Kanye West on SNL - 10.02.2007
Kanye West is the new pink. The recent release of his third full-length, Graduation, is climbing the charts and may potentially cause rival 50 Cent to quit the biz. His career has been analyzed and debated via articles like Treble's 90-Minute Guide. So, appropriately enough, he was chosen as the musical guest for the season premiere of Saturday Night Live.

Mr. West starts off with a performance of both "Stronger" and "Good Life":



And then actually appears in a sketch that parodies himself and his notoriously outlandish behavior at certain awards shows. Never change, Kanye, never change:



Also, who's going to be on SNL this week? Remember? Huh?

SPOON, mofos!!!

Out today: Bob Dylan retrospective - 10.02.2007



Watch as I attempt to incorporate Bob Dylan album titles all into one descriptive sentence: The Times They Are A-Changin', as Bob Dylan has a Desire for Bringing It All Back Home, leaving Blood On the Tracks on his way to a Blonde on Blonde trip to Highway 61 Revisited. Sha-zam!

The point? Available this very day is DYLAN, a retrospective that spans Bob Dylan's prolific career and brings it all together into one collection. The collection can be purchased care of Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings in three formats - 3-CD box set, 3-CD 8-panel Digipak, and single disc select song overview - and covers three periods of Dylan's musical journey (1962-1967, Bob Dylan through John Wesley Harding; 1967-1985, The Basement Tapes through Empire Burlesque; and 1986-2006, Knocked Out Loaded through Modern Times). Tracklists as follows:

DISC ONE:

01. Song to Woody
02. Blowin' in the Wind
03. Masters of War
04. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
05. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
06. The Times They Are A-Changin'
07. All I Really Want to Do
08. My Back Pages
09. It Ain't Me, Babe
10. Subterranean Homesick Blues
11. Mr. Tambourine Man
12. Maggie's Farm
13. Like a Rolling Stone
14. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
15. Positively 4th Street
16. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
17. Just Like a Woman
18. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
19. All Along the Watchtower

DISC TWO

01. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
02. Lay Lady Lay
03. If Not for You
04. I Shall Be Released
05. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
06. On a Night Like This
07. Forever Young
08. Tangled Up in Blue
09. Simple Twist of Fate
10. Hurricane
11. Changing of the Guards
12. Gotta Serve Somebody
13. Precious Angel
14. The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar
15. Jokerman
16. Dark Eyes

DISC THREE

01. Blind Willie McTell
02. Brownsville Girl
03. Silvio
04. Ring Them Bells
05. Dignity
06. Everything Is Broken
07. Under the Red Sky
08. You're Gonna Quit Me
09. Blood in My Eyes
10. Not Dark Yet
11. Things Have Changed
12. Make You Feel My Love
13. High Water (For Charley Patton)
14. Po' Boy
15. Someday Baby
16. When the Deal Goes Down

DYLAN - single disc edition

01. Blowin' in the Wind
02. The Times They Are A-Changin'
03. Subterranean Homesick Blues
04. Mr. Tambourine Man
05. Like a Rolling Stone
06. Maggie's Farm
07. Positively 4th Street
08. Just Like a Woman
09. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
10. All Along the Watchtower
11. Lay Lady Lay
12. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
13. Tangled Up in Blue
14. Hurricane
15. Make You Feel My Love
16. Things Have Changed
17. Someday Baby
18. Forever Young

Also, this promotional Bob Dylan e-card thingy that I received with the DYLAN press release is ridiculously fun. Give it whirl and send your best Dylan-lovin' friend a message.

Art Brut + the Hold Steady tour . . . - 10.02.2007



. . . kicks off in less than three weeks.

In the meantime, check out the super cool artwork above.

Here are the dates again for a tour that will undoubtedly rock your socks off. I've bought my tickets already - how's about you?

10/21 Lupo's - Providence, RI
10/22 Roxy - Boston, MA
10/23 Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA
10/24 Disco Rodeo - Raleigh, NC
10/25 40 Watt - Athens, GA
10/26 Bijou Theatre - Knoxville, TN
10/27 Newport Music Hall - Columbus, OH
10/29 Crofoot Ballroom - Pontiac, MI
10/30 Metro - Chicago, IL
10/31 Metro - Chicago, IL
11/01 State Theatre - Minneapolis, MN
11/04 HUB Ballroom - Seattle, WA
11/05 Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR
11/06 Warfield Theater - San Francisco, CA
11/07 The Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA
11/08 Cane's - San Diego, CA
11/09 Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ
11/11 Fox Theater - Boulder, CO
11/12 Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO
11/13 Granada - Lawrence, KS
11/14 Palladium Ballroom - Dallas, TX
11/15 La Zona Rosa - Austin, TX
11/17 BottleTree Annex - Birmingham, AL
11/18 Variety Playhouse - Atlanta, GA
11/19 Toad's Place - Richmond, VA
11/20 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
11/21 Terminal 5 - New York, NY