
Michael Jackson’s catalog is dominating the charts, but a handful of new releases are hitting stores this week, including the Jayhawks’ Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology, which collects the greatest hits and rarities of the underrated Minnesota country rockers. “One headline about the Jayhawks at their prime read ‘What if you made a classic, and no one cared?’ ” Rolling Stone’s Will Hermes writes in his four-star review of the collection. “The Midwest country rockers have made a few in their 23 years, to less notice than they deserved; those discs are cherry-picked for this note-perfect set.” The set is available in a multitude of formats: a 2CD set with 20 hits and 20 previously unreleased tracks and the deluxe edition that features a bonus DVD of the band’s videos and some live performances.
Also out this week is the debut disc by Hollywood electro-duo LMFAO, Party Rock. Sky Blu and Redfoo, the son of Motown founder Berry Gordy, bust out the brainless beats like a more sophomoric version of the Black Eyed Peas, so while semi-hit singles “I’m From Miami Bitch” and “Shots” are fun the first couple spins, over the course of 15 songs the “brain rigor mortis sets in, and we don’t mean the good kind,” Jon Dolan writes in his two-and-a-half star review of the album. Sample lyric: “Grandma’s cookin’ breakfast, she makes pancakes the best/Check my MySpace, and I got a lot of friend requests.” Advance with caution.

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