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Today, Tuesday, October 7, 2008 |
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World Blanket
Bad Veronika When asked to describe themselves, the band calls themselves “bipolar,” and its easy to see why. Each of the two band members lists very different types of influences. While Michael refers to Dave Matthews, John Mayer and The Ramones, Keanne finds influence in Tom Petty, Van Morrison and Sarah McLaughlin. The same comes to describing the bands sound. Michael says pop-punk/folk with a bit of teen angst, while Keanne states it as, “Mazzy Star on heroin.” Either way, their sound is just different enough to edge them out into the spotlight, and the live show is simply fun and energetic. From impossible to impressive, Bad Veronika ends up being very, very good.
Rob Brind 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
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Early Show: SPECIAL ALL AGES KHYBER UPSTAIRS SHOW
DEATH IN THE PARK Andy/Joe of Hot Rod Circuit.
The Appreciation Post from Boston. Death In The Park tourmates.
By Suprise from New Jersey. fun indie rock!.
Crosstown Rivalry New Jersey based pop-punk/emo rock band.
**Show Starts & Ends Early**

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6 PM $10 All Ages |
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 |
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The Swimmers
Dead Confederate
Catfish Haven possess equal amounts of backwoods authenticity and cosmopolitan flair. They may harvest most of their mojo from south of the Mason-Dixon…but they bleed metropolitan with undeniable garage-grime charm and power-pop arrangements reminiscent of the Strokes…Hunter’s worn-in croon wraps itself around lyrics with whiskey-soaked ease.
Mean Creek 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Thursday, October 9, 2008 |
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Clarity The Philly suburbs are the proud home to the musical movement known as Clarity. It started out with a cult like following of friends and family, and then went on to include friends of friends, and friends of those friends. But suddenly girls who they’ve never seen before are asking them to sign their jeans at a sold out venue's throughout the greater Philadelphia area. This singer-songwriter influenced band from North Wales, PA keeps the crowd on their feet at all of their shows. Sweetly placed pop melodies over an urbanized electronic rock sound are sewn together to create a satisfyingly unique sound. From New York to Nashville to Philly, Clarity has been performing to inspire a wide range of fans. The band hopes to not only get them stoked on their songs, but on music in general. Currently, Clarity is preparing to showcase for major labels and to share their music with the world. “Practice classically, Perform radically.”
Crash Motive The Crash Motive, a five-man outfit creating a refreshing and memorable sound, is poised to explode into the national consciousness in much the same way it has in its native Delaware. That's where local radio jumped all over "Waiting (Save Your Life)", while the band was still finishing their degrees at the University of Delaware. On October 9th, 2007 the band released their first album CONSEQUENCE nationally with Wind-up Records. The band's first single "Not Giving Up" has been featured as a promotional song for NBC's hit television show "Friday Night Lights". The song first received attention last year as a featured track on EA sports Madden 2007 video game. It has gone on to be used on ESPN's NFL Live, as well as being played for millions of fans in professional sports stadiums and arenas across the US.
Run Run Run Run Run Run's unique indie rock sound and hypnotic lo-fi light show, two EPs and support slots for the Strokes, Psychedelic Furs and My Chemical Romance caught the attention of Billboard Magazine in fall of 2005. Billboard organized a showcase for the band. This performance and a residency at Silverlake's renowned Club Spaceland landed them a record deal for "Endless Winter.
Blue Sees Red is a band born and bred in the ashes of the Steel Industry. Their sound is forged in the tradition of sixties and seventies, yet hammered with the hard edge of today's rock. 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
Friday, October 10, 2008 |
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Kill You in the Face Voices of Angels. Bodies of Gods. Conspiracy Theorists. Revolutionaries. Forward Thinkers. Captains of this Vessel. Intergalactic Bounty Hunters. Editors in Chief. Hood Rats. Cat Burglars. Sandwich Makers. Minds like Razors. Hearts of Kings. Super Models. Connoisseurs Of Fine French Wines. Panic Endusers. Pain Relievers. Handsome Lumberjacks. All Around Nice Guys.
talkdemonic Speakers everywhere this fall will rejoice with the arrival of Eyes at Half Mast, the third record from Talkdemonic. The Portland, Oregon duo of Kevin O’Connor and Lisa Molinaro have been playing together since 2003; she plays the viola and cello, while he plays everything else, including, but not limited to: drums, synths, and acoustic instruments. The result is an intoxicating blend of symphonic strings and explosive percussion; achingly beautiful music.
Bon Savants
Randall of Nazareth

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9 PM $8 21+ |
Saturday, October 11, 2008 |
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Zelazowa
Captain of Industry
Metroplex 
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9 PM $10 21+ |
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Upstairs: HIP REPLACEMENT |
9 PM Free 21+ |
Sunday, October 12, 2008 |
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Paramount Styles Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys vox/guitar) first solo effort; with the help of some similar lost & found souls; New York based. Alexis Fleisig (GSVB; drums) Richard Fortus (Guns N' Roses, Psychedelic Furs; guitars) Angela McClusky (BVox) Paul Cantelon (Piano) Geoff Sanoff (Bass, keys, guitars) Marlan Barry (Cello).
Philpot these kids play kick ass rock and roll with a technical virtuosity that is nothing short of astounding. Kentz Ward is the most charismatic front man since Axl Rose and Kurt Cobain.
Andrew Keller 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Monday, October 13, 2008 |
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PEACE THE FUCK OUT DVD SCREENING
This DVD chronicles Philadelphia's One Dead Three Wounded's history up until and including their final show. |
8 PM Free 21+ |
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
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Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band They sound like Robert Johnson on crack... they get one hell of a sound out of an acoustic guitar, washboard, and snare drum. It's easy to see why they are big.
Levee Drivers 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
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Pierced Arrows Fred and Toody Cole from Dead Moon, legendary 80s Sub Pop Band. After the demise of underground legends DEAD MOON in fall 2006, nobody was surprised to hear that founders Fred and Toody Cole had lost little time in starting a new band. They recruited drummer Kelly Halliburton in April 2007, and soon the PIERCED ARROWS were up and running, playing live shows in the Northwest and recording songs for upcoming releases. PIERCED ARROWS picks up, musically, where DEAD MOON left off - a lo-fi assault on the senses played with the sincerity and feeling that made DM such a special band for all of their fans around the world.
Love City
Birds of Maya
Watery Love mem. of Espers 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
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Upstairs: BOTH ENDS BURNING |
9 PM Free 21+ |
Friday, October 17, 2008 |
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The New Motels Jenkintown’s New Motels write songs with such attention to detail that the lyric sheet becomes something to treasure. Luckily, there’s one included in their Domestic Life EP, just released by Scranton’s Prison Jazz label. Postcollege anxieties arise in “West Coast Brawl,” and likewise the exquisite drag of suffering through your 20s is captured by the title track and the Big Star-ish “Modern Thinker.” Leader Josh Levandoski sings calmly over the band’s twangy pop, which remains sunny despite his looming worries. It’s mostly a slow-burning record until the closing “Drama of the Hollywood Scene” stirs up vivid imagery that could’ve been inspired by Annie Hall. That’s a big complement, by the way.
The Little Ones Our friend Moses tells us about The Little Ones’ journey out of the land of White Noise...The Little Ones finally left the land of White Noise and set sail to bring good cheer to others everywhere. Uncle Lee’s Rule of Feet proved to be too infectious and the boys wanted to spread the word to everyone across the land. They crisscrossed many roads to find that there were others who wanted to experience ‘The Rule’. The Little Ones gave it all they got. Some were against it; some were for it. In the end, The Little Ones discovered that everyone possessed their own ‘Rule of Feet’. They discovered that the ‘The Rule’ appeared in many flavors, shapes, and sizes. Their ‘Rule’ became ordinary. They journeyed along the pacific coast and found a stretch of shore draped in black sand. There they set-up camp and walked across its unique seascape. With every step, the grain embraced their toes and the shore welcomed them as it pushed and pulled. The water drew close; sand, water, and feet became one. A touch of mid day sun broke from the sky and they found a rhythm from the morning tide. So delighted, they started assembling new songs that would encapsulate their recent findings.
Robes
Problem Solving 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
Saturday, October 18, 2008 |
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The Dark Lords of Stonehurst Terrorizing the night with their sinister brand of thrash metal, the Dark Lords of Stonehurst have risen! Follow them on an epic journey through the bowels of Delco, PA, from whence they have been ressurrected! Listen, as the metal blazes its evil through the depths of your intestines to the hollow caverns of your brain! Feel the power, the glory, the holocaust of metal that is, DLOS!
Onita So loud...so sludge. It's real hard not to appreciate the overall tone of this band. The guitar and bass blend so perfectly, so loud, so open, so sludge. It's these kinds of bands have the best sound even if they are lacking in other departments (i.e. songwriting, impressive guitar ability, etc.). The saturation of the tube-driven guitar goo, the behemoth bass on overdrive, and the deep, 26-inch bass throb all always works for me. It's raw and in your face yet has a huge sound. Think NEUROSIS or HIGH ON FIRE.
A Day of Pigs On their Spare Change debut, Lecherous, the NJ-based band rip open the chest of our violent world view with a barrage of raging noise storms and painful dirges both brutal and addictive in an effort to expose the wreck of humanity for what it is. While others pose themselves on hilltops and proclaim godliness, A Day of Pigs hollows out the mountains beneath, an ever-moving, ever-changing subversive force, working against trend, convention and banality alike
Via Vengeance A brutal heavy noise rock band. Drums, guitar and vocals are all performed by one guy! 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
Sunday, October 19, 2008 |
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On Display dashing good looks, angelic voices, indestructible strings, hip horns, and bodacious beats 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
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The Satin Peaches
Alright, Junior Alright Junior – Became an attitude, from a genuine yearning for the beginning of music time travels amongst Jace Miller (Front man, and guitar) Steve Demeo(guitar and vocals), Greg J. ( Bass) and Mike Fraclose(drums). Jace and Mike sat around one evening palnned and willed the future of the band Alright Junior. Steve Demeo joined the discussion and the band adding Greg J. to a recipe for mouth watering stew of rock and punk in combination punk rock. Being that all four members are from various parts of the east coast of the United States Alright Junior put up a American flag for all to see the unity in the band depicting the American youth of rock today reaching all borders across the world. The message is peace, love and rock the bells!! Here come Alright Junior! In 2008 Alright Junior completed the CD Eudaemonic , and signed to the Indie label Slugfest Records /ADA/ Warner Music Group.
Victor Victor Band
Murderhouse
The Sykes 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
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Gringo Star Formerly known as A Fir-Ju Well, Atlanta's Gringo Star put their octopi in a different garden, playing psych-tinged garage-punk with echoes of like-minded locals the Black Lips, with whom they have shared bills. The first single from a forthcoming album Gringo Star are recording with Ben H. Allen III (Animal Collective, Christina Aguilera, Gnarls Barkley, P. Diddy), "All Y'all" is an exuberant rush of early Kinks guitars, tambourines, handclaps, multi-part harmonies, and bits of tinkly piano, all catchy even if they don't reinvent the wheel. Frontman Nicholas Furgiuele's shouts have a crisp, Jack White-like swagger as he warns about a man who won't ever treat you right-- you being "all y'all, all y'all," I suppose. 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
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The Future Unwritten is quickly gaining momentum in the world of indie rock music. With two well received albums and air-play on several major radio stations throughout the mid-Atlantic region, they are declaring themselves as a force to be reckoned with.
Jessica Lee Mayfield Her new album, "With Blasphemy So Heartfelt," was produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and recorded over a two-year span in his home studio in Akron. With Blasphemy, So Heartfelt features Mayfield on acoustic guitar and vocals, Auerbach on a variety of instrumentation and Mayfield’s brother (David) on upright bass. Dr. Dog’s Scott McMicken and Frank McElroy provide vocal harmonies on the track “I’m Not Lonely Anymore.” Says Auerbach of the recording experience, “I think she’s dark and moody in a mysterious way, not unlike Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.” He adds, “I’m just always really excited to make music with her.” The 18-year old first performed with her family band One Way Rider at the age of eight. In 2007, Mayfield lent her voice to the track “Things Ain’t Like They Used To Be” on The Black Keys’ album, Attack & Release, making her the first guest vocalist to appear on any record released by The Black Keys.
An Horse An Horse used to be about procrastination. An Horse was Kate Cooper’s way of not doing things that she was meant to be doing. Like studying or assignments. But Kate finished university. She got a couple of degrees, then started law school but soon decided that perhaps these law folk weren’t her people. So she started playing more music and doing crosswords on a semi-competitive basis. Her friend Damon Cox was already playing music but he wasn’t that into crosswords (he is more a sudoku man). He got her a job in the record store he worked at. They were both pretty good at looking busy at work and watching physical cd sales dwindle. Collectively they decided this was the industry for them! So one day they closed the store (maybe a little early) and made music. They did get busted for closing the record store early. They don’t work there anymore but they still play music together. Late last year they recorded their debut EP Not Really Scared with famed producer Magoo. It's available now. 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
Friday, October 24, 2008 |
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The Minor Prophets Philadelphia's premier sketch comedy group!
The Suspense is a band that captures a refined stage sound. The band is in the throes of musical creativity, crafting and perfecting a new style and approach to music.
Pleasing Misha Micheal Fritz, a Pa native, moved to Cali to work in the animation dept of cartoon network. while out there Fritz was inspired by the small but growing silverlake music scene, which later would produce such well know acts as silversun pickups, grandaddy, and others. He started making demos and would collaberate with long time friend Mark Doyle when back in pa for visits. After Mark's departure from his longtime band and Mike moving back to Pa, they decided to do it for real. Fritz and Dan Park were set up by a mutual friend, and now a solid power trio was formed, songs were created and the band was ready to go. 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
Saturday, October 25, 2008 |
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Grief In 2005 the corpse of Grief kicked open its coffin and has been seen shambling through various venues along the east coast. This doom metal zombie will stalk the night in search of the brains of America's youth on which it will feed. It will live for an undetermined length of time before returning to its hole in the ground.
Black Cobra
Sourvein
Serpent Throne
Jail 
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9 PM $10 21+ |
Monday, October 27, 2008 |
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Me and My Arrow
Conversation With Friends 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Friday, October 31, 2008 |
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OLDE CITY TATTOO'S SATANIC RAVE X!!!
Homocidals
El Toro De Oro
Sugar Daddy
Call The Paramedics
Y-DI
Scareho
Guns on the Run
The Dark Lords of Stonehurst
Real Ugly
Hillside Wranglers
This show is gonna be fucking crazy! If you come in a costume, it's FREE ADMISSION! Both floors will be open and bands will be playing all throughout the night. Be there! 
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9 PM $10 21+ |
Saturday, November 1, 2008 |
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The Murderkill 100
The Barons
The Boozers
Red Ox 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
Monday, November 3, 2008 |
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Rival Schools featuring Walter Schreifels from Quicksand and Gorilla Biscuits!!!
Innaway
The Telephones 
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8 PM $13 21+ |
Friday, November 7, 2008 |
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Meeting In the Aisle Meeting in the Aisle stands as a passionate musical collective whose sole purpose is to present the music and showmanship of Radiohead with as much accuracy and energy as possible.
Each member shares an intense love of Radiohead's entire catalog and has perfected songs from every Radiohead studio album, including their newest album, In Rainbows, as well as b-sides and rarities.
The Sons & Heirs The music of Morrissey, Johnny Marr & co. lives on with The Sons & Heirs, a NYC-based tribute band that brings the experience of seeing The Smiths live to the stage. Singer Ronnissey, guitarist Ravi Marr, bassist Jonny Rourke, and drummer Kevin Joyce recreate the songs & stage performance of The Smiths with stunning authenticity & attention to detail, right down to the last gladioli left on stage when the band is through! 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
Saturday, November 8, 2008 |
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Dirty Diamond
The Pussy Getters 
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9 PM $10 21+ |
Sunday, November 9, 2008 |
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Geology The new project from Greg Jehanian (mewithoutYou and The Operation).
It's a King Thing It's a King Thing is from The Haddons, The Hills & The Heights of suburban Philadelphia. Their sound is up-tempo rock with a pop sensibility similar to The Lemonheads.
The Color Wheels When Poughkeepsie singer/guitarist Jon Sebastian was asked by his wife Psalm to teach her the drums, he figured he'd need a new batch of good, simple rock tunes to help her with the basics. This exercise in restraint has resulted in one of the more engaging debuts of 2007. Starting with the winsome "Rock My World," the Wheels get into their stripped-down guitar-jangle pop, and like a Shins album, keep rewarding the listener with well-crafted melodies and tasteful production by Jacques Cohen (Mercury Rev, The Brides). And oh yes, the new tunes worked - Psalm rocks the drum kit like a champ.
Faux Slang It's really the most fascinating story: A bunch of friends decide to play music together. Unlike most other bands, they have a name, a bunch of recordings, a myspace page, and play shows. ex and/or current members of Barking Spiders, This Radiant Boy, Horror Show, RunRunner, Rarebirds, Slackharmonic, Band of the Hand and a whole bunch of other shit.
The Goodnight Lights 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Monday, November 10, 2008 |
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Adam and Dave's Bloodline They’ve shared the stage with Bruce Springsteen at Carnegie Hall. They’ve played nearly 300 shows across North America and Europe with E-Street heroes Marah. Now both 28, Dave Petersen has stepped out from behind the drum kit alongside Adam Garbinski as the principals in their very own band: Adam & Dave’s Bloodline.
The Right Ons 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
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Little Joy featuring Rodrigo Amarante of Los Hermanos, Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes, and Binki Shapiro
The Dead Trees
Magician

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8 PM $8 21+ |
Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
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Hot Guts
Royal Bangs Rock and roll music that beeps and shakes. They must and will use electrical guitars, drum machines, sampling, electrical bass guitar, electrical pianos, personal computers, shakers, 2 many drums, and everything else. ROYAL BANGS GOT HOT DOG FEVER! Coming to you right on the heals of a tour with The Black Keys!
Fun Dogs 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
Friday, November 14, 2008 |
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Early Show: SPECIAL ALL AGES KHYBER UPSTAIRS SHOW
THE ERGS - Last Philly Show Ever!!!
Aneurysm Rats - Record Release! ex- None More Black & One Up
Lighten Up! - Philly punk/hardcore - fast/pissed and awesome
**Show Starts & Ends Early** 
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6 PM $10 All Ages |
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
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Hex Nine hexagram means the force of the small - the power of the shadowy - that restrains, tames, impedes. A weak line in the fourth place, that of the minister, holds the five strong lines in check. In the Image it is the wind blowing across the sky. the wind restrains the clouds, the rising breath of the Creative, and makes them grow dense, but as yet is not strong enough to turn them to rain. The hexagram presents a configuration of circumstances in which a strong element is temporarily held in leash by a weak element. it is only through gentleness that this can have a successful outcome. 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
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Heyday & Y-Rock on XPN 88.5 HD-2 present
Electric Six Formerly known as the Wildbunch, the Detroit sextet Electric Six mix garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs like "Danger! High Voltage," which reached number two on the British charts early in 2003. Singer Dick Valentine, guitarists Rock and Roll Indian and Surge Joebot, bassist Disco, and drummer M. formed the Wildbunch in 1996 (keyboardist Tait Nucleus? joined the band later), releasing their debut single, "I Lost Control (Of My Rock & Roll)," and the eight-track An Evening with the Many Moods of the Wildbunch's Greatest Hits...Tonight! that year on Uchu Cult Records. They also released 1999's full-length on that imprint. The group switched to Flying Bomb for singles like 1997's "The Ballade of MC Sucka DJ," the Christmas single "Flying Bomb Surprise Package, Vol. 1," and 2001's "Danger! High Voltage," which became an underground hit, particularly in the U.K.
The following year the group signed to XL and re-recorded "Danger! High Voltage," this time adding backing vocals from the White Stripes' Jack White. After the re-release of the single in 2003, Electric Six issued their full-length debut album, Fire, later that spring. Just a few weeks after the album's release, Disco, Rock and Roll Indian, and Surge Joebot left the band and were replaced by Frank Lloyd Bonaventure, the Colonel, and Johnny Na$hinal. In 2004, the band got a new record deal with Rushmore, a British Warner Bros. imprint, and lost Bonaventure and M., whose bass and drum duties were filled by John R. Dequindre and Percussion World, respectively. The second Electric Six album, Señor Smoke, arrived in the U.K. early in 2005. It took another year for the album to be released stateside, on Metropolis Records. Switzerland arrived in fall of 2006.
Local H Best-known for their unorthodox two-man lineup, hard rock act Local H has made a career out of straddling the fine line between indie and classic rock, cleverly framing their sardonic lyrics with a generous helping of power chords and feedback.
Golden Dogs Listening to the Golden Dogs’ sophomore effort, Big Eye Little Eye,, you can’t help but think the Toronto quintet is one of the ones who sound best live. Now, that’s not meant as a slight against the record. In fact, if anything, it’s meant as a compliment to the band as a whole. They’ve made their name in their home and native land thanks to the sweat-fueled pop music rampages they call live shows—and even with the release of this very same record north of the border last year, it seems that it’s still those live shows that everyone wants to talk about when they talk about the Golden Dogs.

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9 PM $15 21+ |
Friday, November 21, 2008 |
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Dark Horse and the Carousels The Dark Horse was discovered galloping through the modern streets of Philadelphia with wild abandon one day, when it encountered four carousels. Circling him in patterns recognizable only from outer space, they wrote letters in a language that was lost thousands of years before humans emerged from agrarian society. This language transposed betwixt mortal shadows, is now once again spoken
Federale 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
Saturday, November 22, 2008 |
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Pete and J Pete and J are seasoned live performers, consummate entertainers, and offer a simple but unique twist that somehow bridges young and old, shy and wild. They just finished a tour with Rusted Root! 
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9 PM $10 21+ |
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
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Young Coyotes is a band compromised of the deaths of a few other bands. they like campfires, chanting, oceans, deserts, spontaneity, and lots and lots of drums.
Gay Blades The Gay Blades smother themselves in irony the way Iggy used to smear himself with peanut butter and broken glass...the Gay Blades appropriate classic American pop tropes – cocktail lounge saloon songs, cock-rock riffarama, singer-songwriter angst – all to advance their own nefarious ends. Sure it's catchy, even pretty at times. But these MySpace-jiggering subversives are out to destroy rock and roll by embracing its shmaltziest extremes; the harder they croon, the less they mean it. Don’t believe a word they say. And if you find yourself singing along, leave the room immediately. You have been warned. 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
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Person L Ken Vasoli from the Starting Line's new project!
Audrye Sessions aren't afraid to keep it sweet and lush. The quintet's pop ballads combine the passion and complex instrumentals of a Velvet Teen rock lullaby with Muse-like danceability.
Mock Orange Four friends based in Evansville, Indiana, Mock Orange have been writing and performing music for more than a decade. In 1998 the band released their first proper record, Nines & Sixes, a college radio hit that charted in the Top 60 in CMJ. Their second release, The Record Play, arrived in 2000 with production courtesy of Mark Trombino.
2004's highly acclaimed Mind Is Not Brain saw Mock Orange make a huge stylistic leap forward, earning them a spot on MTV2's Dew Circuit Breakout and support slots with Minus The Bear and a reformed Braid.
This year Mock Orange return with their best record yet. Captain Love combines the sophisticated songcraft of Pavement and The Flaming Lips with the melodic bite of Weezer. 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
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Amerkulus 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
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Early Show: SPECIAL ALL AGES KHYBER UPSTAIRS SHOW
TITLE FIGHT Awesome melodic hardcore in vein of Lifetime and old New Found Glory.
Transit Young dudes from the Boston area with so much potential its sickening. Mix up of Grade, Crime In Stereo and Hot Water Music.
Home Again New Jersey emo-rock in vein of The June Spirit, Early November and Brand New.
**Show Starts & Ends Early**

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6 PM $10 All Ages |
Monday, December 1, 2008 |
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Tombs
City of Shapes
Elder

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8 PM $8 21+ |
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 |
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The Modern Society Formed three years ago by Brown and Bence over shared musical passions, The Modern Society came together like a big bang of the right place and the right time. The two had first met while playing in different area bands and when they joined up, they immediately began finishing each other’s songs. Bence knew Martin and Carter since high school, where they’d all met through their various bands, and he brought them to play one night. Ask Brown how it all came together and he can’t really explain…they simply met and practiced together only once to discover it felt like they’d known each other their entire lives. After recording five demos and sharing them online to a good response, the band booked their first show with no expectations only to have close to 400 kids show up to hear them. By their third show The Modern Society was nominated for several Atlanta Music Guide awards and shortly thereafter entered the studio to record their debut. 
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8 PM $8 21+ |
Friday, December 5, 2008 |
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Hedonic da Amazon The Queen of Philly! 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
Saturday, December 6, 2008 |
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Jeremy Enigk Ex-Sunny Day Real Estate in a rare Solo performance 
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9 PM $15 21+ |
Friday, December 12, 2008 |
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iNFiNiEN combines eclectic musical personalities into a visionary, unified force. With rock, jazz, soul, world, and classical influences, the quartet plays intricately composed songs with a focus on improvisation. After playing together for three years, iNFiNiEN has discovered its own voice both live and in the studio. Their diverse influences are portrayed, but the sound produced is unique. iNFiNiEN has been compared to Bjork, Radiohead, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and John Zorn’s Masada
Consider the Source are four seriously creative dudes playing mixtures of post-hardcore and progressive grunge-rock. Like a tamer version of Trophy Scars (vocals-wise), Consider The Source are smart and still plenty energetic. The constantly changing time signatures and jagged guitars of “Brian Wilson Was Emo Before Emo Was Cool” will never put anyone to sleep, especially with Seth Grueneberg’s scratchy vocals coating everything in a haze of disaffectedness. Consider The Source specialize in taking meandering, throatier paths to indie-rock goodness.
Oud Blues With influences from around the world and right here at home, this Middle Eastern- Balkan- Blues Sextet is comprised of Oud, Upright Bass, Saxophone, Trumpet, Percussion and Drumset. Fusing styles from the Gypsy mountains of Romania to the Saharan and Middle Eastern Desserts and back to the streets of Philadelphia, Oudblues takes you on a journey through the Diaspora and evolution of ancient music from the fertile crescent to the blues of modern life. 
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9 PM $8 21+ |
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Early Show: SPECIAL ALL AGES KHYBER UPSTAIRS SHOW
MC LARS Post Punk Laptop rapper from L.A.
MC Frontalot Nerdcore Hip-hop!
YT Cracker
**Show Starts & Ends Early**

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6 PM $10 All Ages |
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