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Thursday14
Greg DulliFour Tet
Friday15
Patty LovelessMassive AttackJeff MillsTarbaby
Saturday16
Big FreediaBaseball FuriesJon Mueller and Olivia BlockTristan PerichTarbaby
Sunday17
Early ManJazmine Sullivan
Monday18
Olof Arnalds, Doug Paisley
Tuesday19
Band of Horses
FOUR TET Four Tet‘s latest, the remix collection Angel Echoes (Domino), is longer than the record it draws from, nabbing the handful of high points from There Is Love in You and training them under new management. Featuring remixes of “Angel Echoes” by Caribou and Jon Hopkins—as well as previously vinyl-only remixes of “Sing” and “Love Cry” by Joy Orbison, Roska, and others—it sexes up the most idyllic indietronica qua techno of 2010. On There Is Love Four Tet, aka Kieran Hebden, backs away from his kitchen-sink collagist’s approach and moves toward a more focused and strictly rhythmic aesthetic that’s closer to traditional techno. That’s not to say he’s gone retro—he pulls moodiness and space from new sources like dubstep and chillwave, so that his music amounts to the sort of reserved and classy London club cool-out that makes sense coming from the polymathic producer, DJ, and rocker. Matthew Dear and Jon Hopkins open. 9 PM, Metro, 3730 N. Clark, 773-549-0203, $21, 18+. —Jessica Hopper
MASSIVE ATTACK Massive Attack were never the most visionary act tagged with the ridiculous-in-retrospect label “trip-hop.” That would be fellow Bristolians Portishead, who were always a mile out and to the left of the pack. But they frequently came closest to the genre’s platonic ideal: a dark, heavy, and extremely synergistic commingling of hip-hop, reggae, techno, soul, dub, and postpunk. Though Massive Attack peaked in 1998 with the gloss-black bong rip Mezzanine, which hasn’t gotten any less stunning with age, they’re not operating too far below that level today. This year’s Heligoland (Virgin) isn’t as pleasantly, suffocatingly dense as Mezzanine, but it shows that the group—now stripped down to a duo—have moved beyond collaging genres and on to building an organic, beat-heavy style of their own. And their instinct for picking guest vocalists remains sharp: Heligoland features contributions by TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, reggae legend Horace Andy, former Mazzy Star vocalist Hope Sandoval, and onetime Tricky collaborator Martina Topley Bird (who also opens the show). 8:30 PM, Riviera Theatre, 4746 N. Racine, 773-275-6800 or 866-448-7849, $40, 18+. —Miles Raymer
