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New Releases For The Week Of December 31, 2007
Edited by Jonathan Cohen
Over The 'Rainbows'
Radiohead's decision to self-release its new album, "In Rainbows," online via a "name your own price" model was the music business story of 2007. Now, "In Rainbows" is hitting retail on a good old-fashioned CD via TBD/ATO Recordings, giving retailers something to smile about during a period usually devoid of major releases.

The music itself: many of the songs are sonically modest compared with such labrynthine productions as "Kid A," but this more concise approach underscores the gripping finish to "All I Need," the rush of Kraut-y guitar lines on "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi," the falsetto-ed Northern soul of "Nude" and the excitable grooves supporting "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" and "Bodysnatchers," the latter two of which are garnering significant airplay on triple A and modern rock radio, respectively.

"I'd be crazy not to follow/follow where you lead," Thom Yorke sings on "Weird Fishes." Thousands of artists are now looking at Radiohead and thinking the exact same thing.

"We really don't know how things will develop in the future," group manager Bryce Edge recently told Billboard.com. "The market is changing rapidly, and we hope to be smart enough to react to it when we have music to release."
Additional titles hitting stores this week include:

No other new releases this week.

Todays Hot Music
Bringing out a new Mary J. Blige album is a big challenge. That's because Blige, anointed "the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" in 1992, is on a 15-year multi-platinum run as one of the most electric performers in the urban world... More...
Rapper Lupe Fiasco embodies multiple characters and concepts on his sophomore album, "Lupe Fiasco's The Cool," due this week via 1st and 15th/Atlantic. More...
"Not much has changed. It's like going from momma's house to daddy's house. And like a daddy in the waiting room pacing back and forth, I can't wait for my baby to come out." More...
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