Artist: weekend warriors

OK - it's getting hot, and it's Memorial Day Weekend so you know that summer has arrived. For all those who are smart enough to avoid the massive crowds at the shore and stay home this weekend, we applaud your intelligence, and hope that you procreate to strengthen our society's gene pool. We'd also like to hang with you this Saturday in the daytime at The Fire for a FREE day of music that we'll be co-presenting with Cloud Entertainment as part of the 2nd Annual Sundrop Music & Arts Fest. Providing tomorrow's summer jams will be Tutlie , [...]

Making Time is celebrating their 12th Anniversary tonight at Voyeur with Kindness, which is rather apropo! Dave P and crew have certainly shown it to the Philly indie music scene with all their hard work bringing the radness week after week, month after month. (Yes, if you've ever put together an event an eighth of the size of some of the ones that they have pulled off over the years, then you should know that it is definitely hard work.) Come out this evening and have a toast with the Making Time crew (it's on them, PBR [...]

In honor of Philadelphia Local Music Day this Saturday, we just want you to go out and check out some local acts this weekend. There are plenty to choose from below, and a bunch of them are free so you really don't have any excuses. And remember to swing by R5's Punk Rock Flea Market . Cheers! Other local acts to entertain you this weekend... The Rocket Cat (2001 N. [...]

OK, it's Cinco de Mayo this Saturday, and there will also be a supermoon so you already have your excuses to go crazy. Well, why don't you do it for a good cause? We know of a couple that you should support, and they'll be having bashes with plenty of music for you to get "crazy with the cheese whiz." Neighborhood Bike Works (NBW), a nonprofit organization that seeks to create educational, recreational, and career-building opportunities for urban youth through bicycling, are having their second annual bike racing event called The Works, Vol. II, which will also come [...]

Tonight Maggot House is hosting a packed bill to raise funds for Calcutta House (located at 16th and Girard Ave.), a clinic that provides housing, daily medical care, and social services to homeless (or soon to be homeless) men and women suffering from AIDS. The list of generous artists donating their time and talents are Kite Party , Norwegian Arms , Netherfriends , Little Light , New Atlantic Youth, Incorporated Village of Ghost, Secret Fort , Kiddomarink , and Adam McIllwee. For those who arrive between 6pm - 7:30pm and are 21+, [...]

Yes, it's 4/20, and while you don't really need a holiday to get us to puff any herbage, it's nice to know people all around the world are getting blazed too. There is a ton of stuff going on this weekend, but you really should join us this evening at PhilaMOCA when The Deli Presents "Music Madness" with the sweet countrified, bluesy sounds of Levee Drivers , San Francisco's Dirty Ghosts (Lost Gang Records featuring members from Blackalicious, John Vanderslice, Parchman Farm, etc.), local psych rockers The Peace Creeps , and multi-instrumentalist Barrett Lindgren's Ghost [...]

Come check out the Data Garden: Quartet installation that will be going on all weekend in the Megawords exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art - tropical plants and you making electronic music (you bring your own drugs ;o)! If you missed our interview with the Data Garden crew yesterday, you can read it HERE . Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th St. Benjamin Franklin Parkway, (FRI - SUN) 10am - 5pm (Also open for Art After 5), $16 adults (65+: $14, 13 - 18: $12, 12 & under: Free), All Ages [...]

If you are looking for something to do this weekend that simply ROCKS, then Phonographic Arts ' Liberty Fest has got you covered. The DIY festival will be hosting 30+ predominantly garage-psych-rock and hardcore-punk acts at The Level Room and Emoda Gallery. It's going to be intense! Will you survive this weekend? Maybe. We hope. But you'll have the scars and bruises to prove that you were there so wear them with honor. You can check out the full lineup on the flier above as well as a list of the fine locals below. [...]

There's nothing we dislike more at the Deli than when a rad local band is playing a show that's sold out. Sure, we're totally happy for the band but it's a bummer for anyone who wants to catch their act. That's the case with Bleeding Rainbow (the artist formerly known as Reading Rainbow). They're opening for Cleveland's Cloud Nothings tonight at Johnny Brenda's, and if you're sans a ticket, you're sadly out of luck because it's, not surprisingly, sold out. But if you're one of those lucky ones, then you're in for a treat. Back from their badass [...]

Oh, Dr. Dog , how we've missed you while you were on tour in support of your new album for ANTI-, Be The Void. Sure, you needed to spread around its fantastic, bellowing, melodically mincing 12 tracks, but you were gone for far too long. At least, now we have you back for a little homecoming at the Electric Factory this weekend - a sold out show tomorrow with openers Purling Hiss , who, if you remember, is a total "raging erection of rock 'n' roll," and one on Sunday with openers Birds of Maya [...]

We are sad to hear that this Saturday's show at MilkBoy Philly will be the last one for New Motels . We've always been fans of the Jenkintown four-piece. They headlined the very first Deli Philly showcase that we put together at Johnny Brenda's so we certainly have a warm spot for them. Come out and send them off proper, and hopefully we'll get to hear classic beauties like "Modern Thinker," "Drama of the Hollywood Scene," and "West Coast Brawl" for one last sing-along. New Motels will also be joined by Lightninging and Left of Logic [...]

I'm gonna cut right to the chase: The reason you should go see Far-Out Fangtooth at The Station tonight, aside from the smashing freak-garage delirium that is their music, is that it's their last show in Philly before they head to SXSW ( again ). To even miss their sludgy, wicked phantasmic fury while it's in your own backyard is nothing short of a sin, really. And buying their upcoming 7-inch for Hozac Records won't even make up for it (although, you know, totally buy it 'coz if you don't, that's a double sin). Plus, they're sharing the [...]

If you are looking for something interesting off the beaten path of Philly music venues, then I suggest that you swing by the Philadelphia Museum of Art tonight for their Art After 5 event. This evening will feature Adventuredrum , a 15-piece drum ensemble creating music that is a cross between Afrobeat and disco. The project was brought together by Christopher Powell a.k.a. Pow Pow ( Man Man , Icy Demons , etc.), and will consist of rad drummers from our local music community like Chris Ward ( Pattern Is Movement ), Jason Kourkounis ( Bardo Pond ), [...]

After getting shutdown early by the pigs last year at the OX, it is exciting to see Two Piece Fest back a fifth year for not just one but two days/nights (Saturday & Sunday). This time it will be in a more legal spot at The Rotunda so hopefully Philly's not-so-finest won't have a reason to bust this one up. (But you never know - having too much fun is kind of against the law in most U.S. states.) Well, don't let that stop you from attending the all ages event in West Philly with nearly 40 bands! [...]

The Fire has been heating things up with its annual Northern Liberties Winter Music Festival this week. But this Saturday they'll be hosting a jam-packed lineup of local favorites. From delivering a homage to Philly sports at The Blockley, to doing an A Team tribute that featured not one but two Mr. Ts during our Halloween party at PhilaMOCA, to performing an all out Holiday Revue at Kung Fu Necktie, The Extraordinaires have showcased their ability to deliver some of the most unique performances ever. And they'll get a chance to show why they earned a spot as [...]

Our Weekend Warrior pick probably doesn't need any more promotion, but this is just a heads up to our readers to get to PhilaMOCA early tonight so that you don't get shut out. Nashville's JEFF the Brotherhood are in town, and they'll be supported by locals The Bad Doctors , Hound (a new project from Perry Shall of Dry Feet ), and Push Ups . You've been warned! PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 8pm, $8, All Ages - Alexis V. Other weekend activities... [...]

Break ups are hard (duh). There's always more emotion than expected and, if you're on the receiving end, you're left battling snot-filled nights of Jim Beam and self-loathing. It takes a toll (duh-twice). But - and this is an ancient secret - there are more productive ways to get over that stab in the heart. Just take a cue from local outfit White Birds (ex- Drink Up Buttercup ), whose upcoming LP, When Women Played Drums, is a therapy session sifting through the post-relationship debris (it drops on Valentine's Day, as a "fuck you" to the [...]

If there is one thing to adore about Ape School , it's Michael Johnson's unpredictability. In one instant, he'll throw you moments of poppy synth-psych fuzz that's made its way through a chunky shoegaze meat grinder. The next, you could be caressed by bittersweet, cloudy ambiance, like on his latest single, "Beneficiary (Don't Blame Me)." And then he may completely surprise you with a dark, rockin' set, like the one he played at the recent Union Transfer show with the War on Drugs . On paper, it may seem frantic, but in sonic art form, it's seriously enjoyable. [...]

Purling Hiss is a raging erection of rock 'n' roll - of pissed jeans, whiskey teeth and stoner garage that slithers, shakes and convulses in a bright fury of heavy groove. You can say it's what you'd expect from someone (and by someone, I mean Purling Hiss' mastermind, Mike Polizze) who spends time in Birds of Maya and chills with Kurt Vile , but, in Purling Hiss, Polizze stands on his own, digging his heels and making his own graphic mark (if anything, their releases - self-titled Purling Hiss (Permanent Records), Hissteria [...]

Phonographic Arts are hosting a local's only show full of gothic/post-punk influenced psychedelic noise this Sunday night at their new home and a new favorite hangout of ours, The Level Room. Starting the night off will be dark/bluesy punks Latern , followed by the noisy psych rock of Harsh Vibes . Headlining the night's bill will be the psychedelic post-punk of Far-Out Fangtooth , who had a break out year in 2011 on the heels of their well-received debut LP, Pure & Disinterested via Siltbreeze. The record found the group expanding their sound from [...]