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It will also have more up-to-date information! If you have stuff you want me to check out or include, please e-mail me and we'll talk. This page is back in commission due to the closing of the tourdates.com site. So bear with me as I get links and stuff together for you. I think you might still be able to look up your favorite bands' tourdates on their site. so why the heck not? upcoming | weekly | radio | arts & misc. | upcoming.events FRI. SEPTEMBER 28: SORTED/MAKING TIME brit-pop, mod, indie dance, shoegazer, dance party. With the Turnaround in the basement and Maximum Rock-N-Roll Overdose in the upstairs lounge. At Transit. $8 - $1 of your admission goes to the Red Cross. www.soundway.com SAT. SEPTEMBER 29: Clark Park Fall Festival - featuring: OCT 7 - SONNA (instrumental post-rock bliss, toured with Godspeed You Black Emperor) with Explosions in the Sky. The Olive Branch Bar/Restaurant - 19th and Sansom (in between Market and Chestnut) SAT. OCT. 27 - NEED NEW BODY, Krakatoa, and Cheer Accident, location tba
recurring.events the last saturday of the month at La Tazza 108 is the new monthly brainchild of Sean O'Neal (of Flowchart fame) called HOLOGRAM. Previous episodes have featured the lovely flavors of Mall, Octorock, Transient, and other luminaries of Philly and nearby delicious original electronic music, as well as Sean O'Neal, Erin Anderson and the whole Fuzzybox/tbtmo crew taking turns mixing tracks in when they can. Go to the next one in September. Check out tbtmo.com for more information. each 2nd & 4th Tuesday at 700 is Slipping into Sublimnity ... it's free, it's fun and it mixes dj sets with live musicians. Stop by for your bi-monthly dose of ambient/experimental/improv. You might wanna keep coming back for more... every other Thursday at the Khyber Upstairs, Maura & Maria DJ. FREE! One thursday a month, Sara Sherr hostesses and picks bands for SUGARTOWN, a lady-centric fantasy world where everything is good and girls rock out on stage (instead of being stuck in the kitchen). You can check the next installment at their lovely pink webpage: http://free.freespeech.org/sugartown/ ... Usually at the Balcony. (above the Trocadero). check out some free electronic music at the foundation at the rotunda (university city) once a month. it's ALL-AGES as well! 4012 chestnut street. gate to moonbase alpha is the official name and the exact date is a little variable. for details and line-ups, hit the Philadelphia Ambient Consortium. (SOrry - this is only during the schoolyear) the Grape Street Pub in the Manayunk section of Philly has open mic nights every Monday. Free... Sign up between 9 and 10pm. Music starts sometime around 9:30/10ish. Usually hosted by local guy, Ben Arnold ... the Gryphon Cafe in Wayne, PA has its open mic on Monday also, hosted by the Love Syndicate. I hear they're really great, so check them out sometime. You can also check out XPN's concert calendar, which they keep rather up-to-date (at least so far)
Tired of the same old rock scene, same old clubs, same old people? Want to challenge your old ways of thinking about music? Try something different: the Media Bureau is a local online broadcasting co. which hosts real-time events of live music, interviews and more... Check out their weekly schedule for interesting things that you don't want to miss. Weekly Radio Stuff: the Philadelphia Ambient Consortium has provided a wonderful radio schedule on their site to give you other great shows to choose from (with many interesting types of music included) Click here for the PacMan radio schedule (it will open in a new window).
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