The Black Keys touring

The Black Keys - a bluesy rock band (or should I say a rocky blues band?) with the amazing Fat Possum Records - the same label that R.L. Burnside was on- are coming to Highdive December 3rd. Kenzie already has tickets. Here is a heads up for everyone to get their albums, fall in love, and still have time to see the show.

Van Gogh: Expressive With a Brush, or a Pen - New York Times

Although his career lasted only a decade, van Gogh created about 1,100 known drawings, capturing everything around him, from peasants and postmen to landscapes and interiors. Drawing was as important a way to record his thoughts as the letters he wrote to his family and friends. Vincent van Gogh considered drawing to be "the root of everything." He once confided to his brother, Theo, that he could not stop drawing because "I really have a draftsman's fist, and I ask you, have I ever doubted or hesitated or wavered since the day I began to draw? I think you know quite well that I pushed on, and of course I gradually grew stronger in the battle." That situation may change next week, when the Met unveils "Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings," the first major exhibition of the artist's drawings ever held in the United States.

OutKast Bring the Jazz

"With their upcoming musical feature film on its way, rap duo OutKast are set to release the film's soundtrack, Idlewild, on December 6th. "Since it's in the Thirties, we didn't want to use too many synthesizers and keys," says Big, who adds that the duo mined its vault of unreleased and unfinished tracks for the album."