Nothing But Rain at North Star Bar Sept. 21

You can call it post-shoegaze. You even can call it post-punk revival. But there is one thing definite about Philly’s Nothing–the sounds that this local outfit produce stir in you a haunting, curious hunger that lingers like moments lost. That’s what’s most beckoning about their latest EP, Suns And Lovers (released on  Big Love Records)–it’s a scorching mix of sullen indie rock set deep in an expansive, swelling ambient dreamscape that engulfs you in its clouds of deafening crashes and abstracted downbeat. And tonight at North Star, Nothing will fit in cosmically with the bold, jagged "gaze-grunge" edges of Delaware’s the Sky Drops, who just released their EP, Making Mountains, in June. And for the dreary weather we have ahead of us, that’s perfect. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 8pm, $8, 21+ – Annamarya Scaccia