Led Zeppelin - “How the West Was Won” (Atlantic)
The material featured on this three-disc live set was culled from Led Zeppelin’s June 25, 1972 concert at the Los Angeles Forum and June 27, 1972 performance at the Long Beach Arena. The tracks were “melded together and sequenced to replicate a single concert from beginning to end,” according to Atlantic. Highlights include a 25-plus minute version of “Dazed and Confused,” and a 23-minute medley anchored around the hit “Whole Lotta Love.”
The material featured on this three-disc live set was culled from Led Zeppelin’s June 25, 1972 concert at the Los Angeles Forum and June 27, 1972 performance at the Long Beach Arena. The tracks were “melded together and sequenced to replicate a single concert from beginning to end,” according to Atlantic. Highlights include a 25-plus minute version of “Dazed and Confused,” and a 23-minute medley anchored around the hit “Whole Lotta Love.”
Atlantic is also simultaneously issuing a five-hour-long Zeppelin DVD that features footage culled from “just a handful of performances which were ever filmed during the band’s extraordinary lifetime,” according to the label.
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O.A.R. - “In Between Now and Then” (Everfine/Lava)
After selling nearly 300,000 albums via its own Everfine label, this grassroots success story goes major on its third studio set. The quintet was founded in 1996 in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, when its members were still in high school, and built its following while attending Ohio State University. The CD’s first pressing includes a limited-edition bonus DVD featuring live concert footage filmed in February at New York’s Irving Plaza, along with “behind-the-scenes studio tidbits and interview vignettes,” according to a press release.
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Local H - “No Fun EP” (Thick)
The guitar-drums duo of Scott Lucas and Brian St. Clair return with this 30 30-minute, six-track effort. The EP--Local H’s first recording for Chicago indie Thick Records--features six tracks, three of which are originals. Covers include the Godfathers’ “Birth, School, Work, Death,” the Ramones’ “I Just Want Something to Do” and Primal Scream’s “Fuck Yeah, That Wide.” An mp3 download of the track “Cooler Heads” is available via the Thick Records website.
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Pat Metheny - “One Quiet Night”
Guitar virtuoso Metheny recorded his new 12-track collection alone, at home, with an acoustic guitar. The do-it-yourself-er said in a statement that the stripped-down set comes complete with whatever mistakes he made during the recording process.”
“I ... feel obliged to [say] that the results here are ... technically somewhat homemade; there are occasional flaws in the tuning and the recording itself--it was intended for nothing more than my own research and the pleasure of playing at home one night.”
A streaming version of the new track “Ferry Across the Mersey” is posted at the “One Quiet Night” website as is a download of the cut “Song for the Boys.”
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