There are at least four notable groups that you can’t get on iTunes: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead and AC/DC.

This week it was announced that Led Zeppelin will be coming to iTunes! It won’t affect me much—I’ve already ripped every song from CD—but I’m happy they will be available to everyone else. Granted, they are only releasing a 24-track greatest hits album called “Mothership” and it won’t be released until November 12, but you gotta figure that the remaining 57 songs will follow soon. (By my quick count there were originally nine albums with 81 songs.)

This week also brought news from AC/DC… They plan to release their entire 18-album catalog exclusively on Verizon’s VCast music service. That’s sucky because you have to be a Verizon customer to buy them. It’s double-sucky that you can only purchase them as full albums, not single songs. It’s triple-sucky that you can’t even buy them from your phone directly; you have to download them from Verizon’s website and then upload them to your phone. The rumor is that AC/DC’s insistance on full-album-only sales is what kept them off of iTunes.

No word on The Beatles or Radiohead yet…

New and Notable This Week

• Jose Gonzalez: Stay in the Shade
  Every bit as wonderful as his previous album but his voice is a little less wispy this time around.
• Guru: Jazzmatazz, Vol. 4
  Guru’s long-awaited fourth installment of old school hip-hop mixed with Jazz. This album continues the trend, ever since the first volume in 1993, of drifting away from jazz/hip-hop and towards jazz/R&B. Personally, I like the older volumes much better.
• Trey Anastasio: The Horseshoe Curve
  The former Phish frontman has put out a solo jazz-funk album. No doubt the performers are all top-notch, but quite honestly it has the appeal of a Phish album without the quirky lyrics.

Free Download

• Tegan and Sara: “Back in Your Head”
  I think you should buy the whole album instead, but maybe this track will help convince you.

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