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The Baroness that headlined Union Transfer on Friday night did not look like one that survived a bus crash, or like one that endured a lengthy recovery involving extensive physical therapy, stitches, or the departure of their rhythm section. Sure, there were some slip-ups and equipment issues, but who cares?
View galleryWe always get a ton of stuff that doesn't make it into the official agenda for one reason or another. Or sometimes it does! Anyway, this is some of the stuff that CP staffers are attempting to get to this weekend their own selves. You have no excuse for boredom.
FRIDAY 5/24
- Bus Stop promises free Tom Collinses and bins of shoes to dig through at their Jumble Sale.
- Captain, We're Sinking/The Menzingers/Restorations/Fake Problems at the First Unitarian Church.
- Tonight, those who brave the rain will be rewarded by some loud, dirty rock at Kung Fu Necktie: Natural Child Family Band, Eat Skull, Liquor Store, Residuels and the Tough Shits.
- There's a big ol thinky experimental electro-acoustic improv show at AUX.
- Baroness will rock Union Transfer. Toast the band with the bear Tired Hands made in their honor.
SATURDAY 5/25
- Hope the weather clears up for the Collingswood May Fair. Music, food, art, all kinds of stuff.
- Couple political marches to choose from: 1) From Philly To Harrisburg: March for a People's Budget — Stop Prison Expansion Now! and 2) March Against Monsanto Philadelphia (which is more like a rally, with speakers and such).
- Not too clear on what this is, but it looks interesting. Ben Furgal and Zach Ziemann at Magic Pictures.
- Always a good time at a Blayer Pointdujour & the Rockers Galore show (Kung Fu Necktie).
- Hidden City kicks off its festival with a block party at the still unfinished Goldtex building (last we checked, there will not be bikini-clad babes straddling countertops).
- If you do not show up to The Thermals show at Union Transfer in time to see Hop Along, then you suck.
- Peedi Crakk (fuck the innanet!) plays the TLA!
- Cupcakes! Corn dogs! Sausages! Memorial Day weekend food specials too good to pass up.
- In a food coma, need to limit your movement, now what? Noah Baumbach's new kinda-like-Girls-but-not-really film Frances Ha is supposed to be decent.
The Sixth annual Zannie-Do Fest is, like its predecessors, dedicated to the memory of Philly belter Zan Gardner. Gardner put out one great solo album, 2004’s Here’s My Heart, and contributed to the live and recorded work of countless members of the local jazz and blues community. Beyond making music though, Gardner was a founding member of the Jazz Bridge non-profit that helps raise funds for Philly’s players in need. That same lot has been paying into Jazz Bridge’s coffers ever since Gardner died in an automobile accident six years ago and, in her memory, this year’s line-up is a particularly healthy one with Sister Blue, John Dichter and The Flashpoints heading up the pack. Zan would have approved
Fri., May 24, 8 p.m., $10-$15, Mermaid Inn, 7673 Germantown Ave., 215-247-9797, jazzbridge.org.
Prince Royce — the Bachata king of the Bronx — has made some serious moves since 2012. With only two albums and a handful of singles (“Corazon Sin Cara,” “Las Cosas Pequeñas” and “Incondicional” among them), he’s managed to release a greatest hits album (#1s) and an R&B album to go with his all-Spanish first effort — not to mention a BMI Latin Songwriter of the Year honor and a brand new deal where he’ll record Spanish-language Bachata albums through Sony Music Latin and English-language pop albums through RCA. Such is the power of this Prince, a 24 year old that Philly got up-close-and-personal with when he played Made in America last year.
Sat., May 25, 7 p.m., $32.50, $35, Festival Pier, Columbus Boulevard and Spring Garden Street, 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com.
Here's the description posted with this video:
Five members of The Panic Hour were followed into the City Hall rail station in Center City Philadelphia. Kyle Prouty was illegally searched and detained by SEPTA police officer Nicole Lawson at 3:20pm on 5/20/13. Kyle was charged with "disorderly conduct" "obstructing a highway and other public passage" and "resisting arrest". The people in this video had just left an arraignment hearing for Adam Kokesh and Nikki Allen Poe who were kidnapped from a peaceful marijuana rally on 5/18/13. They are currently being held illegally in Federal Detention at the Federal Detention Center 700 arch street Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
I suppose it's not a huge surprise that people who call themselves The Panic Hour were at the center of a commotion like this. And, obviously, since the video picks up with the transit cop already confronting the skateboard dude, we don't have the whole story. Liveleak actually has two videos of the incident, both from up close.
We always get a ton of stuff that doesn't make it into the official agenda for one reason or another. Or sometimes it does! Anyway, this is some of the stuff that CP staffers are attempting to get to this weekend their own selves. You have no excuse for boredom.
FRIDAY 5/17
- Charles Bradley — the Screaming Eagle of Soul — plays Union Transfer tonight.
- If you have kids, you're probably trying to decide whether you want them to read. The Mount Airy Kids' Literary Festival at Blue Marble Books should help you out.
- Drummer G. Calvin Weston — you may recall him from the cover of City Paper back in October — presents Treasures Of The Spirit: The Music Of Mahavishnu Orchestra at The Kennett Flash in Kennett Square, PA.
- Chaz is still Unloved. He plays The North Star. Aw.
- Some people are excited about Gold Panda at Johnny Brenda's.
- Live graffiti and sticker art upstairs at Tattoed Mom? Better lay down some tarps, Sideshow 3.
- Ross Bellenoit gets his Quartet back together tonight at Fergie's.
- It's the second night of Jeff the Brotherhood at Kung Fu Necktie!
- Fancy-feeling people can get suited up for the new Barnes' first birthday.
- Aux and LadyFest are hosting a screening of Watermelon Woman, the first full-length film shot by an African-American lesbian, and also a pretty great time warp to '90s Philly.
SATURDAY 5/18
- Artist Peter Quinn wants to draw 12,000 chalk body outlines on JFK Blvd. and he would like your help. It's an anti-gun violence installation called "American Casualties: A Drawing."
- Azar Lawrence at the Ethical Society, or A$ap Ferg at the TLA?
- It's the first day of the Punk Rock Flea Market.
- The 12th Annual East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention. Lots of signings, workshops, panels and such at the Enterprise Center in West Philly. Wonder if our old Milestone comics are worth something.
- We assume you already know about the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby and Trenton Avenue Arts Fest.
- End the Fed people will be out there doing their thing.
- Spaceship Aloha lands at Johnny Brenda's. You should investigate.
SUNDAY 5/19
- Pop vocals with weird harmonies at The Sea Around Us at Ortlieb's.
- Philly Songwriters Project 2013 Contest Finals Showcase. That's a mouthful. And it's at the Blockley.
- Punk Rock Flea Market day 2.
- Calvin Johnson at Space 1026. (Not the Megatron one.)
- Haydn's The Creation oratorio in West Philly. (Technically true because: One CP editor and one CP writer are singing in it, and so will definitely be there. But we would have tried to go even if that were not true because the soloists are totally baller and anyway what the hell this is just a blog post. Consider this your disclosure.)
Many aspects of MS MR's backstory have a distinct quality of deja vu — or, less charitably, done-to-death — they're based in Brooklyn, they built up blogosphere buzz via an artfully curated web presence (specifically — and this is ostensibly a point of distinction — on tumblr), and until relatively recently they upheld their blankly anonymous-sounding moniker by maintaining actual anonymity.
Their unabashedly huge-sounding, lavishly theatrical debut album, the aptly titled Secondhand Rapture (IAMSOUND), expands the picture somewhat, even as it conveniently recycles most of their tumblr hits.
It's not hard to find reference points for their style of darkly anthemic pomp-pop either — Florence + the Machine, Bats for Lashes and former tour partners Marina and the Diamonds are maybe the most obvious go-tos — but (MR) Max Hershenow's adventurous, widescreen production style and (MS) Lizzy Plaplinger's legitimately spellbinding alto are strong and distinctive enough to stand alone, particularly with a strong and infectious batch of songs that veer from martial trip-hop ("Hurricane") and thunderous orchestral rock-soul ("Bones") to stately classicism and the self-explanatory (but still intriguing) "Dark Doo Wop."
TONIGHT: Thu., May 16, 9:15 p.m., $12, with Magic Man, Johnny Brenda’s, Frankford & Girard aves., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.
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