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Albert Hammond Jr., guitarist for the indie-rock group The Strokes, just released his solo album, Yours to Keep, last month. Tonight, he'll be singing along with his band (Marc Philippe Eskenazi - guitar / keyboards, Steve Schiltz - guitar and Todd Dahlhoff - bass) at the Theatre of the Living Arts starting at 7PM.

As far as I'm concerned, The Honorary Title should be headlining their own tour, but Friday night at the Theatre of Living Arts they fronted Butch Walker. Obviously most of the audience was there to see Butch Walker. This simple fact had a huge impact on The Honorary Title's performance and attitude. There were several issues with the concert, but most of them were due to circumstance, and weren't the band's fault. They played...

Tonight, Theatre of the Living Arts presents Butch Walker and the Let's Go Out Tonites with The Honorary Title and Rocket starting at 9PM. We're very excited for The Honorary Title's performance because they're debuting some new tracks off of their upcoming CD, Scream and Light up the Sky, which is due out in June. Earlier this week, we had the opportunity to interview Jarrod Gorbel, the lead singer of The Honorary Title. He talked...

Jarrod Gorbel of The Honorary Title

Yes, yes, we know it's nice outside, but the light's not lasting forever. So walk yourself down to the TLA and check out tonight's show: Mute Math with the Cinematics and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin.

Long before we'd ever heard Lily Allen sing, Phillyist was completely in love with her. (We even posted about it on a "This Week in Celebrity" post back in October.) Between that and the fact that the media buzz around Lily Allen is continuing to grow, we clearly HAD to start listening to her music. And now that we have her debut CD, on iTunes, it's just about all that we listen to. Allen's music is insanely catchy: a blend of Britpop, reggae, and Hip-Hop with funny, clever lyrics: the combination instantly evoked The Streets for us We find ourselves singing her most explicit lyrics to ourself, but probably too loudly, on the way home from work. Allen isn't necessarily doing anything new, but she's definitely enjoying herself. And we're enjoying ourselves, too, because anyone who samples 50 Cent to write a song about her grandmother's shopping habits gets a gold star for humor in our book. She may just be our new girl-crush.

Phillyist is an American Idol fan. We will happily own up to an obsession with the cheesefest. It's a love/hate relationship, truly. While we never vote and wouldn't be caught dead with a schmaltzy album of any of the winners, we're really in it for the snark factor.

by Jen A. Miller

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have been making enough Philadelphia appearances to prove that local product and lead singer Alec Ounsworth is correct when he says that they're not a New York band. (They're a sixth borough band, duh.) The band, whose self-titled debut is easily one of the year's best albums, will play another show tonight, this one at the TLA.

Broken Social Scene will be bringing their large collective, and excellent new album, to the Theatre of Living Arts tonight at 8 p.m. The band finds themselves delving deepeer into their collective identity on their self-titled third album, an album full of instrumental and vocal layering that's already claimed a spot on our best of the year list.

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Phillyist saw stellastarr* at the TLA Tuesday night - and by that we don't mean we saw a porn actress on the cover of a VHS tape in the curtained-off back section at TLA video. stellastarr* is pretty sexy, but it's a band, and they were playing a rock show at the Theater of the Living Arts on South Street. They were doing a pretty good job of it, too; they rocked Phillyist until our teeth hurt. No, seriously - they made our teeth hurt. In our head.

by Jim Genzano

Gang of Four is a great band. Did you not know that? If not, go get 1979's Entertainment! You won't regret it. And if you do, well, we're just going to delete your e-mail.

While we could pile on the hype bandwagon and heaps tons and tons of praise on Sufjan Stevens, we'll spare you. If you've read any sort of decent music publication over the past year, you've heard of Sufjan and his mangificent work, which includes the first two albums of his "50 States" Project, Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State and Come On, Feel The Illinoise!.

After 2002’s The Remote Part Idlewild was thrust into the public eye, at least in the U.K., and reviews are saying even better things about their latest effort. It may be filled with love songs composed with the radio in mind, but there are still moments when the punk instincts that dominated their earlier recordings reveal themselves.

When the Kaiser Chiefs kicked off Live 8 with their hit single, "I Precidt a Riot," we'll admit that we thought the event was doomed. We imagined obvious newspaper writers across the country kicking back Saturday evening and writing headlines like "Kaiser Chiefs: Prophets" or "Kaiser Chiefs See Into Future."

Ali G, though, isn't driving Phillyist around in a limo, so we'll have to slum it by providing you with some concert previews for the upcoming week. href="http://dinosaurjr.com/">Dinosaur Jr. is touring this Summer
with a set that we've heard is gritty, dynamic, and just plain good.
No doubt aging hipsters will be flocking to the Electric Factory to
revisit their youth and the recently rereleased first three Dinosaur Jr. albums. In recent shows, the set list included "Chunk," "Little Fury Things," "Does It Float," and "Kracked." Joining Dinosaur Jr. are Broken Social Scene and Magik Markers. Indie darlings Broken Social Scene won a Juno award in 2003 for "Alternative Album of the Year" and have a new album, Wind-surfing Nation, due in October.. Magik Markers contribute their own brand of no-wave noise. It's a don't miss. - Nicole Wolverton Fear not. Tegan and Sara are playing the Theatre of Living Arts on July 12 at 8 PM, and they've got a lot to remind you Belinda Carlisle fans of the good ol' days. That isn't to say they're completely similar: the similarities end with the harmony (especially on songs like "Speak Slow" and "Take Me Anywhere") and the haircuts. These identical lesbian twins hail from Canada and aren't afraid to sing about their mutual love for women – or anything else that's on their minds ("When You Were Mine"). Expect playful audience banter and a little on-stage sibling rivalry. Don't expect a heroin breakdown a la the The Go-Gos, or prom-dress waterskiing. Tickets are a steal at $13 and are available online. Sounds pretty good, eh? - Jillian Ivey