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Friday June 13th 6:30pm

Love Is All
One of those "Best New Music" Pitchfork bands ! These guys actually deserve and deliver all the hype. Hailing from Sweden, Love Is All work cos they know their snags-- shitty equipment, love-lyrical cliché, inevitable Life Without Buildings, Orange Juice, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs comparisons-- but speed headlong into them regardless. As a result they turn lo-fi from a ho-hum excuse into an asset, making listeners respond not to an affected imperfection or lack of precision but to their passion.

Public Record
Instrumental Philly band in this crazy hybrid of Factory Records clackity British funk, old soul dance 45s and Balkan boogie a la early Camper Van Beethoven.

At The Barbary
951 Frankford Ave (At Frankford and Columbus Blvd)
Philadelphia, PA
$10 / All Ages

Saturday June 14th 6:30pm

Tullycraft
Woah! Holy rare live show. Tullycraft was born out of the ashes of two Harriet Records cult bands: Crayon and Wimp Factor 14. Sean Tollefson, Jeff Fell (both of Crayon), and Gary Miklusek (Wimp Factor 14) hooked up in 1995. Soon after, they recorded a batch of songs with Pat Maley at YoYo Studios in Olympia, WA. Out of that first session came the debut single on Harriet Records and an instant indie pop classic - "Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's too Stupid to Know About". In 1996 they released their full length debut "Old Traditions, New Standards" on Harriet Records. hey then cemented their cult status by endless touring all over the United States, playing everywhere from house shows to universities, nightclubs to supermarket grand openings. After a few singles and another album - Tullycraft toured the U.S. one and a half more times and then took an extended break from playing live and recording. The time that followed saw the band mostly on hiatus - only playing festivals, Popfests, and the occasional YoYo-a-GoGo. Gary Miklusek (a founding member) left the band in 1999. At this point Tullycraft's fate was up in the air. After a long hiatus (recording and playing live) - they released their fourth proper full length which surpassed all expectations.

Scary Monster
Philly indie pop featuring ex-Snow Faires members! New CD out soon!

Surefire Broadcast
New Jersey-based trio that mixes indie pop and shoegaze under male/ female vocals.

At The Barbary
951 Frankford Ave (At Frankford and Columbus Blvd)
Philadelphia, PA
$10 / All Ages

Friday June 20th 6:30pm *Early All Ages Show*

Maria Taylor
From glistening piano pop to melancholy acoustic gems, Maria Taylor has come into her own as a solo artist. Having grown up in a house full of musicians, Maria Taylor first gave the masses a taste of her gorgeous, mellifluous voice in the band Azure Ray. In 2005, Maria branched out on her own with a critically-acclaimed album, entitled 11:11, which established her as a master story teller with a flare for perfect, harmony-soaked melodies. With her new album, Lynn Teeter Flower, she takes her songcraft one step further, mixing together soaring guitars, bubbly electronics, feathery farfisa organs and sugary layers of vocals into the sweetest confection of an album you'll hear all year. Saddle Creek recordS.

Johnathan Rice
He's just barely turned 24, but Jonathan Rice seems to have some stuff figured out for himself: major label deal, fancy friends, lauds from R.E.M., an IMDB page, a tour with Gibbard and Bazan, and a relationship with Jenny Lewis (by comparison, think we had just about figured out how to log on to Movable Type by that age). And it's a mix-and-match of all of the above for the video of Jonathan's roots-pop single "We're All Stuck In The Desert"; got your major label budget, ample use of acting chops, Rilo Kileyers Blake Sennett and of course Jenny Lewis (in the backing band, driving the runaway car) Faye Runaway (one of the "Moneymaker" porn stars), and Winona Ryder (as a skinny reporter). No fair!

Nik Freitas
Easily likable, thoughtfully crafted disc of late-era Beatles inspired pop from Calif. Team Love Records.

At The Barbary
951 Frankford Ave (At Frankford and Columbus Blvd)
Philadelphia, PA
$10 / All Ages


Wednesday July 16th 6:30pm *Early All Ages Show*

The Dodos
Best New Music! Despite a stripped-down setup of just acoustic guitar and drums, this Bay Area duo hits with a full-band force that's even more pronounced in their astounding live sets. They have garnered comparisons such as Animal Collective and new-primitivist bands like High Places and Yeasayer, but here, addictive hooks lurk beneath the rhymthic surface, resulting in one of the most welcoming (and welcome) records of 2008 We love when every once in a while a band who truly deserves the hype and press, actually gets it. From the opening seconds of this record you can hear and feel that this is a record that they poured all of themselves into. Their is an immediacy and urgency in Visiter that draws you right in and makes you want to listen again and again. San Francisco. French Kiss Records.

Two More TBA

At The Barbary
951 Frankford Ave (At Frankford and Columbus Blvd)
Philadelphia, PA
$10 / All Ages


Saturday July 19th 6:30pm *Early All Ages Show*

Black Dice
It seems that art world darlings Black Dice have abandoned their super spastic noise assaults in favor of a more subtle, spacious, psychedelic approach, a path not unlike the one the Boredoms followed on the way to making "Super ae" and "Vision Creation Newsun." What happened? It's like someone set those responsible for "Cold Hands" loose in the forest with some shrooms, a couple Amon Duul records and a mission to get in touch with their primal selves. Black Dice makes me think of mustached cartoon men working underground in a futuristic metropolis where things like dancing and pressing certain colored buttons are verboten but everyone does it anyway because it feels so damn good. This record is workin' in the kind of coal mine Devo would dig if they did things like dig coal mines. They teeter precariously on the edge of hippy-dippydom, but Black Dice manages to pull off the jams while avoiding wanton self indulgence. Expansive, unexpected and awesome. DFA Records.


One More TBA

At The Barbary
951 Frankford Ave (At Frankford and Columbus Blvd)
Philadelphia, PA
$10 / All Ages

Sunday July 20th 6:30pm

The Death Set
Australia to Baltimore transplants The Death Set are a faster, poppier, punker and more straight forward Devo for 21st attention spans. Their debut Ep to is the giddiest wall bouncing sugar over dose that's come my way in some time going down like a mix of three balloons full of nitrous and three more o' helium. Sticky speedy spazzy songs defined by tuneful high-pitched screaming distorted guitars and casios blasting over rigid mechanical beats. It'll make you jump up and down and pound your head against the wall. Ninjatune Records.

The Mae Shi
Listener beware: If indie affectations such as tides of vocal harmonies, video game MIDI programming and Casio beats, concept albums, religious themes, or concept albums with religious themes give you ulcers, then The Mae Shi might sent you running to your nearest message board to brag about how many songs it took you to erase it from your hard drive. But for anyone who's followed the Mae Shi, their new album has to come as some sort of payoff. The band has quit cramming as many breakneck riffs as possible into each convulsive track, chilled the fuck out, and begun to focus on linear songs. More than that, the L.A. six-piece has finally made an album that matches their grand ambitions, one that weaves most of their songwriting tricks together with some new ideas, and manages to be listenable and cohesive. Team Shi Rceords.


One More TBA

At The Barbary
951 Frankford Ave (At Frankford and Columbus Blvd)
Philadelphia, PA
$10 / All Ages