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'Gimme Shelter': In all its glorious rooms

This is tres cool: a breakdown of the Rolling Stones' classic into several (five) discrete parts, starting with vocals from Mick Jagger and Merry Clayton, then Keith Richards' guitar. Listen here. Thanks to Dangerous Minds with a tip of the hat to Steve Wilson. 

On the way: Sarah McLachlan (and others)

She comes to the Uptown Theater on Feb. 16, a Wednesday. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Butterfly Boucher and Melissa McClelland open.

We have missed a couple other concert announcements (well, we kind of ignored one) over the past week or two:

On the way: Loretta Lynn

She will be at the Ameristar Casino on Feb. 11, a Friday. Tickets are $40 to $50.

Review: Usher

Photos by Rich Sugg/The Star

Usher has made it clear since the start of his career that his hero and inspiration was Michael Jackson. Saturday night at the Sprint Center, he showed that Jackson's famous sister, Janet, has been something of a role model, too, at least as a live performer.

Your Saturday evening programming

The ACBs play an early show tonight at the Record Bar. 

The big show in town: Usher at the Sprint Center. If your more in the mood for something more intimate, try one or more of these:

Your Black Friday agenda

Roman Numerals "This Motion" from Outpost Worldwide on Vimeo.

There is a local music feast tonight. Partake of one or man-up and try to hit two or three. The options:

A look ahead: Music due in 2011

Stereogum just posted this list of the "most anticipated albums" that will be released next year. Go here. They are listed alphabetically. From that list (and the honorable mentions), here's my top five, by priority: Radiohead; PJ Harvey; Iron & WIne;  Kanye West and Jay-Z; The Feelies. -- T.F.

Coming to Arrowhead: Taylor Swift

She will perform at the 78,000 seat stadium on Sept. 24. According to kcchiefs.com, "Presale offers for the 'Taylor Swift: Speak Now' concert will again be extended to Jackson County residents and Chiefs season-ticket holders. Details of all offers, including the general public onsale date, will be announced in January." This is the second county show that has been announced at Arrowhead for 2011. Kenny Chesney will perfprm there on July 30. Tickets for that show go on sale Dec. 4.

Review: Os Mutantes

Lawrence has long been a haven for counterculture activity. Sunday's concert at the Granada Theater surely ranks among the most outlandishly unlikely and gently subversive musical events in the college town's history. Even the most fanciful hallucination of a flower-power hippie forty years ago couldn't have foreseen that Os Mutantes, an obscure but influential psychedelic band formed in Brazil in 1966, would find its way to Lawrence in 2010.

On the way: Keith Urban

The date: Aug. 19, a Friday, at the Sprint Center. According to Ticket News, ticket sales will begin over the February 11-12 weekend "for select concerts. Remaining on-sales follow each weekend through mid-March. Prices have not been announced yet ..."