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New Release Tuesday: Arthur Russell & Ryan Adams
Also of note this week: Ryan Adams and the Cardinals' Cardinology. The album is teeming with classic influence from Gram Parsons to U2, and defines an Adams that is clean and powerful, but also quite focused. We seem poised to finally experience Ryan Adams the juggernaut that he wants to be.
When Arthur Russell died of AIDS in 1992, he left he partner, Tom Lee, with over 1,000 tapes of unfinished songs. For those that knew him, this isn't a surprise at all. Russell was known for being a musical explorer, constantly scrapping and revisiting pieces he worked on. Though he rarely ever felt as though he had a truly completed composition, he did write and release a myriad of tunes, and his brilliance amidst a variety of styles was just as restless as his process. Russell, a classically-trained cellist, wrote instrumental pieces, classical albums, disco hits and more Eno-inspired art pop pieces. Across the board, his work has been heralded as some of the most special and intriguing ever written -- partly because Russell the man was at once sensitive and bewildering, and partly because his songwriting abilities were so advanced across disciplines they inspired awe.
His fans have a very special year in 2008. Along with this release, a 21 song collection of Russell's folk-pop home recordings and demos, they are being treated to Matt Wolf’s (finally) completed documentary Wild Combination. On November 3rd and 5th, the film will premiere at the Alamo Drafthouse. Follow the jump to watch the trailer.
Arthur Russell [Audika] [Wild Combination film]
he 88: Not Only... But Also
Arthur Russell: Love Is Overtaking Me
The Band: The Band (vinyl reissue)
The Band: Music From Big Pink (vinyl reissue)
Band from TV: Hoggin All The Covers
Beach Boys: Endless Summer (vinyl reissue)
Bloc Party: Intimacy (vinyl)
Boz Scaggs: Speak Low
caUSE co-MOTION!: It's Time!
The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium (vinyl)
Cheap Trick: At Budokan (vinyl reissue)
Cobra Verde: Haven't Slept All Year
Crystal Stilts: Alight of Night (vinyl)
The Cure: Dream 4.13 (vinyl)
Cynic: Traced On Air
Darling Downs: From One to Another
Dave Alvin: The Best of the Hightone Years
David Benoit: Jazz For Peanuts - Charlie Brown TV Themes
Deerhunter: Microcastle (vinyl)
Devo: Greatest Misses (reissue)
DJ Babu: Duck Season 3
Dungen: 4 (vinyl)
Eagles of Death Metal: Heart On
Emery: While Broken Hearts Prevail EP
Envy-Jesu: Envy-Jesu (vinyl)
Fight Bite: Emerald Eyes
Forgive Durden: Forgive Durden Presents Razia's Shadow: A Musical
George Carlin: FM & AM (reissue)
George Carlin: Jammin in New York (reissue)
Hank Williams: The Unreleased Recordings
Horse Feathers: Words Are Dead (vinyl)
Hunter S. Thompson: The Gonzo Tapes:The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
I Am Robot and Proud: Uphill City (vinyl)
It's a Musical: Music Makes Me Sick (vinyl)
Jesse Malin: On Your Sleeve
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced? (vinyl reissue)
Jimi Hendrix: Axis: Bold as Love (vinyl reissue)
John Legend: Evolver (with DVD)
John Lennon: Rock 'N' Roll (vinyl reissue)
John Zorn: Film Works, Vol. 21: Belle de Nature/Rijksmuseum
Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash's America
Juliette Commagere: Queens Die Proudly
Kaiser Chiefs: Off With Their Heads (vinyl)
KaiserCartel: Okay...and Other Things We Feel EP
Lady Gaga: The Fame
Langhorne Slim: When the Sun's Gone Down
Larkin Grimm: Parplar
Living Colour: CBGB Omfug Masters: August 19 2005 the Bowery Collection
Loreena McKennitt: A Midwinter Night's Dream
Lovedrug: The Sucker Punch Show
Lucinda Williams: Lu in 08 (digital only)
M83: Digital Shades Vol. 1 (reissue)
Manual: Confluence
Marillion: Marbles (reissue)
Marillion: Vol. 1-Happiness Is the Road: Essence
Marillion: Vol. 2-Happiness Is the Road: the Hard Shoulder
Marykate O'Neil: mkULTRA
The Matthew Herbert Big Band: Goodbye Swingtime (reissue)
Matthew Herbert: There's Me and There's You
Merle Haggard: Live from Austin, TX '78 (with DVD)
Metallica: And Justice For All (4-disc vinyl reissue) (2-disc vinyl reissue)
Nick Jaina: A Narrow Way (vinyl)
No-Neck Blues Band: Clomeim (vinyl)
O'Death: Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus (vinyl)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez: Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far) (vinyl)
Pere Ubu: Dub Housing (reissue)
Pink: Funhouse
The Pretenders: Isle of View (reissue)
Queen: A Day at the Races (vinyl reissue)
Queen: A Night at the Opera (vinyl reissue)
Queen: Queen II (vinyl reissue)
Queen: Sheer Heart Attack (vinyl reissue)
Queen & Paul Rodgers: The Cosmos Rocks (vinyl)
Rachael Yamagata: Elephants: Teeth Sinking Into Heart (vinyl)
Red Eyed Legends: Wake Up, Legend
Rodrigo y Gabriela: Live in Japan
Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure (vinyl reissue)
Roxy Music: Roxy Music (vinyl reissue)
Ruth: Anorak
Ry Cooder: The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals: Cardinology
School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms
SCSI-9: Easy as Down
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (vinyl reissue)
The Small Faces: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (vinyl reissue)
Snow Patrol: A Hundred Million Suns (with DVD) (vinyl)
Spiritualized: Songs in A & E (vinyl)
Squarepusher: Just a Souvenir (vinyl)
Starflyer 59: Dial M
Susan Tedeschi: Back To The River
Those Poor Bastards: Satan is Watching
Tom Gabel Aga: Heart Burns EP
Tom Russell: Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology
Trail of Dead: Festival Thyme (vinyl)
Unbunny: Sensory Underload: Uncertain
Various Artists: Garage Band Christmas - Volume 1
Various Artists: Putumayo Presents: Women of Jazz
The Verve: Urban Hymns (vinyl reissue)
Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power and the Amorphous Strums: Dark Developments
Waylon Jennings: Live from Austin, TX '84
Waylon Jennings: Only The Best of Waylon Jennings
Wings: Band on the Run (vinyl reissue)
