It’s a slow week. So slow in fact, that the big release of the day just might be the Spice Girls' Greatest Hits CD. We'll be rooting for Scary Spice on Dancing with the Stars tonight, but we've decided to highlight some other musical imports for now.
Might we suggest the perfect holiday gift for the music nerd in your life? The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit Pop Gems of the Last Millennium lives up to its name with four chronologically-ordered discs covering the well-known and the obscure from the last two decades. Teenage Fanclub, Spiritualized, The Cure, Trash Can Sinatras, and many more are featured in the 78 song set.
-Rhino has the full track list
-Rollingstone has an album review
-Buy The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit Pop Gems of the Last Millennium
Nigerian-German singer/songwriter Ayo wows with her American debut, Joyful. Think Les Nubians but even more understated, paired with a throwback dub influence and acoustic neo-soul.
-Watch the music video for the song “Life is Real” on Youtube
-A concert special, Ayo Live in Monte Carlo, will air on PBS in December
-Read an album review at the BBC’s website
-Buy Joyful
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Joshua Tree, U2 would like to sell the record to you all over again! And just what will a Super Deluxe Edition of the Joshua Tree get you? Well, in addition to a remastered copy of the classic album, you will receive a concert DVD, previously unreleased photos, hand-written lyrics by Bono, and a bevy of other extras too. Not a bad deal.
-U2 released their latest single, “Wave of Sorrow,” on Facebook!
-Watch the music video for “Where the Streets Have No Name” on Youtube
-Buy Joshua Tree: Super Deluxe Edition
Okay, truth be told, we’re not really fans of Jordin Sparks’ new single “Tattoo.” It was over for us when we heard the words, “You’re on my heart just like a tattoo.” Yikes. But the American Idol Season 6 winner is just so gosh-darn adorable that we may give her self-titled debut a listen for that very reason. We’re not always this shallow.
-Read an album review at ew.com
-Watch the video for album single “Tattoo” on Youtube
-Buy Jordin Sparks' debut album
The Gorillaz may or may not have disbanded, but today they release D-Sides, a two-disc collection of b-sides from their last hit album, Demon Days, and remixes produced by Hot Chip and Soulwax among others.
-A documentary about the Gorillaz is in the works
-Buy D-Sides
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