Philadelphia

Weekend Warrior, October 19 – 21

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Makeshift shows pop up all the time in Philly so it shouldn’t be a surprise that festivals do as well. This Sunday Sweet Jane Vintage and Lucky 13 are teaming up to bring us the South Philly Fall Festival, and it’ll be a beautiful fall day to do so. There will be merchandise and food vendors along with local garage/psych bands like Spacin’, Residuels, Joe Kusy & The Rot Through Boys, Arctic Splash and more to keep things scuzzy and dirty in the South Philly streets. Take advantage of the good times outdoors before winter hibernation sets in! South Philly Fall Festival, Outside – Lucky 13 (1820 S. 13th St.), 12pm – 7pm, Free, All Ages – Alexis V.

Other fall entertainment this weekend…

 
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI Juston Stens and The Get Real Gang, SAT Oldermost, Mock Suns
 
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Auctioneer
 
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI Panzer Division, SUN Andrew Lipke
 
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Luther Record Release Show w/Scarier Area, Idiot Kid, SAT Ang and the Damn Band, The Graveyard Shift, SUN The Hellstroms
 
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI The Fleeting End Record Release Show w/Levee Drivers, SAT Ryan Tennis and the Clubhouse Band Record Release Show
 
Ortlieb’s (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI Buried Beds, SAT Black Landlord, The Sideshow Phophets
 
The Barbary (951 Frankford Ave.) FRI Good Graces
 
M Room (15 W. Girard Ave.) FRI The Random Spike, Cosmic Arms
 
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) FRI Cuddle Magic, SAT John Salamone Band, Nate Rylan, The Elmwood James Band, I Am Not the Universe 
 
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) SAT Blayer Pointdujour & The Rockers Galore, SUN Alright Junior
 
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI (Early) John Train, (Late) Sunshine Superman, SAT East Coastamite, SUN Rusty Cadillac
 
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) FRI The Snails, Long Miles
 
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI Steal Your Face, SAT Paint Box, Murph, Stolen Rhodes
 
The Grape Room (105 Grape St.) FRI Hopscotch Jefferson, Darby Trials, The Lux, Katie Frank and the Pheromones, March Lye, SAT Samcking Madison, Sweet Alkaline, Cyanide Sunrise
 
JR’s (2327 S. Croskey St.) FRI Avataria, Perpetual Gutter, Kelley Cosgrove, Percassettetapes, SAT No Stayer
 
First Unitarian Church – Side Chapel (2125 Chestnut St.) SAT Nick Millevoi and Superlith
 
Broad St. Ministry (315 S. Broad St.) SAT Stick Together, Outlast
 
Church of the Advocate (1801 W. Diamond St.) FRI Mumblr, Roof Doctor, True Gold, Is And Of The, Little Pirouettes, Candice Martello
 
The Bikery (508 S. 5th St.) SAT Tooth Decay
 
Goldilocks Gallery (723 Chestnut St.) FRI Banned Books, Jon Pfeffer
 
Fleisher Art Memorial (719 Catherine St.) SUN The Naked Sun
 
Yarga’s Basement (3914 Spruce St.) SAT Cousin Brian, Ted Nguyent, Larry
 
The Sex Dungeon (Please contact one of the acts or the venue.) FRI Braille, Window Liquor, The Cloth
 
Sriracha Castle (Please contact one of the acts or the venue.) SAT The Greek Favourites, Girl Scouts,Townhouses
 
NYC

Mirror Kisses Release New Song and Music Video

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Harrisonburg VA’s dark wave duo Mirror Kisses released a new track this week called "Die With U (Again)" via Chill Mega Chill Records’ halloween album The Chiller Part 2: House on Haunted Chill. As usual, it’s pretty much the dopest sound out there now, and who wouldn’t want to get down with some 80’s synthy spookiness. Check it out right here: And there’s more! They also just posted a rad new music video for the single "Sleeping in the Hallway" off their album Bad Dreams.

L.A.

Branes: music for Halloween and beyond

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With Halloween just around the corner, the desolate, wicked sounds of synth duo Branes is the perfect soundtrack for zombie dance parties and haunted houses, but in reality their music should be enjoyed all year round. Listening to Branes’ album Perfection Condition, which was released earlier this month on Burger Records, is like running through a sci-fi movie, full of suspense, lasers and creatures from other worlds. Vocalist Ivy and her male counterpart Susan Subtract create a world that is dark and foggy, but one that is fun and animated. Considering that Branes started as a performance art project, it is not surprising that the music has a lot of movement that evokes visual characteristics. The synths are the deep and fuzzy backbone, but the sharp percussion adds some bounce to the music, while Ivy’s vocals move from sounded robotic to gargled. She has a pull and release vocal quality that makes it seem like she is telling a gripping ghost story around the camp fire. Her high energy and style of vocals bring to mind UK post punk bands like Essential Logic and Au Paris. Branes will be heading overseas to take part in Drop Dead Festival in Berlin, Germany on Halloween. – Karla Hernández 

Philadelphia

Buried Beds Opening for Savoir Adore at Ortlieb’s Oct. 19

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Playing heart-warming indie pop with a folksy twist, local music darlings Buried Beds have a show tonight at Ortlieb’s. They’re workhorses in the Philly indie scene, having played in or contributed to a diverse array of area bands such as The War on Drugs, Man Man, mewithoutYou, and Dr. Dog, all while steadily crafting a trademark sound of luscious, wistfully-arranged rock perfect for the onset of autumn. Eliza Hardy and Brandon Beaver have helmed this project through years of musical evolution and life’s changes. They’re joined this evening by Savoir Adore, a similarly baroque indie-pop outfit, and Santah, power-pop devotees who are not to be missed. Ortlieb’s Lounge, 847 N 3rd St., 9pm, $10, 21+ – Alyssa Greenberg

Small Stories. from Nate Johnson 

Philadelphia

Shaking Through w/Auctioneer

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Check out the most recent episode of Weathervane Music’s Shaking Through featuring Auctioneer, the project from multi-instrumentalist Craig Hendrix (Birdie Busch, Mammal of Paradise, Aderbat, etc.). The band also features Todd Erk (Hoots & Hellmouth, Birdie Busch) on bass and Todd Schied (Mammal of Paradise, Aderbat) on drums, and for the recording session, they collaborated with Eric Slick (Dr. Dog, Norwegian Arms, etc.) on percussion, Brian Rogers (Shot x Shot) on tenor sax, David Fishkin (Extreme Fishkin) on alto sax, Adam Hirschberger on trumpet, Jaron Olevsky (Amos Lee) on piano. You can download the fruits of their labor called "Our Future Faces" for free HERE. Auctioneer will be headlining tonight at Kung Fu Necktie. (Photo by Peter English)

Shaking Through: Auctioneer from Weathervane Music 

Philadelphia

Luther Record Release Show at The Fire Oct. 19

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Tonight at The Fire we’ve got a show presented by recently coagulated booking collective The Guild. It is the record release show for Luther, a pretty new melodic-punk band from Philly by way of Jersey. They got some nice praise and well-deserved hype for their debut EP Siblings and Sevens, and between touring, touring and more touring, they found time to record their debut LP Let’s Get You Somewhere Else (Chunksaah Records), which they’ll be celebrating its release this evening. The music is excitable and pretty damn catchy, but still punk, so don’t worry. The lineup is deep with local buddies Idiot Kid and Scarier Area, but also has NJ pop-punkers Static Radio and UK band The Arteries. The band has been touring with punk stalwarts The Bouncing Souls and Fishtown homies The Menzingers all over the place, so this will be a raucous homecoming sure to go deep into the night. You can booze your heart out at The Fire, so come out and have a good time. The Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave., 8pm, $8, 21+ (Photo by Connor Byrne) – Adam G.

Philadelphia

Cuddle Magic Assembling Music at Tin Angel Oct. 19

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In order to properly describe what the Philly-Brooklyn hybrid Cuddle Magic does, it may be best to provide a roll-call of the elements at their disposal and the manner or technique in which each of these elements is emphasized in creating a complex system of sound. The reality is that the band, who is performing at the Tine Angel tonight, produces music, which makes use of a plethora of instruments like woodwinds, horns, strings etc. They use female and male vocals that bounce off each other and interlock in rich natural harmony marrying in a way that makes one wonder how they were ever apart; all the while spinning Byzantine literature lyrics. Cuddle Magic is part theatrical, part dramatic, part playful, but in the end, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts – an assembly line of musicality. Tin Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 10:30pm, $10, 21+ – Michael Colavita

Chicago

Wild Belle “Backslider”

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Wild Belle has released a video for their track "Backslider". The track comes from their forthcoming LP Isles which is slated for a 2013 release on Columbia Records.

Wild Belle is touring all over North America this fall and will be performing at Metro on December 9th with Of Montreal. 

NYC

On The Beat with Ross Brown

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Ross Brown is a jack-of-all-trades in Kansas City music. First and foremost, he identifies himself as a songwriter, soon to be releasing his solo album Small Victories. He’s also the beatkeeper of The Empty Spaces, frontman of Fullbloods, and an integral cog in Golden Sound Records. This week, we talk to Ross about all of his projects and find out what’s coming up. Catch the beat right here!

–Michelle Bacon

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Austin

Album Review- Shortwave Party- “Where to Begin”

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You can’t tell from the title, Where to Begin, whether that’s a question or an answer.  We’ll venture that it’s both, despite the question-mark’s absence. This is, after all, Shortwave Party’s debut EP; three tracks’ worth of jangle-happy, lofi surf bop.  Question – because we’re wondering what to expect from a grrl -fronted and lofi surf -backed –band; and Answer – because this is it, the first pass at defining the quintet’s sound, genre, and playground; this is where we start.

And like most lofi, there is a bit of ear-training required – You could mistake "jangly" for "spangly:  muddily-mixed and reverbed highs", and thus miss out on some of the very nice workings in these tracks; where guitars dominate the sonic landscape with both crunchy mass-strummings and prettily-picked highlights, reverberating and filling in the EQ curve.

Where to begin?  Let’s open like this EP, with the title track; a buoyantly-danceable, furiously-sparkling piece; full of rambunctious chord change-ups and assorted breaks; presided over by Shelby DuPerier’s excellent, darn-near-contralto vox.  A bright beginning for this collection, and sign of things to come.

Track 2, "Hopeless", is not as Emo as the title may imply.  Though a slower number, DuPerier’s vox once again leads us through the tune’s energetic guitars; her voice ranging romantically up and down the scale, letting us follow the song’s emotional peaks and troughs.

Which brings us to "Terez", perhaps the best and deepest track, and thus a natural to conclude this EP. With straight-forward, head-pumping verses, split up with minimalistic breaks; the guitars crunchily driving the chord progression, leaving DuPerier opportunity to favor us with some very nicely-done soaring passages.

Overall, if asked, we’ll say we’re happy to begin right here with Shortwave Party’s brand of jangle-happy beach bop. –Scott Osborn

You can find out more about Shortwave Party and upcoming shows on their facebook. 

NYC

Tracy’s CMJ 2012 Day 2: Sleepies, Mykki Blanco, Prince Rama, Maya Solovey, You Bred Raptors?, Dangerous Ponies + more

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Day 2 began – oh, how unexpected! – on Ludlow Street, where Prince Rama were set to play the Cake Shop shortly after five. Getting there just pas four, I got to squeeze my way to the counter, pick up a beer and some Blue Ribbon swag (guilty as charged), and mainly, best part of all, catch NYC rapper Mykki Blanco (pictured) for half an hour of raunchy slams and menacing ‘acid punk’ raps, some freaky, most straightforward vulgar.. but oh, yeah, should have mentioned: when played right, that’s great in my books; none of that ‘positive’ buzzkill, just one hell of a slimy frantic performance backed up by the DJ every now and then, but taking on a fair few a cappellas. Glad I turned up a little early. – Read Tracy Mamoun’s full report here – pictured and streaming: Prince Rama.

Philadelphia

Free Download: “Move!” (Lushlife Remix Dub) – Les Professionnels

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Here’s a dub remix that you can download for free by Lushlife of local homies Les Professionnel‘s "Move!", which was originally a fist-pumper that found its way on this season’s premiere of MTV’s Jersey Shore. The remix is part of Potholes in My Lawn‘s Robot Soup, the fourth compilation in their producer showcase series. Lush is performing live tonight for free at The Delancey (Upstairs) for The Deli CMJ Electronic showcase.