Television Alert:
“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”
welcomes Musiq Soulchild tonight, Lady
Antebellum on Thursday and the bird
and the bee on Monday; “The Late Show
with David Letterman” boasts of Montreal
on Thursday, Todd Rundgren on Friday
and Andrew Bird on Tuesday; “Jimmy
Kimmel Live” hosts Boz Scaggs on Tuesday
overnight; and catch Fall Out Boy live
on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” this
evening and “Live With Regis and Kelly” on
Thursday morning.
New Releases Coming Tuesday, Jan. 27:
(and like the winds, young grasshopper,
are subject to change...)
Afro Samurai: The Resurrection —
original television soundtrack (Wu Music
Group) presented by the RZA, with guests
Rugged Monk, Rah Digga, Boy Jones and
Sly Stone
Lily Allen — “The Fear” (Regal) importonly
single
the bird and the bee — Ray Guns Are
Not Just The Future (Blue Note) offering
the bonus “totally rude remix” of “Polite
Dance Song” with the digital purchase of
the album
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
— “Gunpowder” (Lost Highway) available
only as a digital download or a 10-inch vinyl
EP, this is swampy, sassy, pure dynamite
old-school funk from the back woods juke
joint your momma warned you about, as
sweaty and greasy as James Brown fronting
a Mississippi Delta-bound Funkadelic
Cotton Jones — Paranoid Cocoon (Suicide
Squeeze Records) new from Michael Nau
and Whitney McGraw of Page France
dlek — Gutter Tactics (Ipecac)
Diagonal — Diagonal (Rise Above) organdriven
psychedelic wig-out that straddles
between free-form jazz and cubic King
Crimson chases
Pat DiNizio — Pat DiNizio/Buddy Holly
(Koch) love letter to the roots of rock icon,
covering eleven of Holly’s best including a
doo-wop spin on “That’ll Be the Day” and
inventive string arrangements by Charles
Calello
Diplo — Decent Work for Decent Pay:
Collected Works: Volume One (Big Dada/
Ninja Tune) compilation with remixes of
songs by MIA, Daft Punk, Spank Rock and
Hot Chip
Fleet Foxes — “Mykonos” (Bella Union)
import-only single
Franz Ferdinand — Tonight: Franz
Ferdinand (Domino) also available in a
“special edition” featuring a hardback book,
six bonus 7-inch singles, a dub mix of the
entire album and a documentary DVD
Damon Fowler — Sugar Shack (Blind Pig)
sporting a rockin’ cover of Merle Haggard’s
“Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down” by the
slide guitarist
Andy Friedman — Weary Things (City
Salvage Records) a famed cartoonist with
work appearing in The New York Times and
The New Yorker, the Brooklyn-based singer
sets a sad tone with “I Miss Being Broken,
Lowdown and Alone” and rocks the house
with the George Thorogood boogie of
“Locked Out of the Building”
From Jupiter — No, Seriously (Third Eye)
produced by Mudrock, this is high-energy
punk-pop from former members of Class
Clown
Future of the Left — Last Night I Saved Her
From Vampires (4AD) live album
The Guggenheim Grotto — Happy the
Man (United For Opportunity Records)
second album from the Dublin duo, recently
capturing the No.-1 spot on iTunes folk
chart
Hoobastank — For (N)ever (Island)
featuring the single “My Turn”
Lars Horntveth — Kaleidoscopic
(Smalltown Supersound) masterful,
adventurous 37-minute composition by
the National Band and Jaga Jazzist founder,
using the 41 members of the Latvian
National Orchestra to paint this slow motion
Alice In Wonderland wandering stroll
Hot Chip — Made In the Dark EP
(Parlophone) limited edition CD of three
songs recrafted with Robert Wyatt and a
remix of “One Pure Thought” by Geese
Kid Sister — Dream Date (Downtown)
LeATHERMOUTH — XO (Epitaph) with
guest Frank lero of My Chemical Romance
The Mickeys — Walk Along (RiverBeat
Music) sophomore release from the
identical twins, covering Tom Petty’s lullaby
“Alright for Now”
Kylie Minogue — Boombox: The Remix
Album 2000-2008 (Astralwerks) with
knob twiddling courtesy of the Chemical
Brothers, Fischerspooner, Knuckleheadz
and Sebastien Leger
My Chemical Romance — “Desolation
Row” (Reprise) 12” vinyl picture-disc
advance single from the Watchmen
soundtrack, covering Bob Dylan and backed
by a track from Tyler Bates’ film score
My Morning Jacket — Live At the Palms
(iTunes exclusive) six-track digital-only
EP affectionately dubbed “Ryan Pickett
Presents, in Association with Pickettmax
Films: Candles and Panties ’08-the iTunes
EP- LIVE in Las Vegas! A Ryan Pickett
Production” in tribute to their sound
engineer
Nickel Eye — The Time of the Assassins
(Ryko) new solo album from Strokes’ bassist
Nikolai Fraiture, with guest pianist Regina
Spektor and the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Nick
Zinner on guitar, closing out with a cover
of Leonard Cohen’s “That’s No Way To Say
Goodbye”
Of Montreal — The Jon Brion Remix EP
(Polyvinyl) five-track CD EP featuring an
acoustic version of “First Time High” and
extended and intrumental versions of
“Gallery Piece”
Mark Olson & Gary Louris — Ready For
the Flood (New West) a perfect harmony
reunion produced by the Black Crowes’
Chris Robinson, this is the first new music
from the Jayhawks co-founders in over
10 years — setting out across America
acoustically next month
The Alan Parsons Project — Pyramid,
Eve, The Turn of a Friendly Card, Ammonia
Avenue, Stereotomy and Gaudi (Arista
Legacy) six more remastered reissues under
the complete transformation of his entire
catalog, featuring many bonus demos,
alternative vocal, and overdubbed rarities,
including a “more cowbell” mix of “Games
People Play”
Kenneth Pattengale — Storied Places
(Milan) flickering in the candle light of Lyle
Lovett, James Taylor and the Guthries, these
clever, seductive and relaxed songs evoke
the vagabond-hobo and the cool, sly lean of
Tom Waits
Rhythm Angels — Girls Like Us (High
Horse) easy going, harmonic debut from
the female acoustic duo, highlighted by the
haunting “If I Had a Gun”
Sepultura — A-LEX (Steamhammer/SPV)
CD or two-LP set inspired by Anthony
Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange
Bruce Springsteen — Working On a Dream
(Columbia) “deluxe edition” featuring a
bonus behind-the-scenes DVD
Volcano Suns — All Night Lotus Party &
The Bright Orange Years (Merge) remastered
reissues
Tyrone Wells — Remain (Universal
Republic) pensive pop from the Spokane,
Wash. singer/songwriter who has found
his work scattered featured in episodes of
television’s “One Tree Hill,” “Rescue Me”
and “The Ghost Whisperer”
various artists
— Johnny Cash Remixed
(Compadre) previously only available
digitally, the CD features a Pete Rock remix
of “Folsom Prison Blues,” Alabama 3’s take
on “Leave That Junk Alone” and Snoop Dogg
adding some flavor to QDT Music’s remix of
“I Walk the Line”
various artists
— Just Like Heaven: A
Tribute To the Cure (American Laundromat)
reinterpretations of 16 forgotten classics,
highlighted by “The Lovecats” by Tanya
Donelly, “Friday I’m In Love” by Dean &
Britta and “Let’s Go To Bed” by Cassettes
Won’t Listen
John James can be found via cyberspace
at yeahyeah@cinci.rr.com.
