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Rihanna Is Charging How Much For A Deluxe Edition Of ‘Unapologetic’?!?!

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11 years ago

November 3, 2012

Singer Rihanna is about to embark on a short tour of seven shows in seven countries in seven days. Entitled the “777” Tour, no specific dates or venues have been announced. All shows are said to be very intimate and the only confirmed location is that a performance will occur in the U.K.

At the same time, Rihanna has announced that her seventh studio album Unapologetic, which comes out Nov. 16th, will have a super limited edition that ships Dec. 11th. Called the “Diamonds Executive Platinum Box”, the set contains all sorts of goodies that cost the manufacturer probably pennies to the dollar, if that. Wanna know how much it costs? How about a cool $250. Allow me to present to you my face when I heard that news:

Are you freakin’ kidding me?!?! Who the hell has that kind of money to drop on a ton of stuff that they will never use, never appreciate and never want again? It comes with a t-shirt? I’ll buy one off EBay for $5. It comes with a 2GB flash drive? I’ll buy one for $.99 at Office Depot!! It comes with a ton of pictures and stickers? Oh gee, let me buy some frames so I can hang all these photos on my walls to show how dedicated of a fan I am while putting the stickers on my Rihanna fan journal (end sarcasm).

This is absolutely absurd. Devin Townsend released a limited edition 4DVD/5CD box set for $50. FIFTY DOLLARS! And you better believe that limited edition boxset sold out REAL fast! Oh, did I mention that it came with a limited edition 7″ and it was autographed with a certificate of authenticity? Keep in mind that there is not a single thing in Rihanna’s boxset that is signed personally by her. They took things she wrote, copied them a ton of times and act as if it’s rare. Shameful. Utterly shameful.

Full details of the boxset can be found here.

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Music

“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…