Duffing Up: You may have caught a little lady named Hilary Duff on "TRL" recently that's because of her Dignity, which drops this week. The set is powered by the "TRL"-topping first single, "With Love" if you took advantage of iTunes' preorder, you already got the video for it. Going the extra mile, the singer has loaded up the deluxe edition with a Duff-at-home retrospective video, featured on an accompanying DVD, as well as exclusive art.
She'll B Back: Beyonc waited a spell before rolling out the deluxe edition to her latest studio effort, B'Day. Packaged with different cover art, the revised set also boasts a dozen extra tracks, including Spanish-language cuts, remixes and more. That includes the Shakira duet "Beautiful Liar" and three additional mixes of that song.
Maybe fans should have held off celebrating her B'Day so soon last year. Wall-to-Wall: Paul Wall has two tough acts to follow this week, but based on the platinum success of his The Peoples Champ two years ago, the Houston grill master is banking on his Get Money - Stay True follow-up all the same. It's a more diverse outing than you might think partially recorded at a Texas studio frequented by Willie Nelson, the disc also features (+44) rocker Travis Barker as Expensive Taste, along with cohort Skinhead Rob plus Snoop, Jermaine Dupri, Rick Ross, Fergie and more.
It's a custom fit. Kings of the Times? Casual music fans might mistakenly think Kings of Leon's Because of the Times is the group's second disc, since 2004's Aha Shake Heartbreak broke them out on the strength of three singles.
But Because is actually their third opus, and it features 13 songs including a seven-minute opening cut called "Knocked Up" that sounds like a fitting theme song for the soon-to-be-released Judd Apatow movie of the same name. Timber!: Timbaland has spent so much time sitting behind the boards, it's a wonder his legs haven't atrophied to the point that he needs a wheelchair.
Proving that he can indeed rock the mic, the producer steps up with a studio LP of his own this week. The results are what you might expect Shock Value is nothing short of a historic payback affair, with everyone from Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado to Fall Out Boy and the Hives to Madonna and Elton John. As the saying goes, it's all about who you know .
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..' Santi and Corinne Bailey Rae's "Live in London New York": The Academy will soon be touring with the aforementioned Paul Wall on this year's Honda Civic Tour, but before they do, they're eking out their second album, Santi.
The Chicago band stretches out with bigger songs crafted to be performed at larger venues including the first single, "Big Mess on Our Hands Tonight," "LAX to O'Hare" and "Sleeping With Giants (Lifetime)." Fellow 2006 Woodie Award nominee Rae is trying to keep her own hype going by issuing a video to accompany her self-titled album from last year. The U.
K. singer/songwriter's "Live" item captures performance footage plus four promo clips, as well as a bonus CD encompassing her show at NYC's Webster Hall last fall. Shadows Fall's Threads of Life and Poison the Well's Versions: Expect this devilish duo to duke it out for biggest metal debut of the week.
Produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver) and led by first single "Redemption," Shadows' set also features such inspirational titles as "Failure of the Devout," "Burning the Lives" and "Dread Uprising." While that band is on Atlantic, former roster act Poison the Well have since re-relocated to their indie sphere Ferret, specifically for their fourth studio album. Don't expect to hear typical metalcore on the release the act employs everything from mandolin and slide guitar to horns and banjo.
Chevelle's Vena Sera and Static-X's Cannibal: Both hard-rocking squads were chart-topping contenders in their heyday, but are either still formidable? Chevelle will try to top the #8 Billboard albums chart debut their This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) made two and a half years ago with Vena Sera, which features "Antisaint," "Brainiac" and "Straight Jacket Fashion." Static-X's Start a War opened at #29 in 2005, and the industrial-metal cretins hope for more success with Cannibal, which Wayne Static produced on his own.
Various artists' "Hip Hop Life" and "Urban Spotlight": Don't overlook either of these street DVDs, hip-hop fans. Exclusive performances, battles and rare chats with Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Jadakiss, MC Lyte and Fat Joe bulk up "Hip Hop Life," a documentary about the underground freestyle. In the other corner, Snoop Dogg, Mobb Deep, Ice Cube, E-40 and Too Short climb onto the "Urban Spotlight" disc, which is the premiere issue of the video-interview "magazine.
" Anthony Hamilton's Southern Comfort and David Gray's Shine: The Best of the Early Years: Soul singer Hamilton earned his repute largely due to his 2003 debut, Comin' From Where I'm From, but the set he's dropping this week actually culls material from before that release. Recorded with three producers Fanatic, Doug Coleman and Ced Solo the 11-track set includes "Don't Say What You Won't Do," "Magnolia's Room" and "Never Give Up." Gray is also unearthing some early material in the form of Shine, which corrals "Birds Without Wings," "Faster, Sooner, Now" and "A Century Ends.
" Song Titles of the Week: The track list to the Chariot's The Fiancee: "Back to Back," "Faced Each Other," "They Drew Their Swords," "And Shot Each Other," "Deaf Policeman," "Heard This Noise," "Then Came to Kill," "Two Dead Boys," "Forgive Me Nashville" and "Trumpet." Various artists' "Radio On": Co-produced by iconic filmmaker Wim Wenders ("Paris, Texas," "Buena Vista Social Club"), this flick is coming back from the grave nearly 30 years after it was made. The movie features an early Sting, and the accompanying soundtrack features David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Devo and others.
The Jai-Alai Savant's Flight of the Bass Delegate: DJ Ralh Darden has some friends in the Mars Volta, and they're trying to get the punk-and-reggae-loving Chicago artist some extra attention with this disc issued through Gold Standard Laboratories, co-helmed by Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. Songs include "Scarlett Johansson Why Don't You Love Me," "White on White Crime" and "Data Massaganna." Everybody Else's Everybody Else: Named after a Kinks B-side, the trio came about after two other acts Boston's the Push Kings and Richmond, Virginia's Waking Hours moved to L.
A. and disbanded. Their debut was recorded with Rick Parker (Sugarcult, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) and features 12 punk-rock slices, including "Button for Punishment," "Meat Market" and "I Gotta Run.
" Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (Atlantic) Matthew Herbert - Score (!
K7) Alan Jackson, George Strait and Jimmy Buffett - Live at Texas Stadium (MCA Nashville) Los Straitjackets - Rock en Espa ol, Vol. 1 (Yep Roc) M l e - Devils Angels (Warner Bros.) Nicole C.
Mullen - Sharecropper's Seed (Word) John Lee Hooker - The Best of Friends (Shout! Factory) and Gold (Hip-O/UMe) Killing Joke - Inside Extremities, Mixes, Rehearsals and Live (two CDs; Candelight) Chris LeDoux - Cowboys Ain't Easy to Love/ Paint Me Back Home in Wyoming; Songbook of the American West/ Sing Me a Song Mr. Rodeo Man; Songs of Rodeo Country by Chris LeDoux/ Life as a Rodeo Man; Used to Want to Be a Cowboy/ Thirty Dollar Cowboy; Western Tunesmith / He Rides the Wild Horses; and Whatcha Gonna Do With a Cowboy/ Under This Old Hat (Capitol Nashville/ EMI) Karyn White - Superwoman: The Best of Karyn White (Shout!
Factory) Zombies - Live at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London (two CDs; Rhino) Various artists - Joe Meek's Freak Beat: You're Holding Me Down - 30 Freak Beats, Mod R B Nuggets (Castle) Various artists - Motown Number Ones, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (Motown/UMe) Various artists - Mullets Rock!
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