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Eight o'clock Tuesday night, coming onto 9th street, off the rugged and drug-addled artery that is Spring Garden and into the Starlight Ballroom, you probably wouldn't notice much life stirring. When at the picnic table in the foyer the young man from R5 Productions checks your name on the will-call list or when the dread-locked bouncer rips your ticket, you hear The Extraordinaires in the other room singing their silly pop-folky tunes overdone with sweet harmonies. You're at a night-club with a sub-par sound-system and with the look of a renovated bowling alley or laser-tag arena and inside you are watching another ambitious, mediocre band. Most likely you are wondering if you'll have to check your watch through the Dirty Projectors, too, before Man Man comes to rock the house.

Man Man and Dirty Projectors, two bands as different from each other as Tang from chocolate milk, tigers from koalas, Harley Davidsons from hangliders, or—we may as well end on a musical note—as potentially incompatible as Captain Beefheart and Elton John, are nonetheless both playing Starlight Ballroom tonight and are sure to show you through some wild sonic safaris.

Philly’s got a thriving art community, and it’s hard not to be inspired by the sheer multitude of what’s getting created. With that in mind, Phillyist was thrilled to stumble across the website for Free News Projects.

The Fiery Furnaces make their first Philadelphia appearance in a while with a show tonight at the First Unitarian Church (first scheduled as a Sanctuary show, but now it all goes down in the basement). The band hit it big when Pitchfork guided its lemmings to the excellent Gallowsbird's Bark and Blueberry Boat, and then they gained more steam with a good EP titled EP earlier this year.