Also this issue: Making Peace The Doves rise from the ashes. -Nicole Pensiero Trance Encounter Gaian Mind heads for the great outdoors. -Sean O’Neal thesuitespot -Peter Burwasser on Classical Short Cut How to succeed in DJing without really trying. -Sean O’Neal Earth -John Vettese Irish Music and Dance Festival -Mary Armstrong Lefty's Deceiver/Caterpillar -A.D. Amorosi Kay Hanley -M.J. Fine

September 12-18, 2002

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(International) Noise Conspiracy

While The Hives and The Vines lead their garage rock assault on the walls of American pop culture, their compatriots, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, mastermind the propaganda campaign -- wedding primal, throaty, guitar roar and a Marxist polemic straight off the pages of Solidarity. But while they're definitely rabble-rousers, this isn't the Jello Biafra spoken-word tour, which is to say the (I)NC (cute, eh?) are as much about shaking your ass as your core beliefs. Joining them on the annual Plea for Peace tour (benefiting the National Hopeline Network) are Lawrence Arms, a crunchy, melodic punk trio from Chicago with a gift for hooks, and Common Rider, a ska/garage pop hybrid headed by former Operation Ivy singer Jesse Michaels.

Plea For Peace/Take Action tour, Sat., Sept. 14, 7 p.m., $15, with Common Rider, Lawrence Arms and My Chemical Romance, The Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215-336-2000.

—Chris Parker