Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Pearl Jam will re-issue Ten in four deluxe versions!
Wow. Here are the details of the re-issue.
Summary:
1. Legacy Edition (2-disc set in mini-LP style slipcase):
Disc 1: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered (original mix)
Disc 2: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered and remixed by Brendan O'Brien, plus six bonus tracks: Brother, Just a Girl, State of Love and Trust, Breath and a Scream, 2,000 Mile Blues and Evil Little Goat
- Re-designed packaging
2. Deluxe Edition (2-disc set plus DVD specially designed hardbound package):
Disc 1: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered (original mix)
Disc 2: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered and remixed by Brendan O'Brien, plus six bonus tracks: Brother, Just a Girl, State of Love and Trust, Breath and a Scream, 2,000 Mile Blues and Evil Little Goat
- DVD of Pearl Jam's previously unreleased 1992 MTV Unplugged performance including never before seen bonus performance of Oceans with 5.1 surround sound audio remix
3. Vinyl Collection (2-LP set)
LP 1: original Ten tracklisting remastered for vinyl
LP 2: original Ten tracklisting remastered for vinyl and remixed by Brendan O'Brien
Disc 1: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered (original mix)
Disc 2: original Ten tracklisting digitally remastered and remixed by Brendan O'Brien, plus six bonus tracks: Brother, Just a Girl, State of Love and Trust, Breath and a Scream, 2,000 Mile Blues and Evil Little Goat
- DVD of Pearl Jam's previously unreleased 1992 MTV Unplugged performance including never before seen bonus performance of Oceans with 5.1 surround sound audio remix
- LP 1: original Ten tracklisting remastered for vinyl
- LP 2: original Ten tracklisting remastered for vinyl and remixed by Brendan O'Brien
- LP 3 & 4: Drop in the Park - Live at Magnuson Park in Seattle on September 20, 1992 (audio mixed by Brendan O'Brien)
- Cassette replica of original Momma-Son Pearl Jam demo cassette featuring Alive, Once and Footsteps
- Package also includes an Eddie Vedder-style composition notebook filled with replica personal notes, images and mementos from the collections of Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament, a vellum envelope with replicated era-specific ephemera from Pearl Jam's early work and a two-sided print commemorating the Drop in the Park concert
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Letterman's Best Interviews of the Year.
Very funny stuff. Especially when he rips on The Hill's cast.
Monday, December 08, 2008
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Top Five Albums of 2008
Hi Music fans. Believe it or not it's the end of another music year and it's time for Kicked It In the Sun rate the best five albums.
This post won't be as long as last year's Top Five, but hopefully you will find some new bands to listen to and/or you will recommend a few bands yourself.
Please post your own Top Five in the comments section below. On to the countdown...
5. Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours
This Australian 8o's influenced post-wave band created the perfect "original music mix tape remix album". I know that doesn't make too much sense but the album just flows like you are grooving to it at a club. Songs blend in to each other and just when one groove starts to become old and new hook grabs you. Fun party music for sure. The best track is Lights and Music.
4. Ra Ra Riot- The Rhumb Line
These guys kind of remind me of a more uptempo early Death Cab For Cutie combined with The Cure,strings,and some bizarre arrangements. Very poppy but sad. I think the stand out tracks are Ghost Under Rocks and Can You Tell (which is also one of the best pop songs of the year). I'll be honest and tell you this album is not an amazing first listen. Instead it grows and grows on you as you notice more and more little treasures with each listen.
3. Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
It's rare that blog bands ever live up to the hype (see Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Tapes-n-Tapes). However, Vampire Weekend have created an album full of hit singles. Everyone of these afro-centric pop songs clocks in at four minutes or under, contains multiple hooks, and is very easy to sing along to. They pay homage to influences like Paul Simon and the Arctic Monkeys without ripping them off directly.
Are they are great live band? No. Are their ironic preppy outfits annoying? Yes. It this album one of the best debuts ever? Also yes.
mp3: Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
A-Punk
Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
2. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
Picture early My Morning Jacket with harmonies borrowed from the Byrds or Beach Boys. The music sounds earthy without seeming too hippy-ish and sounds big while at same time still feeling lo-fi. White Winter Hymnal is easily the most beautiful song that came out in 2008 and Ragged Wood pays homage to some of the folkier Grateful Dead songs.
1. The Dodos- Visiter
Visiter is the hidden treasure of 2008. This duo combines the acoustic punk of Neutral Milk Hotel with bizarre original arrangements that would make Modest Mouse or Arcade Fire happy. They put on a stellar live show and make some cool videos too. Plus, it's nice to listen to a band where the drummer (Logan Kroeger) is part of the team as opposed to just a supporting player.
Free Downloads: Jodi, and Fools.
Listen to the entire album here.
Other great bands that released awesome records this year:
The Raconteurs, Girl Talk, The Hold Steady, Kings of Leon, My Morning Jacket, MGMT, Conor Oberst, Bon Iver, R.E.M, Beck, M83,Okkervil River, Deerhunter, The Whigs, and Blitzen Trapper.
NME's Top 50 albums of 2008
Rolling Stone's Top 50
Stereogum's Top 50
Spin's Top 40 albums
Paste Magazine's Top 50
Here is a suggested Best of 2008 mix (click the picture for a bigger view).
Click here to purchase mix on iTunes.
Click in the comments section below to post your own top five albums.
Saturday, December 06, 2008
The Dark Knight in Imax again!
The Dark Knight will be re-released in Imax theaters on January 23rd.
Click here for details and an interview with Christopher Nolan.
Friday, December 05, 2008
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Monday, December 01, 2008
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