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THE ALAMO GUIDE for August 28th, 2009 Welp, it looks like summer’s coming to a close, folks. That is of course if you base “summer” on the UT school calendar, and not on the BURNING, STIFLING HEAT of the outdoors. Because that heat definitely still exists. Supposedly it’s raining outside, but I don’t really believe it. Fortunately, rain or blistering heat, we’ll still be here, programming some exciting, weird, and wonderful shows just for YOU! The awesome dudes/ladies

The 2009 Nationwide Mercury Music prize shortlist has been announced, and once again Hugh Platt finds himself screaming at the sky, shaking his fist like an ineffectual cavemsn cursing the Gods for making it rain. Once again, the great and the good of the UK music media are hunched over, hands clasped around their critical appendages, and are furiously word-wanking their opinions onto betting slips. That’s right: the shortlist of albums fighting for the 2009 Mercury Prize have be anno