Award-winning Irish documentary photographer Seamus Murphy created stunning short films for each song on PJ Harvey’s eighth studio album, Let England Shake. They have now been compiled on a limited-edition DVD that will be released January 31 via Vagrant/Island … Sean Lennon composed the 22-track score for the upcoming film from writer/director Jordan Galland, Alter Egos. It stars Danny Masterson, Kris Lemche and John Ventimiglia and is set for a 2012 release … Blonde Redhead, Deerhunter, Liars, Interpol, Four Tet and many others contributed to We Are The Works In Progress, a benefit album organized by Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead. Out January 10 via Asa Wa Kuru, the LP supports Japan and its post-tsunami healing process … Late comedian Bill Hicks would have turned 50 on December 16. To celebrate, Ryko is issuing the five-track 12/16/61 EP, which contains previously unreleased material. Acclaimed 2010 Hicks boxed set The Essential Collection will be made available digitally January 17 … More than 800 of Fugazi’s live performances between 1987 and 2003 were recorded by the band’s sound engineers, and now, a complete online archive of those concerts has been created. The Fugazi Live Series launched this month as a wing of the Dischord Records website and features data from the shows, related photos, flyers and mp3 downloads … The Weakerthans’ John K. Samson is making his solo debut January 24 with the release of Provincial (Epitaph). A U.S. tour will follow … On January 10, a two-disc collection from Ladysmith Black Mambazo will be released. Ladysmith Black Mambazo And Friends is a 30-track album that features collaborations with the likes of Paul Simon, Lou Rawls, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and more … The late Alex Chilton’s Free Again: The 1970 Sessions (his first post-Box Tops and pre-Big Star recordings) will be available January 10 via Ardent … Further Explorations is a two-disc live set from Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez and the late Paul Motian performing Bill Evans compositions at the Blue Note in 2010. It’s out January 17 via Concord Jazz … The debut full-length from Memoryhouse, The Slidehow Effect (Sub Pop), will be released February 28.
—Emily Costantino
