  |  Music to Your EarsAnd the Weird Music News of the Week Award Goes to ...OPM Nightclub and Ultralounge! You may already know that the self-proclaimed "VIP" dance club is actually one half of dual-city enterprise—there's one in Las Vegas, Nev., (Caesar's Palace) and one in downtown Albuquerque (two blocks from the railroad tracks). What you didn't know is that one was voted the No. 1 "Upscale Hip-Hop Nightclub in the World," supposedly by more than one milllion voters in the Yahoo Readers’ Poll. The other is closing after this weekend. Bet you can't guess which is which!
 [click to enlarge] Flyer on the WallPolite SocietyYou: $3, quiet hand-clapping and a whiskey sour. The Giranimals, of god and science, The Oktober People and A Man About a Horse: thoughtful indie rocking this Thursday, Aug. 23, at the Launchpad. BYOFFCS (bring your own fruit-flavored ChapStick). [LM]
JazzedNew CDs from New Orleans Musicians Raise Hell and HopeMusicians remind us why New Orleans mattersThanatos and Eros, that timeless couple, never dance closer than when in New Orleans, where every breeze carries scents of mortality and carnality. So maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise that despite the devastation of Katrina, the indifference of the Bush administration, and the incompetence of the Army Corps of Engineers, the city is showing small signs of a resurgence.
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