Christmas On Mars is described as "a fantastical and disturbing film freakout. Seven years in the making, Christmas On Mars was directed and written by The Flaming Lips visionary frontman Wayne Coyne and features the band members and many of their associates as actors in a story set during the colonization of Mars."
The film is 86 minutes long, with an original score presented as both a stand alone DVD and as a CD/DVD package that includes a CD of the score. Psychedelia rules the land in Christmas On Mars, and as Flaming Lips fans we're happy to see this long-rumored project come to fruition.
Clutch - Full Fathom Five: Audio Field Recordings 2007-2008
Bee Gees - Best of Bee Gees
The brilliant harmonies and epic folky songwriting behind the Bee Gees Brothers played a large part in the tapestry of 60's pop music. Best Of, Volume 1 features 12 great tracks for those looking for a good dose of early Bee Gees hits, from long before the Brothers Gibb reinvented themselves as the disco kings of Saturday Night Fever. The hitmakers are in beautifully pre-disco folky form on "Holiday" and "I've Gotta Get a Message to You," as well as the downbeat "To Love Somebody." Buy it for your mom.
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt
This reissue of the second collaboration album between Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan comes pimped with a bonus disc featuring seven additional live tracks: 'Revolver', 'Carry Home', 'Willow's Song', 'Sand', '(Do You Wanna) Come Walk With Me?', 'The Circus Is Leaving Town' and 'Ramblin' Man'. Campbell's a former player in Belle & Sebastian while Lanegan is rock's gravel-voiced Lone Wolf, former Screaming Trees frontman and part-time QOTSA vocalist. Devil Dirt was recorded between studios in the Catskills and Isobel's native Glasgow. It's a terrific album, packed full of dark-toned folky blues that's easily as good as its predecessor, if not better.
Jedi Mind Tricks - A History of Violence
Jedi Mind Tricks have spent the last 12 years tearing up the world of underground hip-hop, defining a new element of hardcore in hip-hop. The Jedi return to the jagged edge of Violent By Design with their sixth release, and as celebrate the return of core member Jus Allah. If you're down with super violent lyrics and aggressive tones over slammin beats, Jedi Mind Tricks are the group for you.
Vanilla Ice - Ice Is Back: Hip Hop Classics
Alright stop! Collaborate and listen! That's right, Mr. Ice is back, because he knows what the world needs, and he's here to deliver. The result is an album of rap covers that includes Sir Mix A Lot's "Baby Got Back," Cypress Hill's "Insane in the Brain" and - oh yes - The Gap Band's "You Dropped a Bomb on Me." That's capped by a wonderful collection of four different versions of "Ice Ice Baby," because... well, because that shit is too cold.
Au Revoir Simone: Reverse Migration (remixes)
The Battle Of Land And Sea: The Battle Of Land And Sea
Black Keys: The Big Come Up (vinyl reissue)
Brethren of the Free Spirit: The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With the Lamb
Charlie Haden: Family and Friends: Rambling Boy
Cheap Trick: At Budokan (remastered #-CD & DVD box set)
Chinese Stars: TV Grows Arms/ The Drowning (vinyl)
Christina Aguilera: Keeps Gettin' Better - A Decade of Hits
Clutch: Full Fathom Five: Audio Field Recordings 2007-2008
Dear Nora: Three States: Dear Nora Rarities 1997-2007
Deer Tick: War Elephant (vinyl)
Denison Witmer: Carry The Weight
Edie Sedgwick: Things Are Getting Sinister and Sinisterer (digital)
The Flaming Lips: Christmas On Mars (with DVD)
The Flamin' Groovies: This Band Is Red Hot 1969-1979
Genesis: Genesis Box Set 3 (1970-1975) (remastered 12-CD box set)
Gilda Radner: Live from New York (reissue)
Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Destruction (vinyl reissue)
Holy Hail: Independent Pleasure Club (vinyl)
Howlin' Wolf: Rockin' The Blues: Live in Germany 1964
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Sunday at Devil Dirt (reissue with bonus tracks)
John Williams: Indiana Jones: The Soundtracks Collection (box set)
Kevin Costner & Modern West: Untold Truths
The Kinks: Preservation Act 1 (vinyl reissue)
Leadbelly: The Definitive Leadbelly (3-CD box set)
Led Zeppelin: Definitive Collection (12-CD mini LP replica box set)
Love Is All: A Hundred Things Keep Me up at Night
M83: Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (vinyl 2-LP & CD)
Mudcrutch: Extended Play Live EP (vinyl with CD)
New Order: Brotherhood (remastered with bonus disc)
New Order: Low-Life (remastered with bonus disc)
New Order: Movement (remastered with bonus disc)
New Order: Power Corruption & Lies (remastered with bonus disc)
New Order: Technique (remastered with bonus disc)
Oh Captain My Captain: Recklessly She Split the Sea
Redd Foxx: On the Loose: Recorded Live... (reissue)
The Smiths: The Sound of the Smiths (2-CD special edition)
Subhumans: Death Was Too Kind (remastered)
T-Pain: Thr33 Ringz (limited edition w/DVD)
Vanilla Ice: Vanilla Ice Is Back: Hip Hop Classics
Various Artists: This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 1
Various Artists: Rachel Getting Married (soundtrack)
Various Artists: Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement
Various Artists: Zack and Miri Make a Porno: Music from the Motion Picture
Warren Zevon: Learning to Flinch (reissue)
Warren Zevon: Warren Zevon (remastered with bonus disc)
