This was a bummer when we heard about it, and we were hoping that it was a joke, but guitarist, singer and sometimes keyboardist Andy Molholt confirmed that it was true. Genial psych-pop outfit The Armchairs are breaking up citing “differing goals, differing musical and creative directions, increasing interpersonal tension, the law of increasing atrophy (the 2nd law of thermodynamics)”. You can read the rest of the message that they posted HERE. They’ll still be performing at Pilam’s Human BBQ this Saturday, and their final show will be May 13 at Johnny Brenda’s with pals Orbit to Leslie, Circadian Rhythms, and Dinosaur Feathers. Hopefully you can make it out and wish them your best. We are sure that we’ll find them involved in the local music community one way or another. Much love to The Armchairs! – The Deli Staff

It’s reassuring to know that a band like Bardo Pond, a beautiful Philly success story who formed way back around ’91, is still going strong. If their latest self-titled release is any different than the way things sounded back in the day, it’s only that they sound more muscular and refined. Not dreamy enough to be shoegaze and slightly too lazy for grunge, their guitars revel in a kind of supreme stoner-rock overdrive. Some may try and relate their music to trippy experiences (not that I can blame them), but it’s hard to determine how much of their sound is drug-induced and how much of it is just the results of searching high and low for a particularly gnarly fuzz-tone. They’ll be complimented well by New Zealand’s blissed-out Surf City and Toronto crooners Snowblink. Danger Danger Gallery, 5013 Baltimore Ave., 8pm,$5 – $10 donation, All Ages (Photo by Dan Cohoon) – Joe Poteracki

Diplo tweeted a link yesterday for where you can find your first look of the characters for his new Major Lazer cartoon show coming to Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. They were created by Ferry Gouw who also did the cover art for the Major Lazer album. You can see your “one-armed Jamaican ex-commando and nightclub owner who battles the forces of darkness while making reggae-tinged booty-shaking jams” above, and you can also view some of the other characters HERE. Enjoy! – The Deli Staff

Toy Soldiers are back with a new EP Get Through the Time and the band’s lineup is a little more scaled down, but it all seems part of their plan to get back to their roots. Life is hectic sometimes when you are in a band while still in college, and it doesn’t get any easier once you have graduated and are faced with more obstacles from the “real world”. Well, for Ron Gallo and crew, it seems that the answer is to just keep on playing to “get through the time”. We had a chance to find out a little more about life for Toy Soldiers after leaving the ivory towers of higher education and the release of their latest effort Get Through the Time, which the band will be celebrating tonight at Johnny Brenda’s and making available tomorrow digitally. Check out what they had to say HERE!

Laughing Pain by Toy Soldiers

Just wanted to give you a heads up that the Night Train DJs are back at it again this evening at The Barbary! It will be the first time Ian St. Laurent and Dennis Wolf.Fang have performed together since Night Train ended. It will also be the first Philly performance of Raw Urgency (Ex-Spooks). As we had reported earlier, The Spooks broke up during their recent tour to SXSW. Well, three of the four members decided to stick together, write new songs, and finish the tour all the way back from Austin so here’s your chance to hear what they’ve been up to lately. Buddies Far-Out Fangtooth will also be spinning this evening as Undercover Zero, and there will be beer reps around giving out free beers. So get your air guitar tuned up! – The Deli Staff