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With their sparse guitars and weighty silences, Cat Power and Tiny Vipers share a mystique that's only enhanced by surface similarities: animal pseudonyms, long dark hair, stage fright and youthful drug use. But where Chan Marshall's husky voice envelops listeners, TV's prim-sounding Jesy Fortino holds them at a respectful distance. "Forest on Fire," from Hands across the Void (Sub Pop), adds a beautiful white-noise haze that rewards the attentive with splendid isolation.

—M.J. Fine

Sat., Aug. 25, 8 p.m., $10, First Unitarian Church chapel, 22nd and Chestnut streets, 866-468-4619, www.r5productions.com.

Singer taragirl and hip-hop band Burndown Allstars both graced City Paper pages earlier this year, but it's time for some updates: taragirl belted out notes at Verizon Hall, and Burndown competed in a reality show against other indie bands from across the nation for a $1 million music contract. It's so precious to see these local artists grow before our eyes.

—Deesha Dyer

Fri., Aug. 24, 9 p.m., $9-$10, with Natural Selection and Blue Sinatra, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, www.worldcafelive.com.

Pink Reason

An acoustic guitar strums like a military march. There's moaning, a droning, a cracking snare drum. Things rattle in the distance. Siltbreeze's Pink Reason, from Wisconsin, is scary in that mysterious, hunted-by-the-unknown kinda way, like how Spielberg didn't give you a good look at the shark until it was already chomping on Quint and dragging him into the ocean.

—Patrick Rapa

Sun., Aug. 26, 9 p.m., $8, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 Frankford Ave., 1-866-468-7619, www.r5productions.com.

The Puppini Sisters

These London fashion students are cute as buttons, their look straddling the line between pin-up girls and 1940s housewives. Modeling their harmonizing vocals (and group name) after the famous Andrew Sisters, the Puppini trio won fans over with their rendition of wartime classic, "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." Not that the world needs another version of that song, but for now, it'll do.

—Deesha Dyer

Mon., Aug. 27, 7:30 p.m., $15-$25, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, www.worldcafelive.com.

John Spillane

Get a load of John Spillane and decide for yourself if he shouldn't've been the romantic Irish singing and songwriting lead in Once. Gorgeous and sweet-piped, proficient in the Irish language and music — witness his work with trad band Nomos — Spillane hosts a Gaelic language radio show and often co-writes bilingual songs with Louis de Paor, as the Gaelic Hit Factory.

—Mary Armstrong

Fri., Aug. 24, 8 p.m., $10-$12, Costa's, 1000 West St., Wilmington, Del., 302-798-4811, www.greenwillow.org; Wed., Aug. 29, 8 p.m., $5, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, www.worldcafelive.com.