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udiences mostly disregarded The Soloist as Oscar bait, and based on the trailers, it was hard to blame them. The resurgent Robert Downey Jr. plays a slumping L.A. Times reporter who stumbles upon a homeless violinist that used to attend Juilliard and is still an exquisite player, even with the few secondhand, broken instruments he owns. RDJ aspires to help his new friend’s symphonic dreams come true.

He’ll get a great story out of it and do some good in the process. Mail out the Academy screeners, right? Well, not quite. Downey’s good deed doesn’t go as planned, as he learns hard lessons about the realities of schizophrenia and homelessness. Director Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice, Atonement) handles the material with subtlety, allowing the talented leads to flesh out their characters organically, without the stagy hysterics you might expect. Catherine Keener is typically exceptional in support.

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Flight of the Conchords— The Complete Second Season In case Garden State and Juno haven’t made it abundantly clear, indie rock has been fully integrated into mainstream comedy. (Then again, mainstream tastes are more “indie” than ever; the lines are as blurred as they’ve ever been.) It helps to explain the popularity of Conchords, depicting the surreal comic struggles of two New Zealand “guitarbased/digi-bongo/a cappella/rap/funk/ comedy/folk” expats in big, bad NYC. In Stores August 4 HBO Home Video

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Race to Witch Mountain

Labor Pains This would be a good double-feature with Obsessed—you bring the booze! Fresh off her banner night at the Razzies for I Know Who Killed Me, La Lohan struggles to climb back to films with actual theatrical runs. On the way, it’s Labor Pains (also starring Janeane Garofolo… oh, Janeane), in which Lindz fakes a pregnancy to keep her job. Maybe Amy Poehler was kind enough to lend her the fake belly from Baby Mama. In Stores August 4 First Look

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh There’s no such thing as bad press, right? Michael Chabon may beg to differ. The adaptation of arguably his most popular novel was hijacked during filming when star Sienna Miller referred to the titular metropolis as “S*itsburgh,” thus insuring that at least 330,000 people in this country will never rent or purchase the film. For the rest of you, it’s a sexually ambiguous coming-ofage/mob tale more than worth a read and view. In Stores August 4

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ou’d thi nk thi s would be a ride—it is a Disney movie, after all—but it’s actually based on the mid ’70s young adult novel/ action flick Escape to Witch Mountain. Perhaps it will one day fulfill its destiny as a rollercoaster; until then, it can rest with abetting Dwayne “don’t call me the Rock, jabroni” Johnson’s maturation into familyfriendly action beefcake (since nobody liked Walking Tall). Telepathy, alien flora, mouthy cabbies—what’s not to love? Walt Disney Video

Obsessed If you’ve seen Fatal Attraction, you’ve seen Obsessed. Well, that’s not entirely accurate—Ali Larter doesn’t boil any bunnies in this one. She just seduces a co-worker… who happens to be married to Beyoncé. Evidently Ms. Larter hasn’t seen Beyoncé’s last couple videos, because there’s no way she would’ve knowingly risked incurring the wrath of the metallic power glove. This is trash of the highest order, ludicrous and hilarious. In Stores August 4 Sony Pictures

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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!: Season Three Awesome show, great job is right, when you’re talking about the April Fool’s edition, in which our heroes aired Tommy Wiseau’s modern cult classic The Room in its mind-blowingly inept entirety (with bars over the awful nude scenes).

Don’t expect that in this season three package—just equally hilarious, willfully disjointed bits about testicle implants, blizzards, damaged nipples and Wiseau himself cameoing in “Pig Man.” In Stores August 4 Warner Home Video

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WHY SHOP AT A LOCAL INDI E STORE?

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re asking you to shop at your local indie record store, but why stop there? Hardware, books, cereal, beer, coffee tables, shoes, trash bags, clothing, tacos; almost anything you want to buy you can buy from an independently owned retailer. Stop by these websites: www.indiebound.org and www.recordstoreday.com to start your search for indies in your neighborhood and anywhere your travels might take you.

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Paul Rudd and Jason Segel reluctantly bro down in I Love You, Man

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h e a r c h ety p e i s elusive but familiar—the guy that isn’t a guy’s guy. He’s perfectly content with his (hetero)sexuality and identity at large; he just never made those four or five buddies he can reliably, say, do Vegas with. (Although, if The Hangover is even a somewhat accurate representation of what bored frat boys actually do in the desert, this may not be a bad thing.) Paul Rudd plays that guy here; he needs a best man for his wedding and auditions suitors with a series of “man dates,” winding up with Rush-loving goofball Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Of course, it’s generally ideal to select somebody you’ve known for more than a few weeks/months to hold onto the ol’ ring, and Segel proves to be reliably unhinged. Ultimately, Man’s another winner for Rudd, who has fashioned a remarkably consistent adult comedy career for a dude who got his start as the love interest in Clueless.

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Super Friends— The Lost Episodes Just to refresh your memory, the Super Friends were Batman, Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Aquaman. (Remember, these were DC characters, so Marvel’s Spider-Man, etc. were personae non grata.) Anyway, their classically animated exploits ran from the early ’70s to the mid ’80s, but were abruptly cancelled before the ’83-’84 Saturday morning season.

This double-disc compiles all the unaired episodes Hanna-Barbera had produced.

In Stores August 11 Warner Home Video

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film Collection They were awesome! Bodacious!

Totally tubular!

Bossa nova! Um, Chevy Nova? If the first 11 words of this paragraph brought a smile to your face, this is the box set for you. Not only are the first three live-action dudes-in-turtlesuits movies compiled (yes, even Vanilla Ice’s classic The Secret of the Ooze), but the animated return-to-form TMNT from 2007. Just throwing it out there—you might want to order a pizza for this marathon. In Stores August 11 Warner

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h e b o d y - s w i t c h p l o t was big in the ’80s (Big, Vice Versa), made a comeback in 2004 with Mean Girls, and is evidently still viable now—as long as the kid the bitter adult inhabits is a hottie like Zac Efron.

This time around, Matthew Perry plays the 37-year-old protagonist, a former star jock whose life went downhill after he knocked up his girlfriend. Not only does he attempt to make up for it—in Efron’s bod—but see his own kids through their growing pains. New Line

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Dexter— The Complete Third Season Michael C. Hall knows how to pick cable series. The morbid Six Feet Under ran to great acclaim for five seasons, and Dexter was just picked up for a fourth and fifth.

Rightfully so. At this point in the arc, the eponymous protagonist can’t merely be reduced to “do-gooder serial killer.”

Dexter’s cravings and closed emotional circuits have far more complicated, fascinating beginnings, which are only just starting to be explored. In Stores August 18 Showtime/Paramount

Gossip Girl— The Complete Second Season

The Last House on the Left

It actors. It actresses. It show. S*it ratings. To be fair, Gossip Girl gained around a hundred thousand more viewers per episode than it enjoyed in the first season, but as of right now, the saga of crushes, betrayals, drugs and everything else under the sun on the Upper East Side is struggling. Which is too bad, because the snooty, conniving young ’uns are relatively well-acted. It’s fun to watch them rise and fall in this or any other economy. In Stores August 18

Wes Craven knows what scares you. He has for over 25 years.

So why not celebrate that longevity with a reimagining of his 1972 low-budget exploitation thriller Last House on the Left?

Although you should know that Craven turns over the reins to director Dennis Iliadis and screenwriters Carl Ellsworth and Adam Alleca. This time around, the tormented daughter isn’t immediately killed, putting her parents on the clock to save her life. In Stores August 18

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movies AUGUST 4 2 Fast 2 Furious 39 Steps Actors & Sin: Actors Blood/Woman of Sin Adventures of Black Beauty: Season 2 Agatha Christie’s Marple: Series 4 Agency Alien Uprising Angels Hard as They Come August Backyardigans: Singing Sensation Battle of Mary Kay Beauty of Scotland & Ireland Best of African Reggae: Live Best of TV Westerns Beverly Hillbillies Collection Big Iron Collection Bleach Vol. 7 Bonanza Collection Bonanza: Blood on the Land Bonanza: Silent Thunder Bonanza: The Avenger Bonobo: Live at Koko Borderline Born to Win Brian Sewell’s Grand Tour of Italy Buddy Rich Memorial Concert 2008 Callie and Son Campfire Tales Carpool Guy Catch Me a Spy Chaos Experiment Classic Sherlock Holmes Cocktail Lounge Classics 4 Movie Pack Cooking With B. Smith and Friends: Appetizers Cooking With B. Smith and Friends: Desserts Cooking With B. Smith and Friends: Main Dishes Cravings Crime Boss Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters Days That Shook the World: Season Two Delgo Demon Warriors Disappearance of Flight 412 Dominique Is Dead Dragnet Collection Dreaming Lips Earth, Wind & Fire: In Concert Earth, Wind & Fire: Live in Japan Easy Virtue Edge of Existence Elvis Presley: The Ed Sullivan Shows: The Performances Emma’s Wish Evil Christmas: Psycho Santa/Satan Clause Family Enforcer Fangs of the Living Dead Farmer’s Wife Fearless Felix the Cat & 7 Cartoon Classics Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Second Season Flipper/Two Brothers Double Feature Flying Deuces Following Her Heart For the Boys: 4 Movie Pack Forever Yours Four Seasons: Peak Escape Fragments

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Fullmetal Alchemist Premium Ova Collection Greatest Song Guilty Conscience Guitar Artistry in Concert Gunslinger Western Collection Halfway Decent Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 Heroes of Horror Collection High Risk Hill Number One Hillsongs:Faith + Hope + Love Hippos and Rhinos History of Scotland: Castles and Clans Hitman Hollywood Hoodlums Collection Hollywood Kills Hot Blood Sundae Hype 2009 Vol. 1 Hype 2009 Vol. 2 I Beheld His Glory Icons of Screwball Comedy Vol. 1

My Fantastic Field Trip to the Planet Mysteries of Pittsburgh Naruto Vol. 31 Nature’s Grave NFL: History of the Buffalo Bills NFL: Run for the Championship: The 2008 NFL Season in Review Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy Obsessed One Way Hout Parenthood/Housesitter Pastor Jones: My Sister Loves You Pinocchio Pitch Control TV Mixtape DVD Vol. 3 Power Passion Murder Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story Project Runway: Season 5 Puppies and Kittens Race to Witch Mountain Rock N Roll Frankenstein Rods Sakura Wars TV: Complete Collection

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Project Runway: Season 5

This year’s designers battle it out for an Elle spread, $100,000 from TRESemmé hair care, a new Saturn Vue Hybrid and more.

Icons of Screwball Comedy Vol. 2 In Which We Serve Invocations of Ireland Irresponsible Captain Tylor: Ova Complete Collection Jamaica Inn Jimmy Hansen’s Heaven John Heffron: Middle Class Funny John Wayne Western Collection Karma Police Kill Switch King Arthur Lady Vanishes Last of the Mohicans Last Stop for Paul Leaving Barstow Love Boat: Season Two Volume Two Love Boat: Seasons 1-2 Love Is Forever Luchamania 5th Anniversary Luchamania La Batalla Por Mexico Lucky Star Ova Lucy Show Collection Machine Girl Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden Complete Series Maino: Unstoppable Midnight Cop Moriito: Guardian of the Spirit Vol. 5 Muerte En El Paraiso Mulligan Murder Murder on Flight 502 Mutant Mutant Chronicles My Cousin Vinny

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Santa Fe Trail Secret Agent Secret Societies Shadowheart Shape of the World She Came to the Valley Sid the Science Kid: Bug Club Sid the Science Kid: What’s the Big Idea Slayers: Seasons 1-3 Box Set Slices Soloist Strip Club King: The Story of Joe Redner Summer School Summerslam: The Complete Anthology Vol. 3 Summerslam: The Complete Anthology Vol. 4 Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job Season 3 TNA Sacrifice 2009 Trapped Tribal Fusions 2 Truth: Gangster Mode Truth: Heavy Swag Twelve Bucks UFC 97: Silva vs. Leites Ulysses Welcome to Dade County When the Bough Breaks Wildhearts: Live in the Studio: A Film

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Woman Hunter Young Bill Hickok

AUGUST 11 17 Again ‘80s New Wave Rockstar Interviews 90210: The First Season Ace Adam-12: Season 3 Alaska: Into the Wilderness Alex Thomas in Foxnation Alien Trespass All You Need Is Love Vol. 7: Diamonds as Big as the Ritz: The Musical All You Need Is Love Vol. 8: Swing That Music! Swing Almost Heaven American Street Idols on Skid Row America’s Test Kitchen: Season 9 Apres Lui Archangels Speak Art of War III: Retribution Ball & Chain Barney: Sharing Is Caring Best of Make Room for Daddy Collection Beyond Death Bildersturm: Iconoclast II Billu Barbar BJ Penn 90 Days: The Journey of the Prodigy Blessed Blue Earth Born in 68 Borneo’s Pygmy Elephants Bounty Californication: The Second Season Caught N Candy Choose Death: Necro Butcher: Inside the Mind of a Wrestling Madman Class Comedy Party Pack Compass Complete Guide to Channeling Contract Course in Miracles Cowboy Killer Crack the Sky: All Access Crypt Cryptz D.O.A.: 30th Anniversary Dark Rising Darker Than Black Vol. 6 Dead by Dawn 2: The Return Dead Homiez: 15th Anniversary Edition Deathbed Designing Women Season 2 Dinosaur Discoveries Discovering America’s Founders DJ Spooky & Matthew Shipp Trio Donkey X Earth Voice Food Choice Edgar Winter: Reach for It: Royal Albert Hall 2004 Enemy of Virtue Entrepreneurs Edge TV Erza: Fear of a Faceless God Evening of Gold Faith of Our Fathers Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action Fissure Friday on My Mind: The Easybeats Front Page Detective Frontline: Breaking the Bank Gigantic Gooby

Good Times Kid Gozu Grenadier: The Beautiful Warrior: Premium Collection Hey Abbott Highlander: The Series, Ep. 13 & 14: Band of Brothers/For Evil’s Sake Hofmann’s Potion Hogzilla & Other Myths & Legends Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1920s Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s Hot Dogs on Ibiza Hunter X Hunter Box Set Vol. 3 I Do: Do It Yourself Wedding Planning I Do… I Did I Love You, Man In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Inspired Ambition: The Dream Is the Challenge Invisible Island of Grace Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang Jacques Cousteau’s Voyage to the Edge of the World James Dean: The Fast Lane Jesus in India Jewish Basketball Hall of Fame Johnny Test: Johnny X & Super Pooch Katyn King Eagle Kingdom for the Dzanga Gorillas Kisna Knock Out Comedy Stop: Comedy That’s Gotta Hurt Led Zeppelin: Complete Rock Case Studies Life & Demolition of Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle Life With Derek: The Complete Second Season Limb Salesman Little River Band: Live Exposure Lock Up Raw London to Brighton Lone Wolf and Cub: Collection 1 Lonely Street Madame Hollywood McCartney’s Genes Melle Mel: Hip-Hop Anniversary Tour: Live in Cologne 2008 Michael Jackson: Trial & Triumph of the King of Pop Michel Guerard: Inventing Cuisine Mick Fleetwood: Live in Canterbury 2008 Mistral’s Daughter Moonwalking: True Story of Michael Jackson My Tribute to the King New Detectives Season 4 NFL: Philadelphia Eagles: 10 Greatest Games Night of the Living Dead No Matter What Olivia On the Road Again One Day You’ll Understand One Night on Fire Paris 36 Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl Pink Floyd: A Saucerful of Secrets Pink: Life Less Ordinary Unauthorized Poker in Bed Pulling: Complete Second Season Railway in the Clouds Rest Stop

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Absurdistan

An underseen indie from Azerbaijan, Absurdistan focuses on a “sex strike” in a small village that disrupts two freshfaced newlyweds.

Richard Galliano: Acoustic Trio River Ways Road Trip: Beer Pong Romeo X Juliet Part 2 Rudolph Valentino Collection Sabor Tropical Safehouse Saiyuki Complete Collection Samurai I Loved Save the World Scooby-Doo Double Feature Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure Shadowland: Edge of Night Simone on Simone in Concert Skylark: The Live Gate Smile Pretty Soundstage: Chris Isaak Greatest Hits Live Steppin’: The Movie Strauss: Alpine Symphony Sugar Hill Gang: Hip-Hop Anniversary Tour: Live in Cologne 2008 Suitable for Murder Super Carrier Superfriends: The Lost Episodes Tale of Sorrow Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film Collection Tiger’s Tail Tinyfish: One Night on Fire: Live in Poland UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie: Seasons 3&4 Under the Raven’s Wing Us Sinners Vanilla Fudge: Live 2004 Veritas Prince of Truth War File: Kaiserschlacht 1918 (Emperor’s Battle) War File: The History of Warfare: The Confederates War File: The History of Warfare: The Spanish Civil War Weekend Murders What’s Up Baloon to the Rescue Who Nose Wicked Women Triple Feature: Flesh for the Beast/Werewolf Woman/ Nightmares Come at Night Wild Man of the Navidad Zombies: Odyssey and Oracle: The 40th Anniversary Concert Zorro: Generation Z Vol. 2

AUGUST 18 20 Years After 48 Angels Absurdistan After Hours at Arts Place 2 Ah My Buddha Vol. 4: The Four Naked Truths Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa

Amantes Sin Control 2006 Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet Animated Adventure Pack: Robin Hood/Prince and the Pauper/The Three Musketeers Assault on Hitler’s Europe Beyond Lemuria: Shaver Mystery & The Secrets of Mt. Shasta Big Windup: Part 1 Bleach Vol. 19 Brave Archer & His Mate Bridge to Nowhere Chavo Animado Season 1 City Is Mine Cracker: The Complete Series Daphne in the Brilliant Blue Collection 1 Darkside Blues Days of Thrills & Laughter Death Valley Dexter: Complete Third Season Diary of a Nobody Dirty Sexy Money: The Complete Second Season Donald in Mathmagic Land Eli Stone: The Complete Second Season Everybody Hates Chris: The Complete Series Everybody Hates Chris: The Fourth Season Final Destination Vol. 1-3 Fish Fall in Love Five Deadly Venoms Garden Ghost Adventures Season 1 Glory Days of Wrestling Golden Age of Second Avenue Golden Boys Gossip Girl Seasons 1 & 2 Greek: Chapter 3 Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino Season 2 Hannah Montana The Movie Helen Best Casebook Hot Dogs How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Husbands iCarly Season 2 Volume 1 Icons of Science Fiction: Toho Collection If I Die Tonight Imax: Hidden Hawaii Inglorious Bastards 2 Julia Just for Laughs: Stand Up: Over the Edge Kissing Cousins Last House on the Left (2009) Last Resort Last Starfighter Lenny Breau & Brad Terry: Live at the Main Festival Love Hollywood Style

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Man Vs. Wild: The Complete Third Season National Parks Collection Nesio 2008 NFL: Minnesota Vikings 5 Greatest Games Old Crow Medicine Show: Live at the Orange Peel& Tennessee Theatre DVD One Way Out Orphen: The Perfect Collection Pahappahooey Island: What About Me Pete’s Dragon Poker House Ride a Wild Pony Shelter Simon & Simon: Season 4 Simpsons: Season 12 Single Siren Smurfs Volume Two Sola: Box Set Sons of Anarchy Season 1 Spring Break Stone Age Survival: Earth Energies Fertility & Secrets of Stones Strangeness Stuntmen Surveillance Swan Princess Swan Princess: The Secret of the Castle Team-Mates These Old Broads True Tears Tyson Unknown Legend Versus Visions of Britain & Ireland Wedding Bros.

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AUGUST 25 10 Things Every Golfer Should Know 2008 Red Bull Air Race World Championship ‘70s Tech ‘80s Metal Rockstar Interviews Abduction Adventureland Adventures of Robin Hood: Complete Series American Son America’s Wild & Wacky: Sturgis Ancient China Ancient Egypt Ancient Maya Ancient Mystery Moves Art of War Asian Queer Shorts Australian Open 2009 Men’s Final: Federer vs. Nadal Babes in the Woods Batman: Brave and the Bold Vol. 1 Batman: Double Feature Batman: The Complete Animated Series Battle 360: Bloody Battle of Guadalcanal Battlelines: WWII in Europe: La Bataille du Rail/Somewhere in Europe Beast: Season 1 Behind the Wall Bernstein Bears: Halloween Treats Beverly Crawford: Live From Los

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movies Angeles Billy Jack Billy Jack Collection Black Diva Bolshoi Opera Night: A Live Concert From the Bolshoi Theatre Booker: Complete Series Boot Camp Brass Ring British Cinema Comedy Collection Burning the Future: Coal in America Call in the Crew Charley’s Aunt Combat Garage Conspiracy to Rule the World Corner Gas: Season 5 Corner Gas: Season 6 Cults: Dangerous Devotion Da Vinci & The Handgun Da Vinci Detective Death Note: L, Change the World Deceiving Innocence: Roger Coleman Story Devil May Cry: Complete Box Set Dinner With a Vampire Don Cherry’s Multikulti Dora and Diego Celebrate Halloween Dracula’s Fiancee Dreams of the Dead Dungeons & Dragons: Complete Series

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Dungeons & Dragons: The Beginnings Duplicity Earth’s Black Hole Exploitation Cinema: Deliver Us From Evil/Fox Affair Exploitation Cinema: Teenage Graffiti/Teenage Mother Eyewash 3 Facing Extinction: Assyrian Christians in Iraq Fast Lane Fighting Flag of Iron For Fun Forgotten Men of the Valley of the Kings Forsenses Frayed Full Grown Men Gangland: The Complete Season 4 Ghost Image Godspeed to Jamestown Golden Age Noir 2 Goodbye Solo Google Me Gospel Comedy All Stars 2: These Ain’t Your Regular Church Jokes Gossip Girl: The Complete Second Season

Gradiva Great Indian Wars Green Devils 1933-1941: German Paratrooper Elite Green Street Hooligans 2 Grindhouse Greats Collection Haunted Histories Collection 4 Help Is Here Here’s Lucy: Season One History Channel Presents: Battles

How the Earth Was Made Hurray for Huckle: The Spooky Secrets of Busytown In a Dream Informers Inside Planet Earth Invisible Girlfriend It Came From Outer Space Italian Sex James Dean: The First American

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Heroes: Season 3

If the pacing and romantic contrivance of the second season left you cold, know that Heroes’ third time is a supercharged charm.

MAD MEN Season 2 BC: The Complete Season 1

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House: Season Fivesmartly cynical…

Jason9 Aldean: Wide Open Live & More “sleek, sexy, out of 10” How Bruce Lee Changed the World How the Earth Was Made—TV Guide

Jerichow JFK & The Crisis Crusader

flight of the conchords

the complete second season “... slice of genius ... one of the funniest series on television.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

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by Chris Dick

Fire at Will

“Burn In” spawning is unique to Section 8. On a player’s way down, he’s looking at the playable map. He can see a battle taking place or a situation getting worse, and he can hit the brakes and maneuver away from things. Or Section 8 aims to be the FPS gold standard if a player wants to “Burn In” into a player or a tank, he can cause damage that way. You’ll never have to wait in s f p s g eek s first and developers second, the first line for vehicles in Section 8. You can requisition a vehicle rule with Section 8 was to throw out the rules. Fixed anywhere on the map with a drop ship. They’ll deliver spawn points and spawn durations are 2008. Civil vehicles, turrets, supply depots and other deployable War-style battles (Team A at one end, Team B at the assets wherever you want. other) are a thing of the not-so-distant past. And waiting for vehicles or other kill machinery is very old hat.

What is the story behind Section 8?

Warfare, whether it’s in single-player or multi-player Think of it as a futuristic gold rush. Various people are modes, takes a whole new shape in Section 8. Players trying to stake their claim or strike it rich. On the fron“Burn In” from 15,000 feet into firefights wherever they tier, Earth is losing contact with some of its colonies. want. Vehicles and other assets can be drop-shipped Eventually, they find out there’s an aggressor in this anywhere on the battlefield. And one-on-one showdowns region called the ARM of Orion. There isn’t much known will rarely end in an unexplainable headshot. Essentially, about them at the beginning of the campaign, but as you Section 8 is FPS evolved. follow new recruit Alex Corde, as he liberates his first Section 8 producer Robert Siwiak riddles us with world—called New Madrid—you learn a bit more about answers and rails. We couldn’t be happier. who the aggressors are.

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How is Section 8 different from other FPS titles?

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Are the aggressors human or alien?

They’re human. You won’t be fighting against Zerg or Protoss equivalents. Think of it as the U.S. versus the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra X360, PS3, PSP, PS2, Wii, DS [EA] Twelve playable G.I. Joes (yes, Snake-Eyes!), four playable Cobras (yes, Storm Shadow!) and an infinite amount of lives means EA’s cartoon-to-toyline-to-movie-to-game port is faithful to the Yo Joe! universe. Remember, no one dies and Cobra troopers have terrible aim. Essentially a 3D action-shooter along the lines of Contra, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra should have us acting like the 12-year-old boys we really are.

Compared to other first-person shooters, Section 8 gives players more options than anything out there.

Predictability kills replayability in a game What can you reveal about Section 8 multi-player?

There’s online multi-player. This is primarily a Conquest game mechanic very similar to the Battlefield franchise or Star Wars Battlefront.

There are large outdoor maps.

There are no fixed spawn points in multi-player, so players, weapons assets and vehicles can “Burn In” anywhere. There’s also an offline multi-player mode against bots.

Why would someone want to play Section 8 over another current-gen FPS on the market?

Section 8 is very player-driven. Compared to other first-person shooters, Section 8 gives players more options than anything out there. Predictability kills re-playability in a game. We threw conventions and predictable game play out the window. Section 8 is more fun than frustrating.

Section 8 is available August 25 for Xbox 360 and October 13 for PC.

Brave: A Warrior’s Tale X360, PSP, Wii [Evolved] You can count the number of Native American-centric games on one hand. Maybe two. Brave: A Warrior’s Tale is both a current-gen update and a follow-up to the original PS2 Brave title. Players of the first Brave will find familiar levels, as well as new quests. You play as Brave, who is out to rescue his relatives after the village they lived in was destroyed.

Madden NFL 10 X360, PS3, PSP, PS2, Wii [EA]

John Madden’s longtime gridiron franchise continues to roll on in Madden NFL 10. The game is the same, but the animation and mechanics have been overhauled to stun virtual pigskin fans. Online multi-player has also been improved. Now, nine players can gang up and tackle pesky running backs and fleet-footed wide receivers. Hey, now!

You’re an all-star!

Fossil Fighters DS [Nintendo]

OK, we’ve all played those useless yet time-consuming iPhone games like Archers and Cro-Mag Rally. DS owners are now able to enjoy useless yet time-consuming titles on the DS like Fossil Fighters. Dig up old dino bones and, yes, fight them using your stylus. The digging part sounds like the most fun, as battling an Apatosaurus is always a lose-lose situation.

Spectrobes: Origins Wii [Disney]

We’re on an archaeological theme here. In Spectrobes: Origins, the third part in the Spectrobes series, you use the Wii remotes to excavate fossils, rear baby spectrobes and fight enemies that stand in your way. Kind of cute in a Legend of Zelda meets Tamagotchi kind of way.

Heroes Over Europe X360, PS3, PC [Red Mile] Imagine you’re Maverick. Now rewind the clock 68 years.

It’s WWII and the German Luftwaffe is a formidable enemy. Time to take ’em out. In the sequel to 2005’s Heroes of the Pacific, you pilot over 40 planes, including Spitfires, Mustangs and B-17 Flying Fortresses. The action is more arcade than flight sim, so fun is had while riddling Nazi planes with bullets.

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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2

The sequel to the 2006 original features similar gameplay but advanced power combos and even more Marvel Universe favorites.

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WEEK OF AUGUST 24 Batman: Arkham Asylum PS3, PC, 360, Clique: Diss & Makeup NDS Dissidia Final Fantasy PSP Go Play City Sports Wii Imagine Teacher Class Trip NDS Mana Khemia 2 Fall of Alchemy PS2 Metroid Prime Trilogy Wii Monster Racers NDS Nancy Drew: Resorting to … PC Professor Layton … Diabolical NDS Red Faction Guerrilla PC Section 8 PC, 360 Ult. Duck Hunting Re-release Wii Warriors Orochi 2 PSP Wizards of Waverly Place NDS

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Hot Mess

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Sky High

august 25

Jet detonate another round of ribald classic rawk

Jet Shaka Rock R e a l H o rr o r s h o w / E M I

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o u k n o w y o u ’ r e in the zone when every single you release winds up on a car and/or beer commercial. This Australian quartet has that kind of knack for populist rock ‘n’ roll, and executed it most effectively on 2003’s stateside debut Get Born—“Are You Gonna Be My Girl,” “Cold Hard Bitch” and “Rollover DJ” were inescapable that year. Follow-up Shine On didn’t resonate as strongly, so the group finds themselves at a crossroads with Shaka Rock. A cursory scan of just-released “K.I.A. (Killed in Action)” (not sure why the parentheses are necessary there…) leads one to believe that frontman Nic Cester has shifted his focus drastically from booze ‘n’ babes to wartime politics. Not the case—the lyrics wander back to familiar relationship terrain with the chorus, which is probably for the best. The track winds up sounding like somewhat of a Hives homage, just the sort of dirty, catchy mainstream rocker that these guys do best.

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Twista Category F5 Get Money Gang/ Capitol

Major duh, the title refers to a tornado that will eff your ess up; frankly, it’s a surprise that the loquacious rapper hasn’t employed it yet. His blistering tonguetwisters have astonished heads for years, but he’s never had the appropriate mainstream breakout for his considerable talents.

That just might change with F5 (his first under his new imprint) and the “encore” first single “Wetter (Get It Wet Pt. 2).” In Stores Now

Modest Mouse No One’s First and You’re Next Wa r n e r

Here’s the long-awaited compilation of vinyl singles, containing B-sides from the group’s last two albums.

The sixth and final song on the EP, “King Rat,” was immortalized in a video directed by the late Heath Ledger, but no word if it’s included here. Either way, it’ll be fun catching up via this stopgap. Other cuts include “Autumn Beds,” “Guilty Cocker Spaniels,” “Satellite Skin,” “The Whale Song” and “Perpetual Motion Machine.” In Stores August 4

Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes Epic

Interesting that this trio, often compared to Tool—who once closed a record with an infamously harried call to the Art Bell show from an alleged former Area 51 employee—now has an album inspired by “this really off-the-wall character, who was driving us around, who believes so whole-heartedly in aliens and UFOs.” Repeat after us: They are not who they claim to be. They are not who they claim to be.

In Stores September 1

Radiohead Collector’s Editions: Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief: Capitol/EMI

You may recall that Capitol dropped collector’s editions of Radiohead’s first three LPs—Pablo Honey, The Bends and OK Computer—back in March, each supplemented with crazy-awesome bonus material. (The “My Iron Lung” EP is still one of the quintet’s finest standalone releases.) Same deal here— each one’s sold separately, but worth reacquiring for a cornucopia of dazzling Bsides. Each also comes with a DVD anthologizing videos from the era, and Radiohead have made some doozies.

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tour de force

T Bad Religion

warped tour

h e W a r p e d To u r is a tough one to assess year to year—unlike most summer packages, there are 100 bands on the bill, give or take, 12 of which will be alternating on the main stage (one of eight total!) All of that said, expect some classic SoCal punk (Bad Religion, NOFX), forward-thinking post-everything (Thrice, Underoath), heavily politicized rage (Anti-Flag) and a grab bag of all that is young at heart and fast as hell, overloading your synapses.

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Tinley Park, IL

First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre

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Vancouver, BC

Thunderbird Stadium

8/2

Shakopee, MN

Canterbury Park

8/15

Quincy, WA

Gorge Amphitheatre

8/3

Maryland Hts, MO

Verizon Wireless Amph. St. Louis

8/16

Hillsboro, OR

Washington County Fair Complex

8/4

Bonner Springs, KS

Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone

8/19

Fresno, CA

Save Mart Center

8/7

Nampa, ID

Idaho Center Amphitheater

8/20

Mountain View, CA

Shoreline Amphitheatre

8/8

Salt Lake City, UT

Utah State Fairpark

8/21

Wheatland, CA

Sleep Train Amphitheatre

8/9

Denver, CO

Invesco Field at Mile High

8/22

Chula Vista, CA

Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre

8/12

Calgary, AB

Race City Speedway

8/23

Carson, CA

The Home Depot Center

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Party All the Time Cobra Starship blast off to hipster heaven

Cobra Starship Hot Mess fueled by ramen

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udacious pastels permeate their logo and apparel. They employ a keytarist and rock shutter shades. They’ve snared a Gossip Girl starlet to sexify their emocrunk rave-up video for “Good Girls Gone Bad.” We can’t help but wonder if Cobra Starship’s kids are gonna flip through the family photo album (okay, Flickr account) 15 years from now and regard their folks with the bafflement that Bret Michaels and Vince Neil’s progeny did. Lame old mom and dad with their ratty Fall Out Boy shirts used to be… cool? Clearly, Cobra Starship are a band of the moment, and they are seizing it. After breaking onto the scene with 2006’s “Bring It (Snakes on a Plane),” the NYC quintet buckled down and really busted out the (after)party jams for Hot Mess. Which is interesting, as anything-goes frontman Gabe Saporta is an expat of the decidedly sexless emo act Midtown. Hey, you’re only young once, right?

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i d k r i s a l l e n win only because middle American voters were uncomfortable voting for the flamboyant Adam Lambert, who came out of the closet weeks after the competition ended? Or were voters merely put off by the melodramatic caliber of the latter’s performances and sketchiness of his voice? Either way, it’s a good conversation to continue having, although all will be forgotten at this annual summit of the top contestants. Megan Joy, Allison Iraheta and Danny Gokey are among the other notables. date

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Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall

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Prudential Center

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Uniondale, NY

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Uniondale, NY

Nassau Coliseum

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Hamilton, ON

Copps Coliseum

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Rochester, NY

Blue Cross Arena

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Hartford, CT

XL Center

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Boston, MA

TD Banknorth Garden

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Albany, NY

Times Union Center

8/20

Philadelphia, PA

The Wachovia Center

8/22

Pittsburgh, PA

Mellon Arena

8/23

Cleveland, OH

Wolstein Ctr./Cleveland St.

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Columbus, OH

Schottenstein Center

8/26

Auburn Hills, MI

The Palace of Auburn Hills

8/28

Milwaukee, WI

Bradley Center

8/29

St. Louis, MO

Scottrade Center

8/30

Kansas City, MO

Sprint Center

Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs Under the Covers Vol. 2

Amanda Blank I Love You

S h o u t ! Fa c t o r y

Although this seems like one of those indie husband ‘n’ wife project, Bangles leader Hoffs has long been married to Austin Powers director Jay Roach. So, really, this sequel to the 2006 collaboration, featuring multiple ’60s and ’70s covers, is a labor of love for two great voices that go great together. The Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, Carly Simon, Todd Rundgren and Mott the Hopple are among the many honored here. In Stores Now

So far this Philly girl is best known for special appearances with the likes of M.I.A., Santogold and Spank Rock—the latter of which via the mind-blowingly raunchy Bangers & Cash NSFW jam “Loose.” She claimed that her full-length debut was influenced by Madonna’s first record; while the mix of jarring, tell-it-like-it-is hip-hop and dark electro (“Shame On Me”) is decidedly more modern, she’s off to a good start.

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Third Eye Blind Ursa Major

Jordin Sparks Battlefield

Downtown

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Jive

Plenty of the late ’90s’ enormous alterna-pop tidal wave has aged like a monthold beached whale carcass.

For some reason, 3EB seem to put a smile on people’s faces—maybe it’s the goofy sing-along nature of tracks from “Jumper” to “How’s It Going to Be.” The band is capitalizing on the revisionist fun with their first full-length in six years. Kimya Dawson even steps in to guest on “Why Can’t You Be,” cementing their indie cred. In Stores August 18

Battlefield is an apt manifestation of Ms. Sparks’ combative spirit—the record is so named because life is a series of constant conflicts that require careful preparation. Not like the title track and its companions are pure frigidity, of course. All the right producers are involved to guarantee a long charttopping run of bangers and ballads, from Jesse McCartney and T-Pain to Dr. Luke and Stargate. In Stores Now

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Feed the Tree

Folk-pop upstart Kate Voegele is enjoying her slow climb to the top

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at e V o e g e l e i s in a car on the 405 freeway in L.A. But the singer-songwriter and One Tree Hill actress makes it explicitly clear that she’s not talking on the phone while driving. “That’s illegal,” she laughs. Voegele is a good girl, but it’s kind of a sore subject. When she was in high school and first meeting with record labels, her goodness was not considered a virtue. “They were like, ‘We don’t think the nice-girl thing sells,’” she says, still annoyed. “I was like, ‘This is bulls*it!’ I was a 16-year-old girl who loved school and her friends and was good friends with her mom, and because I wasn’t a cokehead dancing on tables I was Miley Cyrus.”

Today, it’s those narrow-minded labels that look foolish. Voegele has appealed to fans beyond expectations.

Her Interscope/MySpace Records debut, Don’t Look Away, sold nearly a quarter-million copies and climbed to No. 4 on the iTunes chart. And when she was cast to play the role of Mia on One Tree Hill, writer Mark Schwahn was so taken with Voegele’s music that each week he would take one of her songs and craft a storyline to complement it. Songs from her latest album, A Fine Mess, will once again be weaved into the storyline for the show’s upcoming season.

Written while Voegele was on the road for the past year and a half, A Fine Mess was inspired by friendships,

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relationships and “all the crazy stuff” that she had recently encountered. This time around, the songwriter’s vulnerability packs a bit of roughness around the edges.

“Mark told me while I was making this record, ‘Turn up the distortion on your guitar, mess up your hair and write a rock song, Voegele!’” she laughs. The result was the album’s single, the raw, riff-powered “99 Times.”

“My favorite music is pop, has a hook, but also has a story to it and helps you figure out what you’re feeling,” says Voegele of the new songs. She takes her cues from artists like Carole King, whose classic Tapestry was the first album Voegele owned, and she continues to look to music to find her way. When filming One Tree Hill, Voegele often hits her favorite record store, the mom-and-pop shop CD Alley in Wilmington, NC. “I can always go in and be like, ‘Guys, what’s new, what’s good?’” To support the scene, Voegele is releasing Live at Graywhale, which will only be available in indie record stores. “What’s really cool about being a musician is the relationships you make,” she says. “It’s just people and stores like that, that believe in artists, that make relationships with the customer. I love that.”

A Fine Mess is available now from Interscope.

Mike Patton and

Faith No More

are back and rocking the European festivals this month

Angel Dust

King for a Day Fool for a Lifetime

The Real Thing

This Is It: The Best of Faith No More

Album of the Year

Stage your own Faith No More Festival!

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Nearly Departed

With help from a famous friend, Cage is ready for his big jailbreak

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o n ’ t c a l l h i p - h o p artist Cage underground.

“Underground hip-hop died when the Internet came out,” the veteran New York MC says. “The day when you could stop going to record stores and get burnt spending money on trash and find gems that no one’s heard of, it was gone. Nowadays you can just type a band into a search engine, and I hate it. It’s too easy.”

Cage is someone who obviously has no problem saying what’s on his mind, and this dedication to the bare truth has carried him from a hardscrabble youth to a major name in the thinking man’s hip-hop scene. Depart From Me, the artist’s third full-length, is an amalgam of gritty beats, creeping melodies and tooth-spitting rhymes. Tracks produced by El-P, Aesop Rock and F. Sean Martin (who is also Cage’s live guitarist) are the perfect backdrop for Cage’s brash outlook on relationships, the industry and failed attempts to figure out what life means. Not that this doesn’t bring its share of critics, though Cage welcomes it. “If I was a painter and people just walked past them, I wouldn’t want that,” he says. “I’d want people to either weep or be really angry at it. In rap, it’s hard to make people feel something.”

One person who has definitely felt something is actor Shia LaBeouf of Transformers and Indiana Jones fame, who’s not only voiced a desire to star in a Cage biopic,

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but also directed a video for the first single off the album, “I Never Knew You.” Combining Cage’s visceral live show with a magically realistic love story, LaBeouf wanted to help raise the artist’s profile, especially for the new album. “This is the darkest Cage record,” LaBeouf assures. “It’s not as explicitly dark, but it’s the darkest.

It’s my favorite Cage record.”

After almost two decades in the scene, Cage admits it’s a little odd to be highlighted on places like MySpace, doing big-budget videos, so he’s making sure to keep his illusions at bay. “You start feeling like it’s rigged, like pro wrestling, and then you suddenly become a wrestler,” he admits. “It’s like I know how the moves are supposed to go, but I really want to land that elbow for real.”

Cage will have the chance to do whatever he wants this summer when he kicks off an exhaustive full US tour to promote Depart From Me, and there will be at least a few people he thinks will be happy that his music isn’t buried deep in the back of a record store anymore. “Some promoters lost their shirts last time I came around. But this time, I’m pretty sure they’ll get their shirts back.” depart from me is available now from Definitive Jux.

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8/4

Tarrus Riley Contagious

On Tour Now

Beres Hammond A Moment In Time

On Tour Now

Available AUGUST 4

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Inclement Excellence

The forecast looks good for Jack White’s newest supergroup, the Dead Weather

by Gary Graff

How did the Dead Weather come to be?

Alison Mosshart: A total accident—we don’t even know, but I think it was mostly being drunk after a tour. [Laughs] [The Kills] have been friends with Jack and Meg [White] forever and ever and ever; we always talked about doing a Kills/White Stripes split 7-inch, which we still hope to do at some point, so this is maybe kind of an extension of that. We were touring with the Raconteurs last fall and I ended up singing a lot of Jack’s songs ’cause he lost his voice—and then I lost my voice on the last night. So, it seemed like a clever idea to go from Atlanta to Nashville and record some music that night for 12 hours before I had to fly to New York for a couple of shows.

Dean Fertita: It felt really good. Everyone was feeling inspired and wanted to keep it going. So, a few months later, in January, we all decided to come back and keep recording. We didn’t even know if it was going to be a record at that time. Alison had some time off and we just decided to see what it was going to be and loved the songs we were getting, so we just let it happen.

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Where did the band name come from?

Fertita: We don’t remember. [Laughs] Again, it was in this process of us trying to figure out what we were doing; somebody would walk in and throw a name out there. We can’t even pinpoint who came up with [the Dead Weather]. It was Dead Weather Static for a second, and we took the Static off it and said, “Yeah, that kinda sounds like this record. We’ll keep it.”

Do you buy into the idea that this is a “supergroup”?

Fertita: People are going to call it what they want, but it doesn’t feel like a premeditated thing that work kind of implies—“Let’s get the biggest names or something to get in a room” and it’s a prearranged thing. That just doesn’t apply to this at all, ’cause I’ve known Jack and Little Jack [Lawrence, bassist] for so long. But people are obviously going to call it whatever they want to, and that’s cool. We’ll just let it be defined as it goes by.

You’ve done even more Dead Weather recording since the album was finished, right?

Mosshart: Yeah. We’ve been to Nashville quite a few times this year so far, for various reasons—to rehearse or whatever, and we always end up doing some new music.

We just keep not stopping, which is fine. We like the way it’s happening, so don’t stop it, y’know? horehound is available now from Reprise.

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AUGUST 4 All the Day Holiday

The Things We’ve Grown to Love Anchor & Braille Felt Anjulie Anjulie Assjack Assjack Steve Azar Slide on Over Here Beatallica Masterful Mystery Bellydance Superstar Tribal Fusions Vol. 2 Doug Benson Unbalanced Load Amanda Blank I Love You Brian Bonz the Dot Hongs From Sumi to Japan Bronze Nazareth Bronzestrumentals Vol.1 J. Ruthie Carroll In Your Hands Phillip Carter Songs From the Storm Bill Champlin No Place Left to Fall Coffins Mortuary in Darkness Creatures I, Lucifer Catie Curtis Hello Stranger Miles Davis & Sonny Rollins Classic Prestige Sessions Desolation Wilderness New Universe Diskjokke Discolated Dorrough Dorrough Music The Duke and the King Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nurses The Ocean Cale Parks John Patitucci Ann Peebles

Apples Acre Fluxion To Swift Mars EP Remembrance The Handwriting on the Wall Joe Pernice It Feels So Good When I Stop Craig Phillips Fearless Pictureplane Dark Rift Plasticines About Love Julian Plenti Julian Plenti Is… Skyscraper Poison Pen The Money Shot James Poyser Presents the Rebel Yell Love & War Professor Longhair Red Beans ‘N’ Rice Rebelution Bright Side of Life Red End of Silence: Deluxe Jimmy Reed Bossman: The Best & Rarest of Jimmy Reed Tarrus Riley Contagious Royal Chord Good Fight Seasick Steve Dog House Music Seasick Steve It’s All Good EP Seasick Steve & The Level Devils

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Assjack Assjack

Hank Williams III has long aspired to unite the country and metal-loving sects of his audience, and nods to the latter with this overdue full-length.

Earth, Wind & Fire John Fleming Fruit Bats Gloriana Gravehill Al Green Al Green Al Green Greymachine Hapandroids Scott Hardkiss The Herbaliser Band Hexes Hillsong The Hooters Hopes Die Last Iron Age Jessy J Keeping Secrets Kidz Bop Kids K-Jon Kool Keith Let’s Get It Lightning Dust Magnolia Sisters Man Must Die

In Concert (CD/DVD) Heaven & Hell The Ruminant Band Gloriana Rites of the Pentagram Call Me Explores Your Mind Have a Good Time Disconnected Post-Nothing Technicolor Dreamer Session 2 White Noise Black Sound Faith+Hope+Love Both Sides Live Six Years Home The Sleeping Eye True Love The Rescue Kidz Bop 16 I Get Around Lost Masters Digital Spaces EP Infinite Light Stripped Down No Tolerance for Imperfection Marmoset Tea Tornado Nathaniel Mayer Why Won’t You Let Me Be Black?

Mac McAnally Down by the River Medeski, Martin & Wood Radiolarians III The Miracles Depend on Me Modest Mouse No One’s First, and You’re Next Nightmare of You Infomaniac Nightrage Wearing a Martyr’s Crown

Aaron Shust Sigh Solillaquists of Sound Soul Ballet Soul-Junk Soundtrack Soundtrack Soundtrack Soundtrack Amy Speace Spits String Sisters Suicide City Surman/Abercrombie Sylvester & The Hot Tantric TC Thecocknbullkid Thrill of Gunfight Throw Me the Statue Tides of Man Walter Trout Robin Trower Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists

Cheap Take Over Scorn Defeat No More Heroes 2019 1960 DeGrassi Goes Hollywood G.I. Joe Paper Heart Reclaiming the Blade The Killer in Me Spits IV Live Frenzy Brewster’s Rooster The Blue Thumb Collection Mind Control The First of Me Querelle The Struggle, the Rebirth, the Beginning Creaturesque Empire Theory Unspoiled by Progress What Lies Beneath Absolute Best Blues Vol. 3 Blues Belles With Attitude Heroes of Woodstock Horse Meat Disco Iworship Hymns: The Essential Collection Slow N Moody Black & Blues & More What Love Can Do Wizards of Waverly Place Ze 30: Ze Records Story 1979-2009

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Watermelon Slim Welcome to France Wildbirds Peacedrums OV Wright Yim Yames Lester Young Yppah Zucchero

Escape From the Chicken Coop Welcome to France The Snake Bottom Line Tribute To Centennial Celebration They Know What Ghost Know Live in Italy CD+DVD

AUGUST 11 Abominant Abominant Abyss

Triumph of the Kill Warblast The Other Side/ Summon the Beast Accept Restless and Wild After Midnight Project Let’s Build Something After the Fire Radio Sessions 1 Verden Allen My Masochistic Side Amerbix Monolith Aquadorsa Cloudlands Arch Enemy Burning Bridges Arch Enemy Stigmata Artillery One Foot in the Grave Artillery When Death Comes Tony Ashton & Jon Lord First of the Big Bands Aswad Reggae Warriors: Best of Aswad The Atlanta Rhythm Section Dog Days/Red Tape Attrition Across the Divide: Live in Holland Augury Fragmentary Evidence Aum Resurrection Avenger Feast of Anger-Joy of Despair Roy Ayers Ubiquity A Tear to Smile Babe Ruth Que Pasa Lavern Baker Bob Ting A Ling The Band of the Blues and Royals High School Salute Lloyd Banks Money Moves the World Gato Barbieri Tropico Bobby Barth Two Hearts-One Beat Behemoth Evangelion Between the Trees Spain Beyond the Pale Postcards Biomechanical Eight Moons Black Eyed Peas The Lowdown Black Heat Black Heat Black Heat Keep on Runnin’ Black Heat No Time to Burn Blackfield Blackfield II Blastmasters Twisted Metal Bloody Panda Summon BMX Bandits Rise & Fall of BMX Bandits Bohica Written Ignition Bombay Bicycle Club I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose The Bottle Rockets Lean Forward Box Elders Alice & Friends Brilliant Kiss the Lips of Life Brodinski Bugges Out Presents Dylan Brody Brevity Brotha Lynch Hung & Cos Suspicion V.2 Brothers of Johnson Best of Funk Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond 1975: The Duets Joe Budden Mood Muzik 1 Joe Budden Mood Muzik 2 Bun B/Paul Wall/Lil C Big Bucks & Styrofoam Cups 2 Tane Cain Tane Cain Carillo Rings Around the Moon Carillo Street of Dreams Rodney Carrington Make It Christmas Tommy Castro Hard Believer

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Cate Bros.

Cate Bros. Band Fire on the Tracks In One Eye & Out the Other Cavo Bright Nights, Dark Days Change This Is Your Time City of Prague Philharmonic The Music of Star Trek Clocks Clocks Cobra Starship Hot Mess Ken Colyer Sunny Side Chris Connelly Pentland Firth Howl Billy Connolly Solo Concert Billy Connolly The Big Yin Constancia Lost & Gone Alice CooperThe Early Years Johnny Cooper Follow Crack the Sky The Sale Crash the System Crowning Don Crawford Another Shade of Black Don Crawford Roots & Branches Don Crawford Would You Understand My Nakedness The Robert Cray Band This Time Crimson Massacre Luster of Pandemonium Cross Country Cross Country D: Vision Club Session Vol. 11 Alan Dargin Bloodwood the Art of the Didjeridu Dark Tranquillity Damage Done Dark Tranquillity Haven Dark Tranquillity Projector Dark Tranquillity Yesterworlds Miles Davis & Gil Evans George Gershwin/ Porgy & Bess Dazz Band Best of Funk Dead Swans Sleepwalkers Depeche Mode The Document Destroy All Monsters 1974-1976 Dukes Dukes Ecliptica Impetus Empyria The Long Road Home Fade In Sin We’ll Find Salvation Fall, the Rise Interlopers Farcry High Gear Fauz’t From the Frozen South Fightstar One Day Son This Will All Be Yours Five Special Special Edition Five Special Trak’n Dan Fogelberg Exiles Original Recordings Remastered Dan Fogelberg The Wild Places Original Recordings Remastered Robben Ford Soul on Ten Forest Stream The Crown of Winter Carlos Franzetti Mambo Tango The Full Monty The Full Monty Richard Galliano French Touch (Deluxe Edition) Stan Getz Apasionado Ian Gillan Band Anthology Gordon Giltrap As It Happens Ayelet Rose Gottlieb Up to Here, From Here James Grear and Company Don’t Waste Another Day Clive Gregson & Christine Collister A Change in the Weather Marcia Griffiths Play Me Sweet and Nice Gucci Mane/Bigga Rankin’ Form Zone 6 to Doval Rachid Halihal Arabian Music From Morocco Lisa Hammer Dakini Brian Harnetty Silent City Jay Haze Fabric 47 Heavy Metal Kids Hit the Right Button Joe Henderson Porgy and Bess

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James Hill, Anne Davison True Love Don’t Weep Joji Hirota & Hiten Ryu Daiko Japanese Drums Buddy Holly Rock Me Baby Homo Iratus Knowledge Hot Tuna Final Vinyl Hot Tuna First Pull Up Then Pull Down The Housemartins London 0 Hull 4 (Deluxe Edition) It Bites The Tall Ships Jessie James Jessie James Jan & Dean One Summer Dream Erika Jayne Pretty Mess Jeremy & The Satyrs Jeremy & The Satyrs Jive Bunny Swing the Mood: Definitive Collection Quincy Jones Smackwater Jack Sheri Jones-Moffett Renewed Katet Quantum Journey Kindred Kindred Kindred Next of Kin Freddie King Taking Care of Business 1956-73 Kites With Lights The Weight of Your Heart Kloud 9 Enjoy the Ride

Gerry Mulligan Peter Mulvey

Lonesome Boulevard Songs From a Flying Machine Oliver Nelson The Kennedy Dream Willie Nelson Lost Highway Nervous Eaters Nervous Eaters New Christs Gloria Britt Nicole The Lost Get Found Nisennenmondai Destination Tokyo Nitin Sawhney Human No Man Speak No Man Wherever There Is Light EP Heather Nova South Heather Nova Wonderlust (Live) Gary Numan Disconnection Onslaught Live Damnation Ophthalamia Via Dolorosa Original Broadway Cast Leader of the Pack Elaine Paige Essential Musicals Painter Painter Pantheon-I Worlds I Create John Payne & Andy Nye The Passion Peaches & Herb Golden Duets Peaches & Herb Greatest Hits Pepper Pots Shake It

« in stores August 11

Willie Nelson Lost Highway

Nelson’s Lost Highway years are anthologized in this 17-track retrospective, which also includes three previously unreleased tracks.

Alexis Korner Alexis Korner

Both Sides Sky High (Expanded Edition) David Kubinec and the Rats Second Long Player Record Kult Ofenzivy Radikalni AteismusTvurcum Nad Lamb Sign of Change Erica Lane Beautiful City Revisited Layzie Bone & Big Sloan Thug Twins Fedde Le Grand and Funkerman Flamingo Nights Vol. One Lil Menace Best Of Little Richard Ready Teddy Suzanna Lubrano Festa Mascardo Jack Mack & The Heart Attack Cardiac Party Al Madrigal Half Breed Jeff Majors Sacred Eight Phil Manzanera 801 Latino Phil Manzanera 801 Live @ Hull Phil Manzanera 801 Manchester John Martyn Solid Air (Deluxe Edition) Stephan Mathieu & Taylor Deupree Transcriptions Imelda May Love Tattoo Donny McCaslin Declaration Michael McDermott Hey La Hey Merauder God Is I Meridiem Full Catastrophe Mi & L’Au Good Morning Jokers Malcolm Middleton Waxing Gibbous Mind Key Pulse for a Graveheart Mondo Generator Cocaine Rodeo Justin Moore Justin Moore Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation Succubus

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Pessimist Evolution Unto Evil Peter Pan Club Top House Sessions The Pines Tremolo The Pioneers Give and Take Robert Pollard Elephant Jokes Matilde Polti Folk Songs From Sicily Pretty Boy Floyd Porn Stars The Proclaimers Notes & Rhymes Prydwyn Solitude Owes Me a Smile Quicksilver Messenger Service Reunion 2006 Rational Academy Swans Valerie Ray Dreaming Awhile Regiment A New Beginning Reigning Sound Love & Curses Ken Reynolds One World/One God Rhythms Del Mundo Classics Nile Ridgers Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove Nathan Rogers The Gauntlet Rick Ross & Bigga Rankin’ Boss Rubicon Rubicon/American Dreams Rudie Crew Ride The Rumble Strips Welcome to the Walk Run C&W Into the Twangy-First Century Rush Grace Under Pressure The Russian Folk Ensemble Balalaika Buffy Sainte-Marie Running for the Drum Sam & Ruby The Here and the Now Leo Sayer Voice in My Head Oliver Schroer Camino Scratch Perverts Beatdown Semargl Manifest Shadowland Cautionary Tales

MAKE THEM YOUR HOUSE BAND THIS MONTH

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The Roots provide the groove as the House Band for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

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