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The definite articles have gotten a bit out of hand lately: you can’t tell all the "The" bands from one another without a scorecard, and now they’re even starting to rhyme. This week brings us both the Stills — a tuneful and wearily romantic Montreal post-punk outfit who on their debut, Logic Will Break Your Heart (Vice/Atlantic), sound as if they’d materialized out of Britain in the early ’80s — and the Thrills, a Dublin quintet who on their Virgin debut, So Much for the City, sound as if they’d popped out of California in the ’70s. The Stills are likely to find their ideal audience on a tour with Echo and the Bunnymen that hits the Paradise (617-562-8800) in Boston tonight (Thursday, October 23); the Thrills headline Axis (617-262-2437) in Boston on Friday with anti-folk hero and sometime Moldy Peach Adam Green opening.

The Modfather, Paul Weller, hits the Webster Theatre (860-525-5553) in Hartford tonight and Avalon (617-262-2424) in Boston on Friday behind a new DVD, Live at Braehead (Sanctuary), that captures a recent two-hour gig in Glasgow that found him working electric renditions of a few Jam and Style Council chestnuts into the set. And the contemporary mod punk who’s most associated with Weller’s legacy, former Chisel frontman Ted Leo, might be working his cover of the Jam’s "Ghost" — it’s included on his new EP, Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead (Lookout) — into his sets when he hits the Paradise on Wednesday with Weird War (featuring Make-Up/Scene Creamers frontman Ian Svenonius and Royal Trux’s Neil Michael Hagerty) and Smith College (413-584-2700) in Northampton next Thursday, October 30.

Elsewhere in indie-rock nation, Death Cab for Cutie play a pair of sold-out gigs at the Middle East (617-864-EAST) in Cambridge behind their new Transatlanticism (Barsuk), which has cracked the Billboard 100. And the Mars Volta bring salsafied punk rock that sweats like the JB’s, soars like Zeppelin, claves like Santana, and tunnels like Tool to a sold-out Avalon on Saturday.

Screamo champs A Static Lullaby team up with My Chemical Romance for a jaunt that hits the Met Café (401-272-5876) in Providence on Tuesday and Axis on Wednesday. And the Egyptology-obsessed death-metal technicians Nile hit the Palladium (800-477-6849) in Worcester on Saturday.

At press time, there were precious few seats left for Jam’n 94.5’s "Monster Jam" at the FleetCenter (617-931-2000) in Boston on Tuesday with 50 Cent, Obie Trice, Ludacris, P-Diddy protégés Da Band, and others. Hip-hop lifers can console themselves by taking in a visit from Wu-Tang Clan associate Raekwan the Chef, who hits Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) on Monday, Higher Ground (802-654-8888) in Winsooki, Vermont, on Wednesday (with People Under the Stairs, C Ray Walz, and Cunninlynguists), and Pearl Street (413-584-7810) in Northampton next Thursday, October 30.

BY CARLY CARIOLI

Issue Date: October 24 - 30, 2003
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