 WEDNESDAY, OCT 06, 2010 8PM
A few
crazy boys from Philly, who still believes in music and art, decided to
cut through the fluff and throwaway beats, and make a groove that's not
quite "new under the sun" but IS Rarely heard in this modern, automated,
hands free type of world! Mister King: Bass/Vocals An eccentric artist
hailing from the streets of north Philadelphia, who sings and plays with
an un-apologetic swagger. No schools to validate him..just simply born
to do this thing..For real!
Wabi Sabi
Wabi
Sabi is an ever-evolving collaboration between four musicians who bring
their collective experiences and expectations to create music that
reveals the unique beauty of communication through the gift of music.
With a mixture of Jazz, Funk and a heavy backbeat Wabi Sabi keep heads
bobbin’ and booties shakin’ wherever they perform. Based in
Philadelphia, PA Wabi Sabi was founded by bassist Pete Chiovarou while
attending Ester Boyer College of Music. He envisioned an atmosphere in
which participants’ voices could be expressed and explored free of
constraint, allowing the greatest gift of all, Imagination to be the
guide. While at Ester Boyer Pete met drummer/vocalist Brian Duffy,
guitarist/vocalist Damon Hunnicutt and saxophonist Dan Friel.
Friendships were born and their collective musical experience began.
Building on the freedom that is fostered by each member Wabi Sabi is
able to perform for a diverse audience.
Keystoned
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 FRIDAY, OCT 08, 2010 9PM
The Dirty Pearls
Brand new
but already a classic, The Dirty Pearls come straight from the streets
of New York City. All sex, drugs and rock n’ roll bravado delivered with
sharp hooks, witty lyrics and a seedy swagger reminiscent of the finest
1970’s-era rock acts. Fans have christened the band the “Supergroup of
the East Village” as much for their pedigree (their lineup boasts former
members of some of NYC’s best and most beloved local bands) as for
their consistently sold-out—every NYC gig to date, in fact—live shows.
Bleed Radio Bleed (CD Release)
BleedRadioBleed
has been playing post-punk rock with elements of psychedelia and Latin
American music since 2006. Members of the band have also played in the
power-pop collective Canadian Invasion and post-hardcore group Amertume,
and have toured across the U.S., Europe, and South America.
The Last Barbarians
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 SATURDAY,
OCT 09, 2010 9PM
The TEN TEN TEN Show:
Playing Pearl Jam's Ten in it's entirety.
Plus a Greatest Hits set.
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 SUNDAY, OCT 10, 2010 8PM
Air Sex World Championships
The time for you to lose your air virginity is NOW.
Last year, The Air Sex World Championships erupted in over 14 cities
across North America, crowning champions of all shapes, sizes, colors
and styles. The competition climaxed in Austin, Tx in October where we
crowned the first ever World Champion. Now we’re back on the hunt,
looking for the 2010 World Champ.
Never been to an Air Sex show before? Here’s what you need to know: it’s
a lot like Air Guitar, but instead of rocking out with an imaginary
guitar, you’re making sweet and/or filthy love with an imaginary sex
partner. You choose a clip of music, you show up in whatever sort of
wardrobe you like, and you come up on stage and show everyone how you do
it. Or how you wish you could do it. Or how you once had it done to
you, and oh my god was that a bad idea and while it’s embarrassing to
show that act to a room of strangers, you know that you need to do it
now in order to make sure that no one else falls down the same rabbit
hole you got stuck inside. Or, you know, just do it however you want.
The only rules we have are the laws laid down by the state we’re in.
Since most Air Sex venues serve alcohol, you can’t get naked. And since
some also serve food, all orgasms have to be simulated (or at least
arguably so). Other than that, you’re free to do whatever it takes to
impress the judges, the audience in the theater, and the world!
Winners will be invited to compete in the Regionals - Dates and Cities TBA.
To sign up to perform at The World Air Sex Championships in Philadelphia email Chris Trew at
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 THURSDAY, OCT 14, 2010 8PM
Million
Young is a one man show consisting of electronic wizard Mike Diaz who
combines sparkling guitar riffs, glittering melodies and and beats sure
to get the palm trees swaying in a “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” style.
Sunglasses
Coolrunnings
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 FRIDAY, OCT 15, 2010 7PM
Playing Victim in Pain in its Entirety as well as their first ever release 1983's United Blood EP.
In
today’s civilization, people continue to suffer undergoing the grief,
corruption, oppression and exploitation without a way to elude their
troubles. Many have lived through these problems for ages, and the
moment one tries to fight for what they believe is right, the elite
brings them down and their voices are disregarded. For over a decade,
AGNOSTIC FRONT has helped get these messages across to the populace to
help solve these problems through socially driven music known as
“hardcore.” In their latest offering, the band gives power and strength
to these ignored voices. As one of the original hardcore bands that
lived and breathed the problems that controlled their everyday New York
City lifestyle since 1983, they have been amongst the most venerable
and notorious outcasts of this hardcore movement.
These rarely confronted and always respected leaders of hardcore were
established as one of the meanest-sounding bands in the emerging punk
genre, helping to initiate the term "hardcore," and placing an entire
uproar on the New York map by association.
Mother of Mercy
Product of Waste
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 SATURDAY, OCT 16, 2010 9PM
Sunny Day Music & 88.5 WXPN welcome:
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses
For some
artists, winning an Oscarâ would represent reaching a pinnacle. For Ryan
Bingham, who took home the Academy Awardâ for “The Weary Kind,” his
hauntingly beautiful theme song for the acclaimed film Crazy Heart, it instead represented a crossroads and a decision about which path to take.
“When there are a lot of people around saying ‘look, you have to
capitalize on this and do something really commercial,’ you might think
about it for a second,” admits the LA-based singer-songwriter. “But at
the end of the day, there’s not a chance in hell I could do that. It
made me sick to my stomach just thinking about it. I couldn’t get up in
front of people and play a bunch of stuff that didn’t mean anything to
me.”
Bingham puts that philosophy to the test in a big way on Junky Star, his third album on Lost Highway, which was recorded in a matter of days with producer T Bone Burnett, his collaborator on the Crazy Heart
soundtrack. The disc delivers a bracing fusion of pensive, gravelly
ballads - like “Hallelujah,” which is not a Leonard Cohen cover, but his
own take on mortality, delivered from the other side of the veil - and
raw, rock‘n’roll cuts that showcase Bingham’s incisive, darkly
compelling lyrical bent.
Rustlanders
Authentic,
confident, refreshing, natural, the real deal; these are just a few of
the words used to describe The Rustlanders self-titled debut album and
live show. The first thing people often notice about The Rustlanders is
how they combine their influences into a unique new sound. Rock,
Country, Blues, and R&B, all combine to make good ol’ Rock n’ Roll
in the traditions of The Band, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, and Tom
Petty. Their current release, simply called The Rustlanders, is being
heard around the world and has been receiving rave reviews in both the
U.S. and Europe. The Rustlanders live show has been receiving the same
acclaim as they make their way, city by city, across the country.
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 SUNDAY, OCT 17, 2010 8PM
“Like The Prodigy fighting underworld with bloody big sticks”(NME)
Tokyo’s Boom Boom Satellites offer a brutal clash of high-tech hooks, renegade rhythm and distortion-drenched guitar.The brainchild of Masayuki Nakano and Michiyuki Kawashima, Boom Boom
Satellites have proven themselves one of Japan’s most exciting crossover
acts, touring the US with such artists as Underworld, Fatboy Slim and
Moby, performing at festivals worldwide (including Glastonbury(1998) and
LEEDS(2004)), and headlining the White Stage at Japan’s vast Fuji Rock
Festival in 2007.Their bombastic three-piece live show is not to be
missed.The duo’s 2006 release ‘On’ was voted the best album of the year in
Japanease magazine. This year they released a DVD of their Japan tour
(BOOM BOOM SATELLITES JAPAN TOUR 2006 at STUDIO COAST), and the single
'Easy Action' appeared alongside M.I.A., Basement Jaxx and Carl Craig on
the soundtrack to the mammoth anime movie Vexille, which will be
released soon in the UK. They are currently preparing their sixth studio album, ‘Exposed’, and will finally be released on November 21 in Japan.
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Nobody wants
to have to grow up in public. But when you’re young, talented and
creating something that strikes a chord with enough people, sometimes
you’ve got no choice. For the members of All Time Low, who cut two
strong indie releases and inked their Hopeless Records deal before
they’d even finished high school, that’s just the path they had to take.
And with their new album, So Wrong, It’s Right, these 2006 graduates from the Baltimore suburbs prove they’re growing up just fine.
Produced
by Matt Squire(Panic! At the Disco, Cute Is What We Aim For), with help
from the band’s longtime collaborator Paul Leavitt (Over It), So Wrong, It’s Right
finds All Time Low cranking out 12 infectious, impeccably played slabs
of classic pop-punk that recall ATL’s early inspirations (Blink-182, New
Found Glory) as much as they push the whole genre forward. “A lot of
bands that start out being called ‘pop-punk’ either shy away from the
term or end up trying to force their sound in a different direction,”
singer/guitarist Alex Gaskarth explains. “We’re proud of who we are, and
we’re trying to take pop-punk back to where it used to be: a place
that’s about having fun, being positive and building a community.”
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 FRIDAY, OCT 22, 2010 8PM
It
is a special time for Langhorne Slim as he is so proud to announce and
present Be Set Free, his mighty third album being released by Kemado
Records. One of the most endearing and standout qualities of Slim’s live
shows is the sureness that one is always entering a genuine gospel-like
musical experience full of little miracles. Be Set Free has captured
this charisma and spirit -the “hold your heart” moments and “raise a
drink” dance vibes shine throughout with lush string arrangements and
the fine sonic talents of drummer Malachi DeLorenzo, new bassist Jeff
Ratner and new keyboard/banjo player David Moore. Langhorne’s stronger
than ever vocals lead the journey blending his poetry through the
beautiful chaos and bearing a wisdom that reflects a broken heart
battling the perils of true hope.Be Set Free is Langhorne’s most
cinematic and cohesive effort to date. Slim has truly reached a point of
light where these songs come from wide-eyed maturity and mastered
craft.
Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandscher
“Her songs are reveries on loss, and they’re equal parts solace and clear-eyed melancholy.” - The New York Times
Mimicking Birds
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 SATURDAY, OCT 23, 2010 6:30PM
Andy
Hull knows the fears that accumulate with miles, having spent the last
two years on the road as the front-man for Manchester Orchestra. It is
with those fears that he has channeled the second installment of Right
Away, Great Captain!, his solo side project in which Hull continues to
tell the ongoing saga of a 17th century sailor who catches his wife in
an act of betrayal with his very own brother. Entitled The Eventually
Home (Favorite Gentlemen Recordings), which is part two of a three
chapter set, the album sees the heartbroken and wary sailor finally on
his way back home, where he contemplates the various themes of God,
death, and revenge.
Gobotron
Gobotron
, the solo project of Manchester Orchestra guitarist Robert McDowell,
started in the summer of 2008 in the basement of his parent’s house in
Atlanta, Georgia. Manchester Orchestra was off the road and McDowell was
anxious to creatively move in a new direction aside from working with
the band. “I had been a bit lazy when we got off tour. I wasn’t
recording or writing at all then, so I went to Guitar Center and got a
little MIDI controller and just started messing around,” he said. “I
didn’t even really tell anyone I was doing the album until it was done.
It was just me alone in my parent’s basement.” Gobotron combines
delicate and simple phrasings influenced from Ben Kweller to Brian
Wilson, processed through pop-friendly static and piped through ear-buds
waxed with Pavement.
HARDELLO
Winter
storms are punishingly cold and uncomfortable, but are an important
source of water for spring growth. Likewise for Dead Confederate, the
series of New Jersey blizzards that besieged the recording of sophomore
album Sugar (a reference to the record snowfall) also heralded growth
from the darker, somber realm of their critically acclaimed Wrecking
Ball. With an evolving approach and focused, streamlined sound, Sugar
explores new styles beyond the aching, bleak psychadelia of the debut.
Hardy’s
howling vocals have been compared to Kurt Cobain and with the lyrics and
often heavy guitars, the band’s music is considered dark and haunting.
Hardy is definitely the leader of the band, but he and Brantley each
wrote 5 of the album’s 10 songs. And, while the band is Southern, they
prefer to be known as a rock band that hails from the South.
$14 ADV / $16 DOS [BUY TICKETS] SPECIAL ALL AGES SHOW!
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 SUNDAY, OCT 24, 2010 7PM
Italy's The Watch plays GENESIS - Blue show - whole FOXTROT album 1972
Complete Foxtrot album performed plus extras from very early GENESIS production and unreleased material.
Video excerpts at: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWatchmusic#g/c/FE76A5C5328F78AE
From rockradio UK:
The Watch are an early-Genesis tribute band who also record their own
material. Billed as The Blue Show - the Foxtrot album - they start with
acoustic-based songs and build the tension as they add more powerful
numbers. Exactly the way Genesis themselves used to do it around 1970/71
These guys really knew their subject, with singer Simone Rossetti
sounding exactly like Peter Gabriel. As they moved into the powerful
numbers such as Time Table and Can Utility and the Coastliners, you
could feel the atmosphere build. By the time we got Musical Box and In
the Cage, the band were feeding off a rapturous reception.
Guitarist Giorgio Gabriel (his real name!) managed a beautiful
rendition of Steve Hackett’s classical solo piece Horizons, made all
the more captivating by playing it on 12-string.
Performing everything from Foxtrot could only mean one thing – the
highlight of the evening would be Supper's Ready. It was flawless:
absolutely stunning. Tears flowed. Like most of the audience I've seen
all the Genesis tribute bands of the last few years, including the
technically brilliant but slightly soulless Musical Box. No-one outwith
Genesis themselves has played this song better. I would dare to say
they were the best tribute band, Genesis or otherwise, I've ever seen.
...a strong and powerful performance - Steve Hackett
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Punk's premier cover artists, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are a conglomerate of some of the most recognizable faces in new-school punk. Drawn together by a mutual love of '60s and '70s music, the Gimme Gimmes work exclusively as a cover band. Their repertoire include songs from such acts as Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, and John Denver.
Cobra Skulls
Teenage Bottlerocket
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 THURSDAY, OCT 28, 2010 8PM
Bettie Seevert (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
So, you
think you know Bettie Serveert, huh? The Dutch combo that set the
template for '90s indie rock with their classic 1992 debut, Palomine,
and its follow-ups, Lamprey (1995), and Dust Bunnies (1997). The
energetic outfit that peddled their infectious, hard-edged guitar pop
on numerous tours with colleagues like Belly, Dinosaur Jr., and Buffalo
Tom.
Hmmm. Maybe you want to reconsider just how thoroughly acquainted with
Bettie Serveert you are. Because if you approach Attagirl, the band's
seventh full-length (and their first for Minty Fresh), with those
opinions set in stone, you'll be as shocked as any teenybopper who
slapped on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band back in 1967 expecting
to hear "I Want To Hold Your Hand, Pt. 2." Oh, the players are the
same. Singer Carol van Dyk, guitarist Peter Visser, and bassist Herman
Bunskoeke remain front-and-center. But Attagirl is the work of a band
refreshed, one full of new ideas. Put simply, this ain't your old
college radio director's Bettie Serveert.
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