Norwegian Arms @ Johnny Brenda’s Tonight!
Our globetrotting columnist Brendan Mulvihill, aka Keith Birthday, will be playing this evening at Johnny Brenda’s as part of his band Norwegian Arms. They’ll be playing alongside Nik Freitas and Avi Buffalo.
Read Brendan’s story about singing and drinking with nomads in Russia from the summer issue of JUMP here.
In the fall issue, available on September 6, find Brendan’s story about a guitar maker in Ecuador.
Summer Jam: City Rain (@The North Star on Thursday).
Our friends from City Rain will be performing on Thursday at the North Star Bar with The Canon Logic, Sleeper Agent and Run to Sandy.
Check them out. There’s a good chance they will be barely clothed by the end of the night. And learn more about the band from our story in the summer issue of JUMP.
Excited (And a Little Scared) by These Promo Videos.
Not sure what to make of either of these event promo videos. Above is a teaser for the Mad Decent Block Party on August 6. Below is a video from Girl Talk, who will be performing at the Popped! Music Festival on September 24.If you’re looking for something to do sooner, check out the 2nd Street Festival in Northern Liberties on Sunday, July 31. It’s free (like the Mad Decent party).
Turning violet Violet, whom we profiled in the summer issue of JUMP, will do an acoustic performance at the JUMP mag launch party on November 16 at Temple University’s Paley Library. We’ll announce details as the date nears.
Thursday Night: Reading Rainbow & Creepoid at Johnny Brenda’s for the Vox Populi Benefit.
This will be a great show: Reading Rainbow, Creepoid, Gunn-Truscinski Duo & Dan Murphy of Megawords will perform at Johnny Brenda’s … for only $10. Go to the show and support Vox Populi Gallery!
Learn more about Reading Rainbow here – they were the cover story for our summer issue. We also profiled Creepoid in that issue.
(By the way, the dude who shot the above video actually taped the whole set. You can find all the videos here).
Summer Jam: Sun Airway’s “Symphony in White, No. 2.”
Check out the new video of Sun Airway, the cover band from our premiere issue, filmed at the Church last month.
The video was shot and produced by the Northern Liberties-based crew at klip collective. Pitchfork gave them a nod last week.
Summer Jam: Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies.
Check out the new song and video by Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies. The video was shot entirely on Steve’s cell phone, all around town.
The single is from the band’s forthcoming 5-song EP, for which they are raising funds for to finish the post-production.
Thursday: June Divided @ The TLA.
On Thursday evening, our friends from June Divided will be playing at the TLA alongside 100 Monkeys, Bleeding Horse Express and Kissing Club.
Check out our story about June Divided from the summer issue of JUMP. And go support local music!
A Few More Things We’re Kind of Excited About …
September will be huge for Philly’s music scene.
The Popped! music festival will take place on September 23 and 24, with Patty Crash and Girl Talk (above) performing, among many other great acts (like The Shins, Yuck, Rakim, Cults, etc). Single day tickets go on sale on Friday. And find our profile of Patty Crash in the fall issue of JUMP, which will be available on September 6.
That same weekend will be the Philadelphia Film & Music Fest (actually running from September 22 through the 25th). Among the amazing acts will be Descendents, Neutral Uke Hotel, Hezekiah Jones, The Suicide Machines, DEADMAU5, Buried Beds, Good Old War and many, many others.
There are also several other music festivals and events, details of which will be in the fall issue of JUMP.
JUMP: The Philly Music Project 