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Thu: 10-25-07: 04:15 PM CDT
Photos: Bright Eyes / Simon Joyner [Omaha, NE; 10/24/07]

Thu: 10-25-07: 03:30 PM CDT
Os Mutantes Working on New Tunes With Tom Ze

Thu: 10-25-07: 02:45 PM CDT
Photos: Stars / New Buffalo [Philadelphia, PA; 10/24/07]

Thu: 10-25-07: 02:10 PM CDT
Saul Williams Gives Away New Reznor-Produced LP

Thu: 10-25-07: 01:45 PM CDT
Sly and the Family Stone Schedule U.S. Shows

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The Tough Alliance:
A New Chance

Like Jens Lekman, who samples TTA on his wonderful Night Falls Over Kortedala, or spiritual forebear Jonathan Richman, they're hopeless and hopeful romantics. Still, in the tradition of previous electropop provocateurs like DAF or the KLF, they're also constantly testing the bounds of what they can get away with. In their case, that means embracing pop and having a willingness to plunder for inspiration. [Marc Hogan]

Radiohead:
In Rainbows

Just two weeks after it was first announced, Radiohead unveil their long-awaited follow-up to 2003's Hail to the Thief. Seemingly liberated from their self-imposed pressure to innovate, Radiohead sound-- for the first time in ages-- user-friendly; the glacial distance that characterized their previous records has been all but melted away by dollops of reverb, strings, and melody. [Mark Pytlik]

Thu: 10-25-07:
Yeasayer
All Hour Cymbals

This Brooklyn four-piece follows its fantastic single "2080" with a debut packed with similar moments of pan-ethnic spiritualism. Like Midlake, Grizzly Bear, and Animal Collective-- who have all recently re-shaped tribal, primitive sounds into ultra-modern forms-- Yeasayer channel both a dystopian science-fiction sensibility and deep appreciation for the natural world.
[Recommended] | [Eric Harvey]

Thu: 10-25-07:
Dave Gahan
Hourglass

Depeche Mode singer issues a Pro-Tooled set of dark rock grooves and electronic buzzing that, although lacking any element of surprise, finds his songwriting assured and competent. [Nitsuh Abebe]

The Octopus Project: Hello, Avalanche
Since their 2005 breakthrough One Ten Hundred Thousand Million, these electronics-loving Austinites have further refined their sound. [Adam Moerder]

Ahleuchatistas: Even in the Midst...

On album number four, this Asheville, N.C., trio offers technically complex instrumental rock executed without studio fussiness.

[Joe Tangari]

MV & EE With the Golden Road: Gettin' Gone
Latest from Massachusetts-based improv folkies Matt Valentine and Erika Elder finds them paying homage to Neil Young, not entirely successfully. [Grayson Currin]

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Thu: 10-25-07:
Column: Poptimist #9
Between the NME, the rest of the British music press, daily newspapers, and radio certainly-- both commercial radio and public-- there may be more consensus among the traditional tastemakers in British pop than any other time in rock history. How did this happen and what does it mean for UK rock? [Tom Ewing]

Wed: 10-24-07:
The Month In: Reggae / Dancehall
Jah Cure's concert cancellations raise issues about when a criminal has paid his debt to society, and I-Wayne [above] issues his stunning sophomore album, Book of Life. [Dave Stelfox]

Tue: 10-23-07:
Live: Iceland Airwaves Festival
While most of us were hopping between Brooklyn and Manhattan at the sprawling CMJ, Iceland's Airwaves Festival took over Reykjavik, hosting Of Montreal, Bloc Party, !!!, and numerous homegrown bands. [Douglas Wolk]

Mon: 10-22-07:
Interview: Devendra Banhart
A recent chat with the folk star led to talk of squirrel molestation and working at Starbucks, as well as the birth of his new album Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, recorded in Topanga Canyon and as redolent of classic Cali-rock as it is all the other disparate elements that frequently crop up in his music. [Joshua Klein]

Fri: 10-19-07:
Column: Resonant Frequency #51
The vast musical world of Bruce Springsteen and how it fits into a life. [Mark Richardson]

Thu: 10-18-07:
Guest List: No Age
No Age's Dean Spunt and Randy Randall explain why sometimes a band's worst record is their best, have fun with a comb that looks like a switchblade, and recall a dramatic showdown with Rivers Cuomo over an arcade game. [Interview: Tyler Grisham] [Dean Spunt and Randy Randall]