Oct. 2-4
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It's a Windy City invasion as three of Chicago's most intrepid bands pass through the Twin CIties on Friday night: Alt-rock heavyweight Wilco plays what might be best described as "Wilco (The Concert)" in support of its new Wilco (The Album) at Roy Wilkins Auditorium; indie-electro duo Telefon Tel Aviv headlines at 7th Street Entry; and post-rock progenitor Tortoise appears live at the Cedar Cultural Center. For the most elaborate cover-band experience possible, try the Australian Pink Floyd Show at the State Theatre. Local movie lovers can get reacquainted with long vowels as the Walker screens Fargo.
Saturday offers a suspiciously awesome selection of film events. Walker Art Center hosts a solid triple-shot of Coen brothers fare: Intolerable Cruelty, O Brother, Where Art Thou, and No Country For Old Men, all screening as part of the ongoing Raising Cain retrospective. Other moving-picture highlights include Sound Unseen screenings of the new All Tomorrow's Parties (at the Trylon) and the undeground classic Dig! (at Oak Street Cinema), plus a free outdoor presentation of Christopher Guest's triumphantly funny Waiting For Guffman at Lake Harriet. Meanwhile, fans of seductive frontwomen can choose between the drowsy siren songs of Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions at the Music Box and the hopelessly extroverted Juliette Lewis at Station 4.
On Sunday, Kansas City hip-hopper Tech N9ne returns to town for a head-nodding gig at Epic. Brand New ups the melodrama quotient at First Avenue, while These United States map a bubblier indie-pop terrain at at 7th Street Entry. It's also closing night for this year's Sound Unseen festival, featuring Cory McAbee's quizzical The American Astronaut at Oak Street Cinema and Ondi Timoner's chilling post-Internet chronicle We Live In Public at the Cedar.
