Summer usually starts to be slim-pickin's time by about now, but somehow the good stuff just keeps coming. It's been quite a good year for music, actually. I'm not one to stumble into the grumbling about particular years being worse than others - every year has tons of great new stuff coming out, you just have to keep your eyes and, of course, more importantly, ears open. But, again, this year seems to be particularly strong. I think I might be looking forward to the relatively quiet week next week (big holidays have a tendency to cause those, you know.)
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger: After what seems like an eternity in Adams-land - 18 months without a single new release - he's back with what many critics are calling one of his best. I've already seen rumors of three releases for the year, not including a box set of rarities, so, if true, he's going to try and make up for lost time, apparently. In the meantime, I'm really looking forward to hearing this one - Cold Roses and Jacksonville City Nights were a couple of the highlights of 2005.
So let me run down your options - you can buy it at:1. Ryan's website, where you'll get a bonus disc with the live, in-studio track "These Girls"
2. Best Buy is where you'll get a bonus Lost Highway sampler, along with a download code for the Best Buy exclusive bonus track, "I'll Keep the Change."
3. Starbucks, who knows...supposedly an extra track and a video track (still waiting for specifics)
4. iTunes, where you'll get an immediate download of "Two," a bonus track, "What Sin Replaces Love (Live from 'The Henry Rollins Show' on IFC), the bonus video, "Two," a digital booklet and access to preorder ticket sales through Ticketmaster.
5. Borders, additional online content.
6. CIMS stores, where you'll get what I was talking about above (a three-song live DVD and lithograph).
7. Overseas, where you'll get a UK/EU bonus track, "Nobody Listens to Silence," and HMV, where you get a limited-edition cardboard (horray) slipcase.
8. Japan, where the UK bonus track has an additional friend in the track "Alice." (Use Babelfish to translate if you like)
9. VINYL - I have been e-mailing all over trying to find out the specifics of this vinyl release and there are only a few things that I know for sure: the first pressing is on orange vinyl and comes with a poster. I do not know for sure whether there will be the UK bonus track (I think there will be - Ryan's vinyl pressings in the past normally have the bonus track if time allows) nor do I know whether there will be a printing after the orange vinyl edition (though I also think there will be). Everything I read suggests that there are 2000 orange copies for the entire world, which leads me to believe that since they are being pressed in Nashville, there is only one pressing and it's a US version. Specifics are very very hard to come by. (Thanks for that go to Sixtywatt).
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1 - Lindsay
The 2005 Pearl Jam show at the Gorge is stunningly good and at the same time, hilarious.