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Just as she allowed folks to play with 2006's Bring Me the Workhorse on the remix LP Tear It Down, Shara Worden (aka My Brightest Diamond) has offered up her sophomore set, A Thousand Shark's Teeth, to various knob-twiddlers for a series of remix EPs. To give this remix project a more singular focus, each of the four EPs will feature a different single remixer, starting with one by Alfred Brown and eventually including entries from DM Stith, Son Lux, and Roberto Carlos Lange (Epstein, Savath and Savalas).

Asthmatic Kitty has already digitally released Brown's entry, Shark Remixes, Vol. 1, and all four volumes will see a physical release next year.

Worden is currently on the road with the "string trio formation" of My Brightest Diamond. She has dubbed this jaunt the "MBD Recession Blues" tour, and the current economic climate has inspired her to offer free tickets to each show via a contest on her website.

Here's how the contest works: Each day there is a My Brightest Diamond show, Worden will post a Twitter on the front page of the MBD website at noon, containing a quiz question. The first two people to respond to word@mybrightestdiamond.com with the correct answer will win a free ticket (and a plus one) for the show that night.

So far, quiz questions have included, "What are the names of three band members of A-ha?", "What musical instrument did Benjamin Franklin invent?", and "Which Ravel opera has the lyrics 'Black & Costaud'?"

Shark Remixes, Vol. 1:

01 Overture
02 A Thousand Stars Against a Dark Sky
03 In Vacuum
04 black!Black!BLACK!
05 Of Fear and Wonder (I Found a Universe)
06 I'm Never Letting Go (Stars at Elbow and Foot)
07 The Lonliest Man in History (Looking Down From the Top of the World)
08 You Are Now Untouchable (Esto Perpetue)

My Brightest Diamond:

11-03 Oberlin, OH - Oberlin College *
11-05 Grand Rapids, MI - The Ladies Literary Club *
11-06 Danville, IN - Royal Theater *#
11-07 Chicago, IL - Schubas *
11-08 Madison, WI - Orpheum Theatre - Stage Door *#
11-09 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center *
11-11 St. Louis, MO - Cicero's *
11-13 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge *
11-14 Paonia, CO - Paradise Theater *
11-15 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge *
11-16 Boise, ID - Neurolux *
11-17 Kennewick, WA - The Red Room *
11-19 Seattle, WA - Triple Door *
11-20 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *
11-21 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall *
11-22 San Francisco, CA - Swedish American Hall *
11-24 Santa Cruz, CA - Rio Theatre *
11-25 San Diego, CA - Casbah *
11-26 Los Angeles, CA - Hotel Café *
11-29 Tuscon, AZ - Solar Culture *
11-30 Albuquerque, NM - The Cooperage *
12-03 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater *
12-04 Little Rock, AR - Sticky Fingerz Chicken Shack *
12-05 Birmingham, AL - Bottle Tree *
12-06 Knoxville, TN - Square Room *
12-07 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
12-09 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel *
12-10 Charlottesville, VA - Gravity Lounge *
12-11 Washington, DC - Rock and Roll Hotel *
12-12 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
12-13 New York, NY - (Le) Poisson Rouge *

* with Clare & the Reasons
# with Marla Hansen