The Mali connection
	Worldly blues from Markus James, Bonnie Raitt, Corey Harris, and Justin Adams by BANNING EYRE

Putting old wine into new bottles Fall fare from Beck, Tori, Sinéad, and more by MATT ASHARE

Rhyme and reason Mr. Lif is poised for a breakthrough BY MICHAEL ENDELMAN

Local Anesthesia: Power (pop) play The Marlowes' Sugarbursts &Thunderbolts by BOB GULLA

If the workshops at this weekend's politically minded Boston National Youth Hip-Hop Conference have you hankering to see theory in practice, we recommend that you high-tail it out to Worcester, where on Saturday the grandaddies of rap-as-insurrection -- that's right, Public Enemy -- arrive at the Palladium (800-477-6849) behind their new odds-and-sods disc Revolverlution (Koch), with Dilated Peoples and Blackalicious in tow. The same bill also travels to Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) in Providence on Sunday and to Pearl Street (413-584-0610) in Northampton on Monday. And old-school activism attends old-school flavor when the Beatnuts and Non-Phixion bring their "Rap the Vote" tour to Lupo's on Monday; to Axis (617-423-NEXT) in Boston on Tuesday; and to Higher Ground (802-654-8888) in Winooski, Vermont, on Wednesday.

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