Krust Toons: "When You Buy A New Hoodie From Your Favorite Band" by Tedd Hazard – please feel free to drop him a line at teddandthehazards@gmail.com if you dig or have any funny ideas. You can also check out more of his illustrations and animation shorts HERE.

Lame-O Records‘ Eric Osman found himself behind the drum kit on Cherry‘s latest release Dumbness. And now, the label head is kicking out the jams with Modern Baseball‘s Ian Farmer and The Superweaks‘ Evan Bernard, under the befitting moniker of The Lame-O’s. The fledgling power trio captures an exuberant energy to accompany the hook-laden melodies that make up the band’s all-too-brief self-titled debut EP, which was recorded at Big Mama’s and The Metal Shop by Bernard and Farmer (who also mixed the album). 

Philly darkwave trio Remote Control just shared its official debut single. The heart-pounding, low-end synths of "Exposure" gets you right from the gate. The guitar rings out beckoning for the macabre combination of vocals to emerge. Be warned: "Winter is coming," and you can find "Exposure" on the band’s upcoming EP Wasteland. It is also now available on limited edition cassette and digital format (below), which is accompanied by a remix from Crash Course In Science. 

Play The Songs You Like, the new full-length album from Radiator Hospital, officially comes out today via Salinas Records. In a corresponding move, the band will headline a release show this evening at First Unitarian Church. There’s a fuzzy familiarity in these songs – a bouncy enthusiasm that one can latch on to. Lyrically, one finds him/herself paging through a photo album as those sharp but ever-fading memories push back up to the surface. Even the sad points gain a luminous glow, the more time passes. The quartet continuously finds a way to tap into and trigger the communality of personal experiences, with a delicate, united, melodic touch. Tonight, they’ll be joined by the tender-rocking Baltimore trio of Outer Spaces, and capturing a kindred-comforting warmth, Emi Night-led Strawberry Runners, whose new EP In the Garden, In the Night is also now available courtesy of Salinas Records, reinforces the billing.  With a new EP on the way, local trio Eight will kick off the festivities. – Michael Colavita

More places to be this weekend…

Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI Vita and the Woolf, Ellen Siberian Tiger, SAT The Healing: Lyrispect, Just Greg, Jacqueline Constance, Philly Reggae Band, Chill Moody, Lady Alma, Killiam Shakespeare, DJ Mike Nyce, SUN Cheeky

Boot & Saddle (1131 S. Broad St.) FRI Petunia, Line Leader, John Dominy

Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI King Slender, To Tremble/Botis/DJ Deejay, SAT The Donuts, Maniacs On Wheels/Matthew Law, SUN Urban Resist, The Droogettes, Lowlife, Fucksake

PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12^th St.) FRI Port Lucian (EP Release), Americanadian, Tulpa, Ston Jamos, Brick Nova, SUN Shy Boyz

Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St.) SAT Crash Course In Science (Record Release), Remote Control, Speaking Parts

The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) FRI Guns & Roses 30^th Anniversary Tribute: School of Rock, Welcome To My Face, Thorazine, Northern Arms, Johnny Showcase, Stinking Lizaveta, The Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret, Misstallica, SAT The Philadelphia Monster Ball: DJ Robert Drake, The Striptease Orchestra, SUN Overtime Boyz, Working on Dying

World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) SAT (Upstairs) Transistor Rodeo

The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave. 412) FRI Knightlife, Groundwork, SAT Looseleaf, Tough Guy Soda, Elissa Janelle Velveteen, Anomie Fatale

The Barbary (951 Frankford Ave.) FRI Generation Empty/The Stone Eye, Femme Collective, SAT Hawk Tubley, Remory, Lisa Chosed, Emily Drinker/Mercury Radio Theater, Gringo Motel, Ghost Heron, SUN Rover Rover, Adventure Lost, The Russells

Bourbon & Branch (705 N. 2^nd St.) FRI Tektonic, Orion Tango, SAT Moon Jellies, Juice Wax, Wack Cheddar

Ortlieb’s Lounge (847 N. 3^rd St.) FRI Sixteen Jackies (EP Release), The Vernes, Jo Kusy, SAT Love Killed Kurt, SUN Carroll

Century (1350 S. 29^th St.) SUN Posers, Downtrodder

Silk City (435 Spring Garden St.) FRI Bo Bliz, Low Budget, SAT DJ Deejay

Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) SAT Rustic Music Service, SUN Rusty Cadillac

Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9^th St.) FRI Bong Hits For Jesus, The Plibmen, Dr. Beardfacé and the Spaceman, Bern and the Bastards, Lynsay Salera, SAT Solar Circuit, SUN Nipper the Band, Gracie Martin, Posture

Voltage Lounge (421 N. 7^th St.) FRI The Wretched

Morgan’s Pier (221 N. Columbus Blvd.) FRI DJ Kevin Kong, SUN Richie Baker

The Grape Room (105 Grape St.) FRI Apple Juice Jones, Static Flow, Jac Carson, Wolf Accent, SAT The Jawn, Danny Newport, The GoAround

Ardmore Music Hall (23 E. Lancaster Ave.) FRI Splintered Sunlight, SAT Breakwater

Creep Records (1050 N. Hancock St.) FRI Lamplighters, In The Pines, Steveo & the Crippling Addictions

First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut St.) FRI Radiator Hospital (Record Release), Eight

The Pharmacy (1300 S. 18^th St.) FRI Resilient, Molly Rhythm, SAT Who Loves You

Tralfamadore (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SUN Kelsey Cork & the Swigs, Little Sister

The Inconvenience Store (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT TIOGA, Medium Rare, Shinobi

Trinity House (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT My Son Bison, Soupy, Science Book

The Tusk (Please contact one of the acts or venue for info.) SAT The GTVs, The Dull Blue Lights

As he builds toward a debut LP, Kevin Connor, a.k.a. The Trust Fund Kids, recently issued a fresh EP The Sky Looks Like A Videogame. Creating a musical compound of upbeat jangle with underlying ghostly synth/keys, these songs pleasantly haunt. Nightmarish tales of isolation gather steam, as the light fixtures in a narrative tunnel are gradually brought to full power. There’s a vibrancy that persists through the dim times.

How To Stop Street Harassment, the forthcoming album from The HIRS Collective, is scheduled for release on November 20 via Get Better Records. The EP is sharply summarized as “Ten songs about wanting to be left alone while minding our business being in public.” The four song segment of "LEAVE ME ALONE / LET ME LIVE / ALL BY MYSELF / REVENGE" pulverizes and pummels with an unadulterated release of emotion. Preorders of the release (limited to 100) includes the flexi 7" with a silk screened b-side, a short comic and other art by JB Brager, a self-defense kitty keychain, and a lyrics insert.

“Fear of Nothing” is one of the singles featured on American Trappist’s new release Amuse​-​oreille, Vol. 1. Saturated in a dreary, surf tone, the song blooms from lingering melancholy. However, despite those indecisive hesitations, an enthusiastic instrumental momentum emerges. Overcoming the anchor of insecurities, the track catches fire toward its conclusion, taking on the obstacles that lie in one’s path with a newfound resolve.

Counting Sins is the new album from the trio of heavy, known as Hellrad. Featuring former members of Javelina, Eat The Turnbuckle, and Jail, the band submerges one in a brutal bass-quaking, percussion-smattering onslaught. Nonstop, cavernous grooves weld with guttural, guiding vocals and thunderous riffs, producing an ever-advancing brand of sludge. Currently in the midst of a stretch across Europe, Hellrad will be back in town at Century on Friday, November 17, on a lineup that also includes Traitor, Night Raids, and Suppressive Fire. (Photo by Useless Rebel)

The second EP from the trio of Eight, which is comprised of Mimi Gallagher (Year Of Glad), Cat Park (Amanda X), and Pat Brier (Queen Jesus), appears to be on its way via Dead Broke Rekerds. In the meantime, a video shot by Scott Troyan and Park has emerged. Embracing the apple orchard scenery, “839” slithers. Interlacing Gallagher & Park’s natural sense of harmony, with jagged guitar and stabilizing rhythm, the track smoothly soars. You can catch Eight this Friday, October 20 at the First Unitarian Church, as part of Radiator Hospital‘s record release celebration, with Strawberry Runners and Outer Spaces. (Photo by Scott Troyan)

Philly singer-songwriter Alexandra Gordon is now recording under the moniker Borzoi Boy ("like the Russian greyhound"). Enter The Light captures a certain hushed, candlelit, emotive intimacy. Letting the listener in on the thoughts that are encased in one’s mind, Gordon figures out her next move, while reminiscing on love and feelings of loneliness. The duality of brightness and bleakness grips as the sun trickles in through the curtains.

“Point of Personal Privilege” serves as the second single off Weller’s full-length debut, due out on October 20. Gradually illustrating a poignant heart-wrenching tale, that optimistic imagery is torn to pieces by the harshness of reality. Somber self-evaluations, accentuated by the warm build of backing harmonies, come crashing, battered by swells of tension-releasing instrumentation. On Saturday, November 4, JJ’s Diner will be hosting the band’s record release show, with Three Man Cannon and Allegra rounding out the lineup.

With aid from Sanders Smith, Jon Cardiello, and Lukas Phelan, on his last day in Missoula, Montana, Cooper Hepburn recorded the songs that encompass Mountain (HOYA Recordings/Diet Pop Records), the new release under the moniker Melon Painting. Exposed, personal narratives endear in isolating, through-the-screen-door folk. Merging a jangly, laid-back simplicity with points of atmospheric ambiance, the record creates an immediate connection. Melon Painting is schedule to perform on Sunday, October 29 at DIY space Planet Phitness, with Marge and Neutral Shirt.