Friday

• Art Opening at Jinxed with Issac Bushkin, Adam Weir (620 S. 4th)
• Partytrainsoldiers unite with [click] at Fluid. Free before 12. Free Colt while th 30 cases last. Oh yeah, special guest Switch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!11! (613 S. 4th)
• AD Lawless does it up big with Dev79 and crew at Khyber. Always Free. (52 S 2nd)
• Hip hop and you don't stop. Illy,Mental Sharp and more with Micronomics at Medusa (21st and chestnut)
• Sponsored by Pedestrian puts the final stamp of approval on this.

Saturday

• Mostly nothing new so pick an old favorite
• Big Rich Medina at Mojito. Be the 400th person and get hooked up with $100.
• Guestlist
• Bleached Black at Medusa
• Copywrite at the First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut)
• Illvibe with that hip hop at Arts Garage til late (15th and Parish)

Sunday

• Pete Moss at Sundae 3 -9 at Bubble House (34th and Sansom)

Full Details at 5151.

Friday

*Gravy Train, VIP, Gang and MC Digga - $10, 8 PM at the Church (22nd & chestnut)
o Did you read Casi G's post about the last time they played? I highly recommend it
o Gravy Train - Darque Tan
o Gravy Train - Hella Nervous
* Crew Love Brah! - White Tees + Seclusiasis + Philadelphyinz + BYOB + West Philly
o Reduced list: crewlovelist[at]gmail[dot]com
* Drum n bass at Transit

* Punk Rock Flea Market - 10 - 5 $3, Starlight ballroom, 9th and Spring Garden
* Artscape - Roadtrip to Baltimore to see Santogold, Vadim, Lupe Fiasco and Scottie B in just enough time to go to
* Roll Call - Emynd + Caps + Bo Bliz + Jones + KMass at M Room. Guestlist. get there early cause it gets crowded
* Mojito on the Moshulu - You know, ship, brendan on the beat in the back, percussion, latiny summery vibes.

Ongoing

* Summer sale at WTHN - 25% off Nike + T-shirts+ fitteds, 30% off Alife and Adidas, 40% off Vans (17 N. 3rd)

Links and download mp3s

I've dug up yet another Claude VonStroke mix. This one comes from July 2006, a bit old but I can't tell since I don't recognize most of the tracks. Its still banging though. Pick up tracks from VonStroke and others on his DirtyBird records from Beatport. Also, there is this party at this place that I may have mentioned once or twice.

Honestly I'm just excited that Fluid is 10 years old. Thats an eternity in club life. I've been going through clubs in my head and can't think of one that has been open the same amount of time. Transit is close but that nearly closed I don't know how many times. Places like Lounge 125 have gone through 4 or 5 incarnations at least in the past 10 years. SoMa use to be a cool spot for dancing but that was converted to Bar Named Sue then shut down. Medusa has been around for ~3 years and before that was a jazz club. Sals has been booking dj's for 1 - 2 years. 700 club has probably been open quite awhile but they never bring in outside talent. Pure used to be huge but under a different name. Skyline and 1516? (I think) used to kill it in Chinatown but have both been closed and leveled since like 98,99. Evolution on Delaware Ave. was big for awhile but is closed. There was Space but that only lasted a few years until it turned into Motion which lasted even shorter and is now vacant. M Room took over where Aqua Lounge left off. Shampoo I think is the only club still open and they've fell off. They barely bring in any big talent any more except if there is a Whistle there. Where else is there? Am I missing something on Delaware Avenue? I'm pretty sure most of those clubs have gone under an overhaul within the last 5 years. Whats your favorite place to listen to dance music now or in the past 10 years? Leave it in the comments.

* Claude Von Stroke - July 2006 Promo Mix

Claude VonStroke tonite at Fluid for the 10 year anniversary - $5 if on guestlist

Happy Friday the 13th! My favorite day of the year. Quite appropriate since its in October. Grand opening of Level this weekend is going to huge! Caps & Jones, Rod motherfukcing Lee, Juiceboxxx, Deluxxx, BBC. Can you tell I might be a little excited?

Friday

• Simpelfly jam in West Philly - Natural Selection
• $2 lagers until 11, free appetizers
• Unveiling of Bob's art piece, live art and Clayton & Fulcrum
• Philebrity Weekender party with the A-Sides at Midnite
• Libra loft party with Illvibe
• Click at Fluid or Hands and Knees at M Room?

Saturday

• No. Libs or West Philly?
• Philebrity Weekender Block party down the street from No. Libs Music and Flea Market Festival
• Kenneth Masters - Working Class Blues
• 13 more tracks from Philebrity bands all zipped up cause its getting cold
• Clark Park Flea Market
• Level / Room Grand opening with Rod Lee, Caps & Jones, Juiceboxxx, Deluxxx, BBC and more
• Caps n Jones have just released all sorts of mp3s on their site.
• 48 Minutes Of Funk Collab with Nick Catchdubs
• Boullibaise - Debut Mix - Track 1
• Moving In Stereo - Spin top 40 of 2005 - Track 1
• I'm not going to lie, there is other stuff going on, but I'm not going to mention it here. This is the number one pick for the weekend. This is how we do.

Sunday

• Scott Melker at Sundays are the New Black - $5 cover
• Just back from Japan, about to go on tour with G. Love & Special Sauce, one half of DJ duo The CMB with Cosmo Baker, guest dj at Ruboween.
• No fluff here, just great DJ's, week after week after week...

Full info and downloadable mp3's here.

Dear Philly,
Please stop giving me so many choices as to what to do. It makes it very difficult for me to decide what I want to do. Weekends are not supposed to have so much going on. Sundays are for sleep and not for continuing with drinking and dancing. Haha, got you didn't I? No? Ok, anyways...

Friday

• First Friday - Inliquid has you covered with all the going ons
• White T's White Belts - Emil's bday celebration
• Emil has been putting in more production work lately. Heres a bmore club banger
• Emynd - Hot Puhtatoe
• West Philly - Winged Lion Pride at Bubble House

Saturday

• Popoff shack with special guests Spankrock, XXXchange & Deluxxx
• Downstairs, Spankrock, XXXchange and Dan the Swede
• Upstairs G13 sound with Jes-One and Deluxxx
• $3 top shelf shots until 12
• $3 lagers all night long
• Metro Lounge - Front and Fairmount
• Feeling grown and sexy? Mojito with latin rhythms

Sunday

• Sundays is the New Black is the hottest party of the summer.
• This Week its Catchdubs and Nate Day with the booty shakin selections.
• Get on the guestlist for half price admission

For more info and to download the latest new music check 51:51

Vicarious living via Chris Lemon Red is available now that the tour has officially kicked off. Chris is travelling along on the bus and will be at every show selling merchandise. Say hi to him and you just may end up on the site. Nudity is a sure fire way.

Meanwhile things in Philly are heating up as the weather kinda, sort of cools down. The show is sold out, all 250 tickets at the Mummers Museum. However, maybe, just maybe, there may be 50 more tickets available. Maybe. (Holla at R5) Regardless, just added is the official afterparty: It's the return of Hollertronix! Oh snap! Low Budget will be joining Diplo for an insane afterparty at Transit from 12 - 3:30 with special guest Dave P and reinforced sound. For all those at the show, its free. If you don't manage to get tickets its only $5. My brain is going to melt from all of this. Open bar 8 - 12. Hollertronix at Transit. Ideally, I will make it through all of this with pictures. Then again...

* Tour Blog
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion (Diplo Remix)
* Cansei De Ser Sexei - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (Spank Rock Remix)
* Cansei De Ser Sexei - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (Diplo Dub)

* DJ Gorky - tira a camizero - DJ Gorky is the man behind the beats of Bonde Do Role
* Freakplasma - Punk It A recommendation from Gorky. Next CSS?

Every third Wednesday of the month Mental Sharp and Yellow Brain perform together live with an open bar which is usually enough. Tonight though, J. Hill will be performing his last night in Philly before L.A. Reid flys him out to turn him into a superstar. J Hill was born in West Philly and has been on the music circuit performing at The Five Spot, Doc Watson's, Mill Creek Tavern and more.

Listen to two tracks to check out the newest philly neo-soul export.

J. Hill Xperience - I Miss Her
J. Hill Xperience - Leave a Message

TWNW is brought to you by Simplefly every Wednesday at Medusa Lounge (27 S. 21st Street). The open bar from 10 - 12 is only $5 if you get there before 10:30.

It's official. Its the first weekend of summer and we'll be setting it off right. Saturday and Sunday are going to blow you away and Tuesday there is a special party but thats our little secret.

Friday

• Art Cuebik and Breakdown at Bubble House
• Straight Dope with M.A.D Cat vs Seclusiasis at Khyber Upstairs
• Dan the Swede at Shouk

Saturday

• West Oak Lane Jazz Fest
• Mark Ronson and DJ Spider with the Next on the Decks tour at the Popoff Shack with Low Budget, Brendan and Dan the Swede downstairs. $5 all night with $3 lagers all night and $2 PBRS uuurrrly!!!

Sunday

• West Oak Lane Jazz Fest continues
• Sundays are the new black - Oxy Cottontail and DJ Elle this week and Disco D next week.

Tuesday

• Private party at the Puma Store - must email 5151List@gmail to find out how to RSVP.

For full info click here

Monday May 8th Brendan Bring'em from Soul Travelers will be shooting a scene for his new Philly snap anthem "Dip Dip Fall Back". The video shoot will take place at Tragos Lounge (140 s. 19th street). Click here for full details and to download a clip of Dip Dip

I haven't stopped talking about this since I first heard about it but its out now and you need this. When I got this, I couldn't stop bouncing around in my chair. I'm slightly better now, but if I really need to get something done quickly, Snap or Die is not the mix I listen to. Thats exactly what Snap music and the movement is about. Dancing in the club, leaning wit it, rockin wit it and just bouncing around having fun with it.

Continued with tracks from the album

Head over to the Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street) for the Big Art Show. The Big Art Show is a showcase of local, independent and uknown artists from the Philadelphia area. Doors open at 7pm with over 80 artists scheduled to attend. Also enjoy music from The Yah Mos Def, US Funk Team, Sailboat!, Ice Cream Social and Ra. Admission is only $5 and this will be the biggest Big Art Show yet. Come out and support local artists.

Break in the Road is a tribute CD put together by a number of artists who assembled together at Soulstrut, an online discussion forum dedicated to "crate digging and hip-hop culture". The CD features original production from the likes of Ross Hogg, B. Cause, Beat Chemist, Kidgusto, dj gNat, Thes One and more. CD's are $10 and all proceeds go to Habitat For Humanity's "Operation Home Delivery", a three-phase response to help provide assistance and rebuilding opportunities in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast. For more info and to listen to samples check it out here

With a record number of restaurants (99) participating in the upcoming Restaurant Week, it has become incredibly more difficult to decide which restaurants to go to. We here at 51:51 understand this and have created a Philly Restaurant week map.

With this map you can see which restaurants are in which neighborhoods, show only restaurants from a certain cuisine and get driving directions to each. For your convenience, when you click on a marker, the menu will pop up along with the phone number for you to easily make reservations. After you've checked out the map, check out Community Walk and start making your own maps. We've also been featured on the Community Walk blog as they were so impressed with it.