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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
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Goblin - Tickets - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA, October 31, 2017 | Ticketfly
Tuesday, October 31 at 7:30 PM
Goblin / Morricone Youth at Union Transfer
UT Newsletter: http://ticketf.ly/1RqX4bJ
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The legendary Italian masters of the Horror Movie Soundtrack are best known for their collaborations with directors such as George A. Romero and Dario Argento, as well as their seminal album ‘Roller’.
Goblin have scored a vast number of genre cult classics including Suspiria, Patrick, The Church, Deep Red, Tenebrae and Dawn of the Dead. Their synth-heavy prog rock regularly veers into nightmarish and atmospheric territory, making them a truly original and iconic entity.
Morricone Youth is a New York City septet formed in 1999 dedicated to performing and recording old film and television soundtrack and library production music. In addition to a repertoire of over 100 re-workings of old soundtracks, many of which recorded for various EPs released by Country Club Records, the band composes original music much in the same vein for the “imaginary film” as well as for live settings to accompany silent films, midnight movies, animations and shorts. Morricone Youth recorded its debut full length album of original music entitled “Silenzio Violento” with legendary Brooklyn producer/engineer Martin Bisi released by Country Club Records in 2005. The band’s music has regularly been used for television and films, most recently in the documentary “Second Skin” directed by Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza about MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games).
Guitarist/founder Devon E. Levins, formerly of San Diego’s avant-garde jazz punk band Creedle, has been a dedicated soundtrack record collector since the 80’s and has hosted a weekly internet radio show since 2007 on East Village Radio under the same Morricone Youth name curating primarily obscure music written for the moving image and interviewing soundtrack composers and filmmakers.
VENUE INFORMATION:
Union Transfer
1026 Spring Garden St.
Philadelphia, PA, 19123
Source: Goblin – Tickets – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA, October 31, 2017 | Ticketfly
Goblin - Tickets - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA, October 31, 2017 | Ticketfly
Monday, October 30, 2017
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Sunday, October 29, 2017
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Upcoming Events -- White Nights — Asian Arts Initiative
White Nights
Featuring Hua Hua Zhang and Company
Friday, November 3, 8 p.m.
Tickets: $25Industry Night: October 29th, 6 p.m.
Sliding scale tickets: $10-$15Performing artist-in-residence Hua Hua Zhang debuts her newest production, White Nights, which explores the universal question: How can we find peace of mind in our ever-changing society? Blending traditional Chinese puppetry with contemporary sound and movement, this collaboration with artists around the world integrates cross-cultural aesthetics, adapted materials, installation, improvisation, and Eastern and Western sounds.
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Upcoming Events -- White Nights — Asian Arts Initiative
Saturday, October 28, 2017
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Terror in the Eraserhood
2:00 PM
PAFA Performances: Philadelphia Jazz Project
This year, WRTI-FM radio host, J. Michael Harrison is celebrating 20 years of his radio show, The Bridge, and to mark this important milestone, PAFA is partnering with the Philadelphia Jazz Project to present a special Hot House concert featuring Charles Ellerbe and MATRIX 12:38, hosted by Harrison. Philadelphia native and guitarist, Charles Ellerbee is … Read more
7:30 PM
Boris / Helms Alee / Endon at Union Transfer – Philadelphia 10/28
Boris at Union Transfer UT Newsletter: http://ticketf.ly/1RqX4bJ Facebook Event Feed: http://on.fb.me/1Xjri0B Boris “We don’t feel comfortable calling Dear a return to our slow and heavy style,” says Tokyo’s amplifier worshiping experimental metal institution Boris. “We’ve been heavy since day one.” And it’s true. From the droning thunder of their Absolutego debut and through the cinematic … Read more
8:00 PM
Nate Staniforth: Real Magic Tour
PhilaMOCA welcomes world-renowned magician Nate Staniforth! Doors 7:30, Show 8:00, $12 advance, $15 day-of Nate Staniforth – Magician, writer, traveler, and host of the Discovery Channel’s international hit TV series Breaking Magic. “Just caught a Nate Staniforth show,” one reporter tweeted after opening night, “and now I have no idea what to believe about anything … Read more
9:00 PM
TJ Kong Halloween Murdershow VIII w/ TJ Kong & The Atomic Bomb
TJ Kong Halloween Murdershow VIII with TJ Kong & The Atomic Bomb at Underground Arts Saturday, October 28th, 2017 21+ | Doors: 8PM | Show: 9PM Tickets: http://bit.ly/TJKong_Murdershow_Tickets (ON SALE NOW!) ◊ TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb ◊ ◊ Shy Boyz ◊ ◊ Levee Drivers ◊ ◊ Tutlie ◊ ◊ Red 40 & The … Read more
9:30 PM
Freakfest Halloween ft. Zomboy, JoyRyde at District N9NE
Disco Donnie Presents x sounds good here pres. #FREAKFEST Philly Halloween – 2017 featuring: Zomboy JOYRYDE more tba Tickets on sale Fri Aug 25 @ Noon Bottle Service/VIP – vip@districtn9ne.com
Terror in the Eraserhood
Friday, October 27, 2017
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Hidden City Philadelphia - Exploring David Lynch"s "Eraserhood" - Sunday, November 19
Sunday, November 19 at 11 AM – 1 PM
Vacant lot at 13th & Wood Sts.When David Lynch moved to Philadelphia in the late 1960s to attend PAFA, he discovered a city that was both terrifying and inspiring. Explore the neighborhood that so electrified Lynch’s imagination in the company of two tour guides: Hidden City’s Peter Woodall and Lynch aficionado Bob Bruhin. During this one-and-a-half hour walking tour, we’ll delve into the neighborhood’s pre- and post-Lynch history, as well as the sights and sounds that inspired Lynch’s movies, particularly Eraserhead.
Book Now: Hidden City Philadelphia – Exploring David Lynch’s “Eraserhood”
Hidden City Philadelphia - Exploring David Lynch"s "Eraserhood" - Sunday, November 19
AWFUL Wrestling: Havoc Halloween
PhilaMOCA hosts a special Halloween installment of Philly’s favorite all-artist wrestling league, AWFUL Wrestling!
Come dressed as your favorite wrestler or any old costume will do, but not mandatory.
Moonsault Mondays wrestling DJs in attendance all the way from Minneapolis! The worst of pro wrestling on the big screen between matches.
Doors 7:00 / Event 7:30 / $5 admission
An AWFUL experience you will not soon forget!
PhilaMOCA
531 N. 12th Street
http://www.philamoca.org/
Source: AWFUL Wrestling: Havoc Halloween
AWFUL Wrestling: Havoc Halloween
Thursday, October 26, 2017
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017
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Monday, October 23, 2017
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Baauer x What So Not - Tickets - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA, October 23, 2017 | Ticketfly
Get tickets to Baauer x What So Not at Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA on 10/23/17
Source: Baauer x What So Not – Tickets – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA, October 23, 2017 | Ticketfly
Baauer x What So Not - Tickets - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA, October 23, 2017 | Ticketfly
Sunday, October 22, 2017
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M.F.A. – Exclusive Philadelphia Engagement – Tickets – PhilaMOCA – Philadelphia, PA – October 22nd, 2017 | Ticketfly
Francesca Eastwood (daughter of Clint) gives a breakout performance as an art student who is sexually assaulted at a party. After struggling to receive any support from her college to find justice and cope with her trauma, she impulsively confronts her attacker – a decision that has deadly repercussions. As she tracks down fellow rape survivors, an unlikely vigilante is born.
PhilaMOCA presents the Exclusive Philadelphia Engagement of this scathing, blood-drenched indictment on university policies and support groups. From director Natalia Leite and writer Leah McKendrick.
WARNING: This film contains scenes of graphic violence and sexual assault. 17+
Advance tickets:
SUN 10/22, 3:00 PM: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1553289
SUN 10/22, 5:30 PM: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1553293
MON 10/23, 7:00 PM: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1553295
MON 10/23, 9:15 PM: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1553299
Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtimes, $12 admission.PhilaMOCA
531 N. 12th Street
http://www.philamoca.org/
M.F.A. – Exclusive Philadelphia Engagement – Tickets – PhilaMOCA – Philadelphia, PA – October 22nd, 2017 | Ticketfly
Saturday, October 21, 2017
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The Monster Energy Outbreak Tour Presents Party Favor - PHILADELPHIA Tickets, Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 9:30 PM | Eventbrite
Eventbrite – Disco Donnie Presents and Sounds Good Here presents The Monster Energy Outbreak Tour Presents Party Favor – PHILADELPHIA – Saturday, October 21, 2017 | Sunday, October 22, 2017 at District N9NE, Philadelphia, PA. Find event and ticket information.
The Monster Energy Outbreak Tour Presents Party Favor - PHILADELPHIA Tickets, Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 9:30 PM | Eventbrite
Friday, October 20, 2017
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Eraserhood Friday!!
ONGOING
Look/Draw/Write Workshop Series
Look/Draw/Write Workshop Series Led by Artblog First Fridays, October – December, 5 – 6 p.m. philly artblog’s Imani Roach and Roberta Fallon lead all-ages workshops that connect you directly with art. Explore our gallery and experience our latest exhibition through sketching and writing through this fun and unique workshop series. Spend some time looking, talking, … Read more
7:00 PM
Vance Joy / Amy Shark / Chappell Roan at Union Transfer -Philadelphia 10/20
Radio 104.5 Presents Vance Joy ‘Lay It On Me Tour’ with Amy Shark & Chappell Roan at Union Transfer UT Newsletter: http://ticketf.ly/1RqX4bJ Event Feed: http://on.fb.me/1Xjri0B Vance Joy Atlantic recording artist Vance Joy has announced a fall headline tour. The dates – his first in the US since last year’s “fire and the flood Tour 2016” … Read more
7:30 PM
Port Lucian “Sun EP” Release Party
Port Lucian “Sun EP” Release Party w/ Americanadian / Tulpa / Ston Jamos / Brick Nova $8 advance / $12 day-of / Doors 7:00 / Show 7:30 / All Ages PORT LUCIAN Port Lucian is an experimental psych-pop band started by Portia Maidment in Philadelphia in 2016. Influences for the band range from Jimi Hendrix … Read more
9:00 PM
Marco Benevento + Moon Hooch at Underground Arts
Marco Benevento, Moon Hooch at Underground Arts Friday, October 20th, 2017 21+ | Doors: 8PM | Show: 9PM Tickets: http://bit.ly/Marco_MoonHooch_Tickets 🎹 Marco Benevento 🎹 🎷 Moon Hooch 🎷
Eraserhood Friday!!
Thursday, October 19, 2017
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Wolf Parade - Tickets - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA, October 19, 2017 | Ticketfly
Thursday, October 19 at 7:30 PM
Wolf Parade / Charly Bliss at Union Transfer
UT Newsletter: http://ticketf.ly/1RqX4bJ
Facebook Event Feed: http://on.fb.me/1Xjri0B
The soaring choruses, rousing anthems, sprawling guitars and chaotic keys that make up Wolf Parade are on proud display over the course of Cry Cry Cry, the band’s thunderous first album in seven years.
That unique combination of sounds and influences, spearheaded by electric co-frontmen Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner—a complex yet relatable, energetic brew of glam, prog, synth-rock, and satisfying discomfort—helped define 2000s indie rock with three critically celebrated albums, and propelled a growing Wolf Parade fandom even after the band went on a then-indefinite hiatus in 2010.
The upcoming return marks their first to be produced by Pacific Northwest legend John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Unwound) at Robert Lang Studios outside of Seattle, and is accompanied by a renewed focus and the creativity of a band that took their time getting exactly where they needed to be. It’s also a homecoming to Sub Pop, which released all three of the band’s previous albums.
“The band itself is almost a fifth member of the band, something more or at least different than the sum of its parts,” says Krug. “We don’t know who or what is responsible for our sound, it’s just something that naturally and consistently comes from this particular combo of musicians.”
“Once we got back together, I was playing guitar, writing and singing in a way that I only do while I’m in Wolf Parade,” says Dan Boeckner, who shares primary lyrical and singing duties with Spencer. “It’s just something that I can’t access without the other three people in the room.”
In the time apart, the band scattered geographically and focused on family and other work–Spencer on his solo project Moonface, Dan on his bands Handsome Furs, Operators, and Divine Fits (with Spoon’s Britt Daniel), and Dante De Caro on records with Carey Mercer’s Frog Eyes and Blackout Beach. And that time allowed for an even stronger, tighter band to emerge.
Eventually, Spencer, Dante, and Arlen found themselves all back living on remote Vancouver Island, accompanied by a population density less than that of Alaska, and the tranquility that leads to creative emanations like a government-sponsored bathtub race. With Dan on the same coast in Northern California, discussions began about picking things up where they left off.
“All of our albums are always a reaction to our last one,” says Arlen. “Expo 86 (2010) was about as sparse as we get, which is usually still pretty dense, and this time we wanted to make the palette a little larger.” Adds Dante, “Expo was a real rock record. We just sort of banged it out, which was kind of the point.” Cry Cry Cry, on the other hand, is more deliberate in its arrangements and embrace of the studio process. “If a part was going on for too long it would get lopped, you know?” says Dan. “That being said, there are two very long songs on the record and I don’t think it would be a Wolf Parade record if it didn’t have some kind of prog epic.”
“I think we’re actually a better band than we were when we stopped playing music together,” says Arlen. “A little bit more life experience for everybody, and people having made a bunch of records on their own.”
The result of this new consciousness is songs like “Valley Boy,” a Bowie-inflected anthem for which Spencer wrote lyrics after Leonard Cohen died the day before the 2016 election (“The radio’s been playing all your songs, talking about the way you slipped away up the stairs, did you know that it was all gonna go wrong?”). “You’re Dreaming,” also influenced by the election and the spinning shock that followed, is driving, urgent power pop that draws from artists like Tom Petty and what Dan calls one of his “default languages” for writing music. The swirly, synth-heavy crescendo of “Artificial Life” takes on the struggle of artists and at-risk communities (“If the flood should ever come, we’ll be last in the lifeboat”).
The album carries a sense of uprising that is not unrelated to Wolf Parade’s renewed determination to drive the band forward in uncertain times. Welcome to Cry Cry Cry.
All right
Let’s fight
Let’s rage against the night– “Lazarus Online” (Spencer Krug)
If it’s true that listening to just the right record at just the right moment can psychically transport you to some other time and place, then Charly Bliss—an NYC band responsible for having crafted some of the finest guitar-crunched power pop this side of an old Weezer record with a blue cover—can pretty much turn any space into an adult-friendly version of your old teenage bedroom, a candy-scented safe space for extreme fits of happiness and angsty teen-level explosions of romantic ennui.
Though Charly Bliss has been a band for over half a decade, the path that led to their first full-length record, Guppy, has been anything but straightforward. As the story goes, the band officially started when frontwoman Eva Hendricks and guitarist Spencer Fox, both just 15, crossed paths at a Tokyo Police Club show in New York City, but the ties within the band go much deeper than that. “It’s kind of insane and hilarious,” says Eva, “Sam is my older brother, so obviously we’ve known each other our whole lives, but all of us have been connected to each other since we were little kids. Dan Shure and I dated when we were in our early teens and he and Spencer went to summer camp together. Dan and I broke up years ago, but eventually he’d become our bass player. The reason we all get along so well has to do with the fact we share this ridiculous history. We are all deeply embedded in each other’s lives.”
After spending years playing shows in and around New York City, the band eventually released an EP (2014’s Soft Serve) and scored opening gigs for the likes of Glass Animals, Darwin Deez, Tokyo Police Club, Sleater-Kinney, as well as a touring spot for their own musical forebears, Veruca Salt. Even though the band had amassed a sizable fanbase and a reputation as a truly formidable live act, the goal of making a full- length record proved to be a fraught series of false-starts. Given their propensity for making hooky, ebullient pop songs, the band often felt out of step with what was happening around them in Brooklyn. (“We weren’t weird in the right ways,” says Sam). They eventually set about recording an album on their own—and then recording it twice—before figuring out what had been staring them in the face the entire time. “We basically had to come to terms with the fact that we are, at heart, a pop band,” recalls Spencer. “Before, it was always trying to decide which of the songs would be more ‘rock’ and which would be more poppy, but we eventually realized we needed to meet in the middle, we had to create an ecosystem where our loud, messy rock sounds could co-exist with these super catchy melodies and pop hooks. It was really about realizing what we’re best at as a band.”
The ten tracks that make up Guppy, Charly Bliss’ sparkling full-length debut, show the band embracing all of their strengths—a combination of ripping guitars and irrepressible pop hooks, all delivered with the hyper- enthusiasm of a middle school cafeteria food fight. That every track is loaded front-to-back with sing/shout-worthy lyrics and earworm melodies is a testament to the band’s commitment to the art form of pop songwriting. Opening track “Percolator” sets the tone—all power riffs and yo-yo-ing melodies playing against Hendricks’ acrobatic vocals, which veer from gentle coo to an emphatic squeal:
I’m gonna die in the getaway car! I would try but it sounds too hard! It’s a vibe that carries throughout Guppy, a record that shares an undeniable kinship with 90’s alt-rockers like Letters to Cleo and That Dog— bands that balanced melodicism, sugary vocals, and overdriven guitar turned up to 11. It’s an aesthetic that Charly Bliss both embraces and improves upon in tracks like “Ruby” (“We actually wrote the guitar solo by sitting in a circle and passing the guitar around, each of us adding our own notes,” says Fox) and “Glitter”, the record’s first single. “I wanted to make a song about being romantically involved with someone who makes you kind of hate yourself because they are so much like you,” says Hendricks, “A fun song about complicated self-loathing that you could also dance around your bedroom to—that kind of sums us up as a band, actually.”
“Pop music can actually be very subversive,” she continues. “The lyrics that I’m most proud of on the record are me existing both in and out of this overgrown teenybopper feeling—feeling like everything I was going through was the most extreme thing that had ever happened to anyone ever. The songs are often about being totally in the throes of this stuff, but also being able to step out of it and make fun of myself. It’s possible to write songs that really get at all of these dark feelings while also just being really fun to sing and dance to. You can be serious and also sing about peeing while jumping on a trampoline.”
Guppy is a record that doesn’t so much seek to reinvent the pop wheel so much as gleefully refine it. “People forget sometimes that expressing joy is just as important as examining despair,” says Shure. “People need joy, especially right now. We’re all about writing tight pop songs, but also giving people this super enthusiastic release. These songs are kind of the sound of expressing something that you can’t really contain. These are songs you play really loudly when you need to freak out.”VENUE INFORMATION:
Union Transfer
1026 Spring Garden St.
Philadelphia, PA, 19123
Source: Wolf Parade – Tickets – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA, October 19, 2017 | Ticketfly
Wolf Parade - Tickets - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA, October 19, 2017 | Ticketfly
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Build The Rail Park Happy Hour Tickets, Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite
This month we are pleased to host Fleisher Art Memorial’s Urban Landscape Photography Exhibit
Fleisher Digital Photography students join us for an exhibit on Wednesday, November 1. This class project screens in our back room with students and faculty present to talk about their work.
Founded in 1898, Fleisher Art Memorial is one of the country’s oldest nonprofit community art schools and are committed to advancing the vision of its founder, Samuel S. Fleisher. Fleisher’s mission is to make art accessible to everyone, regardless of economic means, background, or artistic experience.
Featuring:
$7 Ryed The Rails Cocktail
Happy Hour Specials
Go Go by The Trestle SpecialsGet On Board!
20% of all sales from Build The Rail Park Happy Hour benefit Rail Park Phase 1 construction.
Source: Build The Rail Park Happy Hour Tickets, Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite
Build The Rail Park Happy Hour Tickets, Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite
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