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Add Us On Myspace - Facebook & Twitter. Free Ticket Giveaways Every Day ! Click The Links ! Last Updated On 12/18/08 NEWLY ADDED SHOWS THIS WEEK : Fri Jan 9th - Franz Nicolay / Spoonboy @ The Chapel (inside the First Unit Church) Sun Jan 11th - Terror / Maximum Penalty @ The First Unit Church Thu Jan 15th - Rosebuds / National Eye @ Johnny Brendas Thu Jan 15th - The Soft Pack (formely known as The Muslims) @ Kungfu Necktie Sun Jan 17th - Department of Eagles / Bear Hands @ Johnny Brendas Tue Jan 20th - Cursive @ The Barbary Wed Jan 21st - Fucked Up / Pissed Jeans @ The Barbary Wed Jan 21st - The Virgins @ Johnny Brendas Fri Jan 30th - Lykke Li / Wildbirds & Peacedrums @ The First Unit Church Sat Jan 31st - Amebix / Kylesa / Mischief Brew @ Starlight Ballroom Sun Feb 1st - Cold World / Internal Affirs @ The Barbary Wed Feb 4th - Millionaires / Cash Cash @ The Barbary Sun Feb 8th - Pains Of Being Pure at Heart / Brown Recluse Sings @ Kungfu Necktie Sun Feb 8th - Murder By Death / The Builders & The Butchers @ Johnny Brendas Fri Feb 20th - M Ward / Vivian Girls @ The Trocadero Fri Feb 20th - Escape The Fate / Black Tide / Attack Attack @ The First Unit Church Mon Feb 23rd - Pomegranates @ Kung Fu Necktie Tue Feb 24th - Despised Icon / Beneath The Massacre @ The First Unit Church Thu Feb 26th - The Swirlies / Arc In Round @ Johnny Brendas Sat Feb 28th - Tapes N Tapes / Wld Light @ Johnny Brendas NEW BAND ADDITIONS MADE TO EXISTING SHOWS : NEW SHOWS AND ADDITIONS MADE IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS : | ||
| Tuesday January 6th 9:00pm | ||
Garotas Suecas Holy meatballs! How is this band not insanely big in the States?! Straight from São Paulo, Brazil, Garotas Suecas (meaning, Swedish Girls) is influenced by the soul and R&B masters of the sixties such as Otis Redding and Sly & the Family Stone. Super fuzzy garage psych pop sextet. First Philly show ever! The PoPo Three totally rad brothers playing post-punky garage jams. Secret: POPO opened up for Nine Inch Nails on their entire tour!
At Kungfu Necktie |
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| Friday January 9th 8:00pm * Seated Chapel Show * | ||
Franz Nicolay Franz Nicolay is that dapper, mustachioed multi-instrumentalist and man-about-town you’ve seen with such groups as The Hold Steady and World/Inferno Friendship Society. On Major General, he steps up to the spotlight with a melodramatic grab-bag of full-throated songs, stories, and days of wine & roses; shamelessly strident, stentorian and more than a little sentimental. Major General is rich with tales of punk-rock disillusionment, redemption, nostalgic regret, ruthless self-interrogations & reinvention, and defiant yet affectionate apologies. It’s a new look for the stylishly vaudevillian jack-of-all-trades with the Jimmy Durante and death’s-head-accordion tattoos. A new stop on a hobo’s-trail of intelligent, incisive hedonism that’s taken him through anarcho-circus punk, Balkan-gypsy, new chamber music, and anthemic classic rock. Sound Clips : Check Out Franz Nicolay's Myspace Page Spoonboy AKA David Combs a member of Washington, D.C.-based punk-pop band, The Max Levine Ensemble. Solo acoustic punk/folk stuff. From DC. Plan It X Records.
At The First Unitarian Church's Chapel |
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| Saturday January 10th 6:30pm *Please Note Early Start* | ||
Skeletonwitch Formed in Athens, Ohio, SKELETONWITCH has been launching metal assaults on an unsuspecting underground since 2003. Imagine a young Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Exodus slamming beers and cranking up Immortal records at a rager in 1985. Just when you think the keg is killed, Judas Priest joins the party with a fresh case of beer. Cannabis Corpse (mem. of Municipal Waste) Cannabis Corpse was born in the summer of 2006 as a way to express its members' love of smoking weed and listening to Cannibal Corpse. Phil from Municipal Waste's stoner death metal band. Richmond, VA. Forcefield. Javelina Throw in equal parts Eyehategod (speed it up a bit and use less heroin, though) and “Technocracy”-era Corrosion Of Conformity (well, add moments of “Blind”, too), add a dash or two of Soilent Green/ Goatwhore, and include a few post-thrash/ sludge/ stoner touches evocative of newer acts such as The Fucking Wrath, and you have Javelina. Philadelphia
At Kungfu Necktie |
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| Sunday January 11th 3:00pm * Afternoon Matinee * | ||
Terror Ignoring current musical trends (aka metalcore) - Terror has assiduously carved themselves a path in the hardcore scene. Absent of cheesy gimmicks or fly by night trends, Terror has taken the ethics and straightforward guitar assault of old school veterans like the Cro-Mags and Agnostic Front and effortlessly added their rapid fire drum lines and trademark double fisted vocal attack from front man, Scott Vogel. The band's resurgence of old school hardcore has helped to breathe life to a stagnant genre. Terror has helped bring a sense of unity back by teaming up with some of the most notorious names in hardcore. Century Media. Sound Clips : Check Out Terror's Myspace Page Maximum Penalty As part of the original Hardcore movement, Maximum Penalty has been and still is, one of the most original hybrids of the New York Hardcore sound. From the band’s inception, the founding members have fused different styles such as Hardcore, Metal, Hip-Hop and melody which put MP’s unique stamp on the scene. The band started out at the tail end of the first wave of the hardcore movement in the late 80's. They played the infamous hardcore matinee at the now deceased CBGB's with friends and family from the N.Y. scene. From that point the Crossover Metal scene exploded into the 90’s with MP's unique brand of Hardcore, along with their peers such as Sick of it all, Killing Time & Agnostic Front. Sound Clips : Check Out Maximum Penalty's Myspace Page Homicidal Homicidal features members of some of the best hardcore bands the 1990's had to offer (Conspiracy, Bulldoze, Train of Thought, Hell Brigade, One 4 One, 25 Ta Life, Agents of Man, & Everybody Gets Hurt). Moshy New Jersey Hardcore. Sound Clips : Check Out Homicidal's Myspace Page War Hungry Wilkes Barre posi numbers era/style of hardcore that everyone loves. 1917 Records. Sound Clips : Check Out War Hungry's Myspace Page
At The First Unitarian Church |
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| Thursday January 15th 9:00pm | ||
Rosebuds A husband/wife duo from North Carolina who create exquisite, studio-polished, Reagan-era pop sheen tapping a serious vein in the children of the 80s. Lead vocalist Ivan Howard sounds an awful lot like another dude with two first names: George Michael. So have the Rosebuds lost their Southern charm and mischievous tendencies? Not in the slightest. Live it's fun, lively, spontaneous pop bliss (even though most of the songs are darkly romantic gems about love, betrayal, and loss) New Record out now on Merge Records. Love Language Low-fi/"In The Red" country pop from NC. We really like their songs and this band will probably get signed to some big fancy label and you will all love it in a few months after Pitchfork says its good. Check the sound clips below! National Eye A cathedral of color noise & conversation -- fractured human history mixed with fractured human relations. An outsized sonic presence comprised of shimmering distortion and artfully assembled arrangements that often recall the godheads of art-damaged folk-rock, The Flaming Lips. Like the Lips, National Eye's adventurousness carries them through a variety of styles from lingering acid-folk to lush quilts of swooning rock a la Built to Spill. Their subjects range from a mutinous Nazi plot to assassinate Hitler ("Abwehr"), a 15th Century saint ("Casimir"), Marvel comics ("Silver Agers"), and a childhood bully ("Lights"). No matter how far out they go, the songs are of a piece and describe a world not too dissimilar to our own, full of passion and death and birds and thieves and love and "men who casino." Park The Van.
At Johnny Brendas |
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| Thursday January 15th 9:00pm | ||
The Soft Pack (formely known as The Muslims) Internet hype alert! So The Muslims/Soft Pack have been getting slot of blog love and attention - they are not art punks or wussy little college babies. They make rock ’n roll music that’s not too low-fi and catchy as fuck. A heady stew of Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, The Replacements, and youthful arrogance (Hmm, maybe those last two are the same), The Soft Pack deliver hooky, loud, articulately messy songs that often go nowhere, which works for them, since right where they started is oftentimes a pretty great place to be. They have been doing some pretty big shows including touring with Franz Ferdinand, The Walkmen and The Ravonettes. Get on the bandwagon now so you can see them before every dumb jerk in the world falls in love with them! The Browns Garage rock from Brooklyn. 1928 Recordings. Sound Clips : Check Out The Browns's Myspace Page
At Kungfu Necktie |
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| Saturday January 17th 9:00pm | ||
Department Of Eagles (feat members of Grizzly Bear) Remember when Grizzly Bear headlined the first chapel show we ever did. Most of ya'll slept when we said they were an awesome band. But thats cool. You can pay $20 to see them this Spring. I bought a silk screened sweater from them but then the ink washed out - what a scam - they need to pay me back for that. Anyways as I am sure you have read on Pitchfork and every other music blog - Department Of Eagles feature members from the great Grizzly Bear. Musically it's not that different - shambling song structures, hoary vocals, and occasional orchestral pomp borrowed from the Brian Wilson playbook. It's no reason to complain - so long as we keep getting to enjoy furtive, wooly treats like In Ear Park (their latets album). Convention-shredding surprise has such been a consistent staple of freak-folk that it's mutated into formula, yet a outfit as skilled as DoE can still knock us out with glancing blows. We know at some seemingly random point all the group's disparate sounds will coalesce into an unexpected emotional peak, and yet we remain dazzled when it does Bear Hands Bear Hands reminds of the old "emo" bands we listened to in 1995. Back then emo meant good, fast angular guitar music - not the awful derivative mess that it's become. For the first time in their long history, NME might have correctly reviewed a band, according to them "They're the foursome Q And Noy U would have been if they peeled off their class geek pantaloons, whacked on some skinnies, shagged their girls and stopped worrying about complex algebraic beat arrangements". Brooklyn (where every band is now apparently from)
At Johnny Brendas |
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| Tuesday January 20th 6:30pm | ||
Cursive HOLY SMALL INTIMATE SHOW! Longtime R5 favorites CURSIVE are playing a few new songs from their freshly recorded album + all of the old favorites. We are only selling 150 tickets so get them ASAP! One More TBA
At The Barbary |
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| Wednesday January 21st 9:00pm | ||
Fucked Up This show is going to be retarded in the tiny, small, Kung Fu Necktie! Mosh mania! Returing to Philadelphia with a new full length on Matador Records. Threading together the best elements of Killed By Death obscurities through the Undertones' melody, Black Flag's aggression and Minor Threat's Marshall-driven guitars, F'ed Up rarely make for direct comparisons, arriving instead at something wholly intense and new, manipulating everything from its lyrics and artwork to song length and writing to make a distinct, singularly unique point. In a word, F'ed Up are dangerous and unpredictable in a time when punk has become a manufactured commodity. Matador Records. Pissed Jeans Pissed Jeans are like OUR Black Flag. Sort of. But c'mon, snotty and punk and super rocking. Pounding sludgy garage rock scuzz, with buried vocals. Philadelphia. Sub Pop Records
At Kungfu Necktie |
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| Wednesday January 21st 9:00pm | ||
The Virgins The Virgins have been together for all of 20 minutes and yet have already managed to tour Europe, open for Patti Smith, sign to a major label, and get their genteel young faces all over the "blogosphere" All of this, believe it or not, is well deserved. The Virgins play lovely poppy gems in which you can find equal measures of Pavement and Squeeze. We’re jealous of their future, basically. Ps also featuring ex members of Jerome's Dream. No. Seriously.... One More TBA
At Johnny Brendas |
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| Friday January 30th 8:30pm | ||
Lykke Li Only a few days into 2009 this will be "THE BIG COOL SHOW" for Winter 2009. For those not in the know Lykke hails from Sweden and became the new indie / underground / top secret singer lady of late 2008. TONS of critical praise, lost of guest appearances from everyone from Bon Iver to Q-Tip (from A Tribe Called Quest) to techno artist Kleerup to Kayne West. It seems every week she is getting more and more popular as new people are introduced to her work It's hard not to think of the recent musical output of Sweden as being a pop production line, turning out a hyped new artist once every six months or so - Peter, Bjorn and John, El Perro Del Mar, and most successfully, Robyn. Sweden's been a hotbed of pop brilliance for years though: bands like Club 8 have been diligently plying their trade for years with all but no recognition for their marvellous output, and even those godparents of Scando-pop, The Cardigans have been largely ignored these past few years or so, despite releasing albums that could be declared career bests. What these people are missing is a Bjorn Yttling production. For some reason, if you can score a production job from the Peter, Bjorn & John member, you instantly show up on the hype radar. Lykke Li's album, Youth Novels, is itself a thing of mixed virtues: on the one hand the presentation of the record is handled with great economy, centring Li's voice at the heart of every song, but occasionally, the sparse (yet always beautifully engineered) arrangements come across a little too too "skeletal". However, when this strategy pays off, it yields results like the bewitching 'Little Bit', and the excellent 'Breaking Up', which somehow sounds understated despite its Wakeman-esque synth solo, choral vocals and string section. Lykke Li's own performance should be given plenty of credit here too: of all the budding Swedish popstars to turn up on our shores in recent times, her characterful voice makes her one of the more promising. Wildbirds & Peacedrums This Swedish duo get freaky with a hybrid of tribal folkisms, spiritually slanted pop music and manic drumming, following the kind of blueprint set out by all the various 'wacky' groups that came out following all the odd American folk fusions that did the rounds after Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom started making it big.Leaf Records.
At The First Unitarian Church |
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| Saturday January 31st 5:00pm *Early Show* | ||
Amebix Amebix, now recognized as one of the most influential heavy bands ever, was born in England during the summer of 1978. Originally trolling their minds and coming up with the thought provoking moniker the Band With No Name, the group of dirty, broke punks recorded a trashy six-song demo and managed to sell a meager four copies of it. Opting for the name Amebix, the band released a track from the demo called "University Challenged" on the first edition of the obscure compilation series Bullshit Detector. Life was chaotic from start to finish for Amebix, because they were really living the lifestyle that their lyrics and image portrayed. Guitar player Stig writes on the gatefold of the posthumous album of live and studio recordings The Power Remains that "none of us signed off the dole in all the years we were together." Living in squats (abandoned buildings) and other unstable accommodations, eating out of the garbage, scamming and hacking out a living by any means possible, it's amazing that the band were able to amass equipment and practice on a somewhat regular enough basis to last for nine full years. However, through all of the strife and chaos, the band were astoundingly prolific, recording enough material (including bootlegs and posthumous releases) for seven full-length albums, two 7" records, two compilation tracks, and the previously mentioned Band With No Name demo in that period of time. During and since the actual life of Amebix, a number of bootlegs and retrospective have come to the surface. Although both the official and unofficial albums are completely obscure among the mainstream culture, Amebix have been tremendously influential in the hardcore, crust punk, and metal underground scenes. Artists as divergent as Sepultura, Neurosis, and Ted Leo pay homage to these original masters of the blending of metal, punk rock squatter lifestyle and political fury into a droning, pounding, ballistic crunch. Kylesa Ex-members of DAMAD. Head-crushing metallic, punk, crust and rock mayhem. Prosthetic/Prank Records. Mischief Brew Mischief Brew is a carnivalesque anarcho-punk band from Philly with hints of folk, gypsy, and even swing... all blending together to create a unique style of working / drinking / living songs. Emerging from snotty pist-off troupe The Orphans, Erik Petersen and Mischief Brew have been raising hell both at home and abroad for years now... and their local shows tend to erupt into maniacal stage-diving singalongs, even with acoustic guitar. Fans of everyone from Johnny Cash to New Model Army to Crass to Calexico... bottoms up!< Behind Enemy Lines Political crust punk from ex Aus-Rotten members. Pittsburgh Parasytic Raging metallic crust tracks in the tradition of bands like SACRILEGE, ONSLAUGHT, DEVIATED INSTINCT, ANTISECT & DOOM. This is a continuation of the old Peaceville sound, but not a photocopy...They've upped the ante with a heavier edge and tight rock'n'roll song structures. From Richmond Lost Cause Philly punk featuring members of Endless Nightmare, Dissystema, Mischief Brew, Witch Hunt.
At The Starlight Ballroom |
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| Sunday February 1st 3:00pm * Afternoon Matinee * | ||
Cold World Wilkes Barre PA's Cold World garnered world wide praise with their now classic "Ice Grillz" release on Lockin' Out in 2005. Since that release hit the streets, they have toured both in the U.S. and Europe, bringing their brand of urban influenced metallic hardcore (think early Life Of Agony and Madball with an early hip hop/soul addiction) to everyone within earshot. In the last few years, they have evolved and progressed into an unstoppable and unique force, refining their brooding eclectic sound into a new kind of infectious monster. Deathwish Inc.. Internal Affairs Fairwell tour! Comprised of former members of every prominent LA hardcore band in the last few years (including the band that brought back LA, Carry On), Internal Affairs have spent every minute since their inception destroying both the USA and Europe with their blitzkrieg of fast and pummeling staright-edge hardcore. Malfunction Records. Alpha & Omega Known for bringing nothing less than sheer ferocity to the stage, Alpha & Omega make waves with their aggressive and self-empowering style of Hardcore. Honest and heavy, this disciplined band has been pounding the streets of LA since their inception. There ain’t nothing like a blast of bullshit free hardcore to set the pulse racing and LA’s Alpha & Omega is here to ensure that adrenal glands are working overtime. Cruel Hand Cruel Hand is coming straight out of Maine and by the end of this year, you will have no choice but to acknowledge that they're earning their place at the top of the hardcore heap. The band began to turn heads in the hardcore, punk and metal scenes shortly after the 2007 release of their debut full-lengthWithout a Pulse on 6131 Records. Bridge 9 Mother Of Mercy Metal/hardcore from Doylestown. Collapse Records
At The Barbary |
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| Wednesday February 4th 5:30pm | ||
Millionaires Like the 2008 version of the spice girls with lots of make up, animated gifs and neon. Sleezy electro party rap from California. They sre starting to kind of sound like Bis which isnt a bad thing at all! Cash Cash Cheese 80s electro pop with young boy emo vocals about girls. I Set My Friends On Fire Death metal / singy emo stuff from Florida that your little brother probably likes. I think you have to live in a state with no seasons (aka winter) in order to sound like this. Epitaph Records. Watchout! There's Ghosts Did every band name get taken or something and why do all of the bands have it listed on their websites that they are playing The Barbary Coast, that is in Africa. The Barbary is however in North Philly which most of these bands will think is Africa. Lots of vocoder almost lady like vocals by two boys who wears scarves. Rise Records.
At The Barbary |
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| Sunday February 8th 8:00pm | ||
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart I have the biggest music crush on this band! They seriously are soo good and amazing and cute! If dreamy, ’80s-sounding indie pop is your thing, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart have your number in a big way. Close your eyes and this local quartet will whisk you away to a magical land of Smiths posters and John Hughes montages. Like riding your bicycle to your friends house after you've finished your homework. New York. Rough Trade Records. Brown Recluse Sings Belle & Sebastian. The Left Banke. The Zombies. David and Bacharach. The Stone Roses. I'm reminded of all these and more when I tune in and turn on to the day-glo sounds of Brown Recluse Sings. This show is going to rule and make me so happy. Depreciation Guild Wonderful, dreamy shoegaze that co-exists with the very unique beeps and boops of a Nintendo soundchip. NYC
At Kungfu Necktie |
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| Sunday February 8th 8:00pm | ||
Murder By Death Special show! Murder By Death will performing the complete two albums in the Desert Series: RED OF TOOTH AND CLAW and WHO WILL SURVIVE AND WHAT WILL BE LEFT OF THEM in sequence. The story begins with the anti-hero's younger days in RED OF TOOTH... and culminates in a battle between good and evil set within a small desert town in the album WHO WILL SURVIVE... This 21 song set will also feature original keyboardist Vincent Edwards on piano and organ. Accompanying the show will be a program of the evenings set, as well as a large video projection. Sweet! The Builders & The Butchers Young man beard rock. AKA singing and shouting with guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, accordian, drums, xylophone, bells, and washboard.Portland. Fake Problems Self-described roots-punk that touches on all your record-collection faves -- The Replacements rub elbows with punk-era Soul Asylum as they sleep off a melodic-punk hangover -- as it combines bits and pieces from rock'n'roll glory days into something new.
At Johnny Brendas |
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| Friday February 20th 8:00pm | ||
M. Ward M.Ward's folk-friendly singer-songwriter poems have captured the hearts and minds of bloggers the world over. He recentlky released his first set of 'full band' recordings. With that move to full band he he masterfully takes his distinctive sound into bigger and brighter places - Ward's rasping vocals wrap themselves over a distorted mellotron as strings subtly rise in the background, and when the drums push themselves into the fore we're in simply heartbreaking terrain - somewhere between Pavement and Michael Nyman, if that makes any sense at all. It's cinematic and it's personal, it's epic but at the same time it feels like Ward is writing for nobody except himself. From folk, pop or rock and blues M Ward never gets too commercial but never sounds peculiar enough to be restricted to leftfield puritans. So while it might not sound like an indie-pop album per se, it can be enjoyed by the legions of those Pitchfork readers everywhere. Diverse and uncompromising with the songs to back it up, We just announced the show and its already almost half way sold out marking him as an artist unlikely to be ignored for much longer. Highly recommended. Merger Records. Vivian Girls Within the past few months, Vivian Girls have toured the U.S., signed to In the Red Records, sold out the entire first press of their LP within days, booked a short tour with TV on the Radio, sang backup on the upcoming Fucked Up LP, and probably a whole mess of other stuff. And they have only been a band for a year. Not too shabby. A mix of 60's girl-group sounds, punk, post-punk and shoegaze, the 'Girls have mastered blurring the lines of genres and coming up with something aggressive yet beautiful; simple, gutsy music with a lot of class and melody. Brooklyn
At The Trocadero Theater |
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| Friday February 20th 7:30pm | ||
Escape The Fate Dude! Whats up with mini-Slash. It looks just like him! Melodic goth-tinged punk-pop with bursts of "screamo" dissonance. Epitaph Black Tide They sound a lot like Motley Crue but look way more metal (aka not like a bunch of feathered hair lady men). Miami. Attack Attack New rule - You cant play swedish or black metal breakdowns and then have neon tour shirts with teddy bears on them. Wait did this song just have a trance part? I'll pretend I didnt just hear that. Burn Halo James Hart the singer from 18 Vision's new band. According to their myspace page the record was recorded with talented musicians "including Nickelback drummer Daniel Adair, former Jane’s Addiction bassist Chris Chaney, Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates and guitarist Neil Tiemann who now tours with American Idol winner David Cook". James said "I wanted to make a very straightforward rock album. Something that had commercial appeal" Wait - they really want people to know this?
At The First Unitarian Church |
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| Monday February 23rd 8:00pm | ||
Pomegranates This is why we love Kung Fu Necktie cause we can now book small shows for incredible, smaller bands that not too many people have heard of. This Ohio-based four-piece brings to mind visions of Lonsome Crowded West era Modest Mouse and Transatlanticism-era Death Cab For Cutie. Chekc the sound clips below and see why we like them so much! One More TBA
At Kungfu Necktie |
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| Tuesday February 24th 7:30pm | ||
Despised Icon Despised Icon are one of the tightest and fastest new grind acts to rise from the underground in some time. These guys demolish the lines of death, grind and metal-core into a twisted storm of devastation. For fans of Dillinger Escape Plan, Ion Dissonance, and Between the Buried and Me. Century Media Records. Beneath The Massacre This band has it all, from insanely fast gravity blasts to devastating breakdowns. A skillful demonstration of astonishing technicality and relentless brutality. For fans of Suffocation, Origin to even The Dillinger Escape Plan. From Montreal. Carnifex San Diego Deathmetal. Murderous gutteral screams, complement chainsaw like guitar progressions, driven by thunderous bass rhythms, and a devastating double bass assault that will wake the dead Neuraxis Also from Montreal, Neuraxis play their patented blend of technical melodic/brutal death metal, now with a new vocalist and record. Drawing a line and spreading the distance, between themselves and their contemporaries, NEURAXIS has written the bands most brutal and ambitious effort to date without losing the keen sense of melody that has giving the band its signature sound over the years. Prosthetic.
At The First Unitarian Church |
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| Thursday February 26th 9:00pm | ||
The Swirlies I love this band. I was scared to go see them though because all of the oder indie rock kids in Philly were so mean to a youthful punk! Formed in 1990, they've released a string of swell 7" singles and albums, including 1993's Blonder Tongue Audio Baton and 1996's They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons. (Most of their records are available as free downloads from their website, by the way.) Few American bands have done the shoegazey thing as well as them. They've also had nearly as many line-up changes as records, though singer-guitarist Damon Tutunjian and bassist Andy Bernick have remained constant throughout. They've never broken up, just taken a few extended sabaticals. The most recent version of Swirlies, which has been fairly constant since the late-'90s and whose last shows were with the Lilys in 2004, includes Rob Laakso (Diamond Nights, Mice Parade) who is also now in Amazing Baby. Hopefully these shows -- Philly, Boston and NYC -- will spur some new records as well. What to expect? "I'm sure something will break, there will be lots of tuning breaks, we'll play too loud and I will consequently sing off key, and no one will remember how to play the songs," says Damon. "In other words, it should be business as usual. What better way to spend my spring break, right?" Arc In Round Formerly known as Relay. Jeff Zeigler and friends. Dreamy and shimmering indie rock. Bubblecore. Gregory & The Hawk The gentle, hook-laden songs of Gregory And The Hawk's mostly solo/acoustic sets have received much of their considerable attention through internet streaming and downloads, resulting in a groundswell of support that belies the fact that up until now, there has been no label, no manager, or indeed any other supportive network to help them on their way. Gregory And The Hawk have but one thing on their side - the ability to craft spellbinding, idiosyncratic pop songs, that sound at once suggestive, familiar, and yet very much of themselves. Fat Cat Records
At Johnny Brendas |
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| Saturday February 28th 9:00pm | ||
Tapes N Tapes Remember in 2005 when everyone was rushing to record stores asking "Do you have Tapes 'N Tapes?" (woah people went to record stores !?) The excitement and buzz around this band rivaled past years' anticipation for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Broken Social Scene. Due to some big exposure on Myspace and a performance at SXSW that got everyone talking. Some off kilter catchy guitar rock with vocals that got us thinking lots about Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes. Think: the all out rocking moments of Bright Eyes, deep admiration for The Pixies and Modest Mouse and you can get a rough idea of what Tapes 'N Tapes is all about. Maybe not the most original new band to hit the scene but for sure they can get your head bouncing and your foot tapping. Ain't nothing wrong with that. XL Recordings. Wild Light Featuring an ex-member of The Arcade Fire + they opened up for them on their past US and European tours. Musically, Wild Light are probably most often compared to their friends Arcade Fire, but with an abundance of keys, reverb-drenched guitars and tambourine, their music actually has more in common with Mercury Rev’s Deserter’s Songs. The lyrics are bittersweet stories about the pain of learning through experience, sprinkled with enough cerebral turns of phrase to keep lyrical-minded listeners thoroughly engrossed
At Johnny Brendas |
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