CD, download and vinyl: New music releases Jan. 11, 2011

Showroom Of Compassion Cake


Showroom Of Compassion (180 Gram / Red Vinyl) Cake


Bird Songs Joe Lovano


The Essential Collection Alfred Hitchcock

DVD new releases Jan. 11, 2011

The Social Network [Blu-ray]


The Social Network (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)


Piranha


Piranha [Blu-ray]


Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Season Four, Vol. 2


Doctor Who: Meglos (Story 111)


Doctor Who: The Dominators (Story 44)


Robinson Crusoe on Mars (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]


Robinson Crusoe on Mars - (Criterion Collection)


Army of Shadows (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]


Army of Shadows - (Criterion Collection)


Funny or Die Presents: Season One

Gretsch replicates George Harrison's "first really decent guitar"

The limited edition Duo Jet aims to be an exact replica of the guitar Harrison purchased used from a merchant sailor in the early 60s.

Hayward wanted 90 pounds (about $255 at the time) for the guitar, but Harrison had just 70, "all crumpled, smelling, what you get paid when you go on gig, a handful of beer money," Hayward says. Harrison eventually took the guitar and left the 70 pounds and an IOU (a copy of which is included with the tribute guitar). Hayward later went to see Harrison's band play a local church dance, but they never talked again. (The debt has since been settled.)

Video find: The Beatles chat with Dusty Springfield and Helen Shapiro

Via In the Life of...the Beatles:

Hear PJ Harvey's new album

Let England Shake

Written On The Forehead by pjharvey

Disneylandia: Enchanted Tiki Room brochure

See the rest at Stuff from the Park: One of my favorite spots in the Magic Kingdom.

McCartney sings on Steve Martin's new bluegrass album

From Macca Blog:

McCartney gives voice to a track called "Best Love," which Martin describes as "a love song, but it has a little humor in it".

"It's very hard to believe" Martin said of having the former Beatle perform on his album. "I was a kid when I first heard Paul McCartney, and if you told me one day that he'd be singing one of my tunes, I'm still flabbergasted".

Of course, Martin and the music of Macca have crossed paths before...

Who singer has "voice restoration" surgery

Interesting: After experiencing problems with his voice last year, Roger Daltrey underwent a new surgical procedure that seems to have helped.

Daltrey sought treatment from Steven Zeitels, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center and a professor at Harvard Medical School. (He also treats Julie Andrews and Steven Tyler.)

What Zeitels found: evidence of pre-cancerous dysplasia on Daltrey’s vocal chords.

A week before Christmas, Daltrey went in for surgery. Using the latest in laser technology — plus a new gel-like biomaterial injected into the vocal chord — Daltrey was restored. (Zeitels claims he can regain up to 90 percent of someone’s lost voice.)

Mojo mag's Neil Young tribute CD

The latest issue comes with a song-by-song cover of the Harvest album by various musicians.

Rogen talks Green Hornet

The writer/actor talks about what drew him to the project, and outs himself and co-writer Evan Goldberg as comic book fans:

“Me and Evan go to the comic book store almost every single week,” he confesses. “We have thousands of comic books. We read very few books without pictures of men in tights, which is embarrassing to say but true.”

...He’s ready for a new comic book, superhero-loving audience to embrace him now — for life.

“The nerdy things that I love to talk about are now cool,” Rogen says. “My hobbies are part of pop culture. I don’t feel like a geek anymore.”

Pictures: Eartha Kitt as Catwoman

David Tennant and Catherine Tate reunite for Shakespeare production

The "Doctor Who" duo will appear on stage together in a new West End production of "Much Ado About Nothing."

Plans for Wonder Woman TV series reportedly scrapped

Too bad. I think an updated Wonder Woman TV series has potential, but I guess network execs disagree. From Entertainment Weekly:

Late Friday, NBC was the final network that declined to bring back the superhero.

Warner Bros. TV was actively shopping a script from David E. Kelley that updated the period tale about an Amazon princess who battled Nazis and other bad guys during World War II. One source close to the project said the Wonder Woman team won’t give up on the project, even though it’s “not moving forward at this time.”