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December 21, 2007 | Reviews: Concerts
December 21, 2007 | Music News
December 21, 2007 | Music News
December 19, 2007 | Books
December 19, 2007 | Movies
December 19, 2007 | Music Reviews
December 19, 2007 | Music News
December 18, 2007 | Music Features
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Last Wednesday’s Dillinger Escape Plan show at Chicago’s Subterranean featured none of the band’s legendary moments (fire blowing, 
If 2007 didn’t include a visit to experimental performance space The Stone in New York’s East Village, then perhaps it’s about time for a visit. Artistic director John Zorn (shown left) is hosting a special year-end benefit and improvisation performance. 
Acting as more than a contest or competition, the Independent Music Awards help selected artists promote, market, and distribute their music. That help will be given in 2008 to the winners of their seventh annual selection, who were recently announced. 
Esteemed percussionist and visual artist Billy Martin can add another notch to his weighty list of accomplishments. Recently released is Riddim: Claves of African Origin, a new book by the Medeski, Martin & Wood drummer. 
Directed by Frank Pavich, hardcore documentary N.Y.H.C. is slated for release by Halo-8 Entertainment as a two-disc DVD on March 29. The vanguard film, which chronicles hardcore punk subculture, was originally distributed as an underground VHS tape in 1999. 
In 1945, Czech writer Vitezslav Nezval penned the book Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, a gothic, surreal coming-of-age tale about a young girl who experiences a series of dreams and hallucinations upon menstruating for the first time. 
The recently disbanded The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower have shed some light on the release of their “mini LP” Saviours & Suckers. The San Diego-based spazzy punkers are aiming for a 2008 release, with Alternative Press editor-in-chief Jason Pettigrew releasing it. 
Despite increasingly miserable mainstream hits (how can the radio get any worse?), 2007 was an excellent, indulgent, fulfilling year of music. Here is a look at our favorite ten albums of the year. 
Would you like to help a roving pack of musicians play in a town near you? Brassy Balkan band Slavic Soul Party is enlisting the help of its fans to fill tour dates on its upcoming west coast tour.
Last week, Chronicle Books and fashion editor Tiffany Godoy released Style Deficit Disorder, the first book to depict the fashion of Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood. The book captures the area’s international style with almost 200 photos, essays by Japanese fashion editors, and commentary by cultural icons.