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   The Tisdales

   By Robert Longmore

   Published: October 8, 2008

   Rich Mattson has a reputation. After playing in bands for more than 20 years, including most notably the Glenrustles and Ol' Yeller, he's known for his blue-collar approach to...

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   The Blind Boys of Alabama and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band

   By Rick Mason

   Published: October 8, 2008

   This joint tour by an outstanding pair of iconic and incredibly venerable bands (the Blind Boys have been around nearly seven decades; the PHJB nearly five) was precipitated by...

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   Fleet Foxes

   By Jessica Chapman

   Published: October 8, 2008

   In case you've been too busy catching up on old episodes of The Nanny or protesting the timber industry by living in one of those big trees again, you need to know that while...

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   David Byrne

   By Peter Scholtes

   Published: October 8, 2008

   Though it opens up in your mind gradually, David Byrne's new album with Brian Eno might well be his deepest and best since the two collaborated in the late '70s and early '80s...

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   Broken Social Scene

   By Jessica Chapman

   Published: October 8, 2008

   Broken Social Scene might be responsible for bringing the handclap back. Who can forget it on "Stars and Sons," from 2003's award-winning You Forgot It in People album? The...

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   Stereolab

   By Peter S. Scholtes

   Published: October 8, 2008

   A tremendous live band with a songbook to match, London's Stereolab draw crowds even as their albums feel less like the cultural events they once were—though am I wrong...

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   Tina Turner

   By Rick Mason

   Published: October 8, 2008

   Tina Turner never, ever takes anything nice and easy. Including retirement. Apparently off the road for good at the turn of the century, she popped up on the Grammys last...

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   Second Annual West Bank Bash

   By Jessica Armbruster

   Published: October 8, 2008

   The West Bank School of music began in the '70s as a flexible way for people of all ages and skill levels to add a little music to their busy lives. A 501 nonprofit music...

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   Macbeth

   By Quinton Skinner

   Published: October 8, 2008

   Stacia Rice has played a number of heart-warming female leads in recent memory (Jane Eyre at the Guthrie, Anne Sullivan in Torch's The Miracle Worker), but this fall she...

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    The Matthew Shepard Foundation Candlelight Ceremony; The Laramie Project

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: October 8, 2008

    Ten years after he was murdered, the appalling facts of Matthew Shepard's death in Laramie, Wyoming, have not become easier to grapple with. The 21-year-old college student was...

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    Andy Kindler

    By P.F. Wilson

    Published: October 8, 2008

    A lot of comics who don't normally talk about politics and current events are getting caught up in this year's presidential election. Andy Kindler is no exception. "I'm...

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    Monster Mash

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: October 8, 2008

    Electricity has played a major role in countless horror movies and novels. It passed judgment on the killer child in The Bad Seed (1956), it wreaked havoc in Gremlin form in...

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    Twin Cities Book Festival

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: October 8, 2008

    Break out your bookmarks, it's time for the printed-word orgy that is the Twin Cities Book Festival. For one day, Minneapolis Community and Technical College will be swarming...

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    Dan Gediman

    By Ben Palosaari

    Published: October 8, 2008

    The idea behind National Public Radio's essay series This I Believe is that we all can learn something from giving anybody three minutes to explain their beliefs. The current...

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    Dirty Dozen Brass Band

    By Rick Mason

    Published: October 8, 2008

    They never did add up to 12 nor neglect their laundry (as far as I know), but the Dirty Dozen have always taken the brass band part of their moniker seriously. Their...

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    Neil Young

    By Rick Mason

    Published: October 8, 2008

    A peculiar triple bill? Maybe, if you consider only its intergenerational nature. But Neil Young has never limited his musical interests by genre or decade, and it's not...

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    Victoria Marks: Not About Iraq

    By Caroline Palmer

    Published: October 8, 2008

    Can dance be a vehicle for social change, a tool for justice, or at least a means for reconciling a messed-up world with our equally complicated selves? In Not About Iraq, a...

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    The Magnetic Fields

    By David Hansen

    Published: October 8, 2008

    Stephen Merritt, the most delicately depressive spirit ever to occupy the lower register, has spent his 42 years spelunking our emotional and sentimental wastelands, refining...

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    David Wilcox

    By P.F. Wilson

    Published: October 8, 2008

    While David Wilcox's latest album, Airstream, sounds sparse in its arrangements, the inspiration for the project couldn't have been grander. A few years ago, Wilcox, along with...

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    SOLD OUT: Cold War Kids

    By Jessica Armbruster

    Published: October 8, 2008

    The Cold War Kids got their start in Fullerton, California, in 2004, quickly gaining popularity with bloggers, Pitchfork, and music heads who enjoyed their impassioned live...