DVD new releases Sept. 5, 2010: Caprica, Doctor Who animated, Ken Burns Baseball and more

Beauty and the Beast (Three-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo in DVD Packaging)


Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns


The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Complete Seventh Season


Caprica: Season 1.0


All in the Family - The Complete Seventh Season


Gunsmoke: Fourth Season, Volume One


Doctor Who: Dreamland

John Lennon re-masters out today!

John Lennon Signature Box


John Lennon Double Fantasy Stripped Down [New Mix + Original Recording Remastered]


John Lennon Gimme Some Truth


John Lennon Power To The People: The Hits


John Lennon Imagine


John Lennon Plastic Ono Band


John Lennon Mind Games


John Lennon Walls And Bridges


John Lennon Sometime In New York City


John Lennon Rock N Roll


John Lennon Milk And Honey

Pulp cover parade

Free Dylan demo download

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Birds of Prey musical number from Batman: Brave and the Bold

This show is doing it's dangdest to make Batman fun again:

Beach Boys music to feature in new film

The Fox studio has acquired rights to do a film using Beach Boys music. It won't be a bio-pic of the band, but will make heavy use of its music, reports Billboard.

Lady Gaga teams with Yoko Ono at L.A. Plastic Ono concert

From the BBC:

The Poker Face singer, 24, paid tribute to Ono, 77: "Thanks for being so brilliant and such an inspiration to so many women."

The pair ended the evening lying next to each other on the top of a grand piano.

Not surprising these two get along.

The Orb team up with Dave Gilmour: Get trippier

Pitchfork has a review of this pairings new album,  which sounds intriguing:

Records like Spheres usually get filed as "ambient" these days, but that's not quite right here. Sure, it's gorgeous and hypnotic and more about beats than songs and all the things you'd probably expect from this pairing. It's also immersive in an old-school way, a long-player of a very pre-digital vintage, a record for people with enough free time (or a long enough commute) to lose themselves in a 50ish-minute composition. With its dramatically orchestrated peaks and valleys, it's an album designed to be listened to, to Take You Somewhere as you lay on your bedroom floor, to conjure futuristic images in the mind's eye of folks who were once teenage fans.

Adam West as Batman

Wonder Woman TV series planned

After all the talk about a movie (Joss Whedon even tried writing a script, but gave up) there's now discussion of a new Wonder Woman TV series.

If they do it, I hope it's not gonna be one of these superhero series that's afraid to be a superhero series like "Smallville."I think they should go for it, full out, costume, invisible airplane, Paradise Island and all. Camp it up a bit, but don't be overly silly. Make Wonder Woman a tough, smart heroine, but with a little humor, in the "Buffy" mold.

I'd love to see some real superhero series on the small screen. They've been doing well in the theaters lately. Why not give it a shot?

New blog looks at Jack Kirby art, day-by-day

Comics art historian Jon B. Cooke has launched a new blog at the Jack Kirby Museum, which features a new post on the King of Comics everyday. At least that's the plan. Given the depth of the subject, and the magnitude of Kirby's contributions, I don't think it'll be too tough generating posts though. Check it out!

Adam West as Batman

Vintage documentary on Batman TV show

I can't embed the YouTube video, but here's a link. Interesting stuff.

Rare Frank Frazetta book illustrations

I hadn't seen these pieces Frazetta did for 1950s exploitation paperbacks: