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Friday night marked my third time seeing The New Pornographers, and as I've come to expect, they totally rocked the house. After a fantastic set by Immaculate Machine and a really solid set by Emma Pollock (whose album, , has been on pretty frequent rotation on my work computer), they took the stage, ready to perform to a sold-out crowd at The Trocadero.

Our love affair with The New Pornographers began when we were still in high school and heard "My Slow Descent into Alcoholism" for the first time. We couldn't relate then (maybe we can a little now), but we knew we liked it. It was bouncy and fun and like nothing we'd ever heard before.

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If you follow Philly music, last spring you probably heard about a great alt-country band called One Star Hotel who broke up after opening for Wilco on a European tour. You may also have heard about how OSH’s front man and lyricist, Steve Yutzy-Burkey, started a new band with his wife Krista (keys & vox), former OSH bandmate Rick Sieber (bass), and Scott French (drums). You might have heard that the band was called The Swimmers, and was based on the stunning John Cheever short story, “The Swimmer.” In a matter of weeks they became one of the most hotly anticipated bands of the spring, garnering even more buzz after their first show at the Khyber in April 2006. And if you’re really up on your music gossip, you know that they had secret fans all over the city, waiting and panting all through the globally-warmed fall after The Swimmers were forced into hiatus while Krista recovered from an emergency spinal surgery.

The New Pornographers bring Twin Cinema and the sketchy Neko Case to the Trocadero tonight for one of those rock concert things. No word on whether or not David Cross will be there to boo Case. (Go read the latest issue of MAGNET, kids.)