LI Reviews is proud to be giving away five copies of Ultimate Classic Wrestling on DVD. To enter all you need to do is leave us a comment. Please be sure to only leave one. Comments are moderated to avoid spam, so it will not show up right away. People who leave multiple comments will be deleted from the contest altogether. If you do not see your comment within a day then by all means leave another one. Otherwise, do not worry as we accept comments several times a day.

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Info on the DVD:
With its origins in carnival sideshows in the late 19th century, pro wrestling is a grueling, action packed competition of hand to hand combat that entered its golden age in the 50s with the advent of television. Today, it is a worldwide phenomenon a brutal blend of athletic ability, outrageous theatrics, sheer brawn and conniving, underhanded deceit that is not for the faint of heart.

From arenas across the country, a collage of decades of classic wrestlings most ferocious battles between its most nefarious stars is presented in a special, two disc collectors set when Classic Wrestling Presents.

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A group of four multi-talented musicians based in New York City, The Bad Eliots include: singer and multi-instrumentalist Roto (a.k.a. James Rotondi), a New York-based artist whose resumé includes stints with the French band Air, Mike Patton’s Mr. Bungle and jazz-hop legends The Grassy Knoll;

Drummer Ant Cee (a.k.a. Anthony Citrinite) was a founding member of The Smash-Up, who ignited crowds from 2004 to 2007 on major bills like Megadeth’s Gigantour, the Deftones’ Taste of Chaos tour, and the Warped Tour, from which Ant’s drum sticks were plucked and are currently on display in Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame;

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TV Show Info:
Writers: Tina Fey (creator) and Various Others
Directors: Various
Cast: Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit, Judah Friedlander, Alec Baldwin
Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Universal Studios

Release Info:
Original Air Dates: October 11, 2006-Ongoing
Season Air Dates: October 4, 2007-May 8, 2008
DVD Box Set Release Date: October 7, 2008
Online Availability: Amazon for $26.99
Episodes: All 15 episodes from Season Two

Tina Fey is a comedic genius. I can’t imagine what this show would be like if she wasn’t on it. Originally, Tina didn’t plan to be Liz Lemon, but NBC insisted. I can see why. She’s perfect for the part. They say, write what you know. Tina does just that when she writes every episode of 30 Rock. Some people may not know that she was inspired to write this based on her experiences as the first, female head writer of Saturday Night Live, a gig she only gave up because her schedule on SNL and her 30 Rock schedule overlap.

Let’s forget about what Tina Fey has done for SNL in the past month, with her Sarah Palin skits. Honestly, as a writer there, Fey made us see there was hope for a show that’d been on since before I was born. In the early years through the early 90s, SNL was all about laughs. Around the end of the 90s and into the 2000s, the show sort of fell apart. People were constantly saying, “oh this will be the end of SNL” and we believed it because it went through a period where it flat out sucked.

Tina was with the show during some of the dark years, but as head writer, she started bringing the stories back to the people. Those who’d given up on SNL started watching again and it’d be undeniably wrong to say Tina Fey had nothing to do with this. Tina has proven she can do just about anything she puts her mind to, so it isn’t farfetched to think she was a major force behind the show’s rejuvenation. Even today, she isn’t regularly working for SNL, but her Sarah Palin skits have seen the highest number of viewers for the show in years!

Tina Fey really has done it all. She was a Second City Troupe performer and writer at their famed Chicago location. She has written successfully in a variety of mediums, television (30 Rock, SNL), screenplays (Mean Girls) and she has worked as a performer/actress in movies, on television and in sketch comedy. She’s also a wife, mother, and overall likable person.

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To set up the release, Scooter Smiff has whetted fan’s musical appetites with buzz releases of the title track “Head Of My Class,” featuring Chris Brown and “Fresh To Def.” With producers as diversified as Swizz Beatz, Eric Hudson, and Polow Da Don working on the debut release of Head Of My Class, it promises to be the ultimate tour-de-force for the urban teen music set.

If working on a new CD and the recent 52-city “Up Close and Personal” Chris Brown tour were not enough, Scooter Smiff is also an accomplished actor who played Daniel on the third season of the hit show Lost and makes his dramatic feature flick debut with Gardens Of The Night (opposite John Malkovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Tom Arnold and Evan Ross), where he plays a abused child named Young Donnie, will be hitting screens in the Winter.

And before you ask the question Scooter Smiff gets accosted with by fans the most, let’s let Scooter himself set the record straight: “I am called Scooter because of my grandma—when I was little, I couldn’t crawl, I just scooted, so she nicknamed me Scooter and it stuck!”

Scooter Smiff hopes to be doing a tour of his own around the release of Head of My Class and says he will also be hooking up again with Chris Brown on the road at some point.

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In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Creedence Clearwater Revival, all six of the band’s albums (Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willy & the Poor Boys, Cosmo’s Factory and Pendulum), will be reissued in expanded editions available on September 30! Information about all of the new CDs and some clips of songs you will see on some of them are listed below!

Creedence Clearwater Revival [Expanded Reissue]: This album included CCR’s first smash hit, the Dale Hawkins song “Suzie Q,” plus the classic cover of Screaming Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You.” The reissue contains four bonus tracks: “Call it Pretending” (the B-side of the band’s first single), the band’s first recording of a cover of Bo Diddley’s “Before You Accuse Me” (later re-recorded for Cosmo’s Factory), a live version of “Ninety-Nine and a Half” recorded at the Fillmore Auditorium in 1969, and a full-length live version of “Suzie Q.” Almost famous former Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres wrote the notes.

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If you’re a fan of gangsta rap this might be right up your alley. Until now, I had never heard of Savage before, but after listening to his new song “Swing” I couldn’t help but want to hear more. If you’ve never heard him and want to check him out you can do so below.

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Matthew Sweet is celebrating his 10th studio album with a concert. Check out some of his music and concert dates below.

Tour Dates
10/20 Boulder, CO – Fox Theater
10/22 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue Mainroom
10/23 Chicago, IL - Park West
10/24 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls Funhouse
10/25 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
10/27 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
10/28 New York, NY – Webster Hall
10/29 Falls Church, VA – State Theatre
10/30 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
11/01 Covington, KY - The Madison
11/03 Charleston, WV - Mountain Stage syndicated radio show
11/05 Baltimore, MD - 8X10
11/06 Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero
11/07 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
11/08 Athens, GA - 40 Watt
11/09 Nashville, TN -3rd & Lindsley
11/19 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
11/26 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey

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We are sent new music to listen to all the time by artists that we have never heard before. Recently we received something by an artist known simply as LP. I popped the CD into the player knowing nothing about her, but by the time I was done listening, I was comfortable calling myself a fan.

If you’re in the market for a talented new voice in your iPod library you should definitely check out this song and the new album that will be hitting shelves early next year. In the meantime, if you listen to LP let us know what you think!

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Tina Turner announced in May, to the shock of her fans, that she would begin touring this fall into the winter months. As a way to complement the tour, Capitol Records/EMI will be releasing Tina! for purchase on September 30, 2008. The new CD offers 18 tracks and a digital collection of Turner’s best hits, two new tracks, and some rare live recordings.

Some of the recognized tracks on the CD will include:

“What’s Love Got To Do With It,” “Private Dancer,” “Better Be Good To Me,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome),” “Proud Mary” (1993 version), “Nutbush City Limits,” and “River Deep Mountain High.”

Tina! features two new, exclusive tracks, titled “It Would Be A Crime” and “I’m Ready.”

A number of concert recordings are also included:

“I Can’t Stand The Rain,” recorded live at Amsterdam Arena (1996), “Addicted To Love,” recorded live at London’s Camden Palace (1986), and two that have never before been released on CD, “The Best,” recorded live at London’s Wembley Arena (2000) and “Let’s Stay Together,” recorded live at Amsterdam Arena (1996).

Turner’s world tour will being on October 1, 2008 in Kansas City, MO.

Other tour stops include:

Newark, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, DC, Toronto, and Montreal. At least 28 stops will be made in US cities.

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Literary Illusions is proud to be giving away two copies of the lost CHICAGO: STONE OF SISYPHUS (XXXII) CD. To enter all you need to do is leave us a comment. Please be sure to only leave one. Comments are moderated to avoid spam, so it will not show up right away. People who leave multiple comments will be deleted from the contest altogether. If you do not see your comment within a day then by all means leave another one. Otherwise, do not worry as we accept comments several times a day.

To enter you need to be 18 years of age and a resident of the US. If you have won a contest within the last 30 days you are not eligible. Winners will be announced here. If we do not hear from you within 3 weeks from the date the winners are announced you forfeit your prize and we will select another winner. Prizes will be shipped within 45 days from the day you win.

We will begin choosing winners for this the week of July 5, 2008, which means you have until July 4, 2008 at 11:59 to enter.

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