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News Wed Sep 24 2008

Hearing Things

Kanye West is releasing his new album, 800 & Heartbreak, in November, because he got it done early.

• And speaking of Kanye, he and Rhymefest have teamed up to create a "Muppet Show"-like puppet show for Comedy Central.

• Wilco and Fleet Foxes have recorded a cover of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released," available for free download here.

InChiCity.com interviews the guys behind Gowhere Hip Hop.

• The Smashing Pumpkins are finally playing in Chicago proper -- their first since 2000. Here's DeRogatis' take.

Pitchfork reviews the soundtrack by The Final Solution for a blaxploitation film that was never made.

&bull Decider fills in the local background on this new Rise Against video:

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She's Money

By Kara Luger

When talking musical influences with Helen Money, it's easy to forget her instrument of choice: cello. She references Bob Mould's Beaster, with its wall of sound and intense, thought-obliterating guitar work. She speaks of The Who and all the crazy rock bands she was exposed to in the '80s. "The stuff I like sounds like life or death," she reasons. And this coming from a woman with a picture of Jimi Hendrix taped to her cello case like he's a saint.

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