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LISTINGS@CITYPAPER.NET | JAN. 30 - FEB. 5
[ between a stray warm front and the polar vortex ]
COMMANAUTS: Pittsburgh band Run, Forever plays Golden Tea House tonight.
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THURSDAY
1.30 [ electronic ]
✚ RYAN HEMSWORTH Maybe it’s a Canadian thing. Ryan Hemsworth — the 23-year-old Halifax native who gained attention with bootleg reworks of Grimes and
Frank Ocean and “cloud-rap” beats for artists like Deniro Farrar and Main Attraktionz — gives off a decidedly unassuming, personable vibe. For instance: How many hip-hop or electronic producers operate under their unadorned given name? His solo debut fulllength, last year’s Guilt Trips (Last Gang), connected the musical dots between dreamy bleep-pop, synth-addled R&B and the barbed, thuggish percussion antics of trap, with vocal guests ranging from Kitty to Baths to Disclosure affiliate Sinead Hartnett. You can hear the affability in his lush, laid-back grooves, and you’ve gotta imagine it helps him seal the deal on improbable juxtapositions, like convincing the potty-mouthed Angel Haze to spit over his Cat Power remix. Meanwhile, Hemsworth’s recent holiday season download offering, YANPACKv.1, brought his
ear for detail and distinctive recombinant gifts to bear on the typically moribund realm of MP3 mash-ups, brokering virtual introductions between Beyoncé and the Notwist, R. Kelly and Yann Tiersen, while putting Danny Brown in a kawaii-style “Kush Coma.” —K. Ross Hoffman Thu, Jan. 30, 8 p.m., $10, with Noah Breakfast and Chits, Dolphin Tavern, 1539 S. Broad St., 215-278-7950, thedolphinphilly.com.
[ punk/rock ]
wherever there’s a floor to crash on. Run, Forever is one of those bands, their scrappy urgency is written right there in their moniker and spelled out by vocalist Anthony Heubel’s passionate, unrefined delivery. “Press my skin on the cold cement/ Watching satellites from the driveway float over my head,” Heubel sings on “Lost the Feeling,” from their new split with fellow yinzers Adventures (also on Thursday’s bill), sounding like the sky is falling. —Marc Snitzer
✚ RUN, FOREVER Pittsburgh’s not so bad. Their pastrami sandwiches are big. Their museums are neat. And recently, Pittsburgh has been catching up with Philly and Scranton in the realm of producing solid D.I.Y. bands — the kind whose tour schedules primarily revolve around basements, living rooms and
Thu., Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m., $7 donation, with Adventures, Nona and Smoother, Golden Tea House.
[ theater ]
✚ GRIMMS’ JUNIPER TREE The Renegade Company (Fringe hit Bathtub MobyDick) takes on the Brothers
Grimm in James Stover’s new adaptation, which, while based on the little-known titular fairy tale about a boy punished by his wicked stepmother, also incorporates Hansel and Gretel and other Grimm stories, all with a modern spin. Director Michael Durkin’s production takes inspiration from the Mütter Museum’s “Grimms’ Anatomy” exhibition. Moreover, through its “Unconventional Community Collaborations” program, Renegade partners with Northern Liberties’ Random Tea Room & Curiosity Shop, adding a unique sensory experience with a custom tea blend incorporated into the show. Renegade promises to explore the often disturbingly grotesque — stranger danger, witches who want to cook kids — with a contemporary edge and no Disney-fication. In short, while these fairy tales are about and for children, the recommended age for this play
is 13 and up. —Mark Cofta Through Feb. 8, $20, First Presbyterian Church, 201 S. 21st St., 570-236-5436, therenegadecompany.org.
[ theater ]
✚ THE ROOM NOBODY KNOWS FringeArts’ still-developing home on Columbus Boulevard means it can deliver internationally known avant-garde performance-art companies like Niwa Gekidan Penino (“the garden theater company,” in Japanese) to Philadelphia any time of the year, not just during the September festival. Psychiatrist-turnedplaywright and director Kuro Tanino’s semi-autobiographical fever dream of a performance, which has toured Europe, focuses on brothers who share a mysterious apartment. Performed in Japanese
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