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Just a few weeks in advance of Halloween, post-jazz/electro-rock luminaries Tortoise will be preparing something special for their home town of Chicago: an aural accompaniment to Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau’s famous and unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. 
According to IMDB.com, there have been two films called Outsourced released in the past year — with a third planned for 2008. If anything, it indicates that vanishing jobs and resentment among US workers provides fertile ground for filmmakers. Surprisingly, director John Jeffcoat’s take on the topic comes as a modest romantic comedy. 
In this week’s installment of Weekly Burlesque, esteemed columnist and dancer Jo Weldon discusses Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind, one of her favorite books on the topic. 
After a seven-year respite from solo albums, the iconic sounds of rapper extraordinaire Del the Funky Homosapien are returning. The founding member of Hieroglyphics is breaking his silence with a new full-length, titled The Eleventh Hour, set for release with Definitive Jux in early 2008 and following a collaborative tour headed by Del himself. 
Good news if you live in or around Chicago: Shellac will play six shows in four nights at The Hideout in December. Since the band’s last album, Excellent Italian Greyhound, the metallic-toned minimalist trio is sticking to its usual routine of casual and relaxed touring. 
Sam Beam is a powerful and poetic songwriter who benefited greatly from the stripped down, simple production of his early recordings. His words and music could stand on their own, without the need for artifice or embellishment. 
Though its name is now substantially less appropriate, instrumental rock outfit Dub Trio have prepared significantly heavier material for Another Sound is Dying, the group’s third effort and first for new home Ipecac Recordings. 
Lest their name be taken in jest or as a clever ruse, Clockcleaner set the record straight with their new album Babylon Rules. The band exists to pummel, punish, and taunt, meaning there’s a perfectly good reason why they were dubbed “Philadelphia’s most hated band.” 
Stephen Colbert, the Johnathan Swift of cable programming and host of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, has decided to grace the literary world with his modern-day satire. Winner of three Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Bill O’Reilly-esque news broadcasts, Colbert has authored I Am America (And So Can You!), allowing his particular brand of caricature access to yet another venue hijacked by personality-driven politics. 
As far as standard-issue iPod compendia go, In Our Bedroom After The War, the latest album from Stars, is pretty big-hearted. The fourth album from these Canadian electro-indie soulsters finds them tackling political unrest as seen through the eyes of young and restless lovers.