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RJD2 fans rejoice. The producer/musician/singer extraordinaire has just released three deluxe reissues of his groundbreaking albums originally released on Definitive Jux Records. 2002’s Deadringer, 2003’s The Horror and 2004’s Since We Last Spoke, lauded as one of Spin Magazine’s Top 40 Albums of the Year, are now all in stores with two previously unreleased bonus tracks per album.

All three reissues are streaming in full at AOL Spinner through the end of the week.

This year has marked a turning point in the innovative producer’s 10 year career.  After scoring the theme to the hit AMC show, “Mad Men,” and starting his own label RJ’s Electrical Connections, RJ reissued 2001’s Your Face Or Your Kneecaps as well as a box set entitled RJD2 2002-2010 and announced that his first new LP in three years, The Colossus, will hit stores on January 19th, the same month RJ hits the road for a massive cross country tour.

And as if that’s not enough, he also decided that he’d spend his holiday season giving free gifts to all of his fans!  On October 29th, RJ announced via his RJ’s Electrical Connections website that he’d be giving away free records, MP3s, and more each Monday until the release of The Colossus. Visit http://rjselectricalconnections.com/ for this week’s contest.

Listen to Deadringer, Since We Last Spoke & The Horror on AOL Spinner:

http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/15

RJD2 on Tour

01/09 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
01/10 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
01/11 - Charlotte, NC - Visualite Theater
01/12 - Savannah, GA - Live Wire
01/13 - Orlando, FL - The Social
01/14 - Tampa, FL - Crowbar

01/15 - Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder

01/16 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade (Heavan Room)

01/17 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree

01/18 - Chattanooga, TN - Rhythm and Brews

01/19 - Knoxville, TN - Valarium

01/20 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel

01/21 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theatre

01/22 - Morgantown, WV - 123 Pleasant Street

01/05 - Columbus, OH - Sully’s Music Diner

02/06 - Newport, KY - Southgate House

02/07 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall

02/08 - Nashville, TN - Exit In

02/09 - Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone Cafe

02/10 - Oxford, MS - The Lyric Oxford

02/11 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitinas

02/12 - Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon

02/13 - Austin, TX - Emos

02/14 - Denton, TX - Hailey’s

02/18 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note

02/19 - Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College - Harris Center

02/20 - Urbana, IL - Canopy Club

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Vagrant Records will release EELS’ eighth studio album End Times on January 19. EELS is the ever-changing project of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett (aka E). End Times follows on the heels of EELS’ critically acclaimed 2009 release Hombre Lobo, hailed by Vanity Fair as “anti-anthems that get your dopamine pumping instead of your fist” and praised by Rolling Stone for its “muddy roadhouse rockers.” Largely self-recorded on an old four track tape machine in the basement of Everettt’s Los Angeles home, the “end times” he writes about isn’t “Mayan calendar conspiracy theory bullshit,” says Everett, but, “the state of the desperate times we live in. The bottom line-ness of it all.”

While Hombre Lobo was written from the point of view of a fictional character (namely, the Dog Faced Boy of EELS’ 2001 album Souljacker), End Times is purely real life as Everett sees it: a “divorce album” with a modern twist. He equates his personal loss with the world he lives in losing its integrity.  This isn’t Everett’s first break-up record. His 1993 solo effort, Broken Toy Shop, chronicled the broken heart of a young man in his twenties. End Times focuses on the loss of a middle-aged man growing as an artist. The loss has more weight.

As for the timing of the release, “I felt guilty about the long gap between the last two albums so I’m making up for lost time,” Everett says. The longest gap between EELS albums (four years between the 2005 release Blinking Lights and Other Revelations and the 2009 Hombre Lobo) is being followed by the shortest (six months between Hombre Lobo and End Times).

During the four years prior to Hombre Lobo Everett embarked on a number of projects including his acclaimed book Things the Grandchildren Should Know and the BBC produced multiple-award winning Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives documentary film about Everett and his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III, which was broadcast on PBS’ Nova series in the fall of 2008. Everett says he’s now  “back to my real job: making music full time.”

Check out the new track “Little Bird” from End Times :

U2 have just released three never before seen interview clips on MySpace Music, AOL’s Spinner, and The Wall Street Journal to coincide with the 25th anniversary of their creative breakthrough release, The Unforgettable Fire.

The largest rock band in the world sat down to discuss their favorite tracks from the album, what they really thought of their biggest single at the time, “Pride (In the Name of Love),” and what it was like working with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois for the first time at Ireland’s Slane Castle for the making of this landmark album.

The recently re-mastered version of The Unforgettable Fire is now available everywhere in limited edition 2CD+DVD box set, 2CD deluxe edition, single CD and LP vinyl.

Watch each video in its entirety to learn something new about the band and make sure to check out www.U2.com for the band’s most recent tour dates.

Fave Tracks

U2 | MySpace Video

There aren’t many details yet, but The Magnetic Fields will be releasing a new album on January 26th called Realism.  This will be the bands 9th full length album and first since 2008’s Distortion.  Check out the tracklist below and the band performing a classic tune from their back catalog.

Realism Tracklist:

1. You Must Be Out of Your Mind
2. Interlude
3. We Are Having a Hootenanny
4. I Don’t Know What to Say
5. The Dolls’ Tea Party
6. Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree
7. Walk a Lonely Road
8. Always Already Gone
9. Seduced and Abandoned
10. Better Things
11. Painted Flower
12. The Dada Polka
13. From a Sinking Boat

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