FRIDAY:
>>> Bols and jawns everywhere wanna know: Is the Steven Bloodbath Nation strong enough, hard enough, gully enough to fill up Transit? This is the challenge posed by Turbo Station, which we believe is the last of these Vice/Colt 45 blowouts. Bloodbath and Strawberry Mansion DJs man the main floor; the cats from Hurrah! and our own Apt One kick it in the basement; and Oh Murder Inc! and Super Todd Brothers flaunt their fake IDs up in the redzone. Wowz.
>>> But you know what Philly loves like it loves a catfight dipped in a fryolator? Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. We don’t know why, it just is: Something about honorary Psychedelphia status, looking up to them because they actually hit major label paydirt a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away when such a thing was possible, and those manly, hunky pedal racks. BRMC opens for Kings Of Leon — that band Cisco Adler stole his whole schtick from — at the Tower Theater and then posse en masse heads over to Silk City for an afterparty at which the BRMCs will spin records, most likely to the chagrin of whatever bachelorette party drifted up from Finnegan’s like so much nightlife sea chum. Sorry ladies! These men have better hair than you, AND they’re not marrying a Dilbert punchline in the morning.
>>> Fans of short DIY films simply could no better than to check out The Small Change Weekend of Retinal Implosions. Curated by filmmaker Ted Passon, this is a weekend filled with screenings and workshops, all geared towards alternative, no-budget, old-school independent filmmaking. Check Philebrity.tv today for a sampling of the works on offer and check the Small Change Productions site for individual event dates, locations and times.
>>> Meanhwile, Philebrity, being of sound mind and hacking-cough body, fully endorses the weird old dudes who are Endless Boogie. No website, but take it from us: EB play dirty, lonnnnng jams that make Brightblack Morning Light sound like the friggin’ Archies. They play with Nordic psych-freaks Circle and “The Kenzo Sabbath,” Birds Of Maya, at the Latvian Society, and how’s this for truth in advertising? Dig these WORLD PREMIERE Endless Boogie mp3s:


SATURDAY:
>>> Welcome the first day of fall, and let the boogie rage on all weekend: Greg and Jess Weeks‘ Language of Stone label has its big coming-out party at Johnny Brenda’s with roster kids ex reverie, Orion Rigel, Dommisse, Woodwose and Festival. Fans of fringe booties, elves, Wicca, swordplay and hair should apply.
>>> It’s 15 years later and you’re still not annoyed by the guy in The Mountain Goats‘s voice: Surely you must be in for some kind of prize. But tonight, it’s just a Mountain Goats show at the North Star that will have to do.
>>> People keep telling us Aunt Dracula are great — “like Animal Collective, but they’re getting away from that these days” — but then we read these reviews about how they have a guy in a wolf costume making waffles at their shows, and we are like, Whaaa? Roll the dice anyway. At Tritone with Whales & Cops (ex-King Of Prussia, Man Man) and Bugs In The Dark.
>>> Partytime excellent: Bleached Black is back at Medusa with guest Apt One, who hasn’t gone to bed since Thursday.
SUNDAY:
>>> We just like saying it: em-em arrgh-bee-Q! Yes, the WMMR BBQ — whoops, that’s the MMRBQ2 — is like 3 months late in coming with a bill that is plucked from more than a decade ago (friggin’ Live is the headliner, and Collective Soul, we shit you not, is on the bill, too), BUT if you want to see how the other half lives or you’re on assignment from Vice to photograph “Americans that make the world cringe,” you’re in luck, bub.
>>> More ironic fun, this time from the other side of the fence: Found Magazine live at the First Unitarian Church. Editor Davey Rothbart‘s presentations of the stuff that winds up in his magazine are hilarious, incisive and wonderful. (One of those finds is pictured here.) If you’ve never checked out any of the roving Found tours, do it this time around. You won’t be sorry. Unless your dirty love note that fell out of your pocket on the El is one of the finds presented.
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This entry was posted on Friday, September 21st, 2007 at 1:26 pm.