NYC

Weekly Features: Bosco Delrey

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Producer and musician Bosco Delrey crafts unheard new versions of rock’n’roll that sounds like Memphis blues music mixed with a variety of other influences including church hymns, dance hall, lo-fi and southern hip hop. After signing with the well-known Mad Decent label, he released his 2010 album "Everybody Wah," a work full of catchy pop drenched in rockabilly old-timey production. Like a “garbage can Elvis” from New Jersey, Bosco brings back the nostalgia of the rock music we love, with a modern edge. – Read Amanda Dissinger’s interview with Bosco here.

Philadelphia

The Deli Philly’s Featured Artist(s) Poll Winner: The Stammer

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Coming up with a name for your band can be one of the most difficult things to do when your starting to play out and record. There are plenty of famous musicians who really HATE their band’s name. But they are stuck with it. While it might have taken a threat of arson for our Featured Artist(s) Poll Winner to finally settle on The Stammer, it also seems the name YEAST still lingers in the minds of its band members. We sent the fledgling local indie rock outfit a list of our get-to-know-you questions. You can check out what they had to say HERE. The Stammer will be performing next in Philly on Friday, March 30 at JR’s.

Philadelphia

The Sounds of Kaleidoscope Take a “Long Lunch Break” at KFN March 19

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Psych rockers The Sounds of Kaleidoscope are taking a “long lunch break” after 12 years. They’ll be ending their long, strange trip tonight at Kung Fu Necktie. Even though the band spent the first seven years of its inception in Washington D.C., they’re going out in the city where they currently call home surrounded by friends and fans so come out this evening to enjoy some British-influenced acid rock and plenty of fuzz as Philly loses yet another rad act from our music community. The Sounds of Kaleidoscope will also be sharing this good-bye moment with Brooklyn openers Lead Stones while tunes are spun throughout the evening by DJ Jem of Sweet Jane. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front Street, 8pm, $8, 21+ – Brandi Lukas

San Francisco

The Very First Dashiki Shoegaze Band: Siddhartha

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San Francisco’s Siddhartha claim to be of the “dashiki shoegaze” genre. This isn’t another blog band buzz word–it’s a genre invented specifically by the group, for the group. While I’d be satisfied claiming them as a freak psych rock, dashiki shoegaze it is.

What does “dashiki shoegaze” mean exactly? My best guess is African inspired rock, rich with guitar pedal distortions. At least, Siddhartha’s “The Fire Next Time,” the first track from their upcoming LP IF IT DIE sounds like effect laden world rock. Download the mp3 here and if you like the dashiki effects, grab the full record out May 1st from Neurotic Yell Records.

-Justine Fields

NYC

Les Racquet – Live at The Studio on 04.11

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Here’s a band demanding a little more their audience. Les Racquet turn through more directions in track ‘Too Young’s ‘ fantastic harmonies than most bands get through in an album. The trio met up in Brooklyn under two years, and already have a full-length under the belts. But their sound is even more ambitious. There’s an almost schitzophrenic cocktail here that moves from punk to Afrobeat to acid jazz in equal turns, but never pulls away from the meat and potatoes required of any ambitious young group. Like an iPod playlist come to life, this is a group you’ll find impossible to pin down, but easy to get down to. See them when they play The Studio at Webster Hall on April 11th with Not Blood Paint. – Mike Levine (@goldnuggets)


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This band submitted their music for review digitally here.

Philadelphia

Data Garden’s Computer Groove at Little Berlin March 17

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Data Garden is curating an evening of audio/visual stimulation called Computer Groove tonight at Little Berlin. It will coincide with the gallery’s Flash Fl00d Exhibit, a semi-secretive mass public exhibition of rapidly-distributed hidden flash drives containing downloadable exhibitions. There will be performances by Buffalo Stance (Jamey Robinson of Man Man and Need New Body), D&D Orchestra (Tom Guycot & Peter Dragontail), Color Is Luxury (Charles Cohen and hair_loss), and DJ Ryan T as well as visuals provided by Cosmic Morning and Enso. Embrace the sensory overload this evening! Little Berlin Gallery, 2430 Coral St., 9pm, $5 Donation, All Ages – H.M. Kauffman

Philadelphia

Shorty Boy-Boy 7” Release Party at JB’s March 17

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If you caught glimpses of Shorty Boy-Boy early on, you might have been mystified by the guitar toting wonder who mimicked Terminator and played checkers during shows until he ultimately jumped onto an air mattress for a pumped up guitar solo. But since then, Joshua Pannepacker and company have been winning people over with their humorous music video and song Smoking Tea. They have also been working on a new 7” that will be the first release from BITBY’s new record label (Pannepacker and Kyle Costill are bandmates in Streetwalkers). Shorty Boy-Boy will be returning from SXSW early, and taking a break from their “Candy Man” video shoot in order to celebrate the albums release at Johnny Brenda’s tonight. They’ll be joined by Mountjoy, who recently dropped their latest EP Squam Lake Tapes and are already gearing up to release a new one, and Brian Langan’s latest project Langor. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 9pm, $10, 21+ (Photo by Grace Dickinson) – Bill McThrill

Philadelphia

Mischief Brew Playing “Not Irish Music” at KFN March 17

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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Philly style with Mischief Brew and The Brood, and of course, shots of Jameson at Kung Fu Necktie. Starting the night off will be The Brood featuring members from Witch Hunt, Mischief Brew and Lost Cause, followed by Boston punks Far From Finished. Although their Facebook page explicitly states “We are not Irish music,” in their description, it is hard not to be reminded of the Celtic punk legends The Pogues when listening to Erik Petersen and company due to their folky protest tunes covered in the blanket of punk. Mischief Brews’ songs of anarchy, union labor and class rebellion are bound to cause a little drunken debauchery and sing-a-longs this St. Patty’s Day! Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front Street, $10, 7 pm, 21+Dan Brightcliffe

NYC

Threefifty Duo – From Bach to Pop with Two Guitars

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If you’ve ever listened to The Books before and wondered what this music might sound like without all the obnoxious samples of children playing or newscasters fearing armageddon, then Threefifty Duo’s absorbing guitar work might be a good place to start. With licks as precise as anything you’d hear from classical guitar ensembles like the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, but a mood positively geared toward the instrument’s meditative virtues, songwriters Brett Parnell and Geremy Schulick will pluck you up and take you off to a very personal place occupied by rock and classical in equal measure. Check out new record ‘Circles’ to hear more, and check them out when they play Café Orwell on March 20. – Mike Levine (@goldnuggets)

This band submitted their record for review digitally here.

Chicago

Welcome to Ashley Reunite (Tonight Only)

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Welcome To Ashley reunite for one show tonight, March 16th at Township (2200 N California). Since 2010 and the release of their last album, Beyond The Pale, the band has had some trials, and some triumphs with the side project The Buddies.

Don’t miss this rare event with support acts Pistols at Dawn and Fly Over State at Township tonight, March 16th.