Absentstar's "For God's Sake"

Canvasback Music/Columbia Records is readying the release of "Sea Trials," the major label debut album from the rising young Chicago-based rock band Absentstar.
"Sea Trials" was recorded with producer/musician Dan Wilson at the Terrarium Studio in Minneapolis. Wilson, whose resume includes stints with Twin Cities rock bands Semisonic and Trip Shakespeare, took home a Song Of The Year Grammy in February for co-writing "Not Ready To Make Nice" with the Dixie Chicks. Dan also co-authored two of the songs on "Sea Trials" -- "Waiting Rooms" and "If You Like It" -- with Absentstar.
Other new Absentstar originals on "Sea Trials" include: "Half Life," "Don't Lock Me Out," "Give In To Me," "Everyone You Know," "If What You Mean Is Harm," "A Year From Now," "Quietly Conceited," "For The Moment," and "All Is Forgotten."
Formed in Chicago in 2004, Absentstar is: Derek Ingersoll (vox), Andy Dixon (guitars), Marshall Hanbury (guitars), Heath Hamilton (drums), and Noel Arnim (bass/vox). Drawing from a wide range of influences -- including Radiohead, Muse, the Beatles, the Killers, Coldplay, and Snow Patrol -- the members of Absentstar have developed an uncanny musical chemistry, born from genuine friendship and simpatico. By 2005, the group had written, recorded and released its own indie debut, "To All That Buy In," a sonic manifesto premiering Absentstar's distinctive blend of UK musical refinement and American rock & roll energy.
With "Sea Trials," Absentstar fulfill the promise of the group's indie origins and lay the groundwork for the next phase of a great emerging American rock & roll band.

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Take Cover - It's a Queensryche Tribute Album

Rhino Entertainment presents Take Cover, a tribute album by Queensrÿche.

Queensrÿche pay tribute to some of their favorite songs with an adventurous collection of covers that range from Black Sabbath and The O'Jays to Italian opera and Broadway musical. Singer and chief songwriter Geoff Tate, guitarists Michael Wilton and Mike Stone, bassist Eddie Jackson, and drummer Scott Rockenfield put their stamp on 11 classic tracks with Take Cover. The album is available November 13 at regular physical retail outlets and at www.rhino.com for a suggested price of $13.98, with a digital version also available for the suggested price of $7.99.
Take Cover also features Queensrÿche's distinctive arrangement of Pink Floyd's "Welcome To The Machine," an acoustic version of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth," and a highly charged live version of U2's "Bullet The Blue Sky." "We'll never top the originals; they're classics for a reason," Tate says. "We were more focused on finding different approaches that took the songs in unexpected directions."

Take Cover Listening Parties (if you can stomach it)

Queensrÿche Take Cover Track Listing
1. Welcome To The Machine
2. Heaven On Their Minds
3. Almost Cut My Hair
4. For What Its Worth
5. For The Love Of Money
6. Innuendo
7. Neon Knights
8. Synchronicty II
9. Red Rain
10. Odissea
11. Bullet The Blue Sky (live)

Mash-Ups Will Not Die (For the Love of Jeebus)

Ever wondered what the result of a collaboration between Queen and Clipse might sound like? Or perhaps the Commodores and Lil’ Kim? Maybe even Lena Horne and 50 Cent? DJ Axel answers those questions and more with his full length mashup album, Breakin’ The Law. Now in its third pressing, Breakin’ The Law is an underground hit sure to keep building momentum.

DJ Axel has released an all mashup album titled “Breakin’ The Law” on his own label Holden Records. The mashups combine Hip Hop, Rock, Disco, Funk and Ballroom combining artists as diverse as Van Halen vs T.I., Lena Horne vs 50 Cent and Stevie Wonder vs Snoop Dogg. “Breakin’ The Law” is now for sale at over 25 stores in major markets across the USA. Since the CD is an unlicensed bootleg album, most distributors are unwilling to carry the title. Axel took it upon himself to distribute the album by calling and visiting independent record stores. Retail and consumer response has been so positive that “Breakin’ The Law” is now in its third pressing.

“Whenever I play Axel’s CD in the store someone says how great it is and buys it, 2 times I didn’t even get through the first song before I sold it.” – Chris Seibert, Manager of Just Play Music, Santa Barbara, CA

Live shows, radio airplay, blog coverage and in-store play are driving the album’s success. Club Bootie, America’s only all mashup club, hosted Axel’s album release parties in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Burning Man. “Breakin’ The Law” has been added to over 150 college radio stations and has appeared on various CMJ charts. The album reached #1 on the playlists of six different major market college radio stations.

DJ Axel is a mild mannered finance guy by day and a crazy mashup DJ by night. His tracks have been featured on radio stations across the globe including Indie 103 (L.A.), Live 105 (SF), DC 101, and XFM Radio London. Axel has a monthly residency at the Viper Room in Los Angeles and is hired to DJ at high profile clubs and special events for clients including Warner Bros, Estee Lauder and New Line Cinema.

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Sweat for Xmas: The Perfect Gift

No comment, because if the words come out I will pee myself.

Keith Sweat, the celebrated master of the slow jam, unwraps his first-ever holiday music collection, proving there’s no one better qualified to deliver a Yuletide disc titled A Christmas Of Love. The R&B and soul superstar’s new album of newly recorded contemporary Christmas songs will be available November 20.

The album’s nine songs spotlight the Harlem-born singer’s signature mix of smooth vocals coupled with warm, supple groove. Sweat puts his unmistakable mark on the classic “The Christmas Song,” as well as “Under The Tree,” “Once A Year” and “It’s Christmas Again”—a trio of songs Sweat cowrote. With “Point Of Christmas,” the religious artist pays tribute to the “reason for the season.”

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MST3K Vol. 12

Rhino Entertainment released the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 12 box set on October 30th.

Fugitive clones! Hallucinogenic chewing gum! Lost children at the Canadian National Exhibition! This Halloween, the trick is on boredom as Mystery Science Theater 3000 returns with a special treat for devotees of misunderstood cinema. Rhino salutes the twisted genius of the award-winning cult television program with a quartet of unreleased episodes starring MST3K's crew of wisecrackers ­ Joel, Mike, Tom Servo and Crow. This four-disc boxed set contains four unaired episodes featuring the deliciously awful films: The Rebel Set, Secret Agent Super Dragon, The Starfighters, and Parts: The Clonus Horror. The set's special features include:original theatrical trailers; another dose of musical mayhem with the MST3K Video Jukebox; wraparound segments with Jack Perkins from the Mystery Science Theater Hour; and interviews with Don Sullivan, star of The Rebel Set, and Robert Fiveson, director of Parts:The Clonus Horror.

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