:

Next Wednesday, 09/09/09, is Beatles Day, as The Beatles: Rock Band and the Beatles Remastered CDs are released all over the world. However, it seems many Beatles fans who were looking forward to hearing those Beatles remasters will be disappointed on Beatles Day.

We can now report that as of last night, the official US Beatles store at beatles.com now shows, next to its listings for the box sets, that pre-ordered box sets will be shipped late, not on the originally promised date of 09/09/09.

The site now says that pre-orders for the Beatles Stereo Box set will ship at "the end of September," and the listing for the Beatles Mono Box even later, listed as shipping the "first week of October."


A Beatles News reader tells us that they checked the status of their order on the beatles.com store for the Mono Box last night, and the site shows no info on the order, and further, he says that his bank account, which had been previously charged for the order, now shows the charge for the order, $315 with shipping, as being credited back to his account. He is now concerned that the status of his order has changed, but can't get any further info about it from the site.

Our Beatles News tipster also reports that he was told by a local record store owner in the Dallas, Texas area, that their allotment of stereo box sets has been reduced to just 3 copies by EMI. He says the store owner was told by the label that there may indeed be a shortage of Stereo Box sets on 09/09/09, and that many major retailers will have neither the Stereo or the Mono Box sets in their stores on Beatles Day.

It is not known whether this later shipping date being stated on the beatles.com US store site applies to all pre-orders made from the site, or only those pre-orders made after the stated date change. We are trying to follow up with the company that runs the store on beatles.com, but we haven't gotten any feedback on this from them yet.

Stay tuned to Beatles News for updates on the status of this fast-changing situation.