Also this issue: Emotional Rescue Philly punks Paint It Black overcome a CVA and release CVA. -John Vettese Uprooted How Ben Kenney left Philly’s hip-hop legends to rock with Incubus. -Eve Simonsen Executioners' Songs Rilo Kiley takes off. -Michael Pelusi soundadvice Get out. Rule Blur-Tania Britain's best band head for the Think Tank. -A.D. Amorosi Idle Pleasures -M.J. Fine Two Halves and a Hole The division of At the Drive-In. -John Vettese Bubba Sparxxx -Ainé Ardron-Doley

July 24-30, 2003

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Dismemberment Plan

Rock/pop

It truly is better to burnout than to fade away. Take the sad old ogres that lurk behind the face paint in Kiss, or how ridiculous Mick Jagger looks shaking his wrinkled can to the cha-ching of hundred-dollar ticket sales. After three records of twitchy, funk-punk (way before New York dolls like Radio 4) and bipolar indie rock, the Dismemberment Plan hit its creative peak in 2001 on the mesmerizing Change (DeSoto). The precedent set by the record is one frontman Travis Morrison feels the band could never replicate. "That's the energy that it's got to end with," he says. "You've got to respect that. We are not interested in making solo records and coming back in a year. We aren't interested in keeping it alive any longer than we absolutely want to be doing it." And so, after a decade together, the Dismemberment Plan is disbanding, with its last hurrah being this farewell tour and the posthumous remix record, The People's History of the Dismemberment Plan (DeSoto), due out Sept. 22. Mourn, but do not shed a tear, for the best is yet to come.

Sat., July 26, 9 p.m., $12-$14, with Engine Down and Miss Spice & the Malenium Band, The TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011.

—Andrew Parks