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In The News: Paul McCartney, Brian Eno, Twilight Sad, Big Dipper, Fear, Scott Walker And More

Live Kisses is a film documenting one of Paul McCartney’s most intimate concerts, as he performed tracks from Kisses On The Bottom alongside an all-star cast of musicians last February. You can own it on DVD, Blu-ray or Digital Video on November 13 … Coincidentally, November 13 is also the day the Beatles’ original studio remasters will be available on vinyl for the first time. Originally released on CD in 2009 and for digital download from iTunes in 2010, all 14 albums will be available separately or as a limited-edition boxed set accompanied by a 252-page hardbound book … Brian Eno will make his Warp Records debut with LUX, his first solo album since 2005. Its CD and digital release is November 13, and it will be available on vinyl a month later … Liars, Tom Furse (Horrors), Com Truise and others contributed their take on tracks from the Twilight Sad’s No One Can Ever Know to FatCat’s No One Can Ever Know–The Remixes. It’s out November 20, at the tail end of the Twilight Sad’s North American … After Big Dipper got back together for a reunion tour in 2008, the band decided to record some new material. The result is Big Dipper Crashes On The Platinum Planet, which is due out via Almost Ready on November 27 and will feature cover art by Robert Pollard … The End will release Fear’s new album, The FEAR Record, on November 6 … Bish Bosch is Scott Walker’s first studio album in six years, and it’s out via 4AD on December 4 … On October 30, Twisted Sister’s A Twisted Xmas–Live In Las Vegas will be released via Eagle Rock … Marshall Crenshaw has launched a new music-distribution model by cutting out the record-company middle men with a subscription service that will send his music directly to fans. It begins November 23 with the first release of his EP series, I Don’t See You Laughing Now … Four out-of-print Loop albums will be re-released on October 30: Heaven’s End, Fade Out, Gilded Eternity and The World In Your Eyes via Reactor … Mecca Normal members (and regular MAGNET contributors David Lester and Jean Smith are hitting the road this month to play new material, which they will then record in the studio with Kramer (Galaxie 500, Bongwater). Both will also be reading from their respective books.

—Emily Costantino