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All Over the Map
Wintry Mixes
Box Sets
A Sunny Day in Glasgow's Ben Daniels finds new pop gloom on the other side of the planet.
Ben Daniels is on a journey. Since he started A Sunny Day in Glasgow in
2005, the songwriter-guitarist has moved from West Philly to Canada to
Australia.
Wintry Mixes
Rating the sounds of this holiday season. Run, Rudolph. Don't Look Back.
It's the holidays. Relax.
Box Sets
"Very possibly the most overdue box set in the history of set boxing."
Cut Above
The Slits' Trapped Animal
Why would The Slits resurface now, 28 years after their last album was met with indifference?
Carry The Fire
Dragonzord
Mark Stuart and the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
Composer Portrait: Tim Berne
Remembering Jack Rose
Fanfarlo
Sun., Dec. 13, 6 p.m., $24, with Toy Soldiers, Drink Up Buttercup, George Stanford (featuring members of Townhall), Birdie Busch, The Blood Feathers, The Great Unknown, Cowmuddy, Fantasy Square Garden, Hezekiah Jones, Chris Kasper, Lady, Joshua Park, Spinning Leaves and Aunt Pat, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com, iourecords.com/thefire.
Maybe you haven't gone to The Fire in years.
Dragonzord
Sun., Dec. 13, 8 p.m., $5, with Netherfriends, Jams Dean, Chang Chang and Ruinit, The Ox, Second and Oxford streets, myspace.com/theoxphiladelphia.
With a name like that, it's gotta be metal. Or at least prog.
Mark Stuart and the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
Sat., Dec. 12, 10 p.m., $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0770, tinangel.com.
The Tin Angel won't be a sweet little singer-songwriter room on Saturday night.
Composer Portrait: Tim Berne
Fri.-Sat., Dec. 11-12, 8 p.m., $15, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., arsnovaworkshop.org.
Alto saxophonist Tim Berne's compositional aspect can only be described as expansive.
Remembering Jack Rose
Her Jazz with Maria T, Fri., Dec. 11, 6-8 p.m., WPRB, 103.3 FM, wprb.com, herjazz.org.
All over the Web this weekend, music fans were venting their shock and
grief at the news that Philadelphia guitar wizard Jack Rose had passed
away following a heart attack at age 38.
Fanfarlo
Thu., Dec. 10, 9 p.m., $12, with Freelance Whales, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.
For better or worse, Fanfarlo's sound should be instantly familiar to
anyone who's paid the slightest attention to the tasteful, tuneful
indie rock of the past decade
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449 days ago
There were only six performers Tuesday night at Mugshots in Fairmount—and it was wonderful. Everyone got to play four or five songs, and »»
450 days ago
Alien outer space births, DMT trip sequences, facial spikes, and unicorns — what will she (err…Capital S-H-E) think of next? When Lady Gaga released »»
450 days ago
I set my iPod on shuffle. Here’s where it led me … 1. Alice Cooper - “Teenage Lament ‘74” From Muscle Of Love, the last album where “Alice Cooper” referred »»
451 days ago
Behold, the lineup for this year's Roots Picnic! As usual, it's anything but your average day-festival lineup. As always, The Roots Crew themselves will »»
451 days ago
The Low Anthem got their timing right. At a moment when woodsy, Americana-inspired lyrics are approaching the mainstream (think Fleet Foxes, »»
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Sun., Dec. 13, 6 p.m., $24, with Toy Soldiers, Drink Up Buttercup, George Stanford (featuring members of Townhall), Birdie Busch, The Blood Feathers, The Great Unknown, Cowmuddy, Fantasy Square Garden, Hezekiah Jones, Chris Kasper, Lady, Joshua Park, Spinning Leaves and Aunt Pat, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com, iourecords.com/thefire.
Maybe you haven't gone to The Fire in years.
Fri.-Sat., Dec. 11-12, 8 p.m., $15, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., arsnovaworkshop.org.
Alto saxophonist Tim Berne's compositional aspect can only be described as expansive.
Sun., Dec. 13, 8 p.m., $5, with Netherfriends, Jams Dean, Chang Chang and Ruinit, The Ox, Second and Oxford streets, myspace.com/theoxphiladelphia.
With a name like that, it's gotta be metal. Or at least prog.
Thu., Dec. 10, 9 p.m., $12, with Freelance Whales, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.
For better or worse, Fanfarlo's sound should be instantly familiar to
anyone who's paid the slightest attention to the tasteful, tuneful
indie rock of the past decade
Sat., Dec. 12, 10 p.m., $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0770, tinangel.com.
The Tin Angel won't be a sweet little singer-songwriter room on Saturday night.
Her Jazz with Maria T, Fri., Dec. 11, 6-8 p.m., WPRB, 103.3 FM, wprb.com, herjazz.org.
All over the Web this weekend, music fans were venting their shock and
grief at the news that Philadelphia guitar wizard Jack Rose had passed
away following a heart attack at age 38.
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