Thriller!

Michael Jackson's album Thriller, is celebrating it's 25th birthday and to celebrate, Epic/ legacy will be putting out a special anniversiary edition of the album. The album will feature artists such as Kanye West, will.i.am, Paul McCartney, and Akon.
Tracklist:

01 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
02 Baby Be Mine
03 The Girl Is Mine (with Paul McCartney)
04 Thriller
05 Beat It
06 Billie Jean
07 Human Nature
08 P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
09 The Lady in My Life
10 Someone in the Dark
11 Billie Jean (demo)
12 Carousel
13 The Girl Is Mine 2008 with will.i.am remix
14 P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 2008 with Michael Jackson and will.i.am
15 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008 with Michael Jackson, will.i.am, and Akon
16 Billie Jean 2008 with Kanye West remix
17 For All Time (previously unreleased)

DVD:

01 Thriller (music video)
02 Beat It (music video)
03 Billie Jean (music video)
04 Billie Jean (from "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today and Forever")

via Pitchfork.

LCD Live: Part 2

This week we have "Daft Punk is Playing at My House." Enjoy.

Tout Ensemble

There is some new information out concerning Weezer's sixth album. It will be released on April 22nd of next year and it will be called Tout Ensemble. Rivers Cuomo's demo compilation "Alone: The Home Recordings of River's Cuomo"(cover art above) has been pushed back one week and will release on December 18th.

LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem announced that every Monday between now and Christmas, a new live video from their performance in Manchester will be put out on YouTube. They already put out a video for the song, "All My Friends." Here is what else is going to be posted.

daft punk is playing at my house - November 26
north american scum - December 3
tribulations - December 10
us v. them - December 17
movement - December 17

and the All My Friends video

Commercials and Cool Music

You may have heard a lot about indie bands selling their music to big corporations and then hearing that cool music on commercials. Some that come to mind quickly are Wilco selling to Volkswagen(much earlier this year), of Montreal to T-mobile, and that infamous Band of Horses Selling to Wal-Mart. I bring this up because I was watching T.V. last night when I heard a familiar song on Target's commercial. It was the Go! Team's, "We Just Won't Be Defeated." Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes recently wrote an essay that was posted over at stereogum, about the impossibility of NOT selling out. You could check it out, it's filled with expletives and comes of a little defensive, but makes some valid points. Amen.

My Misunderstanding Mind

Well if you read the last post, I am sorry. Basically I didn't understand what was happening, and I too, was disappointed to see the rerun of SNL last night. So it turns out that Michael Cera DID host a special "On Strike!" Saturday Night Live, but there were no camera's. Instead, more of a "stage" version was held in Chelsea New York. I misread, and I apologize. Here are a couple SNL videos for the fix of funny we are all in need of.

Need Your Fix?

The Writer's Guild of America is still on strike but luckily, as pitchfork reports, Saturday Night Live will be airing a special, "On Strike!" episode. Whether this defeats the point of going on strike or not, I couldn't tell you. All I can say is that I am happy about it. Reportedly, all proceeds go to the shows production staff. Hosting this episode is the HILARIOUS Michale Cera (Arrested Development, Superbad, and the upcoming Juno,) and the musical guest is none other than Yo La Tengo. I think this will be good.