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The Showdown: Enumerate your Asteroids.

POSTED: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 2:00 PM

Your weekly daily rock plan-it.

Fujiya & Miyagi

Tuesday: Broken Social Scenester Emily Haines plays World Café Live, backed by her all boy band. Doors at 8 p.m., tickets are $23.

Wednesday: Brighton outfit Fujiya & Miyagi sing about vanilla, strawberry and knickerboker glory. With School of Seven Bells. At the Troc. Doors at 7 p.m., tickets are $15-$17.

Thursday: West Philly’s Whales and Cops (ex-Man Man men) stir up a polyphonic stew of bleepy-bloopy indie goodness, like a sloppy Black Moth Super Rainbow plus the Unicorns. With Gemini Wolf & Broadzilla DJs. At KungFu Necktie. Doors at 9 p.m., tickets are $10.

Friday: Let Philly psychedelics the Asteroid # 4 hypnotize you with their Summer of Love sound and trippy guitar riffs. With Like A Fox & the Sounds of Kaleidoscope. At Johnny Brenda’s. Doors at 9 p.m., tickets are $10.

Saturday: Country-folk hip-hopper Tim Fite spits out rhymes at the M Room. With Benjy Ferree & DeLeon. Doors at 9 p.m., tickets are $10.

Sunday: Holy Two-piece Fest, Batman! Check out the line-up of dynamic duos: Japanther, Ingrid, Slingshot Dakota, Shellshag, Reading Rainbow, Peter And Craig, 1994!, BEST FRIENDS!, Hulk Smash, Trophy Wife, northless, Deer Friends, Hoop Dreamz, the Book Slave, Color Change, Bubonic Bear, Moister, Gold Eyes, I.R.E., Joint Chiefs of Math, No Bodies No Graves & Deergear. At Pilam. Doors at 2 p.m., tickets are $8.

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