January 2010 Releases

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

List of Blu-ray movies, CDs, PlayStation 3 games, and Nintendo DS games to be released in January 2010.

January 5, 2010

Movies

Music

• Slum Village – Fantastic Vol.1 (re-issue)
  • produced by Jay Dee, remastered

Video Games

January 12, 2010

Movies

• Last Action Hero [1993] PG-13
• The Matrix [1999] R

Music

• Awol One and Ecid – Awol One and Ecid are…
• Blockhead – The Music Scene
• Factor – 13 Stories (A Prelude)
  • features Awol One, Sole, Onry Ozzborn, Sunspot Jonz, Sleep, Existereo, iCON the mic king, and others
• Slum Village – Fantastic Vol. 2.10 (official 10th anniversary re-issue of Fantastic Vol. 2)
  • [mostly] produced by Jay Dee; includes original mixes and skits not on the original release, three bonus tracks, and an instrumentals disc; features Jazzy Jeff, Q-Tip, Kurupt, Pete Rock, Busta Rhymes and others

Video Games

January 19, 2010

Movies

• Children of the Corn [1984] / Hellraiser [1987] R
• Magnolia [1999] R
• Smokin’ Aces [2006] R
• Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball [2010] Unrated
• The Bourne Identity [2002] PG-13
• The Bourne Supremacy [2004] PG-13
• The Bourne Ultimatum [2007] PG-13

Music

• RJD2 - The Colossus

Video Games

January 26, 2010

Movies

Music

• Eligh - Gandalf’s Beat Machine Level 3
• Strong Arm Steady - In Search of Stoney Jackson
  • produced by Madlib; features Planet Asia, Talib Kweli, Evidence, Roscoe, Guilty Simpson, and others

Video Games

November 2009 Releases

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

November 3

Blu-ray

• Forrest Gump - Sapphire Edition [1994] PG-13
• James Bond 10-pack Blu-ray Collection [1962-2008] NR
  • Dr. No / From Russia With Love / Goldfinger / Thunderball / Live and Let Die / Moonraker / For Your Eyes Only / The World is Not Enough / Die Another Day / Quantum of Solace
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation - Ultimate Collector’s Edition [1989] PG-13
• Transformers Gift Set
  • Transformers [2007] PG-13 / Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen [2009] PG-13

Music

• CunninLynguists - Strange Journey Vol. Two
  • features Substantial, Sean Price, Poison Pen, Deacon The Villain, Geologic, Grieves, Macklemore, E-40, Evidence, and others
  • Track 11 remixed by Blue Sky Black Death, track 13 produced by J-Zone, all others produced by Kno.
• Gift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars
  • features Del, Brother Ali
• Masta Ace & Edo G - Arts & Entertainment
  • feat. Large Pro, Posdnuos (De La Soul), Mr. Lif, Akrobatik, KRS One, and others
• Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
• Overkill - Killbox 13 (reissue)
• Overkill - RelixIV (reissue)
• Overkill - Wrecking Everything: Live (reissue)
• RJD2 - Dead Ringer: The Reissue
  • features Blueprint, Copywrite, and others
  • 2 previously unreleased bonus tracks
• Slayer - World Painted Blood
• Themselves - CrownsDown

Video Games

• Dragon Age: Origins (PS3/360/PC)

November 10

Blu-ray

• Heat [1995] R
• Watchmen - The Ultimate Cut [2009] R

Music

• DOOM (MF Doom) – Unexpected Guests
  • features Talib Kweli, J Dilla, Scienz of Life, Vast Aire, Supafriendz, Masta Killa, Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface, Babu, and others
• GWAR - America Must Be Destroyed (reissue)
• King Diamond - House of God (reissue)
• King Diamond - Voodoo (reissue)
• Unearth - The March (CD/DVD deluxe reissue)
• Wu-Tang Meets Indie Vol.2: Enter the Dubstep
  • features Raekwon, Ghostface Killa, RZA, GZA, Method Man, U-God,  Masta Killa, Killah Priest, Bronze Nazareth, Busta Rhymes, MF Doom, Pimp C, Three 6 Mafia, Ras Kass, Vast Aire, Canibus, and others

November 17

Blu-ray

• Brüno [2009] R
• Chasing Amy [1997] R
• Clerks - 15th Anniversary Edition [1994] R
• Fight Club [1999] R
• Kevin Smith 3-Movie Collection [] Not rated
  • Clerks / Chasing Amy / Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Léon: The Professional - Theatrical and Extended Versions [1994] UR
• Sex, Lies and Videotape [1989] R

Music

• Devin Townsend - Addicted
• Factor - Old Souls Volume One
  • Features Luckyiam, Eligh, Awol One, Myka 9, Aesop Rock, Existereo, Barfly, Mickey Avalon, Xzibit, Moka Only, and others
• Felt (Murs & Slug) – Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez
  • Produced by Aesop Rock.
• Ol’ Dirty Bastard - Message to the Other Side
  • An official ODB collection of all new unreleased tracks, featuring RZA, Masta Killah, Method Man and others.
  • Bonus DVD contains a 20-minute excerpt of the soon to be released film about ODB, “Dirty”.
• Rakim - The Seventh Seal

November 24

Blu-ray

• Angels & Demons - Theatrical and Extended Edition [2009]
• Blood: The Last Vampire [2000] NR
• Cujo - 25th Anniversary Edition [1983] R
• Frailty [2001] R
• Ghost in the Shell 2.0 [1995] NR
• Ink [2009] NR
• The Way of the Gun [2000] R

Music

• The Prime - One-Uppers
  • Luckyiam (Living Legends) & Sapient (Sandpeople)
  • Produced by Sapient.

March 2009 Releases

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

New Blu-ray, CD, DVD, NDS, and PS3 releases for the month of March that seem interesting to me for one or more reasons. If something is too special to come out on a Tuesday like everything else, it’s under the following Tuesday.

March 3, 2009

Blu-ray

• The Silence of the Lambs [1991]

CDs

• Grandmaster Flash – The Bridge
  • Features Q-Tip, KRS-One, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Supernatural, Big Daddy Kane, and others.

Nintendo DS

• Peggle: Dual Shot – videos, images

PS3

• Killzone 2 – Feb. 27 – videos, screenshots

March 10, 2009

Blu-ray

• Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology
  • Batman [1989]
  • Batman Returns [1992]
  • Batman Forever [1995]
  • Batman & Robin [1997]
    
• Primal Fear: Special Edition [1996]
  

CDs

• Afro Classics (Scarub & Very) – The Classic EP
• Brother Ali – The Truth Is Here
• Eligh and Jo Wilkinson – On Sacred Ground: Mother and Son
  • Eligh and his folk singer mom. Features The Grouch, Slug, and others.
• J-Ro (Tha Alkaholiks) – Rare Earth B-Boy Funk Vol. 2
  • Features Method Man, Keith Murray, and others.
• The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Worse Than Alone

Nintendo DS

• Avalon Code – videos, screenshots

March 17, 2009

Blu-ray

• Clear and Present Danger [1994] / The Hunt for Red October [1990]
• Hustle & Flow [2005] / Black Snake Moan [2007]
• The Princess Bride [1987]
• This is Spinal Tap [1984]

CDs

• 7th Veil (Kool Keith & H Bomb) – Stoned
  • Features Ike Turner, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Silkk the Shocker, Ice-T, Rosco, Jewel, Flava Flav, and Rick James (bitch!)
• GZA - Pro Tools Instrumentals
• Static-X – Cult of Static

Nintendo DS

• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars – screenshots
• Suikoden Tierkreis – videos, screenshots
• TrackMania DS – videos, screenshots
  
• Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume – videos, screenshots
  

PS3

• Resident Evil 5 – Mar. 13 – videos, screenshots
• Resident Evil 5 Collectors Edition- Mar. 13
  • Extras?

March 24, 2009

Blu-ray

• Goldfinger [1964]
• James Bond Blu-ray Collection: Volume 3
  • Goldfinger [1964]
  • Moonraker [1979]
  • The World is Not Enough [1999]
• Moonraker [1979]
• Never Say Never Again [1983]
• Quantum of Solace [2008]
• The World is Not Enough [1999]

CDs

• Busta Rhymes – Back On My B.S.
  • Features Linkin Park, Jamie Foxx, Common, Ludacris, and others.
• Guru – Guru 8.0: Lost & Found
• Mastodon – Crack the Skye
  
• MF Doom – Born Like This
  • Features Ghostface and Raekwon, with production by J Dilla and Dangermouse.
• Type O Negative – Slow, Deep and Hard remastered with expanded booklet
  

Nintendo DS

• Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templar (Director’s Cut)
• Lux-Pain – screenshots
• Pokemon Platinum Version – Mar. 22 – screenshots
  

PS3

• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Ultimate Edition) – videos, screenshots
  
• Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 – videos, screenshots
  
• Sacred 2: Fallen Angel – videos, screenshots

March 31, 2009

Blu-ray

• Chronicles of Riddick & Pitch Black 2-pack
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Unrated Director’s Cut [2004]
• The Matrix: 10th Anniversary Edition [1999]
• Pitch Black: Unrated Director’s Cut [2000]

CDs

• Big Business – Mind the Drift
• J-Live – The Best Part 2-CD reissue
• Queensrÿche - American Soldier

Nintendo DS

• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time – video, screenshots
• Secret Files: Tunguska -  screenshots
• Tokyo Beat Down – screenshots
• Touch Mechanic – screenshots

PS3

• Guitar Hero: Metallica – Mar. 29 – videos, screenshots
  • All songs unlocked from the start for Quick Play, Expert+ mode allows a second bass drum pedal.
  • Metallica songs:
    • All Nightmare Long
    • Battery
    • Creeping Death
    • Disposable Heroes
    • Dyers Eve
    • Enter Sandman
    • Fade To Black
    • Fight Fire With Fire
    • For Whom The Bell Tolls
    • Frantic
    • Fuel
    • Hit The Lights
    • King Nothing
    • Master of Puppets
    • Mercyful Fate (Medley)
    • No Leaf Clover
    • Nothing Else Matters
    • One
    • Orion
    • Sad But True
    • Seek And Destroy
    • The Memory Remains
    • The Shortest Straw
    • The Thing That Should Not Be
    • The Unforgiven
    • Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
    • Wherever I May Roam
    • Whiplash
  • Bob Seger – Turn The Page
  • Corrosion of Conformity – Albatross
  • Diamond Head – Am I Evil?
  • Foo Fighters – Stacked Actors
  • Judas Priest – Hell Bent For Leather
  • Kyuss – Demon Cleaner
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesdays Gone
  • Machine Head – Beautiful Mourning
  • Mastodon – Blood And Thunder
  • Mercyful Fate – Evil
  • Michael Schenker Group – Armed and Ready
  • Motorhead – Ace of Spades
  • Queen – Stone Cold Crazy
  • Samhain – Mother of Mercy
  • Slayer – War Ensemble
  • Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster
  • Suicidal Tendencies – War Inside My Head
  • System of a Down – Toxicity
  • The Sword – Black River
  • Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back in Town

February 2009 Releases

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

New Blu-ray, CD, DVD, NDS, and PS3 releases for the month of February that seem interesting to me for one or more reasons. If something is too special to come out on a Tuesday like everything else, it’s getting lumped in with the next Tuesday in the list.

February 03, 2009

Blu-ray

• Afro Samurai: Resurrection Director’s Cut [2009]
• Clerks II [2006]
• The Cure – Trilogy [2008]
  • Three separate shows at the Tempodrom arena in Berlin
• Friday the 13th: Unrated Deluxe Edition [1980]
• Napoleon Dynamite [2004]
• Office Space: Special Edition with Flair! [1999]
• Taxi Driver [1976]
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno [2008]

CDs

• Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague - preorder
  • Includes bonus “Making of” DVD
• Dir En Grey – A Knot Of (The End)
• Sunspot Jonz – The Darkside ov Heaven preorder
  • Features The Temper Twins, Myka9, and Luckyiam
• Sunspot Jonz – FIGHT, DESTROY, ROCK preorder
  • Features Himself, Myka 9, DWP, Z-Man, Equipto, White Mike, Kwanz, Luckyiam, Moka Only, with production by Sunspot Jonz, Adamatic, Mr. Nemo, Young Kruse, Creasey Buscemi, Nima Fadavi, Moka Only, DJ Fresh, Dirt Nasty, TD, Underrated, Cminus, and Wiz.

February 10, 2009

Blu-ray

• The Boondock Saints [1999]
• Donnie Darko: Collector’s Edition [2001]
• Raging Bull [1980]
• A Time to Kill [1996]

CDs

• 7L & Esoteric – Serve or Suffer
  • All new Esoteric instrumentals
• Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique 20th anniversary
• C-Rayz Walz – Who The F%@k Are You?
  • Features Vast Aire, Slug and others.
• The Lonely Island - Incredibad
• Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave
• NASA – The Spirit of Apollo
  • Features Chali 2na, Gift of Gab, Z-Trip, Method Man, RZA, KRS-One, Kool Keith, George Clinton, M.I.A., Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Ghostface Killah, and others.
• Warren G – The G-Files

Nintendo DS

• USA Today Puzzle Craze screenshots

PS3

• F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin – videos
• Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection – screenshots
  
  • 720p versions of over 40 classic SEGA games including:
    • Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2 and 3
    • Columns
    • Ecco the Dolphin
    • Shinobi III
    • Space Harrier
    • Streets of Rage
• X-Blades – trailer

February 17, 2009

Blu-ray

• Kramer vs. Kramer [1979]
  
• The Passion of the Christ: The Definitive Edition [2004]
• Pulp Fiction [1994] import

CDs

• … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – The Century of Self
• Odd Nosdam – T.I.M.E. Soundtrack
• Zion I – The Takeover
  • Features Brother Ali and others.

Nintendo DS

• Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride – screenshots
• Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon – Feb. 16 – Videos

PS3

• Flower – Feb 12 – videos
• Street Fighter IV – videos
  
• Street Fighter IV Collector’s Edition
  • includes a CD, a mini guide, a figurine, an animated video, and more.

February 24, 2009

Blu-ray

• Akira [1988]
• The French Connection [1971]
• The French Connection II [1975]
• Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder [2009]
• Neil Young : Archives Volume One (1963-1972) [2008]
• Ronin [1998]

CDs

• B-Real (Cypress Hill) – Smoke N Mirrors
  • Features Buckshot, Snoop Dogg, Too Short, Kurupt, and others.
• Hatebreed – For the Lions
• Havoc (Mobb Deep) – Hidden Files
• Kool Keith – Tashan Dorrsett CD+DVD
  
• Lamb of God – Wrath
• Mobb Deep – The Infamous Instros

Nintendo DS

• Blue Dragon Plus – official site, screenshots
• C.O.R.E. – official site
• Legacy of Ys: Books I & II – screenshots
• Puzzle Quest: Galactrix – video, screenshots

PS3

• The Godfather II – videos
• ShellShock 2: Blood Trails – trailer

January 2009 Releases

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

New Blu-ray, CD, DVD, NDS, and PS3 releases for the month of January that seem interesting to me for one or more reasons. If something is too special to come out on a Tuesday like everything else, it’s getting lumped in with the next Tuesday in the list.

Jan. 6

Blu-ray

• Caligula: The Imperial Edition [1979]
• The Last Emperor: Criterion Collection [1987]
• Pineapple Express [2008]

Nintendo DS

• Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero – official site

Jan. 13

Blu-ray

• The Boondock Saints [1999]
• Traffic [2000] import

CDs

• Satyricon – The Age of Nero
• Sunspot Jonz – The Dark Side of Heaven

Nintendo DS

• The Lord of the Rings: Conquest - videos
• Moon - official site, videos, screenshots

PS3

• The Lord of the Rings: Conquest – videos, screenshots
  

Jan. 20

Blu-ray

• Braveheart [1995]
• King Kong [2005]
• Max Payne [2008]
• This is Spinal Tap [1984]

CDs

• 7th Veil (Kool Keith & H Bomb) – Stoned
  • Features Ike Turner, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Silkk the Shocker, Ice-T, Rosco, Jewel, Flava Flav, and Rick James (bitch!)
• Atmosphere – God Loves Ugly CD+DVD reissue
  • Remastered and re-issued CD with the Sad Clown Bad Dub 4 (The Godlovesugly Release Parties) DVD
• Odd Nosdam – T.I.M.E. Soundtrack

PS3

• GTI Club + – Jan. 15 – trailer
• Savage Moon – Jan. 15 – screenshots

Jan. 27

Blu-ray

• Any Given Sunday: Director’s Cut [1999]
• Blu-ray Action 3-pk Bundle
  • Casino Royale
  • Black Hawk Down
  • Hellboy
• The Bourne Collection
  • The Bourne Identity [2002]
  • The Bourne Supremacy [2004]
  • The Bourne Ultimatum [2007]
• Groundhog Day [1993]
• The Pink Panther: Collector’s Edition [1964]
• Taxi Driver [1976]

CDs

• Arsonists Get All the Girls – Hits From the Bow re-release
• Cappadonna – Slang Prostitution
• Jedi Mind Tricks – Divine Fire: Story of JMT DVD+CD
• RZA - Afro Samurai: Resurrection soundtrack
  • Features Kool G Rap, Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killa, Tash, 9th Prince, and others.
• Sepultura – A-Lex – Jan. 23
• Sunspot Jonz ft. Living Legends – UHB 6
• Zion I – The Takeover
  • Features Brother Ali, and others

PS3

• Afro Samurai – videos
• Skate 2 – Jan. 21 – videos