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June 2006 Shout! Factory Newsletter:: 6/13/2006

The Countdown to Comic-Con Is On

Oh yes! Less than a month away from the world’s biggest, baddest pop culture event! Comic-Con 2006 opens its San Diego doors on July 19 and Shout! Factory is ready to groove. We’ve doubled our booth size this year AND tripled our talent! This year, we’re very excited to have Brendon Small and Loren Bouchard from Home Movies at our booth, as well as the creative forces behind IFC’s Greg The Bunny (who also have a panel) and [drum roll] …Mr. Rob Corddry of “The Daily Show,” promoting the new Shout! DVD Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story (in stores same week.) As always, we’ll have lots of cool prizes to give away on our Free Swag Prize Wheel, as well as the Shout! Booty Call treasure chest, which will again be filled with loads of CDs and DVDs from your favorite entertainment company. That’s Shout!, by the way. Visit http://www.comic-con.org/index.php for more info. We’ll be hanging out in booth #5463.

What Is Going On?

August 29 marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of New Orleans. In remembrance of this event, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band revisits the classic Marvin Gaye album, putting their own New Orleans twist on the tunes. The subject is near and dear to the band members, as they also lost their homes to Katrina. Joining DDBB on the reinterpretation is a bevy of guests, including Chuck D, Ivan Neville, G. Love, Guru and Bettye LaVette. The CD is out on 8/29 with Shout! donating a portion of its proceeds to the Tipitina’s Foundation, benefiting the music community of New Orleans.

Slightly Stoopid Is Smokin’ Hot Live!

Grab your lighters and dim the lights because Shout!’s gonna let you get Stoopid on 6/27. San Diego’s Slightly Stoopid, known for their amazing live show, is releasing their first concert CD and DVD on Shout! Factory. The 2-CD set, Winter Tour ’05-’06, features 23 tracks, while its companion DVD, Live In San Diego, includes 20 tracks, interviews, road footage and more! Also helping out on the DVD is Fishbone’s Angelo Moore on sax and vocals (“Basher”). Both were recorded over Thanksgiving weekend 2005 at their hometown House of Blues. Pick them up at your favorite store or head over to iTunes, where they have an exclusive version that includes three non-CD tracks.

Shakespeare in the Park and on the Screen

Shakespeare Behind Bars, the critically-lauded documentary (on DVD 7/18), comes full circle with a screening on 7/6 during the Independent Shakespeare Co.’s Free Shakespeare in Barnsdall Park (Los Angeles). The ISC are also readying performances of As You Like It and Hamlet, with the festival kicking off on June 22. Picnic baskets encouraged. For more information, visit www.independentshakespeare.com.

On the Tube

Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs make a return to late night television on July 18. Conan O’Brien welcomes the Under The Covers duo for a special musical performance the day after their Bowery Ballroom show (NYC) on July 17. For tickets to the Bowery show, visit ticketweb.com.

More Music & Melodrama

Shout! Factory VP of A&R Shawn Amos returns with the latest entry of Music & Melodrama. Check out his recent blog on shoutfactory.com under “Free Opinions and Random Thoughts.”