The Run Down - Wednesday April 16, 2008

Good ole hump day seems to be providing some good middle of the week acts. The 9:30 club has Grand Ole Party and Rogue Wave, The Khyber has The Epochs and Lightning Bugs, while the North Star Bar has Tally Hall and The Republic Tigers.

mp3: Grand Ole Party - Nasty Habits --> website --> buy
mp3: Rogue Wave - Nourishment Nation --> website --> buy
mp3: The Epochs - Collision (TheDeathSet) --> website --> buy
mp3: The Republic Tigers - Weatherbeaten --> website --> buy

The Run Down - Tuesday April 15, 2008

TAX DAY!!! Argghhh! If you want to unwind after this trying day then head on up to the First Unitarian Church in Philly to see Grand Ole Party, Rogue Wave, and Evangelista. Or maybe you have tickets to the sold out 9:30 club show of The New Pornographers and Okkervil River. If so, enjoy!

mp3: Grand Ole Party - Look Out Young Son --> website --> buy
mp3: Rogue Wave - Bird On A Wire --> website --> buy
mp3: The New Pornographers - Streets Of Fire --> website --> buy
mp3: Okkervil River - War Criminal --> website --> buy

Must See Monday

I know Heroes is on tonight, but there are some good shows around the area. In DC Rogue Wave, Bodies of Water, Port O'Brien, and Phosphorescent play the Black Cat. Anybody who saw Rogue Wave open up for Nada Surf last year in Baltimore knows this will be a great show. Also The Warlocks play the Rock and Roll Hotel with Darker My Love. Enjoy yourself then come home and watch heroes on Tivo or the internet or not at all.

Rogue Wave - Seconds (U2 cover).mp3 --> website --> buy
Bodies Of Water - Doves Circle The Sky.mp3 --> website --> buy
The Warlocks - So Paranoid.mp3 --> website --> buy

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Monday Mystery Tour is on a temporary hiatus, but here is the solution from last week.

Black Fiction - Disease.mp3
The Arcade Fire - My Body Is A Cage.mp3
Bob Dylan - Ballad Of A Thin Man.mp3
Cadence Weapon - Holy Smoke.mp3
The Anniversary - Sweet Marie.mp3

Toofer Toosday #2

Here's more music floating around my vast database of sound.

Rogue Wave - Lake Michigan

Wax Tailor - Positively Inclined feat. Marina Quaisse

The first one is off of Rogue Wave's newly released "Asleep at Heavens Gate". Pretty much everything these guys produce is fantastic, so don't hesitate to pick this one up. They also have a completely change of pace cover of the Pixies' "Debaser" available to stream on their site.

The second is from a french dj Wax Tailor. I picked up a couple albums of his on Emusic. Most is standard trip hop. Not bad, but over time it could fade in my music library. There are some stand outs like Positively Inclined that make getting these albums worthwhile. If you can read french you should check out his myspace page.