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Hair Rocket

Thu., May 6, 9 p.m., $8, with the Danvilles, Nikki and the Weeps and Solved with Science, Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888, thekhyber.com.

by John Vettese

Published: May 5, 2010

rock/pop/nonsense

The story so far: Last week Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart made a call for fans to donate locks of hair, which his band would then burn and inhale for whatever ungodly reason. This sent Bucks County's Chris Blasucci into a furor; his one-man-production Hair Rocket has been doing this for the better part of two years. (He doesn't inhale, but rather uses collected hair for the launching of bottle rockets. Somehow. Still gross, but slightly less.) While there's undeniable shtick at play — Hair Rocket's debut EP is called Novelty, after all — the songs stand on their own. "Imagining" rocks like a stripped-down, drum-machine take on Spoon. This of course hasn't stopped Blasucci from calling Stewart out, and deeming his May 6 Khyber show the opening gambit in a "follicle war." Stay tuned.

Thu., May 6, 9 p.m., $8, with the Danvilles, Nikki and the Weeps and Solved with Science, Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888, thekhyber.com.

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