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The No Depression Festival at Marymoor Park on Saturday is a daylong plunge into the "alternative country" genre.

The Salt Lake City Arts Council just released the lineup for their annual free Twilight Concert Series and, we've gotta say, it might be worth subletting your apartment and taking off to SLC for the next two months.

Dark Was The Night , the two-disc 31-track compilaton released back in February was produced by the Dessner brothers of The National and John Carlin.

Ain't no party like a dinner party, 'cuz for a dinnerpartyyouneedaquietCD that don't stop.

But if I make the Pearly Gates / I'll do my best to make a drawing / of God and Lucifer, a boy and girl / An angel kissin' on a sinner.

Enter to win a pair of tickets to this year's No Depression Festival on Saturday, July 11 at Marymoor Park.

The music business makes its money on tour these days, and summer is the season when everybody hits the road, fingers crossed, in hopes that with school out and the temperature rising, live music still seems like a necessary entertainment expenditure.

Pop-music lovers used to have to wait until the last quarter of the year for blockbuster album releases - just in time for holiday gift-buying. But the lagging economy has sharpened year-round competition for entertainment dollars, prompting artists and record labels to seek a wider window for marketing their wares.

Iron and Wine Around the Well This two-disc set of rarities and previously unreleased Iron and Wine tracks is a beautiful thing, but the package is lacking in one significant respect.

Iron & Wine aka Sam Beam relased Around the Well eariler this month. The 23-track album is a collection of Beam's leftovers, such as outtakes, demos, soundtrack cuts, whatever didn't make it onto a previous album.

THE BELIEVERS, Lucky You : Launching with the Katrina-inspired gospel-rocker "Higher Ground," the Seattle duo shakes up the soulful roots sound of previous albums, punching up muscular '80s-style guitars and bracketing the bittersweet "Read It & Weep" with the bouncy "Who's Your Baby Now" and a righteous take on Judas Priest's "You've Got Another ...

Anyone who's within the reach of one of the trendiest college-radio signals knows that folk is the big deal in the underground these days.

The album: Around the Well The spin: Sam Beam of the folk group Iron & Wine is deceptively prolific.

The Edmonton Folk Music Festival, the city's grande dame of music festivals, is turning 30,A but you certainly can't accuse her of getting stale.

Pop-music lovers used to have to wait until the last quarter of the year for blockbuster album releases - just in time for holiday gift-buying. But the lagging economy has sharpened year-round competition for entertainment dollars, prompting artists and record labels to seek a wider window for marketing their wares.

Heat EP:A All Pain Is Beat three tracks on a red buzz saw-shaped slab of vinyl. Cursive - Mama I'm Swollen Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On Headlights - Remixes Originally released as a limited edition CD last December and sold out in less than three months.

Warner Bros. has released 60 stunning photos of the stars and the decimated world of the future; see some at http://www.imdb.com . I'll be watching for the combination of CG effects and live action and Helena Bonham Carter as villainous Serena.

Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie and Jermaine Clement get a leg up. Flight of the Conchords, Iron & Wine, Arj Barker Saturday, May 16, 2009 Red Rocks Amphitheater Better than: Going to a show to see bands that take themselves far too seriously.

Horse Feathers, with Joe Pug. Tuesday, May 19, at the Bottleneck. When Iron and Wine 's Sam Beam abandoned the rustic, breathy minimalism of his early albums for new songs caked in head-spinning reverb, he left the door open for Horse Feathers to steal your indie-folk-loving heart.