Also this issue: The Bee's Knees With Honey in the Hive, The Bigger Lovers get a taste of the sweet stuff. -Sam Adams Looking for the Perfect Beat Dälek champions the original spirit of hip-hop. -Paul Burress Here Lay the Liars Post-punk or not, you can believe the hype. -Paul Burress Beat Box -Ain� Ardron-Doley And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Busted Ceiling Panels -John Vettese The Gig -Nate Chinen on Jazz Feria del Barrio -Mary Armstrong Money Mark -Andrew Parks

September 5-11, 2002

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The Frames

After listening to The Frames' For the Birds (Overcoat), one of last year's most intimate, heartbroken collections, you'd expect frontman Glen Hansard to be something of a congenital mope. It's a surprise, then, almost a shock, to find that he's more a dancing fool than flaming wreck. "Wasn't he one of The Commitments?" a friend asked. I scoffed, then went home and looked it up. (Yep, he was Outspan.) Of course, that decreases your chances of hearing a breathtaking song like the whisper-to-a-whisper "What Happens When the Heart Just Stops," but it also reduces the likelihood of your wanting to dive off a bridge after you leave the show.

Tue., Sep. 10, 9 p.m., $12, with the Waxwings and Nad Navillus, The Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888.

—Sam Adams

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