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Designed & printed by New Times MediaSpecial Publication Division

Managing Editor: Salvatore Caputo

Contributing Writers: Raina Bird, Serene Dominic, Amy Young,Julie Messner, Casey Lynch, Salvatore Caputo, Daniel Raven

Cover: Phil Rock

Layout: Conni Ersland

22 CD/DVD Reviews

12 Listening Posts

26 My Take... M. Cassidy

28 CD New Releases

30 DVD New Releases

questions & answers

4 Nightwish

questions & answers

6 Ky-Mani Marley

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8 Peanut Butter Wolf

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10 Saves the Day

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18 The Dillinger Escape Plan

video game spotlight

21 Assassin’s Creed

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N ightwish, with its love of progressiveheavy riffing, near-classical orchestra-tion and ambiguous, Gothic lyrics, is

back. That wasn't necessarily a sure thingfor a band that fired a popular lead vocal-ist after the group finished touring behindits first million-selling album, 2004'sOnce. After the last concert of the OnceTour in late 2005, the guys in the band —Tuomas Holopainen (founder, keyboardistand chief songwriter), Emppu Vuorinen(guitarist and founding member), MarcoHietala (bassist) and Jukka “Julius”Nevalainen (drummer) — gave Swedishfemale vocalist and founding member TarjaTurunen her pink slip. The last concert withTurunen is immortalized in a DVD called(what else?) End of an Era.

While the guys spent nearly a year puttingtogether the music for Nightwish's sixthstudio album, Dark Passion Play, they sort-ed through thousands of demos from peo-ple who wanted Turunen's job. Oddlyenough, the 10-year-old band ended upwith another Swedish female singer, AnetteOlzon. The band road-tested the new line-up under weird aliases in three one-off clubgigs in Estonia, Germany and Sweden.

ZiaZine! caught up with Hietala — he wassubbing for Holopainen and Olzon, whoboth got sick early in the band's U.S. tour— to talk about how working with a newsinger has affected the group and theimportance of taking your pills whiletraveling.

How are you doing?

MARCO HIETALA: At least I'm doing a lot bet-ter than a couple of other people in theband.

Is something going around?

MH: Something. I don't really know what'sgoing on because Tuomas, they alreadytook him to a doctor, and Anette went torest. Something's going on, which I hopewill not start to go around in the tour busbecause then things will be pretty bad, butI've been taking my pills. Of course, thereare a lot of things that can affect this onthe road. You've got the jet lag and the cli-mate change and all kinds of things, andusually some different bugs going aroundon different continents, so it's somethingthat always sometimes happens.

Was recording Dark Passion Play with Anettea smooth process?

MH: Yeah. Pretty much because already inthe old days with the old vocalist, Tarja, wedid this thing pretty much in the same way:The band got together, started to rehearsesome new stuff and played through newsongs and everything, and then she wouldjust come up in the studio and do her stuffthere. … We just got her into the studioand started going over songs, and she'sreally fast. She gets things that we wantedto be done really fast. Of course, somethings changed at that time because if youget a singer you've got to let them do some-thing their own way. The vocalist has to berelaxed in the studio. So some thingschanged a little bit, but not much.

You were recording before you decided on alead singer, right?

MH: (In 2006,) we got down to the studioand started doing the bottom tracks andeverything before we even decided who wasgoing to get in, but then again Anette was

one of the first ones to send her demo tous, so we already figured out that shewould be good, but when we put out theannouncement that we were looking for asinger we said that we'd be looking forabout a year, “so send your tapes andCDs.” And so we figured that, “OK, we'll gothrough that period of time and record ourstuff at the same time and then make thefinal decision.” Of course, it was a little bithard for her to wait for all that time and beunsure if she was going to get it or not.

Was she a fan of the band?

MH: No. Actually, she hadn't heard aboutus really till a short time before sheapplied. It was one of the family or somefriend of hers who gave the CD to her andsaid that we were probably looking for asinger, and then she checked out the stuffand wanted to have the live DVD and justgot hooked by it.

Since she's from Sweden and you're fromFinland, do you have to speak English to oneanother in order to be understood?

MH: We pretty much just talk English andget along. Finnish and Swedish are notreally comparable as languages. They comefrom really different roots, totally. We pickup some things now and then, and inFinland, they also teach a lot of Swedish inschool, so we know some stuff but Anettedidn't know anything Finnish before shecame to us and well, now, she knows a lotof dirty stuff, of course.

— Salvatore Caputo

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Ky-Mani Marley is probably one of thou-sands of people who have a Bob Marleytat, but he also just happens to be

Marley's youngest son and the only personto sport a Bob Marley tat on two consecu-tive album sleeves. Yet he seems secureenough in his own path to be able to man-age and even draw allusions to his father'swork — he refers to himself as a “BuffaloSoldier” as well as a “Ghetto Soldier” onthe new album. After a false start notunique among offspring of living legends,like Hank Williams Jr., Marley recorded analbum of his father's songs (Like FatherLike Son) in 1996, but it wasn't until hesigned with the AAO label and releasedMany More Roads that he truly began mov-ing away from his dad's legacy and carvinghis own niche.

That album, which merged dancehallgrooves with electronica touches, was stillconsidered enough of a black, green andgold enterprise to be nominated for a BestReggae Album Grammy (he lost to brotherDamian Marley's Halfway Tree). His latestrelease, Radio, virtually sidelines reggae infavor of gangsta and R&B hip-hop withguest appearances by Young Buck, GailGotten and Mya, but is still unmistakably

Ky-Mani Marley. He'snot your atypical rap-per. In his thanks notes,along with the usualacknowledgements ofGod and family, hethanks “my haters forhating on me because itonly enhanced myhunger and made mewant it more than you.”

And he's definitely get-ting it more than you.He nabbed the highlycoveted opening slot onthe Van Halen/David

Lee Roth reunion tour and is the subject ofa BET reality series called "Living the Lifeof Marley." That life entails having very lit-tle time to oneself. A promised 15-minutephone interview from a tour bus got whit-tled down to seven minutes thanks to cel-lular call-dropping technology, but you canask him about the state of radio, Dad tats,where he got that dolphin-ish laugh thatpeppers the entire album and what rappershe draws inspiration from. When I franti-cally tried calling back, the telling answer-ing message was Kanye West's “Can't TellMe Nothing.”

Your last album, the Grammy-nominated ManyMore Roads was six years ago. When itdebuted as the No. 1 reggae album, wereaudiences taken aback that there was somuch hip-hop on it as opposed to straight-upreggae?

KY-MANI MARLEY: Wow, I dunno. To me, myapproach on this album was like “I'm goingto put my heart and soul in it and eitheryou're gonna love it or hate it.” I was dis-satisfied with my earlier records because Ilet the record company and former man-agement dictate what they thought wasright for me to do in my career because I

had the Marley last name. But it didn't feelright to me to keep doing boom-chock reg-gae. For me, I'm not from that era. I wasraised in Miami and I listened to rock, hip-hop, soft rock, you name it. So if that's theenergy that I'm carrying, I thought it wouldbe an injustice to myself to go against thatand do what other people thought wasright.

Did you record the album over the course ofsix years or was it something that all cametogether in the past year and a half or so?

KMM: Kinda assembled it in the past year.I've been recording for a while, but as faras putting together the structure of analbum, that started within the last year.And once I got started, everything was inrotation so I knew what I wanted to get itdone. When we knew the approach, we gotYoung Buck, Mya and Gail Gotti. It wasactually done all in the same week, oneafter the other

How much energy do you get from the street?Is there a very violent vibe where you live?How dangerous is it?

KMM: Yeah, I live in a pretty violent neigh-borhood. It's what I learned growing up. Alot of people hear the Marley last name andthink that means one thing, but for me Iwas raised in the inner city and when Imoved to Miami it was nine people living ina two-bedroom house, so I know what it isto have nothing, I know what it is to suffer.But then for me, it's also the place I hadthe most fun.

— Serene Dominic

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As a teenager in San Jose, Calif., Chris Manak,aka Peanut Butter Wolf perfected histurntable-ism and landed on vinyl at age 20

with “You Can't Swing This,” a collaboration withLyrical Prophecy. Shortly after that, he forged apartnership with MC Charizma and got signed toHollywood Basic (a hip-hop subsidiary ofDisney!). None of the material they recorded wasreleased until after the label folded and Charizmawas shot in 1993. In 1996, Wolf formed his ownlabel, the highly successful Stones ThrowRecords and by 1999 released his first project forhis own label, My Vinyl Weighs a Ton. Since thenhe's released two Peanut Butter Wolf comps,joined the L.A. hip-hop orchestra Breakestra andreleased Chrome Children, an album track herecorded in conjunction with the Adult Swimcable network. The new B-Ball Zombie War con-tains work created for sports video-game makerTake Two, but is a stand-alone masterwork ofteam-ups with the likes of Percee P, J Dilla, JRocc, Madlib, Guilty Simpson and Niko and asteady stream of tangential samples fromRaymond Scott to Smokey Robinson to SesameStreet. We begin with the obligatory question …

I'm assuming people call you PBW like PB&J.Did you come up with your handle or was itbestowed upon you?

PEANUT BUTTER WOLF: When I was in high school,I was shy with the girls and someone jokinglymade up the name “Playboy Willie” for me,which was weird 'cause my real name was Chris.I kinda went with that for a while, but I didn't

like explaining the story to girls in my classes, soI shortened it to PBW. Then, we had to think ofsomething for the initials, so “Peanut ButterWolf” was the obvious choice.

How did Hollywood Basic, which was ownedby Disney, discover you and Charizma?

PBW: At the time, there was a big buzz on us inthe Bay Area. We opened for every hip-hop groupthat came to town like Black Sheep, Nas,Cypress Hill, et cetera, and always held our own,even with no records out. We got commercialradio play on Sway and Tech. Stuff like that.

How much interference was there from theparent company? What were their objectionsto releasing your album back in '92?

PBW: When we got signed, we just played thewaiting game in terms of budgets getting held upbecause (David) Funkenklein was the head ofHollywood Basic and he had a terminal disease.The label folded while we were signed and ourrecord never came out. Funkenklein died, andthen Charizma died.

Was Charizma's shooting a random one?

PBW: Charizma was robbed and carjacked andhe resisted. It happened in broad daylight inEast Palo Alto, which was one of the roughestparts of the Bay Area — and probably the world.

Is there a lot of material still unreleased?PBW: There's a few songs here and there thatnever came out, but it's more like four-trackdemos. Cool stuff though. I just found a song

last week that I forgot we did.

The tracks you have with the late J Dilla, werethose tracks already finished by him?

PBW: Everything we did with Dilla was finishedby him before we put it out. Donuts was mixedand mastered and came out on his birthday,which we planned. He passed away a few dayslater, which shocked us and the rest of the world.Rough Draft was another album that was com-pletely finished before he passed away andanother album we planned on releasing beforehis death. Same with Charizma. I made it a pointwith Charizma not to go in and change any of thesongs after he passed away.

When you construct a track using varioussources, is it the result of random experi-menting recorded live? Besides the MC, isthere any other overdubbing involved?

PBW: I just did a remix for James Pants where Iplayed a variety of instruments live. I kept thefeel of the original, but it's a lot different if youlisten closely. Same with the Azymuth remix Idid. I played live drums, acoustic piano, synth,percussion and did a lot of rearranging. I enjoydoing remixes 'cause I don't have to start fromscratch and can do as little or as much as I wantto change the song. I use a lot of samples aswell. Sometimes bust a scratch. Case-by-casebasis.

Hip-hop DJing to me is very much like being amagician. Do DJs have a similar code ofsecrecy concerning certain moves that they

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PBW: A lot of DJs like to cover their records, butI'm more for sharing the music. I have enoughrecords that if other DJs started playing what Iplay, I can switch it up and go anywhere elsewith it. That's why I spun seven nights in a rowin LA, playing a different style of music eachnight. All vinyl. I like being the utility man.

Your vinyl weighs a ton, I know, which is themain selling point of that Serato computersoftware. I know that you are old school, butI wondered if purists scream “Judas” if youever turned up using a computer?

PBW: I think the fact that I am known as thevinyl guy made me an attractive choice forSerato to pursue to sponsor. This was no problemfor me because I love Serato as well. I spin withboth. With the Serato, I got 8,000 songs at myfingertips when I'm at a club as opposed to 80.It's a totally different vibe spinning with Serato.Some think it's easier doing Serato, but there'san art to that as well. When all your songs are inBPM (beats-per-minute) order, DJs have a ten-dency to stay in the same BPM range the wholenight, and the crowd gets bored after a while.You gotta switch it up! Speaking of, I spin withmusic videos a lot these days, too, using neithervinyl nor Serato. That's a lot of fun.

Isn't it true that people in the club need to seethe vinyl? Why is that? Do you have a fixednumber of records that you take with you toevery date?

PBW: It depends. I like to do all seven-inch setsa lot as well for that reason, but sometimes I'llshow up at an out-of-town gig with all rare seven-inch singles that no other DJ has, and they'll putme in a DJ booth where nobody can see what I'mdoing anyway. There's no rhyme or reason to mygigs.

Some of my favorite tracks are the ones thatincorporate spoken-word records. What arethe sources for “Lightworks” and “SuperSound”?

PBW: “Lightworks" is from Raymond Scott. Dillaturned a lot of us on to a lot of '60s electronicartists like Raymond Scott and Bruce Haack.Dilla played me a CD of the Electric Luciferalbum and I fell in love with it and called himthe next day asking for the info so I could try andfind a copy. Next time I saw him, he gave me hiscopy of the record.

When you work with another DJ like Madlib,how much do you know in advance of whathe's going to do, if at all? Do you get in thezone where you both inexplicably pull out thesame record at the same time?

PBW: With Madlib, I never know what's gonnahappen next. We did a party for Winter MusicConference in Miami where Madlib out of theblue started scratching over a song and thenstopped the song and continued to scratch for acouple minutes a cappella. And people don'teven put Madlib in a turntablist category, but hewas scratching his ass off and doing a great job

at it, one of the funkiest things I'd ever seen himdo. And WMC is supposed to be more of a housemusic-based dance crowd. He gives himselfcomplete freedom when performing and peoplerespect him more for doing so.

How hard is it finding weird esoteric vinylwhen thrift shops are basically picked cleanbecause of eBay resellers?PBW: I haven't had luck in thrift stores since theearly '90s, but as for record stores, I still comeacross stuff in the dollar bins from time to time.EBay has definitely changed the game though.

I like old school turntablists because thesound you come up with sounds stream ofconsciousness and almost psychedelic. Doyou find that true for you, that what you do isalmost head music?

PBW: Some of my stuff has a psych edge, but Ilike so many different kinds of music that I thinkmy DJ sets and the music I make reflect that aswell. Madlib has asked me to do an installmentin his “Mind Fusion” mix-tape series, which pur-posely goes all over the place and I'm really look-ing forward to doing that.

I've heard it suggested that The Beatles aresometimes credited as the first samplersbecause of their use of loops on “TomorrowNever Knows,” their inclusion of GlennMiller's “In The Mood” at the end of “All YouNeed is Love” and “Revolution No. 9,” whichis basically an eight-minute sound collage oftape loops.

PBW: I guess you can say The Beatles were oneof the first well-known groups doing samplingwith the tape loops and that. Silver Apples didthis as well as a lot of other '60s psych groups.One of the first popular hip-hop songs where Iwould say the whole song was based aroundsamples was “Electric Boogie Breakdance” byWest Street Mob. Before that, most hip-hopsongs were either session players replaying pop-ular disco songs or people programming drummachines and adding synths on top. West StreetMob was a sound collage.

You have quite an impressive stable of artistson Stones Throw. How many people havecome to you that have had similar frustrationswith major labels?

PBW: My three biggest-selling artists (Madlib,Dilla, and Doom) have all had their share ofmajor-label horror stories. Come to think of it,Percee P did as well. I'm not blaming the major-label system. It's just that a lot of artists signwith majors before they're popular enough yetwith the general public to be a priority to thoselabels. It can be a tricky thing.

How did you get Percee P to finally commit tomake an album? Why did it take him so long?

PBW: Percee is one of those guys who has neverdepended on anybody else to promote him or doanything for him. He's always been happierdoing everything himself, from writing the songs,to recording them, to dubbing his own copies, toselling them to people face to face. He's never

really needed a label. We're just working withhim because Madlib and Egon happened to befans and we wanted to take his thing and com-bine it with our thing. Perseverance is the firstrecord-label-supported “official” Percee Palbum, but he's done several other albumsbefore that on his own. Percee's on tour withCommon and Q-Tip at the moment for very littlemoney, but it's a great opportunity for him to getout there and meet new people and sell a few ofhis homemade CDs.

Guilty Simpson says that R&B (c)rap is gonnabe the death of him and calls it “cheddar.”What are your feelings about it?

PBW: I never really listened to R&B rap in thelate '80s-early '90s when it started getting big. Iwas more into Flavor Unit, Ultramagnetic, BDP,Rakim, Schooly D, et cetera. When “I NeedLove” came out, it wasn't my favorite song oranything, but I gave Cool J props when it cameout 'cause it was something different for LLwhen before that, he always had that hardcoreside with “I Need A Beat” and “Rock The Bells.”When all the other guys started copying it, I did-n't like it so much. By the mid-90s, it got reallybad, but I think there's different levels of “R&Brap.” I played Father MC at a club the other day,partially because I found it on 45 and partiallybecause I really haven't heard any other DJs playit since the early '90s. Then, I realized, it wasthe first time I'd EVER played it out, so I got onthe mic and told the crowd that, and they got akick out of it. I play Kwame and Heavy D in mysets when I do the video thing because thoseartists had fun with it, almost in a De La Soulsort of way. I guess I like all different kinds ofstuff, but agree with Guilty that some of thenewer corny stuff can get frustrating.

Did the whole 50 Cent-Kanye WestSoundscan skirmish have any effect at all onindie hip-hop? What did you think of thatmajor-label hype and do you think 50's sec-ond-place showing is accelerating the per-ceived death of gangsta rap in the media?

PBW: I haven't sat down and listened fully toeither album yet, so I'm probably not the rightperson to ask, but I think it made for a greatmedia story. I will say the differences are moreperception than reality though. I skimmedthrough both albums on iTunes when they cameout and the first thing I noticed was how themusic on the two albums didn't really sound allthat different. There were certain beats thatcould have gone on either album and fit in per-fectly. It made me realize that they get put intodifferent categories based on the album covers.If you took the voices off the tracks, and playedthem for people, they wouldn't be able to guesswhich beats were for which artist. And althoughthey have distinguishable voices, even the waythey rap sounds similar. How they put theirwords together and their intonation. Respect toboth of them though for doing it big and havingeveryone talking.

— Serene Dominic

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In a 10-year career, rock act Saves theDay has been many things — pop-punkinnovators, emo-core darlings, alt-rock

lightning rods — and the band has spentas much time saving the musical day as ithas being in need of rescue. Starting as ahigh-school melodic hardcore band with apair of straight-ahead pop-punk albums,Saves the Day became Y2K emo wun-derkinds with 2001's Stay What You Are.The album saw the band begin dabbling inan assortment of musical styles and per-sonal lyrical content, something Saves theDay would ultimately receive widespreadcriticism for on the next album, 2003's InReverie. After being dropped by its labelshortly afterward, the band returned to thescene with 2006's Sound the Alarm, acaustic collection of intimate and visceraltunes that would become the first in a tril-ogy of concept albums. With the newlyreleased sixth long-player Under TheBoards (the second act of the trilogy),ChrisConley and the current line-up of the band— including longtime guitarist DavidSoloway and bassist Manuel Carrero anddrummer Durijah Lang (the last two alsocurrent members of Glassjaw) — don't careabout fitting into genres or what criticsthink of them. ZiaZine! talked to Solowayabout not having a sound of their own, howthey coped with the In Reverie fallout andhow Under The Boards fits into the Savesthe Day trilogy.

So it's no secret that your sound seems toevolve from album to album.

DAVID SOLOWAY: All my favorite bands arebands that change. I love having so manydifferent songs by a band to listen to that

have different moods and feel.

Do you think that comes with age?

DS: Yeah, we were more influenced bybands like Lifetime when we were young,but as we get older, each time we write itbecomes more varied, but I wouldn't eversay, “This album is us, this is our sound.”We don't want to arrive at one definingSaves the Day sound. I don't think we everwill.

Was it tough coming back from In Reverie?

DS: All of 2004, we had no label, so therewas a lot of emotional fallout from that. Weworked hard and mostly good things hadhappened for us up to that point. Then tohave the arc shift and go down was dis-heartening for all of us, and especially forChris. It's his soul. It was really hard onhim, and we were all really confident in InReverie. We thought it would influencepeople and would change bands, but it did-n't. So we had this long, dark incubationperiod. It just took us a long time to findthe voice for the music.

How tough was writing Sound The Alarmthen?

DS: It was the hardest single thing I've everdone: sitting, writing in a small rehearsalspace, at one point playing the same fivesongs over and over again. It was one ofthose things you just had to decide to con-sciously do. Now, on the other side, we'vegot lots of music. Songwriting now involvesjust as much detective work as it does reg-ular writing because Chris has such astockpile of material.

So in contrast, how difficult was it to recordUnder the Boards?

DS: It was relatively simple. We recordedand mixed the whole album in six and ahalf weeks. It's the first time we've hadthe exact 13 songs ready to record insequence, it was a “this is the album, let'smake these songs as good as they can be”approach. Now we have a story focus, we'rereally telling a story that will carry overinto the next album, which will be calledDaybreak.

The albums in the trilogy are concept albumsof sorts?

DS: Yes, though we didn't know we werewriting a trilogy when we started Sound theAlarm. The whole thing is a chronicle ofChris' experience, of what has been andwhat continues to be the most intensething in his life. It's about dealing withother people and yourself, especially ifyou're someone like Chris, who's incrediblysensitive. Sound The Alarm is about beingangry and knowing there's somethingwrong, but you don't know what to do aboutit or if you can do something about it.Under The Boards is more about the real-ization that you affect the world, and it's asymbiotic relationship, but you're not readyto do anything about that, and Daybreak ismore about doing something about it.

— Casey Lynch

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DAN WILSON Free LifeAmerican $10.99Anyone who enjoys the wistful, expressive, intro-spective side of DAN WILSON's band Semisonic willabsolutely love his first solo album, Free Life.Produced by Rick Rubin, Free Life features 12 new

songs written by WILSON plus special guest appearances by SherylCrow, Mason Jennings, Sean Watkins, Benmont Tench, Eric Fawcett,John Munson, and many others.

DEMIRICOUS Two (Poverty)Metal Blade $10.99Two (Poverty), the highly anticipated sophomorerelease from DEMIRICOUS, features an unrelentingmixture of pure American metal and thrash anddelivers all the rage, hooks, and solos metal heads

have been waiting for. Songs like “Expression of Immunity” terrorizesthe listener like an angry beast made of pure metal, punk, and guitardive-bomb fury. \m/

DJ SPOOKY Creation RebelTrojan $12.99Creation Rebel is a digital trip through classic reggaetracks released on the Trojan label. Subtitled “Re-Mixed, Re-Visioned, Re-Versioned, the album provesDJ SPOOKY capable of all three: this is vintage

Jamaican music put through a 21st-century particle accelerator, decon-structed, then artfully reconstructed with a sense of endless invention.

HARLOTS BetrayerLife Force $10.992007 has brought HARLOTS to its 3rd and mostdiverse full-length yet. Betrayer encompasses anamazing grasp on metal and hardcore that creates aremarkably creative and experimental musical

outing. “Equal parts unrelenting fury and masterful musicianship.” -Punknews.org

MOROS EROS Jealous Me Was Killed By CuriosityVictory $10.99“Jealous Me Was Killed By Curiosity proves thatMOROS EROS are no one album wonders. It takeseverything that was great about their first record andmakes those things even better. They add even more

inventiveness, killer hooks and sly charm to the mix and in the processhave created what will no doubt be one of the most underrated indie-rock albums of 2007.” - New-noise.net

GOV'T MULE Mighty HighBMG/ATO/Red Ink $9.99“High & Mighty takes the GOV'T MULE's 21st cen-tury blues to the next level, distilling shut-eyedimprovisation, giant riffs and deep grooves into awarm and epic guitar-rock sound. Working for the

first time with producer Gordie Johnson (Big Sugar), Haynes and com-pany have crafted a modern classic that captures the essence of whatrock and roll is all about.” - Glide Magazine

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Screaming Trees) who provides vocals on 8 songs. It's Not How Far YouFall, It's The Way You Land promises to be this year's essential recordfor nocturnal atmosphere… Mood music of the moodiest kind.” - QMagazine

STEEL TRAIN TrampolineDrive Thru $9.99Trampoline “reveals the solidarity of a focused rockunit, one that introduces fans to a fuller sound andrich complexity only hinted at in the band's earlierwork. STEEL TRAIN's blend of rock n roll, delivered

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UNDERWORLD Oblivion With BellsBMG/ATO/Red Ink $12.99Oblivion With Bells draws heavily on Rick and Karl'svast array of musical influences and experiencesperforming worldwide to create a truly uniqueUNDERWORLD journey. Epic techno nestles next to

frail acoustics, beatific prose next to sharp urban observation, amazingsound texturing mixed with mobile phone recordings, rarely has theUNDERWORLD palette been so rich.

THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS ZigguratsMegaforce $10.99“Three albums in, THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS come outrocking the irie reggae vibes. Boasting a stronger,more defined sound laced with frontman MatMcHugh's gorgeous melodic vocals, this is a ballsier

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BLUES TRAVELER Cover YourselfC3 Presents $9.99After years of public interest in a greatest hits record,BLUES TRAVELER decided to give their fans exactlywhat they wanted. Cover Yourself includes the band'smajor hits, along with more obscure fan favorites, but

there is a twist - the songs take on a whole new life with completely new,mainly acoustic arrangements.

ANGIE STONE The Art of Love and WarFantasy $14.99As one of the first major signings to the new StaxRecords, ANGIE STONE has found a home, and isdiva-ready. “I'm ready to get loud,” ANGIE pro-claims, “so watch out!” The Art of Love and War

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THE SIMPSONS The Simpsons TestifyShout Factory $13.99Comic Book Guy Declares: “Best. Soundtrack. Ever.”The Simpsons Testify contains the best songs fromSeasons 10 through 18 of THE SIMPSONS, featur-ing THE SIMPSONS cast and special guests Ricky

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MICKEY HART AND ZAKIR HUSSAINGlobal Drum ProjectShout Factory $13.99The first collaboration from Greatful Dead's MICKEYHART and Indian tabla ZAKIR HUSSAIN since theirGrammy-winning Planet Drum release.

MEGAN MCCAULEY Better Than BloodWind-Up $9.99MEGAN MCCAULEY is hardly your typical teenagegirl. Her vocals are both thick-skinned and girlish.They're very much like her personality; an irreverent,self-aware young woman with a sharp wit and biting

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THE HAPPY BOYS Dance party 2008Robbins Entertainment $13.99Sixteen DJ mixed dance hits mixed by THE HAPPYBOYS.

STREETLIGHT MANIFESTOSomewhere In The BetweenVictory $10.99STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO continue to share theirsignature ska sound with their incredible newrecord, Somewhere In The Between. It's top of the

line, swinging rock-n-roll that will put a smile on the face of even thebiggest skeptic. Ska is alive and well and the band that is doing it thebest is STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO.

INTRONAUT The ChallengerTranslation Loss $9.99Comprised of three stunning new studio tracks, aremix and five amazingly executed live tracks thatdeftly display the band's amazing talent, TheChallenger delivers a million times over. “Botch

meshes with Isis, Mastodon collides with Neurosis, and Meshuggah'smethodical crush goes tête-à-tête with Dillinger's dexterity. 8/10.” -Decibel

PULLING TEETH Martyr ImmortalDeathwish $9.99Martyr Immortal, the newest metallic hardcore mas-terpiece from PULLING TEETH, features twelve newsongs that conjure the ghosts of classic bandsIntegrity and Left For Dead. PULLING TEETH paid

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ate the artwork for Martyr Immortal while Integrity vocalist/lyricist DwidHellion contributed musically.

NIGHTS LIKE THESE Sunlight At Second HandVictory $10.99Sunlight At Secondhand is another exploration insonic brutality and emotional distress. NIGHTS LIKETHESE has stretched the darkness of their soundand made it even heavier by adding more atmos-

phere to the mood and dynamics of the music.

SHIPWRECK A.D. AbyssDeathwish $9.99Continuing on their left hand path with "Abyss", SHIP-WRECK A.D. delve even deeper into that ever-growingdark/apocalyptic artistic vision. Climbing to highermusical summits and digging deeper into emotional

lows with "Abyss" SHIPWRECK A.D. have proven that they are true origi-nals/leaders in the metallic hardcore genre.

SCUM OF THE EARTH Sleeze FreakEclipse $10.99“Since Rob is busy making movies, these guys want-ed to make more music. It sounds pretty damn good,it has the riffs of the Zombie albums, and the remix-ing and audio clips over it here and there.” - Michael

Hunt, Amazon.com

ROTTING CHRIST Thanatiphoro Antologio Century Media $12.99ROTTING CHRIST is finally set to release a muchdeserved “Best Of” collection. Spanning their entirecareer, this 2-disc collection has all tracks re-mas-tered with rare and unreleased tracks. Over 2 hours

of ROTTING CHRIST in all their black metal glory!

PENTACLE Under The Black CrossIbex Moon $11.99“Under The Black Cross is old school death metalinfluenced by groups like Celtic Frost, Venom andPossessed. The strongest part of the album is theguitar work. The riffs are powerful and memorable,

and have a bit of a thrash influence. The songs are intense and reason-ably diverse. - Chad Bowar, About.com

LUNA HALO Luna HaloAmerican $8.99“…it looks like the man upstairs is smiling down onLUNA HALO, as the music of their self-titled releaseis a refreshing change from standard punk and rockfare. LUNA HALO boasts an alternative-rock beat

that sounds genuine rather than forced. It has songs that are loads offun and songs that are laid back, but punchy enough to hold any lis-tener's attention. 4 out of 5 stars.” - Pittnews.com

SCHOOLYARD HEROES AbominationsStolen Transmissions $7.99“SCHOOLYARD HEROES' release is one of the best,most hair-raising records out of the Northwest allyear. The production on Abominations is pristine andmature, the songs teeming with sinister chords and

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EMMY ROSSUM Inside OutGeffen $7.99Nubile EMMY ROSSUM has achieved enviable cine-matic success all while still in her teens. While actinghas been rewarding, her passion has always beensinging, and the Inside Out EP is a foretaste of the

full-length debut of the same name. - Paul Schultz

LENNY We Are CriminalsThe Momentum Label $6.99"We Are Criminals" is full of powerful, anthemictracks that range from the ballsy single "Run In ACircle" to the intricate, moving closer "Criminals".Says LENNY frontman JD Dickerson, "I couldn't be

more excited to be doing what I'm doing right now. We're dedicated tosharing this music with anyone and everyone who will listen, and lookforward to doing this for as long as we possibly can."

BIFFY CLYRO PuzzleRoadrunner $10.99Kerrang! has said, “This Band Will Change YourLife,” NME calls BIFFY CLYRO's latest album Puzzle“essential” and “life affirming,” and AlternativePress named BIFFY CLYRO “One of the underground

bands that won't stay underground for long.”

DJ MUGGS VS. SICK JACKENThe Legend of the Mask & the AssassinUniversal Music Latino $8.99Legendary hip-hop producer DJ MUGGS (CypressHill) and SICK JACKEN (Psycho Realm) have unitedto record a hip-hop classic. The Legend of the Mask

& the Assassin marks the first time that members of Cypress Hill andPsycho Realm have joined forces since 1997. The album also featuresCynic from Street Platoon.

THE KILLERS SawdustIsland $12.99Sawdust is the forthcoming compilation of B-sides, rar-ities and remixes by the THE KILLERS. Rolling Stonerevealed the name of the compilation in its "SmokingSection" on September 6, 2007.

PLAYAZ CIRCLE Supply And DemandDef Jam $11.99Supply And Demand is full of bass knocking beats,and they keeps yah head knocking with songs like the#1 “Trap Pick” and “We Workin” are some of thehardcore grimy tracks from the album. The Album is

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JAY-Z American GangsterDef Jam $12.99JAY-Z didn't plan to make an album this year, but anearly screening of American Gangster inspired him tocreate his own cautionary tale based on his pre-rapcareer on the streets. The 13-song story arc of JAY-

Z's American Gangster album is his vision of how his life as a cocainedealer might have turned out if he hadn't become an entertainer.

THE HIVES The Black And White AlbumA&M/Octone $8.99The Black And White Album is the title of the fourthfull-length album by Swedish garage rock revivalistsTHE HIVES. The band said they recorded 20 to 30songs (including seven recorded with producer Pharrell

Williams) for this album and chose only the best.

JILL SCOTTReal Thing: Words And Sounds Volume 3Hidden Beach Records $14.99"I like to tell stories. And I like to emote." That's JILLSCOTT describing the common thread her musiccareer, a brief but luminous seven-year stretch dur-

ing which she's lit the cracks between spoken-word, R&B, hip-hop, andjazz. With Real Thing: Words And Sounds Volume 3, the Grammy-win-ning singer and songwriter can add rock 'n' roll to the list.” - The BostonGlobe

ROGUE WAVE Asleep At Heaven's GateUniversal Republic $11.99“Zach Rogue recently told an interviewer he wroteAsleep at Heaven's Gate “under a shroud of inertia .. . this feeling of things being anticlimactic, or dis-appointing." For a band with a growing following,

this is an odd statement. It's also unsurprising. ROGUE WAVE's bestmusic has always been shaped by an underdog sensibility, the fear thateven when things are going right, they'll probably end up wrong.” - TheBoston Globe

STILL REMAINS The SerpentRoadrunner $10.99The Serpent demonstrates the culmination of the lasttwo years of STILL REMAINS' efforts and experi-ences. With a new line-up, they've written their bestmusic to date. While songs like "Stay Captive" and

"Dancing With The Enemy" showcase the band's versatility and musicalgrowth, songs like "The Wax Walls Of An Empty Room" confirm theirstrength within the metal community.

OM PilgrimageSouthern Lord $10.99Needless to say, this is another great album from theOM, and it doesn't detract from their impressivecatalog. Fans should have no trouble eating thisone up.

OTEP The AscensionKoch Records $13.99 (sale ends 12/24)“Few times have I seen a CD get pushed back asmuch as OTEPs The Ascension has. But, we can say,without a shadow of a doubt that it was well worththe wait. With gothic melodies of "Invisible" and

"Perfectly Flawed" she yet again blows me away with her poetic words.Different from the other albums, another FANTASTIC album fromOTEP!” - Amazon.com

ZIGGY MARLEY Love Is My ReligionTuff Gong Worldwide $10.99Love Is My Religion is similar to the understated butsolid Dragonfly in that it mines familiar territory butdoesn't limit itself to strict reggae…ZIGGY'sDragonfly and now Love Is My Religion show more

depth of studio artistry and experimentation. - Tim Gonzo Gordon

STARS In Our Bedroom After The WarArts & Crafts $11.99“I love this album. I simply can't keep it out of myhead. STARS is an exciting band in that every albumthey've put out is better than the previous one. Ican't wait to see how they continue to evolve as

songwriters. - David King, Amazon

GOIN HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINOVarious ArtistsVanguard Records $19.99GOIN' HOME: A TRIBUTE TO FATS DOMINO is oneof those CD's where one listen convinces you this isa CD worth its weight in gold. There are thirty tracks

on this 2-disc set and as tribute albums go some songs are great,others are fabulous.

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When Mark Knopfler wrote the lyrics forDire Straits' hit “Money For Nothing,”in which a disgruntled appliance-store

worker describes the easy life of a musicianwith the words “maybe get a blister on yourlittle finger/maybe get a blister on yourthumb,” he obviously didn't have a band likeThe Dillinger Escape Plan in mind. For thelast 10 years, DEP has somehow managed tomatch the sonic fury of its genre-defining,eardrum-splitting math-core sound with spas-tically violent live shows. Add on top of thata slew of car accidents, broken bones andcareer-ending nerve injuries, and clearlyKnopfler's blue-collar character was wrong.Ire Works, the band's newest slab of scalpel-sharp, jackhammer-heavy splatter-core ratch-ets the tech-metal up from 2004's more sub-dued Miss Machine while still exploring funkand electronica. ZiaZine! tracked down DEPbassist Liam Wilson to find out how the bandconjured up Ire Works, why the band needsnegative space and to find out if there reallyis a curse on Dillinger.

What went into getting the insanity that is IreWorks onto tape?

LIAM WILSON: Tons. We started working onthat stuff almost two years ago. We had Ben(Wienman, guitarist and only original mem-ber of the band) quit and rejoin the band, wehad Chris (Pennie, drummer) quit. In shortorder, we had to find a drummer. We landedon Gil (Sharone) and gave him three days tolearn the material.

Wait, three days? That's all you gave him tolearn and record that stuff?

LW: Well, he brought his meat to the table.So many things went into this record thatdidn't go into other records. When we didMiss Machine, we went home every night.This time, we were in California and all

together and we talked every day, saw eachother every day. That helped with the Gilthing, though we were all going through weirdthings, not being on tour and not being athome.

Did all of that seep into the music?

LW: Yeah, there's a certain consistency andchaos. With Miss Machine, we would do threesongs, then leave and tour and come back.This time, we just did 13 songs straight, sothe tone, the performance, everything wasconsistent.

Where does a song like “Black Bubblegum” fitin with tracks like “Party Smasher” and“Lurch”?

LW: It's the negative space that makes thingswork, so “Black Bubblegum” or “WhenActing As A Particle” give people a break.They also justify themselves. Instead of writ-ing 100 songs that sound the same, we coverall our bases and all of our sensibilities.

So how does one go about writing a song like“Sick On Sunday”?

LW: It may start as an exercise of sorts withelectronics. Ben might have this new plug-in,then we throw some guitar over it. Or wemight think we need an extra track here. Itdoesn't even need to be fully realized, it justneeds to serve a function, to bridge whatmight be three tracks of semi-accessibleDillinger.

Just how many accidents have you guysendured?

LW: Oh God, enough. Luckily, I've seen morethan I've sustained. Somehow I've been ableto avoid most of them.

So is your time up then?

LW: I hope I've dodged the bullet by default,

but when we were driving out to California torecord I was afraid. We did it in like 40hours.

Why?

LW: We had all this time to think aboutrecording and to talk about it. There was likethis build up and anticipation. Plus, we werederanged — by the time we got there. We leftPhilly on Wednesday night at about 7 p.m.and arrived at about 3 a.m. Friday night.

Do you ever feel like there's some universalforce, some curse out there set up to tortureyour band?

LW: Absolutely, 100 percent.

Do you ever talk to it?

LW: No, but it's usually centered on Ben.We've talked to him about seeing a witch doc-tor to get the curse lifted.

If you got the curse lifted, would it still beDillinger?

LW: I'd be scared to switch things up. Wecould go the way of Hetfield. (Editor's note:That's James Hetfield of Metallica, whoelse?)

What if you learned that the only way to reachyour next musical zenith was for the band tohave to kill one of its members and sacrificethem to the Dillinger gods, would you do it andwho would it be?

LW: Right now, today? Maybe Jeff, he's thisnew guy and he's a vegetarian. But Gil's a lit-tle California, maybe we'd get rid of him.

Who would the band be without the suffering?

LW: Air Supply.

— Casey Lynch

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Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360, PS3)

This is undeniably one of the greatestwinter seasons for video gaming, andbetween triple-A titles like Halo 3, Super

Mario Galaxy, Call of Duty 4 and Rock Band,chances are you'll be broke before year's end

if you're a serious gamer.

You've also probably been anticipating another game, Assassin'sCreed, which we've been following ever since hearing back in2006 that it would come to both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.The teams at Ubisoft behind both the Prince of Persia and TomClancy's Splinter Cell franchises have hauled their stealth/acro-batic-slayer formula to Jerusalem, circa 1191, and are puttinggamers in charge of Altair (pronounced all-tay-ear), a cloakedkiller who may change the course of history if he can stop thewarring factions in the Third Crusade, one assassination at atime. That big “if” will of course be decided by you, the gamer,as you learn to sneak through the crowded Jerusalem streetsunnoticed and leap across the vertigo-inducing heights of thecity rooftops, all going to and fleeing from a murder scene.

One of the stand-out features in Assassin's Creed is the move-ment mechanics; you control Altair primarily with the face but-tons, which are mapped to his head, arms and legs. With a lit-tle practice, you'll be free-running over the tops of almost any

building in thecity, and let us tellyou, once you getthe hang of it, it isso satisfying. Thenthere's the wholebusiness aboutsome DNA/sci-fi/memory recoveryspin that Ubisofthas refused to talkabout (and we'recertainly not goingto ruin it for you), but suffice to say, it's hella cool. One hint —when Altair is defeated or takes a really bad spill, he doesn't die— he “desynchronizes.” And when he pops back up, he does-n't respawn, he “resynchronizes at an earlier memory.” Excitedyet? You should be. Because, barring a slight learning curve,Assassin's Creed delivers everything it promises — a huge,immersive environment, a totally unique control system and theability to kill some of the most influential people in the HolyLand, and what's better than that?

— Casey Lynch

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PEANUT BUTTERWOLFB-Ball Zombie War(Stones Throw)

In what can be viewed as aWhitman's Sampler of Stones Throw MCs,B-Ball Zombie War continues Peanut ButterWolf's tradition of veering through musical jun-gles like so many albums in a crate. One minutehe's expanding on some obscure Northern Soulrecord for “Trouble,” next he's laying down a

blaxploitation groove under a scratchy recordingof Lord Buckley with Madlib floating above that.Or he's just busting out full bore “Electronic”for a few minutes. There's never time to get toocomfortable with one mind-set. Some trackslike the bizarre “Lightworks” and “SuperSound,” replete with '70s FM slow-talking DJ,sound like the work of a man out to do in hishead. But it's the standout “Make It Fast” thatnot coincidentally also is the track most vocalabout the reason for continuing the tradition ofold school for a new skool of disciples —because the original recipe still satisfies. When

MC Guilty Simpson asks, “Why change it fromthe true form — let it be,” and then boasts “Iain't the next nobody, I'm the first me,” it's hardto argue with either statement. Especially afterhe's just told you, “I bust pistols due to my trustissues.” — Serene Dominic

KY-MANI MARLEYRadio(AAO)

The question new convertswill ask is, “Does it soundlike Exodus?” and while

you can hear the Marley lineage, this is moregangsta Rasta than anything you've heard fromany of Ky-Mani Marley's famous half-siblings.Radio comes at an opportune moment, whengangsta is stagnant and can use an injection ofnew blood from a different direction. While thesingle “One Time” is one of the standard Dr. Dreominous “don't mess with me” anthems thatbacked 50 Cent into the corner he's stuck in,what Ky brings to the hood are the best gangstalove ballads you've heard in ages, ones thatdon't run down the women or seem in any rushto kick them to the curb — even when a womanwrongs him, she's called a Jezebel in a tonethat's more longing than vengeful. There are noless than three duets with women (Gail Gotti,Mya and Tessanne Chin) that acknowledge thetoll a fatalistic urban lifestyle takes on thewomen who got his back. On “I Got You,” Myagoes as far as declaring she'll be a Bonnie to hisClyde, ready to hide his stash, post his bail andfire upon his assailants, the best law-breakingdevotional of its kind since felonious FoxyBrown's “Letter to the Firm.” And anybody whothinks he can't back up his boasts, listen how hereads you his own riot act alongside Young Buckon the opener, “I'm Back.” And yet, he still canconjure up the Kingston vibe from the streets ofMiami on “Hustler” and seem perfectly athome. And if you like movie-trailer hyperbole,he's one neighborhood threat that's not stayingput! — Serene Dominic

THE DILLINGERESCAPE PLAN Ire Works(Reprise)

The kill-pocalypse of TheDillinger Escape Plan is back and in full effectwith Ire Works, the band's third long-playerproper. And while Ire Works is as slick as 2004'sMiss Machine, it's still gristly and serrated toappeal to both old-school DEP elitists andnewer fans alike — think a comfortable mediumbetween “Unretrofied” and “43% Burnt.” Thesum result is a maelstrom of thwack that showsoff plenty of the expected machine-gun drumfills, bombastic lyrical screeches and the band's

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DARYL HALL/JOHN OATESHome for Christmas(U-Watch/DKE)

For this Christmas album, think of Hall and Oates walking the line, as theyalways have, between straight, blue-eyed soul and radio-oriented pop withsleigh bells and extra echo added for a wintry yuletide ambiance. They take

traditional tunes like “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” and add harmony motifs that makethem sound like Hall and Oates songs. In addition, Oates' pens “No Child Should Ever Cry onChristmas,” while Hall provides “Home for Christmas.” Oates' tune has the more universal,save-the-world type message (“Let the holy star above / Shine its silver light of love / And turnthis world around”), while Hall's is more about getting home, with a subtext of getting it on,which makes the tune sound the most like one of Hall and Oates' old hits. The biggest surpriseis the group's intensity on “Children Go Where I Send Thee,” a gospel number that has moreauthenticity and real soul than about 99 percent of the duo's output. You must hear it. (Thealbum and tour will help the Toys for Tots program.) — Salvatore Caputo

RICK SPRINGFIELDChristmas With You(Gomer/DKE)

For those who enjoy a hearty serving of down-home twang with theirChristmas tunes, Rick Springfield, a regular on soap opera General Hospital,has released a collection of 14 tracks just in time for the holiday season.

Sticking mostly to the classics — such as “The First Noel,” “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,”“What Child is This?” “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” “I'll Be Home for Christmas,” “SilentNight,” “Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem” and “Deck the Halls” — Springfield has created a col-lection that is appropriate for almost any Christmas event. He also penned an original,“Christmas With You,” that is intended as a tribute to our fallen troops. As a holiday collection,the disc is passable. The songs are arranged in a familiar manner, sure to bring out nostalgicfeelings in most any Christmas reveler, and are safe enough to be played at any celebration.Springfield's voice is also nice enough, although the songs hardly test his range. All in all, a nicecollection of Christmas songs to add to your collection — especially if you're looking for some-thing to please the oldest and youngest attendees of your holiday celebrations. — Julie Messner

MIDNIGHT CLEARLionsgate, Rated PG-13

Every lonesome Christmas you can imagine and wouldn't want to wind upbeing in is on display here: a lonely old woman with no family but plenty ofpills, an alcoholic bordering on the mentally retarded who's lost custody of hiskids, a convenience-store owner with nothing better to do on Christmas Evebut sell cranberries in a can and a family who's daddy is brain-dead from acar accident last Christmas Eve. If Irwin Allen were directing the action,

they'd probably all meet in a head-on collision on Interstate 13. But since this is a faith-basedinitiative starring born-again Steven Baldwin (former real-life drunk playing the aforementionedThunderbird imbiber), there's gotta be some redemption, a feel-good payoff, before too manyteardrops have fallen on the snowless ground and people switch off to catch the end of It's AWonderful Life for the umpteenth time. And there is. These characters are as desperate in theown little hells as George Bailey was in Bedford Falls, but in subtle and less fantastical waysthey somehow crisscross and wind up being each other's guardian angels. And they're not evenhalf the sermonizers Clarence was. — Serene Dominic

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VARIOUS ARTISTSI'm Not There(Sony)

The Bob Dylan film biogra-phy has been talked aboutfor years and it's finally

supposed to hit theaters in November. I'm NotThere features Marcus Carl Franklin, BenWhishaw, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale,Richard Gere and Cate Blanchett (!) all playingdifferent aspects of Dylan's personality. Thetwo-CD soundtrack album features Dylan's ver-sion of “I'm Not There,” recorded with TheBand during “The Basement Tapes” sessionsand officially released here for the first time. Itcontrasts interestingly with Sonic Youth's ownversion of the tune, also included here. Theother 32 tracks feature a diverse group ofartists taking on Dylan's tunes, including EddieVedder, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Richie Havens,Tom Verlaine, John Doe, Los Lobos andCharlotte Gainsbourg. — SC

BOB DYLANThe Other Side of theMirror: Bob Dylan Liveat the Newport FolkFestival 1963-1965 Sony, Not Rated

The young Bob Dylan wasthe “unwashed phenomenon” of the NewportFolk Festival as the sun sunk on the Kennedyadministration and The Beatles and Vietnamloomed. Dylan's early days at the festival seema footnote or a prelude to the legend that sur-rounds his 1965 appearance backed by theelectrified Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Formany, the chief calling card of Murray Lerner'sdocumentary DVD is that it shows just about allof Dylan's electric set, but more importantly itshows Dylan's quick evolution to rock and rollpoet, and the reaction was not nearly as polar-ized as legend has it, which is very cool whenyou think about it. — SC

BOB DYLANDylan(Legacy/Columbia)

The Dylan buzz is highwhat with the film biogra-phy I'm Not There boasting

multiple actors playing the rock bard and asoundtrack featuring everybody from EddieVedder to Richie Havens covering him, as wellas the release of The Other Side of the Mirror,a DVD that for the first time chronicles BobDylan's first rock-band set at the Newport FolkFestival. Meanwhile, Columbia has decided torelease the Dylan retrospective set just in timefor the winter holiday gold rush at recordstores.

The last time Columbia released an album sim-ply named Dylan was back in 1973 when theman jumped ship and signed with GeffenRecords. Legends are murky: Some say thathastily put-together set of outtakes from theSelf Portrait era was the label's swipe at Dylanfor leaving, while others say that the man him-self put it together to fulfill his contract andmove to what seemed like greener pastures atthe time.

The lovingly assembled Dylan album of 2007bears little resemblance to the forgettable1973 set. Actually, it comes in three flavors.The first is an 18-track set that's OK but ismonopolized by Dylan hits that have beenanthologized very often in the past (forinstance, “Subterranean Homesick Blues” andseven other tracks here were included onDylan's first greatest hits collection in 1966).The second is “The Collector'sEdition,” a sublime three-CDdigipak that includes thosevery same hits, but also offersdeep tracks that were signifi-cant in Dylan's official,unbootlegged recording histo-ry. The third flavor is a box setfeaturing the same 51 trackson three CDs accompanied by10 limited edition postcards,mini-vinyl replica artwork andan extended 40 page bookletwith new liner notes and rarephotographs.

The three-CD versions start with “Song toWoody,” a cut from Dylan's first album, inwhich a still wet-behind-the-ears troubadourboldly declares to his hero, “Hey, hey, WoodyGuthrie, I wrote you a song.” They end with“When the Deal Goes Down” from 2006'sModern Times album, a work that defies theexpectation that at retirement age his recordingcareer should be winding down.

They also include Mark Ronson's remix of“Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll GoMine)” as sort of a bonus for longtime fans.

This is a celebration of Dylan's 45 years withColumbia/Sony (well, if you don't count thatyear or so on Geffen, but hey both albumsDylan released on Geffen — Planet Waves andBefore the Flood — have been available onColumbia almost ever since he came back toroost with 1975's Blood on the Tracks).Boththe single-CD and triple-CD versions of Dylanaim to capture the audience that has a few oreven no Dylan collections at home. But whateven Dylan completists will find here, particu-larly in the chronological three-CD editions, ishow good Dylan's tunes have been even in theperiods when he seemed relatively unproduc-tive or his voice seemed particularly uncooper-ative.

Listening to tunes like “Changing of theGuards,” “Brownsville Girl” and “Silvio” heremay make you dust off the not-so-classicalbums they came from (1978's Street Legal,1986's Knocked Out Loaded and 1988's Downin the Groove respectively) to see if maybe youundervalued them the first time through.

—Salvatore Caputo

overall preternatural musical chops. Singer/bad-ass frontman Greg Puciato spreads his vocalwings even more on tracks like “BlackBubblegum” and “Dead As History,” and whilethe kick-to-the-groin songs (“Fix Your Face,”“Lurch” and “82588”) still smash the way theyshould, Dillinger bravely drifts into dreamier ter-ritory than ever before with tracks like “WhenActing As A Particle.” With all the raw sting of afist to face, Ire Works succeeds at harnessingthe power that Dillinger fans expect while con-tinually becoming more accessible. And serious-ly, we challenge you to find a better, moodiercloser than “Mouth of Ghosts” on any Dillingerknock-off album; it starts with a cosmic bolerogroove that erupts into a gloriously triumphantclimax. Yeah, not gonna happen. — Casey Lynch

SAVES THE DAYUnder The Boards(Vagrant)

Longtime Saves the Dayfans who wondered if theband would ever return to

form after the critically assailed and highly mis-understood 2003 record In Reverie were able torest easy after last year's amazing Sound TheAlarm. Under The Boards expands on the non-formula formula of Saves the Day (translation:STD singer-writer Chris Conley is unafraid of let-ting the music veer into whatever direction itneeds to go), offering more radio-ready hits (err,“Radio”), more Beatles-esque stylings (“Lonely

Nights”) and more big, huge wonderful rock(“Can't Stay The Same”). Part two in a trilogy,Under the Boards still delivers plenty of Conleylyrical melancholia. Not interested in wastingany time, Conley opens the album over a cleanarpeggiated chord singing, “I wanna crawl intothe ground and not come out/ For 37 years whenmy life runs out/ A demon in my mouth, it spitswords out/ Let everybody hate me, make me killmyself.” As vulnerable as ever, Conley comes offresolved (“Bye Bye Baby”) and wiser(“Kaleidoscope”), while guitarist David Solowayis up to his tasty, sparse tricks (“Under TheBoards” and “Get F*&%# Up”). In short,we can't wait for the next album already.— Casey Lynch

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SEETHER. SALE. SUPER.

Seether on sale all month long. New album FINDING BEAUTY IN NEGATIVE SPACE in stores now.

Music on DVD. On Sale.

DON’T SIT TOO CLOSE TO THE SCREEN.IT’LL RUIN YOUR EARS.

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Mike Cassidy,Indie MusicBuyer

EFTERKLANGParades

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seemingly at random because of each note’s unpredictable placement.But once you become accustomed to where the players are provokingtheir instruments to speak, you begin to see that every note has beenmeticulously crafted and perhaps pined-over. While such calculationin music can often be suffocating to the feel of the song, Efterklangare remarkably successful at maintaining a high sense of freshnessand emotion.

One album highlight, “Mirador,” is a fine example of this dynamic asit marches forward with a military style drum pattern beneath a slowbarrage of vocal melodies while orchestral string arrangements trick-le over the subtle electronic foundation. While album closer “CuttingIce To Snow” is less complex, the effect is the same: Compellingmusical ideas fashioned for lasting impact.

Birthed in Denmark, the band is – in the most literal sense of the word– foreign. But their borderless musical craft that is seemingly withoutorigin speaks to another sense of the word that helps to best describeEfterklang’s sound. We think of something being “foreign” as“strange, unfamiliar, alien.” while often, as in the case of “Parades,” itmeans “exciting, fresh and unconventional.” It is this concept of theword, working in partnership with the power and emotion the bandprojects , that makes this album so wondrous and special. These twoelements are what make comparing this album to alien gospels andabstract ghosts relevant. Efterklang strikes intense emotional chordsusing methods we have yet to hear. If there is any justice in the world,this band will be as fondly revered and heralded as fellow visionarygreats Radiohead and Sigur Ros…anything less would be a travesty.

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RASMUS STOLBERGof EFTERKLANG

Mike Cassidy : You guys are about to embarkon a world tour and release your 2nd full-length which is highly anticipated in somecircles, how are you feeling about all of this?

Rasmus Stolberg : I’m exited and happy. Wehave been working towards this for more thantwo years and all of us feel that this is the bestrecording we have made. It is a nice feeling.

MC: Does the current climate of conflict andparanoia around the world make touringthrough different countries difficult?

RS: We have never been outside Europe yet,from my point of view things are still quiet andpeaceful and we have no problems. Thestruggle to get working permits and visas ishard though. We have invited an Americanmusician to join our live band and are rightnow trying to get him a working permit. Wehope to visit USA in 2008 and I know there willbe a lot of struggle to get that sorted but onceit is up and running I’m sure everything will bedelightful.

MC: I would agree with you that Parades isyour best work yet. It has some of your bright-est and darkest moments to date. Can you tellme a bit about what the tone or goal was forwhat you wanted this album to be?

RS: Since we made Tripper (Efterklang’s 1stfull length) we have always worked out of theprinciple that all ideas are doable and shouldbe tried out. This played a role as well in themaking of this album but I think what is moreimportant was a better focus on what it is wedo well and how we can make that better. As

you know we do everything ourselves andover the years of making music and playingshows you get better, better at writing songsand better at recording them. One thing wetalked about from the beginning was to getthe right dynamics. We are very proud ofTripper but we also feel a little that we keptourselves on a too short leash. On Paradeswe dare more.

MC: Yes, while Tripper was forward-thinkingin its own right, Parades goes much further.Your music has so many different elements toit. What is the process of piecing it together?

RS: It’s like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle.The songs are not written on a guitar or pianoand then orchestrated, they are sculptured inour studio piece for piece and along theprocess they change and evolve in largescale. Each song has a different path of cre-ation. Sometimes you loose your overviewand get stressed out, other times the musicsort of takes you in the hand and completesitself.

MC: Efterklang's sound often strikes peopleas difficult to trace to its roots. That is, it isn'teasy to say "oh this music is an extension ofor comes from this other music." Who are themusicians & bands that have inspired andinfluenced Efterklang to make the music youdo?

RS: It is a bit difficult for us to trace as well. Itstarted out with inspirations from the blossom-ing Icelandic scene at that time and the lastwake of the electronica movement inGermany. This was mixed with our back-

ground as Radiohead inspired musicians.Over the years we have built upon this andsubtracted to something I feel we can say isour own style. We have added inspirationsfrom classical music like Sjostakovich andArvo Pärt and we have been inspired bynames like Animal Collective / Sufjan Stevens

MC: I’m not aware of many bands coming outof Denmark...what is the music communitylike in Copenhagen?

RS: Blossoming! When we started out wefelt no one did anything good and that noone understood what we were doing. Thishas gladly changed. Check out the labelYoyooyoy for Sonic Youth jazz avant-pop stuffand check out Slaraffenland of course who werelease on our Rumraket label.

MC: What is it like running a label while tryingto maintain the full time job of Efterklang? Iimagine you have other people to help run thelabel?

RS: I run the label and besides from playingbass and guitar I also take care of all our man-aging. We have well defined roles in the bandwhich makes us able to take care of every-thing on our own.

MC: Aside from the U.S. tour, what else is instore for 2008?

RS:..A lot of concerts in new countries andthen...release an EP. It will be a small releasethough. Maybe we will make some more filmmusic if a good director asks us to. Then thereis Rumraket. We are releasing an Americanmusician this fall, Canon Blue from Nashville.

It’s what gospel music from a more boundless parallel universe mightsound like or what a vivid and abstract painting of a ghost might makeyou feel like. That’s two of the best short form descriptions I can giveyou to describe EFTERKLANG ’s second album, Parades. Describingmusic is tough as it is; if the way a song sounded and the way itaffected you could be accurately written, then the song itself would beunnecessary. You inevitably end up comparing lesser known groupA’s music to a better known and similar sounding group B’s music topresent an idea of what group A sounds like. So how do you describean album like Parades that doesn’t sound like anyone else’s? It’s liketrying to describe a color to a blind man.

At times, Parades washes over you with beautiful waves of stringsand soaring choral vocal melodies. Swaying back and forth, themusic you hear increasingly rouses feelings of joy and enrichment—not unlike the way a profound church hymn can make you feel (butwithout the dogma). At other times, guitars, horns and electronicflourishes cascade over solemn piano and idiosyncratic percussion

Efterklang guitarist/bassist Rasmus Stolberg was kind enough to talk to usabout his band’s plans for the next year, running the band’s own Rumraketlabel and his carefree view of the world from Copenhagen in this interviewfor ZiaZine! This interview was done through AIM and has had punctuationand conjunctions added for coherency and to best serve the print format.

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AFI ..........................I Heard a Voice: Live

Black Crowes ..........A Tribute to a Work inProgress/Greatest

Black Crowes ........The Southern Harmonyand Musical Companion

Black Crowes ........Three Snakes and One

Black Crowes......Shake Your Money Maker

Black Crowes ..............................Amorica

Black Crowes ......................By Your Side

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ..........T.H.U.G.S.

Boys Like Girls ..................Boys Like Girls

Boyz II Men....Motown: A Journey ThroughHitsville USA

Johnny Cash ....American III: Solitary Man

Johnny Cash ..........................Unchained

Johnny Cash ............American Recordings

Johnny Cash ............VH1 Storytellers WithWillie Nelson

Dane Cook....................Rough Around theEdges: Live From Madison Square

Danzig......................................Danzig IV

Danzig ........................Danzig II: Lucifuge

Danzig..........................................Danzig

Danzig ..................Thrall: Demonsweatlive

Danzig ........Danzig III: How the Gods Kill

Dillinger Escape Plan ................Ire Works

The Doors ....Perception (CD/DVD box set)

Duran Duran ............Red Carpet Massacre

Ian Dury & The Blockheads ....The Best ofSex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Aretha Franklin ....Jewels in the Crown: AllStar Duets With the Queen

The Goo Goo Dolls ....Greatest Hits Vol. 1:The Singles

David Gray ..........................Greatest Hits

Robyn Hitchcock....I Wanna Go Backwards(box set)

Robyn Hitchcock ....Black Snake DiamondRole

Robyn Hitchcock ....I Often Dream of Trains

Robyn Hitchcock ..............................Eye

The Hives ......The Black and White Album

Ja Rule ..................................The Mirror

Alicia Keys..................................As I Am

The Killers..................................Sawdust

LCD Soundsystem..........................45:33

Led Zeppelin ..........................Mothership

Nelly................................Brass Knuckles

Pitbull ..................................The Boatlift

Queensryche ..........................Take Cover

Seal ............................................System

Shaggy ..................................Intoxication

Shakira ................Oral Fixation Tour: Livein Miami (CD/DVD)

James Taylor ....................One Man Band

McCoy Tyner ............................Afro Blue

Amy Winehouse ..............................Frank

Wu-Tang Clan ..................The 8 Diagrams

NOVEMBER 20

Anberlin ................................Lost Songs

Ayo................................................Joyful

Sebastian Bach......................Angel Down

David Banner ......Greatest Story Ever Told

Big Pun ........................V1 In Memory Of

Foxy Brown ................Brooklyn's Don Diva

Carpathian Forest ............We Are Going toHell for This

Cormega ..................................Who I Am

Daft Punk ..............Daft Punk Alive 2007

Dark Sanctuary ..................De Lumiere EtD'Obscurite

Craig David ................................Trust Me

Bob Dylan............The Best of Bob Dylan'sTheme Time Radio Hour

Fall Out Boy ....................Infinity on High(Deluxe Edition)

Freeway ................................Free at Last

Genesis ....................Genesis 1983-1998(CD/DVD box set)

Ghostface Killah ..................Fish 'N Ships

Gorillaz ......................................D-Sides

Green Lantern ......................Shady Times

Hi-Tek ..........................Hi-Teknology Vol.# Underground

Kool Keith ..................Dr. Octagon Part 2

Lupe Fiasco ..............................The Cool

Marduk ............La Grande Danse Macabre

Marduk............................Infernal Eternal

Bob Marley & The Wailers..............Exodus(CD/DVD)

John Mayer ......Continuum Special Edition

MC5..........I Can Only Give You Everything

NOFX ..................They've Actually GottenWorse Live

Opeth ..................The Roundhouse Tapes

Soundtrack ..........Alvin & The Chipmunks

Soundtrack ..............................Hairspray

Soundtrack......................Lions for Lambs

Jordin Sparks......................Madamoiselle

Spice 1 ............................Spiceberg Slim

Tusk ......................The Resisting Dreamer

U2 ......The Joshua Tree: 20th Anniversary

Various Artists ........Motown Singles Vol. 8

Various Artists ................Heavy Metal Box

Various Artists ......................The Brit Box

Whoo Kid ..............Blue Carpet Treatment

J.R. Writer ......................Writer's Block 5

NOVEMBER 27

Adam & The Ants ....Dandy Highway Men:The Best Of

Mary J. Blige......................Growing Pains

David Bowie ............David Bowie Box Set

Brownside ............................13 Reasons

Common ............Thisisme Then: The Bestof Common

D.O.A. ....................Live in San Francisco

Miles Davis ..................Cool: The Best Of

Ian Gillan ............................Gillan's Best

Incubus............................Light Grenades

Mario ................................................Go

Kylie Minogue ......................................X

Mudvayne....By the People, For the People

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The Radiators ....................The Radiators

Shipwreck A.D. ..............................Abyss

The Rumble Strips............Alarm Clock EP

Various Artists ..........Yo! Indie Rock Raps

DECEMBER 4

2Pac ..........................Best of 2Pac Pt. 1

2Pac ..........................Best of 2Pac Pt. 2

David Bowie ............David Bowie Box Set

James Brown................The Singles Vol. 4

Daft Punk ..............................Alive 2007

Dario ......................................Dedicated

Decapitated ..................Winds of Creation

Celine Dion ......Taking Chances (Gift Box)

Nick Drake ..............................Fruit Tree

Eazy-E ..........................Featuring Eazy-E

Nelly Furtado ..............Loose: The Concert

Ghostface ..................The Big Doe Rehab

Godsmack......................Good Times, Bad

Jazzanova ............................Belle Et Fou

Wyclef Jean ......................Carnival Vol. 2

The Libertines ................Time for Heroes:The Best Of

Mack 10 ..........Foe Life: Best of Mack 10

N.W.A. ................Straight Outta Compton:20th Anniversary Edition

Night Owls ..............Night Owls 4: A Shotin the Dark

Pelican ..............After the Ceiling Cracked

Chuck Prophet ........The Hurting Business

R.E.O. Speedwagon ......................R.E.O.Speedwagon/R.E.O.T.W.O.

Rock Steady Crew`......30 Years to the Day

Rotting Christ ..........................Theogonia

Scarface....................................M.A.D.E.

Scissor Sisters ............................Hurrah?

Shipwreck ....Rabbit in the Kitchen With aNew Dress On

Soundtrack......................................Once

Soundtrack ............Walk Hard: The DeweyCox Story

Soundtrack ............................Fred Claus

Sly Stone ................Family Soul Sessions:The Rare 45 RPMs

Styles P ........Supa Gangsta, ExtraordinaryGentleman

Too Short ......................Get Off the Stage

Armin Van Buuren ....................UniversalReligion 2008

Paul Van Dyk..........................In Between

Various Artists ............Gangsta Rap MeetsHip-Hop Legends

Various Artists................Crunk Hits Vol. 4

Rufus Wainwright............Rufus Does Judy

Westside Connection....................Best Of:Gangsta/Killa

The Wreckers ................Way Back Home:Live From New York City

DECEMBER 11

Abba ......Abba: The Album Deluxe Edition

Buju Banton ................Inna Heights 10thAnniversary Edition

Birdman ................................5 * Stunna

Bow Wow & Omarion ..................Face off

Buckethead ....................Acoustic Shards

Chingy ..........................Hate It or Love It

Hi-Tek..................................Hi-Teknology

Byron Lee ..................Essential Byron Lee

Mario ................................................Go

Dave Matthews Band ....................Live atPiedmont Park

Pink ........I'm Not Dead: Platinum Edition

Pink Floyd ............Oh By the Way Box Set

Iggy Pop....................Live San Fran 1981

Sevendust........................Retrospective 2

Beanie Sigel ........................The Solution

Soundtrack ................Alien vs. Predator 2

Sun Ra ..........The Creator of the Universe

Sun Ra ..................Intergalactic Research

Sun Ra ..............The Shadows Took Shape

Sun Ra ............Dance of the Living Image

Wu-Tang Clan ........................8 Diagrams

DECEMBER 18

50 Cent......................Curtis: 2nd Version

Marco Beltrami ..................3:10 to Yuma:Music From the Motion Picture

Biohazard................Live in San Francisco

Mary J. Blige......................Growing Pains

Cash Money ..................10 Years of Bling

Rivers Cuomo ................Alone: The HomeRecordings

DTP Compilation ......Strength in Numbers

Lupe Fiasco ..........Lupe Fiasco's The Cool

Jaheim ............................................TBD

Orbital........................Live at Glastonbury

Rick Ross........................................Trilla

Soundtrack ....................Bury My Heart atWounded Knee

Various Artists................Def Jam Remixes

JANUARY 8

Another Big Machine ................Volume 1

Bangles ............................Different Light

Bangles ..................................Everything

Bangles........................All Over the Place

Tha Boss Playas ................It Is What Is Is

Ill Nino........................................Enigma

Marah ....................Angels of Destruction

Wynton Marsalis ........Selections From theVillage Vanguard Box

ZZ Top ....................................Eliminator(Collector's Edition CD/DVD)

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NOVEMBER 13Addams Family: Complete SeriesAmazing GraceAndy Kaufman: I'm From HollywoodBlack MassBlow Dry: Collector's EditionBon Jovi: The Lost Highway ConcertBurst Angel InfinityCannibal ManCannibalsChinese Torture Chamber StoryChristmas Time in South ParkClose Encounters of the Third KindComplete Black BooksCreature From the Hillbilly LagoonCyberpunk CollectionDeadly Breaking SwordDear PillowEminem: Live From New York CityEndgame: Blueprint for GlobalEnslavementFormat: Live at the Mayan TheatreGhostland Observatory: Live FromAustin TexasGilmore Girls: The Complete SeventhSeasonGirl Next DoorJohnny Cash Christmas Special 1976Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977La Vie En RoseLast SentinelLord of the Rings: The Two TowersMelrose Place: The Third SeasonMiami Vice: The Complete SeriesMidnight MoviesNorthern Exposure: The CompleteSeries Gift SetNotebookNude VampireOcean’s ThirteenPan's LabyrinthParis, Je T'aimePaul McCartney: The McCartney YearsPilates for Indie RockersPride and Prejudice (2005)Princess BridePsychopathic: VideosRedneck Kings of ComedyRubber's LoverSantana LiveSatanic SlutsSexploitersShadow Skill: Complete CollectionShania Twain: Any Man of MineShrek the ThirdShrek TrilogySlave of the Cannibal GodSnakes on a PlaneSomebody Help MeThat's Entertainment: Trilogy GiftsetThis Is EnglandTony Hawk's Secret Skatepark Tour 2Trinity Blood Box SetTV GraffitiU2: DublinWelcome to the Grindhouse: Las Vegas& PolicewomenWelcome to the Grindhouse:Superchick & Hustle SquadWrestling Society X: The Complete First(and Last) SeasonWWE: John Cena – My LifeYoung Ones: Extra Stoopid Edition

NOVEMBER 207 DiasBatman: The Complete Fourth SeasonBeyond the Golden Compass: TheMagic of Philip PullmanBill Maher: The DeciderBloody School Girls Triple FeatureCare Bears 25th AnniversaryColma: The MusicalCSI Complete Seventh SeasonDeath Note Vol. 1Doris Day Show Season 5Doris Day TodayExaltedFilm Noir Vol. 2Ghosts of Cite SoleilGodzilla CollectionHairsprayHappy Tree Friends: Vol. 4Hell Yeah: Below the BeltHudson HawkI Am OmegaInside the Actor's Studio: Johnny DeppLady VanishesLittle Britain AbroadLittle Britain: The Complete CollectionLive Free or Die HardLove American Style Season 1 Vol. 1Monsieur HireMonty Python's Life of BrianNosferatuPaul McCartney: Ecce Cor MeumQueer as Folk: The Complete SeriesRescue DawnRitchie BoysRobotech: Shadows Chronicles:Collector's EditionSanta BabySanta Clause 3: The Escape ClauseScreamers: DocumentarySigur Ros: HeimaSong Remains the SameSonny Chiba Collection 6-Film SetSpeed 2: Cruise ControlStir of Echoes 2: The HomecomingTales of Tomorrow Collection 3These Foolish ThingsTitanicTrinity Blood Vol. 1Trinity Blood Vol. 2UFC 73: StackedVelvet VampireWalking Tall (1973)Winter WonderlandZombie Town

NOVEMBER 27Architectures 5Bad BoysBluebeardBratz: The MovieDay XDoing Time for Patsy ClineElvis Blue Suede CollectionElvis CollectionGunslinger Girl: The Complete Box SetGuy XHot Fuzz: Deluxe EditionHot RodI Know Who Killed MeListeningLogan's RunNamesakeNeon Genesis Evangelion: PlatinumNo Smoking

O.C.: The Complete Series CollectionOmega ManOutlandPaprikaPigsReturn to Never LandRogueSkinwalkersSoylent GreenSpice WorldVitusWaitressWWE: Royal Rumble Anthology Vol. 1WWE: Royal Rumble Anthology Vol. 2WWE: Shawn Michaels

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