FRIDAY:
>>> Little Joy probably released the best little album you never heard last year, but ’round these parts, it’s still on heavy, heavy rotation and now that it’s summer, even more so. If you ever wanted The Lovin’ Spoonful to leave Greenwich Village, move down to Brazil, then come back to Los Angeles for a sunset hang, you may very well be a future World’s Biggest Fan Of Little Joy. (High five, we are, too!) That’s them in the video upstairs and that’ll also be them at the Khyber tonight, and then that’ll be us drinking Coronas down in the crowd and swaying in the dirty breeze! That’s us! That’s them! That’s YOU. With Dead Trees, Fang Fang and Edison Proposal.
>>> Get into the party for Frenz, the new exhibit at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery curated by Bonnie Prince Billy, and the freak legendry on display: Alan Licht & Andy Lampert, Able Brown, Meg Baird & Greg Weeks are all performing to celebrate the opening (7PM), and we have every reason to believe this will be the best thing you do all day, because Little Joy probably won’t go on until after midnight.
>>> Relish this Weekend Picks: It’s the first time in forever when we’ve actually extolled the virtues of live music. Don’t pat us on the back just yet, because it’s only by the force of a litany of totally legit shows that we’re doing it. We just heard Elvis Perkins In Dearland lay down one of the best XPN Free At Noon sessions we’ve ever heard, which would suggest he’ll be in even finer form this evening at Johnny Brenda’s; Melody Gardot is someone we never even realized we loved until just now, but her show at World Cafe Live is sold out so get crafty and work your hookups; and Free Energy open for Harlem Shakes at Kung Fu Necktie. See what I mean?
>>> What, you hate all that? Typical. See you at Turnaround Vs. Immediate at the Barbary, lateside.

SATURDAY:
>>> OK, we got some updates for the Second Street Festival/Popped Philadelphia/Philebrity Sync Stage @ The Piazza: The 2nd St./Popped folks have announced that their portions of the day’s events are RAIN OR SHINE. However, seeing as how our stage is not covered and Philebrity is sadly not in the business of electrocuting musicians, we do in fact have a rain date established (Sat., July 4); we’ll make a call when we wake up tomorrow and see just how Woodstock ‘99 everything is looking. Weather permitting, however, you should be mindful of the fact that we’re going to have the best time ever and rock your face off like it was a Ronald Reagan mask. Deal with it.
>>> Once all that is over (or you’ve spent the day rained in, listening to Loudon Wainright records and drawing pictures of sunrises), the best party in town is clearly, obviously Summer Collection, a fundraiser for choreographer Kate Watson Wallace’s next show, Anonymous Bodies. You may have only recently become aware of Kate’s work via the new Animal Collective video, and you may be wondering: “Will this party be like that video?” And verily we say unto thee: This party will be exactly like that video.
>>> Also noteworthy: Patrick Wolf headlines the Nylon Summer Music Tour at the North Star Bar, and the Philly premiere of Bjork’s Voltaic is at 941 Theater, where they will also be holding a “Bjork Costume Contest.” I’m already wearing mine.

SUNDAY:
>>> It’s Father’s Day, and you have mixed feelings. Take a number, pal. Instead, forget it all for a day and give the man who gave you the lame half of your DNA an ice cold Miller Lite and act like it’s not weird. It’s just what you do.
>>> Later that night, rebel against him all over again at the Philly Zombie Beach Crawl at the Trocadero, where you can act like Scott from the Austin Powers movies and dance to Bauhaus like it’s 1983 and that actually means something.

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This entry was posted on Friday, June 19th, 2009 at 3:49 pm.