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“Abbey Road” for Rock Band available today!

October 20, 2009 /

Abbey Road

As of today, you can download the Beatles’ final masterpiece, Abbey Road, in its entirety for The Beatles: Rock Band.

For PS3 and XBox 360, the tracks will be offered up in two ways: Fans of Side A but not Side B — if those people actually exist — can buy “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” “Oh! Darling” and “Because” as standalone download. However, if you want those three songs and all 16 glorious minutes of the Abbey Road medley, plus all 23 seconds of “Her Majesty,” you can purchase the complete album pack for $16.99. Wii will offer up the three songs plus “You Never Give Me Your Money” as $2 a la carte downloads (”Her Majesty” will run $1) except for the medley, which will be divided into three multi-song downloads at $3.50 each.

But why stop there? Harmonix and MTV Games will release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in November and Rubber Soul in November for download.

Personally, I think they should get on Help.

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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: The Twilight Saga: New Moon

October 20, 2009 /


RIYL: Vampires, werewolves, everlasting love

Say this for soundtrack supervisor extraordinaire Alexandra Patsavas: with the soundtrack to “New Moon,” the second installment in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series, she leaves nothing in the bag, as it were. With a lineup chock full of megastars and indie darlings, New Moon is the most ambitious soundtrack to come down the pipe in a while. It’s also decidedly more grown-up than its predecessor, forsaking teen angst poster children Paramore and Linkin Park for the moody stylings of Bon Iver (teamed up with St. Vincent here), Sea Wolf, and Grizzly Bear. Muse is the only returning act – expect them to appear on the soundtrack for every “Twilight” movie, as Meyer is a devout fan – and it’s a doozy, as “I Belong to You,” from their latest album The Resistance, is punched up and, more imporantly, edited down (no piano break, woo hoo!). Thom Yorke delivers the wonderfully minimalist electro brooder “Hearing Damage,” and Patsavas scores a massive coup by securing the first new song by OK Go in four years, the endearingly oddball “Shooting the Moon.”

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON

The biggest problem with the soundtrack is the sequencing. It will surely make sense in context with the movie, but as a straight-through listen sans visuals, it’s awfully up and down. All quibbling aside, New Moon is far better than anyone had a right to expect it to be, growing up along with its audience. Bravo, Alex. (Chop Shop/Atlantic 2009)

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Yo Gabba Gabba: Music Is…Awesome!

October 20, 2009 /


RIYL: Old school hip hop, hipster bands, your children

Anyone who was lucky enough to snap up a copy of 2008’s here-today-gone-yesterday Yo Gabba Gabba! CD will likely be disappointed with Music Is…Awesome!, the newest release of songs from the TV show that’s a hit with both kids and stoners. Eight of the 13 tracks from the previous release are here, along with songs from the Shins, Chromeo, Of Montreal, I’m from Barcelona, and Money Mark. That’s a whole lotta hipster, right there, and the decision to include the hipster bands over acts that actually had our kids singing along – there is no excuse, for example, for the exclusion of the Aggrolites’ “Banana” or GOGO13’s fantastic ska tribute “Pick It Up” – is a curious one, to say the least. Then again, the soundtrack supervisors had positively tons of bands to choose from (The Bird and the Bee, the Ting Tings, Mates of State, Jason Falkner, MGMT, Jimmy Eat World, Datarock, the Clientele, etc.), not to mention original songs (“Hold Still,” “Please, Thank You”), so it stands to reason that they were going to leave some essential YGG moments out. Be that as it may, Music Is…Awesome! is good, but not quite as awesome as it could have been. (Filter/Fontana 2009)

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Rain Machine: Rain Machine

October 19, 2009 /


RIYL: TV on the Radio, Animal Collective, Akron/Family

Enter the mind of Kyp Malone with Rain Machine, the new solo project of the booming-voiced TV on the Radio guitarist and co-frontman. The album cover bursts with bright colors and naked girls, leading the listener to believe there is a Dionysian sort of feast within. And is there ever, with Malone cutting loose with claps, whistles and bells throughout the album’s seemingly massive length.

The god of ritual madness and ecstasy would surely appreciate the content, with Malone sparing no appropriateness to sing about being a “Desperate Bitch,” or having “the fattest cock or the sweetest pussy.” Indulgence abounds on Rain Machine, in ways good and bad – of the 10 tracks, six of them hover above the five-minute mark, meaning there are some eye-rolling, “Okay, this song could be over,” moments. Then there’s the joyousness of “Give Blood” and “Hold You Holy.” The second half of the album transitions from the cacophony of paeans to love and politics into quiet, lightly strummed desperation. That does just fine for “Driftwood Heart” and “Desperate Bitch” but after “Free Ride” and “Leave The Lights On,” you keep hoping he’ll get back to being rambunctious. The closing track, “Winter Songs,” gets there at times, but at 10 minutes long, it’s hard to get more than five minutes in.

Malone’s mind is an intense place, but worth the journey. As for how listenable it is, those inclined towards extravagance may find something to appreciate here, but those whose motto is “everything in moderation,” would do best to look elsewhere. (Anti, 2009)

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