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We’ve been waiting forever for a goth-punk band to make the stylistic connection between Samhain and L.A. Guns, which is just one reason we’re thrilled with AFI’s Sing the Sorrow (DreamWorks) and their single "Girl’s Not Grey," which takes its ghoulish sing-along chorus from Samhain’s "Mother of Mercy" and its sturdy gutter-glam foundation from L.A.Guns’ Cocked and Loaded. On tour with Boston punk stalwarts the Explosion — whose new Sick of Modern Art EP, on their own Tarantulas label, is laying the groundwork for a Virgin debut later this year — AFI are at Avalon (617-423-NEXT) in Boston on Friday and the State Theatre (207-780-8265) in Portland on Saturday.

Max and Igor Cavalera, the blood brothers behind Brazilian thrash gods Sepultura, went their separate ways after their 1996 breakthrough, Roots (Roadrunner), when Sepultura fired their manager, who happened to be Max’s wife. But both brothers have forged ahead along similar lines — Max with his tribal world-metal hybrid Soulfly and Igor with a revamped Sepultura — and this week both groups are in town. Touring behind last year’s 3, Soulfly are at Axis (617-423-NEXT) in Boston on Saturday with E.Town Concrete and Sworn Enemy. And Sepultura are previewing songs from their forthcoming Roorback (label TBA), which includes a bonus-track rendition of U2’s "Bullet the Blue Sky," on a tour with ’80s prog-metal greats Voivod that hits Lido (617-423-NEXT), a new club in the restored Wonderland Ballroom complex in Revere, next Thursday, May 15.

The pratfalls of second albums are always tricky to avoid, and the software-folk group Grandaddy gave V2 a scare when they turned in a deliberately obscure "fake" album recorded in a drunken stupor. The suits sweated, but the "real" second album, 2000’s The Sophtware Slump, a head trip through forests of obsolete technology, was one of the year’s best. They’re out on the road previewing songs from their third album, Sumday (V2, out June 10), and their old fake album — credited to Arm of Roger — is out on their own Sweat of the Alps label. On Sunday, Grandaddy headline Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) in Providence with Rooney; on Monday, they rejoin the Pete Yorn tour at Avalon.

The French haven’t been getting much love Stateside, but the zany, Lille-based bubblegum-glitch collective DAT Politics get a hand from the likes of Matmos, Kid 606, and Blectum from Blechdom on their new Plugs Plus (Chicks on Speed Records). They’ll play Flywheel (413-527-9800) in Easthampton on Tuesday and the Berwick Research Institute (617-442-4200) in Roxbury on Wednesday.

Advance samplers of Revive, the Elektra debut by the Brit-pop outfit Steadman, come with an unusual recommendation: the front panel is a handwritten note from Sir Paul McCartney declaring, among other things, "I like this band!" You can almost see Noel Gallagher quivering with fury in a pub somewhere, shaking his fist and spitting with envy. Steadman are at the Met Café (401-861-2142) in Providence tonight (Thursday, May 8) and at the Paradise Lounge (617-562-8814) in Boston on Friday.

BY CARLY CARIOLI

Issue Date: May 9 - 15, 2003
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