David Bowie’s Reality Tour travelled the world in 2003 and 2004. A DVD was shot in Dublin over the course of November 22nd and 23rd 2003. This dvd has been available since October of 2004. But since Bowie is now pretty much retired after suffering a heart attack during the Reality Tour (his final tour to date) they just recently released a CD version as well as digital versions.
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This newly released audio only version includes 3 additional songs: Fall Dogs Bomb The Moon, Breaking Glass, and China Girl. I personally attended The Reality Tour when it hit NYC and can tell you that it was a great show. The set is both a compilation of greatest hits with a bunch of new songs from the new Reality album. Reality unfortunately wasn’t a huge hit. I still defend it though as it has some pretty good songs on it. But even if you skip over those you still have a live show featuring tons of great classic material for a pretty good price.
It’s been a while since I’ve done an album review. Truth is I can get very stuck into a few bands and just get lost listening to their stuff for an extended period and there isn’t much incentive for me to find something new. But I kept hearing about Ke$ha (from this point forward I’m not using the dollar sign) and some people liked her and some people loved her and others hated her, but I couldn’t figure out what any of it was about so I decided I’d take a chance and listen to her album Animal.
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This series of posts are all about cool holiday gifts, for you or the people you care about. We’ll be including tons of cool stuff in the categories we cover on the site. Since this is our first year we’re going to not limit ourselves to just stuff that came out over the past few months, we’re going to include a bunch of other awesome stuff as well. Think of this as your definitive source for the coolest gifts for the coolest people you know. Our first post is all about music related goodies.
Today is that day that Lady Gaga releases her second recording, The Fame Monster which is the followup to the wildly successful The Fame. Once again it’s a combination of Gaga’s contagious hooks, catchy lyrics, and cutting edge, yet retro dance beats.
For her second effort she takes on the personal monsters that have surrounded her during her rise to the top over the last year. It shows a much deeper and thoughtful look at life than the party atmosphere presented on her first recording, some perhaps the consequences of the life spoken of in The Fame. The songs reflect a new maturity indicating that Gaga may be around for many years to come.
Alyson Greenfield is a singer/guitarist/pianist from Brooklyn by way of Alabama. Here’s my attempt to explain why you should definitely check her out. continue reading…
Spinnerette is the new band from Brody Dalle of The Distillers. Together with Alain Johannes, Tony Bevilacqua (another Distillers member), and Jack Irons (formerly of Pearl Jam) they released their first full length album earlier this year after endlessly teasing us with EPs.
This one’s off our first album. Most people don’t own it.
Bleach was Nirvana’s first album, an often overlooked grunge masterpiece originally released in 1989. For the 20th anniversary Sub Pop is re-releasing it in a deluxe edition re-mastered by original producer Jack Endino and including a concert from the era as well as a 48 page booklet on November 3rd. So is it worth it?
Tegan & Sara’s new album “Sainthood” arrives on October 27th but I’ve gotten a hold of an early copy and I thought this would make an excellent first real post for MediaDecay.
