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By now, you've probably read about Matt Duke (MySpace) on these pages more times than you can count. We've also mentioned Rachael Yamagata (MySpace) a couple of times. And back in December 2007, we told you about an awesome concert benefiting WXPN Musicians On Call and featuring some great local talent, including Duke. So, if you were to put all those things together, what would you get? Well, if you're looking for a good time and would like to help a good cause, you get your plan for tomorrow night.

Guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and Philly dude Andrew Lipke put out his first album, The Way Home..., on Drexel University's student-run record label, MAD Dragon Records, back in February. (The disc was produced by Emmy Award-winning composer and Drexel Professor Jim Klein, so it's got Drexel all over it.) We've been listening to it recently, and we rather like it. It's mighty entertaining, catchy indie alterna-pop with lovely harmonies and an occasional touch of almost orchestral-sounding romanticism (which is probably there thanks to the piano). And although the album does contain rather boring and unimaginative love songs like "Stick By You," you'll quickly forget them after hearing fantastically rollicking, rocking tracks like "Moving Back to Paradise." If you want to check Lipke out for yourself, you're in luck! He'll be playing at various venues all over the area for the next couple of months. You can see a detailed list of his upcoming shows at his MySpace page, but we'll just post the info about his soonest show below, which he'll be playing with another local boy, Matt Duke.

Fun around town, for $10 or less: