Bee Mask (Philly, Spectrum Spools/eMego): Megarare local outing from West Philly studio recluse Chris Madak, pushing the latest in ecstatic, fractured sampler-concrète and throbbing, iridescent, and deeply psychedelic trunk bass deconstructions that hit like pressurized gas from behind the eyes of the beholder.
TRIP.
Drainolith (Montreal, Psychic Handshake): Ultrawarped medieval jazzrock and distended/sublimated Quebecois NRG from AIDS Wolf guitarist Alex Moskos, also of bonkers units Alterity Problem, Thames, and The Medecine Rocks, rendered live via synthesizers and extended disco electronics amid a fog of profound confusion.
ZONK.
Autre Ne Veut (Brooklyn, Olde English Spelling Bee/Hippos in Tanks): First-ever Philly appearance of a true diva for the end times. ANV weaves R&B/synthpop tropes and alternately soaring/grimy post-Prince falsetto vox into confounding, oblique, asignifying knots. Lush and hook-oriented in the vein of, say, Erasure, Talk Talk, or even Annie Lennox, albeit IMMENSELY more fucked up.
Night Burger (Philly): The deepest Philly jams going in 2011! Noah Anthony (Social Junk, Form a Log, Mirror Men) bends the whole damn curve, getting bleak and exhilarating in equal measure via organ, tapes, voice, and ultracorroded electronics.
8pm at Pageant Soloveev, 607 Bainbridge. $7.
DJ’s gripping caesar salads and garlic bread from Blackbird and staring down the weird, quarter-sized hole into the basement while an iPod on shuffle plays every possible freestyle joint about being ambivalent w/r/t taking this relationship to the next level. See also: writing something illegible on your hand.
