FRIDAY:
>>> This is it: Your last weekend before the deluge of holiday parties begin to rain down on you like so many tears. Make the promise to yourself that we’ve already made this season — you’re gonna hold it together, you’re not gonna flip out and give in to the seasonal affect disorder that wants to crush us all because Christmas is unnatural and insane. Remember tonight, because in January, you’ll be able to get right back to where you started from. All right and it’s comin’ on: Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter at the TLA? Well, it’ll be good, but it doesn’t really say “non-denominational un-holiday partayy” the way I want it to. So how about Team Spook Rocks! Big warehouse party in NoLibs, I just got a text about it, $10 open bar all night, totally illegal and sure to be bitched about ad nauseam on the NoLibs message board. I’d tell you where exactly it is, but that would just not be right. But it’s on 4th Street, and if you hit Girard, duh, you’re not in NoLibs anymore. You’re in Junogi.
>>> Wanna keep it cozy? Hit the Jack Rose CD release party at Johnny Brenda’s. Jack’s music — very, very John Fahey-ish for the uninititated — is transcendent, and as the spotlight begins to fade on Beard Nation (here we blame Lavender Diamond), Rose just may emerge as one of the two or three worth keeping forever. Act like you know.
>>> Elsewhere, the last days of rockism rage on: Philly punk legends F.O.D play their 25th anniversary show at the First Unitarian Church, the Gold Soundz indie-pop night is back at Tritone with the cute (and tuneful) classic midlantic stylings of The Caribbean.
>>> Or, view the best that American Apparel has to offer with Innerpartysystem and Dan The Swede at The M Room and Strawberry Mansion’s Magic City party at Fluid.
SATURDAY:
>>> Once again, the evening belongs to the Mad Pussy thing at Transit, described in great detail below.
>>> But this is not a one-horse town, you know: Steven Bloodbath guests with the Hurrah regulars at Medusa, and Sorted! debuts at its new home, The Barbary with an hour-long workforce block of Blur at 9pm for the pregamer in you.
>>> And elsewhere, good bands seem to have evaporated this Saturday night and for that, for once, we are thankful. (Sorry, we worked too hard this week: Saturday night is not the time for your vanity and your feelings.) If you are dying for the live music, though, we do recommend the crazy punk rock benefit for CHOP (that’s Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, kid) at the El Bar with too many bands to re-type, so go to listings.
SUNDAY:
>>> Let’s make it easy on you: 1. The Clean at Johnny Brenda’s, whom you may well never have the chance to see again. 2. Crooner/legmelter Richard Hawley at World Cafe Live, which is the only show left we feel much like seeing this fall. (More on Hawley here.) 3. Socket at the Barbary, because Mondays are just another way of saying, “I give up.”
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