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This Sunday, a music legend comes to the World Cafe Live. And he's not just coming to play. Bob Mould (MySpace) will take part in a special Q&A session before performing an intimate acoustic set. Then he'll step aside for a screening of his first concert DVD, Circle of Friends. If that doesn't sound cool, there's something wrong with you. Bob Mould is, of course, the mastermind behind punk/college rock band Hüsker Dü and...

This is going to be a short post. We basically just wanted to tell you that there exists in the world an all-girl Led Zeppelin tribute band called Lez Zeppelin, and that they're playing World Cafe Live tomorrow night. If you don't already want to see them, we're not sure we understand you. Lez Zeppelin may be one of the best band names ever, especially given the fact that it's being applied to four women playing covers of songs by what may be the greatest rock band of all time. Even better, we've stopped by their MySpace page and listened to a few samples of their work, and it turns out they actually play the songs quite well, too! So what more do you need?

"Come to Jesus," the featured hit single of Mindy Smith's debut album, sold 300,000 copies, as well as being featured on numerous TV night-time talk shows and VH1 and CMT. Frankly, with a hit like this, we thought she was a Christian-Pop star. But after listening to her sophomore CD, One Moment More, we've realized that she has crossed many genres and landed in Country, Folk, and even Pop. Time Magazine calls it a "hybrid...

Last year when Jamie Cullum came to town, Brandi Carlile opened for him. What a great surprise for all of us in the audience. Not only was she a great performer, but her music rocked as well. Now we get a chance to see Brandi Carlile headline her own tour at World Cafe Live. She has already sold out this performance and the several other cities on her North American tour. Brandi Carlile released...

With the upcoming release of Memory Man on March 13th, Aqualung is touring the Eastern U.S., stopping at the World Cafe Live on March 10th at 7:30pm. You might think that Aqualung is a band of some sort but it's really just one Englishman - Matt Hales - making beautiful music. Hales calls his music, "truthful, articulate, candid, poetic, sometimes beautiful and occasionally a bit strange." Just what we like. He writes, performs, sings...

Mother's Day has Philadelphia origins, having been conceived by resident Anna May Jarvis, as well as recognized here first as an official holiday. We only feel the need to share these facts because this Sunday is Mother's Day (and if you're just realizing this now, Phillyist has to warn you that all the good Mother's Day cards are already taken), and we wanted to let you know there are some things happening around town to help keep you in Mom's good graces:

disguised as of some of Philly's best-known jazz, funk and dixieland musicians"), but we're betting they'll sound pretty foreign to most of you. That's because they play a traditional Jewish style of music called Klezmer, but spice it up by fusing it with jazz, funk, Latin sounds, and outer space, thus ending up with something that's a little bit nerdy, a little bit hippie (in the out-there, quasi-mystical kind of sense), a little bit silly, and a little bit just plain fun. We're saying this after having given a number of thorough listens to the disc they're celebrating the release of this Sunday, Blue Suede Jews.

Brendan Benson plays at World Cafe Live tonight with The Greenhornes, whose recent EP, East Grand Blues, was produced by Benson. Benson's Alternative to Love is one of the year's better albums, providing all of the power hooks and choruses that our indie pop loving hearts could desire.