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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases From Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Chris Cornell, Death Cab, and Neutral Milk Hotel

by Shop Keeper
November 29, 2011 - 7:01 pm

So there’s some real new ones, and then some more milking by industry giants…a big remix week for Gaga and Death Cab…Neutral Milk Hotel wants you to buy their albums again in a bigger box…Chris Cornell’s new album is his first solo live compilation…cha-ching…and Daughtry is really the big news this week. British post-punkers Magazine are poised for a comeback after two decades away

Calexico – Selections From Road Atlas 1998-2011 – Tracks taken from previous tour-only releases
Kidz in the Hall – Occasion
Coalesce – Give Them Rope
M.O.P. – Sparta
James Durbin – Memories of a Beautiful Disaster
Daughtry – Break the Spell
Chris Cornell – Songbook
Adam Lambert – Beg for Mercy
Death Cab for Cutie – Keys and Codes Remix EP
Michael Jackson, Immortal * [2xCD] – Soundtrack to Cirque du Soleil show
Lady Gaga – Born This Way – The Remix
Lady Gaga – The Monster Ball Tour At Madison Square Garden * [DVD]
Mobb Deep – Black Cocaine EP
Neutral Milk Hotel – Box Set
Magazine – No Thyself

Music Calexico

by Fever Dragon
April 29, 2009 - 10:57 pm

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Fans of Calexico have already come to expect the unexpected from Tucson, Arizona residents Joey Burns and John Convertino. Each of their albums, from their dusty, lo-fi debut Spoke (1996) to the noir-infused dramatic power of The Black Light (1998), the breakthrough, mariachi madness of Hot Rail (2000), to their hugely successful most recent album, Feast of Wire (2003), which flirted with ambient electronica and Gil Evans infused jazz, charting in 14 European countries.

In 2006 comes Garden Ruin, officially the band’s fifth album, apart from their many tour-only CDs. Written in Bisbee, AZ. Recorded in Tucson, AZ. Mixed in Brooklyn. Mastered in California. It sees a new, and surprising episode unfolding in the Calexico story.

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