Pop links: Wolfgang's offers concert downloads! Live McCartney! Dollhouse teasers! Tennant's last Doctor Who! More!

Popular online concert site Wolfgang's Vault is set to offer legit downloads of thousands of shows.

Beginning November 3, the site will add more than 1,000 titles from 919 artists to the approximately 500 that are currently available for purchase from the site's Concert Vault section, Bill Sagan, CEO and founder of Wolfgang's Vault LLC and its parent company, Norton LLC, told Billboard.com.

The additions will include more than 160 Grateful Dead concerts as well as titles from artists such as Santana, Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsies, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Raitt, Hall & Oates, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Miles Davis, Dolly Parton, Merle Travis and many others.

...The download prices will be $7.98 and $8.98 for MP3s and $11.98 and $12.98 for Flac recordings. Wolfgang's vault will also introduce a $48 annual membership which includes a $50 gift certificate, discounts on recordings and memorabilia and unlimited higher-end 192k streaming.


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Good Evening New York City, a 2-CD/1-DVD set featuring music from Paul McCartney's series of concerts inaugurating New York's Citi Field will be released Nov. 17.

A deluxe edition of the set will feature expanded packaging and a bonus DVD featuring Macca's "Late Show with David Letterman" performance atop the Ed Sullivan Theater marquee from last July.

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See clips from this week's episode of "Dollhouse."

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Actor John Simm, who reprises his role as the Master in this year's "Doctor Who" Christmas special says the episode serves as a great sendoff to the current Doctor, David Tennant.

"To go head-to-head with him was a real honour. It was lovely to be asked. It was a great, great experience. We had such fun doing it. Hopefully it'll come across."


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Cartoonist Robert Crumb tells the press about his new adaptation of the Book of Genesis.

The 66-year-old hero of underground comics who wowed the 1960s with "Fritz The Cat" and "Mr Natural", said he took up the challenge 40 years later of creating another white-haired long-bearded figure "to illuminate the text of Genesis by illustrating every single thing that's in there."

"It hasn't been done before I think," he said. "There are hidden stories that are very strong."




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One of the world's most extensive collections of Batman memorabilia has gone missing. The Batstuff belonged to Fontainebleau heir Ben Novack Jr., who was found murdered last July.

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Citibank customers will get a chance to buy Bob Dylan's upcoming Christmas album early.

"Christmas In The Heart" will be available for Internet download to 13 million customers enrolled in the company's rewards program, during the week before it hits stores on October 13.

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