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Bands I Caught: Fursaxa, Fan of Friends, War on Drugs, King Kong Ding Dong

It isn't for a little while now, when the weather will hopefully be a little bit warmer (although Phillyist makes no promises to that end), but we figured that the POPPED! festival, April 9-15, needs to be on your radar already.

Since the success of The Passion of the Christ, studio execs have worked overtime to figure out how to get evangelical money back to Hollywood where it belongs. You could see it in sub rosa marketing campaigns for any number of Hollywood movies: Aslan was Jesus. Superman was Jesus. Even King Kong was briefly Jesus. Then some smart Harvard grad thought to himself that perhaps Jesus would make an appealing Jesus, and thus The Nativity Story was born.

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