Spinto who? Wilmington's The Sky Drops are nu-gazing all over your nice new carpet tonight at The M Room. There's always an extremely fine line in this genre between awesome and painfully craptacular. Happily, Drops duo Rob and Monika fall very clearly on the awesome side of the spectrum. Be there tonight to have all your Catherine Wheel wishes and Bloody Valentine dreams fulfiled.
Friday night at Making Time, it's Crystal Castles downstairs, Simian Mobile Disco (pic'd) upstairs, and radness everywhere you look. Adding fuel to the fire, it's also the unofficial birthday party of one Aaron "Pony" Child. If the idea of dancing your face off next to the man behind The Track isn't enough to get your juices flowing, then maybe you should just stay in and work on that jigsaw puzzle after all. It'll be better for everyone.
Saturday night, cool kids are doing the Girard Ave shuffle. Swedish pop rockers (redundant, I know) The Faintest Ideas are the second act on a 7:30 PM all-ages bill. How they found their way to The Fire is anybody's guess, but their economical bursts of REM gone punk might make for the biggest and blondest surprise of your weekend. Then head over to Johnny Brenda's, where The Capitol Years and El Dorado are the local bread on either side of a beefy Boggs sandwhich. Twitchin' in the kitchen indeed.
Just to prove once and for all that we're out of the February show doldrums, Sunday night comes at you with the blistering heat of even more Scandanavians. Norway's 120 Days make their Philly debut at Johnny Brenda's, mixing Kraftwerk electro-grooves with the sort of unapologetic guitar mow-downs that were the best (read: only) thing going for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. New York's Shout Out Out Out Out are along for the ride.
Download: The Sky Drops - "Hang On"
Download: The Sky Drops - "Now Would Be"
Download: Simian Mobile Disco - "Hustler"
Download: The Boggs - "Remember The Orphans"
Download: The Faintest Idea - "You're Beautiful"
Download: The Faintest Idea - "Nosebleeders On The Tracks"
Download: 120 Days - "Get Away"
