SHOWDOWN: Live Music in Philly from May 14-20

Every Monday, James Friel rounds up the week's sure-bet live shows.

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SHOWDOWN: Live Music in Philly from May 14-20

POSTED: Monday, May 14, 2012, 1:00 PM
Filed Under: Music The Showdown
 

Saturday: Brass beat blasters Slavic Soul Party are a supercollider of Eastern European sounds from the Balkans and all the funk of American musical traditions like second-line, gospel and jazz on their latest album, New York Underground Tapes. 9 p.m., $10, The Blockley, 3801 Chestnut St., 215-222-1234➤ With lo-fi guitar distortion, charging post-punk chord progressions and muffled vocal harmonies, the Vancouver sludge-pop band Weed (pictured) sound like they could implode underneath the weight of their own fuzz distortion on the first track of their first EP, Gun Control, but good songwriting comes through. 8 p.m., $5-$7, Little Berlin, 2430 Coral St., berlin.little@gmail.com. âž¤ Cooing-voice vocalist Liz Fullerton and guitarist/mult-instrumentalist Carl Cheeseman are the Philly folk duo Honey Watts. The duo’s most recent self-titled album is largely made up acoustic compositions that are simple and carried by Fullerton’s unique tone, but they also plug in and shift to ambient folk, as well. 8 p.m., $8, studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave., 215-387-3434.

 

 

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