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Go on and click this link to watch the trailer for a documentary about the Dixie Chicks and what happened when they spoke out against the president during the beginning of the war on Iraq.

The film opens as a limited release on October 27.

• Gob Iron = Jay Farrar + Anders Parker

• MP3s: Joseph Arthur : Live At Birdy’s 100506, Indianapolis, IN

• MP3s: Eric Bachmann Live in Cambridge, MA

After the long weekend in Boston and New York City, I’m back in Columbus checking up on everything I’ve missed. Normal stuffs resuming tomorrow.

This is the second year that we’ve put together a showcase for the always excellent NEMO Music Festival in Boston. This time we’re doing a showcase Saturday, September 30 at the historic Paradise Lounge.

The line-up:

Dark Side of the Cop
The Sharp Things
Eric Metronome
Megan Palmer
The Bowmans

This is going to be a really great night of music. If you’re in the area, I hope you can attend. For more information on NEMO, click here.

I (Heart) Badly Drawn Boy. His new album, “Born in the UK”, comes out October 17 and I can’t wait to hear it. You can stream one of the songs via Windows Media (sorry) here: Nothing’s Gonna Change Your Mind.

Tiny tour:

October
10 Boston Paradise
11 NYC Hiro Ballroom
12 NYC Hiro Ballroom
14 Toronto Mod Club
16 San Francisco Great American
18 LA Troubadour
19 LA Troubadour

VIDEO: Nothing’s Gonna Change Your Mind
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Do we really need another crunching, crushing, metal outfit skirting around the edges of the sludgier aspects of the whole stoner rock movement? Probably not, but don’t tell that to Austin’s Giant Squid.

Listening to “Neonate,” the first full song on their new disc Metridium Fields, you would be forgiven for just sort of sighing and going, “not another one.” The track is thicker than a congealing scab and covers all the bases, but really doesn’t offer anything to help it stand out from the pack of other longhairs with whiplash.

Then “Versus The Siren” kicks in, a multi-part and expansive duet between husband / wife team Aaron and Aurielle Gregory. Suddenly it becomes apparent that there is a whole lot more here going on than first surmised. The disc opens up to reveal its treasures more readily from that point on, slowly building up the listener’s engagement until the final twenty-one minute payoff of the closing (and title) track.

It’s true, we don’t need another cookie-cutter metal act clogging up the record bins. Luckily Giant Squid bypass that danger rather nicely with their combination of sugar and brimstone and have concocted and intoxicating mixture to pour down your slackened throat.

• New Voxtrot MP3: “Trouble”

Go on and click this link to stream the new album by the Decemberists. It comes out next week.

Click here to pre-order it on Amazon.com, while you’re at it.