Help Us Stop The Madness!

Philadelphia live music is being put at risk! A new bill, (Bill No. 100267), being introduced by City Councilmen Darrell Clarke and Bill Greenlee, will literally change the face of the Philly live music scene as we know it. You can read the actual bill here http://webapps.phila.gov/council/attachments/10044.pdf.

Basically the bill would require all show promoters to apply for a permit with the Philadelphia police 30 days before each show. Think of the shear number of permits that would be for places that have nightly or even weekly live shows. The permit would include detailed information about the event including security measures, expected turnout, business license number, even a copy of the contract between promoters and performers.

As you can see this would be devastating for promoters. It would put an end to last minute shows, changes in line-ups, changes in venue and hinder shows as non-profit events.

What’s really scary is that police can deny a permit up until 10 days before an event for whatever reason they see fit.

So as you can see, we need your help in getting the word out about this bill. You can make yourself heard by writing to the city council. PhillyMetal.com has a simple form you can fill out to send a protest e-mail to City Council President Anna Verna and the Councilmen who introduced the bill, Darrell Clarke and Bill Greenlee. http://phillymetal.com/protest/ .

Or you can sign the protest here http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/bill100267/

Here is a link to The City Papers article about the bill http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/05/13/a-million-stories

Thanks for your help! Spread the word.

Blur’s Free Download

Download Blur’s new track “Fool’s Day” for free from their site. http://www.blur.co.uk/

The track is a modern take on the classic Blur sound and feel. Recorded for limited edition sale on vinyl in the UK. It’s now available here for your listening pleasure!

For Your Ears

Your ears deserve a treat.  Our good friends, Banned Books are playing this Sat. May 15th with none other than Grand Buffet.  So, come out to Danger! Danger! Gallery 8:00pm and support awesome music.

The Dead Weather’s Sea of Cowards

I am so excited for this album! Listen free to Sea of Cowards today only (April 30th). It’s streamming all day click here to listen.

Do That Do This

Friends, Fans, Hipsters, Music Lovers,

This Saturday the Philly indie, lo-fi band, Creepoid will be playing with Kurt Vile!  This is going to be an awesome show that you will regret missing, if you miss it!  So, don’t be a square and go listen to fuzzy, dreamy, rockin’ tunes!

4/17/2010 4:00 PM at @Beautiful World Syndicate Records (RECORD STORE DAY) KURT VILE/ CREEPOID

Also, stay tuned for an interview with Creepoid!

Things I Think You Should See

4/2-Making Time-Girls/ The Dum Dum Girls@ Voyeur

4/2- Major Lazer (Diplo), Rusko, Sleigh Bells@ Starlight Ballroom

4/3-Best Coast/Reading Rainbow/Creepoid@ The Barbary

4/5- Florence And The Machine/Holy Hail@ TLA

4/6-Serena Maneesh/The Depreciation Child@ KFN

4/13- Xui Xui@ The First Unitarian Church

4/15Titus Andronicus/The Babies@ The Barbary

4/14-Orbit To Leslie/ Caves, Da Comrade!, Kite Party@Johnny Brendas

4/15-The Thermals /Past Lives/Coathangers@ The First Unitarian Church

4/16-Liars/Fol Chen@ The First Unitarian Church

4/18-Real Estate/ The Beets/Family Portrait@ The Barbary

4/22-Architects@ The First Unitarian Church

4/25-Echo And The Bunnymen@ The Keswick Theater

4/25-Earth Crisis/ First Blood/Think As Blood@ The Barbary

4/25-Think About Life@ Johnny Brendas

4/30-Thursday/Converge/Touche Amore/Lewd Acts@ The Troc

Kill Me In The Face Any Day!

Loyal readers,

Philly’s own, Kill You in the Face is having a radical show on Sunday Feb. 28th at Kung Fu Necktie!  They are playing with Twin Thousands (Gretta Cohn from Cursive’s new band)!  It is sure to be KILLER show.  So, don’t miss it or I’ll kill you…in the face!  Click here for tickets!

What’s Going on?

Philadelphia has an amazing amount of fantastic live shows coming our way in the next couple of months. Scroll down to find a comprehensive list of our favorite event calendars for around the area.

We wanted to highlight some notable shows coming up.

Kurt Vile and The Violators Philadelphia’s favorite long haired lo-fi experimentalists are playing Wednesday, February 17 at

TheBarbary with Fucked Up: hardcore punk at it’s best.

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Mission of Burma may be old but they are still ridiculously good and pretty much historical figures when it comes to rock as we know it.  Mission of Burma should be on everyone’s bucket list. They will be at The Church Thursday, February 18 with Sleeper Agent.

St. Vincent will be bringing her painfully pretty songs to a seated sanctuary show at The Church Thursday, February 25 with Wildbirds and Peacedrums who also put on a spectacular show.

We are all about Surfer Blood right now! They will be playing The Barbary Monday, March 1. They bring their warm weather, 1990’s pop sounds to our cold, modern, Philadelphia ears.

Rouge Wave will be putting on a seated Sanctuary show at The Church Thursday, March 4, full of harmony, melodies, and choruses to sing to. It’s goose pimple music.

Our muse, namesake  and favorite showmen ever, Man Man, are doing a long overdue hometown Philadelphia show. Oh how we’ve missed them. No more crossing state lines for our fix! They will be debuting new songs galore at the their Troc show on March 5.

Henry Rollins?! Yep, really Henry Rollins is coming to the Sanctuary Thursday, March 11. Sounds nuts but it’s true. The Church is just one of many stops he is making on his Frequent Flyer Tour.

The Ruby Suns invoke big sunglasses, psychedelic swirls, and songs like “Let the Sunshine In“. Check out their 6-piece band at Kung Fu Necktie with Toro Y Moi and Power Animal, Philly’s own experimental wonders on Thursday, March 25.

The xx is sold out and we don’t have tickets and I am pretty much too mad to even comment on this one. If your going and want to do a review or interview for us, e-mail me at andrea@hipsterseatforfree.com The show is at The Church Monday, March 29. We will probably be there begging for tickets.

Fanfarlo is the kind of indie pop that can take over. It sticks around a while and the pay off is more then instant grat. The show is Wednesday, March 31 at The Church. I am guessing this one will sell out.

The forefathers of indie rock Nada Surf will be playing at The Church Thursday April 1. If you haven’t been paying attention since the 90’s, it’s time to see just how much perfection these guys put out this decade.

The Thermals will be giving us an excuse to jump around like madwomen in what is sure to be a sweaty packed Church on Thursday, April 15.

Check out other event calendars here:

• R5 Productions Event Calendar
• The Electric Factory
• Kung Fu Nectie
• Johnny Brenda’s
• Y-Rock
• Tritone
• The Trocadero
• World Cafe Live
• Phrequency

Events

NOV

11.1 King Kahn BBQ/ Dum Dum Girls/ Teenage Whore Moans KFN Click for Tix

11.1 Gil Mantera’s Party Dreams/ Sweatheart/ Pony Pants JB Click for Tix

11.3 Islands/ Jemina Pearl/ Toro Y Moi FUC Click for Tix

11.3 The Very Best/ Javelin JB Click for Tix

11.3 Fuck Buttons/ Growing KFN Click for Tix

11.4 Girls/ Real Estate KFN Click for Tix

11.5 Pete Yorn with Alberta Cross EF Click for Tix

11.5 The Get Up Kids/ Kevin Devine/ The Life and Times TROC Click for Tix

11.7 Comeback Kid/ Mother of Mercy/ Grave Maker/ Dead Swans FUC Click for Tix

11.8 The Extraordinaires/ Dangerous Ponies/ Kill You In The Face/ Lux Perpetua KFN Click for Tix

11.18 Bishop Allen/ Throw Me The Statue/ Darwin Deez JB Click for Tix

11.18 The Jesus Lizard/ Noveller SB Click for Tix

11.20 Buffalo Stance KFN Click for Tix

11.24 Devandra Banhart with Luke Rathborne EF EF Click for Tix

11.27 The Disco Biscuits with SOJA EF EF Click for Tix

11.28 Jay Reatard/ 2 more TBA JB Click for Tix

DEC

12.4 Land Of Talk KFN Click for Tix

12.4 Ghostland Observatory TROC Click for Tix

12.6 Negative Approach/ Blacklisted FUC Click for Tix

12.10 Fanfarlo/ 1 more TBA JB Click for Tix

Johnny Brenda’s- JB

Kung Fu Necktie- KFN

Trocadero- TROC

Starlight Ballroom- SB

Electric Factory- EF

First Unitarian Church- FUC

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