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This 2 disc DVD (that's right, it's a DVD, got a problem with that?) - contains over three hours of footage, including an hour-long documentary, a full length live concert filmed in 2007 at the sold-out Moore Theatre in Seattle, WA, several bonus extras including the band's mind-crushing performance on the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, their rendition of "Master Exploder" on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," an classic performance of "The Metal" on Saturday Night Live, all kinds of Tenacious D videos you've seen everywhere else before - and more!
Really, I'm kinda surprised that they're still trying to pimp out the D. But as long as that fat-ass dirty dollar keeps knockin, there's always doors to be opened...
Shiny Toy Guns - Season of Poison
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Shiny Toy Guns' Grammy-nominated debut We Are Pilots was released in 2006, and the band spent the better half of 2 years on the road, honing their sound to a fine point. That's evident on the band's self-produced and highly anticipated sophomore release, Season of Poison. It's an album that marks a linear evolution of the band, as they're replazed co-lead singer Faye Charnow who left the group this past summer to pursue other interests. Bassist Jeremy Dawson explains, "We moved forward with our initial choice for co-lead singer of the band in 2002, longtime friend Sisely Treasure. At that time she was still locked into her Dreamworks Records deal with her former project Cooler Kids and we were not able to professionally move forward with her.
There's harder rock here, and more sonic texture, but nothing quite like their breakthrough single "Le Disko" which topped the charts in 2006. They didn't win the Grammy for Best Dance Album last year, and they certainly won't this year, but it's a solid effort from a band just beginning to come into its own.
Q Tip - The Renaissance
Everybody over the age of 25 knows Q Tip from his group A Tribe Called Quest. After a recent revival on the touring (Rock the Bells) circuit, the group is still winning fans. Q Tip's been doing his solo thing for a while now, despite the fact that he's recorded over two albums of new material in the past decade that haven't been released for one reason or another. The Renaissance is a step forward out of those dark corners for Tip, but it's still no masterpiece. It doesn't compare to Tribe's work, and certainly not their crown recording achievement, Low End Theory.
For the most part, the guest vocalists on this disc are well chosen, though occasionally underutilized. The album features Raphael Saadiq, Norah Jones, D'Angelo and the sizzling Amanda Diva of Floetry.
With a stock beat and par verses from Tip, "Manwomanboogie" is almost forgettable, until Amanda Diva busts her verse like a true goddess of the mic. Norah Jones is a natural fit on "Life Is Better," a chill R&B track.
I've been a Tacuba fan for over a decade, and seeing them live is nothing short of a blast - just bouncy, feel-good fun from start to finish. Who cares if you can't tell what the hell he's singing? There's soul here. That goes a hell of a long way these days.
Aviette: The Way We Met
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones: Jingle All the Way (vinyl)
Billie Holiday: Essential Collection (import 3-CD box set)
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Drippers EP
Black President: Black President
Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
Bohren & der Club of Gore: Dolores
Bruce Springsteen: Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J./The Wild, The Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle (reissues)
Cale Parks: Sparklace
Camera Obscura: Underachievers Please Try Harder (vinyl reissue)
Castanets Vs. Ero: Dub Refuge (vinyl)
Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman (remastered with bonus disc)
Cat Stevens: Teaser and the Firecat (remastered with bonus disc)
Charlatans: Oh Vanity (import single)
Civet: Hell Hath No Fury (vinyl)
Cocteau Twins: Head Over Heels (vinyl remaster)
Crystal Antlers: EP (vinyl)
Curumin: Japanpopshow
Darling Downs: From One to Another (vinyl)
Datarock: Computer Camp Love (import single)
Dead Can Dance: Dead Can Dance (vinyl remaster)
The Dead Trees: King of Rosa (vinyl)
Deadmau5: Random Album Title
Department of Eagles: In Ear Park (vinyl)
Desolation Wilderness: White Light Strobing (vinyl)
The Dickies: Live Destruction
Doug Paisley: Doug Paisley (vinyl)
Dragonette: Galore
Drew Andrews: Only Mirrors
Drew Danburry: This Could Mean Trouble, You Don't Speak For The Club
The End of the World: French Exit
Eulogies: Tempted to Do Nothing
Frederick: Na Na Ni
Frida Hyvonen: Silence Is Wild (vinyl)
Future Clouds & Radar: Peoria
Gamma Ray: Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome: Live In Montreal
George Carlin: Carlin on Campus (reissue)
Glenn Gould: Glenn Gould Plays Beethoven (import)
Grampall Jookabox: Rope Chain (vinyl)
Harry Connick Jr.: What A Night! A Christmas Album
Hinder: Take It to the Limit (CD/DVD deluxe edition)
The Hours: Narcissus Road
Hushpuppies: Silence Is Golden
Ian Dury & the Blockheads: Stiff Singles Promo Videos the Peel Session (import 9-disc box set)
Ida Maria: Oh My God (import single)
Illa J: Yancey Boys (vinyl)
Jackie-O Motherf*cker: Blood of Life (import)
James Yorkston: When The Haar Rolls In
Johann Johannsson: Fordlandia
K-The-4??? \: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Kings of Leon: Only By The Night (vinyl)
Lady Gaga: The Fame (vinyl)
Lady Gaga: Poker Face (import single)
Last Shadow Puppets: My Mistakes Were Made for You (single)
Little Joy: Little Joy (vinyl)
Lou Reed: Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (vinyl)
Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby/Berlin (reissue)
The Lucksmiths: First Frost
Lukestar: Lake Toba
Magnetic Fields: Get Lost (vinyl remaster)
Mahjongg: Free Groove Rider (vinyl)
Marco Beltrami: Max Payne (soundtrack)
Mark E Smith & Ed Blaney: Smith & Blaney (import)
Matt Alber: Hide Nothing
Mavis Staples: Live: Hope At The Hideout
Max Richter: 24 Postcards in Full Color (vinyl)
MC Frontalot: Final Boss
Megapuss: Surfing (vinyl)
Micah Blue Smaldone: The Red River (vinyl)
The Music Lovers: Masculine Feminine
No Age: Teen Creeps (vinyl)
OhGr: Devils In My Details (vinyl)
One Day As A Lion: One Day As A Lion (vinyl)
Past Lives: Strange Symmetry(vinyl)
Paul Weller: At the BBC (import)
Paul Weller: Sea Spray/22 Dreams (import single)
The Piano Creeps: Future Blues (For Me and You)
Polvo: Celebrate The New Dark Age (vinyl remaster)
Prototypes: Synthetique (vinyl)
Q-Tip: The Renaissance (vinyl)
Red Box: The Circle & The Square (reissue with bonus tracks)
Rewiring Genesis: A Tribute to the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Rudy Ray Moore: Dolemite For President (reissue)
Ryan Adams: Cardinology (vinyl)
Shiny Toy Guns: Season of Poison
Skatalites: Stretching Out (2-LP vinyl remaster)
Skeletons: Money
The So So Glos: Toursim/Terrorism
The Streets: Everything Is Borrowed (vinyl)
Thompson Twins: Product of/Set (reissues with bonus tracks)
Thunder Power: Love Yourself
Thursday / Envy: Split 12" (vinyl)
Tom Gabel: Heart Burns (vinyl)
Travis: Ode to J. Smith
Various Artists: Celtic Tribute to U2
Various Artists: Changeling (soundtrack)
Various Artists: City of Ember: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists: Here Comes... Santa Claus!
Various Artists: Hushabye Baby: Country Lullaby Renditions of Johnny Cash
Various Artists: The Mighty Super Funk: Rare 45s And Undiscovered Masters 1967-1978
Various Artists: Santa's Christmas Collection (import 10-CD box set)
Various Artists: Twilight (soundtrack)
Wallpaper : On The Chewing Gum Ground (vinyl)
Warship: Supply and Depend
The Wedding Present: How the West Was Won (import 4-CD box set)
Wild Beasts: Limbo, Panto (vinyl)
Wilderness: (k)no(w)here (vinyl)
Wino: A Bottle of Pills With A Bullet Chaser
ZZ Top: Live from Texas
