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It’s the rebirth of Hip-Hop and it’s exclusively at RECORD STORES! This Black Friday is really BLAK FRIDAY at indie record stores across the country as they release BLAKROC, the exclusive new project from The Black Keys and a bunch of bad ass rappers like Mos Def, Q Tip, Jim Jones, RZA, ODB, Ludacris and more. Damon Dash is bringing it... And record stores across the country are the only place to find it


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Columbus' favorite drug kingpin/Walmart around Easton area shopper Cam'ron reappears after being more elusive than Howard Hughes(ma, I'm Fly too.) Miss Info has the video interview. XXL has him on the cover in April. Cam's new album, "Crime Pays", drops April 21st. First single, "I Hate My Job". Second singleeeee............."I Used to Get It In Ohio". Columbus holla!!!!


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Hot new albums this week from Nick Cave, The Grouch, and Living Legends.

Nick Cave, famed Aussie singer/songwriter/producer releases his fourteenth studio album this week entitled, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!. Backing him is a leaner version of his band The Bad Seeds. This is the band’s first album since the 2004 acclaimed release “Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus.” Cave returned in 2007 for a quick musical detour, backed by 3 of the Bad Seeds recording and briefly touring a side project called “Grinderman.” That project was a no frills, trash rock outlet for Nick and the boys, and is the perfect stepping stone from the sweetness of “Abattoir/Lyre” to the raw energy of “Lazarus.”


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CD New Releases Week of 11-23-09

 


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Blakroc
Blakroc [LP + CD] $22.98 $20.68
The brainchild of The Black Keys and Damon Dash, BlakRoc Records will release BlakRoc on 'Black Friday,' November 27, the day after Thanksgiving (to be dubbed 'Blak Friday' by the independent record stores that will sell the album). Produced by and featuring The Black Keys, BlakRoc also hosts a star-studded line up including Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Raekwon, Ludacris, Pharoahe Monch, Jim Jones, NOE, Nicole Wray and Billy Danze. Of the album, The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach said 'no samples were used on the record, it's all live instruments and live vocals.' For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.blakroc.com">blakroc.com</a>, where new content will be added every Friday until release.


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Blakroc
Blakroc $13.97 $11.97
The brainchild of The Black Keys and Damon Dash, BlakRoc Records will release BlakRoc on 'Black Friday,' November 27, the day after Thanksgiving (to be dubbed 'Blak Friday' by the independent record stores that will sell the album). Produced by and featuring The Black Keys, BlakRoc also hosts a star-studded line up including Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Raekwon, Ludacris, Pharoahe Monch, Jim Jones, NOE, Nicole Wray and Billy Danze. Of the album, The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach said 'no samples were used on the record, it's all live instruments and liv<script type="text/javascript" src="http://superadmin.tuneportals.com/admin_templates/SuperAdmin/default/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/langs/en.js"></script>e vocals.' For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.blakroc.com">blakroc.com</a>, where new content will be added every Friday until release.


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Shakira
She Wolf $13.96 $11.96
SHAKIRA 's brand new English album, SHE WOLF, is an up-tempo pop album. It is all about synthesizers and electronic concepts, all mixed with the world sounds that we are used to from SHAKIRA, sounds from countries like India, the Middle East and her home country of Colombia. SHE WOLF features a predominantly English track list with a follow-up album of new and unique repertoire in Spanish to come in 2010. The title track, "She-Wolf", boasts the infectious and energizing sound that made SHAKIRA a household name, with a slightly more dance-y electronic beat (about 125 beats per minute).


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Jay Reatard
Blood Visions [11/24] $16.97 $13.97
In the late 90's, 15 year-old Jay Lindsey, living right outside Memphis, played all of the instruments on a demo tape by his newly-minted performance moniker of "The Reatards". This cassette was sent to Eric Friendl of the The Oblivians, who had used the "Goner Records" imprint on a couple of releases. His next would be a 7" by The Reatards, followed shortly by a full length LP, Teenage Hate (Goner, 1998). After quickly building a reputation for an anything-goes live set, and releasinf another excellent full length Grown Up, Fucked Up (Empty, 1999), Jay Reatard shoved what was previously a side project to the forefront and started raising eyebrows with something other than live mayhem: Songwriting and an ear for breaking ground. Jay's first title under the solo "Jay Reatard" moniker, Blood Visions was released in early 2006 on In The Red, and it politely sat on the shelves for over six months until the live act brought up the rear and things started to happen. More singles for more labels, a handful of mind-bending SXSW performances, nonstop touring, a bidding war...that's right, a bidding war...and the first quarter of 2008 found Jay Reatard on Matador Records.


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Rihanna
Rated R [Explicit] $19.97 $16.97
The wait is over for one of the most hotly anticipated new albums in recent history, as multi-platinum, award-winning Def Jam recording artist RIHANNA announces the completion of her fourth original studio album. RATED R is the long-awaited follow-up to Good Girl Gone Bad (May 2007), which contained the non-stop string of hit singles that began with the MTV VMA and Grammy Award-winning global #1 hit "Umbrella" (featuring Jay-Z), then "Shut Up and Drive," "Hate That I Love You" (featuring Ne Yo), and "Don't Stop the Music."


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Rihanna
Rated R $19.97 $16.97
The wait is over for one of the most hotly anticipated new albums in recent history, as multi-platinum, award-winning Def Jam recording artist RIHANNA announces the completion of her fourth original studio album. RATED R is the long-awaited follow-up to Good Girl Gone Bad (May 2007), which contained the non-stop string of hit singles that began with the MTV VMA and Grammy Award-winning global #1 hit "Umbrella" (featuring Jay-Z), then "Shut Up and Drive," "Hate That I Love You" (featuring Ne Yo), and "Don't Stop the Music."


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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Live Anthology $24.97 $22.47
THE LIVE ANTHOLOGY brings together material from 1978-2007, culled from hundreds of hours of live concert recordings covering every era of TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS tours and represents the best tracks as chosen by producers Tom Petty, Mike Campbell and Ryan Ulyate. There are no fixes or overdubs. The newly mixed original recordings showcase the invention, spontaneity, craft and the musicianship that has made TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS among the most celebrated live performers of their time. Along with powerful interpretations of their own classic hits and originals, THE LIVE ANTHOLOGY features the band tackling some of their best-loved cover material, from classics to obscure beauties to unexpected adaptations like the theme from Goldfinger, the Zombies' “I Want You Back Again”, the Grateful Dead's “Friend of the Devil”, early Fleetwood Mac's “Oh Well”, Booker T. and the MGs' “Green Onions”, James Brown's “Good, Good Lovin'” and many more.


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Tom Waits
Glitter & Doom Live $17.97 $14.97
In 2008, TOM WAITS launched a sold out national tour, garnering intense critical praise Paste magazine called it the best live show of 2008 and thrilling fans across the country and the world, some in cities where Waits had never played before. Now those concerts have been documented: 17 performances hand picked by Waits from along the tour. Leaning heavily on songs from his ANTI releases, including a haunting “Trampled Rose” from Real Gone and roaring “Get Behind the Mule” from Mule Variations, Waits also digs into the vaults for tracks like a re-imagined “Singapore” from 1985 Rain Dogs. GLITTER & DOOM LIVE will reside in the Waits catalog alongside earlier live albums like Nighthawks at the Diner and Big Time, both discs held on par with his classic studio releases by fans.


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Various Artists
Daptone Gold [Digipak] [11/24] $11.97 $10.97
2009 release, a collection of hits and out-of-print obscurities, album favorites and unheard exclusives from the Daptone Records catalogue. It features some of the most popular songs such as Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings' 'Tell Me' and the Budos Band's 'Up From The South', alongside some deeper selections such as Lee Fields' 'Could Have Been' and Charles Bradley's 'The World (Is Going Up In Flames)' which have previously only been released as seven inch singles.


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Beyonce
I Am...Yours: An Intimate Performance At Wynn Las Vegas [2 CD/DVD] $19.99
This Deluxe 3-disc (2 CDs + DVD) edition of the R&B diva's live album features an intimate performance at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. The two CDs feature a total of 20 tracks while the DVD offers the show and more.


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DVD New Releases Week of 11-23-09

 


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Gomorrah $39.95 $35.96
Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah is a stark, shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, and one of cinema’s most authentic depictions of organized crime. In this tour de force adaptation of undercover Italian reporter Roberto Saviano’s best-selling exposé of Naples’ Mafia underworld (known as the Camorra), Garrone links five disparate tales in which men and children are caught up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing projects to the world of haute couture. Filmed with an exquisite detachment interrupted by bursts of violence, Gomorrah is a shattering, socially engaged true-crime story from a major new voice in Italian cinema.


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Angels & Demons
Angels & Demons $28.96 $26.06
In Ron Howard's thrilling follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, expert symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) follows ancient clues on a heart-racing hunt through Rome to find the four Cardinals kidnapped by the deadly secret society, the Illuminati. With the Cardinals' lives on the line, and the Camerlengo (Ewan McGregor) desperate for help, Langdon embarks on a nonstop, action-packed race through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and the most secretive vault on Earth!


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Angels & Demons
Angels & Demons $36.95 $33.26
In Ron Howard's thrilling follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, expert symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) follows ancient clues on a heart-racing hunt through Rome to find the four Cardinals kidnapped by the deadly secret society, the Illuminati. With the Cardinals' lives on the line, and the Camerlengo (Ewan McGregor) desperate for help, Langdon embarks on a nonstop, action-packed race through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and the most secretive vault on Earth!


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Golden Age Of Television $49.95 $44.95
The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was advancing and making art accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive “teleplays” constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality drama to homes across the country. The following award-winning programs—curated for PBS in the early 1980s as the series The Golden Age of Television, with recollections from key cast and crew members—were conceived by such up-and-comers as Rod Serling and John Frankenheimer, and star the likes of Paul Newman, Mickey Rooney, Rod Steiger, Julie Harris, and Piper Laurie.


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Black Crowes
Cabin Fever $14.97 $12.97
CABIN FEVER was an innovative recording session where Before The Frost... Until The Freeze was recorded over a series of five nights at Leven Helm Studios. The sessions were filmed in front of an intimate audience and allow the viewer into the recording studio with the band. Songwriting sessions are revealed and lots of never- before-seen banter and behind-the-scenes footage is shown. Chris Robinson had this to say about the CABIN FEVER sessions: "I think we fulfilled a musical commitment to continue on the golden road of artistic independence. Approaching 20 years into our careers, we still are ambitious enough to push ourselves to create something unique that we have never done before."


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Beyonce
I Am Yours: An Intimate Performance $14.96 $12.96
This edition of the R&B diva's live album features an intimate performance at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.


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Funny People $29.98 $26.98
Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann star in this seriously funny film from writer-director Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up). When famous comedian George Simmons (Sandler) is given a second chance at a new beginning, he and his assistant, a struggling comedian, Ira (Rogen), return to the places and people that matter most…including the stand-up spots that gave him his start and the girl that got away (Mann). Co-starring Jonah Hill, Eric Bana and Jason Schwartzman, it’s the film critics cheer is “uproariously funny!” (Sonny Bunch, The Washington Times)


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Funny People $34.98 $31.48
Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann star in this seriously funny film from writer-director Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up). When famous comedian George Simmons (Sandler) is given a second chance at a new beginning, he and his assistant, a struggling comedian, Ira (Rogen), return to the places and people that matter most…including the stand-up spots that gave him his start and the girl that got away (Mann). Co-starring Jonah Hill, Eric Bana and Jason Schwartzman, it’s the film critics cheer is “uproariously funny!” (Sonny Bunch, The Washington Times)


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Santa Buddies $29.99 $26.99
Disney s irresistible talking puppies return in a heartwarming all-new holiday adventure! Take a fantastic journey with your beloved Buddy friends to the magical world of the North Pole! Join The Buddies (Budderball, B-Dawg, Rosebud, Buddha and Mudbud) in a wonderfully wacky twist on a classic Christmas favorite. When Puppy Paws, the fun-loving son of Santa Paws, gets tired of the North Pole, he finds Budderball on Santa s naughty list and figures he s just the dog to show him how to be an ordinary pup. But when the magical Christmas Icicle starts to melt and the world begins to forget the true meaning of the season, it s up to Puppy Paws and his newfound Buddies to save Christmas. Unleash a stocking full of Christmas cheer for you and your family with this fun-filled film, featuring never-before-seen bonus material. It s sure to be a holiday favorite on everyone s wish list!


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Four Christmases $28.98 $26.08
When your significant other tells you you both need an exit "safe word" before you enter his dad's Christmas gathering, you know you're not in Bedford Falls. But while Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon may not be It's a Wonderful Life's George and Mary Bailey, Four Christmases is a modern holiday classic in its own right. For one thing, every family neurosis and dysfunction have taken root in the four families of Vaughn and Witherspoon's characters, Brad and Kate--and the sleek yuppie façade each has built with the other is about to come tumbling down. There are real belly laughs as the couple unexpectedly has to spend holidays with their four extended family groups. "I don't want to speak ill of your mother on Christmas," growls Howard (Robert Duvall) to son Brad, while Brad's bullnecked ultimate-fighter brothers are rassling everything in sight, "but she's nothing but a common street whore." Brad may cringe, but Kate's own family is about to mortify her in abundant ways, from her randy "Gram-Gram" and about-to-pounce cougar mom Mary Steenburgen ("I feel like a Saudi prince in here," marvels Brad as all of Kate's female relatives drape themselves over him), to the revelation to Brad that Kate used to be--how to put this--a bit on the chubby side. If the plot isn't full of surprises, the quips are nonstop and the acting believable and charming. The supporting cast also includes Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau and Dwight Yoakam in a memorable turn as the mega-church pastor Steenburgen's character is involved with. It's a comic Christmas blessing, and there'll be no need to say "mistletoe"--at least not till the viewers are home with their own families. --A.T. Hurley


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