This Weekend: All Killer, No Filler
FRIDAY:
>>> Philebrity Player alums The Asteroid #4 play The Khyber for what we estimate as the 34th time since their inception in the mid-90s. Celebrate the tradition as they share the stage tonight with Human Television. This is not really the time or place to get into it, but we are really feeling this Human Television band and would love to ask them out on a hot date. The influences list checks Black Tambourine and Henry’s Dress, but do not write these kids off as Bryn Mawr pantywaists. Instead, it’s smooth, vaguely druggy pop that flirts with a kind of Creation records vibe. Enough record store dork talk. They’re good. Go see them.
SATURDAY:
>>> We thought the Popoff Shack was dead, but apparently, we’re wrong. Oxy Cottontail hosts “Ladies Night” at The Metro Lounge. Sweetest all-girl 3way ever: Amanda Blank, Oxy and Sweatheart’s Rose Luardo. Metro Lounge, Front St. and Fairmount Ave.
>>> Come to think of it, there could be nothing diviner than putting on cutoffs, getting a lil’ tailgate party together, donning a mullet wig and going to see The Black Crowes at Festival Pier.
>>> The Future Tips and Creeping Weeds at the North Star.
>>> As mentioned, Making Time at Transit with The Long Blondes. We were just thinking how in a perfect world, The Long Blondes could single-handedly reappropriate the white belt and Spock haircut from the emo nation and give them back to lanky UK indiepop kids (their rightful owners), but on second thought, we fear the damage to these things has already been too great. Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy.
>>> Editors at TLA. It’s a regular Anglophile Paradise over here!
SUNDAY:
>>> Fans of Red House Painters and the mellow ‘Frisco she-loves-me-not sound take note: Our Lady Of The Highway roll into town with the pretty intriguing NYC singer-songwriter Justin Luke/Smoke and Whisper and our own Adam Arcuragi. 7:30pm, $5. Philadelphia Ethical Society, 1906 Rittenhouse Square.
