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-- They haven't released any music since their 2006 art installation soundtrack and they still don't have any planned, but the electro-acoustic duo the Books will play a few shows in the coming months.

-- Denver gypsy-punk journeymen DeVotchKa are also hitting the road, touring the U.S. throughout winter.

-- On January 27, electro producer Eliot Lipp will release a new album, the awesomely titled Peace Love Weed 3D, on his own label, Old Tacoma Records. A single, "Beamrider", is out now. Lipp is currently touring America, and he'll be on the road through mid-March.

-- Back when Orange Juice was in its heyday, every British post-punk band wanted to do something like this: Former OJ frontman and "A Girl Like You" Bowie-impersonator Edwyn Collins has finally hooked up with the legendary reggae rhythm section Sly & Robbie. Sly & Robbie will back Collins on a bunch of dub versions of old Orange Juice songs at a show at Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket on January 25. This is part of an event that Future Pilot AKA mastermind Sushil K. Dade (remember that guy?) curated, and it's somehow supposed to pay tribute to the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Thanks to John Caples for the tip.

-- Crate-digging powerhouse the Numero Group will bring its superlative taste to the stage for the first time this spring. On April 4 at Chicago's Park West, the label will present "Eccentric Soul Revue", its first live show. The revue will feature artists from the defunct Chicago soul label Twinight, which was chronicled on the 2006 Numero compilation Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation. Renaldo Domino, the Kaldirons, and the Final Solution will all perform for the first time in over three decades, in addition to performances from the still-active Syl Johnson, the Notations, and Nate Evans.

Numero Group also has a few new releases lined up for the coming weeks. On January 27, the Asterisk imprint will release long-forgotten 1970s folkie Caroline Peyton's albums Mock Up and Intuition, and on February 10, they will inaugurate the new vinyl-only imprint Numerophon with Niela Miller's Songs of Leaving.