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The Aerosmith of Our Generation and The Overblogged Act of the Year are coming to Des Moines to wow nobody. Red Hot Chili Peppers and Gnarls Barkley will be at the Events Center on March 2. Are you willing to pay $57.50 to see Under the Bridge live? Me neither.

Take My Hand Now

The Charlatans (UK) are releasing a singles collection on Monday -- in the UK only. Bummer. They've never been a breakthrough band here in the states but they've been around forever, hence the title of the collection: Forever. The Singles.

Their most recent album Simpatico was the first ones I've taken note of in a long time. It's very good. When the Lights Go Out in London is one of my favorite tunes of the year. And of course if you'd like, you can order the new collection thanks to Amazon. Back in my day, we had to go to cool record stores to find the imports.

They've put together a cool medley of the tunes featured on the collection, which you can listen to here. Do the whole right-clicky thing to download it.

Why Do You Make Me Blue?

Paul McCartney is releasing yet ANOTHER DVD documenting his live shows. This one is from last year's tour, which was quite stellar naturally. I just refuse to keep up with every damn DVD this man releases. Evidently, this program aired on A&E. It's called The Space Within Us and it'll be released on 11/14.

Your Attention Please, But Please Not Your Sympathy

dada is releasing a new EP on December 12:

"A Friend Of Pat Robertson" features 5 new tracks, including the EP's title track, "72 Hours," "7 Dot 1," "Emily Sang To Me," and "If Tears Were Balloons." The CD will come in a full-color digipack.

Wow, a full-color digipack! I have been waiting for one of those for YEARS!

You can listen to A Friend of Pat Robertson and 7 Dot 1 on theirspace, but that's really not news now is it. AFoPR is pretty good, but 7D1 kinda sucks. Never know. Things tend to sound better on a stereo, not a work computer. Imagine that. You can order the EP and listen to clips from all the songs here. They also expect it to be available on iTunes.

And evidently, they're really hoping to win this year's coveted Lame Ass Album Cover award. Yikes.

That Is You Can't You Know Tune In But It's Alright

You can now preview four tracks from the upcoming Beatles Love release. Hear reworked versions of Strawberry Fields Forever, Octopus' Garden, Lady Madonna, and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Sounds cool if I could listen longer than 3 seconds without the aggravating "audio buffering..." crap coming up. Go here. You must be registered. If you're not, this might be a good reason to do so. If you choose not to, well, move on and wait until 11/21.

About the album:

The album features 26 tracks re-worked by George and Giles Martin for the LOVE show in Las Vegas, an incredible music and visual experience created out of the collaboration between The Beatles and Cirque Du Soleil. The result is an unprecedented approach to the music.

LOVE will be released on Monday November 20th. The stereo CD will contain 78 minutes of music, and features 26 tracks.

Simultaneously released will be a special 2 disc edition that will include the stereo CD and an Audio only DVD containing a slightly extended version in amazing 5.1
surround sound.

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I'm Bald and Badly Bent, Old and Arrogant

Looking for a way to revisit Wings-era 70s rock without actually listening to old music you've heard a thousand times? Vanilla has released their self-titled debut album and it sounds exactly as if you discovered a new band from 1977.

Not Lame says:

The sound here is progressive power pop perfection, a true pop tapestry mixing sly elements of Jellyfish, XTC, mid/late 80`s Elvis Costello, McCartney Wings-era, Wondermints and Jon Auer. Even a bit of Pink Floyd.

I'm digging the sound clips. They capture a nice variety in their seemingly limited palatte of 70s rock stylings. This is one to explore a bit more.

Listen to clips here and here.
MP3: Vanilla - Liar's Club (via)