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The heated comments in today's Morning Roundup mostly concern what appears to have been a really rough, weather-related time for concert goers at Sunday night's Radiohead concert at Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Va. Consumerist has since picked up the thread, highlighting some of the more incensed venting on the part of fans who were turned away from the venue thanks to road flooding and parking issues at the sold-out concert.

Today, Radiohead kicks off its In Rainbows world tour in West Palm Beach, Florida, which means that D.C.-area fans are mere days away from getting their fix.

As you may have already noticed (look left), Radiohead announced their first batch of U.S. tour dates today (for real this time!), ending months of speculation as to where and when the band will play on its 2008 tour. Looks like Oxford's finest will bring their legendary live show to the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia on Sunday, May 11th. Tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10 am via Live Nation and range from $35 for lawn seats to $55 for assigned seating. If you're a W.A.S.T.E. member, rumor has it that you'll have a crack at snagging some tickets early during a Valentine's Day pre-sale.

As we mentioned last week, Radiohead will be touring North America this year, including a stop in the District. A couple music blogs posted a list of dates and venues today, sending local fans into a tailspin of clearing their calendars for May 21 and wondering when tickets go on sale. We hate to burst your bubbles, but the band's press team tells us that those dates "couldn't be more wrong." The details are still under lock and key. We'll let you know when the truth bubbles to the top.

What would a Radiohead announcement be if there wasn't some shroud of mystery or dangling question marks surrounding it? We've just heard from the band's press team that they will be playing a show in D.C. — at a yet to be announced date and venue. But, the British are definitely coming.

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.

As it gets closer to Halloween for LAist, a contributer recollects her tale of staring down the serial killer, Richard Ramirez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker. Must think happy thoughts -- okay, free organic chocolate chip cookies for Los Angeles -- now that's a happy thought. Other happy Los Angeles thoughts include an interview with Jack Kehler of The Big Lebowski (he was the Dude's landlord), a beautiful and magical photographic moment in Venice...

Saddle Creek Records was kind enough to let us offer DCist readers a couple of free MP3s in honor of the first Georgie James music video, which just hit the Internets for the first time yesterday. Sure sure, you're busy listening to the new Radiohead album you just downloaded this morning, but go ahead and download these while you're at for later listening. They're free, after all. Both tracks are from the band's recently...

2001 was a good year for Radiohead clones. Muse released their second album, Origin of Symmetry, to the fanfare of British rock critics. Coldplay finally attained mainstream success in the United States. And Travis cemented their international popularity with the Nigel Godrich-produced The Invisible Band. Meanwhile, in Denton, Texas (about as far away from Oxford as you can get), five jazz students at the University of North Texas released an EP under the name Midlake....

When the band first broke onto the scene in the mid to late 1990s, Glasgow's Travis was at the forefront of the British trad rock revival. Like its counterpart, Oasis, Travis is a descendant of established bands, such as The Beatles, U2, and Radiohead, as well as a progenitor of Coldplay, the more recent arena kings. The band never attained the success of either Oasis or Coldplay, partly because it rarely attempted to be larger than life while those groups openly admit to a certain amount of megalomania.

FRIDAY: >> DCist Exposed opening reception, OBVS. 6:30 - 9:30 p.m., at Warehouse. >> If you're looking for more hip art happenings afterward, head over to the Hirshhorn After Hours party, which goes until midnight. It's a celebration of the opening of Virgil Marti and Pae White's new site-specific installation in the Hirshhorn lobby, which is the latest in the museum's Directions series. Ian Svenonius is spinning and it looks like there'll be a number...

When Telograph (***) played the Six Points Music Festival back in April, they were easily our favorite band in the festival’s Velvet Lounge lineup. We may have compared them to new-wave hipsters Interpol and The Strokes, but Telograph’s great live show made it difficult to categorize them simply as another “it” band. We’re happy to say that their upcoming EP Little Bits of Plastic justifies our initial impression: Telograph is a band to watch. Over...

FRIDAY: >> George Washington University's surprisingly excellent improv/sketch comedy troupe, Recess, will hold their monthly midnight show tonight in the Ballroom Center . They assure fans that dress-up clothes are not necessary, "but you must have showered in the last 72 hours." For just three bucks, let the campus legacy-holders make you laugh, and likely piss you off. They're willing to take that risk. (Erin Zimmer) >> There's a little band called The Ambitions playing...

Thursday’s opening band for the DAM! Festival show at DC9 was Gaithersburg’s Bellflur. Initial impressions that they were (very) heavily indebted to OK Computer-era Radiohead proved true, with the band either attacking most songs with a “Paranoid Android”-like aggression, or plodding through “You and Whose Army?” style ballads. There were nice touches though – a full arsenal of effects pedals and some spooky vocal lines – and the band has a knack for making things cold and detached sound somewhat pretty. Sure, the only lyric we could understand was the ad nauseam repeat of “all this medication” from lackluster closer “Shooting an Elephant,” and yes, their ambition outstrips their abilities at this point, but it’s still nice to see a band tastefully taking some hints from prog and going for something bigger than a 3 minute pop song.

We've talked about the lineup, interviewd the organizer, and even talked to a couple bands. Now we want to give you the chance to hear what's coming our way with some MP3 previews of a few DAM Fest bands. The music staff got together, divied up the lineup, gathered some files together and is now serving up brief breakdowns of a few bands D.C. will play host to this weekend. If you've got some insight...

Whoooooosh! What's that giant sucking sound? Oh yeah - it's the sweet reverberation of another record store totally biting it and going out of business in this era of iTunes. In this case, we've got Tower Records bowing out of the business, a fact that, though it feels inevitable, saddens us all the same.

According to an AP article that ran in the Post,

On Friday, after a 29-hour auction, most of the bankrupt music retailer's assets were sold to liquidation firm Great American Group, which bid $134.3 million. The company outbid Albany, N.Y.-based retailer Trans World Entertainment by a mere $500,000.

Though Tower is a national chain, I have super fond memories of all the local stores scattered around the area. My particular favorite was the one on Route 7, where I bought my first-ever CD (Radiohead's The Bends), a purchase that sent me on the downward spiral of total music obsession and cost me a fortune spent on weekend shopping binges at the store during high school.

DCist Hemal has her memories of Tower too, saving her from Tysons purgatory:

I was working at the most soul crushing job ever in the paved hell of Tysons corner my first year out of school. I'd escape into the tower records two to three times a week during my lunch break and browse through the CDs, trying to reconnect with something artistic for a few minutes before I had to go back and be an office bitch.

And DCist Matt says:

I remember when my right-wing Christian ex-girlfriend broke up with me and I went out and bought Bad Religion's Against the Grain and a couple of other great punk records at Tower, and I remember thinking, "Aaah, freedom."

See? Even though Tower might have had insanely high prices, often-snooty employees, and happily shilled talentless Top 40 artists, it still managed to resonate with some people in the area. Well, maybe not with DCist Ian:

I'm hoping for a FUTURE Tower memory in which they eventually start having stuff marked down to the point where I can finally take revenge for years of having to take it in a very uncomfortable place from Tower once I reached the cash register.

Point taken. But still, I, personally, can say that I'll kinda miss it. And one more bonus: keep your eye out for out-of-business deals at the stores as the weeks go on.

Do you have any memories (good, bad, or ugly) of Tower Records?

Earlier this summer, we also took a listen to the newest release from our Unbuckled headliners, Middle Distance Runner. Our Chris Snyder's fondness for the album, Plane in Flames, has spread throughout the blogosphere. Even big timers like USA Today's Pop Candy have taken notice of these local lads. Join us tomorrow night at Unbuckled to celebrate two years of DCist and this band on the rise. Until then, here's what Chris had to say about MDR in June.

DCist took in three phenomenal bands on Monday night at the Black Cat. Midlake, Cold War Kids and the Sound Team played the backstage, much to our confusion, and they just may have put on the best show that little room has ever seen. First up was Midlake, a five piece from Denton, TX that embrace interactivity as much as they do fancy instruments. Midlake’s been around for a while, gaining fans and success in...

FRIDAY: >> Please Hammer, don't hurt 'em. Landmark R&B radio station WPGC celebrates 19 years of playing 18 jams in a row with a concert at the Verizon Center that features LL Cool J, MC Hammer, Chuck Brown, EU, Naughty By Nature, Bow Wow, MC Hammer and Lisa Lisa. Apparently Cult Jam had previous commitments. $45 - $70, 7 p.m. (Kyle Gustafson) >> You may have missed La Didone last weekend, but if you...

Named after the metronome beat that allows musicians to record a track in time with the music, D.C.-based quartet Shwa’s EP Click Track is hardly as consistent as its namesake, but it shows a hint of promise. Musically, the band pulls off some interesting ideas, such as the Pablo Honey-esque Radiohead guitar line in “Amygdala” or the bouncy pop beat that leads “Amy” along. But Shwa sets its sights too high with the first track, “So Cry.” While it initially borders on sounding too much like a new Better Than Ezra single, the band brings so much energy to the song that you can’t not be impressed. It’s the type of song that would blow up on the radio if radio stations weren’t so busy asking record companies to pay to play. The downside: Where can an EP go after a song like that?

Acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese was recognized last night as the 2006 Guggenheim Honoree at the SILVERDOCS festival. The award, named after the late 4-time Academy Award winning (longtime D.C. resident) Charles Guggenheim, was presented in a ceremony highlighting Scorsese's contributions to documentary film.

It all started with a mysterious mention on Pitchfork of a Gnarls Barkley date at Pimlico. Yes, that Pimlico. That lead The Upstate Life to do a little research. The mysterious event, taking place on September 23, will also feature The Raconteurs, and is called V Fest. We're hoping that this is an American version of the UK's Virgin-sponsored annual event, which this year will feature acts like Radiohead, Beck, The Dandy Warhols, Bloc Party...

Middle Distance Runner’s first full length album may be entitled Plane in Flames, but their fusion of upbeat drum patterns, catchy guitar riffs, and haunting vocals from front man Stephen Kilroy do anything but crash and burn.

Along with lilac and hyacinth, the sweet sweet smell of summer concerts is in the air. Here's a breakdown of some exciting dates so far. >> Belle & Sebastian, Broken Social Scene & Ted Leo + Pharmacists, Merriweather, July 8. If you're interested, the belle tix presale started today. Tickets go on sale en masse this Saturday at 10 a.m., via Ticketmaster or the Merriweather or 9:30 Club box offices. >> Wolfmother's been doing their...

FRIDAY: >> DCist is pleased to offer $5 off Forum Theatre & Dance's performances of UpShot by Ami Dayan (a scene from the play is at left). It's already received several positive notices, and director Shirley Serotsky has let us know that anyone who shows up at the box office with a print-out of this post can purchase a ticket for $13 (normally $18). This deal is good for the entire run of the play,...

There are bits and pieces of music info floating around out there that we thought you should know about, dear readers. At first we'd thought we'd try to put them together in some sort of organized manner, but then decided we were too lazy for that. So what follows? Just some tidbits about events and news that we threw together in a random fashion. Because we love you like that. >> A couple of performances...

MONDAY: >> The definite must-see show this evening is sure to be Q and Not U's performance at Fort Reno. As we reported earlier, the band is breaking up, and this concert will be one of their last. But if you can't make it tonight, don't worry too much - they're playing shows at the Black Cat September 22 and 23. Tonight, the politically-charged hip hop group Son of Nun opens, and the music gets...

D.C. locals Monopoli are probably the envy of their musical peers, as they’ve earned a surprising amount of buzz and a loyal group of fans after only a year together. We’d heard a lot of things about the four-piece band; on paper they sound excellent, having been described as everything from polished indie rock a la Spoon to a post-shoegaze act not unlike Coldplay.