Strand of Oaks, a.k.a. Timothy Showalter, made a stop at what is left of the Berlin Wall when he was on tour in Germany. Below is a touching, acoustic performance of "Woke Up To The Light," which was recorded by HNDGMCHT. Showalter is currently on a massive tour for the rest of the summer that will be wrapping up on September 19 at The Boot & Saddle; however, he’ll only be home for about a week before he heads out on the road gain in Europe.

Power-pop outfit Mike Bell & the Movies premiered a new music video yesterday for the track "Everyone," off Nothing Works (Major Bear Records), over at The A.V. Club. In it, you’ll find frontman Mike Bell strapped to a chair and on the wrong end of a barrage of punches and slaps, which is pretty awesome and ballsy. Talk about making sacrifices for your art. "There will be blood!" Enjoy!

We can’t stop watching this new music video from Spank Rock for his bass-heavy, car-rattling banger "Gully," a collaborative single with Kid Kamillion and Boys Noize. The video plays out more like an excerpt from a gritty Vice documentary, providing us a glimpse into the seedier side of New York that is rarely captured. It was wonderfully directed by NYC street photographer Sean Maung.

Tonight, Golden Tea House offers you a chance to embrace the darkness. Kicking off an abbreviated run of dates, the trio of Psychic Teens usher in a noisy littered-filled musicality, building a creepy avalanche of anticipatory danger that makes their full-throttled instrumental approach an exhilarating horror film meets rollercoaster hybrid – a horror-coaster if you will. Heavy Medical will be joining the proceedings with their all-out sludgy, sledgehammer noise-punk, continuously smashing forward in conquest mode. The tandem of Ashley Arnwine (Bleeding Rainbow) and Joey Doubek (Hume) will also be combining forces to become Pinkwash, releasing an energetic experimental punk EP Your Cure Your Soil. Vancouver’s grunge rockers Weed close out the evening of heaviness in West Philly. Golden Tea House, (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.), 8pm, $5 – $7, All Ages – Michael Colavita.

Amanda X premiered a new track called "Guatemala" yesterday over at Noisey. The local all-female trio, consisting of Cat Park, Tiff Yoon and Kat Bean, also shared the good news of their debut full-length album, Amnesia, being released on July 28 via Siltbreeze. The LP was recorded by Uniform Recording’s Jeff Zeigler. Congrats, ladies! (Photo by Pete Murray)

Toy Soldiers just announced that their show on Friday, July 18 at Union Transfer with Cheers Elephant and Cheerleader will be "a sort of farewell, final hurrah for now, blowout bash" for the band. This really doesn’t come as a big surprise to us since frontman Ron Gallo released his new solo LP Ronny last week and the group had noticeably lost momentum after its raucous eleven-piece (or so) lineup disbanded in 2011. The most recent split seems amicable with its "never say never" vibe, and you can find out what the band’s latest members will be up to in the "long version" of their "R.I.P." message HERE. We’ll always remember them as the headliner of one of our first Deli Philly-presented showcases at a short-lived DIY space in a plastic bag factory across from Kung Fu Necktie that none of our staff and the people, who we still keep in touch with that ran it, can recall the name of, holding over four hundred drunken Temple students and future friends that evening. Good times – cheers, fellas! (Photo by Caitlin McCann)

Krust Toons: "Bar Shows" by Teddy 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 HERE.

Hip-hop collective Ground Up brings a Southern bounce and West Coast vibe to the rural suburbs in their latest music video for the track "Let’s Ride," which was directed by Strategem Pictures. It’s the first official single from their upcoming release entitled Mega. The group also just wrapped up this weekend with a couple of shows in California, and they’ll be taking over Mad River Manayunk on Thursday, July 24.

We have a new track from Busses this morning called "Overload" to help ease you into the workweek. The single was produced by the band and Dave Downham at Gradwell House Recording. Busses also recruited Josh Anderson (trumpet), Dan Melius (trumpet), Justin Moore (trombone) and Ryan Dankanich (baritone sax) to help provide a subtle intensity to the composition. You can stream and download it for free below. Busses’ next show in Philly will be on Tueday, July 8 at Johnny Brenda’s with Avers and Rosu Lup.

Our Twitter timeline blew up yesterday when local artist Najeeb Sheikh (Instagram user @dasheikee) came across "an ignorant piece of shit" painting over the commissioned mural for Kurt Vile‘s Wakin on a Pretty Daze album cover by world-renowned street artist Steve "ESPO" Powers. As reported by street art blogger Conrad Benner (who goes by the Twitter and Instagram handles @streetsdepts), "According to @dasheikee, the man said he was not connected to the city or the building’s owner and that he was buffing the mural because it was attracting graffiti to the neighborhood." This is outrageous! What narrow-minded asshole has the nerve and audacity to illegally do such a thing? You can check out photos of the culprit at work above and below by Sheikh. Please help track down this jerkoff, and send plenty of bad karma his way.

Update: Philly.com‘s Leah Kauffman scored an interview with the culprit, DJ Lee Mayjahs, who talked about being mentally "not well" and his remorse for his actions. He has also offered to pay Powers for his time to repaint the mural. You can read the rest of what Mayjahs had to say HERE.