A haunting, volatile, vulnerability seeps into your ears and under the skin in the music of Curtis Cooper. There’s a confessional, candle-lit closeness that encircles lyrically, as the room appears ready to rip itself apart. They create a keen, lingering, emotively-embedded sense of personal narrative – one which shifts the plot forward with a dramatic edge, wielding the sonic vehicle in a precise manner, while pushing the limits around every corner. These songs mesh an at-home, endearing familiarity with a pressure-regulating heaviness that rains down. Tonight at Everybody Hits, Cooper will be supported by garage-psych quartet Secret Nudist Friends, whom recently made their way home after a string of tour dates. Also, fellow Good How Are You Records labelmates Puppy Angst will be joining in the festivities, along with Atlanta glam-punks Material Girls. – Michael Colavita
Other places to hit this weekend…
Everybody Hits (529 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Curtis Cooper, Secret Nudist Friends, Puppy Angst
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI Sparrow Steeple, Hermit Thrushes, SAT It’s the Year 2000: DJ Emynd, Bo Bliz, SUN Cabana Wear
Boot & Saddle (1131 S. Broad St.) SAT Cassettes (Record Release), Savage Dads, SUN Concert for Jen Devor: Sweetbriar Rose, Roberta Faceplant
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) SAT George Engel Brooks/Fame Lust
PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th St.) FRI Yowler, SAT Tate
Union Transfer (1026 Spring Garden St.) FRI Lotus, Tweed, SAT Lotus, Tweed
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) SAT The Willies (CD Release), Renaissance Blvd., Red Letter Life, Whiskey Drippin’
The Fillmore Philadelphia (1100 Canal St.) SAT Sy Mosquiat, Shaun Sloan
Franklin Music Hall (421 N. 7th St.) FRI Scholito
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) FRI (Upstairs) 5th Annual Benefit for Living Beyond Breast Cancer: The Miners, Travel Lanes, Flies in the Kitchen/(Downstairs) Liz Longley, Jesse Ruben, SAT (Downstairs) Live at The Fillmore, SUN (Upstairs) GTS Presents 4th Annual Winter Wreck
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI The Gene Smith Band, Haha Charade, Surreal Nation, SAT Sins Of Magnus, Syberia, Voodoo Death Cult
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI American Dinosaur, Thee Idea Men, Full Bush, SAT The Lunar Year
Ortlieb’s Lounge (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI Lightninging, Soft Crime, Rubber, SAT Hotbed, Cosmic Lottery
The Barbary (951 Frankford Ave.) FRI Kingsnake, The Age Of Truth, Clamfight, Ritual Earth/Past Life, Rare Spirits, Drew Sestito, SAT 90’s Alternative Singalong: In The Presence Of Wolves, DJ Baby Berlin
Silk City (435 Spring Garden St.) FRI DJ Aktive, SAT DJ Deejay
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) SAT The Chedder Pickers, SUN Rusty Cadillac
Bourbon & Branch (705 N. 2nd St.) FRI The People, Ellen Siberian Tiger
Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.) FRI Tough Guy Soda, Fuzzy Slippers, Frankly Lost, SAT The Ancient Mariners, Knights Reign
The Tusk (430 South St.) FRI The Heels, Beer Me, Loafass
Century (1350 S. 29th St.) SAT Erin Incoherent, The Russells, Los Gueys, Grey C.E.L.L.
Frankie Bradley’s (1320 Chancellor St.) FRI DJ Chris Urban, SAT DJ Brian Toll
The Grape Room (105 Grape St.) FRI Somethin’ Divine, XPresidents, Jac with No K, SAT Adder, Egocentric Plastic Men, Grunge Puppy
Ardmore Music Hall (23 E. Lancaster Ave.) FRI Broken Arrow, AM Radio, SAT Splintered Sunlight, SUN Whiskeyhickon Boys
The Pharmacy (1300 S. 18th St.) FRI Glass Leaf, Kobika,The Poms, SAT Babe Grenade, Lisa Chosed, Annalise Curtin, Fauna Finch, SUN Copley Woods, Almost People
Creep Records (1050 N. Hancock St.) FRI Great Time, The Bul Bey, Dahi Divine, Destiny X
The Music Ward (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Bad Leather, SAT Fox, Backpack, ILY