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Thu: 05-15-08: 04:15 PM CDT
Radiohead, Live Nation Respond to Virginia Washout

Thu: 05-15-08: 03:30 PM CDT
The Dodos Extend Tour All the Way to the Fall

Thu: 05-15-08: 02:30 PM CDT
Weezer Issue New Single, Cover Talk Talk, The Band

Thu: 05-15-08: 01:45 PM CDT
Nas Shares Some New Album Details, Tours

Thu: 05-15-08: 12:45 PM CDT
Decemberists' Moen Recruits Malkmus for Solo Debut

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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]

Thu: 05-15-08:
Subtle
ExitingARM

While it highlights what's always been catchiest about Subtle's music, being full of short, fast bangers that you can enjoy out of the corner of your ear, the latest from Doseone's avant-pop/ hip-hop project is also lyrically dense and thematically complex, expanding upon the symbols and storylines they've been developing since their inception.
[Recommended] | [Chris Dahlen]

Thu: 05-15-08:
The Charlatans UK
You Cross My Path

Tenth album by the long-running outfit, available as a free download, has all of the band's trajectories-- Madchester, Stones-inspired classic rock, Britpop-- meeting up at the same intersection. [Ian Cohen]

Pattern Is Movement: All Together
Three records into its career, this mathy Philadelphia outfit has created an accessible album that nonetheless sounds unlike what any other band is doing. [Joe Tangari]

Cloudland Canyon: Lie in Light
Cloudland Canyon's Kip Uhlhorn (Panthers, Red Scare) and Simon Wojan (King Khan & the Shrines) play with drones, krautrock, and the sounds of Angelo Badalamenti on this Kranky release. [Brian Howe]

Dragged By Horses: Deep in the Woods
Mathy Humboldt County, Calif., band debuts with an album that's heavy without resorting to raucous distortion or double bass-drum attacks. [Jason Crock]

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Thu: 05-15-08:
Guest List: HEALTH
All four members of HEALTH pitch in to tip us off to Denver's (erstwhile) undiscovered music scene, try to stoke a beef between Timbaland and Crystal Castles, and lament not getting tips from aliens on how to score a good Pitchfork review. [Interview: Tyler Grisham] [John Famiglietti, Jake Duzsik, Jupiter Keyes, and Benjamin Jared Miller]

Wed: 05-14-08:
The Month In: Reggae / Dancehall
Our latest round-up takes in hazy productions from London's the Heatwave, steely and propulsive riddims from boy wonder Stephen "Di Genius" McGregor, and gushing love songs from Etana [above]. [Dave Stelfox]

Tue: 05-13-08:
Interview: Microphones
We speak to Microphones/Mount Eerie's Phil Elvrum about the recent reissue of his seminal The Glow Pt. 2, trying to write the story of the universe, the geography that informs his music, and his affection for black metal act Xasthur. [Brian Howe]

Mon: 05-12-08:
Interview: Scarlett Johansson
In advance of Scarlett Johansson's debut LP-- a tribute to Tom Waits called Anywhere I Lay My Head-- we talk to the actress about road-tripping with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, being taken seriously as a singer, and her decision to tackle one of the most iconic vocalists of the past half-century. [Amanda Petrusich]

Fri: 05-09-08:
Column: Resonant Frequency #57
Perfect songs are hard to find; here are 12 to start with. [Mark Richardson]

Thu: 05-08-08:
Radiohead: "Nude RE/MIX"
Radiohead's "Nude" remix project is yet another reminder that the age of passive reception of art is on the decline, that eventually we'll all be participating in some way. In this instance, our managing editor Mark Richardson dove into the project, listening to hundreds of tracks to discover common threads and new favorites-- and to try not to lose his mind. [Mark Richardson]