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The Talking Heads have expanded their eight studio albums with previously unreleased content for their release as DualDiscs. Due Oct. 4 via Rhino, the sets will be packaged together in a white molded plastic box that holds eight jewel cases. Each album has also been remastered by Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison.

The group’s 1977 debut, the appropriately named “Talking Heads: 77,” will include a 5.1 mix of a previously unreleased acoustic version of “Psycho Killer” and an alternate 5.1 mix of “Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town.” The DVD side sports a live clip of “Pulled Up” taped in 1978 in Berkeley, Calif., and “I Feel It in My Heart” shot in 1976 at New York’s now-defunct the Kitchen.

The follow-up, “More Songs About Buildings and Food,” is bolstered by alternate versions of “The Big Country,” “I’m Not in Love” and “Thank You for Sending Me an Angel,” as well as a “1977 version” of “Stay Hungry.” The DVD pulls “Warning Sign” from the aforementioned Berkeley show plus “Found a Job” from a 1978 gig at New York’s Entermedia Theatre.

Best known for “Cities” and “Life During Wartime,” 1979’s “Fear of Music” is expanded here with alternate versions of those tracks as well as “Mind,” and an unfinished outtake of “Dancing for Money.” The DVD side includes performances of “Cities” and “I Zimba” from the German TV show “Rockpop” in 1980.

“Remain in Light” is beefed up with four unfinished outtakes: “Fela’s Riff,” “Unison,” “Double Groove” and “Right Start.” “Rockpop” performances of “Once in a Lifetime” and “Crosseyed and Painless” are utilized for the DVD side. The 1983 album “Speaking in Tongues” features an alternate 5.1 mix of “Burning Down the House” as well as videos for that tune and “This Must Be the Place (Na

Medeski, Martin & Wood has announced a series of October & early November dates. Beginning Oct. 14th, the versatile jazz trio will play on the Xingolati Cruise to be followed by a California and Arizona run. The band will head out east to play shows at the Hammerstein in NYC, Higher Groud in South Burlington, VT, Toad

Scottish popsters Belle and Sebastian are currently wrapping up the recording of their seventh album, The Goalkeeper’s Revenge, for a January release. The seven-piece outfit has spent the last several months working at Los Angeles’ Sunset Sound studios with Beck producer Tony Hoffer. The unique pairing came about after the famed studio technician courted the ensemble in their hometown of Glasgow, Scotland, earlier this year.

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The full track list has been confirmed for the soundtrack to “Elizabethtown,” Cameron Crowe’s highly anticipated new film. Due Sept. 13 via RCA, the project features exclusive tracks from Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and My Morning Jacket.

More tracks are turned in by Wheat, Ryan Adams, Elton John and the Hollies, among others.

Members of My Morning Jacket also appear in “Elizabethtown” as the band Ruckus, which performs the Lynyrd Syknyrd favorite “Freebird” with disastrous results during one scene.

Full tracklist

“60B (Elizabethtown Theme),” Nancy Wilson
“It’ll All Work Out,” Tom Petty
“My Father’s Gun,” Elton John
“i.o.,” Helen Stellar
“Come Pick Me Up,” Ryan Adams
“Where To Begin,” My Morning Jacket
“Long Ride Home,” Patti Griffin
“Sugar Blue,” Jeff Finlin
“Don’t I Hold You,” Wheat
“Shut Us Down,” Lindsey Buckingham
“Let It All Hang Out,” Hombres
“Hard Times,” eastmountainsouth
“Jesus Was a Crossmaker,” the Hollies
“Square One,” Tom Petty
“Same in Any Language,” I-9

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Ween played its first New York show in nearly two years Saturday (Aug. 20) at the Knitting Factory as part of a private party for the skateboarding magazine Thrasher. The 28-song, 135-minute set was open only to Thrasher guests and a select group of contest winners.

Having only recently returned to live duty after an extensive hiatus, Ween was in fine form as it rocked through early classics like “Dr. Rock,” “Fat Lenny,” “You F*cked Up” and “Touch My Tooter,” dipped into its signature psychedelica on “The Mollusk” and “Buckingham Green” and turned tender on “She’s Your Baby,” “Mutilated Lips” and closer “Someday.”

While it accumulates new material for its next studio album, the group is preparing for a short fall tour, beginning Oct. 25 in Albany, N.Y.

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Akron, Ohio-based rock duo the Black Keys will release their first DVD Oct. 4 via Fat Possum. The appropriately titled

Bob Moog, inventor of his namesake range of synthesizers and one of the most significant figures in the evolution of electronic music, died yesterday (Aug. 21) at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 71. A native of N.Y., Moog was diagnosed with brain cancer in late April and had since undergone radiation treatment and chemotherapy.

After a decade of building theremins with his father, Moog created his prototype, the Moog Modular Synthesizer, in 1963 and unveiled it the following year before the Audio Engineering Society Convention.

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