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CALGARY HERALD Thursday, November 15, 2007 D3 MUSIC Calgary's Top 10 Music Source: SoundScan ENTERTAINMENT Country CURRKNT Alt un at iv i Hard Rock I This Last week National Artist week 1 2 SeriTankian 2 Elect The Dead 2 1 Avenged Sevenfold 1 Avenged Sevenfold 3 3 Foo Fighters 3 i Echoes Silence Patience Grace 4 4 Seether 4 Finding Beauty In Negative Spa 5 6 Kid Rock 6 Rock Roll Jesus 6 5 LinkinPark 5 Minutes To Midnight 7 7 Daughtry 7 Daughtry 8 10 Coheed Cambria 8 No World For Tomorrow 9 9 Finger Eleven 9 Them Vs. You Vs. Me 10 8 Nickelback 10 All The Right Reasons This week National Last week Artist Garth Brooks Ultimate Hits Carrie Underwood Carnival Ride Reba McEntlre Reba Duets PlantKrauss Raising Sand Rascal Flatts Still Feels Good Various Artists Country Heat 2008 Paul Brandt Risk Taylor Swift Taylor Swift Johnny Reid Kicking Stones Brooks Dunn Cowboy Town 14 10 10 CONCERT This week National Last week Artist Jay-Z American Gangster 2 3 Timbaland 1 Timbaland Presents Shock Value 3 5 KayneWest 2 Graduation 4 4 Chris Brown Exclusive 5 6 Jully Black 4 Revival 6 2 Rihanna 3 Good Girl Gone Bad 7 8 50 Cent 5 Curtis 8 9- Amy Winehouse 8 Back To Black 9 7 Justin Timberlake 6 FuturesexLove Sounds 10 10 Jennifer Lopez 7 Brave ll mid. This week National Last week Artist 1 1 Hedley 1 Famous Last Words 2 2 Angels Airwaves l-Empire 3 4 Feist 4 Reminder 4 5 SeriTankian 3 Elect The Dead 5 3 Avenged Sevenfold 2 A venged Sevenfold 6 8 Foo Fighters 7 Echoes Silence Patience Grace 7 17 Neverending White Lights 5 Act 2: The Blood And The Life Eternal 8 15 Matchbox Twenty 8 Exile On Mainstream (Best Of) 9 7 SigurRos HvarfHeim 10 9 Seether 9 Finding Beauty In Negative Spa 1 I Ween's La Cucaracha infests Flames Central This week National Last week Artist 1 1 Garth Brooks Ultimate Hits 2 2 Josh Groban Noel 3 5 Britney Spears Blackout 4 3 Jay-Z American Gangster 5 4 Paul Potts One Chance 6 6 Carrie Underwood Carnival Ride 7 8 Andrea Bocelli Besf Of Andrea Bocelli-Vivere 8 7 Hedley Famous Last Words 9 11 Angels Airwaves l-Empire 10 14 Reba McEntire Reba Duets I w.v Authentic Japanese Udon and Soba 1 (Buckwheat) Noodle Dishes and a wide 1 assortment of delicacies including sushi. 1 Present this ad and receive i 20 IFF 4 your food bill! Cannot be combined with other offers.

Does not include alcoholic beverages. Expires December 31, 2007. ICfeAlthe 5th St 11th Ave. SW www.sobaten.com si Courtesy, Rounder Mickey (Dean Ween) Melchiondo and Aaron (Gene Ween) Freeman of Ween will perform at Flames Central Friday night. 265-2664 THIS WEEK AT THE ZOO 5 icpnese noodle house 1 1 i.

Trr-iys r' SFH-- WI -It r-v m- i New record label, same old oddball rock band JONATHAN COHEN Billboard Ween was always one of the more curious major label signings of the early '90s alternative rock explosion. The cult-favourite Pennsylvania duo preferred to dabble in every genre imaginable (they even made a full-fledged country album in 1996) PREVIEW than attempt to court Ween perform the favour of radio. Friday night at But somehow, Flames Central. Ween remained on Tickets at Elektra Records for Ticketmaster. more than a decade before joining Sanctuary for the release of 2003's Quebec, which has sold 91,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Now, the group has just inked with Rounder to handle its latest project, La Cucaracha, which arrived last month. In an odd twist, guitarist Mickey (Dean Ween) Melchiondo grew up following area legend George Thoro-good, whose back catalogue is also handled by Rounder. "Some of those pictures in his Rounder albums are taken at the bar I drink at every single night," he says proudly. Ween will continue to maintain its own Chocodog label, on which it has released several live albums and efforts by like-minded bands. But the act didn't consider going DIY for the La Cucaracha.

"At this stage, we want to make records and let somebody else try and sell them," Melchiondo says. "We didn't have any real specific needs, other than, get the record out in as many stores as you can, and we'll go out and tour hard behind it," he says. On Oct. 16, Ween embarked on its most extensive roadwork in years, first hitting North America including a Friday night show at Flames Central and then heading to Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The shows are featuring a wealth of La Cucaracha material.

"We want to be able to play 80 or 90 per cent of this album onstage," says Melchiondo, who is joined in the band by lifelong friend Aaron (Gene Ween) Freeman. "Because we play a three-hour show, just for my own sanity I need as many new songs as possible." Highlights include the back-porch country jam Learnin to Love, the gruff, Melchiondo-sung My Own Bare Hands, the nearly n-minute rocker Woman and Man and Spirit Walker, a prog-rock homage. But the band is most proud of Your Party, which boasts a guest turn from saxophonist David Sanborn. "The demo kind of sounded like the Red Hot Chili Peppers or something," Melchiondo says. "But then we decided to go the opposite way instead of making it nasty, we thought, 'Let's make it And when I think of smooth, I think of David Sanborn." 1 1 Nov 30, 2007 to Jan 5, 2008 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm (gates close at 8:30 pm) Closed Christmas Da and excluding New Year Eve Celebrate 1 0 years of Zeoltghtsl Enjoy feature nights the first 10 days of Zoolights Celebrate the I Oth day of Christmas and enter to win a trip to Ireland to see "10 lords a leaping brought to you by Greengate Garden Centres Live web chats with Santa direct from the North Pole 2 million twinkling lights.

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