I graduated from Lehigh University so I know how the Lehigh Valley can sometimes feel like a cultural wasteland, but that only causes badass bands like Pissed Jeans to play in Philly more. They’ll be at beloved local underground music venue/warehouse space/home, The Ox, tonight with Jersey’s Home Blitz. Now, it’s easy to see how Pissed Jeans’ sound could crawl out from the underbelly of Allentown, a city notorious for being a drug stop for cocaine dealers because of its location between NYC and Philly (told to me by my ex-biker barber in high school). Well, there are also plenty of colleges in the Valley, and it seems that psychedelics still influence the music scene like it did in my day, judging from the hazy, dreamy atmospheric soundscapes of La Société Expéditionnaire’s Soars. They’ll be opening at JB’s tonight with Canuck mind-fuckers Holy Fuck and subdued, trippy tour mates Indian Jewelry. The Ox, 2nd and Oxford, 8pm, $5, All Ages; Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N Frankford Ave., 9pm, $12, 21+ (Pissed Jeans Photo by Shawn Brackbill) – Q.D. Tran
