Work Drugs is a relatively new local act that has been invading the blogosphere with their “sedative-wave/smooth-fi” sounds. The duo of Thomas Crystal and Benjamin Louisiana with lovely additional vocals from Joan Wellfleet creates seductive tracks made “specifically for dancing, boating, yachting, sexting, and living.” They’ll be warming up for their upcoming tour with Two Door Cinema Club tonight at Johnny Brenda’s where they’ll be opening for Bill Ricchini’s Summer Fiction. Tonight’s show is presented by Yvynyl and will also include Brooklyn outfits Snowmine and Guitars. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 9pm, $10, 21+ – H.M. Kauffman

Chiddy Bang’s Noah “Xaphoon Jones” Beresin just dropped another mixtape on the world via illroots aptly named Xaphoon Jones – Mixtape Vol 2. It contains sixteen brand new tracks and remixes with plenty of intros and contributions from some notable indie artist pals. You can check out a sample track below with the UK’s Tinie Tempah (feat. Ellie Goulding) and download the entire album HERE. Enjoy! (Cover Art by Mike Waxx) – The Deli Staff

Wonderman (Xaphoon Jones Remix) by Tinie Tempah (Feat. Ellie Goulding)

Join Art in the Heart Gallery today as they host an art & music filled extravaganza that aims to raise money for Project H.O.M.E. The art showcased on the walls will be from artists who have struggled with homelessness, and depict their struggles and hope. There will also be art stations on hand for people to create their own pieces, food, and a dance party. Set to perform will the spaced out electro rock duo City Rain. The band just had a big show this past Thursday at North Star Bar alongside Montreal’s The Dears, and have been working on new versions of old favorites like Better Now and Creepin’. They have also been writing and mapping out the groundwork for a new album so you might just be able to hear some brand new tunes to accompany contributing to a good cause. Art from the Heart Gallery, 535 South St., 4pm – 12am, Donation, All Ages – Bill McThrill

OK, so we already established in our interview with Slutever (below) where you might find us tonight. But we love FREE shows! Add in some fine beers and delicious food then we’ll see you for lunch and possibly dinner at Dock Street Brewery Co. Tomorrow afternoon starting at 2pm the Chernobyl Arts Collective, who has spawned music acts like Da Comrade! and On the Water, will be celebrating the release of their debut zine Bam-Pow. To commemorate this special occasion the West Philly crew will be taking over their favorite watering hole for an afternoon of music, art, pizza, and beer. Not only will Da Comrade! be rocking the foundation of the establishment, members Fletcher VanVliet and Adam Ferguson will be showcasing their artwork. Leading the charge will be Mose Giganticus, who recently came off tour hiatus with an assault on South By Southwest in support of Gift Horse. Also performing will be booze n’ blues rock troubadours TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb, who were also joining in the festivities at SXSW. Rounding out this FREE action-packed day of music will be New York’s No One and the Sombodies. Dock Street Brewery Co., 701 S. 50th St., 2pm – 7pm, FREE, All Ages

The one-two combination of Slutever’s Rachel Gagliradi and Nicole Snyder pack quite a wallop on their latest release Pretend to Be Nice via Drexel University’s student-run Bantic Media. The ladies of ill repute pound out feisty, unapologetic tracks full of all the right pop hooks to knockout unsuspecting music listeners. Chosen from a batch of band submissions to Bantic, it seems that the Drexel undergrads are getting quite their money’s worth out of their college education. Well, they’ll be celebrating the release of Pretend to Be Nice this evening at Hong Kong Garden (show moved from The Ox) with JEFF the Brotherhood, Dry Feet, and The Eeries as well as plenty of their friends, fans, classmates, the Deli staff, and hopefully you. We had a chance to catch up with Gagliradi and Snyder to discuss their experiences working with Bantic Media, their first tour that included a stop at SXSW, our mutual fondness for herb(s), and much more HERE.

No Offense by slutever

If the massive resurgence of fuzzy, static-laden, shoegaze-y music in the past five years is any indication, music fans love noise. But Nick Millevoi, a key figure in several projects before this, isn’t reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine in the slightest. Instead, his frenetic twelve-string compositions owe much more to the No Wave scene of ‘70s/80s New York, a flash-in-the-pan group of musicians who used noise, minimal structure, and sometimes utter intimidation as their claim to notoriety. The noisiness found on Millevoi’s Black Figure of a Bird offers virtually nothing in terms of the warmth, delicacy, or etherealness that’s expected from today’s shoegaze trend-followers. In fact, the title of the last track, “Nothing Forms a Liquid”, might be a perfect descriptor of what’s going on here. Millevoi’s lone guitar is all treble, a chiming, brittle tonality that maps out into a dozen angles at once. His compositions are fiercely bare-bones, but with an undeniable life-blood churning somewhere at their core.

“Warm Green Disks” shows something of Millevoi’s jazz leanings, as well as a serious King Crimson vibe (Larks’ Tongues in Aspic era), in its constant, spidery movement up and down his freakishly-tuned scales, before building into a fuller, more atonal onslaught. This structure becomes a pattern, consistently finding new variations over the course of the record’s brief tracklist. “Life in Ice” offers a similar chordal fury interspersed with noise-making that gives you, quite chillingly, the effect of ice cracking and splintering off beneath your feet. “What Sunlight Does Make It Through” is about as gentle as the record gets, with spacey swaths that grow increasingly more tense and effects-laden. “Bruxer” is like a Greg Ginn solo pushed to its limit and looped for a minute and a half, and “Nothing Forms a Liquid” experiments with excessively-overdriven pinch harmonics.

Black Figure of a Bird isn’t for everyone; it really only caters to that specific set of listeners who enjoy atonal guitar experiments. But those who feel themselves a part of that category will undoubtedly find these tunes both visceral and fascinating.

Black Figure of a Bird by Nick Millevoi

Tonight the North Lawrence Midnight Singers will be pulling into The Station for a night of folk and Americana of yesteryear. The Midnight Singers are a well-oiled harmonizing machine both live and on record, producing sauntering ballads that go great with a Southern sunset and a stiff cocktail. Each song for these folk chameleons highlights a different influence from Presley and Petty to contemporaries like Vetiver and Magnolia Electric Co. Last year they released the well-received Last Great Saturday Night, which was one of Philadelphia Inquirer’s Dan DeLuca’s Top 10 Local Releases for 2010. Carrying on the folk with strings tradition is opener On The Water, the impressive side project of Da Comrade’s Fletcher Van Vliet. On The Water has a wonderful contrast to it akin to John Denver and The Muppets’ Rocky Mountain Holiday. Songstress Julia Rainer rounds out the bill. There is no better cure for the rainy day blues then rainy night folk. The Station, 1550 McKean St., 9pm, $5, 21+ (Fletcher Van Vliet Photo by Stephanie Ricci) – Adam G.

Below is the gluttonous and rather grotesque official music video for "Seasickness Pills" from Drink Up Buttercup. WTF!?! – The Deli Staff

Grungy and unpredictable outfit Creepoid preps to set the mood for Brooklyn tweesters the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and stylish new waver Twin Shadow tonight at First Unitarian. Moody vocals by front man Sean Miller casts Horse Heaven tracks like “Grave Blanket” and “Enabler” melodic and empathetic beside buzzing riffs and aggressive outros that feel surreal and precisely psyched out. Between the lush lo-fi of their debut demos to their recent LP, Creepoid’s aesthetic ranges from endearing to haunting, coupling unpredictable progression with the intentional cultivation of dreamy dissonance followed by harmony. Possibly the perfect compliment to the melancholy charms of the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Twin Shadow, Creepoid’s decibels of composition will in no way disappoint as part of this big bill full of “buzz bands”. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 8pm, $12, All Ages – Dianca Potts

Creepoid : Grave Blanket from David Shamban

The time has come for Philadelphia bedroom composer Moon Bounce. He has been slowly leaking material over the past few months and is readying the release of his debut LP, Dam Your Best Frock. Below you can check out the newly released song “Whipped” which is also accompanied by a seizure-inducing video. The latest track, like the rest of his material, is built upon glitchy, dub-esque beats that wax and wane with the songs intensity. Moon Bounce meticulously weaves warping samples, acoustic instruments, found sound percussions, and a dramatic baritone that is beautiful and possibly the most important aspect of all despite its relative burying in the mix. His vocals can float like a cloud before sharply turning into a brooding, subhuman drawl. The songs at times recall artists like The Books and Baths, especially on standout “Sleeper’s Quarrel” while songs like “Soda Pop” reveal a frantic, grimy energy that is more restrained in other tracks. You can download his songs for free HERE. – Adam G.

Charles Latham (formerly Death Panel) will be opening for critically-acclaimed Goldenboy tonight at Millcreek Tavern. Latham’s witty, self-deprecating material has been enjoying increased notoriety in the UK’s underground music scene with the help of his track “Hard On”, which has been covered and recorded by Scottish indie-folk bands Withered Hand (for the band’s album Good News) and Mersault, and in the US by Samantha Crain and many others. Latham has been steadily releasing a series of singles available exclusively in digital format. His most recent single is "Everybody Else Likes Me (Why Don’t You)", which you can check out and download for free below. It’s a tale of “a roguishly-handsome man-about-town whose looks and charm can’t seem to help him win the heart of ‘that special someone.’” (Ha…I can certainly relate to that.) Also joining the bill this evening are locals Early Ape and Big Terrible. Millcreek Tavern, 4200 Chester Ave., 8:30pm, $10, 21+ (Photo by Lippe) – H.M. Kauffman

I just wanted to remind you that Nick Millevoi will be having a CD release party tonight at The Marvelous for his magnificent solo effort Black Figure of a Bird, which is being released collaboratively on New Atlantis Records and Sunmagi Records. You’ll be able to see his 12-string compositions unfold before your eyes this evening as they did when he went into the studio with his guitar and Eric Carbonara. He will not have any tricks up his sleeves (or possibly sleeves), but his nimble fingers will perform magic that will have you simply captivated. (You should also definitely check out our recent interview with Millevoi for our Where Is My Mind? section HERE.) Learned maestros Colin Fisher and Josh Carrigan will also be warming up the crowd. The Marvelous, 208 S. 40th St., 8:30pm, $5, All Ages – Alexis V.