Corey Duncan who records and performs under the moniker Oh! Pears will be returning to Europe and kicking off a five-week tour this Wednesday in Padua, Italy. He’ll also be joined by his buddy and former bandmate Chris Ward (Pattern Is Movement) on drums. But before Duncan headed overseas for what we are sure will be a rad time and an amazing experience, we took the opportunity to pick his brain hoping to gather some info and to share a bit of knowledge with our readers/artists who aspire to do the same someday. We think that you’ll find some valuable advice for the future HERE. Special thanks to Corey Duncan for sharing.
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Chiddy Bang Performing w/The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Just a heads up that Chiddy Bang will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this evening performing “Ray Charles” off their upcoming full-length album Breakfast (due out on February 28). They’ll also be joined by The Roots.
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New Track: “The Great Sleep” (Live) – Acid Kicks
Local dream punks Acid Kicks (who actually weave more nightmarish soundscapes) just released a new album Live from Silk City on January 11th, 2012. It contains a couple tracks from their Life Dreams 7” as well as a few new ones that you might find on their upcoming split 12” with True Gold due out later this year via Phonographic Arts. Acid Kicks have been looking for permanent drummer to replace Alex Zilinski since he moved last year to New Orleans to join touring with Dead People. Performing with them on the skins for this recording is Joseph Idell. You can take a listen to one of their new jams called “The Great Sleep” below as well as the rest of the album HERE.
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Best of Philly Year End Poll of Emerging Artists – Sonicbids Submissions Results
Special thanks to all who submitted through Sonicbids to qualify for our Best of Philly Year End Poll of Emerging Artists. Below are the local acts that will go on to the next phase. Congrats!
1. Delta Drift
2. Tamarin
3. Penrose
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Conversation with Enemies Opening for Allison Weiss at PhilaMOCA Jan. 15
This winter has certainly been having a bit of an identity crisis. One day it’s an oddly beautiful spring day, and the next you are bundled up like the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. Well, with a band like Conversations with Enemies laying down their groovy, bouncy rhythms, surf rock riffs, and joyous horn section, you might be transported to those lost summer days with your best pals and not a care in the world. They are playing host tonight at PhilaMOCA to former Athens, Georgia resident and now Brooklyn native Allison Weiss backed by a full band. Also on the bill are Mitten and Former Belle. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 8pm, $8, All Ages (Photo by Q.D. Tran) – H.M. Kauffman
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Pissed Jeans & Blues Control at JB’s Jan. 14
Philadelphia by way of Allentown noise assassins Pissed Jeans are bringing their brand of heavy/hardcore punk in the vein of SST record’s 80’s roster to Johnny Brenda’s tonight, alongside local badass avant-garde duo Blues Control, who recently collaborated with zitherist/composer Laraaji for a mind-bending installment of RVNG Intl.’s FRKWYS series. Pissed Jeans latest release 2009’s King of Jeans, a diss to the wave of similarly named and sounding bands that has sprung up from the underground in the wake of the group’s breakthrough album, Hope for Men (cough White Denim cough). The group’s discography for Sub Pop is full of volatile, head-banging worthy noise-punk and Black Sabbath-inspired riffs that would fit perfectly in any record collection next to Black Flag’s My War. Get in your brotherly shoves this evening! Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave, $10-12, 8 pm, 21+ – Dan Brightcliffe
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Negative Department Bringing Positive Vibes at The Level Room Jan. 14
Untz untz untz. A DJ named Sam Kennerly asked a kid with an asymmetrical haircut (Mitch Routman) to play bass, and Philly’s Negative Department was born. The duo’s intoxicating electro sequences are upbeat and fun, and with tracks like “Jersey Girls,” surely restoring any Jersey girl’s reputation after the run of MTV’s fist-pumping Jersey Shore. According to the band, a new song is in store for tonight’s show, and was described as “a big ridiculous dance anthem, sort of like Calvin Harris or the new Erasure album.” You’ve been warned. The duo’s bleep-bloopy-untzy electrical sound will be bedeck The Level Room tonight as they open for the mixed surf rock/grunge/pop tones of Philly’s Sure Juror. Joining the bill will also be Massachusetts’s indie-billy rockers Pray for Polanski and New Jersey’s alternative shoegazers The Only Ghost In Town. The Level Room, 2102 Market St., 8pm, $8, 21+ – Brandi Lukas
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Archer Spade Kickstarting the New Year at The Rotunda Jan. 14
As Archer Spade, Daniel Blacksberg and Nick Millevoi twist their contemporary classical repertoire into avant-garde doctrines of minimalists rhythms and ethereal space noise. It’s rough in the best way – an always-unwinding tape of eccentric textural experiments and idiosyncratic art-house overtures that seem to manifest right in the moment. But it seems apposite of these visionary local composer/performers who, while only a year old as Archer Spade, have more than a decade of experience as both collaborators and individual artists. They put this empiricism to positive use – not only have the pair journeyed to California early this month for a collaboration with famous jazz instrumentalist/educator/
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Weekend Warrior, January 13 – 15
Phonographic Arts are hosting a local’s only show full of gothic/post-punk influenced psychedelic noise this Sunday night at their new home and a new favorite hangout of ours, The Level Room. Starting the night off will be dark/bluesy punks Latern, followed by the noisy psych rock of Harsh Vibes. Headlining the night’s bill will be the psychedelic post-punk of Far-Out Fangtooth, who had a break out year in 2011 on the heels of their well-received debut LP, Pure & Disinterested via Siltbreeze. The record found the group expanding their sound from their early days of Cramps-esque garage punk, to the aforementioned gothic/psychedelic post punk. Far-Out Fangtooth also have a new 7” coming out in the near future via HoZac Records. I know that it is on Sunday, but don’t sleep on this show! The Level Room, 2108 Market St., $8, 9pm, 21+ – Dan Brightcliffe
Other things to bring a little joy into your life this weekend…
The Level Room (2102 Market St.) FRI Slowdance and Mike Viser, SAT Negative Department and Sure Juror
Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) FRI Perseverance Jazz Band, SAT Pissed Jeans and Blues Control
Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.) FRI Swift Technique and Lady, SAT The Donuts
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.) FRI +Church+, Old Man Cactus, Fang Fang
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave.) FRI Folk You Philly w/ Yellow Humphrey, Anthony Walker, and More, SAT The Minor Arcana and Anam Owili-Eger
M Room (15 W. Girard Ave.) SAT Two Handed Engine and Organ Blues
Tritone (1508 South St.) FRI Ghosts in the Valley, Hey Angel, Bleed Radio Bleed, The Victor Traps, Howling Fantods, SAT Rasputins Secret Police, Old People, Everyone Sitting Pretty, SUN Jersey Corn Pickers
Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd St.) SAT (Early) The Peace Creeps, (Late) Cris Valkyria and Victoria Spaeth
The Trocadero (1003 Arch St.) FRI The Quelle Source and Mean Lady
The Blockley (3801 Chestnut St.) FRI Jack Deezl and Nomad Tam
Fergie’s (1214 Sansom St.) FRI Modzilla, SUN John Francis
World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) SUN Animus
The Legendary Dobbs (304 South St.) FRI John the Conqueror, Chowder Band, Jacob Waters, SAT Dayseam, Shot Into The Sun, Silent Reunion
PhilaMOCA (531 N. 12th St. Philadelphia) FRI Mountjoy EP Release Show w/Shorty Boy-boy, SAT Jack Deezl, SUN Conversations with Enemies and Former Belle
First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut St.) FRI Bright and Early
Connie’s Ric Rac (1132 S. 9th St.) FRI Massive Action Booking Presents, SUN Doung Van Sant Presents
The Barbary (951 N. Frankford St.) SAT Daylight, Gypsy, Trainwrecker
MilkBoy Philly (1100 Chestnut St.) FRI The National Rifle and Blayer Pointdujour, SAT New Sweden, KeN, Lettuce Prey
The Station (1550 McKean St.) SAT Broken Down Sunset, The Spotted Atrocious and Adobayondei
The Rotunda (4014 Walnut St.) SAT Archer Spade, SUN Below and Beyond
Cha-Cha’Razzi (Please contact one of the acts for details.) FRI Girls Rock Philly Benefit w/Trophy Wife, Very Happy, Nona, Carmen, The Adults
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Free Download: “Children of the Sea” – Buried Beds
Below is a new track available for free download called “Children of the Sea” from local faves Buried Beds. It’s off their upcoming concert film DVD and accompanying EP, Small Stories. They’ll be celebrating both releases on January 20 at The Ruba Club.
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New Track: “Haunted Heart” – Dream Brother (Feat. Free Energy’s Paul Sprangers)
Free Energy have been pretty quiet lately while they work on their sophomore album with producer John Agnello. However, lead vocalist Paul Sprangers recently collaborated with long-time pal Ian Anderson from One for the Team, who has a new 7” coming out under the moniker Dream Brother via his own label Afternoon Records. Check out their most enjoyable new track “Haunted Heart” below. Anderson has also recruited the help of John Venderslice for the project, and you can take a listen to their collaboration “Pretty Eyes” HERE. Enjoy!
Dream Brother – Haunted Heart (Feat. Paul Sprangers) by Dream Brother
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Permanent Wave Philly Presenting a Girls Rock Philly Benefit Show at Cha-Cha’Razzi Jan. 13
Permanent Wave Philly is having a benefit show for Girls Rock Philly, a much-beloved local volunteer-based non-profit music and mentoring organization dedicated to empowering girls and young women, tonight at South Philly’s Cha-Cha’Razzi with Trophy Wife, Very Happy, Nona, Carmen, and The Adults. Permanent Wave Philly is a branch of the original New York City-based Permanent Wave (which was started by former Titus Andronicus member Amy Klein). It is a network and community of feminist artists and activists who seek to challenge gender inequality not only in all forms of the arts, but also in politics, personal lives, and anywhere else it seems necessary. The organization believes that women should see each other as collaborators and inspirations, not rivals. It aspires to disprove the belief that “feminism is dead” and continue what was started generations ago by creating and strengthening a revolutionary arts movement and community that’s relevant to women, queer, and trans people. Come out and support ladies who rock this evening! Cha-Cha’Razzi, (More Info HERE), 7pm, $5 – $ 10, All Ages – Alexis V.