This Evening: Roving Bluster
>>> God, take a listen to these James Blackshaw tracks and tell me if it doesn’t feel like the ol’ gray wind blowing straight through you. But you know, in a good way. (There’s some mp3s at Hype for the curious, we think.) The experimental London guitarist (pictured) plays at Brickbat Books, 709 South 4th Street (3 doors up from Essene), at 8pm with Willie Lane and Rafi Bookstaber.
>>> The Drink Up Buttercup/Cheers Elephant January residency at the Khyber comes to a close tonight, so get to that while the getting’s good. These two bands seem to be headed towards reiventing that Elephant 6 thing for a new generation that might not do such awful things with it (we’re looking in your direction, Apples In Stereo).
>>> And, for the drinking class, the Sex Planet gang shares DJ germs with you at Bar Noir.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Also tonight, upstairs @ Khyber:
Restless Leg Syndrome
with residents Dave Tat & Ryan Nation spinning oh-hell-yes-house, techno tantrums, and featuring…
Peter Dragontail’s FIRST EVER LIVE APPEARANCE! Mr. Dragontail has been beatmaxing pretty little skulls and hips on Philly dancefloors and beyond for some time now, producing hella righteous remixes of Daft Punk’s “Human After All,” MGMT’s “Kids,” Yelle’s “Ce Jeu” and Hot Chip’s “Ready for the Floor,” the latter of which peaked at #2 on the Hype Machine’s most popular downloads. Now, thanks to recent advances in the field of fireproof Macbooks, he is ready to unleash daft funky metallic disco and grimy electropop chimeras straight from the top of Mount Italo. Also uplifting sex arias. And dance music. Ba-dum.
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