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The Showdown: They still have messianic beards

POSTED: Monday, May 11, 2009, 7:54 PM

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From left to right: beard, Beard, beard.

Every Monday, The Showdown tells you who to see and where to see 'em.

Monday: We rated Philadelphia Slick best local band in 2007 and now in 2009 they're about to drop their second LP, Oil. Don't slip up and miss some local hip hop backed by live jazzy beats. It'll be refreshing in the face of all that vocoder shit clogging up the radio these days. As an added bonus, Jurrasic 5's Akil the MC will be joining the stage. Downstairs at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St., 8 p.m., tickets are $11.

Tuesday: Quick! Get some of the recently-released tickets to previously sold-out Animal Collective! Every year one of the collective releases an album it invariably ends up at the high end of year end lists. Merriweater Post Pavilion, AC's latest, is a like a really sincere digital folk/dub concert in candyland. When you're trying to convince your kids you were cool once 20 years from now, you can whip out this concert stub as evidence. Opener Grouper sounds like a ghost playing an acoustic set in your swimming pool. At the Electric Factory, 421. N. 7th St., 8 p.m., tickets are $20.

Wednesday: Remember when you were a kid and you wanted to marry Led Zeppelin, but you couldn't because they weren't girls? Dreams can come true on Wednesday night, as the all female Lez Zepplin (see what they did there?) cover band takes the stage. The Troc, 1003 Arch St., 8 p.m., tickets are $17.

Thursday: Loud, fast, rock n' roll, garage punk, DIY, dirt, sweat, booze, hard-hitting, Rodriguez with Philly locals War on Drugs, at Johnny Brenda's, 1201 Frankford Ave., 9 p.m., tickets are $12.

Friday: Once, Merrill Beth Nisker (better known as Peaches), was an elementary school teacher, now her album is described as a collage of aggressive synth beats and "unapologetically filthy lyrics." It's not every day that Similian Mobile Disco and Digitalism produce the sonic equivalent of your teacher talking dirty to you. At the TLA, 334 South St., with the Popo, 9 p.m., tickets $20-$23.

Saturday: Black or Wolf (maybe Crystal?), which is the most overused word in band names today? Settle the dispute while getting serenaded by local psychadelic electro band, Gemini Wolf. At M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., with Mixel Pixel & Paper Masques and Shawn Kilroy and the Hessians, 8 p.m., tickets $8.

Sunday: In these tumultuous times, it's nice to see some things never change. ZZ Top still has the same line up they had 40 years ago. They still wear leather jackets. They still have messianic beards. And they play chugging hard-blues songs about pork chop sandwiches. At The Susquehanna Bank Center, with the Offspring, Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd & Saliva, 3 p.m., tickets $51.50-77.

'And because you know it's going to be stuck in your head for the rest of the day:

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