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October 31, 2007 | Music Reviews
October 31, 2007 | Reviews: Concerts
October 30, 2007 | Music News
October 30, 2007 | Reviews: Concerts
October 30, 2007 | Music Reviews
October 29, 2007 | Music News
October 29, 2007 | Music Reviews
October 29, 2007 | Music News
October 26, 2007 | Columns
October 26, 2007 | Art, Music News
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An artist whose oversized persona threatens to draw more attention than his music, Mac Lethal is a drinkin’, druggin’, and womanizin’ rapper from the heartland of America. 
Following their never-ending tour cycle in support of Lullabies to Paralyze (2005), Queens of the Stone Age became frustratingly predictable in concert. The band would pound through a repetitive mix of songs; bandleader Josh Homme would make frequent references to drinking, pot smoking, and fucking, and then get pissed off at a random heckler in the crowd. 
Poet Saul Williams’ newest album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, was produced by recent collaborator Trent Reznor. The album, a commentary on racial bigotry and epithets, will only be available to download for free or with a $5 donation to the artist, starting November 1 on Williams’ website. 
Brooklyn decibel terrorists A Place to Bury Strangers have been creating a massive buzz with their economical bursts of noize-toon, neatly encapsulating influences of The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Joy Division, Spacemen-3, Big Black, and Ride. 
“I’d be crazy not to follow / Follow where you lead,” mews Thom Yorke on “Weird Fishes / Arpeggi,” the fourth track from Radiohead’s long-awaited seventh album In Rainbows. It’s a lyric that may pertain to the innovative band’s worshippers. 
Though Russian Circles’ last album was released in May of 2006, the melodic metal instrumentalists built mounds of momentum in 2007. Enter, that six-song, 44-minute album, was released in the United Kingdom, and the trio toured Europe with progressive radio rockers Tool. 
Two Lone Swordsmen — aka Andy Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood — have traced a sweeping career arc over the last two decades. Moving from mutated trip-hop (Andy Weatherall as Sabres of Paradise with his classic Haunted Dancehall) to vintage Warp Records-style downtempo electronics (Stay Down) to hard electro (the outstanding Tiny Reminders), the Swordsmen milked electronic music for everything it was worth — until, it seems, they tired of it. 
Experimental indie rockers Menomena began their fall tour in Boise, Idaho on Friday, October 26. The trio, whose ever-changing live dynamics are not to be missed, will add banjo-tinged indie rockers Illinois to the tour starting on Halloween. 
In the second of a two-part series, burlesque columnist/dancer Jo Weldon finishes her conversation with legendary performer Dixie Evans, discussing raunchy innuendo, wailing saxophones and The Burlesque Hall of Fame. 
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is holding an exhibition titled Abstract Rhythms through February 24, 2008, depicting the correlation between music and visual art. The presentation combines Swiss painter Paul Klee’s (1879-1940) creations with the works of modern artist and musician Devendra Banhart.