This Weekend: Justice For Life
FRIDAY:
>>>Marco Benevento creates ethereal sounds for your early-weekend pleasure, with Superhuman Happiness (members of Antibalas, TV on the Radio), and Dirk Quinn Band tonight at the Blockley. And trust us, you’ll need a little mellow time before the stuff we’ve got lined up for you:
SATURDAY:
>>>Girls rule the ‘Fu at Sugar Town’s first show there since leaving the Tritone. We’re super-excited to kick off another decade (!) of the all-female showcase, starring the smudgy lipped no-nonsensalists Slutever, along with Little Big League, Dear Althea, and Mannequin Pussy.
>>>Off the heels of their new music video for “Real Good” (download song free here) City Rain Tunes play live at PYT’s Killen Kittenz. Disclaimer: No animals or fetishists were hurt in the making of this show.
>>>Meanwhile, Johnny Brenda’s welcomes a stellar line-up of Buried Beds, The Spinto Band, and The Building to celebrate the release of Buried Beds’ EP Small Stories, which was mixed by Spinto’s Nick Krill.
>>>Five bucks get you a potluck lunch and hi-falutin’ chit-chat about down home cooking at the Bartram Garden’s book club, featuring High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America by Jessica B. Harris.
>>>You’ve been going to shows since you were a tween, but keeping up with local shit is a full-time hustle that doesn’t end. Upstairs at the Level Room, Phonographic Arts presents EVERY BAND YOU WILL EVER NEED TO SEE FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR: Gondola, Far Out Fangtooth, Company Corvette, Faux Slang, Heavy Suns, Blayer Pointdujour, Bangledefy, and The Reckless Dodgers. Do your part!
SUNDAY:
>>>Well, goddamn. Capt. Ray Lewis, the ex-Philly cop who got arrested at Occupy Wall Street, is hosting a private screening of Inside Job at National Mechanics. Intriguingly, the bar is advertising that all members of the PPD drink and eat free. Will debate take place in a low-pressure setting? Let’s see what happens.
>>>Kirk Douglass stars as the brilliantly tortured Van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956), directed by Vincente Minnelli and screening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Van Pelt Auditorium. As Iggy Pop sings on his album of the same name: “I see the stars come out of the sky / Yeah, the bright and hollow sky / You know it looks so good tonight.” The takeaway: Violent color breaks up desperation.
