Wed    04/09/08 The Rock Nightclub in Maplewood Minnesota

• 36 Crazy Fists
• DevilDriver
• Invitro
• Napalm Death
• Walls Of Jericho

Sun    02/17/08           Exodus             The Rock Nightclub

Tue    02/12/08           All That Remains             Station 4
Tue    02/12/08         Chimaira         Station 4
Tue    02/12/08         Five Finger Death Punch         Station 4

Here are this week's honorable mentions for new release CDs:

• The Brunettes - Structure and Cosmetics
• Peter Case - Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John
• Mirah and Spectratone International - Share This Place
• Drowning Pool - Full Circle
• Robben Ford - Truth
• Fuel - Angels & Devils
• Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - Banging Down the Doors
• Gallon Drunk - From the Heart of Town (Bonus Tracks)
• Gallon Drunk - Tonite...The Singles Bar (Bonus Tracks)
• Gallon Drunk - You, the Night...and the Music (Bonus Tracks)
• Bruce Hornsby - Camp Meeting
• Jennifer Gentle - A New Astronomy
• Jonas Brothers - Jonas Brothers
• June - Make it Blur
• Magnolia Electric Co - Sojourner
• Marissa Nadler - Song 3: Bird on the Water
• Okkervil River - The Stage Names
• Operator - Soulcrusher
• Gretchen Peters - Burnt Toast & Offerings
• Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - This is Somewhere
• The Pretty Things - Balboa Island
• Billy Joe Shaver - Everybody's Brother
• Harry Shearer - Songs Pointed and Pointless

Lots of good Alt.Country, not to mention it's cool to see Harry Shearer releasing an album.

Here are the new release CDs that came out today:

• 1990s - Cookies
• Josh Rouse - Country Mouse City House
• Luka Bloom - Tribe
• Tammy Cochran - Where I am
• Dave Davies - Fractured Mindz
• Derailers - Under the Influence of Buck
• Chris Duarte - Blue Velocity
• Entombed - Serpent Saints
• G. Love & Special Sauce - A Year and a Night with G. Love and Special Sauce
• Robert Gordon/Chris Spedding - It's Now or Never
• Naked Eyes - Fumbling with the Covers
• Polly Paulusma - Fingers & Thumbs
• Placebo - Extended Play '07
• Shivaree - Tainted Love: Mating Calls & Fight Songs
• Soulive - No Place Like Soul

 Tuesday is my favorite day of the week!

These are the honorable mentions this week for new release CD's:

• Mainic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers
• Prince - Planet Earth
• Tegan and Sara - The Con
• Unkle - War Stories
• Evans Blue - The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends
• Peter Himmelman - The Pigeons Couldn't Sleep
• Juliette and the Licks - Four on the Floor
• The Lovemakers - Misery Loves Company
• Marmoset - Florist Fired
• Robbers on High Street - Grand Animals
• Saturday Looks Good to Me - COld COlors
• Sebadoh - The Freed Man
• Brian Setzer & The Nashvilliains - Red Hot & Live!
• Silverchair - Young Modern
• Billy Bob Thornton - Beautiful Door
• Tiny Vipers - Hands Across the Void
• John Vanderslice - Emerald City
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is

Don't forget Guitar Hero Encore comes out tomorrow too!

Here are some of the CD's that are coming out today. Pretty slow day, nothing really interesting.

• Chemical Brothers - We are the Night
• Editors - An End Has a Start
• Meat Puppets - Rise to Your Knees
• Rooney - Calling the World
• Teddy Thompson - Upfront & Down Low
• Suzanne Vega - Beauty and Crime
• Colbie Caillat - Coco
• The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
• Minnie Driver - Seastories
• A Fine Frenzy - One Cell in the Sea
• The Magic Numbers - Those the Brokes
• The Rocket Summer - Do You Feel
• Sound the Alarm - Stay Inside
• Strata - Strata Presents the End of the World
• Yellowcard - Paper Walls

I don't think I'll be picking anything up this week.

I found a cool site that has some awesome photos from First Avenue and Seventh Street Entry. It was really fun to look at these as I was at most of these shows. If you live in Minneapolis, check out this site. You'll dig it.

For those of you who are complete Guitar Hero freaks...and there are lots of em, Red Octane is releasing Guitar Hero Encore, which will feature songs from the 80's. I don't know how "final" this list is, but I have the song list:

• "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)" - Quiet Riot
• "We Got the Beat" - The Go-Go's
• "I Ran (So Far Away)" - A Flock of Seagulls
• "Balls to the Wall" - Accept
• "18 and Life" - Skid Row
• "No One Like You" - Scorpions
• "Shakin'" - Eddie Money
• "Heat of the Moment" - Asia
• "Radar Love" - White Lion
• "Because, It's Midnite" - Limozeen
• "Holy Diver" - Dio
• "Turning Japanese" - The Vapors
• "Hold on Loosely" - .38 Special
• "The Warrior" - Scandal
• "I Wanna Rock" - Twisted Sister
• "What I Like About You" - The Romantics
• "Synchronicity II" - The Police
• "Ballroom Blitz" - Krokus
• "Only a Lad" - Oingo Boingo
• "Round and Round" - Ratt
• "Nothin' But a Good Time" - Poison
• "Lonely is the Night" - Billy Squier
• "Bathroom Wall" - Faster Pussycat
• "Los Angeles" - X
• "Wrathchild" - Iron Maiden
• "Electric Eye" - Judas Priest
• "Police Truck" - Dead Kennedys
• "Seventeen" - Winger
• "Caught in a Mosh" - Anthrax
• "Play With Me" - Extreme

To me, this list is very dissapointing. I will have a series of posts explaining why later. But in a nutshel, way too many posers. The 80's had so much great punk and metal, I feel like the genre is poorly represented here.  read more »

These are the new release CD's that came out today, lots of great CDs:

• Crowded House - Time on Earth
• Interpol - Our Love to Admire
• Mark Ronson - Version
• Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
• Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
• They Might Be Giants - The Else
• Against Me! - New Wave
• Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell
• Beatallica - Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band
• Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces
• Dance Club Massacre - Feast of the Blood Monsters
• Danzig - The Lost Tracks of Danzig
• Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
• The Gourds - Noble Creatures
• Great Lakes Myth Society - Compass Rose Bouquet
• Jesse Harris - Feel
• Icarus Line - Black Line at the Golden Coast
• Jason Isbell - Sirens of the Ditch
• Kool & the Gang - Still Kool
• Ministry - Ria Grande Dub
• Oh No! Oh My! - Between the Devil and the Sea
• Kim Richey - Chinese Boxes
• St. Vincent - Marry Me
• Stephen Stills - Just Roll Tape: April 26th, 1968
• M. Ward - Duet for Guitars #2

Lots of cool Metal, Alt.Country as well as some old classics.

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