Carole King Releases Christmas Album

518lOAgdc4L SL500 AA300 Carole King is known to all Gilmore Girls fans, if only for her beautiful adaptation of her hit “Where You Lead” (on her album Tapestry) to become the Gilmore Girls theme-song. Carole has just released a new Christmas album, A Holiday Carole.

In a recent interview with the BBC, Carole talks about how she didn’t enjoy singing Where You Lead until it had been remade for Gilmore Girls - made for the love between a mother and daughter. Prior to that, the song came out too close to when the feminist movement took hold, she says. Very interesting.

Carole lists more appearances and videos on her website that are recent, from promoting the album. She is also on Twitter here.

Here is an interview with Carole as well as some snippets from the album:

Thanks David!

Riki Lindhome Releases Solo Album

Riki Lindhome (Juliet from the Life & Death Brigade on Gilmore Girls) is just about to release her first Solo album. She has released several albums together with Kate Micucci for Garfunkel and Oates (who is having a sale today on their music). The 5-track EP, ‘Yell at Me From Your Car’, can be downloaded for $4.99 from CDBaby.

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Chad Michael Murray Pens “Everlast” Graphic Novel

Chad Michael Murray (Tristan Dugray on Gilmore Girls) has completed work on a graphic novel, Everlast, a project he’s been working on for 8 years. You can preview some of the panels, as illustrated by JK Woodward.

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Summary: In every city in America there’s always that strange man on the street corner shouting out that the end of the world is coming, and only those pure in heart and in their love of God can survive the coming apocalypse. But what if that man was actually right, and he was the only person who could save us from destroying ourselves? Derek Everlast is that man, and one of the few people who can ferry others to a place called Haven, the one place of safety from the end of the world.

Pre-order Everlast here.

Sebastian Bach Releases “Kicking & Screaming”

Sebastian Bach (Gil on Gilmore Girls) is releasing his latest CD, ‘Kicking & Screaming,’ on September 27th. He’s already launched the music video for the title track.

Of the album, Sebastian says:

“This CD will follow along the lines of ‘Skid Row’, ‘Slave To The Grind’, ‘Subhuman Race’ and ‘Angel Down’. If you like rockin’ guitar riffs, high-energy songs and performances, deadly drums of doom, and ear-shattering screams, we got your rock right here! [The songs are] heavy, interesting, classic sounding, modern sounding, completely rock ‘n’ roll — just how we like it!”

Here’s a music video to for the title track of the album:

Here’s an interview with Sebastian about the album:

“The Conspirator” on DVD August 16

Alexis Bledel stars as Frederick Aiken’s sweetheart Sarah Weston in her newest film, The Conspirator. The movie opened in April and comes to DVD on August 16th. To promote the release, a number of new stills of the film, including of Alexis, have been released.

And here’s a scene of Alexis in the movie, as well as more photos:

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Gilmore Girls Theme Song a Classic

BuddyTV put together a list of the 101 Greatest TV Theme Songs of All Time. And what list on theme songs would be complete without a tribute to Gilmore Girls?? ‘Where You Lead’ by Carole King is just amazing!

But it should have been #1 on the list, not #92!!

Thanks Sylvia!

Rory Book Clubs

237930.jpgJust like you all make up a great Gilmore Girls community here, there still exists a community of book lovers who are continually inspired by Rory Gilmore’s love for books. Rory mentions over 200 books through the series, so it’s quite a lot of books to get through if you’re a book worm (and I am)!

Doing a little digging, I came up with some still-active book clubs and lists you can be a part of:

There are 250 books, in total, that you can delve into. This is the most organized list I’ve seen.