This Weekend: Party, Monsters
FRIDAY:
>>> One thing we didn’t mention on the FAQ about our big Halloween Party tonight at Johnny Brenda’s with Sorted! DJs was one of the most obvious questions: Where the Nutter is the afterparty? Glad you asked: It’s DJ Frosty’s $9.99 Discount Graveyard up at the Arts Garage, 1533 Ridge Ave. Goes ’til 4:30AM, has like 18 DJs and will most likely feel like the college party scene in Noah Baumbach’s Kicking & Screaming, only with less preppies and more fixed gears. Listen, I gotta go now, I gotta go sleep with a freshman.
>>> Oh, but that ain’t the half of it: Down the street from our thing, M Room is doing the Madonna Michael Prince Halloweener, as well. ($8.)
>>> Live band-ism is actually looking good tonight, which is actually bad for the bands in this case, since what with the All Hallow’s being observed this weekend and all, but you know, maybe you don’t care about Halloween, maybe you hate fun and like the New Pornographers. Zing. Anyway, they are at the Trocadero. Elswhere in the crumbling rockist palace, our pals Dark Horse & The Carousels sit amidst a four-band garage rock bill at Tritone with Mondo Topless and two more. Also, Jens Lekman is at the First Unitarian with a capella rico suaves The Silver Ages. Do that.
SATURDAY:
>>> All your rock band friends have shows, so let’s just cut the bullshit and make this a meritocracy and see our cover stars, Leeds UK’s The Lodger (signed to the newly re-invigorated Slumberland Label) with Public Record and Brown Recluse Sings at — whaaa?? — The Khyber. It is so!
>>> As mentioned yesterday, A Place To Bury Strangers at Pi Lam is West Philly.
>>> But who are you kidding? It’s monster-smashing time, so go back to Tritone for the Drag Edition of Sugar Town: The whole bar will be dressed up as 1997. Or if that’s not your thing, go to Medusa for Bleached Black with superspecialsweatyguesteses Designer Drugs, and then head to The Vacuum for Halloween Warehouse Rager That Will Most Likely Get Shut Down By The Cops Pt. II.
SUNDAY:
>>> Scout Niblett used to live here — only for like a year or two — but it’s telling that she gets more resident status than, say, Matt Pond, who lived here for a decade or something. I’m not sure how this calculus works, but I’m pretty sure it has something to do with minus 654 points if you move to New York. Which is not where Scout Niblett moved to. Let her know you want her back at Johnny Brenda’s. Newish folksy band Hunter Gatherer opens, containg one half of the Illadates crew, Audrey Schoneveld.
>>> The part of us that reads Heeb is very, very curious about “Teapacks - Afro Beat Jewish Punk, presented by Finally Philly and the Center for Israel & Overseas” at The Troc. But we have no idea if this is anything or not — you know what a Google is, figure it out.
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