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July 27-August 2, 2006

Music : Soundadvice

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rock/pop
The Black Heart Procession


As long as there's one lonely woman dreaming of the secret stalker who must be about to make his move — just as soon as he finishes translating his devotion into the block-lettered track list of the mix CD that will validate her existence — The Black Heart Procession's tense confessions will find an empathetic listener. Or two. She hopes.

—M.J. Fine

Sun., July 30, 8 p.m., $12-$14, North Star Bar, 27th and Poplar sts., 215-787-0488, www.northstarbar.com.

jazz
Mingus Big Band


Most repertory bands exist to maintain a swinging legacy, keeping a certain composer's music alive and vigorous. A worthwhile goal, certainly, but Charles Mingus was a different kind of composer, leaving a legacy of such depth and mystery that it couldn't have been fully explored in one lifetime. Mingus' widow, Sue, organized the robust Big Band to plumb the depths.

—Shaun Brady

Fri., July 28, 5:45 and 7:15 p.m., $8-$12, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th St. and the Parkway, 215-763-8100.

rock/pop
Editors


Nobody's calls Tom Smith for a good time. Like Joy Division back in the day, his Ipswich quartet plays aptly titled, easy-to-figure gloomy-Gus tunes on The Back Room that loom gorgeously. "Blood," "Munich," "Bullets" and "Fall" hold rather baleful lyrical notions within the confines of coolly clicking rhythms and ringing guitars. But Editors isn't so monochromatic to not deal with Labor politics and easy laughter to boot.

—A.D. Amorosi

Sat., July 29, 9 p.m., $13-$15, with Lake Trout and The End of Radio, The TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011, www.thetla.com.

bluegrass
Ralph Stanley


For those outside bluegrass circles, Ralph Stanley is renowned as the spine-tingling voice intoning "O Death" in O Brother. His latest project is another T Bone Burnett production, a recorded tribute to his childhood heroes, The Carter Family, who were among the first to popularize the sounds of Appalachia with regular radio broadcasts on the border-blaster stations that covered all of North America with their signals.

—Mary Armstrong

Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys, Thu., July 27, 8 p.m., free, Cooper River Park, Pennsauken, N.J., 856-216-2170, www.ccparks.com.

rock/pop
The Marked Men


Denton, Texas' The Marked Men put the Ramones' sound back in the garage. Their youthful fury landed them on John Reis' (Rocket From the Crypt) Swami label, and their third album, Fix My Brain, is a catchy punk treat. Catch them now. Your dorky friends are about to tell you how good they are.

—Billy Werner

Sat., July 29, 9 p.m., $10, with Don Caballero, The Victoria Lucas and Bear Is Driving, The Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888, www.thekhyber.com.

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