Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men will be greeting The M-Shop tomorrow night with a unique blend of really loud and really soft folk music. Alvin is former guitar player for the pioneering punk band X. Tickets are $7 for students.

Upcoming Releases

The soundtrack for “Rugrats” will be hitting music shelves on Nov. 3, MTV News reported. Blackstreet, Mase and Mya collaborate on “Take Me There.” A Tribe Called Quest rapper Phife will join Beck, Jakob Dylan, Lenny Kravitz, The B-52’s, Lisa Loeb and Patti Smith to perform “This World Is Something Strange To Me.” Busta Rhymes and No Doubt also appear on the soundtrack.

Over four hours of Bruce Springsteen is coming your way on Nov. 10. “Bruce Springsteen: Tracks” contains 66 songs on four CDs, 56 of which are previously unreleased masters.

The other 10 tracks are b-sides, “some of which were released only internationally,” the Daily Dish said.

Here’s something else to raise your spirit in November. Jewel plans to release her second album on the 17th. “Spirit” was written entirely be the Alaskan native, except for the first single, “Hands” which was co-written by Patrick Leonard.

“I wanted to write a record that was the antidote to all the things which made me worry in the world, so that it’s comforting somehow,” Jewel said in a Billboard article.

The comforting album features many guest performers, including Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who performs on “Barcelona.”

Rusted Root plans to unleash its third album on Nov. 10, a Mercury Records press release said. The self-titled work, produced by Susan Rogers, features Hot Tuna doing a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”

In the meantime, Rusted Root is touring on the eastern side of the continental U.S. and will play a couple of shows in Illinois. They’ll hit DeKalb on Oct. 19 and Urbana the following day.

The midwestern band Wilco just finished recording its next album on Reprise Records. “Summer Teeth” will be released in February. Frontman Jeff Tweedy described the work to Rocktropolis as a “dark pop record. There’s nothing country or twangy about it.”

The record will differ from Wilco’s previous releases, “Being There” and “A.M.” “We’ve been working toward becoming a more collaborative band,” Tweedy said. The songs will reflect a group effort rather than solely focusing on Tweedy’s ideas.

Meanwhile, Tweedy may be appearing on the Minus Five’s upcoming project. Scott McCaughey of the Young Fresh Fellows heads Minus Five which has had a diverse membership of musicians.

Minus Five has included R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, the Posies’ Ken Stringfellow and Jason Finn of the Presidents of the United States.

Through the Grapevine

Many Pearl Jam fans yielded on buying the band’s last album. Is the public ready for another release?

Ready or not, there may be a live album hitting the states in late November.

There is no official word yet, but rumors from “Five Horizons: A Pearl Jam Fanzine” suggest that two CDs will be comprised of selections from many shows, not just one, and will be released in Germany on Nov. 24.

In other low-key Pearl Jam news, the band opened for Cheap Trick Saturday at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle.

Adam Jonas is a freshman in pre-architecture from Ames.