Audioslave - Out of Exile

Reviews: Amazon

These are great times indeed! Not only is the sun shining (at least where I am) but I have new records from SOAD, Seether and now Audioslave (go ahead and wait until it appears in your store next week if you can...) and my new 60GB iPod is scheduled to arrive before the weekend!

MxPx - Panic

Either you get it now or you wait until June 7 (oh yeah, or not get it at all...).

Seether - Karma and Effect

I am not waiting another week for the May 24 official release.

Frank Black - Honeycomb

All who likes classic and recently reunioned the Pixies might be interested to know that frontman Frank Black's latest record, Honeycomb, appears to be available more than two months before its scheduled July 18 release.

Some additional information about the record.
NME.com
Drowned in Sound
MP3.com

Common - B.E.

More than two weeks ahead of official release, B.E. is availble now. Rap is really not my field of expertise but I like some of his earlier work.

Official Site
Review - Sixshot.com
Interview - Insidepulse.com

Watchlist (as of May 8, 2005)

Everyone is looking for something and below is a quickly compiled list of releases that we're looking forward to. Please drop a comment below and let us know what you would like us to be on the look-out for.

May 10

• Pray for the Soul of Betty - Pray for the Soul of Betty

May 24

• Audioslave - Out of Exile
• Seether - Karma and Effect

June 7

• The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
• Cold Play - X&Y

June 14

• Foo Fighters - In your honor

Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth

Sites that beat us to it includes... XFM Online Stereoboard

OK, this is really old news by now but I hope I can get away with it as (a) this page wasn't up and running when the release was actually released and (b) there is still plenty of time before the official May 31st release of Don't Believe the Truth Oasis first album since 2002's Heathen Chemistry. Perhaps this is Oasis' returning to the glory of their first three albums? Listen and judge for your self.

System of a Down - Mezmerize

More info: Amazon (US)

Scheduled for a May 17th release, Mezmerize has been available everywhere since the beginning of last week. Mezmerize is the first installment of S.O.A.D:s double-feature Mezmerize/Hypnotize. The second CD (guess what it will be called?) is planed to be released later this year.

The Early Edition: Where X-Mas Comes Early

Since the early days of digital content being available online -- back when it was all about downloading 128 kbps MP3:s from popup infested websites containing at least one "Z" over excruciatingly slow 56 kbps modem (yes, it was slow even then) -- copyrighted material has been available on the Net before in the store. Such prereleases has become more and more common. In fact, prereleasing has become so common that legislative action specifically aimed at curbing such behaviour has been adopted.

There may be many reasons for making prereleases -- good and bad, valid and invalid -- but The Early Edition does not concern itself with those. The Early Edition neither condones nor condemns prereleasing. We simply accept it as a fact. Thus, the aim of The Early Edition is to inform the public when music is actually available.

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