Your Own Personal Depeche

If you're interested, Depeche Mode has a full streaming version of their upcoming CD, Playing The Angel, on their MySpace site.

The CD will be in stores next week. A side note... Depeche has 4145 more friends than I do as of this post...

Cheap Thrills 10.12.05

Wow... Got a bunch of 'em today... The Pearl Jam, Josh Rouse, Jackson Browne history lesson, live Death Cab & new Cat Power are amongst the many highlights... Enjoy!

• Pearl Jam & Sleater-Kinney - Harvest Moon
• Chin Up Chin Up - All My Hammocks Are Dying
• Interpol - The New
• Bettye LaVette - Thank You For Loving Me
• Belle & Sebastian - Another Sunny Day
• Hem - Betting On Trains (Live)/Hollow (Live)
• My Morning Jacket - Gideon
• Talking Heads - Fela's Riff/Right Start (both unfinished outtakes)
• Okkervil River - No Key No Plan/Another Radio Song
• Wolf Parade - Modern World
• Mountain Goats - Down Here/Minnesota
• Editors - All Sparks
• R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
• Death Cab For Cutie - "The Ultimate Live Show"
• Cat Power - The Greatest
• Josh Rouse - It Don't Matter To Me
• The Flaming Lips - Nobody Told Me
• Devendra Banhart - Dragonflies/Luna De Margarita
• Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
• Maximo Park - Acrobat
• The Complete Idiots Guide to Jackson Browne (over 20 MP3s!)
• Elliot Smith - Not Half Right (live)
• More live Death Cab (5 downloads)
• Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
• Fiona Apple - Tymps (The Sick In The Head Song)
• Rolling Stones - Laugh I Nearly Died
• Wolf Parade - You are a Runner and I am My Father's Son
• Magnolia Electric Co. - Werewolves of London

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Music That Sucks 10.11.05

The weekly installment of new CDs the world could live without... Again, these are real CDs that are hitting shelves today.

• Hanson - The Best of Live and Electric (I kid you not... Hanson covers Radiohead and U2. Meanwhile the rest of the world wears "I MMMMBopped the Girl in Hanson" T-shirts... )
• Ricky Martin - Life (She bangs? More likely, she blows...)
• Kenny G - The Greatest Holiday Classics (Music to plan your Christmas Eve suicide by...)

I wonder if Kenny G's CD could be considered a WMD...

The Money Shot 10.11.05

Our top stories today...

Original R.E.M. Members Rock Athens Wedding
The Money Shot: Connolly, who has known Burton for years, said the actual wedding band was taking a break when he noticed Stipe and company setting up in the bowling alley's arcade. "I couldn't believe it," he says. "I was transfixed. I heard the count in and then 'Sitting Still,' and by the time they got to the first chorus, it was packed shoulder to shoulder."

Frank Black Still Feeling Country
The Money Shot: "It will either be a lean and mean record with 11 songs on it, or a self-indulgent opus with everything," he says with a laugh.

Snow Patrol 'Envious' of Franz Ferdinand & Working on New CD
The Money Shot: "We took a little time off to rest as we've not the superhuman strength of Franz. How on Earth did they manage to write and record an album appearing, to the naked eye at least, to have never stopped touring? Talent. Stamina. Being grown-ups. All valid answers I attest."

Buy These Now! 10.11.05

Your weekly shopping list of new CDs (in stores 10/11) featuring past & present MJ artists...

• Audioslave - Live in Cuba
• Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Remixed
• Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic - Volume 1
• Constantines - Tournament of Hearts
• Diana Darby - The Magdalene Diaries
• Fingers Cut Megamachine - Pipe Dreams EP
• Magnolia Electric Co. - Hard to Love a Man EP
• Matt Pond PA - Several Arrows Later
• Susan Tedeschi - Hope and Desire
• Paul Weller - As Is Now

Not bad, but not a lot there to get the blood flowing. The Audioslave, Browne and Bloc Party stuff is all retread. New Paul Weller's always worth a look. I'll give the week a "C".