Tonight: My Friends at North Star Bar

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Tonight: My Friends at North Star Bar

POSTED: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 9:15 PM
Filed Under: Music Show
My Friends

Whoa, My Friends are pretty awesome. The band ' not my actual friends, though they're nice, too ' are playing at North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St., 215-787-0488) tonight at 7 p.m. for $5. This is Friday-night music happening on Tuesday, people. With their sound often changing from song to song, they never quite fit into one box. The common thread, perhaps, comes in a pair: rich, heavily layered instrumentals and vocals that sound on the brink of ' something. There's a mystery there about which way they might turn. There are moments when I'm nervous that the singer is about to go emo on me, but then he lets up on the anxious tick and saves the song from going horribly wrong with airy electronics, maracas, and is that the sound of bubbles popping? Listen here.

 
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