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The Northern Liberties Winter Music Festival at The Fire is finishing up this weekend with two big shows tonight, another tomorrow night, and the climactic Radiohead Tribute Sunday night. It all sounds awesome to us, but we wanted to give a particular heads up to you guys about one of the many bands playing Saturday night: Peasant. Peasant is actually less a band and more a guy: Damien DeRose of Doylestown. We've been listening to his latest release, On the Ground, and we're pretty impressed. He's got the whole folksy, singer-songwriter, indie pop thing going on, but not in an annoying way. His work is compared to that of Elliott Smith, and while we understand and agree with that comparison, we actually enjoy this album more than most of the stuff we've heard by Smith. Every one of the thirteen tracks is lovely, melodic, catchy, and deeply felt. Peasant isn't really going to help you get your rock on, but he might warm you up on a cold winter's night.

innerpartysystem Ticket Giveaway
11.29.07 - 11.30.07 (ENDS AT NOON!)

Miro Dance Theatre founders
Tobin Rothlein and Amanda Miller

A quick note: if you're looking for burning hot, local indie rock gold, you might want to head down to the Fire tonight at 9 and check out Gildon Works ("dreamy, driving rock"), El Dorado, France on Fire ("Americana musings"), and last minute special guest Demander. It's a full bill of fun! (Full disclosure - this Phillyist works with a member of the band El Dorado.)

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Update: Fixed a few typos and small factual errors, and added a more correct image credit. Thanks, Maria!

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The Penn and Drexel Cycling Clubs are co-hosting The Arkema Group Schuylkill Challenge Bicycle Race in Fairmount Park this weekend. (Note that the title of that last page we linked to predicts the winner as Penn - we wonder if the folks at Drexel, not to mention the other schools, have noticed that yet.) It's actually a series of bike races and time trials taking place in various places and at various times on Saturday and Sunday; for more details, check out the link above, or download the PDF of the flyer here (beware - almost 3MB). You can register here.

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R5 Productions is offering not one but two all-ages punk rock shows this week at the First Unitarian Church (22nd and Chestnut Streets) - named, very cleverly, Holidays In The Slush Day #1 and #2. Each show features five acts from all over the world, including some acts (The Boils and Mischief Brew) from our own fair city. Holidays in the Slush #1 begins at 7:30PM Friday night and has an admission fee of $10. Slush #2 begins at 2:30 PM the next day - and has a slightly less frugal fee of $12; however, we did notice that participating band, Dillinger Four, promises "melodic naked punk mayhem" and "psychotic naked behavior from Patty", and we all know nudity will cost you extra. See R5 Productions' Shows page for more information and a full listing of the bands.