Rock Roundup 1121

Aerosmith, on this date 15 years ago, appeared as themselves on The Simpsons. Not really newsworthy, but something I noticed.

Alice Cooper has announced the details of his annual Christmas Pudding benefit concert, December 16th in Phoenix. This year he will reunite the surviving members of the Alice Cooper group, and will also be joined by Stephen Stills, former Eagles guitarist Don Felder, Tommy Shaw of Styx and his former Damn Yankees bandmate Jack Blades. Proceeds from show will benefit Cooper's Solid Rock Foundation.

Following their summer tour with Michael McDonald, Steely Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen headed to Miami, where they experimented with a new digital recording system at the legendary Criteria Studios in preparations to make a new album. Steely's last album was Everything Must Go in 2003, the follow-up to the grammy-winning reunion album in 2000.

It's the end of the 2006 road for a few legends this week. Bruce Springsteen wraps up his Seeger Sessions tour tonight in Belfast. Brian Wilson does his final two Pet Sounds shows ever tonight and tomorrow at the Beacon Theater in New York. He'll be joined at both shows by his Beach Boys bandmate Al Jardine. And Bob Dylan wrapped up his fall arena tour with a theater show last night in New York.

New DVDs In Stores Today

Styx with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland - One With Everything capturing the entire concert staged last May by the band with the 115-piece teenage orchestra and 60-piece choir.

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

An Inconvenient Truth (that Al Gore movie everyone talked about)

You, Me, And Dupree

Season 7 of Seinfeld

Season 1 of Boston Legal

Star Trek: The Animated Series

New CDs In Stores Today

A David Crosby retrospective box set called Voyage. 3 CDs covering everything.

A reissue of Crosby's first solo album, If I Could Only Remember My Name.

The new album from The Beatles hits store shelves today. Love is the soundtrack to the Cirque du Soleil show currently being staged in Las Vegas. Beatles producer George Martin and his son Giles went through the band's archive to create a unique soundscape, mixing some of the songs together. Among the mixes are "Drive My Car" with "The Word" and "What You're Doing"; "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and "Helter Skelter"; and "Come Together" with "Dear Prudence" and "Cry Baby Cry." Paul McCartney says, "We encouraged them to mess around as much and more than they wanted."