Friday:
>>> What can we tell you about The Get Down at Metro Lounge that we haven’t already? Oh, I know: THERE’S A STRIPPER POLE ON THE DANCE FLOOR. Not kidding. Also, for those of you that have never been, the upstairs at Metro is truly a sight to behold. Besides the main dance floor and bar area being all swanky and shit, there are also these three weird little rooms that you and your set can commandeer and build honeyforts in. Now, I don’t know what a honeyfort even is, but there you go. Next week, you’re gonna be all like, “Oh dude, I totally heard that The Honeyforts just got signed to Matador” and we’re just gonna laugh at the onward wonderful press of time. Anyway, The Get Down, featuring: John Redden, Manny Bleached Black, Kyle Intensified, Russ Testify and Mike ReaganDisko playing soulbangers and frugjams. Everyone we know is gonna be there: Jenelle Jenelle! Little Amanda! Baby Ruthless and Broken Leg! Angelo Yap, snappin’ snaps! Even your cousin Larry. Go. 9pm-2am, $5, Front and Fairmount. $3 Lagers all night wrong! Represent!
>>> And ’round at The M Room, there’s the Elevator Parade Comeback Special. The EP has been in regroup mode for the past bunch of months, and tonight, they return with a new lineup and insane amounts of mooger-fooger-fied psych rock sweetness. Hairy and beardy in all the best ways. Dig:
The Elevator Parade: “I Close My Eyes” [mp3]
Also on the bill: Grammar Debate, This Radiant Boy and Raisch/Hirsch of The Future Tips. 9pm.
>>> What’s up, you dirty Kenzos! Coral Street Arts House is having its first-ever building-wide art show! Check it out: More info at New Kensington CDC. 6-9pm, free, 2446 Coral St. @ Hagert.
Saturday:
>>> Oh man, it’s a Philebrity-approved rockfest: The A-Sides and The Capitol Years at The Khyber. This is like some next-level Legend of Zelda shit, like, “Yo! Are you MAN ENOUGH to brave Old City on a SATURDAY NIGHT! Because if you can get past the stiped-shirt jerkoffs, insane traffic and brainless Stepford girlfriends, there is a POT OF GOLD at the end of the bullshit rainbow for you.” That pot of gold, in fact, is this show. 9pm, $8, two bands we don’t care about open.
>>> “We rented a supplemental soundsystem that coupled with SILK CITY’s regular soundsystem will blow your fucking mind.” Ruh-roh. Sorted is back to serve your Britpop/sweat needs, and they are serious. Silk City, 9pm.
Sunday:
>>> Back to The M Room for more Fishtown freakin’ with The Sea Donkeys, Fursaxa and Times New Viking (the last of whom just righteously re-launched Philly’s once-dormant Siltbreeze label). The Sea Donkeys are on some anonymous Arthur-mag/Sun City Girls steez, which may be better explained here. 9pm, $6.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 20th, 2006 at 3:58 pm.