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Brand new winners of the Mercury (sort of the Nobel Prize of Brit-pop), Suede‘s neo-glam bisects neatly: The short, fast ones are good; the long, slow ones bad. Opening are the Cranberries, purveyors of Irish folkie-rock, and Counting Crows, purveyors of American heartland-bombast. At 8 p.m. at WUST Radio Music Hall, 9th & V Sts. NW. $17.50. (202) 638-2008. (MJ)