The Love Club continues the great Philly psych-pop tradition, but not nearly in the way you’ve come to expect. Distant, soothing vocals occupy the same space as bouncy guitars, fuzzy, melodic bass lines and bleating saxophones and theremins, adding up to a looseness that’s just as much 90’s slacker indie as it is old-timey English pyschedelia. And man, if those saxophones don’t sound like the Contortions (which is always a welcome influence). But I suppose you shouldn’t expect anything less from a band that was "birthed from a lesbian cosmonaut". Also filling up the North Star tonight are Sonni Sunshine and the Underwater Sounds, Lost in Company and Touch. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar Street, 8pm, $8, 21+ – Joe Poteracki