Philadelphia

The 2010 Art Star Craft Bazaar at Penn’s Landing May 15 & 16

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The 2010 Art Star Craft Bazaar is going down this Saturday and Sunday at Penn’s Landing. The super family friendly event will be filled with fun crafts, games, food and other basic human needs. The music that will be filling the air of this event is expansive and impressive. The lineup is fairly folk tinged with many local favorites taking the stage to put their own take on jangling acoustics, tambourines and booze soaked vocals. Highlights include the musical collective, The Spinning Leaves, whose airy tunes and warming howls are both haunting and reassuring. Also, Oh! Pears, the brainchild of Corey Duncan, former guitarist in Pattern Is Movement, is bringing his idiosyncratic orchestrations to the show. My personal favorites of the day are Toy Soldiers, who are billed as Ron Gallo (songwriter and singer) and Friends. They have a new album coming out and will be celebrating later tonight at the TLA with a stellar lineup if you like what you hear. Jack McBrearty (The Mural and The Mint, Songs for Lonesome Hearts), who was the music coordinator for this event, managed to put together way too many Philly bands to write something nice about on this show, and I am sure I could, but let’s be serious. It is already two and I am still not weeping into my mini pitcher. The lineup for the two days also include Songs for Lonesome Hearts, Arch in Round, Gildon Works, Like A Fox, The Invisible Friends, The Great Unknown, and North Lawrence Midnight Singers. The Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing, on Columbus Blvd between Walnut St. and Chestnut St., 11 – 6 pm, All Ages – Adam G.

 

Philadelphia

Italian Market Festival on 9th St. May 15 & 16

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If you go to the Italian Market Festival on either Saturday or Sunday, then it goes without saying that you plan on indulging a little on all the wonderful food, vendors, and sights. But another major thing to check out during the festival is the live music courtesy of Connie’s Ric Rac and MGK 102.9. I’ll probably spend more of my time at Connie’s Stage. On Saturday, you’ll find artists like Euro folk crooner Cowmuddy, folk darlings The Spinning Leaves (who will play after being a part of the Art Star Craft Bazaar), The Josh and Pete Band while Sunday features acts like the psychedelic soul tinged beats of Oso, the folk mastery of The Great Unknown (who play their 3rd set this weekend after performing at Art Star Craft Bazaar and Toy Soldiers’ album release on Saturday) and many more. MGK’s Stage is anchored by Pawnshop Roses both days. Italian Market Festival, 9th St., 11am – 5pm, Free, All Ages – Bill McThrill

 

Portland

Typhoon Releases Video for “Starting Over (Bad Habits)”

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Typhoon has been getting its fair share of (deserved) publicity lately. With ranking #2 in Willamette Week‘s Best New Band of 2010 poll, winning our Band of the Month poll earlier this year and having its newest album (first in three years) Hunger and Thirst featured on our site for quite some time now, it’s safe to say that 2010 is Typhoon’s year.

"Starting Over (Bad Habits)," the first single off Hunger and Thirst, is just as soaring and full as the band itself. Kyle Morton’s shaky voice floats over dueling drums, twangy guitar riffs, bouts of horns and a chorale created by his bandmates.

The video, directed by Matthew Ross, depicts members of the band going about their actual day to day lives (horn player Tyler Ferrin works at Potato Champion and drummer Pieter Hilton runs a coffee cart called Gorilla Boy Coffee) and performing on stage, only to get sucked into a black hole caused by a Large Hadron Collider, which is a humongous atom-smashing machine that is believed to create a tiny black hole on Earth. Just check out the article the character in the beginning of the video is reading; it all makes sense!

Typhoon – Starting Over (bad habits) from Matthew Ross on Vimeo.

If you’ve yet to see the orchestral performance that is Typhoon’s live show, you’ve got a chance May 23. The thirteen+ piece plays at Holocene with Frog Eyes and Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band. Show starts at 8:30 pm. $8.

-Katrina Nattress

Philadelphia

Weekend Warrior, May 14 -16

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What started out as a nice little show at World Café Live put together by Andy Molholt (of The Armchairs) with buddies The Extraordinaires and Toys Soldiers has been turned into a local music extravaganza by The Fire’s Derek Dorsey and his young Temple protégés to celebrate Toy Soldiers re-release of Whisper Down the Lane on Drexel’s Mad Dragon Records at the TLA. Added to the original bill will be Drink Up Buttercup, The Great Unknown and Lady. This is a pretty sweet lineup. We’re also very interested to see if a few of the smaller local buzz bands can join forces to fill out a relatively massive venue for most of the acts on the bill at this stage in their careers. So come out and show your support for hometown music this Saturday! Hopefully you’ll be able to make it out after all the FREE daytime festivities.
 
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI The Fractals and Zach Djanikian (of The Brakes), SAT Hermit Thrushes and The Circadian Rhythms
 
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Mincemeat or Tenspeed, SAT American Speedway, Kingsnake, Backwoods Payback SUN The Asteroid #4
 
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI Steve Goldberg & The Arch Enemies
 
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Fantasy Square Garden. SAT Cheap Dinosaurs, I Yahn I Arkestra,
 
M Room (12 W. Girard Ave.) FRI (Early) Orbit To Leslie, (Late) Live Not on Evil, SAT The It is, SUN Broken Prayers
 
The Khyber (56 S. 2nd St.) FRI Kuf Knotz, Vitamin F, SAT Post Post, SUN Ports of Call
 
Tritone (1508 South St.) SUN Hennessey and Chris Coyle
 
Blockley Pourhouse (3801 Chestnut St.) FRI Blue Method and Swift Technique, SAT Parachuting Apostles
 
Danger Danger Gallery (5013 Baltimore Ave.) FRI Banned Books
 
JR’s Bar (2327 S. Croskey St.) FRI Hessians, Vulcan, Infernal Stronghold
 
Mar Bar (200 S. 40th St.) SAT Kevin James Devine
 
Murph’s Bar (202 E. Girard Ave.) SAT The Last Barbarians
 
Italian Market Festival (9th St.) SAT (Connie’s Stage) Cow Muddy, The Spinning Leaves, The Josh & Pete Band, Johnny Miles, (MGK’s Stage) Pawnshop Roses, SUN (Connie’s Stage) The Major Leagues, Oso, The Sleepwells, The Discount Heroes, The Great Unknown
 
Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum (3819 Hamilton St.) FRI Carnivolution w/The Hydrogen Jukebox and The Radarmen
 
Art Star Craft Bazaar The Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing (on Columbus Blvd. between Market St. & Walnut St.) SAT The Spinning Leaves, The Great Unknown, Ron Gallo & Friends, Oh! Pears, Arc In Round, North Lawrence Midnight Singers, SUN Invisible Like a Fox, Songs for Lonesome Hearts, Gildon Works, The Invisible Friends

 

Chicago

Future Rock Mixtape

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Next month the local trio known as Future Rock will release an epic 52-minute live album. "Live in Wicker Park", set for a June 1st release, features live remixes of Black Moth Super Rainbow and Death from Above 1979 as well as a lot of the bands original material. Mickey Kellerman and Felix Moreno, alongside drummer Darren Heitz have been playing together and perfecting their technique since 2004. Filled with live samples, progressive rhythms, big beats, and party-ready rhythms, this album is a true showcase of the bands abilities. This is the band’s first release since their 2007 album Gears.

Check out the band’s popular new Neon Indian remix.

Chicago

Interview: Panda Riot

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This week the fuzz-pop band Panda Riot released their ep Far & Near, and is heading back east for a mini-tour. They are originally from Philadelphia and I thought it would be the perfect time to ask them a few questions.

The Deli (TD): What can fans except to find on Far & Near?
Panda Riot (PR): Between our last record, she dares all things, and this new EP, far and near, we’ve added a bass player, Justin, and an aux percussionist, Melissa. As a result, I think the songs are more dance-y and textured. Also, while our last record was more or less a collection of singles, Far and Near has a stronger theme. It’s like a little novella.

TD: The video for “Motown Glass” was very cool. How did you decide to make a video for that song as opposed to others on the EP?
PR: Rebecca and I both started out as filmmakers so we had a few ideas of what we wanted the video to look and feel like. Motown Glass just seemed to match up nicely.

TD: How did you come to score the film Apocalypse Story? How did that process differ from your typical writing process?
PR: When we write a panda riot song, it is intended to stand alone. But in the soundtrack, the music has to compliment the mood, the arc of the plot, and the interactions of the characters. So, it’s a completely different approach. Also, a lot of what you’ll hear on the soundtrack was done on the first take.

TD: How does the music environment in Chicago compare to the scene in Philly?
PR: In Philadelphia it was just Rebecca and myself recording songs in a tiny apartment. We had never really written or recorded songs before. As a result, I think that our first record reflects that intimacy and newness in the recordings. So you could say she dares all things was our Philadelphia Record.

Shortly after moving to Chicago Justin joined the band and his bass playing added a new dimension to the band. We also moved into a huge raw loft space where we can record and practice whenever we want. That gave us the time to rehearse and record the songs exactly how we wanted them. So if She Dares All Things was an intimate, spontaneous record, Far and Near is a more expansive dance-yer, more textured record.

Far & Near was released this week and is available here. Panda Riot is currently on an east coast tour.

NYC

Deli Fest Friday: April Smith, Motel Motel, Shayna Zaid

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While weirdos of all ages, sexes and races will head to Glasslands to witness some of the noisiest bands on Earth, more "normal" New Yorkers (who actually care about their hearing) will fill up Brooklyn Bowl to be entarteined in some kind of old style way by our wonderful April Smith and the Great Picture. Shall NYC party boys behave like gentlemen for one night – her music calls for it. Mellow folk rockers Motel Motel and emotional but fun loving Shayna Zaid and The Catch will be noteworthy openers.

NYC

Deli Fest Friday at Glasslands: Talk Normal, Buke and Gass, Miniboone

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The Deli’s Fest-ivities continue tonight with a rather noisy bill at Glasslands, where we’ll have two of our beloved Deli Magazine "Cover Bands" performing (Talk Normal and Buke and Gass). The party will start around 8.30 with super fun Miniboone and their upbeat, enthusiastic indie pop.

Unreal and totally unique Buke and Gass (in the picture) will follow. Now, the recent buzz-plosion of band needs a little self-celebratory comment. We put these guys on the cover of our Summer 2009 printed magazine and to our surprise nobody seemed to give a crap. Well, dudes, Buke and Gass just toured with The National, signed to Brasslands, got an interview on Stereogum AND another one on WNYC Radiolab. So as you now are so many people are finally discovering this band you all may as well pick up one of those Deli issues with them on the cover (there will be plenty at the show) and/or check out their online feature here.
BUT, the band you shall not miss tonight is Talk Normal (in the video), another female fronted bloody noisy duo. These girls have picked up where Sonic youth left off – and the not so young Sonics are aware of it as they picked them to open for them at this summer Celebrate Brooklyn Fest in Prospect Park.
To sum it up: wonderfully nasty guitar tones will hit your eardrums tonight, earplugs recommended!

NYC

Deli Fest late party: Gordon Voidwell, Streetlab, Glass Ghost

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The Deli’s Best of NYC Fest‘s late Friday night show could not not be an electronic, dancey affair. Tonight at Glassland Gallery we’ll have a night party with some very intriguing electronic acts, including: our Winter issue cover band Glass Ghost and their chilled but suspenseful electro-mellow-core (we are SO good at making up genres!); remixers with an indie heart Streetlab (who will be performing with a full lineup at 11.30 and then do their unmissable "live remixing" DJ set late at night): and finally what can be called "The Prince of Bronx" (or TAFKAPOB if you want, as in The Artist Previously Known As Prince of Bronx): this man – namely Gordon Voidwell, in the picture – will make us dance till we drop – can’t wait for the song "Ivy League Circus" to start!

NYC

An aloof NYC band to fall in love with: The Hundred in the Hands

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Brooklyn-based duo The Hundred in the Hands hits the road for their first national tour beginning June 3 in San Francisco. The tour coincides with the release of the band’s debut EP, This Desert, on Warp Records, to be followed by the band’s debut LP this fall. To simplify we could say that these guys sound like an electronic, darkest version of Pains Being pure at Heart, with a more "German" (as in "Kraut Rock", industrial, "detached") approach to 80s references like The Smiths, Cocteau Twins and early Echo and the Bunnymen. We can predict that this summer many will fall in love with their music (and singer Eleanor Everdell of course).
P.S. Curiously enough, soon after I mentioned the word "German" I noticed that 4 out of 5 songs the band has posted on Myspace have the word "Dresden" in it – good guess?