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Sun., Sept. 9, 7 p.m., $25-$30, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 215-9259914, paintedbride.org.
—K. Ross Hoffman Mon., Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m., $15, with Soko, First Unitarian Side Chapel, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.
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✚ AZURE RAY
✚ JERRY GONZÁLEZ & EL COMANDO DE LA CLAVE
James Blake and Nicolas Jaar as inspirations and enlisting Fink’s husband, Todd, of the Faint, as their digital production advisor. This ain’t exactly Azure Ray go dubstep — as femme-tronica Rays go, it’s somewhere between a kid-sister Fever Ray and the sleepier bits of Ray of Light — nor is it, in truth, all that much of a departure, what with the duo’s hallmark warmth and lustrous,
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✚ SWEARIN’ The members of pop-punk fourpiece Swearin’ recently became official residents of Philadelphia; tonight’s their first local show. Much like Alkaline Trio’s classic album Goddamnit, Swearin’s new eponymous debut is a rollicking, jangly celebration of failure and disaster. Vocalist Allison Crutchfield (formerly of P.S. Eliot) seems
—Elliott Sharp Tue., Sept. 11, 7:30 p.m., $6, with Testament, Backslider, Vacation and the Holidays, Golden Tea House, facebook. com/goldenteahouse, contact for address.
[ rock/pop ]
✚ BOB MOULD As suggested by the many, many breakup songs he’s
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[ rock/pop ]
like the kind of person who awkwardly declared “I guess this is the end!” on her 21st birthday, knowing damn well that it was only the beginning of a life full of terrible trips, massive laughs, ripped shirts, bloody knees and the addictive, exuberant rush of wallowing in dissatisfaction. On much of the album, which sounds like an ideal companion to the Breeders’ Last Splash, Crutchfield tries to outrun her own mistakes (and the ghosts of jackass exes). “The bluer the water, the closer to hell,” she sings on “Hundreds and Thousands.” Because, well, you know, even vacation can be a fucking nightmare.
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For most of his career, trumpeter/conguero Jerry González was synonymous with the Bronx, his Fort Apache Band referencing the borough in name and in its blend of Latin and Afro-Cuban rhythms and vigorous modern jazz. After getting his start with Dizzy Gillespie, González had forged his sound through long stints with Tito Puente, McCoy Tyner and Jaco Pastorius before founding his long-running, groundbreaking band. But in 2000, his profile raised by the success of Fernando Trueba’s film Calle 54, González relocated to Spain, delved into the local flamenco culture, and gathered together a group of Madrid-based Cuban expats. He debuted his new quartet El Comando de la Clave in 2011 with a self-titled album that reinterpreted standards and jazz classics with a spine of rumba and flamenco. His sly sense of
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[ jazz ]
When Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor returned to recording together in 2010 following a seven-year hiatus, it was with nary a stylistic hiccup, reviving the wispy, gently folky dreampop they’d minted during their initial run without a hair out of place. But for their next trick — new six-tracker As Above So Below (Saddle Creek) — they decided to switch things up, citing neo-techno luminaries
[ the agenda ]
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Sat., Sept. 8, 2 p.m., free, Locust Moon, 34 S. 40 St., 267-403-2856, phillytoon.org.
—Shaun Brady
drowsy harmonies remaining front and center. But it is a smart and successful attempt at modest modernism; plausibly Blakean, even, though probably closer to a blissed-out, soft-focus Massive Attack.
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—Michael Blancato
reinvention can be found even in his titles, where a Disney fairy-tale classic can take on a new, gritty urban twist on “Someday My Prints Will Come (Back From the FBI).”
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book covers and just about everything else in dire need of a doodle. PCS is celebrating a new black-and-white comics anthology, Philadelphia Cartoonist Society Book 3: City of Lotherly Brove, whose release coincides with the group’s 15th anniversary. The afternoon festivities will include the activities PCS loves best: cartooning and BBQing.