Local psych-pop Creepoid continues to impress with fuzzed out chants like “Stranger”. Substantially lo-fi and gritty, this new-ish number plays out warm with meticulous reverb and laidback riffs. Moody guy-girl vocals swell while shaking cymbals meet tambourine, resulting in the same caustic calm The Kills exude. As heard on both sides of their debut vinyl EP Yellow Life Giver, Creepoid’s songs sound out chill yet urgent, settling somewhere between overt emotion and playing it coy. Balanced might be the word for it, or perhaps precise emphasis. Whichever, Creepoid does it well, making tracks like “Pink Tag Sale” a must have with its snare based dreamy tempo and washed-out vibes. However, expect to hear tonight at Pilam some new songs that they’ve been working on for their upcoming full length Horse Heaven currently scheduled for release in January 2011 via Ian Records. You’ve probably also been hearing some hype about The Homophones. Well, believe it! The big stage awaits them, and you have the opportunity to say, “I saw them back when…” (Now all that they have to do is record an album.) Oh, did we forget to mention the jangly pop of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart? Pretty sweet, right? Exactly and certainly Weekend Warrior-worthy! See you there. BTW: We’re very happy to see our favorite fraternity back with a bang! Pilam. 3914 Spruce St., 9pm, $8 – $10, All Ages

 

Other things to do this weekend, but hopefully Game 7 will be one of them…Go Phils!

 

Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Serpent Throne, SUN Women

 

The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Japanese Sunday, SAT Toy Soldiers and Satellite Hearts, SUN (Early) Everyone Everywhere, (Late) Free Cowmuddy Recording

 

Tritone (1508 South St.) FRI Surgeon and Leiana, SAT Da Comrade! And The New Heaven & The New Earth

 

Danger Danger Gallery (5013 Baltimore Ave.) FRI Your Children is Beautiful, SAT Algernon Cadwallader, SUN Hop Along and Motorcycle Maus

 

Millcreek Tavern (4200 Chester Ave.) FRI Ominous Black, Wizard Eye, Clamfight

 

The Rotunda (4014 Walnut St.) SAT Giovanni’s Room Benefit w/Sweatheart and Sgt. Sass

 

The Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum (3819 Hamilton St.) FRI Goddess Night Benefit for City of Hope w/ Lisa Sunshine, Anti Emz, Radio Eris

 

Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI Dan Collins Songwriter Showcase

 

The El Bar (1356 N. Front St.) SUN Far-Out Fangtooth

 

Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.) SAT Early Ape and The Lawsuits

 

Triumph Brewery (117 Chestnut St.) FRI The Once Was

 

The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) SAT Blood Feathers

 

While the Danger Danger Gallery crew from Grandchildren are on tour warping audiences’ minds in support of their impressive full length debut Everlasting (The Deli’s October Album of the Month), they’ve premiered a new tripped-out video (of course) this week for “Saturn Returns” via Spinner. You can check it out below. Enjoy! – The Deli Staff

 

This month has been ridiculously fun for The Deli Staff, and we hope you too! However, if you missed the mind-blowing set by Grandchildren at their record release party or the killer lineup of The Extraordinaires, An American Chinese and Power Animal that we also presented at The Deli’s Anniversary Party last weekend at JB’s, then we do feel bad for you. But you can’t say that we didn’t try to include you in on the fun. Well, lucky we have more good times up our sleeves for the Halloween weekend (our most favorite time of the year). Join us on Friday, Oct. 29 for Grimace Federation’s album release party at JB’s (w/West Philadelphia Orchestra, Univox and the Robotique DJs) and on Sunday, Oct. 31 at the Ukie Club for the TJ Kong Halloween Costume Ball Rock and Roll Murdershow with too many talented up-and-coming local acts for us to list right now (check out the nice poster that Kong provided for us above) as well as a very special mystery guest (whom we can only say is signed to a well-known record label). Just don’t ever say that we didn’t try to include you! – The Deli Staff

When you go see a live performance by a band called Satanized, you should already accept the name as a warning. The devilish Badmaster crew conjures up their interpretation of the sounds from Hell reigning terror on this earth through the use of stop-start beats, bloodcurdling guitar screeches, truly agro vocals and a bit of a sense of humor that brings the thrashers and the no wave/noise rockers into a union of the unholy. Mainstream America run! They’ll be in the belly of The Ox tonight with Aids Wolf, whom they released a limited edition split 7” with earlier this year via Badmaster Records, and Chicago’s D. Rider. The Ox, 2nd and Oxford, 8pm, $5, All Ages – H.M. Kauffman

 

Kurt Vile will be releasing digitally on Monday, October 25 a new 7” via Matador called In My Time, a teaser for Vile’s upcoming LP produced by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Breeders, Dinosaur Jr., etc.) that will be out in 2011. The vinyl will be available on November 9. You can download the first single below. It comes just in time for his nationwide tour which includes dates with The Soft Pack and local music brethren Purling Hiss, who will be releasing their album Public Service Announcement the day after on October 26 via Woodsist. – The Deli Staff

October is a great time for music in Philly because we definitely benefit from all the traffic of touring bands on their way to and from CMJ. But if you’re like me and can certainly survive without all the crowds and industry people then swing on by KFN tonight for a taste of the Hozac/Impose CMJ showcase that will be at Don Pedros. Hosting their mates and opening the evening will be the busiest Philly couple at the ball. Reading Rainbows’ rich harmonies and cohesive instrumental work will be invading the venues of NYC/Brooklyn this week. They’ll be complimented nicely with buzz-heavy Frankie Rosie & the Outs and “No-wavesgaze Texas gulf skurfer” rockers Woven Bones. So what’s CMJ again? Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 8pm, $8, 21+ – H.M. Kauffman

 

It’s that time of year again. The CMJ Music Marathon begins today. Now, we know that’s NYC news, but we’ll be heading up there and so will some of your favorite Philly acts. While there does seem like a lack of participation from some of the bigger names that you’d expect to be there representing Philly, we certainly don’t lack any waves of up-and-comers ready to crash the party! Here’s our Philly artists guide to CMJ.

 

The Deli Magazine will be presenting 8 Official CMJ showcases throughout NYC/Brooklyn spanning a wide array of genres. We are happy to be hosting Strand of Oaks (a.k.a. Timothy Showalter), who has been receiving an enormous amount of critical acclaim and deservedly so for his latest album Pope Killdragon, at The Living Room on Oct. 21. We’ll also be bringing the epic hard rockin’ harmonious sounds of the mighty Univox to Spike Hill on Oct. 22.

 

Reading Rainbow looks like they’ll be the busiest of our local crew of folks invading the Big Apple. Our most recent Best of Philly Poll winner will be giving everyone at the festival a taste of their upcoming release Prism Eyes due out Nov. 23 via Hozac Records. Reading Rainbow will be opening their CMJ 2010 at their label’s showcase with Impose Records at Don Pedro on Oct. 21. Another Official CMJ Performance includes Oct. 23 at Cake Shop for the Pop Tarts Suck Toasted Showcase with Lehigh Valley’s Soars, as well as an unofficial CMJ show in their typical DIY fashion at Party Xpo.

 

Piano popsters Jukebox the Ghost will be making the rounds first off at the Sneak Attack Party on Oct. 20 at The Delancey. They’ll be pulling double duty the next day with an early evening appearance at Stratosphere Sound for the Maker’s Mark/Insound.com Party and later at Bowery Electric for Bella Union/Yep Roc Official Showcase with labelmates Drink Up Buttercup. Sun Airway will be making their CMJ debut with their pedigrees on their sleeves at Pianos on Oct. 21 for Jagjaguwar/Secretly Canadian/Dead Oceans Official CMJ Showcase and The Windish Showcase at Rockwood Music Hall on Oct. 22. 

 

Penrose will be breaking the seal for the Philly artists today when they bring their big classic rock riffs to Arlene’s Grocery for the No Pulp Showcase. You’ll be able to catch them, TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb (who will be at Spike Hill on Oct. 21) and a slew of local up-and-comers this Oct. 31 in Philly for the TJ Kong_Halloween_CostumeBall_RockandRoll_Murdershow presented by The Deli Magazine and Spaten.

 

Other Philly artists making the trek up to CMJ include Good Old War, The Armchairs, American Babies, Br’er and Avi Wisnia. You can check out the Official CMJ 2010 schedule for more info here. (Feel free to post any local peeps that we missed in our comments section.)

 

 

The dreamy ladies and gents from A Sunny Day in Glasgow are back with a new offering entitled Autumn, Again, and it’s available for FREE download here, but we’re sure that they’d gladly accept your donation. It’s self-released and also available in limited edition maroon 12” vinyl. They’ll be doing a northeast mini-tour in support of their recent release starting next week, but no Philly dates scheduled yet. And it looks like the tour opener in Washington D.C. will be moved to the Rock & Roll Hotel due to the crazy shit that went down at DC9 the other night. – The Deli Staff

Recent poll winners Nicos Gun (yes, no apostrophe please) have only been together for a little over a year, but the four-piece’s silky, smooth dance tracks sound surprisingly polished. We had a chance to catch up with co-founder of the band, Barney McKenna, to get the scoop on his beef with Geno’s and Jim’s, playing with guns, plans for a Nicos Gun documentary and more.

 

 

Barney McKenna: We started when I stopped playing with my band Cortez Cortez (whose album was reviewed on your site). Me and Nick Bockrath (Cortez Cortez bass player) started recording with Harry Zelnick who I’ve known since I was a teenager (we both grew up in Philly). Harry was a hip hop producer and a friend of mine. Harry has produced for Ludacris, Freeway, and Beanie Sigel. He’s the drummer/collaborator now of Nicos Gun. I wrote some songs that Harry helped me produce. Then we began writing stuff together and producing it at a studio on 4th and Callowhill. We’re all into the same type of bands like Prince, LCD Soundsystem, Gang of Four, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Talking Heads, Justice. Andy Black is a great bassist in the area and he joined us for our first show and we’ve been together since then (around September 2009).

 

 

BM: Me and Harry worked at a shoe repair store downtown owned by an old greek guy named Nico. He kept a luger behind the cash register, and we used to pull it out when we closed the store. One time Harry dropped the gun and it went off in the store. There was a hole in the wall that Nico saw, and he fired us after that.

 

 

BM: Talking Heads, Prince, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Grandmaster Flash, Beck, David Bowie.

 

 

BM: Carsick Cars, Nirvana, MSTRKRFT, Liquid Liquid.

 

 

BM: The first big concert I ever attended was Lyle Lovett. My aunt took me to see him. He had cool hair, and I liked his guitar. I was 8. The first album I ever bought was Nevermind by Nirvana when I was 9.

 

 

BM: I love how many talented people are in this city and how cheap it is to live. Growing up here your friends with every type of race and class. It is a good melting pot of a town where I’ve witnessed very different people hanging out. 

 

 

BM: I hate Geno’s cheesesteaks and the ignorant people who work there and own that store. I hate Jim’s cheesteaks and the idiots who wait in a line around the corner for a shitty fattening sandwich. I hate that there’s becoming fewer and fewer nice venues to play and the urgency for bands to leave the city to gain any type of success. 

 

 

BM: Mix our album, release our EP. Continue booking shows in other cities. Making music videos, and finishing a documentary on the band and our life.

 

 

BM: Jay Reatard at Johnny Brenda’s. 

 

 

BM: Chicken soup 

 

(Photo by Matthew Dodd)