Blivit

Fri., Jan. 9, 10:30 p.m., $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0978, tinangel.com.

by A.D. Amorosi

ska/punk/rock

When Philly's forward-sounding jazz/funk/hip-hop band Fathead splintered into Blivit, Vitamin F, Brothers from Another and All Crazy, each act found its own brand of progressive music to play. Blivit went large ska-punk. All those persnickety polyrhythms and thick melodic organs — to say nothing of all that skanking — make Blivit into Emerson Lake & Palmer with pork-pie hats or a well-behaved Bad Manners. Plus Jeremy Dyen has big pipes to go with that organ of his. So I'm psyched to hear about their Paul is Dead: Blivit Breaks the Beatles project, a righteous idea that doesn't just crush Paul-and-John's best songs and rethink them into fragmented pop signatures on "Taxman" and "Fixing a Hole": Blivit slaps Ringo's staid rhythms around a bit too. That's cold.

Fri., Jan. 9, 10:30 p.m., $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0978, tinangel.com.