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21 Nights: Prince

Updated Jul 24, 2008

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21 Nights--a first book by Prince and celebrated photographer Randee St. Nicholas, mmmm! could be entertaining.

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Smashing Pumpkins - Rarities and B-Sides

Updated Jul 23, 2008

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The trailer for the movie "Watchmen", features and old song by The Smashing Pumpkins. Featured throughout the entire trailer is "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning", a rare song that was featured on the soundtrack to "Batman & Robin."

The week the The trailer came out the somewhat obscure Smashing Pumpkins song became the 37th most downloaded song on the iTunes music store this week. Not a bad feat for a 10 year old song!

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Die Tote Stadt - San Francisco Opera Sept - Oct 2008

Updated Jul 23, 2008

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A man’s obsession with his dead wife threatens his sanity in Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s intense psychological study—a harrowing mix of hallucinatory fantasy and painful reality that has been compared to Hitchcock’s Vertigo. This emotionally gripping, visually arresting trip into the dark side of a troubled psyche features a voluptuous, colorful score reminiscent of both Puccini and Richard Strauss. Critics called director Willy Decker’s production “magical and intriguing...Decker brilliantly succeeds in blending reality and the dream world.” Donald Runnicles conducts the San Francisco Opera premiere of the renowned film composer and two-time Academy Award winner’s greatest work for the stage.

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The Bonesetter's Daughter - San Francisco Opera Sept - Oct 2008

Updated Jul 23, 2008

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Adapted from the best-selling novel by beloved Bay Area author Amy Tan, this world premiere tells a resonant story of belated intergenerational understanding that leads to emotional healing. A troubled Chinese-American woman learns the horrible secrets of her immigrant mother’s past in this touching and terrifying tale, set in both modern-day San Francisco and the Chinese countryside during the tumultuous events surrounding World War II.

Composer Stewart Wallace (Harvey Milk) incorporates the timbres and textures of Chinese music into his highly expressive and lyrical score—an American opera with roots in China. Mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao, the splendid Suzuki in San Francisco Opera’s recent Madama Butterfly, heads the cast of this deeply personal work. Star of the Lincoln Center Festival’s historic production of The Peony Pavilion, Kunju singer Qian Yi has been acclaimed by the The New York Times Magazine as “China’s reigning opera princess.”

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The Grey Video - DJ Dangermouse - Ramon & Pedro

Updated Jul 17, 2008

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1968 The Beatles release The White Album, 2003 Jay-Z releases The Black Album, 2004 DJ Danger Mouse mixes both: The Grey Album, later that same year Ramon & Pedro join in the fun and an internet hit was born. It was genius still is, worth an encore.

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Green Rocky Road: Karen Dalton

Updated Jul 14, 2008

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Green Rocky Road is as close as we’ll ever get to hearing the record Karen Dalton would have made in 1963. Discovered on the same reel-to-reel tapes that yielded the live performances comprising the Cotton Eyed Joe release, were nine home recordings of Dalton left alone, with no one watching, no audience to please. Accompanied solely by her own sturdy banjo picking and 12 string strumming, her deep blue, smoky-throated singing evokes the voices and faces of past lives lived – the broken-backed pioneer, the coalminer black with shadow, the stained fingers of the slave, the prostitute…the dead and forgotten. Karen was perhaps the last true folk singer and that’s the bases of the potent appeal of her enigmatic art and of her commercial failure during her too-brief lifetime. (via Weekend Edition: NPR)

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The Disintegration Loops I: WILLIAM BASINSKI

Updated Jul 11, 2008

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William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops" is comprised of elegantly beautiful orchestral tape loops that he had recorded in the mid-'80s but as the tapes were being transferred to a digital master, the analogue spool began to disintegrate which ended up further enhancing the already spectral quality of the music. The music uncannily transcends time as the loops swell and fray into seeming infinity.

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DEVO Action Figure

Updated Jul 9, 2008

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The Spuds in Effigy! Single figure in a radiation suit packaged with five interchangeable heads. Includes energy dome and whip. Featuring Bob Casale, Jerry Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh, Mark Mothersbaugh and Josh Freese!

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All You Need Is Love - Tony Palmer

Updated Jul 6, 2008

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There is a code that is hidden in the music you listen to, and by the way this particular code is not made of music notes or digital polarization, the body of this code is generated from cultural, political, geographical and historical events which have been suppressed to the point that the sum of them all have become one of America's biggest national secrets. What's more is the code was cracked back in the early 1970's by documentary filmmaker Tony Palmer who with the help of John Lennon revealed the secret on the BBC in a the 17 segment documentary "All You Need is Love". I recently watched the series at it's U.S. theatrical premier at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, after viewing the just introduction to the sires I kept asking my self why haven't seen anything like this before. The film was a massive success in the UK, yet never found any footing in the U.S. and no other production has ever produced anything as essential as this secret history of 20 Century music. I recommend seeing it.

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All You Need Is Love makes its DVD debut as a lavish boxed set which contains all 17 episodes of the series on 5 discs. Contained within those discs IS the 'Story of Popular Music,' encom-passing Ragtime, Blues, Jazz, Vaudeville, The Musical, Folk, Swing, Country and Western, Rock 'n' Roll and beyond, and includes interviews with some of the major names of the past 50+ years including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimi Hendrix, Stephen Sondheim, Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby, Mike Oldfield, The Beach Boys, Tina Turner, Sam Phillips, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Richard Rodgers, Roy Rogers, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Phil Spector, Bill Monroe, Bill Graham, Bill Wyman, Frank Zappa, Eric Clapton and many many more. It has frequently been described as the "definitive music documentary," and is regarded just as highly today as 'cult viewing' as it was over 30 years ago when it was first broadcast.
In the mid-70s, at the suggestion of John Lennon, the celebrated journalist and film director Tony Palmer decided to document the "Story of Popular Music" and set about interviewing and filming all the major players in the industry at that time, past and present. Even in the mid-70s this was seen as a monumental task, but despite the scale of the undertaking, Tony Palmer made a series of films that set the standard to which all subsequent biographers and documentary makers aspired to. The critically acclaimed All You Need Is Love was broadcast across the world between 1976 and 1981. But since that time, it has neither been repeated nor commercially released on either video or DVD. (via The American Cinematheque)

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Amoeba Music Video Gallery

Updated Jun 27, 2008

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In 2008 there were only 3 Amoeba Music Stores--the last real record stores on the Earth. What is remarkable is the live concerts that take place in the store several times a week (at Amoeba Music in Berkeley, San Francisco and Hollywood). And what more is that Amoeba has "FREE" video gallery on Ameoba.com featuring interviews, as well as exclusive live shows.

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The Cure - Greatest Hits: Guitar Tabs

Updated Jun 27, 2008

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This songbook assembles 20 of their best, transcribed note-for-note !!!

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This Is Stina Nordenstam: Stina Nordenstam

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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It's one of the albums that your lover discovered while sleeping with someone else. I still like it.

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Curtis Mayfield - Curtis

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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Curtis Mayfield (wow, I should have brought out his albums on my last long drive). Curtis Mayfield could be played any place any time--even as a James Bond Theme song, that's how expansive his sound is. my pick would be "If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go"

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iTunes Store - U2

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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Do you remember the U2 iPod? I plugged into that thing for 5 months, and I'm still not sure that I listened to every song. The thing I did discover about the U2 sound is that it's actually gospel music on steroids, not a bad thing at all.

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Live in Santa Monica '72: David Bowie

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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Occasionally even the most unlikely of cities get to bathe in a glittering burst of history, this time it's the sleepy beach town of Santa Monica, where in 1972--as the ancients tell us--David Bowie landed long enough to record this killer live show.


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In 1972, David Bowie set out on his first US tour. He'd recently introduced the world to his Ziggy Stardust persona with his top 5 album 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' and had completed a hugely successful UK tour. The Santa Monica concert, David's first live US radio broadcast, was aired live on KMET in L.A. Over the last 36 years this historic recording has only been occasionally available as a bootleg. For many, ownership of this concert was regarded as a true test of being a 'proper Bowie fan'. This powerful, galvanizing show allows a more than 70 minute glimpse into the earliest nationwide live radio exposure granted David and the Spiders. The set list is compiled primarily from the 'Hunky Dory' and 'Ziggy Stardust' albums and features two covers, Jacques Brel's "My Death" and the Velvet Underground's "Waiting for the Man," alongside the awesome power of 'The Man Who Sold The World' centrepiece "The Width Of A Circle" (this version is a ten and a half minute sonic assault) and an 'Aladdin Sane' previewing "The Jean Genie." The set list is also quite different from the Ziggy terminating 'Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture Soundtrack. Accompanying David was The Spiders From Mars: Mick Ronson - guitar, vocals, Trevor Bolder - bass, Mick "Woody" Woodmansey - drums and Mike Garson - piano. This is David Bowie at the pinnacle of his creative power - in 1981 NME critics called it, "(quite simply) ... the performer's, and one of rock's, best ever bootlegs". The CD will be released as a limited edition with special packaging featuring shots taken at the actual gig for the first time. The double LP will be a heavyweight vinyl one off run. David says:- "I can tell that I'm totally into being Ziggy by this stage of our touring. It's no longer an act; I am him. This would be around the tenth American show for us and you can hear that we are all pretty high on ourselves. We train wreck a couple of things, I miss some words and sometimes you wouldn't know that pianist Mike Garson was onstage with us but overall I really treasure this bootleg. Mick Ronson is at his blistering best." (via David Bowie)

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Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth: Sonic Youth, Mats Gustafsson, Merzbow

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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Mmm-Mmmm-Uh-uh, Mmmmmm, uh-uh-uh- Kinda sounds like that but with guitars.

SYR 8 'ANDRE SIDER AF SONIC YOUTH'
This installment of Sonic Youth's series of experimental + mostly instrumental releases will be available July 28 2008 in a CD-only edition self-released on the band's own SYR label.

This disk presents the complete 'Other Sides of Sonic Youth' improvised live performance from the 2005 Roskilde Festival in Denmark, featuring Sonic Youth (with Jim O'Rourke) and guests Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, and Japanese sound artist Masami Akita (aka Merzbow). The single piece performed was a structured improvisation which for 60 minutes added and subtracted musicians one by one until only Masami was left onstage. Black Sabbath followed. (via Sonic Youth)

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Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill - Grouper

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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It's been a while since I've heard music like this, reminds me of early Edison Woods.

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Low Birth Weight: Piano Magic

Updated Jun 17, 2008

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One of the more unusual album cover images out there, and why not, it's this cover that got me to listen to Piano Magic, now I'm hooked.

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Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-79

Updated Jun 17, 2008

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Ever since the soundtrack of"Last King of Scotland" I've been eager to get more African Funk into my music collection. "Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-79" is my latest find.

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Fairies in Victorian Art: Christopher Wood

Updated Jun 16, 2008

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New revised edition with additional colour images and comment. Includes works by Richard Dadd, John Anster Fitzgerald, Joseph Noel Paton, John Simmons and many others. Victorians desperately wanted to believe in fairies. Representing escape from the reality of an unromantic, materialistic and scientific age, fairies also gave Victorians an excuse to express in acceptable ways the repressed and subconscious aspirations of a nation. Between 1840 and 1870, the golden age of fairy painting, artists expressed these longings and aspirations, as well as reflecting those of a wider Victorian audience. Christopher Wood, a leading expert on Victorian art, takes us into a world of fantasy, magic, ghouls and ghosts, spiritualism and psychology. In discussing the fascination with fairies, he examines the impact of literature (notably "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Tempest", dance and music on the paintings of the period, and shows how the Victorian art world found an acceptable outlet for portraying taboos like nudity, eroticism, opiates and the world of the supernatural. (via The Hammer Museum)

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The Essential Pebbles Collection, Vol. 3: European Garage

Updated Jun 16, 2008

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The third volume in this double-CD Essential Pebbles series focuses on the international sector and is subtitled The Best Of European Garage. More than 50 tracks Way!

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