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Mon: 05-05-08: 04:30 PM CDT
Radiohead Launch Tour, Help Lower Carbon Footprints

Mon: 05-05-08: 03:16 PM CDT
Frank Black to Open for Stone Temple Pilots

Mon: 05-05-08: 02:00 PM CDT
Iron & Wine, Bill Callahan Open for the Swell Season

Mon: 05-05-08: 01:00 PM CDT
Modest Mouse Add Dates to Tour

Mon: 05-05-08: 11:55 AM CDT
Brendan Canning's BSS Presents LP Details Revealed

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No Age:
Nouns

No Age follow their 2007 EP compilation, Weirdo Rippers, with a gorgeously thick Sub Pop debut-- a hazy, delirious expanse that's friendly and warm and, best of all, unpredictable. Like Times New Viking, No Age bury their addictive sing-alongs in layers of effects and fuzz: Nouns is so cacophonous, so fertile, and so ripe with sound that it's hard to comprehend how just two people manage to make so much noise while still sounding subdued and mysterious. [Amanda Petrusich]

Portishead:
Third

As radical reinventions go, Third-- the first Portishead studio album since 1997-- is surprisingly natural. Darker and bleaker lyrically than their previous work, Third is a sort of re-debut-- the band's sound after it has excised every possible remnant of trip-hop from it. Instead, Third is a psychedelic rock album, with an abrasive and jittery electro-industrial number, analog freakouts, free jazz horns, droning, rhythmically dense garage-kraut, and other sonic detours. [Nate Patrin]

Mon: 05-05-08:
No Age
Nouns

No Age follow their 2007 EP compilation, Weirdo Rippers, with an ambitious Sub Pop debut: Nouns is gorgeously thick-- a hazy, delirious expanse that's friendly and warm and, best of all, unpredictable.
[Best New Music] | [Amanda Petrusich]

Mon: 05-05-08:
Blitzen Trapper
EP / Live/Acoustic

Some of the many new arrangements and new songs being churned out and roadtripped by Blitzen Trapper over the past few months are collected on a self-pressed EP and a live, acoustic iTunes exclusive. [Jason Crock]

Head of Femur: Great Plains
Chicago band has pared back some from the gargantuan arrangements and piles of instruments that characterized its second album, 2005's Hysterical Stars, leading to some surprisingly intimate moments on their latest. [Joe Tangari]

13ghosts: The Strangest Colored Lights
The two songwriters in this Birmingham, Ala., band come over like deep-fried Gutter Twins, and their obsession with mortality makes them musically omnivorous, as if they must digest as much as possible in their allotted time on Earth. [Stephen M. Deusner]

Dead Child: Attack
After an EP in early 2007, Attack is the debut full-length from Dave Pajo's Louisville-based metal band. His sincerity is not in question, but as to the quality of the music, well... [Robbie Mackey]

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Mon: 05-05-08:
Interview: Les Savy Fav
With the recent digital release of their first live album, After the Balls Drop, Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington speaks to us about apes and witches, CCR, that band that sings "Jeremy", and online taxidermy. [Jason Crock]

Fri: 05-02-08:
Interview: El Perro del Mar
To celebrate the American release of her second El Perro del Mar album, From the Valley to the Stars, we talk to Sarah Assbring about her moniker, her charming 60s pop sensibility, and opening for TV on the Radio. [Stephen M. Deusner]

Thu: 05-01-08:
Guest List: Del the Funky Homosapien
Del the Funky Homosapien takes a little time out of his rigorous recording schedule to rep a Styles P joint, wax nostalgic about Parliament-Funkadelic's stage show, and set the record straight on major vs. minor key scales. [Interview: Tyler Grisham]
[Del the Funky Homosapien]

Wed: 04-30-08:
The Month In: Grime / Dubstep
From Warp-signed artists Flying Lotus and Hudson Mohawke to Glasgow's Rustie [above] to a hell of a lot of dudes on Kode9's Hyperdub label, wonky-- which crosses hip-hop, hyphy, grime, chip tunes, dubstep, crunk, and electro by hijacking the mid-range with off-kilter synths-- looks set to explode. [Martin Clark]

Tue: 04-29-08:
Live: Coachella 2008
From Prince to Portishead, the Verve to Animal Collective, Kraftwerk to the National, Death Cab to Rilo Kiley, M.I.A. to Vampire Weekend, and many more, we wrap up another jam-packed Coachella festival. [Ian Cohen and Joe Crosby]

Mon: 04-28-08:
Interview: Boris
We talk to drummer extraordinaire and band spokesman Atsuo about the two versions of Boris' new album, Smile, their identity inside and outside of Japan, their love-destroy relationship with Tokyo, and some of the more obscure yet finer points of Japanese manga comics. [Vicente Gutierrez and Mizuho Ota]