Philadelphia

Northern Liberties Winter Music Fest 2012 at The Fire Feb. 16 & 17

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Since opening Tuesday at The Fire, the 2012 Northern Liberties Winter Music Fest has seen its fair share of those killer gifted acts, like Paper Masques and North Lawrence Midnight Singers, that, with every chord, help morph the Philly music scene into a newer, more cutting-edge breed. For its Thursday and Friday installments (and until it closes Sunday), the PhillyVenues.org-presented fest will continue to showcase those beloved local acts. Thursday’s set will have Toy Soldiers‘  Ron Gallo crooning his solo work (look out for new Toy Soldiers material – recording started in January), windswept six-piece Spirit & Dust squandering your soul, and Jersey’s brusque folk-meets-Southern bar gang, River City Extension, taking you to end of the dusty road (their sophomore album, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger, drops June 5). And on Friday, you can count on the Homophones, Circadian Rhythms, and Early Ape to offer a phonically-diverse night of freaked out acoustics, pop-punk missives, and melodic irony. Can’t say you have the wintertime blues anymore, can ya? The Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave., 8pm, $10,  21+ (Thurs & Fri) – Annamarya Scaccia

NYC

Deli curated Snowmine residency with Grassfight, Psychobuilding and Clementine & the Galaxy

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A few weeks ago Snowmine asked The Deli to curate one of their Pianos February residency nights (the 02.16 one). We went ahead and booked these bands. We will be there, hope to see you too! – Read Dave Cromwell interview with the band here. RSVP via Facebook here.

8.00 – CLEMENTINE AND THE GALAXY

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9.00 – GRASSFIGHT

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10.00 – PSYCHOBUILDINGS


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11.00 – SNOWMINE

The Deli’s Staff

NYC

Crocodile to Host Trio of Local Bands

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Seattle natives Us on Roofs, the Cat From Hue, and the Mission Orange will take the stage at The Crocodile on Feb. 29 for an all ages show. The evening should end the month on a high note, promising a danceable combination of shoegaze and psych rock to get fans young and not-quite-as-young moving to some yet to be released tunes. Hey, it’s not every year you get 366 days to party – why not spend the extra night taking in some local favorites?

Doors: 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $5

All Ages; Bar with ID

– Kate Shepherd

NYC

Backwords announces SXSW tour + release of “By The Neck”

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On March 6th Brooklyn based Backwords, will be releasing a new collection of their charming and slightly crooked psych folk tunes in the form of the full length "By The Neck". After their release you can catch the band at SXSW on a 3-week tour and back in NYC on March 26th for a CD release show at Glasslands with Radical Dads and Vassals. You can listen to the full album or pre-order the CD (which includes an instant download when the album is released and a free DVD featuring music videos for each track) here. – Chelsea Eriksen

Philadelphia

Details Shared About The Roots Mural Project

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The Mural Arts Program made an announcement about several items yesterday regarding the year-long The Roots Mural Project. It will tell the story of The Roots – focusing on founding members Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter – from the start of it all to the present day. The Mural Arts Program officially announced that the mural will be located on 6th and South St. (but we already knew that). After a national open call for artists, the program selected a group of Philly muralists to create The Roots Mural Project. The artistic team will be known as the Amber Design Collective featuring Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and will also include David Guinn, Ernel Martinez, Charles Barbin, Willis Humphrey, and Keir Johnston. Individually, these artists have each created murals for the program, but this project will be their first collaboration together. 

 
“The first meeting with the artists was amazing; we shared ideas of what the final mural could end up looking like. It’s beyond anything Tariq and I ever dreamed of,” said ?uestlove. “And to have it along South Street, near the same corners we were kicked off of for playing our music is fantastic.”
 
A part of the project that looks really interesting is an education program called “The Roots 101.” “The Mural Arts Program’s Art Education Department partners with a diverse group of schools, social service agencies, nonprofit, and municipal organizations to provide free innovative art programming for young people. Passionate teaching artists lead classes twice a week at sites across the city. The Roots Mural Project is rooted in engaging and empowering students to tell their stories through various medium, including drawing, photography, collage, and more. The artist team will conduct workshops with students to ascertain their areas of interest and design concepts for the mural and incorporate their ideas into the mural design. In addition, students will be part of the project programming, as attendees and, in some instances, panelists.”
 
?uestlove and Black Thought weren’t able to make it for the announcement so they sent the video message below and The Roots’ bassist Leonard “Hub” Hubbard. (Photo by Chad Griffith)
 

Chicago

Margot and The Nuclear So and So’s

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Now based in Chicago, Richard Edwards and his band Margot and The Nuclear So and So’s recorded their upcoming and fourth LP, Rot Gut, Domestic over the summer at Electric Audio Studio with John Colgleton. The album was written by Edwards while spending 26 days in Pismo Beach, CA last spring. Rot Gut, Domestic will be released on March 20th through the band’s own label Mariel Recording Company. The first single from the album is called "Prozac Rock" and the animated video directed by Dom Bloink can be viewed below.

 

Chicago

Archie Powell and The Exports

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Archie Powell & The Exports are planning to release their latest LP, Great Ideas In Action, on May 1st. The band has leaked the first single for the new album, "Metronome", and it is a great example of what this band can do. "Metronome" takes the mundane day to day of life and applies fuzzed out jangle pop and manages to make you smile.

Archie Powell & The Exports will be performing at Township (2200 N. California) on March 3rd with Rodeo Ruby Love and Noise FM.

Chicago

Magic City @ The Burlington Bar

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Magic City released their free digital ep "Little Bits" back in November via Feel Trip Records. The band is lead back the charming yet powerful vocals and majestic guitar play of Lauren Whitacre.

You can catch Magic City with Bigcolour and The Sueves on Saturday, Feb 18th at The Burlington Bar. The band will also be performing at Double Door on March 1st.

NYC

The Rassle premieres video for “21” + play Mercury on 02.21

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We’ve always had a weakness for Brooklyn psych-pop band The Rassle, which we booked several times also at SXSW and CMJ. After a few months of silence, we are glad to hear that the band is alive and kicking – they just premiered this video of the new single "21", and announced that they are about to start a tour with MONA. See them at The Mercury Lounge on February 21.