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Ice Cube: The Muscle Factories

POSTED: Friday, November 12, 2010, 8:55 PM

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Darren Finzio

Finzio Strumming in the Delaware River

Nov. 13 is such a strange night for Philly. Sure, you'll have the bulging biceped, punk-n-roll Jukebox Zeros, who'll drop-dunk their thrashing new four-song vinyl EP/digital download, City of Bother and Loathe at the M Room. Grrrrrr. And/or, if you drive fast and play your cards right, you can catch the gnashing sounds of the industrial spandex machine Muscle Factory after midnight at the Troc's Balcony, that is after its leader Darren Finizio does his wee-T.Rex-meets-Dev Banhart solo thing. The mystery folk group Finizio is all that was supposed to happen this Saturday, teamed, as Darren is, with abstract melody makers Julia Rainier and Thom McCarthy. Three weeks ago, Darren wrote to tell me excitedly of his (then) upcoming rare Muscle Factory show outdoors at the Piazza at Schmidts. "I need to press the flesh, like in the old days," he says. He'd be playing all new material at the show and it sounded like fun. Then something went all wrong. "Yesterday was a horrible debasement of Muscle Factory, thanks to The Mayor of Piazza (ed: I have no idea who that is but I like the way it sounds) who bullied the sound man during our pitiful excuse of a gig. So much time went into the music and I found myself literally pressing my ear against the PA speaker more than once. I wonder if they would've treated us that way if we played world music? They didn't pull the plug. The music just kept getting lower and lower. In reality the music should shake your body in a positive way. The Piazza, including those who reside there, simply don't know what's good for them." More grrr. Jukebox Zeros, Sat., Nov. 3, 9 p.m., M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave.; Darren Finizio/Muscle Factory, Sat., Nov. 3, 10:30 p.m., The Balcony, 1003 Arch St.

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