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If you've ever managed to squeeze onto the Aqualounge dancefloor on the first Saturday of the month, you'd know that the crew of IllVibe Collective works damn hard to make sure the house-party feeling is alive and kickin'. The DJ crew recently moved its hip-hop, soul and funk residency to the M Room, but the vibe remains exactly the same.
Sat., Feb. 3, 10 p.m., $5 (ladies free before 11:30 p.m.), M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., www.illvibe.net.
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If you processed Springsteen's brusque, hoarse blue-collar best (say, Darkness on the Edge of Town) through the funnel of hardcore, chances are the woodchips'd come out sounding like Philly's The Loved Ones. With players ripped from Paint It Black and Kid Dynamite and a singer, Dave Hause, toe-dipped in the Boss' once-sing-songy working rhetoric, their Keep Your Heart is deeply emotional without resorting to emo. And fun, if "Player Haters Anthem" has any say. Philly's blunt Bookburner and CP's resident Moog enthusiasts/tour-bloggers Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer join in.
Sun., Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m., $10, with The Ergs, Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer and Bookburner, First Unitarian Church, 22nd and Chestnut sts., 866-468-7619, www.r5productions.com.
With five pairings of improvising musicians and experimental dancers, this Bowerbird-presented evening always faces the potential of feeling like Crash (the sex-and-car-wrecks one, not the schematic-diagram-of-racism one). But Philly dancer Nicole Bindler and Baltimore bowed metal/electronics manipulator Andy Hayleck are interpreting another J.G. Ballard novel, the close-to-home environmental apocalypse The Drought. When's the last time you saw the Pennsylvania Ballet dance to worldwide famine?
Fri., Feb. 2, 8:30 p.m., $5-$10, Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Ave., www.bowerbird.org.
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It's easy for fans of melodious female pop duos (aka vagina folk) to fall in love with The Love (think The Story crossed with Indigo Girls). Jessie Murphy and Jamie Stellini mix dreamy chords with poetic lyrics into impressionistic love songs about the tenuous nature of relationships. It's the happy soundtrack to heartbreak.
Fri., Feb. 2, 10 p.m., free, with Sherwood Brothers, Sisters3 with Jason Cohn, The Underground, 40th and Spruce sts., 215-382-1330, www.myspace.com/undergroundinphilly.
Some say Dickens never wanted his likeness cast in bronze. Yet there he sits in Clark Park. The Dickens Fellowship marks its centenary this year and will celebrate the writer's birth as they've done for decades, with dramatic readings. This year, they focus on A Tale of Two Cities and late 19th-century music. (At press time, the identity of the musicians is shrouded in mystery.) Afterward, there are light refreshments and the ritual laying of the wreath by Little Nell at Dickens' feet.
Sun., Feb. 4, 2 p.m., free, Griffith Hall, 43rd St. and Kingsessing Mall, 215-222-2255, www.clarkpark.info.
The latest entry in Soundfield's "American Independents" series brings in composer Curran, co-founder of '60s electronic experimental ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva. Curran's work with samplers and synths turns found sound into symphonic collage. He'll perform "Trans-Dada Express," composed of the voices of key Dadaists and sounds collected from travels in a computerized covered wagon, taking almost too literally the title of "electronic pioneer."
Sun., Feb. 4, 7 p.m. discussion, free, 8 p.m. concert, $10, Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St., 215-222-9050, www.slought.org.
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