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It's rare that we get to talk about an indie rock show that features more than one band that we're familiar with and impressed by, but we're getting that chance today. Tonight at Johnny Brenda's both Film School (MySpace) and Eulogies will be playing, along with Cloud Minder and Minipop. Eulogies, on their self-titled release, plays a melancholy (but fun) alterna-pop that one might describe as emo - although we'd rather not, since emo has bad connotations, and we actually like Eulogies. (Download their track "One Man.") The vocals will remind you of J Mascis, and indeed the music has a vague Dinosaur Jr. flavor to it in general. Meanwhile, Film School, on their latest release, Hide Out, are putting out a fun, droning, new New Wave kind of indie pop, with a strong beat and a Yo La Tengo feel, and with brilliant track titles like "Sick Hipster Nursed by Suicide Girl" (a song that manages to be just as excellent as its title). (Download "Lectric," a kick-ass track off Hide Out.)

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Guster will be doing an in-store performance and signing today at Tower Records (100 South Broad Street) at 1:30 p.m. Ping pong balls not required (and if you don't get that, then you probably won't be coming to Tower Records today).

Have you ever wondered what happened to the tumor that was removed from President Grover Cleveland’s face during that secret surgery back in 1893? Here at Phillyist we can’t go more than a few days without someone agitatedly voicing their conspiratorial concerns with the lengths that the government has taken to conceal GC’s mystery growth. Was it the CIA? Did aliens snatch it? Chappaquiddick, was it Chappaquiddick? It could have been Chappaquiddick. Even Robert Stack couldn’t make heads or tails of the fiasco on Unsolved Mysteries. We thought the case was closed. Then we heard it was floating in a jar somewhere in the Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.