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Opposites attract

Are you always at the same old shows, with the same people and the same sound? Stop it. Do something different. Now.

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Carcass Liverpool’s original gore-grinders return from the dead.
Nokia Theatre Times Square, Sept 6

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Céline Dion Equally scary.
Prudential Center; Sept 10, 12 Nassau Coliseum; Sept 13, 18 Madison Square Garden; Sept 15, 16

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Goldfrapp High-concept theater is part of this English electronica duo’s approach.
Radio City Music Hall, Sept 12

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Built to Spill + Dinosaur Jr. + Meat Puppets These early-’90s alt-rock survivors can barely be bothered to wash their flannel.
Terminal 5; Sept 25, 26

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GZA Spitting rhymes in a downtown club should be smooth sailing for this Wu-Tang word slinger.
Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza, Sept 12

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Antony and the Johnsons Waxing poetic in an uptown hall could be a stretch for this fey tunesmith.
Apollo Theater, Oct 16

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Mogwai Glasgow’s post-rock combo digs into wordless trance.
Terminal 5, Sept 18

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Randy Newman California’s sagacious songwriter serves up wordy rants.
Carnegie Hall, Sept 19

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Cherryholmes Kick up your boots and catch this nomadic bluegrass family act.
Highline Ballroom, Oct 15

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Crystal Castles Boot up with this silicon-fueled electropunk duo from Toronto.
Webster Hall, Oct 23

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Lindsey Buckingham Fleetwood Mac’s control freak runs a tidy ship.
Nokia Theatre Times Square, Oct 19

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Dungen Sweden’s hippie combo offers free-floating bliss.
Music Hall of Williamsburg, Oct 24; Maxwell’s, Oct 27

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