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Monday:
Despite playing Smokey, please refrain from yelling The Big Lebowski quotes at Jimmie Dale Gilmore. He's far too awesome to contend with that. With Jenny Scheinman, at the World Cafe, doors at 7:30 p.m., tickets are $30-40.
Tuesday: Jason Pierce almost died. But that's not the only reason you should go see Spiritualized tonight. Here are three reasons: 1. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space is a great record. 2. "Often more threadbare than previous Spiritualized records, [new record] Song in A&E feels like a slightly lusher brand of forlorn English folk, the Fairport Convention coming down from a meth jag," says A.D. Amorosi. 3. For the price of admission, you also get the Dirtbombs AND the War on Drugs. Need more? You won't get it you greedy bastards. At the TLA, doors at 7 p.m., tickets are $25-27.
Wednesday: ALERT: Philly super group! "Unrelentingly catchy even at its quirkiest, the duo of Man Man drummer Pow Pow (Chris Powell) and Bablicon's Blue Hawaii (Griffin Rodriguez) comes across like the Atari 2600 adaptation of Gnarls Barkley, its eccentric grooves rendered with rougher edges and a more unpredictable sense of play," according to Shaun Brady. With Buffalo Stance (remember Neneh Cherry?!) and Make a Rising, at Johnny Brendas, doors 8 p.m., tickets are $10.
Or…
You can go jazzy-pizazzy tonight with Arrive. "That moment when post-bop built a bridge to the avant-garde is certainly present in the music of altoist Aram Shelton, who combines the tart angularity of influences like Ornette Coleman and Jackie McLean with an expansive reach inherited from the AACM," says Shaun. With Matt Davis and Dan Blacksberg's New Group, Borowsky Gallery, doors at 8 p.m. tickets are $10-$12.
Thursday: Bon Iver recorded his new album, For Emma, Forever in a remote cabin in Wisconsin. Give him some company tonight. With the Bowerbirds, at the First Unitarian Church, doors at 8:30 p.m., tickets are $12.
Friday: Check out the cut and paste-isms of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, friend of Animal Collective and fellow Paw Track-ster. With Chairlift, Tickley Feather and Kurt Vile, at the M Room, doors at 9 p.m., tickets are $10.
Saturday: Vernon Reid, founder of day-glo wet-suited Living Colour, teams up with DJ Logic and, with their powers combined, they outcome is the Yohimbe Brothers. The combo is the best of their respective worlds. It's their first visit to Philly in four years so give them the welcome they deserve. At the North Star Bar, doors at 9 p.m., tickets are $12.
Sunday: The Showdown is all about bang for your buck, so while seeing Jill Scott at the Borgata may technically be better, you coulda seen her for a fraction of that at Black Lily (if only you knew better) AND you gotta drag your ass all the way to Jersey. Give the new guys a shot tonight for the first round of the Battle of the Bands. Or you could go just to mock their names: Eric Az and the Drive-By Hippies, Stuck in Your Radio, The Air I breathe, Pieces of Euphoria, Adam Web, Broken By Archways, Faster Than Fate, Independence Drive, The Vivid Twisted, AmRev2 and Rushmore. At Crocodile Rock, doors at 4 p.m., tickets are $10-12.
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