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Visit the Lost Season 5 to see a preview and read spoilers for tonight's show. The, go back there in the morning for a full rundown of what happened!
New George Harrison best-of CD collection on the way
Let It Roll: The Music of George Harrison, a new compilation of the former Fab's best work will be out June 16, Rolling Stone reports.
All the tracks on Let It Roll will be digitally remastered and assembled in deluxe packaging with rare and unseen photographs. The album will also be released digitally. According to the press release, Harrison’s solo hits “My Sweet Lord,” “Isn’t It A Pity,” “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” and “Got My Mind Set On You” will all be included on the set, and you can assume the collection’s namesake track, All Things Must Pass‘ “Let It Roll,” will also make the cut. Three of Harrison’s most popular songs that he penned for the Beatles are also on the track list: “Something,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Here Comes The Sun” from Harrison’s 1971 Concert For Bangladesh from New York’s Madison Square Garden. The full track list is expected to be announced soon.
All the tracks on Let It Roll will be digitally remastered and assembled in deluxe packaging with rare and unseen photographs. The album will also be released digitally. According to the press release, Harrison’s solo hits “My Sweet Lord,” “Isn’t It A Pity,” “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)” and “Got My Mind Set On You” will all be included on the set, and you can assume the collection’s namesake track, All Things Must Pass‘ “Let It Roll,” will also make the cut. Three of Harrison’s most popular songs that he penned for the Beatles are also on the track list: “Something,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Here Comes The Sun” from Harrison’s 1971 Concert For Bangladesh from New York’s Madison Square Garden. The full track list is expected to be announced soon.
New comics April 15, 2009:
Titles of note this week. Click the links to order discounted books from Amazon:
HERBIE ARCHIVES VOL. 3 Man, these reprints of Ogden Whitney's humor title are coming fast and furiously, aren't they? I've enjoyed what I've seen of "Herbie" and would enjoy getting these books but, alas, there just so much to buy these days. Like food. And beer.
SUPER FRIENDS #14 This is a really nice title for young/beginning readers. Like my daughter!
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #591 My weekly Spidey fix!
ESSENTIAL DAZZLER VOL. 2 "Essential"? Seriously?
SUB-MARINER COMICS 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 New and reprinted Subby stories.
ALEX TOTH GOES HOLLYWOOD This isn't listed on Amazon, so you'll need to ask yer comic shop about ordering it. Sounds great. Here's the solicit info: Alex Toth recreates adventures on the silver screen and the small screen in this collection that features 160 pages of stories including Roy Rogers, The FBI Story, The Lennon Sisters, Range Rider, 77 Sunset Strip, Gale Storm, The Sea Hunt, and more!
HERBIE ARCHIVES VOL. 3 Man, these reprints of Ogden Whitney's humor title are coming fast and furiously, aren't they? I've enjoyed what I've seen of "Herbie" and would enjoy getting these books but, alas, there just so much to buy these days. Like food. And beer.
SUPER FRIENDS #14 This is a really nice title for young/beginning readers. Like my daughter!
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #591 My weekly Spidey fix!
ESSENTIAL DAZZLER VOL. 2 "Essential"? Seriously?
SUB-MARINER COMICS 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 New and reprinted Subby stories.
ALEX TOTH GOES HOLLYWOOD This isn't listed on Amazon, so you'll need to ask yer comic shop about ordering it. Sounds great. Here's the solicit info: Alex Toth recreates adventures on the silver screen and the small screen in this collection that features 160 pages of stories including Roy Rogers, The FBI Story, The Lennon Sisters, Range Rider, 77 Sunset Strip, Gale Storm, The Sea Hunt, and more!
Pop links: Spidey sounds, Phil Spector, Batman trading card art, more "Spectacle" from Elvis Costello
Today in sharity:
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NPR recounts the troubled, and troubling, career of record producer and convicted second-degree murderer Phil Spector.
Long before the jury's final verdict, Spector had vanished from the music industry. He hadn't completed an album since the 1970s. But it almost didn't matter. Spector produced some of the greatest recordings of the 20th century — with Ike and Tina Turner, The Ronettes, The Beatles and many others — but his work was always colored by his mental state.
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A "special edition bundle" for the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band game will include instruments modeled after the band's own guitars, bass and drums.
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Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents some 1960s Batman trading card art by Norman Saunders.
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The Sundance Channel is renewing Elvis Costello's "Spectacle" music talk show.
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NPR recounts the troubled, and troubling, career of record producer and convicted second-degree murderer Phil Spector.
Long before the jury's final verdict, Spector had vanished from the music industry. He hadn't completed an album since the 1970s. But it almost didn't matter. Spector produced some of the greatest recordings of the 20th century — with Ike and Tina Turner, The Ronettes, The Beatles and many others — but his work was always colored by his mental state.
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A "special edition bundle" for the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band game will include instruments modeled after the band's own guitars, bass and drums.
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Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents some 1960s Batman trading card art by Norman Saunders.
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The Sundance Channel is renewing Elvis Costello's "Spectacle" music talk show.
CD new releases April 14, 2009: Dukes of Stratosphear! Simon and Garfunkel live! Handsome Family! Goffin/King! Monks! More!
CD releases of note this week. Click the links to order from Amazon.
The Complete Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Recordings
25 O'Clock by Dukes Of Stratosphear
Psonic Psunspot by Dukes Of Stratosphear
One Foot in the Grave by Beck
Live 1969 by Simon & Garfunkel
Honey Moon by The Handsome Family
Honey and Wine: Another Gerry Goffin and Carole King Song Collection by Various Artists
Black Hearted Love (incl. 2 non-album tracks) by PJ Harvey and John Parish
Heaven All Around Me - The Later King Sessions 1961-1963 by Little Willie John
Destroy That Boy! More Girls with Guitars by Various Artists
The Early: 1964-1965 by The Monks
The Complete Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Recordings
25 O'Clock by Dukes Of Stratosphear
Psonic Psunspot by Dukes Of Stratosphear
One Foot in the Grave by Beck
Live 1969 by Simon & Garfunkel
Honey Moon by The Handsome Family
Honey and Wine: Another Gerry Goffin and Carole King Song Collection by Various Artists
Black Hearted Love (incl. 2 non-album tracks) by PJ Harvey and John Parish
Heaven All Around Me - The Later King Sessions 1961-1963 by Little Willie John
Destroy That Boy! More Girls with Guitars by Various Artists
The Early: 1964-1965 by The Monks
DVD new releases April 14, 2009: Spirit! The Who!
DVDs of interest this week. Click the links to order from Amazon.
The Spirit (Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy)
The Who: Maximum R&B Live
The Spirit (Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy)
The Who: Maximum R&B Live
Pop links: Ditko! Harvey! Veronica! Toth!
Pop links: Zappa! Neko Case! Beatle vision! Frank Springer! More!
Hear a story about the new Frank Zappa collection Lumpy Money on NPR.
It combines music — released and unreleased — that Frank Zappa recorded in 1967. One session produced the Mothers of Invention album We're Only in It for the Money, the group's third release. The other was a surprise.
Zappa was a 26-year-old, self-taught composer with long hair and a funny goatee when he walked into a Capitol Records studio in Los Angeles and handed an orchestra charts for Lumpy Gravy.
"At one point, he turned to me when we were listening, just to playback," Gail Zappa says, "and he said, 'Did I write that?' It was so shocking."
It's almost as if Frank Zappa was writing avant-garde classical music in Top 40 segments, says Rolling Stone's David Fricke, who wrote the liner notes for the new set.
"It just blew my mind," he says.
This has always been my favorite period of Zappa's work.
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Also on NPR: A live performance by alt-country/pop singer Neko Case. She's great.
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Via On My Mind: This is a really nifty-looking Beatles art book/CD holder compiled by the great Bruce Spizer (who's penned a series of great tomes looking at the Fabs' vinyl releases). But will we really need it for storing our CDs once we plunk down big cash for the upcoming Beatles stereo and mono boxsets featuring remastered sound? (And when I say "we" here, I mean "me").
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From Plaid Stallions, the summer 1979 Ideal Toys catalog.
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Golden Age Comic Book Stories shares a few Atlas Western tales with art by Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Bob Powell and others.
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Fred Hembeck pays tribute to late comics artist Frank Springer.
It combines music — released and unreleased — that Frank Zappa recorded in 1967. One session produced the Mothers of Invention album We're Only in It for the Money, the group's third release. The other was a surprise.
Zappa was a 26-year-old, self-taught composer with long hair and a funny goatee when he walked into a Capitol Records studio in Los Angeles and handed an orchestra charts for Lumpy Gravy.
"At one point, he turned to me when we were listening, just to playback," Gail Zappa says, "and he said, 'Did I write that?' It was so shocking."
It's almost as if Frank Zappa was writing avant-garde classical music in Top 40 segments, says Rolling Stone's David Fricke, who wrote the liner notes for the new set.
"It just blew my mind," he says.
This has always been my favorite period of Zappa's work.
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Also on NPR: A live performance by alt-country/pop singer Neko Case. She's great.
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Via On My Mind: This is a really nifty-looking Beatles art book/CD holder compiled by the great Bruce Spizer (who's penned a series of great tomes looking at the Fabs' vinyl releases). But will we really need it for storing our CDs once we plunk down big cash for the upcoming Beatles stereo and mono boxsets featuring remastered sound? (And when I say "we" here, I mean "me").
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From Plaid Stallions, the summer 1979 Ideal Toys catalog.
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Golden Age Comic Book Stories shares a few Atlas Western tales with art by Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Bob Powell and others.
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Fred Hembeck pays tribute to late comics artist Frank Springer.
More on the Dollhouse debacle
Entertainment Weekly has more details about the "Dollhouse" episode Fox has elected not to air this season.
Fox bought and paid for 13 hours of Dollhouse (from sister company 20th Century Fox), one of which turned out to be the scrapped pilot that Whedon wound up reshooting. Which means Day's episode, "Epitaph One," is the 14th -- which the network didn't buy. And isn't going to buy. "We currently do not have plans to air 'Epitaph One,'" says a Fox source, who added that this decision does not reflect the network's feelings about the show or whether Dollhouse will be renewed. An official announcement about Dollhouse's possible return for next season will be made at the network's upfronts in May.
Confusing. So, even though this ep is somehow extra, the fact that the network is choosing not to air it is:
A. Because they have no faith in the show and intend to cancel it.
B. To force fans to buy the "Dollhouse" DVD set.
C. Both of the above.
Fox bought and paid for 13 hours of Dollhouse (from sister company 20th Century Fox), one of which turned out to be the scrapped pilot that Whedon wound up reshooting. Which means Day's episode, "Epitaph One," is the 14th -- which the network didn't buy. And isn't going to buy. "We currently do not have plans to air 'Epitaph One,'" says a Fox source, who added that this decision does not reflect the network's feelings about the show or whether Dollhouse will be renewed. An official announcement about Dollhouse's possible return for next season will be made at the network's upfronts in May.
Confusing. So, even though this ep is somehow extra, the fact that the network is choosing not to air it is:
A. Because they have no faith in the show and intend to cancel it.
B. To force fans to buy the "Dollhouse" DVD set.
C. Both of the above.
Upcoming pop culture DVDs: Doctor Who! Land of the Lost! 60s Peanuts collection! Weeds! Woodstock! More!
Here's a look at upcoming DVDs of interest. Click the title links for more info and to pre-order from Amazon.
Doctor Who, Episodes 11 & 12: The Rescue / The Romans
Out July 7
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen (Episode 138)
Out July 7
Peanuts: 1960's Collection (A Charlie Brown Christmas / Charlie Brown's All-Stars / It's the Great Pumpkin / You're in Love / He's Your Dog / It Was a Short Summer)
Out July 7
Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective
Out June 30
Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
Out June 23
Get Smart: Season 3
Out June 9
Weeds - Season 4
Out June 2
Land of the Lost: Complete Series (Limited Edition Gift Set)
Out May 26
Land of the Lost: The Complete Series
Out May 26
Gunsmoke-Season 3 Vol. 2
Out May 26
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Director's Cut (40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition with Amazon Exclusive Bonus Disc)
Out June 9
Limited Edition T2 Complete Collector's Set (for the Endoskull) [Blu-ray]
Out May 19
Girl on a Motorcycle
Out May 19
Doctor Who, Episodes 11 & 12: The Rescue / The Romans
Out July 7
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen (Episode 138)
Out July 7
Peanuts: 1960's Collection (A Charlie Brown Christmas / Charlie Brown's All-Stars / It's the Great Pumpkin / You're in Love / He's Your Dog / It Was a Short Summer)
Out July 7
Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective
Out June 30
Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
Out June 23
Get Smart: Season 3
Out June 9
Weeds - Season 4
Out June 2
Land of the Lost: Complete Series (Limited Edition Gift Set)
Out May 26
Land of the Lost: The Complete Series
Out May 26
Gunsmoke-Season 3 Vol. 2
Out May 26
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Director's Cut (40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition with Amazon Exclusive Bonus Disc)
Out June 9
Limited Edition T2 Complete Collector's Set (for the Endoskull) [Blu-ray]
Out May 19
Girl on a Motorcycle
Out May 19
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