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If you were one of the dozens of people scrambling for a ticket to the extremely sold out The Hold Steady show at North Star Bar last year who got shut out, listen up: the Brooklyn-based rockers are playing the Fillmore at the TLA tonight, and tickets are available.

The National Giveaway
8/29/07-9/2/07

Mink CD, Shirt, Ticket Giveaway
8/27/07-8/31/07

If your lasting memory of Silverchair is the Cobain-lite bombast of the “Tomorrow” video on MTV—we still heart you, Tabitha Soren—you’ve missed out on some fine tunes over the years. But you can catch up Saturday night when their headlining tour comes to our fair city.

Even though the Philly Orchestra is off to Colorado, there are still some great midweek concerts to attend.

The Sea and Cake is one of those rare bands that is totally consistent and reliable in terms of style and quality. For years they've been putting out ten track-long CDs full of excellent, mellow indie pop. Pop any one of their discs in the player and you are guaranteed a good time. Their latest album, Everybody, which came out in May, over four years since their last full-length release, is no exception. How can you resist the soothing voice of Sam Prekop? His and Archer Prewitt's driving guitars? John McEntire's monster beats, Erik Claridge's strong bass lines?

Last week we introduced you to Alan Andrews, guitarist and lead singer of Photo Atlas. We learned that the Mac-loving, riot-inducing psychic is from Denver and loves The Beatles. One lucky reader will be attending tonight's show at the Fillmore for free.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (MySpace) is not an association of big tattooed dudes who like to ride around on two-wheeled vehicles. It's a kick-ass indie rock band that you need to get to know if you haven't already. A good place to start is their latest album, released about a month ago, called Baby 81. There are a handful of tracks on this one that are just good indie pop/guitar rock songs. The rest are divided between very good and totally excellent. All of them are full of driving guitars, smooth vocals, and head-banging hooks. A couple of our favorite tracks are the sexy "Berlin" and the epic rock masterpiece (clocking in at just over nine minutes) "American X." But another of our favorites is "Weapon of Choice," which we'd like you to check out for yourself; listen in Windows Media, QuickTime, or Real Media formats.

The Photo Atlas/The Bravery
5/21/07-5/25/07

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.

Just in case y'all hadn't heard, there's a bloggers meet-up this afternoon. Yeah, it's St. Patricks Day, and yeah you should wear green. Plus it's at Ten Stone.

Landon Donovan continued to put ’06 in the past with a stellar performance against Mexico last night. He capped off USA’s victory with a blistering charge through midfield, in which he shed two defenders before deftly turning to the left to avoid keeper Oswaldo Sanchez and slamming the ball home to make it 2-0 at the 90 minute mark. In his last two games he has 3 goals after going 18 international appearances without a score. Playing before a hostile crowd in Arizona - that’s right, US fans were outnumbered at The University of Phoenix Stadium - the game seemed to present a tough challenge, though we haven’t lost to Mexico on home soil since 1999. Mexico had bolstered its squad by recalling all available top internationals, including Omar Bravo, Francisco Fonseca and danger man Jared Borgetti. Top US defender, Oguchi Onyewu, was unfortunately unavailable for the match, due to obligations to club team, Newcastle. Borgetti has given the US trouble in the past and nearly equalized the score with a header that barely went wide of the right post. After Jimmy Conrad’s goal (his first in 19 appearances) in the 52nd minute - headed home with conviction after a beautiful corner kick by Landon Donovan - Mexico turned up the heat. Seven of Mexico’s nine shots came in the second half. The US defense held firm, however, with Jimmy Conrad playing a stellar all around game. Though US goalie Tim Howard had to come up big on two excellent chances, all other scoring opportunities were heavily hindered by the US defense. Our main problem was a lack of consistent flow through midfield. At times the service just wasn’t there for the forwards. When he got the ball, Bobby Convey stood out. His charges up the wing repeatedly confounded Mexico’s defense and he nearly put the US up by two goals in the 72nd minute. Close in to the keeper, he shot the ball right into Sanchez’s waiting arms. If Convey adds a defter touch to his game he could be one of the US’s deadliest players.

Philadelphia is one of the key stops on Galactic’s East Coast Run tour. The New Orleanian instrumental quintet--composed of Robert Mercurio on bass, Stanton Moore on drums, Jeff Raines on guitar, Rich Vogel on Hammond B3 organ and keyboards, and Ben Ellman on saxophone--will bring in its jazz/funk-infused music to the TLA on Thursday night. The band is one of the key acts from the recently announced New Orleans Jazz Fest line-up. So consider Thursday night a preview.

Update: Fixed a few typos and small factual errors, and added a more correct image credit. Thanks, Maria!

DJ Shadow - who's playing the TLA tonight - is not a band: he's a man. His name is no cutesy moniker, either; he's really a DJ. Thus his latest album, The Outsider (released last month), is not really an album: it's just a set of tracks he's helped compile and spin for us. From track to track, it's often hard to believe you're listening to the same CD; it sounds more like a very odd playlist or mixed tape. There's the fantasy movie epic spoken-word intro track, then the Frank Sinatra-style "This Time (I'm gonna try it my way)." Then all of the sudden we get some straight-up rap tracks featuring appearances by a number of San Francisco Bay Area hip hop musicians. The topics are typical: cruising for women, living the gangsta life. But then there's the catalog of political commentary/conspiracies that is "Seein Thangs," which seems to be leading into more of the same in "Broken Levee Blues," until that becomes more of a traditional blues/rock guitar instrumental, leading into a high-speed, beat-heavy dance rock instrumental ("Artifact"), leading into the incredible fusion of genres that is "Backstage Girl," an amusing story-song about some groupie nookie which drifts from blues to jazz to rock to hip hop to rap. Before you've recovered from that, it's time for a lovely string instrumental ("Triplicate / Something Happened That Day"), and then a handful of quite excellent contemporary pop rock tracks in the style of Radiohead and Coldplay ("The Tiger," "Erase You," "You Made It") with a weird but pleasant fantasy-spoken-word-folk-Enya-Legend-soundtrack kind of thing thrown in for good measure ("What Have I Done"), before finishing up with more rap and hip hop (including the inevitable remix of a previous track).

If you read Phillyist regularly (and if not, why not?), you're probably already aware that we're partial to both music and video games, so when the two come packaged together, we get rather excited. And that's just what's happening at a couple of upcoming shows at First Unitarian.

It's become cool to watch family slideshows, thanks to the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players. As we explained in our ticket giveaway post (congrats again to the winner, btw!), this band is a real family of three - which includes a talented twelve-year-old girl on drums - who add their own bouncy indie pop musical commentary to a live slideshow of real photos taken by other families and collected by the band at yard sales and the like. Sounds weird and fun to us, but if you're still confused about their style and their mission, just listen to the explanatory theme and various other songs playing on their ecard, check out their MySpace page, or read about them on the R5 Productions site. This seems like the kind of band you can't really enjoy to the fullest unless you see them live, so join us down at the First Unitarian Church tonight for their all ages show.

Though April showers may come your way, they bring the bloggers that post in May...

UPDATE: Oops. Yeah, this show is not tonight. Uh, heh heh. That's what happens when you put a post up too quickly, folks! Thanks to justin for pointing out our mistake.

While we try to get over the fact that the South St. bridge is so crappy it was damaged by rain, here's your roundup of what's going on in the Philly blogosphere:

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.

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!.

. The 4th Annual Philly Knit Out offers a chance for local craftsters to socialize, trade secrets, learn new skills, and even do some good.

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.