The Lawsuits just wrapped up their new album, Darleen, and it features the smoky tracks "Someone Else Blues,"  vintage "Mermaid," and bluegrass-tinged "Talk You Down." You can download the outfit’s 12-track record HERE. To download it for free, click "Buy Now," enter "0" then your email address, and you’ll receive a link to the entire album. -The Deli Staff

When we heard about the First Annual Sundrop Music & Arts Festival at the Fire this weekend, we were definitely intrigued by the amount of support it’s giving to local artists. Kicking off tonight, you have headliners (and Deli friends) Hezekiah Jones, who will be joined by Americana revival artistes North Lawrence Midnight Singers opening up the three-day festival. On Saturday, there’ll be a FREE show and craft fair from 3pm – 9pm that’ll have The Circadian Rhythms, Attia Taylor, The Spinning Leaves, North Lawrence Midnight Singers, Paper Masques, Spirit and Dust, and Ron Gallo of Toy Soldiers (who are playing Saturday night) taking the two outdoor stages located in front of the Fire and Trios Tratorria while fine art, crafts and food vendors hawk their stuff. Paper Masques returns Saturday night to perform along with Busses, Orbit to Leslies, and Drink Up Buttercup, who, if you haven’t heard from us by now, have officially spilt, making this their last show as DUB. And closing out the fiesta Sunday night is Arrah and the Ferns, Peasant, Former Belle, and Illinois. We here at The Deli are all about cheering on local acts. They’re the ones that make this city so musically rich and vibrant, and without them, our days would be so dull and dreary. The Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave. FRI $10, 8pm; SAT FREE, 3pm-9pm, $10 9pm; SUN $10, 9pm, All Ages

Green Line Café (4426 Locust St.) FRI Yianni Kourmadas (Hermit Thrushes)

Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI The New Connection Album Release, Southwork, The National Rifle, SAT Blood Feathers, Swivel Chairs, SUN Far-Out Fangtooth

Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Many Arms, SAT Oldermost, SUN 722

North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI Alright Junior, Desoto Jones SAT Courage Pills, Smiles Everyone, SUN Starving the Tsunami

First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut St.) FRI Spring Jazz Festival

The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI – SUN 1^st Annual Sundrops Art & Music Festival: FRI Hezekiah Jones, Sisters 3, Up the Chain, Joe Duffey, North Lawrence Midnight Singers, SAT The Circadian Rhythms, Attia Taylor, The Spinning Leaves, Yellow Humphrey, Hunters Cannon, North Lawrence Midnight Singers, Paper Masques, Spirit and Dust, Ron Gallo, Cowmuddy, Sunshine Superman, Bearquest, Drink Up Buttercup, Toy Soldiers, Busses, SUN Illinois, US Funk Team, Arrah and the Ferns, Peasant, Former Belle

M Room (15 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Lo-Life, SAT Young Gliss, Witness

Highwire Gallery (2040 Frankford Ave) FRI Boogie Witch

Tritone (1508 South St.) FRI BENEFIT FOR LEUKIMA: The Successful Failures, Taggart, Alexander Yaker, The Howling Fantods, The Real Defenders of the Acropolis, SAT SUGARTOWN and GO GIRLS PHILLY BENEFIT FOR JAPAN: Janet Bressler Band, Prima Donna, Christie Lenee, Krista Parrish Trio, Bern & the Bright, Inky Glass, SUN The Rakehells, Epic Failure, Streetwalkers

Millcreek Tavern (4200 Chester Ave.) FRI DA CAVE RADIO Presents: A Moment with Purple

Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) FRI Sharon Little, Katie Barbato, SAT Amanda Wells

The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) FRI Pajama Party, Cheap Dinosaurs, The Minimalist, Coup Couroux

World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) SAT Boy Wonder Presents The Hype, PRISM Quartet Album Release, Do You Need The Service?

The Blockley (3801 Chestnut St.) SAT Infinien, The Heavy Pets, Close to Good

Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI Ron Gallo

Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.) FRI Chris Dipinto Music Show

The Barbary (951 N. Frankford St.) SAT Stockpile, SUN Popo

Danger Danger Gallery (5013 Baltimore Ave.) FRI Slingshot Dakota, Glocca Morra, SAT How I Became Invisible, Free the Empire, SUN Tongue Sculptors, Cousin Brian

Bookspace (1113 Frankford Ave.) FRI Your Children is Beautiful, Dan Malloy, SAT Benefit for Japan: Pet Milk, Arc In Round, Lantern

J.C. Dobbs (520 S. 4^th St.) SAT Johnny Action Figure, Jaded Faith, SUN Jet Black Radio, Spin

Marvelous Records (208 S. 40th St.) SUN For the Punx! Question, Metal Jacket, Rowsdower

Cha-Cha’razzi (Please contact one of the acts for more details.) SUN Lovers, Des Ark, A Stick and a Stone, Carmen

The El House (Please contact one of the acts for more details.) SUN Peach Kelli Pop, Bandname, the Pussydogs, Very Happy

Viking Mill (Please contact one of the acts for more details.) SAT Cough Cool and Lantern

Indie quintet the New Connection worked hard laying out their newest album at Cambridge Sound Studios, and the end result is a charismatic blend of bluesy rock vocals amid vibrant keys and illuminating guitar work. Their sophomore album, which will be available in CD & vinyl, definitely gives the band something to celebrate, and that’s exactly what they’ll do tonight at Johnny Brenda’s when they rock out at their record release party with friends Southwork. The cavalcade of former Mummers is an incendiary rock super-group on the rise that features members of the Swimmers, Distant Orange, and Fat City Reprise. And since the seven-piece collective is currently recording a debut album at Forge Recording, you’re guaranteed to hear a lot more from them down the road. Also on tap for the show is the always-explosive The National Rifle, who just finished up a tour that saw them playing inside indoor pools and vibrant art spaces, and will surely have good stories to weave. So listen in and get yourself connected. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave., $10, 9pm, 21+ -Bill McThrill

What a drag: Drink Up Buttercup has confirmed today that they’ve broken up and that their appearance at The Fire’s Sundrop Arts and Music Festival will be their last under the DUB name. We knew it was coming months ago when we heard murmurs from mutual friends but were waiting for official word, and now that we have it (thanks to the Key for bringing it to our attention), we’re bummed out. Even though the spark started to fade according to frontman Jim Harvey and the buzz just didn’t match their pre-Yep Roc days, DUB was excellent at what they did (that’s why they were our 2008 Best Emerging Artists Poll winner and their debut full-length, Born and Thrown on a Hook, was our March CD of the Month [2010]). Still, out of the ashes comes the new, so we’re excited to hear what Jim Harvey, Mike Cammarata, and Farzard Houshiarnejad are gonna produce now that they’ve revamped as White Birds. Should prove interesting if "Veins Lined with Rust" is any indication. – The Deli Staff

Shawn Kilroy’s Weird Hot and electro-experimental duo Gemini Wolf are combining forces tonight at Johnny Brenda’s for a joint revealing of their latest musical undertakings. Lifelong Philadelphian Shawn Kilroy will debut both his new full seven-piece outfit, and shiny new full-length album Casimir. His first release since 2009’s Hessian Love Songs, Casimir (released on Philly’s new Ghost Imprint) is a schizophrenic melding of disco-funk, moody ‘90s alternative, and dark folk. Suited for a coffee black held by a flannelled arm, new track “Mimeograph” is a grungy and melancholic piece that explodes into an unexpected breakdown of shredding electric, while the macabre “Girls Like The Waitress” exudes the gloomy sensitivity of Elliot Smith with the spine-chilling darkness of Nick Cave and holds a certain epic subtlety not often braved by the everyday indie folkster. Kilroy takes another turn with the jazzy psychedelia of “Jealous,” a multi-layered piece with the lightheartedness of the Shins and the transcendent oddness of Portishead. Weird Hot succeeds in taking a style being performed by the masses and adds unexpected elements that transform it into a style of its own. As for Gemini Wolf, Pandar and Mikronesia will showcase their fourth and newest album Infinite Sand Dunes (earSnake Records), a conceptual compilation birthed from the pair’s winter recording sessions in the largest east coast desert—Jockey’s Ridge State Park in North Carolina. The album’s first half is an editorial on the trouble with the modern human experience, delivered through songs like “Murderous” and “Doppleganger Walk,” energized electronica to the tune of Holy Fuck mixed with sweet but ghostly vocals akin to Warpaint. The second half is the cerebral underscore of the record, organic and airy Sigur Ros-esque instrumentals with a synthy buzz, channeling the bittersweet sensation of a desert in winter. Featuring Warm Ghost as a special guest, this vinyl record release double-header should get your dark-folk hearts beating ast. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave, 8pm, $10, 21+ – Jules Friedland

Jawn, the iconic Philly slang descriptor for anything and everything (thanks, Urban Dictionary), is the perfect word to summarize the tight musical mash-up that’s gonna happen once The Jawns (the band) takes the Kung Fu Necktie stage tonight. The group’s  snazzy jazzy cavalcade features members from the Extraordinaires, Arrah and the Ferns, the Armchairs, Nico’s Gun, and Virtual Virgin, who was last seen rocking Adobe Café into a fervor during the Aquarius Prom. And tonight’s show is going to be especially eclectic since they’ll be joined by the City Music Project, the Frank Cervantes musical hybrid blending tradition with electronic swing via DJ Golden Spiral. Toss in the pulse pounding electronica of Negative Department, and you’ll find yourself with plenty of reasons to wear your dancing shoes to this jawn. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., $5, 7:30pm, 21+ – Bill McThrill

The Jawns from Fractal Circus

When You’ve Got Music (Ft. The Knocks) by Chiddy Bang