Also this issue: Home Records A roundup of CDs by people who go to the same dentist as you. -Paul Burress, M.J. Fine, P.R, Patrick Rapa and John Vettese More CD reviews -Debra Auspitz, Peter Burwasser, Andrew Milner and Patrick Rapa Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra -Peter Burwasser Choral Arts Society -Peter Burwasser Daniel Lanois -Sam Adams Def Jam Vendetta Tour Prism Quartet -Peter Burwasser A.F.I. -John Vettese

May 14-20, 2003

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The Creatures of the Golden Dawn

Before he was Brother JT and even before he was an Original Sin, Bethlehem's naughty patron saint of garage rock John JT Terlesky was a Creature of the Golden Dawn. On a mission from God of sorts, Terlesky is making like Jake and Elwood Blues and getting the band -- featured on the 2001 release of The Knights of Fuzz 1980-2000, a CD-ROM version of the out-of-print 1995 book chronicling the rebirth of garage and psychedelic rock in the '80s and '90s -- back together. On a tongue-in-cheek website (home.epix.net/~mark1967/page1.html), The Creatures of the Golden Dawn espouse the concept of Adepthood, a state wherein the Adept learns the ¹secrets' of listening and hearing that inner voice of Light called the ¹Higher Genius' or ¹Holy Guardian Angel.' It sounds to us as if the band dropped a bit too much of the brown acid, but that can only bode well for its sure-to-be-manic live set this week with New Jersey's The Graveyard School, described as The Cramps meet AC/DC, and Boston's The Cignal.

Fri., May 16, 9:30 p.m., $7, with The Graveyard School and The Cignal, Doc Watson¹s 216 S. 11th St., 215-922-3427.

—Brian Howard