Pop links: New Radiohead! Dr. Who meets Hamlet! Wally Wood's Captain Science! Adam West returns to Batman! Bob Dylan Christmas album?!!!!
Radiohead have made a new single available for download.
"Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" [is available via Radiohead's] online store, Waste Merchandising...the five and a half minute digital file costs £1.00 or $1.70 for U.S. customers. Proceeds from the sales will be donated to the Royal British Legion.
The BBC Radio 4 website is currently streaming the track and the song pays tribute to Harry Patch, the last known British World War I veteran who passed away on July 25. Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke was reportedly moved by an interview the BBC Radio 4 conducted with Patch in 2005.
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Outgoing "Doctor Who" star David Tennant will star in a production of "Hamlet" to air on PBS next year.
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More Doctor Who: Check out this 1970s ad for Weetabix.
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Read a 1950s Captain Science tale illustrated by the great Wally Wood.
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Bob Dylan is recording a Christmas album?!!!
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Word is Adam West will voice the character of Thomas Wayne on a season 2 episode of "Batman: Brave and the Bold." Some other familiar voices will also be heard on the ep:
Julie Newmar as Martha Wayne
Kevin Conroy as The Phantom Stranger
Mark Hamill as The Spectre
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Rolling Stone checks in with Smokey Robinson, who has a new album out later this month.
"Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" [is available via Radiohead's] online store, Waste Merchandising...the five and a half minute digital file costs £1.00 or $1.70 for U.S. customers. Proceeds from the sales will be donated to the Royal British Legion.
The BBC Radio 4 website is currently streaming the track and the song pays tribute to Harry Patch, the last known British World War I veteran who passed away on July 25. Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke was reportedly moved by an interview the BBC Radio 4 conducted with Patch in 2005.
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Outgoing "Doctor Who" star David Tennant will star in a production of "Hamlet" to air on PBS next year.
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More Doctor Who: Check out this 1970s ad for Weetabix.
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Read a 1950s Captain Science tale illustrated by the great Wally Wood.
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Bob Dylan is recording a Christmas album?!!!
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Word is Adam West will voice the character of Thomas Wayne on a season 2 episode of "Batman: Brave and the Bold." Some other familiar voices will also be heard on the ep:
Julie Newmar as Martha Wayne
Kevin Conroy as The Phantom Stranger
Mark Hamill as The Spectre
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Rolling Stone checks in with Smokey Robinson, who has a new album out later this month.
Action figures: Doctor Who "Third Doctor" figures
Being a Jon Pertwee fan, I think these upcoming releases look pretty cool:
Third Doctor with 'Death to the Daleks' Dalek
Third Doctor with 'The Sea Devils' Sea Devil
Third Doctor with 'Death to the Daleks' Dalek
Third Doctor with 'The Sea Devils' Sea Devil
Out-of-print reggae releases now on iTunes
A treasure trove of out-of-print reggae releases on the famed Island Records label are now available via iTunes.
Exclusively available on iTunes and released by Island/UMe will be six "Digital 45s" from the Congoes, Zap Pow and others; a new Bob Marley & The Wailers EP compilation; 10 out-of-print albums and previously unavailable digitally from the likes of the Heptones, Wailing Souls, and George Faith; and three new multi-artist collections.
The "Digital 45s" (bold indicates a digital premiere) are "Congo Man"/"Congo Man Chant" (Congoes), "Ballistic Affair"/"Ballistic Dub" (Leroy Smart), "Dreadlocks in Moonlight"/"Cut Throat" (Lee Perry), "To Be A Lover (Have Mercy)"/"Diana" (George Faith), "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"/"The Dealer" (Arthur Louis) and "This Is Reggae Music"/"Break Down The Barriers" (Zap Pow).
The albums debuting for digital download are Night Food (The Heptones), Wild Suspense (Wailing Souls), To Be A Lover (George Faith), Black Roots (Sugar Minott), Classic Rockers (Augustus Pablo), Jezebel and Just In Time (Justin Hinds & The Dominoes), and the compilations Dubmission and Dubmission 2 -- The Remixes.
The I Know A Place EP collects five tracks Bob Marley & The Wailers recorded with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. The title track was first issued on the limited edition retrospective One Love in 2001, has been out of print since, and now makes its digital premiere on I Know A Place. "Who Colt The Game" was issued on the bonus disc that accompanied the U.K. edition of One Love and similarly has been out of print; "Smile Jamaica [version]" was culled from the 2001 Expanded Edition of Kaya. And both "Punky Reggae Party" [Jamaican 12" version] in its full "discomix" and the complete recording of "Keep On Moving" hail from the 2001 Exodus Deluxe Edition.
Additionally, three new Island 50th Anniversary - branded 10-track compilations will be issued exclusively on iTunes. Roots Train boasts Junior Murvin, Max Romeo & The Upsetters, Lee Perry, Jah Lion and others. Crucial Classics features vintage recordings from Jimmy Cliff, Burning Spear, Toots & The Maytals, The Heptones and more, while Dreadlocks In Moonlight offers romantic reggae classics from Black Uhuru, Dillinger, Toots Hibbert, George Faith and Gregory Isaacs, among others.
Exclusively available on iTunes and released by Island/UMe will be six "Digital 45s" from the Congoes, Zap Pow and others; a new Bob Marley & The Wailers EP compilation; 10 out-of-print albums and previously unavailable digitally from the likes of the Heptones, Wailing Souls, and George Faith; and three new multi-artist collections.
The "Digital 45s" (bold indicates a digital premiere) are "Congo Man"/"Congo Man Chant" (Congoes), "Ballistic Affair"/"Ballistic Dub" (Leroy Smart), "Dreadlocks in Moonlight"/"Cut Throat" (Lee Perry), "To Be A Lover (Have Mercy)"/"Diana" (George Faith), "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"/"The Dealer" (Arthur Louis) and "This Is Reggae Music"/"Break Down The Barriers" (Zap Pow).
The albums debuting for digital download are Night Food (The Heptones), Wild Suspense (Wailing Souls), To Be A Lover (George Faith), Black Roots (Sugar Minott), Classic Rockers (Augustus Pablo), Jezebel and Just In Time (Justin Hinds & The Dominoes), and the compilations Dubmission and Dubmission 2 -- The Remixes.
The I Know A Place EP collects five tracks Bob Marley & The Wailers recorded with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. The title track was first issued on the limited edition retrospective One Love in 2001, has been out of print since, and now makes its digital premiere on I Know A Place. "Who Colt The Game" was issued on the bonus disc that accompanied the U.K. edition of One Love and similarly has been out of print; "Smile Jamaica [version]" was culled from the 2001 Expanded Edition of Kaya. And both "Punky Reggae Party" [Jamaican 12" version] in its full "discomix" and the complete recording of "Keep On Moving" hail from the 2001 Exodus Deluxe Edition.
Additionally, three new Island 50th Anniversary - branded 10-track compilations will be issued exclusively on iTunes. Roots Train boasts Junior Murvin, Max Romeo & The Upsetters, Lee Perry, Jah Lion and others. Crucial Classics features vintage recordings from Jimmy Cliff, Burning Spear, Toots & The Maytals, The Heptones and more, while Dreadlocks In Moonlight offers romantic reggae classics from Black Uhuru, Dillinger, Toots Hibbert, George Faith and Gregory Isaacs, among others.
New comics Aug. 5, 2009: Buffy! Flash of Two Worlds! Doom Patrol! Spidey! Subby! Torch! Young Allies! More!
Releases of note this week. Click the title links to order discounted books from Amazon.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #27 Season 8 continues.
SAGA OF SOLOMON KANE A trade paperback collecting Marvel Comics' adaptation of the Robert E. Howard pulp hero's adventures.
DC CLASSICS LIBRARY FLASH OF TWO WORLDS Spotlighting team-ups between the Silver- and Golden-age Flashes. Collects FLASH #123, 129, 137, 151 and 173.
DOOM PATROL #1 A new, Keith Giffen-scripted effort to revive this beloved team. Features a new Metal Men backup feature. Great combo, but I'll have to see if I dig the execution.
WEDNESDAY COMICS #5 Continuing DC's wonderful new tabloid-size anthology series.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #601 The 600th anniversary issue last month was a gem, featuring a warm, funny script by Dan Slott and pages upon pages of lovely John Romita Jr. art. A truly fun comic to read. This week sees the return of Mary Jane Watson in a script by Mark Waid, which could also be pretty danged good.
MARVEL MASTERWORKS GOLDEN AGE YOUNG ALLIES Vol. 1 Bucky, Toro and other young heroes take center stage in these 1940s adventures.
MARVEL MASTERWORKS SUB-MARINER Vol. 3 Silver Age Subby! Collecting SUB-MARINER #2-13.
SPIDER-MAN AND THE HUMAN TORCH Collecting Dan Slott's enjoyable mini from a few years back--a title that woke me up to the fact that not everything Marvel publishes these days is terrible, soul-less dreck.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #27 Season 8 continues.
SAGA OF SOLOMON KANE A trade paperback collecting Marvel Comics' adaptation of the Robert E. Howard pulp hero's adventures.
DC CLASSICS LIBRARY FLASH OF TWO WORLDS Spotlighting team-ups between the Silver- and Golden-age Flashes. Collects FLASH #123, 129, 137, 151 and 173.
DOOM PATROL #1 A new, Keith Giffen-scripted effort to revive this beloved team. Features a new Metal Men backup feature. Great combo, but I'll have to see if I dig the execution.
WEDNESDAY COMICS #5 Continuing DC's wonderful new tabloid-size anthology series.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #601 The 600th anniversary issue last month was a gem, featuring a warm, funny script by Dan Slott and pages upon pages of lovely John Romita Jr. art. A truly fun comic to read. This week sees the return of Mary Jane Watson in a script by Mark Waid, which could also be pretty danged good.
MARVEL MASTERWORKS GOLDEN AGE YOUNG ALLIES Vol. 1 Bucky, Toro and other young heroes take center stage in these 1940s adventures.
MARVEL MASTERWORKS SUB-MARINER Vol. 3 Silver Age Subby! Collecting SUB-MARINER #2-13.
SPIDER-MAN AND THE HUMAN TORCH Collecting Dan Slott's enjoyable mini from a few years back--a title that woke me up to the fact that not everything Marvel publishes these days is terrible, soul-less dreck.
Pop links: Superman documentary! Buck Rogers discovers e-mail! Kirby Estate and Simon fighting over American?
Via Booksteve: A BBC documentary on Superman from 1981, featuring interviews with the Man of Steel's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, cartoonist Will Eisner and many more.
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Also from Booksteve: Buck Rogers foresees e-mail!
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Dynamite Comics plans to revive Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Fighting American character. The Kirby Estate approves of the deal but Joe Simon evidently doesn't.
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Also from Booksteve: Buck Rogers foresees e-mail!
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Dynamite Comics plans to revive Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Fighting American character. The Kirby Estate approves of the deal but Joe Simon evidently doesn't.
CD new releases Aug. 3, 2009: Modest Mouse! G.I. Joe! Miracles! Brian Wilson! Jim James solo! More!
New CD releases of note this week. Click the title links to order discounted items from Amazon.
No One's First, and You're Next by Modest Mouse
The Classic Prestige Sessions 1951-1956 by Miles Davis
G.I. Joe - Soundtrack
Depend on Me: The Early Albums by The Miracles
Tribute To by Yim Yames (tribute to George Harrison by My Morning Jacket vocalist Jim James. I checked out the samples at Amazon and like it a lot)
What Love Can Do by Various (various artists in new recordings produced by Phil Ramone, including a new tune by Brian Wilson, plus a new version of his "God Only Knows." The rest of the lineup looks pretty lame, though)
Dog House Music by Seasick Steve
Birth of the Teen Idols by Various Artists
Many Moods & The Big O by Roy Orbison
Three Classic Albums- Jazz Red Hot & Cool/Newport 1958/Jazz Goes To Junior College by Dave Brubeck
The Electric Asylum, Vol. 3: Rare British Acid Freakrock by Various Artists
Box Set by Robert Wyatt
No One's First, and You're Next by Modest Mouse
The Classic Prestige Sessions 1951-1956 by Miles Davis
G.I. Joe - Soundtrack
Depend on Me: The Early Albums by The Miracles
Tribute To by Yim Yames (tribute to George Harrison by My Morning Jacket vocalist Jim James. I checked out the samples at Amazon and like it a lot)
What Love Can Do by Various (various artists in new recordings produced by Phil Ramone, including a new tune by Brian Wilson, plus a new version of his "God Only Knows." The rest of the lineup looks pretty lame, though)
Dog House Music by Seasick Steve
Birth of the Teen Idols by Various Artists
Many Moods & The Big O by Roy Orbison
Three Classic Albums- Jazz Red Hot & Cool/Newport 1958/Jazz Goes To Junior College by Dave Brubeck
The Electric Asylum, Vol. 3: Rare British Acid Freakrock by Various Artists
Box Set by Robert Wyatt
DVD new releases Aug. 4, 2009: Flight of the Conchords! Scewball icons! Daffy Duck! Elvis!
New releases of note this week. If any of these items are of interest to you, please consider clicking the titles and ordering them from Amazon, as part of the proceeds help support this site!
Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Second Season
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
The Wizard of Oz (Import - English - All Regions)
Icons of Screwball Comedy, Vol 1
Icons of Screwball Comedy Vol. 2
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
Elvis Presley: The Ed Sullivan Shows: The Performances
Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Second Season
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
The Wizard of Oz (Import - English - All Regions)
Icons of Screwball Comedy, Vol 1
Icons of Screwball Comedy Vol. 2
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
Elvis Presley: The Ed Sullivan Shows: The Performances
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