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   Lookbook

   By Erin Roof

   Published: September 3, 2008

   Attention Republicans: After four long days of the RNC, I'm sure your lungs are tired from spewing rhetorical hot air, your hands are limp from giving your egos endless...

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   Dale Watson

   By Jessica Chapman

   Published: September 3, 2008

   Unsung country-music heavyweight Dale Watson is in town tonight, and no better place to have him than Lee's. Watson even has a song about the place: One more reason you should...

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   Damien Dempsey

   By Rick Mason

   Published: September 3, 2008

   Although he's collected a slew of awards in Irish folk and traditional categories in recent years, Dublin native Damien Dempsey is a renegade who not only flirts with the punk...

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   Punch Brothers

   By Rick Mason

   Published: September 3, 2008

   Virtuoso mandolin player Chris Thile was a child prodigy who gained fame, fortune, and widespread acclaim with Nickel Creek. Not only a supreme picker, Thile also became an...

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   GZA

   By Peter S. Scholtes

   Published: September 3, 2008

   Let it stew in the subconscious, where the real Wu-Tang decoding begins, but to my ears GZA's new Pro Tools (Babygrande) sounds like one of the more delirious and imaginative...

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   Dandy Warhols

   By Pat O'Brien

   Published: September 3, 2008

   The Dandy Warhols' perceived shortcomings (wearing their influences too clearly on their sleeves, too blatantly wanting to be megahuge rock stars, etc.) also function as their...

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   Xiu Xiu

   By Pat O'Brien

   Published: September 3, 2008

   The line between noisy pop and avant-garde noise gets smaller with every release from Xiu Xiu. They mix up folk, punk, and ambient noise with slices of almost everything else...

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   Taylor Negron: Satellites

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: September 3, 2008

   D-list celebrity is a strange beast. For some, it's a career made up of paparazzi stalking and attending weird promotional events. For others, it's a matter of stalking...

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   Ralph Nader Super Rally

   By Ben Palosaari

   Published: September 3, 2008

   It's incredibly easy to write off quadrennial thorn-in-the-Democrats'-side Ralph Nader as a narcissistic, extreme liberal determined to wreak havoc during presidential...

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    Duke Robillard

    By Rick Mason

    Published: September 3, 2008

    Guitarist Duke Robillard is renowned for playing the blues. He founded Roomful of Blues and stuck with them for a decade, later playing with the Fabulous Thunderbirds and...

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    Roy Hargrove Quintet

    By Rick Mason

    Published: September 3, 2008

    Enough of a maverick for prime listeners to expect the unexpected, Roy Hargrove does it again by focusing on the sophisticated elegance of post-bop jazz on his new album,...

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    Brütaal Fight Night

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: September 3, 2008

    Through the annals of history and the thousands years language took to evolve from primitive grunts to words, and on to different languages, the meaning of the umlaut has...

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    Wellstone!

    By Quinton Skinner

    Published: September 3, 2008

    It's been nearly six years since the plane crash that killed Paul Wellstone and, the passage of time being what it is, his old Senate seat (which he was about to contest for a...

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    30 Percent More Commercial

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: September 3, 2008

    For one sweet and liberating month, the creative force of Puny Entertainment's 22 madly artistic minds will be unleashed on First Amendment Arts to create art for art's sake...

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    Baby Loves Disco

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: September 3, 2008

    It may have been quite awhile since you last had your soul crushed at a dance club, but the general experience hasn't changed much. Girls still cry in the bathroom, boys dance...

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    The Unconvention: American Politics Sideshow: Weird and Wild

    By Rhena Tantisunthorn

    Published: September 3, 2008

    It is often said that an election year is like a three-ring circus. The "UnConvention" takes this saying to a new level by hosting a daylong, well, circus. The nonpartisan...

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    Nas

    By Peter S. Scholtes

    Published: September 3, 2008

    That crucifixion video was a bit much, and "One Mic" couldn't save Stillmatic from the doldrums, so if you've tuned out Nas since around "Black Girl Lost" on his second album,...

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    Concrete and Grass: Lowertown Music Festival

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: September 3, 2008

    Lowertown St. Paul has been on a roll lately. Several summers ago I would have only recommended a trip to the region for the Farmers' Market, or perhaps for a glass of wine at...

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    Outformation

    By Rick Mason

    Published: September 3, 2008

    Atlanta's Outformation was formed in 2002 by guitarist Sam Holt, who also continued playing with his other band, Widespread Panic, until last year. As a parting gift, his WP...

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    American Pottery Festival

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: September 3, 2008

    Quick, name a world-renowned pottery artist. Okay, so maybe pottery isn't the most popular or well-known form of art. But that only amplifies the importance of the Northern...