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Lil Wayne:
Tha Carter III

Nine years after his first solo LP, and on the heels of an unprecedented glut of increasingly remarkable mixtape and internet leaks, Lil Wayne produces Tha Carter III, the epic culmination of a lifetime of eccentricities. This is Wayne's moment and he embraces it on his own terms. [Ryan Dombal]

Crystal Antlers:
EP

Crystal Antlers look like outcasts from six different bands, and at various points on this record, they sound like it, too. Merging lo-fi, psych, garage, and everything in between, their debut EP is an unorthodox summer record-- not so much for driving to the beach as actually being in its sweltering grasp, equal parts scorched earth and wide open spaces. Though it's tempting to pass this disc off as a stopgap on the way to a triumphant long-player, there's enough triumph packed into its 25 minutes to qualify as one of the year's most promising debuts. Plus, you know what they say about always leaving them wanting more. [Ian Cohen]

Thu: 06-12-08:
Lil Wayne
Tha Carter III

Thu: 06-12-08:
Sloan
Parallel Play

The latest from veteran power-poppers Sloan, Parallel Play, is in a strange position of being a follow-up to a breakthrough album-- 2006's ambitious Never Hear the End of It-- that never really broke through. [Ian Cohen]

D. Charles Speer and the Helix: After Hours
Although it sometimes shares more with No Wave than No Depression, Dave Shuford-- the man behind the D. Charles Speer curtain-- most often speaks from a six-Buds-to-the-wind perspective. [Amy Granzin]

Lukestar / Truls & the Trees: Lake Toba / Ailanthus
Norway's Truls Heggero-- a prodigiously ambitious musician with a gift for witty, sprawling arrangements full of offbeat instrumentation and plenty of musical gambits-- exhibits his rock (Lukestar) and rustic (Truls & the Trees) sides on two recent releases. [Stephen M. Deusner]

Mixel Pixel: Let's Be Friends
On their fifth album, Brooklyn-based trio Mixel Pixel have finally, fully given into the techie connotations of their name and mostly done away with their psychedelic, willfully cheap guitar sound. [Rebecca Raber]

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Thu: 06-12-08:
Guest List: Wolf Parade
The week before the release of Wolf Parade's latest record, At Mount Zoomer, we talk to Dan Boeckner about 1980s underwater horror movies, a long-running science show on Canadian radio, and his favorite indestructible delay pedal. [Interview: Tyler Grisham] [Dan Boeckner]

Wed: 06-11-08:
The Month In: Techno
Thanks to a lineup drawing more heavily than ever before on hip-hop and dubstep, this year's version of MUTEK-- Montreal's annual celebration of primarily experimental electronic music and minimal techno-- went a long way towards expanding its public as well as its mandate [Philip Sherburne]

Tue: 06-10-08:
Interview: Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris has kept up an incredible track record for more than 30 years, since the death of Gram Parsons dissolved their historic partnership and Harris set out on a solo career, stretching all the way up to her latest, All I Intended to Be. Of course, with that voice it's hard to imagine Harris ever going wrong. [Joshua Klein]

Mon: 06-09-08:
Interview: Spiritualized
Songs in A&E, Jason Pierce's sixth studio album as Spiritualized, is a full-volume, ultra-dynamic return to glory-- and here he talks at length about it. [Grayson Currin]

Fri: 06-06-08:
Column: Resonant Frequency #58
"American Idol", Robert Pollard, Christian Fennesz, and why well-written songs are the true stars of the musical universe. [Mark Richardson]

Thu: 06-05-08:
Guest List: Jamie Lidell
Jamie Lidell speaks to us from the privacy of some venue's restroom, trying unsuccesfully to avoid picking his favorite songs, bands, and movies-- a feat that requires him to stretch his memory to fantastically retro lengths. [Interview: Tyler Grisham] [Jamie Lidell]