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New Music Video: “In Your Arms” – The Stammer

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Below is the latest single, "In Your Arms," and music video from The Stammer. The band proclaims, "It is the perfect summer soundtrack for driving your car straight into a brick wall or, alternatively, off of a bridge… The lyrics are inspired by countless film noir movies and the writings of Philadelphia native David Goodis." The Stammer are getting set to release their upcoming full-length album, Days In Between, on July 31, and will be celebrating the record’s arrival with a concert on the same evening at The Fire accompanied by Blood Sound, Mock Suns, and Exiles.

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Dock Street Scavenger Run & Free Music Fest at Dock Street Brewery June 7

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As Philly Beer Week draws to a close, Dock Street Brewery hosts the 7th Annual Scavenger Run & Free Music Fest. Jason Henn, a.k.a. Honey Radar, continues to deliver soothing, jangly, lo-fi garage-psych rock. With songs that seep under your skin, finding their way into your head, Honey Radar provides a platform for your mind to temporarily shed the routine concerns of everyday life, allowing you to drift while still maintaining a foothold. Pushin’ It 2 the Limit dispenses sprinting flashes of pop-punk, while the rock quartet of Flightschool takes aim at developing from a traditional base, which loosens up over time. Local dance group, Women’s Revolutionary Vagime, focuses on dispensing a positive message and empowering women via choreography. RoseMary Fiki’s soulful vocals serve as the foundation for music that branches out covering multiple genres. Dock Street Brewery & Restaurant, 701 S. 50th St., 4pm, Free, All Ages – Michael Colavita

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Telepathic Is in Your Head at The Great Indoors June 6

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The trio of Telepathic, the latest musical concoction from former Bleeding Rainbow members Rob Garcia & Sarah Everton (Blowdryer) with Paul Brinkley, performs tonight at The Great Indoors. On their EP Powers of Ten, Telepathic embraces a straight-ahead hard-driving, riff-oriented punk approach, allowing their crisp interlocking vocals to ride the steady wave of guitar and flow-perpetuating percussion. It has a solid mixture of experienced refinement, while still retaining an edge one’s ear can grab onto. The group will be joined by The Guests, a local four-piece whose EP Red Scare ’15, is filled with catchy slices of new–wave deep baritones, sleek synth, and that backend rhythm section propulsion, providing the space for clean jangly guitar. The adrenaline injection of hardcore outfit Socialite, featuring Perry Shall (Hound, Dry Feet) and Ian Dykstra (Little Big League, ex-Titus Andronicus), takes hold, fusing raunchy guitar and storming percussion with furious vocals. Tenacious Tallahassee hardcore trio Ex-Breathers completes the bill. The Great Indoors (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.), 7pm, $7, All Ages – Michael Colavita

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Weekend Warrior, June 5 – 7

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Nepal was overtaken by a horrendous earthquake this past April that took nearly 9,000 lives while leaving more than 23,000 injured. This Saturday night at PhilaMOCA, R5 Productions will be holding a benefit concert with all proceeds going to Thrangu Rinpoche’s School for Himalayan Children, which offers housing, education, medical and dental care to the Nepalese mountain children. Headlining the evening will be exuberant folk rockers The Districts, who will be supported by folk crooner Thom McCarthy. Also added to the bill are the poetic pop stylings of Kississippi. The duo of Zoë Reynolds and Colin James Kupson (ex-Cyberbully Mom Club) has absolutely stolen my heart of late so definitely don’t sleep on them! PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 8pm, $15 (Sold Out), All Ages – H.M. Kauffman
 
More places to get your music fix this weekend…
 
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI CRUISR, Tutlie, Suburban Living, SAT Ross Bellenoit (Record Release), Madalean Gauze, Morgan Pinkstone, SUN Nothing
 
The Boot & Saddle (1131 S. Broad St.) FRI The Silence Kit, SAT Lou
 
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Night Windows, Pilkington, The Deadeyes/Howlish/DJ Lil’ Dave, SAT The Great Vibration/Line Leader, Tangiers/Sean Hearn, Jesse Tyler, SUN Weekender, Dulis/Science Club, Scatterbrain, Welter
 
Underground Arts (1200 Callowhill St.) FRI Nothing To Hide, SAT Mo Lowda & The Humble, Flightschool, Family Vacation
 
Bourbon and Branch (705 N. 2nd St.) FRI Tango Leopard, Fake Boyfriend, Lady Parts (EP Release), SAT Space Drugs, Clementine
 
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) SAT Ashes of Our Sins, Salem Outlaws, Archangel, Open Wide, The Sky
 
TLA (334 South St.) FRI Lil Dicky, Eddie Madrid, Squid & Schill, SAT Beanie Sigel
 
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) FRI (Upstairs) Mason Porter (Album Release), Tin Bird Choir/(Downstairs) Start Making Sense: Talking Heads Tribute, Hmfo: A Hall and Oates Tribute, SAT (Upstairs) An Honest Year
 
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Mimos, Pompton Lakes, Anjuli Josephine, Baker Man, SUN Caroline Reese, Flounder Warehouse
 
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.)FRI Thee Idea Men, Cold Roses, SAT 1FM (EP Release), Skyline The City, Danger Club
 
Ortlieb’s Lounge (847 N. 3rd St.) FRI Voltheque, The Original Crooks and Nannies, Mr. Sampson
 
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI Those People, The Wayside Shakeup, Post War Dream, SAT Flux Capacitor, The Royal Noise, Catallus
 
Silk City (435 Spring Garden St.) FR DJ Dav, Reed Streets, SAT DJ Deejay
 
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) FRI Hezekiah Jones
 
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI Hired Guns Blues Band, SAT Midwestern Exposure, Man About A Horse, Heavy Blonde, SUN Rusty Cadillac
 
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St) FRI Supreem Da Rezarekta, Supreem And The New Experience, Whitney Peyton, Big Tal & Kastilano/The Black Moons, Heavy Harold, Boy Wonder, SAT (1pm) Hellrad, Cadaveric Spasm, Doom Whore/(7:30 pm) Peace With Doubt/Skeleton Hands, Seeds of Perdition, Suicide Conspiracy, 2Fclub
 
Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St) FRI Kings & Comrades, Paul Kurrey, SAT Mesa Jane, Lapses
 
Voltage Lounge (421 N. 7th St.) FRI Ill Dill Tha Vill, Pedro Fresco, SAT Jahlil Beats
 
Morgan’s Pier (221 N. Columbus Boulevard) FRI DJ Beatstreet, SAT Mr. Sonny James, SUN (2pm) percussionist Josh Robinson/(9:30pm) DJ Royale
 
Frankie Bradley’s (1320 Chancellor St.) FRI Philly Madison, You Do You
 
The Pharmacy (1300/02 S. 18th St.) FRI Darko the Super, 185668232, Visitor 10/Freddy Pompeii, Terrell Atrophy
 
Millcreek Tavern (4200 Chester Ave.) FRI Pushin’ It 2 the Limit, No, Easy Creatures, Goddamnit
 
The Grape Room (105 Grape St) FRI Sheep, Natalie Chapkis, SAT The Subtractive, American Dinosaur, Hopscotch Jefferson, Wolf Accent, SUN Duke Brothers
 
Vox Populi (319 N. 11th St.) SAT Silverton, Diane Foglizzo, Papi León
 
Eris Temple Arts (602 S. 52nd St.) FRI Whoopsy Daisy, Bathassaults
 
Black Vulture Gallery (208 E. Girard Ave.) FRI Faking
 
LAVA Space (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Dying, Die Choking, SUN Scraaatch Shakai Mondai, Moor Mother Goddess with Abdul Kadir, Magus Monk
 
The Mitten (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Bore War, No Other
 
Great Indoors (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT Socialite, The Guests, Telepathic
 
Hong Kong Garden (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Mercury Milk, Friendship Horace Mann
 
Kat Frat (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) FRI Free Cake For Every Creature
 
A House Named Virtue (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.) SAT Shakai Mondai, Droid Daughter
 
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New Music Video: “Nancy (Be Good)” – Purples

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Purples have released a reworked take on the title track from their debut album Nancy, transforming the solemn sounding original into a rocker. The accompanying music video is quite fitting, given the song’s revitalized sense of motion. The footage provides a scenic view as you coast along a railway. The band performs next in Philly on Wednesday, July 22 at Ortlieb’s alongside Lightninging and Gladshot.

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CRUISR Go For It at JB’s June 5

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CRUISR headlines a three-pronged billing of local bands this evening at Johnny Brenda’s. The lineup, which also includes Tutlie and Suburban Living, shares the thread of easily lovable, movement-enticing music. The quartet of CRUISR serves up naturally positive bounce that bubbles over, pushed by a melodic core and sustained by a constant percussive pop and subtly sharp reinforcing guitar lines. Tutlie occupy the middle slot surrounding you in an intricately designed orchestra of sound that lifts one into the upper atmosphere, rather than weighing you down with their powerful vocal interplay. Wesley Bunch guides the heart-pumping emotive synth-pop vehicle of Suburban Living, jumpstarting your night while weaving in and out of the shadows with a combination of urgency and ease. Johnny Brenda’s 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 9pm, $12, 21+ – Michael Colavita

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New Fight Amp Album Available for Streaming

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Local noise-rock outfit Fight Amp slugs and claws its way through its new album Constantly Off, which you can stream below. Scraping bloody fingers across steel strings while unleashing perpetual percussion gut shots, the power trio is starting to find its foothold in this fickle world of music. Constantly Off is set for vinyl and digital releases on June 9 via Brutal Panda Records.

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New Video: “Bold” (Live – Acoustic) – The Districts

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Check out this beautiful, acoutsic rendition of "Bold" performed by The Districts frontman Rob Grote! While at this year’s Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shore, AL, he stopped by the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus to do a recording of the song off the band’s latest LP, A Flourish and a Spoil. The Districts will be getting a lot of new stamps on their passports this summer, touching down in Europe, Asia and Australia, but first, they’ll be headlining an intimate benefit show for Thrangu Rinpoche’s School for Himalayan Children this Saturday, June 6 at PhilaMOCA.

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LOUDS Record Release Show at Boot & Saddle June 4

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LOUDS caught me by surprise with their über-infectious debut single “Ways” – a sliver of joyous electropop at its finest, which admittedly felt more like a tease every time the track ended. Well, the Brooks brothers (Charlie & Petie) have put together a stellar group of local players, made up of Juston Stens (ex-Dr. Dog), Justin Wolf (Lux Perpetua, ex-Extraordinaire), Ryan Crump (founder of Beats, Brews & Banter), Alejandro Giraldo, and friends, to take this once studio-only production project to the next level. LOUDS will be celebrating the release of their first EP profoundly titled (with tongue-in-cheek), If More People Bought Art More People Would Buy Art, which will be released via Philly’s own Color Theory Records. They’ll also be joined by labelmates and Deli faves, The Extraordinaires, and Newark, Delaware’s FIANCÉ. Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 8:30pm, $10, 21+ – Q.D. Tran

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New Track: “Koolwhip City” – In Place

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The instrumental duo of In Place shared a new single called "Koolwhip City," earlier this week. The composition provides an ominous, searching tone – cut through by rays of brass. You can catch In Place performing live on Saturday, June 13 at the Grape Room.

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Debut Year Of Glad EP Available for Streaming

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Year Of Glad, featuring Nona’s Mimi Gallagher and 1994!’s Chris Diehm and backed by Mike Bell (of Mike Bell & The Movies) and Mike Harping (of Good Luck), just premiered their debut self-titled EP via Stereogum. The record full of stormy instrumentation and playfully spunky guy-gal vocals finds Philly and Lame-O Records with another band rising out of the city’s musically rich DIY community. Come on Run For Cover Records – we have another act for you to scoop up!