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I finally received my new Pearl Jam box set yesterday, I ordered it through the fan club so it took a couple of weeks to arrive. It was pretty painful since I had to see the box at the record stores and keep myself from buying it.

Anyway, Pearl Jam have been releasing their last shows in digital format, so here is why they decided to release these 3 shows at the Gorge (one in 2005 and two in 2006) as a box set and why these shows are so special for the band, according to guitarist Mike McCready:

"The Gorge is the most beautiful place I have ever played. You have the backdrop of the Columbia River with the sunset and all of its colors, in addition to having a bunch of fans sitting in a hill to watch the show that was cut out to create the venue. It has an incredible spiritual vibe to it - a feeling of happiness and elation comes over the band because we are basically playing to our home in this beautiful setting.
We felt that these were above par shows -- kind of book ends to our U.S./Canadian/world tours from 2005 and 2006.

We are always thinking about new ways to make our music available to our fans and fans of live music. Our main goal is to always keep our fans happy and excited about our music, to help them maintain their experience of the live shows."

I've watched this trailer before the Transformers movie, and it's one of the coolest things I've seen lately. There is no movie title, no clue what the movie is about whatsoever, and it's entirely shot with a handheld camera. You can only see at the end that is from producer J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias) and it comes to theaters on 01-18-08.

If you search on the Internet there is no too much info, which means that they are keeping the secret very well. I've read that they posted the video on YouTube but it was quickly removed (although you may find some poorly shot clips taken from inside a movie theater).

The plot line according to IMDb is: "Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people".

I would recommend you to watch the official trailer here at Apple.

They refer to the movie as "secret J.J. Abrams project" or by the code name "Cloverfield"...very mysterious...

This is the only official web site in this one, you may find some others websites posted on blogs, but J. J. Abrams himself confirmed that the other web sites that people have found are not related to the movie.

This video for the first single of the new Polyphonic Spree album was made with only still photographs played one after the other(technically that is what video is, but that's not the point).

Watch the video here or you can watch it at their website.

The White Stripes are touring all over Canada, going to every province there is and even visiting some small towns (they played for 600 people at Iqaluit in Nunavat!). They have also been playing a surprise show before some their Canadian dates. They played in a bus in Winnipeg, with a busker, on a bridge and...at the YMCA summer camp for kids between 5 and 12 in Toronto!

You can watch some of the shows by searching "white stripes secret show" in YouTube.

Read the full Globe and Mail article here.