The Crossing - October/November 2012 Yo! Hey! Welcome back to yet another edition of America’s favorite yet least known new music and movie release list. Don’t ask me how that works. It’s complicated.
This is roughly a month away, but I want to give a heads up to everybody’s favorite Day of the Year, that’s right Friday, November 23rd aka ‘Black Friday’! Yay! Can Ihear a yay? Yippee!
That’s when the entire country drives around like lunatics trying to get the best bargains on all things merchandise-wise. Or, at least, those who choose to participate. Just want to shine a light on the ‘special releases’ brought to you by the good folks who are in league with Record Store Day. To find out what is available on that day, again, roughly a month off, check out the link below:
http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases
Major releases and not-so-major releases continue to trickle out into the Public Arena-proper. Time to get your mitts on these suckers. Maybe you have been doing that. Actually a TON of music and movies have already been released but there are still a few things here and there that may catch your eyes and ears. The year is basically winding down into the black hole that is December when artists are either at home and nestled in their beds OR are hitting the highway touring all over the country and most likely freezing certain unspecified body parts.
Who’s to say what’s a major release? Who’s to say what’s a not-so-major release? I know, some of the not-so-major releases are actually major releases and some of the releases that would seem to be major releases are in fact, not-so-major releases. And sometimes the releases that you think are going to be for sure, certain major releases are really just another release, while the releases that are perceived to be not-so-major releases become major releases. It’s quite a formula how all of this works and I don’t think we have the time to go into it at just this moment.
“So, give me an R! R. Give me an O! O. Give me a C! C. Give me a K! K. What’s you got? ROCK! And what’s you gonna do? ROCK YOU!”
To quote the great Canadian metal band Helix!
http://www.planethelix.com/
Okay, let’s get the rock rolling…
Recently released and not mentioned in last edition:
* The Black Keys - Tour Rehearsal Tapes EP
* Polica - Give You the Ghost
* Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
* Elliott Brood - Days into Years
* Needtobreathe - Keep Your Eyes Open EP
* Will Hoge - Modern American Protest Music EP
* The Dunwells - Blind Sighted Faith
* The Pines - Dark So Gold
* Alex Clare - The Lateness of the Hour
* Maya Solovey - Forte EP
* The Last Bison - Inheritance EP
* Benjamin Dunn - Fable
* Grimes - Visions
* Tracer - Spaces in Between
* Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
* Delta Rae - Carry the Fire
* Uncle Lucius - And You Are Me
* Rodriguez - Looking for Sugar Man (Soundtrack.)
* The Paper Route - The Peace of Wild Things
* Grace Pettis - Two Birds
* Steve Kilbey - Song for Jude (single.)
* The Alarm - Direct Action
* Frank Hannon - Six String Soldiers (Tesla guitarist.)
* INXS - Kick (Deluxe 25th anniversary.)
* Ann & Nancy Wilson - Kicking and Dreaming (Autobiography.)
+ Harry Potter - Wizard's Collection (Mega box set.)
10/2
* Marillion – Sounds That Can’t Be Made
* Muse - The 2nd Law
* The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
* Frank Turner – Last Minutes & Lost Evenings
* Iris DeMent - Sing the Delta (Original album.)
* Tift Merritt - Travelling Alone
* Beth Orton - Sugaring Season
* Tori Amos - Gold Dust (Reworked songs w/orchestra.)
* Heart - Fanatic
* Three Days Grace – Transit of Venus
* Matt & Kim - Lightning
* Tilly & the Well - Heavy Mood
* Angel Snow - S/T
* The Vaccines - Come of Age
* Diana Krall – Glad Rag Doll
* Van Morrison - Born to Sing: No Plan B
* B.B. King - Mr. B.B. King (box set.)
+ Dark Shadows
+ Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
+ People Like Us
+ Cinderella
+ E.T. (Blu-ray.)
10/9
* The Wallflowers - Glad All Over
* Suzanne Vega - Close Up, Vol. 4: Songs of Family
* John Fogerty - Wrote a Song for Everyone (many guests.)
* Jeff Lynne - Long Wave
* Darrell Scott & Tim O’Brien – We’re Usually a Lot Better than This
* Aaron Neville - My True Story
* AG - Beatles EP
* Fitz & the Tantrums - TBA
* A.C. Newman – Shut Down the Streets
* The Script - #3
* Josephine - Portrait
* Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
* Texas in July - S/T
* Kaki King - Glow
* Nonpoint - S/T
* The Calm Blue Sea - Arrivals & Departures
* August Burns Red - Sleddin' Hill: A Holiday Album
* Blackmore’s Knight – Knight in York
* Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky, Very Best of
* Deep Purple - Machine Head (Deluxe.)
* Motorhead - The World is Ours, Vol. 2
* Dio - The Very Beast of Dio, Vol. 2
* Pete Townshend - Who I Am (Autobiography.)
+ The Who - Live in Texas, 1975
+ Prometheus
+ The Raven
+ Rock of Ages
+ A Cat in Paris
+ Shut Up and Play the Hits
10/16
* Anberlin - Vital
* A Fine Frenzy - Pines
* Ben Gibbard - Former Lives
* Martha Wainwright - Come Home to Mama
* ZZ Ward – ‘Til the Casket Drops
* Rosie Flores - Working Girl's Guitar
* Donald Fagen – Sunken Condos
* Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
* Trey Anastasio - Traveler
* Smoke & Jackal - EP 1 (Kings of Leon related.)
* Anne Heaton - Honeycomb
* Christina Perri – A Very Merry Perri Xmas
* Patrick Wolf - Sundark & Riverlight
* Earlimart - System Preferences
* Pinback - Information Retrieved
* Piney Gir - Geronimo
* Current Swell - Long Time Ago
* Ben Harper - By My Side: Best of
* Shelby Lynne - Revelation Road (Deluxe.)
* Jason Aldean - Night Train
* KISS – Monster
* Night Ranger – 24 Strings and a Drummer: Live and Acoustic
+ Moonrise Kingdom
+ That's My Boy
+ Chernobyl Diaries
+ Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
10/23
* Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Wreck and Ruin
* Taylor Swift - Red
* Lady Antebellum - On This Winter's Night
* Leon Russell - Life's Journey
* Of Montreal - Daughter of Cloud
* Stone Sour – House of Gold and Bones
* Trail of Dead - Lost Songs
* Shiny Toy Guns - III
* Josh Doyle - S/T
* Further Seems Forever - Penny Black
* Neal Schon - The Calling (w/Steve Smith on drums.)
* Peter Gabriel - So (Deluxe.)
+ The Doors - Live at Hollywood Bowl, 1968
+ Stryper – Live in Indonesia 2010
+ Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
+ Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
+ Secret of the Wings
+ Crooked Arrows
+ Take this Waltz
+ Magic Mike
+ Blade Runner (Blu-ray.)
10/30
* Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
* Kate Rusby - 20
* Matthew Ryan - In the Dusk of Everything
* We are the Roses - Whales and Roses
* Andrew Bird - Hands of Glory
* Jeff Ament & Joseph Arthur - Acts
* The Rebel Light - S/T
* Thrice - Anthology: Live
* Tooth and Nail - TBA (George Lynch, Jeff Pilson, Mick Brown w/various singers.)
* The Velvet Underground & Nico - S/T (Deluxe.)
* Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Dreams of Fireflies on a Christmas Night
* Blue Oyster Cult – 16 CD’s/1 DVD mega box set
+ The Campaign
+ Ruby Sparks
+ Safety Not Guaranteed
+ A Christmas Story 2
11/6
* Aerosmith - Music from Another Dimension
* Geoff Tate - Kings & Thieves (Former singer of Queensryche.)
* Jimi Jamison - Never Too Late
* Simon Townshend - Looking Out Looking In
* Amy Wadge & Pete Riley - Afterglow
* Joyce the Librarian - They May Put Land Between Us
* Jonsi - Go Quiet: Acoustic
* Paul Kelly - Spring and Fall
* All That Remains - A War You Cannot Win
* The Stray Cats - Live at Montreux 1981
* Prog World Orchestra aka Transatlantic - A Proggy Christmas (w/guests Steve Hackett and Steve Morse.)
* The Who - Live at Hull, 1970
+ Queen - Live in Budapest 1986
+ Arthur Christmas
+ Even the Rain
+ Trishna
+ Your Sister's Sister
11/9
+ The Amazing Spider-Man
11/13
* Bill Mallonee - Amber Waves
* Soundgarden - King Animal
* Green Day - Dos
* The Deftones - Koi No Yokan
* Guided by Voices - Bears for Lunch
* Serena Ryder - Harmony
* Brian Eno - Lux
* Forgetters - S/T
* Punch Brothers – Ahoy EP
* Mark Kozelek - On Tour
* Ben Labat - The Revival
* Carrie Newcomer - Kindred Spirits: A Collection
* Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You: Best of
* Paul McCartney - Live Kisses
* The Beatles - Remastered Vinyl
* The Rolling Stones - GRRR! (Best of compilation.)
* Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep (Illustrated Children's Book w/CD.)
* Sufjan Stevens - Silver & Gold (Christmas Box Set.)
* Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta - This Christmas (Many guests.)
+ Peter Frampton - 35 Tour'
+ 2 Days in New York
+ Brave
+ Nitro Circus
+ The Queen of Versailles
+ Savages
+ The Watch
11/20
* Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day: Reunion at London's O2 Arena, 2007 (CD/DVD.)
* Graham Parker - Three Chords Good
* The Avett Brothers - Four Thieves Gone: Robbinsville Sessions
* Porcupine Tree - Octane Twisted
* Levon Helm - Midnight Ramble Sessions III
* Uncle Cracker - Midnight Special
* Bad Brains - Into the Future
* Kate Earl - Stronger
* The Faint – Danse Macabre
* The Blue Nile - A few Deluxe Editions
* Elbow - Dead in the Boot (B-sides.)
* Three Doors Down - Greatest Hits
* Jason Isbell - Live from Alabama
* Eric Clapton - Slowhand (35th Anniversary.)
* The Jam - The Gift (30th anniversary Deluxe.)
* The Beach Boys - Live in Concert: 50th Anniversary
* AC/DC - Live at River Plate, Buenos Aires, 2009
+ Marillion - Live in Zelande (Blu-ray.)
+ Coldplay - Live 2012
+ The Replacements - Color Me Obsessed (Documentary.)
+ Chris Isaak - Beyond the Sun
+ The Expendables 2
11/27
* Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire
* Bobby Bare - Darker than Light
* Breathless – Green to Blue
* The Tea Party - Live from Australia
* Rage Against the Machine - S/T (20th Anniversary Deluxe.)
* Great Big Sea – XX (Box set.)
+ The Greatest Miracle
+ Lawless
+ ParaNorman
11/30
+ Men in Black 3
+ Sparkle
12/4
* The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Deluxe w/Live in London 1996 DVD.)
* James Levy - Pray to be Free
+ The Dark Knight Rises
+ Beasts of the Southern Wild
+ Last Ounce of Courage
+ Hope Springs
+ The Odd Life of Timothy Green
12/11
* Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale - Buddy and Jim
+ Ted
+ The Bourne Legacy
+ Ice Age: Continental Drift
+ Why Stop Now
12/18
+ Total Recall
+ Sleepwalk With Me
12/21
+ Arbitrage
+ Premium Rush
+ Killer Joe
+ Red Hook Summer
LYRICS of the MONTH:
“You carry me around
Like loose change jingle-jangling
At the bottom of your bag
You don't seem to feel it though
As you swing down the street
Walking that unique birthday-candle glow
In broad daylight
In broad daylight
And you don't even know
The way I love you
You never knew power, did you?
You thought that power was in a strong arm
People pass the laws and gold
Tsunamis and mushroom clouds
Oh babe that's nothing
You think it's kinda sweet
The stammer and the tremble in my voice
But don't mistake it for weakness
Or some kind of incompleteness
'Cause round about now
I can feel it tingle-tangling
It's coiled up inside me
And it's ready to blow
You never knew power, did you?
Thought it fizzed in the overhead lines
Burning steel and bone to carbon
Saturn 5 in vertical climb
You never knew power, did you?
Thought it roared like Niagra Falls
Or melted stone under volcanoes
Earthquake thunder lightning storms
The way I love you
Is something you don't understand
The way I love you
Took more than I could imagine, even now
You never knew power
All the time you felt so strong
But now you can't function
Awake or asleep
As the meaningless world falls away from your feet
And the Universe ceases it's light-speed retreat
Life was sweet in the meteor shower
Of the star-high divine
When you sparkled and fell
From heaven to hell
And ten years grinding by in every hour
In every hour
I know all about power
Listen to the rain
You might feel a tremble
You might feel it.”
Steve Hogarth (Marillion), the song “Power” from the album Sounds That Can’t Be Made released this month.
http://www.marillion.com
Happy Halloween everybody! And Happy Thanksgiving too if I don’t get back to you all before then!
See you in December or there-abouts…
Chris Barlow
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