Record Releases - November 29, 2011

November ends with another massive record dump. Stuff marked * should be good:

Nov-29-11	Adele - Live At the Royal Albert Hall (CD/DVD)	XL Recordings
Nov-29-11	Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 (12" Deluxe Edition)	Capitol Records
Nov-29-11	Beyonce - Live at Roseland: The Elements of 4 (Box Set)	Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia Records
Nov-29-11	Blackface - I Want to Kill You 7"	Hydrahead
Nov-29-11	Boris - New Album	Sargent House
Nov-29-11	Boyz Noize - The Remixes 2004-2011	Boysnoize Records
Nov-29-11	Brendan Benson - Upstairs at United, Vol. 1	453 Music
Nov-29-11	Chadwick Stokes & Friends - Live At the Armory	Ruff Shod/Nettwerk Records
Nov-29-11	Cloud Control - Bliss Release	Turnout
Nov-29-11	Dave Clarke - Fabric 60	Fabric
Nov-29-11	Gorillaz - The Singles Collection: 2001-2011	Virgin Records
Nov-29-11	Grateful Dead - Built To Last (Reissue)	Friday Music
Nov-29-11	H20 - Don't Forget Your Roots	Bridge 9
Nov-29-11	Happy Refugees - Return To Last Chance Saloon	Acute
Nov-29-11	Hot Chelle Rae - Whatever	RCA Records
Nov-29-11	Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist	Capitol
Nov-29-11	Jimmy Cliff - Sacred Fire EP	Collective Sounds
Nov-29-11	John Lennon - Imagine (40th Anniversary Box Set)	Apple/Capitol
Nov-29-11	Joker - On My Mind	4AD
Nov-29-11	*Kings of Leon - The Early Vinyl (Box Set)	Legacy
Nov-29-11	Kylie Minogue - Aphrodite - Les Folies	Astralwerks
Nov-29-11	Miles Davis - Dark Magus	4 Men With Beards
Nov-29-11	*Misfits - The Devil's Rain 12"	MRI
Nov-29-11	Mungolian Jet Set - Schlungs	Small Town Supersound
Nov-29-11	*Nirvana - Nevermind - The Singles 10"	UME
Nov-29-11	Nurse With Wound - The Iron Soul of Nothing	Ideologic Organ
Nov-29-11	Old Man Gloom - Christmas Eve I, II, and VI, + Live In NYC 12"	Hydrahead
Nov-29-11	Oval - OvalDNA	Shitkatapult
Nov-29-11	Pete Townshend - The Quadrophenia Demos, Vol. 1 10"	UME
Nov-29-11	Phish - Party Time 12"	Jemp
Nov-29-11	Phish - The White Tape	Jemp
Nov-29-11	Pinback - Information Retrieved, Pt. B 7"	Temporary Residence
Nov-29-11	Pink Floyd - The Wall (Singles Box Set 7")	Capitol
Nov-29-11	Pyramids/Horseback - A Throne Without A King Split 12"	Hydrahead
Nov-29-11	Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Reissue 12"	Warner Bros.
Nov-29-11	The Beatles - The Singles (7" Box Set)	Apple
Nov-29-11	*The Black Keys - Lonely Boy 12"	Nonesuch Records
Nov-29-11	The Byrds - Eight Miles High 7"	Sundazed
Nov-29-11	*The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish (Reissue)	EMI
Nov-29-11	*The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (Reissue)	EMI
Nov-29-11	Type O Negative - Type O Negative (Box Set)	Roadrunner Records
Nov-29-11	Various Artists - Beat LA	Narnack Records/Greatminds
Nov-29-11	Warren Haynes - Rivers Gonna Rise	Concord Records
Nov-29-11	*Wilco - Speak Into The Rose	dBPM
Nov-29-11	Young Antiques - A Man, Not A Biography	Two Sheds Records

Record Releases -November 22, 2011

Massive release day, but is anything worth buying? Stuff marked * should be good:

Nov-22-11	311 - Grassroots	Enjoy the Ride
Nov-22-11	3Ds - Hellzapoppin	Flying Nun
Nov-22-11	Adanowsky - Amador	Everloving Records
Nov-22-11	*Anal Cunt - The Old Testament	Relapse
Nov-22-11	Animals As Leaders - Weightlessness	Prosthetic Records
Nov-22-11	Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon	Triple Crown
Nov-22-11	Brendan Perry - Ark	The End
Nov-22-11	Calexico - Road Atlas 1998 - 2011 12x LP	Quarterstick
Nov-22-11	Charles Caldwell - Remember Me	Fat Possum Records
Nov-22-11	Chris Cornell - Songbook	Universal Music
Nov-22-11	Chrome - 3rd From The Sun	Cleopatra
Nov-22-11	Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves	Cleopatra
Nov-22-11	Coalesce - Give Them Rope	No Sleep
Nov-22-11	Common - The Dream, The Believer	G.O.O.D. Music
Nov-22-11	Death Cab for Cutie - Keys and Codes Remix EP	Atlantic
Nov-22-11	Doomtree - No Kings	Doomtree Records
Nov-22-11	Eddy Current Suppression Ring - So Many Things	Goner Records
Nov-22-11	Enrique Iglesias - Euphoria Reloaded	Universal Republic
Nov-22-11	Feersum Ennjin - Feersum Ennjin	Dissociated People
Nov-22-11	Fonda - Better Days	Minty Fresh Records
Nov-22-11	Gary Numan - 1980-81 Box Set	Virtual
Nov-22-11	Gary Numan - Telekon	Virtual
Nov-22-11	Guided By Voices - The Unsinkable Fats Domino	Matador Records
Nov-22-11	High Highs - High Highs	Small Plates
Nov-22-11	Hildur Gudnadottir - Without Sinking	Touch
Nov-22-11	Jay Sean - Freeze Time	Cash Money
Nov-22-11	Joe Cocker - Hard Knocks	429 Records
Nov-22-11	Kaleidoscope - Faintly Blowing	Sunbeam Records
Nov-22-11	Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream	Sunbeam Records
Nov-22-11	Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow	Anti
Nov-22-11	Kidz In The Hall - Occasion	Braniac/Duck Down Music
Nov-22-11	Lady Gaga - Born This Way, The Collection	Interscope
Nov-22-11	Lady Gaga - Born This Way, The Remix	Interscope
Nov-22-11	Lady Gaga - Lady Gaga Presents: The Monster's Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden (DVD)	Interscope
Nov-22-11	Lianne La Havas - Lost and Found EP	Labour of Love Records
Nov-22-11	Magazine - No Thyself	Wire-Sound
Nov-22-11	Mary J. Blige - My Life II… The Journey Continues (Act 1)	Matriarch/Geffen
Nov-22-11	Mayer Hawthorne - The Walk 12"	Universal Republic
Nov-22-11	Milt Jackson and Wes Montgomery - Bags Meets Wes!	Fantasy
Nov-22-11	*Neutral Milk Hotel - Discography Box Set	Self-Released
Nov-22-11	Neverever - Shake-A-Baby 12"	Slumberland
Nov-22-11	Nickelback - Here and Now	Roadrunner Records
Nov-22-11	Nikki Lane - Walk of Shame	IAMSOUND
Nov-22-11	Nils Frahm - Felt	Erased Tapes
Nov-22-11	*Nirvana - Bleach (Reissue)	Sub Pop
Nov-22-11	Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (Box Set)	Get On Down
Nov-22-11	Omar Souleyman - Leh Jani	Sham Palace
Nov-22-11	Pyramid Vritra - The Story of Marsha Lotus	Stroll On Records
Nov-22-11	R.L. Burnside - Burnside on Burnside	Fat Possum Records
Nov-22-11	Rhett Miller - The Interpreter, Live at Largo	Maximum Sunshine Records
Nov-22-11	Rihanna - Talk That Talk	Def Jam
Nov-22-11	Rush - Sectors (Box Set)	Universal Music
Nov-22-11	Simon Fisher Turner & Espen J. Jorgensen - Soundescapes	Mute
Nov-22-11	Such Gold/A Loss For Words - Split 7"	No Sleep
Nov-22-11	*The Antlers - (Together) EP	Frenchkiss
Nov-22-11	The Rolling Stones - Some Girls (Reissue)	Universal Music
Nov-22-11	The Skull Defekts - 2013-3012 12"	Thrill Jockey
Nov-22-11	Trailer Trash Tracys - You Wish you Were Red/Engelhardt's Arizona 7" Single	Domino
Nov-22-11	Various Artists - The Muppets (Soundtrack)	Walt Disney Records
Nov-22-11	Yelawolf - Radioactive	Shady Records/Interscope

This Week in Shows & New Shows

Lots new added to SHOWcal this week. Here's what's going down this week:

Friday, November 18

8:00pm

 Backyard Tire Fire @ Double Door

8:00pm

 Ra Ra Riot/Delicate Steve @ Metro

Saturday, November 19

8:00pm

 Girl in a Coma @ Double Door

Monday, November 21

8:00pm

 Architecture in Helsinki/DOM @ Metro

Tuesday, November 22

9:00pm

 Youth Lagoon @ Schubas

Wednesday, November 23

7:00pm

 Thee Oh Sees @ Empty Bottle

8:00pm

 Yakuza @ Sub-T

9:00pm

 Flosstradamus @ Lincoln Hall

10:00pm

 Thee Oh Sees @ Empty Bottle

Record Releases -November 15, 2011

Here's what drops this week. 2011 is nearly over - time to get started on our "Best of" lists.

Nov-15-11	Arto Lindsay, Seb El Zin, Marc Ribot, Mike Ladd, Sensational - Anarchist Republic of Bzzzz
Nov-15-11	Blackout Beach - Fuck Death
Nov-15-11	*Brian Eno - Panic of Looking
Nov-15-11	Canyons - Keep Your Dreams
Nov-15-11	Caveman - Coco Beware
Nov-15-11	Coliseum - aparasites
Nov-15-11	*Crystal Stilts - Radiant Door 12"
Nov-15-11	Drake - Take Care
Nov-15-11	Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven
Nov-15-11	Korallreven - Korallreven
Nov-15-11	*Los Campesinos! ` - Hello Sadness
Nov-15-11	Maria Minerva - 12" EP
Nov-15-11	Master Musicians of Bukkake - Live Totems
Nov-15-11	Nathan Salsburg - Affirmed
Nov-15-11	Odonis Odonis / Hollandaze - Split
Nov-15-11	Peaking Lights - Remix 12"
Nov-15-11	Pterodactyl - Spills Out
Nov-15-11	*Sigur Ros - Inni
Nov-15-11	Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry
Nov-15-11	Strategy - 12" EP
Nov-15-11	The Fall - Erstatz G.B.
Nov-15-11	The Luyas / Twin Sister - Split 7"
Nov-15-11	Thirteenth Assembly - Station Direct
Nov-15-11	Tycho - Dive
Nov-15-11	Various Artists - The Warm December Volume 2: A Brushfire Holiday
Nov-15-11	White Rainbow - The Making of Thriller 7"

This Week in Shows

New stuff added to the SHOWcal this week includes all the Tomorrow Never Knows festival shows, including The Walkmen anniversary show at Metro. Here's what's on tap for the coming week:

Friday, November 11

7:00pm

 Mastodon/Dillinger Escape Plan @ Riviera

10:00pm

 Noah and the Whale @ Lincoln Hall

Saturday, November 12

6:30pm

 Owen @ Beat Kitchen

10:00pm

 Owen @ Beat Kitchen

10:00pm

 Noah and the Whale @ Lincoln Hall

10:00pm

 Shonen Knife @ Empty Bottle

10:30pm

 California Wives @ Empty Bottle

Monday, November 14

7:00pm

 Dear Tick @ Reggie's

7:30pm

 Lykke Li @ Vic

9:30pm

 WU LYF @ Empty Bottle

Thursday, November 17

7:00pm

 Dashboard Confessional @ Bottom Lounge

7:00pm

 M83 @ Lincoln Hall

Record Releases - November 8, 2011

Here's what drops this week. Stuff marked * should be good:

Nov-08-11	Cass McCombs - Humor Risk	Domino
Nov-08-11	Charlotte Gainsbourg - Stage Whisper	Because Music / Elektra
Nov-08-11	DRC Music (Damon Albarn) - Kinshasa One Two	Warp
Nov-08-11	English Singles - 7" EP	Slumberland
Nov-08-11	*Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials	Island/Universal Republic
Nov-08-11	Jacaszek - Glimmer	Ghostly International
Nov-08-11	James Blake - Enough Thunder	Universal Republic
Nov-08-11	Joker - The Vision	4AD
Nov-08-11	King Krule - King Krule EP	True Panther
Nov-08-11	Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo (Deluxe Edition)	Matador
Nov-08-11	Kurt Vile - So Outta Reach	Matador
Nov-08-11	Luke Roberts - Big Bells and Dime Songs	Thrill Jockey
Nov-08-11	Mustard Pimp - No Title Or Purpose	Dim Mak
Nov-08-11	Noel Gallagher - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds	Sour Mash / Mercury
Nov-08-11	Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica	Software
Nov-08-11	Owen - Ghost Town	Polyvinyl
Nov-08-11	R.E.M. - Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982 - 2011	Warner Bros.
Nov-08-11	Sea Lions - Everything You Wanted To Know About Sea Lions But Were Afraid to Ask	Slumberland
Nov-08-11	Summer Camp - Welcome to Condale	Moshi Moshi Records
Nov-08-11	This Mortal Coil - This Mortal Coil	4AD
Nov-08-11	Wounded Lion - IVXLCDM	In The Red
Nov-08-11	Zambri - Glossolalia EP	Kanine

This Week in Shows

New stuff added to SHOWcal this week include Joy Formidable @ Metro, M. Ward @ Schubas and other tasty treats. Here's what's going down this week:

Friday, November 4

8:00pm

 Feist @ Riviera

8:30pm

 Electric Six @ Double Door

9:00pm

 Le Butcherettes @ Sub-T

10:00pm

 Loyal Divide/Lasers and Fast and Shit/Verma @ Empty Bottle

10:00pm

 Star Slinger @ Lincoln Hall

Saturday, November 5

8:00pm

 Holy Ghost @ Double Door

Monday, November 7

5:00pm

 Manchester Orchestra @ HOB

8:00pm

 Loney, Dear @ Schubas

8:30pm

 Fu Manchu @ Double Door

9:30pm

 Cave @ Empty Bottle

Wednesday, November 9

7:00pm

 tUnE-YaRds @ Lincoln Hall

7:30pm

 Airborne Toxic Event @ Riviera

Thursday, November 10

7:00pm

 Morrissey @ Congress

9:00pm

 tUnE-YaRds @ Lincoln Hall

Flaming Lips 24-Hour Skull Song

I'm starting the Flaming Lips 24-Hour Skull Song....now. I'll let you know about it if/when I come out the other side.

Record Releases - November 1, 2011

Not much this week, though the Lulu abortion finally gets released. Stuff marked * should be good:

Nov-01-11	*Girl in a Coma - Exists & All the Rest	Blackheart Records
Nov-01-11	Lou Reed and Metallica - Lulu	TBD
Nov-01-11	*Matt Pond PA - Emblems (reissue)	Polyvinyl
Nov-01-11	New Ivory - Amygdala Circus	Dim Mak
Nov-01-11	The Beach Boys - The SMiLE Sessions	Capitol/EMI
Nov-01-11	U2 - Achtung Baby (Deluxe Edition)	Island