LOS ANGELES – Rhino will release YOUNG ADULT – MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE days before the film opens nationwide on December 16. Out December 6, the soundtrack will be available for download at all digital retailers for $9.99, and on CD at Amazon.com and select indie retail stores for a suggested list price of $13.98.

Presented by Paramount Pictures and Mandate Pictures, Young Adult reunites Jason Reitman, Academy Award®-nominated director of Juno, and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter, Diablo Cody. In fact, Rhino has released soundtracks for two other Reitman films, Up In The Air (2009) and Juno (2008), which won a Grammy Award®, was certified platinum and became the label’s first #1 album.

Academy Award®-winner Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt), who hasn’t quite gotten over high school either.

Executive produced by Reitman, YOUNG ADULT – MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE features an eclectic mix of musical artists. It opens with Diana Ross singing about aging from a child’s perspective in “When We Grow Up,” a song the singer originally recorded for another soundtrack, 1972’s Free To Be…You And Me.

The rest of the album collects songs from some of the biggest names of the late ’80s and early ’90s alternative scene including The Replacements (“Achin’ To Be”); The Lemonheads (“It’s A Shame About Ray”); Veruca Salt (“Seether”); and Dinosaur Jr. (“Feel The Pain”). The collection also includes Teenage Fanclub’s “The Concept,” which provides the soundtrack to the opening credits of the film.

The album also features a composition by Rolfe Kent heard during the film and concludes with five minimalist instrumental versions of some of the biggest modern rocks songs from the ‘90s, reminiscent of those you might hear on an elevator ride. Performed by Mateo Messina, these instrumentals include Faith No More’s “Epic,” Pearl Jam’s “Even Flow,” Beck’s “Where It’s At,” Foo Fighters’ “Big Me” and Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun.”

YOUNG ADULT – MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE
Track Listing

1. “When We Grow Up” – Diana Ross
2. “What’s Up” – 4 Non Blondes
3. “Achin’ To Be” – The Replacements
4. “It’s A Shame About Ray” – The Lemonheads
5. “Seether” – Veruca Salt
6. “The Concept” – Teenage Fanclub
7. “Pledge Your Allegiance” – Suicidal Tendencies
8. “Feel The Pain” – Dinosaur Jr.
9. “Low” - Cracker
10. “Why Buddy?” – Rolfe Kent
11. “Epic” – Instrumental
12. “Even Flow” – Instrumental
13. “Where It’s At” – Instrumental
14. “Big Me” – Instrumental
15. “Black Hole Sun” – Instrumental

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LOS ANGELES – Just months after The Monkees released the soundtrack to the group’s cult classic Head, the band — now the trio of Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, and Davy Jones — returned in February 1969 with its seventh studio album, Instant Replay. Determined to balance the sound of its past with its creative ambitions for the future, the band split the album’s 12 songs evenly between new tracks and previously recorded songs.

Rhino Handmade hits rewind on Instant Replay for a triple-disc Deluxe Edition packed with rarities, as well as 58 unreleased recordings, backing tracks and a generous selection of stereo and mono mixes for both album and non-album cuts. As a bonus, the set comes with a 45-rpm vinyl single that includes one-of-a-kind acetate versions of “I Go Ape” and “(I Prithee) Do Not Ask For Love” featured in The Monkees’ April 1969 television special, 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, and sourced from the only surviving copy of these recordings.

Due out November 22 from Rhino Handmade, INSTANT REPLAY: DELUXE EDITION is available now for pre-order exclusively at www.rhino.com for $59.98.

The booklet that accompanies the set also features dozens of unpublished images from this rarely photographed era of the band and a new in-depth essay by Monkee maven Andrew Sandoval, who produced the collection. His research unravels the sometimes-complex lineage behind the album, which revisits several songs that originated in earlier sessions.

A prime example is the album’s opening track “Through The Looking Glass.” This Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart composition from 1966 was left off two albums — More Of The Monkees (1967) and The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees (1968) — due to an overabundance of material. What eventually appeared on Instant Replay in 1969 was a remixed version of the songwriter’s second production of the song. With an attention to detail that will melt a completist’s heart, Rhino Handmade also includes a fuzz-guitar variation of the song, the original mono mix, as well as the unadorned backing track. Neil Young’s trademark guitar work is also featured on different versions of three songs in the collection: “You And I,” “Smile” and the incomplete “That’s What It’s Like Loving You” on disc three. It’s interesting to note that Young recorded these tracks just five days after playing his final show with Buffalo Springfield.

Arranged by mixes, the first disc is dedicated to stereo and contains a newly remastered and restored transfer of the original album, which features the original two-track mixes of “Don’t Wait For Me” and the hit single, “Tear Drop City” for the first time since their initial 1969 vinyl release. The disc is expanded with 16 other stereo mixes including nearly all of Nesmith’s highly coveted 1968 Nashville sessions. Also included for the first time is the 1968 mix of Dolenz’s “Mommy And Daddy,” a provocative, socially conscious anti-war song that was rewritten for 1969’s The Monkees Present.

Devoted entirely to mono, the second disc features mixes for most of the album tracks, alongside rare and unreleased recordings. While The Monkees’ original label Colgems ceased to issue true mono Monkees albums after The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees, most of Instant Replay’s songs were originally mixed in this form, with many making their debut on this collection. The disc is further enhanced by period mono mixes of the never-before-heard backing tracks for “All The Grey Haired Men” (a song recorded for The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees, but never completed) and an early 1969 rendering of Michael Nesmith’s “My Share Of The Sidewalk.”

The final disc takes you into the studio to hear the creative process behind Instant Replay. Highlights include alternate takes and backing tracks produced by studio whiz Bones Howe, who briefly worked with the group to create music for their television special, 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, and for the single sides “Someday Man” (written by Paul Williams) and “A Man Without A Dream” (composed by Carole King with Gerry Goffin). The final tapes of Howe’s productions for the television special have been lost since 1969, but Rhino Handmade has recovered all that remains of these legendary sessions. Included here are never-before-heard backing tracks for “String For My Kite,” “Naked Persimmon” and “Goldie Locks Sometime,”as well as the completed versions from the only surviving video master of the special.

Another unique entry in The Monkees reissue series, Rhino Handmade’s Deluxe Edition of Instant Replay is beautifully packaged in an oversize box with mini-LP paper sleeve reproductions of the original cover art and vintage trade ads. It follows the sold out success of Rhino Handmade’s other Monkees releases.

INSTANT REPLAY: DELUXE EDITION
Track Listing

Disc One: Original Stereo Album
1. “Through The Looking Glass”
2. “Don’t Listen To Linda”
3. “I Won’t Be The Same Without Her”
4. “Just A Game”
5. “Me Without You”
6. “Don’t Wait For Me”
7. “You And I”
8. “While I Cry”
9. “Tear Drop City”
10. “The Girl I Left Behind Me”
11. “A Man Without A Dream”
12. “Shorty Blackwell”
Bonus Material
13. “Someday Man”
14. “Carlisle Wheeling” (Alternate Stereo Mix) *
15. “Mommy And Daddy” (1968 Stereo Mix) *
16. “Look Down”
17. “If I Ever Get To Saginaw Again”
18. “Me Without You” (Alternate Stereo Mix) *
19. “Smile”
20. “Nine Times Blue”
21. “Shorty Blackwell” (Alternate Stereo Mix) *
22. “St. Matthew”
23. “Some Of Shelly’s Blues” (1968 Stereo Mix)
24. “Hollywood” (1968 Stereo Mix) *
25. “Don’t Wait For Me” (Alternate 1968 Stereo Mix) *
26. “Propinquity (I’ve Just Begun To Care)” (1968 Stereo Mix)
27. “The Crippled Lion” (1968 Stereo Mix) *
28. “How Insensitive”

Disc Two: Mono Mixes And Rarities
1. “Through The Looking Glass” (1969 Mono Mix) *
2. “Don’t Listen To Linda” (1968 Mono Mix)
3. “I Won’t Be The Same Without Her” (1966 Mono Mix)
4. “Just A Game” (Alternate Vocal – Mono Mix) *
5. “Me Without You” (Fuzz Guitar Version – Mono Mix)
6. “Don’t Wait For Me” (Mono Mix) *
7. “You And I” (1968 Mono Mix)
8. “While I Cry” (UK Mono Mix)
9. “Tear Drop City” (Mono Promo Single Mix)
10. “A Man Without A Dream” (Mono Promo Single Mix)
Bonus Material
11. “Someday Man” (1969 Mono Mix)
12. “Hollywood” (Mono Mix) *
13. “Mommy And Daddy” (1968 Mono Mix) *
14. “You And I” (1968 Rough Mix) *
15. “Carlisle Wheeling” (Alternate Vocal - 1969 Mono Mix) *
16. “Rosemarie” (1969 Mono Mix) *
17. “Changes” (1968 Mono Mix) *
18. “Good Clean Fun” (Mono Mix) *
19. “Through The Looking Glass” (Fuzz Guitar Version – Mono Mix) *
20. “All The Grey Haired Men” (Mono Backing Track) *
21. “War Games” (1968 Mono Mix) *
22. “Propinquity (I’ve Just Begun To Care)” (Mono Mix) *
23. “My Share Of The Sidewalk” (Mono Backing Track) *
24. “Party” (1968 Mono Mix) *
25. “The Crippled Lion” (Mono Mix) *
26. “If I Ever Get To Saginaw Again” (Mono Backing Track) *
27. “Some Of Shelly’s Blues” (1968 Mono Mix) *
28. “Smile” (1968 Mono Mix) *
29. “Nine Times Blue” (Mono Mix) *

Disc Three: Sessions
1. “Through The Looking Glass” (Backing Track – Take 11) *
2. “Don’t Listen To Linda” (Backing Track – Takes 1-3) *
3. “I Won’t Be The Same Without Her” (Backing Track – Take 1) *
4. “Carlisle Wheeling” (Backing Track – Take 1) *
5. “Nine Times Blue” (Backing Track – Take 6) *
6. “Look Down” (Backing Track – Take 1) *
7. “Just A Game” (Backing Track – Takes 1-2) *
8. “You And I” (Backing Track – Take 1) *
9. “That’s What It’s Like Loving You” (Backing Track – Take 1) *
10. “Smile” (Backing Track – Take 1) *
11. “A Man Without A Dream” (Backing Track – Take 1) *
12. “A Man Without A Dream” (Alternate Vocal – Take 14) *
13. “Someday Man” (Backing Track – Take 1) *
14. “Someday Man” (Alternate Mix) *
15. “(I Prithee) Do Not Ask For Love” (1968 Backing Track – Take 12) *
16. “I Go Ape” (Backing Track – Take 10) *
17. “Wind Up Man” (Backing Track – Take 1) *
18. “String For My Kite” (Version 1 Backing Track – Take 1) *
19. “Naked Persimmon” (Backing Track – Take 1) *
20. “Goldie Locks Sometime” (Backing Track – Take 4) *
21. “String For My Kite” (Version 2 Backing Track – Take 1) *
22. “Darwin” (Backing Track – Take 2) *
23. “St. Matthew” (Alternate Vocal) *
24. “Don’t Wait For Me” (Alternate Stereo Mix) *
25. “Rosemarie” (Alternate Stereo Mix) *
26. “(I Prithee) Do Not Ask For Love” (1968 Version) *
27. “Naked Persimmon” *
28. “Goldie Locks Sometime” *
29. “Darwin” *
30. “I Go Ape” *

* Previously unissued recording
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LOS ANGELES – For Record Store Day’s Black Friday 2011, The Doors will unveil a limited edition, four-disc vinyl boxed set that spotlights L.A. Woman, the legendary quartet’s final album with singer Jim Morrison. The collection includes 7” vinyl singles for three of the album’s most iconic tracks, each backed with a b-side featuring an unreleased, alternate take of the same song. A fourth 7” contains unreleased studio chatter recorded during sessions for this historic album giving an inside peek of the band at work on their final masterpiece.

Numbered and limited to 4000 sets worldwide, the L.A. WOMAN SINGLES BOX will be available exclusively at participating independent record stores on November 25 for a suggested list price of $49.98. For a directory of participating stores, please visit www.recordstoreday.com.

“There will always be a need for indie record stores – and for vinyl. I think vinyl’s making a comeback, actually - it just sounds so much better!” says guitarist Robby Krieger.

“Our music was made with an independent spirit, and we believe in independence – of the mind, the heart and the soul,” says organist Ray Manzarek. “L.A. Woman is 40 years old, and we look back fondly, with deep appreciation, on 40 years of that special exchange between an independent record store and a customer searching for something new that can open their hearts, minds and souls!”

The collection contains 7” singles for “Love Her Madly,” “Riders On The Storm” and “The Changeling,” each presented in a sleeve featuring original artwork from an international single release from the era. To complement the music, the set also includes an exact replica of a poster Elektra used to promote the album around the original 1970 release. The poster was designed by Carl Cossick, who also designed the instantly recognizable die-cut album cover used for L.A. Woman, and features the provocative, crucified “Electric Woman” image featured in the original vinyl sleeve of the album.

“Record stores are a place of community; something we as humans desperately need. Yes, the web is an electronic community, but you can't feel, smell, or touch on the Internet,” says drummer John Densmore.

The fourth 7” offers rare insight into the group’s creative process with two “Inside The Workshop” selections that capture previously unheard studio dialogue from Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger, and John Densmore as they recorded the album in Hollywood with producer Bruce Botnick. The first side features band dialogue from the recording of “Riders On The Storm” while the second side spotlights the band discussing their cover of John Lee Hooker’s “Crawling King Snake.”

L.A. WOMAN SINGLES BOX provides a first listen to some of the unreleased material that will be included in the highly anticipated upcoming deluxe edition of L.A. Woman, set for release from Rhino in early 2012.

L.A. WOMAN SINGLES BOX – Record Store Day’s Black Friday Exclusive
Track Listing

Side One
“Love Her Madly”
Side Two
“Love Her Madly” – Alternate Version*

Side One
“Riders On The Storm”
Side Two
“Riders On The Storm” – Alternate Version*

Side One
“The Changeling”
Side Two
“The Changeling” – Alternate Version*

Side One
Inside The Workshop – “Riders On The Storm”*
Side Two
Inside The Workshop – “Crawling King Snake”*

* Previously unreleased

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LOS ANGELES – Iron Butterfly made its New York City debut at the Fillmore East in the spring of 1968, recording all four shows from April 26 and 27. The tapes reveal the Los Angeles quartet – singer/organist Doug Ingle, bassist Lee Dorman, guitarist Erik Brann (just 17 at the time) and drummer Ron Bushy – on the verge of its defining success, mixing tracks from its first album Heavy, with songs that would appear two months later on the band’s multi-platinum magnum opus, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

Rhino Handmade makes it possible for you to experience Iron Butterfly’s ascension to the pantheon of heavy rock with FILLMORE EAST 1968. Due out October 18, the double CD is available now for pre-order exclusively at www.rhino.com for a suggested list price of $39.98.

The well-defined sound heard on these previously unreleased recordings is the result of the quality of the original tapes and the meticulous restoration used to prepare them for this project. Original recording engineer Lee Osborne recorded all the shows using a ½” four-track recorder running at 15 ips. Unfortunately, audio signal issues made the first two songs from the second set on April 26 unusable.

What remains, as veteran music journalist David Fricke writes in set’s the liner notes, “is the sound of hard-rock immortality in the making…” For the performances, Iron Butterfly drew material primarily from the just-released album Heavy, playing the tough yet nimble “Unconscious Power” in the early show both nights, and closing all four sets with the potent one-two punch of “So-Lo” and “Iron Butterfly Theme.”

The band also used the Fillmore concerts to showcase three songs from what would become Iron Butterfly’s second album, including “Are You Happy,” “My Mirage” and its title track, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” which the group deployed to great effect in the second set both nights.

Fricke writes: “[T]hese recordings, from that spring weekend in 1968, catch Iron Butterfly – and “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” – at a transformative point and ferocious pitch: a great acid-garage band with sharp pop instincts, hardened and tightened by long service on the Sunset Strip, about to establish a lasting definition of heavy rock.”

FILLMORE EAST 1968
Track Listing

Disc One – Friday, April 26, 1968
First Show
1. “Fields Of Sun”
2. “You Can’t Win”
3. “Unconscious Power”
4. “Are You Happy”
5. “So-Lo”
6. “Iron Butterfly Theme”
Second Show (Incomplete)
7. “Stamped Ideas”
8. “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”
9. “So-Lo”
10. “Iron Butterfly Theme”

Disc Two – Saturday, April 27, 1968
First Show
1. “Are You Happy”
2. “Unconscious Power”
3. “My Mirage”
4. “So-Lo”
5. “Iron Butterfly Theme”
Second Show
6. “Possession”
7. “My Mirage”
8. “Are You Happy”
9. “Her Favorite Style”
10. “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”
11. “So-Lo”
12. “Iron Butterfly Theme”

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LOS ANGELES – Two-time Grammy® winner Scott Weiland finds inspiration from the iconic songs and singers of Christmases past, putting his signature baritone on some of his favorite holiday classics for THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR, arriving on October 25 from Atco Records, an imprint of Rhino Entertainment, at all physical and digital retail outlets for suggested list prices of $13.98 (CD) and $7.99 (download). The album also includes the singer’s own original holiday song, “Happy Christmas And Many More.”

The inception of THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR began two years ago when Weiland first performed “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” which is included on this album, on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” The singer says Frank Sinatra’s legendary 1957 recording of the song, which featured an orchestra conducted by Gordon Jenkins, inspired his take on this sentimental favorite.

Similarly, the album is filled with lush orchestrations punctuated by horns and sweetened with strings, which were arranged by Michael Birnbryer and Jessica Catron respectively. Weiland leads the musicians through timeless holiday standards made famous by the likes of Nat King Cole (“The Christmas Song”), Bing Crosby (“White Christmas” and “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”), Perry Como (“Winter Wonderland”) and Andy Williams (“The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year.”) The album was produced by Weiland and his longtime collaborator Doug Grean.

There are surprises as well, including a reggae version of “O Holy Night” complete with steel drums, a spritely “Silent Night” propelled by a bossa nova beat and a jazzy “What Child Is This?” where Weiland channels his inner Van Morrison.

THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR is very much a passion project for Weiland. In his note accompanying the album, he writes: “I hope this music, a labor of love from all of ‘us,’ finds you and touches your heart and soul. For that was the purpose of it. Not just these fabulous musicians but moreover, it was the absolute intent of the original writers, players, and legendary icons from days long gone. I have to pause and wonder...whether it be Frank, Bing, or Nat King Cole himself. Are these times really so different? A lot of these tunes were written during times of strife within our country and, in fact, around the world. Whether it be the depression or wartime, when these Christmas messages were sent out to men & women of our armed services in a fox hole or hospital, just as today those brave souls who dare to give it all.”

THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR
Track Listing

1. “The Christmas Song”
2. “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”
3. “White Christmas”
4. “Silent Night”
5. “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year”
6. “What Child Is This?”
7. “Winter Wonderland”
8. “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”
9. “Happy Christmas And Many More”
10. “O Holy Night”

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