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Remember last week when we recommended grabbing one of the few remaining tickets to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Amanda Blank? Some of you lovely readers must have heeded our advice because the house was sold-out packed by the time YYY took the stage on Wednesday. If you didn't seize the opportunity when you had the chance—hate to say we told you so (no we don't) but you missed out big time, cause holy crap the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are great in concert. And if you tried to get in and couldn't, we are ever so sorry. Truly we are. We recommend consoling yourself with close-ups of Karen O in her glow-in-the-dark poncho and the recently released Heads Will Roll remix EP.

If you like It's Blitz!, the new record by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs as much as we do, you probably got your tickets to tonight's Electric Factory show long ago. If you didn't, we highly recommend you reconsider. With an album this good, and a reputation for an outrageously awesome live show, it's a can't miss. Have plans? Change 'em and snag one of the remaining tickets. You'll thank us later.

6. Pony, Celebration. Video here. Katrina Ford's crazy breathless stacatto chirping "I just want to be with you" over a sick bassline kicks this party into overdrive. Or maybe I just have a thing for anti-hero type female lead singers. Either way. It works.

Keep in mind that despite the "top ten" designation, these are in no particular order. Also, most of these bands have been around for a few years, but I only discovered them this year. And just a quick warning: I use some NSFW language in this post. So sue me.

Pterodactyl, besides being one of our favorite dinosaurs, is also a pretty kick-ass noise rock trio out of Brooklyn. We've been listening to their self-titled release (which came out near the end of April), and although it's a bit uneven, its slight dips are compensated for by its soaring highs. By which we mean, it can occasionally drift so far into discordance that it's just annoying. But at other times it rocks your socks off. The insane, brutal drumming on "Polio" (one of the album's two really stand-out tracks, along with "Astros") is worth the price of admission alone.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we'll be posting events that are going on sale during the current week. This Tuesday post only collects the early announcements, so definitely check back on Thursday for the latest ticket news.

Spider-Man 3 Giveaway
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Bands I Caught: The Bad News Bats, The Northern Liberties, The Mountain High, The Lowbudgets

I can't believe this year is over. It has come and gone in a haze of concerts, martinis, deadlines, endings, beginnings, highs and lows.

Philly-based international retailer Urban Outfitters and indie music publication Filter Magazine have banded together to release the third Give.Listen.Help. benefit CD. The CD will be sold exclusively at the 95 Urban Outfitter retail locations nationally, as well as on their website. $8.99 of the $9.99 cost of the CD will be donated to the Komen Foundation (as long as you buy it between now and March 15th of next year), where the money will be...

Be Your Own Pet are endorsed by Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore's label is putting out their records), which is practically enough right there to make us like them. But it turns out their music is good, too! As R5 Productions says, they sound like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs when the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were still good. Crazy, brutal rock with a lead singer who even sounds a bit like Karen O. But they rock in their own right, delivering pure, full volume, head-banging thrash music. And they're playing the First Unitarian tonight at 7:30PM with the very '60s retro rock Black Lips (whose live show is apparently crazy wild, involving violence, nudity, arson, and flying bodily fluids - so be warned!) and "demented and manic" local band Clockcleaner. Doesn't sound like an appropriate group of bands for an all ages show in a church, but...whatever! Rock and roll!!!

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers.

The alt-punk NYC sensation the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who were exploding out all over the place even before the release, in 2003, of their first full-length album Fever to Tell, featuring the incredible (and incredibly over-played) single "Maps," have been pretty much invisible for the past few years, but are back now and touring behind a brand new album: Show Your Bones. On the first listen, Phillyist was a little disappointed by "Gold Lion," the first single released off the disc. It sounded like maybe the Yeah Yeah Yeahs had lost the harsh, bitter edge that made them so interesting. Subsequent listens have warmed us to the song a bit more, and we've come to rather enjoy its catchy indie pop sound. Still, it doesn't seem anywhere near as sexy and powerful as anything on their last album.