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This week's regional pick and new releases...

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Tonight, everyone should make their way out to Duling Hall for Todd Snider's show. It will be a feast for media types as he reads from his book, shows us film and even plays music. There's something for everybody.

Tomorrow, vinyl enthusiasts will celebrate Record Store Day. With the closing of MorningBell, most of the die hards will have to go out of town to try to grab exclusive vinyl releases. Be safe and happy hunting.For a complete list of participating stores and releases, go here.

If you're out of town this Easter weekend, here are few things going on north and south of us:

4/19 - Rob Thomas - Horseshoe Casino - Tunica

4/18 - 4/27 - Biloxi Crawfish Festival feat. Three Days Grace, Charlie Daniels Band, etc. - MS Coast Coliseum - Biloxi

4/20 - Rick Ross - Lakefront Arena - New Orleans

4/21 - Aziz Ansari - Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts - New Orleans

Also, here's this week's new releases:

The Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast

The Both - The Both

Nas - Illmatic XX [20th Anniversary Edition]

Slint - Spiderland [LP]

Ray Bonneville - Easy Gone

Rodney Crowell - Tarpaper Sky

Thee Oh Sees - Drop

Woods - With Light and With Love

Duck Sauce - Quack

Chet Faker - Built on Glass

Ziggy Marley - Fly Rasta

Ingrid Michaelson - Lights Out

Dan Wilson - Love Without Fear

Nels Cline/Medeski, Martin & Wood - Woodstock Sessions, Vol. 2

Stanton Moore - Conversations

The Secret Sisters - Put Your Needle Down

Sonic Avenues - Mistakes

Bobby Bare, Jr. - Bobby Bare, Jr.'s Young Criminals' Starvation League

Chuck E. Weiss - Red Beans and Weiss

Amps for Christ - Canyons Cars and Crows

Dylan Shearer - Garagearray

Ryley Walker - All Kinds of You

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We'll use Storify to follow tweets, Facebook, Touts and other updates throughout the night, including time coverage from the return parties.

The National Weather services is reporting a flood warning for the Pearl River in Jackson; the river is already assumed to be above flood stage (at 28 feet) and could continue to rise throughout the week to reach high levels on Wednesday and Thursday.

Verbatim report: THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE PEARL RIVER AT JACKSON FROM THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

• AT 10:30 AM SUNDAY THE STAGE WAS 27.2 FEET.

• MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.

• FLOOD STAGE IS 28.0 FEET.

• FORECAST...THE RIVER WILL RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE TO RISE TO NEAR 32.5 FEET BY EARLY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST FORECAST THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR A HIGHER CREST.

• IMPACT...AT 32.0 FEET...WATER BEGINS TO AFFECT BUSINESSES ON SOUTH PRESIDENT AND SOUTH FARISH STREETS. SIDNEY STREET IS FLOODED.

• IMPACT...AT 31.0 FEET...WATER BEGINS TO IMPACT APPROACHES TO ADDITIONAL HOMES AND BUSINESSES IN THE BYRAM AREA.

• IMPACT...AT 30.0 FEET...WATER BACKS UP INTO SEVERAL CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE JACKSON AREA. WATER IS UNDER SOME HOMES NEAR THE RIVER IN THE BYRAM AREA.

Morningbell closing, regional picks and new releases...