A Sunny Day in Glasgow recently shared their new LP Sea When Absent over at Pitchfork Advance. It’s the group’s first release with outside help from producer Jeff Zeigler, and the album officially comes out tomorrow June 24 via Lefse Records. They will be back in Philly on Sunday, July 27 at Johnny Bredna’s with Pattern is Movement and Myrrias.
Philadelphia
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Gorgeous Porch Anchors the Bill at Golden Tea House June 22
Anchored in the groove, resulting from the interplay of keys and a kit, Chris Wood’s (Orbit to Leslie, Grimace Federation) Gorgeous Porch is difficult to pin down, but maybe that isn’t the point. With it’s target primarily in sustaining valuable beats/grooves that gravitationally pull you in, Wood’s soft drifting voice becomes a secondary supplement, elevating the cosmic debris vibe by providing a shape and gauge of the environment, contrasting the proximity of that core groove with just out of reach vocals. On a similarly linked/related note, the garage-psych of Relatives is significantly propelled by their constantly churning combination of bass and percussion, pushing their polished sound ever forward. The delightfully dark and twisted carnival music experience of Oh Bree add yet another branch to this Golden Tea House Sunday bill that also includes Ohio math-punk rock outfit, Ultrasphinx. Golden Tea House, (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.), 7:30pm, $5 Donation, All Ages – Michael Colavita
Portland
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Bath Party at the Firkin Tavern 6.21
Bath Party is that band you hear and wonder why you’ve never heard it before. Friends and founding band members Mike Misosoup and Justin ‘papa’ Sochan moved to Portland together to do this: properly bring this city surf-garage-rock to those who are seeking authenticity in it. They’re upbeat and poppy enough to bring you up but not in a superficial way. Their pleasantly-hectic technique lingers long after the other surf runners up drift away from mind. Give your ears to "Invention of Language" and try to fight your body from moving. They’re performing at the Firkin this Saturday night along with Hobosexual and 100 Watt Mind. No cover. Adults only.
– Colette Pomerleau
Philadelphia
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Clark Park Music & Art Festival at the Dog Bowl June 21
A 40+ year festival tradition returns when Clark Park holds its annual Music and Art Festival in the Dog Bowl today, and this is also the year it returns to being a two-part Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox event. The fest will feature its usual plethora of craft vendors, food trucks, and family activities that start with a special performance by the Rock to the Future band, but at the center of the festival is a diverse lineup of 10 musical acts. Co-headliners City Rain will be bringing their vibrant soundscapes that radiate from the duo’s latest album, Songs for a High School Dance, and "golden age" indie rockers Commonwealth Choir will deliver a pumped-up set, fueled by songs from their noteworthy debut EP Shirtless. Saturday will be a good opportunity for charismatic Toy Soldiers frontman Ron Gallo to preview songs from his forthcoming album project Ronny, and you’ll find the whimsical folk collaboration of Dani Mari and Reverend TJ McGlinchey that’s known as Lovers League. The fest will also feature performances by Former Belle, Portland Senator, Family Vacation, and more. Clark Park, 43rd & Chester Ave., 12pm, FREE, All Ages – Bill McThrill
NYC
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Palm is a band that won’t let up – live at Slack Fest tomorrow (06.21)
You know those bands that are completely relentless? Those bands that will keep going and going and won’t stop for anything until they hit their goal, bursting into flames when they do. Well, Palm is a band that knows how to crank up the inferno that they will inevitably light under your ass until the hairs on your upper thigh start to singe. And we haven’t even seen their live show (yet; there is much anticipation for their performance at Slack Fest this weekend), that’s just the feeling we get from listening to their tracks on bandcamp. Their songs simply won’t let up. They’ve got the classic slacker-rock vibe that we are oh so familiar with today, but they sprinkle in these bits of feedback noise and rhtyhmic syncopations that culminate to an incredibly forward-thinking and progressive sound. Our only complaint is that they don’t have more material. So this is a message to Palm: We’re watching you… we know what you are up to… and there’s no escape now. Godspeed!" – Jake Saunders
Austin
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:: Modern Medicine Sound Off ::
There aren’t many bands playing within the genre of Experimental Post-Mayan music. Call it a niche. Whatever the guys from Modern Medicine want to call it, we like it. I can’t say it’s easy to find out much about these elusive characters but their confidence and patience on what we have heard are not indicative of someone who doesn’t know their way around a recording studio. The slow and steady sermon of Holy Roller has the mark of veteran craftsman. We’ll keep an eye out for them and you can vote for Modern Medicine for Artist of the Month on our new poll.
NYC
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Delicious Audio Features: Total Slacker’s Pedals, Equipment and Recording
Self-described slimegaze practitioners Total Slacker may nod to early Weezer with their loose and dirty pop, and Sonic Youth with the tense and dissonant guitar work, but singer/songwriter Tucker Rountree bakes his own kind of fuzzy bud into his Fender, keeping the party moving way past Y2K. We asked the band a few questions related to recording… read it here.
NYC
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Honest Haloway’s “Eyes On Me”
Honest Haloway’s recent synth-driven tune “Eyes on Me” is the first single off their soon to be released EP Perigee. It has been gaining the DC three piece quite some notice, leaving its fans excited for what is to come. Honest Haloway is pioneered by singer/songwriter Tim Kratzer, who composes all the songs in his studio and then brings them to fellow bassist, Jim Smalley, and drummer, Charlie Karim to be reworked for a live audience. Their new single perfectly summarizes the more electro-pop direction that Honest Haloway is moving towards, although there is still some reminiscent rock echoing through from their old EP, The Towns. The new EP was inspired by Kratzer’s recent trip to Iceland. The band hopes to catch the attention of synth-pop listeners throughout colleges on the east coast with their up coming tour. Look for the music video of “Eyes on Me” coming out July! –Rohan Khanna
Chicago
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The Fox & The Hounds “Desert Spring Rose”
Earlier this month we promised to post the new video for "Desert Spring Rose" from The Fox & The Hounds. This is a wonderfully shot noire take on the modern music video.
Chicago
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Stepfather Gets Mohawk
Stepfather Gets Mohawk are preparing to release their new album Dead Cat. You can catch several of the track at the band’s soundcloud. Keeping in line with their 2013 release, Come On, Super Devil, the new tracks are gritty, dirty, loud, and nearly out of control. What’s not love? It makes you want to grab a hipster and start grinding perhaps.
You can catch Stepfather Geets Mowhawk at Beat Kitchen on June 28th with Mr. Denton on Doomsday, The Gold Web, and Big Black Bird.
Philadelphia
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Weekend Warrior, June 20 – 22
Ever so often, a bill jumps out at you, demanding your presence because you know in your inner conscience that something special will occur and that if you’re not there, you’ll inevitably hear about it and regrettably groan. Such is the case this evening at West Philly’s Brown House, where Creepoid will be performing their last Philly show (for now) as Philadelphians. The band is moving to Savannah, GA this July, taking its exploding instrumentals that craft layers of moody, melodic force, enveloping you in its ability to somehow capture pieces of darkness while embracing and transforming them into a convalescent radiance with balanced surges of searing guitar and percussion. Tonight, another emerging power, Amanda X, shares the stage with its own decidedly forward-pushing take on garage-pop. The trio’s highly connective-core balances an energetic performing style, while exhibiting high levels of instinctive musicianship. The show will also feature West Philly hardcore outfit Push Ups, who released a new LP Grow Up or Try Dying earlier this month, the jangly, sensitive indie pop of Manors, and our most recent NYC Best Emerging Artist of the Year Poll Winners, punks Big Ups to help make it a night that we’ll all remember. Brown House (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) 8pm, Donation, All Ages – Michael Colavita
Other places to throwdown this weekend…
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI West Philly Orchestra, SAT Rockers Galore (Album release), Phil Moore Brown, Weird Hot
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Julia Rainer/Spirit of the Beehive, Dogs on Acid, G.A.S.S., SAT ( Early) Easy Creatures, (Late) Humanshapes, School Girl SUN GASH
Union Transfer (1026 Spring Garden St.) Kurt Vile & The Violators, The Districts
Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St.) SAT Star Trek Tribute Troupe: The Roddenberries, Galvanize
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) FRI Dracula’s Ball: Carfax Abbey, SUN Aquill, I Know Brasco
TLA (334 South St.) FRI Mach22 SUN Bon Again, No Return
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) FRI (Downstairs) La Giara (The Water Jug) Concert Premiere of the Operetta by Patricia King SAT (Upstairs) Talain Rayne, Jake Ohlbaum
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Adam Travis & The Soul, Dave Joyce, Heyyo, SAT TJ Kong & the Atomic Bomb, Jeremiah Tall, Joel Roberts, SUN Albondigas
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI Official Wizard World After-Party: Chronicles of Sound, SAT Make Music Philly 2014 (Noon) New Sound Brass Band, Red Panda, Travel Lanes, A Victim of Good Times, Delco Pacers
Ortlieb’s Lounge (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI You Do You, Seoul Delhi, SAT Make Music Philly 2014 (4pm start) Traffic Nightmare, (Late) Busses, Tinmouth, SUN Ron Gallo & Friends
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) SAT The GTV’s
Silk City (435 Spring Garden St.) Eunoia
M Room (15 W. Girard Ave.) SAT Chris Gennett
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI Tropical Nasty, SAT (Clark Park Fest After Party): The Deadeyes, Flat Mary Road, SUN Rusty Cadillac
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI Plantation, Dr. Beardface & The Spacemen (Record Release), SAT Enstride, Love a Lunatic, SUN Suicide Prevention Benefit Show: Brosef Gordon-Levitt, Eunoia, Respectable Average
Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.) FRI Audio Kings of the third world, E. Joseph & The Random Heart
Voltage Lounge (421 N. 7th St.) SUN Corners of Sanctuary
The Grape Room (105 Grape St.) FRI Local Smokes, The Revere, Jeff Thomas, SAT Undergun, Angela Everwood, The Late Greats, Red Means Run
Ardmore Music Hall FRI Birds Over Arkansas, SAT Splintered Sunlight
Bourbon & Branch (705 N. 2nd St.) FRI The Silence Kit, Tin Horses SAT Regan Brothers, Mysteries, Heat Thunder
Clark Park (4398 Chester Ave.) SAT Music & Arts Festival City Rain, Former Belle, Ron Gallo, Commonwealth Choir, Portland Senator, Brian Fitzy, Lovers League, Family Vacation, On the Cooling Board
Pageant Soloveev (607 Bainbridge St.) FRI Kate Ferencz, Hermit Thrushes
Creep Records (1050 N. Hancock St.) SAT Hang-Up to Flat (7” Release Show), Old Hands, Sicky, Joshua Alvarez
Random Tea Room & Curiosity Shop (713 N. 4th St.) SAT Marblemouth
Julian Abel Park SAT The Naked Sun
Riverside Hall (916 S. Swanson St.) SAT The Naked Sun
Dr. Martens Store (1710 Walnut St.) FRI Dark Blue
LAVA Space (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI To Tremble, Callowhill
The Pharmacy (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Window Liquor, Pale Shelter
Golden Tea House (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT Casavetes, Pinkwash, Sheer Mag, SUN Gorgeous Porch, Relatives, Oh Bree
Pariah (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT Combat Crisis, Capital K, Glory Dole, Future Primitive
Duff Gardens (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SUN War Emblem
Safety Meeting (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SUN Babel Map, The Pretty Greens
Powers Park (Almond & Ann Sts.) SAT The Naked Sun
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Midday Veli, Swahili and Sprectrum Control at Bunk Bar 6.20
Standing around, waiting for remarkable moments to come never proves to be a successful venture. You have a five dollar gamble tomorrow night at Bunk Bar for three separate bands to aid in this attempt, and the odds are looking pretty ideal. Midday Veil are coming out from Seattle to provide listeners with experimental sounds, heavily induced with electronic and psychedelia. Swahili compliment the vibes, soaring into what seems like an uncharted territory within the local music scene. Spectrum Control drone on and on in that way that brings you out the physical plane and into a space where you feel comfortable noticing the waves. If gambling isn’t your thing because of your religion or whatever, consider it your investment for mind expansion.
– Colette Pomerleau