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    <title>CL&amp;#39;s picks for the week&amp;#39;s best shows</title>
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      WED/18 DAVID GUETTA Famous for his &quot;Fuck me, I&#39;m famous&quot; club parties and mix records, this Parisian DJ has been known as the first to spin house records in France. His latest endeavor finds him on the production end of a star-studded album, teaming up with Akon, Will.i.am, Estelle, Kid Cudi, Ne-Yo, and Kelly Rowland, among others. Despite the crossover appeal, dude&#39;s first love still resides behind the decks. $40-$75. 9 p.m. Opera. 404-874-0428. www.operaatlanta.com. &mdash; Alejandro Leal LYLE LOVETT
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    <title>Los Fabulosos Cadillacs:&amp;amp;nbsp;El Arte de la Elegancia de LFC</title>
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        Sony Music...
       
      
        By Alejandro A. Leal
      
      
      Fans of the veteran Argentinean rockers Los Fabulosos Cadillacs ought to be used to a release like El Arte de la Elegancia de LFC. A compilation of rerecorded and reinterpreted B-side tracks, it follows the same pattern that has propelled the band to revered status among the Rock en Espa&ntilde;ol faithful: Every few years, they&#39;re able to rerelease old material that suddenly catches fire. For El Arte, the goal was to get the band together to capture its current sound,
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    <title>Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel: Live</title>
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        Self-released...
       
      
        By Chad Radford
      
      
      Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel&#39;s latest offering captures two sprawling masses of improvised drones too harmonious to be called avant-garde and too experimental for stuffy modern classical terms. These sounds are the product of two minds sharing a single headspace and letting the music drive &ndash; which is typical of the Atlanta duo. From the onset of the 23:56 minute opener &quot;Live at Eyedrum,&quot; the lines are blurred as each instrument&#39;s respective whines and whirs waver in a dream
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    <title>Blockhead: The Music Scene</title>
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        Ninja Tune...
       
      
        By Ben Westhoff
      
      
      Though his production work on albums for Aesop Rock and other elite indie rappers gets a lot more attention, Manhattan beatmaker Blockhead has quietly been releasing consistently strong solo albums in the last half-decade. His tracks for other artists tend to be more in the hard-hitting, slicing-and-dicing, traditional hip-hop vein, but albums such as his latest, The Music Scene, give him an opportunity to be more atmospheric and experimental, and at times, to simply space out. The disc is at
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    <title>White Denim: Fits</title>
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        Downtown Music...
       
      
        By Chad Radford
      
      
      White Denim&#39;s Fits wields a dizzying, ADD aesthetic that brims with rhythmic dexterity. By design, nothing stays in one place for too long. &quot;Radio Milk How Can You Stand It&quot; opens with a wash of noise that bursts into rhythms snaking through funk, psychedelia and art-rock terrain. The music careens wildly, crashing against the noise-damaged, Tex-Mex spaz of &quot;El Hard Attack Dcwyw&quot; and the spaced-out dub of &quot;Sex Prayer.&quot; At the half-way point, the group&#39;s meds seem to kick in
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    <title>Promoter Bob Patton kept James Brown on the good foot</title>
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        His legacy lives on through the soul of American music...
       
      
        By Grant Britt
      
      
      When James Brown wanted to give Bobby Kennedy his endorsement for president, Bob Patton was the guy Brown chose to deliver the message. Patton&#39;s skills as a music promoter attracted the biggest names in music, including such clients as Al Green, Jerry Lee Lewis, B.B. King, Solomon Burke and Otis Redding. Known as the go-to guy for getting artists exposure in Georgia and beyond for nearly four decades, Patton died Oct. 7 at the age of 70 from an aortic
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        Downtown Music...
       
      
        By Chad Radford
      
      
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    <title>Music-themed toys (not) for tots</title>
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        And other noteworthy novelty items in time for the holidaze...
       
      
        By Chad Radford
      
      
      That cat Santa? Yeah, he was a big ol&#39; pimp. According to a trusted source (Wikipedia), Saint Nicholas of Myra was the dude who served as &quot;the primary inspiration for the Christian figure of Santa Claus.&quot; Apparently, he earned his cake daddy rep after gifting dowries to a destitute Christian&#39;s three daughters to keep them from resorting to prostitution. Guess that would also explain how he stumbled upon his famed greeting: &quot;Ho. Ho. Ho.&quot; It&#39;s been music to our ears
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    <title>Skinny Puppy bites back</title>
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        Are the last great industrial band on the planet?...
       
      
        By Chad Radford
      
      
      Even Skinny Puppy, the last great industrial band on the planet, is feeling the bite of the flailing global economy. As the group&#39;s surviving members, frontman Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie) and drummer/programmer cEVIN Key (Kevin Crompton) embark on their In Solvent See Tour, they do so empty-handed. In May, the group&#39;s label, the German-based SPV Records, filed for insolvency &ndash; the European version of filing Chapter 11. As a result, the group&#39;s 13th studio album, ironically crafted as commentary on the
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    <title>Noise innovators Times New Viking raise the roof</title>
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        But the basement still reigns supreme...
       
      
        By Gabe Vodicka
      
      
      Noise rock has never been mainstream; instead, it has historically targeted a narrow base of dogmatic fans and been released via small boutique labels on home-dubbed cassettes. In recent years, however, a larger crowd has taken notice, and as goes the crowd, so go those who want to sell &lsquo;em stuff. In 2004, for example, indie giant Sub Pop released Burned Mind, a harsh, uncompromising record by Michigan trio Wolf Eyes. Concurrently, such tastemakers as Pitchfork began to pay closer
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>CL&amp;#39;s picks for the week&amp;#39;s best shows</title>
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      WED/11 ABOVE &amp; BEYOND Despite this British trio&rsquo;s name, the diva-esque vocals and progressive house beats it works with are the expected doses of trance euphoria. But that&rsquo;s exactly why Above &amp; Beyond has become an international festival and club favorite among those in a blissfully altered state of mind. $15. 9 p.m. Opera. 404-874-0428. www.operatatlanta.com. &mdash; Jonathan Williams APRIL VERCH Traveling all the way from Ontario, Verch is a champion fiddler, step dancer and vocalist. With her wonderful band,
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    <title>Soulico: Exotic on the Speaker</title>
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        By Ben Westhoff
      
      
      A DJ crew composed of four Tel Aviv beatmakers, Soulico blends U.S. hip-hop with traditional Jewish melodies and Israeli folk in a way that feels exotic to American ears while remaining accessible. It helps that the debut CD, Exotic on the Speaker, features many MCs rap heads will be familiar with, including Ghostface Killah, Lyrics Born, Pigeon John and Del the Funky Homosapien. Mainly, however, the disc succeeds because the tracks bounce, and the Middle Eastern-crossover, party flavor will remind
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    <title>Echo &amp;amp; the Bunnymen: The Fountain</title>
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        By Chad Radford
      
      
      Echo &amp; the Bunnymen&#39;s best songs have always swelled with hopeless romance weighed against distress and an almost creepy sense of longing. The sweeping mood of their groundbreaking early &#39;80s records has steadily evaporated since their mid-&#39;90s reformation, but concise pop tendencies have grown in its wake. The Fountain isn&#39;t poorly executed, it&#39;s just a bit samey. Ian McCulloch&#39;s dark croon in &ldquo;Shroud of Turin&rdquo; and the title track evoke everything that ever made the group so fantastic. And Will
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        By Chad Radford
      
      
      With their self-titled debut, Londoners The xx drift through a mire of boy-girl, twentysomething sexual and emotional ruminations via sparse atmospheres and occasionally evolved pop melodies that hide mostly in the shadows. But when it comes to the surface in &ldquo;VCR,&rdquo; &ldquo;Crystalised&rdquo; and &ldquo;Basic Space,&rdquo; their simple, economical songwriting soars far beyond their years. Vocalist Jamie Smith coos her regrets, apologies and desires with spaciousness and allure, leaving plenty of room to roam in every song. Romy Croft delivers deep,
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    <title>R.A. the Rugged Man: Legendary Classics, Volume 1</title>
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        By Ben Westhoff
      
      
      On his 2004 track &ldquo;Chains,&rdquo; R.A. the Rugged Man raps that he is &ldquo;mad famous for being unknown.&rdquo; This is true. Despite having recorded with everyone from Notorious B.I.G. to Kool G Rap and having once been signed to Jive and Priority, R.A. has only one studio album in a career spanning nearly two decades. Which is why his new greatest hits CD, Legendary Classics, Volume 1, seems strange &mdash; until you realize the Long Island-born MC has enough beloved
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