| The
Crossing - January 2008
Tollbooth’s January Press
Release states: “Chris Barlow surveys ALL the upcoming releases in The
Crossing.”
That’s right. I leave no
Rock unturned. Unless, of course, there is something undesireable under
it.
Alright, I’ve checked, rechecked,
double checked and cross-checked, not to mention counter-examined this
month’s entry into The Crossing sweepstakes and with all the ducks in a
row, I can safely declare: we are off to a good start in 2008! Obviously
quite a few artists have been busy over the last six or so months to prepare
for their personal assaults on the new year. We wish them all luck! One
look through this list and you should be very excited with many of the
upcoming releases.
Also, as you’ll notice, there
is still a plethora of DVD releases coming out, while there are still many
good flicks in the theaters. The countdown to the
Academy Awards has started.
Who do you think gave the best performances and what are your favorite
films from the past year?
Although I made my best-of
lists last month, I’ll submit slightly expanded music and movie best-of
lists to the Tollbooth later this month, so check those out if you like.
And now with a whole new
year here, let’s start making a whole new list!
Recently released and not
mentioned in last edition:
* Eisley - Like the Actors
(5 song EP; iTunes
exclusive.)
* Silverchair - The Greatest
View (EP; iTunes exclusive.)
* Steven Delopoulos - Straightjacket
* Jason Truby - Waiting
on the Wind
* Half Zaftig - Life Like
Luster
* Rhonda Vincent - Good
Thing Going
* Eric Taylor - Hollywood
Pocketknife
* Amanda Shaw - Pretty Runs
Out
* Sam Baker - Pretty World/Mercy
(reissues.)
* The Bangles - a few reissues
* Zebra - S/T - DVD
* The Kingdom - DVD
* The Heartbreak Kid - DVD
1/1
* Radiohead - In Rainbows
(in stores)
* Smashing Pumpkins - American
Gothic (4 song acoustic EP; iTunes exclusive.)
* Ellis Paul - Dragonfly
Races
* Shoot ‘Em Up - DVD
* Jet Li’s War - DVD
* September Dawn - DVD
1/8
* Fish - 13th Star (official
UK release.)
* Marah - Angels of Destruction
* Rob Jungklas - Gulley
* Mike Farris - Salvation
in Lights (former singer of Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies.)
* Kate Nash - Made of Bricks
* Sia - Some People Have
Real Problems
* Robin Trower & Jack
Bruce - Seven Moons
* Edgar and Johnny Winter
- Together Live
* Various Artists - ‘Juno’
soundtrack
* ZZ Top - Eliminator (Deluxe
edition w/DVD.)
* 3:10 to Yuma - DVD
* Sunshine - DVD
* The Hunting Party - DVD
* Eagle Vs. Shark - DVD
* Joshua - DVD
* Klimt - DVD
* Smiley Face - DVD
* The Ten - DVD
* Death Sentence - DVD
* Dragon Wars - DVD
* Resident Evil: Extinction
- DVD
* Zodiac - Director’s cut
DVD
1/15
* Ringo Starr - Liverpool
8
* The Eels - Meet the Eels:
Essential 1996-2006
* The Eels - Useless Trinkets:
Bsides & Rarities 1996-2007 - 2CD’s/1DVD
* Tracy Grammer - Book of
Sparrows
* The Magnetic Fields -
Distortion
* The Civilians - Gone Missing
* Mars Arizona - Hello Cruel
World
* April Cope - Petals Fall
* Dale Hawkins - Back Down
to Louisiana
* The Cartridge Family -
Shine Like a Bottle
* Yes - Classic Artists:
2 DVD set
* Good Luck Chuck - DVD
* Mr. Woodcock - DVD
* Monster - DVD
* When Harry Met Sally -
Special edition DVD
1/22
* Drive By Truckers - Brighter
Than Creation’s Dark
* Patty Larkin - Watch the
Sky
* Natasha Bedingfield -
Pocketful of Sunshine
* North Mississippi Allstars
- Hernando
* Black Mountain - In the
Future
* Cat Power - Jukebox (Deluxe
edition)
* Cat Power - Covers II
* Moe - Sticks and Stones
* The Kennedys - Better
Dreams
* The Whigs - Mission Control
* Hermano - Into the Exam
Room
* Eric Matthews - The Imagination
Stage
* Ray Bonneville - Goin’
by Feel
* Matt Costa - Unfamiliar
Faces
* The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
* Super Furry Animals -
Hey Venus
* MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
* Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- Works: Volumes 1 & 2 (reissues.)
* The Game Plan - DVD
* Reservation Road - DVD
* Sydney White - DVD
1/29
* Joe Jackson - Rain (w/DVD.)
* Shelby Lynne - Just a
Little Lovin’ (Inspired by Dusty Springfield)
* Willie Nelson - Moment
of Forever
* Blind Boys of Alabama
- Down in New Orleans
* Sons & Daughters -
This Gift
* The Mars Volta - The Bedlam
in Goliath
* Helio Sequence - Keep
Your Eyes Ahead
* Vampire Weekend - S/T
* Chris Walla - Field Manual
* Beck - Odelay (2 CD Deluxe
edition.)
* Van Morrison - a few remastered
and expanded reissues
* Calexico - reissues
* Smog - reissues
* Sleater-Kinney - reissues
* King of California - DVD
* Rocket Science - DVD
* The King of Kong: A Fistful
of Quarters - DVD
* The Invasion - DVD
* Feel the Noise - DVD
* The Comebacks - DVD
* Daddy Day Camp - DVD
* Groundhog Day - 15th anniversary
DVD
2/5
* The Hooters - Time Stand
Still (US release.)
* Lenny Kravitz - It is
Time for a Love Revolution
* Jack Johnson - Sleep Through
the Static
* Sheryl Crow - Detours
* K.D. Lang - Watershed
* Bob Mould - District Line
* Nada Surf - Lucky
* Iron Maiden - Live after
Death plus History of Maiden: Vol.2 - 2 DVD set
* Across the Universe -
DVD
* The Assassination of Jesse
James... - DVD
* Elizabeth: the Golden
Age - DVD
* The Brave One - DVD
* The Jane Austen Book Club
- DVD
* Feast of Love - DVD
* The Aristocats - DVD
2/12
* Carrie Newcomer - The Geography
of Light
* Natalie Grant - Relentless
* Michael Jackson - Thriller
(25th anniversary before he lost his mind Deluxe Edition w/DVD.)
* British Sea Power - Do
You Like Rock Music?
* Widespread Panic - Free
Some How
* Doug Hoekstra - Blooming
Roses
* Simple Plan - S/T
* In the Shadow of the Moon
- DVD
* Gone Baby Gone - DVD
* Things We Lost in the
Fire - DVD
* We Own the Night - DVD
* Into the Wild - DVD
* I Could Never Be Your
Woman - DVD
* No Reservations - DVD
* Becoming Jane -
DVD
* Romance & Cigarettes
- DVD
* Tyler Perry’s Why did
I get Married - DVD
* Martian Child - DVD
2/19
* Ray Davies - Working Man’s
Cafe (US release; frontman of The Kinks.)
* Allison Moorer - Mockingbird
(Covers project.)
* Gary Louris - Vagabonds
(Singer of The Jayhawks; coproduced by Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes.)
* Seven Mary Three - day&nightdriving
* Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool
* Donita Sparks - Transmiticate
* Mountain Goats - Heretic
Pride
* Flowers Forever - S/T
* In the Valley of Elah
- DVD
* Michael Clayton - DVD
* Rendition - DVD
* Lust, Caution - DVD
* Kurt Cobain: About a Son
- DVD
2/26
* Tift Merritt - Another
Country
* Sam Phillips - Don’t Do
Anything
* Missy Higgins - On a Clear
Night
* The B-52’s - Funplex
* Beowulf - DVD
* The Darjeeling Limited
- DVD
* Death at a Funeral - DVD
* 30 Days of Night - DVD
* Goya’s Ghosts - DVD
* Resurrecting the Champ
- DVD
3/4
* Kathleen Edwards - Asking
for Flowers
* The Black Crowes - Warpaint
* Bauhaus - Going Away White
* Stephen Malkmus - Real
Emotional Trash
* Jackson Browne - Solo
Acoustic, Vol. 2
* Before the Devil Knows
Your Dead - DVD
* Mr. Magorium’s Wonder
Emporium - DVD
* Mrs. Doubtfire - Special
edition DVD
* 12 Angry Men - 50th anniversary
DVD
* 101 Dalmations -
DVD
3/11
* Van Morrison - Keep it
Simple
* The Presidents of the
U.S.A. - These are the Good Times, People
* No Country for Old Men
- DVD
* Dan in Real Life - DVD
* Sleuth - DVD
3/18
* The Kills - Midnight Boom
* Love in the Time of Cholera
- DVD
3/25
* The Counting Crows - Saturday
Nights & Sunday Mornings
* Daniel Lanois - Here Is
What Is
* Joy Division - Control
- DVD
4/1
* R.E.M. - Accelerate
* The BoDeans - Still (produced
by TBone Burnett.)
* Moby - Last Night
4/8
* P.O.D. - When Angels &
Serpents Dance
* The Breeders - Mountain
Battles
* Eric Avery - Help Wanted
LYRICS of the MONTH:
I’m not sure exactly who
this song was directed to, but it just seemed to ring true in these often
dark days of Winter.
“If I go out in the morning
snow
In my pajamas and my winter
coat
And take from the house
our darker thoughts
And take away the memory
of loss
And if I drop them into
the snow
Will we never find them
anymore?
To see him, to see him happy
To see him, to see him happy
In the same field where we
have stood
To see your brother fly
away in Spring
In a light blue and silver
plane
Now the snow has covered
everything
I think we will be made
clean like the snow
I think we will become new
like the snow
To see him, to see him happy
To see him, to see him happy
Some winters are harder than
others
We are going to take our
cameras
And look through at black
trees with empty arms
And sled tracks wandering,
as we are.”
Karen Peris of The Innocence
Mission, the song “Snow”
off the album Birds of
My Neighborhood.
Stay well and stay warm if
it calls for it or cool if
need be. Strange weather
days...
See you in Febrrruary!
Chris Barlow
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