Music new release June 19, 2012: Fiona Apple; The Ventures; Brave soundtrack; Game of Thrones Season 2 soundtrack; Can; Nenah Cherry; Neil Young; more!

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The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do by Fiona Apple


Lost Tapes by Can


Brave - Original Score


Game Of Thrones: Season Two


Cherry Thing by Nenah Cherry and the Thing


Official Release Series Discs 1 - 4 by Neil Young


On Stage by the Ventures


Super Psychedelics by the Ventures


Wild Things! by the Ventures


Ernie Kovacs Presents Percy Dovetonsils


Hawaii Five-O by the Ventures

DVD new releases May 19, 2012: Groucho Marx; Space Children; Batman; Laurel and Hardy; Sealab 2020; John Coltrane; Thelonious Monk; Person to Person; Chandu the Magician; more!

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Groucho Marx in the Mikado


The Space Children


Best of Batman


The Flying Deuces (Colorized / Black & White)


Sealab 2020 - The Complete Series


Jazz Icons - John Coltrane: Live in France 1965


Punk Revolution NYC: The Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls And The CBGBs Set


Best of Person to Person: Hollywood Legends


Jazz Icons - Thelonius Monk: Live in France 1969


Jazz Icons - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Live in France 1959


Return Of Chandu The Magician


Batman: Animated Series 3

Video find: Beatles Live at Budokon 1966 - complete performance

Large Batman and cast print by Dick Sprang

Burne Hogarth: Original art for Tarzan Sunday comics page

Pop Culture update: Mile High Comics; John Buscema; Barry Windsor-Smith; Conan;

The Denver Post profiles pioneering comic shop owner Chuck Rozanski, whose 42-year-old Mile High Comics business has expanded to include a 65,000-square-foot warehouse housing "two miles of comics" along it's inner perimeter.

Q: Why do people spend so much money on a collectible comic that they might be able to see scanned online for free?
A: With comics, the tangible has a gratifying aspect. If I wanted to read my 1950s Disney comics, there's no way I'd want to read them on my iPad or Kindle. I want to hold them. There's a sense of ownership. You enjoy the linear progression as a collection. To actually hold an issue in your hand, and know it's one of less than 100 surviving comics in the entire world? Well, that's pretty special.

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Diversions of the Groovy Kind takes a look at John Buscema's "floating head" superhero covers for Marvel Comics.

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Bronze Age Babies offers a side-by-side comparison of artwork by Barry Windsor-Smith and John Buscema, who illustrated adaptation of the Conan story "The Tower of the Elephant."

Vintage movie poster: Red Planet Mars

Video: Beach Boys - A Signature Harmony

Here's an exclusive clip from Rolling Stone featuring Brian Wilson and the band talking about their new reunion LP.

New Amazing Spider-Man movie poster spotlights Spidey and Gwen

The next album in the Paul McCartney reissue campaign is...

Wings Over America, plus the "Rock Show" film on DVD. Details:

The next McCartney album to be reissued will be ‘Wings Over America,’ the 1976 triple live album that documented Wings’ only tour of America, and the first time McCartney had toured America since the Beatles‘ final performance at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park on August 29, 1966.

In addition, ‘Rockshow,’ a concert film from that tour, will be released on DVD for the first time. Previous versions for home consumption, video and laserdisc, had songs removed for time purposes, but the DVD will contain all 30 songs that were featured in the theatrical release.

 More here.

Paul Weller records Birthday tribute to Paul McCartney

The Modfather is issuing his cover of the Beatles' "Birthday" on Macca's 70th, June 18, as a benefit single for the War Child charity. It will be available via download one day only. No info at War Child on where to download the tune or how much it will cost, but I'd imagine you can find out by visiting their site on Monday.

Unbelievably realistic Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow action figure

This is just crazy! I mean, it's like they shrank ScarJo!

BBC radio this week: Stream radio drama, comedy, music documentaries

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England's Still Dreaming: 30 Years of Punk 
Steve Lamacq looks at the seminal events of 1976 which led to the explosion of punk music.

 Radio Luxembourg 208 - Your Station of the Stars 
Noel Edmonds tells the story of Luxy, the original pop music station in the UK

 Shakespeare's London
Writer Iain Sinclair seeks out echoes of Shakespeare's city in the London of today.

 Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda
Swashbuckling adventure set in fictional Ruritania in the 1890s. Starring Douglas Hodge

 Charles Paris: Murder Unprompted
Bill Nighy stars in Simon Brett's tale of the actor who also plays the role of detective

 Charles Paris: Sicken and So Die
Bill Nighy stars in Simon Brett's tale of the actor who also plays the role of detective

 Dickens on Location
The places described by Charles Dickens, explored by the people who live in them today.

 The Goon Show
Classic material from one of the all-time radio comedy greats

 Groucho Was My Father
The daughter of the most famous cigar-smoker in film history shares some intimate epistles

 The Late Alfred Hitchcock Presents
...Hitchcock Presents. Stories inspired by the master of suspense

 Short Stories by Robert Heinlein
Weird and wonderful tales by the American sci-fi writer

 Liverpool: The New Wave
Janice Long presents a series looking at Liverpool's post-Beatles music scene.

 Never Mind the Horlicks: Punk at Middle Age
Tom Robinson traces the legacy of the punk rock explosion of the mid-seventies.

 The Stiff Records Story
Madness frontman Suggs tells the story of the influential record label.