The Last Waltz Done Live At Club Deville
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EAST Interview: Nick Henning at Pump Project
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Also worth checking out this week: Sarah Jarosz's Song Up in Her Head, vinyl reissues of Roxy Music's Country Life and Stranded, Merle Haggard's Mama Tried, and a remastered version of Big Star's #1 Record/Radio City.
George Harrison Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison (EMI)
Sadly, the Dark Horse still hasn't received a proper collection of his work. This album (one of a string of half-hearted EMI releases) includes a handful of songs considered by many to be some of his greatest, but offers them as "2009 digitally remastered" versions that either a) poop on the Spector-produced originals or b) poop on the Harrison-produced versions. Pulling mainly from his epic inaugural solo effort All Things Must Pass, Let It Roll sloppily churns out lackluster remasters of hits "What Is Life", "Isn't It a Pity" and "My Sweet Lord", throwing in gratuitous live versions of Beatles tunes and -- naturally -- opening track "I've Got My Mind Set On You." Completists will still grab this one because of the live tracks (we're never content with just forty live versions of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"), but we're still waiting for either a reissue of The Best of Dark Horse (a now out-of-print collection) or a truly curated Wingspan-esque box of Harrison's gems. Bootlegs Beware of Abkco, Completed Rarities, and the Yesterday session with Bob Dylan should all resurface in legitimate form, and albums like Thirty Three & 1/3, Dark Horse and Extra Texture all deserve a deep-track listen by potential curators. Until the Dark Horse label itself offers a greatest compilation, we'll probably be left in want.
Among the Oak & Ash: Among the Oak & Ash (vinyl)
Amorphis: Skyforger
The Beach Boys: Sunflower (vinyl reissue)
The Beach Boys: Surf's Up (vinyl reissue)
Bear McCreary: Caprica (soundtrack)
Big Star: #1 Record/Radio City (remastered)
Black Eyed Peas: The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) (vinyl)
The Builders and the Butchers: Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well
Carolina Liar: Show Me What I'm Looking for
Clock Hands Strangle: Distaccati
Coldplay: Limited Edition Tour Pack
Depeche Mode: The Dark Progression Unauthorized (dvd)
Depeche Mode: Peace
Devin Townsend: Ki
Flo & Eddie: New York Times
George Harrison: Let It Roll: The Songs of George Harrison
Gossip: Heavy Cross
Green Day: Nimrod (vinyl reissue)
Ha Ha Tonka: Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
Hank Williams Jr.: 127 Rose Avenue
Holly Williams: Here With Me
Incubus: Monuments & Melodies (vinyl)
Jill Scott: The No. 1 Lady Remixed
John Lennon: Live Peace In Toronto (vinyl reissue)
Kim Lenz: It's All True!
Lee "Scratch" Perry: Return from Planet Dub
The Legends: Over and Over
Major Lazer: Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do
The Mary Onettes: Dare
Masada: Stolas: The Book of Angels, Vol. 12
Megadeth: So Far, So Good, So What (vinyl reissue)
Merle Haggard: Mama Tried (vinyl reissue)
Metric: Fantasies (vinyl)
Miss Kittin: First Album (reissue)
Nickodemus: Sun People
Patterson Hood: Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) (vinyl)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mother's Milk (vinyl reissue)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Uplift Mofo Party Plan (vinyl reissue)
Red House Painters: Songs for a Blue Guitar (vinyl reissue)
Rock Plaza Central: At the Moment of Our Most Needing
Roxy Music: Country Life (vinyl reissue)
Roxy Music: Stranded (vinyl reissue)
Rolling Stones: The Biggest Bang [Blu-ray] (dvd)
Sarah Jarosz: Song Up in Her Head
Sex Pistols: Sex, Anarchy & Rock N' Roll Swindle (vinyl reissue)
The Specials: The Specials (vinyl reissue)
Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead
Spinnerette: Spinnerette
Stone Breath: Silver Skein Unwound
Street Sweeper Social Club: Street Sweeper Social Club
Taking Back Sunday: New Again (vinyl)
Those Darlins: Those Darlins (vinyl)
Tiny Masters of Today: Skeletons
The Waifs: Live from the Union of Soul
The Wallflowers: Collected: 1996-2005
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