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In the Mix, Happenings: commentary

Oh no, I've really read too much The Crying of Lot 49. I'm seeing conspiracies everywhere. Farty-pants.

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SONG FOR WHOEVER

Album release news: yes, the Christina Aguilera Christmas album comes out on Tuesday, as does Scattered, Smothered and Covered, the Hootie and the Blowfish covers and B-sides album. Meanwhile, P.J. Harvey releases Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, which features a duet with Thom Yorke of Radiohead.

Finally, the ever-useful concert news. One of my favorite bands, the Beautiful South, are in town this upcoming week. They're playing Avalon on October 22, to be precise. It's always a source of mystery to me that the Housemartins broke up and spawned such disparate sounds as the Beautiful South's masterful ironic pop and Fatboy Slim's. More famous bands coming into town are: Hootie and the Blowfish (October 25, Avalon), Ani DiFranco (October 26-27, Orpheum) and, inevitably, the Squirrel Nut Zippers (October 27, the Roxy).

And of course, this being midterm week it's going to be hard for me to go to any one of these concerts. I have one thing to say.

Farty-pants.

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