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Bummed LA and NY got final Nine Inch Nails shows, but Philadelphia was left out? We have just the good news to cure your blues. Them Crooked Vultures, better known as "Dave Grohl's New Supergroup," released a very select few US tour dates this week and oh, look at that—lucky us, Philly is on the list! While Gothamist and LAist were turning mighty green (no shows for them as of right now) we were busy cherry picking the online presale this morning. After forty full minutes of severe Ticketmaster password failure we finally managed to our golden ticket into what promises to be an epic Electric Factory event.

Heavy metal is a musical genre that has gone through a lot of ups and downs in popularity and quality over the years. But it's a genre we've always had a fondness for, and so we're quite happy to see it making yet another one of its many comebacks. This time one of the filthy hard rock zombies helping yank the corpse of metal out of its very unquiet grave is Mastodon (MySpace). They've been together making music since the late '90s/early '00s, but they only just released their first major label album - their third and most recent disc - September of last year. It's called Blood Mountain, and besides featuring cameos from such musical greats as Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler, it's full of Mastodon's patented brand of lengthy, thrashing, doomy, complex, psychedelic, progressive metal. In other words, it's real good, rocking stuff, and we like it. And we hear their live show is even better, so check them out when they attack the Electric Factory this Friday, along with Against Me! and Cursive.

To describe the Eagles of Death Metal as merely a side-project of Queens of the Stoneage frontman Josh Homme (who goes by the hilariously excellent and ridiculous moniker, Carlo Von Sexron, when playing with the Eagles) is to do the band a disservice. Although, as the title of this post suggests, their music is far from being death metal, it is an incredibly fun, perhaps-slightly-harder-than-average bluesy pop rock that is highly enjoyable, and really something quite distinct from the sound of Queens of the Stoneage. EoDM have even more swagger, and even more of a sense of humor about themselves and what they're doing, as you can tell from their entertaining cover of the only famous Steeler's Wheels song, which, ever since Reservoir Dogs, Phillyist likes to call "the ear-cutting song," and which EoDM call "Stuck in the Metal with You."