Ryan Adams Box Set?

Score one for the bootleggers. On the heels of the proper June 26 "Easy Tiger" release, a Ryan Adams box set could be unleashed.

As reported in Billboard.com, the box set could offer live tracks and host of other unreleased material: "the fabled unreleased albums "48 Hours" and "The Suicide Handbook," the oft-bootlegged "Bedhead" series and leftover songs from the "Easy Tiger" sessions."

"What won't be included, however, are the dozens of oddball tracks Adams released last year via his Web site under the monikers DJ Reggie, WereWolph, the Sh*t and others. "That wasn't meant to be anything more than just a laugh," Adams told the Web site. "It was a thing to do after shows. It was like having garage band wars. It was for fun -- a chance experiment with rap stuff."

To celebrate, take a listen to Adams and the Cardinals performing a free June 15 WXPN's "World Cafe Live at Noon" concert.

The set list:

• "Two"
• "I Taught Myself to Grow Old"
• "Winding Wheel"
• "I See Monsters"
• "Goodnight Hollywood Boulevard"
• "Oh My God Whatever Etc."
• "Nightbirds"
• "Let It Ride"
• "Blue Hotel"

Peak Limiting

Nigel Tufnel extended his Marshall amps to “11” to give Spinal Tap "that extra push over the cliff" and allow his cohorts to maintain their distinction as England's loudest band. And it seems Tufnel's fellow disciplines including Oasis, Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen have turned the loudness needle further right on their albums.

"Record companies and bands like Oasis are using digital technology to ratchet up the volume on CDs to make a bigger impact on their young listeners. But by artificially pushing up sound levels they also drown out the dynamic range of the song making everything sound 'loud'. They use a technique called 'peak limiting' which squeezes the sound range on a track to one level by removing the peaks and troughs that would normally separate a quieter verse from a pumping chorus."

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