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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Pernice Brothers/The Tyde

Rock/pop

The battle of the redheaded drummers is on. The Bigger Lovers' Patrick Berkery has long since grown weary of being informed what a striking resemblance he bears to the Velvet Crush's Ric Menck, who's also beaten skins for Matthew Sweet, among others. But, biology being destiny and all, it was only a matter of time before a meeting like Sunday's emerged: Menck, now keeping time for The Tyde, will open up for Berkery, who's been on the road with Joe Pernice (pictured) for the last few months. (Both bands are supporting new albums: The Tyde's Twice, a breezy mixture of The Go-Betweens and Felt, and the Pernice's atmospheric Yours, Mine & Ours, which trades their thrilling pop stylings for a less-gripping evocation of The Chameleons and The Cure.) The consequences of meeting one's doppelgänger are normally assumed to be dire, but the worst-case scenario here is an evening of effortlessly brainy pop with some serious muscle behind the kit. Best-case scenario: Menck and Berkery settle their follicular differences (which is to say similarities) with a rousing rendition of "Me and My Shadow." Stay tuned.

Sun., July 27, 9 p.m., $10, with King Radio, The Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888.

—Sam Adams